It Feels Like Everything Sucks...
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let me know if you like this sort of format of video
(I'm really enjoying reading the Quiz Replies)
Also I didn't think that people would be worried I was retiring haha, I just thought it was a funny way to prove a point to sad bait a video about how the world is generally getting less sucky
I do
Love it
I like it so far, not as much as some of your other content but I think it's good
It was different but i liked it :)
its so silly i love it
Markiplier: “I’m tired.”
Click: “I feel like everything sucks…”
Both gave me a heart attack, can’t wait to see who kills me next
Edit: Why the fuck did this blow up
Jacksepticeye said he’ll likely quit in 2 years max.
Lol both named Mark too
Coincidentally they're both named Mark
@@TheIndigoSystemconclusion: marks are lovable trolls
Same dude, i was like: Is another of my favorite creators retiring
Click summoning his entire fanbase with that title LMAO
Fr tho
I really was like "oh no"
I was thinking "Is it already time for another one of _those_ videos?" and my mind went straight to Sad Milk and Illuminaughty
The Click(bait)/j
Frrrr
Yea, I read the title and thought "oh dear".
I was much concern, only to learn we were lap rats. 😂
I thought this was going to be a depressing video on how life was having Click down, and I won't lie, I was avoiding it because I didn't want to feel bad, even though I want to support this man.
When I eventually got around to it, no! this man absolutely bamboozled me, and it was a good 'ol wholesome video in disguise. Thank you Click, this was something we all needed to hear.
SAME!
The exact same thing was happening with me and I was in a pretty sad state when I started watching it. My mood went up quite a bit
Same deal here, was worried this'd be 40 minutes of Click talking about everything in the world... but nope! It's just a bunch of "Yay Humanity!" Memes.
YUP was desperate for a video to watch do I finally opened it and I'm relieved omg
I only got the low income elementary school question and the global life expectancy question right.
My reasoning to the first question was actually cuz, "That little girl is legit walking MILES just to get to her school, and then come home with water! Of course they gonna be taking elementary school seriously! Who would walk that far just to fail?!"
Reminder re: divorce rate, that only because people didn't divorce legally doesn't mean they were happy or even together. Just talk to any older person, especially older women. I've met widows who don't miss their husbands at all and are in fact happier now they're gone. A coworker of mine's been together with her partner for +20 years, even has a child with him, all while he was married to someone else -- the wife was aware, they were separated in reality but not legally. So yeah, divorce rates being higher isn't in and of itself a bad thing, not without context.
Exactly, specially since a lot of women back then didn't even have a choice in the matter with getting a divorce or had the means to even if they did.
@@MommahKat Yup. My grandmother was married until her death, in her 50s... to a man who gambled most of their income away, keeping them in abject poverty, a man who was with another woman 7 days after her burial. Which he didn't even pay for, my mom, then 17, did. So yeah, she was married to a single man her entire life, but at what cost?
Modern divorces also have parents having healthy and relaxed communication so we have "co-parenting". It's groundbreaking for us but the new normal is great.
You spend enough time in retirement homes & are sweet enough to the old ladies, some will even admit to "witnessing" the "accident" that caused their ex husband to pass.
Of all my grandparents, only one was unable to hold down a relationship. The others had really good happy marriages... However, I feel like they were the exception. Divorce rate for their generation was low, but there were a lot of relationships where tvwrything was through the man, and women were often held hostage and felt like they didn't have a real choice in their partner for a whole litany of social and financial reasons.
My parents generation was the transition where when they got married a lot of the same social norms forced women into marriage, but as things changed and as women became capable of independence, they took advantage of it.
With my generation, I feel like a lot of people still felt pressure to get married for love, and then when they fell out of love there wasn't much to keep them together, so the divorce rate spiked a bit.
But now... Divorce rates are down. Most don't feel the need to get hitched, so those who do tend to get married with clearer heads and more commitment to each other rather than a commitment to benefits of the marriage, or commitment to the idea of marriage, or commitment to their religion as a primary reason to get married.
You had me worried for a second there, John A. Click
Me too, not gonna lie
I almost had a heart attack 😭
His name is John????
ITS MARK @@futurewolf533
@@futurewolf533 nah his name is Mark, the original commenter was just making a joke.
My nephew has Cystic Fibrosis, diagnosed at 5 weeks because he was drinking more milk than his older sister had before going on solids and didn’t put on weight, it would go right through him. He was put early on on Orkambi, which was the first generation of Trikafta, but has been on the new meds since it has been approved by Health Canada about a year ago.
He now loves sports and PE because he can run without getting out of breath. Our local CF clinic told his mom that out of the 50 patients they have, 48 are on the meds and they have not had an hospitalization since they started taking the meds. This is life changing 🥰
20:21 Minecraft has also proven that mining is really easy. Even with just a handcrafted wooden pickaxe you can mine out a perfect cube meter of rock and just stick it in your pocket.
The divorce rate going up/being high is a good thing actually. It means people aren't staying in crappy marriages that make them miserable. My parents got divorced and it was probably the best thing that they could have done. Now I have 2 loving bio parents, and 2 loving step parents.
I think both can be true at once. The divorce rate spike in the past was a really good sign because it meant that people were more able to leave unhappy or abusive relationships. But at the same time, the divorce rate going down may(emphasis on MAY) be indicative of happier and healthier relationships overall, or indicative of people taking longer to decide if marriage is something they truly want and if they and their partner are compatible long term. It could even be indicative of both. So while I'm not going to jump anywhere near "divorce bad!" territory, I would like to view it was a tentative win until evidence shows a regression into the old ways of unhappy marriages.
I read the first line as “being high is a good thing”, was like - WHAT?! and then read the whole comment properly. That was my daily jumpscare
It's important to remember that the man who has never felt pain will struggle to cope when he gets a papercut. And that should be expected, he is still in pain, the worst pain of his life. He is no less strong or less important than the person who gets a papercut everyday.
I'm chronically ill, in chronic pain everyday, have been since I was child, but that shouldn't make me unsympathetic to the average pain of others. It's important to feel grateful you're not in pain everyday, but when you are pain it still sucks
Also chronic pain, chronic illness. We always talk about the oppression Olympics at my house It’s not a competition, you can still feel pain/have bad days and they are still bad.
Yep. I only lose sympathy for people when they tell me stuff like that their pain is worse simply because "you're used to being in pain and I'm not, so you can't say you are in pain otherwise you are invalidating my pain". Or when they compare their self induced hangover to my migraine and say they have it significantly worse. But I'd never mock someone for pain that doesn't bother me anymore. That's just crass.
Exactly, my pain doesn't make anyone else's pain less valid, just as theirs doesn't invalidate mine.
@@sovdark I can't tell whether you're saying someone with illness can still have worse days or if someone without illness can still have bad days. Either way, I agree. Empathy is important to me. Humans are pack animals, and we're built for community. If a friend or family member- hell, a random stranger! - is in pain (whether physical or emotional), I want them to feel better and understand how sucky that is.
And for the former, it's also important for those of us with chronic illness/pain to remember that having a flare is valid, and we shouldn't minimize our own pain due to thinking less of it or something, simply bc we're always in pain. It's still not fun, and it's okay to need help or extra support from people close by.
Downside of verticle farming: It's extremely expensive, making lettuce the only cost-effective plant so far, and they're easily wiped out by crop blights due to being in a very closed system.
I heard a lot of the big companies doing it went bankrupt because when they did the math a head of lettuce would cost over 6 dollars because of labor because you need people like bioengineers which is more expensive but I think we could make a certification class for vertical farming to fix the issue
The world isn't gonna get better unless people go out there and make it better. Get involved in politics and your local communities. The only way the right road will be taken is to walk it yourself.
Vertical farming is dumb because we make WAY MORE than enough food for the entire human population and then some. Problem is its unevenly distributed because of profit incentives and a lot is wasted on livestock. Same with water supplies. Get involved in politics and your communities. Learn to cook too.
The impact of laundry machines is often underestimated.
It took away do much work from the house hold, made clothing and fabrics longer useable and thus cheaper.
