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We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.
@@zhye5588lol don't be delusional brother. You don't need a great war or great depression to just your existence or have a purpose. Find your purpose within. You don't need to seek it outside. But I agree with your conclusion. Our lives are great depression. 💯
@@zhye5588 lol wut? Plenty of conflicts and causes out there. Climate change, Ukraine, Corporate exploitation take your pick. But the only call you answered was to be a consumer and now you are whining about the price tag it comes with.
“…the luxury of a prestigious career” Do you ever think about what the quality of that prestige is, or who generates it? Do you care if you have prestige among violent thieves? The world is literally dying. Insects, fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and trees are all being decimated. Do we concern ourselves with profitable market solutions to this existential problem? Do we decry those concerned with the survival of their own species with simplistic pejoratives? And what happened to the idea that these “lowly” service (servant) jobs are “essential” to society and must continue to operate in the pandemic? Now they’re relegated to untouchable caste again? People give up because they stop believing the lie. Half of your taxes paid has gone to illegal war for two decades. When someone tries to discuss this, most people are critical or apathetic, and dismiss concerns about reality as constricted to a fantastical virtual realm. Will this message be heard? People are trying to engage with society and you just won’t listen.
Once you have given up on dating, owning a home, improving your standard of living, having a child, making your family proud, or feeling any sense of self-worth, the cost of living is surprisingly low.
Enjoy yourself to the best of your ability now, and have a decent,if unfulfilling life, and don't worry about the future. Or break your back suffering for a pittance working a dead end job that'll never amount to much other than sustaining your existence. One of them at least has the guarantee of a good time... Retire now, and when you're 60, well, the world'll probably be on fire by then anyway, lol. Back in the day a dead end job could still buy you a house, sustain a stay at home wife and raise 2 kids. Boomers truly had it easy.
I am lucky as the youngest girl with two older loving smart brothers. One of my brothers is a part of me and lives with me and doesn’t have kids or a partner. My oldest brother is married and has two kids. I love my boyfriend too so much but I don’t need kids to feel fulfilled.
The majority of humans DO want to work / be productive. But the majority of humans also don't like working for poverty wages while being sh!t on all day and getting nowhere.
Nailed it! When I used to work in the oil fields I was raking in at least 7k a month after taxes but although I have tried getting back to work in that field I am having zero luck.
@@HotShotNot-y8z Even worse, are the fools stripping jobs of their worth for even shorter gains, all just to buy their 30th car or their 9th home for themselves, or to rent out to glorified serfs. It would appear that after this generation has waned there will be, a earth shittingly massive wave of revolution the likes that not even the french monarchy dealt with to such an extant. Its a lose lose situation that those in power have deemed such a massive population useless to their goals not even after the terrifying amount of superfund sites, the poison, and the toxicity major benefactors exposed us to still in memory all while knowing its harmful effects without careful protocol... Humanity was not ready for advanced civilization, and yet were smart enough to do it.
We don't have worker shortages. Qualified candidates are applying to thousands of jobs with no results, and a majority of job postings seem to be ghost listings.
Companies have pressed the pause button due to high interest rates, waiting for the masses recover financially, before the masses begin to consume again, than the companies will begin to hire again. I honestly dont see this happening until the end of next year and rolling over to 2026
@@lionedheart "pressed the pause button" implies that this is a recent development, but companies have been not seriously trying to fill open reqs for a decade at this point. I've lost track of the number of times I've had a VP or C-suite tell me to my face that "no we're definitely trying to hire for that position" only for me to call out that we've had no posted openings for the role we've supposedly been trying to fill for three months, or that I've personally handed resumes of well-qualified individuals to the recruiters myself and know we've never had so much as an initial interview, or that the positions we've got posted are wholly unchanged for the last two years and yet we're still "looking" to fill it. They're just gaslighting us.
The ruling elite told us that we will "own nothing and be happy." This is the predictable result. Why bother working just to own nothing. There is no incentive to do anything.
Yeap, he glossed over the importance of the age group and stagnated wages, the key demographics and made it about everything else, this should have been his focal point. Everything else in this video feels like fluff compared to age group and wage stagnation.
Not too add that modern corporations have become insanely toxic where they pay you very little but make winning a job or working for them seem like you've just been given the soldier's medal of honour lol
Back in 2007 I graduated tech school and took a job for 24.75hr at Stewart and Stevenson. In 2024 I was offered a similar job for 18.50hr. Let that sink in for you. I am not the problem. How do I survive? I work on cars when I need money.
using the inflation calculator, that 24.75 an hour would be 37.51 in 2024. 18.50 an hour is HALF of that amount. So yeah you'd be doing the same job, despite having more experience, for half the money.
The System was never Rigged. it is doing Exactly what it has been designed to do. Which is to keep you as Poor as Confused as Sedated as Idiotic as Directionless as possible. So that you're Co-dependent and never break free from their Stronghold.
@@scottgray636 I'm 46 years old, an IT engineer, husband, and dad, but I still don't quite fit into the 'standards of success.' And I never will, as the best years are obviously behind me. However, deeply and peacefully accepting the fact that 'I'm a loser' was the smartest thing I've ever done, has been liberating. Society has pushed this label as a curse, a mark of an outcast, but for me, it has become a step toward freedom. Instead of adhering to someone else's 'standards of success,' I live my imperfect life, trying to enjoy the little things, always remembering that it won't last too long. In the grand scheme of things, after 1,000 years, there will be no significant difference between me and Elon Musk )))
@@UnbihexiumTheStable all the wealth gains have gone to the top 1% or 0.01% , working is of no benefit to the average person anymore. People are finally waking up to this.
I’m mad because I don’t even want that much. I’d be legitimately happy with a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom house on 0.3 acres that I can grow my garden on. But even living like a medieval peasant is too expensive. Wtf even is this?
@ yes, but see- this is what THEN happens- you move to a more suburban or rural area, i move there, she moves there- and pretty soon a lot of us move there and then the price of housing and rent goes up and becomes the same as in the cities- this is what’s been happening and why everyone is affected no matter where you are
In USA we have an abundance of tech bro specialists, what we lack is trades and manufacturing. We have plenty of highly paid money hoarding government funded globalist corporate financiers willing to loan out unlimited amounts of debt aka fake money though.
It should be illegal for a news story to talk about a labor shortage and say "look how many jobs are posted" without also mentioning what wage those jobs offer, and what the price of housing is where the jobs are
My mom brings this up all. the. time. Yeah, cool mom. I could go delivery for Amazon and work a 14 hour shift where I can't go to the bathroom until I'm done or I get penalized and make $12/hr. Sounds like a worthwhile and fulfilling use of time.
And no one is looking into "since October 2019, native-born US workers have lost 1.4 million jobs; over the same period foreign-born workers have gained 3 million jobs". So out of all this mess you're being replaced lmao google it before any redard comeback.
Yeah and interest payments where 10x what they are now so overall they actually paid more. Mortgage payments used to be 30% of monthly income. Now they are 24%, food has also gotten cheaper. But god forbid you post some actual numbers that go against the narrative of a video. Get your comments removed real quick then
I think religion has played a lot of that role of providing meaning for so long, but since more and more people are leaving, it seems like they haven't found a good replacement.
I have been working since I was 12, it was a must in order to not go homeless. The world for the lower class is often being talked about/for by people who have never experienced it. It's laughable how people think the "peasants" just don't want to work anymore cause they would rather play "fortnite," when the real reason is there is nothing to work for. Why put in my 8 to 16 hour days if my quality of life isn't going to get better. Look at covid, the essential workers were and are still treated like trash. We're not blind or stupid. We are providing value and it's just being gaslit by the people who consider themselves better because they were lucky enough to have stability. Work is work and without the people swinging the hammers and flipping the burgers the people crunching the numbers at the top won't have their quality of life either. Anyone who works and contributes to society shouldn't have to struggle only to have the bare necessities slowly stripped from them. If people want to give up, they are allowed to do that. Concider that the only peaceful rebellion that actually may work.
@@talesvinicius598 You don't need much money to enjoy free time unless you have some expensive addiction or consider luxury vacation as only source of enjoymnent.
not really having too much free time (unemployed), miss with your head. you do some thing that you enjoy so much that you end up just sick and lacking motivation to do them anymore. you can get out with friends but with no money you will have to leach off them, no one want to have to pay for you every time so you end up alone or just stay at home.
Here's the deal. My household brings in a decently above average income, has 2 STEM degrees, and has been SAVING for 3 years, having no vices like smoking or drinking, never been in a legal situation, have not been on any vac. trips or living a luxury life, and only have student debt....we still can NOT AFFORD a starter home....Why would they want to work 10X harder than our parent/grandparents to be able to own nothing?!?!
'Starter home' also seems to be a dying concept. The only ones I see (in NJ) are at least 50 yrs old. I like that 3D printing is catching on a bit more in the homebuilding industry. It's a cheaper way to build, but homebuilders and carpenter unions will likely fight against it.
Im 25 went to college and work a full-time job as a refrigeration technician. I don't blame other men for not working. I feel zero fulfillment from my job; it's just something to take up my time, and the amount of money I make will never be enough for an adult life.
Newsflash: Nobody feels "fulfillment" from a job as an employee. Life under cápítàlì$m means being a worker sl@ve for the owner class. We must overcome the cancer that is cápítàlì$m in this century.
Studs Terkel's book "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" demonstrates that regardless of time period, people have been feeling the way you do since work began. There truly is nothing new under the sun.
27 year old hvac technician here, the constant stress on both my body and my mental state makes me think about giving up and moving back in with my parents every day. The work is tough, my boss wants me to squeeze the money out of clients who have none, and when trying my hand at dating, women look down on me for my blue-collar profession. Rent and food prices go up every year, but my wage stays the same. Really, the only reason why im working is so don't starve when im 65 years old in my "retirement."
Our parents were happy working together to make ends meet, women nowadays want you to finish the race and then share. If you bring this up, you get called a misogynist because there's no denying that it's happening.
Lost my job in aerospace manufacturing as a skilled machinist when Covid hit and I havent been back to work since. My wife works as a pharmacy technician and is in school full-time. I take care of everything at home and do all the homeschooling with 2 kids. We are 4+ years into this and we love it this way.
@queenabundance I'll let her know she needs to get the papers ready because other ppl say she should. Wouldn't want to disappoint the fickle ppl of the internet.
@@KalanWolfI can't think of a better environment than that to have your wife cheat on you with another man, and monkey branch to him and get rid of you, watched that situation unfold countless times, your obligation to your family is provide and protect your not doing that, trust me on this
I honestly think the break down of the clan and then the family unit is a large part of this. If the consequences are only for yourself and you fulfill Maslow's hierarchy of needs, why would you continue past that point?
@@googleoperationcyclone Back in their day they weren't competing in a global labor pool that is willing to work for 1/20th of what it takes to scrape by here. Boomers will deny this.
@@googleoperationcyclone back in their day they werent competing in a global labor market where 20 people could be hired for your measley pay. Boomers will deny this.
@@googleoperationcyclone I am trying to reply but youtube keeps deleting because Im calling out a practice they themselves use that Boomers never had to deal with. We live in bad times.
I'm from Poland and i graduated mechanical engeenering year ago. I spent that year mostly on seeking job and market so impossible that i started learning german to escape... I guess im fucked if even natives can't get one. Not like i didn't know things are tough there, but come on, its germany...
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I remember when the claim that higher production would lead to a 3 day work week and plenty of vacation time was being talked about. Turns out higher production just means that the "low class" people get paid less and are expected to work more. I hate capitalism now.
i would call 40 hours/week part time work. i have averaged over 60 hours/week for the past 44 years. i WILL retire in 2-3 years with no money worries. I have moved cross country for work twice in my life. If you want it, you have to go out and get it. It don't knock at your door.
@@dankimgiesler8484 i think your numbers are off, hoped you counted for inflation for that no money worries retirement, but if not just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and don't forget if something bad happened it must have been your fault that the company you worked to the bone for removed 100s of jobs to make the upcoming quarterly report look better for the investors
i always thought the definition of surviving from wages was being able to afford to pay the rent , food , and gasoline for each month without having to beg someone else to give it to me all the time . isnt that what a job is for ? since when has a job been defined as something that pays for alot of other things above and beyond necessities ? most people have to wait for an inheritance or some lucky money situation to get the other goodies but most jobs have always been for living expenses only for the most part .
@Dank... You have the same level of intellect and empathy as all the other self centered & self righteous cu nts. Just because something isn't happening to you, doesn't mean it's not happening at all. Stop gaslighting people into thinking it's all in their head, things are way harder now and they will get even worse in the future. Automation and A.I. will replace up to 40% of the workforce in developed countries, the rich will get richer and the poor will do what the poor has always done - comments from scu mbags like you aren't adding anything to this debate.
That whole essential worker thing was political nonsense. It was actually targeted at the so-called non-essential workers who wanted to go into work and were told they couldn't - so politicians invented the "essential" tag as a way to segregate who got to work and who didn't. Had nothing to do with science or reality as you'd see small businesses that might have a single customer at a time shut down but a huge box store with hundreds of people in it all at once open.
I remember when I was working at a hotel during covid, but couldn't get a room at the same hotel (or even go out to a restaurant) because of my vaccination status. That's why I don't work anymore.
@@commentinglife6175 I do think the restrictions were too severe, that other businesses probably could have stayed open so long as safety guidelines were strictly enforced. It was no solace to be told "thank you" for being at work, like I was some fucking hero. Nothing changed, I simply needed money the same as always.
@@Aidan1488 It’s baffling how the most essential jobs of a society are always being treated like garbage. And whenever those workers want to strike or fight for better conditions, the same society that starts complaining is the same one that refuses to work those jobs themselves.
@@JohnSpartan-117At work, a lot of people get real upset at what happens to the dishpit. No one bothers to help them except former dishwashers. So, yeah, checks out. Lol.
@@JohnSpartan-117 EVERYthing you said is true AND important EXCEPT your REPEATED ANNOYING BULLSHIT of blaming "society". There exists INDIVIDUALS who insult and attack and berate workers. HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of individuals. HALF the population. Not "society". We call these individuals CUNTSERVATIVES = REPUBLICUNTS and CENTRISTS. They care ONLY about some imaginary perceived BULLSHIT about how "leftwing vs rightwing" a position is, instead of caring about the position having the POSITIVE OUTWEIGH THE NEGATIVE.
Genuinely lazy people are very rare. The majority of people alleged to be lazy, feel unhappy, unappreciated, unrewarded, or suffer a variety of illness that includes mental depression, insomnia, anxiety or vitamin deficiencies. People commonly thought to be lazy are often being rebellious towards insensitive authority who considers them being lazy. Happy people work the hardest. If you want to motivate people to work hard, make them happy and keep them that way. Getting tough, forcing people to work or else, is what makes people unproductive and lazy, or to do no more work than they absolutely have to
VICTIM BLAMING ... Part of the 'divide and conquer' business model - as old as the human species itself. People mistrusting each other is key to exploitation ... whenever human beings stick together and form 'unions' to help each other out, the paras ites sitting on their as ses all day can't suck others dry anymore.
