It's not just Gen Z, I'm a young Gen Xer and I have been working almost 30 years and never seen anything like this. It takes ages to get interviews and then finally I get told I'm hired and then nothing happens, the jobs are fake.
I went monk in 2017 and homeless to escape a use hideous abuse as I did this the abuser also defrauded my account man best thing inever did I also down skilled from engineering to night shift security guard and removed my self from society yes most jobs are fake and repeated ads c.v hunting application hunting 90% of the time there is no job or a high turn over of staff so they stick u on there next to use list.. I try to find long lasting easy contracts and stay away from society
One time, when applying for McDonald's the hiring manager asked my what my size was (referring to clothing size so she could order a uniform). She also handed me a sheet of paper with instructions for new hire orientation and links to two websites to complete training modules (one for food safety practices and the other for Title IX policy). But get this, I still didn't get the job. There was no job, but for some reason they went all the way up to those steps. During that period in my life, I had multiple interviews that went nowhere, but that one really hurt because I figured if I made it that far, it must mean I got the job. I never felt so played in my life.
I'm older Gen X & I don't blame younger generations for being angry & feeling cheated because you have been cheated. Unless you're born wealthy, you'll never have a chance at upward mobility. The system is DEFINITELY rigged. It's been rigged for a long time.
It's not that the young kids are lazy. It's just that the game has been sabotaged and rigged. It's been made so hard for them that they know it's virtually unwinnable so why even bother playing?
One thing I hate is the people who say "you are lazy" and completely disregard the fact that nowadays you need to do a lot more to gain what people gained years ago for a lot less.
@@RHill40 What's the pay? Are they settled? do you own a home? The problem is that entry level living has been priced out of the market. You are stable so you actually have less expenses per month than a young person. You have tools, understanding, and skills. They dont and they need time and money to learn them. If they are paid like shit they work like shit. I know cause that is me. My previous job paid me half as much as my current job, so I do twice as much skilled labor.
@@alexzanderroberts995 Then expect to be treated like shit, This generation has no emotional resilience and as a result they are more willing to throw in the towel. I started working for a living in a factory at age 6 for my Dad, Yes I was lucky to get that opportunity young and even working so young I too was lazy as I got into my teens. But I am glad that did not last as the 'entitlement' I felt never earnt me anything, so I just got stuck into working and being good at what I did for work, as that is what earnt me money and more money over time. Through working hard and focusing on that work I learnt life skills and resilience regarding my place in this world. But working so young taught me to appreciate my time, my money and to work hard. I am now 40, work as a project manager in a Managed service provider in IT, I have other living luxuries that I am not going to brag about as I recognize that I have been lucky. If you want something, you work for it and earn it, The more you look at those that are spoon fed and handed their 'entitlement' the more you just piss away your time and your only ability in which to be able to earn the tough life skills required to survive. 7 Billion people on the planet and not everyone is a winner, You have to try to earn the ability to either succeed or fail The alternative is to give up now. But if you give up, the only person to blame is you. Life is hard and only gets harder, you have to make do with what you have been given to start this life. Complaints about how hard it is rarely yield any results. Find fun and enjoyment in what you do and what you have. Yes I was handed certain opportunities and have capitalized on them. I then used those opportunities to better myself and my wife to be, I recognize everyone that has taught me, that has helped me and shaped me into who I am now. The only thing I am entitled to on this earth is the right to exist, the rest had to be done by me. It would be dishonorable to those whom have helped me in any way to complain about my life and how hard it has been. I honor myself and those people by working hard and in turn help all those around me. Born 1983 and I am a grateful millennial to have been able to live my life and learn what I have and to have come this far. Complaining and worrying about how hard it is, how unfair it is and what you don't have is wasting your time. Use your time wisely and help your fellow man when and where you can.
@@kathleenking47Yeah but we bounced back from that in the context of a wholesome society that didn’t reward the degeneracy like the guy in the video talks about. To put it simply, the 1920s wasn’t a world that allowed for millionaire OnlyFans porn stars to exist. It wasn’t a world in which Bhad Bhabie or Jack Doherty could be famous and rich. People like that would rightfully be laughed at and thrown into an insane asylum at that time.
High cost of living, no real engagement or pathway into society, stunted growth in formative years, stunted social skills, rise of the always online lifestyle. It's all a mix of these factors. As well as the fact that most of us who grew up being alone for almost every day got used to it and prefer that over the company of strangers.
It's a chain reaction,starting from the poor wages. No money to go to the bar,a dance school,gym or to travel,forces u to stay in. If u can barely sustain yourself,u'll avoid relationships like the plague and,let's be honest,w0men will be avoiding u as well. U are too tired to go out because they got u working twelve hours and double shifts,thus u stay in. You are eating garbage food because it's cheap,lowering your energy levels so... u know where this is going. It all goes back to wages and working conditions.
I'm Gen X and father of two Gen Z men, and their lack of desire to be wage slaves makes absolute sense to me (I have felt the same sense of disillusionment with society that you describe here among Gen Z for decades). They are smart not to want to reduce themselves to cogs to make some douchebag richer while we barely get by.
How do you guide them or support them emotionally through this. I'm a new father of two bright little kids and I am constantly panicking for their future, there is no way around it for me to not be a cog, as you've put it, as I am providing for them by my time put into my 9-5 (good thing I managed to be present because I am working from home). My incredibly cute and curious kids are about to be crushed by the system in the upcoming years and life is getting shittier by the minute every single day. I don't want to subject them to life of suffering and total disassociation with the environment that we are in to preserve their sanity.
Should move with your kids to some remote area and just live off the land. I know people who moved to Costa Rica, and just survive by just spearfishing.
Honestly Gen Z is not lazy. It’s very hard to get a job that will cover the bills. I don’t even blame women for going the easier way of doing OF. They should be mad at the government.
It's not only the government, if you search it ( I would have shared links but UA-cam doesn't like that) boomers and Gen X from the older side of the spectrum (those close to boomer age) fked the world to get certain postions and privileges from the politicians. They took loans they didn't need to and they took again when things were close to hit the fan so they could have easier life at the expense of the next 3 generations, they can retire but they don't and they still occupy positions that have control or they throw all the work to younger people and blame shift when they refuse to to THEIR job for them and the list goes on. Hell they even try to steal the achievement of the silent generation and the Gen X and millennial achievements. So no, the fault doesn't lie on Gen Z, nor millennials nor the younger Gen X (hell Gen X made some dope shit), the fault lies on the boomers who sold OUR rights and freedom (the next 3 generations) to the government and i speak from experience. Nowadays you have to work 120+ a week with no benefits, no days off, no vacations and to do the job of the boomers if they are in your workplace cause THEY are too lazy to do it themselves and they project on the younger people. And even then it's not 100% that you'll pass by.
Zoomer here. Every day that I wake up, I am motivated to struggle and to wrangle the world. Not because I have any hope for the future or faith in humanity, but because I have this indescribable drive within me to stay afloat, to keep going, to try my best and carve something for myself from this mad, mad world. It's a fire inside me that refuses to go out, even when I know rationally that the world will keep getting worse for the foreseeable future.
OK but what he's saying is, the younger generation believes they don't have to work hard to stay afloat and they're not plugged into the real world so they don't give back to society
@@verzeda There is no reason. At least not a reason that can be reasoned about and put into words. Like I said, it's a fire that I can't (and won't) put out.
I'm an elder Millennial, and I don’t blame Gen Z for wanting to check out. Maybe the older generations should have left them a world worth living in, instead of whatever this is supposed to be.
It’s bigger than older generations. This is from the top down, irrespective of political party. When elites like Bill Gates in his 2014 TedxTalks discusses solving overpopulation it’s very eye opening. Many elites think the world is overpopulated and doesn’t have enough resources. Broke young people in modern societies tend not to procreate, unless they’re just irresponsible deadbeats and DGAF. This is also why the media promotes messaging that causes dissension and gender imbalances btwn males and females. This has led to many males checking out of society. I think I heard on a podcast 40% of US males 18-25 haven’t had sex in the last 2 years and many are virgins. Many of the females are struggling and looking for a super Chad to help save them. So a dude with money has more women than he knows what to do with. He’s seen as a lottery ticket. I also read by 2040, over 40% of American woman under 35 will be single and childless. I don’t think what’s a happening is some unfortunate coincidence. Probably why Zuckerberg built a $240M underground bucker in Hawaii. He probably knows really dark times are coming.
This. Shit roll’s downhill.. they have us all fighting each other and hating everyone who thinks, looks, or acts differently to yourself. The real problem is the 1% of the 1% at the top literally controlling the whole economy and society. We can do nothing.. I gave up after the pandemic (that was used to forcibly accelerate the issues by at least 20 years) .. it’s obvious if you deep dive into why we are all fked.
@@ninocrown3247they should start their "depopulation plans" in Africa, latin america and middle east. Population in cointries like USA and Germany increases since 70s only because of migration. they're instead doing the opposite thing
the world is better now than it has ever been. try living 100 years ago. Hell try living 300 years ago. This is the easiest and safest time to be alive
The “carrot” 🥕 to put up with the bullshit of working a 9-5 job was going home at the end of the day to your detached home. That’s been taken away from younger millennials / Gen Z. There’s no incentive anymore!
I'd take it a step further and say the main incentive for men to go to work and make something of themselves was the reward of coming come to a loving wife and a couple kids. Men will move mountains to be able to come home to that. Take the wife and kids out of the equation and what incentive is there for young men to work hard?
I completely agree. Their is no reward to bust your behind working a full time job now. I’m a millennial myself and I’m glad that people are starting to notice in the vicious cycle we’re all in.
My issue is that it's always been this way. There's one example, that maybe Boomers had it slightly better, but throughout world history people have worked for basically nothing. Who do you think had it better?
Parents of the boomers. Could all have families and buy houses. Boomers got the best of both worlds with cool technology, epic money and epic buying power but they also go the divorcing crazy women and the end of society as we know it. It went downhill from around 2015 or so. Now it is only going to get progressively worse.@@rathelmmc3194
As a Gen x you are absolutely correct dude. I am 50 now, ex-Military good work ethic and always grafted hard. It doesn't even get you close to middle class anymore. The game is rigged.
A great example of when my mom questioned why I live with my dad still, just get an apartment she said and she didn't believe me when I told her that just a one room apartment is 1,200 a month... and that's an hour from the states capital, not even an expensive place.
I live in SoCal, the average house is above 800k and rent is about 1600 for studio, 3000 for a 1bd1ba. It's just insane. I remember when I was a child and seeing signs for "Rent Starting at $700" and thinking oh my god $700 is a lot of money! Now that'd be like hitting the lottery here. I feel like it was a detriment to be even born here and not in the middle of the desert or country. As a 25 year old, I do feel like i'm missing out on the young experience of living alone in the world
It’s so damn hard to get a job nowadays. I just got a Master’s degree in IT/software with several internship experiences+ projects and Tried to apply all kinds of entry level jobs. yet I haven’t found any for two months.
yup there's f all jobs and you're competing with literally everyone your age group plus everyone who moves there for the same job from overseas. currently econmists say job hunters have a 3 percent chance.
U know what's messed up?I know people with IT degrees who have paid for those microsoft/google courses.They applied to work there,guess what,no answer at all. They have paid for a bunch of coursera lessons with certificates,sent their resumes to companies,guess what,no answer!They have the degree,they have the experience so,what gives?It's hilarious that those courses are marketed as a ''pathway to a great career''.
When I was 18, $15 an hour was good enough pay to get a decent apartment. It still is, but you need at least one reliable roommate and a damn good landlord, because you aren't getting anything decent for a living space at that pay without working 50-70 hours a week
There may be a few people who are lazy, yes. But most of us have just lost respect for the system, seen what it's done to people older than us and we don't want that.
Bang on in every way Adam. I'm a 72 year old man, born and raised in Canada. I lived the dream growing up and working through the 70's to the 10's .... Easy living, easy money, easy jobs. bought my first home at age 24. Now I look around at the dystopian society that the west and Canada have become and its George Orwell's 1984 being played out before our eyes. But the people of the west are awakening to the mess ... the woke, left gov's are on their way out. People are finally fed up. Just look around. It took a long time to create this mess, it'll take time to fix it.