Not to mention, it increased hygenes and thus health.
And of course, it opened up the once laundry occupied workforce to go to other workplaces and be productive and innovative (yes mostly women).
The laundry machine is among the very top of humanity's most impactfull inventions. Together with things like fire, the wheel, writing, antibiotics, vaccines, printing, steam/electricity/combustion engines, and the internet.
I don't even have one lol, I hate not having it
Another cool invention I don’t see listed many places: string. From rope to yarn to thread, string is used in so many places in modern life, and filled so many roles in the past as well that it was surprising I had spent so long not thinking of it at this great invention similar to the wheel. We even use string WITH the wheel to make the pulley, which helps so much in leverage and moving heavier items!
Edit: Spelling
@@joybailey7254 good point actually.
Rope was especially crucial back before things like proper glue and metal nails were common place.
Same with string.
Also, fabrics were woven from it.
And the amount of work to make rope back then is effectivly forgotten today.
Personally I wouldnt put it to one of the most impactfull inventions.
Sinue from animals were just left over when you ate it. Plant matter is very string-y by nature. And well... hair in a mammal dominated world is everywhere.
Its in a similar position as the wheel.
I personally dont think the wheel is that impactfull an invention.
More impactfull are machines using wheels, like wind/water mills, gears, steam engines, powered vehicles like trains and cars, etc.
The wheen is not that revolutionary. Personally I think its importance is inflated due to children cartoons and the car industry's advertisement.
Either way.
You are right though.
String, Rope, Sinue, etc are often overlooked and forgotten as vital components of craftsmanship. Especially before the industrial age.
That’s true. When some folks (like maybe that pastor) bemoan the lack of traditional housewives, they’re forgetting that technology and economics have dramatically shaped our world.
It’s no longer Uncle Henry and Auntie Em doing farm work and huswifery all day. We use time-saving appliances. We buy food & soap & clothes without having to harvest crops, process plant and animal matter, spin yarn and weave it into cloth, boil animal fat and lye….
It makes sense for more people to work outside the home, earn money, and buy pre-made goods.
"You smell absolutely amazing", Thank you mark, even though i smell like shit rn
Heyyyyyyyy, whyd you steal my pfp? Lmao
But OP, your shite still smells amazing!
@@hen8384 the fact that someone has the same profile picture that I do, which I found like idk 10 years ago is astonishing
@@Sekhubara My faith in humanity on a graph looks like a rollercoaster
@@Samppaa don't worry we love the smell of shite
Be careful on that poverty number, the World Bank (where that statistic usually comes from) lowered the poverty line for extreme poverty during the 2000s, and then raised it with inflation since, which "raised people out of poverty" by changing the definition of poverty rather than any actual improvement to their living situation.
Even optimists make the mistake of not fully looking at the context of something
True
When I learned about statistics my teacher told me " never trust a statistic you didn't temper with yourself" which sound highly cynical XD
But honestly when you have a set of data yourself and play around with the parameters (such as the limit of what would fall in a category like "extreme poverty") you realize how important it is to have the right background information when seeing a statistic.
Especially with something as prone to change as poverty because it has to be adjusted to time (with inflation and cost of living etc) and you can't simply take the same value for it as you would have taken some years ago.
Still very positive overall so while the actual number might be a bit questionable I think the trend is a great one!
The only way to make a better world is to make it better yourself, in whatever ways you can.
Live for yourself above all else. Get healthy, find yourself. After, you will have plenty of energy to dedicate to things you care about. And plenty of energy for people around you and making the world better.
People lived and died, went to war with the feds, pushed back against a racist supermajority, pushed back against homophobia, etc, for us to enjoy simple things like weekends off and wearing a short skirt regardless of gender. Trivial now, but requiring the back-breaking labors of countless throughout their entire lives.
Get involved in politics, get involved in your community, make connections, organize efforts to make and advocate for changing broken parts of the world. Rome wasn't built in a day, but by a cobblestone at a time.
What stands between a hell of out own design and a passionate humanitarian world is people committed to their own betterment and the betterment of their communities and world.
"How bad is the world really?"
For half a year living in a war, I learned it's really bad, but there are dots of hope
My B.A. is in sociology, and then I did three years’ work on a master’s in social work. Some of these statistics (or similar) were presented to me when I was studying, but the last time I was in school was 2014. It makes me happy to see that they have continued to hold true/improve in the last ten years!!
got a heartattack seeing this pop up
same
Real
Same
same
Same here
There are three kinds of lies.
Lies, Damn lies, and Statistics.
I've heard it said another way: statistics are like a bikini, what they reveal is interesting, but what they conceal often much more so.
@@jurealeksejev3568 I 💕that.
thank you!
@@jurealeksejev3568 Well the only problem with that is something like 72.6% of all stats are made up
specifically the way statistics are presented. statistics are facts but they don't tell a full story on their own. if you're not familiar with how statistical data is gathered and how it should be used, it's so easy for that data to be skewed and made misleading, and make badly warped graphs and tables because the general population aren't really good at understanding detailed math data, of course we love visuals, even if we can't interpret them properly. huge factor in today's misinformation problem.
@@ninjagriff And especially whether they present median, mean, or mode as their statistic. They are each significant but can present a skewed idea of what is really happening. People will generally use the one that represents their own point of view best. Not what the true facts are.
11:03 there's a lot of privilege in that tho. Minorities walking around in unaccepting societies DO bump heads every day with people that "disagree" with them.
the optimism is pretty cool, but there def is a centrist tendency to say things like opposing imperialism and opposing "degeneracy" are somehow equivalent
HAH! we already did that test of "how is the world really doing" in school. I already knew all the anwers. And Yes, media really likes to only talk about the bad news, not the goog news.
If anyone asked me to make a law i would make the law "Good news first" : One good news at the start of every news-show
When I was born in '88 I was rushed to the hospital for abdominal surgery and they diagnosed me with Cystic Fibrosis. My doctors said I likely wouldn't make it to my teens. Then when I made it into my early twenties the average life span was 35 to 37 years, with the majority still dying in the their teens. Once Trikafta was created they called it a miracle drug and even approved it for use early because of how well the medication was working. I went on it at the end of 2019 and the results were significant. It really is a miracle for people like me, who never planned to live into their thirties at all and never even made plans for college because of it. Knowing that kids born with the same strain that I have will now be able to live almost completely normal childhoods and never have the same looming threat of a young death due to CF is an amazing thing because I never thought I would even live to see that happen.
🔥❤
Incredible!
Damn, congratulations on being alive
WOW THAT'S FRIGGING AMAZING!!! you just made my day!!!
THAT IS AWESOME ❤
It’s important to remember that just because things are better than they used to be we shouldn’t stop fighting for things to be better than they are now
This part.
Exactly. On top of that also to remember that not all these statistics take into account different demographics' experiences/their statistics. Like for example in the US the mortality rate for POC infants is not that good because doctors do not give women of color the same level of respect or care as their white counterparts which results in higher birth moralities. These statistics are incredible and a good mood lifter but gotta take em with a grain of salt as with anything since they do not cover individual demographics' struggles.
I think Click says this what you are saying in the video. But still it's a good idea to not get overwhelmed by the negative to the point of apathy & inaction, as can happen with many. 👌
@@MommahKat medical bias is definitely something that needs to be worked on & campaigned over. However if you look at the current rates from National Vital Statistics Reports & compare them to historical rates such as numbers from the Centre for Control of Diseases & Prevention, the current infant mortality rate for Black women's babies in the US (which is the highest of any race group) is around 10 deaths per 1000 live births (which is more than twice as high than for which women). However as recently as the 1950s the average was around 30 deaths per 1000 live births. And the rate for black women's babies in the 1950 & 1960s was about 43 & 44 deaths per 1000 per live births. So even more specific data points like this have improved. As said we need to continue the work as medical bias is not fair & can cause preventable deaths, but it's important that people don't end up feeling like nothing ever gets better & that it's pointless to try.
I've been in a really bad place mentally. This video is exactly what I needed. Thank you, Click. You've restored my faith in humanity.
