If I would have kept the video going for just a few more seconds you would have seen a homeless person at the end of the street sleeping under a bench.
@@user-lu6yg3vk9z They won’t stop printing money since we got off the gold standard lmao, destroyed the future generations purchasing power because of older incompetent politicians, they gave us a debt fueled society & the younger generations are left with the bill…
@@yt-user03561 Show me one video on youtube that shows the same person working three jobs. Even two I can only find it on mainstream media. Are any of you? Then show me in your video tommorrow.
@@stoneneilsI just know you live in a bubble. You think every single person is gonna run to UA-cam while they’re fkn homeless recording how bad their situation is?! Does that make any sense at all?! Most are too strung out from stress, drugs, trying to evade the law due to sleeping in certain places they “aren’t allowed to sleep in” and all kinds of thing your ignorant ass couldn’t imagine. Get real.
You don't have to be homeless, if you rent a place with 2-3 roommates. Another option is to buy a small plot of land, and build your own dugout shelter. This is a very low cost housing and shelter solution. Do it.
People doesn’t want to work anymore because the wages way to low and you can’t afford your rent and living monthly expenses. People are working just paying your rent and bills. People are working and still homeless person. Everyone wants to work higher wages and work less hours.
Yeah that's what he's saying. Americans are weighing out a days work and what their time is worth to them and they are sick and tired of going to a job that they don't really like and feeling like they don't make enough to get by. They're making a subjective decision based on they're own personal experiences and deciding just like an employer has to decide is it worth me keeping this business open or is it costing me too much. They may close they're business simply because the business simply isn't profitable or it's not making enough of a profit to spend the time and headache to stay operating. We'll employees are weighing out the same thing but from thier perspective. Is this job worth my time and effort it takes to come to work and many are saying no it's not. The time i spend getting ready to go to work, the commute, the work environment, conditions, type of work i have to endure and the people I work with, simply aren't worth the return. Then the employee is taxed on wages before he ever sees his money and taxed again when they go and spend it, not to mention the inflated cost of goods and services currently. It's no wonder many people don't want to work. Then when you work overtime they tax that at a greater percentage. The government disincentivizes people being productive. What abunch of idiots.
I work. But the one thing I won't do... anymore... is over-work. I've had enough of corporations that lay off some of their employees and then expect us remaining employees to work our asses off to make those deadlines. I'm older. I'm not the young employee who, when asked to jump, asks "How high?". Now I tell the bosses, "No, it won't get done today. Tomorrow." If the company wants to fire me and replace me, I'm fine with that.
You guys need to read the laws of success by napoleon hill, this is why you get outcompete by foreigners, let’s not complain who take our jobs. Let’s bring the American spirit back
My 86-year-old grandmother (who happened to be the first black women to work at a Ford Corp office) could not understand why young people didn't hold jobs and mocked it for years. When I sat down and put on paper the situation (pay, no pension, hours, no union protection, etc)…her actual response “Oh wow, well damn, I wouldn’t be working that hard either if just fire you so quickly, what's the point of being loyal.”
I’m an educated white guy with a strong work ethic. I totally agree. I notice that many people 65 and older don’t understand today’s job market situation. They get to enjoy nice pensions and nice retirements with nice benefits while most of us under 65 will never experience a good retirement. When I try to explain it to them, meaning no unions, no pensions, low pay, little to crappy benefits, etc., it usually goes in one of their ears and out the other. I guess many people do get set in their ways and only listen to what they want to believe whether it’s actually true or not. Weird times we all live in.
I'm 36 and debating about about just liquidating all my assets and just moving somewhere and spend the rest of my days living in a tent. The daily grind just isn't worth it anymore 😪
I don't want to work, but I have to work, so I work. Companies can't ask for loyalty from employees when they don't have sympathy. I had worked for 15 years at a big company straight out of grad school. I gave my best, received stellar performance reviews every year, never even thought about working anywhere else. Then the company decided to lay off a sizeable number of employees to make their books look good in preparation for being acquired. When I received that email, I was surprised, and all my colleagues were surprised saying I was the last person they thought would get the pink slip. The decision was probably made by upper management and HR who didn't even know me as a person. I was just a name in their system. I was not a 41 year old dad and sole breadwnner with two young children who would have a tough time restarting his career.
My former coworkers had no say in this; the decisions were made 100% by management >2 levels higher. The standard line given by them was "this has nothing to do with you; we're just eliminating your position". That was BS because there were more than 30 exact same positions in our group, so why/how did they eliminate 5 positions tied to specific people? My theory is age race was one thing, age-salary was another, but that can never be proven.
I got dumped in the same circumstances, 29 years of excellent reviews, employee of the year three times, etc. I’m female, age 63, but at least no kids.
Yeah, when companies do a lay off, nothing needs to make sense to the employees. My boss at that time was also laid off, he was only 6 months from his scheduled retirement, and they decided to just lay him off and pay him 18 months as a severance package, instead of keeping him and paying him 6 months. My boss honestly had no idea what happened but he was extremely happy for sure.
My last job was 7 miles away from where I live. If I drive to work the homeless people will smash my truck windows out and my employer will not secure the parking lot. The bus ride and walk takes one hour and five minutes. I bought an ebike and used it to commute to work. It was way too dangerous no matter how much high vis gear i put on and no matter how may times I rre-worked my route. The police will do nothing in all cases. If I make to work alive. I am treated like a five year old. It is NOT all about the poor pay.
Not only that but the landlords and property owners will treat you like an employee too even though you are paying them to keep the place funded we found this house on some kind of housing voucher and there mad at me because I didn't want to re sign with this guy. They said it's a two bedroom so we have to move him to a one bedroom now if you don't want to re sign. It really pissed me off too because I paid for all the items on the property that broke and I told them he could have this property because I found a pretty good deal on a kitchenette they didn't want to give me my own voucher and sense they were a different program then section 8 im headed over to this office in a few weeks to apply for several waiting lists in some cases they might even build you a house. I told him to sit on this property if they don't call you for a renewal because they were supposed to give him a move out notice like two months ago and they never did and he's supposed to leave in July. We never actually met the landlord and all she does is send maintenance over to trim the trees if she was so trigger happy about kicking us out you would think she'd be calling us non stop by now trying to get us out of here because the last landlord that kicked us out put a notice on the door all they did was ask our case manager to send us an email i don't think that counts as a notice to quit because you usually have to mail it with an explanation on why there kicking you out it might even have to be signed by a judge. They probably don't have much of a case because even though the dishwasher broke and I replaced the tile and mirror that apparently wasn't good enough for a renewal. Now there probably afraid of a lawsuit because he's disabled so they got all quiet. If this ever happens to you get quiet too and after the lease expires stop paying the rent on it like you moved out and just don't be home during the day and keep a backpack with you with some clothes and stuff you need and see what they do with the property if there going to be shady you can be shady too. 😊
I hate to sa it. But no area is actually safe anymore. I had my hubcaps stollen off my care while parked at brand new Walmart paringlot. Nice area. But guess what Walmart doesn't own the parking lot and unless you got the police involved, they can't & won't do anything!
I agree. I stopped going to them back in 2008 when food got severely unhealthy and wages severely too low. I did not want to be part of paying business owner of greed my money that should mostly be going to employer. IF I buy a $10 sandwich, THEN $7 of that should be kept by the employee who helped me directly.
@@CapitalismDeathSpiral whoa whoa whoa, we'll have to jack up all the food prices to make this seem okay. kind of like they did with lumber when they manipulated the housing market.
Fast food price increases are just one symptom of a much more serious issue. If it gets to the point where the big fast food chains are facing BK or closure, nobody will notice because we’re all dealing with much bigger problems.
It's hilarious to me how even the Dairy Queen near me ended up closing down DESPITE having a never ending drive thru every single day of the week. It's like damn they still weren't making enough money.
Yeah but gen-x didn't...go look at the graph. To go back to boomers is ridiculous, you may as well go back 200 years and compare our general everyday knowledge about farming.
@@uclassc Oh come on, please don't drag us gen-x down into the victim-mentality. Our high inflation / poor economies never prevented us from making an equal effort as our father's before us.
I can't save any money, most of it it goes towards bills. It feels like I'm broke every month. I barely bought clothes in a past couple years and my wardrobe has remained the same. As some point it's revolting, to think I'll never get ahead.
This is the design of the system. Read the communist manifesto (it's a short read) if you want more enlightenment into your situation. Regardless if you do or not, you should know your labor rights and always work to form or join a union at every workplace you're at for proper representation. It's the only way to not be exploited.
@@formulacooladecommunism is NEVER the answer if you think were hurting under corporate rule you just wait and see what a communist regime does to you and your family.
We always worked full time to barely make it. Do you guys really think in the 70s and 80s we put money away?!?! We had to spend $20 just for ONE album. We could not watch movies at home but had to pay everytime $$ for one plus popcorn/cola. We went out because we had no internet and that was $$$ every single night of the year 365 with few exceptions. I had one job for my rent, one part time job for my party money.
@@stoneneils you did when you take into account inflation and the cost of living. We aren't talking about buying bs we don't need, we're talking about covering living expenses. Something you could do, and still be able to have money left over.
US of mesico by 2050... 3rd world by then with 78% hand to mouth class instead of "just" 40% now that is 1-3 paychecks from being homeless as they had NO savings to be able to coast 6 months before getting another LOWER PAYING/start all over at the bottom maird job
I think it goes higher than this. I think the primary problem is that there's nothing to work for, particularly for men. Dating and family life has been destroyed, religion has become a joke, and no one wants to invest in this society that has no future. There's nothing to emotionally invest in and so no reason to toil.
THIS, they do know know how hard it is for young men who has been isolated their whole life like me . I literally have no reason to work other just to keep my self breathing which should not be a reason itself
That's what happens when you allow a society to become moralless, nothing good will ever come out of that. People are starting to feel the effects of the way they live and it's backfiring. It's time to wake up.
