@@blackedhead tust mir leid, wenn du denkst unter der AFD würde es besser werden. Rechten Parteien geht es immer nur darum an die Fleischtöpfe zu kommen, halt wie bei der CDU, die AFD ist halt nur etwas rechter als die CDU ;)
Not saying it's only American problem. The problem is corruption and lobbying. It's not people with votes that control government but corporations with money.
That's 3% of the market. I hate it when people say this. The problem is the pooling of money in unproductive assets. This pooling is driven by fake demand. In other words, it's banks handing out 10+ year loans like they're candy and enabling people who would otherwise not have the money to spend on assets that don't actually produce anything. All you need to ask yourself is at a time when production is the highest it's ever been, where is the fucking money? I'll tell you where it's going, real estate and entitlement programs. Both are "assets" (even though only one of them technically is I am going to call them both that and leave this note here to get semantics out of the way) that don't produce anything when money pools in them. It didn't used to be like this. It used to be that almost none of our economy was entitlement programs and we used to have restrictions on lending too before the 1970s when real estate began to balloon. Sorry for ranting, I just hate it when I see dumb comments like this. Also listening to Asmon talk about economics makes me want to puke. He actually sucks at and doesn't know anything lol
Billionaires who own those corporations shouldnt be allowed to own more than 10 homes. Nobody needs more, its just speculating with housing. Some people own 150 homes while families cant afford 1 on 2 salaries…
@@FranciscoSalas33 don't forget those properties are spread all over the world, and sometimes they also own the island the mansions or castles are on! Different countries.
the best part is people advertise making money by buying out foreclosures then selling the house 3x the amount the neighbors house goes for. its pathetic. "oh ivcan buy this fixer uper annnd a Corp bought it already"
The "Pick up by your bootstraps" and "Working hard" sentiment is completely valid and something I do agree should be adhered by. But what many critiquing boomers don't understand is that many Gen Z'ers DO want to work hard and don't mind a 9 to 5. Just look at the "grind" and "hustle" culture, the feeling of putting effort in has never vanished. But what's more difficult nowadays is that Gen Z'ers are not given the opportunity to work hard or, if they do, it does not give them a rewarding amount of dividends, so they have to work more hours or juggle multiple jobs and risk burning out. But when they complain, the critiquing boomers say "just work harder", like working hard is like powering up in DBZ, where you just scream louder. They treat working hard or trying harder as something physical, where you just pull energy from *some*where. "I've been sending applications to dozens of job offers and going personally to places to look for a job, but have been refused every time!" "Well, just try harder!" "Yes, I will...hand the CV...harder...and click the send button on my email...harder...". Like, do they expect us to go out into the street and go "I NEED A JOB NOOOOWWWWWW".
Crazy part is I can outwork a boomer and I'm a millenial. The age they were in is braindead they can barely work a phone so we have to do physical work and adapt to technology that mentally exhausts us.
Couldn't agree more! Gen Z wants to work hard. But if you offer no guarantee of growth, don't expect people to stay. When I was at Walmart, it was not until I put in my two weeks' notice that they asked if I wanted to become a department manager. No! I had already taken the next job. Maybe you should have been more attentive to the needs of current employees and not act like I am important only when I decide to leave.
I know a friend younger than me (I'm 26) who works 40-50 hours a week plus doing doordash, Ubereats, Amazon flex, etc on the side. His bank accounts show him bringing in about 4-5k a month or more. He recently had to use fake paystubs with the help of a family member who owns a business to get a 2 bedroom apartment because his job income isn't 3.5x the rent and he doesn't have 2 years of tax paperwork for the side hustle jobs. Actual bullshit. Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps mean nothing in this economy. Btw the rent for the apartment is $1400 a month. The cheapest rent you can find in our county for a 2 bedroom that doesn't come with roaches.
@Careless-sv6cf That whole "I see you have the exact amount to pay my rent, but I see your salary ain't big enough" landlord strategy is actual highway robbery 😓
I do feel for you but here is the reason that boomers give you generation crap because all of us have gone through it. This current generation gets more crap because your generation bitches more. We all had crappy low paying jobs in the beginning we all couldn't afford a good place to live much less buy a home. The difference is we all knew it would take time, and we would have to sacrifice part of our time and lives. It just seems that this generation when they run into the exact same problems, we did at the exact same age you guys go crazy. Yes, No Tesla, yes, no nice apartment, yes having to eat eggs and potatoes to survive. This is why you keep hearing " Work harder" because that's what we did. Hate to tell you in the end based on decisions and work ethic you still may not have that golden life you're looking for. Not trying to be a jerk just that the way life is whether you like it or not. Some make it and live the rich life some don't.
And it's insane how people downplay it by saying things like "you have to factor inflation in." or "It was like this when I was young." When my mom was born(1980) rent was 12% of most people's income, today it's 36%, a house was 2.7x your income vs 6.3x today, the cost of college annually is 8x higher, new cars were 3.8x someone's monthly income whereas their 8.1x now. The inequality has gotten ridiculous and is only getting worse, eventually people are going to reach a breaking point.
@computertutorials1286 many people have, and our leaders just continue to double down. It's almost like the Western world is being dismantled on purpose.
Its not that people don't want to work hard, its just that working hard and grinding should be getting extra but instead many people are still not getting the minimum.
Yep. The manosphere grifter Asmon is watching is purposefully obfuscating that point. I don’t blame Asmon for not knowing about that grifter tho. He seems ok on the surface but his other videos reveal his hand
@@jonlocke7112 its not that simple. There ARE places where you could be working like a madman and not be able to actually live "comfortable". At the end of the day, people like that have to leave behind a place like that in order to actually have an opportunity.
Glad he made the point about the uni party. To think the two party system are actual rivals and not working together to screw you is like thinking WWE is real.
There are many western countries with more than two parties and the same shit happens there as well. There is no institutional solution to this stuff because the institutions are interested in creating these difficulties to begin with.
If it's like the wwe it's more like a obvious yes but. Really no. Nobody wants to jump 12ft off a ladder or have someone break your neck cause a.move is botched etc
Well I mean I'd say that he has worked pretty hard to cultivate an audience that will pay him to complain about government unlike us plebs who do it for free
@@drdoominstien713he does but he still works hard lmao if you complain and work hard you will have a far better chance of success than not working hard and complaining
i would even say if your complaining about government AND getting money from it i would tell my kid to focus on that because your good at it and its making you money
@ even if its 50% chance of success its better than doing nothing and having a .0001 percent chance of success that .0001 percent is like a relative you never knew about held like 10000 stocks of FB and just decided to give it to you or you won the lottery or some BS lol obviously also morality is questionable i would never tell my kids to sell their bodies and thats not a factor here the conversation is work hard morality hasn’t come into play in this conversation and is another topic
I don't hate the country, I hate the people running it. All they care about is themselves and I'm just told that I'll own nothing and should love it, while they line their own pockets and can ship THOUSANDS to everyone and everywhere else, but 0 for the people THEY SWORE to protect and defend.
@@Nightmare-wo2gd That is why i'm a proud "traitor to America"! I support the country, but not either of the gangs that fight over ruling the country! A vote for the lesser Evil is still a vote for Evil!
Well nobody can predict the unpredictable. In the same regard nobody told our parents to stock up on property because it would be worth x15 in the future. Can we blame our parents? No, therefore we can't blame the teachers either, nor ourselves for believing them. Our gen is fucked by unpredictable forces and who knows what's gonna happen to the next gens.
The thing is we aren't supposed to buy phones or consoles or stuff like weed and drugs in order to survive and also work 7 days a week and 40 years while investing our money somehow is the only way unless someone is born with an advantage somewhere or inheritance
“When the livestock stops breeding, it is not the livestock who should be concerned, but rather the farmers and the feed suppliers.” Something’s gotta give.
Here is one thing that will solve housing prices and availability in the US incredibly fast: Scaling property tax. You make it so depending on how many properties a individual or company owns, property tax percentage scales up more and more up to a massive cap, so people who own 2 or 3 homes have to pay a decent bit more to hog more resources to themselves on a yearly basis, but companies or individuals who own 10s, 100s, or even 1000s of properties will just be hemorrhaging money for hogging housing treating it as some kind of stock investment. So many real estate firms own massive amounts of houses or apartments in highly desirable areas to live in that are VACANT for YEARS because nobody wants to buy for the price they're asking, so this would literally bleed even them dry if they refuse to sell for a price people wanna pay. It'd go back to being a competitive market again and companies that aim to make a profit off flipping houses would have like a 1 year time limit to sell or their costs starts scaling. On top of this, they could make an initiative that all the bonus tax revenue from this goes into affordable housing subsidies for low interest loans and/or down payment assistance.
FYI, home flippers are already incentivized to sell quickly, the more units they turnout in a year, the more money they make. A small part of me is little jealous of what they do, but they aren't really the problem. It's the large firms that buy up hundreds of homes in an area. Once they control the market, then they get to set the price. I would set a cap of 50 homes. That's small enough to breakup the big players and create competition, but still large enough that it gives individual investors & family businesses something to aspire to.
Let's start that at 4 properties. Cuz I have a partial stake in a crap property no one wants but can't sell cuz there's 40 heirs that can't agree, so I would be penalized for something I gain nothing from. And one day is like to get a farm but it would take me 5-10 years to build it, while also having to live in my house, that would put me at 3, all of them already hemorrhaging money in taxes and plant inputs that may not recuperate for 5-10 years, if they make money at all, most farms don't make much money
I think alot of these kids believe the only jobs that exist are tech jobs or fast food. I went into the trades after high school. I will never not have a paying job because everyone needs a plumber. I could quit my job on monday and have 4 companies calling me on tuesday desperate to hire me. I'm thankful the older men in my life earned me not to pursue college and instead start the trades early. Now at 30 I rarely have to do my own labor. I got crews I manage to do that.
@@GloomGaiGar actually now a days working smarter gets you more work as your bosses will notice this and push more work on you, while leaving the other lazy workers no responsibility. Its burns them out and they move onto the next job. Its why businesses now cant hold employees because they dont wanna pay a decent wage and keep giving them more work to penny pinch on having more staff.
@romanticwander meh I like my job the harder the work the more you make I get paid commission per job and get stocks in the company every year I can retire off of one day as long as they don't go out of business and that's the incentive to work harder to keep customers so you get more money now and to keep the business running till you retire
43 yrs old here. Went to trade school and now a union construction worker. Ive been pulling myself up by my bootstraps for over 20yrs now and somehow im still where i started. Actually worse bc i cant afford to buy the same house i bought when i was 22. The lifestyle guys i worked under had when i started out is nothing but a pipe dream anymore. I don't blame kids for not wanting to do it bc now i regret wearing myself down and wasting my youth thinking if i just pulled myself up by my bootstraps it would pay off. Ive prob cut 10 yr or more off my life working in unhealthy environments so GTFOH with that bs.
Dam bro I wanted to go to a trade school, specifically Lincoln tech shit was mad expensive. Im 18 and have no direction in life . But I want to keep convincing myself that if I work hard enough. I can provide a comfortable for the people around me. Thanks for the advice. Hope your doing well
@GREASEBALLSOh dont completely discount it though bc its still better than a lot of other jobs. Im just saying if have certain things you want in life dont bank on hard work and time always paying off. Look for other ways to invest and make money. Start a business or something. But my biggest regret is prob not doing something i really love to do that would make me look forward to going in everyday. Also if you join the union they have their own school and training program. If you dont mind devoting the time i would look at starting your own company bc you won't get rich working for someone else and that's a fact. Goodluck i wish you the best for real.
@anthonybrown5177 that includes the benefit package which isn't all benefits you'll see. Overpriced health insurance eats up most of it. Oh and wait till you pay your union dues bc that pay drops if you factor that in. Dont get me wrong its better than some jobs but its not even close to what it was 20 yrs ago. Based on the cost of living today it barely qualifies as middle class depending on where you live. In most places it doesn't.
The phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” originated shortly before the turn of the 20th century. It’s attributed to a late-1800s physics schoolbook that contained the example question “Why can not a man lift himself by pulling up on his bootstraps?” So when it became a colloquial phrase referring to socioeconomic advancement shortly thereafter, it was meant to be sarcastic, or to suggest that it was an impossible accomplishment. Eventually, however, the phrase’s commonly-accepted meaning evolved, and now when we tell people to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” it’s implying that socioeconomic advancement is something that everyone should be able to do-albeit something difficult. It was *_LITERALLY_* reversed from it's original meaning of "It's obviously, physically impossible" to "You should be able to do it, it's just hard." The fact it's such a mainstream saying is a true demonstration of the country's level of absolute brain rot.
95% of boomers have never ever been close to a 90 hour work week in their life. That's 13 hours a day every day. Desk job or on your feet, 13 hour work days are soul draining.
