My mistake was instead of buying a house back in 2008, my dumbass was busy playing on the playground in 4th grade...

@Resilience93

29 күн бұрын

20/20 hindsight

@snipadipa221

29 күн бұрын

Fr I was too busy being 10

@joeygarza9550

29 күн бұрын

If you could have bought a house back in '08 but you were still in the 4th grade, then obviously the system was holding you back. So naturally it's the system's fault, don't blame yourself.

@tlegalaxy

29 күн бұрын

@@joeygarza9550 Nah bro.. should have known better. At age 10 I would have tried to figure out how to leave school. Its all his fault.

@LeadRakFPS

29 күн бұрын

I had only been in the workforce for less than 4 years, so I didn't have much to work with either.

Being poor is expensive

@samfire3067

Ай бұрын

Being midle class IS expensive,

@asmyself4021

Ай бұрын

Buying 10 poor quality pair of shoes costs more than 1 good quality pair of shoes. So yeah, it's expensive.

@RealJohnnyGuillotine

Ай бұрын

​@@samfire3067being middle class now is 1970's Poor.

@johnnyng8527

Ай бұрын

Thats why some self delete

@goalgold

Ай бұрын

And I hate how most times they equate being poor and having almost no options to low intelligence. Sometimes you can't afford the money to get of the hamster wheel for a second even if you have the capacity to

i work at a mixed race & mixed income school. the difference between the poor “stupids” and the beautiful elites is wayyy more complicated than “oh, they’re just stupid.” i work with teachers who make over 100k that cannot form a full sentence, one of them is a blonde haired blue-eyed woman, the other is a brunette that comes from a very wealthy family. the kids that struggle at my school have parents who are never home because the parents are either extremely depressed, on drugs or just always working. they have to work multiple jobs to feed their children. the kids who do well, their parents are always home, always available. most of the kids that don’t do well have experienced extreme trauma like gun violence, molestation, bullying, undiagnosed neurodivergence. you think they’re gonna go to school and pay attention? they’re thinking about what happened to them last night. to say “they’re just stupid” shows a lack of information and perspective.

@Iquey

21 күн бұрын

The rich parents not working too much are probably business owners and landlords. They are using other people's labor.

@fatherno5721

21 күн бұрын

it's true. i was orphaned as a junior in high school in 1991. i had to work 50-60 hours a week to make it thru high school. they day everyone went to take the ACT on a sunday, i went to work at wendys at 4 pm, left work at 4am took a shower did my homework and went to school on zero sleep. Teachers didn't even give a fuck back then, i'm sure they don't give a fuck now either.

@AbandonedKittyLiter

19 күн бұрын

Everything has nuisance I'll grant you... but damnit I know there are just some dumbass kids out there. To say there aren't is asinine.

@Sukisunn

19 күн бұрын

I agree with you on this... I am Nero divergent was bullied in school was molested... But even though all these things happened I still managed to get up everyday. And I know I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But I work as a machinist... And that's not the easiest job. I don't think I am a failure. I know I succeed in many things... But no matter how much I succeed... I just can't get ahead. Thank you for your response! Keep up the good work!

@jnwilliams1986

18 күн бұрын

You criticize the teachers you work with for poor grammar, yet fail to capitalize the beginning of each sentence. 😂🎉

Choosing not to kill yourself isn't cowardice. It takes tremendous courage to know that you're going through personal hell and you're just going to keep on going. Your relatability and honesty is such a value. From a relatively new fan, I'm very glad you chose to stick around. Love your content and overall vibe.

At 30 my mom owned houses, had her own business and 4 kids. At 30 im happy i can pay my rent this month.

@EminemLovesGrapes

Ай бұрын

The previous generations (including boomers) earned the equivalent of 36$ an hour in their first job in today's money and they can't understand why we can't survive at 7,25$ lol.

@bigmac22ify

Ай бұрын

Too much avocado toast

@aquafreesh9219

Ай бұрын

I’m 27 and I can’t pay rent this month. Taxes F’d me out of all my cash and my job market dried up instantly so I’m SOL good ol democrats policy

@TheGavini1

Ай бұрын

@@aquafreesh9219 Perpetuating the them vs us argument Great job. the real enemies are the billionaires and corpos lobbying. learn to recognize all forms of propaganda.

@Metaljacket420

Ай бұрын

Yeah man it's all Democrats, totally not a bipartisan system designed to fu from all angles being refined for decades now.

"People are trained to hate each other rather than the people that put them in the situation they're in." 100%

@sebastiansteppuhn3418

Ай бұрын

Good example: tipping culture. The workers are trained to see the customers not tipping them, which was supposed to be an extra reward for exceptional service, as the reason why they financially struggle instead of the employers that refuse to pay a livable wage.

@travismcnasty4239

Ай бұрын

No, I hate them too. It's just that I can't do anything about it without the FBI knocking on my door.

@DokesConspiracyNetwork

Ай бұрын

Yeah technically we all could solve this if we could organize without being comprised. These agencies/ goverment dogs are the only thing stopping civilization from advancing. They prevent us from ever making change by imposing 10 million rules, locking everyone up and tax tf outta all of us

@crustykeycap5670

Ай бұрын

I mean it’s both people’s fault. Customer won’t pay, employer won’t pay, and waiter is entitled. Everyone is selfish. And that isn’t a problem. People need to stop expecting other people to give a fuck about them. Rich people don’t care, government don’t care, strangers don’t care, men don’t care, women don’t care. Just do what you want and except that problems exist because other people aren’t incentivized to solve them. Morality doesn’t exist it’s just people pushing others to get what they want. At the end of the day you get what you deserve.

@asdfbeau

Ай бұрын

@@crustykeycap5670 not caring about someone is a hate crime to young millennials. the irony is that edit: THE young ones are doing the exact same thing the boomers did: voting for the government to come bail them out. you need to be voting to dismantle all of the programs your boomer parents voted for

I am an accountant and using all deductions legally available my families heating and cooling company was being taxed over 65%. The majority of the tax came from local sources. Every single small town we worked in required us to buy a business license, an additional insurance policy, building permits and pay up to $500 for being properly federally licensed and having it be on record in their town. Each one would cost around $500- 1K but when you have to keep travelling for jobs it adds up to around 65K per year in just local taxes. The tax line on our income statement rivaled the cost of materials. We closed our business when we realized that the local governments were trying to strongarm us into raising our hourly labor rate and honestly the average person couldn't afford our services even though we priced low compared to the market. Its all people who sit on their butts taxing those who do actual physical labor so our response is sit in the heat and collect taxes because your AC is broken and there is no one willing to fix it for the price you can afford. The home builder we used to work for folded after we quit because they couldn't find anyone else licensed to do the installs and pull permits.

@Bristecom

12 күн бұрын

Yep, everyone talks about inflation but they often ignore the other factors such as all the taxes and regulations we have now which is even more nails in the coffin for any business other than the massive corporations who can afford it or get exemptions for it. Everyone but the most wealthy owners/shareholders lose from this system.

@nicolle_2944

10 күн бұрын

It is government policies, beaurecrats and corporations ruining everything in Western countries. Overcharging, overtaxing, price gouging and causing inflation and devaluing of our money, all whilst pointing the finger as being a generational problem. They are liars and thieves.

@paullittle6458

9 күн бұрын

😔

@BillClinton228

4 күн бұрын

I earn 3x more than I did 4 years ago and yet I still can't get ahead. The math just doesn't make sense.

@turnaround2

Күн бұрын

As someone formerly in the same business and whatnot I feel you

13:15 this is a weak reason. I watch my parents every day after work do the same form of thing I do, but they just watch TV for like 5 hours until they sleep. Is being terminally online and terminally watching TV any different really?

@georgemccartney8906

9 күн бұрын

I guess terminally online is like the evolved version of terminally on TV, since you have way more freedom to just digest literally whatever your heart desires at the click of one or two buttons. I guess it was a rather insidious development, one we didn't realize just how badly it was messing with us throughout each generation until it became VERY apparent

@HC-xl2en

8 күн бұрын

The difference is the constant stimulation of social media. Every minute you're online is tailored to your personal interests and desires. TV is more general and doesn't have the same stimulation. There's a difference.

@AshnSilvercorp

8 күн бұрын

@@HC-xl2en maybe if I spent all day on Facebook. What if I gamed and it's online? Was that decided for me or did I decide to play something else?

Boomers went "fuck you, I got mine" and pulled the ladder up behind them. Typical.

@zackprater2540

Ай бұрын

After their parents basically sacrificed their happiness to give them everything they could, too

@jackcarterog001

Ай бұрын

Can you blame them? They remember how hard their parents had to work and couldn't retire. They died at an old age while working like a slave. The boomers would obviously try to keep and grow their money in order to avoid the same fate.

@harlandcromartie3465

Ай бұрын

​@@jackcarterog001What you just said will most likely spark a war with young people. Because all these old boomers pull the ladder up from them All they're doing is guarding the time before they die And leaving the disaster to the young people so they don't have to fix anything..