Exactly. I read once an article that pointed out there is no definition of laziness in psychology and my way of thinking about this changed. Try doing absolutely nothing all day - it's unbearable. But if you believe there is nothing worthwhile to do, you fill your time with endless scrolling, video games, other addictions.
Exactly, you can work your entire life and not be able to retire as your retirement funds are eaten by inflation. Or not work and have the same result. In the end it's a question of do I want to be tired and poor, or just poor.
@@richatlarge462 I mean that's the big question. Some folks do side hustles, some folks do onlyfans, some sell drugs, and so on. I mean think about it. Would you rather work as a young professional chemist making enough to live with your parents, not date, and maybe get a new game or doordash once or twice a month, or do a couple illicit synthesis a month and make your yearly salary in a week, enjoying your free time with plenty of cash, connections, ect. Us young folks have been set up to choose crime, stagnation, or working poverty. Networking too is a big part of career building, and those of us starting adult life in 2020 had to wait until we were 22 or 23 to accommodate for being isolated the entirety of our early 20's.
@@richatlarge462 Living off the land, farming for oneself, basically all the things our ancestors have done for hundreds of years just fine. Nobody wants nor should have to work at jobs and kill themselves for nothing. I sure as hell won't. And everyone who says I'm a laze who stays at home with my parents because I don't wanna try is clearly too oblivious to the problem to have a voice in it. Applying for hundreds of low paying jobs and still not getting one despite being #2 in my high school class and an honor rolls college graduate is U N A C C E P T A B L E .
@Michaels1059 Unfortunately, people don't see depression as a reason or excuse. Many of the biggest proclaimers of mental health awareness are just virtue signaling. You describe a problem or begin to get to the heart of the reason for the depression, whatever it is, and they tune out and tell you to get a therapist. Many many people are selfish beyond what they are even willing to admit. They believe they have the bigger better excuse, the harder time, they reason why they deserve the world and whether or not you are worth their time is all they care about. If you aren't, then they discard you. Love is dead. Care for your neighbor is dead. The nation under god is dead. It's all greed and politics now. The only way to live is to not let it bother you and to move on.
Yeah, we’re all depressed because billionaires want to suck every last dollar out of us. That’s honestly the root reason why life really sucks these days.
The entire labor market problem can be summed up with a single question; if working my ass off won't keep me from being homeless, then what makes that any different from staying unemployed?
@@bobnolin9155 I think there was a Tom Hanks movie that kind of explored the premise, Terminal, I think it was? A guy spent years stuck living in an airport because of bureaucratic bullshit and struggled to find a job because he didn't have a residential or mailing address.
It's not just the Western world. Japan had this problem for decades. China has been seeing this spike recently as well. You might also know them as NEET, lost generation, lying flat, or hikikomori.
Also seeing the absolute lack of self awareness these countries have when they bemoan declining birth rates as well. Like bruv, no one is having kids because they are too tired and focused on surviving on shit wages or have life consuming work hours.
@@Order66onlibs No, too much bureaucracy and corporate welfare ensuring unfair advantage in exchange for hiring unqualified box tickers that satisfy Larry Fink's fetishes.
@@StarlightDew Honestly it's so obvious at this point I'm sure everyone knows, they're just desperately looking for an alternative because they know actually solving the root of the problem is impossible due to the influence of the companies. Just imagine being made the leader of a country for a moment and trying to make the companies pay people properly. Honestly I feel you would need ultimate power globally to fix it at this point, if you don't want to sacrifice a few countries in the process.
If working doesn't actually pay for anything, what's the point? A friend of mine got laid off from a shitty job during COVID, and their quality of life increased thanks to social programs: All of a sudden, they had the help necessary to reasonably afford food, medical needs and housing when they were seriously struggling with those things before. That's not me knocking welfare, but knocking low-paying jobs and unaffordable expenses. What sane person would choose to work a dead-end job that can't pay for necessities when they could just not work and be better off?
That means there exist jobs making and delivering that food, providing medicine, building and maintaining housing. The spoiled rich who have done no real work should be doing those jobs, and be forced to accept that they have already been paid for their labor.
Wildest thing is the number of jobs that seem to be actively trying to pay JUST ENOUGH to disqualify people from those programs, making them worse-off than before getting said job
@@robnergal575 Wildest thing is we let politicians get away with cut-offs for welfare instead of scaling by income... In what universe does it make sense that if you earn an extra dollar you suddenly lose hundreds?
This was my biggest problem with COVID. Can’t work but so many people making more than they made when working. I also know people that had to work all the way through but there was a point where they weren’t needed Fridays. They were still able to apply for the pandemic benefits based on losing one day. It made no sense to me. Felt like a giant waste of money that wasn’t thought through.
This. I didn't go on welfare, but I crunched the numbers, and I realized that I would have equally as much money for myself if I quit my full time job and went part time. I saved enough in childcare costs and other expenses that it was worth it to work less. It's annoying that I still don't have any money, but at least I can be poor and have a large chunk of my day to myself instead of working all day every day and having the same amount of no money. Why would anyone work a terrible job for terrible pay when they can have a better quality of life through welfare programs, saving on big expenses like childcare and travel to/from work, etc? My kid is actually in school now, but I'm looking into other ways to make money. Why give up my time just so that I can go through the stress of having a crap job all over again? The only thing I have to gain by going back to work is money, and the amount I would get just isn't worth it.
When COVID hit, I was a bartender at a very nice golf club. I was considered “essential” because Judge Smails here couldn’t make his own Manhattan. I still have the letter from my employer to the police telling them why I was out on the street. It’s in my glove box, a souvenir of the Insanity.
LOL I still have my "essential" pass in the console of my car. A reminder of the insanity and incompetence of our federal, state, and local governments over the last four years.
My favourite part here in Canada is when our parliament shut itself down for covid but still made "essential" workers go to work, tacitly admitting that politicians aren't essential lol.
A “fair” wage, you say?! That sounds like commie propaganda! Lol… We’re not meant to share the wealth in this country. Everyone is trying to be their own boss and/or the next Elon lol
What do you want to do, and how much do you want for doing it? Now, let's pretend you got that, and the next day all of your co-workers got twice the amount. Would you still be content?
@@DolphinWithIgloo-fg3ow when everyone else gets twice the money, prices in general will rise, thus your 1x money will buy less than it used to. see the issue?
@@chillgamervids Your co-workers are limited and will not make the prices of the world rise. What do you want to do, and what will make you content with what you are getting?
Cos why not? Honestly. The system is so clearly designed to help the VERY few at the cost of the many. Why play a game you know you’re not going to win?
@@teknoh So you're saying that people should play games that are obviously rigged against them? People are willing to play games on even grounds but no one's dumb enough to try their luck when things are obviously rigged against them even if there is a miniscule chance of winning.
It's like playing a game with micro transactions. What's the point of getting good at a game when someone has already bought the best gear in the game. There is no reward for skill or effort
What’s your definition of winning? Owning a yacht, driving a Lamborghini and having 10 wives? Bruh…stop scrolling, life is simple. Men see other people’s lives on social media and because they feel they can’t get that they’ve given up. But I’m not complaining, do you…it means that those who are willing to put in the work will stand out above them and always win. And I’m fine with that.
The average person has never been so poor. Millions of families are struggling financially as living expenses hit the highest levels in more than four decades. Over 60% of our country lives paycheck to paycheck and about 40% earns poverty wages. Even after working all their lives, more than a quarter of older people have no savings and many believe they will never be able to retire in dignity, while around 55% of elderly people try to survive on an income of less than 25,000 a year.
A lot of folks downplay the role of advisors until being burnt by their own emotions. I remember couple summers back, after my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to help my business stay afloat, hence I researched for licensed advisors and came across someone of utmost qualifications. She's helped grow my reserve notwithstanding inflation, from $275k to $850k.
I killed my health for 13 years for shit pay, I refuse to continue to do that. I would rather be dead than work another shit job. Give people a living wage and you'll notice how fast these jobs that are always not filled because they suck disappear.
It is worse than that. The dollar lost all its value at a rate higher than interest on your savings. Every penny you save up is being leeched up to fund Israel and Ukraine. They use inflation to extract wealth from your savings without changing the number of dollars in your account.
@clamhammer2463 No, "they" are in the federal government. The IRS can not collect enough taxes to fund their foreverwars, so they just mint new money and gift it to weapons manufacturers and foreign countries. That increased money supply directly devalues the dollar.
Yes! I have a really hard time functioning in the morning. I'm just not a morning person, even if I go to bed early. I have some health problems that affect my sleep, so mornings are just hard. What's frustrating is that a lot of jobs don't actually need to be done at the butt crack of dawn. They could be done later, but employers don't seem to care.
You need a job in order to pay rent and eat. These men don’t have a job they don’t make any money so can’t afford to buy food. Therefore, they are living with their Mum and taking other peoples resources as they have no money to buy food for themselves..
Stagnant wages, horrific treatment, being expected to take the workload of five people, having to work multiple BS jobs just to be able to eat and still can't afford a home/apartment, etc. These are the reasons. It's not a difficult question to answer. It's not due to laziness, it's due to slavery. A life spent working until the day you die is no life at all. Eberstadt is completely wrong.
Years ago I read a quote from Milton, Keynes, or some economist of that level: If you cannot attract and retain qualified employees for your positions, your total compensation package is insufficient. Period. There is.nothing more to discuss. Seems pretty appropriate for today as well.
@@JohnSpartan-117 -- My grandfather supported himself, a family, a car, saved for and bought a house, AND sent three kids to state colleges..... all while working a forty-hour week. My grandmother was a nurse, an RN. She could've made good money but she didn't need to. Things have gott"n seriously fucked up since that time.
Let's be honest, why would a man want to destroy himself in a system stacked against him. He can do the minimum and just get by. Or give 110%, put up with a toxic workplace stacked against him, be miserable and still just get by.
@@Greenitthe Look at divorce stats, women usually take custody and usually win the money aspect due to stuff like title 4D for the good of the judges retirement plan. They also divorce 70% of the time give or take as compared to the man's 30%. One does it for irreconcilable differences aka i am not happy and does it willy nilly. The other one goes for it does when actual serious stuff occur aka drugs usually, this would be men.
@@JonDoe-nu3ix stop believing these Red pill bs talking points. Vast majority of the time when men file for custody they get joint custody according to all the data and studies.
we’re talking about men who are refusing to get a job this is not about women. You need a job in order to pay rent and eat. These men don’t have a job they don’t make any money so can’t afford to buy food. Therefore, they are living with their Mum and taking other peoples resources as they have no money to buy food for themselves..
My friend is one of those people. He works one and off but usually ends up quiiting. He tells me all the time, "I dont want help, i dont want sympathy, i dont want anything other than everyone else to leave me alone"
Why are guys not working anymore? Here are some things that come to mind: They are sick of being degraded by a-hole bosses. They see that "hard work" no longer gains them anything----It only makes someone else rich They realize that their pay barely covers the cost of the job (work clothes, transportation, tools, professional/union dues, etc...) The commute has become too long and/or dangerous. The neighborhood of the office/jobsite has become too dangerous. Small businesses (where they always worked) are be eradicated, and they simply don't fit into the corporate world. Manufacturing, construction, and other creative/productive jobs are disappearing, and they simply don't fit into the "service economy". The 9-to-5, M-to-F monotony is causing them to lose their minds. They have tasted freedom, and simply can't go back to the hell of wage-slavery (can you blame them). They have found that the ONLY remaining chance to get ahead, is to go into business for themselves (underground economy).
It's interesting you say 9-5 because reality is it's 8-5 because now that hour lunch is unpaid now. That didn't used to be the case. It's far worse than our parents had it. Just another way in which the outlook for us and our children is worse, not better.
@@goatofdeath Millenial men can accurately be described as the "No Home, No Lunch" generation, last time such a generation persisted world wide it caused a world war
And, like here in Canada, our governments somehow think it makes sense to bring in millions more people--most of whom are dirt poor--so they will take the jobs that we won't do (like McDonalds) because of the high-stress/low pay and same result at the end of the month. And NOTE, I am not talking about any specific ethnicity or nationality of people because there are tens of thousands of people from the slavic countries as well who are working in these low-paying service and hospitality jobs and it's not their fault that our countries told them they could come here and get (to them) high-paying jobs. Many have found out that the job isn't high paying when compared to housing and food costs here--only compared to those things in their HOME country. THE GOVERNMENT IS TO BLAME, IMO, not the migrants. But if I was an American, I still wouldn't vote for that lunatic dictator Trump because it's clear that he doesn't care about anyone but HIMSELF: saying crude things about women and mocking his own supporters--geeze.
They said if you want to be successful, you just need to be good with numbers, study stem, learn to code. I have two stem degrees and I can code in multiple languages. Yet according to them I am a lazy POS at home all day 'playing video games'. Fuck outta here. It's crazy that they didn't even mention the horrors of the job search. Hiring committees are completely unwilling to take any risks and give ppl a goddamn chance. Something as simple as a gap in the resume is enough to send it to the discard pile. Companies are unwilling to invest in training people. They expect you to perform the job perfectly on day one. The ultimate goal of corporations in this capitalist hellscape is to squeeze every last penny exploiting workers to increase their bottom line and then they pretend to have no clue why so many people are out of work and struggling.
I started my science degree when the nation's media was saying that we needed more people doing R&D. Came out the other end, found out that the real problem was that nobody in the country was willing to pay people to do science work. There were still newspaper articles and the like saying we needed more people with science degrees a decade after I'd realised we already had far more than the economy actually wanted. The government just seemed to think that more people with science degrees would mean that more science would magically get done without anyone having to pay for it. Apparently scientists are fuelled entirely by the quest for knowledge and don't need such trivial things as "food" and "a place to live".
I actually doubt that there are so many people unwilling to work. From what I’m seeing these jobs are fake. They let you go through several round of interview and work on a project for free and then it’s goodbye.
America hasn't been capitalist since before the second world war. Last year government accounted for more than half the economy for the first time. What most western economies are in the present day is closer to oligarchies than it is to a free market system. Just a handful of massive corporations using lobbying and personal relationships to bend government in their favor. Most industries have little to no competition.
@@chady7009 are you brain broken? US IS a capitalist hellhole. Ever since neo-liberalism, it has been lasseiz-faire capitalism. Capitalism LEADS to oligarchies or monopolies. Competition means that there will be winners and losers at the end of the day. Winners take the losers pie and increase their market share. Not only that, people who have capital ARE able to influence the gov by lobbying. Thats how you have a system working for the rich and the ultra rich, not for the remaining majority. Capitalist, at the end of the day, DONT want COMPETITION. Saying otherwise, is idiocy and getting duped by the elites.
@@MelfiortheOne In theory. In practice what actually happens is the means of production becomes owned by an oligarchy that uses the Marxist rhetoric as one tool to keep the masses in line. Some animals are more equal than others.
America doesn’t value hard work. Hard work is for poor people. America values rich people, people with prestigious job titles, who tell the little people what to do, who talk and bullshit. They have lunch, take a phone call, make deal on the golf course. That’s the stuff we value. The maker of this video himself says he has a “prestigious job”. As a UA-cam creator. There you go. That’s the work we value.
One would think that a country which cares soo much about hard work, that they build a dream myth out of it, would end up with a pretty large labour movement. Not the USA.
