David I’ve been watching your interviews for probably two years now, and finally realized I wasn’t even subscribed. Really love this, thank you for your work
In the 1950s, people in their twenties dated and people in their fifties worried about debt. Today, people in their fifties date and people in their twenties worry about debt.
@@anewagora I just cant imagine being so stupid that I dont know children have their own thoughts. One shouldnt need a doctor to tell them this, you have to be pretty monumentally dumb to forget one's own childhood.
People forget that they were once children who needed a loving caring person there for them to wipe their ass and dry their tears and kiss their boo boos and make them feel safe.
Gingeta_Creacha some people aren’t meant to be parents which in this generation is lower in percentages because most parents treat their children like they have no brain of their own. Also some parents didnt have real parents to teach them how a mother/father should be. Now a days everyone be getting pregnant n know nothing about how to treat a child or even take care of them. I see woman who have a child n get disgusted that they even poo, those are degrading ugly woman who don’t deserve to be mothers but some woman don’t think like that.
@@SnakeWasRight yeah my sister, who is 25, always thought my parents were "brainwashing" me into their opinions, when really I had my own thoughts. Only a few months ago did it stop, since I turned 13.
Being born in the late 1980, I always thought my parents and grandparents gave me too much stuff and not enough actual time. I know they ment well, but I don't have the toys and clothes anymore. The memories I have are getting a toy and being sent out of the room so the adults could talk. I won't do that to my children. Less junk, more time for them.
THIS! Also kids are individuals. Some love time together BUT some don't. Being a parent means listening and understanding your child's cues. But also EXCEPTING them too. I loved spending time with family but my sister hated it. - my grandparents "spoiled" the grandkids only bc they didn't have time for us all. I fear it's getting worse, when parents have to worked 40+hrs and feel guilty. It's making me sad coming to this realization. :(
I am one of gen Z and that dynamic isn't uncommon now. I was given everything. Except my dad's time. His definition of quality time together was watching television in silence. We are much more open now in conversing about our needs.
Just be careful they don't get the idea the world revolves around them. Never had, never will, but you wouldn't know it from the way some folks, of no specific age, behave these days.
@DrumWild at least they had jobs and could expect to buy a house. We still live in fear of nuclear holocaust now, admittedly no where near as much as the 60s but it is still a real threat. Especially with growing tensions with Russia at the moment and more countries possessing and/or developing nuclear weapons like North Korea, Iran and Pakistan. A nuclear war between say Iran and Israel or Pakistan and India would be the end of humanity much like a US-USSR war in the 60s would've been.
50s adults knew that thing things would get better if you worked. 60s boomers knew that thing just got better regardless of work. Millenials know that no matter how much you worked, things will never get better.
Back then, hard work was rewarded. Now you can work all day everyday and you may be lucky to be able to pay rent in your crappy rat hole apartment. But what do I know? I’m just a lazy millennial. I’ll just go choke on my avocado toast.
Ricardo, you're right. I went through the same thing. My marriage fell apart and I worked 3 jobs to care for my 2 children without any assistance and $200 monthly child support. So, it made my daughter fight for her marriage of almost 12 years. My son has divorced with one child and he pays over $1000 monthly voluntarily for one child. They've both learned a lot from me and try to do things differently. They've often called and thanked me for doing everything I could to make sure they had comfortable lives. They said they missed me, but they understood, now.
Exactly how it is for me, I commute 30 mins out of town to work 10 hour days in a sheet metal shop doing dangerous hard labor just to be able to afford a shitty one bedroom apartment. We have other options these days though, the internet has allowed quite a lot of opportunity for entrepreneurial work.
I hear you bro, 2 jobs here and still cant make ends meet, rent is thru the roof and homes are priced for rich people it seems, wages are stagnant yet food utilities even taxes keep going up, I used to believe in working hard, doing something anything would be rewarded with a stable life, but it aint the case anymore, I have a crappy phone I got a 6 year old car I commute nearly 3 hours since traffic is a nightmare, I dont sit at home at all, have tried other jobs but the wages dont keep up with the cost of living, we are getting screwed big time, yet we can afford foreign aid, perpetual wars and a wasteful military but you ask for a little break its "how dare you entitled asshole you want free shit, you bum" Im like "yeah enjoy your medicare old fart, even tho I wont have any when Im your age yet Im forced to pay for it now" smdh.........
I am a Boomer, and my dad was a steelworker. Dangerous work. Miserable in the summer and miserable in the winter. Back-to-back 8 hours shifts were common. He put a roof over our heads, and there was always food on the dinner table. My father is my hero.
I wonder if Andrew Takas realizes the irony of his perspective. Nowadays if you get up, go to work, and work hard you don't get promoted you just get handed more work.
There was a time when managers and supervisors were expected to know all the knowledge of a sector and were able to spot who were the hard workers and who were the bluffers. Now this is harder to find in many industries. Each department fights the other departments to pile work onto the weakest department and make their own lives easier. Management only react to crisis situations and adopt a short term view on running things. Service, loyalty and initiative are no longer the pathways to better pay that they once were. Now truly effective and successful workers go into free lance positions, not working for a particular company, so as to be able to develop themselves and avoid corrosive, morale sapping and obstructive office politics and cronyism rampant in the modern Corporation. The good workers hop from job to job pushing for pay rises along the way and always keeping a resume updated only with universally accredited skillsets and jobs experiences that are externally marketable and known. THey avoid specialisation and internally peculiar proprietary roles, useful in only one company, like the plague.
@@paccawacca4069 No thank God I never had debt. I do not believe in debt. Never had and never would believe in commiting to anything bigger than I could handle for 6 months of no income. Sort of like a siege everybody should have a contingency fund set aside to cover relocation, house sell and buy and other bills which happen when a jobs loss means getting another job.
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard old people tell me how “easy” we have it. Ironic coming from the generation that could afford to buy a house and car by working a 9-5 minimum wage job. Most people my age can only DREAM of owning their own house or being able to afford to eat and pay rent with no hassle. Not to mention $50,000 debt from student loans. Decades ago you could work a part-time summer job and it could be enough to pay for College. It’s almost impossible to live off of a minimum wage job, especially if you have a family.
Hello Zen we never had mobile phones loans on every thing you saved for what you wanted your main priority was your home and food on the table it was an embarrassment to owe money in those days different generations so don't moan😂
Maggie Oakley that’s just the point. It’s almost impossible to live now without owing money. I can assure you nobody wants to live that way but with the price of living going up drastically and the minimum wage at only about $14 (Ontario, Canada), along with added expenses such as a phone (which is very difficult to live without nowadays), young people have no choice but to go into debt. The average price for a house in Toronto in the 1980’s was about $109,000. In 2019 it is approximately $1.3 million. Tell me how my generation is supposed to save up for that?
@@hellozen18 Gen x here. You are correct. Just because you can get an "easy" loan doesn't mean you want to. It's a loan that has to be paid back and it will take a lot of work for most people.
Maggie Oakley mobile phones, that’s an extra bill and loans have to be paid back, we have way more expenses and a higher cost of living to deal with with a wage that is too low for the cost of living. If anything your generation had it way better than us. So please shut your mouth especially when you have no clue what you’re talking about
The most spoiled and entitled generation ever who had to work very little in comparison to their children now are calling their children lazy and entitled when they work harder and for less money than they did. Can't wait til your selfish generation of shit heads becomes to old to run the country anymore because you fucking broke it.
Watch me sweetheart. wonder why kids tend to deal with serious self esteem issues? It’s because we insult them and degrate their intelligence simply for their age. I doubt you work with kids or are around kids enough to realize how creative and interesting they can be if allowed to flourish and aren’t told they’re stupid or that they should be seen and not heard. Just look at teenagers of today. Many of them are very politically active and do their best to influence and affect the world around them. That young woman who survived a school shooting and then went on to make national news with her speech is a wonderful example. Kids are humans beings. They have no genetic difference to you. Stop acting like your better than someone just because you’ve got more wrinkles on your face.
I remember wishing I could have a childhood like my parents' childhood. They said they could go basically anywhere with their friends and how they'd either walk or bike everywhere. Of course they lived in a smaller town so they could do that. But they'd talk about how they'd bike the Dairy Queen with their friends on the weekends or play baseball or basketball or go to the pool during the summer with little supervision and I envy that. That freedom of being able to go out with your friends anywhere and enjoy life outside. Their childhood sounded much more fulfilling and exciting.
@lil doinker what you describe is what my childhood was like in the 70s, and i lived in a good sized city. what was your childhood like, and what prevented you from being free?
60's childhood i had was like that. we were a bunch of wild things! in summer we'd hit the door, our friends were waiting. sometimes, you didn't even go back home 'til the streetlights came on. nothing bad ever happened to anyone i knew in my whole town. maybe stitches if you fell out of a tree or such. truly feel sorry for kids now. they've never known freedom and fun in our 'old fashioned' way.
I remember both my grandparents and mother mentioning that. It sounds like heaven. I still wish I could of gone outside as a kid/teenager. But it's a different time now, how sad.
@@toddinthemiddle When I was six playing outside I was gang r**ed and later beaten. After we stopped being homeless I wasn't allowed outside. Like I said, to me what you guys are describing, it sounds like heaven.
Watch the video Boomer supermarket. It is almost like a documentary of a mom and her two children shopping in 1963. You wouldn't believe how cheap they got a basket of food. Type. Boomer Supermarket. Into UA-cam.
@@katec3963 Around 1991 I moved into a three-bedroom duplex with a couple of friends. Not too bad; one floor, one bathroom; but a large living room with a fireplace, and we could each have our own space. We paid $500 a month. Minimum wage was about $7.50/hour. Looked into rents in the same town recently, since I was flirting with moving closer to my elderly parents. Would have liked a three-bedroom again, since I now have two kids. Unfortunately, I can't even afford a one-bedroom apartment; they *start* at about $1,500. Minimum wage, meanwhile, has also gone up. To $10.50/hour. So, minimum wage has gone up by what, roughly 30%? Meanwhile rent, for a *smaller* place, has gone up 150%. But it's more than just that. Because, back in the day, working full time, you'd gross about $1,200.00 (before income tax etc). So even paying all of the rent by myself, I would still have had $700 left over for everything else (again, less taxes, so realistically more like $450. But still; it's a positive number). And splitting the rent with my two roommates (one for each bedroom, and the only way we could afford a roof over our heads), I only had to cover $167.00 in rent, leaving me with almost a theoretical thousand dollars (okay, so like $700) for my share of food, electricity, etc, not to mention gas and car insurance. Tight; but doable. Nothing left over and the fridge was usually empty (we were in college and therefore only working part time); but we had lights and a roof. So, rent has gone up by a thousand dollars. But working minimum wage? Even full-time, you're only grossing $1,680. So people earning minimum wage these days only have $480.00 more each month (less income tax, etc) than I did almost thirty years ago. And out of that, they're somehow supposed to cover an additional $1,000.00 each month in rent *alone*, when everything else--food, gas, etc--has also gone up at least 100%. If you can stretch a budget to make that work then please, do share it with me.
Well I remember buying lawn seats in the early eighties for $6-8 - about twice the minimum wage - now people are paying anywhere from $80 -$1000 to go to a concert while minimum wage is around $9. Are the musicians really worth that much that you would work 10 to 100 hours just so you get a chance to hold your phone up at a concert for 2 hours. That also is something I never quite understood - going to a concert used to mean being at the concert and living the experience - instead of recording it to view at a later time. The simple fact is : you only have control over how you spend your money - living in an location means you are subject to the whims of the local rental/purchase costs of real estate - which I have to admit has gotten out of hand. But cooking at home , buying used cars, not buying a $5 coffee every morning, not buying clothes you dont need, or not buying the latest smartphone each year (think about it - if you are making $35000 - can you really afford to spend $1000 on a new phone) will help you build your bank account. The think I always do before making a purchase is to question - "Do I really need this?" - then wait a few days and ask myself the same question. For me , the answer is usually NO.
@@KryssLaBryn minimum wage @7.50 a hr. Where where you located? Minimum wage was 2.85 in 1990, 1991. In the state I was in. It went to 3.15. Eventually Went to 4.25 a hr in 93. Staying that way for several years.
Here I am at 74ish. All I remember is the poverty and brutality of a single parent home. While all our classmates were surfin USA, and rockin around the clock, My brother and I had to work in that yard and dig up another tomorrow. Don't miss those years. Been retired 10 years now. Enjoying every minute of it.
Sounds wonderful. Retirement is an experience unfortunately I will never have. As an independent filmmaker, there is no such thing. No 401(k) etc. David Hoffman - filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker You're doing an exceptional job. Ty for these generational insights. And, I'm confident that you'll figure out your retirement. Cheers.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker so who told you that you weren't allowed to invest in the stock market by yourself and that you had to have an employer do it for you?
Ah, yes. The Christian crusades and satanic panic of the 80's and 90's. What horiffically self righteous and socially regressive time in american cultural history.
nerd Surfer Omg, I was a teenager in the early 2010's and yes, my parents did force me to wear oversized clothing. "Because I would grow more" they used to say, but I know the real reason was that backwards mormon law of chastity. Like, I was an extremely skinny, average height boy, who should have worn a XS size and they usually made me wear M or L sizes.
Born in 1947. I don't recall being the center of my parents' concern at all. Mom was always home and I had three brothers. The feeling I've always had was that I had a load of unspoken responsibility at home and that I raised myself. My brothers were the kids depicted in this video. Coddled, praised and worried over by Mom, but often ignored by Dad.
This is exactly what the video was talking about. You're so self centered that you can follow "Mom was always home" with "I raised myself". The generation after you were latchkey kids who got themselves up for school, dodged gang members once they got there, had everybody asking them what they would go to college to study, and made their own dinner. All while your generation constantly cried about "kids these days." All before the age of 10. But please, tell us how bad you had it growing up in the 50s.
@@mikaelgaiason688 You do realize you just told a 74 year old woman she doesn't know the meaning of hard times, right? As for me, I think a few videos on Vietnam POW camps, might give me some perspective on what, 'hard times,' are all about. Or perhaps, what growing up with agent orange, was all about. Suffering is suffering...
@diane9247 I was born in 1953 my dad drove Mack Trucks and my mom ran around on him with a married man. Why did they make this as some special time. Yes we could play outside but there were structured things to learn. Yeah I lived alone for many years. Didn't marry till I was 44. Raised his 4 children and then divorced. So much for the white picket fence in living happily ever after.
@@sweetdrreemz That old lady never said she was Vietnamese. Yeah, they had hard times when her generation decided to bomb and gas them. She didn't though.
It might seem absurd to hear that, but before the war children tought ot be young adults, ready to be shaped and molded int owhatever was needed, hence why child labour was such a common thing (Among other things) A child was just an asset, after the war, the value of a child suddenly became more real a new generation after a horrific incident involving the whole world.
Low key this video is suprising because like my grandma told me she lived as child as like "children are supposed to be seen not heard." Which is bs to me but facts at the same time.
Children as people WAS a new concept post WWII. Throughout history they were considered labor primarily - or tradeable possessions for wealth building. Oftentimes they were burdens due to poverty.
Children were considered assets, especially for farmers. The more kids you had, the more workers you had for your crops. And the more kids you had, the more security you had in retirement because they would take care of you in your old age.
“The message was clear: this is the way your life should be. And if it wasn’t something must be very wrong” TV in the 50s, social media now. I’m sick of it. We keep putting our effort in what it looks like ínstead of what it actually is.
My mom was born in 1955, but became a lawyer. She was also the first person in her family to ever finish high school, much less go to college. I’m so proud of her.
I like watching old video footage and photographs because people's faces always look different from today or other times. People in 1950's pictures have a different "type of face" than people in 1910's pictures and so on. Almost like every decade humanity gets a graphics patch.
Home economics was an awesome class. So was shop. It’s unfortunate that they have removed both. Kids need to learn to balance a bank account, sew, cook, saw, and use a drill. I’ve been grateful to know both.
Boys didn’t get to take home ec here. And girls weren’t allowed in the boys’ draughting/shop classes. And I, a girl, ended up being stuck taking sewing and never made anything that wasn’t inside-out or backwards 😂. My grad year was 1983. I think it’s better now. My son took cooking and sewing (and he did much better than I did).
It’s a shame indeed, as a member of gen z, I’ve had to teach myself all that, and my parents were busy working so we could afford to have comforts and a sense of saftey. Life has been good to me the way I see it, I’m not forced into crime, on drugs, or affording food or a roof. I mean, hell what more could you want in life, a place to rest your head and feel safe with a family that loves you. I think that’s all you really need
I was born in 1955. Went to a Catholic high school and took college prep courses. Then I didn't go to college! The only practical course I took that was of any benefit to me was typing. I wish I had taken home ec.
You can learn anything on UA-cam. If kids want to they will once it becomes a necessity. There’s no excuse now! We didn’t have the internet when I was a teen.
from a gen z perspective, it’s ironic to me how that generation complained about their children being spoiled, then for those children to grow up and raise millennials and then proceed to call them spoiled. it’s like the cycle just continues.
early gen Zer/late millennial here, totally agree. The more I learn about psychology, the more I understand there is no such thing as “spoiled”. Kids are just reacting to their environments. If a parent is having issues with their kid, they need to reflect on what the real issue is and take responsibility for the results of their own parenting. (Then ideally make a change.)
Millennial here. You know how when someone complains about today’s youth, you have this picture in your head about this little old man with a bony frame, balding head and pants pulled up far enough to give a wedgie? Well, the Boomers couldn’t wait. I think I was the ripe old age of fifteen when I was told I was an entitled, lazy little good-for-nothing. I don’t even remember what I did, but I remember being amazed that the one calling me such and railing against my generation couldn’t have been older than his thirties. Now that my generation are getting a bit older and preparing to hand the torch to the zoomers, I sort of get it. It’s not that anything is wrong with us, it’s that we’re younger. It’s like the Boomers think that if they make enough of a stink, somehow it will negate the effect of time. They’re old now, my generation is on our way to being old, and someday Gen Z will be old. Boomers are just scared and like all cowards, take it out on someone who can’t fight back.
