I am so happy to be German and being able to choose between five to seven corrupt parties instead of your two party system.

@npcimknot958

28 күн бұрын

At least you’re not being held hostage like in canada.. and have 0 say can’t even get an election cause all parties are corrupted..

@blackedhead

28 күн бұрын

Afd lässt grüßen

@SomeDeadHippyProductions

28 күн бұрын

Bro I lived in Germany, y'all been going to shit for the last decade.

@raisti6608

28 күн бұрын

@@blackedhead tust mir leid, wenn du denkst unter der AFD würde es besser werden. Rechten Parteien geht es immer nur darum an die Fleischtöpfe zu kommen, halt wie bei der CDU, die AFD ist halt nur etwas rechter als die CDU ;)

@mramisuzuki6962

28 күн бұрын

Based Euro.

Corporations should not be allowed to purchase houses.

@masterkek4243

28 күн бұрын

That's 3% of the market. I hate it when people say this. The problem is the pooling of money in unproductive assets. This pooling is driven by fake demand. In other words, it's banks handing out 10+ year loans like they're candy and enabling people who would otherwise not have the money to spend on assets that don't actually produce anything. All you need to ask yourself is at a time when production is the highest it's ever been, where is the fucking money? I'll tell you where it's going, real estate and entitlement programs. Both are "assets" (even though only one of them technically is I am going to call them both that and leave this note here to get semantics out of the way) that don't produce anything when money pools in them. It didn't used to be like this. It used to be that almost none of our economy was entitlement programs and we used to have restrictions on lending too before the 1970s when real estate began to balloon. Sorry for ranting, I just hate it when I see dumb comments like this. Also listening to Asmon talk about economics makes me want to puke. He actually sucks at and doesn't know anything lol

@Web3Future333

28 күн бұрын

Billionaires who own those corporations shouldnt be allowed to own more than 10 homes. Nobody needs more, its just speculating with housing. Some people own 150 homes while families cant afford 1 on 2 salaries…

@charlesgentry3758

28 күн бұрын

They are banning this. Look into the news.

@MollyHJohns

28 күн бұрын

​@@Web3Future333 don't forget those properties are spread all over the world, and sometimes they also own the island the mansions or castles are on! Different countries.

@gwTheo

28 күн бұрын

the best part is people advertise making money by buying out foreclosures then selling the house 3x the amount the neighbors house goes for. its pathetic. "oh ivcan buy this fixer uper annnd a Corp bought it already"

“When the livestock stops breeding, it is not the livestock who should be concerned, but rather the farmers and the feed suppliers.” Something’s gotta give.

@tylergattinger2976

10 күн бұрын

That's exactly how the government views its citizens, like live stock. Nice one 👍

@human-capital-

8 күн бұрын

That is why I chose my handle. Human Capital Stock is what they call us.

@JayGhor

8 күн бұрын

always more livestock to import

@fabianustertius6460

6 күн бұрын

@@JayGhor inmigrati4n in a nutshell, but even that pipe is gonna be dry in a couple decades

My parents didn't have to pull up anything. They made significantly less than I do and they didn't work overtime or 2 jobs. They had basic jobs with basically little education and they easily bought a home. Buying a home is not even a thought for me. It's literally impossible.

@phillipjiang1593

17 күн бұрын

save up money as you can and leave america, get to a place where your purchasing power will be respsected.

@AWittySenpai

14 күн бұрын

Here in Australia similar scenario my grandfather who I don't like (personally reasons) was a peasant from a village in greece who barely pass elementary school yet his had a very basic job shoe repairing and basically payed his house off quick and they have the nerve to till us we have to work harder due to our worthless buying power. I'm sorry I wasn't born in the 50s and 60s oh it my fault

@TimothyGod

12 күн бұрын

​@@phillipjiang1593it's the balance of "should i care enough to stick my feet in?"

@av3rsi0n

10 күн бұрын

The dollar was worth more then and you had greater buying power. If you want to get back to those times you have to stop supporting the government getting involved in the economy.

@TimothyGod

10 күн бұрын

@@av3rsi0n You say that like The majority of us think like this. Most people don't care apparently otherwise we read seem much more of a change instead of a constant decline

Hating the state of America isn't hating America.

@Nightmare-wo2gd

28 күн бұрын

I don't hate the country, I hate the people running it. All they care about is themselves and I'm just told that I'll own nothing and should love it, while they line their own pockets and can ship THOUSANDS to everyone and everywhere else, but 0 for the people THEY SWORE to protect and defend.

@JokoBiggie

28 күн бұрын

@@Nightmare-wo2gdworst part is it’s more than just thousands

@shallendor

28 күн бұрын

@@Nightmare-wo2gd That is why i'm a proud "traitor to America"! I support the country, but not either of the gangs that fight over ruling the country! A vote for the lesser Evil is still a vote for Evil!

@mbailey8790

28 күн бұрын

Sadly it’s not just an American problem. Same situation here is starting to unfold in Germany.

@kkirT

28 күн бұрын

Supporting the enemies of America and spreading their lies about America is indistinguishable from hating America

"Both of them fucking us over." That sums up American politics perfectly.

@russelldooley4670

28 күн бұрын

Same in the UK.

@BradleyRS500

28 күн бұрын

Not only American, man. That shit is kinda universal. Same everywhere

@berniepoppe9742

28 күн бұрын

We have like 5 or 6 political parties here. It's the same. The problem is that some rich guys don't know what real life is.

@davided9881

28 күн бұрын

Germany Same thing

@jedrzejkoszewski4342

28 күн бұрын

Not saying it's only American problem. The problem is corruption and lobbying. It's not people with votes that control government but corporations with money.

The house grew up in which was cheap as fuck is now worth over a million dollars.

@dave3657

17 күн бұрын

The house I grew up was cheap as fuck too ….and it still is. 😂

@stonesymmetry

17 күн бұрын

We bought ours 9y ago for 39k and we put about 60k into it and now it’s worth 300k

@silenthill197

17 күн бұрын

Investment managers buying up homes

@brandondillman5841

13 күн бұрын

Yep. I grew up in a house that cost my parents $200k brand new. We were priced out of the area after 9 years. They sold the house for $750k, which was nice, but just to own the house cost them over $20k/year between property taxes and HOA fees that were a fraction of the price when they bought the house. That obviously doesn't include the mortgage and utilities. It's fucking disgusting how much it costs to own any piece of property.

@av3rsi0n

10 күн бұрын

Except that when they bought it it wasn't "cheap as fuck" and they still had to work to be able to keep the house. The fact that property appreciates in value over time doesn't somehow negate that fact.

I'm 30 and used to believe in the pull yourself up by the bootstraps mentality. I've worked my whole life away up to this point and everytime I achieved stability enough to live on my own it was all stripped from me. Almost always by a jealous manager these days work just exploits you and at my age I have no real life experience or passions. My whole life all I've known is work, eat, sleep and repeat. These kids have it even worse than when I was their age and unless you start your own business or get super lucky and land a top end job with your qualifications, you can't function without working every waking moment of your life away.

@literalsquid

19 күн бұрын

I'm 33. Similar story. I've pulled myself up, climbed the ladder.. just to get dirt thrown in my face at the top. I'm in the trades, worked my way up to foreman for a non-union company, just to find out the older guys were making double what I was and I would never be paid that much. So I went to the union and yeah I make better money, but the cost of everything damn near doubled over the last two years so I'm just as broke as I was before. I make $45/hr and I scrape by with my built in 1962 house and my 2007 rust bucket Chevy. The system is totally fucked. Everytime I think this is it, things are going to change.. they don't. They just devise new ways to take my fucking money.

@kaceejones2282

19 күн бұрын

I feel u heavy on this one bro. I'm 23 and also taught at a young age to go to school work hard and you'll be successful. Sure I was also taught basic skills in order for survival and literacy and numeracy skills, but they were so fixated on me going to school first, then find a job after. So I graduated college got my degree only to end up in a Warehouse job. My bro and I are the only ones working and we're trying to get ourselves out of this financial crisis we're in. Especially me all those years spent at school until college, the teachers and students; I realized how decedent and nihilistic I've become especially my parents my mom especially pushing me to strive towards "greatness". Nowadays all I do is work eat and sleep like u. This is what the people in control want. They want to slave away your whole life without the chances of u being truly successful and happy. Trust me things aren't all sunshine and rainbows in where I'm from either. Track&Field or Customs are like the only solutions I can get out of this mess

@ApocalypseYesterday

18 күн бұрын

Same story here. Just quit a job with a kid on the way because I’m being worked into the dirt away from home… just accepting I’ll be poor forever.

@literalsquid

18 күн бұрын

@@ApocalypseYesterday they got me 3 hours from home right now. Can't find work that pays enough near home. Kids and wife at home. Shit's brutal. So anyways the met gala 😑

@MaXiMoS54

18 күн бұрын

Yeah most companies give 2-3% raise and are happy to abuse you. Only way you'll make any actual money is through connections.

I agree with this kid. Anyone who is ok working 90h a week just to survive has a slave mind.

@Onthebrink5

26 күн бұрын

The kid isn't. He said that he won't. He is making 50 dollars an hour. only rich kids would ever believe that that is not enough to live off of. Or losers that do not want to work. People working 90 hour weeks are not doing s oto survive. They are doing so t thrive. They deserve fat stacks while lil cry babies complain because they cant order grub hub 7 days a week.

@jagswag25

25 күн бұрын

Fax u wouldn’t even have the time to actually spend the money lol

@computertutorials1286

25 күн бұрын

And it's insane how people downplay it by saying things like "you have to factor inflation in." or "It was like this when I was young." When my mom was born(1980) rent was 12% of most people's income, today it's 36%, a house was 2.7x your income vs 6.3x today, the cost of college annually is 8x higher, new cars were 3.8x someone's monthly income whereas their 8.1x now. The inequality has gotten ridiculous and is only getting worse, eventually people are going to reach a breaking point.