Boomers had a demographic dividend. You guys didn't have enough kids. If Gen Z wants to get out of this economic malaise they need to start pumping out children (think 3 to 5 per women). The demand that would create would then create a prosperity cycle.
@@exriodonorte67 No. Jobs are not harder. More Millennials/Gen Z get degrees now than Boomers did in their youth, so jobs requiring degrees are saturated while trades are under-employed.
I'm Gen X and I can tell you that you aren't alone, my man, ok? I quit working 10 years ago because I worked for almost 15 years for this company that gave me a very handsome wage of $9.35 per hour and blessed me so much by giving me $10.50 per hour for my last two years. They also were so kind to me that they spared me from any type of health insurance or retirement. Now I never went to college or anything, but I don't feel that you SHOULD have to go to college to be able to make a good salary. That's ridiculous in my opinion. These days I have a small online sales business and I make enough to get by. I'm happy that way. My time is mine, and that means more to me than anything. I guess what I'm trying to say is: You're generation is definitely not wrong. There's no reason to spend your life working for the man just to be miserable and broke. It just doesn't make any sense. Instead, work for yourself and do things that you want to do.
I had finally got a great paying job in September of 2021. I was like wow, my bank account is looking great and then boom fired because of the v*x mandates. It took everything from me. Even though I went on the convoy and felt like I wasn't alone and we were the majority... I just feel hopeless. What's the point in pushing myself to have a great career when it can be taken away because of a government mandate at anytime? I'm jobless. I'm almost homeless. And I'm hopeless.
Wait... you chose not to get vaccinated and a private company fired you, but it was the government who took everything from you? How does this make any sense? Is there any possibility you were wrong?
Yeah they want us jobless and hopeless and almost homeless because they were desperate and then we're more likely to be willing to go fight the Russians which they're gearing up for so when men have nothing else to lose they do desperate things
I’m 62 years old. I’ve worked since I was 12 years old. I was lucky to have a few years to not work and raise my three children for a few years because of my strong working husband. I’ve worked since my youngest child at 3 years old I went back to work. When I look back, I should have just giving my time to my children and NEVER gone back to work!
The biggest motivation destroyer for me is that the kim k's and dr phil girl, the Only Fans girls, and all these grifters and hustlers are the ones that are prospering, and the ones that are actually productive members in society are the ones that have to suffer and struggle.
Yes, the Scam Economy is a huge problem. It’s because asset bubbles crowd out real profits/capex. Ever since the 2008 GFC the economy has been stagnant, like the Brezhnev Stagnation in 1970s Soviet Union.
i agree, i realized that over a decade ago when i got my regular paycheck which was around 1,500 for two week, that day i got a bonus from my boss because we completed a big job. The bonus was for 5k, i thought i would have 6,500 in my pocket, what ended up happening was i got 3,500, i saw my pay check vanish to pay for the bonus tax. At the point i knew money is not worth it.
Gen Z is not lazy. They're smarter than the previous generation as they know that a life full of working full time daily won't pay off in the end. You miss time with fam, friends, and really just the important things that actually matter. The world is slowly changing and I'm here for it.
Here’s an example of demotivation for my generation (it rhymes get over it 😂) I had a gf for 4 years, when I was 19-23. I worked hard, made a decent living, rented out a decent apartment, 3 bedroom, planned on taking out a mortgage. Things were perfect, we hardly ever fought about anything, and she and I really felt like we were in love. Was planning on marrying her and having children. Sounds like an ideal situation right? Nah, she said that I wanted a different lifestyle than her. She was in her 20s and felt like she’d never been independent. Fair enough, I wanted to make it work. So helped get her an apartment in my area, moved her in and everything. Helped with little things around to make sure she was living comfortably. Few months after this, she broke up with me, still the excuse being that “we’re too different” and “I want independence”. Cool, kept in contact with her anyways, because she was my best friend and she knew me and I knew her better than anyone. After a 4 year long relationship, it took her 2 months to start dating some dude overseas. So much for “being too different” lol. And I’ll tell u, I really did find myself a unicorn with her, and even she didn’t work. After all this, I got laid off a decently paid job and had to take a way worse one. Couldn’t afford rent by myself anymore so had to get a roommate. So now instead of having an ideal normal life with kids and a wife, I get a depressed roommate who shuts himself in his room, plays video games all night and stinks up my apartment smoking weed. While I struggle and can barely afford groceries. Dude, no one better ask why gen z doesn’t give two shits about working. Wtf is there to even work for? So I make an okay amount of money, and spend it on what? More liquor? I don’t care about material bullshit it makes me feel nothing. So yeah, fuck the world let it burn. I’m glad no one wants to work. And good luck finding a girl in her mid 20s who wants anything serious, they’ll either be looking to hook up real quick or use you as a piggy bank and then leave you or cheat on you. And even if you’re about that hook up life (and I’m not) good luck with that too because naturally they’ll just try to fuck the best of the best, and they have the internet at their fingertips so that’s not hard to find for them. And chances are, the best of the best is not you, you’re just not good enough. Actually, I think gen z should change their name. Make it kind of like “the silent generation” or the “greatest generation”. We should be named the “not good enough” generation 😂.
Oh yeah, the breakdown in societal norms on dating and marriage due to the sexual revolution has been terrible for men. Hopefully someone can reinstate some norms.
i feel very bad for you im nowhere near there but you're correct, people hate me being depressed and saying negative things but our world is dark and brutal, older generations act like it isnt and were not ever good enough, I think THEY are ignorant, weak, and blind, THEY cannot see the truth
Whenever I go to a poor so called “3rd world country” I notice that families are living together. I mean parents and children under one roof. Children sometimes with their families. Always are visiting each other. All living close by. Helping each other. That is how they survive. Multiple incomes are coming under one roof. Some are taking advantage of it. Some family members are not. This is life. However they also tend to be less atheist and more religious people too. Religion also helps them to overcome hardships.
For most of human history extended families lived together. The expectation of moving out of mom and dad's house as soon as possible to get one's own is a very recent, uniquely Western, phenomenon. My sense is that as life gets increasingly expensive we'll see the return of multiple generations living in the same house simply because there may be no other choice. And we'll probably see a lot less social isolation, which is a good thing.
@@latinsho11 It's literally motivated and driven mankind during our most formative years and fastest advances in technology ever VS the humanist secular religion of "Lol just do what feels good while corporations and brands are your new gods"
I love how the old generation fails to realize that why their kids have issues . The fact that they pretend they don’t understand highlights their failures
Oh, we realize our kids are running into issues. Problem is we snowplowed instead of teaching them how to overcome. We didn't allow them to build grit and resilience. Now they think life before them was easy street (but they don't know, because they weren't there, and won't listen to anyone who's older).
@@davagevorriose8046 💯spot on! We didn't have safe spaces. Thats lame. There is no question it is harder today but i'm 54 and it was always hard. I never lived alone - always had roommates until i got married. I never spent money i didnt have - i went without. Young people today are taught to be weak and whine and protest and then they have outlandish expectations and entitlements. Then they think "I'm just gonna do it all on my own"...delusional. No you're not. The victimhood is strong...its the "blame everyone else" mentality of excuse making.
5 years experience, a masters degree, 7 interviews, 2 month background check, substance testing every month to ensure soberiety and maximum misery without a mental escape... ..to work at retail or a call center for minimum wage? Thats what we need degrees and 5 yrs experience and putt8ng out an averagecof 1200 applications for? Yea....we're done. Learn how to survive off 300 bucks a month. Tent living, van living, homesteading is the way to live now. Forget the system, they expect us to spend years unpaid to fight for a minimum wage job that wont give you enough money to live anyway....work is pointless now..
My observation tells me that a lot of gen z millennials, have been poorly raised by their parents, who abandoned their duty of properly raising them. Social media became the obsession, and we all see the results of it now. Great work as always! Always looking forward to your videos 💯
Hahaha I am hard worker with 20k living with parents, its more of investment for doing more than the crappy wage but being in USA now, I don't feel like working. Just wanna live my best unemployed and death because the future for north America is bleak Looking forward to see mentally asylum
As a Gen Zer that was fired from his job because of customer complaints over order mislocation (They literally gave me a completely seperate building in their neighborhood, did not answer my calls for confirmation, and then filed a report against me for it) it's not that we don't want to work. I'd rather work than be in class. It's just that some of us don't wanna be screwed over so someone else can get ahead.
I will never EVER be able to retire. One of my coligues emigrated to Canada in 70th, his wife never worked and he was able to buy a huge house working a dental tech. job. I'm a dental. tech in 2024 I will never be able to buy a house or retair. I need to work 200 years as a dental tech. to have what he have.
Only one person in the entire world can say "there's no one out there with more." Retirement is a new concept, it's only been around for the last 80-ish years of 200k-300k years that modern humans (or 3.1-3.4 million years of other humans) have walked the Earth. None of them retired either. You have YOUR life, not theirs, and it's an imperfect life (so's theirs). Find joy where you can, and measure yourself only by where you were before, and where you can be in the future, not by comparison to other people.
Playing dumb? People used to died around 40 years of age 200 or 300 hundreds years ago. There was no pension because there were no pensioners. @@davagevorriose8046
@@davagevorriose8046That is not true at all sir. Retirement has been attempted since arround the roman empire atleast. Most commondly during the imperial phase of rome, people would serve in the roman army or work for the state as soldiers or staff and would be guaranteed a multi year payout/ bonus as well as non fiat rewards like plots of land/real estate/citizenship by the time they would reach retirement age. You could still end up broke if you constantly spent your monthly wages, but plenty of people understood the concepts of saving/compound interes/investment/cussion fund for their retirement and so citizens would give their labour to the state. There might not have been pension funds. But the state did establish multiple ways of building retirement. The oh state organized retirement is such a revolutionary modern world of phenomenon is complete bs imo.
@@niku4259 Looked up Roman Empire retirement; thank you for the correction! 13BC! Still, I imagine the number (percentage) of people who got anything like it was relatively small until the modern age, and even now I'd be surprised if on a world-wide scale the percentage of people who get a retirement is very high. Word of caution on your evidence, compound interest / investment IS relatively new with the advent of capitalism; see Royal Dutch Shell. Point remains, the vast majority of humans throughout history and prehistory never had a retirement. It's a great goal to have if you think you can achieve it, but it's hardly a guarantee or "right."
The answer is in the video's title.They don't want to work because they've lost all hope.Regular jobs can barely pay for housing and food. I even know people with good paying jobs having trouble with housing,because the area they have to live at is expensive. Meaning that,u can't afford leisure activities like hobbies(dance lessons,music,painting etc),trips,cinemas,bars etc,which help u decompress the everyday stress. A person like this is forced,in a way,to stay holed in his house and rot in front of his pc screen,further damaging his social skills.
Instead of waving around the flags of other countries maybe they should worry about this country first. I feel no sympathy for some soy genzer waiving a bee el m flag, Ukrainian flag, Palestinian, or Israeli flag. If they want things to change they need to start putting America First.
I am 57 years old and you my friend are absolutely right .I have been fighting for you guys for years by telling everybody i know about our predicament in the west that you have verbally stated . I get blank stares or laughter or people telling me that I am a pessimist . I have worked hard all my life and owned several small businesses and I do not have enough money for my retirement . For you young people that want a good adventure in life with fulfillment and meaning ,as well as some good money , leave the west .
There is no point of working anymore. Inflation is so freaking high it ain't worth it. I'm a millennial and I see nothing of value when it comes to work. I am just tired and stressed out.
The social contract is broken, can it be fixed, I doubt it. I'm a retired Boomer, I most certainly would not like too be back in my 20's again. No way.
I am 27 now, no friends, relationships, marriage, children, pets, plants, car, house, going to restaurants, going on holiday, etc. I did a vesectomy when I was 24, because I have no hope that my children will ever get a decent future.
yea, my kids are 7, and 5, and want to start a youtube. idk how i can look at these kids and say to do well in school when i already lived a life where i did well in school and it didn't matter and then tell them "nah son, focus on your studies". fuck it, try the youtube, maybe you can do it and not have to have some bullshit job. i haven't said this but it's kind of how i feel.