@@fablethewolf825 I hear you and have noticed that too. Certain people of all generations are quick to deflect their own feelings of inadequacy onto others, sometimes their parents or their children. Please don’t take it personal or classify an entire generation by the opinions of a few. I think we ALL we’re dealt that hand at your age unfortunately, and I still think it’s unfair. You constantly hear, “you’re old enough to know better” AND “you aren’t old enough to decide” selectively! I will be 60 this year and now wish I had someone doing that to me so I could say, “okay, you decide please” because I’m exhausted from making decisions. :) I really DO remember that time in life above all, as the most frustrating. Apparently I’m tired now. I am supposed to have all of the wisdom now and the most important thing I’ve learned is I can still learn from people of all ages simply by listening. Perhaps you can help me if I ask a stupid question? Hopefully this won’t make you throw away what I just told you bc I’m just being honest. Here’s my question I think you can answer: Which generation do I fall into? I mean, am I a baby boomer or what? I’m honestly admitting I don’t know. I’ll be 60 this November but I’ve heard the Baby Boomers phrase used before we grew up referring to children conceived after WW2? We were, but I’m the youngest of 4 so? Please pardon my typos, regardless of the question. I’m not stupid haha, just can’t see well anymore due to aging, medical issues and allergies. Thank you. Have a great long weekend! :)
@@crystalbelle2349 Baby boomers are technically those born 1944-1964. However, my mother was born at the end of 1963 and she doesn’t identify with boomers at all. She doesn’t remember and/or wasn’t born when all of the defining moments for them happened. She will argue vehemently that she’s Gen X lol. So I’m inclined to think that maybe whoever decided on the years should have ended it a few years earlier. Do with that what you will :)
What's with this ridiculously rude "change my mind" comment I keep seeing? I honestly couldn't care less what you think. About anything. Right from the start you sound like a dick so why would I bother?
@@renepassa1969 there is this one meme of this guy sitting at a desk with a sign saying “change my mind” and people will edit it to be like “pineapple on pizza is good, change my mind” so when people say change my mind at the end of a post, they don’t actually mean try to change my mind, they mostly mean “I have a strong opinion and I am ready to defend it”
@@iliad8988 Lmao, my thoughts exactly. When someone dislikes a good point yet can't come up with a logical counterpoint taking offense is their go to. Sad state of affairs.
I was born in the 50’s We never felt entitled or wondered why our fathers worked so hard. We were watching cartoons. The statement “I hardly ever saw him” was true
If it helps my dad born in the 50s I see way too much, he retired early and has nothing to show for it. Now he just waits for my mother to give him his allowance.
That may have been true for you. It wasn't true in our family and many of our friends families. We weren't allowed to lay around and watch TV. We had chores-- we were given responsibility and taught to work hard. When finished with our work, TV wasn't allowed. We would go out, meet our friends get a ball or gloves and bats and play hard. About the only TV we watched was Bonanza on Sunday night at 8 p.m. as a family. Other than that it was just 15 minutes of the Nightly News. No computers no cell phones no video games... How did we ever survive??😏
Sick of hearing live within means bs. People can't pay bills period when cost of housing alone is 50% of their monthly take home. WAGES ARE NOT RISING WITH INFLATION
This clip is about the parents to the generation born after WW2, though. These parents had to live through war and depression. They are not talking about Millenniels or even Generation X.
I was born in 1955 . The best part was all the personal freedom . They sent us outside to play as early as possible and only noticed our absence at dinner time . I had so much time to build forts and rafts and make acorn mush , like they showed us in grammar school. It was growing up without supervision mostly . Which was awesome . Both my grandmothers had their own businesses. No one ever told me I couldn’t do stuff because I was a girl. No one told me much at all, they let me figure stuff out on my own . Life was very educational because you could learn so much on your own . I feel sorry for kids these days , daydreaming time is a thing of the past and their time is scheduled like if they were in the military .
That sounds like the type of childhood I'd wish my daughter to have. The issue is, there aren't any children playing outside anymore, at least not in the neighbourhood we live in. Children here are being kept indoors most of the day. I really do worry about my daughter's creativity and problem solving skills.
Pedophilia is rampant. Even in the 90s when I played unsupervised by mom I had people approach me in a white van and offer me candy. On a separate incident and old man asked me to go to his appartment and play games. I said mom told me never to do that and I didnt go. About a week later we found out a man got an unsupervised 5 year old to go with him and he assaulted her. My two besties were molested. Cant let kids wander
Yeah, now everyone is a damn helicopter parent. Children ought to be able to freely interact with each other, they don't need constant supervision and regulation.
I understand most of the message in this video but it’s targeted to upper middle class not average working class families. In my experience children were invisible and taught to be thankful for anything they had like food and a roof over your head and a bike if you’re lucky . There was no extra curricular activities just chores .
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room". --- Socrates (469-399 BC)
@@Andre.W96 tbh i dont think gen z aren't all that bad (yet) other than their music where the "rapper" sounds like hes half falling asleep because he ate 2 dozen xanax bars
Parents who treat their children as objects, extensions of themselves. Have no respect for their children. Its disgusting. I grew up with a narcissist mother, she was raised by narcissist parents. Its disgustingly damaging. Children raised with love & respect grow into loving, respectful adults.
And yet, it is the responsibility of every adult to themselves become a well adjusted and complete individual. People can change and improve themselves, fight the demons they inherited from their parents so they don’t in turn pass them onto their own children.
My Mom and her siblings were neglected. They were born 48. 50, 54. My Mom found a letter she wrote to her parents where she wrote over and over that she was hungry. At first she was laughing then the look on her face was a mix of horror, anger, and sadness.
1950s parents gave kids a lot of "stuff," probably to make up for what they didn't have, and spoiled them economically, but they themselves were emotionally stunted, not allowed to have feelings because life had been hard, and they emotionally starved their kids. Dad worked all day and had no idea how to relate to a kid (other than spankings). Mom was repressed and frustrated by being trapped in the house with kids. This was NOT a golden era of parenting.
When the man at 2:06 explains how putting the work in was worth it in this time, it really hits home. Someone working at a grocery store could support a house payment, a car and a family. 2019 called. They want their idealism back.
But the economy is great better than it has been in years. He forgets to say only if you are in the top 1% or living off the public and flying to Florida for gulf most week-ends.
@@barbarapinkston7435 what are you talking about? The inflation is horrible. It is deff not better now, you just think it is because entertainment and MSM clouds judgement and compassion for the issue
@@corywiedenbeck1562 I don't know what you are talking about. Unemployment is higher because people have to work 2 or 3 jobs and that is both people in a household have to work to hopefully get a place to live Healthcare is bankrupting families, climate change bringing destructive weather everywhere and the man in the oval office is a nasty name calling liar.
Parents of Boomers: These boomer kids are too spoiled Boomers today: those Millenial and Gen Z kids are too spoiled The cycle continues, and in 50 years, it’s gonna be us young people doing that too.
Snow Bunny Prince that’s what we all think but we probably have don’t it at some point. If you have gone to high school, you know that the school unanimously hates on the freshman just because they are freshman. That is an example of people hating on the younger generations.
@@rou8390 I've never done that but I have seen others do it. I dont understand the disdain people have for the younger generations tbh! We should be encouraging and helping each other! 🐰💕
Holy shit they could afford a house, at 28 years old!? Amazing, I presently am immersed in debt, I work 2 jobs and cannot afford a house or a piece of land to build me a house, much less raise a family, I live with my parents and help them with the bills in exchange for a roof, times are hard.
7:16 I was born in 1980, in South Africa. At age 17 at high school I completed a full aptitude test with the rest of my grade to see which careers we were suited to. I was told all of the ones mentioned here... Today I run a busy Arts and Entertainment company, I'm a a multipotentialite who works on over 40 different creative areas. Despite being gifted in music and arts I was never encouraged to follow that career path! 1997!!
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Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert CAMACHO In 1994, I was 24 and bought a 3 bedroom, 1300 square foot house in a nice neighborhood.
@New Tunes For Old Logos house payments, utilities, phone, internet, tv, car insurance, car payments, food, putting some in savings, gas, house insurance, travel, and other odds and ends. Also don't forget 30% goes to taxes. If you're job doesn't cover it, health and dental insurance. So yeah, that's where it goes
@@jeffgayzose8129 house payment with insurance and taxes 2k Phone $100 Internet $50 Gas $300 Dental $100 Health let’s throw it at $1000 And in what country are you in to be taxed at 30%? Filing single 0 you don’t even get to the 30s until after 163k and married is at over 300k So assuming you take 30% of 10k We have 7k to do bills and what not I’ve listed $3550 in bills Now we have $3450 for savings, fun and food…. There’s plenty and if it’s not then you just don’t have any financial skills to make money work…::: I make like 74k a year on 40 hrs and like 80-90 depending on the year, file single 0, have a stay at home wife and two kids…. There’s still money left over
In elementary school, I told my grandmother I wanted to be a doctor. Unequivocally said that girls can't be doctors they could be nurses. I was born in 1951
Old ideas die hard. Grandmother-in-law told new sister-in-law (who was about 12 at the time) that girls couldn't do math. Didn't take on grandma, but made sure new sister-in-law knew that was crap!! Oh, and that was in 1982.
@@whisperingsage the comment isn't about nurses vs. doctors. There are things doctors know and can accomplish that nurses can't as well but OP is talking about the limitations society places on females holding certain occupations.
I tried to follow in my parents footsteps - went to to work everyday, worked weekends, did as I was told, and at the end of the year it for me a 25 cent raise.
I asked for a raise. I was told - .25 now, and another .50 at the end of the year. At the end of a year the company switched hands and I had to sign some paperwork. I said "I was promised a raise" and I was told that I was "so entitled". I quit that day but got full employment insurance because the paperwork had stated I was "laid off" temporarily until the other paperwork was signed! I became pregnant immediately and lived off of EI for months in perfect bliss. (Ok other 4han being really sick) Checkmate!! They even tried to dispute it but my paperwork proved I was "laid off". 🤷♀️😅
Anom Mona there’s a distinction between strong men and overbearing men. Strong men actually make life better, while the overbearing type is just trying to fool everyone into thinking he is strong by pushing people around.
@The Flying Dutchman >The fall of Rome Which one? The fall of the western Rome took more than a century - that's a lot of generations. Also, It had a ton of external drivers, like great migration.
"They thought life was about being free and being happy" I mean shouldn't we aspire for life to be that way. He said almost as if to say that life is shit and not happy. Which my answer to that is, why give life if life is a miserable existence.
Freedom is important but people need responsibility to feel purposeful too, and to give meaning, which is what a lot of people simply don't feel now. Comfort kills ambition. The fact is that human beings do need hardship to thrive. Unlimited comforts just end up destroying humans because humans will always look for some kind of adversity and something to fight for/against, even if they have to make it up, hence the ridiculous "social justice" causes of today. If people were given actual adversity, those social justice causes would disappear overnight when people realize how frivolous and stupid they are in comparison.
@@subverted6555 My experience in life is that you are correct that one big stuff happens, smaller stuff becomes less important. But that's true on the both sides. True for social justice issues and also true (hopefully) with those issues that the other side raises constantly, sexual orientation, etc. I think of the Cuban missile crisis, 9/11, and some of these really bad fire as we been having near us in California as such experiences. In fact my house and my archive largely burned to the ground in 2008 changing things in some surprising ways, including some good ones. David Hoffman filmmaker
i think they meant that they thought it was the only thing that mattered in life. I agree being free and happy are the priorities, but you also have to have responsibility in order to be free and happy. that man worded it really weirdly
Growing up in the 50's we were not allowed to express our authentic selves. Children were seen but not heard. We couldn't talk about what mattered. Going to college was not required to have a life so parents didn't have that burden. I believe each generation teaches the previous one. Trust intuition. Live fearlessly
College is just a bunch of useless liberal studies trash that makes you no actual living wages when youre through with it. just to shove noses into politics.
In the 50s, if only the MAN went to work, you could survive and prosper. It was an entirely different economy in the cost of living for all the basics was very cheap. This is something they never take into consideration when they try to compare themselves to today's millennials. Both parents working 40 hours a week is not enough to keep up in this rat race for much of the pay level jobs available. Not to mention the cost of healthcare today. I'm a baby boomer and I would be scared to be graduating from high school or college today, hoping to be able to make it on my own, so therefore I never blame the millennials it's like comparing apples to oranges
Indeed, when I went to college and took macro economics they talk about how the conomy is growing and household income has increasingly risen... What a load of crap, while the economy has grown; household income has only risen because the continuos inclusion of women in the workforce, women studying higher paying careers, women getting equal pay... That's it, nothing to do with corporations paying more out of their fabulous increase in production.
Alice Wonderland that's why I'm learning how to weld in the Army. High paying, in demand, and not sought out for. It's a perfect job for those ambitious enough to work for it
You're forgetting also that you could get a blue collar job now and live pretty good if you are willing to buy way out in the boonies. The house would be nice and so on just like back then or you could live in the hood. In so cal you would have to drive around 100 miles one way it's possible just not the same and very time consuming on our jacked up freeways
Dawson Heinbaugh go into welding plumbing. It's harder to get into than the iron workers union but the guys you'll be around will actually have an iq. I work construction and the farther away from those brutes the better, plumbers are much better tradesmen. Looking it that too a journey man with little to no responsibility in Los Angeles get 46/hr. HVAC gets around 46 as well Electrician gets 43 Not sure about the other trades, I hear some rumors of iron workers up near 70 but like I said the farther away from those guys the better, zero iq
“At home this would be a minor tragedy.” No, it would be an annoyance. Use it for syrup on pancakes instead of jam on toast. That’s what my 1950s/1960s mother taught me - if my fudge didn’t “fudge,” she’d put it in a jar in the fridge, & buy some vanilla ice cream the next time she went to the store. Then she’d tell the rest of the family: “Tina made these wonderful hot-fudge sundaes for our dessert!”
@rocky mountain lass I was raised the complete opposite. My dad would constantly bitch, scream, moan and complain about every minor setback and inconvenience. I've never known someone so be so self obsessed and entitled. Even as a child I could see how pathetic it was. A real man (or just adult in general) tries to solve problems, not play the victim every single chance he gets.
That jelly being declared a flop? I have to disagree. I grew up with my mom’s homemade jelly. I much preferred it to be soft like that. It had better flavor (to me) than the firm kind. Unfortunately, my dad preferred for his jelly to “stand up and look you in the face”, as Mother described it. She most often deferred to my preference since I ate it the most, though. It’s how I try to make it now, but how runny / firm is mostly left to chance since I’m not as good at it as my mom was.
I was born in 1947, at the forefront of the boomer generation. My family motto: Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do, or do without. We never had credit cards or loans that I know of. I got a paper route at 12, and been working virtually every day since. Worked my way through college & took 8 years to get a 4 year degree. No one I knew was fat. However, I do feel a lot of sympathy for the youth of today. You have been short-changed by the money changers who bankrupted the country with the Vietnam war and had to take us off the gold standard. It was then that our "money" became nothing but fiat, and unlimited amounts could be issued. It wasn't the boomers who declared that war, but it was the boomers who fought it. You have been short-changed educationally, too. I know that my son's K-12 education was not as rigorous as mine, and can only imagine how sad it is today. Not enough history, math, writing, science...in other words, the basics. Not enough individualism & too much conformity. There's much more, too.
Wow, baby boomers were called spoiled, for being raised in a good homes, having money to spent, and living in prosperity. We were called spoiled, for asking for less debt going to school, and asking our workplace to treat us like a human being.
Most of us weren’t spoiled because our parents had little money to do that. In Australia post war families were still struggling to make ends meet. Baby Boomers have had the benefit on knowing money was not a prerequisite for happiness.
The danger of sweeping generalisations is that they are always wrong and the feeble minded use them to prove some point or other that suits their own angry disposition.
@Martin Loney So true. You also have to consider who really (literally) profits from sowing hatred between generations? If regular people of all generations worked together we'd have a living wage and health care here in America. Instead we have people getting manipulated into this "OK Boomer" nonsense and billionaires who don't pay taxes.
@@nekkidpossum4397 a very interesting question. The collective power of all compassionate people would bring wonderful change. Division suits the powerful vested interests.
In the early 60s, we had "Career Day" at my junior high school. We learned about different careers, and then we each went one by one to talk to our school counselor about it. I decided I wanted to be a farmer. The counselor told me, "Honey, girls aren't farmers. They MARRY farmers." I said, "Well, how about a veterinarian then?" "Well, you can marry a veterinarian, if you like." SMH.....
Julie Purpleskater Meh, not everyone thought that way. I was a kid in the 60s and my dad always told me I could become the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
My mother had to work in my family farm from childhood till marriage. My grandmother still work with agriculture. But it was in the countryside, my father grew up in an entirely different culture where women stayed in kitchen.
@@thejoyofreading7661 Well, whining begets whining. If you whine about people whining, then you can expect people whining about people whining about people whining.
“I wasn’t allowed to go into the real professions” I think part of the problem with sexism is that we don’t see traditionally female jobs as “real” jobs, as if a woman has to be doing the same things as a man to deserve respect. Whether she goes into a traditionally male field or not she deserves respect, period.
@Ashvin Vaidyanathan Teachers need to be paid what they are worth and they are worth allot! Professional athletes on the other hand...not worth a fraction of what they are paid.
@Bruco Alidas I wasn't aware since I never follow anything sports related, except who wins the World Cup. It's terrible how young men now a days are being duped and their masculinity being slowly eroded by the NWO under everyone's noses. I loved it when men where men. They were so much fun then. Now it seems to me young men have lost their way and their confidence. Sigh.
Right. If a woman does a job she is "naturally suited for" where is the skill in that? Pay her a sensible wage. Her bonus is her contribution to society.
Her point was not that her job couldn't be a real job if it weren't men's work. Her point was that being a paid professional --doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc. just wasn't supposed to be an option for her, even if she wanted it, regardless of whether a man would typically do those jobs. I would imagine that even if there were no male doctors, she would consider being a physician to be a real job, because it requires specialized, higher levels of education and comes with a hefty salary.
Stupid generation still made progress for us, imagine if this was never “discovered” and we were just “discovering” this now? Just like they’re still “discovering” that animals have feelings and that trees make noises the naked human ear can’t hear. Can’t exactly trash a generation for making progress, no matter how small.
I mean we still have parents thinking that their 6-9 year old is trans. Just because their kids say they are so, and now we have a major issue on our hands where parents are fighting for the right to allow their kids who’s minds aren’t fully developed to physically and chemically change their sex. We live in wild times
Every generation vexes the generation before them. This video didn't show that there were women in the Army as auxiliary groups, women who took temporary jobs to support WWII efforts, and were in factory jobs in WWII and displaced instantly by the veterans when they came home. It was devastating to many women who wanted to continue those jobs. I wonder if part of the 1950's was to emphasize that a woman should return to the job of being homemakers and get a husband and raise a family and leave the salaried work for men.
@Garrett Dodds It's too bad masculinity is portrayed as toxic, because there are a lot of talents that men bring to the table. Generally taller and more muscular than women, they can get the stuff off the high shelves at the grocery,and they can spot me if I'm uncertain with my movement or balance. Or also moving large, unwieldy things like furniture down steps or flipping over or turning mattresses. I believe men should be allowed to show their feelings but also work together in projects like DIY. One of my favorite pictures my mom bought was of a man giving his full attention to carving a bowl out of wood, about the size for a casserole or to hold fruit on the table, or toss salad. This man looked gentle, strong, focused, and determined, in every way what I see good men are. Caring. Respectful. Feeling. The men's dynamic is often different from women's dynamic, but each brings unique talents to the family.