We also Tax working people, but not the piles of money the Rich have to make more wealth. To quote Scott Galloway, 'We Tax Sweat but not Capital'. If you work for a living, you're paying at least 35% of that including State and Sales Taxes, probably closer to 40%. If you're borrowing against your Equity to buy more Shares/Businesses/Property you pay 0%. That's BS.
I'm 70 now and worked for most of my adult life. I have had periods of unemployment and looking back they were probably my happiest. Trying to navigate the benefit system and finding creative ways to make a bit on the side is a lot more satisfying than most jobs.
lol, I’m doing the same. I find free stuff on marketplace and then sell them for a heavily discounted price. Doesn’t garner me much, but it’s still awesome to turn $0 into $40
Wish you the best of luck sir🙂I'm 41 and worked since I was 19. Been unemployed the last few years because I make as much money on social security than I did working. The labor system is broken, not the workers.
It's so backwards. The jobs that keep society running, the truly hard jobs are the ones that are looked down upon. A world without garbage men to move the trash, farmers to feed us all, or construction workers that build the very cities we live in is a world which couldn't work. Yet, it seems we're headed that way somehow.
@@1971_Chevelle_SS how does a Homeless person survive? It really doesn't take much to simply survive. If you mom don't kick you out of her basement, you won't live under a bridge. You can also find tempory odd jobs here and there for a few bucks too.
@@steak5599We’ve always told our kids they’d better get an education in a field that can make money in, because they’re not living in our basement. If I was your Mom, I’d tell you to get a f’ing job.
Currently a lazy zoomer. Lost my last job and just came up blank on thinking of something I wanted to do that wouldn't leave me miserable. Couldn't trust anyone, and didn't feel like I was going anywhere. Felt like I was just working for a paycheck and that there was no point in attempting to do anything else because it wouldnt happen. Doing a lot of volunteer work now. Much less stressful, and scratches that productivity itch. Praying God will show me a long term solution. It's nice to know I'm not the only one.
I'm in a similar position. I lost my last job and also my trust in any new workplace. I'm from germany and right now I'm living from unemployment benefit, it's only 1200€. But the jobs I find are so bad, that I would even have a lower net income than my unemployment benefit. Working isn't worth it anymore. I always had the mindset that work is important, should be fun, because it is such a time consuming part of my life, but right now I don't think that this mindset will work out for me.
I faced the situation of employers dumping longtime employees so they could hire someone at a new lower pay. I guess all those college-degrees and higher salary expectations made employers flip the script and started to not want to hire younger people. Quite a mess for everyone, young or old.
@@dplj4428 I still see it in play, have for a decade now. My employer is still replacing 20+ year, expensive engineers with 25 year-old college grads. In my engineering group I went from one of the youngest when I entered the department at 38 to now being one of the oldest at 53. ALL my peers other than the one other engineer who is in his early 60s are under 30 and have been there from 3-5 years now. The other older engineer and myself fill a specific niche and as soon as one of the younger ones can replace us, we'll be let go and replaced with another young engineer at half the price in salary and benefits.
@@dplj4428 One trend I'm noticing though is these young engineers are getting tired of not getting instant recognition, promotions, and pay increases. They're not staying more than a few years, leaving once they truly become productive members of the team and we start over again.
Men want to have a wife and children. If they can't get jobs that allow them to support a family, there's very little reason to work. You'll be surprised how easily a man is willing to ignore his own needs
Add to that, women are hypergamous. They will date their equal or somebody superior to them financially. The more women make, the smaller their dating prospects get. Low wage men have no incentive to try anymore. I’m a disabled vet making 6 figures at my job. I would quit today and buy a trailer in the south if I wasn’t married.
I feel like it cuts the other way too, if a man can't find a woman who wants to start a family with him, then he won't want to get a high effort, high pay job. Most men don't need much, if they have a wife, they'll need more (most women aren't happy with 2 fold up chairs, a TV on a old cardboard box, and paper plates), and if they have kids they'll need a lot more. So if men can't start a family, I'm not surprised there are working less.
You are leaving out the most important factor: outlandish expectations from women due to social media, e.g. men have to be 6'3", have a 6-pack, and make more $ than they do. It's really hard to get married.
I started my own business when i left the military and completely failed, was a brutal time. I had to rush to find a job and ended up working at a dominos as an assistant manager. I was embarrassed and would never tell anyone where I was working but I decided if I was going to make pizza, I'll be the best damn pizza maker they have ever seen. I ended up making general manager within a record time of 4 months, and brought my income back up to livable standards. Its not a matter of what your doing, its a matter of your mindset. There is always an opportunity. Got myself through collage as a GM at dominos and now I am a Cyber security engineer
34 y o woman, also quit my job. After 11 years of teaching where I worked my ass off to "improve myself as a professional", I realize I would never reach a "cruising speed". Every day I felt like I might fail at my task. Every management meeting I heard what I could to more or better. I thought that after 11 years you could be comfortable enough just to show up to work, do your job, leave. I didn't want any promotion and yet responsibilities kept piling up and classes full of teenagers were not easier to manage. Lots of experienced teachers quit or left with a burnout as well. I don't know where this pressure all come from. Even if you have a contract, you still feel insecure at work. When you are in your 30's you can still change carreer so I decided that is was not worth it and as I don't have kids, why should I not? Now I'm happily painting and living a cheap life. Don't need a fancy car or holidays. You don't need those leisures when you are not spending your week at work.
Imagine if teachers actually prepared their students for the economic realities of the world and the nature of the power structures that will attempt to exploit them instead of over analyzing Moby Dick like an autist. Those state approved lesson plans weren't written by lobbyists, right?
I can relate. I left the public school system after 15 years due to burnout. I only felt needed when exam season was near. That is when the admin would actually check on me, not to see if I was okay, but to ask if I thought the students were well prepared.
Way to miss the point. Schools have a varied curriculum. I learned literature AND politics at school. And autism is not an insult anymore, it's not 2013.@@TRG29338
I agree, I am also a former school teacher who transitioned into tech. Tech bros think they have the most stressful jobs but they wouldn't last 2 weeks in healthcare and education.
American dream is dead. Nowadays, working hard doesn’t get you far enough + social media bombard us with images of rich ppl who scammed their way up and openly brag about it. Add to it no free tome left to enjoy the life and no appreciation from women who look down on regular working guys. Being a working man nowadays feels like being a loser
Its sad reality, trying to be financially smart AND attracting a decent women. If you make an average wage and want to be stable until you die, you have to be frugal. That means a small old house, a cheap old car, and rarely going out to eat. Very few people want that life. Even when you have a nigher net worth, you'll look poor. Mine's up there nowadays but people still try to offer charity. And women look at me like I'm a homeless drifter. Sorry to offend your eyes but I want enough when I'm 90. I'd say American values are screwed as much as the financial situation.
@@jeabo0adhd 1. An old car drains A LOT of money. I got a 2012 Dodge, and in 2 years I have had it, I spent more money on fixing it than I paid for it in the dealership. 2. A small old house in Canada is still out of reach for most people. 3. For those who work full time in trades, eating out is a necessity. I, for example, simply don’t have time and to cook. And finally, what is the point of working hard if you are not distinguishable from a “homeless drifter”? You may not even reach 90 yo, and if you do, are you sure you will not regret living such a miserable life? For me, working hard had always seemed like a stepping stone to achieving my personal goals. Now, it feels more like a waste of my best years
@@arseniytikhonov2283 all facts. Women want nothing to do with regular guys who have regular jobs, only after they become single moms or become fat and used up by a lot of men, THEN they want to settle with those regular men. Key word: settle. They still think they are above you. Clown world.
There's no such thing as a worker shortage. The shortage is in the pay. You want somebody to stand and do hard work all day but you wanna pay the minimum wage. The free market speaks. If you have a shortage of workers then you need to raise your wages. Just because that was a historically minimum wage job doesn't mean it will be that way forever.
Except as we are seeing, those people aren't needed as robots take over...and government mandated minimum wages that exceed the value of the low-skilled services provided only push that race to robots ever closer. It also doesn't help that those jobs were typically done by teens still living at home so a "living wage" was unnecessary as they had their parents to live off of. I still argue losing the link between teens and McJobs is a much significant factor here than the academics admit. Even if you have a college degree, if you have never worked before and apply for a job, most companies just aren't going to hire you when they have a similar college graduate that at least worked a service job while in school.
@@commentinglife6175 Those companies that hire low value employees make millions even billions off of them. Those employees don't need luxury money but they do deserve minimum wage that can pay all the bills for a single person.
@@JaydenHolland-wo4fd Why? If all your job entails is something that a simple robot can do, demanding higher pay is only going to convince the business owner to hire the robot! Instead, stop assuming these McJobs are meant for anyone besides those currently in school, and use the skills gained there to find better employment elsewhere! Just as those companies look at someone with 15 years of coding experience and say they are overqualified, it should be a pretty standard thing to pass over anyone over the age of 25 from working fast food. Just stop hiring the complainers and the companies will be better off. (Plus, if the younger employees put in anywhere close to half the effort folks my age did when we held those jobs, the company will actually make MORE money!)
I am one of those men. Job hunting is hell. Working for a good company is quite taxing on mental health, take up most of your day and there's no sense of job security. It feels like the game of life is rigged. You won't get rich by working so, why spend your whole life being miserable? I was fortunate enough to have made some money in my earlier years (I'm 40 now). Enough to invest and make enough money to live confortably, travel and have fun. Sure, I could still work but I'm not interested in a full time position. Every now and then I pick up a part time just to meet people and socialise a bit. ENJOY LIFE, YOU ONLY HAVE ONE.
@zvmZvm0102 if they were pretending, why couldn't you? sounds like you were a sucker for a corporation when you could have been "pretending like you have chronic back pain". is it because they, in fact, weren't pretending? and that maybe work nowadays just genuinely fucking sucks? and they were actually unable to perform the work due to health problems?
@jacksquat4140 no you can choose not to fill out the tax form when hired but at the end of the year IRS will send you the bill. If you don't pay then they come after you with rifles and at the very least they will make sure you don't pass a background check for any job in the future. Welcome to the so called land of the free....
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” quote from JFK, early 1960s Best thing anyone can do now is to vote for Trump and all red down the ticket . . .
I can tell you exctly why. Often they finally land what seems to be a golden opportunity, and after 6 months to a few years of psychotic burnout style work they realize despite putting their wellbeing on the back burner...they STILL won't be able to comfortably afford their lives...so they throw in the towel. Men are pragmatic. If the option is sacrifice your entire life for wages that won't make a difference or give up and enjoy your limited time here on earth however possible...many will choose the latter, especially if they have no partner/children. And yes most of them are living with boomer/gen X family who were able to buy into society when the rungs were within reach AS THEY SHOULD BE.
I enjoyed the video and the information, although I do see the script as highly reductive. The truth of the matter is a greedy wealthy few are hoarding. We are seeing the return of the Great Depression, and this time it is global. The issue is a repeating offender, and the economic gambles they take to keep it all to themselves. The assumption that in general the men are lazy and that is why this cohort is not working is reductive and does not ring valid when reasoned.
Fucking this. Why kill myself at a job I hate to make money I can't even spend at the expense of doing the things I like with the people I love. Fuck you, no.
@@Mellyxxxxx The greed of others doesn’t translate to laziness, theft does not necessitate generosity from the other party-it only stands to demonstrate the greed of some.
Ive cut ALL my expenses. Sold my car, canceled insurance, bought a tent and live in the woods outside of town. Hang out in the library or ymca to shower. Can get food from churches or shelters. I no longer pay taxes since im considered homeless. Its great! Im never going back.
At one point in my life, I was working two jobs, most of my paycheck was going in the gas tank, and I was losing weight I didn't have to lose from skipping meals. But, I was told I made $26 per month too much to get even a few bucks in food stamps. I was very close to doing something illegal that would get me tossed in the county jail. Air conditioning, 3 square meals a day, color TV, library, weight room- and best of all, nothing to do and all day to do it. Being locked up would have been a luxury vacation for me.
Yup this video called me out pretty spot on. I sit at home playing games all day while family supports me currently. Shame on me 100% but the 12 years i had been working was always low pay high hours, mandatory overtime everyday with days that i couldnt take breaks. Extreme stress while being yelled at by customers/management. Sounds extreme but a lot of detail into those issues arent really brought up but I was at a point where I was going to be violent with others or myself. I'd rather just spend my time drowning out reality. Aint worth it anymore. Maybe one day ill figure out how to live on my own, or maybe not.
It doesn't make sense to contribute to a society that strips people of their dignity. It's not all about money either. Look how women diminish average men. Western society pretty much revolves around women and has been for years.
@@turdferguson4124you really believe that jobs value morals and ethics? Most jobs literally make the world worse. The pollution of people driving, the tax $ spent on the roads to perpetuate the pollution, sitting down all day every day does not benefit society. It makes humans weak and obese. To me, that’s a sloth. Sacrificing life for money is not admirable. Work can be anything, not strictly a job.
What motivates people to work? Money, which allows people to live a life by buying a place and eventually have a family. If jobs don’t pay enough, then people will be less motivated to work
the same reason most people that are qualified for a job never got called back; DEI hiring methods who hire people on a ethnic standard rather than a skill standard as well as hiring the occasional friend or two who are also far from qualified. Happens at the organization I work for all the time, which is a woman-dominated industry btw. They will never hire someone with no work history except if they are a person of color, a woman, or trans. That's just the world we live in today, sadly. Heck I'm a straight white male and I'm lucky I even got hired at the place I work, if I didn't have 8 years of prior experience working in a similar industry I know for a fact that I would not have gotten hired.
@@spideyfan300 bruh thats just such a weird take unemployment among trans people is crazy high my mom recently hired someone who broke out in tears cus he kept getting job interviews that went well and when he was offered positions came out and they would straight up say 'we do not hire people like this here'. he was more than qualified but turned down from like 50 positions. (im so tired of people blaming a shitty system on the minorities that get fxcked the most by it)
I'm one of these men. I'm completely self-employed though. I'll never work a "real" job again because of the way I've been treated. You can't expect men to not retreat from a society that demonizes them and treats them like absolute dog shit. Self-employment and small business is the way forward for men.
The federal minimum wage is 7.25 an hour. Assuming there are 40 consistent hours (rare in minimum wage work), that is less than $300 a week. This comes to $1,218 a month, gross. About $1000 net. The average rent in Arkansas, one of the cheapest states to live in, is $1055. Also, side note, anyone who thinks it's "easy" to get on American disability, has never tried to do it.
Strawman. Virtually no one works for Fed. min. wage. Statistically almost no one. And then mostly in their youth before age 24. Min. wage is $18 where I live and it's still tough. So govt. mandated min. wages don't work period. Politicians only green light hyper expensive condos for construction here then pat themselves on the back that 10% are set aside for affordable housing. Flip that script 180 degrees and we'd stand a chance. Bring back S.R.O.s for low skilled workers so they can actually save and those who are barely above homelessness can have somewhere to go other than the street. Higher wages just mean higher rent.
You need the right disability. Broken body from working to hard for too long? Denied. Too fat to get out of your house? 3 month wait. Multiple Sclerosis? Good luck. Hooked on drugs/booze? 6 month wait. This is the reality of my parents and their fight against the system.