This is not even the problem - I am ok to work 13 hours a day if my work is valued and my effort is recognized. But it is all not needed - you are expected to just kiss the bosses asses and accept the guilt for their fuck ups. And this is a fucking stress that puts you down and eventually gets you sick
News flash it's always been like that! Tiny ruling Elite and everybody else.Regardless whether its Capitalism or Marxism, power always rests in the hands of apowerful few.
Yep. And you can't get out of it by working smarter. You have to work "smarter" and that requires money that most people don't have! Otherwise you have to be friends or relatives with the boss.
Or Vote for the man to bring down the cost of living and inflation over time so you don’t have to kill yourself every day to make that living similar to working smarter not harder.!
@@EdwardM-t8pFalse, you absolutely can get out of it by working smarter and being your own boss. Learn how to be as self-sufficient as possible, for starters building your own house and learning all the necessary survival skills, hunting/fishing/gathering/cooking/storing your own food (and other resources) so you don't need to rely on anyone else. But it's easier to complain and be sucked into the slave mentality so you don't have to think for yourself..
A tiny apartment I rented for $800 twelve years ago is now $2300. It’s completely absurd. I don’t even live by any tech moves or anything. Just a college.
That will never stop. Gentrification. If you live/lived somewhere desirable, people will pay more to live there. Move to Mississippi, Kansas, Alabama 😂
Where does this dude live? Normally, the people i hear complain about not being able to live while making 3 times thr minimum wage are trying to live in the most expensive areas of cities.
is $450,000 a lot for a house around there? the average where i live is 760,000. i saw a house for sale, 1 story cape, one bathroom, unfinished basement and attic, hasn't been renovated since 1960, 2.2 million dollars.
My neighbourhood in Canada is a working class area the houses there go from 1.5 to 2.8 million for a backyard front yard rotten roofs some of em and not well maintained houses yea that’s the new normal brother sorry to say
@@axelsommer697 Yeah man Canada is batshit. I'm 48 and the house I grew up in as a kid was about 36 thousand bucks. The average CAR costs that much now, and a tiny little house costs 10 times that much! Houses today really cost 10 times more than when I was a little kid for the same house. The average Canadian after-tax (take-home) income has NOT increased by a factor of 10, not even close! It has almost doubled since the early '80s but sure as hell not ten times!
the complaint wasn't taxes per se the rally cry was no taxation without equal representation. same problem we have now, no one feels represented anymore
@@bradymiller9096Some people literally have no representation. We have teenagers who work jobs but aren't old enough to vote. They are still taxed on their income. Taxation without representation.
taxes aren't the problem its every single company raising prices over inflation. Taxes would be my 3rd biggest expense. First would be housing if i paid for it, and second would be food or medical bills.
Why can't you work hard and complain? People are working hard and have the right to complain when the system is rigged against them, ignoring it isn't going anywhere either.
Exactly, the people who are working the hardest tend to be the ones who are complaining the most. He is out of touch. The main issue where facing is that we have to work extremely hard for NOT EVEN the bare minimum.
@@rubenmendez4314 Agreed. I'm an older millenial, and I remember how hard it was for me, and I can see how it's gotten harder for every generation following the boomers, but it really kicked off for the millenials. I have a 12 year old daughter that I'm concerned for, what kind of future will she have? I work, my husband works, we own and operate a small business, and we are just getting by. Everything has been a struggle. We wouldn't even have our house if my Mom didn't put it in her name for us before the interest rates shot up. Despite my excellent 800+ FICO scores, we are self employed and they make it 10× harder to buy a home. I started reading their plans regarding Agenda 21 ten years ago the first time we tried getting approved. It didn't make sense why it was so difficult, we had a down payment, good credit, provable income, so what gives? Then after some research, I realized they wanted to slowly phase out private land and home ownership. As well as cars, farms, small businesses, etc. Fast forward to now, what may have seemed questionable to some back then, is becoming obvious in every way. When the WEF said "You'll own nothing and be happy" they meant it, just minus the happy. The reason homes are so expensive now, is because they quietly started putting insane restrictions on building several years ago in compliance with Agenda 21, severely limiting supply, creating artificial scarcity. Then they allowed global, private equity firms to start buying home the remaining stock of homes at stupid high prices, jacking up the property values even more. This also raised taxes in residential neighborhoods, pricing out even more people. The high interest rates pretty much sealed the deal for most if us trying to make the American Dream ever being achievable. The icing on the cake will be the theft of inheritance. As the govt has been busy creating policies that allow the states and banks to scoop up any family properties that parents intended to pass down. Using legal loopholes like the medicaid 5 year lookback, inheritance taxes, proper titling and flaws in wills, etc. Pretty much anything that wasn't pre-drawn up by a team of lawyers going through all the laws and legal documents with a fine tooth comb, making a potential inheritance plan bullet proof, will likely be a fight for many down the road. They've weaved in so many pitfalls to lose your family home it's insane. It's just a shame what has happened in this country. Seems as if Dems are corrupt af, and beholden to the global government model, and Republicans are complacent in stopping it. Socialism and communism is NOT the answer. Those policies are what's been keeping people poor and under their control.
This isn't a Gen Z thing, it's just Gen Z tend to make tiktok, instagram and youtube videos about it so they get more exposure about it because they're more apt to use more modern technology to voice it, every single generations complains about something, and yes, if you don't think older people complain about the issues (warranted or over-exaggerated is irrelevant) they face in their own country you're delusional. You just have to go knock on their door and ask them about it, they're not like Gen Z who will voice their opinion with mediums that reach millions of people in seconds. We really have to stop normalizing people voicing their opinions on social media as the thing "everybody" does on the planet and thinking it's just "what is happening". A video getting around 1-2million views with a planet of 8 billion is a below 1% minority watching it.
Here in the Netherlands as well. Back when my mom was young she bought her first house at the age of 26 with a simple cleaning job. That stuff is unheard of today.
same in norway, its almost impossible for a normal single person to get a loan for a tiny small apartment for 1 person whitout help from parents. Live in north norway, and the city i live in has almost same house price as our capital becouse rich people buyed everything and rents it out to working class. they forces the prices up, and since house price go up, rent do the same.
for example.. Here at Brazil, this sh1t agenda started later.. like 5 years ago.. like.. they are importing this gender things, free money, etc, this ideas, from USA just a few years.. and im seeing this problems on USA years ago
I'm a millennial nearing 40 and I'm 100% in this guy's camp. The country is going to hell real fast from the unchecked monopolization of basic human rights.
My parents didn't have to pull up anything. They made significantly less than I do and they didn't work overtime or 2 jobs. They had basic jobs with basically little education and they easily bought a home. Buying a home is not even a thought for me. It's literally impossible.
Here in Australia similar scenario my grandfather who I don't like (personally reasons) was a peasant from a village in greece who barely pass elementary school yet his had a very basic job shoe repairing and basically payed his house off quick and they have the nerve to till us we have to work harder due to our worthless buying power. I'm sorry I wasn't born in the 50s and 60s oh it my fault
The dollar was worth more then and you had greater buying power. If you want to get back to those times you have to stop supporting the government getting involved in the economy.
@@av3rsi0n You say that like The majority of us think like this. Most people don't care apparently otherwise we read seem much more of a change instead of a constant decline
the best part of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is the original meaning of the phrase was when there was something that was literally impossible to do
right! lol, think about the meaning, it's literally IMPOSSIBLE to pull yourself up by your bootstraps lol. What does that even mean in the context of life anyways? Most people ARE working at a job, or 2 and still cannot afford to pay RENT, not even building any wealth just giving away all their money to a corp or slum lord just so they can exist.
A similar example of an impossible task (of the same kind) from literature (late 18th century) is Baron Münchhausen successfully pulling himself (and his horse) out of a swamp by his own hair.
Yes, the whole "bootstraps" phrase is a form of dark humor. People used to say it when describing something impossible, kind of like telling someone in a sinking submarine to "hold your breath!"
To advance our civilization is why we all must work. Imagine a construction going on in your house with major repairs but we only repaired your house one or two hours a week / or even just a few hours a day. It will ruin the comfort of your life. It's the same principle in our civilization. Now the pay, we can thanks big brother for that. Stop going to government for the solutions when they're the ones that created the problems. Inflation is real.
“I don’t want to work more than 4 hours a day.” Great, your doctors appointment is in 3 years, the gas station is open for 8 hours a day, there is no food available because farmers stopped working.
I'm 30 and used to believe in the pull yourself up by the bootstraps mentality. I've worked my whole life away up to this point and everytime I achieved stability enough to live on my own it was all stripped from me. Almost always by a jealous manager these days work just exploits you and at my age I have no real life experience or passions. My whole life all I've known is work, eat, sleep and repeat. These kids have it even worse than when I was their age and unless you start your own business or get super lucky and land a top end job with your qualifications, you can't function without working every waking moment of your life away.
I'm 33. Similar story. I've pulled myself up, climbed the ladder.. just to get dirt thrown in my face at the top. I'm in the trades, worked my way up to foreman for a non-union company, just to find out the older guys were making double what I was and I would never be paid that much. So I went to the union and yeah I make better money, but the cost of everything damn near doubled over the last two years so I'm just as broke as I was before. I make $45/hr and I scrape by with my built in 1962 house and my 2007 rust bucket Chevy. The system is totally fucked. Everytime I think this is it, things are going to change.. they don't. They just devise new ways to take my fucking money.
I feel u heavy on this one bro. I'm 23 and also taught at a young age to go to school work hard and you'll be successful. Sure I was also taught basic skills in order for survival and literacy and numeracy skills, but they were so fixated on me going to school first, then find a job after. So I graduated college got my degree only to end up in a Warehouse job. My bro and I are the only ones working and we're trying to get ourselves out of this financial crisis we're in. Especially me all those years spent at school until college, the teachers and students; I realized how decedent and nihilistic I've become especially my parents my mom especially pushing me to strive towards "greatness". Nowadays all I do is work eat and sleep like u. This is what the people in control want. They want to slave away your whole life without the chances of u being truly successful and happy. Trust me things aren't all sunshine and rainbows in where I'm from either. Track&Field or Customs are like the only solutions I can get out of this mess
@@ApocalypseYesterday they got me 3 hours from home right now. Can't find work that pays enough near home. Kids and wife at home. Shit's brutal. So anyways the met gala 😑
I wanted to be the guy who sits in the tower attached to the bridge and pushes the button to raise it up and lower it down when a boat comes by... so I could play pokemon on my gameboy all day. Simpler times...
The problem with "pull yourself by bootsraps" advice is the same as "update drivers and restart" advice for computer issues. It's just a first step of solving an issue, it's already done, and the issue still persists.
The irony is that “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” began as a sarcastic phrase in a science textbook, iirc “why can a man not pull himself up by his bootstraps?” The point is that it’s impossible to do, so whenever that phrase is thrown around I’m always like “I don’t think that means what you think it means” 😂
Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is literally impossible, which I think is funny when people say that phrase in conjunction with work related shit bc you're literally telling someone to do the impossible
If I do everything perfectly - *fucking flawlessly* - some secret surprise bill will knock me right back down again. You have to be JAMES BOND to be a civilian.
"these people probably don't even know how to attach a PDF file to an email" as an IT analyst who has worked for the government I can tell you they DEFINITELY don't know how to do that lmao
@@thothheartmaat2833 We got old folks who don't even know what a TikTok is or how to log into Facebook. And yet they can ban the app. The Owner said he was from Singapore and these government folks are worried about China.
That's the story the founding fathers tell Americans. The real story is: So slave owners at that time don't have to pay taxes to Great Britain. America was founded on the basis of freedom for the wealthy class. The peasant/farmers get nothing. They just get tagged along to whatever the rich ruling class of America wanted to do at that time. And they've kept that scam going.
@@ghost1182able Absolutely, it will continue to get worse because people genuinely think it’s not worth it to start over, their lives are still too comfortable
A lot of people nowadays say: Gen z is too lazy... Well yea, why should we be motivated?!? We cant buy a house in our lifetime, a car is a luxury most of the time and buying food costs half of the paycheck..... So how should we motivate ourselves, if there is nothing we can change in order for us to have a better life? Maybe selling my organs would help with the rent.....
Can't even afford to leave. Trust me, ive already been trying. I love the USA, but I feel like I'm working for nothing here. Earn USD, and go overseas is the plan
Boomers telling us to "Pull yourself up by the bootstraps" either don't realize it's an idiom or they legit want us trip grab our legs and flip over, tripping on ourselves, never to go up on the American caste system.
10 years ago one of my neighbors down the street passed away and his family was trying to sell the house. It is a small three bedroom house on 10 Acres and they originally listed it for about $80,000 and had the lower the price several times before somebody finally bought it for just under $40,000. Last year the neighbor right across the street with an almost identical house and 10 acres of land went up for sale for over a quarter million and it sold within 3 hours of listing. Things are insane.