Yeah I think the key is to figure out as a Parent what your Child’s potential skills are and focus on nurturing the f out of em. Not generic useless school BS
@@ShutterSpeedGaming maybe so man, i just tell the the internet can be a mean place. but it could also be great, people could love them, they're funny to me maybe they'll be funny to other kids idk.
@@mrpablomx they'll play minecraft and stuff and talk like they're on camera playing the game, it's weird, i'm like what bro? and they say oh i wasn't really talking to you. they're just narrating their gameplay, maybe it's the right thing to do, they don't even know about money yet they just want to do it.
I live in Canada and things have gone out of hand. The only way Canadians can surive is to move to the US. I'm working hard to move to America. Canada is an absolute joke with sugarcoated people and the communist government. I have never been happy a single day here.
@@dalton6108It's not livable. In most parts of the country except for Vancouver, harsh winter lasts 6 months. Many people including myself get seasonal depression. I didn't know weather affects people's mood this much until I moved to Canada. My life in the US was far better with much friendlier people. It's just that the US is very difficult to immigrate to.
The new generations are not the issue and never were, its the unclear future expectations young ppl have nowadays, before, it was clear, work+stay loyal to the job+ receive ENOUGH salary to create a family+ get paid time off+retire, young ppl are finding it super hard to find this. The lazy comment is evil to hide the truth!
It doesn't have to be. You can go F off into the woods or a cave by yourself and never interact with another person ever again. Or maybe try to find a hippie commune. Be the change you want to see in the world.
It's that we got off the gold standard, so money is manipulated to be milked of it's real value faster than the goods are being produced to mirror the money supply.
@@Reathon Gold standard was terrible because population was growing faster than gold acquisition so it was far too deflationary. Minor inflation is a positive. The issue isn't the gold standard today. The issue is the government is way overspending crowding out the private sector.
I don't know if this is necessarily linked or related at all, but back when I was in college for IT and we were required to get internships, almost none of us could get one. Not because we didn't try, but because of what every company that we applied to told us. "We want someone with more experience", "There are better companies for you to apply for" among other types of utter horseshit they vomit at you. *_Yeah, that's right. Experience. For an internship._* For some, the school tried to help by talking with businesses to arrange an internship for them. Most of the time, the business then said they would setup an interview. But three days on average later? The students would receive a phone call from said business that said "We've decided we don't want an intern right now." So, what did the school do? Tell us to keep applying, because we're mandated by law to get one if we want to finish the course. Yeah at the end only like three remained and got an internship. The rest, including me, were dropped out because of this garbage. So the next time a boomer comes around and tells me I'm lazy and not trying hard enough, I just roll my eyes and sigh.
IT has had too many candidates since around the 1990s when computers really started taking off in homes. The golden years were like the 80s, but back then nobody even knew about the profession.
As a boomer with millennial and gen Z kids, I feel sad for them, and the way society is now. I say try to find something that inspires you, not just to make money, which everything seems to be about these days. Find your love and passion, and don't give a crap if others don't approve. Also, it helps to know that anything you love to do still needs time and effort, so don't allow social media to drain you.
"Get a college education!" *Gets education* "Apply to 1000 jobs & hopefully youll find an internship for 2 years so you wont be able to survive!" Merica
It has nothing to do about being lazy. We live in a day and age where people can’t even make ends meet because of the economy we are currently in. The older generation lacks empathy cause times were so different and now nothing is in our favour. And society tells us that we must finish our education to secure a well paying job but that’s just a damn lie cause we just end up with debt and there’s so many jobs that aren’t willing to hire because they have such ridiculous requirements "you have to be 21 and have 10 years of experience"
I'm from the tail end of what they call Gen X, but i relate so much to the new generations. I have had to restart in life a couple of times now and the current state of the world sucks. I've never struggled so much to try pay bills -- and have nothing left at the end of the day and still not have the bills paid
Same here in Europe, young people can’t buy or rent a affordable house. But they can pay high tax for people that don’t work and get a house for free 🤷 with all subsidy benefits. They should build free houses for the workforce 💪🏻 not for the lazy ones.
I really wish more Governments cared about their people enough to actually use the fricking taxes for them. Like I get such a big chunk taken out of my pay, and yet the Government here is sitting on their hands while rents are $1600-$3000. The smiling Mayor repeats they are doing their best to work on it! But just keep working! Kind of a side track, but I worked a Fine dining catering job when I was freshly 18. I was shocked when we did an event for this Symphony hall (why the hell do we even need this) and it was filled with incredibly old men in suits. I'm talking 80-90 year olds, accompanied by young women in luxury clothing. Middle of the night they announce a speech by none other than the City's mayor! What the hell? It shocked me that the rich literally live in their own world, where they chow down on unending lobsters and steak and appetizers, have the Mayor sing their praises. I think that job really changed how I viewed my city and the country
They truly have failed the youth of America. Instead of teaching us about finances and how to manage money during our formative (puberty) years, they’re teaching all kinds of useless garbage like algebra and pseudo science. Smh this world is doomed forever.
Well unfortunately I got a car note and insurance to pay so I must work to avoid pissing my parents off. Last year I quit my technology job because they wouldn't pay me enough to deal with all shit I had to go through and for 3 weeks(and it would've been longer if it werent for my parents) I didn't search for any job because I was giving up. They got mad at me and forced me to find a job. Fuck this shit bro this SUCKS! Then I get constantly pressured to get a good job which you need to have EXPERIENCE for! They tell me to go to school when I dont even know what to do then you have to check the tuition and grants some of them are unaffordable and then the trade that i want to do you already must be in the field in hs years which I wasn't I didn't have bills I wouldn't be working at all. I don't blame anyone from my generation who don't want to work for this evil system. It's rigged to make our lives miserable. Shut the fuck up with that "lazy" crap.
Im 44. I grew up with the Boomer work ethic imparted by my family but life experiences showed how horrible our economic system is early on in life ( buried my mother and spouse prematurely due to the stressors of life) so I have the exact realism of what Gen Z and tail end Millennials think. Ive worked in science, tech and IT over the past 20 years and have watched these industries become net negatives upon society, especially IT and the internet - Big Business and Big Tech destroying the working class with AI, outsourcing and automation with no regard for the technologically displaced wage slave class. I have my days of doom and gloom and know this general situation is untenable due to our failing economic system - but I realize that there is hope in a thing most people do not fully understand or are aware of - it is called decentralization. We are now at a point in technological capability that we really no longer need to rely on entrenched centralized institutions for our needs. With things like 3d printing, pro-sumer CNC machines, decentralized mesh networks, small scale vertical farming, etc we can start a decentralist movement that COULD start to bring back this fractured society into one that cooperates together and makes all the stuff we REALLY need (not stupid consumerist crap) at the local level, helping to reduce the need on environmentally damaging and wage enslaving global neoliberal economics. Decentralization keeps me hopeful - we need much more education and exposure to this. People should also learn about The Venus Project and Peter Joseph who have, for decades now, shown how humanity can escape into a post-capitalist, post-scarcity civilization. Sincerely, DisruptApps
As a gen zer myself, another part of it is, 1.) If you want to get a no college job, you have to meet that job's ridiculous requirements for a entry level job 2.) College is REALLY expensive rn. For the people who dream of becoming a nurse or doctor or lawyer even, they are going to go into HARD debt to "afford" their education. Yes there is scholarships, community first, etc, but those only take you so far. So now you have to work 1 job and a side hustle to pay for your expensive education. Or if you're poor, you just can't afford it. So people naturally aren't working those college level jobs
I worked in warehouses for 15 years. It’s taken its toll on me. Didn’t really get me anywhere either. I’m door dashing now and living off of and accommodating my cost of living on a delivery drivers salary. Much better, set my own schedule. Work when I want. Not have to deal with people. I work to support myself, not impress other people, especially overbearing relatives.
Im a millennial work as a software engineer, make 6 figures. I busted my ass to get where i am. I got laid off multiple times, multiple. But i never gave up. I dont care for society, i save most of my money to get the f out of this country, almost at an amount where i can do it. Thats what im doing with my life, get in, get money and get out. Do the same.
If you don’t work you will never produce value, you will have nothing. If you have nothing there is nothing for the government to take from you. When I graduated college spring of 2007 and got no career I defaulted on student loans. I have never paid a cent on those loans. My logic is simple; if my choice is work hard and have nothing versed bai lan and have nothing I choose bai lan.
If you don’t produce value you will be homeless and starve to death. Scarcity is real. Food and rent are resources, and you have to generate resources to exchange them for food and rent.
I’m 72 and totally agree with this young man. Years ago I wondered how young people could ever make it. Much less afford kids. And govt does work against them. 5 pensions roll into my home every month. A Roth, 2 SS checks, and 2 defined pensions. They will never see that.
The “regular” jobs everyone had of the past that were low education but good paying manufacturing jobs of the past are all but gone is for one…. Now you have to accrue $50-$100k in college debt just to get into a decent job and to top it off housing and transportation are now outrageously expensive and this is coming from a Gen X - millennial……
A part of the problem is always labeling people in “Generational groups” why can’t we just be “Humans” and everyone take responsibility for the world and the way it is. ALL of us need to take a stand and move towards a truly better future for us all.
The Canadian government is trying to attract the largest number of immigrants and provide job opportunities for them while ignoring the owners of the country who are more deserving of this😥
Because Canada is running out of labour. Our population is aging and no one is having babies. This is simple economics. Our enemy is the rigged global financial system. Not immigrants.
You're time is not compensated properly to cost of bills and goods. Just like this singer says I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day Overtime hours for bullsh- pay So I can sit out here and waste my life away Drag back home and drown my troubles away It’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten to For people like me and people like you Wish I could just wake up and it not be true But it is, oh, it is Livin’ in the new world
I am 31 been working full time, most my life. Stuck with my parents and siblings who also cant afford to move out. I never experienced having my own room. Meanwhile I talk to boomers who talk about making 15 dollars per hour and they talk about being able to afford a car, buy a house that use to be 30k and raise a family. I make way more than them but cant afford to even buy groceries. Tell me is that even fair?
That’s how it should work. You describe inflation. If it didn’t work like that the economy would stagnate. (Which is what China and Russia wants with all the bots like yourself)
@@jakeroper1096 Thats gov propaganda. In real economic growth prices go down as supply goes up. And quality of life improves The only people that benefits from inflation are government and corporation who owe lots of debt.
@@friendlyfox2189 remember the gilded age when rich people only spent money on parties like great gatsby? Inflation forces the rich to invest in us. You are a tool for some rich man if you don’t seethis.
I went down the "trad path" and got a well paying job (which was a total pita since landing a job in a "good" field takes a hundred plus applications nowadays) and even then the earnings would only be enough to live close to paycheck to paycheck if I lived alone. I read it somewhere else in the commenrs here, but you can stack on top of that the whole earning more equals a higher tax bracket so you'd actually need to earn 20-30% more to actually break even with slightly more income. I know that most of the gen z that are 20-25ish yrs old in the field are sort of in the same spot where, even if you do pick the regular route, it's barely enough to afford living by yourself and top on that the whole no communities and ruined dating scene. The trad path is barely worth it nowadays and completely depends on where you live.
Yup, BARELY worth it and depends HEAVILY on where you live, or rather how you live. Still doable for the top % of us but it is such a big sacrifice for little to no reward. My plan is to move from Sweden to Switzerland to hopefully have a good career, however, there are so many factors to take into account, even if one place pays more than another. Someone can get a pretty nice place in Sweden for say $500k, but such a big part of your salary goes to taxes (income, taxes on buying things), but in Switzerland you make around 3 times the salary!!! However, in Switzerland, a house could be around 4 times as expensive, also even if the taxes are much lower you pay so much out of pocket that it might aswell be the most taxed place on earth, I mean $3k per kid per month for kindergarten???? You can't get by staying in Sweden to buy a house and you can't get by by moving to Switzerland to buy a house. The only viable solution for people with no prior wealth, or those of us who won't earn million-dollar salaries, is to move to one place, save up, and then move to somewhere cheaper. So many obstacles: financial, family, friends, career, quality of life, just to be able to get yourself a nice house and be able to have some extra money to enjoy your life. I'm still studying, got 3 years left, will have 3 degrees (civil engineering in applied physics, medical physics degree/license and industrial engineering bachelor) but I am deeply concerned for how the world will look in 3 years when it's my turn to go out in the workforce.