@chasedyer5950

Ай бұрын

No they just went off to live their lives, raise their kids and let the psychopaths take over every form of governmental responsibility

@Serahpin

Ай бұрын

They sold the ladder to china.

"Truth is, the game was rigged from the start"

@averagemobileplayergfs7383

Ай бұрын

Yep and it can’t be maintained for long, before change is inevitable.

@AlfredoElizondoLife

Ай бұрын

Yeah and this generation is the one stuck in extra time with the score against them, and no Micheal Jordan on the bench to solve the match.

@kylegivens3120

Ай бұрын

Yeah, it's going to ridiculously hard to recover from that "kick" in the head.

@ninocraft1

Ай бұрын

​@@AlfredoElizondoLife we are the future, i think we gonna manage

@AlfredoElizondoLife

Ай бұрын

@@ninocraft1 not happening unless a catastrophe is casted upon the population, else we are just going to drought and starve little by little. Like the frog in boiling water.

no cool jobs.. no money, no security, no girlfriends, no kids, no hope.

@IAMTHEANTICHRISTISWEARMAN

18 күн бұрын

be strong its gonna get hard man.

@Arejen03

14 күн бұрын

exactly me as 33

@gaithouri

14 күн бұрын

@@Arejen03 43 here.. it sucks man.. where are you from ? i "hope" we will manage to go through somehow decently.. whatever that means

@frederika3013

13 күн бұрын

No men either. I live in eastern Europe and I have no idea where all the men are. Even when you look at school photographs from schools and look at the streets there are women everywhere and very few guys. I have several gfs who are single half of their lives because there are simply no men around. Its totally crazy. I am 39 in a month and still single. There is some huge demographic imbalance. I know there is a similar problem in the US there is excess of men on the west coast, and excess of women on the east coast. The biggest problem is no one wants to move to another country to find a partner plus other cultural reasons... Its very sad and heartbreaking.

@Arejen03

13 күн бұрын

@@frederika3013 yeah, not many chads there for sure

At 34 my parents had 3 kids . At 34 I manage to maxed my osrs account lol

@ZTwo221

15 күн бұрын

Atleast the black chinchompa market is more predictable than this BS

@bobhope4949

12 күн бұрын

Be happy I’m the same age and don’t even know what that is

@aaronkirkland5211

10 күн бұрын

@@bobhope4949 lmao same

@mattrawson1311

2 күн бұрын

Runescape ah the glory days

The difference is there isn’t opportunity, community, or mentors. Everyone is exhausted and isolated.

@Nick-jb4xi

26 күн бұрын

Those are all symptoms. The cause is that we are surrounded by monopolized industries. Companies largely hide this from the public by having numerous subsidiary brands.

@matowakan

25 күн бұрын

@@Nick-jb4xi they don't want us to know the rules to the game they made

@AdamSmith-ml4ji

24 күн бұрын

There’s way more issues than just that lol

@MetapaloozaShow

24 күн бұрын

Exactly! 👍

@Interdacted

23 күн бұрын

You can have community or mentors. If you join a cult, I mean church, or some other type of school club. I mean social adult circle. Oh and don't stop smiling, complaining is bad, and don't feel exhausted. :p -The Hidden Order of Society Guidelines to becoming an NPC in a new world; while making your life better.

The cost of living and inflation has been rising for decades nonstop and they expect people not to say or do anything about it.

@Spendleton

Ай бұрын

That's the problem. We're not.

@ripplecutter233

Ай бұрын

Not only that. They'll say it's our fault and use that to justify all the layoffs and wage cuts

@justaadhdgamerwesley6244

Ай бұрын

Bidenomics

@ItalianMetalHED

Ай бұрын

they wont stop printing money which is what causes inflation. This admin has broken so many records that ruined the country mainly the amount of money we're spending that we dont have for the betterment of every country but our own. Our currency is backed by itself, we dont own the gold in the reserve lol

@id2k.

Ай бұрын

Then the biden admin tells us that everything is fine and we're racist for thinking otherwise.

School was only a place to suffer abuse since I was 6 years old. I was bullied by both students and teachers. Many teachers in fact. I still remember their names and their faces. I was a "gifted" student in an accelerated program until 8th grade. This is when I started to make myself throw up so I didn't have to be at school. I also just slept all day in class so I could escape. Not one teacher asked about this behavior, they just liked to punish me and humiliate me in front of everyone to fuel further abuse from students. At some point the school psychologist picked up on it and I said I was having thoughts of dying. So he called my parents and they brought me to therapy for 3 months. Nothing came of that and I was depressed for the next 15 years, developing a form of avoidant personality disorder, tried to hurt myself several times leading to hospitalizations. I eventually graduated high school 1 year late, but continued to drop out of college 3 times due to mental issues. Now I am trying to go back the 4th time at 27 years old, but I live in an apartment and basically have to work 50 hours a week to survive, with all of the high taxes and inflation. I stopped taking meds due to lack of insurance, but they never even helped me anyways. I am seeing a therapist who agreed to see me for free every 2 weeks, but it really doesn't help at all. I am barely going to have enough time to go to school so I might have to go into debt. Doesn't seem like there is a point to any of this. I've never been happy.

@blodon20

19 күн бұрын

Damn, i genuinely hope it get's better for you. I believe in you

@darth6129

18 күн бұрын

@@blodon20 Thank you

@Urwrldd_

18 күн бұрын

Don’t give up man ik how u feel fr I went thru sum of that stuff my self to I ignored how I felt and kept going until it gotten better bc with time it will I promise keep going u do matter 💯

@TheOneAndOnlycE

17 күн бұрын

I´m in a similar situation, but I was bullied/abuesd by classmates and not teachers. Suffered from severe mental issues because of that. I´m 35 now and my life is objectively better now on the outside, but I´m completely unable to even feel neutral emotions let alone happiness. All I feel is anger and sadness because I feel like I was robbed a happy life. Trying to get mental help, but the waiting list is almost three years just to see a psychologist and get therapy here in Europe.

@mediocrates10

16 күн бұрын

I hope you don't give up and achieve happiness someday, man.

Wild thought, but have American people considered banning foreigners who DON’T EVEN LIVE in the US from purchasing property?

@draigongaming1751

17 күн бұрын

It’s not so much foreign people buying houses as much as it is large corporations buying homes and property then renting them; huge issue in the US right now

@patrickmcathey7081

17 күн бұрын

I think we can compromise ban both.

@victorerickson9770

16 күн бұрын

@@draigongaming1751 with foreign investment, for the record. At least thats how it works in Canada.

@DrOinkman

12 күн бұрын

@@victorerickson9770 foreign investment in Canada might be american, just saying...

@OGYetti

11 күн бұрын

Yeah and stop giving illegal immigrants money, housing, a phone, when we have a pathway to legal immigration, we are also shitting on all those that came legally and did the right thing. Just like college debt forgiveness, sucks to be those that payed off their college loans in full. I went two years and quit and couldn’t be happier, college is not what it used to be and has become an indoctrination center for our youth, instead of an education they now receive indoctrination.

"You'll own nothing and be happy" All of this is intentional, we're being governed by ideologues.

@masterpainter78

Ай бұрын

Right but you are a "conspiracy theorist" for saying it like it actually is.

@Serahpin

Ай бұрын

@@masterpainter78 You are a conspiracy theorist for pointing out what they said to others. It's all gaslighting.

@damien81981

Ай бұрын

and we're being divided. do you see all the yuck yucks blaming boomers or someone else OTHER than the people MAKING the rules. they didn't read about Tesla or the BIG 3, they don't understand why there was prohibition, they don't know why we crossed an ocean to basically death because "my ancestors knew death was better than bondage", they don't know how this has been happening since greek kings (other countries like africa and persia had kings but greeks are the only ones who fought and won their freedom). they just don't know.

@sjoerdstougie

Ай бұрын

as long as you can recognize this is capitalism doing this instead of communism you are right

@sgm2463

Ай бұрын

Look at Korea's housing system to see future home ownership, you'll be renting from a corporate entity.

A lot of young people aren't dating because how can you think about dating when you are worried about how you're going to eat and make rent. Survival is what's on people's minds.

@ginger_jeezus

Ай бұрын

I mean I would argue that dating would increase because it's easier to survive and build when you have a partner to help you. I think the internet is making it so that doesn't happen

@scottsetzke7967

Ай бұрын

​@@ginger_jeezus also if you can't donate 100% of your off time from work with them they'll say you don't care.

@Dan-hz4vf

Ай бұрын

@@ginger_jeezus But, despite what people think, as a man, traditional values still hold true for a lot of millennials, so not being financially free and able to provide is seen as shameful (by a lot of women too) so they decide to wait till they have that capability before dating.

@Doominator10

Ай бұрын

@@ginger_jeezus Having a partner can help until kids are involved. Looking for a partner is a luxury only after you can feed and house yourself.

@remrem-gx3ml

Ай бұрын

speaking as a 30 year old man im not dating the average woman doesnt care about men as people. im open to dating if a woman makes me feel wanted and like she is interested but its been a decade and that hasnt happened. im not wasting anymore time on people who think my purpose is to serve them.