Can you imagine what it would be like to have a job in a retail store or a restaurant and being able to support a wife and kids on it? I couldn’t even support myself when I was doing that.
But everything was much cheaper bak then, in 1969 with 1 dollar, u could pay 25 cents for cigarettes 25 cents a gallon of gas, 15 cents for hamburger, 10 cents for a phone call, the rest on candy or a comic book.
That's what happens when the government spends money it doesn't have. It eventually comes out as inflation, and often it's the next generation that pays. Now it's happening at a rate never seen before, totally exponential. Of course there are winners in this system: those who are behind the Federal Reserve (whom even congress is forbidden from knowing the names of).
Charles Clapper Statistically speaking boomers did have the best run out of all generations, a lot of baby boomers when they got older didn’t really consider the Cold War to actually be an issue and we’re rarely effected by it or by any other societal issue, that’s why the 50s and early 60s are called “the golden years of America.” By a lot of (white) boomers today, many people from today’s era would even consider the 50s to be a better time than now. Yes it did have its downsides but you can’t deny that they DID in fact have the best time period to live in economy wise.
I grew up in the 50s then when I went to college and studied biology, my parents were so angry because they didn't think I could get a job. When I graduated they pushed me to be a secretary. I'm so glad I didn't listen to them.
Very similar to my wife. She tried banking but did not like it. She wanted to do science but the only jobs at that time were in teaching which she did not want to do. She took up nursing. Gradually and steadily she built up to a doctorate in Nursing development and metrics. All her life she never complained about her often tough and challenging work life but she obtained extra qualifications to give her choices in life. Nurses have a 75% chance of acquiring back injury in the course of their work, plans must be made to be able to move to non-frontline jobs if this proves necessary. She realised this and successfully moved from frontline to admin before her back gave out. People need to have a plan B in their worklife.
I was the last six kids. I was born in 1955. Kids were to be seen and not heard. We were not allowed to talk at the dinner table. I remember getting slapped because I was laughing at the dinner table. How sad is that? Nobody valued what we had to say.
I was born in 1993 to a narcissistic father born in 1950 and an image obsessed mother born in 1947. By all accounts from their siblings both had very supportive parents and privileged childhoods. My life was "Be seen not heard" and "You are our property, not your own person." They both could have done with a good slapping around in childhood. I learned what bad parenting looks like and I've chosen to raise my children with a compassionate yet firm hand. Every Boomer I've ever known who had a "rough childhood" ended up as an entitled shit adult. We would have a better world if most of them had never reproduced.
Wow, that sucks. Sorry you had to endure that. I was born in 72’. My parents were strict and had their own issues, but why have kids if they are only to be seen not heard? That’s Twisted.
My grandma is a boomer and my mom is Gen X, I’m a millennial (mom had me young). My grandma was definitely a hippie but never went too far to the point of disappointing her parents. She went to college, became a teacher, but then her family fell back when she got pregnant with my mom and wasn’t married. I feel like she didn’t like how much that traditional parental pressure for the standard American Dream she grew up on was and in turn was very laxxed with my mom and uncles. Somehow that turned into my mom being hard on me lol. I had to have a job, I had to either be in school or working, and I had to be out by 18 or at least working on getting out. All I’ve known is work work work work work. Constantly reminded that my generation is lazy. Working in circles. It’s interesting to break down generational norms as well as contributing economic factors into seeing why things are the way they are. It’s like a domino effect.
If you don't mind me asking... How do you think you turned out? Did the work work work thing help you for the better? Sounds like you would have certainly learned to not take things for granted. Maybe 'your' generation is lazy, but you certainly don't seem lazy.
Its always been hard. Almost impossible to live on one paycheck, therefore working spouse or roomates. It was true 40 yrs ago for me its true now. Of course you want to be paid fairly, dont blame you.
So many people refer to the 50s as the good old days when everything was so perfect. When in reality, the 50s just like any other decade had its share of issues too. Personally, I think society was still overly naive and kind of gullible back then, believing almost anything that was in the newspapers or on television.
the 50’s were only “good” in the US because in Europe the economy was really bad and the people didn’t have any homes or nothing because it got destroyed
Nah, the boomers had it great in the 50s and 60s. I mean, most of us today could only dream of having a part time job and be able to pay for a house,car and more. The boomers were enoying themselves SO MUCH that they ruined the entire economy for the future generations.
Dad went to Korea and Vietnam..I had nothing but respect for him. He was distant and he worked hard. But still, I couldn't fault the man. He is the main reason I got ahead in life.
I wish I was taught how to make jam in school. I'd rather have knowledge that allows me to be self sufficient than sit in an office staring at a computer all day so I can be a consumer and buy everything I need.
I got a D in home economics because our teacher was a mean old fuss pot that assumed certain things were innate in females. When the only boy in the class could crochet and I couldn't - she was UPSET. And this was in the late 1980s!
@rocky mountain lass LOL! No, my home ec teacher was married and loved to "show off" her grown son when he came to town to visit. I got the feeling she felt that she felt I wasn't trying hard enough because I must've been "subversive feminist" invading her class. I grew up in a very conservative town. My mother was a stay at home mom, and she encouraged me to be whatever I wanted to be - I think she was actually afraid for me to become a stay at home mom. But, I was observant of how my father treated her like she was one of us kids, and I KNEW that life was not for me. Basically, kids learn at the feet of their parents big time.
Well, that's debatable. Literature from around this time and even before (such as Of Mice and Men) started commentary on the death or nonexistence of the American Dream. It's just more obvious now because everyone can share their complaints and financial concerns in seconds.
Then: *WWII Generation:* Go get a job, you bum! *Baby Boomers:* Don't tell me what to do! Now: *Baby Boomers:* Go get a job, you bum! *Millennials:* Don't tell me what to do!
Yeah honestly, back then they could afford a lot more with a super freaking basic job. Those same jobs nowadays either pay less or everything else costs more, and to even get the job you have to jump through a ton of hoops and spend a ton of money to maybe get your foot in the door. Then boomers and Gen X have the gall to say we're lazy because of it.
Professor Rosenstock more like womens studies and art degrees dont get you anywhere. Jobs are everywhere if you actually try. It was their choice to go to college for fields with either no job security or fields with no jobs.
justanotherblankchannelman you do realize that gender studies and art make up such a small and insignificant amount of chosen majors, right? Gender studies is just a specific form of history and art majors are usually on scholarship or funded by parents. Even engineers are facing market over saturation.
are you living on planet earth with the rest of us? i got an art degree from a small liberal arts college back in 2013, and i'm currently earning almost $80,000 a year working only 40 hours a week. i'm managing editor at a local medical marketing company. what type of degree do you think is worth it? computer science? nursing? law? sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but none of those degrees guarantee anything. immigrants willing to work for less money and a glut of jobseekers in those fields are making it increasingly difficult to find positions. meanwhile, those of us with art degrees and a bit of talent are having no trouble getting interviews--and getting hired. sorry, but i think you're working on some long outdated concepts...y'know, like when half of the country worked in factories or on farms? the world has changed. people need to change with it.
I'm so jealous they learned to can preserves in school. Here I am watching 50 UA-cam instructionals trying to learn. Haven't used calculus since high school though. 😕
I was fortunate that my parents Cannes a lot when I was young. They taught me how to can jam. One of these days im going to learn how to use a pressure canner, but first I need to figure out what to can.
@Ghost Troupe well I homeschool so in our house the parents do the jobs of the school AND the parent. My mom never learned to can either so she couldn't have taught me. She taught me to sew clothing though. ☺️
I don’t think it’s a generational thing...it all depends on how you were raised and if you want to continue abusive behavior, encourage narcissism or engage in a healthy parent/child relationship where you can be a parent and friend. My mom was born in 67 and dad in 64 and they weren’t that great tbh. It really is just based on the person.
Carlos Matos well, in a sense. But that's not what the video was saying. It was saying the way the 1950's parented wasn't perfect. It's saying it bred a generation of crazy wild kids because they hated what their parents were. It's basically saying what went wrong in that generation
"For out of an increasing understanding of child psychology has come the understanding that children are real people!" 😂😂😂 seriously man that's just tragic
back in the day children were meant to help around the house and farm... if you lost one or two its ok you an just have another... its still like this in many parts of the world...
As a Millennial myself I view the WWII generation with great respect and reverence. But I cannot have more disdain for a generation than I have for the boomers. Boomers inherited the best economy, low tuition costs at top schools, good wages, cheap housing, investment opportunities etc. and they act like they made something of nothing. No they brought into decline the nation that the WWII generation had forged into greatness. I had a full ride for my bachelors degree and am continuing my education soon but prior to choosing to go back to school again I was working 65 hours a week for only 40 k a year. How the heck is that anywhere near as spoiled as say a boomer who could work a 50 hour week and make 35 k in the damn 70s? How are we spoiled and decadent? Because we have cell phones? Oh yes, we are so much more spoiled since we have phones considering the boomers could afford houses a car and two children doing the same things we are doing now.
Well said. Gen X (the gen before millennials) got screwed over by Boomers too. They have the largest debt than any generation and I know some Gen X'ers that are still paying off college loans. Jobs were scarce after X'ers graduated from college in the 90s and we were compounded with debt. The housing crisis of the millennium, all those foreclosures, yep Gen X. Meanwhile Boomers appreciated the value of their homes and decided to play games with 30 year old X'ers by giving us those variable interest rates bc no-one could afford a home. Noone. Meanwhile Boomers are sitting comfortably while taking their time to retire while the rest of us are looking for jobs, paying loans, mortgages, raising kids. Meanwhile they shit on the X'ers calling us slackers since we were kids. Now they ignore us and crap all over millennials. Boomers are the most self absorbed and gave very little thought to posterity.
My mother, a boomer, said university was free back when she was my age. She has many achievements from uni: arts, biology, maths. But for me, it's 7 - 10 grand to do a single course. So despite me wanting to study psychology and animal care, I find myself much better off working as a cleaner, but with the wage I'm on I can't afford to even rent a place! But back when dad was my age he could already afford a house.. (I'm gen Z btw, 21 years old)
@@libbylulu148 Agreed 100%! My parents are Boomers and spoiled beyond belief, yet have the nerve to call me "spoiled". Meanwhile, I'm working 2 jobs just to make rent on a small 1 bedroom apt while they had a home built for them within a new HOA. All of my adult life I've been working just to get by, re-pay debt I have incurred, and try to live the best I can. I can't afford college, nor do I have the time to devote to it. I've been searching for ways I can try to make more money, as I'm trying to save for a down payment on a home, but the process has been pretty slow. The amount of rent I'm paying each month equates to a mortgage payment so I figured I would try to buy. I've also noticed that Boomers don't really help their kids financial either. Not that I'm asking them to support me, but some help with the down payment would be nice especially since they bought a new home, have another home in a different state, and vacation twice a year to Hawaii. But I DO see the light at the end of the tunnel though. I've been able to get out of credit card debt, and actually have something in savings as opposed to always being in the negative, but I credit that to my current company I work for now. They've helped in ways my own parents never have and I'm very thankful to be working there. I now have hope for what little future I have left, and may actually be able to become a home owner and am looking to start a small business! If the people in your life see you struggling and don't lift a finger to help, you lift all 5 fingers and wave goodbye because they were never your people in the first place. Take care. ❤
There was a time when a person could get a decent paying, stable job without years of college and tremendous debt, and could work there until retirement. Companies valued their employees and employees were loyal to their employers. Then these American companies started moving overseas for cheap labor, and the shareholders' and CEO's profits became more important than taking care of the employees. It's hard to have a better life when the world has changed the way it has.
Born in 67 this video confirms how I have always felt I’ve always looked at it like a pendulum My dad who was raised in the depression was a awesome provider and nurturer he spoiled the shit out of me then I grew up thinking life was easy then he passed away and life got really hard because I depended on him so much It took 20 years to learn to be a man and stand on my own two feet then I became a dad and raised my son with lots of love but he seen me as a pushover now he’s 21 a new dad himself and he can figure it out since he knows so much like all of us Me I’m still spoiled at age 50
Sebu T yeah some people have kids young. My dad was 22 when i was born and my mom was 18. Some people have kids as early as 12 years old which is why when ur 12 and go to the doctors to get a checkup they ask u if ur sexually active. I still remember the shock on my face when i was 12 and my doctor asked me that question. I was like "uh im only 12" and then he told me how a 12 year old was rushed in that same hospital and became a mother. Kids try to become adults too soon
I'm a 27 year old millennial and my parents are in their 60's... I think what really stuck with me about this video was the quote at the end describing how families were portrayed on TV and subtly saying this is how your life is supposed to be and if it's not... something is very wrong. I feel like that is still hugely true today when families are portrayed on TV. This whole thing fascinates me in that I believe that there are so many things that have thankfully changed but other things that this generation got right. I'm not a huge fan of the blame game or generational wars like millennial vs. boomers etc. I think each generation has a lot of lessons to learn as well as wisdom to pass on
The thing is, people generally want to relax at the end of work. So they put on sitcoms that have happy families on it because no one wants to see more stress after a long day. All in the Family, F is for Family, and occasionally The Middle do great jobs mixing drama and comedy.
So many boomers I know (im 24) basically want me to be quiet fall in line and submit. When talking politics I let them talk and ask questions about their views but when I start to speak they cut me off and say its just me being a snowflake and how ill learn one day. I think we just got tired of them doing that so millenials are basically giving them a taste of their own medicine. I never have thought that just because someone is older it meant I had to basically just keep quiet if they make a mistake on something. Respect is earned not given ... I respect my elders unless they disrespect me only for my age.
This really inspires me to do something similar with my generation. I was born in 1999 in New York and was raised around a lot of old world philosophies and to compare and contrast that to the age of the internet seems both exciting and heartbreaking.
Born in the latter part of the fifties, as a teen I was caught between the traditional values of a woman marrying, having children and making a home, versus the feminist movement that was starting up. It was a time in which, on the one hand, more freedom and equality was being demanded by women, while at the same time we had no Title 9 yet. I also recall certain classes in school were reserved for boys, others for girls. I wanted to work with saws and hammers and wood, but was told that the boys were given priority, and if there happened to be a space after that, I could sign up. Of course that never happened. Same with mechanics class. Of course, you never saw a boy sign up for Home Ec as that would be "sissy". It was a confusing time. At the same time feminism was taking hold, those girls who still wanted to be wives, mothers and home makers were chastised for "not wanting to use their brains" and for wanting to be nothing more than a "breeder". This wasn't right, as the feminist movement was supposed to be about women having more opportunity and freedom to do and be what they want. So there were very conflicting messages girls were getting at that time.
Blackpilled Saint Oh it's going great! Contrary to your cynical outlook, more than plenty of guys are chasing after women with careers 😉 Incidentally, it's usually men in poverty or with less education that want "traditional" and not egalitarian marriages. Pretty telling, huh?
Women abandoning their homes and children sure backfired. All the convenience and restaurant food has brought about great amount of diseases mostly caused by diet. Then there's the enormous rise in suicide rates among teens that goes right along with good ole Mom going to be somebody "important". What a sham! The most important thing she could have done was keep her home and raise her kids! She chose $$ and other people praising her over her very own. Now.. women won't even have kids because they just get in the way of her selfish desires. Sure is a lonely place in the nursing homes with nobody there to hold your hand.
I grew up in the 50's and 60's. What a time to be alive. We were not well off financially, and not spoiled. But, we were loved, and the world was safe. People lived within their means. I always wanted to grow up and be a wife and mother. So, that is what I did. I feel sad that this is looked down upon now. Even in my own marriage and younger life, it was tough to make ends meet. But my husband worked very hard and things got easier. It took many years, but we did it. I feel very blessed.
you were spoiled..!!..i grew up on east 168 st in nyc and the world was not safe.!..see you grew up in a nice middle class suburban bubble..that was NOT everybody's reality..an older brother drafted to Nam etc...did you have to ride subways or buses to school ?..walk across dirty streets ?..look your reality was not like everybody in usa..it is not just about working hard...these kids today are the result of alot of the bullshit mindset of our generation the boomers..especially the folks who cannot see that it is a different world out there...the rules have changed !!....does your nation look like it did when you were 14 ?...another world..and getting worse
@@pgroove163 I usually do not respond to comments of mine once I post them. But you really got my shackles up. Maybe it is a mindset. Maybe I never felt sorry for myself. Maybe I saw the good in life. Or, maybe you see the bad. I grew up on the south side of Chicago. I took buses to school and had to work after school from the age of 15 . From school I took 2 buses and a subway to work at a department store in downtown Chicago. At the age of 8 I was a latchkey kid while my parents worked and I had to watch my sister after school. My mother had to get a job because we were really poor. It was the way life was, and I really did not know any better. Everyone in my neighborhood was NOT middle class. Lower middle class or not even. I had a great childhood, as a boomer, and my daughter is a wonderful, caring, non spoiled, human being, who apparently was not hindered by my "bullshit mindset".
@@ladymarjorie3777 My life sounds a lot like yours, but I, too, have a hard time with your "the world was safe" comment. I don't know about you, but being forced to dive under my desk to the sounds of air raid sirens once a week under the threat of nuclear annihilation didn't exactly make me feel safe. Neither did growing into a draft class that was being shipped off to Viet Nam after a steady news diet of war footage.
It is a myth that being a homemaker is looked down on. That is simply a choice that some women can or choose to make. I am a feminist and have never been strictly a housewife, but neither I nor anyone I have ever known sneered at it. A few radicals may, but then there are some radicals who still fervently believe it is the only right calling for a woman. Neither are right.
I can only speak from my own experience, but I'm the product of baby boomers - I'm gen X and my younger siblings millennials. My mother was a stay at home mom, and I watched how my dad treated her as if she were one of the children - it was not the equal partnership that I expect marriage should be. That colored my entire perspective on marriage and motherhood. In other words, we're all products of our environment and our perspective of our upbringing does indeed shape our choices. My mother told me in so many words that she didn't want me to become a stay at home mother. Not because she looked down on it, but because she repeated the example of her mother - being dominated by a jerk husband instead of appreciated by a loving and supportive husband - you can't help but fear that cycle would be repeated. And, I don't blame my mother or father for my life decisions - ultimately they were ALL mine.
“We found out in the 50s that if you got up in the morning, and went to work and did a good days work, things got better. You got promoted or you got more money, you were able to buy furniture, you could have more children , the children could have better clothes, and life just improved. We knew it was because you went to work, but I’m not sure our children realized that. They saw simply that the clothes got better, the house got bigger, the neighborhood got nicer.” Then they get mad at generations for doing the same thing. It’s called being a kid, you did it. You didn’t realize how it was like to be an adult until you were one that you only had nice things this way. You just cared about kid stuff, then you get mad at kids after your generation for being there same way you were.