1:51 You say "right out of the clouds" but then you realize that it's probably a cloud computer database system managing our currency. Or worse, a 2003 excel sheet on a Windows XP desktop device. XD
I wasn’t going to work behind a desk forever so I got my IT certifications and I have worked from home problem solving since 2014. I can bounce from project to project and ask for raises, the older I get and more experience the more money I’ll get.
I had a second income and my work wanted to give me more hours and a big pay rise but to work the extra hours I would have to give up the additional income. I thought it'll be good so I went for it. After my first fortnight I realised because it put in in the next tax bracket and because I would loose my additional income I was now earning less when I was working more. I asked straight away to be put back on my lower rate and that way my tax would be less and I could earn back my additional income and still be ahead than when I had the pay rise. The loss calculated was 2.5k a year.
The worst one is having a decent paying job, (well over average salary) and it will still take forever to save for a big deposit for a mortgage or to pay rent on a 2 bedroom home
The people that went to college and owe $100,000 are hurting. I know a few of them and they feel they can't get out of the hole. I told my kids NOT to go to college. They didn't and are both doing very good financially. My son paid off his house when he was 23 years old. He then purchased Chevy trucks and lots of silver coins/bars etc and is net work is now about $400,000 at 27 yrs old, zero debt. The holders of physical silver will be wealthy after we see the bullion shortages within 4-5 years. Solar is going to consume nearly all the silver, so get some ASAP and hold it until the price goes into the hundreds per ounce.
The trades may not be glamorous but they are a great way to do, if one is willing to work. And they absolutely contribute tangible benefit to society (unlike Kim K and her ilk) and so will always be in demand, since it's the trades that keep civilized society running.
You hit the nail right on the fucking head. I’m an hvac tech in nyc making 75k a year. I pay 27 k a year in taxes. Almost half my fucking year. All I have for bills is rent, phone, gym, food, and Amazon and I still struggle. At 75K. It’s infuriating. It’s a scam. It’s a game and we have realized. No enjoyment money, no vacation money, no hangout with friends money, it’s insane. Dating for men is terrible now, the quality of women in the west is shot, people make the stupidest fucking people famous for doing the stupidest shit. It’s like our society is in such huge decline. I’m only working until I’m 30 and then I’m going out on my own or I’m figuring something out. This is all a bs game.
I’m 23, I am doing part time work to support family with a little bit of rent in a house they own. I’m working towards living with friends as part of a community shared living set up. I do encourage young people to consider alternative ways of living. This is in Europe though not the States. I’m sorry.
"Average working class person works half of the year to just pay the tax man." Hey I don't know Canada but that's not how it works in the United States at all.
I live in Belgium, right next door to France, and it's exactly the same here in Belgium as it is in France. I also have a lot of family in Italy, so it's the same there too.
I went to school in the 1960's and 1970's. We would get films on those old noisy reel to reel projectors. If you were in that time period the film had been played too many times and it would break. The bulb would burn the film where it stopped. Anyway they were selling us on a growing country while showing some different factory, construction or administration jobs and what it was like in the real world. They instilled hope for the future so we bought in. May have finished school or not but we wanted to bust out of school to get some of that dream. So we did. That is a boomer education. Now I doubt there is any hope or excitement sold in schools for adult futures as all the manufacturing has gone over sea's. So I would say the kids usually finish school, land in university to end up with a degree in nothing. Or the thought of investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in an education you know will be cut short with A.I. The invention of the computer is probably the cause and failure of society. Not boomers robbing the system. A.I. has not finished yet. Imagine in another 20 years humans will have no purpose and be deleted as required. The few 1% richest will simply push a button and what ever they want will be built, cooked, prepared then delivered to them by robots. We may be missing what caused the degradation of society that is in plain sight. So the kids of today know the gig is up. All they can do is toss a dart and hope for the best. Or they could physically talk to one another and re gain humanity in face to face conversation to build a future instead of waiting for the dart to land. No victimhood just humanity working and talking with each other as a team will get them out of this trap that has been set for them.
It wasn't the computer it was the western world not having enough children. We've been below replacement rate since the 1970s. Every year there's fewer and fewer people to sell to as a percentage of the population. So when Boomers started entering the workforce they all wanted to buy things creating a tremendous amount of growth. If you're a baby store and every year you see there's fewer babies being born you're not going to expand.
I agree with all your points . The people and entities that are supposed to be examples are putting greed before integrity and logic in decisions concerning the generation . Our only strength is unity in numbers to correct the demented pendulum . Great vid. Thanks Camcurse
Okay for one, I’m 25 years old AND I WORK MY FUCKIN ASS OFF AND STILL CANT AFFORD SHIT. Our parents at our age were more wealthy than we are in our current day. You can thank the United States government for that everyone. Don’t blame each other ( the populace) blame corporate price gouging. It’s so fucked and that’s why our generation is over it. WE ARE OVER UNCLE SAM TAKING HIS FUCKIN 10% LAST TIME I CHECKED I WORKED THOSE 40-60 hours. NOT THE GOV.
As much as I hate to say it internet degeneracy isn’t the primary cause of gen z not wanting to work anymore. Gen z grew up though 08, saw what their gen x parents hard work got them (very little) and watched their millennial relatives get sold the college as the way forward bit which worked FOR A TIME but job markets got over saturated and the jobs couldn’t cover the debt from college anymore if they could even get the job they studied for, gen z sees all of that and asks themselves what’s the point. Housing prices made home ownership out of reach for anyone born after 95 in most cases and by 08 the party was over.
I'm an older guy, I can only say i has nothing for most of life. I did my best and after 12 years at my job I finally got a major promotion. It's been life changing for myself. Even when I was dead broke for most of my life, I still felt pride working hard and having some purpose in life. My promotion wasn't all that long ago. I would say 5 years or so. I wish more of you had the opportunity that I had and continue to enjoy.
I’ve come to the realization that I’d rather be homeless than participate in this shitty failed system 🤷♂️ so now what , now tell me what I’m doing wrong , I’ve chosen the worst case scenario 😅
Just don't get addicted to drugs and don't be homeless in the city. Go to the woods. You are better off taking your chances with the animals and ghost.
New business cycle is starting/ending. The last one was absolute trash. Anyone poor, no matter what age, lost hope Its not going to be that way anymore
people are like "Why dont the kids wanna start a family?" most of us actually do, but how can we have kids when we can barely support ourselves?
The poor countries do not think this way. They make kids at any time.
@@antonboludo8886exactly. That's the poor countries mentality. And that's one of the reasons why these countries are still poor
Correct.
@@Klash1100
maybe stop playing video games all day
Plus if you live in America why would you want a family with a 304
It's not just Gen Z, I'm a young Gen Xer and I have been working almost 30 years and never seen anything like this. It takes ages to get interviews and then finally I get told I'm hired and then nothing happens, the jobs are fake.
I went monk in 2017 and homeless to escape a use hideous abuse as I did this the abuser also defrauded my account man best thing inever did I also down skilled from engineering to night shift security guard and removed my self from society yes most jobs are fake and repeated ads c.v hunting application hunting 90% of the time there is no job or a high turn over of staff so they stick u on there next to use list.. I try to find long lasting easy contracts and stay away from society
One time, when applying for McDonald's the hiring manager asked my what my size was (referring to clothing size so she could order a uniform). She also handed me a sheet of paper with instructions for new hire orientation and links to two websites to complete training modules (one for food safety practices and the other for Title IX policy). But get this, I still didn't get the job. There was no job, but for some reason they went all the way up to those steps.
During that period in my life, I had multiple interviews that went nowhere, but that one really hurt because I figured if I made it that far, it must mean I got the job. I never felt so played in my life.
evrything in this entire world is FAKE or a FACADE to appear to be something....
I'm older Gen X & I don't blame younger generations for being angry & feeling cheated because you have been cheated. Unless you're born wealthy, you'll never have a chance at upward mobility. The system is DEFINITELY rigged. It's been rigged for a long time.
I'm stuck jobless and alone because no one would hire a highschool grad. 3 years in still 0 opportunities.
It's not that the young kids are lazy. It's just that the game has been sabotaged and rigged. It's been made so hard for them that they know it's virtually unwinnable so why even bother playing?
100%
But as long as you are alive you are in it. You are playing. Because you gotta have food and shelter and clothes. So what's the plan?
Sell sell sell the internet business is booming
Sell sell sell the internet business is booming
because it's better than living under a bridge addicted to crack?
One thing I hate is the people who say "you are lazy" and completely disregard the fact that nowadays you need to do a lot more to gain what people gained years ago for a lot less.
They are lazy. I'm 40 with heart disease and can work circles around the young people in the factory I work at.
@@RHill40 What's the pay? Are they settled? do you own a home?
The problem is that entry level living has been priced out of the market. You are stable so you actually have less expenses per month than a young person. You have tools, understanding, and skills. They dont and they need time and money to learn them.
If they are paid like shit they work like shit. I know cause that is me. My previous job paid me half as much as my current job, so I do twice as much skilled labor.
@@alexzanderroberts995 Then expect to be treated like shit, This generation has no emotional resilience and as a result they are more willing to throw in the towel.
I started working for a living in a factory at age 6 for my Dad,
Yes I was lucky to get that opportunity young and even working so young I too was lazy as I got into my teens.
But I am glad that did not last as the 'entitlement' I felt never earnt me anything, so I just got stuck into working and being good at what I did for work, as that is what earnt me money and more money over time.
Through working hard and focusing on that work I learnt life skills and resilience regarding my place in this world.
But working so young taught me to appreciate my time, my money and to work hard.
I am now 40, work as a project manager in a Managed service provider in IT, I have other living luxuries that I am not going to brag about as I recognize that I have been lucky.
If you want something, you work for it and earn it,
The more you look at those that are spoon fed and handed their 'entitlement' the more you just piss away your time and your only ability in which to be able to earn the tough life skills required to survive.
7 Billion people on the planet and not everyone is a winner,
You have to try to earn the ability to either succeed or fail
The alternative is to give up now.
But if you give up, the only person to blame is you.
Life is hard and only gets harder, you have to make do with what you have been given to start this life.
Complaints about how hard it is rarely yield any results.
Find fun and enjoyment in what you do and what you have.
Yes I was handed certain opportunities and have capitalized on them.
I then used those opportunities to better myself and my wife to be,
I recognize everyone that has taught me, that has helped me and shaped me into who I am now.
The only thing I am entitled to on this earth is the right to exist, the rest had to be done by me.
It would be dishonorable to those whom have helped me in any way to complain about my life and
how hard it has been.
I honor myself and those people by working hard and in turn help all those around me.
Born 1983 and I am a grateful millennial to have been able to live my life and learn what I have and to have come this far.
Complaining and worrying about how hard it is, how unfair it is and what you don't have is wasting your time.
Use your time wisely and help your fellow man when and where you can.
@@RHill40good for you gonna retire soon?
@@Johndoe-sj8bp Nah, not until I am forced to do so.
The country is dead, no point participating in society. Look around. It's over.
I agree
It's over. Sorry. This country is dead.
It was bad, in the late 1920s...we got back
@@kathleenking47Yeah but we bounced back from that in the context of a wholesome society that didn’t reward the degeneracy like the guy in the video talks about. To put it simply, the 1920s wasn’t a world that allowed for millionaire OnlyFans porn stars to exist. It wasn’t a world in which Bhad Bhabie or Jack Doherty could be famous and rich. People like that would rightfully be laughed at and thrown into an insane asylum at that time.
@@BlueBones8😂
High cost of living, no real engagement or pathway into society, stunted growth in formative years, stunted social skills, rise of the always online lifestyle. It's all a mix of these factors. As well as the fact that most of us who grew up being alone for almost every day got used to it and prefer that over the company of strangers.