Most of these numbers ignore trends and context. Don't stop being angry at a world that's been tailor made to steal from you so the rich and old can hit the snooze button while crapping in their depends.
@gene8447 Wow thanks. I made a comment saying I finally don't feel like shit and you come say I should continue to feel like shit. You must be so fun at parties.
@breakingthechains38 damn that guy sucks, anyways hope stuff gets better and humanity probably isn't as fucked as some people think we are
Hey, I'm writing this as an ad plays on the background. I normally use an ad blocker but I like to turn it off for your videos. I don't even know how to give this comment a funny twist or anything. I just genuinely appreciate you putting out so much positivity. Not just this video. When I first found your channel, I was suicidal after just having realised I'm a gay trans man, being diagnosed with autism and depression, and just having gotten out of a horrible relationship. Long story short, I've gotten better. I can't believe I'm saying that, but I've gotten better and you made me want to get better at the time I needed it the most. It inspires me how compassionate and supportive you are of the gay folk, trans folk, neurodivergent folk, etc. even if you aren't necessarily part of those communities. I quite literally owe allies like you with my life. And these days I strive to put out that same kindness back into the world.
I don't know what to add here at the end. Maybe just that I was a furry before I started watching you, but when my mental health plummeted and I was struggling with my at the time undiagnosed autistic identity, I was desperate to fit in and just be normal and have normal hobbies. Ever since I've gotten better, I've sort of began gravitating back towards the furry community and your videos played a pretty major role in all that, so you could say you made me a furry.
Thanks, Click. ❤
-Charlie
I'VE JUST HAD A HEART ATTACK, THANKS. I THOUGHT HE WAS RETIRING LIKE MATPAT
Frrrrrrr
I think he's having too much fun with this to retire yet.
He might in a year, couple years, or 15, but I doubt it'll happen just yet.
Omg same!!!!
Or call me kevin 😢
@@phoebedarker Kevin is still gonna make videos. Just not as frequently.
I'm old (50s) and when I was growing up in the UK we had the Falklands War, IRA blowing up cities near me, Maggie Thatcher and all the things she did - anti LGBT bills, privatisation, destroying the miners, etc. , and threat of nuclear war. My dad grew up with the end of rationing and having to catch rabbits to eat. India was still fighting for independence after their horrendous treatment by Britain, and the start of the cold war. My Grandad fought in the war, my other grandad was an evacuee and my gran was a kid in London, playing in bomb craters. These are the "good old days" that some people want to go back to. So while there are problems today, and progress isn't a straight line, things do get better. It might not feel like it sometimes and there are still battles to be won, I have faith that the younger generations are going to make the world a much better place, given time.
So true, 40’s and live in uk. It’s easy to romanticise a past you didn’t live through. Yes some things were better but you have good and bad for every generation.
I think what did it for me was the guy who spent his whole life leading the charge on AI quitting his job so he could tell everyone he's sorry he's doomed us all. The best advice my mom gave was "try not to think about it" and ever since I've been carrying this crushing helplessness at knowing that even the adults who lived through all this stuff can't help
But seeing your comment, I think "try not to think about it" is the only way anyone ever survived and stayed sane. Let's appreciate today, roast some marshmallows, and have a Tom Lehrer sing-along
@@Kasia237I keep falling into the romanticized past trap, until I realized the only reason the old problems seem so small is because we're looking at them from the epilogue where we know it all turned out alright in the end, and we're looking at our current problems from the middle of the story where there's still more to happen
Thanks! I needed this perspective in my life right now!!!!
I am turning 40 this year, and I keep reminding myself I'm 4 years older than my country's federal constitution. We'd just ended a military dictatorship when I was born. My mother lived through non-stop dictatorships, she was born right after WWII (1946). Things might not be *excellent*, but they have been *much worse*.
I'm bearly ten minutes into the video, and hecking damn, this is so refreshing, I could cry. More of this please, Click. I especially liked the bit at the start.
Also my demon says "hi". He still needs a name yet.
Well, "Optimism" or a variation thereof might work? Assuming you too feel that demon names would be like cat names and can be basically whatever. 😅
Live for yourself above all else. When you find yourself, and figure out how to be healthy and happy, you will have much more time and energy for things you care about. You will also have time and energy to prevent or lessen the burdens on others, perhaps from the same issues you had.
Also, the world is not going to get better in the slightest unless people like you and me get involved in politics and our local communities to drive changes towards a better world. Enjoy holidays and/or weekends? People literally lived, went to war with the federal and state government and contractors, and died so we could enjoy shit like that. We won't ever have it that hard but we have to fight like hell to keep shit like that from happening again and then bestowing privileges on future generations.
All that stands between hell of our own design and a passionate humanitarian world is people willing to advocate and work for the future in any way they can. At the very least, vote. Rome wasn't built in a day, and the world wont be fixed overnight, and it won't be without people to drive the change.
A 90 sqm apartment where I live now is considered HUGE. Despite all the condos being built, a 40 sqm meter condo is a two bedroom "family starter" and is stupid expensive.
Mental health diagnosis HAS gone up, but they also believed only men could have autism 30yrs ago, most mental illnesses were dismissed as well. Kids with adhd used to just be beaten until they held still & started masking. Ppl with mental health often had horrible lives of never being able to keep work, have relationships etc
Yep. Women's mental health issues were all classed under the umbrella diagnosis of Having A Uterus, which skewed the statistics somewhat.
Also people are more aware of the signs & symptoms more. From doctors & nurses, to parents & families.
I was gonna do the quiz, but after two questions I was like "oh so it's probably going to be all the most positive answers to show that there is still some hope in the world, huh". I love that I was right 😂
hahaha
İ thought the same thing but if İ wasnt given the context of this video İ probably wouldnt figure it oıt
I spoiled myself, sorry
@@True-Neo-Chaos Same, dude. I figured it out by question 3, but if I'd been presented that quiz out of context, I probably would've picked all the wrong answers. Well played Mr. Cliccy Thiccy Wiccy
Yeah same, the problem with being faster than light is you live in darkness
The point about Optimism vs Pessimism, is quite easily seen regarding the US political system, hating the 2 party system has become quite common among many americans, yet you often see them saying something like "oh well, i will just vote (insert existing parry), because it won’t change anyway."
If all those people voted differently, you would suddenly see huge ammounts of votes for independents.
Oh yeah, I was way off on that quiz... Thank you for bringing it up!
I could never quite answer the question of whether I am an optimist or a pessimist. But I suppose I am an optimist after all. My view of the world was just a bit skewed.
Oh btw, fun fact about the gay marriage thing: Here in Switzerland we got it legalised in 2022!
Conversion therapy is still legal. But I hope we can get it banned soon. Going in the right direction at least.
I'm a Millennial, and my friend had cystic fibrosis. We grew up in hospitals together. She didn't pass away until she was 29. I also babysat a child with cystic fibrosis in the early 00's, and he's still doing well. While losing my friend at such a young age is still incredibly sad, my mom had to watch parents lose children so much younger to the disease (my mom was a high-risk obstetrics nurse practitioner in the 70's-late 90's). Medical innovations are truly amazing. Even I would have died as a newborn if I had been born just like 4 years earlier, because the medical technologies that saved my life had just been invented.
Cystic fibrosis by itself is no longer an eligible disease for Make A Wish (you have to have some other complication.) Which is actually great news, so many people are living into their 40s and 50s with CF
Awareness is on the rise.
Content creator CDAWGVA just finished a 14 day cyclethon in Japan, collecting massive donations for the Immune Deficieny Foundation. It's been the 3rd year in a row, and I'd estimate over the years he raised at least 2M USD to spread awareness and aid for people in need.
DUDE I THOUGHT U WERE SAD AND GOT WORRIED OMGS but fr that subreddits bop!
The world is shit. It really is. Fascism and climate change threaten to end the world as we know it. What are you gonna do?
I'll tell you what I'm doing. Living for myself above all. After that, I had energy to dedicate to things I like doing. Then I had energy and time to get involved in politics and my community.