@adeafguy80

25 күн бұрын

i mean who doesnt like money? I love overtime and double time.

@Zalama96

25 күн бұрын

Noones "fine' with it, WE HAVE TO KEEP GOING... FROM THE UK

Its not that people don't want to work hard, its just that working hard and grinding should be getting extra but instead many people are still not getting the minimum.

@MerlinTheCommenter

28 күн бұрын

Yep. The manosphere grifter Asmon is watching is purposefully obfuscating that point. I don’t blame Asmon for not knowing about that grifter tho. He seems ok on the surface but his other videos reveal his hand

@jonlocke7112

28 күн бұрын

No, it's 100% people don't want to work hard.

@TheDarkLasombra

28 күн бұрын

​@@MerlinTheCommenter Did you listen to the video? He was agreeing with the first guy not advocating for bootstraps.

@Fairy-Uvinq

28 күн бұрын

​@@jonlocke7112 its not that simple. There ARE places where you could be working like a madman and not be able to actually live "comfortable". At the end of the day, people like that have to leave behind a place like that in order to actually have an opportunity.

@bradmcdowell9168

28 күн бұрын

Exactly

We've been screwed with no vaseline for decades, and here we are

@kennymun899

17 күн бұрын

Always use a water based lubricant!

@thisismyspout

13 күн бұрын

My friends lose their shit when I have Vaseline in my glove box. But its for the targa roof seals so they don't leak 😂😂😂

Meanwhile Dave Ramsey is totally in denial about the housing crisis, saying you just have to work harder and longer, beans and rice blah blah blah

@rationalcynic8416

14 күн бұрын

Yeah, I completely agree. He is completely out of touch, and all he does is sh*t talk younger people instead of actually listening and watching what's actually happening.

@OrganicRobot761

14 күн бұрын

Dave Ramsey makes money by giving financial advice. If the advice actually WORKED, he wouldn't make any more money.

@av3rsi0n

10 күн бұрын

Being brainwashed into believing that your parents were just handed a house instead of working hard for it is peak cope. GenX and elder millenials were latchkey kids who practically raised themselves because their parents were always gone.

@LauraReed-wu2ww

8 күн бұрын

​@@OrganicRobot761lmfao 💀 facts

When I was a kid our teachers said we could go into any profession we want if we had good grades. They forgot to tell us we’d starve doing so.

@xavierhouston4650

28 күн бұрын

Same.

@Feber2001

28 күн бұрын

THIS!!!!!!

@ironiccookies2320

28 күн бұрын

They also encouraged us to go to college/university but they never talked about debt nor the responsibilities of being an adult

@jamesst8503

28 күн бұрын

Well nobody can predict the unpredictable. In the same regard nobody told our parents to stock up on property because it would be worth x15 in the future. Can we blame our parents? No, therefore we can't blame the teachers either, nor ourselves for believing them. Our gen is fucked by unpredictable forces and who knows what's gonna happen to the next gens.

@classified0888

28 күн бұрын

The thing is we aren't supposed to buy phones or consoles or stuff like weed and drugs in order to survive and also work 7 days a week and 40 years while investing our money somehow is the only way unless someone is born with an advantage somewhere or inheritance

The only thing I've got from working hard is more work, responsibility and back pain.

@GloomGaiGar

24 күн бұрын

working smarter beats working harder

@wyatthennings4327

23 күн бұрын

Hurt my back for life working minimum wage at walmart in my college days. Not worth it long term.

@romanticwander

22 күн бұрын

@@GloomGaiGar actually now a days working smarter gets you more work as your bosses will notice this and push more work on you, while leaving the other lazy workers no responsibility. Its burns them out and they move onto the next job. Its why businesses now cant hold employees because they dont wanna pay a decent wage and keep giving them more work to penny pinch on having more staff.

@choppers1036

22 күн бұрын

Where I'm at the more you do the more they are gonna let you do

@johnathancampbell1056

22 күн бұрын

​@romanticwander meh I like my job the harder the work the more you make I get paid commission per job and get stocks in the company every year I can retire off of one day as long as they don't go out of business and that's the incentive to work harder to keep customers so you get more money now and to keep the business running till you retire

Say it with me: “COMPANIES SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BUY AND OWN SINGLE FAMILY HOMES!”

Yo you can't write it off by saying working hard is better than "complaining". I had a 4.0 GPA in college and I couldn't get a job that paid above $10 an hour in my field of study. Why the hell did I work so hard for not being able to afford to live. I literally couldn't afford to work in my field of study. All it did was give me debt.

@mgtowcowboy8159

18 күн бұрын

Keep voting Democrat, ha!

@slc.images

18 күн бұрын

whats your field of study?

@OutsiderLabs

18 күн бұрын

​@@mgtowcowboy8159because under trump everyone had a huge salary and a job, right?

@YoMateoo

17 күн бұрын

Did you have a degree in art? If so that's the problem.

@AJourneyOfYourSoul

17 күн бұрын

What was your degree in? Did you work any internships in your field of study? Network in your field of study? Etc……

Glad he made the point about the uni party. To think the two party system are actual rivals and not working together to screw you is like thinking WWE is real.

@v4skunk739

28 күн бұрын

Same here in Britain. The main parties are the same thing but different colours, all brought and paid for by the WEF.

@LawfulBased

28 күн бұрын

If the rich do not respect those who created _"their"_ wealth, the exploited class must give them reasons to fear them.

@RDV333

28 күн бұрын

There are many western countries with more than two parties and the same shit happens there as well. There is no institutional solution to this stuff because the institutions are interested in creating these difficulties to begin with.

@olliminati

28 күн бұрын

It's so nice to see you guys are finally noticing it on a larger scale. For years I've been called all kind of names for trying to tell you!

@Giathirds

28 күн бұрын

If it's like the wwe it's more like a obvious yes but. Really no. Nobody wants to jump 12ft off a ladder or have someone break your neck cause a.move is botched etc

The problem with "pull yourself by bootsraps" advice is the same as "update drivers and restart" advice for computer issues. It's just a first step of solving an issue, it's already done, and the issue still persists.

@uchihajoel3064

24 күн бұрын

It’s also survivorship bias. Not everyone can get careers that are high paying. There are low paying jobs that need to be done by someone.

@3adgamd3r

23 күн бұрын

The irony is that “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” began as a sarcastic phrase in a science textbook, iirc “why can a man not pull himself up by his bootstraps?” The point is that it’s impossible to do, so whenever that phrase is thrown around I’m always like “I don’t think that means what you think it means” 😂

@user-yup-you-are-human2

23 күн бұрын

Fantastic cpu analogy

@JlRyer

23 күн бұрын

Running a budget helps too. But I'm soon to be in his situation.

@BertMagurt

22 күн бұрын

Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is literally impossible, which I think is funny when people say that phrase in conjunction with work related shit bc you're literally telling someone to do the impossible

See the problem isnt that we're lazy and not working hard. Its actually quite the opposite, gen z is forced to work 4x more than our parents and almost 8x more than our grandparents. This is what we find unacceptable and stupid, this is why "pull up your boot straps" dont mean shit to us because the world is a lot different and we would most definitely have to work harder than previous generations to achieve the same results (house, fam, car)etc.

For anyone wondering why housing is the way it is - the Federal Reserve does a thing they call "Quantitative Easing" where they print money and buy mortgage backed securities, among other things. These MBSs are traded like a stock but represent a large group of mortgages. This is done to boost the economy but the side effect is housing prices go up because you have more buyers getting loans (demand) chasing the same amount of supply. This has been going on since 2008 and ramping each year. So the economy looks better on paper because there's more activity but if you aren't in the boat, as a homeowner or a bank, you get more left behind each year this goes on.

@AB-fq4mr

17 күн бұрын

Don’t forget the part where institutional corporations were acting as banks and getting 1% interest loans directly from the federal reserve between 2020 and 2022. Capitalism doesn’t exist when one entity pays $600 less a month on a mortgage than a normal human.

@av3rsi0n

10 күн бұрын

This is also compounded by issues like CA fighting tooth and nail to kill single-family housing, the cost of building materials (which is hugely dependent on gas prices) and the cost of building permits/licenses.

@youtubeviolatedme7123

9 күн бұрын

So it sounds like if supply was increased then everything would be hunky dory.

"Our ancestors were a group of people who flipped out over a 2% tax raise" how are your taxes doing now?

@bradymiller9096

24 күн бұрын

the complaint wasn't taxes per se the rally cry was no taxation without equal representation. same problem we have now, no one feels represented anymore

@nordinreecendo512

24 күн бұрын

​@@bradymiller9096Some people literally have no representation. We have teenagers who work jobs but aren't old enough to vote. They are still taxed on their income. Taxation without representation.

@wyatthennings4327

23 күн бұрын

Income Tax was supposed to be temporary.

@xSKOOBSx

22 күн бұрын

4 billion dollars a year given to Israel... I didn't vote on that.

@MasterGhostf

21 күн бұрын

taxes aren't the problem its every single company raising prices over inflation. Taxes would be my 3rd biggest expense. First would be housing if i paid for it, and second would be food or medical bills.

Companies raising prices crying about costs, while meanwhile turning record profits. The system is beyond BROKEN

@umburon

25 күн бұрын

Also, firing people to cut extra cost because all the extra goes to the CEO

@Misanthropolis

25 күн бұрын

They will ALWAYS use the INFLATION excuse.... a trillion dollar company.... complaining about how them raising their wages is causing inflation and now they have to double their prices. We are being lied to, the inflation cannot be that bad, or it would not if the greedy corporations stopped lying through their teeth that they HAVE to raise their prices.

@marcinm2871

24 күн бұрын

Well when u raise prices for any reason revenue increases and so do profits, its natural not broken yk sherlock. Lmfao basic math.