This system of consistency and stability in the work and societys framework is known as the social contract. Strong societies have such arrangements for its in-groups and conforming members. Weak societies lack such consistencies and quickly dissolve into chaos and uncertainty. Intergenerational conflict is very common and an inevitable part of human life and growing up. In many cases such conflicts are because parents care but often lack the needed social skills and training to effectively handle conflicts. Other parents are actually evil and jealous of their childrens abilities and growth so this should not be discounted in the family dynamics. The trick is to know when to heed parental and generational advice and when to seek outside professional advice to modify and moderate key opinions and attitudes in navigating ones way through life.
Haha, not so many kids being kids no more. Not even those who could afford it, parents that make their kids grow up so they’re ready for being on their own
David, I love all your vids. I'm 38 years old and they are so fascinating to me. Thank you for all the history you took time to preserve. I know most of us appreciate the hard work you put into these documentaries. Keep them coming, friend.
Thank you. I do put some hard work into it every day. I have my “day jobs” where I am a consultant to companies on communication issues and on occasion, get to make a video for them. But I get up early so that I can take care of my UA-cam community where it has taken a while for UA-cam to even acknowledge that I exist. They still don't do anything to help promote my channel or my documentaries. Very few go viral as you notice. But so be it. Thank you again. David Hoffman-filmmaker
I share almost all your videos from UA-cam to family and friends. I have NO IDEA why UA-cam hasn't made more of an effort to help promote a quality channel as informative and insightful as yours. I will spread the word of your UA-cam channel on my social media to make as many people as I know aware of your channel. That's about all I would know what to do to help out. If you would have any other suggestions that might help out, please let us (your fans) know. I'm sure the majority of us would be willing to get this channel up to a higher fan base because in all honesty, I can't think of a single reason why your channel wouldn't have at least a million + subscribers. Again, thanks for all your hard work and dedication to this channel. Always looking forward to the next video.
afr malatesta Thanks. It has. I'm in remission, but suffer greatly from the side effects of treatment. Hopefully, with time, that'll fade. I'm 40 now. Didn't think I'd get this far.
I think a case can be made that the Greatest Generation was actually the group that screwed us all, creating sprawl, oil dependence and nukes, though people before that were certainly responsible for pointing them in that direction. Maybe it is simplest to blame God.
I hope you are aware that the animals will be slaughtered in mass or left to die if humans are not able to make a profit off of them. better to use them as fertilizer. Humans will also have to worry about malnutrition because we do have some requirements in our bodies as we are omnivorous not herbivores.
Bren did you even watch this? It was the easy life they had combined with their parents will to make a better place that created a bunch of shitheads who used all their free time not working to come up with utopian ideas that do not jive with humanity, you dig?
I don’t know, my parents were boomers and I grew up in the 80s and they were always like children should be seen and not heard. Always assumed they also had a terrible upbringing
My grandma worked, at a job, just as hard as my grandfather. After 30 years married and 6 kids they divorced. And they still didn't "HAVE" everything . I'm guessing there were more folks like them with real issues than the leave it to Beavers that this clip showed.
Preston Marshall in the 50’s? No, they were on the whole. Large families, father provided, mother managing home and kids. It was probably the pinnacle of the nuclear family and gender norms.
@@Kat-of2uh poor women worked at 'women' work' - housekeeping, secretarial work, seamstresses, etc. - or for the family business, supporting the husband and often the kids contributed, too. It was novel for well-heeled middle class girls to go into the workforce, but the majority was poor and they had to work to live.
shedoes concerts I’m sure there were still poor and working single women. But the 50’s were prosperous, too. And the middle class was large and a true middle class. Even if the father was say a bus driver or working on an assembly line, he could provide for his family.
This is what every generation does, blame the kids. Can we ever address our current problems without comparing them to the 50s or another decade that doesn’t pertain to the here and now. Way too much has changed to even compare. Starting with the fact that jobs have been outsourced, pensions are rare, the benefits of working in the 50s was substantially better. Thanks to unions putting pressure on companies to take care of their employees.Personal expenses weren’t near as high back then either. Not to mention both mom and dad are working now out of necessity. The reason our kids don’t understand the value of hard work is because the trade jobs and factory jobs are minimal. America is a service country. Why is America different? It is no one generation. It is our values have gone from wanting to get married and raise a family to wanting to make a lot of money. Ask any kid now and their first priority is a fancy house and car. Let’s be honest, we value people by what they have or what they do for a living. In the 50s just having a job was good enough to get respect. Now a days it’s the kind of job you have and ironically there are not enough “ respectable” high paying jobs for every single working American. There never will be. So some work two jobs to make ends meet. What makes a real job is how much money it pays, period. Until Americans wake up and stop putting some on pedestals and demonizing others for not being “ well off enough” we will continue to see rising suicide rates amongst men as well as drug and alcohol abuse. That kind of pressure motivates no one. In fact I think it scares the crap out of some kids. I wish for people to stop and think what really motivated them growing up. Because I think many forgot!! Love and acceptance is all anyone wants and we are showing our kids that dollar bills get you that! Not integrity or hard work.
I love my mother to death, but she has a tendency to view blue collar jobs as beneath her and white collar jobs as respectable. It was also implied all throughout my high school career that trade schools were the options for poor/dumb people, while college was where you wanted to go if you didn't want to look like some retard (yes, I'm using that word intentionally).
I definitely believe in the value of trade jobs and technical schools. I tell people who are having trouble deciding what college to go to or what to major in that they should at least try community college or a technical school before they fully decide since they’re cheaper and technical schools will give you more hands-on skills. I personally plan on pursuing psychology and politics and other things that aren’t really taught at technical schools, but I love that they exist in case I change my mind.
@@confetti_kisses427 blue collar- manual labor jobs such as plumbers or factory workers White collar- jobs that require higher education like accountants or lawyers
I grew up in the 50s. Everything was about family. We did everything together. We NEVER had dinner until dad came home from work. If he knew he would be late, he'd call and say, "Feed the kids dinner!" I helped my dad with everything, gardening, washing the car, painting, etc. That was how I learned how to do things. My sister was in the kitchen with my mom being taught how to cook ! Every vacation we took together. We were never left with others while they went somewhere . Our family unity was there even when they got older, and I took over the role of caretaker for them. Another thing that to me was an important factor in my life growing up, was we were Italian. Family was everything !
Fascinating! On the surface, the home movies in this video looked just like my family. But my parents apparently only got a few messages from the 50’s: “work hard”, “money doesn’t grow on trees” and “you’re a spoiled brat!” I never felt like I was seen as an individual. I think there was still a lot of fear and anger in our household - a leftover mindset from the depression and wartime that sadly influenced our family life. So interesting because I was also conditioned by shows like “Leave It To Beaver,” “Donna Reed,” and the like and often felt like a misfit because our family didn’t match up.
Same! My mom bitterly resented every bite we took. She grew up hungry and found it enraging that we took food for granted. We weren't allowed to use the phone, have friends over, sit around idle. We always had to be cleaning. She believed a kid's purpose was slave labor. Always kept us busy and away from social experiences and entertainment.
@@staceykersting705 - that’s awfully sad. It’s a shame our parents were traumatized by their circumstances because it undoubtedly affects the children.
Some people still don’t recognize that children are real people with their own personalities, and feelings. They are still seen by some as an extension of their parents, or even accessories. I was born on the 80’s, and never saw my dad. He worked all night, and slept all day. My mom raised us, and ran the home. Dinner was on the table, and clothing was ironed. I don’t think much changed really.
Well a lot has changed as I am a kid myself I know people who sadly don’t have a father figure they know or have one who is in their life, understands them, bonds with them, and is there for their child’s well being. (Including my father) Now it is safe to say that these “extensions of parents” do still exist but I think that culture is dying down but pushed thru media due to vocal people who actively do that mess.
I’m learning a lot from my the people that lived in The Depression. I’m trying my best to prepare myself for when I’m on my own. Making my own household cleaners, learning about Depression meals, sewing, & woodwork. I really hope that knowing these things will help me
Learn about gardening too maybe. But honestly, you probably are needlessly worrying. There are safety nets for hunger that didn't exist then. I'd focus on enjoying life. My $.02 from living during the cold war where the threat of the world ending was an on the mind thing.
Well he wasn’t a boomer if he would have been 100 last year! The 1920’s babies were the young people who fought WWII, and who had the babies when the war was over. He was a parent of Boomers!
Gen X here: we are the steady workers. The support system for the world. Ethical, but invisible. Doing good work, trying to be ideal humans. Often fighting corruption, without the internet or you tube for support. Without us, the world would have collapsed long ago. One day, people will realize what we Gen X have done for the world. Quietly, without fanfare. We don't need a medal, but a few "Thank You" notes would be appreciated.
The boomers didn't owe the gen x nothing, The gen x definitely don't owe millennials anything. Life is hard, Do the best you can with the cards you're delt.
@@w.t.f.4989 so people should start thinking of only themselves and stop worrying about the effects we have on the future generations... our children...
I grew up in the 50s and 60s and wasn't spoiled, but my parents did always say they wanted to give us kids what they were unable to have themselves. It really WAS a delicious time to grow up. This old hippy will be forever grateful for the experience. Peace
Imagine being like “if I just keep showing up to work things will get better” 🤯🤯 not $17/hr turning into $17.50 next year while the price of bread doubles overnight.
Seriously? Not all families lived like that. I was born in 1946. I saw my father lose jobs. We moved house often. I never went hungry because my parents knew how to make meals from practically nothing. Pancakes for supper. Pierogies. Stuff I loved and never realized was survival food until I was grown and living on it, myself. Nobody belonged to the PTA or read Dr. Spock. I spent a year in the girl scouts and then quit because all they ever talked about was how to earn money, which bored me silly. I had had the impression that I was going to learn how to do things. The only reason I watched the "family" sit-coms on TV was because they all seemed to be about families who lived in the same place all their lives. My father told me that, if I tried living like that, I'd go mad. He was right.
Funny, I was born nearly 40 years after you and left Girl Scouts pretty quickly due to boredom, too. They taught us cross-stitch which is cool and all but wth, I wanted to do the fun outdoorsy stuff. Mind you this was in the 90s. I wonder how it's changed now, I hope for young girls' sake they have fun, practical activities these days.
That was because we were the Depression Babies and didn't have much money to buy anything and when WWII created jobs, we had money, but there was nothing to buy. So we wanted our kids to have things that we couldn't have.
This is a good video, but it would definitely be interesting to see more about lower-middle and working class families of the '50s. My grandparents both worked. They met in trade school and had the same job working on electronics for the government, which provided my mom and her brothers a good life, but it certainly wasn't a June Cleaver or Donna Reed existence for my grandmother.
My dad was born in the 50’s and he’s my best friend. I’m lucky to have a dad who makes time to spend time with me. I’m able to share with him my thoughts and feelings. If I need to cry I go to him.
I was born in the early 60's. This mentality was still present as I grew up. This video also explains why the Woman's rights movement was so powerful in the early 70's.
And here is what some of the kids felt at that time.
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You can check every newspaper every year from 1890 - 2024.
They all complain "nobody wants to work anymore."
Only a total moron would miss this
were all parents at that time like that?
In the 1950s, people in their twenties dated and people in their fifties worried about debt. Today, people in their fifties date and people in their twenties worry about debt.
Good one!
....and I’m happy to be 52! 😎
Lol
@UFHoee , where did that come from? nobody said that... sheesh,,
Wow, spot on!!
Imagine not being aware that "children are real people with individual personalities."
@@anewagora I just cant imagine being so stupid that I dont know children have their own thoughts. One shouldnt need a doctor to tell them this, you have to be pretty monumentally dumb to forget one's own childhood.
I've seen at least half the mothers I know act like there kids are pets.
People forget that they were once children who needed a loving caring person there for them to wipe their ass and dry their tears and kiss their boo boos and make them feel safe.
Gingeta_Creacha some people aren’t meant to be parents which in this generation is lower in percentages because most parents treat their children like they have no brain of their own. Also some parents didnt have real parents to teach them how a mother/father should be. Now a days everyone be getting pregnant n know nothing about how to treat a child or even take care of them. I see woman who have a child n get disgusted that they even poo, those are degrading ugly woman who don’t deserve to be mothers but some woman don’t think like that.
@@SnakeWasRight yeah my sister, who is 25, always thought my parents were "brainwashing" me into their opinions, when really I had my own thoughts. Only a few months ago did it stop, since I turned 13.
Today I learned that children are real people.
What an epiphany!
Man up!
I tell you I was shocked.
I thought they were little mice too
Swear such a revelation
Being born in the late 1980, I always thought my parents and grandparents gave me too much stuff and not enough actual time. I know they ment well, but I don't have the toys and clothes anymore. The memories I have are getting a toy and being sent out of the room so the adults could talk. I won't do that to my children. Less junk, more time for them.
THIS! Also kids are individuals. Some love time together BUT some don't. Being a parent means listening and understanding your child's cues. But also EXCEPTING them too. I loved spending time with family but my sister hated it. - my grandparents "spoiled" the grandkids only bc they didn't have time for us all. I fear it's getting worse, when parents have to worked 40+hrs and feel guilty. It's making me sad coming to this realization. :(
I am one of gen Z and that dynamic isn't uncommon now. I was given everything. Except my dad's time. His definition of quality time together was watching television in silence. We are much more open now in conversing about our needs.
Just be careful they don't get the idea the world revolves around them. Never had, never will, but you wouldn't know it from the way some folks, of no specific age, behave these days.
Speak for yourself. I still have the train set my dad bought for me as a child. I am 57 now. (Sigh)
Yeah I was pretty much left alone and given nice things
Ended up hanging out with gangsters and hoodlums
1950s: Grumbling old people, optimistic young people
2019: Grumbling old people, depressed young people
That's about the long and short of it. They inherited a nation, we inherited broken promises and lies.
I walk this somber street on the boulevard of American dreams
@DrumWild at least they had jobs and could expect to buy a house. We still live in fear of nuclear holocaust now, admittedly no where near as much as the 60s but it is still a real threat. Especially with growing tensions with Russia at the moment and more countries possessing and/or developing nuclear weapons like North Korea, Iran and Pakistan. A nuclear war between say Iran and Israel or Pakistan and India would be the end of humanity much like a US-USSR war in the 60s would've been.
Implying the "old" are "people". Good joke.
@DrumWild But I assume nihilism was not as widespread back then as it is among the young people today.
50s adults knew that thing things would get better if you worked.
60s boomers knew that thing just got better regardless of work.
Millenials know that no matter how much you worked, things will never get better.
SpeedStriker and gen z feel the same way as the millennials.
Gen z know that things won’t get better regardless of work, and don’t give a shit.
@@hughmungus1999 I do :c
@@cosmosisrose Gen Z knows they're not even gonna make it to 30
all of the worst generations
Back then, hard work was rewarded. Now you can work all day everyday and you may be lucky to be able to pay rent in your crappy rat hole apartment. But what do I know? I’m just a lazy millennial. I’ll just go choke on my avocado toast.
I mean your not wrong chief.
clayton shirey you’re*
Ricardo, you're right. I went through the same thing. My marriage fell apart and I worked 3 jobs to care for my 2 children without any assistance and $200 monthly child support. So, it made my daughter fight for her marriage of almost 12 years. My son has divorced with one child and he pays over $1000 monthly voluntarily for one child. They've both learned a lot from me and try to do things differently. They've often called and thanked me for doing everything I could to make sure they had comfortable lives. They said they missed me, but they understood, now.
Exactly how it is for me, I commute 30 mins out of town to work 10 hour days in a sheet metal shop doing dangerous hard labor just to be able to afford a shitty one bedroom apartment.
We have other options these days though, the internet has allowed quite a lot of opportunity for entrepreneurial work.
I hear you bro, 2 jobs here and still cant make ends meet, rent is thru the roof and homes are priced for rich people it seems, wages are stagnant yet food utilities even taxes keep going up, I used to believe in working hard, doing something anything would be rewarded with a stable life, but it aint the case anymore, I have a crappy phone I got a 6 year old car I commute nearly 3 hours since traffic is a nightmare, I dont sit at home at all, have tried other jobs but the wages dont keep up with the cost of living, we are getting screwed big time, yet we can afford foreign aid, perpetual wars and a wasteful military but you ask for a little break its "how dare you entitled asshole you want free shit, you bum" Im like "yeah enjoy your medicare old fart, even tho I wont have any when Im your age yet Im forced to pay for it now" smdh.........
I am a Boomer, and my dad was a steelworker. Dangerous work. Miserable in the summer and miserable in the winter. Back-to-back 8 hours shifts were common. He put a roof over our heads, and there was always food on the dinner table. My father is my hero.
Damn right he is, sounds like a great great man, and I'm sure he taught you and you learned how life is if you want to succeed
A grateful boomer. You don’t see that every days
@Kuber Aseh I see you edited your comment. Care to display the original? Or are you too ashamed to show your spelling error lolololoolookoll
@Kuber Aseh lmao, its the fucking internet. honestly, i pity u.
@@strangerx8606 You don't pity anyone, you're just lashing out because he got an emotional rise out of you.
I wonder if Andrew Takas realizes the irony of his perspective. Nowadays if you get up, go to work, and work hard you don't get promoted you just get handed more work.
There was a time when managers and supervisors were expected to know all the knowledge of a sector and were able to spot who were the hard workers and who were the bluffers. Now this is harder to find in many industries. Each department fights the other departments to pile work onto the weakest department and make their own lives easier. Management only react to crisis situations and adopt a short term view on running things. Service, loyalty and initiative are no longer the pathways to better pay that they once were. Now truly effective and successful workers go into free lance positions, not working for a particular company, so as to be able to develop themselves and avoid corrosive, morale sapping and obstructive office politics and cronyism rampant in the modern Corporation. The good workers hop from job to job pushing for pay rises along the way and always keeping a resume updated only with universally accredited skillsets and jobs experiences that are externally marketable and known. THey avoid specialisation and internally peculiar proprietary roles, useful in only one company, like the plague.
do you have debt
@@paccawacca4069 No thank God I never had debt. I do not believe in debt. Never had and never would believe in commiting to anything bigger than I could handle for 6 months of no income. Sort of like a siege everybody should have a contingency fund set aside to cover relocation, house sell and buy and other bills which happen when a jobs loss means getting another job.
Ain't that the truth!!
mmhmm, how the times have changed
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard old people tell me how “easy” we have it. Ironic coming from the generation that could afford to buy a house and car by working a 9-5 minimum wage job. Most people my age can only DREAM of owning their own house or being able to afford to eat and pay rent with no hassle. Not to mention $50,000 debt from student loans. Decades ago you could work a part-time summer job and it could be enough to pay for College. It’s almost impossible to live off of a minimum wage job, especially if you have a family.