I help people gain control over their disabilities in a cost effective manner, I vote in every election and vote in everything I can, local, state, and federal. I provide a place to rest for my friends who are burnt out. I teach people to cook. I make local immigrants food akin to what they eat from their homelands. I use my strong body to carry furniture and backpacks and suitcases and whatever else for community members and homeless wanderers all the same. I help average people learn to take care of themselves. I learned first aid and wound care. I don't even have a degree or training in any of it. I just care deeply and feel utterly sickened by manufactured inhumanity.
You cannot change the world, the same as you can't pick up a tractor. But organize with people, and you will be able to displace f*cking mountains.
I really needed this video right now. I'm so tired of pessimism. I especially appreciate that you referenced how intelligence and pessimism are not linked. I used to be very naturally optimistic and was treated as though it was bad because only stupid people are positive. I wish I could have people in my life who value nuance, but aren't afraid of happiness.
Something for amercians to keep in mind about midcentury housing: 1. rooms were SMALL your average collage dorm room was about the size of the largest room in the house. 2. when you bought a house unless you were super wealthy you really had two options: a. government funded mass housing projects where the houses were built quick and cheaply and had a lot of problems b. getting a kit house from sears (like, they send by mail truck loads of boxes with everything measured out to build the house and ikea instructions on how to do it) and essentially building it yourself with a few friends, maybe some specialists for plumbing and electricity and then the guy from sears who came and installed your boiler as a complementary bonus for buying a boiler with your house and a government inspection guy to make sure you aren't going to be a danger to yourself and others once everything is done.
your options very much were: shoddy craftsman's ship thats gonna need to be renovated in ten years time or do it yourself. its part why you dont see a lot of 1950s homes lately.
29:03
In Germany divorces went up when it was decided that divorce no longer required declaring a "guilty" person (which usually was the wife, who'd then be stuck with no support from the ex-husband)
Yeah but in the context of it being the 70s that’s actually a positive thing especially since, in Germany women couldn’t have their own bank accounts before 1962. So the high rate of divorce was very likely women escaping some form of abuse.
* also women lost rights to financially support in case they didn't regularly perform intimacy because then there's reason to believe the marriage broke due to a lack thereof.
By how, it's been criminalised to force intimacy onto someone (even in a marriage) even though Germany protected this as a right by law before.
Things are changing for the better.
I also just found out that until recently German citizenship particularly if you were born outside Germany was reliant on your father being German and married to your mother. Even if both parents were born in Germany if there were not married it might have been challenging for a mother to get her child recognised as a citizen if she moved back with the child if they were no longer married.
Twitter is such a toxic place tbh😭
Isn’t it called X now?
Nah, who cares? It deserves to get deadnamed anyway.
witter was so toxic that even Twitter was canceled on Twitter.
@@alicebthegachaweirdo8378 X is such a bad name to, like
Twitter was way better
It's based on selfishness. It's just platform for brain farts. Less people actually read any tweets than tweet. I never went there and it's been one of the best decisions of my life.
@@thrillyria I go one there like every so often cause I post art there occasionally
I had an account before the whole, 'X' thing and then with that big update it got lost somewhere
Hadn't found it yet
I'm a scout leader and today I made my scouts take the quiz, I found it online (the book has its own website for some reason but im glad). Later we discussed how we perceive the world around us. So thanks for this inspiration c: It was a good topic for Earth Day meeting, too. Apparently watching random stuff on the internet sometimes goes a long way
"How bad is the world really? *Vsauce music starts playing" @ 0:40. That was perfect.
Gotta love moon man
@@endrek4895isn’t it moon men?
@@endrek4895 Moon man?
The world feels crap atm, not because it is...
But because we KNOW we've come a long way for equality and freedom... but certain people want to - and have in some places, already HAVE - take those things away from us
It's tiring having to fight ALL THE TIME against these idiots
But we gotta fight, and we will, yay human rights :3
I’m in my late 50s and was tired of bigots & jerks when I was a kid; now I’m even more tired of them. I seriously thought their kind of mindset would be dead by the time I got to this age. What keeps me going is the knowledge that there are more forward-thinking, good hearted, intelligent, and, of course, amazing-smelling people than there are bigots and we continue to push against them.
Exactly. It takes a lot of spirit to keep fighting. Remember to rest sometimes, even warriors need it. Best of wishes to everybody here
Yeah I think one part of why things may seem more horrible these days despite there being constant slow improvement is that we now KNOW things can, have and will improve again and we can get a bit impatient to see that positive change NOW. I know I can certainly do that, but with some positive changes getting rolled back, like Texas going back on abortion laws and making it illegal again (not sure if that's still an issue or was a short lived decision) at least there is one positive we can hold onto: we've already tasted that victory. Sure, it might've been snatched back from us be we now know the taste and like sharks with seal blood in the water... Nothing is going to stop that hunt now until it's done and we've got our teeth sunk solidly in that prize, so the positive changes will continue because they must. The floodgate has already been cracked open and there's only a matter of time until it breaks under the pressure of a whole generation demanding change. Just keep holding on, even though it's hard sometimes, it can't be held back forever
I’m so happy about the CF advances. My cousin’s wife has CF. They have a son, who she would like to see graduate from college and get married. He’s graduating from high school this year. She wasn’t always sure she would get to see it.
Ngl, you had me there for a moment xD
Thanks for making this. We need more!
Sometimes it's really hard to have a positive outlook on life. There are still so many issues where we could do better. But it's also very important to gain the perspective that we are indeed doing better already.
My in laws seem to have this idyllic view of their lives growing up in the 60s… constantly being like “we didn’t have to worry about that as kids, that stuff didn’t happen” and I’ve been trying to tell them, “No, people have always been horrible but now we HEAR about it via the media from areas far away instead of being in our bubbles so it SEEMS like it’s worse but it’s not.”
When it got to the part about optimism, I instantly thought of this quote "I'd rather be an optimist who is sometimes wrong, then a pessimist who is always right."
Better to a be a happy realist. Able to see what's likely to happen, leads things in the direction of and hopes for the best, understands and had a backup plan for the worst.
@@kempolar9768 I will now be calling myself this instead❤
I like to think that the only "good" thing a pessimist can ever be is right
“I would rather be delusional and detached from reality than have to face facts I don’t like” can’t make this up omds
Coincidentally, I was thinking about this sort of thing the other day, where optimists often have a more realistic view of the world than pessimists or even "realists" despite what most people think. This was a refreshing video to watch. Thank you!
As someone who normal gets sad about the state of this world this video helped to lift me up!
“How much is that in not freedom measurements” 💀💀💀💀I cried
Dictator measurements 😈
A Putin yard. A putard.
American here, we really will use anything except metric. Studying sciences are so much more challenging when every single problem means you have to do mental conversions to try to understand what's happening.
@@AllTheHappySquirrels it’s usually boomers that are too “me, me, me” to understand the world doesn’t revolve around them, and the grandkids they are influencing.
29 hamburgers per shotgun!
I'm looking for a new place to live, and a guy offering a nice room-for-rent invited me to interview/visit. I was nearly there when he finally noticed that I explicitly say in my profile that I'm transgender... and suddenly the deal is off because my being trans makes him "uncomfortable". I'm at a loss for words at his shameless prejudice.
I hope all it takes is a phone call to get The Man to come down on him.
Gotta be an organisation or other out there.
Good Idea to search the web, looking for pro-bono lawyers or civil rights orgs…
I'm sorry that happened to you. Good luck finding a place
I'm sorry that guy treated you so badly; you deserve better.
That’s gross. I bet he wouldn’t even notice if you didn’t put it in your profile. Transphobe are delusional
Today I've had to listen to people talk about war crimes and their prosection and it hit me harder than I admitted until I got home and broke down. So, yeah, this helps a bit feeling better about what humanity is doing out there. Thanks.