Don't forget, even if you make more than minimum wage you're still screwed. The median usual weekly real earnings for full time workers is $368. So the majority of people are earning at most $1472 a month, gross. It was time to break out the pitchforks decades ago.
The bigger question, what has the employer done to motivate men to stay in the work force? I worked from 15 to 47 (now 51) and I never saw anything get better. The employer wants more skills & certifications, more time, and there's no promise of a pension for 30X years of dedication. No health care, no promise of future employment, no 30 days paid annual leave, and in the US we work more days than any other nation. The only guarantee we get is that our job will eventually be moved overseas when we start to cut into their profit margins.
Because they are being pragmatic. Having a wife and children = having a lot of headache, that you were dumb enough to sign up for. Working means sacrificing your own health, time, sleep, etc. for company, that can't care less about you and for money, that is unlikely to compensate for it.
@@ceu160193 You got to get a decent job that allows you to work whenever you want 90% of the time, as long as you finish your work. Then you might be covered time, money, sleep and overall health wise.
Then when the population rapidly declines and there aren't enough men to resolve issues only men can solve, we will probably be blamed even ahead of the toxic narratives that politics, feminism, and prospective employers that have caused this issue to begin with.
32 year old here; There's essentially no incentive to work any more unless you can secure a job making 80k+ a year, which for a lot of guys, is simply out of reach. You can't afford a new car, can't afford a house, and can barely afford rent even working full-time. Why waste 40 hours of your life a week just to be stuck in the same boat as if you weren't working. For most 25 year old men who aren't 6'5 chads with a Bugatti, dating someone you actually would want to marry is virtually a thing of the past; it's shocking how little you can live off of when your just providing for yourself and you've given up (which ALOT ALOT ALOT of men 25+ have). If I'm gonna be broke anyways, might as well enjoy my time while I can.
There seems to be a trend of talking about lazy men lately. If I may put my 2 cents in… It sounds like a crisis of purpose. You’re supposed to not think of your purpose when you slog through these soulless jobs, feeling disconnected from the community even though you’re getting paid. You just do what you’re told and pretend like what you’re doing is a good thing because having a job is “good.” It leaves you empty for a long time. If you’re forced to be empty for long enough, it sprouts into nihilism . Why do anything? Why not do nothing? Internalize disposability. I’m not sure so much if it’s depression. It’s more of the natural effect of treating people like they’re not human beings with hopes and dreams. Why are we surprised that these people are disconnected and unmotivated?
Yeah, of course people don't want to sit in a job putting numbers into spreadsheets with no idea what effect they really have on the world while their boss yells at them for not putting enough numbers into enough spreadsheets and that overtime is needed to put more numbers into spreadsheets. Just to get home too exhausted to be able to socialize or pursue hobbies and still struggle to pay bills to stay alive. What's the point?
@@NihongoWakannaiTbh putting numbers into spreadsheets was the good old days. Now that gets outsourced remotely to a 3rd world country with no minimum wage, or an expensive and inaccurate software does it for you. While the local workers that remain instead spend their time pushing services and billing plans on to clients that neither want nor need them, getting yelled at by bosses for not getting enough on board, and yelled at by clients for wasting their time and money with bs.
Having worked at McDonald's before and now in the admittedly tenuous position of Software engineer, I know for a fact I'd coast as long as possible on video games and social security if the other option was McDonald's. I'm not that strong a person, and I definitely see no value in its own right in hard work.
Mcdonalds has always seemed like a horrible place to work, the constant beeping would drive me crazy. Being a pizza delivery driver was actually pretty fun ngl.
@@NihongoWakannai I worked mcd's in high school and I had a great time. After college, I worked as a design lead in a high paying office environment and had the worst time. The thing that matters is the people you work with. And the best place to find cultures with supportive management, enthusiastic coworkers, and good pay for good work is small business.
@@bobSeigar yeah wages were kept stagnant because of that philosophy yet things got more and more expensive anyway sounds like it's YOUR head that's been stuck in your ass, not his
@@elizabethdavis1696Those usually need to register and pay taxes, so they do count as working. The ones who don't are those working in the underground economy
I can tell you why I've given up. Because I've been applying for jobs non-stop since I graduated college in 2021 and haven't been able to get ANYTHING. I have work experience in comp sci (also got my bachelors degree in 3 years, not 4), fast food and retail but wasn't able to land a job in any of those fields over the past 3 years. After wasting my time on nearly 2,500 job applications that didn't result in employment, clearly the job market is broken and I'm not participating in it until it's fixed.
It's people lying on their resumes that is also a problem. You should also embelish your resume but make sure you can back up what you claim. Also make a LLC and try a business related to your field of study ,showing you are 'employed' there and put your experience there.Job market is messed up and employers usually lie about the role and want to screw you over pay.
Perhaps look lower in the OSI Model. Writing and debugging code is a nice skill to have, but the ability to troubleshoot through all eight layers from human user to power socket is invaluable and chronically understaffed. Yeah that Help Desk job is a suckfest but that experience quickly opens up inroads to the back-end like cybersecurity, network engineering, upgrade projects, and actual management. That's how I made my way into IT, and my degree was in Sociology. Turns out there's a pretty big need bridging and steering human desires with best practices on the information systems.
If I save every penny I make... I could afford to buy a house in 12 years. If I save up for a down payment... which will take 5 years, I will have paid that off the loan in 30 years and have paid 2x the cost of the home. both cases, are saving every penny I make - pan handling for food, getting rides from friends and living on the street.
I’m one of the rare men that is a stay at home spouse. We are about to have our second kid so the amount we save from childcare is more than what I would make. Crazy times
@@zachweyrauch2988 We got lucky and I had my grandma leave me her home but she took out some medical debt against it so it wasn’t completely free but cheaper then most homes
You do realise that you are the one responsible for what you make? So it’s crazy how low your potential is! But at least someone takes care of the children so I give you that
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We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.
@@zhye5588lol don't be delusional brother. You don't need a great war or great depression to just your existence or have a purpose. Find your purpose within. You don't need to seek it outside. But I agree with your conclusion. Our lives are great depression. 💯
@@zhye5588 lol wut? Plenty of conflicts and causes out there. Climate change, Ukraine, Corporate exploitation take your pick. But the only call you answered was to be a consumer and now you are whining about the price tag it comes with.
These big companies can and have made more millions now go get ur ai and dont bother us.
“…the luxury of a prestigious career” Do you ever think about what the quality of that prestige is, or who generates it? Do you care if you have prestige among violent thieves?
The world is literally dying. Insects, fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and trees are all being decimated. Do we concern ourselves with profitable market solutions to this existential problem? Do we decry those concerned with the survival of their own species with simplistic pejoratives? And what happened to the idea that these “lowly” service (servant) jobs are “essential” to society and must continue to operate in the pandemic? Now they’re relegated to untouchable caste again?
People give up because they stop believing the lie. Half of your taxes paid has gone to illegal war for two decades. When someone tries to discuss this, most people are critical or apathetic, and dismiss concerns about reality as constricted to a fantastical virtual realm.
Will this message be heard? People are trying to engage with society and you just won’t listen.
Once you have given up on dating, owning a home, improving your standard of living, having a child, making your family proud, or feeling any sense of self-worth, the cost of living is surprisingly low.
See you in 20 years when this house is paid off..
Hilariously all those things are required to work minimum wage or live off the state, so there is not much difference
Enjoy yourself to the best of your ability now, and have a decent,if unfulfilling life, and don't worry about the future.
Or break your back suffering for a pittance working a dead end job that'll never amount to much other than sustaining your existence.
One of them at least has the guarantee of a good time... Retire now, and when you're 60, well, the world'll probably be on fire by then anyway, lol. Back in the day a dead end job could still buy you a house, sustain a stay at home wife and raise 2 kids. Boomers truly had it easy.
I am lucky as the youngest girl with two older loving smart brothers. One of my brothers is a part of me and lives with me and doesn’t have kids or a partner. My oldest brother is married and has two kids. I love my boyfriend too so much but I don’t need kids to feel fulfilled.
@@planescaped this extreme viewpoint is the cause. the root cause is upvoting crap
The majority of humans DO want to work / be productive. But the majority of humans also don't like working for poverty wages while being sh!t on all day and getting nowhere.
Nailed it! When I used to work in the oil fields I was raking in at least 7k a month after taxes but although I have tried getting back to work in that field I am having zero luck.
@@shaykespeeer7040 let's be real most jobs produce nothing and exist to justify the bureaucracy or tick boxes for subsidies
@@TRG29338"most"? Please elaborate.
Also working in construction and having some office droid come and tell you how to do your job properly.
AI wants your job more.
It's very simple: People work for money. People want money to buy things. If money can't buy things, it's useless, and so work is useless.
Good luck trying to make normies understand this simple statement
...or far demoralized to give a damn.
If jobs aren't providing, that's what makes it useless.
@@HotShotNot-y8z Even worse, are the fools stripping jobs of their worth for even shorter gains, all just to buy their 30th car or their 9th home for themselves, or to rent out to glorified serfs. It would appear that after this generation has waned there will be, a earth shittingly massive wave of revolution the likes that not even the french monarchy dealt with to such an extant.
Its a lose lose situation that those in power have deemed such a massive population useless to their goals not even after the terrifying amount of superfund sites, the poison, and the toxicity major benefactors exposed us to still in memory all while knowing its harmful effects without careful protocol... Humanity was not ready for advanced civilization, and yet were smart enough to do it.
Don't buy the shit. Going into debt just for glitter is idiocy.
We don't have worker shortages. Qualified candidates are applying to thousands of jobs with no results, and a majority of job postings seem to be ghost listings.
Companies have pressed the pause button due to high interest rates, waiting for the masses recover financially, before the masses begin to consume again, than the companies will begin to hire again.
I honestly dont see this happening until the end of next year and rolling over to 2026
@@lionedheart "pressed the pause button" implies that this is a recent development, but companies have been not seriously trying to fill open reqs for a decade at this point. I've lost track of the number of times I've had a VP or C-suite tell me to my face that "no we're definitely trying to hire for that position" only for me to call out that we've had no posted openings for the role we've supposedly been trying to fill for three months, or that I've personally handed resumes of well-qualified individuals to the recruiters myself and know we've never had so much as an initial interview, or that the positions we've got posted are wholly unchanged for the last two years and yet we're still "looking" to fill it.
They're just gaslighting us.
I've lived that exact scenario.
can confirm. i have a decade of experience in sales/customer service but cant find work.
@@lionedheart "for the masses to recover financially" LMAO
When your money becomes increasingly worthless, then time becomes even more valuable
True that.
💯
This is so true I’ve been seeing some terrible people in this comment section and this simple economic truth is the reason for it all
Damn. Well said, man. Facts.
But they're still not doing anything with their time lol. They aren't Nikola Tesla.
1:29 "group is primarily between 25 and 55" - basically the entire workforce pre-retirement lol
yh basically any educated work force that isnt new to the job considering that most decent degrees are 3 years minimum
Yeah I never understood why these ranges are so damn big
The ruling elite told us that we will "own nothing and be happy."
This is the predictable result. Why bother working just to own nothing.
There is no incentive to do anything.
Yeap, he glossed over the importance of the age group and stagnated wages, the key demographics and made it about everything else, this should have been his focal point. Everything else in this video feels like fluff compared to age group and wage stagnation.
@@trademark0013it's to pretend it isn't everyone. If there's one person working they will still find a way to spin it.
It's simple economics, the pay is terrible and the workload is insanely high.
Not too add that modern corporations have become insanely toxic where they pay you very little but make winning a job or working for them seem like you've just been given the soldier's medal of honour lol
The lemon is not worth the squeze anymore, plus inflation devalue more the already limited purchasing power
@@momo99123they act like buying the cheapest pizza around is some big award
also it ain't worth to work hard.
If we earn enough to enjoy our hobbies..thats enough.
no point of being slave to system.
@@NoOne-kx7zs it's like why would you work 20 years at a corporate job to just afford a house like
Back in 2007 I graduated tech school and took a job for 24.75hr at Stewart and Stevenson. In 2024 I was offered a similar job for 18.50hr. Let that sink in for you. I am not the problem. How do I survive? I work on cars when I need money.
using the inflation calculator, that 24.75 an hour would be 37.51 in 2024. 18.50 an hour is HALF of that amount. So yeah you'd be doing the same job, despite having more experience, for half the money.
Old insulation job $16.50 an hour 2 years later it’s $13-$14
Was paid 16 an hour to cut and remove concrete....left for door dash so that I can actually eat and pay rent
@@contheh immigration?
That's insulting.
People seem tired to play a game that's rigged against them.
Well apparently not because the video clearly said they play league of legends 🤔
The System was never Rigged. it is doing Exactly what it has been designed to do.
Which is to keep you as Poor as Confused as Sedated as Idiotic as Directionless as possible.
So that you're Co-dependent and never break free from their Stronghold.
But it's the majority of men that seem to be weak willed and just sitting at home playing video games. Women are just fine.
That's why everyone needs a less than legal side hustle.
@@hellfire6714 That's a different game. League of legends was designed to be fair.
If you cannot win, don't fight
~ Sun Tzu
Perform a stratagem number 36: NIGGERRUNDAYO
Man, I don't know why - but this made me laugh really hard. Thank you for that, I needed it.
"I'm a loser, baby" ~ Beck
@@BurritoSupreme42 Exactly, not embarrassed by being a loser anymore.
@@scottgray636 I'm 46 years old, an IT engineer, husband, and dad, but I still don't quite fit into the 'standards of success.' And I never will, as the best years are obviously behind me. However, deeply and peacefully accepting the fact that 'I'm a loser' was the smartest thing I've ever done, has been liberating. Society has pushed this label as a curse, a mark of an outcast, but for me, it has become a step toward freedom. Instead of adhering to someone else's 'standards of success,' I live my imperfect life, trying to enjoy the little things, always remembering that it won't last too long. In the grand scheme of things, after 1,000 years, there will be no significant difference between me and Elon Musk )))
Why? Simple. The juice ain't worth the squeeze.
It looks like the data is starting to back up that simple anecdote.
Cost of living go up. Cost of apartment go up. Salary no go up. Me no go outside.
100% this
@@UnbihexiumTheStable all the wealth gains have gone to the top 1% or 0.01% , working is of no benefit to the average person anymore. People are finally waking up to this.
Not to mention all the ghost job that are there to waste ppl time and money
I’m mad because I don’t even want that much. I’d be legitimately happy with a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom house on 0.3 acres that I can grow my garden on. But even living like a medieval peasant is too expensive. Wtf even is this?
I know, right??!
This is why I'm not planning living and working in cities, I'll just stay on rurals or country
@ yes, but see- this is what THEN happens- you move to a more suburban or rural area, i move there, she moves there- and pretty soon a lot of us move there and then the price of housing and rent goes up and becomes the same as in the cities- this is what’s been happening and why everyone is affected no matter where you are
I miss my van life. Blindness put an end to it.
A rigged game. Good luck if you aren’t rich.
Like we say in Russia: "There is a lack of high-qualified underpaid specialists"
We say that in Germany too.
ruZZia is a terrorist state
In USA we have an abundance of tech bro specialists, what we lack is trades and manufacturing. We have plenty of highly paid money hoarding government funded globalist corporate financiers willing to loan out unlimited amounts of debt aka fake money though.
