Why Gen Z Hates America
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I am so happy to be German and being able to choose between five to seven corrupt parties instead of your two party system.
At least you’re not being held hostage like in canada.. and have 0 say can’t even get an election cause all parties are corrupted..
Afd lässt grüßen
Bro I lived in Germany, y'all been going to shit for the last decade.
@@blackedhead tust mir leid, wenn du denkst unter der AFD würde es besser werden.
Rechten Parteien geht es immer nur darum an die Fleischtöpfe zu kommen, halt wie bei der CDU, die AFD ist halt nur etwas rechter als die CDU ;)
Based Euro.
Corporations should not be allowed to purchase houses.
That's 3% of the market. I hate it when people say this. The problem is the pooling of money in unproductive assets. This pooling is driven by fake demand. In other words, it's banks handing out 10+ year loans like they're candy and enabling people who would otherwise not have the money to spend on assets that don't actually produce anything. All you need to ask yourself is at a time when production is the highest it's ever been, where is the fucking money? I'll tell you where it's going, real estate and entitlement programs. Both are "assets" (even though only one of them technically is I am going to call them both that and leave this note here to get semantics out of the way) that don't produce anything when money pools in them. It didn't used to be like this. It used to be that almost none of our economy was entitlement programs and we used to have restrictions on lending too before the 1970s when real estate began to balloon. Sorry for ranting, I just hate it when I see dumb comments like this. Also listening to Asmon talk about economics makes me want to puke. He actually sucks at and doesn't know anything lol
Billionaires who own those corporations shouldnt be allowed to own more than 10 homes. Nobody needs more, its just speculating with housing. Some people own 150 homes while families cant afford 1 on 2 salaries…
They are banning this. Look into the news.
@@Web3Future333 don't forget those properties are spread all over the world, and sometimes they also own the island the mansions or castles are on! Different countries.
the best part is people advertise making money by buying out foreclosures then selling the house 3x the amount the neighbors house goes for. its pathetic. "oh ivcan buy this fixer uper annnd a Corp bought it already"
I'm 30 and used to believe in the pull yourself up by the bootstraps mentality. I've worked my whole life away up to this point and everytime I achieved stability enough to live on my own it was all stripped from me. Almost always by a jealous manager these days work just exploits you and at my age I have no real life experience or passions. My whole life all I've known is work, eat, sleep and repeat. These kids have it even worse than when I was their age and unless you start your own business or get super lucky and land a top end job with your qualifications, you can't function without working every waking moment of your life away.
I'm 33. Similar story. I've pulled myself up, climbed the ladder.. just to get dirt thrown in my face at the top. I'm in the trades, worked my way up to foreman for a non-union company, just to find out the older guys were making double what I was and I would never be paid that much. So I went to the union and yeah I make better money, but the cost of everything damn near doubled over the last two years so I'm just as broke as I was before. I make $45/hr and I scrape by with my built in 1962 house and my 2007 rust bucket Chevy. The system is totally fucked. Everytime I think this is it, things are going to change.. they don't. They just devise new ways to take my fucking money.
I feel u heavy on this one bro. I'm 23 and also taught at a young age to go to school work hard and you'll be successful. Sure I was also taught basic skills in order for survival and literacy and numeracy skills, but they were so fixated on me going to school first, then find a job after. So I graduated college got my degree only to end up in a Warehouse job. My bro and I are the only ones working and we're trying to get ourselves out of this financial crisis we're in. Especially me all those years spent at school until college, the teachers and students; I realized how decedent and nihilistic I've become especially my parents my mom especially pushing me to strive towards "greatness". Nowadays all I do is work eat and sleep like u. This is what the people in control want. They want to slave away your whole life without the chances of u being truly successful and happy.
Trust me things aren't all sunshine and rainbows in where I'm from either.
Track&Field or Customs are like the only solutions I can get out of this mess
Same story here. Just quit a job with a kid on the way because I’m being worked into the dirt away from home… just accepting I’ll be poor forever.
@@ApocalypseYesterday they got me 3 hours from home right now. Can't find work that pays enough near home. Kids and wife at home. Shit's brutal. So anyways the met gala 😑
Yeah most companies give 2-3% raise and are happy to abuse you. Only way you'll make any actual money is through connections.
I know he doesn’t mean to be malicious, but the cognitive dissonance surrounding these conversations blow me. We can’t admit that wealth inequality is a thing, possibly designed by an “elite” group, & then say “pull your boot straps” & “hard work creates success.” Yes, some successful people worked hard, but hard work is not a requisite for financial success & our billionaires prove that most. Admitting how wealth inequality happens explains why some people don’t have boots, let alone laces to pull up on. The fact that phrase was 1st used as a joke, cause it’s impossible to pull yourself up by your own feet, makes it even worse that we use it. Minority communities suffer similar dissonance as I have a 60yr old coworker who still talks that “I can’t do better at life cause the white man holding me back cause I’m black” bs & they just hired a new boss who is also a black man. He doesn’t realize he’s been gaslight into acting less than because of identity politics. & the “elite” are like “gotcha bih, keep making poor decisions & blaming them on a boogie man instead of me & the way I help construct society”… The more time we spend on addressing the symptoms of our problem, we will never cure the root cause. Sure, the cough drop will ease your throat, but smoking 2 packs a day isn’t helping your case any more than the cough suppressant is. The day all this burns down will never come cause just enough people have greener grass & they’re tricked into gaslighting the majority that they don’t have a lawn because they don’t water it, when they fund the contamination of the majorities water & “inadvertently” create the reason why their grass dies.
Who did you vote for in the 2020 election?
@@jameseverett9037 I do not participate in the farce we call democratic election & you just proved exactly why. The problems most Americans have is not a political one, it’s a moral one & we cannot expect immoral people to create policy for the majority when it doesn’t directly benefit them. The mistake we continue to make is to disagree with each other over party affiliation as if my identity relies on a box I checked over the only other choice I had. I haven’t liked Joe since 1994 & trump has ALWAYS been a cheap gimmick to me. The president is just a face to place blame. He has no real control hence trump thinking he has immunity cause of some article 2 bs. Why can’t we just be people & treat each other accordingly. I don’t think medical bills should bankrupt you when multibillion dollar corps get a bailout. I don’t think you should skip your Starbucks today when you’re literally being priced out of housing. WE are being exploited & it’s ignorant after all the butts in that seat to think putting a different, older, butt in the seat will make a difference. I don’t care if you lean right or left cause the real battle is up v down & a lot of people think they’re on the up team when they don’t even warm the bench. Sorry, but I despise politics & what it’s done to us. I want you to live your best, most comfortable life regardless of who controls what.
Exactly how I feel. Asmond has grown on me, aside for some personal life stuff, it's video talks like that that I like. I see it a lot its like they're so close to getting the whole point and missing it by just a little but not in a way I could completely hate because that defeats the purpose of coming together on one thing. But they're people like me that think I'm just barely missing the point too like our scopes are all just slightly out of focus.
@jameseverett9037 asking who someone voted for is missing the point that no matter what it's still a corrupt choice that won't matter
@@tasteychackras7023 yea, I see most things never align 100% & I’m ok with slight discrepancy. I think a big issue we have is giving authority to people whose opinion of a subject shouldn’t matter as much as the people from the demographic they’re attempting to describe. Example: I’m not trans, I do not have the trans debate. I could not, in good conscience, advocate for or against it cause my opinion is missing a key component to contribute. My honesty about trans starts there & I will never speak a questionable statement about that subject for a few reasons. I’m sure my thoughts would be convincing to some. Warping their idea of the subject & possibly creating even more confusion cause my comments come from ignorance. Like a government telling a minority group what their “problems” are rather than listen to what that minority complains about. Either way, I enjoy radical thought regardless of if I agree with it or not & I have respect for this creator for at least attempting to think outside the box, even if he is closer to the box than he thinks he is.
Hating the state of America isn't hating America.
I don't hate the country, I hate the people running it. All they care about is themselves and I'm just told that I'll own nothing and should love it, while they line their own pockets and can ship THOUSANDS to everyone and everywhere else, but 0 for the people THEY SWORE to protect and defend.
@@Nightmare-wo2gdworst part is it’s more than just thousands
@@Nightmare-wo2gd That is why i'm a proud "traitor to America"! I support the country, but not either of the gangs that fight over ruling the country!
A vote for the lesser Evil is still a vote for Evil!