The extreme lows have risen in recent decades, but the middle point seems to have gone down (for people at least, don't know about countries, groups of countries etc). In percentages, it feels like less people starve to death, but more people struggle to get out of poverty. I don't mean actual poverty, more like how it's seems like in America that far too many have to work themselves to death for a liveable wage, meaning parents spend too little time with their children and stuff like that. Don't know how true this is on a global scale, and it's not like I've spent hours going over the topic, but it certainly feels that way.
1:b wrong
2:a wrong
3:b wrong
4:a wrong
5:b wrong
i really suck at this lol
My answers were pretty similar (except for the last one, I‘m surprised that I got that right)
Whatever the saddest option was, that's what I guessed, glad I was wrong.
Same lol
Don't worry, you can mark this one as educational
I went aaaac, I guess i'm a pessimist but at the same time was happy to be wrong.
28:37 about the divorse rates. Rachel Oates always points out that it's presented as a bad thing, but no one says why it's bad. Like, now women have a choice and a possibility to divorse, without stigma or starvation, as they are not completely depending on men. Anyone in an unhappy relationship can get out and move on and maybe remain friends and effective co-parents. Where is that bad?
Divorce rates are lower. They're only still high in what's called "Grey divorce" or divorce of the elderly. It's mostly gen xers, with a chunk of boomers, that are divorcing at heavy rates. Millenials amd gen Zers have more independent stability which means they can more easily prioritize finding and staying with partners that they have healthy, and at least fairly stable, relationships with. They cam choose someome because they WANT to be with them not becauae they feel they have to be with them. Which leads to better rates.
Grey divorces tend to lead both sides off financially worse, from what I have found, is that regardless of whether she was a traditional stay at home or the bread winner, the wives tend to come out having and keeping better overall happiness (take this one with a grain of salt. Someone else might find more hutni could only find a couple things on this specifically and they weren't firsthand sources.)
Now women DO initiate divorce more, but again, as you stated, it's often due to the fact that they aren't forced to stay with abusive, toxic, man-babies that don't want to do anything around the house, with the kids, or show affection/appreciation. They can get a job, even if it isn't much, on their own and live on their own much better and more easily. They aren't dependent on legally and socially having to have a man around. Amd single women, divorced or never married, are consistently the happiest adult demographic with single women, divorced or never married, with kids coming in at second. They also live much longer. Meanwhile single men, either divorced or never married are the most miserable and unhappy.
It's only bad to crappy men who are mad that they can't own women as property or trap them in miserable marriages anymore.
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I'm a single man and I'm _extremely_ happy.
Divorce is only a bad thing if it hurts one or both partners, imo
@@JoshSweetvale oh, I'm not saying all single men aren't. But unfortunately that isn't the case for most. I actually get laughed at by men because I encourage them to love themsleves and be happy single, then try and look for a relationship (if they want one.) It always winds up with then saying I'm single because no guy wants me, even though over the yrs I've had a couple guys want to be in a serious relationship but I chose not to, because at the time, I just didn't have the time or energy for a relationship. I got two kids and life is rough. And it always winds yo the same. You try to help them and you get personally attacked. They also refuse to believe that women are happy being single. When it's generally the opposite.
I wish more men were like you and were happy being single. Too much pressure is put on all genders to base their entire self worth on their relationship status. Spinster is a term that applies to unmarried women at 21. 21 is when society has deemed women old and used up. Meanwhile if men aren't sleeping with anything and everything, they're worthless. If they aren't dating a girl that's between 12 and 19, they're dating something worthless, thus they're just a beta cuck.
So my mother grew up in a 90m² apartment, 4 rooms + kitchen + bathroom. 4 boys in one room, 4 girls in the other, 1 bedroom for my grandparents, a living room. There was a cellar (about 12m² for their apartment), and a washing room in the cellar (with a giant washtub, because nobody could afford the first washing machines). I grew up in that same apartment, with my grandparents, youngest aunt and my mother. It was great! A garden around the house, we were practically outside all summer, our own veggie patch was there as well - I loved it, and when everybody came to visit, we still felt like there was enough room (everybody meaning all my aunts and uncles with their spouses and own kids). So yes, I can imagine living on 90m2 with 10 people, it is very much possible!
For whom wants to know, I was dead wrong in the quiz - only question 4 answered correctly, all out: 1B, 2A, 3B, 4C, 5B
This was genuinely the best timing ever, it’s been feeling like a pretty bleak world, but a bit of outside perspective from the general news cycle has really brightened my mood!! Thanks Click!!
21:25 "We're not all in the same boat, we're just in the same storm." [with an image of how some people have a wooden rowing boat, while others have a yacht]
That's a great image. To further that concept I would say we are all sailing the same ocean, but neither are we in the same boat nor do we have the same weather conditions.
I started hearing experts arguing it’s okay if you never own your home about ten years ago, and tried to be open to changing my assumptions about housing. But then rents became unaffordable. I live in an area with some rent stabilization laws, and they still allow rents to increase 10% a year on older buildings. (New buildings can raise rents freely). Who can afford annual rent increases potentially well over $100/month? I could make peace with never having my own house but the alternative needs to be affordable.
When rent costs more than many mortgages, I sure hope we can all get our own homes soon!!
@@Nakia11798 Lol, banks will be like "there's no way you can afford this" even though your mortgage payment is lower then your rent. But because people don't stay with a company for their entire life any more, they're expecting you to become unemployed at any moment during the next 30 years while you pay them back.
I can't express how much relief this gives me. The really hyped up stuff and internet makes me feel full on existential dread from how easy it is to find people who think we're doomed. When really, it's just the extremes. Mindfulness and radical acceptance have been tools I learned in therapy that are very helpful sometimes. And I say that as someone who only less than a year ago was _convinced_ I was never gonna heal. And I still worry sometimes, but I try to remember to keep my world small. To focus on right now, and not the future or past.
There's a lot more kindness and positivity in the world when you start focusing on it. Focusing on the darkest things & living in fear are only gonna make things feel worse. It makes it harder to be rational/ see the realistic view. And once you improve on that, then you won't have so many internal "false alarms" and become more able to handle difficult situations when they do arise. I partly say this in order to help train my mind to revert to positive thoughts more :)
I just want to say I really appreciate this video. I often find it hard to see the good in the world especially in my current struggles with jobs, money, and medical issues, so thanks Click, I needed this today.
On the "I'm 19 and live in Blahblah Dakota" post, the kid also needs to learn that different States have different rates. This is something even people who live in this country don't understand in regards to the separation of federal and state government.
So judging that he splits rent 50/50 with his roommate, that would mean the rent for a standard 2 bed room apartment is $1000. His area also has good public transport that goes everywhere he needs and based on what he said his pay is, a higher State minimum then the federal issued minimum.
In the State I live in what he described is literally an impossiblity. The minimum wage is the Federal $7.25, that job he has would never pay $19/h, a tiny and rundown 2 bedroom apartment costs $1400 on average, $1800 for a nicer one or that allows pets and $2100 if you live in a city, which a city is where you're going to have to live because no where else has public transit. This isn't even touching how States control what taxes apply and what they're set at, State wide health insurance rates, etc.
Its always bothered me how people will sit there and act like every place in the USA is the same and its only the BIG cities like NYC that are way more expensive to live in.
yeah, that one really bothered me.
Yeah came down here to comment. It feels almost necessary to have a roommate where I live.
and food being their only other expense? ha! what about their phone and service to use it? clothing? health insurance and other health related expenses? Not to mention the miscellaneous category of products and experiences that make life enjoyable and not monotonous. I swear it's coming off like a post written by someone that's trying to make millennials look like the entitled whiners they believe us to be. The cost of staying alive is not the same as the cost of living.
Reminds me of how people visiting my state from New York seriously thought round hay bales were traditional housing out here...
Slso, what even is Uber eats or grub hub. I've only heard stories of them, as downloading the app gets you a ''no services in your area'' message XD and our only public transport is a grouchy old lady who really didn't want to leave her desk because she's the only person in the office.