@albemezzanotte6635

24 күн бұрын

​@@marcinm2871 do you can comprehend what you read usually?

@jasonlopez2697

24 күн бұрын

Lol yeah coincidentally they all do it at the same time but didn't during Trump's time in office. You cry about record profits but don't consider actual profit margin.

The family unit is no longer staying together, that plays a huge factor

@willkimball7677

15 күн бұрын

That’s wrong half of Gen Z is forced to live with their parents.

@TheColtonStreeter

13 күн бұрын

@@willkimball7677 you should look at the single-parent rates.

@DinisF97

11 күн бұрын

Americans lost all power to hold the family unit together. Use it or loose it. Dont complain if you chose it.

Boots don't have straps anymore

“What is the purpose of this society?” “You work yourself to death so the rich can compete to see who has the biggest number.”

@andrelockridge9109

21 күн бұрын

News flash it's always been like that! Tiny ruling Elite and everybody else.Regardless whether its Capitalism or Marxism, power always rests in the hands of apowerful few.

@Vesta_the_Lesser

19 күн бұрын

Exactly. that's why leftists say "line go up" all they care about is that damn line.

@mojavefry2617

18 күн бұрын

*OH MY GOD*

@user-uo7fw5bo1o

18 күн бұрын

Yep. And you can't get out of it by working smarter. You have to work "smarter" and that requires money that most people don't have! Otherwise you have to be friends or relatives with the boss.

@chrisstanger6650

18 күн бұрын

Or Vote for the man to bring down the cost of living and inflation over time so you don’t have to kill yourself every day to make that living similar to working smarter not harder.!

A tiny apartment I rented for $800 twelve years ago is now $2300. It’s completely absurd. I don’t even live by any tech moves or anything. Just a college.

@DrumNBassed

28 күн бұрын

That’s why haha

@joshgoodwin9784

28 күн бұрын

That will never stop. Gentrification. If you live/lived somewhere desirable, people will pay more to live there. Move to Mississippi, Kansas, Alabama 😂

@colbyrob4814

28 күн бұрын

Wages have out paced inflation. Living next to a growing college will massively increase property value.

@e69alpha

28 күн бұрын

My place was a 475 in a college town it was a studio. Now it's 1200. It's an old building from over 100 years ago with built in radiator heating

@graye2799

28 күн бұрын

Where does this dude live? Normally, the people i hear complain about not being able to live while making 3 times thr minimum wage are trying to live in the most expensive areas of cities.

“Working hard will get you further than sitting around complaining about capitalism.” Yeah no shit. That’s ignoring the point that for many people it’s impossible to work hard enough to survive this late into capitalism. They’re not “sitting around” they’re the ones being worked to the bone and have had enough. You immediately folded and devolved into bootstraps rhetoric. Tuff.

@karenamyx2205

10 күн бұрын

Even if its possible, what kinda life is nothing but constant back breaking work? And any job that isnt back breaking is usually soul draining. Unless you somehow get your dream job, than its likely a nightmare. So if your whole life is nightmare work, and you only make enough to eat some crap and sleep in a hut. Doesnt sound too far off from slavery lite. (Hyperbole, obviously. But i do genuinely believe that constant hard work and nothing to show but the barest of amenities is a terrible quality of life.)

@vampir753

9 күн бұрын

​@@karenamyx2205You call it a hyperbole but I am pretty sure that there are a lot of workers today that have it worse than a lot of slaves back then

I can't even find a fucking job right now. And when i was making 24$ an Hr. I could barely pay my rent AND feed my self. Ive been homeless more times than i can count as i am now.

Not only americans, happens with every Gen Z in every country. In France the majority is just like that.

@ryanbeatbox

28 күн бұрын

This isn't a Gen Z thing, it's just Gen Z tend to make tiktok, instagram and youtube videos about it so they get more exposure about it because they're more apt to use more modern technology to voice it, every single generations complains about something, and yes, if you don't think older people complain about the issues (warranted or over-exaggerated is irrelevant) they face in their own country you're delusional. You just have to go knock on their door and ask them about it, they're not like Gen Z who will voice their opinion with mediums that reach millions of people in seconds. We really have to stop normalizing people voicing their opinions on social media as the thing "everybody" does on the planet and thinking it's just "what is happening". A video getting around 1-2million views with a planet of 8 billion is a below 1% minority watching it.

@andra9694

28 күн бұрын

Even 3rd world countries as well

@SuacoRV

28 күн бұрын

Here in the Netherlands as well. Back when my mom was young she bought her first house at the age of 26 with a simple cleaning job. That stuff is unheard of today.

@lisa_moonless317

28 күн бұрын

same in norway, its almost impossible for a normal single person to get a loan for a tiny small apartment for 1 person whitout help from parents. Live in north norway, and the city i live in has almost same house price as our capital becouse rich people buyed everything and rents it out to working class. they forces the prices up, and since house price go up, rent do the same.

@erikahera

28 күн бұрын

for example.. Here at Brazil, this sh1t agenda started later.. like 5 years ago.. like.. they are importing this gender things, free money, etc, this ideas, from USA just a few years.. and im seeing this problems on USA years ago

As a child, I wanted to be a mattress tester.

@tracym8952

28 күн бұрын

That's very admirable of you.

@henrychurch6062

28 күн бұрын

I wanted to be the guy who sits in the tower attached to the bridge and pushes the button to raise it up and lower it down when a boat comes by... so I could play pokemon on my gameboy all day. Simpler times...

@user-ps1ft1hy4j

28 күн бұрын

I wanted to be the wrestling referee that absolutely nobody listens to.

@colew306

28 күн бұрын

Skill Issue. Go make more money.

@kendallpeebles7481

28 күн бұрын

I wanted to draw chickens all day as a kid. I still do, but it's not my job.

10 years ago one of my neighbors down the street passed away and his family was trying to sell the house. It is a small three bedroom house on 10 Acres and they originally listed it for about $80,000 and had the lower the price several times before somebody finally bought it for just under $40,000. Last year the neighbor right across the street with an almost identical house and 10 acres of land went up for sale for over a quarter million and it sold within 3 hours of listing. Things are insane.

I'm not raising a family in a shipping container.

@bufordandrufus

4 күн бұрын

turning into the irl ready player one

@princessmarlena1359

2 күн бұрын

I’m not eating bugs

@princessmarlena1359

2 күн бұрын

@@bufordandrufus that was an awesome movie

@bufordandrufus

2 күн бұрын

@@princessmarlena1359 book is better imo

"these people probably don't even know how to attach a PDF file to an email" as an IT analyst who has worked for the government I can tell you they DEFINITELY don't know how to do that lmao

@chronometer9931

27 күн бұрын

That's always been very painful for me...

@thothheartmaat2833

27 күн бұрын

its kind of amazing how tech illiterate young people are..

@jfeev8129

27 күн бұрын

@@thothheartmaat2833 young people?

@owohscorner

27 күн бұрын

​@@thothheartmaat2833 We got old folks who don't even know what a TikTok is or how to log into Facebook. And yet they can ban the app. The Owner said he was from Singapore and these government folks are worried about China.

@leggotheeggodemon1323

27 күн бұрын

@@thothheartmaat2833 BOYS WE FOUND HIM! HE HAS THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH GETTEM!

"just work an extra 5 jobs and you can make it" - Typical boomer who grew up when houses were 3k

@laser__unicorn

28 күн бұрын

This used to be for people that wanted to be mega rich, work like crazy early on, make a bunch of money, reinvest and be rich in a decade or something. Now you have to work 12735 hours a month just to have an barely average life.

@CloudyyvilleThoughts

28 күн бұрын

FACTS no one wants to finally live life n hopefully not be stressed by 60 😭😭THAT IS NOT THE AMERICAN DREAM

@HarmlessComment

28 күн бұрын

I tell everyone to get a job in IT and become an expert on automating manual processes. I'm not a boomer but I'm in my 40s and having a job in IT has kept me employed with a decent salary. Granted I make 100k and can't buy a house, but I'm in cali 🤷🏼‍♀️

@colonelradec5956

28 күн бұрын

My parents house was 16,000 lol they could a paid it off in 1 year. It's worth 250k now 😂 I'm almost 40 and I saw the power of the dollar plummet the past 20 years. When I was 18, I could work 20 hours a week and rent a place get food we ed and even internet 😂 Now it takes working minimum 40 hours and your gonna be broke mostly unless you find something good.

@zicuro299

28 күн бұрын

just work an extra 5 jobs and you can make it

The phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” originated shortly before the turn of the 20th century. It’s attributed to a late-1800s physics schoolbook that contained the example question “Why can not a man lift himself by pulling up on his bootstraps?” So when it became a colloquial phrase referring to socioeconomic advancement shortly thereafter, it was meant to be sarcastic, or to suggest that it was an impossible accomplishment. Eventually, however, the phrase’s commonly-accepted meaning evolved, and now when we tell people to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” it’s implying that socioeconomic advancement is something that everyone should be able to do-albeit something difficult. It was *_LITERALLY_* reversed from it's original meaning of "It's obviously, physically impossible" to "You should be able to do it, it's just hard." The fact it's such a mainstream saying is a true demonstration of the country's level of absolute brain rot.

Someone who probably hasn't worked a manual labor job for longer then a year telling me to pull up my boot straps I pretty funny in a sad way

the best part of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is the original meaning of the phrase was when there was something that was literally impossible to do

@ganondoofd4281

27 күн бұрын

People seem to forget that among many other sayings actual meaning

@sergedotcom

27 күн бұрын

Anothet great shortening is "The customer is always right (in matters of taste)"

@mwitters1

26 күн бұрын

right! lol, think about the meaning, it's literally IMPOSSIBLE to pull yourself up by your bootstraps lol. What does that even mean in the context of life anyways? Most people ARE working at a job, or 2 and still cannot afford to pay RENT, not even building any wealth just giving away all their money to a corp or slum lord just so they can exist.