It’s like all these big institutions are keeping us stun locked and they have no cooldowns.

@vaporsaver

14 күн бұрын

Nice one.

Your taxes don't fund the government. You pay taxes to continue the facade that you fund them. They fund themselves through treasury bonds.

@starscream007

11 күн бұрын

The more treasury bonds they issue, the more dollars they can print. The more dollars they print, the more treasury bonds they can issue.

@Turanic1

6 күн бұрын

They print as much as they want whenever they need, taxes are simply to keep you working harder to keep their system running 😂

my parents literally bought a brand new house in 1991 at 22, I'm paying 45% more than they did a month, in rent, something ill never own

@vladchenkov9215

Ай бұрын

Unless you were planning to own a house, not surprised you do not at 22. Those who had been planning to in 2018-2021 were able to capitalize. In some cases purchase multiple. Those windows will come again, be ready. Low interest rate, moderate priced. At 34 I went from zero to now two, one a rental and the other my family home. I was renting just the same prior, but sacrificed all the flashy cars, name brand material items to own property. That was on a moderate 35/40k salary from 2014-2020 - my income now net, not gross is also close to 8x that in the span of a few years. Just be ready, the window will come again. If you are not ready it is your fault. Singular goal, own property, leverage property, create business/invest, sell all high. Do it again.

@longplaylegends

Ай бұрын

@@duhmojo624 Rent is actually MUCH more expensive compared to average income now, than it was back then. Go back to the 8-'s and they were practically giving away houses for free. Sure, interest rates on mortgages were higher from what I can tell, but houses still ended up being like... Half the price when comparing average income to home price..? Something like that, I haven't looked into the numbers in a little while. Point being, it's still not even close adjusting for those factors.

@UserUser45654

Ай бұрын

And interest rates were 9.25% but houses were much cheaper. The value of human labor is diminishing due to innovation: automation, outsourcing, and AI.

@UserUser45654

Ай бұрын

Interest rates in 1983 were 13.87% , in 1981 they were 16.63% for the 30 year fixed rate mortgage. 😬

@longplaylegends

Ай бұрын

@@UserUser45654 Thanks for articulating way better than I could without the numbers lol

Banks don't want normal people knowing how interest rates work.

@Zadamanim

29 күн бұрын

Same with taxes, subscriptions, anything involving gambling. The less you know, the more effectively they can legally rob you.

@hughmungus431

28 күн бұрын

I wish predatory lending was still a thing, that way I could use loans to attain assets. I can't even do that though cuz the government restricted the lending a long time ago

@Ian-hn8ty

26 күн бұрын

banks dont want people knows interest money dont exists at all, its printed out of thin air.

@MrMurica

25 күн бұрын

@@hughmungus431 My brother in christ you are not going to profit off of a loan with an interest rate over 30%. Especially if you are going to use it to buy assets rather than start a business. But even then starting a business on a payday/cash advance loan rather than a secured loan is absurdly risky. If you think I'm wrong, you can always take out a credit card (you will get approved, and within a few months of not being irresponsible you will have a higher limit if you ask for it), borrow money with it via a cash advance, and deposit that money in a brokerage account to buy stocks. (I do not recommend this, you WILL lose money this way.)

@snaggiz

24 күн бұрын

Banks always win. That’s the key takeaway. They play a game they can barely lose.

My mom: it is because ppl like us won't retire, so young folks like you are not getting jobs/promotions.

@antoniobabb1938

22 күн бұрын

That's what I've been saying and thinking

The amount of time i spent learning long division and being told i won’t always have a calculator really paid off. 20 years later i never once used long division for anything and have a computer in my pocket all day long for calculations

@gaborcsuzi4504

18 күн бұрын

Its true. But still, its a point hard to argue with or against, since the problem is complex. If you simply don't teach complex stuffs early, it will be too much later when you learn engineering for example. Peoples don't know what they want to be when they grow up at age 13-14, so you can't just not teach them something like that because they might not need it. You have to keep their opportunities open, and part of it is teaching stuffs they specifically will never use or need. Education till the end of high school is a general knowledge that you can build upon, if you just skip mathematics and you go to learn engineering for example, you would be soo behind you couldn't close the distance, and you would be the worst engineer the world has ever seen. Sure, you don't need most of it if you know that you want to be an artist, but then you don't have to get an A+ either....

@garnhamr

8 күн бұрын

meanwhile 'qualified' immigrants emigrate and take the job instead. abacus > calculator hue hue hue

@elocxv

3 күн бұрын

School was really a time prison

I did everything right growing up. Made straight A's, paid attention in class, acted polite, and listened to my superiors. Now I make $15 an hour in a warehouse job, never had a gf, no friends, and no future. I'm also autistic. Life ain't fair man

@McSkippy374

Ай бұрын

15 an hour? I'd be looking for a new job bro

@katkong281

Ай бұрын

​@@McSkippy374I live in Alabama

@Laughing_Chinaman

Ай бұрын

same, im in a job that could be done by highschool dropouts for minimum wage, i have a stem masters

@joshbuxton8249

Ай бұрын

​@@Laughing_Chinamanif you have a stem masters your doing something wrong bro. I have a stem BS and make over 100k. The degree wasnt enough. It required a lot of grit and self-taught education, and sacrifice to get to where Im at. Newsflash the grind never stops either. Your either lazy, or there is something seriously wrong with your approach that makes you unhirable.

@kevinhowe543

Ай бұрын

​​@@katkong281I would honestly look into doing an oil field/oil rig job for a bit. Dangerous but pays very well, you are young and have nothing tying you down. You don't HAVE to live in Alabama. Edit: I mention those jobs because some will pay for relocation.

american dream is dead, middle class is obliterated.

@crazychase98

Ай бұрын

Socialism

@crazychase98

Ай бұрын

Socialism killed it

@loneblade201

Ай бұрын

American? Brother in Christ, it's terrible in Canada and places like England as well.

@id2k.

Ай бұрын

Many thanks to the biden folks.

@namethefifth7315

Ай бұрын

Socialism just brings the upper class down to tge middle classes level and reall everyone just becomes lower class​@@crazychase98

"They're just farming money, its crazy." -Twitch Streamer

@Jericho396

21 күн бұрын

🤣

@rayne9323

11 күн бұрын

Twitch streamers have to work for the money daily. once you buy a house, you can let it sit there for years doing nothing but gaining value.

@ILovinGunz

11 күн бұрын

@@rayne9323 Tell me you have no idea how real estate works without telling me you have no idea how real estate works. But yes, the "work" Twitch streamers have to do is more frequent.

@rayne9323

11 күн бұрын

@@ILovinGunz Real estate is my field lol but glad you it seems you have no idea what you're talking about since you agreed with me. Basically you can buy a property in good condition and do nothing or very little,(sit it on a shelf for lack of better terms) and sell it for more when the market sways. I know exactly what I am talking about and I know many people that do this. Residential and commercial. Thanks

@ILovinGunz

11 күн бұрын

@@rayne9323 Roger that. You're lost

6:09 In Portland, OR when I moved there in 1999, the fast food jobs is where teenagers started their working lives. Within 5 years, it was middle aged Mexicans that held all those jobs. I swear to God, I saw that happening. My little brother was working at Carl’s Jr but had to work in the front end bc the middle aged mexicans couldn’t speak english to take orders. My brother learned all the food words in Spanish. He had to. I can’t even imagine what it’s like there now with the immigration numbers the way they are now. My first job was Burger King, and tho I fucked off, I learned my hard-working skills there (thank God there were peers that were great workers for me to learn from tho))

@omitbadgers5664

3 күн бұрын

Cheap workers, that's why there is more migration.

The meme still checks out: Young adult: What are taxes and how do I pay them? School: THE MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL

@Nownadda

28 күн бұрын

All by design my friend. They don't want intelligent individuals just sheep.

@Katreat4000

28 күн бұрын

Schools were also made & instructed by the rich remember that. Schools primary focus is not to make you into a powerful human, its to make you a pawn to the rich mans game, Think of it. All the classes you do in school is not something which is neccessary for life, its to make you specialize in a field and become a worker in said field. If it was made to make you prepared for life, it would teach, how to get a job, how to be socially adept and function in a community. Taxes if thats one thing you have to do yourself, loans, ect. Its dishonesty at the highest level, also why arent we being paid to be in school? We are educating ourselves to become functional in society, we should be an investment, instead we are a cashcow. :(

@Twenty-FourGallons

26 күн бұрын

I am STILL waiting for the day when I need to use that knowledge

@Chengzen86

25 күн бұрын

Learned about mitochondria through parasite eve

@Corteslatinodude

25 күн бұрын

@@Twenty-FourGallons Same

Boomers are the first generation ever to care more about their retirement than future generations.

@npcimknot958

Ай бұрын

They also cared about their own mortal coil vs the youth and locked all the healthy people up because there were terrified the young would ‘ kill ‘ them.. And now hte young are going to pay heavy consequences for having the old care more about their anxieties than the young keeping the economy afloat.

@theword2011

Ай бұрын

Been saying it for years. Baby boomers have taken the best from the generations before and after, for their own gain.