Hello Zen we never had mobile phones loans on every thing you saved for what you wanted your main priority was your home and food on the table it was an embarrassment to owe money in those days different generations so don't moan😂
Maggie Oakley that’s just the point. It’s almost impossible to live now without owing money. I can assure you nobody wants to live that way but with the price of living going up drastically and the minimum wage at only about $14 (Ontario, Canada), along with added expenses such as a phone (which is very difficult to live without nowadays), young people have no choice but to go into debt. The average price for a house in Toronto in the 1980’s was about $109,000. In 2019 it is approximately $1.3 million. Tell me how my generation is supposed to save up for that?
@@hellozen18 Gen x here. You are correct. Just because you can get an "easy" loan doesn't mean you want to. It's a loan that has to be paid back and it will take a lot of work for most people.
Maggie Oakley mobile phones, that’s an extra bill and loans have to be paid back, we have way more expenses and a higher cost of living to deal with with a wage that is too low for the cost of living. If anything your generation had it way better than us. So please shut your mouth especially when you have no clue what you’re talking about
The most spoiled and entitled generation ever who had to work very little in comparison to their children now are calling their children lazy and entitled when they work harder and for less money than they did. Can't wait til your selfish generation of shit heads becomes to old to run the country anymore because you fucking broke it.
"Children are real people." OMG
Well, they are
Arrogant Anarchist keep saying that and you might realize, children aren’t anything but bags of stupid.
Watch me sweetheart. wonder why kids tend to deal with serious self esteem issues? It’s because we insult them and degrate their intelligence simply for their age. I doubt you work with kids or are around kids enough to realize how creative and interesting they can be if allowed to flourish and aren’t told they’re stupid or that they should be seen and not heard.
Just look at teenagers of today. Many of them are very politically active and do their best to influence and affect the world around them. That young woman who survived a school shooting and then went on to make national news with her speech is a wonderful example.
Kids are humans beings. They have no genetic difference to you. Stop acting like your better than someone just because you’ve got more wrinkles on your face.
A D no we are all heartless, soulless beings that want attention every second of our lives.
@@mr.shibeman1146 stop pushing ur negativity on others. Ypu just aren't happy with yourself so you don't want others to be happy.
I remember wishing I could have a childhood like my parents' childhood. They said they could go basically anywhere with their friends and how they'd either walk or bike everywhere. Of course they lived in a smaller town so they could do that. But they'd talk about how they'd bike the Dairy Queen with their friends on the weekends or play baseball or basketball or go to the pool during the summer with little supervision and I envy that. That freedom of being able to go out with your friends anywhere and enjoy life outside. Their childhood sounded much more fulfilling and exciting.
@lil doinker what you describe is what my childhood was like in the 70s, and i lived in a good sized city.
what was your childhood like, and what prevented you from being free?
60's childhood i had was like that. we were a bunch of wild things! in summer we'd hit the door, our friends were waiting. sometimes, you didn't even go back home 'til the streetlights came on. nothing bad ever happened to anyone i knew in my whole town. maybe stitches if you fell out of a tree or such. truly feel sorry for kids now. they've never known freedom and fun in our 'old fashioned' way.
I remember both my grandparents and mother mentioning that. It sounds like heaven. I still wish I could of gone outside as a kid/teenager. But it's a different time now, how sad.
@@Sapanator what's different, out of curiosity?
@@toddinthemiddle When I was six playing outside I was gang r**ed and later beaten. After we stopped being homeless I wasn't allowed outside. Like I said, to me what you guys are describing, it sounds like heaven.
Back then, wages and the cost of living were proportional. Now, it’s all out of wack.
Watch the video Boomer supermarket. It is almost like a documentary of a mom and her two children shopping in 1963. You wouldn't believe how cheap they got a basket of food. Type. Boomer Supermarket. Into UA-cam.
@@katec3963 Around 1991 I moved into a three-bedroom duplex with a couple of friends. Not too bad; one floor, one bathroom; but a large living room with a fireplace, and we could each have our own space. We paid $500 a month. Minimum wage was about $7.50/hour.
Looked into rents in the same town recently, since I was flirting with moving closer to my elderly parents. Would have liked a three-bedroom again, since I now have two kids. Unfortunately, I can't even afford a one-bedroom apartment; they *start* at about $1,500.
Minimum wage, meanwhile, has also gone up. To $10.50/hour.
So, minimum wage has gone up by what, roughly 30%? Meanwhile rent, for a *smaller* place, has gone up 150%.
But it's more than just that. Because, back in the day, working full time, you'd gross about $1,200.00 (before income tax etc). So even paying all of the rent by myself, I would still have had $700 left over for everything else (again, less taxes, so realistically more like $450. But still; it's a positive number). And splitting the rent with my two roommates (one for each bedroom, and the only way we could afford a roof over our heads), I only had to cover $167.00 in rent, leaving me with almost a theoretical thousand dollars (okay, so like $700) for my share of food, electricity, etc, not to mention gas and car insurance. Tight; but doable. Nothing left over and the fridge was usually empty (we were in college and therefore only working part time); but we had lights and a roof.
So, rent has gone up by a thousand dollars. But working minimum wage? Even full-time, you're only grossing $1,680. So people earning minimum wage these days only have $480.00 more each month (less income tax, etc) than I did almost thirty years ago. And out of that, they're somehow supposed to cover an additional $1,000.00 each month in rent *alone*, when everything else--food, gas, etc--has also gone up at least 100%.
If you can stretch a budget to make that work then please, do share it with me.
KryssLaBryn Not to meantion renters othern still expect your to make at least double your rent.
Well I remember buying lawn seats in the early eighties for $6-8 - about twice the minimum wage - now people are paying anywhere from $80 -$1000 to go to a concert while minimum wage is around $9. Are the musicians really worth that much that you would work 10 to 100 hours just so you get a chance to hold your phone up at a concert for 2 hours.
That also is something I never quite understood - going to a concert used to mean being at the concert and living the experience - instead of recording it to view at a later time.
The simple fact is : you only have control over how you spend your money - living in an location means you are subject to the whims of the local rental/purchase costs of real estate - which I have to admit has gotten out of hand.
But cooking at home , buying used cars, not buying a $5 coffee every morning, not buying clothes you dont need, or not buying the latest smartphone each year (think about it - if you are making $35000 - can you really afford to spend $1000 on a new phone) will help you build your bank account.
The think I always do before making a purchase is to question - "Do I really need this?" - then wait a few days and ask myself the same question. For me , the answer is usually NO.
@@KryssLaBryn minimum wage @7.50 a hr. Where where you located? Minimum wage was 2.85 in 1990, 1991. In the state I was in. It went to 3.15. Eventually Went to 4.25 a hr in 93. Staying that way for several years.
Here I am at 74ish. All I remember is the poverty and brutality of a single parent home. While all our classmates were surfin USA, and rockin around the clock, My brother and I had to work in that yard and dig up another tomorrow.
Don't miss those years. Been retired 10 years now. Enjoying every minute of it.
Sounds wonderful. Retirement is an experience unfortunately I will never have. As an independent filmmaker, there is no such thing. No 401(k) etc.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
Here's a hug 🤗
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker You're doing an exceptional job. Ty for these generational insights.
And, I'm confident that you'll figure out your retirement. Cheers.
Right on. And continue to enjoy these years. You've earned it. And, remember you're never too old, to rock and roll.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker so who told you that you weren't allowed to invest in the stock market by yourself and that you had to have an employer do it for you?
I remember in the 80s, one of my friends was legally disowned by his parents because he was into the punk/metal scene. 🤣
RemixedVoice Underrated comment & parenting 😂
Ah, yes. The Christian crusades and satanic panic of the 80's and 90's.
What horiffically self righteous and socially regressive time in american cultural history.
nerd Surfer
Omg, I was a teenager in the early 2010's and yes, my parents did force me to wear oversized clothing. "Because I would grow more" they used to say, but I know the real reason was that backwards mormon law of chastity. Like, I was an extremely skinny, average height boy, who should have worn a XS size and they usually made me wear M or L sizes.
I was a kid of the 80s and saw the TV shows and protests from the Christian groups against heavy metal. Amazing how panicky people were over it.
That's how it was back then all that shit shocked people with no effort to even shock people
Born in 1947. I don't recall being the center of my parents' concern at all. Mom was always home and I had three brothers. The feeling I've always had was that I had a load of unspoken responsibility at home and that I raised myself. My brothers were the kids depicted in this video. Coddled, praised and worried over by Mom, but often ignored by Dad.
Mom was always home
I think that was a big benefit for me. The neighborhood bullies would beat me up and I could run home to my mother.
This is exactly what the video was talking about. You're so self centered that you can follow "Mom was always home" with "I raised myself". The generation after you were latchkey kids who got themselves up for school, dodged gang members once they got there, had everybody asking them what they would go to college to study, and made their own dinner. All while your generation constantly cried about "kids these days." All before the age of 10. But please, tell us how bad you had it growing up in the 50s.
@@mikaelgaiason688 You do realize you just told a 74 year old woman she doesn't know the meaning of hard times, right? As for me, I think a few videos on Vietnam POW camps, might give me some perspective on what, 'hard times,' are all about. Or perhaps, what growing up with agent orange, was all about. Suffering is suffering...
@diane9247 I was born in 1953 my dad drove Mack Trucks and my mom ran around on him with a married man. Why did they make this as some special time. Yes we could play outside but there were structured things to learn.
Yeah I lived alone for many years. Didn't marry till I was 44. Raised his 4 children and then divorced. So much for the white picket fence in living happily ever after.
@@sweetdrreemz That old lady never said she was Vietnamese. Yeah, they had hard times when her generation decided to bomb and gas them. She didn't though.
1950s psychologists: "children are real people!"
oh wow
edit: wow thank u for the likes lmao
They had to deal with Eddie Haskell
It might seem absurd to hear that, but before the war children tought ot be young adults, ready to be shaped and molded int owhatever was needed, hence why child labour was such a common thing (Among other things) A child was just an asset, after the war, the value of a child suddenly became more real a new generation after a horrific incident involving the whole world.
Before they were disposable child labor. Oh how things have changed
And, apparently still a work in progress at the time, "women are real people!"
It's just crazy to think how recent all this was.
Low key this video is suprising because like my grandma told me she lived as child as like "children are supposed to be seen not heard." Which is bs to me but facts at the same time.
Children as people WAS a new concept post WWII. Throughout history they were considered labor primarily - or tradeable possessions for wealth building. Oftentimes they were burdens due to poverty.
Children were considered assets, especially for farmers. The more kids you had, the more workers you had for your crops. And the more kids you had, the more security you had in retirement because they would take care of you in your old age.
Right. Women had babies to provide farm labor. When a wife died in child birth another stupid woman would take place.
@@michaelwhisman7623 well choices for everyone were limited back then and people had to eat.
Interesting. My father was def considered an asset, where his family made him work starting at 8 yrs old on the farm.
Not so, it's an idea that goes far back in theology.
“The message was clear: this is the way your life should be. And if it wasn’t something must be very wrong”
TV in the 50s, social media now. I’m sick of it. We keep putting our effort in what it looks like ínstead of what it actually is.
I agree
Exactly. There is no real value in being performative.
All to make a buck by solving problems that are manufactured to be solved.
You are 💯 correct
THIS
My mom was born in 1955, but became a lawyer. She was also the first person in her family to ever finish high school, much less go to college. I’m so proud of her.
I like watching old video footage and photographs because people's faces always look different from today or other times. People in 1950's pictures have a different "type of face" than people in 1910's pictures and so on. Almost like every decade humanity gets a graphics patch.
Zarathustra Zarath I’ve always thought the same thing, faces from the 50s look so plain I think
different makeup maybe
It's the camera quality and fashion, mate. Our faces didn't literally morph.
Aron Larsson
We got fatter. So we kind of did morph
I agree
Home economics was an awesome class. So was shop. It’s unfortunate that they have removed both. Kids need to learn to balance a bank account, sew, cook, saw, and use a drill. I’ve been grateful to know both.
Our school put boys and girls through both home ec and shops. We all liked that.
Boys didn’t get to take home ec here. And girls weren’t allowed in the boys’ draughting/shop classes. And I, a girl, ended up being stuck taking sewing and never made anything that wasn’t inside-out or backwards 😂. My grad year was 1983. I think it’s better now. My son took cooking and sewing (and he did much better than I did).
It’s a shame indeed, as a member of gen z, I’ve had to teach myself all that, and my parents were busy working so we could afford to have comforts and a sense of saftey. Life has been good to me the way I see it, I’m not forced into crime, on drugs, or affording food or a roof.
I mean, hell what more could you want in life, a place to rest your head and feel safe with a family that loves you. I think that’s all you really need
I was born in 1955. Went to a Catholic high school and took college prep courses. Then I didn't go to college! The only practical course I took that was of any benefit to me was typing. I wish I had taken home ec.
You can learn anything on UA-cam. If kids want to they will once it becomes a necessity. There’s no excuse now! We didn’t have the internet when I was a teen.
from a gen z perspective, it’s ironic to me how that generation complained about their children being spoiled, then for those children to grow up and raise millennials and then proceed to call them spoiled. it’s like the cycle just continues.
early gen Zer/late millennial here, totally agree. The more I learn about psychology, the more I understand there is no such thing as “spoiled”. Kids are just reacting to their environments. If a parent is having issues with their kid, they need to reflect on what the real issue is and take responsibility for the results of their own parenting. (Then ideally make a change.)
Millennial here. You know how when someone complains about today’s youth, you have this picture in your head about this little old man with a bony frame, balding head and pants pulled up far enough to give a wedgie? Well, the Boomers couldn’t wait. I think I was the ripe old age of fifteen when I was told I was an entitled, lazy little good-for-nothing. I don’t even remember what I did, but I remember being amazed that the one calling me such and railing against my generation couldn’t have been older than his thirties. Now that my generation are getting a bit older and preparing to hand the torch to the zoomers, I sort of get it. It’s not that anything is wrong with us, it’s that we’re younger. It’s like the Boomers think that if they make enough of a stink, somehow it will negate the effect of time. They’re old now, my generation is on our way to being old, and someday Gen Z will be old. Boomers are just scared and like all cowards, take it out on someone who can’t fight back.
@@fablethewolf825 I hear you and have noticed that too. Certain people of all generations are quick to deflect their own feelings of inadequacy onto others, sometimes their parents or their children. Please don’t take it personal or classify an entire generation by the opinions of a few. I think we ALL we’re dealt that hand at your age unfortunately, and I still think it’s unfair. You constantly hear, “you’re old enough to know better” AND “you aren’t old enough to decide” selectively! I will be 60 this year and now wish I had someone doing that to me so I could say, “okay, you decide please” because I’m exhausted from making decisions. :)
I really DO remember that time in life above all, as the most frustrating. Apparently I’m tired now. I am supposed to have all of the wisdom now and the most important thing I’ve learned is I can still learn from people of all ages simply by listening. Perhaps you can help me if I ask a stupid question? Hopefully this won’t make you throw away what I just told you bc I’m just being honest. Here’s my question I think you can answer: Which generation do I fall into? I mean, am I a baby boomer or what? I’m honestly admitting I don’t know. I’ll be 60 this November but I’ve heard the Baby Boomers phrase used before we grew up referring to children conceived after WW2? We were, but I’m the youngest of 4 so? Please pardon my typos, regardless of the question. I’m not stupid haha, just can’t see well anymore due to aging, medical issues and allergies.
Thank you. Have a great long weekend! :)
@@crystalbelle2349 Baby boomers are technically those born 1944-1964. However, my mother was born at the end of 1963 and she doesn’t identify with boomers at all. She doesn’t remember and/or wasn’t born when all of the defining moments for them happened. She will argue vehemently that she’s Gen X lol. So I’m inclined to think that maybe whoever decided on the years should have ended it a few years earlier. Do with that what you will :)
Point is that after WW2 every generation has been more spoiled than the next.
Back when a 1 income family was considered middle class. These days 1 income as an employee = poverty. Change my mind.
What's with this ridiculously rude "change my mind" comment I keep seeing? I honestly couldn't care less what you think. About anything. Right from the start you sound like a dick so why would I bother?
@@renepassa1969 there is this one meme of this guy sitting at a desk with a sign saying “change my mind” and people will edit it to be like “pineapple on pizza is good, change my mind” so when people say change my mind at the end of a post, they don’t actually mean try to change my mind, they mostly mean “I have a strong opinion and I am ready to defend it”
@@renepassa1969 did you just get offended? Wow the irony
@@iliad8988 Lmao, my thoughts exactly. When someone dislikes a good point yet can't come up with a logical counterpoint taking offense is their go to. Sad state of affairs.
Get a better job
I was born in the 50’s
We never felt entitled or wondered why our fathers worked so hard.
We were watching cartoons.
The statement “I hardly ever saw him” was true
If it helps my dad born in the 50s I see way too much, he retired early and has nothing to show for it. Now he just waits for my mother to give him his allowance.
Shut up boomer
Lonely Ranger
That really sucks:/
My grandfather was like that. He managed a defense plant. I was told he was hardly home.
That may have been true for you. It wasn't true in our family and many of our friends families. We weren't allowed to lay around and watch TV. We had chores-- we were given responsibility and taught to work hard.
When finished with our work, TV wasn't allowed. We would go out, meet our friends get a ball or gloves and bats and play hard. About the only TV we watched was Bonanza on Sunday night at 8 p.m. as a family. Other than that it was just 15 minutes of the Nightly News.
No computers no cell phones no video games... How did we ever survive??😏
Sick of hearing live within means bs. People can't pay bills period when cost of housing alone is 50% of their monthly take home. WAGES ARE NOT RISING WITH INFLATION
correct..i am a boomer ..i see the difference..folks do not see what happened..its another reality..
This clip is about the parents to the generation born after WW2, though. These parents had to live through war and depression. They are not talking about Millenniels or even Generation X.
you can thank the 1965 immigration act for that
Maybe if people get an education they will make more money. A high school diploma is not an education.
Most people can't live within their means because living isn't within their means.
I was born in 1955 . The best part was all the personal freedom . They sent us outside to play as early as possible and only noticed our absence at dinner time . I had so much time to build forts and rafts and make acorn mush , like they showed us in grammar school.
It was growing up without supervision mostly . Which was awesome . Both my grandmothers had their own businesses. No one ever told me I couldn’t do stuff because I was a girl. No one told me much at all, they let me figure stuff out on my own . Life was very educational because you could learn so much on your own .
I feel sorry for kids these days , daydreaming time is a thing of the past and their time is scheduled like if they were in the military .
That sounds like the type of childhood I'd wish my daughter to have. The issue is, there aren't any children playing outside anymore, at least not in the neighbourhood we live in. Children here are being kept indoors most of the day. I really do worry about my daughter's creativity and problem solving skills.