Sadly it’s not just an American problem. Same situation here is starting to unfold in Germany.
Supporting the enemies of America and spreading their lies about America is indistinguishable from hating America
"Both of them fucking us over." That sums up American politics perfectly.
Same in the UK.
Not only American, man. That shit is kinda universal. Same everywhere
We have like 5 or 6 political parties here. It's the same. The problem is that some rich guys don't know what real life is.
Germany Same thing
Not saying it's only American problem.
The problem is corruption and lobbying.
It's not people with votes that control government but corporations with money.
The house grew up in which was cheap as fuck is now worth over a million dollars.
The house I grew up was cheap as fuck too ….and it still is. 😂
We bought ours 9y ago for 39k and we put about 60k into it and now it’s worth 300k
Investment managers buying up homes
Meanwhile Dave Ramsey is totally in denial about the housing crisis, saying you just have to work harder and longer, beans and rice blah blah blah
Yeah, I completely agree. He is completely out of touch, and all he does is sh*t talk younger people instead of actually listening and watching what's actually happening.
Dave Ramsey makes money by giving financial advice.
If the advice actually WORKED, he wouldn't make any more money.
I agree with this kid. Anyone who is ok working 90h a week just to survive has a slave mind.
The kid isn't. He said that he won't. He is making 50 dollars an hour. only rich kids would ever believe that that is not enough to live off of. Or losers that do not want to work. People working 90 hour weeks are not doing s oto survive. They are doing so t thrive. They deserve fat stacks while lil cry babies complain because they cant order grub hub 7 days a week.
Fax u wouldn’t even have the time to actually spend the money lol
And it's insane how people downplay it by saying things like "you have to factor inflation in." or "It was like this when I was young."
When my mom was born(1980) rent was 12% of most people's income, today it's 36%, a house was 2.7x your income vs 6.3x today, the cost of college annually is 8x higher, new cars were 3.8x someone's monthly income whereas their 8.1x now.
The inequality has gotten ridiculous and is only getting worse, eventually people are going to reach a breaking point.
i mean who doesnt like money? I love overtime and double time.
Noones "fine' with it, WE HAVE TO KEEP GOING... FROM THE UK
The only thing I've got from working hard is more work, responsibility and back pain.
working smarter beats working harder
Hurt my back for life working minimum wage at walmart in my college days. Not worth it long term.
@@GloomGaiGar actually now a days working smarter gets you more work as your bosses will notice this and push more work on you, while leaving the other lazy workers no responsibility. Its burns them out and they move onto the next job. Its why businesses now cant hold employees because they dont wanna pay a decent wage and keep giving them more work to penny pinch on having more staff.
Where I'm at the more you do the more they are gonna let you do
@romanticwander meh I like my job the harder the work the more you make I get paid commission per job and get stocks in the company every year I can retire off of one day as long as they don't go out of business and that's the incentive to work harder to keep customers so you get more money now and to keep the business running till you retire
We've been screwed with no vaseline for decades, and here we are
Always use a water based lubricant!
For anyone wondering why housing is the way it is - the Federal Reserve does a thing they call "Quantitative Easing" where they print money and buy mortgage backed securities, among other things. These MBSs are traded like a stock but represent a large group of mortgages. This is done to boost the economy but the side effect is housing prices go up because you have more buyers getting loans (demand) chasing the same amount of supply. This has been going on since 2008 and ramping each year. So the economy looks better on paper because there's more activity but if you aren't in the boat, as a homeowner or a bank, you get more left behind each year this goes on.
Don’t forget the part where institutional corporations were acting as banks and getting 1% interest loans directly from the federal reserve between 2020 and 2022. Capitalism doesn’t exist when one entity pays $600 less a month on a mortgage than a normal human.
Glad he made the point about the uni party. To think the two party system are actual rivals and not working together to screw you is like thinking WWE is real.
Same here in Britain. The main parties are the same thing but different colours, all brought and paid for by the WEF.
If the rich do not respect those who created _"their"_ wealth, the exploited class must give them reasons to fear them.
There are many western countries with more than two parties and the same shit happens there as well. There is no institutional solution to this stuff because the institutions are interested in creating these difficulties to begin with.
It's so nice to see you guys are finally noticing it on a larger scale. For years I've been called all kind of names for trying to tell you!
If it's like the wwe it's more like a obvious yes but. Really no. Nobody wants to jump 12ft off a ladder or have someone break your neck cause a.move is botched etc
When I was a kid our teachers said we could go into any profession we want if we had good grades. They forgot to tell us we’d starve doing so.
Same.
THIS!!!!!!
They also encouraged us to go to college/university but they never talked about debt nor the responsibilities of being an adult
Well nobody can predict the unpredictable. In the same regard nobody told our parents to stock up on property because it would be worth x15 in the future. Can we blame our parents? No, therefore we can't blame the teachers either, nor ourselves for believing them. Our gen is fucked by unpredictable forces and who knows what's gonna happen to the next gens.
The thing is we aren't supposed to buy phones or consoles or stuff like weed and drugs in order to survive and also work 7 days a week and 40 years while investing our money somehow is the only way unless someone is born with an advantage somewhere or inheritance
Guy said he makes 3x the federal minimum wage, what bootstraps would he pull himself up from? That\s the problem, you work all day and make nothing.
Something has to change, and it's not our wage
What's up with "hard work" vs "complaining on Tik Tok" comparison? The guy clearly said he works
Its not that people don't want to work hard, its just that working hard and grinding should be getting extra but instead many people are still not getting the minimum.
Yep. The manosphere grifter Asmon is watching is purposefully obfuscating that point. I don’t blame Asmon for not knowing about that grifter tho. He seems ok on the surface but his other videos reveal his hand
No, it's 100% people don't want to work hard.
@@MerlinTheCommenter Did you listen to the video? He was agreeing with the first guy not advocating for bootstraps.
@@jonlocke7112 its not that simple. There ARE places where you could be working like a madman and not be able to actually live "comfortable". At the end of the day, people like that have to leave behind a place like that in order to actually have an opportunity.
Exactly
"just work an extra 5 jobs and you can make it" - Typical boomer who grew up when houses were 3k
This used to be for people that wanted to be mega rich, work like crazy early on, make a bunch of money, reinvest and be rich in a decade or something. Now you have to work 12735 hours a month just to have an barely average life.
FACTS no one wants to finally live life n hopefully not be stressed by 60 😭😭THAT IS NOT THE AMERICAN DREAM
I tell everyone to get a job in IT and become an expert on automating manual processes. I'm not a boomer but I'm in my 40s and having a job in IT has kept me employed with a decent salary. Granted I make 100k and can't buy a house, but I'm in cali 🤷🏼♀️
My parents house was 16,000 lol they could a paid it off in 1 year. It's worth 250k now 😂 I'm almost 40 and I saw the power of the dollar plummet the past 20 years. When I was 18, I could work 20 hours a week and rent a place get food we ed and even internet 😂
Now it takes working minimum 40 hours and your gonna be broke mostly unless you find something good.
just work an extra 5 jobs and you can make it
“When the livestock stops breeding, it is not the livestock who should be concerned, but rather the farmers and the feed suppliers.” Something’s gotta give.
My parents didn't have to pull up anything. They made significantly less than I do and they didn't work overtime or 2 jobs. They had basic jobs with basically little education and they easily bought a home. Buying a home is not even a thought for me. It's literally impossible.
save up money as you can and leave america, get to a place where your purchasing power will be respsected.
Here in Australia similar scenario my grandfather who I don't like (personally reasons) was a peasant from a village in greece who barely pass elementary school yet his had a very basic job shoe repairing and basically payed his house off quick and they have the nerve to till us we have to work harder due to our worthless buying power. I'm sorry I wasn't born in the 50s and 60s oh it my fault
Companies raising prices crying about costs, while meanwhile turning record profits. The system is beyond BROKEN
Also, firing people to cut extra cost because all the extra goes to the CEO
They will ALWAYS use the INFLATION excuse.... a trillion dollar company.... complaining about how them raising their wages is causing inflation and now they have to double their prices. We are being lied to, the inflation cannot be that bad, or it would not if the greedy corporations stopped lying through their teeth that they HAVE to raise their prices.
Well when u raise prices for any reason revenue increases and so do profits, its natural not broken yk sherlock. Lmfao basic math.
@@marcinm2871 do you can comprehend what you read usually?