@axlcanada6511 I was in the military, I seen their prison in San Diego/Miramar and it is the best prison you can ever go to. It's the most non violent, the food is better than any prison in the country, all the inmates have their own separate living spaces with a toilet, the showers are completely private meaning that you can close the door. In the newer buildings the you can take the shower head off and hold it. I seen that shit and was like bro this isn't prison, I was like this place is nicer than any shelter you go to across the U.S and the main thing is when you get locked up in the military you still get paid depending on your circumstance. So you're sitting there with better living arrangements than like 95% of the U.S and you're in prison.
Economy is rigged worldwide. The big corporations are taking advantage from third world countries paying slave wages. You can’t blame immigrants want come richer countries offer a higher salary. Why they should they work 5-10 dollars a day then the company sell iPhone 1000-2000 dollars. Soon it later the third world workers wouldn’t accept working slave wages in the future. Did you know a lot of American expat are moving in Mexico or third world countries because it is cheaper rent and low cost of living. These local people wouldn’t be able afford housing due American expat driving the price go higher. Most people think all American people are rich living in third world countries.
This is gonna turn 3rd world it keeps up. The wealthy elite want one world government and currency. Then it's gonna be bum wages for everyone in the world.
@@FaithiinJesus That's exactly why they are allowing immigrants, they drive up competition for jobs which drives down wages for everybody. Globalists win.
When I was younger, I applied for many jobs and tried to advance my career. But I was refused positions and promotions because of quotas, then the government was stealing what little money I did earn and my wife treated me so poorly, I lost interest in trying to get ahead. I decided upon taking it easy and never trying to get ahead. It's a much better life that playing the game in a corrupt system. The best thing to do is refuse to participate and do your own thing.
Exactly, that's what I'm doing now, I fully understand what everything is about but I had to let go of alot of my family because they don't understand a damn thing about what's really going on. It'll always cause issues so I had no choice.
i wonder if the ukranians are going to do anything for us after the war or if theyll turn around and attack us. who knows at this point, maybe francis scott key bridge has an idea
Covid made the masses wake up and realize how short and precious life is. Many also realized that physical posessions have little meaning. although the environment is benefiting from this slowdown, there are too many people out of work
Lowkey people can call it what they want, but the younger people are definitely waking up. Times of spending years at one place that doesn't care about you are long gone.
At the top of the rabbit hole it's out of ignorance and denial. The further down the rabbit hole you're willing to go the more intentional you'll see it is.
Im 30 and I've never in my life have I ever heard of a company "taking care" of you. We trade our time for labor, if you're unsatisfied with your pay you ask for more, I've never experienced any company offering anything resembling a pension, I barely understand what it is. I was raised such that I should live off my dividends from investments when I retire and that's it.
What got me was talking about fast food places. Fast food was never enough to live off of unless you were a GM. Fast food was always a non skilled job for people starting out in the workforce or kids in school. Pay is usually somewhat relevant to the work. The more responsibility, the more pay.
@@mooseknuckle_sandwich There aren't enough jobs that offer enough people to take that responsibility. If every single person at one location was completely efficient and responsible there are literally not enough locations in a reasonable area to afford all those people to live their lives. Hr at companies are gating jobs behind useless degrees, and high experience for entry level positions.
I'm 30 next month. 20s were the hardest years of my life, and I believe my 30s will follow suit. Typical broken back story with irresponsible parents, always displaced, etc... I've always been a pretty down person, but let me tell you, the thought of not wanting to exist has never been stronger. I've been in management, trades, etc... and even when I make in the mid to high 20s, I can barely afford to pay all the bills of a one bedroom apartment, and pretty much nothing is put back for retirement. Any medical issue completely drains the savings, not having a support system mentally breaks you, and looking towards the future just makes me shake my head. I'm personally ready for the meteor.
If you play the game and do poorly, it is because you don't understand how the game is played. Accepting you aren't doing better is wrong, do better at the game.
@@raccooncity8356 The "game" is going to end with people killing each other off for basic survival until few are left standing. Basically, the Hunger Games in real life.
@@yt-user03561 That's why there are food stamps. To keep people from starving and revolting with violence. In some African states, they don't have guns, and they can withhold food. Here in the US, it would become armed conflict. The ruling class gives just enough to keep the people from rebelling. It's a dirty game, but I didn't invent it. The ruling class did. It is possible for anyone to win at the game and become rich. But just like any game you have to play with other players to win. If you refuse to play, you will never win. That's the way the game was designed. No team? Then no winning. People just like you play the game alone and therefore you never win. Because you can't win, not by yourself.
I want to work but no one wants to hire me lol. Sometimes it is not that you don't want to work it's that every time you go out for interviews you get rejected.. Some people get rejected for years. Some people keep trying and trying going to interviews and just give up.
I wonder what makes someone not hireable? Let's assume that person's record is clean and has a decent amount of experience. Literally have no reason to not hire you there has to be a least a TAD bit of discrimination there.
You know what. I knew someone who had a hard time getting a job despite of having lots of forklift experience. He really feels is definitely an age discrimination. He was 53.
They aren't hiring you because its a ghost job. Its the corporations pretending to fill "vacancies" while making overwhelmed staff do 2 jobs with no extra pay. The government lets them get away with it because they count job advertisements as jobs to make unemployment figures look better. The government counts working 3 hours a week at a burger joint as having a "job."
I’m 27, I started working at 16 for a small business, I gave everything I could to help meet the quota. When I turned 18 became an official full time employee, worked 10hrs a day went above and beyond, I could do multiple people’s jobs once and when I asked for a raise I was denied. The reasoning was that I wasn’t doing enough to get that extra raise despite the fact my team was shrunk from 6people to 4 including me because I was doing 3jobs. At 21 I quit and went into a new field. I’ve been doing trades and my current employer is a whole lot better, I can come is late, leave early, and charge a full day even if I worked half day. I always try to exceed production because that’s extra money on top of my regular salary and it’s a breath of fresh air having more freedom than I would as my previous company. Plus I can do side work for myself and not have to worry about a non compete contract.
I’ve been working at Walmart for 10 years now only make $15.30 an hour full time and I’ve been pushing carts. Sometimes I get fed up working there and feel the same way you did when you’ve worked in farming. That is why I am investing my own self for my rest of my life to become an musician. My stage name is called Fortivan. I have a SoundCloud page available and just uploaded a song on there. Music is now becoming my future now. I am known as a solo metal guitarist.
@RobertSmith-jd6wb That would be very nice! I wish I did lived in California. I’m from Indiana btw. I would but I would need to save up for a place over there. Thanks for the reply though! 😎
U see entertainers and government get paid for nothing. While average workers making the world go around get paid pennies. It takes way too long to save and invest and make proper investments and live comfortable and happy. Kids making more than adults, also hard to find direction or people to get you in certain jobs that make you lots of money. It's such a slow process unless you know someone to get you on the ins of high paying work or low risk investments that guarantee you high reward.
@yt-user03561 that's the way now, hog everything from everything else and only look out for yourself that's how the ultra rich play the game. That's how they remain at the top and ensure that almost no else gets up there because that person might actually help people and they don't want that.
Yup. Totally agree with your thoughts. Inflation is high and interest rate are also high. Really concerning situation we are in. Are we in a bubble? And how bad is it? Let’s see what happen.
I just don't want to work 40hrs a week 5 days a week the rest of my life. There's more to experience in life but jobs take your time and freedom to do those things, but you also need the money from the job to even get a lot of those experiences, and then you can't even properly enjoy it because you know the 'vacation' will end and work is right around the corner and you have to go back eventually. :(
Not just in america, I´m from luxembourg and people don't wanna work, and for those who want to, do not get hired, I keep searching for a job and all they say is ''apply online'' and when you do they don't care or answer you after 6 months, better yet, "we are hiring urgently" I asked when I could start since they are in need of workers urgent, they responded with ''we will give you a call'' never did.
lmao. no. we were on the gold standard in 1800's. try going to work in a victorian age factory buddy. gold standard is libertarian bullshit. check out MMT. also more market instability on gold standard.
The govt and Corp sell our information to scammers in India. Everytime you swipe ur card at a store or fill out an online disclaimer that's another lead that they sell.
I just hit 30 getting really ready to rage quit and it’s ridiculous out here with everything inflation cost of living am just so burnout everyday fuck work I rather drop dead in my sleep and never wake up again.
@@TonyTheTiger1000Try going to a cheaper country, where your dollar stretches a lot further. Work from home, be a digital nomad. I'm from Brazil but I'm planning on going to Paraguay or some cheaper country so I can save up money.
I regret going to college just to work at my dead end job that I have now. The only thing I got out of it was the wise words of the unconventional professors I had during college that stuck to me! One professor told me” no matter where you work you will always be underpaid for your labor because an organization needs to pay you less than your worth in order to operate a profit.” So true! My other professor was a teacher for business law and he told us a story that his straight A student got a 9-5 job with a starting salary of $80k and the reaction of everyone was at aww but then he said he had a student who literally had all Cs and turned out to be a millionaire and everyone was just shocked! The lesson is knowing enough. Making sure we do enough and spend enough will be a much more fulfilling life. I am saving money so I can be free from this trap and have my money take care of me. I’ve lived way below my means by making sacrifices people wouldn’t do but I’ve adapted to it and now I have around $300k in savings which I hope will just grow into a portfolio that can take care of me in a couple of years!
Thanks, enjoyed reading your comment. Don't feel alone.... I think a lot of us feel we wasted time going to school. My Advice is take your 300k and buy bitcoin. You will be fine, out of the rat race!
uhm... Elon is letting people go, because he never had a product, that would sell and it caught up with him. You know, why actually wages are sh*t right now? Non-compeet clauses, confidentiality clauses enforced past employment, non-poaching agreements, pay non-disclosure clauses, at will employment... All anti-employee policies, that are legal in the US. That is, what you need. What you need, is what corporate America would call communism, but is actually just European style laws.
your spot on I've made 6figures the last 17 years working for myself but now looking for a job. I'm not guna save up all my paychecks just to pay rent and not have money for food gas insurance and bills it doesn't make sense to work 40 hours a week and not have money for food. Id have more money 3 years from now if i went to prison for the next 3 years instead of just living my life the next 3 years it doesnt make sense.