We say that in [put your country here] too.
@@CnutLongsword maybe I should move there.
It should be illegal for a news story to talk about a labor shortage and say "look how many jobs are posted" without also mentioning what wage those jobs offer, and what the price of housing is where the jobs are
And they ignore that survey which showed that around 40% of job postings are for jobs which don't exist
My mom brings this up all. the. time. Yeah, cool mom. I could go delivery for Amazon and work a 14 hour shift where I can't go to the bathroom until I'm done or I get penalized and make $12/hr. Sounds like a worthwhile and fulfilling use of time.
I get so pissed off when I see those headlines. If theres a shortage why is it taking me and most of my peers 500+ applications for entry level role
@@iammaxhailme
This! "How much does this job pay?"
A carrot an hour? No thanks.
And no one is looking into "since October 2019, native-born US workers have lost 1.4 million jobs; over the same period foreign-born workers have gained 3 million jobs". So out of all this mess you're being replaced lmao google it before any redard comeback.
Housing used to be 2x annual income it's now 10x annual income.
Nailed it
In our country its 20x its fun coming from one of the best schools with engineering degree and knowing i will probably never own a house.
before or after taxes
Yeah and interest payments where 10x what they are now so overall they actually paid more.
Mortgage payments used to be 30% of monthly income. Now they are 24%, food has also gotten cheaper. But god forbid you post some actual numbers that go against the narrative of a video. Get your comments removed real quick then
@@trickslies844 do the math, no they didn't.
15 percent of a 20k mortgage is far less than 7 percent of 350k.
Come on
“It is no mark of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society” J. krishnamurthi
This is one of my favourite quote !
Too much effort, not enough recognition and/or pay.
Also : lacks any sense of meaning
Yeah people would eventually realise that living for yourself is meaningless it took only some 300 years
Indeed🎉
Especially if not having a girlfriend or being married
Same thing man.
I think religion has played a lot of that role of providing meaning for so long, but since more and more people are leaving, it seems like they haven't found a good replacement.
I have been working since I was 12, it was a must in order to not go homeless. The world for the lower class is often being talked about/for by people who have never experienced it. It's laughable how people think the "peasants" just don't want to work anymore cause they would rather play "fortnite," when the real reason is there is nothing to work for. Why put in my 8 to 16 hour days if my quality of life isn't going to get better. Look at covid, the essential workers were and are still treated like trash. We're not blind or stupid. We are providing value and it's just being gaslit by the people who consider themselves better because they were lucky enough to have stability. Work is work and without the people swinging the hammers and flipping the burgers the people crunching the numbers at the top won't have their quality of life either. Anyone who works and contributes to society shouldn't have to struggle only to have the bare necessities slowly stripped from them. If people want to give up, they are allowed to do that. Concider that the only peaceful rebellion that actually may work.
Funny, I just had a conversation with another construction worker and we were talking about exactly what you said. We're fodder for the machine
If the game is rigged then don't play the game.
While all the news is about how great the Stock Market is. Income inequality. Work in male dominated industries isn't valued.
YES, these type of people forget to ask WHY those people go out of the work force.
true but the same people that you deem valuable are hedonists and acting / voting against their interests
Having free time is biggest luxury of life. Most people realize it late.
Not having money to enjoy said free time also sucks.
@@talesvinicius598 You don't need much money to enjoy free time unless you have some expensive addiction or consider luxury vacation as only source of enjoymnent.
@@talesvinicius598For most urbanites, this is true. They need money to pay for everything to be done for them, including being entertained.
not really having too much free time (unemployed), miss with your head.
you do some thing that you enjoy so much that you end up just sick and lacking motivation to do them anymore.
you can get out with friends but with no money you will have to leach off them, no one want to have to pay for you every time so you end up alone or just stay at home.
@@talesvinicius598 that is what the society have always wanted you to belief
Why arent people going back to work is not a million dollar question. It's a $7.25/hr question Lmao
Here's the deal. My household brings in a decently above average income, has 2 STEM degrees, and has been SAVING for 3 years, having no vices like smoking or drinking, never been in a legal situation, have not been on any vac. trips or living a luxury life, and only have student debt....we still can NOT AFFORD a starter home....Why would they want to work 10X harder than our parent/grandparents to be able to own nothing?!?!
'Starter home' also seems to be a dying concept. The only ones I see (in NJ) are at least 50 yrs old. I like that 3D printing is catching on a bit more in the homebuilding industry. It's a cheaper way to build, but homebuilders and carpenter unions will likely fight against it.
You did everything you was told.
Meanwhile, I have an associate degree, and a home. I’m a math guy so I have the utmost respect for stem.
Move away from the coasts
@@sylouistill the same
@@handleyobusinesswhat are you doing with an associates in math that you were able to afford a home?
Im 25 went to college and work a full-time job as a refrigeration technician. I don't blame other men for not working. I feel zero fulfillment from my job; it's just something to take up my time, and the amount of money I make will never be enough for an adult life.
Newsflash: Nobody feels "fulfillment" from a job as an employee. Life under cápítàlì$m means being a worker sl@ve for the owner class. We must overcome the cancer that is cápítàlì$m in this century.
I hope you'll find a job you like or at least not dislike eventually. Best of luck. 🙏🙏
Studs Terkel's book "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" demonstrates that regardless of time period, people have been feeling the way you do since work began. There truly is nothing new under the sun.
Is it possible to learn a new higher paying skill?
@@brodriguez11000 the exchange is enough money to do other things. When money is too low, there's no point
27 year old hvac technician here, the constant stress on both my body and my mental state makes me think about giving up and moving back in with my parents every day. The work is tough, my boss wants me to squeeze the money out of clients who have none, and when trying my hand at dating, women look down on me for my blue-collar profession. Rent and food prices go up every year, but my wage stays the same. Really, the only reason why im working is so don't starve when im 65 years old in my "retirement."
You need to work a minimum number of years for that, yeah.
Right on spot.
Retirement is a joke! It may not be there when your time comes or you may not live long enough to see that Retirement...
Our parents were happy working together to make ends meet, women nowadays want you to finish the race and then share. If you bring this up, you get called a misogynist because there's no denying that it's happening.
Bad news man, by the time we retire the government won't have any money left. Plan on working until you die.
Lost my job in aerospace manufacturing as a skilled machinist when Covid hit and I havent been back to work since. My wife works as a pharmacy technician and is in school full-time. I take care of everything at home and do all the homeschooling with 2 kids. We are 4+ years into this and we love it this way.
Trust me, your wife does not love it this way. She is close to divorcing you.
@queenabundance I'll let her know she needs to get the papers ready because other ppl say she should. Wouldn't want to disappoint the fickle ppl of the internet.
@@KalanWolfI can't think of a better environment than that to have your wife cheat on you with another man, and monkey branch to him and get rid of you, watched that situation unfold countless times, your obligation to your family is provide and protect your not doing that, trust me on this
@@KalanWolftrust me....women admire a busy man..... Study show that men need to get out of the house
@@queenabundance some people are too arrogant to realize what they are doing to others. Then cry victim when the lawyers show up.
Its becoming more common because people have lost hope, depression is high, and living is becoming more of a burden then something to be happy about.
I honestly think the break down of the clan and then the family unit is a large part of this. If the consequences are only for yourself and you fulfill Maslow's hierarchy of needs, why would you continue past that point?
@@yurie2388it’s not hard to understand. Men work hard for family. Been that way since the beginning of time. You take away men family men stop working
Well there is a solution for that....
Boomer guilt tripping doesn't work anymore
idgaf what life was like "back in your day"
Life is too short to be a wagey
@@googleoperationcyclone Back in their day they weren't competing in a global labor pool that is willing to work for 1/20th of what it takes to scrape by here. Boomers will deny this.
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@@googleoperationcyclone back in their day they werent competing in a global labor market where 20 people could be hired for your measley pay. Boomers will deny this.
@@googleoperationcyclone I am trying to reply but youtube keeps deleting because Im calling out a practice they themselves use that Boomers never had to deal with. We live in bad times.
Facts lol fuck work bruhhh so much to life than being a slave to the system
There is no worker shortage. I’m fresh out of college with a degree in mechanical engineering and it’s currently impossible to find a job in Germany.
Why go into Engineering when all the manufacturing is in China and Vietnam lol. Chinese engineers and laborers are much cheaper
There's a worker shortage for exploitative jobs. There's no worker shortage for good jobs with good wages and benefits.
Yeah, where I live too
@@ArchesBro engineering is not manufacturing
I'm from Poland and i graduated mechanical engeenering year ago. I spent that year mostly on seeking job and market so impossible that i started learning german to escape... I guess im fucked if even natives can't get one. Not like i didn't know things are tough there, but come on, its germany...
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working 40 hours a week should be enough to pay living expenses. No one should have to work more just to survive.
I remember when the claim that higher production would lead to a 3 day work week and plenty of vacation time was being talked about. Turns out higher production just means that the "low class" people get paid less and are expected to work more. I hate capitalism now.
i would call 40 hours/week part time work. i have averaged over 60 hours/week for the past 44 years. i WILL retire in 2-3 years with no money worries. I have moved cross country for work twice in my life. If you want it, you have to go out and get it. It don't knock at your door.
@@dankimgiesler8484 i think your numbers are off, hoped you counted for inflation for that no money worries retirement, but if not just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and don't forget if something bad happened it must have been your fault that the company you worked to the bone for removed 100s of jobs to make the upcoming quarterly report look better for the investors
i always thought the definition of surviving from wages was being able to afford to pay the rent , food , and gasoline for each month without having to beg someone else to give it to me all the time . isnt that what a job is for ? since when has a job been defined as something that pays for alot of other things above and beyond necessities ? most people have to wait for an inheritance or some lucky money situation to get the other goodies but most jobs have always been for living expenses only for the most part .
@Dank...
You have the same level of intellect and empathy as all the other self centered & self righteous cu nts.
Just because something isn't happening to you, doesn't mean it's not happening at all.
Stop gaslighting people into thinking it's all in their head, things are way harder now and they will get even worse in the future.
Automation and A.I. will replace up to 40% of the workforce in developed countries, the rich will get richer and the poor will do what the poor has always done - comments from scu mbags like you aren't adding anything to this debate.
Remember, majority of unskilled low paying jobs were considered essential employees. This job market is a joke!
Not only that but the so called essential employees weren’t getting essential boost in pay
That whole essential worker thing was political nonsense. It was actually targeted at the so-called non-essential workers who wanted to go into work and were told they couldn't - so politicians invented the "essential" tag as a way to segregate who got to work and who didn't. Had nothing to do with science or reality as you'd see small businesses that might have a single customer at a time shut down but a huge box store with hundreds of people in it all at once open.
I remember when I was working at a hotel during covid, but couldn't get a room at the same hotel (or even go out to a restaurant) because of my vaccination status. That's why I don't work anymore.
@@commentinglife6175
I do think the restrictions were too severe, that other businesses probably could have stayed open so long as safety guidelines were strictly enforced. It was no solace to be told "thank you" for being at work, like I was some fucking hero. Nothing changed, I simply needed money the same as always.
Right? I work in a large warehouse, food distribution.
My working schedule didn't change at all during the lockdown.
My God. The lengths people will go to rather than admit that wages are too low.
Boomers
And the appreciation is negative. They are honestly wondering why people won't grind themselves to dust for a society that treats them like trash...
@@Aidan1488 It’s baffling how the most essential jobs of a society are always being treated like garbage. And whenever those workers want to strike or fight for better conditions, the same society that starts complaining is the same one that refuses to work those jobs themselves.
@@JohnSpartan-117At work, a lot of people get real upset at what happens to the dishpit.
No one bothers to help them except former dishwashers. So, yeah, checks out. Lol.
@@JohnSpartan-117 EVERYthing you said is true AND important EXCEPT your REPEATED ANNOYING BULLSHIT of blaming "society". There exists INDIVIDUALS who insult and attack and berate workers.
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of individuals. HALF the population. Not "society". We call these individuals CUNTSERVATIVES = REPUBLICUNTS and CENTRISTS. They care ONLY about some imaginary perceived BULLSHIT about how "leftwing vs rightwing" a position is, instead of caring about the position having the POSITIVE OUTWEIGH THE NEGATIVE.
Born just in time to witness the collapse of human civilization
Time to strap on the football pads, and rev up the Scrap Buggy, because we Mad Max now.
Genuinely lazy people are very rare. The majority of people alleged to be lazy, feel unhappy, unappreciated, unrewarded, or suffer a variety of illness that includes mental depression, insomnia, anxiety or vitamin deficiencies. People commonly thought to be lazy are often being rebellious towards insensitive authority who considers them being lazy. Happy people work the hardest. If you want to motivate people to work hard, make them happy and keep them that way. Getting tough, forcing people to work or else, is what makes people unproductive and lazy, or to do no more work than they absolutely have to
VICTIM BLAMING ...
Part of the 'divide and conquer' business model - as old as the human species itself.
People mistrusting each other is key to exploitation ... whenever human beings stick together and form 'unions' to help each other out, the paras ites sitting on their as ses all day can't suck others dry anymore.
Most lazy people are already rich, that's why they can afford to be lazy 😂
Exactly. I read once an article that pointed out there is no definition of laziness in psychology and my way of thinking about this changed. Try doing absolutely nothing all day - it's unbearable. But if you believe there is nothing worthwhile to do, you fill your time with endless scrolling, video games, other addictions.
Well, I am lazy, because I have little interest in making others better overall.
Quiet quitting is real. It’s not being lazy.
This is the new Depression: People work and can't pay basic bills with what they earn. Ipso Dipso: why work?
So that you don't starve, and/or don't live with your parents forever?
Exactly, you can work your entire life and not be able to retire as your retirement funds are eaten by inflation. Or not work and have the same result. In the end it's a question of do I want to be tired and poor, or just poor.
@@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32 How do you expect to survive if you don't work? Government services? Honest question.
@@richatlarge462 I mean that's the big question. Some folks do side hustles, some folks do onlyfans, some sell drugs, and so on. I mean think about it. Would you rather work as a young professional chemist making enough to live with your parents, not date, and maybe get a new game or doordash once or twice a month, or do a couple illicit synthesis a month and make your yearly salary in a week, enjoying your free time with plenty of cash, connections, ect. Us young folks have been set up to choose crime, stagnation, or working poverty. Networking too is a big part of career building, and those of us starting adult life in 2020 had to wait until we were 22 or 23 to accommodate for being isolated the entirety of our early 20's.
@@richatlarge462 Living off the land, farming for oneself, basically all the things our ancestors have done for hundreds of years just fine. Nobody wants nor should have to work at jobs and kill themselves for nothing. I sure as hell won't. And everyone who says I'm a laze who stays at home with my parents because I don't wanna try is clearly too oblivious to the problem to have a voice in it. Applying for hundreds of low paying jobs and still not getting one despite being #2 in my high school class and an honor rolls college graduate is U N A C C E P T A B L E .
8:18 Depression. They've just described depression. How the hell aren't they realizing that depression is a thing here???