Lol yeah coincidentally they all do it at the same time but didn't during Trump's time in office. You cry about record profits but don't consider actual profit margin.
Not only americans, happens with every Gen Z in every country. In France the majority is just like that.
This isn't a Gen Z thing, it's just Gen Z tend to make tiktok, instagram and youtube videos about it so they get more exposure about it because they're more apt to use more modern technology to voice it, every single generations complains about something, and yes, if you don't think older people complain about the issues (warranted or over-exaggerated is irrelevant) they face in their own country you're delusional. You just have to go knock on their door and ask them about it, they're not like Gen Z who will voice their opinion with mediums that reach millions of people in seconds.
We really have to stop normalizing people voicing their opinions on social media as the thing "everybody" does on the planet and thinking it's just "what is happening".
A video getting around 1-2million views with a planet of 8 billion is a below 1% minority watching it.
Even 3rd world countries as well
Here in the Netherlands as well. Back when my mom was young she bought her first house at the age of 26 with a simple cleaning job. That stuff is unheard of today.
same in norway, its almost impossible for a normal single person to get a loan for a tiny small apartment for 1 person whitout help from parents. Live in north norway, and the city i live in has almost same house price as our capital becouse rich people buyed everything and rents it out to working class. they forces the prices up, and since house price go up, rent do the same.
for example.. Here at Brazil, this sh1t agenda started later.. like 5 years ago.. like.. they are importing this gender things, free money, etc, this ideas, from USA just a few years.. and im seeing this problems on USA years ago
Americans wrongfully think that american dream is for americans but in actuality it is for immigrants who come to america
Exactly 😂😂😂 they work in US just to have enough money to be considered rich in their home country. They're winning
We are all immigrants what are we talking about
@@NeonBeeCat🙄
“Working hard will get you further than sitting around complaining about capitalism.” Yeah no shit. That’s ignoring the point that for many people it’s impossible to work hard enough to survive this late into capitalism. They’re not “sitting around” they’re the ones being worked to the bone and have had enough. You immediately folded and devolved into bootstraps rhetoric. Tuff.
A tiny apartment I rented for $800 twelve years ago is now $2300. It’s completely absurd. I don’t even live by any tech moves or anything. Just a college.
That’s why haha
That will never stop. Gentrification. If you live/lived somewhere desirable, people will pay more to live there. Move to Mississippi, Kansas, Alabama 😂
Wages have out paced inflation. Living next to a growing college will massively increase property value.
My place was a 475 in a college town it was a studio. Now it's 1200. It's an old building from over 100 years ago with built in radiator heating
Where does this dude live? Normally, the people i hear complain about not being able to live while making 3 times thr minimum wage are trying to live in the most expensive areas of cities.
The problem with "pull yourself by bootsraps" advice is the same as "update drivers and restart" advice for computer issues. It's just a first step of solving an issue, it's already done, and the issue still persists.
It’s also survivorship bias. Not everyone can get careers that are high paying. There are low paying jobs that need to be done by someone.
The irony is that “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” began as a sarcastic phrase in a science textbook, iirc “why can a man not pull himself up by his bootstraps?”
The point is that it’s impossible to do, so whenever that phrase is thrown around I’m always like “I don’t think that means what you think it means” 😂
Fantastic cpu analogy
Running a budget helps too. But I'm soon to be in his situation.
Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is literally impossible, which I think is funny when people say that phrase in conjunction with work related shit bc you're literally telling someone to do the impossible
I'm not raising a family in a shipping container.
10 years ago one of my neighbors down the street passed away and his family was trying to sell the house. It is a small three bedroom house on 10 Acres and they originally listed it for about $80,000 and had the lower the price several times before somebody finally bought it for just under $40,000. Last year the neighbor right across the street with an almost identical house and 10 acres of land went up for sale for over a quarter million and it sold within 3 hours of listing. Things are insane.
As a child, I wanted to be a mattress tester.
That's very admirable of you.
I wanted to be the guy who sits in the tower attached to the bridge and pushes the button to raise it up and lower it down when a boat comes by... so I could play pokemon on my gameboy all day.
Simpler times...
I wanted to be the wrestling referee that absolutely nobody listens to.
Skill Issue. Go make more money.
I wanted to draw chickens all day as a kid. I still do, but it's not my job.
“What is the purpose of this society?”
“You work yourself to death so the rich can compete to see who has the biggest number.”
News flash it's always been like that! Tiny ruling Elite and everybody else.Regardless whether its Capitalism or Marxism, power always rests in the hands of apowerful few.
Exactly. that's why leftists say "line go up" all they care about is that damn line.
*OH MY GOD*
Yep. And you can't get out of it by working smarter. You have to work "smarter" and that requires money that most people don't have! Otherwise you have to be friends or relatives with the boss.
Or Vote for the man to bring down the cost of living and inflation over time so you don’t have to kill yourself every day to make that living similar to working smarter not harder.!
Yo you can't write it off by saying working hard is better than "complaining".
I had a 4.0 GPA in college and I couldn't get a job that paid above $10 an hour in my field of study. Why the hell did I work so hard for not being able to afford to live. I literally couldn't afford to work in my field of study. All it did was give me debt.
Keep voting Democrat, ha!
whats your field of study?
@@mgtowcowboy8159because under trump everyone had a huge salary and a job, right?
Did you have a degree in art? If so that's the problem.
What was your degree in? Did you work any internships in your field of study? Network in your field of study?
Etc……
The family unit is no longer staying together, that plays a huge factor
That’s wrong half of Gen Z is forced to live with their parents.
"Our ancestors were a group of people who flipped out over a 2% tax raise" how are your taxes doing now?
the complaint wasn't taxes per se the rally cry was no taxation without equal representation. same problem we have now, no one feels represented anymore
@@bradymiller9096Some people literally have no representation. We have teenagers who work jobs but aren't old enough to vote. They are still taxed on their income. Taxation without representation.
Income Tax was supposed to be temporary.
4 billion dollars a year given to Israel... I didn't vote on that.
taxes aren't the problem its every single company raising prices over inflation. Taxes would be my 3rd biggest expense. First would be housing if i paid for it, and second would be food or medical bills.
Why can't you work hard and complain? People are working hard and have the right to complain when the system is rigged against them, ignoring it isn't going anywhere either.
Exactly, the people who are working the hardest tend to be the ones who are complaining the most. He is out of touch. The main issue where facing is that we have to work extremely hard for NOT EVEN the bare minimum.
@@rubenmendez4314 Agreed. I'm an older millenial, and I remember how hard it was for me, and I can see how it's gotten harder for every generation following the boomers, but it really kicked off for the millenials. I have a 12 year old daughter that I'm concerned for, what kind of future will she have? I work, my husband works, we own and operate a small business, and we are just getting by. Everything has been a struggle. We wouldn't even have our house if my Mom didn't put it in her name for us before the interest rates shot up. Despite my excellent 800+ FICO scores, we are self employed and they make it 10× harder to buy a home. I started reading their plans regarding Agenda 21 ten years ago the first time we tried getting approved. It didn't make sense why it was so difficult, we had a down payment, good credit, provable income, so what gives? Then after some research, I realized they wanted to slowly phase out private land and home ownership. As well as cars, farms, small businesses, etc. Fast forward to now, what may have seemed questionable to some back then, is becoming obvious in every way. When the WEF said "You'll own nothing and be happy" they meant it, just minus the happy. The reason homes are so expensive now, is because they quietly started putting insane restrictions on building several years ago in compliance with Agenda 21, severely limiting supply, creating artificial scarcity. Then they allowed global, private equity firms to start buying home the remaining stock of homes at stupid high prices, jacking up the property values even more. This also raised taxes in residential neighborhoods, pricing out even more people. The high interest rates pretty much sealed the deal for most if us trying to make the American Dream ever being achievable. The icing on the cake will be the theft of inheritance. As the govt has been busy creating policies that allow the states and banks to scoop up any family properties that parents intended to pass down. Using legal loopholes like the medicaid 5 year lookback, inheritance taxes, proper titling and flaws in wills, etc. Pretty much anything that wasn't pre-drawn up by a team of lawyers going through all the laws and legal documents with a fine tooth comb, making a potential inheritance plan bullet proof, will likely be a fight for many down the road. They've weaved in so many pitfalls to lose your family home it's insane. It's just a shame what has happened in this country. Seems as if Dems are corrupt af, and beholden to the global government model, and Republicans are complacent in stopping it. Socialism and communism is NOT the answer. Those policies are what's been keeping people poor and under their control.