That sounds amazing.
Pedophilia is rampant. Even in the 90s when I played unsupervised by mom I had people approach me in a white van and offer me candy. On a separate incident and old man asked me to go to his appartment and play games. I said mom told me never to do that and I didnt go. About a week later we found out a man got an unsupervised 5 year old to go with him and he assaulted her. My two besties were molested. Cant let kids wander
Wish I had that, oh well, can’t change the past
Yeah, now everyone is a damn helicopter parent. Children ought to be able to freely interact with each other, they don't need constant supervision and regulation.
I understand most of the message in this video but it’s targeted to upper middle class not average working class families. In my experience children were invisible and taught to be thankful for anything they had like food and a roof over your head and a bike if you’re lucky . There was no extra curricular activities just chores .
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room".
--- Socrates (469-399 BC)
Best and very accurate comment!!!
@@Andre.W96
You nailed it!!!! So true
@@Andre.W96 tbh i dont think gen z aren't all that bad (yet)
other than their music where the "rapper" sounds like hes half falling asleep because he ate 2 dozen xanax bars
@@RogueCowTurd that's just the gang culture in youth... It sucks :'(
Juvenoia is nothing new!
Parents who treat their children as objects, extensions of themselves. Have no respect for their children. Its disgusting.
I grew up with a narcissist mother, she was raised by narcissist parents. Its disgustingly damaging.
Children raised with love & respect grow into loving, respectful adults.
Yup, if you have never experienced it yourself you can't believe it.
Same for me too.
And yet, it is the responsibility of every adult to themselves become a well adjusted and complete individual. People can change and improve themselves, fight the demons they inherited from their parents so they don’t in turn pass them onto their own children.
My Mom and her siblings were neglected. They were born 48. 50, 54. My Mom found a letter she wrote to her parents where she wrote over and over that she was hungry. At first she was laughing then the look on her face was a mix of horror, anger, and sadness.
This bothers me and humbles me. Much love
1950s parents gave kids a lot of "stuff," probably to make up for what they didn't have, and spoiled them economically, but they themselves were emotionally stunted, not allowed to have feelings because life had been hard, and they emotionally starved their kids. Dad worked all day and had no idea how to relate to a kid (other than spankings). Mom was repressed and frustrated by being trapped in the house with kids. This was NOT a golden era of parenting.
When the man at 2:06 explains how putting the work in was worth it in this time, it really hits home. Someone working at a grocery store could support a house payment, a car and a family. 2019 called. They want their idealism back.
Not true. This video is about middle class suit wearing men and tv shows. It has little to do with the average American then or now.
@@sue9378 the tv shows were a reflection of the community at the time, if it went too beyond that it would be cancelled
But the economy is great better than it has been in years. He forgets to say only if you are in the top 1% or living off the public and flying to Florida for gulf most week-ends.
@@barbarapinkston7435 what are you talking about? The inflation is horrible. It is deff not better now, you just think it is because entertainment and MSM clouds judgement and compassion for the issue
@@corywiedenbeck1562 I don't know what you are talking about. Unemployment is higher because people have to work 2 or 3 jobs and that is both people in a household have to work to hopefully get a place to live Healthcare is bankrupting families, climate change bringing destructive weather everywhere and the man in the oval office is a nasty name calling liar.
Parents of Boomers: These boomer kids are too spoiled
Boomers today: those Millenial and Gen Z kids are too spoiled
The cycle continues, and in 50 years, it’s gonna be us young people doing that too.
And then there's gen X in the background
I'm already doing it
Hell no! I refuse to act like boomers act towards us young people!
Snow Bunny Prince that’s what we all think but we probably have don’t it at some point. If you have gone to high school, you know that the school unanimously hates on the freshman just because they are freshman. That is an example of people hating on the younger generations.
@@rou8390 I've never done that but I have seen others do it. I dont understand the disdain people have for the younger generations tbh! We should be encouraging and helping each other! 🐰💕
Holy shit they could afford a house, at 28 years old!? Amazing, I presently am immersed in debt, I work 2 jobs and cannot afford a house or a piece of land to build me a house, much less raise a family, I live with my parents and help them with the bills in exchange for a roof, times are hard.
Same
i hope it gets better for you bro....it snot easy out here
Bit instead if blaming the government, banks inflation, etc, let's blame feminists, old men and young ppl. Yeah.
7:16 I was born in 1980, in South Africa. At age 17 at high school I completed a full aptitude test with the rest of my grade to see which careers we were suited to. I was told all of the ones mentioned here... Today I run a busy Arts and Entertainment company, I'm a a multipotentialite who works on over 40 different creative areas. Despite being gifted in music and arts I was never encouraged to follow that career path! 1997!!
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert CAMACHO In 1994, I was 24 and bought a 3 bedroom, 1300 square foot house in a nice neighborhood.
I kinda wish it was still economically feasible to be a stay at home parent.
@New Tunes For Old Logos thank you.
@New Tunes For Old Logos or one parent needs to make around $120k a year or one parent could work from home
@New Tunes For Old Logos house payments, utilities, phone, internet, tv, car insurance, car payments, food, putting some in savings, gas, house insurance, travel, and other odds and ends. Also don't forget 30% goes to taxes. If you're job doesn't cover it, health and dental insurance. So yeah, that's where it goes
@@jeffgayzose8129 house payment with insurance and taxes 2k
Phone $100
Internet $50
Gas $300
Dental $100
Health let’s throw it at $1000
And in what country are you in to be taxed at 30%? Filing single 0 you don’t even get to the 30s until after 163k and married is at over 300k
So assuming you take 30% of 10k
We have 7k to do bills and what not
I’ve listed $3550 in bills
Now we have $3450 for savings, fun and food…. There’s plenty and if it’s not then you just don’t have any financial skills to make money work…:::
I make like 74k a year on 40 hrs and like 80-90 depending on the year, file single 0, have a stay at home wife and two kids…. There’s still money left over
@New Tunes For Old Logos bills, taxes, car payments, home payments, and just regular accessory expenses brother
In elementary school, I told my grandmother I wanted to be a doctor. Unequivocally said that girls can't be doctors they could be nurses. I was born in 1951
Old ideas die hard. Grandmother-in-law told new sister-in-law (who was about 12 at the time) that girls couldn't do math. Didn't take on grandma, but made sure new sister-in-law knew that was crap!! Oh, and that was in 1982.
@@whisperingsage the comment isn't about nurses vs. doctors. There are things doctors know and can accomplish that nurses can't as well but OP is talking about the limitations society places on females holding certain occupations.
Did your grandmother not hear of Elizabeth Blackwell?
@@Juliaflo , bigots hate facts
So are you a doctor or not lol
I tried to follow in my parents footsteps - went to to work everyday, worked weekends, did as I was told, and at the end of the year it for me a 25 cent raise.
I hear ya. Except I haven't had a raise in 2 years.
What's that today adjusting for inflation like $10 raise?
I told my job I got my bachelors and they raised my wage. By 10c.
I asked for a raise. I was told - .25 now, and another .50 at the end of the year. At the end of a year the company switched hands and I had to sign some paperwork. I said "I was promised a raise" and I was told that I was "so entitled". I quit that day but got full employment insurance because the paperwork had stated I was "laid off" temporarily until the other paperwork was signed! I became pregnant immediately and lived off of EI for months in perfect bliss. (Ok other 4han being really sick) Checkmate!! They even tried to dispute it but my paperwork proved I was "laid off". 🤷♀️😅
Hard times, create strong men
Strong men, create good times
Good times, create weak men
Weak men, create hard times.
Word!
Anom Mona there’s a distinction between strong men and overbearing men. Strong men actually make life better, while the overbearing type is just trying to fool everyone into thinking he is strong by pushing people around.
Bullshit saying if you take a look at history.
@The Flying Dutchman
>The fall of Rome
Which one? The fall of the western Rome took more than a century - that's a lot of generations.
Also, It had a ton of external drivers, like great migration.
That's a truly unfortunate pattern. "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."
"They thought life was about being free and being happy"
I mean shouldn't we aspire for life to be that way. He said almost as if to say that life is shit and not happy. Which my answer to that is, why give life if life is a miserable existence.
I am not sure who that he is that you are referring to. Please give timecode.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker its at 1:45 onwards!
Freedom is important but people need responsibility to feel purposeful too, and to give meaning, which is what a lot of people simply don't feel now. Comfort kills ambition. The fact is that human beings do need hardship to thrive. Unlimited comforts just end up destroying humans because humans will always look for some kind of adversity and something to fight for/against, even if they have to make it up, hence the ridiculous "social justice" causes of today. If people were given actual adversity, those social justice causes would disappear overnight when people realize how frivolous and stupid they are in comparison.
@@subverted6555 My experience in life is that you are correct that one big stuff happens, smaller stuff becomes less important. But that's true on the both sides. True for social justice issues and also true (hopefully) with those issues that the other side raises constantly, sexual orientation, etc. I think of the Cuban missile crisis, 9/11, and some of these really bad fire as we been having near us in California as such experiences. In fact my house and my archive largely burned to the ground in 2008 changing things in some surprising ways, including some good ones.
David Hoffman filmmaker
i think they meant that they thought it was the only thing that mattered in life. I agree being free and happy are the priorities, but you also have to have responsibility in order to be free and happy. that man worded it really weirdly
Growing up in the 50's we were not allowed to express our authentic selves. Children were seen but not heard. We couldn't talk about what mattered. Going to college was not required to have a life so parents didn't have that burden. I believe each generation teaches the previous one. Trust intuition. Live fearlessly
As kids, we had the burden of achieving a full ride scholarship.
College is still not required to have a life. In fact today it’s a one way ticket to debt slavery for the majority of attendees.
@@ordinarydevin 🤣🤣🤣
Free ride to debt baby !
Life is all about trade-offs. Every generation has its challenges.
College is just a bunch of useless liberal studies trash that makes you no actual living wages when youre through with it. just to shove noses into politics.
In the 50s, if only the MAN went to work, you could survive and prosper. It was an entirely different economy in the cost of living for all the basics was very cheap. This is something they never take into consideration when they try to compare themselves to today's millennials. Both parents working 40 hours a week is not enough to keep up in this rat race for much of the pay level jobs available. Not to mention the cost of healthcare today. I'm a baby boomer and I would be scared to be graduating from high school or college today, hoping to be able to make it on my own, so therefore I never blame the millennials it's like comparing apples to oranges
Indeed, when I went to college and took macro economics they talk about how the conomy is growing and household income has increasingly risen... What a load of crap, while the economy has grown; household income has only risen because the continuos inclusion of women in the workforce, women studying higher paying careers, women getting equal pay... That's it, nothing to do with corporations paying more out of their fabulous increase in production.
how about the fact that the boomers could go to college for about twenty bucks or something a semester! Look at it now!
Alice Wonderland that's why I'm learning how to weld in the Army. High paying, in demand, and not sought out for. It's a perfect job for those ambitious enough to work for it
You're forgetting also that you could get a blue collar job now and live pretty good if you are willing to buy way out in the boonies. The house would be nice and so on just like back then or you could live in the hood. In so cal you would have to drive around 100 miles one way it's possible just not the same and very time consuming on our jacked up freeways
Dawson Heinbaugh go into welding plumbing.
It's harder to get into than the iron workers union but the guys you'll be around will actually have an iq.
I work construction and the farther away from those brutes the better, plumbers are much better tradesmen. Looking it that too a journey man with little to no responsibility in Los Angeles get 46/hr.
HVAC gets around 46 as well
Electrician gets 43
Not sure about the other trades, I hear some rumors of iron workers up near 70 but like I said the farther away from those guys the better, zero iq
“At home this would be a minor tragedy.” No, it would be an annoyance. Use it for syrup on pancakes instead of jam on toast. That’s what my 1950s/1960s mother taught me - if my fudge didn’t “fudge,” she’d put it in a jar in the fridge, & buy some vanilla ice cream the next time she went to the store. Then she’d tell the rest of the family: “Tina made these wonderful hot-fudge sundaes for our dessert!”
@rocky mountain lass I was raised the complete opposite. My dad would constantly bitch, scream, moan and complain about every minor setback and inconvenience. I've never known someone so be so self obsessed and entitled. Even as a child I could see how pathetic it was. A real man (or just adult in general) tries to solve problems, not play the victim every single chance he gets.
That jelly being declared a flop? I have to disagree. I grew up with my mom’s homemade jelly. I much preferred it to be soft like that. It had better flavor (to me) than the firm kind. Unfortunately, my dad preferred for his jelly to “stand up and look you in the face”, as Mother described it. She most often deferred to my preference since I ate it the most, though. It’s how I try to make it now, but how runny / firm is mostly left to chance since I’m not as good at it as my mom was.
I was born in 1947, at the forefront of the boomer generation. My family motto:
Use it up.
Wear it out.
Make it do,
or do without.
We never had credit cards or loans that I know of. I got a paper route at 12, and been working virtually every day since. Worked my way through college & took 8 years to get a 4 year degree. No one I knew was fat.
However, I do feel a lot of sympathy for the youth of today. You have been short-changed by the money changers who bankrupted the country with the Vietnam war and had to take us off the gold standard. It was then that our "money" became nothing but fiat, and unlimited amounts could be issued. It wasn't the boomers who declared that war, but it was the boomers who fought it. You have been short-changed educationally, too. I know that my son's K-12 education was not as rigorous as mine, and can only imagine how sad it is today. Not enough history, math, writing, science...in other words, the basics. Not enough individualism & too much conformity. There's much more, too.
Wow, baby boomers were called spoiled, for being raised in a good homes, having money to spent, and living in prosperity. We were called spoiled, for asking for less debt going to school, and asking our workplace to treat us like a human being.
Most of us weren’t spoiled because our parents had little money to do that. In Australia post war families were still struggling to make ends meet. Baby Boomers have had the benefit on knowing money was not a prerequisite for happiness.
Boomers grew up to be narcissists and many of their kids became teenage and adult narcissists
The danger of sweeping generalisations is that they are always wrong and the feeble minded use them to prove some point or other that suits their own angry disposition.
@Martin Loney So true. You also have to consider who really (literally) profits from sowing hatred between generations? If regular people of all generations worked together we'd have a living wage and health care here in America.
Instead we have people getting manipulated into this "OK Boomer" nonsense and billionaires who don't pay taxes.
@@nekkidpossum4397 a very interesting question. The collective power of all compassionate people would bring wonderful change. Division suits the powerful vested interests.
In the early 60s, we had "Career Day" at my junior high school. We learned about different careers, and then we each went one by one to talk to our school counselor about it. I decided I wanted to be a farmer. The counselor told me, "Honey, girls aren't farmers. They MARRY farmers." I said, "Well, how about a veterinarian then?" "Well, you can marry a veterinarian, if you like." SMH.....
But if you call this sexism some men are going to whine
Julie Purpleskater So, which one did you go for in the end? The first or the latter or something different?
Julie Purpleskater Meh, not everyone thought that way. I was a kid in the 60s and my dad always told me I could become the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
My mother had to work in my family farm from childhood till marriage. My grandmother still work with agriculture. But it was in the countryside, my father grew up in an entirely different culture where women stayed in kitchen.
@@thejoyofreading7661 Well, whining begets whining. If you whine about people whining, then you can expect people whining about people whining about people whining.
“I wasn’t allowed to go into the real professions” I think part of the problem with sexism is that we don’t see traditionally female jobs as “real” jobs, as if a woman has to be doing the same things as a man to deserve respect. Whether she goes into a traditionally male field or not she deserves respect, period.
oh my god preach.
@Ashvin Vaidyanathan Teachers need to be paid what they are worth and they are worth allot! Professional athletes on the other hand...not worth a fraction of what they are paid.
@Bruco Alidas I wasn't aware since I never follow anything sports related, except who wins the World Cup. It's terrible how young men now a days are being duped and their masculinity being slowly eroded by the NWO under everyone's noses. I loved it when men where men. They were so much fun then. Now it seems to me young men have lost their way and their confidence. Sigh.
Right. If a woman does a job she is "naturally suited for" where is the skill in that? Pay her a sensible wage. Her bonus is her contribution to society.
Her point was not that her job couldn't be a real job if it weren't men's work. Her point was that being a paid professional --doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc. just wasn't supposed to be an option for her, even if she wanted it, regardless of whether a man would typically do those jobs. I would imagine that even if there were no male doctors, she would consider being a physician to be a real job, because it requires specialized, higher levels of education and comes with a hefty salary.
Never thought I’d hear anyone say “children are real people”
Lol same
It’s a book
Children were seen and not heard. Children were secondary to everything.
Well if you consider all the molestations that went on at the time...
I think it’s referring to fact that people didn’t consider the interior lives of children
"Children are individuals with their own personalities", and right after that - "Oh how we spoiled them with this way of thinking" lmao
“children are actual people” huh never thought of that
It's because so many see their kids as extensions of themselves and not separate people
Before that it was children should be seen and not heard.
Stupid generation still made progress for us, imagine if this was never “discovered” and we were just “discovering” this now? Just like they’re still “discovering” that animals have feelings and that trees make noises the naked human ear can’t hear. Can’t exactly trash a generation for making progress, no matter how small.
I mean we still have parents thinking that their 6-9 year old is trans. Just because their kids say they are so, and now we have a major issue on our hands where parents are fighting for the right to allow their kids who’s minds aren’t fully developed to physically and chemically change their sex. We live in wild times
Youth culture has ruined our society.
A nice change of pace from the high-level garbage I usually watch.
TV?
No, just give a quick scroll through my Quality Content playlist.
Explanation+shameless self-advertising!
Just feel like I should point out that cancer always manifests itself spiritually. You're not special.
Why is this so relatable?
This explains the boomers sense of entitlement so much
Every generation vexes the generation before them.
This video didn't show that there were women in the Army as auxiliary groups, women who took temporary jobs to support WWII efforts, and were in factory jobs in WWII and displaced instantly by the veterans when they came home. It was devastating to many women who wanted to continue those jobs.
I wonder if part of the 1950's was to emphasize that a woman should return to the job of being homemakers and get a husband and raise a family and leave the salaried work for men.
@Garrett Dodds
It's too bad masculinity is portrayed as toxic, because there are a lot of talents that men bring to the table. Generally taller and more muscular than women, they can get the stuff off the high shelves at the grocery,and they can spot me if I'm uncertain with my movement or balance. Or also moving large, unwieldy things like furniture down steps or flipping over or turning mattresses.
I believe men should be allowed to show their feelings but also work together in projects like DIY. One of my favorite pictures my mom bought was of a man giving his full attention to carving a bowl out of wood, about the size for a casserole or to hold fruit on the table, or toss salad. This man looked gentle, strong, focused, and determined, in every way what I see good men are. Caring. Respectful. Feeling.