Never do more than what you are paid to do. The "extra mile" only goes one way. And as soon as you are no longer needed, you are laid off. The most despicable thing is when corporations try and have you train your 3rd world replacement. Always refuse. CEOs get more and more money for being incompetent.
It was always like this since the '90s. The only difference is people had an inkling of Hope that they would find a job and everything would change. Now, with the rise of social media, we can see even middle managers in corporate offices are getting the Brunt. So no matter where you look, the worker is getting shafted. Now all hope is lost, and then you throw in rampant inflation? Oh boy!
1990...lowest adjusted for inflation wages since the Great Depression, double the crime rates, 50% plus higher amount of people in poverty. The reason why people had hope back then was because the only way it could have been worse was nuclear war. Other than that, from the bottom of the mineshaft you can only look up. Things are way too good right now for people to have hope, because the only way to look from the top of a mountain is down.
I think what doesn't sit right with me was that as a kid my understanding was that if you make only okay money you can buy an okay house. If you make "good" money, say $75k in the year 2010-2018 range, you could probably get what you see the in the TV sitcoms that families live on. Not some crazy nice house but a modest house in the suburbs. Then say $100k+ and you were probably the baller with the 4 bed 3 bath 2500 sq ft house. Nowadays it's more like less than $100k and you get either nothing or a 1000sqft house built in 1950 that hasn't been updated since 1970 and it's still 40% of your take-home pay. For the people who went to college and make that "good" $100k plus they can afford something a school bus driver bought in 1987 that also probably still needs some fixing up. Then a mega baller $130k+ earner gets to live in the sitcoms house that the wacky dad who sold shoes lived in. Unless it's California or New York. Now the baller maybe gets a 900 sq foot condo if they're lucky.
I’m white collar and super thankful I found a place that truly cares and is empathetic. With that said even making a decent wage I am struggling somewhat. Thankful to own a property though with low interest. I couldn’t imagine working for less and for a place that doesn’t care(80% of companies). How are we going to invest in our country/peoples future if we let these unethical companies thrive?
1) Some employers won't pay for your experience, you have to start at the bottom of THEIR pay scale put in time in THEIR company even tho your experience places you on top levels of THEIR pay scale. Makes NO sense. 2) I recently had an interview, they were very concerned like I was not gonna take the job even tho they have multiple vacancies and the job/pay is appealing to me. I asked why the difficulty in hireing? They honestly stated the 'new' work force automatically expects top pay. I personally was floored... BECAUSE the start rate is $26 (no experience) automatic raise every year, easily make 50k-80k first year.. I seem not to understand how is this not enough as a first job, young entering the job market?
Our system is broken. Working within the system is like trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results every time. Perpetuating this broken system is insanity. A paradigm shift is coming.
Universal basic income ?? Who exactly is going to pay the billions of dollars required for that in a country of close to 400 million with an adult population of approximately 210 million ?? Only if the entire country of working age people pay for it weekly in taxes, it's honestly a pipe dream
It's nice to see (hear?) a boomer who isn't willfully ignorant about the economy, especially seeing as it seems you have a little bit of money. If you watch Fox News, all it is is boomers telling all the other boomers that nobody wants to work anymore because anyone under the age of 50 is "lazy". Just one point I would diverge on is that I think it's specifically corporations that want to use the employees, not necessarily employers per se.
The biggest issue is that when (B)OCID-19 dropped, prices skyrocketed due to the high demand of just about everything before the lockdown. Those prices haven't dipped since 2019, because most corporations said, "These idiots will pay any price for this good if they're desperate enough for it." It shows. The prices are the same now, almost 4 years later. We're the idiots paying the price for our desperation.
I work a high level corporate job for 15 years. making 200k+ and laid off last year. Good thing a saved all my money and invested it in stocks and now joined the FIRE movement. He's right. An employer just want to use you up and spit you out when you are no longer producing at a high level relative to your income. We all get old and lose a step. That's why you don't see 45+ year old NBA players. So why do they expect us to work until 65+ without losing any productivity? it's impossible.
Im houseless. Not homeless. I work 55 60 hours a week. Drive a newer truck. Have all kinds of toys. Buying a house isn't in my future. Between mortgage payments, insurance, taxes and upkeep. That cost a small fortune right there. I would be broke and taking the bus to work. Buying a house is a dream that went out the door in the early 70s. You don't have to own a house to live. You can live far better without that noose around your neck.
So much of capitalism is exploitation. The business owner wants to pay their employee the least amount of money/benefits while working them as hard as possible to maximize profits.
yup and the boss, his wife, their kids... grandkids will be set for life from out slave labour. they will never have to do the work we/I did just to have a ltitle spending money... after spending almost all the money on BILLS BILLS BILLS driving a $500 car while the boss is driving a NEW F SUPER DOOTY, king ranch, diesel , 4x4 super crew car to "run around" town in... or his wife/kids to "run around" town in ... but it is a bizness expense so they can take 25% of the value of the vehilce off their taxes as "bizness expense". the HUMMER LOOPHOLE in IRS code... can buy $100,000 vehicle and write off 25% of the cost of the vehicle every year for 4 years at which time the gov figures the vehicle is used up and they get another NEW F SUPER DOOTY KING RANCH, DIESEL, 4x4, SUPER CREW cab dually, 500 ton truck to "run around" town in.
Capitalism is based. The government tricked people into believing it was bad because it took power away from the state and gave it back to the people. The government is a giant grifter.
I disagree if you work for a fortune 500 company making in some cases over a billion dollars in profit after overhead costs, there is absolutely zero reason you cannot pay your workers a great salary and low cost benefits package to your employees, put back 50 percent of your profit margin ( so their is no need to raise prices on your products or services)and give it back to your employees in the form of low cost benefits and salary increases, so your employees can have some semblance of a life for themselves and their children
Yes there is, its called the stock market. Here is where the problem lies. I've worked for private companies..they are much more genereous and care about you. Public companies never did. Never.
@@stoneneils most working people do not want to invest in the stock market, because unlike the extremely wealthy we are not privileged to inside information to let you know weeks in advance what's coming down the pipe
@@stoneneils yes lots of talk but the stats bare out most people do not invest in the stock market, most out of fear and ignorance of how it works, the public for decades are never taught financial literacy, now in the information age it's all out there for the taking learning how it works, and of course those wealthy families who have had all that knowledge for generations are now teaching it as a small part of school curriculums
@@stoneneilsI doubt that when civil war breaks out again that people will be talking about the stock market. It will be nothing more than a rich man's casino.
I was laid off 2 weeks ago. Half of us were. Because they moved Georgia (its cheaper to operate there) They, however, kept a part of their business here in California. We would think the company would keep the "best" workers.. DEAD WRONG I AM. They based which half of us gets laid off. Its the ones who are more expensive to keep. In the case of some of us who have health insurance through the company. I had me and my wife insured. Apparently i found the company does pay close to a $1000 a month. (75%).
If I were in this position I'd just visit my local rv dealership and buy a nice unit to live in. The monthly payment would be less than rent and I'd have a nice new place to call my own.
Why do we, (the citizens of the U.S) have to pay taxes, which is revenue for the government, when the government can just print money whenever they want? Is taxes just a form of control?
Taxes is how much they can print. If the government debt is higher and the tax revenue is lower( deficit ) the currency loses its value. If government spend less than tax revenue then the currency increases its value. If they pay the government debt with 100% printed money then everything goes bananas.
Just printing money with no tax revenue doesn't work. The confederacy tried this during the civil war and went bust after just a few years of it. The money has value because of the government's power to tax, that's what gives it credibility.
I use crypto gains to push into cash then precious metals to alleviate unrepresented taxation. Anything- I mean ANYTHING less than that is as immoral as is cowardly, given what I know about my government.
I was a pharmacy tech. I made about 3 times minimum wage. This was in the early 2000's. I was able to save ten grand. 2008 happened and I couldn't keep a job and my salary dropped to just above minimum wage. So, I went to school to get a degree in computer science. When I got out, I got a job making just 2 times minimum wage. So, I had actually took a step back in my standard of living. Then they reclassed and I got bumped back up to 3 times minimum wage. So going from pharm tech to software engineer was basically a lateral move. Covid hits, I was about to triple my wage. Even when it was double, things felt correct. I could finally breath. So 24000 in 2000 is the same as 100000 in 2024. And from what I am seeing, a pharm tech now makes about 50,000 a year. That job has lost so much value now. But really, all jobs have. A software engineer in 2000, I guess was making about 40,000 dollars. Minim wage was about 5 dollars an hour. That's about 10,000 dollars. As you can see, the difference between minimum wage and that software wage is 4x. Now minimum wage is 41,000 and software developers make about 110,000. That's 2.68 times now. As minimum wage increases, the higher paying jobs devalue. So, when I double my income, it is about 4x now. So really, I should be paid 200,000 to be a software engineer which would gave similar purchasing power that a software engineer had in 2000. At this rate, eventually, software engineering will be a minimum wage job. Maybe in the next 25 years. We are getting ducked.
Two things 1. I live about 15 minutes from where you were filming so that was nice to see and 2. Thank you for the honest commentary on pay for workers (as many people seem to be hostile to these pay increases) and for laying out the true state of the economy. It’s not good at all.
I own a small piece of property on a lake and I live in an RV And everything is paid for ,, I fucking love it ,, I just need to figure out how to get me a nice little shop built.
More like we'll tell you to stop being babies, rent an apartment that isn't a condo, live like a regular poor sob for a few years like we all did and build from there. Do not use the economy as an excuse to stay home with mommy and daddy. That is garbage as my city is full of gen-z making it just fine on one job on their own..or with roomates/girl/boyfriends. UA-camrs are enabling each other into depression lol. I show you how to make it but then you guy never reply.
too bad when get OLD and have been exploited by the RICH for so many years doing legalized slavery for poverty wages... we are so used up by 50 that we cant hardly get out of bed without FIRST taking a PAIN PILL and waiting for it to kick in . oh then DRUG TEST!!!!! U ARE ON DRUGS!!!! THEY ARE PRESCRIPTION!!!! doesnt matter.. FIRED!!! hire a 18 yr old "migrant" for abject poverty wages. no big deal .