People who take issue with valid complaints only want a convenient excuse to ignore them and not have worry about them
the issue is they vote for the exact same group of people and then expect different results while calling the other racist bigot.
@@rubenmendez4314 well i think it's a valid complaint when you can't even afford an apartment.
See the problem isnt that we're lazy and not working hard. Its actually quite the opposite, gen z is forced to work 4x more than our parents and almost 8x more than our grandparents. This is what we find unacceptable and stupid, this is why "pull up your boot straps" dont mean shit to us because the world is a lot different and we would most definitely have to work harder than previous generations to achieve the same results (house, fam, car)etc.
Boots don't have straps anymore
Dude earns 3x minimum wage. I think he has the right to complain for a bit. He has already pulled his bootstraps.
Thats only 20 bucks a hour lol he works at mcdonalds
@@tuzalolol3676 so NO ONE should work at mcdonalds or every other "simple" job, so who the fuck will make and sell you burgers?
@@tuzalolol3676 Damn i didnt know the minimum wage was around $6, you guys are fucked if 3x your minimum wage is $20
@@miles3794it's $7.25 but it's higher depending on state I think calafornia is $16.
@@tuzalolol3676who cares where you work? If you're earning 3x the federal minimum wage, you should be financially stable.
"Working hard has a higher success rate at making money than complaining about the government," is exactly what the government wants you to think. The longer they can keep you just barely above water and willing to dish out insane work hours to make ends meet, the more value they can squeeze out of you in the short term. How is the guy demanding a higher pay for additional responsibilities ever going to get any sort of credibility if there's someone willing to take on those responsibilities for no extra pay because he's grateful to have a job in the first place? How is someone working two jobs, 7 days a week ever going to have to time to think about or push for change on a societal level when the vast majority of time is spent just surviving. It's their goal to exhaust you to make rebellion impossible. It's a form of control. And it's working, sadly. I'm glad that kid is angry. I'm glad he's sharing that anger. We need it right now.
This country was literally founded by people complaining about the government lol
@@jamestipton7872 Well, actually, now you can't do anything because we the governement didn't you know? We were allowed to rebel several centuries ago, but you can't right now because we say so, now keep figuring out your taxes even though we know perfectly what you owe us because we get paid lobby money by the tax helper companies to do so.
Care to know what the word government means? Govern - CONTROL. Ment - MIND. There ya go
This is why the working class needs to overthrough the government and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat according to the guidance of Marx.
Working smarter and harder will do infinitely more than bitching is still true
Fun fact, to add to this conversation. I applied for a loan on a house. I was easily approved, I have 40k down too. The monthly payments would be 2,400$, for a 270,000 dollar loan.
Three years ago, that payment would have been for a 600,000$ loan. We are being fucked, systematically.
I can’t remember where I heard it, but I remember someone saying that to love your country but not be too blind to the negatives enough to hate the state of it will likely lead to change for the better over someone who is just dedicated to blind love/faith in their country. That has been stuck in my mind ever since. Too many people are just willing to show love and only love for their country solely because they themselves are in a decent position at the moment. They don’t stop to take into account the millions/hundreds of millions of people that are so far in the hole that they are just ready to give up. Sadly, even what feels like a good majority of those stuck in poverty are showing blind faith for no other reason but to hope for a better future without pointing out what they actually want to change. Nothing will change without a proper force to do so, until then it will just be a perpetual loop of the top 10-15% of citizens having the majority of wealth while the rest are left to rot in poverty. What’s worse is that’s actually pretty generous numbers, in reality It’s much worse than I’m letting on.
A lot of people nowadays say: Gen z is too lazy... Well yea, why should we be motivated?!? We cant buy a house in our lifetime, a car is a luxury most of the time and buying food costs half of the paycheck..... So how should we motivate ourselves, if there is nothing we can change in order for us to have a better life? Maybe selling my organs would help with the rent.....
leave the country
@@delight7304seriously that’s your argument? You can’t change for the better so you kick people out?, ok boomer
@@crunchungus4972brother thought he cooked 💀
Can't even afford to leave. Trust me, ive already been trying. I love the USA, but I feel like I'm working for nothing here. Earn USD, and go overseas is the plan
@@delight7304if you could hypothetically afford it where would you go? Almost everywhere is the same
*only* $450k for a working class neighborhood home? Bro, Canada's homes, which some are completely rundown, broken, old and ain't worth a shit are going for $1+ million. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous. And it's getting worse.
In israel APARTMENTS cost that much.
Canada has the same house affordability like EU. In EU everyone buys apartments because a house is just too expensive.
And also tax beyond belief cause ooo we need social program.
Tbf, usd is MUCH stronger than or chocolate coins these days.
Come to the Netherlands it's even worse
The news refused to cover occupy while it was still strong. The corps that owned the stations knew it would drag them down with it. Like everything else, when the papers and news stop giving something attention...it dies.
"Work hard" coming from a guy past 30 that gets paid to watch videos and eat junk food.
the best part of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is the original meaning of the phrase was when there was something that was literally impossible to do
People seem to forget that among many other sayings actual meaning
Anothet great shortening is "The customer is always right (in matters of taste)"
right! lol, think about the meaning, it's literally IMPOSSIBLE to pull yourself up by your bootstraps lol. What does that even mean in the context of life anyways? Most people ARE working at a job, or 2 and still cannot afford to pay RENT, not even building any wealth just giving away all their money to a corp or slum lord just so they can exist.
A similar example of an impossible task (of the same kind) from literature (late 18th century) is Baron Münchhausen successfully pulling himself (and his horse) out of a swamp by his own hair.
"these people probably don't even know how to attach a PDF file to an email" as an IT analyst who has worked for the government I can tell you they DEFINITELY don't know how to do that lmao
That's always been very painful for me...
its kind of amazing how tech illiterate young people are..
@@thothheartmaat2833 young people?
@@thothheartmaat2833 We got old folks who don't even know what a TikTok is or how to log into Facebook. And yet they can ban the app.
The Owner said he was from Singapore and these government folks are worried about China.
@@thothheartmaat2833 BOYS WE FOUND HIM! HE HAS THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH GETTEM!
I would refuse to go fight for this country if it's existence depended on it. I want to leave so badly and never come back, but it costs a fortune to do so.
Agree 100% an artist I listen to once said “I wonder how a veteran can lose two limbs, come home and can’t even afford new timbs”
and go where? look at wages in the EU and you will thank god you are living in america
Get out. No one is stopping you.
Been saying it for a year, we don’t have a housing crisis, we have a corporations buying family dwellings crisis
All these wannabe Econ majors that are fighting over the fact the man shouldn’t be able to afford a house over 3x minimum wage is wild. America is cooked
My dad was a mechanic and I had a stay at home mom. We grew up (3 kids) in a 3br house. We lived cheap, but made it. That wouldn’t be possible today.
@@glowormsit's possible. the difference is kids today think non essential goods and services are essential so they keep pissing their money away without even knowing it
@@gloworms yes i agree with you
@@simunator maybe. My dad bought that house in the mid 80s for $40k. Today the Zillow estimate is $358k.
@@simunatorSuch as?
25, two degrees in electrical engineering & software development but cant be hired due to no experience. I cannot afford to move out of my parents home. Shit is fucked
Problem is ”EXPERIENCE”. There should be laws that prohibit companies from demanding any ”EXPERIENCE” AT ENTRY LEVEL F*C*ING JOBS.
Born too early to be a dystopian enjoyer.
Born too late to be a boomer and get an easy lease on life.
Born just in time to witness the moral, economic and cultural colapse of Western Civilization.
It's gonna be fun bros.
Ahh, yes, needing experience even for an entry-level job that requires you to have 20 years of experience
I mean it really just depends where you live. If you live rural its still as affordable as its been.