Yeah that one seems a bit misplaced from someone in a better off state not factoring in that some states here have a much bigger discrepancy in minimum wage vs housing and food costs. I mean, I'm in Texas on SSI and foodstamps and my foodstamps are hard to stretch for an entire month because I'm trying to eat healthier and not have ramen every single day due to minor (imo, haven't asked a doctor recently) health concerns that're probably not being helped by my current diet. SSI covers my rent but not a ton more and I keep a couple cats and some fish I gotta feed to because they're cheaper then of I had to pay outta pocket for anxiety and antidepressant meds. No clue how the local minimum wage is here though, I'm 25 and gave up trying to get a job around 22 because I couldn't get one fresh outta highschool on account of my comprehension issues making instructions worse then the advanced math class I failed
"ive upgraded my bike in every way aside from the chain which has snapped in half" perfect analogy for the world right now
I love this because it shows us something else for a change, something that most of us probably need and im really glad Click did this (even tho the thumbnail and title terrified me) because it gives me way more hope, thanks Click
Ah yes, another terrifying title.
Edit: It's a regular video- Dear Barbatos that scared me- I had Belphie, my emotional support demon, clutched to my chest as it loaded-
Yeehs, I have mine with me too!! ^^
Emotional support through scary titles :DD
Ikr!
Mine are called Esmond and desmond cuz emotional support demon abbreviated to ESD and the first name I thought of with those letter was Esmond and then I got a second one who became desmond
And I also have a glow in the dark one called Cherry
Man Barbatos is a fantastic name!
Love it!
Did you name your emotional support demon Belphie or do you have a Belphie plush?
And if you have a plush, do you know where I can get a Lucifer or Satan plush?
I have my glow in the dark emotional support demon and baby one too. I just dont have names for them yet and now I REALLY wish I thought to name them after my favorite demon boys.
Context: 27:07
I am 19 years old and have CF. I have personally experienced the improved effects of several new medications.
I still had spontaneous coughs just a few years ago, but that stopped when I started taking Orkambi. With Kafrtio & Kalydeco, the Swedish names for the newest medication, I have literally reduced the number of other medications I’m taking and only have to do breathing exercises once a day, instead of twice.
I have seen those life expectancy predictions for CF before, and they always remind me that the world is improving by the day.
60% ✓
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39:35 As a person from Poland, unfortunately it's not just an American thing. We have a huge problem currently with left-leaning laws like ab0rt10n, birth control, LGBT related stuff ect. because most of the goverment is right-leaning and HEAVILY tied to our church (which is also really corrupted). It's a bit better now because the right lost the lead in the parliment, but it's still not really good and church has a lot to say about a lot of stuff in politics.
That being said nobody can stop me from wearing my rainbow bag in town and I'm gonna keep doing it out of pure spite :)
Th problem with the frustration on housing costs is just part of the problem.
But the main reason its frustrating, is because we were raised in the time house ownership peaked.
Thus our parenrs expect us to buy a house, like they did. And we expect to be able to work towards buying one.
But we cant.
So not only are we disapointed, but we're also scolded by the generation before us, which was the generation at the peak of house ownership percentage.
Yes.
Overall, we're better now than 50 years ago.
But we're much worse off than our parents.
Which is what matters self fullfillment wise.
The big issue, is that boomers cannot understand that their property value increase is the exact reason young generations cannot afford a house. It is called refeudalization, which is capitalisms way of turning us all into peasants with no other options than to accept the lowest pay offered to us. More profits can be extracted when your employees are one paycheck away from homelessness. Hopefully people will realize that organizing is the way to counter this powergrab by corporations and monopolies.
i think the biggest problem with the cost of living thing is that its not based off of you and your two roommates its based off you alone. Its the fact that you alone cant afford an apartment without roommates. also five hundred with two other people is pretty high and public transportation in america is nearly nonexistent except in major cities.
Exactly! I caught that too and thought the poster was gonna elaborate that they were able to move out alone or something. If you can't afford $1000/mo with no other expenses but groceries while working full-time, that's a major problem.
Where I live, most one bedroom apartments go for more than $2,000.00/month. And the public transit sucks. That said, there are more and more programs available to help people find something they can afford here.
Yeeeaaaaaaah. That one didn't sit right with me. The literal intent of making a minimum wage in the first place was that it was *supposed* to be enough to support a *family* on a *single* income. If you cannot afford to live alone on minimum wage, let alone marry and raise kids on it, then there is a genuine problem.
I'm really confused by the cost of living person. Like, it's just a fact that money doesn't get you what it used to. Where you could afford to OWN a home, with kids, and a car, on one working family member, my household gets income from one worker and one person on disability. We're struggling to make ends meet, keep bills paid, pay rent. And we're doing better than a lot of people because we can actually build up savings, and we keep dipping into them. Things are fucking rough financially.
Like, yeah, a lot of things have absolutely gotten better. I in no way want to turn back the clock, I'm trans. As bad as things are now from politicians, I have more support today than I would when the economy was better, if things go full fascism against me I'll have a lot of people who will keep me safe. But I talk to plenty of older folks who can tell me in great detail how much harder it is on my generation economically, how fucked I am and how unfair it is that this is the situation I'm in. I don't care how well the Economy is doing on a sheet of paper, the lived reality is that things are NOT okay.
There are lots of things better than they were. Financial security is not one of them.
@@morningstarcollective4671 I think you phrased it really well with that last bit. Just because the Economy is doing well, doesn't mean PEOPLE are. The economy is doing well because big businesses and corporations are doing well. NOT because individuals are.
37:20 there’s a place near my house that I’ve wanted to do this with. Not exactly the picture aspect, but it’s a former strip mine and I’d like to reclaim it. The mine company did do some reclamation, but a LOT of the property looks like crap. It just feels SOOO daunting for one me
IMHO stands for "in my _humble_ opinion" -humble, not honest.
5:00 Sometimes when my wife comments about how bad a News story is, I remind her that if wasn't out of the ordinary, then it wouldn't be "newsworthy". It's when they stop reporting on the bad stuff when you need to be concerned, because now it is considered the norm.
What a way to give us a heart attack Click
I needed this video today. Thank you so much.
Just a reminder about life expectancy: It's fundamentally just the average of how long *all people* within a group lives, which includes things like accidents, disease and infant deaths. The term is misleading since it's not a good guide for how long you can expect your life to be once you're past certain filters, such as for instance hereditary disease.
Yeah, but those filters (especially the infant and childhood deaths ones) mean that those who made it part them - like Cluck obviously did - can hope to live longer than that expectancy. 😊
40:16 I’m gonna be _that guy_ for a moment and spoil the theme of this vid, but OP here is overlooking a couple key details. 1) North Dakota is ranked 11 of 50 US states for its low cost of living. 2) $19/hr is higher than the minimum wage in every state in the US, being more than double the minimum wage of a number of states. In fact $19/hr is considered the minimum “livable wage” in Connecticut, which has the 10th highest cost of living in the US. So I don’t think OP’s making as strong a case as they think. Especially considering they live under these conditions _with a roommate_ .
Realistically, we should acknowledge that some states are doing quite well and admit that life everywhere doesn't suck for everyone. But we should also acknowledge that there are still states where the legal minimum wage is below $10/hour, and places where housing costs are spiking into five digits for something as small as a two-bedroom micro-apartment.
It's easy to say that everything is garbage or that everything is great, but optimism can only take you so far. Realism is still required to understand statistics and prevent a graph from showing something excessively positive that's used to devalue people's struggles. To deny that people are struggling in the moment because the modern day is vastly better than it once was is arguably just as harmful to public perception as extreme pessimism, as it can lead to stagnation on efforts to improve these issues. We actually see this in several of the graphs, where our most recent peak is incredibly high, but where we *are* in a sudden downturn as of the last 5-ish years, which is still something we should avoid if we can.
Right, the dude had a 2 bedroom apartment for $1000, you can't even get a bachelor near me for that. Back in 2000, you could but not today.
We're not exaggerating. Things just aren't equal in all places at the same time.
And presumably without the expenses that tend to accumulate with age - dependents, loans, etc. I could afford a heck of a lot more before I had kids.