@@stoneneils you expect us to pay for your social security, which will be gone when you're dead. Your generation has run the country into the ground for your own benefit, sending your kids to war for profit. I've never been so resentful against a group of people!!!!
@AwakeVeteran88 They want you to work so you leave mom's house rather than fail to launch. You're confusing your parents with corporations - many run by gen-x and millenials...and evenuall gen-z. Don't think Fortune 500 company run by gen-z are going to be any more compassionate. Its no the people, its the system.
I worked 23 years at one employer giving exemplary performance every year. but when the CEO retired and a new CEO came in, the new CEO cut everything and pushed all of the tenured, expensive producers out the door. 23 years gone. I would’ve been better off investing those 23 years growing my own business than growing someone else’s. folks, learn from my mistake. Invest in *yourself*.
These employers want to pay grown adults with a family minimum wage and expect maximum effort in return. The expectations vs reality is way off anymore. I can't pay my bills on 40 hours at minimum wage. I'm out here working 70 hour weeks at way more than minimum wage and still don't have anything left over after the groceries and utilities are paid.
Just started this government phone job last week. I already want to quit because it's not organized & my phone keeps going on with group texts at all hours of the F'n day
Things can get worse. At least your country has some safety nets to give its citizens. Here there are no subsidies, food stamps, unemployment, etc. Minimum wage here is $250 a month. If you do not work, do you not eat. People here cannot afford to not work.
This is the same for people in America when it comes to “work or starve”. Americans may get paid more than $250 a month but rent for a 1 bedroom apartment will take over 60% of your paycheck. Food, gas, electricity, water, car payments, internet and medical bills will take the rest, if you can afford any of that stuff. The grass is only greener here for a very few select group of people, everyone else is a wage slave for scraps.
@@LeonardoUA-cam8 might be hard to explain Americas ever changing social culture in a YT Comment but I’ll try the short version. A lot of young Americans have woken up to the fact that we are trading our time in exchange for money from these corporations to barely afford to survive. Most Americans who say they “don’t want to work”, are usually still working 2-3 side hustles to afford the basic essentials. Don’t let the American Propaganda fool you guys. We have tons of homeless, our infrastructure is failing, the price to life has skyrocketed, we are in ridiculous amounts of debt, most of us can’t afford to have a house or kids let alone healthy food, our politicians are corrupt, corporations have bought our entire political system, chemicals in our water and food supplies, etc etc. yea it could be a lot worse but there is a reason why our depression, suicide and overdose rates are crazy high.
Cheers Kent , hopefully the fed get taken down and the tax system gets reformed. To many people not getting a fair deal , our pockets get picked at every chance the gov needs reform also . People power need to make a stand . Respect 👍
Thanks you bring up a very important point, as long as people are divided they are going to be taken advantage of, that's why I stated the video with the 2 difference responses from my last video. Thanks again!
theres even a bible verse about how the CEOs of the companies fatten their hearts at the expense of those that actually work. I personally believe there should be weights depending on your position and every position should get a portion of the companies profits. but then theyd just lowball the percentage that workers get. It just makes me sick the greed we see.
I’m OK if somebody doesn’t wanna work but when they turn to me via the government to pay for their health insurance, their food, their housing spending money via one of the many social programs the government offers I have a problem with that.
I'd rather Americans benefit from my taxes, than it go to wars, ukraine, israel and the pockets of criminal politicians. That's exactly what is happening now.
What you say is true... I didn't want to work for someone else because employers never provided stability. For the poor working people who live paycheck to paycheck, it can all be taken away tomorrow because the employers fire, lay off, hire whenever they want to leaving workers unable to pay their rent and utilities. I thought it was better to try for some kind of self-employment because at least I knew I wouldn't fire myself.
People aren’t lazy they’re just starting to realize their worth and that it’s not adding up when working for these corporations. If I can say covid did anything it opened my eyes and many others to that. That’s my intake on it.
I worked as a mechanic for years. Everywhere I worked no one was ever not a greedy crook that would sure enough tell you to do illegal things and expect you to and get angry and threaten you when you wouldnt.
@@gigabasedchadlord2297 I got injured and had to stop doing it. I miss the work part but not the nasty parts of the job like certain types of people. I hear it's getting like that everywhere and in everything tho.
One thing that is hugely overlooked is the tax system and policies. I think your close to accurate on the fed reserve and bailing out consumers in the future however your already aware of the problems that will bring. The absolute best consumer bailout would be a complete abolition of income tax and sales tax (or any taxes on purchases including gas/carbon tax) The biggest bill Americans pay is the income tax. By eliminating it you put more money in consumers pockets and encourage working more.
It's funny how many people are willing to judge others as being lazy if they don't show signs of working hard. I'm not against hard work, it's just that there's no point if it doesn't pay off. (Which is what the old adage claims. And it only seems to pay off if you're in it for yourself, those that do it under somebody else's terms tend to be taken advantage of.)
The wages don’t match the damn economy. That’s another problem. How you gonna give $20/hr and have rent being pretty much your whole check? Car payments being no lower than $500, insurance high, plus other bills.. but nah, I need to suck it up and just work, right? Be happy working my 2 jobs jus to survive😂😂😂
I’m 53 I’m not sure I remember employees ever being cared for ? Only one guy that owned a Napa after he sold it gave some of his senior employees a cut of the sale .
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The working homeless is never anything we should be ok with. Especially if you're reliable. The greed of these corporations is disgusting.
If I would have kept the video going for just a few more seconds you would have seen a homeless person at the end of the street sleeping under a bench.
Being homeless and working in a “1st world” country
@@FaithiinJesusFED won’t cut interest rates. Inflation is running rampant. In order to cool inflation down they need to increase more layoffs.
@@user-lu6yg3vk9z They won’t stop printing money since we got off the gold standard lmao, destroyed the future generations purchasing power because of older incompetent politicians, they gave us a debt fueled society & the younger generations are left with the bill…
@@user-Kova15 -- As tragic as it gets. We, as a country, have no business being in this state.
You can be homeless while working three jobs...this is worse than dystopia.
No you can't. You guys are talking nonsense.
@@stoneneils thanks for your very enlightening and constructive input, Mr. Bajillionaire
@@yt-user03561 Show me one video on youtube that shows the same person working three jobs. Even two I can only find it on mainstream media. Are any of you? Then show me in your video tommorrow.
@@stoneneilsI just know you live in a bubble. You think every single person is gonna run to UA-cam while they’re fkn homeless recording how bad their situation is?! Does that make any sense at all?! Most are too strung out from stress, drugs, trying to evade the law due to sleeping in certain places they “aren’t allowed to sleep in” and all kinds of thing your ignorant ass couldn’t imagine. Get real.
You don't have to be homeless, if you rent a place with 2-3 roommates. Another option is to buy a small plot of land, and build your own dugout shelter. This is a very low cost housing and shelter solution. Do it.
People doesn’t want to work anymore because the wages way to low and you can’t afford your rent and living monthly expenses. People are working just paying your rent and bills. People are working and still homeless person. Everyone wants to work higher wages and work less hours.
Was English your first language?
Your an ideit!
I agree if people could see a decent existence from a job who wouldn't want to work.
Yeah that's what he's saying. Americans are weighing out a days work and what their time is worth to them and they are sick and tired of going to a job that they don't really like and feeling like they don't make enough to get by. They're making a subjective decision based on they're own personal experiences and deciding just like an employer has to decide is it worth me keeping this business open or is it costing me too much. They may close they're business simply because the business simply isn't profitable or it's not making enough of a profit to spend the time and headache to stay operating. We'll employees are weighing out the same thing but from thier perspective. Is this job worth my time and effort it takes to come to work and many are saying no it's not. The time i spend getting ready to go to work, the commute, the work environment, conditions, type of work i have to endure and the people I work with, simply aren't worth the return. Then the employee is taxed on wages before he ever sees his money and taxed again when they go and spend it, not to mention the inflated cost of goods and services currently. It's no wonder many people don't want to work. Then when you work overtime they tax that at a greater percentage. The government disincentivizes people being productive. What abunch of idiots.
@@alexaguirre8956and where does the money come from for those ppl to pay stuff?
JOB= Just Over Broke
Yep I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard that saying
So true ❤
That is very true these days. 👍🏻
I work. But the one thing I won't do... anymore... is over-work. I've had enough of corporations that lay off some of their employees and then expect us remaining employees to work our asses off to make those deadlines. I'm older. I'm not the young employee who, when asked to jump, asks "How high?". Now I tell the bosses, "No, it won't get done today. Tomorrow." If the company wants to fire me and replace me, I'm fine with that.
Thanks I think you are in a majority.
Are you financially independent ?
Yes I agree with you 💯
@@masteryoda9044 Meaning, could I live comfortably for a while without a job? To be honest, yes. For a short while, at least.
You guys need to read the laws of success by napoleon hill, this is why you get outcompete by foreigners, let’s not complain who take our jobs. Let’s bring the American spirit back
My 86-year-old grandmother (who happened to be the first black women to work at a Ford Corp office) could not understand why young people didn't hold jobs and mocked it for years. When I sat down and put on paper the situation (pay, no pension, hours, no union protection, etc)…her actual response “Oh wow, well damn, I wouldn’t be working that hard either if just fire you so quickly, what's the point of being loyal.”
Thanks for the comment! Times have changed the problems is no one adjusted to the fact that working was not going to provide a living wage anymore.
I’m an educated white guy with a strong work ethic. I totally agree. I notice that many people 65 and older don’t understand today’s job market situation. They get to enjoy nice pensions and nice retirements with nice benefits while most of us under 65 will never experience a good retirement. When I try to explain it to them, meaning no unions, no pensions, low pay, little to crappy benefits, etc., it usually goes in one of their ears and out the other. I guess many people do get set in their ways and only listen to what they want to believe whether it’s actually true or not. Weird times we all live in.
As a man of 29 y.o. I literally just gave up.
What do you do now?
@@ManPursueExcellence learning a high income online skill inside of The Real World, by Andrew Tate, my entire life was having Blue collar jobs...
Join the AirForce. Thank me later 😊
@@ShutterSpeedGamingheights bro 😭
@@ViktorMudryiWise the real world is a scam.. they don’t accept most unless you really have some good value to add.