@Drazzz27

26 күн бұрын

A similar example of an impossible task (of the same kind) from literature (late 18th century) is Baron Münchhausen successfully pulling himself (and his horse) out of a swamp by his own hair.

*only* $450k for a working class neighborhood home? Bro, Canada's homes, which some are completely rundown, broken, old and ain't worth a shit are going for $1+ million. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous. And it's getting worse.

@therider990

28 күн бұрын

In israel APARTMENTS cost that much.

@ReyTax123

28 күн бұрын

Canada has the same house affordability like EU. In EU everyone buys apartments because a house is just too expensive.

@npcimknot958

28 күн бұрын

And also tax beyond belief cause ooo we need social program.

@npcimknot958

28 күн бұрын

Tbf, usd is MUCH stronger than or chocolate coins these days.

@paddynator2

28 күн бұрын

Come to the Netherlands it's even worse

Been saying it for a year, we don’t have a housing crisis, we have a corporations buying family dwellings crisis

The news refused to cover occupy while it was still strong. The corps that owned the stations knew it would drag them down with it. Like everything else, when the papers and news stop giving something attention...it dies.

450k gets you a parking spot in Toronto Canada..

@somethinderpsterious

28 күн бұрын

Actually most parking spaces are valued at around $30,000 in a downtown condo

@Giliver

28 күн бұрын

Toronto is essentially the hub of canada so the high prices there at least make sense. Those same prices being so high throughout the GTA is crazy however.

@coldorange5

28 күн бұрын

@@Giliver Yep all the Toronto people moved to other cities. I grew up in Hamilton and now all the houses there are 700k

@steveballmersbaldspot2.095

28 күн бұрын

Or a dog kennel in the sky (condo).

@peteypete9357

28 күн бұрын

Yeah, but you're forgetting that you're talking about CANADIAN dollars. Let's be real, Canadian 450k Canadian dollars is like 5 bucks in actual proper dollars 🤣

Why can't you work hard and complain? People are working hard and have the right to complain when the system is rigged against them, ignoring it isn't going anywhere either.

@rubenmendez4314

28 күн бұрын

Exactly, the people who are working the hardest tend to be the ones who are complaining the most. He is out of touch. The main issue where facing is that we have to work extremely hard for NOT EVEN the bare minimum.

@earthtoemily4855

27 күн бұрын

@@rubenmendez4314 Agreed. I'm an older millenial, and I remember how hard it was for me, and I can see how it's gotten harder for every generation following the boomers, but it really kicked off for the millenials. I have a 12 year old daughter that I'm concerned for, what kind of future will she have? I work, my husband works, we own and operate a small business, and we are just getting by. Everything has been a struggle. We wouldn't even have our house if my Mom didn't put it in her name for us before the interest rates shot up. Despite my excellent 800+ FICO scores, we are self employed and they make it 10× harder to buy a home. I started reading their plans regarding Agenda 21 ten years ago the first time we tried getting approved. It didn't make sense why it was so difficult, we had a down payment, good credit, provable income, so what gives? Then after some research, I realized they wanted to slowly phase out private land and home ownership. As well as cars, farms, small businesses, etc. Fast forward to now, what may have seemed questionable to some back then, is becoming obvious in every way. When the WEF said "You'll own nothing and be happy" they meant it, just minus the happy. The reason homes are so expensive now, is because they quietly started putting insane restrictions on building several years ago in compliance with Agenda 21, severely limiting supply, creating artificial scarcity. Then they allowed global, private equity firms to start buying home the remaining stock of homes at stupid high prices, jacking up the property values even more. This also raised taxes in residential neighborhoods, pricing out even more people. The high interest rates pretty much sealed the deal for most if us trying to make the American Dream ever being achievable. The icing on the cake will be the theft of inheritance. As the govt has been busy creating policies that allow the states and banks to scoop up any family properties that parents intended to pass down. Using legal loopholes like the medicaid 5 year lookback, inheritance taxes, proper titling and flaws in wills, etc. Pretty much anything that wasn't pre-drawn up by a team of lawyers going through all the laws and legal documents with a fine tooth comb, making a potential inheritance plan bullet proof, will likely be a fight for many down the road. They've weaved in so many pitfalls to lose your family home it's insane. It's just a shame what has happened in this country. Seems as if Dems are corrupt af, and beholden to the global government model, and Republicans are complacent in stopping it. Socialism and communism is NOT the answer. Those policies are what's been keeping people poor and under their control.

@candlestyx8517

27 күн бұрын

People who take issue with valid complaints only want a convenient excuse to ignore them and not have worry about them

@GuiltyNoticer

27 күн бұрын

the issue is they vote for the exact same group of people and then expect different results while calling the other racist bigot.

@agamersinsanity

27 күн бұрын

@@rubenmendez4314 well i think it's a valid complaint when you can't even afford an apartment.

“This is a game exploit that the devs haven’t patched up” 🤣 yes!!! That is the best line I’ve heard in gamer terms!!! Thank you👏👏

I bought my house for $230,000 in 2020. It's currently worth $330,000. So in 4 years it went up 100,000. I should be happy, but I'm not. It just shows how screwed up things are.

A lot of people nowadays say: Gen z is too lazy... Well yea, why should we be motivated?!? We cant buy a house in our lifetime, a car is a luxury most of the time and buying food costs half of the paycheck..... So how should we motivate ourselves, if there is nothing we can change in order for us to have a better life? Maybe selling my organs would help with the rent.....

@delight7304

25 күн бұрын

leave the country

@crunchungus4972

25 күн бұрын

@@delight7304seriously that’s your argument? You can’t change for the better so you kick people out?, ok boomer

@AvgJoeSmoe357

25 күн бұрын

@@crunchungus4972brother thought he cooked 💀

@tacsquid

25 күн бұрын

Can't even afford to leave. Trust me, ive already been trying. I love the USA, but I feel like I'm working for nothing here. Earn USD, and go overseas is the plan

@outrider8569

25 күн бұрын

​@@delight7304if you could hypothetically afford it where would you go? Almost everywhere is the same

"Working hard has a higher success rate at making money than complaining about the government," is exactly what the government wants you to think. The longer they can keep you just barely above water and willing to dish out insane work hours to make ends meet, the more value they can squeeze out of you in the short term. How is the guy demanding a higher pay for additional responsibilities ever going to get any sort of credibility if there's someone willing to take on those responsibilities for no extra pay because he's grateful to have a job in the first place? How is someone working two jobs, 7 days a week ever going to have to time to think about or push for change on a societal level when the vast majority of time is spent just surviving. It's their goal to exhaust you to make rebellion impossible. It's a form of control. And it's working, sadly. I'm glad that kid is angry. I'm glad he's sharing that anger. We need it right now.

@jamestipton7872

28 күн бұрын

This country was literally founded by people complaining about the government lol

@shroomer3867

28 күн бұрын

@@jamestipton7872 Well, actually, now you can't do anything because we the governement didn't you know? We were allowed to rebel several centuries ago, but you can't right now because we say so, now keep figuring out your taxes even though we know perfectly what you owe us because we get paid lobby money by the tax helper companies to do so.

@camfreed9829

28 күн бұрын

Care to know what the word government means? Govern - CONTROL. Ment - MIND. There ya go

@Marxist-Nixonist-Bidenist

28 күн бұрын

This is why the working class needs to overthrough the government and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat according to the guidance of Marx.

@bullettime1116

28 күн бұрын

Working smarter and harder will do infinitely more than bitching is still true

4:27 Same here. I watched my father. He went to work at 4:30 in the morning & came home around 4:30 in the afternoon Mon-Fri & worked half a day on Sat. I even asked my mother about it because I couldn't believe what he was doing. It was completely insane to me but totally normal to her. I looked at that & was scared to death. I didn't want to grow up because there was no way in hell I was going to do that. School was enough of a hellish nightmare, I couldn't imagine working my entire life with no end in sight. I got really sick & had to go on disability back in 2018. I can't function in this mentally sick world. I swear I have PTSD from school & employment/SLAVERY. My first job when I was 15 back '87 only paid $3.10 an hour. I was pissed! I was insulted! 8 hours standing non-stop & my feet & ankles were in excruciating pain. Nobody does anything for 8 fuckin hours straight (except sleep). I only lasted a couple months. I couldn't do shit with $3.10 an hour. Getting my paycheck felt like getting kicked in the nuts. It was sick! It was insane! *WHY ARE WE ALLOWING THIS???* This is the exact opposite of "THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS." America is THE PURSUIT OF DRUDGERY! THE PURSUIT OF MISERY!

@FrankQpublic-tn5yg

18 күн бұрын

You're nothing like your dad he did all that work because he is a stand up guy. I worked like that too. Do you think he liked that? Probably not, but he had humility and balls enough to do that for his family. It's like so many young people WANT to be disabled. Collectively you guys need to grow a pair

@gottroubletactical

17 күн бұрын

He could hack it. You couldn't. Why are you dodging that point? I did 8 years in the army, got my GI bill, used it, and now have just about everything I want.

I would refuse to go fight for this country if it's existence depended on it. I want to leave so badly and never come back, but it costs a fortune to do so.

@BandoBreh

17 күн бұрын

Agree 100% an artist I listen to once said “I wonder how a veteran can lose two limbs, come home and can’t even afford new timbs”

@coldgoldcan2781

16 күн бұрын

and go where? look at wages in the EU and you will thank god you are living in america

@OGKenG

15 күн бұрын

Get out. No one is stopping you.

@FlopgamingOne

9 күн бұрын

@@OGKenG "I want to leave so badly and never come back, but it costs a fortune to do so."

@OGKenG

9 күн бұрын

@@FlopgamingOne You're not trying. I mean, if poor people in Venezuela can come up with money to get here, why can't you come up with the money to leave?