Old people label depression = lazy. For them, that thing doesn't exist
@@mikem1215 Until depression turns to murderous rage. Then they finally learn.
@Michaels1059 Unfortunately, people don't see depression as a reason or excuse. Many of the biggest proclaimers of mental health awareness are just virtue signaling. You describe a problem or begin to get to the heart of the reason for the depression, whatever it is, and they tune out and tell you to get a therapist. Many many people are selfish beyond what they are even willing to admit. They believe they have the bigger better excuse, the harder time, they reason why they deserve the world and whether or not you are worth their time is all they care about. If you aren't, then they discard you. Love is dead. Care for your neighbor is dead. The nation under god is dead. It's all greed and politics now. The only way to live is to not let it bother you and to move on.
Yeah, we’re all depressed because billionaires want to suck every last dollar out of us. That’s honestly the root reason why life really sucks these days.
Because it's men, nobody cares.
The entire labor market problem can be summed up with a single question; if working my ass off won't keep me from being homeless, then what makes that any different from staying unemployed?
I'd like to see a video about that: the homeless who have jobs. Let's look at the other side of the coin.
@@bobnolin9155 I think there was a Tom Hanks movie that kind of explored the premise, Terminal, I think it was? A guy spent years stuck living in an airport because of bureaucratic bullshit and struggled to find a job because he didn't have a residential or mailing address.
It's not just the Western world. Japan had this problem for decades. China has been seeing this spike recently as well. You might also know them as NEET, lost generation, lying flat, or hikikomori.
Don't forget that india is also on its way
Also seeing the absolute lack of self awareness these countries have when they bemoan declining birth rates as well. Like bruv, no one is having kids because they are too tired and focused on surviving on shit wages or have life consuming work hours.
Too many people. There's also too many elderly people.
@@Order66onlibs No, too much bureaucracy and corporate welfare ensuring unfair advantage in exchange for hiring unqualified box tickers that satisfy Larry Fink's fetishes.
@@StarlightDew Honestly it's so obvious at this point I'm sure everyone knows, they're just desperately looking for an alternative because they know actually solving the root of the problem is impossible due to the influence of the companies. Just imagine being made the leader of a country for a moment and trying to make the companies pay people properly. Honestly I feel you would need ultimate power globally to fix it at this point, if you don't want to sacrifice a few countries in the process.
If working doesn't actually pay for anything, what's the point? A friend of mine got laid off from a shitty job during COVID, and their quality of life increased thanks to social programs: All of a sudden, they had the help necessary to reasonably afford food, medical needs and housing when they were seriously struggling with those things before.
That's not me knocking welfare, but knocking low-paying jobs and unaffordable expenses. What sane person would choose to work a dead-end job that can't pay for necessities when they could just not work and be better off?
That means there exist jobs making and delivering that food, providing medicine, building and maintaining housing. The spoiled rich who have done no real work should be doing those jobs, and be forced to accept that they have already been paid for their labor.
Wildest thing is the number of jobs that seem to be actively trying to pay JUST ENOUGH to disqualify people from those programs, making them worse-off than before getting said job
@@robnergal575 Wildest thing is we let politicians get away with cut-offs for welfare instead of scaling by income... In what universe does it make sense that if you earn an extra dollar you suddenly lose hundreds?
This was my biggest problem with COVID. Can’t work but so many people making more than they made when working. I also know people that had to work all the way through but there was a point where they weren’t needed Fridays. They were still able to apply for the pandemic benefits based on losing one day. It made no sense to me.
Felt like a giant waste of money that wasn’t thought through.
This. I didn't go on welfare, but I crunched the numbers, and I realized that I would have equally as much money for myself if I quit my full time job and went part time. I saved enough in childcare costs and other expenses that it was worth it to work less. It's annoying that I still don't have any money, but at least I can be poor and have a large chunk of my day to myself instead of working all day every day and having the same amount of no money. Why would anyone work a terrible job for terrible pay when they can have a better quality of life through welfare programs, saving on big expenses like childcare and travel to/from work, etc? My kid is actually in school now, but I'm looking into other ways to make money. Why give up my time just so that I can go through the stress of having a crap job all over again? The only thing I have to gain by going back to work is money, and the amount I would get just isn't worth it.
When COVID hit, I was a bartender at a very nice golf club. I was considered “essential” because Judge Smails here couldn’t make his own Manhattan. I still have the letter from my employer to the police telling them why I was out on the street. It’s in my glove box, a souvenir of the Insanity.
I'm not surprised.
Wow
LOL I still have my "essential" pass in the console of my car. A reminder of the insanity and incompetence of our federal, state, and local governments over the last four years.
A bartender is a skilled job who can make decent money with tips.
My favourite part here in Canada is when our parliament shut itself down for covid but still made "essential" workers go to work, tacitly admitting that politicians aren't essential lol.
I know many people mean no harm by this, but the "giving up" is a narrative ploy. It's not "giving up", it's living life more on our own terms.
For a country so utterly devoted to money to the point of worship, we really don't understand how important a fair wage is.
That statement is its own answer.
A “fair” wage, you say?! That sounds like commie propaganda! Lol… We’re not meant to share the wealth in this country. Everyone is trying to be their own boss and/or the next Elon lol
What do you want to do, and how much do you want for doing it? Now, let's pretend you got that, and the next day all of your co-workers got twice the amount. Would you still be content?
@@DolphinWithIgloo-fg3ow when everyone else gets twice the money, prices in general will rise, thus your 1x money will buy less than it used to. see the issue?
@@chillgamervids Your co-workers are limited and will not make the prices of the world rise. What do you want to do, and what will make you content with what you are getting?
Cos why not? Honestly. The system is so clearly designed to help the VERY few at the cost of the many. Why play a game you know you’re not going to win?
I agree with the sentiment, but the words got me. Do you only play games you know you will win? Like do you only play on tutorial mode with cheats?
@@teknoh So you're saying that people should play games that are obviously rigged against them? People are willing to play games on even grounds but no one's dumb enough to try their luck when things are obviously rigged against them even if there is a miniscule chance of winning.
@@teknoh I mean... if you had a boss with a garanteed one hit kill attack that is impossible to dodge, how long would you play that game for?
It's like playing a game with micro transactions. What's the point of getting good at a game when someone has already bought the best gear in the game. There is no reward for skill or effort
What’s your definition of winning? Owning a yacht, driving a Lamborghini and having 10 wives? Bruh…stop scrolling, life is simple. Men see other people’s lives on social media and because they feel they can’t get that they’ve given up.
But I’m not complaining, do you…it means that those who are willing to put in the work will stand out above them and always win. And I’m fine with that.
The average person has never been so poor. Millions of families are struggling financially as living expenses hit the highest levels in more than four decades. Over 60% of our country lives paycheck to paycheck and about 40% earns poverty wages. Even after working all their lives, more than a quarter of older people have no savings and many believe they will never be able to retire in dignity, while around 55% of elderly people try to survive on an income of less than 25,000 a year.
Biden is worst thing that happened to us
TRUMP 2024
A lot of folks downplay the role of advisors until being burnt by their own emotions. I remember couple summers back, after my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to help my business stay afloat, hence I researched for licensed advisors and came across someone of utmost qualifications. She's helped grow my reserve notwithstanding inflation, from $275k to $850k.
How can I participate in this?
I was guided tho..Julia Hope Marble. walked me through the ropes majestically i'ts my ultimate pleasure.
We haven’t given up on work - work has given up on us
I killed my health for 13 years for shit pay, I refuse to continue to do that. I would rather be dead than work another shit job. Give people a living wage and you'll notice how fast these jobs that are always not filled because they suck disappear.
I agree 100%.
It is worse than that. The dollar lost all its value at a rate higher than interest on your savings. Every penny you save up is being leeched up to fund Israel and Ukraine. They use inflation to extract wealth from your savings without changing the number of dollars in your account.
@@WarningStrangerDanger Are "they" in the room right now?
@clamhammer2463 No, "they" are in the federal government. The IRS can not collect enough taxes to fund their foreverwars, so they just mint new money and gift it to weapons manufacturers and foreign countries. That increased money supply directly devalues the dollar.
Biden-Harris opened the border to keep low paid jobs low paid.
The ultimate luxury: sleeping in.
And non-stop coffee drinking ☕️
Turns out, the most valuable asset a man has is: Time
Yes! I have a really hard time functioning in the morning. I'm just not a morning person, even if I go to bed early. I have some health problems that affect my sleep, so mornings are just hard. What's frustrating is that a lot of jobs don't actually need to be done at the butt crack of dawn. They could be done later, but employers don't seem to care.
You need a job in order to pay rent and eat. These men don’t have a job they don’t make any money so can’t afford to buy food. Therefore, they are living with their Mum and taking other peoples resources as they have no money to buy food for themselves..
@@dorino9057That's the symptom, not the root cause of the issue.
Stagnant wages, horrific treatment, being expected to take the workload of five people, having to work multiple BS jobs just to be able to eat and still can't afford a home/apartment, etc. These are the reasons. It's not a difficult question to answer. It's not due to laziness, it's due to slavery. A life spent working until the day you die is no life at all. Eberstadt is completely wrong.
Years ago I read a quote from Milton, Keynes, or some economist of that level:
If you cannot attract and retain qualified employees for your positions, your total compensation package is insufficient. Period. There is.nothing more to discuss.
Seems pretty appropriate for today as well.
Well said 💯👏🏻👍🏻
@@JohnSpartan-117 -- My grandfather supported himself, a family, a car, saved for and bought a house, AND sent three kids to state colleges..... all while working a forty-hour week. My grandmother was a nurse, an RN. She could've made good money but she didn't need to. Things have gott"n seriously fucked up since that time.
Let's be honest, why would a man want to destroy himself in a system stacked against him. He can do the minimum and just get by. Or give 110%, put up with a toxic workplace stacked against him, be miserable and still just get by.
with an 80% chance the woman takes half plus kids for tiktok clout.
@@hyperteleXii damn bro that sounds like an oddly specific you problem, plenty of us learned not to mess around with crazy
@@Greenitthe Look at divorce stats, women usually take custody and usually win the money aspect due to stuff like title 4D for the good of the judges retirement plan. They also divorce 70% of the time give or take as compared to the man's 30%. One does it for irreconcilable differences aka i am not happy and does it willy nilly. The other one goes for it does when actual serious stuff occur aka drugs usually, this would be men.
@@JonDoe-nu3ix stop believing these Red pill bs talking points. Vast majority of the time when men file for custody they get joint custody according to all the data and studies.
we’re talking about men who are refusing to get a job this is not about women. You need a job in order to pay rent and eat. These men don’t have a job they don’t make any money so can’t afford to buy food. Therefore, they are living with their Mum and taking other peoples resources as they have no money to buy food for themselves..
There is no labor shortage.
There are lack of respect for the worker.
Not to mention lack of salary.
They sap it from the males to give it for free to entitled wmn who only whine and complain
Yep
For male workers yes, female workers not
@@mw1554-yr1cq Most teachers are women. They are still insanely underpaid.
The problem is not that someone has to clean the toilet. It's that we don't value the toilet cleaner.
If by "we" you mean the women, and by "the toilet cleaner", you mean men doing all the dirty work.
@@hyperteleXii No, I meant society doesn't value low-skilled workers enough. Men or women.
What do men care about how much other men value them? We're not gay.@@midnightflare9879
Bingo! The people who sets & pays the wages tells you exactly how they feel.
You nailed it. The rich will not ever get it.
My friend is one of those people. He works one and off but usually ends up quiiting. He tells me all the time,
"I dont want help, i dont want sympathy, i dont want anything other than everyone else to leave me alone"
if society offers me nothing why should I contribute?
noOoOoo you have to go and work so we can get DEI jobs doing nothing
Ditto, society already screwed it's people why stay? It's like an abusive relationship.
You are fined with taxes when you contribute, but rewarded with others taxes for doing nothing.
@@cherubin7th Hahah good point!
Then go and try to live in a forest or a field far away from society and lets see how it goes.
Why are guys not working anymore? Here are some things that come to mind:
They are sick of being degraded by a-hole bosses.
They see that "hard work" no longer gains them anything----It only makes someone else rich
They realize that their pay barely covers the cost of the job (work clothes, transportation, tools, professional/union dues, etc...)
The commute has become too long and/or dangerous.
The neighborhood of the office/jobsite has become too dangerous.
Small businesses (where they always worked) are be eradicated, and they simply don't fit into the corporate world.
Manufacturing, construction, and other creative/productive jobs are disappearing, and they simply don't fit into the "service economy".
The 9-to-5, M-to-F monotony is causing them to lose their minds.
They have tasted freedom, and simply can't go back to the hell of wage-slavery (can you blame them).
They have found that the ONLY remaining chance to get ahead, is to go into business for themselves (underground economy).
We need a 4 day work week :/
So essentially the 'Universal Basic Income' has already arrived... we just choose to call it "Disability Payments".
It's interesting you say 9-5 because reality is it's 8-5 because now that hour lunch is unpaid now. That didn't used to be the case. It's far worse than our parents had it. Just another way in which the outlook for us and our children is worse, not better.
@@goatofdeath Millenial men can accurately be described as the "No Home, No Lunch" generation, last time such a generation persisted world wide it caused a world war
Whats the underground economy?
There is no such thing as a labor shortage-only a wage shortage.
And, like here in Canada, our governments somehow think it makes sense to bring in millions more people--most of whom are dirt poor--so they will take the jobs that we won't do (like McDonalds) because of the high-stress/low pay and same result at the end of the month. And NOTE, I am not talking about any specific ethnicity or nationality of people because there are tens of thousands of people from the slavic countries as well who are working in these low-paying service and hospitality jobs and it's not their fault that our countries told them they could come here and get (to them) high-paying jobs. Many have found out that the job isn't high paying when compared to housing and food costs here--only compared to those things in their HOME country. THE GOVERNMENT IS TO BLAME, IMO, not the migrants. But if I was an American, I still wouldn't vote for that lunatic dictator Trump because it's clear that he doesn't care about anyone but HIMSELF: saying crude things about women and mocking his own supporters--geeze.
Amen!
The is definitely labour shortage for immigrant babies as corporate wont hire and small business are being cheap and dont want to hire .
I'm a Boomer. I retired at 57 because I was tired of the BS at work. Now I play video games, watch UA-cam, or TV all day. I love it!
If you are 57 you are too young to be a boomer, you are a gen X no?
@@JohnMcintosh-dm1gn I'm not 57 now. I retired at 57, four years ago. I'm at the tail end of Boomerhood.
@Scarter63 Oh! My mistake, I stand corrected.
@@Scarter63 I stand corrected!
They said if you want to be successful, you just need to be good with numbers, study stem, learn to code. I have two stem degrees and I can code in multiple languages. Yet according to them I am a lazy POS at home all day 'playing video games'. Fuck outta here. It's crazy that they didn't even mention the horrors of the job search. Hiring committees are completely unwilling to take any risks and give ppl a goddamn chance. Something as simple as a gap in the resume is enough to send it to the discard pile. Companies are unwilling to invest in training people. They expect you to perform the job perfectly on day one. The ultimate goal of corporations in this capitalist hellscape is to squeeze every last penny exploiting workers to increase their bottom line and then they pretend to have no clue why so many people are out of work and struggling.