The men's dynamic is often different from women's dynamic, but each brings unique talents to the family.
The great depressioners were entitled
Ginny Jolly I wish people would realize that. Men and women are different for a reason.
the boomers!! you must mean millenials.
Can you imagine what it would be like to have a job in a retail store or a restaurant and being able to support a wife and kids on it? I couldn’t even support myself when I was doing that.
But everything was much cheaper bak then, in 1969 with 1 dollar, u could pay 25 cents for cigarettes 25 cents a gallon of gas, 15 cents for hamburger, 10 cents for a phone call, the rest on candy or a comic book.
Apartments were cheaper too, like closer to 80 dollars per month or 120 per month.
@@barrycalvillo2466 that was my point.
That's what happens when the government spends money it doesn't have. It eventually comes out as inflation, and often it's the next generation that pays. Now it's happening at a rate never seen before, totally exponential. Of course there are winners in this system: those who are behind the Federal Reserve (whom even congress is forbidden from knowing the names of).
"Children are real people" xD
Children should be seen and not heard
It's true
Junkers It’s not 1959 anymore, backwards thinking.
GregWolf 😂🤣🤣
Lesbian Amazon Sister this is true unfortunately that trauma is ingrained in the DNA of people.
Boomers are the most spoiled generation of all time.
They have completely destroyed the economy for generations to come
Charles Clapper yes, also the same generation that ruined future generations.
Charles Clapper lol they went Vietnam on their own accord. The U.S had no business going there.
Charles Clapper i completely agree
Charles Clapper Statistically speaking boomers did have the best run out of all generations, a lot of baby boomers when they got older didn’t really consider the Cold War to actually be an issue and we’re rarely effected by it or by any other societal issue, that’s why the 50s and early 60s are called “the golden years of America.” By a lot of (white) boomers today, many people from today’s era would even consider the 50s to be a better time than now. Yes it did have its downsides but you can’t deny that they DID in fact have the best time period to live in economy wise.
I grew up in the 50s then when I went to college and studied biology, my parents were so angry because they didn't think I could get a job. When I graduated they pushed me to be a secretary. I'm so glad I didn't listen to them.
Very similar to my wife. She tried banking but did not like it. She wanted to do science but the only jobs at that time were in teaching which she did not want to do. She took up nursing. Gradually and steadily she built up to a doctorate in Nursing development and metrics. All her life she never complained about her often tough and challenging work life but she obtained extra qualifications to give her choices in life. Nurses have a 75% chance of acquiring back injury in the course of their work, plans must be made to be able to move to non-frontline jobs if this proves necessary. She realised this and successfully moved from frontline to admin before her back gave out. People need to have a plan B in their worklife.
Ironic, I'm a millenial with 2 degrees and the only stable job I can get is almost secretary level
@@Liitebulb what degrees do you have
I was the last six kids. I was born in 1955. Kids were to be seen and not heard. We were not allowed to talk at the dinner table. I remember getting slapped because I was laughing at the dinner table. How sad is that? Nobody valued what we had to say.
SAME
Same - this video is bullshit
I was born in 1993 to a narcissistic father born in 1950 and an image obsessed mother born in 1947. By all accounts from their siblings both had very supportive parents and privileged childhoods. My life was "Be seen not heard" and "You are our property, not your own person." They both could have done with a good slapping around in childhood. I learned what bad parenting looks like and I've chosen to raise my children with a compassionate yet firm hand. Every Boomer I've ever known who had a "rough childhood" ended up as an entitled shit adult. We would have a better world if most of them had never reproduced.
Same - born 40 years later. Doesn't mean it's representative, just bad parenting
Wow, that sucks. Sorry you had to endure that. I was born in 72’. My parents were strict and had their own issues, but why have kids if they are only to be seen not heard? That’s Twisted.
My grandma is a boomer and my mom is Gen X, I’m a millennial (mom had me young). My grandma was definitely a hippie but never went too far to the point of disappointing her parents. She went to college, became a teacher, but then her family fell back when she got pregnant with my mom and wasn’t married. I feel like she didn’t like how much that traditional parental pressure for the standard American Dream she grew up on was and in turn was very laxxed with my mom and uncles. Somehow that turned into my mom being hard on me lol. I had to have a job, I had to either be in school or working, and I had to be out by 18 or at least working on getting out. All I’ve known is work work work work work. Constantly reminded that my generation is lazy. Working in circles. It’s interesting to break down generational norms as well as contributing economic factors into seeing why things are the way they are. It’s like a domino effect.
Hey boo, wasn't expecting to see you here lol ❤️
Im a milliminal and my parents are old lol 61 ita crazy everyones grandparents are my pare ts age and im 31 btw lol
Sarah Ranin bruh I’m gen z (19) & my parents are 60/61 lmao. To me 30 yrs really isn’t that large of an age gap btwn parent/child.
CatCamryn most people have kids in there 20s and 30s
If you don't mind me asking...
How do you think you turned out?
Did the work work work thing help you for the better?
Sounds like you would have certainly learned to not take things for granted.
Maybe 'your' generation is lazy, but you certainly don't seem lazy.
I'm a millennial and I just want to be able to afford rent and food and healthcare for how hard I work every week.
You can pick 1 or 2 of the 3. Not all 3.
better skilled job, specialize in being special. You’ll always find someone hiring, recession proof jobs are a must as well
@@atl3630 [Laughs in world outside the US]
Its always been hard. Almost impossible to live on one paycheck, therefore working spouse or roomates. It was true 40 yrs ago for me its true now. Of course you want to be paid fairly, dont blame you.
Game Hero you can do so in the US you just gotta work hard.
So many people refer to the 50s as the good old days when everything was so perfect. When in reality, the 50s just like any other decade had its share of issues too. Personally, I think society was still overly naive and kind of gullible back then, believing almost anything that was in the newspapers or on television.
People still believe anything they hear or see
Yes the 50s seemed like a paradise but it made people naive and the paradise was lost.
People never change, they still do now it’s what’s posted on the internet.
the 50’s were only “good” in the US because in Europe the economy was really bad and the people didn’t have any homes or nothing because it got destroyed
Nah, the boomers had it great in the 50s and 60s. I mean, most of us today could only dream of having a part time job and be able to pay for a house,car and more. The boomers were enoying themselves SO MUCH that they ruined the entire economy for the future generations.
Dad went to Korea and Vietnam..I had nothing but respect for him. He was distant and he worked hard. But still, I couldn't fault the man. He is the main reason I got ahead in life.
I guess simple minds will settle with less...
Whatever that means..
@@poetsrear Explain yourself
I wish I was taught how to make jam in school. I'd rather have knowledge that allows me to be self sufficient than sit in an office staring at a computer all day so I can be a consumer and buy everything I need.
T Nicole well try and remember, 95%of the things you buy, you dont need. Simplify your life and you will be free
Nobody needs jam. Its 80% sugar. Besides you can learn to cook from UA-cam.
I got a D in home economics because our teacher was a mean old fuss pot that assumed certain things were innate in females. When the only boy in the class could crochet and I couldn't - she was UPSET. And this was in the late 1980s!
You traded Home Ec for Sex Ed. Lucky you.
@rocky mountain lass LOL! No, my home ec teacher was married and loved to "show off" her grown son when he came to town to visit. I got the feeling she felt that she felt I wasn't trying hard enough because I must've been "subversive feminist" invading her class. I grew up in a very conservative town. My mother was a stay at home mom, and she encouraged me to be whatever I wanted to be - I think she was actually afraid for me to become a stay at home mom. But, I was observant of how my father treated her like she was one of us kids, and I KNEW that life was not for me. Basically, kids learn at the feet of their parents big time.
When the 'American Dream' was actually possible.
Yes, now people are to lazy for it to be.
Zion segregation? that is not the american dream.
Remember the 50s was a time before the immigration act of 1965 which boosted inflation
Well, that's debatable. Literature from around this time and even before (such as Of Mice and Men) started commentary on the death or nonexistence of the American Dream. It's just more obvious now because everyone can share their complaints and financial concerns in seconds.
The American dream is marketing. Nothing more, nothing less.
Then:
*WWII Generation:* Go get a job, you bum!
*Baby Boomers:* Don't tell me what to do!
Now:
*Baby Boomers:* Go get a job, you bum!
*Millennials:* Don't tell me what to do!
Ryan Hartwell It's more that they can't get a job
Yeah honestly, back then they could afford a lot more with a super freaking basic job. Those same jobs nowadays either pay less or everything else costs more, and to even get the job you have to jump through a ton of hoops and spend a ton of money to maybe get your foot in the door. Then boomers and Gen X have the gall to say we're lazy because of it.
Professor Rosenstock more like womens studies and art degrees dont get you anywhere. Jobs are everywhere if you actually try. It was their choice to go to college for fields with either no job security or fields with no jobs.
justanotherblankchannelman you do realize that gender studies and art make up such a small and insignificant amount of chosen majors, right? Gender studies is just a specific form of history and art majors are usually on scholarship or funded by parents. Even engineers are facing market over saturation.
are you living on planet earth with the rest of us? i got an art degree from a small liberal arts college back in 2013, and i'm currently earning almost $80,000 a year working only 40 hours a week. i'm managing editor at a local medical marketing company.
what type of degree do you think is worth it? computer science? nursing? law? sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but none of those degrees guarantee anything. immigrants willing to work for less money and a glut of jobseekers in those fields are making it increasingly difficult to find positions. meanwhile, those of us with art degrees and a bit of talent are having no trouble getting interviews--and getting hired.
sorry, but i think you're working on some long outdated concepts...y'know, like when half of the country worked in factories or on farms? the world has changed. people need to change with it.
I'm so jealous they learned to can preserves in school. Here I am watching 50 UA-cam instructionals trying to learn. Haven't used calculus since high school though. 😕
I was fortunate that my parents Cannes a lot when I was young. They taught me how to can jam. One of these days im going to learn how to use a pressure canner, but first I need to figure out what to can.
Same...
well said, I feel the same 👏👏❤️
@Ghost Troupe well I homeschool so in our house the parents do the jobs of the school AND the parent. My mom never learned to can either so she couldn't have taught me. She taught me to sew clothing though. ☺️
@Ghost Troupe cuz you cant always rely on your parents lol
The first generation to say "Hey maybe treating our kids like shit isn't such a great idea after all" lol
Who? Boomers? My boomer parents did not agree with that sentiment.
I don’t think it’s a generational thing...it all depends on how you were raised and if you want to continue abusive behavior, encourage narcissism or engage in a healthy parent/child relationship where you can be a parent and friend. My mom was born in 67 and dad in 64 and they weren’t that great tbh.
It really is just based on the person.
@Not My last name exactly 🙌👏
Carlos Matos well, in a sense. But that's not what the video was saying. It was saying the way the 1950's parented wasn't perfect. It's saying it bred a generation of crazy wild kids because they hated what their parents were. It's basically saying what went wrong in that generation
@@phant0m0th_ my mother and father were born in the same exact years as your parents... strange.
"For out of an increasing understanding of child psychology has come the understanding that children are real people!" 😂😂😂 seriously man that's just tragic
@EGGBERT INKABOD ?
back in the day children were meant to help around the house and farm... if you lost one or two its ok you an just have another...
its still like this in many parts of the world...
As a Millennial myself I view the WWII generation with great respect and reverence. But I cannot have more disdain for a generation than I have for the boomers. Boomers inherited the best economy, low tuition costs at top schools, good wages, cheap housing, investment opportunities etc. and they act like they made something of nothing. No they brought into decline the nation that the WWII generation had forged into greatness. I had a full ride for my bachelors degree and am continuing my education soon but prior to choosing to go back to school again I was working 65 hours a week for only 40 k a year. How the heck is that anywhere near as spoiled as say a boomer who could work a 50 hour week and make 35 k in the damn 70s? How are we spoiled and decadent? Because we have cell phones? Oh yes, we are so much more spoiled since we have phones considering the boomers could afford houses a car and two children doing the same things we are doing now.
Well said. Gen X (the gen before millennials) got screwed over by Boomers too. They have the largest debt than any generation and I know some Gen X'ers that are still paying off college loans. Jobs were scarce after X'ers graduated from college in the 90s and we were compounded with debt. The housing crisis of the millennium, all those foreclosures, yep Gen X. Meanwhile Boomers appreciated the value of their homes and decided to play games with 30 year old X'ers by giving us those variable interest rates bc no-one could afford a home. Noone. Meanwhile Boomers are sitting comfortably while taking their time to retire while the rest of us are looking for jobs, paying loans, mortgages, raising kids. Meanwhile they shit on the X'ers calling us slackers since we were kids. Now they ignore us and crap all over millennials. Boomers are the most self absorbed and gave very little thought to posterity.
My mother, a boomer, said university was free back when she was my age. She has many achievements from uni: arts, biology, maths. But for me, it's 7 - 10 grand to do a single course. So despite me wanting to study psychology and animal care, I find myself much better off working as a cleaner, but with the wage I'm on I can't afford to even rent a place!
But back when dad was my age he could already afford a house..
(I'm gen Z btw, 21 years old)
The “Greatest Generation” gave us the worst generation.
@@libbylulu148 Agreed 100%! My parents are Boomers and spoiled beyond belief, yet have the nerve to call me "spoiled". Meanwhile, I'm working 2 jobs just to make rent on a small 1 bedroom apt while they had a home built for them within a new HOA. All of my adult life I've been working just to get by, re-pay debt I have incurred, and try to live the best I can. I can't afford college, nor do I have the time to devote to it. I've been searching for ways I can try to make more money, as I'm trying to save for a down payment on a home, but the process has been pretty slow. The amount of rent I'm paying each month equates to a mortgage payment so I figured I would try to buy. I've also noticed that Boomers don't really help their kids financial either. Not that I'm asking them to support me, but some help with the down payment would be nice especially since they bought a new home, have another home in a different state, and vacation twice a year to Hawaii. But I DO see the light at the end of the tunnel though. I've been able to get out of credit card debt, and actually have something in savings as opposed to always being in the negative, but I credit that to my current company I work for now. They've helped in ways my own parents never have and I'm very thankful to be working there. I now have hope for what little future I have left, and may actually be able to become a home owner and am looking to start a small business! If the people in your life see you struggling and don't lift a finger to help, you lift all 5 fingers and wave goodbye because they were never your people in the first place. Take care. ❤
Boomer taxes built the infrastructure you're sitting on. Grow up.
"They took it for granted that life would improve automatically". Those are some true words, the fallout of which we're definitely seeing today.
One of those fall-outs is soaring national debt.
Those are very true words, for those of us who never saw the process of getting that benefit.
There was a time when a person could get a decent paying, stable job without years of college and tremendous debt, and could work there until retirement. Companies valued their employees and employees were loyal to their employers. Then these American companies started moving overseas for cheap labor, and the shareholders' and CEO's profits became more important than taking care of the employees. It's hard to have a better life when the world has changed the way it has.
"The massage was very clear: This is the way your life should be, and if it wasn't, then something was very wrong"
That's creepypasta material
Happy New Fears the “massage”? Was it a back rub or foot massage?
@@memberofthelambily1340 lmaoooo
In another decade, every other decade is a dystopia. It's only yours that's real and just... Right?
Born in 67 this video confirms how I have always felt
I’ve always looked at it like a pendulum
My dad who was raised in the depression was a awesome provider and nurturer he spoiled the shit out of me then I grew up thinking life was easy then he passed away and life got really hard because I depended on him so much
It took 20 years to learn to be a man and stand on my own two feet then I became a dad and raised my son with lots of love but he seen me as a pushover now he’s 21 a new dad himself and he can figure it out since he knows so much like all of us
Me I’m still spoiled at age 50
Mike Rusch damn
21 and a dad?
Mike Rusch well at least your not a hypocrite.
But if you were born in 67, you're not a boomer. You're a Gen X-er
Sebu T yeah some people have kids young. My dad was 22 when i was born and my mom was 18. Some people have kids as early as 12 years old which is why when ur 12 and go to the doctors to get a checkup they ask u if ur sexually active. I still remember the shock on my face when i was 12 and my doctor asked me that question. I was like "uh im only 12" and then he told me how a 12 year old was rushed in that same hospital and became a mother. Kids try to become adults too soon
I'm a 27 year old millennial and my parents are in their 60's... I think what really stuck with me about this video was the quote at the end describing how families were portrayed on TV and subtly saying this is how your life is supposed to be and if it's not... something is very wrong. I feel like that is still hugely true today when families are portrayed on TV. This whole thing fascinates me in that I believe that there are so many things that have thankfully changed but other things that this generation got right. I'm not a huge fan of the blame game or generational wars like millennial vs. boomers etc. I think each generation has a lot of lessons to learn as well as wisdom to pass on
The thing is, people generally want to relax at the end of work. So they put on sitcoms that have happy families on it because no one wants to see more stress after a long day. All in the Family, F is for Family, and occasionally The Middle do great jobs mixing drama and comedy.
@@Oozywolf that causes subtle division over time
TV is one of the worst things ever invented...they don't call it the idiot box and TV "programming" for nothing.
So many boomers I know (im 24) basically want me to be quiet fall in line and submit. When talking politics I let them talk and ask questions about their views but when I start to speak they cut me off and say its just me being a snowflake and how ill learn one day. I think we just got tired of them doing that so millenials are basically giving them a taste of their own medicine. I never have thought that just because someone is older it meant I had to basically just keep quiet if they make a mistake on something. Respect is earned not given ... I respect my elders unless they disrespect me only for my age.
@@theveganflower5135 what are your views lol?
This really inspires me to do something similar with my generation. I was born in 1999 in New York and was raised around a lot of old world philosophies and to compare and contrast that to the age of the internet seems both exciting and heartbreaking.
when she went “brAiHaiNnnNnns” i felt that
LMAO
🤣
6:49
Im laughing way too hard at this
Ya me too.
As a I guy I was like...wow women really did not have much choice back then.
Men really felt challenged by a woman out thinking him.
Born in the latter part of the fifties, as a teen I was caught between the traditional values of a woman marrying, having children and making a home, versus the feminist movement that was starting up.
It was a time in which, on the one hand, more freedom and equality was being demanded by women, while at the same time we had no Title 9 yet. I also recall certain classes in school were reserved for boys, others for girls. I wanted to work with saws and hammers and wood, but was told that the boys were given priority, and if there happened to be a space after that, I could sign up. Of course that never happened.
Same with mechanics class. Of course, you never saw a boy sign up for Home Ec as that would be "sissy".
It was a confusing time. At the same time feminism was taking hold, those girls who still wanted to be wives, mothers and home makers were chastised for "not wanting to use their brains" and for wanting to be nothing more than a "breeder". This wasn't right, as the feminist movement was supposed to be about women having more opportunity and freedom to do and be what they want. So there were very conflicting messages girls were getting at that time.