That was still a good deal if the property was purchased by a corporate developer. They could build 10 new homes on one acre lots and generate $$$$$ if the land is in a desirable location.
This used to be for people that wanted to be mega rich, work like crazy early on, make a bunch of money, reinvest and be rich in a decade or something. Now you have to work 12735 hours a month just to have an barely average life.
I tell everyone to get a job in IT and become an expert on automating manual processes. I'm not a boomer but I'm in my 40s and having a job in IT has kept me employed with a decent salary. Granted I make 100k and can't buy a house, but I'm in cali 🤷🏼♀️
My parents house was 16,000 lol they could a paid it off in 1 year. It's worth 250k now 😂 I'm almost 40 and I saw the power of the dollar plummet the past 20 years. When I was 18, I could work 20 hours a week and rent a place get food we ed and even internet 😂 Now it takes working minimum 40 hours and your gonna be broke mostly unless you find something good.
Toronto is essentially the hub of canada so the high prices there at least make sense. Those same prices being so high throughout the GTA is crazy however.
Yeah, but you're forgetting that you're talking about CANADIAN dollars. Let's be real, Canadian 450k Canadian dollars is like 5 bucks in actual proper dollars 🤣
the parts situation at 23:57 that's for ongoing maintenance for existing aircraft not the purchase of new ones. we don't buy fleets of new aircraft relatively speaking we buy to add to the pre existing pile. that's why aircraft/tanks/support vehicles come in variants a b c etc. So much of what is in use is recycled or refurbished from pre existing inventory some salvage some new old stock that baggy of 90k bushings is predatory on this fact
But we do need to keep making them or we lose the knowledge and ability to make them, even if you write the process down, something important will be lost, the machines and everything else will go away. Manufacturing is like math, you can't forget everything then start at Senior year calculus. You have to restart from grade 1. So it makes sense to continue to manufacture
They will ALWAYS use the INFLATION excuse.... a trillion dollar company.... complaining about how them raising their wages is causing inflation and now they have to double their prices. We are being lied to, the inflation cannot be that bad, or it would not if the greedy corporations stopped lying through their teeth that they HAVE to raise their prices.
Lol yeah coincidentally they all do it at the same time but didn't during Trump's time in office. You cry about record profits but don't consider actual profit margin.
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps anymore than you can pull yourself up by your shoe laces." This is the actual full quote, from the 1800's. Kind of funny how we eliminated 2/3 of it and completely flipped the meaning around.
I've noticed that we're currently finding out that most American sayings are just half-truths (which means it's a complete lie). Wild. I wonder which next saying is going on the chopping board.
Or this gaslighting phrase: "You can't have your cake and eat it". Erm... cakes are for eating. I mean, what's the point in having a cake if you're not going to eat it?
It's insane. Not only is this the case. But I'm in sales, I have a biochemistry and engineering degree. But to live on my own has been insane. I still have a roommate, and it's only a 2 bedroom apartment. This isn't even including debt from college and my car payments or even my insurance. Like wtf
*only* $450k for a working class neighborhood home? Bro, Canada's homes, which some are completely rundown, broken, old and ain't worth a shit are going for $1+ million. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous. And it's getting worse.
25, two degrees in electrical engineering & software development but cant be hired due to no experience. I cannot afford to move out of my parents home. Shit is fucked
Born too early to be a dystopian enjoyer. Born too late to be a boomer and get an easy lease on life. Born just in time to witness the moral, economic and cultural colapse of Western Civilization. It's gonna be fun bros.
@@P.rivate Used to be they'd fire experienced people after several years and bring in fresh recruits. This was a cost saving measure. Now, I do not know you personally and this is not a knock, I'm generalizing, but kids fresh out of school simply lack the skills to even be trained on the job. It's cultural as well as financial
Born too early to be a dystopian enjoyer. Born too late to be a boomer and get an easy lease on life. Born just in time to witness the moral, economic and cultural colapse of Western Civilization.
I think a big issue for a lot of guys with the bootstraps mentality is that the older generations saying this all the time had a goal, you have people depending on you, it gives you a reason to wake up in the morning. You have purpose. And sadly a lot of guys including me simply dont have anything to motivate us to do that. I went to school, because an LPN make around 60k a year, nothing to scoff at. I've worked almost 3 years straight without any major breaks because the nursing shortage is so bad they wont grant me any time off. I've saved up a decent amount of money but am no closer to owning a home despite already paying off my student loans since the required down payments in my city are ridiculously high, everything outside of the city is rural and hours away from my friends and people I care about. I'm an introvert, akward with people I'm attracted to and the couple times I have tried to get a relationship off the ground I got rejected and botched relationships with those people. And theres always that fear of being called a creep or worse when trying to approach women which definitely doesnt help so I've kind of given up. So im burnt out, no closer to any of my goals and have little to show for all my work. And personally I want and need someone to build something with. I don't see any point in doing it for myself. All at the age of 22
I'm 25, and same thing. Just returned to school and finished my first semester to become a teacher (Only need two-ish years because of my prior education). Hopefully, I can meet someone there and I enjoy the job because with all the benefits we'd both get and having the benefits of two-person living I might just be able to live a decent life.
"Working hard has a higher success rate at making money than complaining about the government," is exactly what the government wants you to think. The longer they can keep you just barely above water and willing to dish out insane work hours to make ends meet, the more value they can squeeze out of you in the short term. How is the guy demanding a higher pay for additional responsibilities ever going to get any sort of credibility if there's someone willing to take on those responsibilities for no extra pay because he's grateful to have a job in the first place? How is someone working two jobs, 7 days a week ever going to have to time to think about or push for change on a societal level when the vast majority of time is spent just surviving. It's their goal to exhaust you to make rebellion impossible. It's a form of control. And it's working, sadly. I'm glad that kid is angry. I'm glad he's sharing that anger. We need it right now.
@@jamestipton7872 Well, actually, now you can't do anything because we the governement didn't you know? We were allowed to rebel several centuries ago, but you can't right now because we say so, now keep figuring out your taxes even though we know perfectly what you owe us because we get paid lobby money by the tax helper companies to do so.
American dream is about Screwing other people so that they can have a better life, and make Shareholders happy. it's like an overgrown plant, unchecked growth leads to the destruction of other plants in the area as well, you can only grow so much, if you kept growing at all cost past your Peak, you'll become a parasite.
@@sliime2369 Because they have upward mobility here that does not exist in their own country. My neighbor was broke immigrant 8 years ago and now he has 6 plumbers working under him. Buying a million dollar house in PSl Florida.
All these wannabe Econ majors that are fighting over the fact the man shouldn’t be able to afford a house over 3x minimum wage is wild. America is cooked
@@glowormsit's possible. the difference is kids today think non essential goods and services are essential so they keep pissing their money away without even knowing it
The vast majority of times I hear people bitching about capitalism the complaint at its roots almost always are the result of the injection of socialism or communism into our economic system. Why is it so many people seem to be allergic to even the slightest amount of critical thinking.
@breakupgoogle don't forget about countless people left homeless thanks to covid. Which immediately made them and their opinions invalidated to those still above water.
Uniparty is absolutely true. When an "outsider" comes in they both work together to get that third party who doesn't want to play by the "rules" kicked out.
Haha and you think the US went multiparty would make any difference. IM from the UK all it dose is fragment parties overall making it all weak. UNITED WE STAN , DEVIDED WE FALL...
@@AwesomeIlOll3000 ho ur so far off the mark with this statement. Clear you do not know your own countries political situations nor the the geopolitics
@AnonIllumi Oh boy, here we go. I am not sure what you mean but this. I gave two examples, one from the left and one from the right, in which two presidential candidates, two "outsiders" were forced out. Not sure what you are taking issue with.
My grandpa's house was something like $70,000 in the 1970's, and FHA house, nothing fancy, but a 3 bedroom 1 bath with a carport.. A credit card scam led to the bank taking his paid for home, for a $20,000 credit card over the phone scam against a disabled veteran elderly person. The house was sold for around $90,000 around 2008 or so.. and that home never made it above around $120,000 in value over the next 10+ years. I've waited for the house to be back on the market, hoping to buy my family home back.. *I bet it's a $300,000 house now.. completely unaffordable.. I'm afraid to even look.* 🤦
That about sums it up. Most guys only work at a job so he can afford to do HIS work. Create his art, build his classic car, get his "man cave" going. Build his doggy house or play on his killa new guitar rig and piss the neighbourhood off with his punk/metal drumming! It's exceedingly rare that any man no matter who he is will have a dream job of any description. Dream jobs include being an astronaut or an auto racing champion. Possibly a "tech guru" for those so inclined, or certain careers like being an airline captain definitely come to mind. Don't forget fighter pilots either! Being 'Knights of the Sky' has probably been a dream job for some guys since aircraft were invented. Very few people grow up dreaming of grinding away in an office or a factory. Those are Jay-Oh-Bee style jobs. They are an essential part of the economy in any industrialized country but for most people (not all) they are NOT living the dream as it were and it's just how they make bread.
Big miss here, politicians don’t talk about the big issues impacting us not because we’re too stupid to understand, it’s because they don’t want to fix these issues. They don’t really want to fix these massive issues like corporate ownership of private housing because they get a lot of money from those corporations. Our stupidity comes into play in the fact that it’s so easy to distract us from the things that directly impact most of us with things that impact very few.
incentives, people go with the flow, and politicians are more apt than anyone to do this, but the lie that they serve the people keeps being said, when now its painfully obvious they don't, this happens every time, and every time, it ends with well, them not being around anymore.. and never does the next batch of corrupt elite learn.
Has nothing to do with corporate ownership, it's all because of government policies not allowing for more housing to be built. Take California for example; they could just build a boatload of skyscrapers and make it affordable, but they refuse to, and now the middle class is leaving in droves. It's basically illegal to build any new houses & apartments and takes year and years of approval for anything new to be build.
When I was 19 back in 1982, I did not feel like this at all. I moved out of the house after high school in 1981 and was able to pay for an studio apartment by myself with a part time job while going to school. The cost of housing now is complete BS. Corporate rental home ownership has to go. I totally feel this guys rant. Justified. My 19 year old son has no chance of getting his own place at this point, since you need a minimum income of $5800 per month to rent a one bedroom apartment in our area in SoCal. The current economy is totally skewed towards the rich, who, coincidentally, buy the politicians who make the rules.
Lack of rent control. It used be that rent was a small part of the economy. Now rent determines how much we are paid. The more we are paid, the more rent goes up.
Yep. I grew up in a house that cost my parents $200k brand new. We were priced out of the area after 9 years. They sold the house for $750k, which was nice, but just to own the house cost them over $20k/year between property taxes and HOA fees that were a fraction of the price when they bought the house. That obviously doesn't include the mortgage and utilities. It's fucking disgusting how much it costs to own any piece of property.
Except that when they bought it it wasn't "cheap as fuck" and they still had to work to be able to keep the house. The fact that property appreciates in value over time doesn't somehow negate that fact.
My dad worked at Walmart in the tire center for 12 years raising 4 kids with a stay at home wife and 2 cars. We had great Christmases, summers, birthdays. I have 1 kid, my wife and I both work, and we can bearly afford a car, food and rent. We make 3 times what my dad made with the adjustment for inflation. Something is broken. Its only been 15 years difference. I hate to think what another 15 years of this will do.
Yeah, back then you alone could literally work at a grocery store, raise a family of four, own multiple cars, and still live comfortably. Can’t do that anymore. Someone made a good point about this: the Simpsons for example, if that show debuted today, it would just be Homer and Marge with no kids, and barely affording an apartment.
@S113Productions yeah bro future looking very grim for me. 16 right now, and all I can do is hope this clears up as I can't control the billionares causing the problems.
The problem isn't following through with the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality. It's that even if you HAD that same mentality and worked JUST as hard as your fathers and grandfather's did in the jobs they had. In this economy, you STILL would be hard struggling every day.
Thats not true at all. People expect to live in the middle class lifestyle they grew up in. Thats the end result, not where you start. Their grandparents didnt start at middle class. Their parents didnt start at middle class. Young people feel entitled to live in a good area at a cheap price. That never was reality. Your first house is not going to be middle class. Get over it just like your grandpa did.
@@thebenc1537 You missed the entire point... you could start out in the lower class, work JUST as hard in the exact same jobs as your father and grandfather, and at the end of the day, not even touch the level of financial security they did. The POSSIBILITY of elevating your status to middle class just isn't there anymore.