@@_Tangerino Used to be they'd fire experienced people after several years and bring in fresh recruits. This was a cost saving measure. Now, I do not know you personally and this is not a knock, I'm generalizing, but kids fresh out of school simply lack the skills to even be trained on the job. It's cultural as well as financial
its fucked here in canada too, im 21 rn and currently with the housing market i cant get Let alone Rent a 1 bedroom 1 bath and pay for food Alone. It is Literally impossible unless its renting someones Side Bedroom For 1.2k a month... Even then Its a Super Struggle. I want nothing more in life than to be able to Raise a Son Or Daughter someday but what is the point if both me and my wife would both have to work for majority of the day, then pay for and take the Time to Raise a Child.. its Fuckin Disscusting, Ignore the French but its Bs, Theres no time for it, i already experienced it partially growing up in middle class and i barely got time with my parents, For a while i didnt know why i just blamed myself. and majority of my friends are the same. all of their parents have to work which lead to Non Intentional Neglect. makes me scared for the newer generations. im glad i have a strong mindset and understanding of why it happend but i know alot of people who just Resent Them because of that neglect. Shit Has To change or people need to wake up and put their foot down... cause imma keep it a buck 50 if its between my kid starving or me struggling and not making enough to feed them... Well they would eat and i would be in a cell. if you catch the lingo. Its sad. i make 2.5x more than my parents did when they were my age (2.5x for 1 of them 5x for both) and unless i get a roomate im fucked lowkey. Been looking at moving to Fkn China Because Its Cheaper to Live and more friendly to Live there than it is IN MY OWN CONTRY...
I LOVE FREAKIING LOVE CANADA, BATCHEST EH?
So he earns 3840 a monrh but cant afford a place for 1800 a month? Does he wipe his ass with gold?
450k gets you a parking spot in Toronto Canada..
Actually most parking spaces are valued at around $30,000 in a downtown condo
Toronto is essentially the hub of canada so the high prices there at least make sense.
Those same prices being so high throughout the GTA is crazy however.
@@Giliver Yep all the Toronto people moved to other cities. I grew up in Hamilton and now all the houses there are 700k
Or a dog kennel in the sky (condo).
Yeah, but you're forgetting that you're talking about CANADIAN dollars. Let's be real, Canadian 450k Canadian dollars is like 5 bucks in actual proper dollars 🤣
Like Ricky Gervais said...Remove the safety labels for two years, THEN let the remaining population vote.
I never thought I would agree with this, but I do now. I think that's exactly what happened. There is a balance between eugenics and no child left behind. Let people reap their consequences.
This guy wouldn't make it a day without labels.
I have a Christian version of that: wait 50 years and then let people vote. People who are too stupid to have children obviously won't matter soon enough. And it won't go in a circle because this is the first time in human history that we have the ability to say no to children both socially and economically.
*chuckles* im in danger 😂. But on the other hand i already dont read warning lables.
lol … very true.
The problem is that all these corporations buying up land and houses
“This is a game exploit that the devs haven’t patched up” 🤣 yes!!! That is the best line I’ve heard in gamer terms!!! Thank you👏👏
The American dream is not gone and forgotten, it was murdered and buried in a shallow grave.
American dream is about Screwing other people so that they can have a better life,
and make Shareholders happy.
it's like an overgrown plant, unchecked growth leads to the destruction of other plants in the area as well,
you can only grow so much, if you kept growing at all cost past your Peak, you'll become a parasite.
Nah, not at all. Why are 1 billion people trying to come here right now.
@@fareshajjar1208 Why would any third world person want to move to a first world. Do you have to remind yourself to breathe?
The american dream worked for boeing?
@@sliime2369 Because they have upward mobility here that does not exist in their own country. My neighbor was broke immigrant 8 years ago and now he has 6 plumbers working under him. Buying a million dollar house in PSl Florida.
After occupy WallStreet they changed the plot into exclusively race bc we were on the right track to real change. It worked btw
Yep identity politics
Tea party too was a non race based protest talking about the same thing
I'm here to bring up Yuri Bezmenov once again, as people seem to keep forgetting him.
@breakupgoogle don't forget about countless people left homeless thanks to covid. Which immediately made them and their opinions invalidated to those still above water.
YUP 🙌💯
Over $1300 for my 1 bedroom 800 sq ft condo.
I can't even find a fucking job right now. And when i was making 24$ an Hr. I could barely pay my rent AND feed my self. Ive been homeless more times than i can count as i am now.
Uniparty is absolutely true. When an "outsider" comes in they both work together to get that third party who doesn't want to play by the "rules" kicked out.
Haha and you think the US went multiparty would make any difference. IM from the UK all it dose is fragment parties overall making it all weak. UNITED WE STAN , DEVIDED WE FALL...
This is true, I think, ironically, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are both good examples of this.
@@AwesomeIlOll3000 ho ur so far off the mark with this statement. Clear you do not know your own countries political situations nor the the geopolitics
@AnonIllumi Oh boy, here we go. I am not sure what you mean but this. I gave two examples, one from the left and one from the right, in which two presidential candidates, two "outsiders" were forced out. Not sure what you are taking issue with.
@@AwesomeIlOll3000 One is outsider other is just too much of a clown to keep at the top another go, vastly differing circumstances.
It's not just the US, it's everywhere.
I'm from Lisbon, Portugal, and let me tell you how IMPOSSIBLE is to live in Lisbon even if you're working 2 JOBS! The housing system is so freaking ducked, even if you could afford rent you'll find tons of obstacles to get the place because landlords will ask 675478 months of rent in advance, your tax returns from the last 3 years, a copy of your work contract, and some BS they'll made up. Some landlords refuse to rent to nationals because it's easier to fool foreign digital nomads.
Not just that, but the Portuguese minimum monthly salary is less than 800 euro, average would be 900/1k euro! Inflation goes up, housing goes up up, but salaries?
"But there's other places other than Lisbon, right?" Yes there are, but they got really expensive as well and there aren't many jobs there.
*** I'll get back and finish this comment later, I got some urgent stuff to do and why are we talking about birds now? ***
07/05 holy duck I wasn't expecting so many replies! Sorry for only getting back, it's been a bit wild these last 2 days, but here it goes.
What really pisses me off is how people are being manipulated and alienated without even noticing, we have stuff that is written in our country's Constitution - the right to have access to affordable housing, to fair salaries - that is being completely ignored. The conservative party is trying to convince everyone that no, you are not entitled to housing because you have a sheit salary - who told you to be born poor? These people force-feed meritocracy to the people, when we all know it's BS and doesn't work.
And then they get surprised why the skilled young are leaving the country.
"But no, it's the immigrant's fault! They are taking your jobs and your houses!" Biatch, I was an immigrant before. The jobs that immigrants take are the ones nobody want because they are underpaid and mistreated, but when you come from extreme poverty looking for a better life, of course you'll take these jobs! Human trafficking is also a huge issue but I don't have enough knowledge to discuss it.
And the housing? Do you really think that the 10 migrats living in that 1-bedroom next door can afford its +1k rent? Heck no! They're there because some guy knows another guy who can rent a bed for cheap. The actual owners are probably the ones driving BMWs and Teslas, and are also involved in other kinds of illegal activities. But since the money keeps going, nothing happens to change that, and when people start asking question, they point to the poor Pakistan guy who only speaks English and probably doesn't earn more than 10/20 euros per day delivering food, as one of the main reasons why nobody can afford a house.
We should be pointing fingers to the enablers.
Portugal's work culture is incredibly outdated. Those people who don't know how to attach a PDF to an email? They are your bosses. They are the ones earning 3/4 times your salary, they are the ones gaslighting you into doing the same work everyday, and that they can't increase salaries because "we're in a recession". Bro your company has been in recession since the 90s, cut the crap. Oh and promotions? Yeah right. You're expected to work in the same position for as long as you can, unless you have some friend or cousin who can give you a little push. Or if you're willing to have some triple-X activities with some higher-up.
I hope I managed to keep consistency in my text as I had my ideas everywhere, and some don't really fit here. I'm aware of my POV's limitations.
I look forward to reading the rest of this comment 😊
Bro you live in the most expensive city in Portugal, I have a lot of brazilian friends working and living in smaller cities, and they even has their portuguese paper ready yet. But I understand that the housing market is broken in Portugal and Canada, not because the landlords but the lack of houses
Real estate costs in urban areas (where most jobs are...) are getting worse for buyers and renters everywhere, really. There's a lot that administrations can do to steer the ship in a better direction though, they just have to commit to it and put their foot down against pushback from real estate companies, lobbying etc. That's the real, actual hurdle.
Everytime I read or hear of problems with the costs of housing in cities elsewhere, I'm grateful to be living where I am. Buying real estate is a pipedream to many people here as well, but renting at least is actually affordable.
And that can be applied with how corrupted the US government are, especially with the US immigration issues which can be shown by Moist esport Australian gamers denied visas for no reason.