I'm 36 and debating about about just liquidating all my assets and just moving somewhere and spend the rest of my days living in a tent. The daily grind just isn't worth it anymore 😪
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You seem like a wussy
Go for a cabin or trailer.
It isn’t worth it. No one cares:
Try Mexico. Start with an exploratory trip.
I don't want to work, but I have to work, so I work. Companies can't ask for loyalty from employees when they don't have sympathy. I had worked for 15 years at a big company straight out of grad school. I gave my best, received stellar performance reviews every year, never even thought about working anywhere else. Then the company decided to lay off a sizeable number of employees to make their books look good in preparation for being acquired. When I received that email, I was surprised, and all my colleagues were surprised saying I was the last person they thought would get the pink slip. The decision was probably made by upper management and HR who didn't even know me as a person. I was just a name in their system. I was not a 41 year old dad and sole breadwnner with two young children who would have a tough time restarting his career.
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They always tell the laid off guy "you were the last one we expected". It is the standard line.
My former coworkers had no say in this; the decisions were made 100% by management >2 levels higher. The standard line given by them was "this has nothing to do with you; we're just eliminating your position". That was BS because there were more than 30 exact same positions in our group, so why/how did they eliminate 5 positions tied to specific people? My theory is age race was one thing, age-salary was another, but that can never be proven.
I got dumped in the same circumstances, 29 years of excellent reviews, employee of the year three times, etc. I’m female, age 63, but at least no kids.
Yeah, when companies do a lay off, nothing needs to make sense to the employees. My boss at that time was also laid off, he was only 6 months from his scheduled retirement, and they decided to just lay him off and pay him 18 months as a severance package, instead of keeping him and paying him 6 months. My boss honestly had no idea what happened but he was extremely happy for sure.
A job is modern day slavery.
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Hahhaa i guess taxes r not ?
I wouldn’t call it that. It’s a little dramatic to equate a job to modern day slavery.
@@maimadixon5717modern transition
Slaves couldn’t just quit on the job. So idk what your even talking about
My last job was 7 miles away from where I live. If I drive to work the homeless people will smash my truck windows out and my employer will not secure the parking lot. The bus ride and walk takes one hour and five minutes. I bought an ebike and used it to commute to work. It was way too dangerous no matter how much high vis gear i put on and no matter how may times I rre-worked my route. The police will do nothing in all cases.
If I make to work alive. I am treated like a five year old.
It is NOT all about the poor pay.
Thanks my friend your job sound frightening I hope you can find something better!
@@FaithiinJesus Yeah stay home and collect social security & food stamps?
😂
Not only that but the landlords and property owners will treat you like an employee too even though you are paying them to keep the place funded we found this house on some kind of housing voucher and there mad at me because I didn't want to re sign with this guy. They said it's a two bedroom so we have to move him to a one bedroom now if you don't want to re sign. It really pissed me off too because I paid for all the items on the property that broke and I told them he could have this property because I found a pretty good deal on a kitchenette they didn't want to give me my own voucher and sense they were a different program then section 8 im headed over to this office in a few weeks to apply for several waiting lists in some cases they might even build you a house.
I told him to sit on this property if they don't call you for a renewal because they were supposed to give him a move out notice like two months ago and they never did and he's supposed to leave in July. We never actually met the landlord and all she does is send maintenance over to trim the trees if she was so trigger happy about kicking us out you would think she'd be calling us non stop by now trying to get us out of here because the last landlord that kicked us out put a notice on the door all they did was ask our case manager to send us an email i don't think that counts as a notice to quit because you usually have to mail it with an explanation on why there kicking you out it might even have to be signed by a judge. They probably don't have much of a case because even though the dishwasher broke and I replaced the tile and mirror that apparently wasn't good enough for a renewal. Now there probably afraid of a lawsuit because he's disabled so they got all quiet. If this ever happens to you get quiet too and after the lease expires stop paying the rent on it like you moved out and just don't be home during the day and keep a backpack with you with some clothes and stuff you need and see what they do with the property if there going to be shady you can be shady too. 😊
I hate to sa it. But no area is actually safe anymore. I had my hubcaps stollen off my care while parked at brand new Walmart paringlot. Nice area. But guess what Walmart doesn't own the parking lot and unless you got the police involved, they can't & won't do anything!
I hope all the fast food places start going away. They suck.
I agree. I stopped going to them back in 2008 when food got severely unhealthy and wages severely too low. I did not want to be part of paying business owner of greed my money that should mostly be going to employer. IF I buy a $10 sandwich, THEN $7 of that should be kept by the employee who helped me directly.
@@CapitalismDeathSpiral whoa whoa whoa, we'll have to jack up all the food prices to make this seem okay. kind of like they did with lumber when they manipulated the housing market.
Fast food price increases are just one symptom of a much more serious issue. If it gets to the point where the big fast food chains are facing BK or closure, nobody will notice because we’re all dealing with much bigger problems.
It's hilarious to me how even the Dairy Queen near me ended up closing down DESPITE having a never ending drive thru every single day of the week. It's like damn they still weren't making enough money.
Thanks for the comment! Me too they are killing Americans
Boomers had it easier when they started working for the first time.
Yup! They had a golden economy because of a World War and climbed the ladder with little to no competition just to pull the latter up with them.
Yeah but gen-x didn't...go look at the graph. To go back to boomers is ridiculous, you may as well go back 200 years and compare our general everyday knowledge about farming.
Not all boomers the ones on the cusp of gen x have it just as bad
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@@uclassc Oh come on, please don't drag us gen-x down into the victim-mentality. Our high inflation / poor economies never prevented us from making an equal effort as our father's before us.
I can't save any money, most of it it goes towards bills. It feels like I'm broke every month.
I barely bought clothes in a past couple years and my wardrobe has remained the same. As some point it's revolting, to think I'll never get ahead.
You are the person I made this video for.
I mean I feel like that too. But as long I can eat and I still have my phone, internet, car & place to live, I'm happy!
This is the design of the system. Read the communist manifesto (it's a short read) if you want more enlightenment into your situation. Regardless if you do or not, you should know your labor rights and always work to form or join a union at every workplace you're at for proper representation. It's the only way to not be exploited.
@@formulacooladecommunism is NEVER the answer if you think were hurting under corporate rule you just wait and see what a communist regime does to you and your family.
@@nicholerin
You fell for it... "You will own nothing and be happy."!
The fact we can work more than full time and still barely make it, or even be homeless still is insane.
We always worked full time to barely make it. Do you guys really think in the 70s and 80s we put money away?!?! We had to spend $20 just for ONE album. We could not watch movies at home but had to pay everytime $$ for one plus popcorn/cola. We went out because we had no internet and that was $$$ every single night of the year 365 with few exceptions. I had one job for my rent, one part time job for my party money.
@@stoneneils you did when you take into account inflation and the cost of living. We aren't talking about buying bs we don't need, we're talking about covering living expenses. Something you could do, and still be able to have money left over.
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@@stoneneils OK, boomer. Go back to the hole you crawled from. This isn't 1974 anymore. Times have changed and not for the better.
Maybe you should get a trade .
This civilization is in ruins. A new one will be constructed.
No its not. UA-camrs are just depressed.
US of mesico by 2050... 3rd world by then with 78% hand to mouth class instead of "just" 40% now that is 1-3 paychecks from being homeless as they had NO savings to be able to coast 6 months before getting another LOWER PAYING/start all over at the bottom maird job
@@stoneneils STOP WORKING FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!!!!
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Sure, only took Rome a thousand years and change.
I think it goes higher than this. I think the primary problem is that there's nothing to work for, particularly for men. Dating and family life has been destroyed, religion has become a joke, and no one wants to invest in this society that has no future. There's nothing to emotionally invest in and so no reason to toil.
THIS, they do know know how hard it is for young men who has been isolated their whole life like me . I literally have no reason to work other just to keep my self breathing which should not be a reason itself
That's what happens when you allow a society to become moralless, nothing good will ever come out of that. People are starting to feel the effects of the way they live and it's backfiring. It's time to wake up.
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It's pretty bad when prison seems like a viable option of living
@axlcanada6511 I was in the military, I seen their prison in San Diego/Miramar and it is the best prison you can ever go to. It's the most non violent, the food is better than any prison in the country, all the inmates have their own separate living spaces with a toilet, the showers are completely private meaning that you can close the door. In the newer buildings the you can take the shower head off and hold it. I seen that shit and was like bro this isn't prison, I was like this place is nicer than any shelter you go to across the U.S and the main thing is when you get locked up in the military you still get paid depending on your circumstance. So you're sitting there with better living arrangements than like 95% of the U.S and you're in prison.
Economy is rigged worldwide. The big corporations are taking advantage from third world countries paying slave wages. You can’t blame immigrants want come richer countries offer a higher salary. Why they should they work 5-10 dollars a day then the company sell iPhone 1000-2000 dollars. Soon it later the third world workers wouldn’t accept working slave wages in the future. Did you know a lot of American expat are moving in Mexico or third world countries because it is cheaper rent and low cost of living. These local people wouldn’t be able afford housing due American expat driving the price go higher. Most people think all American people are rich living in third world countries.
You hit a good point maybe thats why they are allowing immigration
This is gonna turn 3rd world it keeps up. The wealthy elite want one world government and currency. Then it's gonna be bum wages for everyone in the world.
@@FaithiinJesus That's exactly why they are allowing immigrants, they drive up competition for jobs which drives down wages for everybody. Globalists win.
I dont see the big corporations taking 30%- 50% of a individual s check every pay day tho
@@FaithiinJesus there allowing immigrants to come here so they can have a socialistic world. It will be bum wages for everyone everywhere.
When I was younger, I applied for many jobs and tried to advance my career. But I was refused positions and promotions because of quotas, then the government was stealing what little money I did earn and my wife treated me so poorly, I lost interest in trying to get ahead. I decided upon taking it easy and never trying to get ahead. It's a much better life that playing the game in a corrupt system. The best thing to do is refuse to participate and do your own thing.
Exactly, that's what I'm doing now, I fully understand what everything is about but I had to let go of alot of my family because they don't understand a damn thing about what's really going on. It'll always cause issues so I had no choice.