I can't imagine forming a single relationship until death, 29yo.
It's a chain reaction,starting from the poor wages. No money to go to the bar,a dance school,gym or to travel,forces u to stay in. If u can barely sustain yourself,u'll avoid relationships like the plague and,let's be honest,w0men will be avoiding u as well. U are too tired to go out because they got u working twelve hours and double shifts,thus u stay in. You are eating garbage food because it's cheap,lowering your energy levels so... u know where this is going. It all goes back to wages and working conditions.
My life has improved drastically since ive been in liqtherapy
Literally me.
Meh humans been through worse. Now iam broke with tv, phone, weed garden and good food no car Life's hard
I'm Gen X and father of two Gen Z men, and their lack of desire to be wage slaves makes absolute sense to me (I have felt the same sense of disillusionment with society that you describe here among Gen Z for decades). They are smart not to want to reduce themselves to cogs to make some douchebag richer while we barely get by.
How do you guide them or support them emotionally through this. I'm a new father of two bright little kids and I am constantly panicking for their future, there is no way around it for me to not be a cog, as you've put it, as I am providing for them by my time put into my 9-5 (good thing I managed to be present because I am working from home). My incredibly cute and curious kids are about to be crushed by the system in the upcoming years and life is getting shittier by the minute every single day. I don't want to subject them to life of suffering and total disassociation with the environment that we are in to preserve their sanity.
Should move with your kids to some remote area and just live off the land. I know people who moved to Costa Rica, and just survive by just spearfishing.
What do they do with their time? They could start a business or learn a trade.
@@mercurialmagictrees starting biz requires debt slavery. Trade too much competition driving down bids.
Start a business and get someone else to slave off for you. Rich dad poor dad 101
Honestly Gen Z is not lazy. It’s very hard to get a job that will cover the bills. I don’t even blame women for going the easier way of doing OF. They should be mad at the government.
It's not only the government, if you search it ( I would have shared links but UA-cam doesn't like that) boomers and Gen X from the older side of the spectrum (those close to boomer age) fked the world to get certain postions and privileges from the politicians.
They took loans they didn't need to and they took again when things were close to hit the fan so they could have easier life at the expense of the next 3 generations, they can retire but they don't and they still occupy positions that have control or they throw all the work to younger people and blame shift when they refuse to to THEIR job for them and the list goes on. Hell they even try to steal the achievement of the silent generation and the Gen X and millennial achievements.
So no, the fault doesn't lie on Gen Z, nor millennials nor the younger Gen X (hell Gen X made some dope shit), the fault lies on the boomers who sold OUR rights and freedom (the next 3 generations) to the government and i speak from experience.
Nowadays you have to work 120+ a week with no benefits, no days off, no vacations and to do the job of the boomers if they are in your workplace cause THEY are too lazy to do it themselves and they project on the younger people. And even then it's not 100% that you'll pass by.
Zoomer here. Every day that I wake up, I am motivated to struggle and to wrangle the world. Not because I have any hope for the future or faith in humanity, but because I have this indescribable drive within me to stay afloat, to keep going, to try my best and carve something for myself from this mad, mad world. It's a fire inside me that refuses to go out, even when I know rationally that the world will keep getting worse for the foreseeable future.
Thank you for the motivation ❤
OK but what he's saying is, the younger generation believes they don't have to work hard to stay afloat and they're not plugged into the real world so they don't give back to society
Yeah but WHY. Explain your reasons, dont just say DuH I wAnT dO tHiNg
@@verzeda There is no reason. At least not a reason that can be reasoned about and put into words. Like I said, it's a fire that I can't (and won't) put out.
whats a ZOOMER?
I'm an elder Millennial, and I don’t blame Gen Z for wanting to check out. Maybe the older generations should have left them a world worth living in, instead of whatever this is supposed to be.
It’s bigger than older generations. This is from the top down, irrespective of political party. When elites like Bill Gates in his 2014 TedxTalks discusses solving overpopulation it’s very eye opening.
Many elites think the world is overpopulated and doesn’t have enough resources. Broke young people in modern societies tend not to procreate, unless they’re just irresponsible deadbeats and DGAF. This is also why the media promotes messaging that causes dissension and gender imbalances btwn males and females.
This has led to many males checking out of society. I think I heard on a podcast 40% of US males 18-25 haven’t had sex in the last 2 years and many are virgins. Many of the females are struggling and looking for a super Chad to help save them. So a dude with money has more women than he knows what to do with. He’s seen as a lottery ticket. I also read by 2040, over 40% of American woman under 35 will be single and childless. I don’t think what’s a happening is some unfortunate coincidence. Probably why Zuckerberg built a $240M underground bucker in Hawaii. He probably knows really dark times are coming.
This. Shit roll’s downhill.. they have us all fighting each other and hating everyone who thinks, looks, or acts differently to yourself. The real problem is the 1% of the 1% at the top literally controlling the whole economy and society. We can do nothing.. I gave up after the pandemic (that was used to forcibly accelerate the issues by at least 20 years) .. it’s obvious if you deep dive into why we are all fked.
@@ninocrown3247they should start their "depopulation plans" in Africa, latin america and middle east. Population in cointries like USA and Germany increases since 70s only because of migration. they're instead doing the opposite thing
the world is better now than it has ever been. try living 100 years ago. Hell try living 300 years ago. This is the easiest and safest time to be alive
@@ninocrown3247Stop cursing its a sin!!!.!.!.!..!.!.!!
The “carrot” 🥕 to put up with the bullshit of working a 9-5 job was going home at the end of the day to your detached home. That’s been taken away from younger millennials / Gen Z.
There’s no incentive anymore!
That and not starving to death.
I'd take it a step further and say the main incentive for men to go to work and make something of themselves was the reward of coming come to a loving wife and a couple kids. Men will move mountains to be able to come home to that. Take the wife and kids out of the equation and what incentive is there for young men to work hard?
@@danielbezjak1479 not starving to death ☠️
that requires minimal effort.@@Love_Crafts_HP
@@Love_Crafts_HPIt's actually pretty hard to starve to death nowadays, and you don't need to work long hours to buy just enough to survive.
I completely agree. Their is no reward to bust your behind working a full time job now. I’m a millennial myself and I’m glad that people are starting to notice in the vicious cycle we’re all in.
My issue is that it's always been this way. There's one example, that maybe Boomers had it slightly better, but throughout world history people have worked for basically nothing. Who do you think had it better?
Parents of the boomers. Could all have families and buy houses. Boomers got the best of both worlds with cool technology, epic money and epic buying power but they also go the divorcing crazy women and the end of society as we know it. It went downhill from around 2015 or so. Now it is only going to get progressively worse.@@rathelmmc3194
You cannot seriously compare the time of the boomers to how things are now.@@rathelmmc3194
@@rathelmmc3194 exactly
Why do you all feel like you need rewards? Why are you owed anything ? Life is a gift not a reward and money.
Hearing a younger person complain about big government warms my heart.
Except.... it's bullshit and wrong. Corporations are the real problem.
Same
Aka big corporations
It used to be said actions speak louder than words. Young people need to rise up somehow to create change.
As a Gen x you are absolutely correct dude. I am 50 now, ex-Military good work ethic and always grafted hard. It doesn't even get you close to middle class anymore. The game is rigged.
Yup
A great example of when my mom questioned why I live with my dad still, just get an apartment she said and she didn't believe me when I told her that just a one room apartment is 1,200 a month... and that's an hour from the states capital, not even an expensive place.
Most boomers are unaware of anything
I live in SoCal, the average house is above 800k and rent is about 1600 for studio, 3000 for a 1bd1ba. It's just insane. I remember when I was a child and seeing signs for "Rent Starting at $700" and thinking oh my god $700 is a lot of money! Now that'd be like hitting the lottery here. I feel like it was a detriment to be even born here and not in the middle of the desert or country. As a 25 year old, I do feel like i'm missing out on the young experience of living alone in the world
@@humanp4theven more expensive in northern Va. Roach invested apartments are 1800
It’s so damn hard to get a job nowadays. I just got a Master’s degree in IT/software with several internship experiences+ projects and Tried to apply all kinds of entry level jobs. yet I haven’t found any for two months.
They are not entry level they are Jr the pay is entry entry level jobs don't require experience hence the name entry-level
I can't even get an internship.
That’s wild. I got a useless degree in Business so I’ve accepted my fckup, but a masters in IT struggling is really wild.
yup there's f all jobs and you're competing with literally everyone your age group plus everyone who moves there for the same job from overseas. currently econmists say job hunters have a 3 percent chance.
U know what's messed up?I know people with IT degrees who have paid for those microsoft/google courses.They applied to work there,guess what,no answer at all. They have paid for a bunch of coursera lessons with certificates,sent their resumes to companies,guess what,no answer!They have the degree,they have the experience so,what gives?It's hilarious that those courses are marketed as a ''pathway to a great career''.
When I was 18, $15 an hour was good enough pay to get a decent apartment. It still is, but you need at least one reliable roommate and a damn good landlord, because you aren't getting anything decent for a living space at that pay without working 50-70 hours a week
not the best way to live
It still is if you live in Brandon, or Thetford Mines.
Yup
Stop cursing its a sin !!!.!.!.!.!.!.!!!.
@@gregkareem9824stop acting annoying, baiting kid
There may be a few people who are lazy, yes. But most of us have just lost respect for the system, seen what it's done to people older than us and we don't want that.
It's funny though because the system has been the system since the first city-state. There's never been a time that it's been more fair.
@@rathelmmc3194 so basically just take what you can get? Dude people are tired of that.
@@AndrewJam-vv9xw Why are people tired of that now? It's always been worse than now.
@@rathelmmc3194are you sure?
@@Jamhael1 Yes. You could make an argument that maybe the Baby Boomers had it a little easier, but everyone else has had it harder.
Bang on in every way Adam. I'm a 72 year old man, born and raised in Canada. I lived the dream growing up and working through the 70's to the 10's .... Easy living, easy money, easy jobs. bought my first home at age 24. Now I look around at the dystopian society that the west and Canada have become and its George Orwell's 1984 being played out before our eyes. But the people of the west are awakening to the mess ... the woke, left gov's are on their way out. People are finally fed up. Just look around. It took a long time to create this mess, it'll take time to fix it.
Do you think the jobs nowadays are harder?
@@exriodonorte67 Yes, +50 years of optimizing the corporate squeezing since the 1970's. 1970's were naive by the modern day demands.
Boomers had a demographic dividend. You guys didn't have enough kids. If Gen Z wants to get out of this economic malaise they need to start pumping out children (think 3 to 5 per women). The demand that would create would then create a prosperity cycle.
@@exriodonorte67 No. Jobs are not harder. More Millennials/Gen Z get degrees now than Boomers did in their youth, so jobs requiring degrees are saturated while trades are under-employed.
@@davagevorriose8046 They got degrees for free back in those days.
I'm Gen X and I can tell you that you aren't alone, my man, ok? I quit working 10 years ago because I worked for almost 15 years for this company that gave me a very handsome wage of $9.35 per hour and blessed me so much by giving me $10.50 per hour for my last two years. They also were so kind to me that they spared me from any type of health insurance or retirement. Now I never went to college or anything, but I don't feel that you SHOULD have to go to college to be able to make a good salary. That's ridiculous in my opinion. These days I have a small online sales business and I make enough to get by. I'm happy that way. My time is mine, and that means more to me than anything. I guess what I'm trying to say is: You're generation is definitely not wrong. There's no reason to spend your life working for the man just to be miserable and broke. It just doesn't make any sense. Instead, work for yourself and do things that you want to do.
You're rich in many ways.
I work for weed, liquor, food and gas money 😄
I had finally got a great paying job in September of 2021. I was like wow, my bank account is looking great and then boom fired because of the v*x mandates. It took everything from me. Even though I went on the convoy and felt like I wasn't alone and we were the majority... I just feel hopeless. What's the point in pushing myself to have a great career when it can be taken away because of a government mandate at anytime? I'm jobless. I'm almost homeless. And I'm hopeless.
That's brutal man, sorry this happened to you. ✌🏽Look on the bright side you have no blood clots nor did die of SADS. 🥰
Gotta take things into your own hands. Start your own thing.