I just think that American dream is gone now, a lot of people just don’t want to go there anymore
@@aForkfulOfGold thing is nowadays this could be solved with:
1. reducing the taxes: in Portugal unless you are doing a renting contract you're looking at a 28-23% tax rate + 10% wqhen you register the contract
2. Fiscalize better the great cities apartments,.A lot of inflations have to do with foreigners living in really poor conditions, we are talking about 3/4 people living under the same room, yes room no roof, so some landlords are greedy make you pay about 700E per month for a room, they know they will have a group of foreigners that will be willing and this is fucked up and making the market crazy.
3. Also i think part of it it's the working culture, because a lot of people are willing to live outside the great cities, the work thy're doing is doable remote (Portugal has a lot of sotware development), it's just seem that for some reason remote work is not as common as it should be, i'm sure if remote was more commonly accepted you will see a surge in population in the more rural are, having a better distribution.
Ovewrall i think these problems are true in a lot of other countries, it's really sad, because i think the solution is not kicking out all migrants and isolate the country, is a problem about fiscalization and well, politicians being politicians...
You voted for the status quo
Someone who probably hasn't worked a manual labor job for longer then a year telling me to pull up my boot straps I pretty funny in a sad way
Big miss here, politicians don’t talk about the big issues impacting us not because we’re too stupid to understand, it’s because they don’t want to fix these issues. They don’t really want to fix these massive issues like corporate ownership of private housing because they get a lot of money from those corporations. Our stupidity comes into play in the fact that it’s so easy to distract us from the things that directly impact most of us with things that impact very few.
incentives, people go with the flow, and politicians are more apt than anyone to do this, but the lie that they serve the people keeps being said, when now its painfully obvious they don't, this happens every time, and every time, it ends with well, them not being around anymore.. and never does the next batch of corrupt elite learn.
C.R.E.A.M. Follow the money.
Has nothing to do with corporate ownership, it's all because of government policies not allowing for more housing to be built. Take California for example; they could just build a boatload of skyscrapers and make it affordable, but they refuse to, and now the middle class is leaving in droves. It's basically illegal to build any new houses & apartments and takes year and years of approval for anything new to be build.
It's much more profitable for them to not fix the issues and let people suffer. It's people failing people.
Facts
I hate when my parents said "when I was 25 yo, I already married and start a family. When I was 28 yo, I already have 2 kids." Bla bla bla bla... 🤦😑 She keep ranting with owning a house, some lands, etc. Excuse me. She got it thanks to her granma. She is not working day by day. Start from 4 am and go to fast food restaurant. She never work in warehouse and pork butcher shop where you are not allowed to take a break that long. You have to stand up for hours. You are not allowed to take a pee or relieve yourself. It is cold but you must get up early.
She complain why I am not eat healthy, clean the house all the time, buy this and that. Excuse me. I am not eating that much. I go to nearby store and buy some foods. Then go to sleep. Sleep in the bed is like luxury to me. but she dare to complain about my life and even keep bother me with question "WHEN YOU GONNA MARRIED?". 🔥👀 W T H. I am not thinking about dating. Dating who? I am working from monday to Sunday. From morning till night. When I am sick, no one care. No money. Living cost is high. I still have student loans that need to be paid. So I hate those old generations who said that young folks are not working hard enough. Just go away please. I am sooo tired. I really want to get long sleep and never wake up.
I feel you, it's hard in these times but at the end of the day, working hard is better than groveling and being miserable. Keep pushing and opportunities will arise I'm sure 🙏
Stay up family. We are all in this together and your experience is a shared one. It’s hard out there for the young working class right now but keep on pushing and speaking your mind brother. One person at a time we have to change this world
English bad as well
@gospelofsatoshi9168 Congrats for the most shallow and empty reply to such a serious subject that is effecting both the middle and poor working class people in America struggling to make ends meet. The political class outsourced many jobs overseas and focuses on issues that don't help people struggling to survive, ie. foreign wars, climate change, heavy focus on identity politics and the border. Which leaves the poor working class out of any meaningful conversation or change for the better when it comes to addressing the cost of living expenses in our own country. Some of the cheapest houses on the market and yes that includes rural neighborhoods like one I live in are around 250k - 400k plus so even owning a house is out of the question for most people. Rent for even a little studio size apartment went from 300-400 dollars a month some 8-10 years ago to 700-900 or even 1100 dollars or more a month not including some utility expenses today. The price of what was once 1 dollar for cheap Walmart brand eggs is now $3.00 for a dozen. Meat, bread, fruit and vegetables have gone up a lot as well, even a box of $0.34 ramen is now over a freaking dollar now these days. It's like our government expects us to work excessive hours, live out of an old car or tent while going to work, have no retirement and just be poor and miserable while in a job for a employer that gives two $hits less about you and will replace your @ss in a moments notice if you're sick or become unable to work for a period of time. So F - the hell off with that pull yourself up by the bootstraps bull$hit!
@@aprd Yours as well.
Say it with me: “COMPANIES SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BUY AND OWN SINGLE FAMILY HOMES!”
4:27 Same here. I watched my father. He went to work at 4:30 in the morning & came home around 4:30 in the afternoon Mon-Fri & worked half a day on Sat. I even asked my mother about it because I couldn't believe what he was doing. It was completely insane to me but totally normal to her. I looked at that & was scared to death. I didn't want to grow up because there was no way in hell I was going to do that. School was enough of a hellish nightmare, I couldn't imagine working my entire life with no end in sight. I got really sick & had to go on disability back in 2018. I can't function in this mentally sick world. I swear I have PTSD from school & employment/SLAVERY.
My first job when I was 15 back '87 only paid $3.10 an hour. I was pissed! I was insulted! 8 hours standing non-stop & my feet & ankles were in excruciating pain. Nobody does anything for 8 fuckin hours straight (except sleep). I only lasted a couple months. I couldn't do shit with $3.10 an hour. Getting my paycheck felt like getting kicked in the nuts. It was sick! It was insane! *WHY ARE WE ALLOWING THIS???* This is the exact opposite of "THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS." America is THE PURSUIT OF DRUDGERY! THE PURSUIT OF MISERY!
You're nothing like your dad he did all that work because he is a stand up guy. I worked like that too. Do you think he liked that? Probably not, but he had humility and balls enough to do that for his family. It's like so many young people WANT to be disabled. Collectively you guys need to grow a pair
He could hack it. You couldn't. Why are you dodging that point? I did 8 years in the army, got my GI bill, used it, and now have just about everything I want.
The problem isn't following through with the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality. It's that even if you HAD that same mentality and worked JUST as hard as your fathers and grandfather's did in the jobs they had. In this economy, you STILL would be hard struggling every day.
Thats not true at all. People expect to live in the middle class lifestyle they grew up in. Thats the end result, not where you start. Their grandparents didnt start at middle class. Their parents didnt start at middle class.
Young people feel entitled to live in a good area at a cheap price. That never was reality.
Your first house is not going to be middle class. Get over it just like your grandpa did.
@@thebenc1537 You missed the entire point... you could start out in the lower class, work JUST as hard in the exact same jobs as your father and grandfather, and at the end of the day, not even touch the level of financial security they did. The POSSIBILITY of elevating your status to middle class just isn't there anymore.
@@jeffreyavalos782 thats a complete lie. You buy a cheap small starter home and build equity. Everyone can do it.
@@thebenc1537 "cheap" starter home... 😂
@@jeffreyavalos782 yes a starter home is supposed to me a small cheap house. What is funny about that?
Ohh you are just ignorant of the truth. I will educate you some if you wish. For starters go to zillow. Search your state for houses under 200k. Youll find tons of them for sale in rural/semi-rural areas.
If you are too lazy to drive further to work then thats your problem.
Term limits need to be a thing. Power corrupts over time. I don't care which party it is.
Are you saying that there aren't term limits?
HUH? They are a thing.
What? 😂😂
We already have term limits. They come up every election day. The problem is with us not taking advantage of it...
@@Undefined01463the Supreme Court justices are sworn in for life they have no term limit.
I am 49 and I feel all of this... this F_ckery started with Gen X and has been snowballing since. Which is why we checked the F out and went feral because F this world.
Yet but minimum wage is $20 an hour. F’d it up for everyone.
Yet increasing the minimum wage won't do jack because look at California and what happened with fast food places.