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Money for Israel and Ukrainian but no money for you
Yep
Any money for you vetoed by republicans yet many of you still vote for them. You claim you can't afford it! :P
Not really u make it seem like it goes to those countries it goes to weapon companies so the money stays here
Get a job luser
i wonder if the ukranians are going to do anything for us after the war or if theyll turn around and attack us. who knows at this point, maybe francis scott key bridge has an idea
No one works because the social contract has imploded. Work gets you nothing in this country. I personally believe it’s great.
Canada is the same, here, Registered nurses, and fully trained skilled trades people that build the houses and hospitals can't afford a home....
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@@kevinroy1736thats because canada sucks!
The number of companies taking care of their employees are becoming far and few today.
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@@FaithiinJesus -- You're welcome.
Covid made the masses wake up and realize how short and precious life is. Many also realized that physical posessions have little meaning. although the environment is benefiting from this slowdown, there are too many people out of work
Yup and once more and more of the older generations retire the country is really in for it. (In terms of the lacking workers)
Lowkey people can call it what they want, but the younger people are definitely waking up. Times of spending years at one place that doesn't care about you are long gone.
Right, people are definitely slowly starting to realize.
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they've screwed us financially, whether intentional or through ignorance I don't know...
Yep!
At the top of the rabbit hole it's out of ignorance and denial. The further down the rabbit hole you're willing to go the more intentional you'll see it is.
lol they have screwed us but i don’t disagree with a job i save 30% invest 50% make 100% back
@@xSniper2700 piss off you shill
THE RULING ELITE DO NOT CARE about the seft/knave (slave) classes, they are just disposable "assets" (liabilities) to be used , used up and discarded.
Im 30 and I've never in my life have I ever heard of a company "taking care" of you. We trade our time for labor, if you're unsatisfied with your pay you ask for more, I've never experienced any company offering anything resembling a pension, I barely understand what it is. I was raised such that I should live off my dividends from investments when I retire and that's it.
Pensions are mostly union, I have one thankfully.
What got me was talking about fast food places. Fast food was never enough to live off of unless you were a GM. Fast food was always a non skilled job for people starting out in the workforce or kids in school. Pay is usually somewhat relevant to the work. The more responsibility, the more pay.
@@mooseknuckle_sandwich There aren't enough jobs that offer enough people to take that responsibility. If every single person at one location was completely efficient and responsible there are literally not enough locations in a reasonable area to afford all those people to live their lives.
Hr at companies are gating jobs behind useless degrees, and high experience for entry level positions.
Jimmy hoffa created the middle class
Bingo!!! Save money and live on your investments.
I'm 30 next month. 20s were the hardest years of my life, and I believe my 30s will follow suit.
Typical broken back story with irresponsible parents, always displaced, etc...
I've always been a pretty down person, but let me tell you, the thought of not wanting to exist has never been stronger. I've been in management, trades, etc... and even when I make in the mid to high 20s, I can barely afford to pay all the bills of a one bedroom apartment, and pretty much nothing is put back for retirement.
Any medical issue completely drains the savings, not having a support system mentally breaks you, and looking towards the future just makes me shake my head. I'm personally ready for the meteor.
WWIII or Civil War II is coming. Either way something big is coming because what we have right now is completely unsustainable.
If you play the game and do poorly, it is because you don't understand how the game is played. Accepting you aren't doing better is wrong, do better at the game.
@@raccooncity8356 The "game" is going to end with people killing each other off for basic survival until few are left standing. Basically, the Hunger Games in real life.
@@yt-user03561 That's why there are food stamps. To keep people from starving and revolting with violence. In some African states, they don't have guns, and they can withhold food. Here in the US, it would become armed conflict. The ruling class gives just enough to keep the people from rebelling. It's a dirty game, but I didn't invent it. The ruling class did. It is possible for anyone to win at the game and become rich. But just like any game you have to play with other players to win. If you refuse to play, you will never win. That's the way the game was designed. No team? Then no winning. People just like you play the game alone and therefore you never win. Because you can't win, not by yourself.
@@raccooncity8356 Until we destroy the game itself.
I want to work but no one wants to hire me lol. Sometimes it is not that you don't want to work it's that every time you go out for interviews you get rejected.. Some people get rejected for years. Some people keep trying and trying going to interviews and just give up.
Lol You’re not missing out on anything
I wonder what makes someone not hireable? Let's assume that person's record is clean and has a decent amount of experience.
Literally have no reason to not hire you there has to be a least a TAD bit of discrimination there.
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You know what. I knew someone who had a hard time getting a job despite of having lots of forklift experience. He really feels is definitely an age discrimination. He was 53.
They aren't hiring you because its a ghost job. Its the corporations pretending to fill "vacancies" while making overwhelmed staff do 2 jobs with no extra pay. The government lets them get away with it because they count job advertisements as jobs to make unemployment figures look better. The government counts working 3 hours a week at a burger joint as having a "job."
I’m 27, I started working at 16 for a small business, I gave everything I could to help meet the quota. When I turned 18 became an official full time employee, worked 10hrs a day went above and beyond, I could do multiple people’s jobs once and when I asked for a raise I was denied. The reasoning was that I wasn’t doing enough to get that extra raise despite the fact my team was shrunk from 6people to 4 including me because I was doing 3jobs. At 21 I quit and went into a new field. I’ve been doing trades and my current employer is a whole lot better, I can come is late, leave early, and charge a full day even if I worked half day. I always try to exceed production because that’s extra money on top of my regular salary and it’s a breath of fresh air having more freedom than I would as my previous company. Plus I can do side work for myself and not have to worry about a non compete contract.
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I’ve been working at Walmart for 10 years now only make $15.30 an hour full time and I’ve been pushing carts. Sometimes I get fed up working there and feel the same way you did when you’ve worked in farming. That is why I am investing my own self for my rest of my life to become an musician. My stage name is called Fortivan. I have a SoundCloud page available and just uploaded a song on there. Music is now becoming my future now. I am known as a solo metal guitarist.
I'm also an musical artist as well. I put a solid amount into putting things out as well. I love doing that more than anything.
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Wow move to cali starting pay 21$ an hour
@RobertSmith-jd6wb for what? I live in Cali, yeah, starting pay 20 an hour but you live in Cali everything is high and it still won't do much.
@RobertSmith-jd6wb That would be very nice! I wish I did lived in California. I’m from Indiana btw. I would but I would need to save up for a place over there. Thanks for the reply though! 😎
I don’t want to work because it’s not worth it.
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lmao we all know you work
U see entertainers and government get paid for nothing. While average workers making the world go around get paid pennies. It takes way too long to save and invest and make proper investments and live comfortable and happy. Kids making more than adults, also hard to find direction or people to get you in certain jobs that make you lots of money. It's such a slow process unless you know someone to get you on the ins of high paying work or low risk investments that guarantee you high reward.
I hate those people that's why I never watch their content!
Learn basic economic like ready few books. And vote with the brain and not emotions
Tell that to 99% of America lol they arent gonna do it man.@@floridiantv
it's so hard to find a job. hundreds of people applying for one position.
“Work hard and you get where you wanna be “ is a pipe dream now.
And so is "work smart" aka "step on as many heads as possible so you can be one of the few who survives the inevitable total collapse"
@yt-user03561 that's the way now, hog everything from everything else and only look out for yourself that's how the ultra rich play the game. That's how they remain at the top and ensure that almost no else gets up there because that person might actually help people and they don't want that.
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Yup. Totally agree with your thoughts. Inflation is high and interest rate are also high. Really concerning situation we are in. Are we in a bubble? And how bad is it? Let’s see what happen.
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Were not in a financial bubble. Were on top of a super depression volcano.
@@rt_huxley9205that hasn't completely exploded yet.
I just don't want to work 40hrs a week 5 days a week the rest of my life. There's more to experience in life but jobs take your time and freedom to do those things, but you also need the money from the job to even get a lot of those experiences, and then you can't even properly enjoy it because you know the 'vacation' will end and work is right around the corner and you have to go back eventually. :(
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You're a slave. We all are. There are people always have it worse than you. You want a roof, you have to work.
@@turbotheamericanstaffy Nope, not anymore. Those days are over and the system is crumbling. Thank God.
@@IBN12 rubbish.
I dont want to work anymore. Low wages, angry bosses and customers. Life's too short
Exactly bro like we really have to die one day
Not just in america, I´m from luxembourg and people don't wanna work, and for those who want to, do not get hired, I keep searching for a job and all they say is ''apply online'' and when you do they don't care or answer you after 6 months, better yet, "we are hiring urgently" I asked when I could start since they are in need of workers urgent, they responded with ''we will give you a call'' never did.
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getiing out of the Gold Standard was a planned mistake
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lmao. no. we were on the gold standard in 1800's. try going to work in a victorian age factory buddy. gold standard is libertarian bullshit. check out MMT. also more market instability on gold standard.
Is it any wonder when people work hard all of their lives only to lose it all to a scammer?
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Yeh the federal reserve scammer
@@wisefool7776 That's very true.
The govt and Corp sell our information to scammers in India. Everytime you swipe ur card at a store or fill out an online disclaimer that's another lead that they sell.
As a 30 year old man I feel like I have been hanging off a ledge for a long time.
Im 64 and feel the same way
29 and I feel the same way
I just hit 30 getting really ready to rage quit and it’s ridiculous out here with everything inflation cost of living am just so burnout everyday fuck work I rather drop dead in my sleep and never wake up again.
@@TonyTheTiger1000Try going to a cheaper country, where your dollar stretches a lot further. Work from home, be a digital nomad.
I'm from Brazil but I'm planning on going to Paraguay or some cheaper country so I can save up money.
I regret going to college just to work at my dead end job that I have now. The only thing I got out of it was the wise words of the unconventional professors I had during college that stuck to me! One professor told me” no matter where you work you will always be underpaid for your labor because an organization needs to pay you less than your worth in order to operate a profit.” So true! My other professor was a teacher for business law and he told us a story that his straight A student got a 9-5 job with a starting salary of $80k and the reaction of everyone was at aww but then he said he had a student who literally had all Cs and turned out to be a millionaire and everyone was just shocked! The lesson is knowing enough. Making sure we do enough and spend enough will be a much more fulfilling life. I am saving money so I can be free from this trap and have my money take care of me. I’ve lived way below my means by making sacrifices people wouldn’t do but I’ve adapted to it and now I have around $300k in savings which I hope will just grow into a portfolio that can take care of me in a couple of years!