Dude earns 3x minimum wage. I think he has the right to complain for a bit. He has already pulled his bootstraps.

@tuzalolol3676

27 күн бұрын

Thats only 20 bucks a hour lol he works at mcdonalds

@MrBoBrilO

27 күн бұрын

@@tuzalolol3676 so NO ONE should work at mcdonalds or every other "simple" job, so who the fuck will make and sell you burgers?

@miles3794

27 күн бұрын

@@tuzalolol3676 Damn i didnt know the minimum wage was around $6, you guys are fucked if 3x your minimum wage is $20

@joeallen3388

27 күн бұрын

​@@miles3794it's $7.25 but it's higher depending on state I think calafornia is $16.

@DrDipsh1t

27 күн бұрын

​@@tuzalolol3676who cares where you work? If you're earning 3x the federal minimum wage, you should be financially stable.

It's not just the US, it's everywhere. I'm from Lisbon, Portugal, and let me tell you how IMPOSSIBLE is to live in Lisbon even if you're working 2 JOBS! The housing system is so freaking ducked, even if you could afford rent you'll find tons of obstacles to get the place because landlords will ask 675478 months of rent in advance, your tax returns from the last 3 years, a copy of your work contract, and some BS they'll made up. Some landlords refuse to rent to nationals because it's easier to fool foreign digital nomads. Not just that, but the Portuguese minimum monthly salary is less than 800 euro, average would be 900/1k euro! Inflation goes up, housing goes up up, but salaries? "But there's other places other than Lisbon, right?" Yes there are, but they got really expensive as well and there aren't many jobs there. *** I'll get back and finish this comment later, I got some urgent stuff to do and why are we talking about birds now? *** 07/05 holy duck I wasn't expecting so many replies! Sorry for only getting back, it's been a bit wild these last 2 days, but here it goes. What really pisses me off is how people are being manipulated and alienated without even noticing, we have stuff that is written in our country's Constitution - the right to have access to affordable housing, to fair salaries - that is being completely ignored. The conservative party is trying to convince everyone that no, you are not entitled to housing because you have a sheit salary - who told you to be born poor? These people force-feed meritocracy to the people, when we all know it's BS and doesn't work. And then they get surprised why the skilled young are leaving the country. "But no, it's the immigrant's fault! They are taking your jobs and your houses!" Biatch, I was an immigrant before. The jobs that immigrants take are the ones nobody want because they are underpaid and mistreated, but when you come from extreme poverty looking for a better life, of course you'll take these jobs! Human trafficking is also a huge issue but I don't have enough knowledge to discuss it. And the housing? Do you really think that the 10 migrats living in that 1-bedroom next door can afford its +1k rent? Heck no! They're there because some guy knows another guy who can rent a bed for cheap. The actual owners are probably the ones driving BMWs and Teslas, and are also involved in other kinds of illegal activities. But since the money keeps going, nothing happens to change that, and when people start asking question, they point to the poor Pakistan guy who only speaks English and probably doesn't earn more than 10/20 euros per day delivering food, as one of the main reasons why nobody can afford a house. We should be pointing fingers to the enablers. Portugal's work culture is incredibly outdated. Those people who don't know how to attach a PDF to an email? They are your bosses. They are the ones earning 3/4 times your salary, they are the ones gaslighting you into doing the same work everyday, and that they can't increase salaries because "we're in a recession". Bro your company has been in recession since the 90s, cut the crap. Oh and promotions? Yeah right. You're expected to work in the same position for as long as you can, unless you have some friend or cousin who can give you a little push. Or if you're willing to have some triple-X activities with some higher-up. I hope I managed to keep consistency in my text as I had my ideas everywhere, and some don't really fit here. I'm aware of my POV's limitations.

@criticaltexan2334

26 күн бұрын

I look forward to reading the rest of this comment 😊

@edumalafaia11

26 күн бұрын

Bro you live in the most expensive city in Portugal, I have a lot of brazilian friends working and living in smaller cities, and they even has their portuguese paper ready yet. But I understand that the housing market is broken in Portugal and Canada, not because the landlords but the lack of houses

@aForkfulOfGold

26 күн бұрын

Real estate costs in urban areas (where most jobs are...) are getting worse for buyers and renters everywhere, really. There's a lot that administrations can do to steer the ship in a better direction though, they just have to commit to it and put their foot down against pushback from real estate companies, lobbying etc. That's the real, actual hurdle. Everytime I read or hear of problems with the costs of housing in cities elsewhere, I'm grateful to be living where I am. Buying real estate is a pipedream to many people here as well, but renting at least is actually affordable.

@vanhoa5607

26 күн бұрын

And that can be applied with how corrupted the US government are, especially with the US immigration issues which can be shown by Moist esport Australian gamers denied visas for no reason. I just think that American dream is gone now, a lot of people just don’t want to go there anymore

@YuichiTKD

25 күн бұрын

@@aForkfulOfGold thing is nowadays this could be solved with: 1. reducing the taxes: in Portugal unless you are doing a renting contract you're looking at a 28-23% tax rate + 10% wqhen you register the contract 2. Fiscalize better the great cities apartments,.A lot of inflations have to do with foreigners living in really poor conditions, we are talking about 3/4 people living under the same room, yes room no roof, so some landlords are greedy make you pay about 700E per month for a room, they know they will have a group of foreigners that will be willing and this is fucked up and making the market crazy. 3. Also i think part of it it's the working culture, because a lot of people are willing to live outside the great cities, the work thy're doing is doable remote (Portugal has a lot of sotware development), it's just seem that for some reason remote work is not as common as it should be, i'm sure if remote was more commonly accepted you will see a surge in population in the more rural are, having a better distribution. Ovewrall i think these problems are true in a lot of other countries, it's really sad, because i think the solution is not kicking out all migrants and isolate the country, is a problem about fiscalization and well, politicians being politicians...

The reason the housing market is unnafoardable right now is not because of foreign aide packages, it's because we legalize the right to live in a shelter with life-reliant amenities like running water, electricity, heat, and plumbing to be treated as an asset class. Nobody should be allowed to invest in essential amenities and services that humans need to survive. The real estate market should be banned. Period.

I went from $5 DUnkin iced coffee daily to .85c Starbucks iced coffee brewed at home. I went from $10 take out for lunch at work to $1-$3 packed lunch at work. I went from eating out 4x/week for dinner to now only 1x or even once every other week. ALL of that money has been being put into re-occuring index funds instead for years now... I make the same wage and I am not broke.

All these wannabe Econ majors that are fighting over the fact the man shouldn’t be able to afford a house over 3x minimum wage is wild. America is cooked

@gloworms

24 күн бұрын

My dad was a mechanic and I had a stay at home mom. We grew up (3 kids) in a 3br house. We lived cheap, but made it. That wouldn’t be possible today.

@simunator

24 күн бұрын

​@@glowormsit's possible. the difference is kids today think non essential goods and services are essential so they keep pissing their money away without even knowing it

@dreamlifter787

24 күн бұрын

@@gloworms yes i agree with you

@gloworms

24 күн бұрын

@@simunator maybe. My dad bought that house in the mid 80s for $40k. Today the Zillow estimate is $358k.

@thatguy6482

24 күн бұрын

​@@simunatorSuch as?

"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps anymore than you can pull yourself up by your shoe laces." This is the actual full quote, from the 1800's. Kind of funny how we eliminated 2/3 of it and completely flipped the meaning around.

@level9drow856

28 күн бұрын

How can you pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you don't have any boots?

@apocryphicdeath

28 күн бұрын

​@@level9drow856Hence the shoe laces...

@NostraDavid2

28 күн бұрын

I've noticed that we're currently finding out that most American sayings are just half-truths (which means it's a complete lie). Wild. I wonder which next saying is going on the chopping board.

@NostraDavid2

28 күн бұрын

"The customer is always right" is another. It should end in ", in matters of taste." It's kinda fucked up, IMO.

@outtheredude

27 күн бұрын

Or this gaslighting phrase: "You can't have your cake and eat it". Erm... cakes are for eating. I mean, what's the point in having a cake if you're not going to eat it?

3:12 I am in the ghetto in LA, but it’s fucking 700k now- prices doubled even in my street a dude got shot up by a gang and they still sold that house for 600k, now it’s three 2 story houses

I am 49 and I feel all of this... this F_ckery started with Gen X and has been snowballing since. Which is why we checked the F out and went feral because F this world.

I worked as a teacher at a community center and I would listen to boomers talk about how they're avoiding taxes on their 3rd or 4th house. The amount of money they avoid paying via careful accounting is honestly something else. Meanwhile I'm working two jobs and I can never even think about living near that area, it's like we live in different world.

@WardenWyrd

28 күн бұрын

Congress could close every tax "loophole" tomorrow. They never will, no matter what major party is in control. They benefit from this system and want it to stay this way.

@MeowImages

28 күн бұрын

Landlords gobbling up homes left and right, and NIMBYism where nobody (Liberals OR Conservatives) want new housing built near where they live, are just devastating young people wanting to get a start in life. In the end that will hurt everyone. I hope the movement to find solutions will gain momentum. In the meantime, TikToks like this are a start.

@anhiirr

28 күн бұрын

Not to mention ppl running up bs erroneous "business" credit and write offs....complete bs thinking we won the Cold war with all this redistribution of wealth and fraud

@kyrusinek

28 күн бұрын

@@WardenWyrd It wont change untill our world goverments get "new blood" for leaders. Its criminal how much anyone under 30 isnt represented (Even older maybe) They wont change a system that benfits them and we can only hope the next ones change it rather than just use it to enrich themselfs.

A 450k house in Texas is literally what a house in California was like 10 years ago

@JEROBI37

28 күн бұрын

My exact thought when he said this was bro in cali you aint getting anything for under a mil. There is no shot I am ever going to be able to afford to buy a house in Cali in my lifetime.