If I had a nickel for every Mark that loves scaring his fanbase with video titles, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice (to my knowledge anyway lol)
Didn't mark rober also make a video in the Sam veins? Too lazy to look it up but I've either dreamt about it or it has happened
I honestly thought the poverty was going up because I’ve lost about 100,000 in savings, lost job, phone and home, live in my truck now and have to eat out of the dumpster because food stamp people only gave me 3 months worth of food and even then it was only enough to feed you for one week. So still ate from the dumpster then too.
Everything else, I don’t really know the answers to..
sucks to hear everyone else is getting better and I lost everything due to inflation.
As a student of psychology, I noticed there is some important context is missing in the whole optimist/pessimist discussion. Firstly, optimism and pessimism aren't opposites from the perspective of psychology (nor are they directly related to neuroticism, or negative emotionality). The constructs have a lot more to do with comparative evaluations than absolute evaluations. For instance, a "brooding intellectual" who thinks things are bad BUT that things are improving is an optimist. A person who thinks they're well off BUT they're doing better than most people is an optimist (they have an optimistic outlook on their own circumstances combined with a pessimistic outlook on others' circumstances). This is important to keep in mind when considering the studies. Also important to keep in mind is that most of the relationship between optimism and positive biopsychosocial health outcomes is moderated by coping; it is true that positive outlook, high self-esteem, and high perceived control (of which some, all, or other items may be included under "dispositional optimism") are related on the whole to better outcomes. This is likely because the kinds of stressors commonly experienced by most people most frequently are the ones for which those traits lead to adaptive coping behaviors, but that is not to say that pessimism (which may not exclude high levels of any of those things) cannot lead to adaptive coping behaviors in other circumstances or lead to maladaptive coping behaviors in those circumstances. It's nuanced (just like those extreme poverty figures, as many other commenters have pointed out)!
Tthanks for the enlightenment, this is really interestinf! Me being a pessimist by nature and often optimist by choice, I felt confused and a bit worried.
I also wonder if past trauma affects how optimistic or pessimistic a person is/becomes?
Came here to say this. Thank you.
@@aNoisyPlatypus Well from my own personal experience with past Trauma, I can tell you it absolutely effects how I think of human beings as a whole.
The most untrustworthy, despicable, and worst living species on this planet.
Only the tiniest miniscule of the human population seem to have a tiny bit of good in them.
Which is an improvement on how I used to perceive humans as generally.
I'm in therapy currently. Learning to trust humans is a work in progress still.
Yeah Trauma messes you up. Especially if left untreated for most of my current life.
That 1990 spike in crime statistics is thought to be a result of leaded fuels literally poisoning everyone breathing in the exhaust. Especially children's brains can be extremely susceptible to the results. Switching to unleaded and the slow lowering of lead content in the air correlated pretty well with crime statistics later when babies growing up breathing less lead became old enough to be able to do some of that law-breaking stuff.
They made smarter criminals :D
Apparently, the lead problem explains between 7% and 28% of the evolution of crime rates between the 70's and now (according to a meta-analysis "The lead-crime hypothesis: a meta-analysis", it was referenced by a CZcams video : "La théorie la plus stupide sur la chute de Rome" from DirtyBiology from 8:10 to 8:50, it has English subtitles)
This. Ready access to contraception and pregnancy termination also has a big impact on crime rates about 15 years after any significant change in that access. It turns out that people who don't think they're in a good place to be raising a child actually know what they're doing, and children whose mothers would have used contraception or aborted the pregnancy if they could, are statistically more likely to experience childhood disadvantage, poorer educational outcomes, and teenage criminality.
crime statistics in general are just worthless to look at because there are SO many factors that can contribute to an increased crime rate, the government websites that give you the data literally say this and warn you to not use it to make decisions about anything. you have to really delve into the specific locations and types of crimes, and think about what else is going on at the time? most are petty commercial property crimes or theft, and violent crimes are often family disputes. usually intersections of poverty, education, race, political climate are huge factors, but there are so many other things too like this lead poisoning!
That and abortion being legalized in the 70s in the USA. A ton of unwanted babies who would have been born into poverty and downright terrible situations never grew up to continue the cycle of abuse, poverty, and violence.
you know, thank you for this. I'm a fairly melancholy to outright depressed person, none of the fact based stuff I watch online often has good info in it, it's always bad stuff instead. This made me actually feel a lot better, it's good to get not just oh look at cute things but instead here look at facts and these will make you happy.
Thank you so much for making this, I’ve been really stuck in depression lately and couldn’t get out of bed for the past few days but this has really helped.
I would love to be that 19yo North Dakota kid. Living outside of a major city (an hour away) rent is $1,700 for a one bedroom, not including utilities and trash. There is no public transportation, not even side walks. The average job pays $10 minimum, but majority of them only offer part time, no full time. Pay almost $500 in insurance (health) for myself, husband, son and dog every two weeks. Gas is $6 a gallon. Groceries for two weeks cost us about $300, that’s just for meat, fruits/veggies, starches, etc. not even anything fun. Child care averages about $850 a week. Husband and I both work full time, go to school full time, save as much as we can, don’t go out, nothing and we stillll can barely afford to just exist. 😭
This! Housing in my area is scarce and expensive. If you can even find a vacancy, a studio apartment is easily double what wo pay on the mortgage we started 25 years ago, on a two bedroom house and 16 acres.
Younger folk are leaving, because no affordable housing, few job alternatives, & little to no infrastructure.
It is improving, but slowly. In another few years, I may even have reliable internet services available!
I was also shocked that the bus is apparently not an expense. Living in Europe, buses were never free, and depending on city, council, country etc, they could be pretty pricy.
this. cost of living in Grand Forks, North Dakota is much lower than even say, Madison, Wisconsin or Minneapolis, Minnesota let alone places like Boston, New York, L.A. or San Francisco. Unfortunately, the sorts of folks who grow up in small Midwestern towns are often not well-travelled and thus don't have experience with how other people live.
This is the peril of anecdotal evidence. One's own perspective is a valuable factor to *add to* a discussion, but it should never be the sole basis of any broader conclusions.
Yeah, The Click is a good guy, but he's very privileged and as such can sit being an enlightened centrist and say shit is getting better. And Rosling's book is... let's say there's a lot of critiques you can make of it. People who are well off often have a psychological need to say things are good, because then they don't have to think about their own position in the current system or challenge themselves.
I was once a little depressed because things were a little out of kilter with work. A mate told me the universe was mocking me and I immediately cheered up. Confused he asked what's the deal and I said, how many people get the personal attention of the Universe. He walked away swearing at me and I started laughing.
I actually got 3 of the 5 questions (being Q1,3 and 5) which was shocking because, like Click said, I didn't expect any points.
Friendly reminder that even if you are unsure, do what feels right.
I got 2 out of 5 and pretty much never went for answer a.
I'd put that on me deliberately emotionally detaching myself from everything and merely observing the happenings around the world. I usually don't engage or just say things into the void with the intent to not look back to check if the void wasn't empty.
I will say watching the end is a little weird feeling to me but that's because I am part of the impoverished of America. My child and I have been homeless four times in her short 7 years , I literally (with some college credit) cannot get a job that will cover living expenses in an area that I can live in without a car because I don't know how to drive and it costs money to learn.
Sending hugs. I was homeless for a while with two small children, and even with the strong support I had around me at that time to keep us safe and get a roof over our heads it was still terrifying. I hope you're able to get the support you deserve and get into a better situation soon.
I'll pray to whatever Old Gods will listen for y'all, I've been homeless before and I'm in my mid 20s, that was my introduction to adult life right out of highschool and I currently can't get a job at all due to mental disability issues. It's rough. Being homeless even in a generally safer area and help from safe people so I can't imagine how bad it might be for someone with a kid or multiple. I hope y'all stay safe and your situation has/does improve soon, everyone deserves a roof over their head and it's sad it's still almost unachievable in any areas of the world because, sure, that statistic might be overally better these days, but anything is better then rock bottom so I still think the numbers aren't great ir quite enough to celebrate yet. Celebration comes when a problem is gone, not when it's small enough to ignore
@@tealkerberus748 I was typing a reply and CZcams spazzed out so I don't know if it went through but thank you so much for commenting, I've been hurting a lot lately and it feels amazing to be seen.