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I started my science degree when the nation's media was saying that we needed more people doing R&D.
Came out the other end, found out that the real problem was that nobody in the country was willing to pay people to do science work.
There were still newspaper articles and the like saying we needed more people with science degrees a decade after I'd realised we already had far more than the economy actually wanted. The government just seemed to think that more people with science degrees would mean that more science would magically get done without anyone having to pay for it. Apparently scientists are fuelled entirely by the quest for knowledge and don't need such trivial things as "food" and "a place to live".
I actually doubt that there are so many people unwilling to work. From what I’m seeing these jobs are fake. They let you go through several round of interview and work on a project for free and then it’s goodbye.
America hasn't been capitalist since before the second world war. Last year government accounted for more than half the economy for the first time. What most western economies are in the present day is closer to oligarchies than it is to a free market system. Just a handful of massive corporations using lobbying and personal relationships to bend government in their favor. Most industries have little to no competition.
@@chady7009 are you brain broken? US IS a capitalist hellhole. Ever since neo-liberalism, it has been lasseiz-faire capitalism. Capitalism LEADS to oligarchies or monopolies. Competition means that there will be winners and losers at the end of the day. Winners take the losers pie and increase their market share. Not only that, people who have capital ARE able to influence the gov by lobbying. Thats how you have a system working for the rich and the ultra rich, not for the remaining majority. Capitalist, at the end of the day, DONT want COMPETITION. Saying otherwise, is idiocy and getting duped by the elites.
“This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Still as true as ever today.
That is socialism in general. That's the way it always works
@@Seagaltalksocialism is about owning means of production by the workforce, not capitalist. Not sure what you are talking about.
Well since socialism is bad and individualism is good everything is currently fine.
@@MelfiortheOne In theory. In practice what actually happens is the means of production becomes owned by an oligarchy that uses the Marxist rhetoric as one tool to keep the masses in line. Some animals are more equal than others.
Everybody always talks about Dr. King's dream but nobody ever talks about his plans to achieve that dream. (Hint: It wasn't more Capitalism)
America doesn’t value hard work. Hard work is for poor people. America values rich people, people with prestigious job titles, who tell the little people what to do, who talk and bullshit. They have lunch, take a phone call, make deal on the golf course. That’s the stuff we value.
The maker of this video himself says he has a “prestigious job”. As a UA-cam creator. There you go. That’s the work we value.
Pretty sure he’s talking about his career in finance but I agree that’s not really hard work either
One would think that a country which cares soo much about hard work, that they build a dream myth out of it, would end up with a pretty large labour movement.
Not the USA.
i think the prestigious job part was how he used to work as an investment banker
We also Tax working people, but not the piles of money the Rich have to make more wealth.
To quote Scott Galloway, 'We Tax Sweat but not Capital'.
If you work for a living, you're paying at least 35% of that including State and Sales Taxes, probably closer to 40%. If you're borrowing against your Equity to buy more Shares/Businesses/Property you pay 0%. That's BS.
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Not given up on “work”.
Just not participating in the usual corporate grind that uses their labour and skills to benefit others.
I'm 70 now and worked for most of my adult life. I have had periods of unemployment and looking back they were probably my happiest. Trying to navigate the benefit system and finding creative ways to make a bit on the side is a lot more satisfying than most jobs.
lol, I’m doing the same. I find free stuff on marketplace and then sell them for a heavily discounted price. Doesn’t garner me much, but it’s still awesome to turn $0 into $40
Wish you the best of luck sir🙂I'm 41 and worked since I was 19. Been unemployed the last few years because I make as much money on social security than I did working. The labor system is broken, not the workers.
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Most honest work just isn’t respected.
most workers aren't respected either 😅
It's so backwards. The jobs that keep society running, the truly hard jobs are the ones that are looked down upon. A world without garbage men to move the trash, farmers to feed us all, or construction workers that build the very cities we live in is a world which couldn't work. Yet, it seems we're headed that way somehow.
It's sad that the general advice to get work is to basically lie. We deserve better than this
Don’t put your self worth in the hands of someone else.
If I work my ass off, my Bank account at the end of the Month is $0, if I don't work, the bank account is still $0.
So what's the point?
It’s minus 1000 if you don’t work who is paying the fix costs ?
Enlighten me on how you get income, I’d really appreciate insight on how I can get income to survive without working.
@@1971_Chevelle_SS how does a Homeless person survive? It really doesn't take much to simply survive.
If you mom don't kick you out of her basement, you won't live under a bridge.
You can also find tempory odd jobs here and there for a few bucks too.
@@1971_Chevelle_SS humans have been doing that since the stone age mate.
@@steak5599We’ve always told our kids they’d better get an education in a field that can make money in, because they’re not living in our basement. If I was your Mom, I’d tell you to get a f’ing job.
I don't work because I'd rather be miserable with free time than miserable without free time. Its that simple.
Currently a lazy zoomer. Lost my last job and just came up blank on thinking of something I wanted to do that wouldn't leave me miserable. Couldn't trust anyone, and didn't feel like I was going anywhere. Felt like I was just working for a paycheck and that there was no point in attempting to do anything else because it wouldnt happen.
Doing a lot of volunteer work now. Much less stressful, and scratches that productivity itch. Praying God will show me a long term solution.
It's nice to know I'm not the only one.
Amen. Peace be with you.
How do you afford to live?????
I'm in a similar position. I lost my last job and also my trust in any new workplace. I'm from germany and right now I'm living from unemployment benefit, it's only 1200€. But the jobs I find are so bad, that I would even have a lower net income than my unemployment benefit. Working isn't worth it anymore. I always had the mindset that work is important, should be fun, because it is such a time consuming part of my life, but right now I don't think that this mindset will work out for me.
Are your parents paying your bills? What happens whey they retire?
Which God?
The native American sun god
People don’t want to train younger people. They don’t want to pay as well
Why would they, when they can import cheap labour from abroad?
I faced the situation of employers dumping longtime employees so they could hire someone at a new lower pay. I guess all those college-degrees and higher salary expectations made employers flip the script and started to not want to hire younger people. Quite a mess for everyone, young or old.
@@dplj4428 I still see it in play, have for a decade now.
My employer is still replacing 20+ year, expensive engineers with 25 year-old college grads. In my engineering group I went from one of the youngest when I entered the department at 38 to now being one of the oldest at 53. ALL my peers other than the one other engineer who is in his early 60s are under 30 and have been there from 3-5 years now. The other older engineer and myself fill a specific niche and as soon as one of the younger ones can replace us, we'll be let go and replaced with another young engineer at half the price in salary and benefits.
@@dplj4428 One trend I'm noticing though is these young engineers are getting tired of not getting instant recognition, promotions, and pay increases. They're not staying more than a few years, leaving once they truly become productive members of the team and we start over again.
Men want to have a wife and children.
If they can't get jobs that allow them to support a family, there's very little reason to work.
You'll be surprised how easily a man is willing to ignore his own needs
they're just roundabout ways to impress
Add to that, women are hypergamous. They will date their equal or somebody superior to them financially. The more women make, the smaller their dating prospects get. Low wage men have no incentive to try anymore. I’m a disabled vet making 6 figures at my job. I would quit today and buy a trailer in the south if I wasn’t married.
I feel like it cuts the other way too, if a man can't find a woman who wants to start a family with him, then he won't want to get a high effort, high pay job.
Most men don't need much, if they have a wife, they'll need more (most women aren't happy with 2 fold up chairs, a TV on a old cardboard box, and paper plates), and if they have kids they'll need a lot more. So if men can't start a family, I'm not surprised there are working less.
You are leaving out the most important factor: outlandish expectations from women due to social media, e.g. men have to be 6'3", have a 6-pack, and make more $ than they do. It's really hard to get married.
@RealSerie26 Due to inflation, the expectation is now a 6'5 height, an 8- pack, and a minimum 250 k salary.
I started my own business when i left the military and completely failed, was a brutal time. I had to rush to find a job and ended up working at a dominos as an assistant manager. I was embarrassed and would never tell anyone where I was working but I decided if I was going to make pizza, I'll be the best damn pizza maker they have ever seen. I ended up making general manager within a record time of 4 months, and brought my income back up to livable standards. Its not a matter of what your doing, its a matter of your mindset. There is always an opportunity. Got myself through collage as a GM at dominos and now I am a Cyber security engineer
It is alot more than just mindset.
34 y o woman, also quit my job. After 11 years of teaching where I worked my ass off to "improve myself as a professional", I realize I would never reach a "cruising speed". Every day I felt like I might fail at my task. Every management meeting I heard what I could to more or better. I thought that after 11 years you could be comfortable enough just to show up to work, do your job, leave. I didn't want any promotion and yet responsibilities kept piling up and classes full of teenagers were not easier to manage. Lots of experienced teachers quit or left with a burnout as well. I don't know where this pressure all come from. Even if you have a contract, you still feel insecure at work. When you are in your 30's you can still change carreer so I decided that is was not worth it and as I don't have kids, why should I not? Now I'm happily painting and living a cheap life. Don't need a fancy car or holidays. You don't need those leisures when you are not spending your week at work.
Imagine if teachers actually prepared their students for the economic realities of the world and the nature of the power structures that will attempt to exploit them instead of over analyzing Moby Dick like an autist.
Those state approved lesson plans weren't written by lobbyists, right?
I can relate. I left the public school system after 15 years due to burnout. I only felt needed when exam season was near. That is when the admin would actually check on me, not to see if I was okay, but to ask if I thought the students were well prepared.
Way to miss the point. Schools have a varied curriculum. I learned literature AND politics at school. And autism is not an insult anymore, it's not 2013.@@TRG29338
I agree, I am also a former school teacher who transitioned into tech. Tech bros think they have the most stressful jobs but they wouldn't last 2 weeks in healthcare and education.
I'm so sorry. Teachers demand more respect.... and pay!
American dream is dead. Nowadays, working hard doesn’t get you far enough + social media bombard us with images of rich ppl who scammed their way up and openly brag about it.
Add to it no free tome left to enjoy the life and no appreciation from women who look down on regular working guys. Being a working man nowadays feels like being a loser
Its sad reality, trying to be financially smart AND attracting a decent women. If you make an average wage and want to be stable until you die, you have to be frugal. That means a small old house, a cheap old car, and rarely going out to eat. Very few people want that life. Even when you have a nigher net worth, you'll look poor. Mine's up there nowadays but people still try to offer charity. And women look at me like I'm a homeless drifter. Sorry to offend your eyes but I want enough when I'm 90.
I'd say American values are screwed as much as the financial situation.
@@jeabo0adhd 1. An old car drains A LOT of money. I got a 2012 Dodge, and in 2 years I have had it, I spent more money on fixing it than I paid for it in the dealership.
2. A small old house in Canada is still out of reach for most people.
3. For those who work full time in trades, eating out is a necessity. I, for example, simply don’t have time and to cook.
And finally, what is the point of working hard if you are not distinguishable from a “homeless drifter”? You may not even reach 90 yo, and if you do, are you sure you will not regret living such a miserable life?
For me, working hard had always seemed like a stepping stone to achieving my personal goals. Now, it feels more like a waste of my best years
@@arseniytikhonov2283 all facts. Women want nothing to do with regular guys who have regular jobs, only after they become single moms or become fat and used up by a lot of men, THEN they want to settle with those regular men. Key word: settle. They still think they are above you. Clown world.
Try looking for women in Southeast Asia then. I don't know if you've heard of "Passport Bro".
Does brain a workman mean having a service job?
There's no such thing as a worker shortage. The shortage is in the pay. You want somebody to stand and do hard work all day but you wanna pay the minimum wage. The free market speaks. If you have a shortage of workers then you need to raise your wages. Just because that was a historically minimum wage job doesn't mean it will be that way forever.
Big business and politicians have colluded to import labour
They don't want to pay min wage
They just don't want to pay at all
Except as we are seeing, those people aren't needed as robots take over...and government mandated minimum wages that exceed the value of the low-skilled services provided only push that race to robots ever closer. It also doesn't help that those jobs were typically done by teens still living at home so a "living wage" was unnecessary as they had their parents to live off of. I still argue losing the link between teens and McJobs is a much significant factor here than the academics admit. Even if you have a college degree, if you have never worked before and apply for a job, most companies just aren't going to hire you when they have a similar college graduate that at least worked a service job while in school.
@@commentinglife6175 Those companies that hire low value employees make millions even billions off of them. Those employees don't need luxury money but they do deserve minimum wage that can pay all the bills for a single person.
@@JaydenHolland-wo4fd Why? If all your job entails is something that a simple robot can do, demanding higher pay is only going to convince the business owner to hire the robot! Instead, stop assuming these McJobs are meant for anyone besides those currently in school, and use the skills gained there to find better employment elsewhere! Just as those companies look at someone with 15 years of coding experience and say they are overqualified, it should be a pretty standard thing to pass over anyone over the age of 25 from working fast food. Just stop hiring the complainers and the companies will be better off. (Plus, if the younger employees put in anywhere close to half the effort folks my age did when we held those jobs, the company will actually make MORE money!)
I am one of those men.
Job hunting is hell. Working for a good company is quite taxing on mental health, take up most of your day and there's no sense of job security.
It feels like the game of life is rigged. You won't get rich by working so, why spend your whole life being miserable?
I was fortunate enough to have made some money in my earlier years (I'm 40 now). Enough to invest and make enough money to live confortably, travel and have fun.
Sure, I could still work but I'm not interested in a full time position. Every now and then I pick up a part time just to meet people and socialise a bit.
ENJOY LIFE, YOU ONLY HAVE ONE.
So so true
And here I am trying to cut it short because why even bother? You only get one life but it sucks regardless of your material conditions.
For most people a minimum wage job isn’t worth the aggravation
@zvmZvm0102 if they were pretending, why couldn't you? sounds like you were a sucker for a corporation when you could have been "pretending like you have chronic back pain".
is it because they, in fact, weren't pretending? and that maybe work nowadays just genuinely fucking sucks? and they were actually unable to perform the work due to health problems?
@zvmZvm0102sounds simply like you're jealous of people claiming welfare/benefits
Minimum wage earners are only 3% of the population. Try again
@@skyblazeeterno that is actually what he said 🦜
@@sylouiIt's way more than that now. 12+ million have stormed our borders since Biden took office.
Dont pay taxes to people who hate you.
Bro got ratio’d
Taxes are automatically taken out of your salary. You have no choice in the matter. It's legal extortion.
Women and PoC. AKA, leftists. 😂
Taxation Is Theft brother, amen
@jacksquat4140 no you can choose not to fill out the tax form when hired but at the end of the year IRS will send you the bill. If you don't pay then they come after you with rifles and at the very least they will make sure you don't pass a background check for any job in the future. Welcome to the so called land of the free....
Let it rot
It was decided to rot with adam and eve in the garden
@@BlackRose369.Grow up.
bǎi làn
People are not giving up, people are fed up with slavery.
The failure of a citizen to contribute to society is also the failure of the society to help their citizens to contribute.
Excellent statement that should become a widely recognized quote. I would just change "help" to "motivate".
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
quote from JFK, early 1960s
Best thing anyone can do now is to vote for Trump and all red down the ticket . . .