Thanks, enjoyed reading your comment. Don't feel alone.... I think a lot of us feel we wasted time going to school. My Advice is take your 300k and buy bitcoin. You will be fine, out of the rat race!
Honestly i’ve been seeing a lot of work memes on instagram lately. Mostly about how people are REALLY hating their job and how much they wanna quit.
I agree I read the same thing
uhm... Elon is letting people go, because he never had a product, that would sell and it caught up with him. You know, why actually wages are sh*t right now? Non-compeet clauses, confidentiality clauses enforced past employment, non-poaching agreements, pay non-disclosure clauses, at will employment... All anti-employee policies, that are legal in the US. That is, what you need. What you need, is what corporate America would call communism, but is actually just European style laws.
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your spot on I've made 6figures the last 17 years working for myself but now looking for a job. I'm not guna save up all my paychecks just to pay rent and not have money for food gas insurance and bills it doesn't make sense to work 40 hours a week and not have money for food. Id have more money 3 years from now if i went to prison for the next 3 years instead of just living my life the next 3 years it doesnt make sense.
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Never do more than what you are paid to do. The "extra mile" only goes one way. And as soon as you are no longer needed, you are laid off. The most despicable thing is when corporations try and have you train your 3rd world replacement. Always refuse. CEOs get more and more money for being incompetent.
Yes a lot of people feel the way you do!
In this economy we're only surviving to die.
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The problem is people need to work at least 80 hours a week. Then everything would work out. Remember, 'work will set you free."
I believe that phare was over the instance of the German concentration camps. Thanks fort the comment!
Comes down to this, ppl just don’t give a shat about each other anymore
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It was always like this since the '90s. The only difference is people had an inkling of Hope that they would find a job and everything would change. Now, with the rise of social media, we can see even middle managers in corporate offices are getting the Brunt. So no matter where you look, the worker is getting shafted. Now all hope is lost, and then you throw in rampant inflation? Oh boy!
1990...lowest adjusted for inflation wages since the Great Depression, double the crime rates, 50% plus higher amount of people in poverty. The reason why people had hope back then was because the only way it could have been worse was nuclear war. Other than that, from the bottom of the mineshaft you can only look up. Things are way too good right now for people to have hope, because the only way to look from the top of a mountain is down.
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@@KungPowEnterFist that is a great point!
I think what doesn't sit right with me was that as a kid my understanding was that if you make only okay money you can buy an okay house. If you make "good" money, say $75k in the year 2010-2018 range, you could probably get what you see the in the TV sitcoms that families live on. Not some crazy nice house but a modest house in the suburbs. Then say $100k+ and you were probably the baller with the 4 bed 3 bath 2500 sq ft house. Nowadays it's more like less than $100k and you get either nothing or a 1000sqft house built in 1950 that hasn't been updated since 1970 and it's still 40% of your take-home pay. For the people who went to college and make that "good" $100k plus they can afford something a school bus driver bought in 1987 that also probably still needs some fixing up. Then a mega baller $130k+ earner gets to live in the sitcoms house that the wacky dad who sold shoes lived in. Unless it's California or New York. Now the baller maybe gets a 900 sq foot condo if they're lucky.
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We gotta learn from the younger generation. They are entrepeneural and value work life balance. Have to try to create online businesses.
They have "rich" parents, so entitled in a way. Try valuing work life balance when you have $0 to your name and bills to pay.
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Yeah just keep promoting the slave system
People want to work-- for fair wages, and fair employers.
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I’m white collar and super thankful I found a place that truly cares and is empathetic. With that said even making a decent wage I am struggling somewhat. Thankful to own a property though with low interest. I couldn’t imagine working for less and for a place that doesn’t care(80% of companies). How are we going to invest in our country/peoples future if we let these unethical companies thrive?
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1) Some employers won't pay for your experience, you have to start at the bottom of THEIR pay scale put in time in THEIR company even tho your experience places you on top levels of THEIR pay scale. Makes NO sense. 2) I recently had an interview, they were very concerned like I was not gonna take the job even tho they have multiple vacancies and the job/pay is appealing to me. I asked why the difficulty in hireing? They honestly stated the 'new' work force automatically expects top pay. I personally was floored... BECAUSE the start rate is $26 (no experience) automatic raise every year, easily make 50k-80k first year.. I seem not to understand how is this not enough as a first job, young entering the job market?
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They were deceptive
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What kind of job is that
Our system is broken. Working within the system is like trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results every time. Perpetuating this broken system is insanity. A paradigm shift is coming.
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I think Universal basic income will have to be seriously considered with AI taking jobs away.
I agree you will be getting money from the government soon in the for of a stimulus payment probably Digital money
digital money is legalized slavery
Universal basic income ?? Who exactly is going to pay the billions of dollars required for that in a country of close to 400 million with an adult population of approximately 210 million ?? Only if the entire country of working age people pay for it weekly in taxes, it's honestly a pipe dream
@nightfangs2910 they sure do have money for war though don't they?
UBI will have to be in every other western country before the USA even considers adopting it.
It’s not that People don’t want to work it’s that they don’t want to pay taxes.
Taxes is one of the big issues but there's alot more.
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It's nice to see (hear?) a boomer who isn't willfully ignorant about the economy, especially seeing as it seems you have a little bit of money. If you watch Fox News, all it is is boomers telling all the other boomers that nobody wants to work anymore because anyone under the age of 50 is "lazy". Just one point I would diverge on is that I think it's specifically corporations that want to use the employees, not necessarily employers per se.
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Who wants to continue being a slave 🙄
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From what i know slaves couldn’t quit their jobs back then. so how is it being a slave?
You look and sound Young and Active Productive for a 64 year old that's a complement
Thanks for the comment! Thanks for that compliment I've had 2 heart surgeries and almost died during covid hopefully God still has a plan form me
The biggest issue is that when (B)OCID-19 dropped, prices skyrocketed due to the high demand of just about everything before the lockdown.
Those prices haven't dipped since 2019, because most corporations said, "These idiots will pay any price for this good if they're desperate enough for it."
It shows. The prices are the same now, almost 4 years later.
We're the idiots paying the price for our desperation.
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$20 an hour only means that the cost of living rises for everyone including those making $20 an hour. Make it make sense!
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I work a high level corporate job for 15 years. making 200k+ and laid off last year. Good thing a saved all my money and invested it in stocks and now joined the FIRE movement. He's right. An employer just want to use you up and spit you out when you are no longer producing at a high level relative to your income. We all get old and lose a step. That's why you don't see 45+ year old NBA players. So why do they expect us to work until 65+ without losing any productivity? it's impossible.
good job send some of that money to bitcoin the stock market is red hot may be a correction but only my opinion
Im houseless. Not homeless. I work 55 60 hours a week. Drive a newer truck. Have all kinds of toys. Buying a house isn't in my future. Between mortgage payments, insurance, taxes and upkeep. That cost a small fortune right there. I would be broke and taking the bus to work. Buying a house is a dream that went out the door in the early 70s. You don't have to own a house to live. You can live far better without that noose around your neck.
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So much of capitalism is exploitation. The business owner wants to pay their employee the least amount of money/benefits while working them as hard as possible to maximize profits.
And that’s who no one is putting in the effort anyone. Non - livable wages = lowest effort to just get the money.
yup and the boss, his wife, their kids... grandkids will be set for life from out slave labour. they will never have to do the work we/I did just to have a ltitle spending money... after spending almost all the money on BILLS BILLS BILLS driving a $500 car while the boss is driving a NEW F SUPER DOOTY, king ranch, diesel , 4x4 super crew car to "run around" town in... or his wife/kids to "run around" town in ... but it is a bizness expense so they can take 25% of the value of the vehilce off their taxes as "bizness expense".
the HUMMER LOOPHOLE in IRS code... can buy $100,000 vehicle and write off 25% of the cost of the vehicle every year for 4 years at which time the gov figures the vehicle is used up and they get another NEW F SUPER DOOTY KING RANCH, DIESEL, 4x4, SUPER CREW cab dually, 500 ton truck to "run around" town in.
Capitalism is based. The government tricked people into believing it was bad because it took power away from the state and gave it back to the people.
The government is a giant grifter.
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I disagree if you work for a fortune 500 company making in some cases over a billion dollars in profit after overhead costs, there is absolutely zero reason you cannot pay your workers a great salary and low cost benefits package to your employees, put back 50 percent of your profit margin ( so their is no need to raise prices on your products or services)and give it back to your employees in the form of low cost benefits and salary increases, so your employees can have some semblance of a life for themselves and their children
Yes there is, its called the stock market. Here is where the problem lies. I've worked for private companies..they are much more genereous and care about you. Public companies never did. Never.
@@stoneneils most working people do not want to invest in the stock market, because unlike the extremely wealthy we are not privileged to inside information to let you know weeks in advance what's coming down the pipe
@@nightfangs2910 Then why do so many talk about investing before they've even worked their first job. Its a strange cultural phenomena.
@@stoneneils yes lots of talk but the stats bare out most people do not invest in the stock market, most out of fear and ignorance of how it works, the public for decades are never taught financial literacy, now in the information age it's all out there for the taking learning how it works, and of course those wealthy families who have had all that knowledge for generations are now teaching it as a small part of school curriculums
@@stoneneilsI doubt that when civil war breaks out again that people will be talking about the stock market. It will be nothing more than a rich man's casino.
Drinking game: take a shot anytime you hear him say the word “job”
How did you know i had a shot of whiskey before making this video
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I was laid off 2 weeks ago. Half of us were. Because they moved Georgia (its cheaper to operate there) They, however, kept a part of their business here in California. We would think the company would keep the "best" workers.. DEAD WRONG I AM. They based which half of us gets laid off. Its the ones who are more expensive to keep. In the case of some of us who have health insurance through the company. I had me and my wife insured. Apparently i found the company does pay close to a $1000 a month. (75%).