@@jeffreyavalos782 yes a starter home is supposed to me a small cheap house. What is funny about that? Ohh you are just ignorant of the truth. I will educate you some if you wish. For starters go to zillow. Search your state for houses under 200k. Youll find tons of them for sale in rural/semi-rural areas. If you are too lazy to drive further to work then thats your problem.
where in the constitution does it say the government has the right to pledge the gold of the population of the nation as collateral for a debt to a private bank ? that is what happened 1913 we gave control of the money to a private bank. for some reason none of you have ever noticed.
i am a software solutions architect and i bougt a 83^m house in the capital with cash in 4 years while living in a rented chicken coop size room. im 22 with no degree
I never thought I would agree with this, but I do now. I think that's exactly what happened. There is a balance between eugenics and no child left behind. Let people reap their consequences.
I have a Christian version of that: wait 50 years and then let people vote. People who are too stupid to have children obviously won't matter soon enough. And it won't go in a circle because this is the first time in human history that we have the ability to say no to children both socially and economically.
"pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" doesn't fucking mean anything. it was first said as a joke about "doing impossible tasks" you cannot lift yourself up off the ground without some form of leverage. THAT'S THE JOKE. so saying, "you know, it sucks to hear it but pulling yourself up by your bootstraps really does work." like, no it fucking doesn't. it's like saying, "if you're hungry, eat the air!" and saying, "i know you guys don't want to hear this, but it works." you're out of touch.
Right, it surprises me that this phrase has been taken as an actual stance. As you said, it's quite literally an impossible feat to pull yourself up by your own boot straps. It's ironic.
way too many people get "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" and "bootstrapping" confused. the first as stated above means doing the impossible. the other means to start small and work your way up.
I pulled myself up and it didn’t work. I worked a shit low pay job and paid for my own school while living with my parents. Both full time. Got a software degree, now I can’t find a job and make 40k working 50 hours a week. Fucking bullshit.
Working hard doenst do shit. I worked like 220h a month at nightshift and got like 2k for it. Meanwhile ppl are getting like 6k for smoking allday. You gotta have the right papers and know the right ppl to get a good paying job. This has nothing to do with your contribution to society. And mostly ppl that earn a lot are not contributing to society instead they harm society. Do we realy wanna live in a world that rewards harming society and punishes contributing?
papers don't matter if you know the right people. i worked frontline healthcare for a bit and management were given bonuses (incentives) to save on all areas of the budget, including payroll. incentivized to keep the facility understaffed, under trained and lacking in supplies/tools. we're cooked.
My exact thought when he said this was bro in cali you aint getting anything for under a mil. There is no shot I am ever going to be able to afford to buy a house in Cali in my lifetime.
working hard and complaining about capitalism are not mutually exclusive. I used to do 380 hours a month, doing 16-hour shifts in fine dining for 11 years. all I got was debt, anxiety, and 7 heart attacks.
7?! What is that like hyper tension 9? Be safe my friend. I would say go chill on a beach but the way this economy is it might wind up being your new home if you take a day off to enjoy yourself. But seriously take care.
@Vancev99x apparently had a hole in my lower left ventricle, but the overworking and stress sure didn't help. Out of the business now, I have been working odd jobs until I can find a job that will allow me to sit down while I work for the first time in my life.
@@npcimknot958 the new unrealized gains tax plan by the current administration would apply this to family homes as well. So if you can't afford to buy the house your parents paid off you then lose it.
Logistically speaking it's shameful because we're the wealthiest nation of all and have no reason why we can't be living the kind of life where (like in the late 1800 and early 1900) you could work a minimum wage job and buy a house and raise a family.
I worked as a teacher at a community center and I would listen to boomers talk about how they're avoiding taxes on their 3rd or 4th house. The amount of money they avoid paying via careful accounting is honestly something else. Meanwhile I'm working two jobs and I can never even think about living near that area, it's like we live in different world.
Landlords gobbling up homes left and right, and NIMBYism where nobody (Liberals OR Conservatives) want new housing built near where they live, are just devastating young people wanting to get a start in life. In the end that will hurt everyone. I hope the movement to find solutions will gain momentum. In the meantime, TikToks like this are a start.
Not to mention ppl running up bs erroneous "business" credit and write offs....complete bs thinking we won the Cold war with all this redistribution of wealth and fraud
@@WardenWyrd It wont change untill our world goverments get "new blood" for leaders. Its criminal how much anyone under 30 isnt represented (Even older maybe) They wont change a system that benfits them and we can only hope the next ones change it rather than just use it to enrich themselfs.
See the problem isnt that we're lazy and not working hard. Its actually quite the opposite, gen z is forced to work 4x more than our parents and almost 8x more than our grandparents. This is what we find unacceptable and stupid, this is why "pull up your boot straps" dont mean shit to us because the world is a lot different and we would most definitely have to work harder than previous generations to achieve the same results (house, fam, car)etc.
its not that we work harder because we dont, In general our work lifes have improved an amazing amount but its everything else thats fucked , Simple to put we work the same for less
working longer for increasingly abstract and useless degrees and certifications is a major part of the problem most jobs barely need a high school education (though a broad grounding in history/arts/science/literature/etc is beneficial) coercing everyone, by means of taxes, into college and beyond is outright destructive, they should learn on the job
I was told by my financial advisor that I was in the upper 2 percent. I’m like- are you kidding me? I mow my own lawn, use coupons and drive a 5 year old minivan I bought for 18k.
@@melvano4014 and why should you have to keep adjusting your means to fit their ever-increasing bullshit? more power to you, but that shouldn't be the solution.
@@letmediecastyou have 3 choices: live within your means and be debt free, live above your means by financing everything and complain when you have no money, and typing out the third option will get me banned on UA-cam.
I'm dealing with this right now, same situation as him. Three times the minimum wage but if I were to go out on my own, I'd just barely be able to cover rent alone. That isn't covering utilities or gas or proper savings.
The juice was so worth the squeeze in our grandparents' day and age, it was worth being uncomfortable in a job because you could expect you were going to provide for a whole ass family and have a McMansion in exchange for it. It didn't even require being particularly smart or skilled. Every single braindead boomer got to thrive with no education and only on the job training. Now even if most people work their ass off they're going to get screwed. If we are going to get screwed, we may as well get screwed in a job where we don't have to walk three miles in the snow to get to it.
my boss at the old drive in resturaunt i worked at was a prime example. old as can be, but happily living a comfortable life for the past 30-40 years as a fast food employee / manager. he preached and preached about how "nobody wanted to work hard anymore" all. the. time. he lived in his own little bubble for his whole life and never noticed that the wealth he accumulated overtime and the seniority he gained at the company was a perfect storm. like, i can't even afford to eat right let alone save up for anything sustainable. he would be EXACTLY where i am today if he were my age today. underpaid, overworked, given all the shitty jobs that physically wear me out. IF I COULD AFFORD THE PROPER NUTRITION FOR MY BODY, MAYBE THE HARD WORK WOULDNT BE SO TAXING. it's insane. i hate it.
Yup. I worked my ass off to get a college degree, worked and managed a subway the whole way through. I had an interview for a job in mt field and I was rejected because someone with 8 years of experience was hired over me? But they were very impressed with me and that was the only reason because I don’t have enough experience? It’s so ridiculous. The only job I’ve been able to get is Walmart since graduating in December. My field doesn’t pay much more than Walmart now too. Gen z is outraged and lazy for a reason, because we will never have anything.
Very well spoken,my friend.. you actually have Put enough thought into it, that you actually understand it. You’ve earned my respect today if nothing else.
The guy in the car is speaking straight facts though. My dad when he came to America as a legal immigrant at 14 with my grandfather and was able to afford a house with a single minimum wage job on his own with his son, no schooling whatsoever since he was a farmer, couldn't speak a lick of English, and was still able to afford housing. Right now, the house I'm renting is 1800 a month, I make 2000 a month after taxes. If I lived alone, i simply couldn't live anywhere unless I got a roommate or a second job just to cover my car insurance, phone, and internet, the most basic of basic needs. I can't see how this is all going to work out, but I'm guessing it'll be a revolution once people hit their breaking point. Our forefathers who made America fought their mother country over a 3% tax, now Americans get literally anything they can buy taxed, you pay tax for the roads, your taxes go to government housing, your taxes go to the military, your taxes are being collected to be laundered to countries that hate us, etc. To be honest, I'm not feeling represented in government and I'm sure most normal people would say the same. For God's sake, I'd rather have my taxes going to getting a homeless dude back on his feet and not send millions to the middle east for "gender studies programs" to the group of people known for stoning women, beheadings, and throwing gay people off rooftops
Yep. Been saying it for a good while. I was done after 7 months of Biden. Problem is everyone with voice that matters refuses to do much, hell even celebrities are blacklisted for speaking the truth about the current administration.
@@Kspice9000 what means black listed ? what about the FAMOUS AMERICAN FREEDOM OF SPEECH ? Freedom of speech is the basics. It is all starts with freedom of speech. In Russia we do not have freedom of speech. I do not know any country in the world with real freedom of speech. I thought USA were that country. I even participated in green card programm. But than the war with Ukraine started so my green card programm is fcked. And know i am thinking that i don't need the green card, because anyway you have no freedoms, like people in Russia do not have any freedoms. So why one have to bother about moving to USA. No reason at all. Even mexicans.
"Our forefathers who made America fought their mother country over a 3% tax" No, they didn't. There were many, many more reasons that were far worse than taxes. You can read them in the Declaration of Independence.
Yo you can't write it off by saying working hard is better than "complaining". I had a 4.0 GPA in college and I couldn't get a job that paid above $10 an hour in my field of study. Why the hell did I work so hard for not being able to afford to live. I literally couldn't afford to work in my field of study. All it did was give me debt.
There are still pockets of America where you can still afford to live---but prices have gone up everywhere. One work around is to secure a remote work job where you are, once secured, move to a less expensive part of the U.S. You will be paid more if you get the job living in a more expensive area. Once the remote job is secured, the move to one of the pockets of low areas in the U.S. Second option is to get friends to pool money to buy a piece of land together. Check zoning! Modular homes and tiny houses can sometimes be bought on the cheap. Each person who invested in the land, can install a modular home or tiny house. And if anyone wants to sell, the others in the group have the first right to make a purchase offer. You share the land, but you can install a house. Modular homes are cheaper and bigger than a tiny house ---and if you have the land--a lot of the cost is reduced. Does that stink? Absolutely. But it still lets you find a way to work around the p roblem. Do I love tiny houses? Nope, but you can buy a 2nd hand one on Marketplace for cheap. If you can put up with the tiny house for a while---you can pay off your part of the land and save to build a bigger home or install a modular home.
Yes and no. This also weeds out people that have a lot of experience with the job and are good at it. Term limits exist and it's called "voting". These people can be voted out at any time during an election.
We should have term limits, politicians are supposed to represent the people, these seats should be shuffling frequently, but people just vote for the name they've heard before that's on their sports team.
I’m 42, it’s really bad now. Sometimes I jokingly post things like accelerate when I see the 60billion for Ukraine, 30 billion for Israel bill this past month, because the only way for the things to get better is for things to continue to get much worse.
I was in high school at the time so I didn't pay attention to much political stuff back then, but I do remember gas being $4.50ish per gallon in my area...in 2010. Now with minimum wage and average wages being what, 20-30% higher? and gas in that same area is hovering around $3.50 a gallon now? So its cheaper and wages are higher compared to 2010. Not saying the economy isn't in the shitter, but if the cost of living is comparable to gas prices in any way shape or form, we're better off now than in 2010. I'm now curious to see how much houses, rent and food compared in the 2008 crash compared to nowadays.
@@MrPerson61 Bro, wages haven't changed where I live. And gas has rose by 40% so I got no idea what you're talking about. Bro, my rent in of itself went from 2,100 to 2,300 and now there is mandatory costs on throwing away our trash. And I don't mean for disposal with the guys driving the trucks. I mean because apartment complexes now lock up the trash bins and they personally have to grab them from your space. Double dipping. Not to mention houses used to cost 350k to around at most 500k. Now it's a minimum 600k to 3 million. HOW ARE WE JUSTIFYING THIS!? "ChAngE mInimUm wAGe..." Shit, people are getting paid more. Guess we'll just up the cost of everything to compensate. Making it so that NOTHING CHANGES. Oh, and groceries. I go buy about 250 dollars worth of groceries a week... 60 dollars for a small slice of meat and 35 dollars for beef? And maybe some bread... 12-20 dollars a loaf.
The problem with “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” is hard work isn’t important. Knowing people is far more important, being born rich is more important than hard work. Hard work is not valued because it’s not incentivized, it’s exploited. Hard work doesn’t work, doing as little as possible to get by works better.
Exactly. If you work hard your deemed "too valuable for the means of production" and will never be moved up. The key is to be deemed a likable, useful idiot that can be easily manipulated by upper management but not capable/stupid enough to not be viewed as a threat.
Rapid inflation does not negate working hard and should never be regarded as such. "Bootstraps" is a personal motto that works. But in the current economy, I can understand why people would be disillusioned.