@filidhdeklend893

Ай бұрын

We should have seen this coming with how they treated their parents generation. Actual Baby Boomers have always been the most selfish and narcissistic generation in American History.

@silverhawkroman

Ай бұрын

​@@Sciuridae and then red pillers are all like "we aren't overpopulated! just get kids!" as if we dont need to take care of 8+ BILLION humans on this fkn planet

@Cocytus127

Ай бұрын

Boomers are the first generation in human history that had the luxury of not having to worry about the future. And human prosperity has only increased since then. So millennials and Gen z are going to be even worse, I reckon.

Imagine being ok with giving the government half your wages.

The undeniable fact of victory is that someone or something has to lose.

School isn't meant to teach you how to live a successful and fulfilling life. It teaches you how to be a good low level employee or military member

@ashvandal5697

26 күн бұрын

School doesn’t teach you how to be a good “military member” unless you specifically came out of a JROTC program, and even then you’re still gonna get the culture shock.

@Twenty-FourGallons

26 күн бұрын

"Obedient worker" - George Carlin

@IamChairMayne

26 күн бұрын

Leave the military out of this and stop trying to look down on people who actually served and contributed to their country! The military is a Profession and if you actually don’t waste the opportunity, you will come out ahead of more than half the general public. For myself, I went in at age 17, did almost 23 years until I retired at age 39. Was both enlisted (E-6/SSG/Medic) and officer (O-4/Major/Military Intelligence). Was able to obtain 3 degrees, one while in the military and 2 after I retired, which was all earned and free due to my service. Purchased and still own 3 houses (1 primary residence and 2 rental properties), in which all 3 were new construction and I also own 2 lots of land that I plan on building other rental properties on. Also, I make 6 figures from my military retirement check and 100% VA Disability check together, which is far more than the average person with or without a degree make. I’m fully invested in the stock market and own crypto. Actually some of your most successful people either served in the military or their parents were in the military. So, I’m guessing that you never served in the military or if you did, you wasted the opportunities and benefits of being in the military. So what do you do, how much do you make and what do you own??? I’m waiting!!!

@dev0hh

25 күн бұрын

@@IamChairMaynethat’s a pretty extreme response for a throwaway comment. i dont think he was insulting the military lmao

@supaipai420

25 күн бұрын

💯 true the more people with money the more people with power.

My question is, im 34 years old and will 100% not be able to collect social security. So why the hell do they keep taking it out my check!

@groovy7896

Ай бұрын

Because the Boomers are voting, and they're NOT taking it out for YOU; who do you think is receiving Social Security checks right now? Boomers. Where is that money coming from? You.

@Syzygy77

Ай бұрын

Because you’re bankrolling boomer retirement.

@Serahpin

Ай бұрын

It's called a ponzi scheme. When SS was first set up, they said it would take two full time workers for every retiree. Meaning that the population would have to double roughly every 20 years for it to be sustainable. Anyone that know math understands why that doesn't work. It's best at the top of the pyramid and just gets worse the further down you go until it collapses.

@user-sx3pc4dj3r

Ай бұрын

Yep, and if a company you worked at treated a pension like a Ponzi scheme as government 401k does the would be all kinds of criminal charges

@Serahpin

Ай бұрын

Dude, wheres' my comment explaining this?

The government prints way too much money is the problem.

Life is 100% more easy for good looking ppl

I've seen women insulted by TV personalities for wanting to be a stay-at-home mom.

@SuperBennnnnnnnn

Ай бұрын

Because nuclear family brings true wealth to american citizens. Corporate America doesn't want this, this affects their bottom line. They hate that we own homes right now.

@Vaguer_Weevil

Ай бұрын

Something I've been thinking about: Why IS working overly glorified? Especially for women, why would they WANT to work tirelessly day after day as the value of their money lowers every year? It's such a strange phenomenon.

@SuperBennnnnnnnn

Ай бұрын

@@Vaguer_Weevil women don't value working, they value consuming products.

@daMillenialTrucker

Ай бұрын

@@Vaguer_Weevil I'm a truck driver, I work a lot because I want to reach financial freedom and I'm figuring if I'm going to chase something while I'm still young then it should be that. I love driving though, I feel naked without my truck

@TwinnNolaa19

Ай бұрын

⁠@@Vaguer_Weevilautonomy. Struggling with a voice is better than living in a home that isn’t yours.

I just turned 40. At my age my parents owned their own house, both had high paying jobs (for the time.) And we as a family could afford yearly vacations. I bust my ass and my wife and I cannot afford a house, we cannot afford an emergency over $400. There is a saying - 20 years ago you could work at a gas station and at the very least rent a house. Now, you have to own the gas station to RENT the house.

@rchot84

25 күн бұрын

I just turned 40 on the 26th luckily I inherited a paid off house, and now I can save. Millenials will have to start shacking up long term to survive like immigrants.

@MollyHJohns

23 күн бұрын

As Millenials (from SE Asia), me and siblings are somewhat lucky our Boomer parents used to work with the gov and got pensions today just to maintain the current family home. But because of my eldest brother's biggest financial disaster, we had to mortgage the house, and now are selling it without any hope anyone else can afford to buy it as it is but a 40yo crumbling terrace house we the siblings can't even renovate as we're essentially penniless. But, thank goodness the whole family still have one last backup plan; that is the recently paid off grandma's home in my father's hometown. We plan to move all the way back to there when this current family home is sold. If it's ever sold, that is. All I know is that when my parents will be gone in 10, 20 years me and my siblings will essentially be headless individuals without an original family home as the centre. Even the grandma's home in different state might need to be sold off to a wealthier family to help the eldest brother pay off his credit debts.

@twistedspine7300

14 күн бұрын

i'm sorry, but if you're 40 years old and you can't afford a $400 emergency, you've made nothing but poor financial decisions. it's inexcusable for a 40 year old man to have no savings. i know it sucks to be broke but you need to look in the mirror and make better decisions. if you don't understand money well, start learning it's never too late. seek alternative education online, it's all free and there for you if you put in the work.

@videovagrancy8526

6 күн бұрын

@twistedspine7300 You make a great point and are 100% correct. I made terrible decisions in my life from my early 20s to about 32 when I finally came to my senses and started putting my life back together. (Involved in crime and drugs. I completely destroyed my life. Hell is real - it is a place we create for ourselves, I've been there. But I clawed my way out.) Because of those bad life choices, I am essentially a decade or so behind in my life that I am making up for now. Which is why I work so hard now. Had I not squandered that precious time, I will always be behind my peers who made better choices in life. I commend your honesty. I'm an open book about my life and those wasted years. Was witness to and was involved in a lot of horrible things. Thankfully, I came out the other end alive. Took me nearly three years to rehabilitate myself. While I am not caught up to my peers financially, those years did gift me with a wisdom and life experience that I could not have garnered otherwise. However, if there were a "rewind" button - I probably would press it and knock sense into younger me.

Dudes are speaking facts here. Pennies and nickels look like quarters when you don't have a dollar to your name.

I learned budgeting in consumer science (home ec) in 7th grade. Had one person in my class who complained to the teacher that they’d never use that skill because they had a calculator. Another kid, who sat at my table murdered his girlfriends mom 5 years later

The education system is there to teach you how to be an employee

@natediaz1863

Ай бұрын

Worse, it teaches you to vote blue.

@CoderDBF

Ай бұрын

I agree, it’s an employee factory.

@mezjean5966

Ай бұрын

@@natediaz1863 Way worse, it teaches you to not think nor question.

@commiserable4626

Ай бұрын

Yeah what a shitshow..they teach you what to think instead of how to think..

@natediaz1863

Ай бұрын

@@mezjean5966 yeah, and that leads yo voting blue. And don't get me wrong, red is also similar but there's no factory churning out voters that works as effectively as the education system.

The worst bosses I've had were all pretty low on intelligence, so they acted like bullies and know it alls.

@FluffySylveonBoi

Ай бұрын

So whenever they appeared, a boss battle theme started playing.

@mama4ke

Ай бұрын

Sounds like cope tho

@xAudiolith

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately dark triad traits are very highly rewarded in business.

@konaqua122

Ай бұрын

how can they be low intelligence if they are your boss?

@FluffySylveonBoi

Ай бұрын

@@konaqua122 Just like some bosses in video games, they either follow orders of some higher boss or they try the same thing repeatedly wanting results. They may be smart in certain areas but real dumb in others.

Concerning the "My kid can do Algebra but doesn't understand credit card interest." Its a problem due to public schools no longer teaching Home-Ec. That was literally the "How to Adult" class he is talking about! I had Home-Ec in my high school when I was a teenager in 2001. We learned how to cook, how to clean, and how to calculate interest / balance a home budget. Everyone always called it the "class where you get to eat hamburgers and cake," but there were tests given and lessons taught about running household finances. Public schools don't get funding for this kind of class anymore and without Home-Ec, kids are stuck learning from their over-worked and exhausted parents. I have a cousin who just graduated High School and she literally cannot cook her own food. At all. Anything more complex than Microwave burritos scares her. This young girl is about to leave to college and live on her own. How the hell is she going to take care of herself without knowing how to cook her own meals? What happens when she has to pay her bills for the first time???