Yeah this dude making 3x at 60/hr and struggling
The issues that we're experiencing has been unfolding for the past 60 years. The $20 minimum wage is but a symptom of a bigger issue
That’s not the federal minimum wage. What state is that?
@@themonsterwithin4000 California or should I say Commiefornia
More and more Gen Z have started to 'Noticing'
The noticing intensifies
We've all noticed. We just didn't reach the point of throwing tea into the sea yet.
@@SL-eu1xkhopefully they notice the danger of HR 6090 next. Massive First Amendment violations. Hint for those who don’t know: the First Amendment protects more than Free Speech.
Notice what? That all wars in human history have actually just been *CLASS wars* and the workingclass is still the slave class? 😏
Would be nice if enough people would notice.
Defiantly people are better off in Denmark then. Yes Århus and copenhagen is costly, but not 1800 dollars in Århus anyway. You can find 2 room apartments for like 700 dollars on the low end, but most are 1000-1200 dollars in larger parts of the country. And minimum pay after taxes is like 2k dollars.
A 450k house in Texas is literally what a house in California was like 10 years ago
My exact thought when he said this was bro in cali you aint getting anything for under a mil. There is no shot I am ever going to be able to afford to buy a house in Cali in my lifetime.
I live in a small town in TN.
The housing prices have tripled compared to what they were in 2018/2019.
Huh, I wonder what started 10 years ago? Oh yeah, Californians moving to Texas.
@@whiskeyniner6416Try Idaho.
California is the problem its i fecting the rest of the country
Milenial here. 33 now, I have worked 2 jobs since I graduated high school. At first I did that to pay my way through college since support and scholarships did not exist for me. If I didn't go to school then I would have been told to leave home. At 20 I had to pay my own car insurance that was 600 a month, on minimum wage earnings. Along with tuition which Eventually outpaced my earnings. It took me until 30 to get masters in social work which is the minimum required to get licensed in that field. 70k in student loans. I now make moreover than I ever have in my life. About 73k a year. I have a wife and child and am happy. But I should already be in a position to start working on a house, but I make just enough to cover rent and bills while on single income.
And before anyone says anything about trades and all that, I tried my hand at several. I still would have had to pay for some type of schooling and never heard back from apprenticeships, even with a few friends who tried to help. Plus some form of therapeutic job was what i really wanted to do. I am happy with my job and my family, but damn has it really felt that everything has been weighed against me the moment I graduated high school.
The game of Life fun stuff
I didnt have a father so watching my mom work 3 jobs to 2 later on in life was depressing. Knowing that your eventually gonna have to slave your life away just to make ends meet is a disgrace to human rights which i may be wrong but we sure as hell dont feel free
I was told by my financial advisor that I was in the upper 2 percent. I’m like- are you kidding me? I mow my own lawn, use coupons and drive a 5 year old minivan I bought for 18k.
So you’re smart with your money then
@@TheNateWalking basically. Just lived way below means. Debt would have eaten at my soul.
@@melvano4014 and why should you have to keep adjusting your means to fit their ever-increasing bullshit? more power to you, but that shouldn't be the solution.
@@letmediecast amen!
@@letmediecastyou have 3 choices: live within your means and be debt free, live above your means by financing everything and complain when you have no money, and typing out the third option will get me banned on CZcams.
When I was 19 back in 1982, I did not feel like this at all. I moved out of the house after high school in 1981 and was able to pay for an studio apartment by myself with a part time job while going to school. The cost of housing now is complete BS. Corporate rental home ownership has to go. I totally feel this guys rant. Justified. My 19 year old son has no chance of getting his own place at this point, since you need a minimum income of $5800 per month to rent a one bedroom apartment in our area in SoCal. The current economy is totally skewed towards the rich, who, coincidentally, buy the politicians who make the rules.
Wild because you and your neighbors voted for this over the past 50 years.
@eightlights4939 how would he know this was gonna happen?
@@luizeduardogomesribeiropen324 Common sense? Researching what you are voting for? Not voting based on feelings? Shall I go on?
@@eightlights4939 makes sense.
1) Spend within your means
2) Move somewhere with housing that complies with #1
3) Get a roommate
i would like to live alone when im already 32, thanks
@@Czesiek123
Should have prepared better
2:45 in Massachusetts $450,000 would be a bargain! You can’t find anything at that price here everything is $750,000-$1,000,000
This is why my dad just lets me live with him and gives me absolutely no grief about it whatsoever of course i help him with anything he needs whenever he needs, my parents have taken care of me for a very long time now its my turn to take care of them.
at least you have your private room and family around you instead of roommates you dont even know
Lucky. Got kicked out when I was 21 and had to rent alone because nobody else wanted to move out and in with me.
I also have a bunch of health problems, if it wasn't for this I could easily escape! So if you're able bodied without any physical or mental health problems you're probably doing ok, count your blessings and try to stop focusing on bad things.
Your situation sounds a lot like how mine was. I was taking care of my parents, living at their house and my own health started taking drastic turns. Thyroid gave out, back going bad, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a murmur, fungal issues(feet and dandruff.)
My parents stopped respecting me and it showed. They even started holding me back a lot, refusing to let me use their cars when mine was broke, etc. I had a chance to leave it all behind, and as much as it hurt, I did.
My fungal issues went away first. Skin on my feet cleared up and stopped cracking/stinking. Started feeling better without even using anti fungal cream like I was before. My new cardiologist said he saw no signs of my heart problems here after a year on my own (which doesn't make sense to me, the cardiomyopathy is typically uncurable.)
Still on thyroid meds, but I have more energy than I did.
I had to wait for that chance to come though, and it doesn't often come to everyone, but my health has drastically improved once I was able to take flight on my own, a lot of it came with dieting right as well, which is easier when others aren't around to influence your eating habits..
My parents are also much more loving towards me than they had been in years, they actually listen to me when I talk now compared to dismissing my opinions easily.
I wish you well and hope you and yours are doing ok, just seemed eerily similar to a situation I recently escaped.
Good for you. Your parents appreciate it. Times are different now. Nothing wrong with living in generational housing.
I worked as a teacher at a community center and I would listen to boomers talk about how they're avoiding taxes on their 3rd or 4th house. The amount of money they avoid paying via careful accounting is honestly something else. Meanwhile I'm working two jobs and I can never even think about living near that area, it's like we live in different world.
Congress could close every tax "loophole" tomorrow. They never will, no matter what major party is in control. They benefit from this system and want it to stay this way.
Landlords gobbling up homes left and right, and NIMBYism where nobody (Liberals OR Conservatives) want new housing built near where they live, are just devastating young people wanting to get a start in life. In the end that will hurt everyone. I hope the movement to find solutions will gain momentum. In the meantime, TikToks like this are a start.
Not to mention ppl running up bs erroneous "business" credit and write offs....complete bs thinking we won the Cold war with all this redistribution of wealth and fraud
@@WardenWyrd It wont change untill our world goverments get "new blood" for leaders. Its criminal how much anyone under 30 isnt represented (Even older maybe)
They wont change a system that benfits them and we can only hope the next ones change it rather than just use it to enrich themselfs.
The reason the housing market is unnafoardable right now is not because of foreign aide packages, it's because we legalize the right to live in a shelter with life-reliant amenities like running water, electricity, heat, and plumbing to be treated as an asset class. Nobody should be allowed to invest in essential amenities and services that humans need to survive. The real estate market should be banned. Period.
It's not 60 billion to a country. It's 60 billion worth of weapons and ammo to a country, that's the price tag of the gear being sent over. That 60 billion was spent YEARS ago to pay Americans to build those weapons and ammo.
this is correct
I’m a software engineer working out of Austin. I make 115k. I can’t afford to live in Austin. I bought a house on temple
And that's why that area is now over priced to hell.
Not your fault, do to the bullshit Austin pulled for over 2 decades
i am a software solutions architect and i bougt a 83^m house in the capital with cash in 4 years while living in a rented chicken coop size room. im 22 with no degree
Good. Why would you want to.
@@SashaSyrup001😂😂
Austin is now like Seattle and Portland, Democrats have ruined the cost of living.
"pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" doesn't fucking mean anything.
it was first said as a joke about "doing impossible tasks" you cannot lift yourself up off the ground without some form of leverage. THAT'S THE JOKE. so saying, "you know, it sucks to hear it but pulling yourself up by your bootstraps really does work." like, no it fucking doesn't. it's like saying, "if you're hungry, eat the air!" and saying, "i know you guys don't want to hear this, but it works." you're out of touch.