This is where asmond is semi wrong. Its not that he's wrong but the conversation is wrong. Its not "it's better to work hard than to complain" the conversation should be to work hard and continue to complain. You can and should do both. the way asmond put it is that you should work hard, suffer and shut up. But I THINK he meant what I said here. These ppl complaining aren't "just sitting around complaining about capitalism" they're actually hard workers that are still suffering and have every right and need to complain. Between myself and my wife we work 3.5 jobs and we make just enough JUST ENOUGH to survive and not have to look at the price of bread. That's not even the way we should be striving to be. That should be normal amongst people that work ONE good job. The problem is when you have an explanation from ppl who haven't lived it. not talking shit about asmond but he went from nothing to what he is now. Very little work very little experience when it comes to that. Yeah he saw his parents live a certain way but it was different then too and that was on his parents and their working or not. Yah I've heard his story but life is different now than it was 10 years ago. Talk about being priced out of your neighborhood. Check ball ground GA. 15 years ago you wouldn't find a few houses over $150k. Now they're STARTING at 400k 3 miles outside of town. Inside town (and i use town loosly because it's a dozen shoppes like ice cream shops and pizza joints and a burger bus) youre looking at around 800k to 2 mil. North Georgia is getting very very VERY heavily taken over by corpos and big money pushing people OUT. This week alone our property taxes went up another 31% THIRTY ONE PERCENT. Its all over the local papers and local facebook groups. We don't even have a Chick-fil-A in the county. Nothing that comes close to entertainment. No Dave and busters. No theater. Nothing but grocery stores and a Walmart. You're not even considered to be in the mountains yet. It's 1 county below any mountains thats why it's called the Foothills. And what's the sad sad truth is that everyone buying these houses are people that live 50 miles south at closest. Toward Atlanta. And I'd say 20% of these houses are second homes that stay vacant. Its frustrating.
At age 19 I didnt not feel what this kid is feeling. But at age 47 I am now. I sold my condo I owned since 2005 in 2020 right before the massive spike in home value increases and now I cant find my own place. This is insane. In 4 years I went fromm having a good amount of disposable income each month to now being in the negatives every month. I havent changed anything about my lifestyle. Now the money I got from selling my condo is draining away and I have nowhere to go. It's impossible to live on 50k a year almost.
Start making changes to the way you spend your money man. Gotta tighten up and spend smarter. Unfortunately inflation is out of control, so you gotta adjust with it. I'd start looking for a higher paying job in your field or adjacent.
@@Adiopowered yup. It's insane. I'm going to have to pretty much cut out all extra spendetures and not eat to be able to afford my own place. Great weight loss plan.
Yeee 4 years ago I was living a decent life now making even more money as journeyman plumber my money gets eaten up and my expenses are the same, I don't go out to drink, eat out a 20$ meal like once every 2 weeks, I don't drive my truck other then to work and gym no joy rides for me, it's sad 4 years ago with less money I felt more rich
People looking down on others living in trailers, but I’d rather live in my trailer and save about $1300/mo (I pay $489/mo PITI) than live in an apartment with 2 other randos and still be struggling. For comparison, a decent 1 bedroom apartment in my city is $1400-$1500/mo. Renting is a scam. Always has been. You’re paying family home prices for less-than-mediocre accommodations in a space that will never be yours. Where I’m from, $1800/mo would get you into a nice 2-3 bedroom house with a few acres of land. If you can afford a $500,000-$750,000 house out here, you’re living like the McAllisters from Home Alone. That’s probably part of the reason why a lot of people feel hopeless is because there’s no end to your treadmill. Worrying about making the month’s rent will be hanging over your head every day for the rest of your life. My trailer will be paid off in a little over 4 years and all I’ll have to pay after that is power/water and a couple hundred dollars per year in property taxes. I may not be living like a celebrity, but I make less than the kid in the video and have no stress.
Lived in run down trailers my whole childhood life and had and amazing time with all the other trailer park kids that have been my closest friends still to this day after 30 years. I've always been grateful that I came from having nothing and it's helped me appreciate the little things in life much more.
@chrisg4305 just working hard isn't enough. And Asmon creates a false dichotomy : you work hard or you complain. The white dude in the video does both. And the situation won't change if nobody complains.
It takes being in the right place at the right time, with the knowledge and resources needed to take advantage of the opportunity to succeed, as well as hard work, to make the opportunity happen. It's like baking a cake. If you know how to make a cake and put in the time and energy to make the cake, but there's no sugar, you'll get a cake that'll taste awful. ALL the ingredients need to be in place to make the cake a success.
@@chrisg4305 No, everyone who has ever gotten anywhere ever, worked SMART and probably very DIRTY, and NOT hard. Just about every mfracker who got rich like this says to work hard, when they NEVER did, or not even close to people who literally worked themselves to death. Tell THEM that, i am pretty sure they can no longer hear your from their overworked graves.
My current right wing conspiracy theory is that COVID was meant to keep the next generation of voters stupid, and not an actual threat to humanity as a species
It was never an existential threat. The fatality rate was not high enough to be worried about it wiping us out, and that risk was mostly concentrated among the elderly and obese.
what the hell are u talking about? i dont know a single person working 2 jobs, coz "they have to"... not ONE... USA is not the country u wanna look at, when looking at "standards" that should be followed, it's what u wanna look at, for what NOT to do...
There are many things wrong with the united states, unfortunately, there are more things wrong with countries OUTSIDE the united states, european ones being obvious examples.
The whole saying is kinda stupid. Because the whole point is that you can't pull yourself up by the bootstrap. You need help. You can't physically pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Go ahead: put on some boots, grab the straps, and try to pull yourself off the ground. You won't manage to "pull yourself up" in any meaningful sense because gravity is a thing. You can pull yourself up by a chair, a rock-climbing grip, or someone else's hand; you cannot pull yourself up by your bootstraps, or anything attached to your body. If you could, transportation infrastructure would look very, very different because humans would be capable of levitation. The expression "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was originally used to refer to a task that's impossible.
I hate when my parents said "when I was 25 yo, I already married and start a family. When I was 28 yo, I already have 2 kids." Bla bla bla bla... 🤦😑 She keep ranting with owning a house, some lands, etc. Excuse me. She got it thanks to her granma. She is not working day by day. Start from 4 am and go to fast food restaurant. She never work in warehouse and pork butcher shop where you are not allowed to take a break that long. You have to stand up for hours. You are not allowed to take a pee or relieve yourself. It is cold but you must get up early. She complain why I am not eat healthy, clean the house all the time, buy this and that. Excuse me. I am not eating that much. I go to nearby store and buy some foods. Then go to sleep. Sleep in the bed is like luxury to me. but she dare to complain about my life and even keep bother me with question "WHEN YOU GONNA MARRIED?". 🔥👀 W T H. I am not thinking about dating. Dating who? I am working from monday to Sunday. From morning till night. When I am sick, no one care. No money. Living cost is high. I still have student loans that need to be paid. So I hate those old generations who said that young folks are not working hard enough. Just go away please. I am sooo tired. I really want to get long sleep and never wake up.
I feel you, it's hard in these times but at the end of the day, working hard is better than groveling and being miserable. Keep pushing and opportunities will arise I'm sure 🙏
Stay up family. We are all in this together and your experience is a shared one. It’s hard out there for the young working class right now but keep on pushing and speaking your mind brother. One person at a time we have to change this world
@gospelofsatoshi9168 Congrats for the most shallow and empty reply to such a serious subject that is effecting both the middle and poor working class people in America struggling to make ends meet. The political class outsourced many jobs overseas and focuses on issues that don't help people struggling to survive, ie. foreign wars, climate change, heavy focus on identity politics and the border. Which leaves the poor working class out of any meaningful conversation or change for the better when it comes to addressing the cost of living expenses in our own country. Some of the cheapest houses on the market and yes that includes rural neighborhoods like one I live in are around 250k - 400k plus so even owning a house is out of the question for most people. Rent for even a little studio size apartment went from 300-400 dollars a month some 8-10 years ago to 700-900 or even 1100 dollars or more a month not including some utility expenses today. The price of what was once 1 dollar for cheap Walmart brand eggs is now $3.00 for a dozen. Meat, bread, fruit and vegetables have gone up a lot as well, even a box of $0.34 ramen is now over a freaking dollar now these days. It's like our government expects us to work excessive hours, live out of an old car or tent while going to work, have no retirement and just be poor and miserable while in a job for a employer that gives two $hits less about you and will replace your @ss in a moments notice if you're sick or become unable to work for a period of time. So F - the hell off with that pull yourself up by the bootstraps bull$hit!
For anyone wondering why housing is the way it is - the Federal Reserve does a thing they call "Quantitative Easing" where they print money and buy mortgage backed securities, among other things. These MBSs are traded like a stock but represent a large group of mortgages. This is done to boost the economy but the side effect is housing prices go up because you have more buyers getting loans (demand) chasing the same amount of supply. This has been going on since 2008 and ramping each year. So the economy looks better on paper because there's more activity but if you aren't in the boat, as a homeowner or a bank, you get more left behind each year this goes on.
Don’t forget the part where institutional corporations were acting as banks and getting 1% interest loans directly from the federal reserve between 2020 and 2022. Capitalism doesn’t exist when one entity pays $600 less a month on a mortgage than a normal human.
This is also compounded by issues like CA fighting tooth and nail to kill single-family housing, the cost of building materials (which is hugely dependent on gas prices) and the cost of building permits/licenses.
one way to fix the housing issue of people buying up multiple properties is to have no property tax on your primary residence and then double or triple the tax on the other properties
Make it so that the property tax per house progressively increases, the more houses one owns. Also, require US citizenship for purchasing. It’s not just corporate investors taking up the market, but foreign ones as well.
Better idea: abolish property tax. It goes to funding public schools so they will have to be abolished, which is another win. You won't have to fund other people's kids indoctrination, and they will have to pay for private school or home school. Regulations from Department of Education? No problem! Abolish that too! Government is not the solution, it is the problem.
Not only are these people working hard, they are ALSO complaining because working hard isn't enough anymore, nothing will change if all you do is work hard. People have to express their griefs with society in order for things to change. What kind of argument are you making???
"Hard work" doesn't work anymore. Smart work and luck works. People in a manual labor job can work hard, do ungodly amounts of overtime and try (and fail) to better themselves. Yet they still can't pay their rent or buy a home, can't eat good and if something breaks you better hope you have the smarts and skill to fix it yourself. Let alone the countless health issue's that pile up from hard work on bodily complaints. From your back and knees going to hell, and your psyche and memory breaking down due to irregular sleep patterns from shift or night work, doing long overtime or not having any downtime to just relax. Meanwhile somebody in a office supervisor job, scrolling down meme sites half of the day doing only the regular hours, bringing more money home then the hard worker. Yes I know there are also those that actually put in the work and are a godsend for many of those working under them, as these supervisors or other leading role people are not only doing their job, but putting in the extra effort. But those numbers are much lower compared to those that don't even do the bare minimum and get overpaid for it too. I'm not from the US, but I'm pretty sure its similar over there. Just saying, what's the point of working yourself nearly to death if you will end up with even less capital then before you started? Especially in the US I guess, where the hard working man/woman will go in dept due to the medical bills their hard work has given them.
This is so true. I went from a powerplant job to an oil n gas accounting job. I literally bullshit most of the day and make about 4k a month. I try not to be sleazy, but it’s true. I don’t do shit and make at least 2.3x the hard laborer
@@sebastianmartin8665so an incentive exists to move away from labour into the managerial class...which isnt productive. Who will produce? The millions of migrants who will now do your former job for 50% less. But does that stop the housing crisis? Inflation? This system is a house of cards.
It's for the same reason most likely. The way most western economies are run are very similar, so what is causes these problems in our country is causing the same problems in your countries. For example, in the US at least, housing prices are extremely over-priced because of the way our realty industry is regulated. From a practical speaking perspective though not technically legal term speaking perspective, realtors are basically insider trading through the use of contractually enforced pricing algorithms and resource aggregation. Every realtor uses these algorytms because it has been proven to boost profits if they are used and the algorithm has figured out if it overprices every single property, then people have no choice to buy one of the overpriced properties, which further raises the value and price of every other property add infinitum. There are other contributing factors, but that is the biggest one IMO, as the other factors used to exist for decades before these algorithms did but we didn't have this problem.
@GHOSTSTARSCREAMyou’re 100% wrong. Europe taxes their European out the ass. They have no where else to go… but they must go higher. You still have room. Europe will fall long before the U.S.
@GHOSTSTARSCREAMthe US has resources on par with Europe, and if you’re wildly misinformed enough to think European countries aren’t greedy would you like to open a history book and see what they do?
I am so happy to be German and being able to choose between five to seven corrupt parties instead of your two party system.