I grew up poor, and had a lot of trouble finding a good paying job even after I got a CDL. Finally did in 2022…and then everything rose astronomically in price. It’s hopeless lol

Average income in 1980 was 21k. Now it’s 57k. 1980 rent was 17.6% of income, now it’s 38.7% of income. 1980 average home price was 47,200, now it’s 416,100. A home was 2.25 years of salary. Now it’s 7.3 years of salary.

@wicho5062

Ай бұрын

Not only that, if you account for inflation, $21k would be just under $80k... it's never been so over

@christianbonnie1

Ай бұрын

Do you mind sharing your source? It would be an interesting read

@NekomiyaTH

Ай бұрын

First settler land litterly free for grab xD

@whatthehirsch7385

Ай бұрын

Don't use average for an asymetrique distribution. An average income of 57k denies the fact that about 85% earn LESS than 57k and 15% earn far more than 15k increasing the average. I don't know the median for US but it will be more like 24-28k. Much more realistic.

@jgbadblood414

Ай бұрын

My 2 bedroom single family home is $715 not to big but enough. I have 2.5 garage and big yard. Bought back in 2017

Funny thing about Education... The moment I left school for good is the moment I started learning things at all.

@edvaedan9161

Ай бұрын

School is supposed to teach critical thinking. Unfortunately now it just teaches indoctrination to the message.

@heroslippy6666

Ай бұрын

Very true, learning is about experiences, not grades. Currently in college and a couple of my hobbies require intense learning, however due to being overburdened by school, I do not have the energy to devote to those hobby. As you can see I have time, I'm watching asmongold, but that's because of severe burnout from assignments that are meaningless.

@namesaname

24 күн бұрын

Same here. If your parents don't teach you about the world, the school won't either. It would be better if education was shorter and people had more time to experience and contemplate. Then with some guidance make a decision about further education/work.

@mcdoucheybag

17 күн бұрын

@@heroslippy6666 I'm going through the exact same thing. It's painful to have the years go by and not do what you truly want to do. Let's hope things will change for us someday. 💞

@mr.kilpatrick2991

16 күн бұрын

@@mcdoucheybag how many previous generations of people were doing for work what they truly wanted to do? like maybe .000000001%?

A lot of trade jobs are still paying at 90's rates as the cost of living hasnt sky rocketed since then

28:27 Agree. People say “well, it’s the parents’ job to teach the kids about money and financial literacy etc….” But there are kids that have parents that don’t know that stuff themselves. They’ll spend their last $5 on soda and stuff like that. I lived that myself as a kid. And also, you could say the same about math and english, who’s to say what is school vs parents’ job when we should be focused on training well-rounded adults in the world instead of the beaurocracy of Common Core and other cicriculum. We def lost the script on that

It's by design boys, WEF loves this type of shit

@oceanbrown7159

Ай бұрын

Chicago is testing out Taxpayer funded, government run grocery stores. We will have data once it gets around.

@keagsobrien6772

Ай бұрын

Bingo

@maximus5281

Ай бұрын

You will own nothing and still be happy. Eat ze bugs!

@chilomine839

27 күн бұрын

Imagine if more KZreadrs started making content about that three letter organization.

The reason children aren’t being taught how taxes work or how interest rates work, is because people who know how these things work don’t make you enough money.

@dev0hh

25 күн бұрын

no point learning about finance if you’re just gonna get hard locked in minimum wage and not being able to afford a studio

@Andre-vt4np

23 күн бұрын

​@@dev0hh why you need a studio?

@dev0hh

23 күн бұрын

@@Andre-vt4np a studio apartment. the average college student cant afford it without some type of loan or debt.

@pfzht

21 күн бұрын

​@@dev0hhalgebra 2 will get you through the exams to become a land surveyor or you can learn the trig formulas OJT. Point is, math is a way up.

@crackedhammer4612

20 күн бұрын

Honestly I am on the boat of “no taxation without representation.” Because let’s be real. The middle class and under and not really represented in much of the west.

Very informative. Thanks for the video. Appreciated your vulnerability on ‘weakness’ and talking about your teeth story etc. thanks man

"Just because I'm paranoid, that does not automatically make me wrong."

@qunt100

Ай бұрын

Yah. I think alot of people say how entitled they are now and what not. But, millenials and gen z, are absolutely 100 percent entitled to a functioning society, and a economy that does not suck ass. Like 100 percent.

@videopsych7838

Ай бұрын

@@qunt100 They aren't just gonna give you everything.

@filipeisabelinho3425

29 күн бұрын

​@@videopsych7838nope, they'll take everything from you.

@videopsych7838

29 күн бұрын

@@filipeisabelinho3425 They will unless you do what our grand parents did and stick up for themselves instead of just talking about it which is why there was a middle class in the first place.

@JerseyMikes769

29 күн бұрын

My grandpa raised 5 kids by being a steelworker in North Jersey with a wife that didn't work. And then years after he bought that house he fed the kids on disability income. He did it by buying cheap property building a house using connections he had in the trade. There is no cheap land anymore, material costs are so high he could afford them let alone the labor. And a steelworker adjusted for inflation makes much less now than back then. He put 5 kids in college. They all got bachelor's. If he tried that today or even 10 years ago I'm sure there would have been fentanyl overdoses in the family tree.

I like how young people have to "discover" how credit works instead of being prepared for one of the most important parts of our economic system. Our schools suck so bad.

@Serahpin

Ай бұрын

Why do you think they made the crime of usury legal? So they can take everything you have and make it your own fault for being lied to.

@CamAlert2

Ай бұрын

How is teaching kids how to finance beneficial to the ones calling the shots in the economy? It's designed that way.

@Klayperson

Ай бұрын

i just bought a truck listed at $28k and after fees and interest when the contract is paid off it will have been $40k. oops lmao

@SnailHatan

Ай бұрын

Huh? It’s not a school’s job to teach you about basic fuckin finances. That’s on your parents. Teachers already do way too fuckin much for the pittance they’re allowed to

@zenixvampirchik652

Ай бұрын

​@@SnailHatanexcept most of the school stuff is useless. Everything that is necessary you'll get in elementary, then it's a waste of time mostly. Something will be helpful. Like one or two directions out of everything they teach kids in school nowadays. Some subject about finances will be much more useful for everyone, instead of subjects they won't need.

There's no such thing as a social contract, just old people shitting on the young and saying "you can shit on the young when you're old".

Holy crap, dude I love watching your videos. They are helping me get a better perspective of all the bullshit going on around us. I really appreciate you man. Keep it up

I'm a highschool teacher and the point Asmon is making with "you shouldn't teach Algebra 2 because you only have so much time, and there are more important stuff to learn" is so damn on point. I'd also add that it's not only about your limited time, it's also about your limited energy. Energy is a very valueable resource and as you grow up you should be extremely thoughtful about where when and how you wanna spend it. And never let school get in the way of learning.

@snoopsnet8150

29 күн бұрын

It blows me away that there isn't a required "how to file your income taxes and do basic adulting" course for graduation. Even college accounting courses don't teach it. Sure, they'll teach the balance sheet, credits, debits, etc, but NOBODY says "this is a 1099, this is a W2, this is what withholdings are, these are how the the income and social security etc are broken up in our state...

@feelinghealing3890

28 күн бұрын

All the teachers I talked to about this were frustrated about being forced to teach very specific things that usually did not matter at all and I think people should do a "definitive replacement of the current people with authority over the field" about it. Start with asking, end it however it ends up working.

@Anarcho-harambeism

28 күн бұрын

Most kids squander the time they have in schools. There is plenty of space to remove an elective for a year, and make it a tax class, and make it a requirement to pass

@Mbrace818

28 күн бұрын

Algebra 2 is an infinitely more important topic than "gender studies".

@Parbruek

28 күн бұрын

In my opinion, there is no better usage of time than teaching children to find their own answers. I came up with the idea that fire was a exothermic reaction propagated by heat, and gaining energy through Ph equalization in gradeschool. Perhaps it's not the best definition. But I made it up due to a discussion which was outside of school and then research on my part. And I think I would have been better off if I were in more cases forced to seek more of my own answers, rather than having them shoved down my throat.

I remember hearing that in 1950 a dual income household could pay their mortgage with 5% of their income. Imagine paying all your bills and having 80% of your income left over.

@taigenraine

Ай бұрын

Imagine holding a computer that would take up a whole room in 1950 in the palm of your hand, most cancers are treatable, aids is all but cured, 90% of homes and apartments have AC, nearly everyone who wants a car has a car, meals get delivered to your door, you have an adjustable bed, there is endless entertainment online, and all of it can be afforded by even people making minimum wage.... I will stay in 2024 thank you very much. The economy is not a zero sum game and no amount of money could buy the luxury every single one of us takes for granted every day back even 20 years. Those rich people you demonize invested in all those things to make them real, risking their money in the process every time they did so.

@baphomet12113

Ай бұрын

@@taigenraine You make a good point. Good to see alternative points of view.