Well said.
Right, it surprises me that this phrase has been taken as an actual stance. As you said, it's quite literally an impossible feat to pull yourself up by your own boot straps. It's ironic.
It's one of the original gaslighting phrases.
way too many people get "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" and "bootstrapping" confused. the first as stated above means doing the impossible. the other means to start small and work your way up.
@@williamsimmons8274 the second is based on the misunderstanding of the first. It's still reductive.
Georgetown is also insanely expensive even 1 hour outside of austin. Most people have to go even further out.
Where the hell is that guy rent ? You know if you cannot afford to live there you need to move.....
"Just work hard" - guy who became a millionaire by sheer luck.
And? If he hasn't gotten rich he would still say to work hard. Because more often than not, that's the path to success
@chrisg4305 just working hard isn't enough. And Asmon creates a false dichotomy : you work hard or you complain. The white dude in the video does both. And the situation won't change if nobody complains.
It takes being in the right place at the right time, with the knowledge and resources needed to take advantage of the opportunity to succeed, as well as hard work, to make the opportunity happen.
It's like baking a cake. If you know how to make a cake and put in the time and energy to make the cake, but there's no sugar, you'll get a cake that'll taste awful. ALL the ingredients need to be in place to make the cake a success.
@Morbacounet work hard and do more you need to do more then what's required
@@chrisg4305 No, everyone who has ever gotten anywhere ever, worked SMART and probably very DIRTY, and NOT hard. Just about every mfracker who got rich like this says to work hard, when they NEVER did, or not even close to people who literally worked themselves to death. Tell THEM that, i am pretty sure they can no longer hear your from their overworked graves.
You cant lecture me about pulling myself up when youve stolen all the bootstraps.
I'll sell you back the bootstraps for a 500% markup
Was just about to say
“how can i pull myself up by my bootstraps when they are too expensive”
Stop crying. In most other countries life is way harder than in the US. Give me a break!
@@armingleiner5292 This is such a dumb take, of course you can complain about things going wrong even if somewhere else they are worse
The whole saying is kinda stupid. Because the whole point is that you can't pull yourself up by the bootstrap. You need help.
You can't physically pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Go ahead: put on some boots, grab the straps, and try to pull yourself off the ground. You won't manage to "pull yourself up" in any meaningful sense because gravity is a thing. You can pull yourself up by a chair, a rock-climbing grip, or someone else's hand; you cannot pull yourself up by your bootstraps, or anything attached to your body. If you could, transportation infrastructure would look very, very different because humans would be capable of levitation.
The expression "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was originally used to refer to a task that's impossible.
Working harder absolutely does not get you ahead anymore. Working smarter does. I can 100% verify this. I worked construction until the age of 35, went to college and got into tech. I now make more than 6x as much as I did before going into tech and my job isn't even close to as hard as it was before... and I'm still not balling. Just getting by somewhat comfortably.
I do know some tradesmen make money, but they're not getting ahead on sheer brute force. They're getting ahead because they're working smarter, not harder.
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” this is why it's happening
The problem with “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” is hard work isn’t important. Knowing people is far more important, being born rich is more important than hard work. Hard work is not valued because it’s not incentivized, it’s exploited. Hard work doesn’t work, doing as little as possible to get by works better.
Exactly.
If you work hard your deemed "too valuable for the means of production" and will never be moved up.
The key is to be deemed a likable, useful idiot that can be easily manipulated by upper management but not capable/stupid enough to not be viewed as a threat.
That bootstrap nonsense is what you hear from propagandist like Jordan Peterson.
Op is right, but also Just bring down rent prices. Literally fixes everything. Boomer are renting thier kids into poverty. 1 house is enough
Rapid inflation does not negate working hard and should never be regarded as such. "Bootstraps" is a personal motto that works. But in the current economy, I can understand why people would be disillusioned.
@marcozegikniet9301 "propagandist"
Lol did you just get kicked off a campus by police?
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps anymore than you can pull yourself up by your shoe laces."
This is the actual full quote, from the 1800's. Kind of funny how we eliminated 2/3 of it and completely flipped the meaning around.
How can you pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you don't have any boots?
@@level9drow856Hence the shoe laces...
I've noticed that we're currently finding out that most American sayings are just half-truths (which means it's a complete lie). Wild.
I wonder which next saying is going on the chopping board.
"The customer is always right" is another. It should end in ", in matters of taste."
It's kinda fucked up, IMO.
Or this gaslighting phrase: "You can't have your cake and eat it". Erm... cakes are for eating. I mean, what's the point in having a cake if you're not going to eat it?
Buckle up it's going to get much worse
My father owned his house and two Cars on min wage with 2 kids after he came home from vietnam(he was a lowly mechanic he kept the air support coming) now you can't even afford a used car and a new one costs as much as a house
The juice was so worth the squeeze in our grandparents' day and age, it was worth being uncomfortable in a job because you could expect you were going to provide for a whole ass family and have a McMansion in exchange for it. It didn't even require being particularly smart or skilled. Every single braindead boomer got to thrive with no education and only on the job training. Now even if most people work their ass off they're going to get screwed. If we are going to get screwed, we may as well get screwed in a job where we don't have to walk three miles in the snow to get to it.
my boss at the old drive in resturaunt i worked at was a prime example. old as can be, but happily living a comfortable life for the past 30-40 years as a fast food employee / manager. he preached and preached about how "nobody wanted to work hard anymore" all. the. time. he lived in his own little bubble for his whole life and never noticed that the wealth he accumulated overtime and the seniority he gained at the company was a perfect storm. like, i can't even afford to eat right let alone save up for anything sustainable. he would be EXACTLY where i am today if he were my age today. underpaid, overworked, given all the shitty jobs that physically wear me out. IF I COULD AFFORD THE PROPER NUTRITION FOR MY BODY, MAYBE THE HARD WORK WOULDNT BE SO TAXING. it's insane. i hate it.
Is welcome to brandon's world
Yup. I worked my ass off to get a college degree, worked and managed a subway the whole way through. I had an interview for a job in mt field and I was rejected because someone with 8 years of experience was hired over me? But they were very impressed with me and that was the only reason because I don’t have enough experience? It’s so ridiculous. The only job I’ve been able to get is Walmart since graduating in December. My field doesn’t pay much more than Walmart now too. Gen z is outraged and lazy for a reason, because we will never have anything.
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Very well spoken,my friend.. you actually have Put enough thought into it, that you actually understand it. You’ve earned my respect today if nothing else.
Bane was right. Peace has cost us our strength. Victory has defeated us.
It's a really big problem when Batman villains start making sense
@@alexzanderroberts995He was right. We really do live in a society.
Most people want peace and can be more productive. But some people just take other's kindness as a way to exploit them.
We should always pursue peace, but also always show teeth to those greedy mofos.
2 bedroom apt for 2100? In what realm does he live in? NYC Town Square or LA? I was stationed in north cali and I found a 2bed 1 bath apartment for $800. No joke. They did raise the prices to 870 but it's still affordable.
He said $2200 even. No idea where he's living. Looking at 2 bed apartments in my hometown and nice ones are like $1200. I dont understand how people sit there and pay 50% of their wage to rent rather than move
At age 19 I didnt not feel what this kid is feeling. But at age 47 I am now. I sold my condo I owned since 2005 in 2020 right before the massive spike in home value increases and now I cant find my own place. This is insane. In 4 years I went fromm having a good amount of disposable income each month to now being in the negatives every month. I havent changed anything about my lifestyle. Now the money I got from selling my condo is draining away and I have nowhere to go. It's impossible to live on 50k a year almost.
Start making changes to the way you spend your money man. Gotta tighten up and spend smarter. Unfortunately inflation is out of control, so you gotta adjust with it. I'd start looking for a higher paying job in your field or adjacent.
@@Adiopowered Hes calling out pattern recognition here something is not right, the answer is not to keep blindly accepting it.
@@Adiopowered yup. It's insane. I'm going to have to pretty much cut out all extra spendetures and not eat to be able to afford my own place. Great weight loss plan.
You didn't change anything and expect everything to stay the same? That is so stupid lol
Yeee 4 years ago I was living a decent life now making even more money as journeyman plumber my money gets eaten up and my expenses are the same, I don't go out to drink, eat out a 20$ meal like once every 2 weeks, I don't drive my truck other then to work and gym no joy rides for me, it's sad 4 years ago with less money I felt more rich