At least you’re not being held hostage like in canada.. and have 0 say can’t even get an election cause all parties are corrupted..
Afd lässt grüßen
Bro I lived in Germany, y'all been going to shit for the last decade.
@@blackedhead tust mir leid, wenn du denkst unter der AFD würde es besser werden.
Rechten Parteien geht es immer nur darum an die Fleischtöpfe zu kommen, halt wie bei der CDU, die AFD ist halt nur etwas rechter als die CDU ;)
Based Euro.
"Both of them fucking us over." That sums up American politics perfectly.
Same in the UK.
Not only American, man. That shit is kinda universal. Same everywhere
We have like 5 or 6 political parties here. It's the same. The problem is that some rich guys don't know what real life is.
Not saying it's only American problem.
The problem is corruption and lobbying.
It's not people with votes that control government but corporations with money.
Yeah voting is the biggest scam in America
Corporations should not be allowed to purchase houses.
That's 3% of the market. I hate it when people say this. The problem is the pooling of money in unproductive assets. This pooling is driven by fake demand. In other words, it's banks handing out 10+ year loans like they're candy and enabling people who would otherwise not have the money to spend on assets that don't actually produce anything. All you need to ask yourself is at a time when production is the highest it's ever been, where is the fucking money? I'll tell you where it's going, real estate and entitlement programs. Both are "assets" (even though only one of them technically is I am going to call them both that and leave this note here to get semantics out of the way) that don't produce anything when money pools in them. It didn't used to be like this. It used to be that almost none of our economy was entitlement programs and we used to have restrictions on lending too before the 1970s when real estate began to balloon. Sorry for ranting, I just hate it when I see dumb comments like this. Also listening to Asmon talk about economics makes me want to puke. He actually sucks at and doesn't know anything lol
Billionaires who own those corporations shouldnt be allowed to own more than 10 homes. Nobody needs more, its just speculating with housing. Some people own 150 homes while families cant afford 1 on 2 salaries…
They are banning this. Look into the news.
@@FranciscoSalas33 don't forget those properties are spread all over the world, and sometimes they also own the island the mansions or castles are on! Different countries.
the best part is people advertise making money by buying out foreclosures then selling the house 3x the amount the neighbors house goes for. its pathetic. "oh ivcan buy this fixer uper annnd a Corp bought it already"
The "Pick up by your bootstraps" and "Working hard" sentiment is completely valid and something I do agree should be adhered by. But what many critiquing boomers don't understand is that many Gen Z'ers DO want to work hard and don't mind a 9 to 5. Just look at the "grind" and "hustle" culture, the feeling of putting effort in has never vanished.
But what's more difficult nowadays is that Gen Z'ers are not given the opportunity to work hard or, if they do, it does not give them a rewarding amount of dividends, so they have to work more hours or juggle multiple jobs and risk burning out. But when they complain, the critiquing boomers say "just work harder", like working hard is like powering up in DBZ, where you just scream louder. They treat working hard or trying harder as something physical, where you just pull energy from *some*where.
"I've been sending applications to dozens of job offers and going personally to places to look for a job, but have been refused every time!" "Well, just try harder!" "Yes, I will...hand the CV...harder...and click the send button on my email...harder...". Like, do they expect us to go out into the street and go "I NEED A JOB NOOOOWWWWWW".
Crazy part is I can outwork a boomer and I'm a millenial. The age they were in is braindead they can barely work a phone so we have to do physical work and adapt to technology that mentally exhausts us.
Couldn't agree more! Gen Z wants to work hard. But if you offer no guarantee of growth, don't expect people to stay. When I was at Walmart, it was not until I put in my two weeks' notice that they asked if I wanted to become a department manager. No! I had already taken the next job. Maybe you should have been more attentive to the needs of current employees and not act like I am important only when I decide to leave.
I know a friend younger than me (I'm 26) who works 40-50 hours a week plus doing doordash, Ubereats, Amazon flex, etc on the side. His bank accounts show him bringing in about 4-5k a month or more. He recently had to use fake paystubs with the help of a family member who owns a business to get a 2 bedroom apartment because his job income isn't 3.5x the rent and he doesn't have 2 years of tax paperwork for the side hustle jobs. Actual bullshit. Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps mean nothing in this economy. Btw the rent for the apartment is $1400 a month. The cheapest rent you can find in our county for a 2 bedroom that doesn't come with roaches.
@Careless-sv6cf That whole "I see you have the exact amount to pay my rent, but I see your salary ain't big enough" landlord strategy is actual highway robbery 😓
I do feel for you but here is the reason that boomers give you generation crap because all of us have gone through it. This current generation gets more crap because your generation bitches more. We all had crappy low paying jobs in the beginning we all couldn't afford a good place to live much less buy a home. The difference is we all knew it would take time, and we would have to sacrifice part of our time and lives. It just seems that this generation when they run into the exact same problems, we did at the exact same age you guys go crazy. Yes, No Tesla, yes, no nice apartment, yes having to eat eggs and potatoes to survive. This is why you keep hearing " Work harder" because that's what we did. Hate to tell you in the end based on decisions and work ethic you still may not have that golden life you're looking for. Not trying to be a jerk just that the way life is whether you like it or not. Some make it and live the rich life some don't.
I agree with this kid. Anyone who is ok working 90h a week just to survive has a slave mind.
Fax u wouldn’t even have the time to actually spend the money lol
And it's insane how people downplay it by saying things like "you have to factor inflation in." or "It was like this when I was young."
When my mom was born(1980) rent was 12% of most people's income, today it's 36%, a house was 2.7x your income vs 6.3x today, the cost of college annually is 8x higher, new cars were 3.8x someone's monthly income whereas their 8.1x now.
The inequality has gotten ridiculous and is only getting worse, eventually people are going to reach a breaking point.
i mean who doesnt like money? I love overtime and double time.
Noones "fine' with it, WE HAVE TO KEEP GOING... FROM THE UK
@computertutorials1286 many people have, and our leaders just continue to double down. It's almost like the Western world is being dismantled on purpose.
Its not that people don't want to work hard, its just that working hard and grinding should be getting extra but instead many people are still not getting the minimum.
Yep. The manosphere grifter Asmon is watching is purposefully obfuscating that point. I don’t blame Asmon for not knowing about that grifter tho. He seems ok on the surface but his other videos reveal his hand
No, it's 100% people don't want to work hard.
@@MerlinTheCommenter Did you listen to the video? He was agreeing with the first guy not advocating for bootstraps.
@@jonlocke7112 its not that simple. There ARE places where you could be working like a madman and not be able to actually live "comfortable". At the end of the day, people like that have to leave behind a place like that in order to actually have an opportunity.
Exactly
Glad he made the point about the uni party. To think the two party system are actual rivals and not working together to screw you is like thinking WWE is real.
Same here in Britain. The main parties are the same thing but different colours, all brought and paid for by the WEF.
If the rich do not respect those who created _"their"_ wealth, the exploited class must give them reasons to fear them.
There are many western countries with more than two parties and the same shit happens there as well. There is no institutional solution to this stuff because the institutions are interested in creating these difficulties to begin with.
It's so nice to see you guys are finally noticing it on a larger scale. For years I've been called all kind of names for trying to tell you!
If it's like the wwe it's more like a obvious yes but. Really no. Nobody wants to jump 12ft off a ladder or have someone break your neck cause a.move is botched etc
At 20:11 "would you tell your kid to lay around and complain about the government all day" dude... THAT IS WHAT YOU DO. The hypocrisy is real.
Well I mean I'd say that he has worked pretty hard to cultivate an audience that will pay him to complain about government unlike us plebs who do it for free
@@drdoominstien713he does but he still works hard lmao if you complain and work hard you will have a far better chance of success than not working hard and complaining
i would even say if your complaining about government AND getting money from it i would tell my kid to focus on that because your good at it and its making you money
@whitefang4490 so the end logic here is find any ways to make money. Doesn't matter how you do it.
@ even if its 50% chance of success its better than doing nothing and having a .0001 percent chance of success that .0001 percent is like a relative you never knew about held like 10000 stocks of FB and just decided to give it to you or you won the lottery or some BS lol obviously also morality is questionable i would never tell my kids to sell their bodies and thats not a factor here the conversation is work hard morality hasn’t come into play in this conversation and is another topic
Hating the state of America isn't hating America.
I don't hate the country, I hate the people running it. All they care about is themselves and I'm just told that I'll own nothing and should love it, while they line their own pockets and can ship THOUSANDS to everyone and everywhere else, but 0 for the people THEY SWORE to protect and defend.
@@Nightmare-wo2gdworst part is it’s more than just thousands
@@Nightmare-wo2gd That is why i'm a proud "traitor to America"! I support the country, but not either of the gangs that fight over ruling the country!
A vote for the lesser Evil is still a vote for Evil!
Sadly it’s not just an American problem. Same situation here is starting to unfold in Germany.
Supporting the enemies of America and spreading their lies about America is indistinguishable from hating America
When I was a kid our teachers said we could go into any profession we want if we had good grades. They forgot to tell us we’d starve doing so.
Same.
THIS!!!!!!
They also encouraged us to go to college/university but they never talked about debt nor the responsibilities of being an adult
Well nobody can predict the unpredictable. In the same regard nobody told our parents to stock up on property because it would be worth x15 in the future. Can we blame our parents? No, therefore we can't blame the teachers either, nor ourselves for believing them. Our gen is fucked by unpredictable forces and who knows what's gonna happen to the next gens.
The thing is we aren't supposed to buy phones or consoles or stuff like weed and drugs in order to survive and also work 7 days a week and 40 years while investing our money somehow is the only way unless someone is born with an advantage somewhere or inheritance
“When the livestock stops breeding, it is not the livestock who should be concerned, but rather the farmers and the feed suppliers.” Something’s gotta give.
That's exactly how the government views its citizens, like live stock. Nice one 👍
That is why I chose my handle.
Human Capital Stock is what they call us.
always more livestock to import
@@JayGhor inmigrati4n in a nutshell, but even that pipe is gonna be dry in a couple decades
"human resources" says it all
Here is one thing that will solve housing prices and availability in the US incredibly fast: Scaling property tax.
You make it so depending on how many properties a individual or company owns, property tax percentage scales up more and more up to a massive cap, so people who own 2 or 3 homes have to pay a decent bit more to hog more resources to themselves on a yearly basis, but companies or individuals who own 10s, 100s, or even 1000s of properties will just be hemorrhaging money for hogging housing treating it as some kind of stock investment.
So many real estate firms own massive amounts of houses or apartments in highly desirable areas to live in that are VACANT for YEARS because nobody wants to buy for the price they're asking, so this would literally bleed even them dry if they refuse to sell for a price people wanna pay. It'd go back to being a competitive market again and companies that aim to make a profit off flipping houses would have like a 1 year time limit to sell or their costs starts scaling.
On top of this, they could make an initiative that all the bonus tax revenue from this goes into affordable housing subsidies for low interest loans and/or down payment assistance.
FYI, home flippers are already incentivized to sell quickly, the more units they turnout in a year, the more money they make. A small part of me is little jealous of what they do, but they aren't really the problem. It's the large firms that buy up hundreds of homes in an area. Once they control the market, then they get to set the price. I would set a cap of 50 homes. That's small enough to breakup the big players and create competition, but still large enough that it gives individual investors & family businesses something to aspire to.
Property tax is illegal.
Agree. But people need to realize most (not all) gov employees are overpaid/too many per task. You have to start there.
Let's start that at 4 properties. Cuz I have a partial stake in a crap property no one wants but can't sell cuz there's 40 heirs that can't agree, so I would be penalized for something I gain nothing from.
And one day is like to get a farm but it would take me 5-10 years to build it, while also having to live in my house, that would put me at 3, all of them already hemorrhaging money in taxes and plant inputs that may not recuperate for 5-10 years, if they make money at all, most farms don't make much money
I think alot of these kids believe the only jobs that exist are tech jobs or fast food. I went into the trades after high school. I will never not have a paying job because everyone needs a plumber. I could quit my job on monday and have 4 companies calling me on tuesday desperate to hire me. I'm thankful the older men in my life earned me not to pursue college and instead start the trades early. Now at 30 I rarely have to do my own labor. I got crews I manage to do that.
The only thing I've got from working hard is more work, responsibility and back pain.
working smarter beats working harder
Hurt my back for life working minimum wage at walmart in my college days. Not worth it long term.
@@GloomGaiGar actually now a days working smarter gets you more work as your bosses will notice this and push more work on you, while leaving the other lazy workers no responsibility. Its burns them out and they move onto the next job. Its why businesses now cant hold employees because they dont wanna pay a decent wage and keep giving them more work to penny pinch on having more staff.