Listen to Bedros Kulian. He'll inspire you to get back and chase your dreams
Wait... you chose not to get vaccinated and a private company fired you, but it was the government who took everything from you? How does this make any sense? Is there any possibility you were wrong?
Yeah they want us jobless and hopeless and almost homeless because they were desperate and then we're more likely to be willing to go fight the Russians which they're gearing up for so when men have nothing else to lose they do desperate things
I’m 62 years old. I’ve worked since I was 12 years old. I was lucky to have a few years to not work and raise my three children for a few years because of my strong working husband. I’ve worked since my youngest child at 3 years old I went back to work. When I look back, I should have just giving my time to my children and NEVER gone back to work!
The biggest motivation destroyer for me is that the kim k's and dr phil girl, the Only Fans girls, and all these grifters and hustlers are the ones that are prospering, and the ones that are actually productive members in society are the ones that have to suffer and struggle.
Yes this needs to stop
Yes, the Scam Economy is a huge problem. It’s because asset bubbles crowd out real profits/capex. Ever since the 2008 GFC the economy has been stagnant, like the Brezhnev Stagnation in 1970s Soviet Union.
Theres a point where working extra hours gets you taxed so much it feels like those extra hours went straight to nothing. Simply not worth it.
i agree, i realized that over a decade ago when i got my regular paycheck which was around 1,500 for two week, that day i got a bonus from my boss because we completed a big job. The bonus was for 5k, i thought i would have 6,500 in my pocket, what ended up happening was i got 3,500, i saw my pay check vanish to pay for the bonus tax. At the point i knew money is not worth it.
Hence, vote for smaller government and lower taxes. This leftist utopia is a failure and those on the right predicted it.
There is so many things wrong with this world,that you can write 10 books and still haven't covered everything
It's always been a mess...nothing new...but now we have instantaneous social media to whine about it.
Exactly
It's true, too many problems.
Gen Z is not lazy. They're smarter than the previous generation as they know that a life full of working full time daily won't pay off in the end. You miss time with fam, friends, and really just the important things that actually matter. The world is slowly changing and I'm here for it.
Here’s an example of demotivation for my generation (it rhymes get over it 😂) I had a gf for 4 years, when I was 19-23. I worked hard, made a decent living, rented out a decent apartment, 3 bedroom, planned on taking out a mortgage. Things were perfect, we hardly ever fought about anything, and she and I really felt like we were in love. Was planning on marrying her and having children. Sounds like an ideal situation right?
Nah, she said that I wanted a different lifestyle than her. She was in her 20s and felt like she’d never been independent. Fair enough, I wanted to make it work. So helped get her an apartment in my area, moved her in and everything. Helped with little things around to make sure she was living comfortably. Few months after this, she broke up with me, still the excuse being that “we’re too different” and “I want independence”. Cool, kept in contact with her anyways, because she was my best friend and she knew me and I knew her better than anyone. After a 4 year long relationship, it took her 2 months to start dating some dude overseas. So much for “being too different” lol. And I’ll tell u, I really did find myself a unicorn with her, and even she didn’t work. After all this, I got laid off a decently paid job and had to take a way worse one. Couldn’t afford rent by myself anymore so had to get a roommate.
So now instead of having an ideal normal life with kids and a wife, I get a depressed roommate who shuts himself in his room, plays video games all night and stinks up my apartment smoking weed. While I struggle and can barely afford groceries.
Dude, no one better ask why gen z doesn’t give two shits about working. Wtf is there to even work for? So I make an okay amount of money, and spend it on what? More liquor? I don’t care about material bullshit it makes me feel nothing. So yeah, fuck the world let it burn. I’m glad no one wants to work.
And good luck finding a girl in her mid 20s who wants anything serious, they’ll either be looking to hook up real quick or use you as a piggy bank and then leave you or cheat on you. And even if you’re about that hook up life (and I’m not) good luck with that too because naturally they’ll just try to fuck the best of the best, and they have the internet at their fingertips so that’s not hard to find for them. And chances are, the best of the best is not you, you’re just not good enough.
Actually, I think gen z should change their name. Make it kind of like “the silent generation” or the “greatest generation”. We should be named the “not good enough” generation 😂.
Oh yeah, the breakdown in societal norms on dating and marriage due to the sexual revolution has been terrible for men. Hopefully someone can reinstate some norms.
Fuck dude I know that feeling younger women are fucked man It just took me first hand experience to find out
i feel very bad for you im nowhere near there but you're correct, people hate me being depressed and saying negative things but our world is dark and brutal, older generations act like it isnt and were not ever good enough, I think THEY are ignorant, weak, and blind, THEY cannot see the truth
This needs to become a sitcom man. Do you have any screenwriting skills?
@@MbisonBalrog lol on god, I write short stories in my free time i probably could do something with it.
Whenever I go to a poor so called “3rd world country” I notice that families are living together. I mean parents and children under one roof. Children sometimes with their families. Always are visiting each other. All living close by. Helping each other. That is how they survive. Multiple incomes are coming under one roof. Some are taking advantage of it. Some family members are not. This is life. However they also tend to be less atheist and more religious people too. Religion also helps them to overcome hardships.
god cant save us from corporate greed
For most of human history extended families lived together. The expectation of moving out of mom and dad's house as soon as possible to get one's own is a very recent, uniquely Western, phenomenon. My sense is that as life gets increasingly expensive we'll see the return of multiple generations living in the same house simply because there may be no other choice. And we'll probably see a lot less social isolation, which is a good thing.
@@Caitanyadasa108 Exactly
Yeah, religion is one big cope pill
@@latinsho11
It's literally motivated and driven mankind during our most formative years and fastest advances in technology ever VS the humanist secular religion of "Lol just do what feels good while corporations and brands are your new gods"
I love how the old generation fails to realize that why their kids have issues . The fact that they pretend they don’t understand highlights their failures
Oh, we realize our kids are running into issues. Problem is we snowplowed instead of teaching them how to overcome. We didn't allow them to build grit and resilience. Now they think life before them was easy street (but they don't know, because they weren't there, and won't listen to anyone who's older).
@@davagevorriose8046 we have the stats. You made less and could buy more. We make more and can buy less.
@@davagevorriose8046 💯spot on! We didn't have safe spaces. Thats lame. There is no question it is harder today but i'm 54 and it was always hard. I never lived alone - always had roommates until i got married. I never spent money i didnt have - i went without. Young people today are taught to be weak and whine and protest and then they have outlandish expectations and entitlements. Then they think "I'm just gonna do it all on my own"...delusional. No you're not. The victimhood is strong...its the "blame everyone else" mentality of excuse making.
We older generations went through the same things, but instead of whining about it, we did something about it.
more "old is better and superior" arguments, its endless its like talking to a brick wall that only tells you your lazy
5 years experience, a masters degree, 7 interviews, 2 month background check, substance testing every month to ensure soberiety and maximum misery without a mental escape...
..to work at retail or a call center for minimum wage? Thats what we need degrees and 5 yrs experience and putt8ng out an averagecof 1200 applications for?
Yea....we're done. Learn how to survive off 300 bucks a month. Tent living, van living, homesteading is the way to live now. Forget the system, they expect us to spend years unpaid to fight for a minimum wage job that wont give you enough money to live anyway....work is pointless now..
My observation tells me that a lot of gen z millennials, have been poorly raised by their parents, who abandoned their duty of properly raising them. Social media became the obsession, and we all see the results of it now.
Great work as always!
Always looking forward to your videos 💯
THANKS
@@nuccichannel
Truly appreciate the work you’re doing. We definitely need more.
Cheers!
Yes; my parents were hard wrking, but have always worshiped authority, which is certainly Stockholm syndrome.
Its true. My parents were Narcissists and Sociopaths. I think a lot of Millenials and Gen z have had shitty parents.
Hahaha I am hard worker with 20k living with parents, its more of investment for doing more than the crappy wage but being in USA now, I don't feel like working.
Just wanna live my best unemployed and death because the future for north America is bleak
Looking forward to see mentally asylum
As a Gen Zer that was fired from his job because of customer complaints over order mislocation (They literally gave me a completely seperate building in their neighborhood, did not answer my calls for confirmation, and then filed a report against me for it) it's not that we don't want to work. I'd rather work than be in class. It's just that some of us don't wanna be screwed over so someone else can get ahead.
We see a future of nothing. We work for nothing, its literally a pointless life. I'm 26 and starting to see this, its super de motivating.
Would you rather be homeless and starve to death?
@@seanwieland9763why not?
@@themaninabucket8365 every living thing has a survival instinct.
I will never EVER be able to retire. One of my coligues emigrated to Canada in 70th, his wife never worked and he was able to buy a huge house working a dental tech. job. I'm a dental. tech in 2024 I will never be able to buy a house or retair. I need to work 200 years as a dental tech. to have what he have.
exactly
Only one person in the entire world can say "there's no one out there with more."
Retirement is a new concept, it's only been around for the last 80-ish years of 200k-300k years that modern humans (or 3.1-3.4 million years of other humans) have walked the Earth. None of them retired either.
You have YOUR life, not theirs, and it's an imperfect life (so's theirs). Find joy where you can, and measure yourself only by where you were before, and where you can be in the future, not by comparison to other people.
Playing dumb? People used to died around 40 years of age 200 or 300 hundreds years ago. There was no pension because there were no pensioners. @@davagevorriose8046
@@davagevorriose8046That is not true at all sir. Retirement has been attempted since arround the roman empire atleast. Most commondly during the imperial phase of rome, people would serve in the roman army or work for the state as soldiers or staff and would be guaranteed a multi year payout/ bonus as well as non fiat rewards like plots of land/real estate/citizenship by the time they would reach retirement age. You could still end up broke if you constantly spent your monthly wages, but plenty of people understood the concepts of saving/compound interes/investment/cussion fund for their retirement and so citizens would give their labour to the state. There might not have been pension funds. But the state did establish multiple ways of building retirement. The oh state organized retirement is such a revolutionary modern world of phenomenon is complete bs imo.
@@niku4259 Looked up Roman Empire retirement; thank you for the correction! 13BC! Still, I imagine the number (percentage) of people who got anything like it was relatively small until the modern age, and even now I'd be surprised if on a world-wide scale the percentage of people who get a retirement is very high. Word of caution on your evidence, compound interest / investment IS relatively new with the advent of capitalism; see Royal Dutch Shell.
Point remains, the vast majority of humans throughout history and prehistory never had a retirement. It's a great goal to have if you think you can achieve it, but it's hardly a guarantee or "right."
TL;DR - lots of low wage work with no hope for ever thriving or having experiences that we are forced to watch the elite enjoy on social media.
But Burger King just increased their $/hr by 1.25$. Score! Yeah baby!!
@@jkmarshall3553 oof. 🥲🥲 we love it here don’t we.
Who is forcing you? Delete the app.
The answer is in the video's title.They don't want to work because they've lost all hope.Regular jobs can barely pay for housing and food. I even know people with good paying jobs having trouble with housing,because the area they have to live at is expensive. Meaning that,u can't afford leisure activities like hobbies(dance lessons,music,painting etc),trips,cinemas,bars etc,which help u decompress the everyday stress. A person like this is forced,in a way,to stay holed in his house and rot in front of his pc screen,further damaging his social skills.
Instead of waving around the flags of other countries maybe they should worry about this country first. I feel no sympathy for some soy genzer waiving a bee el m flag, Ukrainian flag, Palestinian, or Israeli flag. If they want things to change they need to start putting America First.
Hobbies are for kids, nobodies got time for that
@@-schattenpflanze-3755skill issue
Never join the banker's military.
Zogbots
I am 57 years old and you my friend are absolutely right .I have been fighting for you guys for years by telling everybody i know about our predicament in the west that you have verbally stated . I get blank stares or laughter or people telling me that I am a pessimist . I have worked hard all my life and owned several small businesses and I do not have enough money for my retirement . For you young people that want a good adventure in life with fulfillment and meaning ,as well as some good money , leave the west .
Families who don’t talk each, over a politician who doesn’t know they are exist or care about them, is room temperature IQ energy.