We are doing better then where I started, I have an amazing partner who supports me so much now, he is legit fabulous, and I have accumulated chosen family of whom I find to be good role models for my child cuz I can't do it on my own anymore due to having a hell of a lot of healing to do from 20-plus years of abuse.
I want to say you are freaking amazing for handling two kids while homeless! I still remember this one fabulous mother who protected and kept her four girls safe while homeless. I'd see them walking down the road just singing, I literally don't know why but they always held onto a rope to stick together and sing songs while they walked places and the oldest had to be at least 10 years old. I admire you ❤
Some of this I must disagree with. From 2019 to 2021 I was homeless in the US. I tried to get a cheap one bedroom apartment in slum areas and the minimum rent for this was $800 to $1,000 per month no bills included. A few short years before that such an apartment was going for $400 to $600 a month. This doesn't include the fact that they want you to be earning 2 to 5 times that amount as provable income. So to get into the cheapest slum apartment we would have to make $1,600 to $3,000 per month. At a minimum wage job that would be impossible for any worker. Conversely in the past I was able to work for minimum wage at 40 hours a week and afford a two bedroom apartment plus utilities and food. What I'm trying to point out is the stats don't take in account for the homeless, because no one is polling them. You are not going to see someone asking a homeless/low income person about the state of the housing market. They are going to talk to people who one have time to discuss these topics and two are in a more developed and less crime ridden area.
You're completely correct. The statistics about "the economy" measure the total amount of money moving around in a country. They don't measure how much of that is in the pockets of the rich vs the pockets of the poor. What we've seen in recent decades is a sharp transfer of wealth from the lowest 70% to the top 1%, and the poorer you were to start, the more badly affected you're likely to be. "The economy" these days measures the wealth of the big corporations and the billionaires, not the wellbeing of the ordinary people.
What we really need are studies of the wellbeing of the poorest 10% to get a genuine measure of economic progress. If the bottom 10% have secure housing, sufficient good-quality food, adequate clothing, footwear, health care, education, clean air and water, and all the other necessities, then it's a pretty safe assumption that everyone else in that country is doing fine too. You can't make any such assumption from seeing the rich get richer!
I hope you're able to get into a better situation. These necessities are human rights - you don't have to be deserving or work hard or anything else to have a right to them, they are your rights simply because you're a human being.
I really like the click because hes so supportive of anyone no matter what race, sexuality, gender, or whatever they like/their interests, and hes also really funny. I used to watch TikTok a lot, where a lot of people could get away with being rude, and it’s surprising to see how okay people on CZcams are about lbgtq, race, etc. It makes me so happy knowing people simply support that stuff.
You caught me at the beginning with the questions, because my answers show that I see the world much more negatively than it is. But to be fair, when you look at the world as it is, you can only shake your head.
This is actually a good example of the different aspect of the Dunning-Kruegar effect rather than the usual use of the far right conspiracy theorists as being too stupid and over estimating their own intelligence and ability to use critical thinking.
The intelligent people like the Click and the fanbase. We usually underestimate ourselves and our abilities because we realize there's a lot in the world we just don't know.
The issue with the statistics that say Americans spend a lower percentage on groceries is that we spend more on housing and healthcare, which have skyrocketed over the decades. I'm sure that 19 y/o redditor got torn apart for this, but there is so much wrong with them using their highly circumstancial experience of living with a roommate in a low cost area to extrapolate that the cost of living is not worse for most Americans. As you mentioned, wages have not kept up with inflation, and it's even worse when you compare wages to housing and healthcare.
This is similarly an issue with the studies that claim global poverty has greatly dropped over the years. The issue is how they measure poverty vs. cost of living. Studies on "extreme poverty" often use the metric of people living on "less than $1 a day" which completely negates the rising cost of living. Also, if you remove China from those studies, you will find that global poverty has gone up. China skews it for the rest of the world, mostly because their population is so large, and they had such bad poverty rates in the 20th century. I recommend looking into economist Richard Wolff's work on the true rates of global poverty.
Yeah 80% of people live in larger cities, and the costs keep going up there, as opposed to small cities and rural areas
Also the statistics out of china are not exacly known for being accurate
The key to that person's post was that they called themselves a "centralist" and described conservatives as "spiritual" and "in touch".
So they're a conservative but not a far right crazy. Got it.
What's tricky about inflation statistics is they don't account for the increase in people's expected standard of living. Technically, it probably is as affordable to live a 1950s lifestyle now as it was in the 1950s, but we want something better than that in 2024.
The average employee works fewer hours per week, which decreases income even though wages have kept up with inflation. More people live alone, which costs more per person than living with a partner. Homeowners have been buying bigger houses, so even though housing costs per sq. ft. have been consistent with overall inflation, housing is overall more expensive.
To be clear, we absolutely should expect a better standard of living as technology improves, and we should have a society that allows people to obtain that better standard of living rather than funneling all the extra wealth to billionaires. I also want to acknowledge that for like half of Americans, it is legitimately hard to afford stuff, because of how unequal our system is. I just think it's important to keep in mind that inflation doesn't tell the whole story.
I've also seen a show where they could do the "growing organs like plants" thing! Though in some instances, like where a woman needed a transplant but didn't have the money for it and the insurrance wouldn't cover for it the Doctor was supposed to just. throw the organ out, which was awful.
"The world sucks! And not in a good way...or IS IT, WITH KEANU REEVES---" And the pause following that just had me rolling omfg.
Honestly, thank you for this. My mentality was being dragged down recently by all the bad news being forced down my throat, and it's easy to lose sight of the fact that things really are getting better overall. Thank you for putting it back into perspective for me. 💖
the guy who lives in grand forks nd - people aren't exaggerating the cost of living in larger urban areas. it's just that the midwest is incredibly cheap to live in. i grew up in south dakota and, when i moved to Washington DC, i had a huge shock. the cost was like 8x higher than what it was in SoDak, which was in the mid 2000s. and it's even higher now. it entirely depends on where you live.
which is why i think we need more remote jobs so people can live wherever they want and not have to congregate in super expensive cities.
Also they have a roommate, it's a two income household with no children. That one felt really disingenuous even from the perspective of a midwesterner.
I’m in a semi rural area in PA. It’s hard to find $19/hr or decent benefits. If you do, it’s 10 hours a day at a warehouse and they’ll fire you if you’re there too long.
Yeah, that dude bugged me. Yeah, my rent was cheap af when I lived in nowhere. Even my groceries and utilities weren't abhorrent. It's ungodly expensive here in a city, and my job isn't paying me enough to live here on my own.
Thank you so much for this video. I feel so good after this, and i really needed the positive vibes ❤️
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It's kinda interesting that i got the question right when it specifically clarifies that it's the globally average
Your lesson in the beginning of the video is actually somewhat comforting.
I have been... chronically online and have a constant stream of negative trans news and shitty legislation flooded into my brain and it creates this skewed view that everything is regressing and it sucks. And while it is true that a bunch of bad shit is happening, social media distorts your perspective to only see the negative. But when you zoom out, you can see that while things *do* suck now, the overall opinion of trans and LGBT+ is more positive than it was even just 30 years ago.
With that being said, I have "touched grass" and started attending more queer events when possible. Being around like-minded people heals the soul.
true as fuck. it can hurt so fucking much seeing absolutely hate filled comments and legislation, but time will pass, and things will get better.
would help if it wasn't news about a healthcare ban that does, in fact, directly affect me...
but ill be fine, i can just DIY, ive done it before
@@fghsgh i think your comment may have been shadowbanned
@@defaultdan7923 yeah, been happening a lot recently... yours too btw
For the cost of living one at the end there, it very much depends on where you live. Yeah, that guy may make $19/hr and rents at $500/month, but I make $17/hr and rent at $1200/month. Things may be exaggerated, but that doesn't mean that these problems don't exist.