@effexon

Ай бұрын

no wonder there were so many mom n pop shops everywhere.... that 80% gave revenue for all those. now household has to count and plan food purchases, not much left over.

@michaelnuttall5896

Ай бұрын

@@taigenraineI can barely afford to feed myself and haven’t bought clothes in 4 years. I don’t care about any of that you mentioned.

@BIOCiiDE

Ай бұрын

​@taigenraine While I also enjoy the convinence of modern technologies, let's not get it twisted. The people who made these things didn't do so out of charity or some "greater good". The gamble was all in the name of profit. The profitable ideas moved forward where the non-profitable ones died. We're now seeing the extremes of this way of thinking with planned obsolescence and proprietary hardware. This is a game of numbers, and we're going to lose.

See, the worst part about this is that some of us wised up to all of this when we were younger and could see the writing on the walls. We tried to tell people we thought mattered to avoid it, and yet here we are because nobody would listen to us.

Yup it's gonna get worse, and then it's gonna get *worse*.

@MNAHN-T.GOF-NN

18 күн бұрын

Get out of the cities.

54% tax rate? We pay less in Denmark on top of that 12 eggs is 3 dollars here. What the hell is going on in America?

@Latronibus

24 күн бұрын

Highest state tax bracket is about 13%. Highest federal tax bracket is 37%. FICA (Social Security and Medicare) is about another 6% on top of that. So in principle you could be paying 54%...if you live in California and your adjusted gross income is vastly in excess of $500k. Which it shouldn't be, because at that point you should be using one of the many strategies that exist to pay lower taxes than someone with equivalent cash-only compensation would pay.

@derekhollars8985

22 күн бұрын

It's Wall Street and government greed colluding together

@steen275

20 күн бұрын

@@Latronibus How do people live in California. Why are they so heavily taxed if they don't benefit from the taxes at all. California streets is looking more and more grim skyrocketing crimes, drug addicted homeless people everywhere. Our taxes are high in Denmark but we get a shit ton of safety nets. Also winnings such as lottos aren't taxed only income tax.

@Latronibus

20 күн бұрын

@@steen275 The important bit of what I said was the "vastly in excess of $500k" part. Most folks are in the $40k-$200k range and they pay a lot less than 50% even if they live in CA.

@KDD0063

20 күн бұрын

Communism

Professional tax accountant, i can confirm lower income has less things to help on your taxes, than options available to higher income clients.

@ahrimaun5127

Ай бұрын

​@123andrewli7 he means tax deductions.

@TheTrueUSPatriot

Ай бұрын

Can you give specific examples? You saying you're a tax accountant means nothing because you're a random stranger online.

@jerryboics9550

Ай бұрын

Money makes money. From investment options to tax deductions.

@bulletflight

Ай бұрын

@@TheTrueUSPatriot Capital gains taxes are much lower than income taxes. A single mother barely making rent cannot have capital gains in the first place because there's no money to invest. Sales taxes are a regressive tax that hurt the poor more than the rich, since the poor spend more of their money on not starving to death.

@whm_w8833

Ай бұрын

@@bulletflightyou mean the poor spent most of their income on food. The rich will likely pay more in sales tax from buying groceries at Whole Foods

It's even harder when not many kids got taught how to grow up, instead being forced to grow up but having the kid stuck inside them, what worse, they tend to carry everything on their shoulders without thinking, like playing a game with all nerfs on them and thought that's the normal state

@aiodensghost8645

18 күн бұрын

What do you expect when we aren't taught any better??

More of this plz mate. You get folks thinking, even if they challenge a point in the moment. Well done sir. Well said.

I wouldn't say woman are "choosing" careers. A dual income household is a necessity and has been for quite some time. A single income household is extremely rare today.

@bej4987

Ай бұрын

You can't support a family on a single income

@steveballmersbaldspot2.095

Ай бұрын

Exactly, raising a family on a single income is near impossible unless you make doctor or high end lawyer/exec money.

@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu

Ай бұрын

​@@bej4987I mean you can, but it's obviously more difficult to earn the equivalent salary of two people alone.

@canihave1dab724

Ай бұрын

Who are you kidding? Women are 100% choosing jobs over family and that’s been the case since about 1970. Edit: Liz warren, Pocahontas herself, wrote a book about the self fulfilling prophecy of the two income trap.

@Nostradevus1

Ай бұрын

@@bej4987 I'm in my mid 30's family of four and I am able to support our household on my salary alone. I work as a senior engineer in industrial controls, so definitely not dr or lawyer money.

Do NOT confuse average with median! When 9 people earn 1.000€ and the 10th earns 11.000€ the average is 2.000€. but the median is 1.000€! The upper 1-10% incomes increase much much more than the lower and middle incomes. The average invome in germany is 35€/h. But 85% of the population earns under 20€/h.

@Serahpin

Ай бұрын

Median is an average. Mean, median and modal are all averages.

@isntmypfpbeautiful5350

Ай бұрын

​@@Serahpinuhh, no? Mean, median and modes are all measures of central tendency, but median=/average

@Serahpin

Ай бұрын

@@isntmypfpbeautiful5350 No. From the Encyclopedia Britannica: "Mean, median, and mode, in mathematics, the three principal ways of designating the average value of a list of numbers. "

@FoeJxyLIVE

Ай бұрын

I’m actually moving to Germany due to having my citizenship there as well as America. Things just aren’t working here in America & due to having Praktikum & Ausbildung’s to earn more money that don’t charge as much as American school

@420IQPlayer

Ай бұрын

@@SerahpinWell that’s certainly one way to say you failed 3rd grade math without directly saying it, this is not a good look for you 🤣

"If kids aren't allowed to make mistakes as kids they will make them as adults." might be my fav lil gem of wisdom. I can relate to it pretty hard too.

The reason why society is moving in this direction is because the people that make the rules are not being held accountable. They bend the rules to their benefit.

Being born after the 1990's Is playing on Mythic mode with no Stating Tutuorial or Tips. you just drop into the final boss who has 50 health bars and several latin tracks behind it.

@matthattermatador4595

26 күн бұрын

Luckily there are others with PVE armor. Share your armor drops people😊

@jonathanbrownell7145

22 күн бұрын

Not gonna lie, I cracked up at latin tracks

@yimwee2401

21 күн бұрын

You get your first job: GAEL THEME STARTS PLAYING

@Demosthenes84

19 күн бұрын

I take it you never heard of young people trying to start their lives during the great depression?

@notastone4832

18 күн бұрын

@@Demosthenes84 nobody was starting shit during the great depression.. they were just waiting for another world war so they could go die in europe for no good reason

Im the main breadwinner for my landlord's family! Boomers had EVERYTHING handed to them by the Greatest Generation and then pulled the ladders up behind them.

@Poooppoop22

Ай бұрын

What are we supposed to do about it? Vote for a boomer who only cares about the wealthy who own stocks.

@mp80085

Ай бұрын

Handed over by the government? Boomers grew up poor and learned to invest, so now theyr'e villainized because their property values get inflated via the government and they take the cash payments from rich people or corporations offering more than their house is worth? The government and corporations are pulling the ladders. They want civilians to fight amongst themselves so they can hide in the shadows continuing the shenanigans to the economy.

@afatfrog5533

Ай бұрын

They didn't pull up the ladders, they took the ladders and sold them to people who are charging a fortune to use them.

@horsedewormer

Ай бұрын

@@afatfrog5533 Lol dude.. I love that. I think it's more like painting the ladder with butter and telling people it's no different than when they did it. :P

@greenfroggood2392

Ай бұрын

Isn't the boomer part of your family? why isn't the boomer in your family helping you out?

I learned to budget because my mom didn't have money growing up. The importance of living within your means was not lost on my childhood.

You missed WHY those companies are automating... because the minimum wage is rediculously high. They're trying to make a living mage out of a job that is not meant to do that.

@jerrypickins

3 күн бұрын

"In my Inaugural, I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. Throughout industry, the change from starvation wages and starvation employment to living wages and sustained employment can, in large part, be made by an industrial covenant to which all employers shall subscribe." -President FDR One of many people who fought for workers rights and helped pave the way for the federal minimum wage, 8 hour work days, 40 hour work weeks, and pushed to stop child labor. I think I'll believe the guy who tried his hardest to help working class Americans than the people constantly trying to dismantle and stagnate them.

It’s not even that the low skill jobs are automated, its that they don’t pay enough to live unless you have two or three of them. You have to work so much just to get by that there’s barely anytime left over for anything else. This is why no one is having kids as well. We have to work more so there’s less time for building a family, less time for building skills. Not to mention we’re so busy trying to afford food and rent we can’t afford to go to school.

@yimwee2401

21 күн бұрын

Why would I have children If I can't even pay for my own schooling?

@johnhines229

21 күн бұрын

@@yimwee2401 exactly

@abc123lov7

20 күн бұрын

Yep at 70k a year, I have to make sure the first to weeks of the month are loaded with enough hours to pay the rent.. then the 3 week is for other expenses and finally week four is what I might be able to save...