So is your grammar.
@@umpteenexpression530wow I didn't know this was English class last time I checked I was on the youtube app
@@gregkareem9824 I actually couldnt understand what he was trying to say lmao. I think the lil doggie in their profile pic typed that comment out tbh
There is no point of working anymore. Inflation is so freaking high it ain't worth it.
I'm a millennial and I see nothing of value when it comes to work. I am just tired and stressed out.
If you are female you need to get a husband. If you are a male you need to cuff your balls and discover your backbone.
You kind of have to or be homeless
So be homeless 😂
@@rtgp2.0did someone hurt u?
What's funny ? Why are you laughing?
The social contract is broken, can it be fixed, I doubt it. I'm a retired Boomer, I most certainly would not like too be back in my 20's again. No way.
It’s not just the working class. The middle class and even upper middle class are being completely decimated.
Why the hell should I? Our cheque is taxed over half, not to mention carbon tax, etc.... Plus the weirdos trying to take away parental rights
What do you want be when you grow up?
An influencer, a rapper, a content creator...
Entropeneur, Social Media Star, Onlyfans Girl, Streamer etc.
I am 27 now, no friends, relationships, marriage, children, pets, plants, car, house, going to restaurants, going on holiday, etc. I did a vesectomy when I was 24, because I have no hope that my children will ever get a decent future.
prayers for you, honestly prayers for this awful world...i dont condone the surgery but i see exactly why, its pointless
@@FuchsiaRosaI thought I heard it can be reversed if one changes their mind in the future…not entirely sure though.
So basically my life except im 24
yea, my kids are 7, and 5, and want to start a youtube. idk how i can look at these kids and say to do well in school when i already lived a life where i did well in school and it didn't matter and then tell them "nah son, focus on your studies". fuck it, try the youtube, maybe you can do it and not have to have some bullshit job. i haven't said this but it's kind of how i feel.
Let them start that UA-cam 😄
Yeah I think the key is to figure out as a Parent what your Child’s potential skills are and focus on nurturing the f out of em. Not generic useless school BS
@@ShutterSpeedGaming maybe so man, i just tell the the internet can be a mean place. but it could also be great, people could love them, they're funny to me maybe they'll be funny to other kids idk.
@@mrpablomx they'll play minecraft and stuff and talk like they're on camera playing the game, it's weird, i'm like what bro? and they say oh i wasn't really talking to you. they're just narrating their gameplay, maybe it's the right thing to do, they don't even know about money yet they just want to do it.
as long as they have a passionate hobby that gets them somewhere thats all that matters, only passion
I live in Canada and things have gone out of hand. The only way Canadians can surive is to move to the US. I'm working hard to move to America.
Canada is an absolute joke with sugarcoated people and the communist government. I have never been happy a single day here.
I hear you 👍
The worst part is the pathetic regular Canadians who love to take it up the ass.
How are your taxes and regulations
Canada is a shithole. I will be leaving as soon as I can. Good luck..
@@dalton6108It's not livable. In most parts of the country except for Vancouver, harsh winter lasts 6 months.
Many people including myself get seasonal depression. I didn't know weather affects people's mood this much until I moved to Canada.
My life in the US was far better with much friendlier people. It's just that the US is very difficult to immigrate to.
The new generations are not the issue and never were, its the unclear future expectations young ppl have nowadays, before, it was clear, work+stay loyal to the job+ receive ENOUGH salary to create a family+ get paid time off+retire, young ppl are finding it super hard to find this. The lazy comment is evil to hide the truth!
I wish money wasnt even a thing
Used to not be. Barter and trade.
It's not. Good friends and family makes life worth living.
It doesn't have to be. You can go F off into the woods or a cave by yourself and never interact with another person ever again. Or maybe try to find a hippie commune.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
It's that we got off the gold standard, so money is manipulated to be milked of it's real value faster than the goods are being produced to mirror the money supply.
@@Reathon Gold standard was terrible because population was growing faster than gold acquisition so it was far too deflationary. Minor inflation is a positive. The issue isn't the gold standard today. The issue is the government is way overspending crowding out the private sector.
Cheers from 2 Canadians that escaped to Mexico. 🇲🇽😂❤
I would not wanna be in my 20s in Chinada. 😮 Poor bastards. 😮
any safe spots you can recommend?
@@DanglyLingham Anywhere but Chinada is pretty safe.😆 and offers more freedom. ✌🏽 We document our journey.✌🏽
😂 Bruh. You think China gone colonize Canada?
@@unc1221 Canada is now China a Communist country Chinada ran by a dictator.
No I think Canada is run by a dictator like China, and it's a Communist country. ✌🏼@@unc1221
I don't know if this is necessarily linked or related at all, but back when I was in college for IT and we were required to get internships, almost none of us could get one. Not because we didn't try, but because of what every company that we applied to told us. "We want someone with more experience", "There are better companies for you to apply for" among other types of utter horseshit they vomit at you. *_Yeah, that's right. Experience. For an internship._*
For some, the school tried to help by talking with businesses to arrange an internship for them. Most of the time, the business then said they would setup an interview. But three days on average later? The students would receive a phone call from said business that said "We've decided we don't want an intern right now." So, what did the school do? Tell us to keep applying, because we're mandated by law to get one if we want to finish the course.
Yeah at the end only like three remained and got an internship. The rest, including me, were dropped out because of this garbage. So the next time a boomer comes around and tells me I'm lazy and not trying hard enough, I just roll my eyes and sigh.
IT has had too many candidates since around the 1990s when computers really started taking off in homes. The golden years were like the 80s, but back then nobody even knew about the profession.
As a boomer with millennial and gen Z kids, I feel sad for them, and the way society is now. I say try to find something that inspires you, not just to make money, which everything seems to be about these days. Find your love and passion, and don't give a crap if others don't approve. Also, it helps to know that anything you love to do still needs time and effort, so don't allow social media to drain you.
"Get a college education!" *Gets education* "Apply to 1000 jobs & hopefully youll find an internship for 2 years so you wont be able to survive!" Merica
It has nothing to do about being lazy. We live in a day and age where people can’t even make ends meet because of the economy we are currently in. The older generation lacks empathy cause times were so different and now nothing is in our favour. And society tells us that we must finish our education to secure a well paying job but that’s just a damn lie cause we just end up with debt and there’s so many jobs that aren’t willing to hire because they have such ridiculous requirements "you have to be 21 and have 10 years of experience"
Life in America sucks for everyone but the rich. That’s the bottom line.
My mom had a great saying, "You can't buy happiness, but money sure makes unhappiness more bearable."
Sitting in a cubicle for 40 years would be easy!! It’s the fear of constant layoffs and being told your important job isn’t important just because
I'm from the tail end of what they call Gen X, but i relate so much to the new generations. I have had to restart in life a couple of times now and the current state of the world sucks. I've never struggled so much to try pay bills -- and have nothing left at the end of the day and still not have the bills paid
Same here in Europe, young people can’t buy or rent a affordable house. But they can pay high tax for people that don’t work and get a house for free 🤷 with all subsidy benefits. They should build free houses for the workforce 💪🏻 not for the lazy ones.
"The millions march, but they don't know what they're asking for."
I really wish more Governments cared about their people enough to actually use the fricking taxes for them. Like I get such a big chunk taken out of my pay, and yet the Government here is sitting on their hands while rents are $1600-$3000. The smiling Mayor repeats they are doing their best to work on it! But just keep working!
Kind of a side track, but I worked a Fine dining catering job when I was freshly 18. I was shocked when we did an event for this Symphony hall (why the hell do we even need this) and it was filled with incredibly old men in suits. I'm talking 80-90 year olds, accompanied by young women in luxury clothing. Middle of the night they announce a speech by none other than the City's mayor! What the hell? It shocked me that the rich literally live in their own world, where they chow down on unending lobsters and steak and appetizers, have the Mayor sing their praises. I think that job really changed how I viewed my city and the country
Retirement is not guaranteed, neither is tomorrow. So just live life and enjoy the moment because life is short.
I can't settle for less. I will never give up on my dreams even if it drives me insane.
It is a massive failure of public school education system.
They truly have failed the youth of America. Instead of teaching us about finances and how to manage money during our formative (puberty) years, they’re teaching all kinds of useless garbage like algebra and pseudo science. Smh this world is doomed forever.
Well unfortunately I got a car note and insurance to pay so I must work to avoid pissing my parents off. Last year I quit my technology job because they wouldn't pay me enough to deal with all shit I had to go through and for 3 weeks(and it would've been longer if it werent for my parents) I didn't search for any job because I was giving up. They got mad at me and forced me to find a job. Fuck this shit bro this SUCKS! Then I get constantly pressured to get a good job which you need to have EXPERIENCE for! They tell me to go to school when I dont even know what to do then you have to check the tuition and grants some of them are unaffordable and then the trade that i want to do you already must be in the field in hs years which I wasn't I didn't have bills I wouldn't be working at all. I don't blame anyone from my generation who don't want to work for this evil system. It's rigged to make our lives miserable. Shut the fuck up with that "lazy" crap.
They're not lazy. You can't afford them.
Im 44. I grew up with the Boomer work ethic imparted by my family but life experiences showed how horrible our economic system is early on in life ( buried my mother and spouse prematurely due to the stressors of life) so I have the exact realism of what Gen Z and tail end Millennials think. Ive worked in science, tech and IT over the past 20 years and have watched these industries become net negatives upon society, especially IT and the internet - Big Business and Big Tech destroying the working class with AI, outsourcing and automation with no regard for the technologically displaced wage slave class. I have my days of doom and gloom and know this general situation is untenable due to our failing economic system - but I realize that there is hope in a thing most people do not fully understand or are aware of - it is called decentralization.
We are now at a point in technological capability that we really no longer need to rely on entrenched centralized institutions for our needs. With things like 3d printing, pro-sumer CNC machines, decentralized mesh networks, small scale vertical farming, etc we can start a decentralist movement that COULD start to bring back this fractured society into one that cooperates together and makes all the stuff we REALLY need (not stupid consumerist crap) at the local level, helping to reduce the need on environmentally damaging and wage enslaving global neoliberal economics.
Decentralization keeps me hopeful - we need much more education and exposure to this.
People should also learn about The Venus Project and Peter Joseph who have, for decades now, shown how humanity can escape into a post-capitalist, post-scarcity civilization.
Sincerely,
DisruptApps
As a gen zer myself, another part of it is,
1.) If you want to get a no college job, you have to meet that job's ridiculous requirements for a entry level job
2.) College is REALLY expensive rn. For the people who dream of becoming a nurse or doctor or lawyer even, they are going to go into HARD debt to "afford" their education. Yes there is scholarships, community first, etc, but those only take you so far. So now you have to work 1 job and a side hustle to pay for your expensive education. Or if you're poor, you just can't afford it. So people naturally aren't working those college level jobs
You can always trust social commentary comming out of Canada. Love you guys so much.
I worked in warehouses for 15 years. It’s taken its toll on me. Didn’t really get me anywhere either. I’m door dashing now and living off of and accommodating my cost of living on a delivery drivers salary. Much better, set my own schedule. Work when I want. Not have to deal with people. I work to support myself, not impress other people, especially overbearing relatives.
Mils and Zs dont respect themselves enough to have a revolution. Too bad.
Im a millennial work as a software engineer, make 6 figures. I busted my ass to get where i am. I got laid off multiple times, multiple. But i never gave up. I dont care for society, i save most of my money to get the f out of this country, almost at an amount where i can do it. Thats what im doing with my life, get in, get money and get out. Do the same.
It makes me laugh when even the high performing amongst us just doesnt see the point 😂😂😂
“There’s no such thing as society.” - Margaret Thatcher
If you don’t work you will never produce value, you will have nothing. If you have nothing there is nothing for the government to take from you.
When I graduated college spring of 2007 and got no career I defaulted on student loans.
I have never paid a cent on those loans. My logic is simple; if my choice is work hard and have nothing versed bai lan and have nothing I choose bai lan.
If you don’t produce value you will be homeless and starve to death. Scarcity is real. Food and rent are resources, and you have to generate resources to exchange them for food and rent.