@whiskeyniner6416

28 күн бұрын

I live in a small town in TN. The housing prices have tripled compared to what they were in 2018/2019.

@SergeyPupkoMusic

28 күн бұрын

Huh, I wonder what started 10 years ago? Oh yeah, Californians moving to Texas.

@SergeyPupkoMusic

28 күн бұрын

​@@whiskeyniner6416Try Idaho.

@Bidenmytime

28 күн бұрын

California is the problem its i fecting the rest of the country

When I got out of high-school rent was 600 to 1000 dollars. It's now 1500-3000 dollars. I'm 32.

@sunnyd4734

4 күн бұрын

I live in Boston, MA. Rent and home prices are insane.

Boomers actually did not live alone for the most part. They were actually the generation to live with their parent out of HS, it wasn't until Gen X that kids started moving out after HS. The most Ideal situation, is to live on a larger property, where you can easily put 3 buildings, and whoever is first married moves into the big house with the mom/dad living in the retirement house in the back. This way yall never are too far apart, and the big house is dedicated to those building a family. You never sell the property when you move away, you just let the next sibling move from the shack to the house with the expectation that they get a spouse within a year to have kids. This is how it worked before the 50s.

@OGKenG

15 күн бұрын

Ummm... No. I'm one of the baby boomers and we moved out of our parent's homes at graduation. We didn't live at home.

Guy said he makes 3x the federal minimum wage, what bootstraps would he pull himself up from? That\s the problem, you work all day and make nothing.

@Acacklingrugbug

16 күн бұрын

Something has to change, and it's not our wage

Uniparty is absolutely true. When an "outsider" comes in they both work together to get that third party who doesn't want to play by the "rules" kicked out.

@AnonIllumi

28 күн бұрын

Haha and you think the US went multiparty would make any difference. IM from the UK all it dose is fragment parties overall making it all weak. UNITED WE STAN , DEVIDED WE FALL...

@AwesomeIlOll3000

28 күн бұрын

This is true, I think, ironically, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are both good examples of this.

@AnonIllumi

28 күн бұрын

@@AwesomeIlOll3000 ho ur so far off the mark with this statement. Clear you do not know your own countries political situations nor the the geopolitics

@AwesomeIlOll3000

28 күн бұрын

@AnonIllumi Oh boy, here we go. I am not sure what you mean but this. I gave two examples, one from the left and one from the right, in which two presidential candidates, two "outsiders" were forced out. Not sure what you are taking issue with.

@telmobrito519

28 күн бұрын

@@AwesomeIlOll3000 One is outsider other is just too much of a clown to keep at the top another go, vastly differing circumstances.

It's because foreigners are allowed to move here to work, and own property here, and the few who owns the majority of apartments and the companies who own single family homes, decide the prices.

Same thing in Canada. Bought my house for $675k 10 years ago, but is now worth $1.7m. Impossible to buy now even though my wife and I earn roughly double compared to 10 years ago. Also, the higher income means higher tax bracket, so we keep a smaller % of what we make. Similarly, the higher house value means more property tax to pay. Can't complain too much though. We have 2 kids, 3 cars and able to go on multiple vacation trips a year. Contrast that to growing up in a small village in the Philippines then moving to Canada as a teen with my parents and bro in the 90s only to live in 1 bedroom basement suite.

When I was 19 back in 1982, I did not feel like this at all. I moved out of the house after high school in 1981 and was able to pay for an studio apartment by myself with a part time job while going to school. The cost of housing now is complete BS. Corporate rental home ownership has to go. I totally feel this guys rant. Justified. My 19 year old son has no chance of getting his own place at this point, since you need a minimum income of $5800 per month to rent a one bedroom apartment in our area in SoCal. The current economy is totally skewed towards the rich, who, coincidentally, buy the politicians who make the rules.

@eightlights4939

25 күн бұрын

Wild because you and your neighbors voted for this over the past 50 years.

@luizeduardogomesribeiropen324

25 күн бұрын

​@eightlights4939 how would he know this was gonna happen?

@eightlights4939

25 күн бұрын

@@luizeduardogomesribeiropen324 Common sense? Researching what you are voting for? Not voting based on feelings? Shall I go on?

@luizeduardogomesribeiropen324

24 күн бұрын

@@eightlights4939 makes sense.

This is why my dad just lets me live with him and gives me absolutely no grief about it whatsoever of course i help him with anything he needs whenever he needs, my parents have taken care of me for a very long time now its my turn to take care of them.

@Kai-zv6gc

25 күн бұрын

at least you have your private room and family around you instead of roommates you dont even know

@mylesrolandson7577

23 күн бұрын

Lucky. Got kicked out when I was 21 and had to rent alone because nobody else wanted to move out and in with me.

@FeedEgg

23 күн бұрын

I also have a bunch of health problems, if it wasn't for this I could easily escape! So if you're able bodied without any physical or mental health problems you're probably doing ok, count your blessings and try to stop focusing on bad things.

@wyatthennings4327

23 күн бұрын

Your situation sounds a lot like how mine was. I was taking care of my parents, living at their house and my own health started taking drastic turns. Thyroid gave out, back going bad, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a murmur, fungal issues(feet and dandruff.) My parents stopped respecting me and it showed. They even started holding me back a lot, refusing to let me use their cars when mine was broke, etc. I had a chance to leave it all behind, and as much as it hurt, I did. My fungal issues went away first. Skin on my feet cleared up and stopped cracking/stinking. Started feeling better without even using anti fungal cream like I was before. My new cardiologist said he saw no signs of my heart problems here after a year on my own (which doesn't make sense to me, the cardiomyopathy is typically uncurable.) Still on thyroid meds, but I have more energy than I did. I had to wait for that chance to come though, and it doesn't often come to everyone, but my health has drastically improved once I was able to take flight on my own, a lot of it came with dieting right as well, which is easier when others aren't around to influence your eating habits.. My parents are also much more loving towards me than they had been in years, they actually listen to me when I talk now compared to dismissing my opinions easily. I wish you well and hope you and yours are doing ok, just seemed eerily similar to a situation I recently escaped.

@AJourneyOfYourSoul

20 күн бұрын

Good for you. Your parents appreciate it. Times are different now. Nothing wrong with living in generational housing.

You voted for the status quo

This is how world works: "Would you eat a bag of sht or double it and give it to the next generation?"

I hate when my parents said "when I was 25 yo, I already married and start a family. When I was 28 yo, I already have 2 kids." Bla bla bla bla... 🤦😑 She keep ranting with owning a house, some lands, etc. Excuse me. She got it thanks to her granma. She is not working day by day. Start from 4 am and go to fast food restaurant. She never work in warehouse and pork butcher shop where you are not allowed to take a break that long. You have to stand up for hours. You are not allowed to take a pee or relieve yourself. It is cold but you must get up early. She complain why I am not eat healthy, clean the house all the time, buy this and that. Excuse me. I am not eating that much. I go to nearby store and buy some foods. Then go to sleep. Sleep in the bed is like luxury to me. but she dare to complain about my life and even keep bother me with question "WHEN YOU GONNA MARRIED?". 🔥👀 W T H. I am not thinking about dating. Dating who? I am working from monday to Sunday. From morning till night. When I am sick, no one care. No money. Living cost is high. I still have student loans that need to be paid. So I hate those old generations who said that young folks are not working hard enough. Just go away please. I am sooo tired. I really want to get long sleep and never wake up.

@doug2555

28 күн бұрын

I feel you, it's hard in these times but at the end of the day, working hard is better than groveling and being miserable. Keep pushing and opportunities will arise I'm sure 🙏

@user-bo6je1pk9z

28 күн бұрын

Stay up family. We are all in this together and your experience is a shared one. It’s hard out there for the young working class right now but keep on pushing and speaking your mind brother. One person at a time we have to change this world

@aprd

28 күн бұрын

English bad as well

@gutz5035

28 күн бұрын

​@gospelofsatoshi9168 Congrats for the most shallow and empty reply to such a serious subject that is effecting both the middle and poor working class people in America struggling to make ends meet. The political class outsourced many jobs overseas and focuses on issues that don't help people struggling to survive, ie. foreign wars, climate change, heavy focus on identity politics and the border. Which leaves the poor working class out of any meaningful conversation or change for the better when it comes to addressing the cost of living expenses in our own country. Some of the cheapest houses on the market and yes that includes rural neighborhoods like one I live in are around 250k - 400k plus so even owning a house is out of the question for most people. Rent for even a little studio size apartment went from 300-400 dollars a month some 8-10 years ago to 700-900 or even 1100 dollars or more a month not including some utility expenses today. The price of what was once 1 dollar for cheap Walmart brand eggs is now $3.00 for a dozen. Meat, bread, fruit and vegetables have gone up a lot as well, even a box of $0.34 ramen is now over a freaking dollar now these days. It's like our government expects us to work excessive hours, live out of an old car or tent while going to work, have no retirement and just be poor and miserable while in a job for a employer that gives two $hits less about you and will replace your @ss in a moments notice if you're sick or become unable to work for a period of time. So F - the hell off with that pull yourself up by the bootstraps bull$hit!

@contra8053

28 күн бұрын

@@aprd Yours as well.

Term limits need to be a thing. Power corrupts over time. I don't care which party it is.

@Undefined01463

28 күн бұрын

Are you saying that there aren't term limits?

@BackseatGamingJesus

28 күн бұрын

HUH? They are a thing.

@user-cp3py3zi2j

28 күн бұрын

What? 😂😂

@chrisaustin8442

28 күн бұрын

We already have term limits. They come up every election day. The problem is with us not taking advantage of it...

@Poooppoop22

28 күн бұрын

@@Undefined01463the Supreme Court justices are sworn in for life they have no term limit.