@MauriceB-zn5pv

20 күн бұрын

This is largely the result of many broken families. Ideally you would’ve had training while still with your parents.

@johnhines229

18 күн бұрын

@@abc123lov7 yea together me and my fiancé make about 55k, luckily for us where we live that’s enough to live comfortably, but only because we found a landlord with cheap rent.

The reason why we don’t learn these very useful things in school is because a lot of companies have lobbied against it. Imagine how much money H&R Block would lose if people knew how to do taxes? Imagine how few realtors would be hired if people knew how to buy a house? It’s all on purpose.

@Serahpin

Ай бұрын

And all the licensing you need to do what before would be considered extremely basic stuff. You need to spend $10k on an education and piece of paper to do a $20 job (legally).

@KleptomaniacJames

Ай бұрын

Fuck learning how to do taxes, those glowing bastards will do them for you and send you a letter. They can do them themselves.

@Senorbenignhillarity

Ай бұрын

Learning all those things would be amazing. It would also be nice if people graduating high school could read

@comradewarners

Ай бұрын

@@KleptomaniacJames yeah actually in most countries the government just lets you know how much you owe. (As long as you aren’t freelancing)

@KleptomaniacJames

Ай бұрын

@@comradewarners the USA will let you know as well, just after you file your taxes with hefty fine on top

I remember being able to afford $1400 rent, $200 utilities, a $300 car note, $110 monthly car and renter's insurance, and groceries. All on a $15 hourly wage, with associated overtime. This was fifteen years ago.

Damn you’re brilliant! Glad I subscribed. I wonder what your take would be on the mouse utopia experiment?

There are more ghost jobs than actual jobs.

@MarcusRoy

Ай бұрын

New information scalping

There are a lot of kids, including myself, that had parents that just assumed you knew basic principles. I, for one, didn't know how to clean the house because no one taught me. My mom thought because I "wanted" to be in a clean environment; I just somehow magically knew how to clean a house properly. I didn't, and I got those comments like "Why aren't you good at cleaning? I thought you liked to clean." Reality is that no one taught me, I don't actually like to clean, but I do like being in a clean environment, so I am willing to try. This happened in a LOT of areas in my life that I ended up having to be my own parent to get on my feet. I did so much research online to figure things out, and it still feels like I am missing something. The best way I grew up was doing a lot of odd jobs, and moving out for seasonal work for several months at a time. It's the same parents that gives a tablet to a kid to get them to stop annoying them. My mom... just played video games and forgot to do everything. She gave up parenthood and just assumed my brothers and I were gonna just "know" the works, and is shocked that we were clueless on some basic stuff. If you ignore your kid a lot, they are going to miss some important information that they'll need for the real world. My mom was a result of people neglecting her and her not getting the help she needed, so the way people treat each other does spread more so than some might think. Please be good to each other, and to yourself.

@outtheredude

27 күн бұрын

Genetic memory is not a thing Mom. Be a Mom and give me chores! That's how I'm gonna learn stuff!

@alfonsos84

26 күн бұрын

Wait... your mom is a gamer? Can you arrange a meeting for us?

@everythingpony

19 күн бұрын

How do you not know how to clean?

@ProtoManiac2283

18 күн бұрын

ever get the "I didn't need to be taught." from your mom?

@Dumbledoresarmy13

16 күн бұрын

My dad has a very similar approach. I don't know how to do a lot of stuff, especially DIY and yard work because he never taught me, so he'll come over and criticize my terrible weedeating job but i had to teach myself how to do it at age 28 and i'm a skinny girl with no muscles so of course I suck at it. I don't know how to use power tools because i was never taught and can't justify the cost to buy them and teach myself. Anytime you want to get knowledge from a parent, it's like pulling teeth to get anything other than "well, you're smart, you'll figure it out"... but when you do try to teach yourself they'll gladly make fun of how amateur your attempts are. It's frustrating.

Working for somebody else will never make you "enough" money - You have to invest... - You have to work for yourself... - You absolutely must be able to work things out for yourself... - You do not need an expensive education!!! 42 yo, from the UK, have worked in IT, which is all problem solving, only have high(secondary) school worthless qualifications, about to let my first property, and have plans to acquire more, invest money into other assets... If you want to be "wealthy" you only need to do what they do... And what they do doesn't involve being a PAYE employee

"Wait to buy a house and get your degree... you can always make it up later..." - $315k in fafsa debt with a 3/2 sitting around $559,000

@rrrealqueen

18 күн бұрын

I skipped college for that exact reason. Community colleges charging 210k for a bachelors degree. My older cousin whos a guy got his bachelor's degree in technology. Its been 5 years of job searching. He now works in construction for 16 an hour. And he has 210k in debt. College is a scam. Its all about which college you go to. And who you know.

And a lot of people will still blame us for being "lazy" and "entitled" despite working the average amount of hours or even more than what people used to work 20 years ago, in order to gain half or less of what they used to make.

@peanuttgalleriYEP

Ай бұрын

It is that though. What are we doing to change this?

@mildchaos6037

Ай бұрын

Older people in my family calling me lazy drives me insane. I work 50 hours a week, go to gym 5 days a week and live in my own and take good care of myself. But because I don’t have house, I’m lazy and not working hard enough

@nicbarth3838

Ай бұрын

@@mildchaos6037 oof

@sebastiansteppuhn3418

Ай бұрын

And the reason for that is oftentimes that you won't go way out of your way to help them with something or breaks company policy or ask for even the bare minimum of respect.

@porky5567

Ай бұрын

@@peanuttgalleriYEP what do you expect people to do though? riot in the streets? demand for less lobbying? you can't do anything with our current 2 party system where money dictates what laws do and don't get passed, get real.

I'm almost 30 and still live with my parents. When my parents were thirty they already had two kids and the house we currently live in and could afford to take vacations to other states including Disney World

@Koi_to_Dragon

Ай бұрын

Same here…feels like shit man, not gonna lie 😕

@tsvetomiriliev5804

Ай бұрын

Same. I work with a colleague with which we studied together in elementary school. She now has a kid and is single, paying rent, last month she was really depressed that 80% of her wage went to pay off rent, electricity, heating, water. I cracked a joke that she needs a man, because I had been courting her for the past few months, but she blatantly said that she does not need a man. So in reality I have no incentive to move out from my parents and lose money.

@lionart5230

Ай бұрын

Same though I am moving out as soon as my apartment is finished building. I moved back to parents when Covid hit, still paying rent for three months after despite pandemics and being able to live there. I am being asked over and over about grandchildren as I just hit 30 lately. How can I think about it when I had to move back to parents, was disconnected twice from people I struggled to connect with? Broke up long time relationship due to focus on finishing my degree and being unable to support my ex in hard times physically... Then health problems due to desk job. Fuck. There is always another raincloud to fuck me over after I finally see sight of sun and go out.

@Electro096

Ай бұрын

Hey that's the current situation of life now. More and more complain and worse off moving out too soon and living alone. The bills have skyrocketed. Electric, gas, water

@eightlights4939

25 күн бұрын

Something tells me from your profile pic that your own actions (or lack thereof) are the result of you being 30 and living with your parents

We shouldnt be paying income taxes

As a middle-class Filipino (which middle-class' population is more than half of Philippines' total population), I'm so sad that we (almost) reached the point that inflation like this went to far to not owning the house. And my condolences to other countries where there's little to no middle classes

I am barely surviving. Paying endless rent. Making 16 an hour is like making 8 an hour now.

An average price of a home is ten times the amount it was in 1980, whereas average income has only gone up three times as much. That tells you everything you need to know, on top of everything else that has skyrocketed in prices

@TheDomanc

Ай бұрын

Dont forget one imporant thing. Now new products are trash. Like you buy frigde 40 years ago its possible its still working. Now you buy frigde/tv/phone its 3-5 years. Houses itself also. Pipes getting cracks and need replacement etc.

@jrichardson6048

Ай бұрын

@@TheDomanc Planned obsolescence. So many companies do it and have an unspoken agreement with competitors so that they all do it. It's straight up crony capitalism, the exact type of thing that federal regulators should be outlawing. But the politicians are in the pockets of these corporations so they do nothing.

@lifterlv

Ай бұрын

​@TheDomanc, yeah, you look at houses on the east coast that have been around for hundreds of years. They don't have the same problems that new construction houses have today.

@ericwaln2056

Ай бұрын

Back in the day you had to have 20% down to buy a house, now you can do it with 3% down. Things are expensive, but people spend $$ on frivolous shit like interest, door dash, going out to eat, etc

@Henk717

Ай бұрын

When I was growing up my parents sometimes talked about the value of their house. I know that with my current savings in the US i'd be half way there to a really fancy family home. In the price our house was worth 5 years ago i'd be a third of the way there. Now I need half a million dollars (or more even since they are outbidding those asking prices to) for a terraced house (Thats one of the houses attached directly to the house of your neighbors). Meanwhile here in the Netherlands rental is simply not available even if you have the money. So I wouldn't be able to get a house even if I tried, and if I push trough and force it i'd be in permanent debt the moment the market normalizes and unable to move to a nicer house.