Well said.
I can tell you exctly why. Often they finally land what seems to be a golden opportunity, and after 6 months to a few years of psychotic burnout style work they realize despite putting their wellbeing on the back burner...they STILL won't be able to comfortably afford their lives...so they throw in the towel. Men are pragmatic. If the option is sacrifice your entire life for wages that won't make a difference or give up and enjoy your limited time here on earth however possible...many will choose the latter, especially if they have no partner/children. And yes most of them are living with boomer/gen X family who were able to buy into society when the rungs were within reach AS THEY SHOULD BE.
I enjoyed the video and the information, although I do see the script as highly reductive. The truth of the matter is a greedy wealthy few are hoarding. We are seeing the return of the Great Depression, and this time it is global. The issue is a repeating offender, and the economic gambles they take to keep it all to themselves. The assumption that in general the men are lazy and that is why this cohort is not working is reductive and does not ring valid when reasoned.
Fucking this. Why kill myself at a job I hate to make money I can't even spend at the expense of doing the things I like with the people I love.
Fuck you, no.
@@riffcrypt8438yeah keep that stupid mindset up, you’ll only increase young men like myself not working to take care of you bastards
In short
Laziness?
@@Mellyxxxxx The greed of others doesn’t translate to laziness, theft does not necessitate generosity from the other party-it only stands to demonstrate the greed of some.
Ive cut ALL my expenses. Sold my car, canceled insurance, bought a tent and live in the woods outside of town. Hang out in the library or ymca to shower. Can get food from churches or shelters. I no longer pay taxes since im considered homeless. Its great! Im never going back.
How do you get your Internet and pay for it ?
@@craiglarge5925 not to speak for that person but like most cities or businesses/libraries have free wifi
At one point in my life, I was working two jobs, most of my paycheck was going in the gas tank, and I was losing weight I didn't have to lose from skipping meals. But, I was told I made $26 per month too much to get even a few bucks in food stamps.
I was very close to doing something illegal that would get me tossed in the county jail. Air conditioning, 3 square meals a day, color TV, library, weight room- and best of all, nothing to do and all day to do it. Being locked up would have been a luxury vacation for me.
@@craiglarge5925 probably at the library
What about clothing, laundry, etc.?
Yup this video called me out pretty spot on. I sit at home playing games all day while family supports me currently. Shame on me 100% but the 12 years i had been working was always low pay high hours, mandatory overtime everyday with days that i couldnt take breaks. Extreme stress while being yelled at by customers/management.
Sounds extreme but a lot of detail into those issues arent really brought up but I was at a point where I was going to be violent with others or myself. I'd rather just spend my time drowning out reality. Aint worth it anymore. Maybe one day ill figure out how to live on my own, or maybe not.
With how out of control everything has got, why would anyone with any morals, sense and dignity want to contribute to a society that's failing them?
Nice way to justify being a lazy sloth and a drag on society.
It doesn't make sense to contribute to a society that strips people of their dignity. It's not all about money either. Look how women diminish average men. Western society pretty much revolves around women and has been for years.
@@turdferguson4124but people are being born into this, they didn't create it, everyone who created it isn't working or alive anymore.
@@turdferguson4124 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@turdferguson4124you really believe that jobs value morals and ethics? Most jobs literally make the world worse. The pollution of people driving, the tax $ spent on the roads to perpetuate the pollution, sitting down all day every day does not benefit society. It makes humans weak and obese. To me, that’s a sloth. Sacrificing life for money is not admirable. Work can be anything, not strictly a job.
What motivates people to work? Money, which allows people to live a life by buying a place and eventually have a family. If jobs don’t pay enough, then people will be less motivated to work
For men, marriage is a losing proposition. It takes a man 10 to 15 years to recoup after a divorce.
The answer is bring in millions from India and SE Asia.
@@travisadams4470 I've never seen a woman file for divorce unless her husband is a royal piece of shit.
If there is a worker shortage, why are so many companies refusing to hire apprentices? Say, electrical apprentices?
None of the cranky old boomers want to train.
@@JohnSpartan-117 Yet they still claim there is a worker shortage and that they are hiring.
the same reason most people that are qualified for a job never got called back; DEI hiring methods who hire people on a ethnic standard rather than a skill standard as well as hiring the occasional friend or two who are also far from qualified. Happens at the organization I work for all the time, which is a woman-dominated industry btw. They will never hire someone with no work history except if they are a person of color, a woman, or trans. That's just the world we live in today, sadly. Heck I'm a straight white male and I'm lucky I even got hired at the place I work, if I didn't have 8 years of prior experience working in a similar industry I know for a fact that I would not have gotten hired.
@@spideyfan300 bruh thats just such a weird take unemployment among trans people is crazy high my mom recently hired someone who broke out in tears cus he kept getting job interviews that went well and when he was offered positions came out and they would straight up say 'we do not hire people like this here'. he was more than qualified but turned down from like 50 positions. (im so tired of people blaming a shitty system on the minorities that get fxcked the most by it)
@@LeviL-qo6pr sounds like you live in a southern/republican state. I live in a northern/democratic city where it's much more accepted.
I'm one of these men. I'm completely self-employed though. I'll never work a "real" job again because of the way I've been treated.
You can't expect men to not retreat from a society that demonizes them and treats them like absolute dog shit.
Self-employment and small business is the way forward for men.
The federal minimum wage is 7.25 an hour. Assuming there are 40 consistent hours (rare in minimum wage work), that is less than $300 a week. This comes to $1,218 a month, gross. About $1000 net. The average rent in Arkansas, one of the cheapest states to live in, is $1055.
Also, side note, anyone who thinks it's "easy" to get on American disability, has never tried to do it.
Or got lucky when they did try
@@Haystacks imagine paying over 1k per month to live in Arkansas
Strawman. Virtually no one works for Fed. min. wage. Statistically almost no one.
And then mostly in their youth before age 24.
Min. wage is $18 where I live and it's still tough.
So govt. mandated min. wages don't work period.
Politicians only green light hyper expensive condos for construction here then pat themselves on the back that 10% are set aside for affordable housing. Flip that script 180 degrees and we'd stand a chance. Bring back S.R.O.s for low skilled workers so they can actually save and those who are barely above homelessness can have somewhere to go other than the street.
Higher wages just mean higher rent.
You need the right disability. Broken body from working to hard for too long? Denied. Too fat to get out of your house? 3 month wait. Multiple Sclerosis? Good luck. Hooked on drugs/booze? 6 month wait. This is the reality of my parents and their fight against the system.
Don't forget, even if you make more than minimum wage you're still screwed. The median usual weekly real earnings for full time workers is $368. So the majority of people are earning at most $1472 a month, gross.
It was time to break out the pitchforks decades ago.
The bigger question, what has the employer done to motivate men to stay in the work force? I worked from 15 to 47 (now 51) and I never saw anything get better. The employer wants more skills & certifications, more time, and there's no promise of a pension for 30X years of dedication.
No health care, no promise of future employment, no 30 days paid annual leave, and in the US we work more days than any other nation. The only guarantee we get is that our job will eventually be moved overseas when we start to cut into their profit margins.
You forgot the most important thing: No wife and kids at the end of the tunnel.
“Wife and kids” are highly likely to end up with divorce and child support.
Men are dropping out of the labour market and the dating market because it is just not worth it anymore.
I don't know who fucks you around more a girlfriend/wife or an employer
Because they are being pragmatic. Having a wife and children = having a lot of headache, that you were dumb enough to sign up for. Working means sacrificing your own health, time, sleep, etc. for company, that can't care less about you and for money, that is unlikely to compensate for it.
@@ceu160193 You got to get a decent job that allows you to work whenever you want 90% of the time, as long as you finish your work. Then you might be covered time, money, sleep and overall health wise.
Then when the population rapidly declines and there aren't enough men to resolve issues only men can solve, we will probably be blamed even ahead of the toxic narratives that politics, feminism, and prospective employers that have caused this issue to begin with.
I'm a chad and I've checked out a long time ago. I'm sick of women and woke people 😊😂🎉🎉f u all
32 year old here; There's essentially no incentive to work any more unless you can secure a job making 80k+ a year, which for a lot of guys, is simply out of reach. You can't afford a new car, can't afford a house, and can barely afford rent even working full-time. Why waste 40 hours of your life a week just to be stuck in the same boat as if you weren't working. For most 25 year old men who aren't 6'5 chads with a Bugatti, dating someone you actually would want to marry is virtually a thing of the past; it's shocking how little you can live off of when your just providing for yourself and you've given up (which ALOT ALOT ALOT of men 25+ have). If I'm gonna be broke anyways, might as well enjoy my time while I can.
There seems to be a trend of talking about lazy men lately. If I may put my 2 cents in…
It sounds like a crisis of purpose.
You’re supposed to not think of your purpose when you slog through these soulless jobs, feeling disconnected from the community even though you’re getting paid. You just do what you’re told and pretend like what you’re doing is a good thing because having a job is “good.” It leaves you empty for a long time. If you’re forced to be empty for long enough, it sprouts into nihilism . Why do anything? Why not do nothing? Internalize disposability.
I’m not sure so much if it’s depression. It’s more of the natural effect of treating people like they’re not human beings with hopes and dreams.
Why are we surprised that these people are disconnected and unmotivated?
Yeah, of course people don't want to sit in a job putting numbers into spreadsheets with no idea what effect they really have on the world while their boss yells at them for not putting enough numbers into enough spreadsheets and that overtime is needed to put more numbers into spreadsheets. Just to get home too exhausted to be able to socialize or pursue hobbies and still struggle to pay bills to stay alive.
What's the point?
Great point.
This!!
@@NihongoWakannaiTbh putting numbers into spreadsheets was the good old days. Now that gets outsourced remotely to a 3rd world country with no minimum wage, or an expensive and inaccurate software does it for you. While the local workers that remain instead spend their time pushing services and billing plans on to clients that neither want nor need them, getting yelled at by bosses for not getting enough on board, and yelled at by clients for wasting their time and money with bs.
Men that don't have a family to bring the bacon home to don't have that purpose. As for nihilism, why do you think so many men support Trump/MAGA?
Having worked at McDonald's before and now in the admittedly tenuous position of Software engineer, I know for a fact I'd coast as long as possible on video games and social security if the other option was McDonald's. I'm not that strong a person, and I definitely see no value in its own right in hard work.
Mcdonalds has always seemed like a horrible place to work, the constant beeping would drive me crazy.
Being a pizza delivery driver was actually pretty fun ngl.
@@NihongoWakannai Its not the beeping that drives you crazy its the overbearing managers and hostile customers
@@NihongoWakannai I worked mcd's in high school and I had a great time. After college, I worked as a design lead in a high paying office environment and had the worst time.
The thing that matters is the people you work with. And the best place to find cultures with supportive management, enthusiastic coworkers, and good pay for good work is small business.
So the problem is YET AGAIN low wages… Pay the people at the bottom more or we all suffer.
doesn't matter, it's only we who suffer
You'll see that forced labor will be more and more common.
@@bobSeigar yeah wages were kept stagnant because of that philosophy yet things got more and more expensive anyway
sounds like it's YOUR head that's been stuck in your ass, not his
@@sigmamaleaffirmationhypnob7340 Okay Beta Knob.
You really don't understand the basics of economics and that's why you are poor.
I would get stable prices instead of playing the wage game. This would fix so many problems
Some men just can't be enslaved. We used to die on the battlefield but their aren't enough local wars anymore.
Remember, no matter how much you don’t contribute to society, you’ll never be a bigger leech than the rich already are and always will be
I'd rather be nothing than less than nothing 😂
And what’s worse is those rich clowns are the ones celebrated whilst producing so much anxiety (by cutting benefits, stagnating wages), etc.
Good point
Jealousy is ugly.
@@theoneafterthelast im not talking like upper middle class here im talking about the billionaires and companies that actively write our laws
No mention of ghost job listings or how hiring in many places is done by an AI program and how that has caused people to give up looking for work
Also no mention of people who are doing Uber, DoorDash and Instacart as a full time job are they counted as unemployed?
@@elizabethdavis1696if it's Britain any job over I think 4 hours a week is counted as employed
@@elizabethdavis1696 we are counted as undead
@@elizabethdavis1696Those usually need to register and pay taxes, so they do count as working. The ones who don't are those working in the underground economy
I can tell you why I've given up. Because I've been applying for jobs non-stop since I graduated college in 2021 and haven't been able to get ANYTHING. I have work experience in comp sci (also got my bachelors degree in 3 years, not 4), fast food and retail but wasn't able to land a job in any of those fields over the past 3 years. After wasting my time on nearly 2,500 job applications that didn't result in employment, clearly the job market is broken and I'm not participating in it until it's fixed.
It's people lying on their resumes that is also a problem. You should also embelish your resume but make sure you can back up what you claim. Also make a LLC and try a business related to your field of study ,showing you are 'employed' there and put your experience there.Job market is messed up and employers usually lie about the role and want to screw you over pay.
Sorry to hear that. Hope you see a way through.
You have not been able to get a job in fast food (or retail)? That seems hard to believe. 😮
it's extremely hard to get even those jobs if you live in the middle of or the outskirts of a major city. Job hunting is hell@@dvdv8197
Perhaps look lower in the OSI Model. Writing and debugging code is a nice skill to have, but the ability to troubleshoot through all eight layers from human user to power socket is invaluable and chronically understaffed. Yeah that Help Desk job is a suckfest but that experience quickly opens up inroads to the back-end like cybersecurity, network engineering, upgrade projects, and actual management.
That's how I made my way into IT, and my degree was in Sociology. Turns out there's a pretty big need bridging and steering human desires with best practices on the information systems.
Boy, I didn't know we had reached 10 million.
This is what happens when the only winning move is, quite literally, not to play.
That’s not a winning move lol
@@Lightningkuriboh When every other move is almost guaranteed to result you losing far more than you gain, it is.
@@yautl1how sad is it that our bar for a winning move in this economy is that the person making the move doesn’t lose anything?
In an economy of thieves, this is literally the optimal strategy. Protect yourself.@@lyokianhitchhiker
@@lyokianhitchhikerhe’s not asking to not lose anything. he’s asking for it to not be pretty much decided that he will lose something.
If I save every penny I make...
I could afford to buy a house in 12 years.
If I save up for a down payment... which will take 5 years, I will have paid that off the loan in 30 years and have paid 2x the cost of the home.
both cases, are saving every penny I make - pan handling for food, getting rides from friends and living on the street.
don't forget about taxes and inflation. In 12 years, the goal posts will have moved so much
@@spoonikle pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and hover in place while getting a haircut young man
More than twice , I bet .
more like 3x the cost of the home.
I’m one of the rare men that is a stay at home spouse. We are about to have our second kid so the amount we save from childcare is more than what I would make. Crazy times
Same here. We chose to not have kids but we got ourselves an old house I'm fixing up.
@@zachweyrauch2988 We got lucky and I had my grandma leave me her home but she took out some medical debt against it so it wasn’t completely free but cheaper then most homes
Where does one find such a wife? Asking for a friend.
You god damn unicorn, live the life for us bro 🫡
You do realise that you are the one responsible for what you make? So it’s crazy how low your potential is! But at least someone takes care of the children so I give you that