Thank you for sharing that
In the 70/80/90s either, I had inner struggles in my young years.
Blackpilled Saint Oh it's going great! Contrary to your cynical outlook, more than plenty of guys are chasing after women with careers 😉
Incidentally, it's usually men in poverty or with less education that want "traditional" and not egalitarian marriages. Pretty telling, huh?
Women abandoning their homes and children sure backfired. All the convenience and restaurant food has brought about great amount of diseases mostly caused by diet. Then there's the enormous rise in suicide rates among teens that goes right along with good ole Mom going to be somebody "important". What a sham! The most important thing she could have done was keep her home and raise her kids! She chose $$ and other people praising her over her very own. Now.. women won't even have kids because they just get in the way of her selfish desires. Sure is a lonely place in the nursing homes with nobody there to hold your hand.
@@bitrudder3792 Wow! An amazing woman and definitely something we need more of.
I grew up in the 50's and 60's. What a time to be alive. We were not well off financially, and not spoiled. But, we were loved, and the world was safe. People lived within their means. I always wanted to grow up and be a wife and mother. So, that is what I did. I feel sad that this is looked down upon now. Even in my own marriage and younger life, it was tough to make ends meet. But my husband worked very hard and things got easier. It took many years, but we did it. I feel very blessed.
you were spoiled..!!..i grew up on east 168 st in nyc and the world was not safe.!..see you grew up in a nice middle class suburban bubble..that was NOT everybody's reality..an older brother drafted to Nam etc...did you have to ride subways or buses to school ?..walk across dirty streets ?..look your reality was not like everybody in usa..it is not just about working hard...these kids today are the result of alot of the bullshit mindset of our generation the boomers..especially the folks who cannot see that it is a different world out there...the rules have changed !!....does your nation look like it did when you were 14 ?...another world..and getting worse
@@pgroove163 I usually do not respond to comments of mine once I post them. But you really got my shackles up. Maybe it is a mindset. Maybe I never felt sorry for myself. Maybe I saw the good in life. Or, maybe you see the bad. I grew up on the south side of Chicago. I took buses to school and had to work after school from the age of 15 . From school I took 2 buses and a subway to work at a department store in downtown Chicago. At the age of 8 I was a latchkey kid while my parents worked and I had to watch my sister after school. My mother had to get a job because we were really poor. It was the way life was, and I really did not know any better. Everyone in my neighborhood was NOT middle class. Lower middle class or not even. I had a great childhood, as a boomer, and my daughter is a wonderful, caring, non spoiled, human being, who apparently was not hindered by my "bullshit mindset".
@@ladymarjorie3777 My life sounds a lot like yours, but I, too, have a hard time with your "the world was safe" comment. I don't know about you, but being forced to dive under my desk to the sounds of air raid sirens once a week under the threat of nuclear annihilation didn't exactly make me feel safe. Neither did growing into a draft class that was being shipped off to Viet Nam after a steady news diet of war footage.
It is a myth that being a homemaker is looked down on. That is simply a choice that some women can or choose to make. I am a feminist and have never been strictly a housewife, but neither I nor anyone I have ever known sneered at it. A few radicals may, but then there are some radicals who still fervently believe it is the only right calling for a woman. Neither are right.
I can only speak from my own experience, but I'm the product of baby boomers - I'm gen X and my younger siblings millennials. My mother was a stay at home mom, and I watched how my dad treated her as if she were one of the children - it was not the equal partnership that I expect marriage should be. That colored my entire perspective on marriage and motherhood. In other words, we're all products of our environment and our perspective of our upbringing does indeed shape our choices. My mother told me in so many words that she didn't want me to become a stay at home mother. Not because she looked down on it, but because she repeated the example of her mother - being dominated by a jerk husband instead of appreciated by a loving and supportive husband - you can't help but fear that cycle would be repeated. And, I don't blame my mother or father for my life decisions - ultimately they were ALL mine.
I love the realization that “children are people”
“We found out in the 50s that if you got up in the morning, and went to work and did a good days work, things got better. You got promoted or you got more money, you were able to buy furniture, you could have more children , the children could have better clothes, and life just improved. We knew it was because you went to work, but I’m not sure our children realized that. They saw simply that the clothes got better, the house got bigger, the neighborhood got nicer.”
Then they get mad at generations for doing the same thing. It’s called being a kid, you did it. You didn’t realize how it was like to be an adult until you were one that you only had nice things this way. You just cared about kid stuff, then you get mad at kids after your generation for being there same way you were.
So you're blaming the boomer's parents?
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This system of consistency and stability in the work and societys framework is known as the social contract. Strong societies have such arrangements for its in-groups and conforming members. Weak societies lack such consistencies and quickly dissolve into chaos and uncertainty. Intergenerational conflict is very common and an inevitable part of human life and growing up. In many cases such conflicts are because parents care but often lack the needed social skills and training to effectively handle conflicts. Other parents are actually evil and jealous of their childrens abilities and growth so this should not be discounted in the family dynamics. The trick is to know when to heed parental and generational advice and when to seek outside professional advice to modify and moderate key opinions and attitudes in navigating ones way through life.
Yes, so true. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Haha, not so many kids being kids no more. Not even those who could afford it, parents that make their kids grow up so they’re ready for being on their own
David, I love all your vids. I'm 38 years old and they are so fascinating to me. Thank you for all the history you took time to preserve. I know most of us appreciate the hard work you put into these documentaries. Keep them coming, friend.
Thank you. I do put some hard work into it every day. I have my “day jobs” where I am a consultant to companies on communication issues and on occasion, get to make a video for them. But I get up early so that I can take care of my UA-cam community where it has taken a while for UA-cam to even acknowledge that I exist. They still don't do anything to help promote my channel or my documentaries. Very few go viral as you notice. But so be it. Thank you again.
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I share almost all your videos from UA-cam to family and friends. I have NO IDEA why UA-cam hasn't made more of an effort to help promote a quality channel as informative and insightful as yours. I will spread the word of your UA-cam channel on my social media to make as many people as I know aware of your channel. That's about all I would know what to do to help out. If you would have any other suggestions that might help out, please let us (your fans) know. I'm sure the majority of us would be willing to get this channel up to a higher fan base because in all honesty, I can't think of a single reason why your channel wouldn't have at least a million + subscribers. Again, thanks for all your hard work and dedication to this channel. Always looking forward to the next video.
And thank you for your support and your kindness.
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I was diagnosed with cancer at 38. That's all I could think of when I read your comment.
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Thanks. It has. I'm in remission, but suffer greatly from the side effects of treatment. Hopefully, with time, that'll fade. I'm 40 now. Didn't think I'd get this far.
baby boomers, the generation that led to our downfall.
LordVader1094 Which generation taught them again?
I think a case can be made that the Greatest Generation was actually the group that screwed us all, creating sprawl, oil dependence and nukes, though people before that were certainly responsible for pointing them in that direction. Maybe it is simplest to blame God.
I hope you are aware that the animals will be slaughtered in mass or left to die if humans are not able to make a profit off of them. better to use them as fertilizer. Humans will also have to worry about malnutrition because we do have some requirements in our bodies as we are omnivorous not herbivores.
Werdfrerb2 so past environmental damage is our fault
Bren did you even watch this? It was the easy life they had combined with their parents will to make a better place that created a bunch of shitheads who used all their free time not working to come up with utopian ideas that do not jive with humanity, you dig?
I don’t know, my parents were boomers and I grew up in the 80s and they were always like children should be seen and not heard. Always assumed they also had a terrible upbringing
I heard it too. Later found out they were both spoiled brats growing up. 🤣
And yet you are still offensive. I guess you didn't learn much.
@@kathymc234 Fucking hell Kathy, bet your kids hate coming home for xmas
@@heybejaybe809 lmao the only way Kathy has a baby is if she stole one from the hospital
@@mikaelgaiason688 Hehe
My grandma worked, at a job, just as hard as my grandfather. After 30 years married and 6 kids they divorced. And they still didn't "HAVE" everything . I'm guessing there were more folks like them with real issues than the leave it to Beavers that this clip showed.
People forget June Cleaver came from money before she married Ward. She was never gonna struggle in life.
Yup.
Most women were not stay at home mothers in the 1950s. That was a luxury that upper middle class and above enjoyed.
Preston Marshall in the 50’s? No, they were on the whole. Large families, father provided, mother managing home and kids. It was probably the pinnacle of the nuclear family and gender norms.
@@Kat-of2uh poor women worked at 'women' work' - housekeeping, secretarial work, seamstresses, etc. - or for the family business, supporting the husband and often the kids contributed, too. It was novel for well-heeled middle class girls to go into the workforce, but the majority was poor and they had to work to live.
shedoes concerts I’m sure there were still poor and working single women. But the 50’s were prosperous, too. And the middle class was large and a true middle class. Even if the father was say a bus driver or working on an assembly line, he could provide for his family.
@@shedoesconcerts5762 Yes. My grandmother was such a woman. She worked in yards or did housework. My mother would help her when she was old enough.
Every woman in my (lower) middle class neighborhood was a stay at home mom.
This is what every generation does, blame the kids. Can we ever address our current problems without comparing them to the 50s or another decade that doesn’t pertain to the here and now. Way too much has changed to even compare. Starting with the fact that jobs have been outsourced, pensions are rare, the benefits of working in the 50s was substantially better. Thanks to unions putting pressure on companies to take care of their employees.Personal expenses weren’t near as high back then either. Not to mention both mom and dad are working now out of necessity. The reason our kids don’t understand the value of hard work is because the trade jobs and factory jobs are minimal. America is a service country. Why is America different? It is no one generation. It is our values have gone from wanting to get married and raise a family to wanting to make a lot of money. Ask any kid now and their first priority is a fancy house and car. Let’s be honest, we value people by what they have or what they do for a living. In the 50s just having a job was good enough to get respect. Now a days it’s the kind of job you have and ironically there are not enough “ respectable” high paying jobs for every single working American. There never will be. So some work two jobs to make ends meet. What makes a real job is how much money it pays, period. Until Americans wake up and stop putting some on pedestals and demonizing others for not being “ well off enough” we will continue to see rising suicide rates amongst men as well as drug and alcohol abuse. That kind of pressure motivates no one. In fact I think it scares the crap out of some kids. I wish for people to stop and think what really motivated them growing up. Because I think many forgot!! Love and acceptance is all anyone wants and we are showing our kids that dollar bills get you that! Not integrity or hard work.
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I love my mother to death, but she has a tendency to view blue collar jobs as beneath her and white collar jobs as respectable. It was also implied all throughout my high school career that trade schools were the options for poor/dumb people, while college was where you wanted to go if you didn't want to look like some retard (yes, I'm using that word intentionally).
I definitely believe in the value of trade jobs and technical schools. I tell people who are having trouble deciding what college to go to or what to major in that they should at least try community college or a technical school before they fully decide since they’re cheaper and technical schools will give you more hands-on skills. I personally plan on pursuing psychology and politics and other things that aren’t really taught at technical schools, but I love that they exist in case I change my mind.
@@Notlegallyaduck okay, sorry for being stupid but what are blue and white collar jobs?
@@confetti_kisses427 blue collar- manual labor jobs such as plumbers or factory workers
White collar- jobs that require higher education like accountants or lawyers
I grew up in the 50s. Everything was about family. We did everything together. We NEVER had dinner until dad came home from work. If he knew he would be late, he'd call and say, "Feed the kids dinner!" I helped my dad with everything, gardening, washing the car, painting, etc. That was how I learned how to do things. My sister was in the kitchen with my mom being taught how to cook ! Every vacation we took together. We were never left with others while they went somewhere . Our family unity was there even when they got older, and I took over the role of caretaker for them. Another thing that to me was an important factor in my life growing up, was we were Italian. Family was everything !
Anglo/Irish Catholic pretty much how it was for us to. Delia Morris
Fascinating! On the surface, the home movies in this video looked just like my family. But my parents apparently only got a few messages from the 50’s: “work hard”, “money doesn’t grow on trees” and “you’re a spoiled brat!” I never felt like I was seen as an individual. I think there was still a lot of fear and anger in our household - a leftover mindset from the depression and wartime that sadly influenced our family life. So interesting because I was also conditioned by shows like “Leave It To Beaver,” “Donna Reed,” and the like and often felt like a misfit because our family didn’t match up.
Same! My mom bitterly resented every bite we took. She grew up hungry and found it enraging that we took food for granted. We weren't allowed to use the phone, have friends over, sit around idle. We always had to be cleaning. She believed a kid's purpose was slave labor. Always kept us busy and away from social experiences and entertainment.
@@staceykersting705 - that’s awfully sad. It’s a shame our parents were traumatized by their circumstances because it undoubtedly affects the children.
Some people still don’t recognize that children are real people with their own personalities, and feelings. They are still seen by some as an extension of their parents, or even accessories. I was born on the 80’s, and never saw my dad. He worked all night, and slept all day. My mom raised us, and ran the home. Dinner was on the table, and clothing was ironed. I don’t think much changed really.
Well a lot has changed as I am a kid myself
I know people who sadly don’t have a father figure they know or have one who is in their life, understands them, bonds with them, and is there for their child’s well being. (Including my father)
Now it is safe to say that these “extensions of parents” do still exist but I think that culture is dying down but pushed thru media due to vocal people who actively do that mess.
@Martin Luther Lucky for 18 years - unlucky for the rest of their life. This shit traumatizes people
huh how is that bad, your parents were just working hard to raise you
I’m learning a lot from my the people that lived in The Depression. I’m trying my best to prepare myself for when I’m on my own. Making my own household cleaners, learning about Depression meals, sewing, & woodwork. I really hope that knowing these things will help me
The way things are going, I'm almost certain it will. Good on you.
@@thefarmhousegoddess5475 thank you so much 💕
Learn about gardening too maybe. But honestly, you probably are needlessly worrying. There are safety nets for hunger that didn't exist then. I'd focus on enjoying life. My $.02 from living during the cold war where the threat of the world ending was an on the mind thing.
@@jc.1191 The threat of the world ending is here again. That's why she's doing it. Congrats on her.
I used to but I know that’s a waste of time because goods are so cheap it’s less expensive to buy those iteMs
My father would have been 100 years old this year. This was his generation and he was the best father in the world. ❤️
Well he wasn’t a boomer if he would have been 100 last year! The 1920’s babies were the young people who fought WWII, and who had the babies when the war was over. He was a parent of Boomers!
@@andrewhaywood3853 They were “the greatest generation”
Comments.. millennials vs boomers. Gen x quietly being ignored lol. It's fine we're used to it 🤣
Gen X here: we are the steady workers. The support system for the world. Ethical, but invisible. Doing good work, trying to be ideal humans.
Often fighting corruption, without the internet or you tube for support. Without us, the world would have collapsed long ago. One day, people will realize what we Gen X have done for the world. Quietly, without fanfare. We don't need a medal, but a few "Thank You" notes would be appreciated.
Gen Z is trying to fit in with the adults
The boomers didn't owe the gen x nothing, The gen x definitely don't owe millennials anything. Life is hard, Do the best you can with the cards you're delt.
@@w.t.f.4989 so people should start thinking of only themselves and stop worrying about the effects we have on the future generations... our children...
t k Hey Gen X has the best music by far
I grew up in the 50s and 60s and wasn't spoiled, but my parents did always say they wanted to give us kids what they were unable to have themselves. It really WAS a delicious time to grow up. This old hippy will be forever grateful for the experience. Peace
We were criminalized because we wanted peace. Still do!
If you were so grateful, you wouldn't of taken that chance from your children and grandchildren
Fucking hippy.
Wow I see a lot of “victims” in this comment section.
TheEmeraldBlonde, how is it that he personally took that chance away from anyone else???
“Dad was so busy at work til 2 or 3 in the morning...”
uhhh, your dad had a second family my guy
More like a side chick.
Lmfaooo
Hey it’s not fair to make assumptions!
He could’ve been a drug dealer.
My dad also "worked" that late
LOL
Imagine being like “if I just keep showing up to work things will get better” 🤯🤯 not $17/hr turning into $17.50 next year while the price of bread doubles overnight.
Seriously? Not all families lived like that. I was born in 1946. I saw my father lose jobs. We moved house often. I never went hungry because my parents knew how to make meals from practically nothing. Pancakes for supper. Pierogies. Stuff I loved and never realized was survival food until I was grown and living on it, myself. Nobody belonged to the PTA or read Dr. Spock. I spent a year in the girl scouts and then quit because all they ever talked about was how to earn money, which bored me silly. I had had the impression that I was going to learn how to do things. The only reason I watched the "family" sit-coms on TV was because they all seemed to be about families who lived in the same place all their lives. My father told me that, if I tried living like that, I'd go mad. He was right.
Funny, I was born nearly 40 years after you and left Girl Scouts pretty quickly due to boredom, too. They taught us cross-stitch which is cool and all but wth, I wanted to do the fun outdoorsy stuff. Mind you this was in the 90s. I wonder how it's changed now, I hope for young girls' sake they have fun, practical activities these days.
They spoilt their kids and gave them everything and then when they had kids they gave them nothing
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@@netwonc 'spoilt' is Old English, but still quite used...its like spelling 'old' as 'olde', 'color' as 'colour'🤷
The word aside, this sentence is far from correct
That was because we were the Depression Babies and didn't have much money to buy anything and when WWII created jobs, we had money, but there was nothing to buy. So we wanted our kids to have things that we couldn't have.
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This is a good video, but it would definitely be interesting to see more about lower-middle and working class families of the '50s. My grandparents both worked. They met in trade school and had the same job working on electronics for the government, which provided my mom and her brothers a good life, but it certainly wasn't a June Cleaver or Donna Reed existence for my grandmother.
Right. The feminist movement was a rebellion of the northern white upper middle class.
Both my grandparents worked as well as everybody else in the house.
My dad was born in the 50’s and he’s my best friend. I’m lucky to have a dad who makes time to spend time with me. I’m able to share with him my thoughts and feelings. If I need to cry I go to him.
I was born in the early 60's. This mentality was still present as I grew up.
This video also explains why the Woman's rights movement was so powerful in the early 70's.
My mom would say:
“I wasn’t brought up; I was dragged up”
One of 9 to a NYC bus driver.
Good stories of being very poor.
It always stand me how people kept having children even though they couldn't afford it.
Kindah
Roman catholic
And she might have embellished
Not on welfare either
Raised 9 very productive honest decent kid too
This just shows you how progressive I Love Lucy was. That’s probably why it was so popular. People were tired of watching shows with perfect families.
It all went downhill after that
Lucille Ball was a member of the Communist Party. I suppose that was “Progressive”, lol
@@TheMaxKids Actually, it was her grandfather.
Lucy on I Love Lucy she was very hard-working lady she's more than just what you saw buy her on videos or TV she was very smart and accomplished a lot
Same reason Married with Children was so popular