My workplace for example is trying to 2 one million dollar units from the 80's, and overhauled the units to the point it might as well be replaced. Instead, the people in charge decided to act like 2 teens trying to revive a wornout shitbox instead of acting like a professional and replace a well worn out engine with a newer and stronger engine

@ghengiskhan9308

18 күн бұрын

"We don't have the budget" maybe if the management decreased their own wages they'd be able to afford new ones

Its not just automation thats killing jobs. Artisan jobs that used to exist in America have been shipped overseas to places like China and India because it's cheaper to pay somebody overseas for the work and ship the goods back than to just have them made here.

@michaeldavid6832

Ай бұрын

It's not cheaper because of wages, it's cheaper because of no worker or environmental protections. We outsourced worker harm and environmental destruction.

@iiyyxxnn

Ай бұрын

​@@michaeldavid6832wages are less competitive

@bulletflight

Ай бұрын

@@iiyyxxnn That's because if a worker loses an arm in the cotton gin there's no safety net.

@LegendOfTheFLame393

Ай бұрын

​@@iiyyxxnnthese countries also do forms of slavery as well so yeah

@Thezuule1

Ай бұрын

@@LegendOfTheFLame393 the USA does as well. The 13th amendment makes it legal to force someone to do work as a punishment for a crime. If you get short on cheap prison labor you just make more things illegal or increase pressure on the communities you want to catch in your net.

This is the end. Im injured laid off and homeless now. 4 years ago i had a 3/2 home 3 vehicles nice savings and had a nice stock portfolio. No one will hire me now 😊. Its so hot out here and i have sunburn on top of sunburn. I have bad nerve damage and a deteriorated neck and back. Every shelter say they have no more resources. Going from being a foreman in industrial construction for 27 years to being always told no. Today is the first time Ive been in a room overnight with ac since September of last year. Its so easy to say no……i hear it everyday i see it everyday. I helped build military bases, hospitals, universities ect…as a supervisor😊. Now im used to all of the accusatory looks and just told no. Call me dumb, say what you want. But i never stopped pushing even when i was unable to walk and was bed ridden for months then crutches for months. Honestly until people are less judgmental and a little more compassionate, people not doing well dont stand a chance out here. Ive worked since i was 13 and full-time since i was 18 im 46. You guys cant roast my ass more than the sun has 😂. I’ll see you in hell Johnny!😁

@colelangford6369

29 күн бұрын

I wish you the very best brother

@franciscastlesr.888

29 күн бұрын

@@colelangford6369 thx not looking to good. Ive been turned away from every homeless shelter bc theyre full. State of Fl wont help at all. Ive contacted every nonprofit, homeless shelter, DCF, every person i talk to they give me another number to call. Just transfers and no’s. There’s actually no room for me in this life. Pretty wild. Before i couldn’t be replaced and now i cant get a job cleaning toilets or flipping burgers. Ive applied everywhere. I get turned away just across the board. I speak well and look “normal”, most people dont know im homeless when they talk to me. I have no criminal history and dont drink or do drugs (i dont even use caffeine or nicotine). After all of the betrayal and backstabbing from family theres literally no one and nothing😊 just waiting for ☠️

@BetaBuxDelux

29 күн бұрын

Yeah, it can get rough, but we Gen-Xers expect that. Is there any work you can do? What about disability benefits?

@franciscastlesr.888

29 күн бұрын

@@BetaBuxDelux they said it would take 1.5 years to process disability. Im limited when it comes to manual labor. I could easily end up unable to walk. That would be the kiss of death for me. I have to be very careful even when moving my body with out any added weight or items. Ive been applying every where i go and nonstop daily applying online w my phone. My work history is ruined since feb of 2020. I apply to entry level and these kiddos look more employable on paper than i do. Even when they tell me no or dont respond i show back up a week later to try again. I think im cursed with so much bad luck.

@bryanh1830

29 күн бұрын

​@@franciscastlesr.888 you can do it! 💪

The problem with math in school is that you are only learning things to test on them. Then after you test you move on to a different type of math. You never go back and do more of a type of math that you learned before. Always pushing relentlessly ahead. It's not learning, it's drilling.

I have a college degree in a "stem" field and it's still terrible trying to find a good career. I feel helpless right now, so I cant imagine what people are going to do who didn't even finish high school etc. Society is totally fucked, thats why people are black pilled, silent quitting and enraged.

Went to college, 23-28 made 40k a year working in my degree field. Switched to the trades at 28, 30 now on pace to make 270k this year. The systems a scam, college is a scam, wish I did this years ago.

@Josef.Mueller

Ай бұрын

Good stuff, keep it up and don't give up, stay away from bad women, I wish you luck 👊

@TheObicobiHD

Ай бұрын

What trade are you in? Curious

@IKI11I

Ай бұрын

@@TheObicobiHD building powerlines. IBEW

@MGTOW_Modality

Ай бұрын

Over heard a lady in her 50s talking about a college course she is enrolled in and thought, "It's so over for you."

@cobrakaiisback4709

Ай бұрын

what trade did you switch too and congradulations for your success in life.

Just remember, most establishment heads and people in authority/power/money all are convinced we are just making up all the stories that we're having any troubles at all that aren't self-inflicted.

@mranderson4001

Ай бұрын

We have evolved in a way to sacrifice the poor human masses globally in order for higher valued humans to keep their power thru nepotism & corruption to run the human race while we slave away as a little cog in their big opressive machine

@Tuurngait

Ай бұрын

They're not wrong but also not right. They're wrong because inflation is ridiculous and keeps going up, taxes keep going up, things we buy are made through a controlled obsolescence.. and this affects all of us extremely negatively. They're only right about it when it comes to a slim minority of individuals that don't work, or barely work, have no ambition or drive and just sit around, leeching the system and such. And they really think we're ALL this type of person, which they're wrong.

@keyser021

Ай бұрын

Good thing the robot fleets with embedded AI+3D printers are currently being unboxed and given a cursory overlay of every existing industry along with the algorithms given to accountants to determine the entry points. Just pull up a statistical Bell Curve for whatever it is you think you do, determine on that curve whether you are a mode, median or mean, and if you don't know... then now you know, you're being replaced soon.

@Serahpin

Ай бұрын

The stock market is at all times highs, everyone who put even a little bit of money in is doing great. If you aren't rich, it's your own fault for being dumb.

@AimbotFreak

Ай бұрын

And they aren't wrong. You guys literally willingly go into crippling debt for 0 fucking reason majority of the time. Credit card debt is the majority of the American debt.

when he said "there is a reason romantic comedies are two hours and not 15 minutes" what did he mean by that?

Im going through the teeth falling out phase right now... And im 30... Its annihilated my confidence. And im also poor so no dentist will see me. Great times...

It's so rough I'm out here financing a pizza.

@wicho5062

Ай бұрын

Dude literally 💀 I'm waiting for my paycheck to get some pizza. And mind you I make over $20 an hour

@DeathsFlagShip

Ай бұрын

​@@wicho5062saaame

@id2k.

Ай бұрын

Many thanks to the biden folks.

@Yami0to0hikari

Ай бұрын

@@wicho5062 out of curiosity can you share your monthly budget? I am curious on how are you not able to survive on 3.2k a month assuming 8 hours per day 20 days per month unless ur rent is like 2k lol

@Allhavengames

Ай бұрын

you think its rough Imagin cutting your check in half again for child support. I surprised my check is not a negative amount

Dude even knows what Discord is; it's nice to see someone actually do their research and know what they're talking about, especially on mainstream news.

A trade isn't a want, but a necessity to survive or fall back on when things get rough.

I knew the standing in fire comparison was coming and I died laughing when it did

I’m tired of it.

@MrMultiPlatform

Ай бұрын

Than stop being lazy and do something

@GabrylMD

Ай бұрын

@@MrMultiPlatformTypical vapid reply

@Macncheesee

Ай бұрын

Boomer detected

@id2k.

Ай бұрын

​@@MrMultiPlatformKyle Rittenhouse showed the solution

@Serahpin

Ай бұрын

They're not stopping til you're six feet under. And maybe not even then.

I would largely blame this on lobbying. The rich are making the laws and those laws benefit them. Changing lobbying should be the number 1 priority for average Americans.

@shcdemolisher

Ай бұрын

It's gonna take something huge to make the masses to get that to change.

@michinwaygook3684

Ай бұрын

@@shcdemolisher Agreed. It is depressing since almost every American agrees on it regardless of their political ideology.

@BrgArt

Ай бұрын

​@@michinwaygook3684 right ? I'm not even american but i know we can all fight this. The far right because of their obsession with hand rubbing and the far left because they want to make soup for all. If you get what i mean.

@shcdemolisher

Ай бұрын

@@michinwaygook3684 Which is good that we can all agree on SOMETHING that affects us all, but are like powerless to do anything without plunging the country into chaos.

@TyroPirate

Ай бұрын

Even if you called our house rep and they miraculously managed to push a bill like this through House (LMAO!) Senate would filabuster the fuck out of a bill to make bribery illegal. The current system isn't created for the average person.