"Hard work" doesn't work anymore. Smart work and luck works. People in a manual labor job can work hard, do ungodly amounts of overtime and try (and fail) to better themselves. Yet they still can't pay their rent or buy a home, can't eat good and if something breaks you better hope you have the smarts and skill to fix it yourself. Let alone the countless health issue's that pile up from hard work on bodily complaints. From your back and knees going to hell, and your psyche and memory breaking down due to irregular sleep patterns from shift or night work, doing long overtime or not having any downtime to just relax. Meanwhile somebody in a office supervisor job, scrolling down meme sites half of the day doing only the regular hours, bringing more money home then the hard worker. Yes I know there are also those that actually put in the work and are a godsend for many of those working under them, as these supervisors or other leading role people are not only doing their job, but putting in the extra effort. But those numbers are much lower compared to those that don't even do the bare minimum and get overpaid for it too. I'm not from the US, but I'm pretty sure its similar over there. Just saying, what's the point of working yourself nearly to death if you will end up with even less capital then before you started? Especially in the US I guess, where the hard working man/woman will go in dept due to the medical bills their hard work has given them.

i am paying $2100 for a 2 bedroom apartment and i absolutely love it

25, two degrees in electrical engineering & software development but cant be hired due to no experience. I cannot afford to move out of my parents home. Shit is fucked

@_Tangerino

28 күн бұрын

Problem is ”EXPERIENCE”. There should be laws that prohibit companies from demanding any ”EXPERIENCE” AT ENTRY LEVEL F*C*ING JOBS.

@RDV333

28 күн бұрын

Born too early to be a dystopian enjoyer. Born too late to be a boomer and get an easy lease on life. Born just in time to witness the moral, economic and cultural colapse of Western Civilization. It's gonna be fun bros.

@ryuhayabusa3540

28 күн бұрын

Ahh, yes, needing experience even for an entry-level job that requires you to have 20 years of experience

@pancakejamboree8700

28 күн бұрын

I mean it really just depends where you live. If you live rural its still as affordable as its been.

@user-qn6bw8dk4o

28 күн бұрын

@@_Tangerino Used to be they'd fire experienced people after several years and bring in fresh recruits. This was a cost saving measure. Now, I do not know you personally and this is not a knock, I'm generalizing, but kids fresh out of school simply lack the skills to even be trained on the job. It's cultural as well as financial

The American dream is not gone and forgotten, it was murdered and buried in a shallow grave.

@jensenraylight8011

28 күн бұрын

American dream is about Screwing other people so that they can have a better life, and make Shareholders happy. it's like an overgrown plant, unchecked growth leads to the destruction of other plants in the area as well, you can only grow so much, if you kept growing at all cost past your Peak, you'll become a parasite.

@fareshajjar1208

28 күн бұрын

Nah, not at all. Why are 1 billion people trying to come here right now.

@sliime2369

28 күн бұрын

@@fareshajjar1208 Why would any third world person want to move to a first world. Do you have to remind yourself to breathe?

@TheInnocentRabbitofCaerbannog

28 күн бұрын

The american dream worked for boeing?

@fareshajjar1208

28 күн бұрын

@@sliime2369 Because they have upward mobility here that does not exist in their own country. My neighbor was broke immigrant 8 years ago and now he has 6 plumbers working under him. Buying a million dollar house in PSl Florida.

The reality is that middle class jobs are being ignored because there is no solution. When tech is replacing 70% of the workforce (and this will only get worse) what is the solution? There isn’t a solution in the capitalist model. Supply and demand breaks when there are millions of Americans desperate to upgrade from bottom tier jobs.

You know as far as the windmills and birds go, it may be 1-2% now but after they expand and go up i think its more of a where are they placed may impact, but mostly a how many windmils to, birds/ walls and windows?

Big miss here, politicians don’t talk about the big issues impacting us not because we’re too stupid to understand, it’s because they don’t want to fix these issues. They don’t really want to fix these massive issues like corporate ownership of private housing because they get a lot of money from those corporations. Our stupidity comes into play in the fact that it’s so easy to distract us from the things that directly impact most of us with things that impact very few.

@keithfilibeck2390

28 күн бұрын

incentives, people go with the flow, and politicians are more apt than anyone to do this, but the lie that they serve the people keeps being said, when now its painfully obvious they don't, this happens every time, and every time, it ends with well, them not being around anymore.. and never does the next batch of corrupt elite learn.

@david_a_sanchez

28 күн бұрын

C.R.E.A.M. Follow the money.

@Warbay57

28 күн бұрын

Has nothing to do with corporate ownership, it's all because of government policies not allowing for more housing to be built. Take California for example; they could just build a boatload of skyscrapers and make it affordable, but they refuse to, and now the middle class is leaving in droves. It's basically illegal to build any new houses & apartments and takes year and years of approval for anything new to be build.

@BuggersOnMahShoes

28 күн бұрын

It's much more profitable for them to not fix the issues and let people suffer. It's people failing people.

@thewatcher9500

28 күн бұрын

Facts

Like Ricky Gervais said...Remove the safety labels for two years, THEN let the remaining population vote.

@bubbles0216

28 күн бұрын

I never thought I would agree with this, but I do now. I think that's exactly what happened. There is a balance between eugenics and no child left behind. Let people reap their consequences.

@SkunkShrimp

28 күн бұрын

This guy wouldn't make it a day without labels.

@overlord165

28 күн бұрын

I have a Christian version of that: wait 50 years and then let people vote. People who are too stupid to have children obviously won't matter soon enough. And it won't go in a circle because this is the first time in human history that we have the ability to say no to children both socially and economically.

@fraskf6765

28 күн бұрын

*chuckles* im in danger 😂. But on the other hand i already dont read warning lables.

@JeffReams

28 күн бұрын

lol … very true.

We’re protesting a war in the Middle East where us protesting makes little difference on the war itself, yet we can’t unite and protest over just how fed up we are with the way the country is set up right now?

I didnt have a father so watching my mom work 3 jobs to 2 later on in life was depressing. Knowing that your eventually gonna have to slave your life away just to make ends meet is a disgrace to human rights which i may be wrong but we sure as hell dont feel free

The problem isn't following through with the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality. It's that even if you HAD that same mentality and worked JUST as hard as your fathers and grandfather's did in the jobs they had. In this economy, you STILL would be hard struggling every day.

@thebenc1537

28 күн бұрын

Thats not true at all. People expect to live in the middle class lifestyle they grew up in. Thats the end result, not where you start. Their grandparents didnt start at middle class. Their parents didnt start at middle class. Young people feel entitled to live in a good area at a cheap price. That never was reality. Your first house is not going to be middle class. Get over it just like your grandpa did.

@jeffreyavalos782

28 күн бұрын

@@thebenc1537 You missed the entire point... you could start out in the lower class, work JUST as hard in the exact same jobs as your father and grandfather, and at the end of the day, not even touch the level of financial security they did. The POSSIBILITY of elevating your status to middle class just isn't there anymore.

@thebenc1537

28 күн бұрын

@@jeffreyavalos782 thats a complete lie. You buy a cheap small starter home and build equity. Everyone can do it.

@jeffreyavalos782

28 күн бұрын

@@thebenc1537 "cheap" starter home... 😂

@thebenc1537

28 күн бұрын

@@jeffreyavalos782 yes a starter home is supposed to me a small cheap house. What is funny about that? Ohh you are just ignorant of the truth. I will educate you some if you wish. For starters go to zillow. Search your state for houses under 200k. Youll find tons of them for sale in rural/semi-rural areas. If you are too lazy to drive further to work then thats your problem.

I was told by my financial advisor that I was in the upper 2 percent. I’m like- are you kidding me? I mow my own lawn, use coupons and drive a 5 year old minivan I bought for 18k.

@TheNateWalking

28 күн бұрын

So you’re smart with your money then

@melvano4014

28 күн бұрын

@@TheNateWalking basically. Just lived way below means. Debt would have eaten at my soul.

@letmediecast

28 күн бұрын

@@melvano4014 and why should you have to keep adjusting your means to fit their ever-increasing bullshit? more power to you, but that shouldn't be the solution.

@melvano4014

28 күн бұрын

@@letmediecast amen!

@cavalieroutdoors6036

28 күн бұрын

​@@letmediecastyou have 3 choices: live within your means and be debt free, live above your means by financing everything and complain when you have no money, and typing out the third option will get me banned on KZread.

If youre gonna work 90 hours a week, maybe 60 of those are an employee job but the other 30 better be all your own business. In no way in hell is 90+ hours for other people worth living.

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” this is why it's happening

"pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" doesn't fucking mean anything. it was first said as a joke about "doing impossible tasks" you cannot lift yourself up off the ground without some form of leverage. THAT'S THE JOKE. so saying, "you know, it sucks to hear it but pulling yourself up by your bootstraps really does work." like, no it fucking doesn't. it's like saying, "if you're hungry, eat the air!" and saying, "i know you guys don't want to hear this, but it works." you're out of touch.

@A_Biscuits

28 күн бұрын

Well said.

@DrDipsh1t

27 күн бұрын

Right, it surprises me that this phrase has been taken as an actual stance. As you said, it's quite literally an impossible feat to pull yourself up by your own boot straps. It's ironic.

@outtheredude

27 күн бұрын

It's one of the original gaslighting phrases.

@williamsimmons8274

27 күн бұрын

way too many people get "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" and "bootstrapping" confused. the first as stated above means doing the impossible. the other means to start small and work your way up.

@pmaestro

20 күн бұрын

@@williamsimmons8274 the second is based on the misunderstanding of the first. It's still reductive.

After occupy WallStreet they changed the plot into exclusively race bc we were on the right track to real change. It worked btw

@breakupgoogle

28 күн бұрын

Yep identity politics

@councilv1250

28 күн бұрын

Tea party too was a non race based protest talking about the same thing

@TechnoMinarchistBall

28 күн бұрын

I'm here to bring up Yuri Bezmenov once again, as people seem to keep forgetting him.