I’m 72 and totally agree with this young man. Years ago I wondered how young people could ever make it. Much less afford kids. And govt does work against them. 5 pensions roll into my home every month. A Roth, 2 SS checks, and 2 defined pensions. They will never see that.
The “regular” jobs everyone had of the past that were low education but good paying manufacturing jobs of the past are all but gone is for one…. Now you have to accrue $50-$100k in college debt just to get into a decent job and to top it off housing and transportation are now outrageously expensive and this is coming from a Gen X - millennial……
A part of the problem is always labeling people in “Generational groups” why can’t we just be “Humans” and everyone take responsibility for the world and the way it is. ALL of us need to take a stand and move towards a truly better future for us all.
Yea but you wouldn’t have clicked on this video if it didn’t say “Gen Z” in the title.
@@nuccichannel You’re probably right. I don’t even know what generation I am. I was born in 95 and I don’t really care. Everyone out there has issues
The Canadian government is trying to attract the largest number of immigrants and provide job opportunities for them while ignoring the owners of the country who are more deserving of this😥
10000%
you have to compete with everyone coming in on top of everyone already here
Because Canada is running out of labour. Our population is aging and no one is having babies. This is simple economics. Our enemy is the rigged global financial system. Not immigrants.
You don’t own shit just because you’re a citizen.
😥😥@@MiamiPush2theLimit
Yes you do, or you suppose to. Why then be a citizen, and pay taxes, and be law abiding, sing the national anthem etc etc?@@MiamiPush2theLimit
You're time is not compensated properly to cost of bills and goods. Just like this singer says
I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day
Overtime hours for bullsh- pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away
It’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is
Livin’ in the new world
The Better Version
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3 choices----work for wage---pioneer the land---suckle the gubment teat. By the time you decide that teat will be dry.
I'm skeptical Gen Z has the fortitude to pioneer the land. There's no internet.
@@rathelmmc3194 not even that its unaffordable the cost of land is stupid
Build artificial teat
I am 31 been working full time, most my life. Stuck with my parents and siblings who also cant afford to move out. I never experienced having my own room. Meanwhile I talk to boomers who talk about making 15 dollars per hour and they talk about being able to afford a car, buy a house that use to be 30k and raise a family. I make way more than them but cant afford to even buy groceries. Tell me is that even fair?
That’s how it should work. You describe inflation. If it didn’t work like that the economy would stagnate. (Which is what China and Russia wants with all the bots like yourself)
@@jakeroper1096 Thats gov propaganda. In real economic growth prices go down as supply goes up. And quality of life improves
The only people that benefits from inflation are government and corporation who owe lots of debt.
@@friendlyfox2189 remember the gilded age when rich people only spent money on parties like great gatsby? Inflation forces the rich to invest in us. You are a tool for some rich man if you don’t seethis.
I'm a boomer. I'm so glad I'm not young anymore. And I wouldn't want to be young again. I get it!
I went down the "trad path" and got a well paying job (which was a total pita since landing a job in a "good" field takes a hundred plus applications nowadays) and even then the earnings would only be enough to live close to paycheck to paycheck if I lived alone. I read it somewhere else in the commenrs here, but you can stack on top of that the whole earning more equals a higher tax bracket so you'd actually need to earn 20-30% more to actually break even with slightly more income.
I know that most of the gen z that are 20-25ish yrs old in the field are sort of in the same spot where, even if you do pick the regular route, it's barely enough to afford living by yourself and top on that the whole no communities and ruined dating scene. The trad path is barely worth it nowadays and completely depends on where you live.
Yup, BARELY worth it and depends HEAVILY on where you live, or rather how you live. Still doable for the top % of us but it is such a big sacrifice for little to no reward. My plan is to move from Sweden to Switzerland to hopefully have a good career, however, there are so many factors to take into account, even if one place pays more than another. Someone can get a pretty nice place in Sweden for say $500k, but such a big part of your salary goes to taxes (income, taxes on buying things), but in Switzerland you make around 3 times the salary!!! However, in Switzerland, a house could be around 4 times as expensive, also even if the taxes are much lower you pay so much out of pocket that it might aswell be the most taxed place on earth, I mean $3k per kid per month for kindergarten???? You can't get by staying in Sweden to buy a house and you can't get by by moving to Switzerland to buy a house. The only viable solution for people with no prior wealth, or those of us who won't earn million-dollar salaries, is to move to one place, save up, and then move to somewhere cheaper. So many obstacles: financial, family, friends, career, quality of life, just to be able to get yourself a nice house and be able to have some extra money to enjoy your life. I'm still studying, got 3 years left, will have 3 degrees (civil engineering in applied physics, medical physics degree/license and industrial engineering bachelor) but I am deeply concerned for how the world will look in 3 years when it's my turn to go out in the workforce.
1:51 You say "right out of the clouds" but then you realize that it's probably a cloud computer database system managing our currency. Or worse, a 2003 excel sheet on a Windows XP desktop device. XD
I wasn’t going to work behind a desk forever so I got my IT certifications and I have worked from home problem solving since 2014. I can bounce from project to project and ask for raises, the older I get and more experience the more money I’ll get.
I had a second income and my work wanted to give me more hours and a big pay rise but to work the extra hours I would have to give up the additional income. I thought it'll be good so I went for it. After my first fortnight I realised because it put in in the next tax bracket and because I would loose my additional income I was now earning less when I was working more. I asked straight away to be put back on my lower rate and that way my tax would be less and I could earn back my additional income and still be ahead than when I had the pay rise. The loss calculated was 2.5k a year.
The worst one is having a decent paying job, (well over average salary) and it will still take forever to save for a big deposit for a mortgage or to pay rent on a 2 bedroom home
The people that went to college and owe $100,000 are hurting. I know a few of them and they feel they can't get out of the hole. I told my kids NOT to go to college. They didn't and are both doing very good financially. My son paid off his house when he was 23 years old. He then purchased Chevy trucks and lots of silver coins/bars etc and is net work is now about $400,000 at 27 yrs old, zero debt. The holders of physical silver will be wealthy after we see the bullion shortages within 4-5 years. Solar is going to consume nearly all the silver, so get some ASAP and hold it until the price goes into the hundreds per ounce.
One of the key decisions I made that saved my life was not going to college or university
House paid off at 23. Sure buddy. Quit lying
@@GameBoyDame I swear to god, I am telling the truth. He paid $70,000 for it.
@bobsilver3983 I'm sure he did. Where are you coming to this video bragging about your son? This is a rage bait post.
@@GameBoyDame I told him not to go to college, he didn't go and he is doing very well. I absolutely am bragging.
The trades may not be glamorous but they are a great way to do, if one is willing to work. And they absolutely contribute tangible benefit to society (unlike Kim K and her ilk) and so will always be in demand, since it's the trades that keep civilized society running.
You hit the nail right on the fucking head. I’m an hvac tech in nyc making 75k a year. I pay 27 k a year in taxes. Almost half my fucking year. All I have for bills is rent, phone, gym, food, and Amazon and I still struggle. At 75K. It’s infuriating. It’s a scam. It’s a game and we have realized. No enjoyment money, no vacation money, no hangout with friends money, it’s insane.
Dating for men is terrible now, the quality of women in the west is shot, people make the stupidest fucking people famous for doing the stupidest shit. It’s like our society is in such huge decline.
I’m only working until I’m 30 and then I’m going out on my own or I’m figuring something out. This is all a bs game.
I’m 23, I am doing part time work to support family with a little bit of rent in a house they own. I’m working towards living with friends as part of a community shared living set up. I do encourage young people to consider alternative ways of living. This is in Europe though not the States. I’m sorry.
Eastern europe?
"Average working class person works half of the year to just pay the tax man." Hey I don't know Canada but that's not how it works in the United States at all.
I live in Belgium, right next door to France, and it's exactly the same here in Belgium as it is in France.
I also have a lot of family in Italy, so it's the same there too.
I went to school in the 1960's and 1970's. We would get films on those old noisy reel to reel projectors. If you were in that time period the film had been played too many times and it would break. The bulb would burn the film where it stopped. Anyway they were selling us on a growing country while showing some different factory, construction or administration jobs and what it was like in the real world. They instilled hope for the future so we bought in. May have finished school or not but we wanted to bust out of school to get some of that dream. So we did. That is a boomer education. Now I doubt there is any hope or excitement sold in schools for adult futures as all the manufacturing has gone over sea's. So I would say the kids usually finish school, land in university to end up with a degree in nothing. Or the thought of investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in an education you know will be cut short with A.I. The invention of the computer is probably the cause and failure of society. Not boomers robbing the system. A.I. has not finished yet. Imagine in another 20 years humans will have no purpose and be deleted as required. The few 1% richest will simply push a button and what ever they want will be built, cooked, prepared then delivered to them by robots. We may be missing what caused the degradation of society that is in plain sight. So the kids of today know the gig is up. All they can do is toss a dart and hope for the best. Or they could physically talk to one another and re gain humanity in face to face conversation to build a future instead of waiting for the dart to land. No victimhood just humanity working and talking with each other as a team will get them out of this trap that has been set for them.
It wasn't the computer it was the western world not having enough children. We've been below replacement rate since the 1970s. Every year there's fewer and fewer people to sell to as a percentage of the population. So when Boomers started entering the workforce they all wanted to buy things creating a tremendous amount of growth. If you're a baby store and every year you see there's fewer babies being born you're not going to expand.
I agree with all your points . The people and entities that are supposed to be examples are putting greed before integrity and logic in decisions concerning the generation . Our only strength is unity in numbers to correct the demented pendulum . Great vid. Thanks Camcurse
So their parents just keep paying for them for them until they're dead? Sounds like they are going to be homeless.
most employers and bosses are power hungry; why work for them
Because the alternative is homelessness and starvation. Scarcity is real.
Thats very insulting to tree stumps. Trees make a contribution 😂 ❤
These are all valid points. I’m gen x and I felt this way when I entered the work force. Now it’s just more relevant. Wage slavery is whack
Okay for one, I’m 25 years old AND I WORK MY FUCKIN ASS OFF AND STILL CANT AFFORD SHIT. Our parents at our age were more wealthy than we are in our current day. You can thank the United States government for that everyone. Don’t blame each other ( the populace) blame corporate price gouging. It’s so fucked and that’s why our generation is over it. WE ARE OVER UNCLE SAM TAKING HIS FUCKIN 10% LAST TIME I CHECKED I WORKED THOSE 40-60 hours. NOT THE GOV.
As much as I hate to say it internet degeneracy isn’t the primary cause of gen z not wanting to work anymore. Gen z grew up though 08, saw what their gen x parents hard work got them (very little) and watched their millennial relatives get sold the college as the way forward bit which worked FOR A TIME but job markets got over saturated and the jobs couldn’t cover the debt from college anymore if they could even get the job they studied for, gen z sees all of that and asks themselves what’s the point. Housing prices made home ownership out of reach for anyone born after 95 in most cases and by 08 the party was over.
No I moved to eugene and have been applying and interviewing everywhere finding work is next to impossible
I'm an older guy, I can only say i has nothing for most of life. I did my best and after 12 years at my job I finally got a major promotion. It's been life changing for myself. Even when I was dead broke for most of my life, I still felt pride working hard and having some purpose in life. My promotion wasn't all that long ago. I would say 5 years or so. I wish more of you had the opportunity that I had and continue to enjoy.
I’ve come to the realization that I’d rather be homeless than participate in this shitty failed system 🤷♂️ so now what , now tell me what I’m doing wrong , I’ve chosen the worst case scenario 😅
I agree but i just dont know what i would do with my time if i was homeless
Stop cursing its a sin!!!!..!.!.!.!.!
Just don't get addicted to drugs and don't be homeless in the city. Go to the woods. You are better off taking your chances with the animals and ghost.
Choosing homelessness and starvation means choosing death.
@@seanwieland9763and?
yeah gen z is living in doomland i feel for them man as a millennial, everything millennial experienced gen z is getting 5x worse
New business cycle is starting/ending. The last one was absolute trash. Anyone poor, no matter what age, lost hope
Its not going to be that way anymore