Where I'm at the more you do the more they are gonna let you do
@romanticwander meh I like my job the harder the work the more you make I get paid commission per job and get stocks in the company every year I can retire off of one day as long as they don't go out of business and that's the incentive to work harder to keep customers so you get more money now and to keep the business running till you retire
43 yrs old here. Went to trade school and now a union construction worker. Ive been pulling myself up by my bootstraps for over 20yrs now and somehow im still where i started. Actually worse bc i cant afford to buy the same house i bought when i was 22. The lifestyle guys i worked under had when i started out is nothing but a pipe dream anymore. I don't blame kids for not wanting to do it bc now i regret wearing myself down and wasting my youth thinking if i just pulled myself up by my bootstraps it would pay off. Ive prob cut 10 yr or more off my life working in unhealthy environments so GTFOH with that bs.
Dam bro I wanted to go to a trade school, specifically Lincoln tech shit was mad expensive. Im 18 and have no direction in life . But I want to keep convincing myself that if I work hard enough. I can provide a comfortable for the people around me. Thanks for the advice. Hope your doing well
@GREASEBALLSOh dont completely discount it though bc its still better than a lot of other jobs. Im just saying if have certain things you want in life dont bank on hard work and time always paying off. Look for other ways to invest and make money. Start a business or something. But my biggest regret is prob not doing something i really love to do that would make me look forward to going in everyday. Also if you join the union they have their own school and training program. If you dont mind devoting the time i would look at starting your own company bc you won't get rich working for someone else and that's a fact. Goodluck i wish you the best for real.
@GREASEBALLSOh The HVAC union over in Oregon pays about 57/hour and some parts of WA pays more. I would for sure look into the trades
@anthonybrown5177 that includes the benefit package which isn't all benefits you'll see. Overpriced health insurance eats up most of it. Oh and wait till you pay your union dues bc that pay drops if you factor that in. Dont get me wrong its better than some jobs but its not even close to what it was 20 yrs ago. Based on the cost of living today it barely qualifies as middle class depending on where you live. In most places it doesn't.
@PoFolks_Capital No, that's on the check. The total package is around 90-100/hr
The phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” originated shortly before the turn of the 20th century. It’s attributed to a late-1800s physics schoolbook that contained the example question “Why can not a man lift himself by pulling up on his bootstraps?” So when it became a colloquial phrase referring to socioeconomic advancement shortly thereafter, it was meant to be sarcastic, or to suggest that it was an impossible accomplishment. Eventually, however, the phrase’s commonly-accepted meaning evolved, and now when we tell people to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” it’s implying that socioeconomic advancement is something that everyone should be able to do-albeit something difficult.
It was *_LITERALLY_* reversed from it's original meaning of "It's obviously, physically impossible" to "You should be able to do it, it's just hard." The fact it's such a mainstream saying is a true demonstration of the country's level of absolute brain rot.
Thank you, I wasn't aware of it's real meaning
I feel like most people still use it sarcastically except maybe the few lucky outliers that have survivorship bias.
It’s anti physics too, doesn’t matter if it’s the earth or the moon. …. Like blowing your own sail 😂
Try it if you have a big fan and sailboat….
Sayings evolve over time to suit society’s needs. I for one prefer the modern meaning
@@noodle67i disagree
95% of boomers have never ever been close to a 90 hour work week in their life. That's 13 hours a day every day. Desk job or on your feet, 13 hour work days are soul draining.
This is not even the problem - I am ok to work 13 hours a day if my work is valued and my effort is recognized. But it is all not needed - you are expected to just kiss the bosses asses and accept the guilt for their fuck ups. And this is a fucking stress that puts you down and eventually gets you sick
“What is the purpose of this society?”
“You work yourself to death so the rich can compete to see who has the biggest number.”
News flash it's always been like that! Tiny ruling Elite and everybody else.Regardless whether its Capitalism or Marxism, power always rests in the hands of apowerful few.
*OH MY GOD*
Yep. And you can't get out of it by working smarter. You have to work "smarter" and that requires money that most people don't have! Otherwise you have to be friends or relatives with the boss.
Or Vote for the man to bring down the cost of living and inflation over time so you don’t have to kill yourself every day to make that living similar to working smarter not harder.!
@@EdwardM-t8pFalse, you absolutely can get out of it by working smarter and being your own boss. Learn how to be as self-sufficient as possible, for starters building your own house and learning all the necessary survival skills, hunting/fishing/gathering/cooking/storing your own food (and other resources) so you don't need to rely on anyone else. But it's easier to complain and be sucked into the slave mentality so you don't have to think for yourself..
A tiny apartment I rented for $800 twelve years ago is now $2300. It’s completely absurd. I don’t even live by any tech moves or anything. Just a college.
That’s why haha
That will never stop. Gentrification. If you live/lived somewhere desirable, people will pay more to live there. Move to Mississippi, Kansas, Alabama 😂
Wages have out paced inflation. Living next to a growing college will massively increase property value.
My place was a 475 in a college town it was a studio. Now it's 1200. It's an old building from over 100 years ago with built in radiator heating
Where does this dude live? Normally, the people i hear complain about not being able to live while making 3 times thr minimum wage are trying to live in the most expensive areas of cities.
It’s actually patriotic to hate what America has become.
Exactly, what happened to the pride and honor of living in America?!? Now it’s all gone.
Yuuup.
@@PredatorGoosecountry is international embarrassment, no pride in living here
Do better it’s what you make of it
that's white supremacist, actually. I love America. FBA. B1. BLM.
is $450,000 a lot for a house around there? the average where i live is 760,000. i saw a house for sale, 1 story cape, one bathroom, unfinished basement and attic, hasn't been renovated since 1960, 2.2 million dollars.
My neighbourhood in Canada is a working class area the houses there go from 1.5 to 2.8 million for a backyard front yard rotten roofs some of em and not well maintained houses yea that’s the new normal brother sorry to say
@@axelsommer697 Yeah man Canada is batshit. I'm 48 and the house I grew up in as a kid was about 36 thousand bucks. The average CAR costs that much now, and a tiny little house costs 10 times that much!
Houses today really cost 10 times more than when I was a little kid for the same house. The average Canadian after-tax (take-home) income has NOT increased by a factor of 10, not even close! It has almost doubled since the early '80s but sure as hell not ten times!
Yeah west coast is like 800k plus anywhere near a big city
"Our ancestors were a group of people who flipped out over a 2% tax raise" how are your taxes doing now?
the complaint wasn't taxes per se the rally cry was no taxation without equal representation. same problem we have now, no one feels represented anymore
@@bradymiller9096Some people literally have no representation. We have teenagers who work jobs but aren't old enough to vote. They are still taxed on their income. Taxation without representation.
Income Tax was supposed to be temporary.
4 billion dollars a year given to Israel... I didn't vote on that.
taxes aren't the problem its every single company raising prices over inflation. Taxes would be my 3rd biggest expense. First would be housing if i paid for it, and second would be food or medical bills.
Why can't you work hard and complain? People are working hard and have the right to complain when the system is rigged against them, ignoring it isn't going anywhere either.
Exactly, the people who are working the hardest tend to be the ones who are complaining the most. He is out of touch. The main issue where facing is that we have to work extremely hard for NOT EVEN the bare minimum.
@@rubenmendez4314 Agreed. I'm an older millenial, and I remember how hard it was for me, and I can see how it's gotten harder for every generation following the boomers, but it really kicked off for the millenials. I have a 12 year old daughter that I'm concerned for, what kind of future will she have? I work, my husband works, we own and operate a small business, and we are just getting by. Everything has been a struggle. We wouldn't even have our house if my Mom didn't put it in her name for us before the interest rates shot up. Despite my excellent 800+ FICO scores, we are self employed and they make it 10× harder to buy a home. I started reading their plans regarding Agenda 21 ten years ago the first time we tried getting approved. It didn't make sense why it was so difficult, we had a down payment, good credit, provable income, so what gives? Then after some research, I realized they wanted to slowly phase out private land and home ownership. As well as cars, farms, small businesses, etc. Fast forward to now, what may have seemed questionable to some back then, is becoming obvious in every way. When the WEF said "You'll own nothing and be happy" they meant it, just minus the happy. The reason homes are so expensive now, is because they quietly started putting insane restrictions on building several years ago in compliance with Agenda 21, severely limiting supply, creating artificial scarcity. Then they allowed global, private equity firms to start buying home the remaining stock of homes at stupid high prices, jacking up the property values even more. This also raised taxes in residential neighborhoods, pricing out even more people. The high interest rates pretty much sealed the deal for most if us trying to make the American Dream ever being achievable. The icing on the cake will be the theft of inheritance. As the govt has been busy creating policies that allow the states and banks to scoop up any family properties that parents intended to pass down. Using legal loopholes like the medicaid 5 year lookback, inheritance taxes, proper titling and flaws in wills, etc. Pretty much anything that wasn't pre-drawn up by a team of lawyers going through all the laws and legal documents with a fine tooth comb, making a potential inheritance plan bullet proof, will likely be a fight for many down the road. They've weaved in so many pitfalls to lose your family home it's insane. It's just a shame what has happened in this country. Seems as if Dems are corrupt af, and beholden to the global government model, and Republicans are complacent in stopping it. Socialism and communism is NOT the answer. Those policies are what's been keeping people poor and under their control.
People who take issue with valid complaints only want a convenient excuse to ignore them and not have worry about them
the issue is they vote for the exact same group of people and then expect different results while calling the other racist bigot.
@@rubenmendez4314 well i think it's a valid complaint when you can't even afford an apartment.
Not only americans, happens with every Gen Z in every country. In France the majority is just like that.
This isn't a Gen Z thing, it's just Gen Z tend to make tiktok, instagram and youtube videos about it so they get more exposure about it because they're more apt to use more modern technology to voice it, every single generations complains about something, and yes, if you don't think older people complain about the issues (warranted or over-exaggerated is irrelevant) they face in their own country you're delusional. You just have to go knock on their door and ask them about it, they're not like Gen Z who will voice their opinion with mediums that reach millions of people in seconds.
We really have to stop normalizing people voicing their opinions on social media as the thing "everybody" does on the planet and thinking it's just "what is happening".
A video getting around 1-2million views with a planet of 8 billion is a below 1% minority watching it.
Even 3rd world countries as well
Here in the Netherlands as well. Back when my mom was young she bought her first house at the age of 26 with a simple cleaning job. That stuff is unheard of today.
same in norway, its almost impossible for a normal single person to get a loan for a tiny small apartment for 1 person whitout help from parents. Live in north norway, and the city i live in has almost same house price as our capital becouse rich people buyed everything and rents it out to working class. they forces the prices up, and since house price go up, rent do the same.
for example.. Here at Brazil, this sh1t agenda started later.. like 5 years ago.. like.. they are importing this gender things, free money, etc, this ideas, from USA just a few years.. and im seeing this problems on USA years ago
I'm a millennial nearing 40 and I'm 100% in this guy's camp. The country is going to hell real fast from the unchecked monopolization of basic human rights.
My parents didn't have to pull up anything. They made significantly less than I do and they didn't work overtime or 2 jobs. They had basic jobs with basically little education and they easily bought a home. Buying a home is not even a thought for me. It's literally impossible.
save up money as you can and leave america, get to a place where your purchasing power will be respsected.
Here in Australia similar scenario my grandfather who I don't like (personally reasons) was a peasant from a village in greece who barely pass elementary school yet his had a very basic job shoe repairing and basically payed his house off quick and they have the nerve to till us we have to work harder due to our worthless buying power. I'm sorry I wasn't born in the 50s and 60s oh it my fault
@@phillipjiang1593it's the balance of "should i care enough to stick my feet in?"
The dollar was worth more then and you had greater buying power. If you want to get back to those times you have to stop supporting the government getting involved in the economy.
@@av3rsi0n You say that like The majority of us think like this. Most people don't care apparently otherwise we read seem much more of a change instead of a constant decline
the best part of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is the original meaning of the phrase was when there was something that was literally impossible to do
People seem to forget that among many other sayings actual meaning
Anothet great shortening is "The customer is always right (in matters of taste)"
right! lol, think about the meaning, it's literally IMPOSSIBLE to pull yourself up by your bootstraps lol. What does that even mean in the context of life anyways? Most people ARE working at a job, or 2 and still cannot afford to pay RENT, not even building any wealth just giving away all their money to a corp or slum lord just so they can exist.
A similar example of an impossible task (of the same kind) from literature (late 18th century) is Baron Münchhausen successfully pulling himself (and his horse) out of a swamp by his own hair.
Yes, the whole "bootstraps" phrase is a form of dark humor. People used to say it when describing something impossible, kind of like telling someone in a sinking submarine to "hold your breath!"
0:24 I Agree. How can you be a 1st world country where you have to work +70 hours a week, and still don't have money.