@Kspice9000

28 күн бұрын

​@breakupgoogle don't forget about countless people left homeless thanks to covid. Which immediately made them and their opinions invalidated to those still above water.

@AspienWaifu

28 күн бұрын

YUP 🙌💯

"Work hard" coming from a guy past 30 that gets paid to watch videos and eat junk food.

@youtubeviolatedme7123

9 күн бұрын

He's not pretending as if "working harder" is a good solution to the problem, but what else can anybody do? Playing the game is only way to have a modicum of a chance to survive.

My buddy just told me that he and his wife with baby had to move out of their two bedroom apartment because a private military company bought the building and doubled the rent. Thats over $3000/mo. for a two bedroom apt in Fairbanks, Alaska. I also remember when this started. There was a guy doing infomercials on how to get rich buying apartment buildings and multiplexes. The schtick was this, buy them, then up the rent 20% every single year. So after five years the rent doubles. So my friends who had been sitting pretty for five years with the old owners... You can figure it out from there. The Corporate pigs have taken over.

Bro, my parents bought a acher of land and built a 280m2 house in 1998 for $108,000, that house is now worth over $800,000. We dont have much hope.

@npcimknot958

28 күн бұрын

Already poeple who own farms.. if they pass it down are going to get taxed to death on it where htey cant even inherit the farm. Its getting bad

@LordHaragnok

28 күн бұрын

r/boneappletea

@nicknevco215

28 күн бұрын

Soon chin money will be equal to the USD

@id2k.

28 күн бұрын

@@npcimknot958 the new unrealized gains tax plan by the current administration would apply this to family homes as well. So if you can't afford to buy the house your parents paid off you then lose it.

@Bahtou1

28 күн бұрын

ur parents "🤣😂🤑🤑

You cant lecture me about pulling myself up when youve stolen all the bootstraps.

@mattpast9822

28 күн бұрын

I'll sell you back the bootstraps for a 500% markup

@SaltyEntropy

28 күн бұрын

Was just about to say “how can i pull myself up by my bootstraps when they are too expensive”

@armingleiner5292

28 күн бұрын

Stop crying. In most other countries life is way harder than in the US. Give me a break!

@KaiG89

28 күн бұрын

@@armingleiner5292 This is such a dumb take, of course you can complain about things going wrong even if somewhere else they are worse

@kopicat2429

28 күн бұрын

The whole saying is kinda stupid. Because the whole point is that you can't pull yourself up by the bootstrap. You need help. You can't physically pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Go ahead: put on some boots, grab the straps, and try to pull yourself off the ground. You won't manage to "pull yourself up" in any meaningful sense because gravity is a thing. You can pull yourself up by a chair, a rock-climbing grip, or someone else's hand; you cannot pull yourself up by your bootstraps, or anything attached to your body. If you could, transportation infrastructure would look very, very different because humans would be capable of levitation. The expression "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was originally used to refer to a task that's impossible.

_"..probably don't even know how to attach a .pdf file to an e-mail."_ 💀

Top notch glasses, a smartphone with a banging camera and a vehicle. Think dude can't see the woods for the trees

People looking down on others living in trailers, but I’d rather live in my trailer and save about $1300/mo (I pay $489/mo PITI) than live in an apartment with 2 other randos and still be struggling. For comparison, a decent 1 bedroom apartment in my city is $1400-$1500/mo. Renting is a scam. Always has been. You’re paying family home prices for less-than-mediocre accommodations in a space that will never be yours. Where I’m from, $1800/mo would get you into a nice 2-3 bedroom house with a few acres of land. If you can afford a $500,000-$750,000 house out here, you’re living like the McAllisters from Home Alone. That’s probably part of the reason why a lot of people feel hopeless is because there’s no end to your treadmill. Worrying about making the month’s rent will be hanging over your head every day for the rest of your life. My trailer will be paid off in a little over 4 years and all I’ll have to pay after that is power/water and a couple hundred dollars per year in property taxes. I may not be living like a celebrity, but I make less than the kid in the video and have no stress.

@bren42069

27 күн бұрын

Yep trailer park life is legit

@WhoFlungDung

27 күн бұрын

Lived in run down trailers my whole childhood life and had and amazing time with all the other trailer park kids that have been my closest friends still to this day after 30 years. I've always been grateful that I came from having nothing and it's helped me appreciate the little things in life much more.

@meatrackgames

27 күн бұрын

100%. there is a distinction between a well kept trailer and one that is being neglected.

@TheTundraTerror

27 күн бұрын

Problem is that living in a trailer park means living with other people who live in a trailer park.

@thesupershinymegagengar2034

27 күн бұрын

​@@TheTundraTerror So it's just apartment life.

"Just work hard" - guy who became a millionaire by sheer luck.

@chrisg4305

28 күн бұрын

And? If he hasn't gotten rich he would still say to work hard. Because more often than not, that's the path to success

@Morbacounet

27 күн бұрын

@chrisg4305 just working hard isn't enough. And Asmon creates a false dichotomy : you work hard or you complain. The white dude in the video does both. And the situation won't change if nobody complains.

@outtheredude

27 күн бұрын

It takes being in the right place at the right time, with the knowledge and resources needed to take advantage of the opportunity to succeed, as well as hard work, to make the opportunity happen. It's like baking a cake. If you know how to make a cake and put in the time and energy to make the cake, but there's no sugar, you'll get a cake that'll taste awful. ALL the ingredients need to be in place to make the cake a success.

@spitlikesfire9368

27 күн бұрын

​@Morbacounet work hard and do more you need to do more then what's required

@kiloneie

27 күн бұрын

@@chrisg4305 No, everyone who has ever gotten anywhere ever, worked SMART and probably very DIRTY, and NOT hard. Just about every mfracker who got rich like this says to work hard, when they NEVER did, or not even close to people who literally worked themselves to death. Tell THEM that, i am pretty sure they can no longer hear your from their overworked graves.

I’m not saying this to brag, I’m saying this to say that all in all, hard work paid off for ME. I didn’t have the easiest upbringing, I lived with my disabled grandmother since I was a small child. I hardly graduated high school because I decided to work to support myself and her, I have 1 class of college experience and worked a dead end job until I was 19. I joined the military, and I worked my ass off during my time in. I got out, had referrals to work for a government contractor, and 1 year later began working as a civil servant. I am 24 and own my own home, and I make a lot of money to do what I do. I owe everything to the people I have worked with and the US Gov’t. I love this country, I am frustrated from time to time with policies that affect me. Though I truly believe the more you focus on yourself and those around you, take some opportunities that suck at first, and work your hardest. You will see success. A 4 year degree is just a piece of paper for a lot of jobs, entry level positions may “require” it, but I guarantee from personal experience. 90% of places care more about teach ability, professionalism, persistence, and passion. HR nightmares do exist, but there are a million and one places willing to give you a chance.

Working harder absolutely does not get you ahead anymore. Working smarter does. I can 100% verify this. I worked construction until the age of 35, went to college and got into tech. I now make more than 6x as much as I did before going into tech and my job isn't even close to as hard as it was before... and I'm still not balling. Just getting by somewhat comfortably. I do know some tradesmen make money, but they're not getting ahead on sheer brute force. They're getting ahead because they're working smarter, not harder.

working hard and complaining about capitalism are not mutually exclusive. I used to do 380 hours a month, doing 16-hour shifts in fine dining for 11 years. all I got was debt, anxiety, and 7 heart attacks.

@Vancev99x

28 күн бұрын

7?! What is that like hyper tension 9? Be safe my friend. I would say go chill on a beach but the way this economy is it might wind up being your new home if you take a day off to enjoy yourself. But seriously take care.

@SKPetel

28 күн бұрын

@Vancev99x apparently had a hole in my lower left ventricle, but the overworking and stress sure didn't help. Out of the business now, I have been working odd jobs until I can find a job that will allow me to sit down while I work for the first time in my life.

@axel8406

28 күн бұрын

It's not capitalism that is making your life hard.

@SKPetel

28 күн бұрын

@@axel8406 it sure as shit ain't helping

@TurielD

28 күн бұрын

It absolutely is the current socio-economic system

At age 19 I didnt not feel what this kid is feeling. But at age 47 I am now. I sold my condo I owned since 2005 in 2020 right before the massive spike in home value increases and now I cant find my own place. This is insane. In 4 years I went fromm having a good amount of disposable income each month to now being in the negatives every month. I havent changed anything about my lifestyle. Now the money I got from selling my condo is draining away and I have nowhere to go. It's impossible to live on 50k a year almost.

@Adiopowered

28 күн бұрын

Start making changes to the way you spend your money man. Gotta tighten up and spend smarter. Unfortunately inflation is out of control, so you gotta adjust with it. I'd start looking for a higher paying job in your field or adjacent.

@TheMetalValkyrie

28 күн бұрын

@@Adiopowered Hes calling out pattern recognition here something is not right, the answer is not to keep blindly accepting it.

@Sunglare1

28 күн бұрын

@@Adiopowered yup. It's insane. I'm going to have to pretty much cut out all extra spendetures and not eat to be able to afford my own place. Great weight loss plan.

@bakedstreetyt

28 күн бұрын

You didn't change anything and expect everything to stay the same? That is so stupid lol

@mrpotatorocks

28 күн бұрын

Yeee 4 years ago I was living a decent life now making even more money as journeyman plumber my money gets eaten up and my expenses are the same, I don't go out to drink, eat out a 20$ meal like once every 2 weeks, I don't drive my truck other then to work and gym no joy rides for me, it's sad 4 years ago with less money I felt more rich

"Let it rot" ~ China

My father bought his first house at 24. He only had a bachelors. That house recently sold for over 3 million dollars. When he passed away he left his entire estate to the ACLU, as he had become political in his older age. My wife and I rent a small apartment. We both work over 50 hours a week, and we know we will never be able to afford kids.