If I were in this position I'd just visit my local rv dealership and buy a nice unit to live in. The monthly payment would be less than rent and I'd have a nice new place to call my own.
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A lot of 100% commission people make much much more than employees with what you consider a job
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Why do we, (the citizens of the U.S) have to pay taxes, which is revenue for the government, when the government can just print money whenever they want? Is taxes just a form of control?
Thanks we pay taxes because the want to penalize you for working doesn't make a lot offense but nothing politicians do does make sense!
Taxes is how much they can print. If the government debt is higher and the tax revenue is lower( deficit ) the currency loses its value. If government spend less than tax revenue then the currency increases its value.
If they pay the government debt with 100% printed money then everything goes bananas.
Just printing money with no tax revenue doesn't work. The confederacy tried this during the civil war and went bust after just a few years of it. The money has value because of the government's power to tax, that's what gives it credibility.
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I use crypto gains to push into cash then precious metals to alleviate unrepresented taxation. Anything- I mean ANYTHING less than that is as immoral as is cowardly, given what I know about my government.
Executives get paid too much for how little they do
I was a pharmacy tech. I made about 3 times minimum wage. This was in the early 2000's. I was able to save ten grand. 2008 happened and I couldn't keep a job and my salary dropped to just above minimum wage. So, I went to school to get a degree in computer science.
When I got out, I got a job making just 2 times minimum wage. So, I had actually took a step back in my standard of living. Then they reclassed and I got bumped back up to 3 times minimum wage. So going from pharm tech to software engineer was basically a lateral move.
Covid hits, I was about to triple my wage. Even when it was double, things felt correct. I could finally breath.
So 24000 in 2000 is the same as 100000 in 2024.
And from what I am seeing, a pharm tech now makes about 50,000 a year. That job has lost so much value now. But really, all jobs have.
A software engineer in 2000, I guess was making about 40,000 dollars. Minim wage was about 5 dollars an hour. That's about 10,000 dollars. As you can see, the difference between minimum wage and that software wage is 4x.
Now minimum wage is 41,000 and software developers make about 110,000. That's 2.68 times now.
As minimum wage increases, the higher paying jobs devalue. So, when I double my income, it is about 4x now. So really, I should be paid 200,000 to be a software engineer which would gave similar purchasing power that a software engineer had in 2000.
At this rate, eventually, software engineering will be a minimum wage job. Maybe in the next 25 years.
We are getting ducked.
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Two things
1. I live about 15 minutes from where you were filming so that was nice to see and
2. Thank you for the honest commentary on pay for workers (as many people seem to be hostile to these pay increases) and for laying out the true state of the economy.
It’s not good at all.
I own a small piece of property on a lake and I live in an RV And everything is paid for ,, I fucking love it ,, I just need to figure out how to get me a nice little shop built.
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If u made 20k a year or 50k a year it's the same level. Both guarantees u absolutely nothing
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That's what I completely agree with you some people think a job is everything no it's not start your own
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@@FaithiinJesus thank you sir
A business had profit when is open when the consumer is around, if not is better close early
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Boomers: Quit whining and get 2 more jobs
More like we'll tell you to stop being babies, rent an apartment that isn't a condo, live like a regular poor sob for a few years like we all did and build from there. Do not use the economy as an excuse to stay home with mommy and daddy. That is garbage as my city is full of gen-z making it just fine on one job on their own..or with roomates/girl/boyfriends. UA-camrs are enabling each other into depression lol. I show you how to make it but then you guy never reply.
@@stoneneils you are full of shit
too bad when get OLD and have been exploited by the RICH for so many years doing legalized slavery for poverty wages... we are so used up by 50 that we cant hardly get out of bed without FIRST taking a PAIN PILL and waiting for it to kick in . oh then DRUG TEST!!!!! U ARE ON DRUGS!!!! THEY ARE PRESCRIPTION!!!! doesnt matter.. FIRED!!! hire a 18 yr old "migrant" for abject poverty wages. no big deal .
@@stoneneils you expect us to pay for your social security, which will be gone when you're dead. Your generation has run the country into the ground for your own benefit, sending your kids to war for profit. I've never been so resentful against a group of people!!!!
@AwakeVeteran88 They want you to work so you leave mom's house rather than fail to launch. You're confusing your parents with corporations - many run by gen-x and millenials...and evenuall gen-z. Don't think Fortune 500 company run by gen-z are going to be any more compassionate. Its no the people, its the system.
I worked 23 years at one employer giving exemplary performance every year.
but when the CEO retired and a new CEO came in,
the new CEO cut everything and pushed all of the tenured, expensive producers out the door. 23 years gone.
I would’ve been better off investing those 23 years growing my own business than growing someone else’s.
folks, learn from my mistake. Invest in *yourself*.
Coworkers are super rude and so is management. Im not going to sit here and be yelled at for minimum wage.
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These employers want to pay grown adults with a family minimum wage and expect maximum effort in return. The expectations vs reality is way off anymore. I can't pay my bills on 40 hours at minimum wage. I'm out here working 70 hour weeks at way more than minimum wage and still don't have anything left over after the groceries and utilities are paid.
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People don't mind working a lot of hours with very high pay
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Just started this government phone job last week.
I already want to quit because it's not organized & my phone keeps going on with group texts at all hours of the F'n day
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Things can get worse. At least your country has some safety nets to give its citizens. Here there are no subsidies, food stamps, unemployment, etc. Minimum wage here is $250 a month. If you do not work, do you not eat. People here cannot afford to not work.
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thats just basically the southern US
This is the same for people in America when it comes to “work or starve”. Americans may get paid more than $250 a month but rent for a 1 bedroom apartment will take over 60% of your paycheck. Food, gas, electricity, water, car payments, internet and medical bills will take the rest, if you can afford any of that stuff. The grass is only greener here for a very few select group of people, everyone else is a wage slave for scraps.
@@troypropes1182 I thought "nobody" wanted to work there? Then how can they afford to not work?
@@LeonardoUA-cam8 might be hard to explain Americas ever changing social culture in a YT Comment but I’ll try the short version.
A lot of young Americans have woken up to the fact that we are trading our time in exchange for money from these corporations to barely afford to survive. Most Americans who say they “don’t want to work”, are usually still working 2-3 side hustles to afford the basic essentials.
Don’t let the American Propaganda fool you guys. We have tons of homeless, our infrastructure is failing, the price to life has skyrocketed, we are in ridiculous amounts of debt, most of us can’t afford to have a house or kids let alone healthy food, our politicians are corrupt, corporations have bought our entire political system, chemicals in our water and food supplies, etc etc. yea it could be a lot worse but there is a reason why our depression, suicide and overdose rates are crazy high.
Everything you said was fact. Straight on truth
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Cheers Kent , hopefully the fed get taken down and the tax system gets reformed. To many people not getting a fair deal , our pockets get picked at every chance the gov needs reform also . People power need to make a stand . Respect 👍
Thanks you bring up a very important point, as long as people are divided they are going to be taken advantage of, that's why I stated the video with the 2 difference responses from my last video. Thanks again!
long as the people aren't working together they will die together. @@FaithiinJesus
how does this compare to europe or asia? same? people don't want to work everywhere?
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theres even a bible verse about how the CEOs of the companies fatten their hearts at the expense of those that actually work. I personally believe there should be weights depending on your position and every position should get a portion of the companies profits. but then theyd just lowball the percentage that workers get. It just makes me sick the greed we see.
Thanks Im aware of the bible verses I was going to use them buy then people think your preaching. Thanks
I’m OK if somebody doesn’t wanna work but when they turn to me via the government to pay for their health insurance, their food, their housing spending money via one of the many social programs the government offers I have a problem with that.
I'd rather Americans benefit from my taxes, than it go to wars, ukraine, israel and the pockets of criminal politicians. That's exactly what is happening now.
What you say is true... I didn't want to work for someone else because employers never provided stability. For the poor working people who live paycheck to paycheck, it can all be taken away tomorrow because the employers fire, lay off, hire whenever they want to leaving workers unable to pay their rent and utilities. I thought it was better to try for some kind of self-employment because at least I knew I wouldn't fire myself.
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people do want to work.
has anyone tried applying for jobs?
loads of ghosting and fake adverts.
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This is true just fake
In uk not recruiting
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People aren’t lazy they’re just starting to realize their worth and that it’s not adding up when working for these corporations. If I can say covid did anything it opened my eyes and many others to that. That’s my intake on it.
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Why would people want to saty at 9 to 5 when there making it online u don't make sense
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I worked as a mechanic for years. Everywhere I worked no one was ever not a greedy crook that would sure enough tell you to do illegal things and expect you to and get angry and threaten you when you wouldnt.
That’s why I fucking hate this job I used to love this trade but the shop owners and dealerships ruined it
@@gigabasedchadlord2297 I got injured and had to stop doing it. I miss the work part but not the nasty parts of the job like certain types of people. I hear it's getting like that everywhere and in everything tho.
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One thing that is hugely overlooked is the tax system and policies. I think your close to accurate on the fed reserve and bailing out consumers in the future however your already aware of the problems that will bring. The absolute best consumer bailout would be a complete abolition of income tax and sales tax (or any taxes on purchases including gas/carbon tax)
The biggest bill Americans pay is the income tax. By eliminating it you put more money in consumers pockets and encourage working more.
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I agree
It's funny how many people are willing to judge others as being lazy if they don't show signs of working hard. I'm not against hard work, it's just that there's no point if it doesn't pay off. (Which is what the old adage claims. And it only seems to pay off if you're in it for yourself, those that do it under somebody else's terms tend to be taken advantage of.)
The wages don’t match the damn economy. That’s another problem. How you gonna give $20/hr and have rent being pretty much your whole check? Car payments being no lower than $500, insurance high, plus other bills.. but nah, I need to suck it up and just work, right? Be happy working my 2 jobs jus to survive😂😂😂
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I’m 53 I’m not sure I remember employees ever being cared for ? Only one guy that owned a Napa after he sold it gave some of his senior employees a cut of the sale .