To advance our civilization is why we all must work. Imagine a construction going on in your house with major repairs but we only repaired your house one or two hours a week / or even just a few hours a day. It will ruin the comfort of your life. It's the same principle in our civilization. Now the pay, we can thanks big brother for that. Stop going to government for the solutions when they're the ones that created the problems. Inflation is real.
“I don’t want to work more than 4 hours a day.”
Great, your doctors appointment is in 3 years, the gas station is open for 8 hours a day, there is no food available because farmers stopped working.
@@JazzyJizzyJohnson-og5sc hahaha bro doesnt know that multiple people can work multiple shifts covering different times
@@patrickjensen8215 that’s not how this works. If you only work 4 hours a day, it means the number of people required to work those jobs doubles.
@@Lujantonyadvance who’s civilization? Because it’s not ours
I'm 30 and used to believe in the pull yourself up by the bootstraps mentality. I've worked my whole life away up to this point and everytime I achieved stability enough to live on my own it was all stripped from me. Almost always by a jealous manager these days work just exploits you and at my age I have no real life experience or passions. My whole life all I've known is work, eat, sleep and repeat. These kids have it even worse than when I was their age and unless you start your own business or get super lucky and land a top end job with your qualifications, you can't function without working every waking moment of your life away.
I'm 33. Similar story. I've pulled myself up, climbed the ladder.. just to get dirt thrown in my face at the top. I'm in the trades, worked my way up to foreman for a non-union company, just to find out the older guys were making double what I was and I would never be paid that much. So I went to the union and yeah I make better money, but the cost of everything damn near doubled over the last two years so I'm just as broke as I was before. I make $45/hr and I scrape by with my built in 1962 house and my 2007 rust bucket Chevy. The system is totally fucked. Everytime I think this is it, things are going to change.. they don't. They just devise new ways to take my fucking money.
I feel u heavy on this one bro. I'm 23 and also taught at a young age to go to school work hard and you'll be successful. Sure I was also taught basic skills in order for survival and literacy and numeracy skills, but they were so fixated on me going to school first, then find a job after. So I graduated college got my degree only to end up in a Warehouse job. My bro and I are the only ones working and we're trying to get ourselves out of this financial crisis we're in. Especially me all those years spent at school until college, the teachers and students; I realized how decedent and nihilistic I've become especially my parents my mom especially pushing me to strive towards "greatness". Nowadays all I do is work eat and sleep like u. This is what the people in control want. They want to slave away your whole life without the chances of u being truly successful and happy.
Trust me things aren't all sunshine and rainbows in where I'm from either.
Track&Field or Customs are like the only solutions I can get out of this mess
Same story here. Just quit a job with a kid on the way because I’m being worked into the dirt away from home… just accepting I’ll be poor forever.
@@ApocalypseYesterday they got me 3 hours from home right now. Can't find work that pays enough near home. Kids and wife at home. Shit's brutal. So anyways the met gala 😑
Yeah most companies give 2-3% raise and are happy to abuse you. Only way you'll make any actual money is through connections.
As a child, I wanted to be a mattress tester.
That's very admirable of you.
I wanted to be the guy who sits in the tower attached to the bridge and pushes the button to raise it up and lower it down when a boat comes by... so I could play pokemon on my gameboy all day.
Simpler times...
I wanted to be the wrestling referee that absolutely nobody listens to.
Skill Issue. Go make more money.
I wanted to draw chickens all day as a kid. I still do, but it's not my job.
The problem with "pull yourself by bootsraps" advice is the same as "update drivers and restart" advice for computer issues. It's just a first step of solving an issue, it's already done, and the issue still persists.
It’s also survivorship bias. Not everyone can get careers that are high paying. There are low paying jobs that need to be done by someone.
The irony is that “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” began as a sarcastic phrase in a science textbook, iirc “why can a man not pull himself up by his bootstraps?”
The point is that it’s impossible to do, so whenever that phrase is thrown around I’m always like “I don’t think that means what you think it means” 😂
Fantastic cpu analogy
Running a budget helps too. But I'm soon to be in his situation.
Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is literally impossible, which I think is funny when people say that phrase in conjunction with work related shit bc you're literally telling someone to do the impossible
If I do everything perfectly - *fucking flawlessly* - some secret surprise bill will knock me right back down again. You have to be JAMES BOND to be a civilian.
"these people probably don't even know how to attach a PDF file to an email" as an IT analyst who has worked for the government I can tell you they DEFINITELY don't know how to do that lmao
That's always been very painful for me...
its kind of amazing how tech illiterate young people are..
@@thothheartmaat2833 young people?
@@thothheartmaat2833 We got old folks who don't even know what a TikTok is or how to log into Facebook. And yet they can ban the app.
The Owner said he was from Singapore and these government folks are worried about China.
@@thothheartmaat2833 BOYS WE FOUND HIM! HE HAS THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH GETTEM!
And the USA started because of a 3% tax on TEA.
Yeah we started a war for 3% taxes. Now taxes are so high but no one wants to ban together to do something about it.
@truckdrivermm not the same kinda americans so many have grown soft and complacent
@@ghost1182able Totally agree 💯 Couldn't of said it better myself.
That's the story the founding fathers tell Americans. The real story is: So slave owners at that time don't have to pay taxes to Great Britain. America was founded on the basis of freedom for the wealthy class. The peasant/farmers get nothing. They just get tagged along to whatever the rich ruling class of America wanted to do at that time. And they've kept that scam going.
@@ghost1182able
Absolutely, it will continue to get worse because people genuinely think it’s not worth it to start over, their lives are still too comfortable
A lot of people nowadays say: Gen z is too lazy... Well yea, why should we be motivated?!? We cant buy a house in our lifetime, a car is a luxury most of the time and buying food costs half of the paycheck..... So how should we motivate ourselves, if there is nothing we can change in order for us to have a better life? Maybe selling my organs would help with the rent.....
leave the country
@@delight7304seriously that’s your argument? You can’t change for the better so you kick people out?, ok boomer
@@crunchungus4972brother thought he cooked 💀
Can't even afford to leave. Trust me, ive already been trying. I love the USA, but I feel like I'm working for nothing here. Earn USD, and go overseas is the plan
@@delight7304if you could hypothetically afford it where would you go? Almost everywhere is the same
Boomers telling us to "Pull yourself up by the bootstraps" either don't realize it's an idiom or they legit want us trip grab our legs and flip over, tripping on ourselves, never to go up on the American caste system.
10 years ago one of my neighbors down the street passed away and his family was trying to sell the house. It is a small three bedroom house on 10 Acres and they originally listed it for about $80,000 and had the lower the price several times before somebody finally bought it for just under $40,000. Last year the neighbor right across the street with an almost identical house and 10 acres of land went up for sale for over a quarter million and it sold within 3 hours of listing. Things are insane.
That was still a good deal if the property was purchased by a corporate developer. They could build 10 new homes on one acre lots and generate $$$$$ if the land is in a desirable location.
Demographics of the neighborhood ten years ago versus today please?
Even 250k for 10 acres is really cheap
Companies shouldn’t be able to buy property that’s why we are in the situation we are in now
Making up stories for a few responses is just sad. Nothing in this story is even remotely believable.
"just work an extra 5 jobs and you can make it" - Typical boomer who grew up when houses were 3k
This used to be for people that wanted to be mega rich, work like crazy early on, make a bunch of money, reinvest and be rich in a decade or something. Now you have to work 12735 hours a month just to have an barely average life.
FACTS no one wants to finally live life n hopefully not be stressed by 60 😭😭THAT IS NOT THE AMERICAN DREAM
I tell everyone to get a job in IT and become an expert on automating manual processes. I'm not a boomer but I'm in my 40s and having a job in IT has kept me employed with a decent salary. Granted I make 100k and can't buy a house, but I'm in cali 🤷🏼♀️
My parents house was 16,000 lol they could a paid it off in 1 year. It's worth 250k now 😂 I'm almost 40 and I saw the power of the dollar plummet the past 20 years. When I was 18, I could work 20 hours a week and rent a place get food we ed and even internet 😂
Now it takes working minimum 40 hours and your gonna be broke mostly unless you find something good.
just work an extra 5 jobs and you can make it
450k gets you a parking spot in Toronto Canada..
Actually most parking spaces are valued at around $30,000 in a downtown condo
Toronto is essentially the hub of canada so the high prices there at least make sense.
Those same prices being so high throughout the GTA is crazy however.
@@Giliver Yep all the Toronto people moved to other cities. I grew up in Hamilton and now all the houses there are 700k
Or a dog kennel in the sky (condo).
Yeah, but you're forgetting that you're talking about CANADIAN dollars. Let's be real, Canadian 450k Canadian dollars is like 5 bucks in actual proper dollars 🤣
the parts situation at 23:57 that's for ongoing maintenance for existing aircraft not the purchase of new ones. we don't buy fleets of new aircraft relatively speaking we buy to add to the pre existing pile. that's why aircraft/tanks/support vehicles come in variants a b c etc. So much of what is in use is recycled or refurbished from pre existing inventory some salvage some new old stock that baggy of 90k bushings is predatory on this fact
But we do need to keep making them or we lose the knowledge and ability to make them, even if you write the process down, something important will be lost, the machines and everything else will go away.
Manufacturing is like math, you can't forget everything then start at Senior year calculus. You have to restart from grade 1. So it makes sense to continue to manufacture
Companies raising prices crying about costs, while meanwhile turning record profits. The system is beyond BROKEN
Also, firing people to cut extra cost because all the extra goes to the CEO
They will ALWAYS use the INFLATION excuse.... a trillion dollar company.... complaining about how them raising their wages is causing inflation and now they have to double their prices. We are being lied to, the inflation cannot be that bad, or it would not if the greedy corporations stopped lying through their teeth that they HAVE to raise their prices.
Well when u raise prices for any reason revenue increases and so do profits, its natural not broken yk sherlock. Lmfao basic math.
@@marcinm2871 do you can comprehend what you read usually?
Lol yeah coincidentally they all do it at the same time but didn't during Trump's time in office. You cry about record profits but don't consider actual profit margin.
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps anymore than you can pull yourself up by your shoe laces."
This is the actual full quote, from the 1800's. Kind of funny how we eliminated 2/3 of it and completely flipped the meaning around.
How can you pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you don't have any boots?
@@level9drow856Hence the shoe laces...
I've noticed that we're currently finding out that most American sayings are just half-truths (which means it's a complete lie). Wild.
I wonder which next saying is going on the chopping board.
"The customer is always right" is another. It should end in ", in matters of taste."
It's kinda fucked up, IMO.
Or this gaslighting phrase: "You can't have your cake and eat it". Erm... cakes are for eating. I mean, what's the point in having a cake if you're not going to eat it?
This is how world works:
"Would you eat a bag of sht or double it and give it to the next generation?"
💀💀
😂
Sounds like the later is the opposite of what it means to be a parent!
This might be the truest thing I've ever heard.
it's more like "eat a bag of shit or eat a bag of shit AND double it, give it to the next"
It's insane. Not only is this the case. But I'm in sales, I have a biochemistry and engineering degree. But to live on my own has been insane. I still have a roommate, and it's only a 2 bedroom apartment. This isn't even including debt from college and my car payments or even my insurance. Like wtf
*only* $450k for a working class neighborhood home? Bro, Canada's homes, which some are completely rundown, broken, old and ain't worth a shit are going for $1+ million. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous. And it's getting worse.
In israel APARTMENTS cost that much.
Canada has the same house affordability like EU. In EU everyone buys apartments because a house is just too expensive.
And also tax beyond belief cause ooo we need social program.
Tbf, usd is MUCH stronger than or chocolate coins these days.
Come to the Netherlands it's even worse
Dude earns 3x minimum wage. I think he has the right to complain for a bit. He has already pulled his bootstraps.
Thats only 20 bucks a hour lol he works at mcdonalds
@@tuzalolol3676 so NO ONE should work at mcdonalds or every other "simple" job, so who the fuck will make and sell you burgers?
@@tuzalolol3676 Damn i didnt know the minimum wage was around $6, you guys are fucked if 3x your minimum wage is $20
@@miles3794it's $7.25 but it's higher depending on state I think calafornia is $16.
@@tuzalolol3676who cares where you work? If you're earning 3x the federal minimum wage, you should be financially stable.
25, two degrees in electrical engineering & software development but cant be hired due to no experience. I cannot afford to move out of my parents home. Shit is fucked
Born too early to be a dystopian enjoyer.
Born too late to be a boomer and get an easy lease on life.
Born just in time to witness the moral, economic and cultural colapse of Western Civilization.
It's gonna be fun bros.
Ahh, yes, needing experience even for an entry-level job that requires you to have 20 years of experience
I mean it really just depends where you live. If you live rural its still as affordable as its been.
@@P.rivate Used to be they'd fire experienced people after several years and bring in fresh recruits. This was a cost saving measure. Now, I do not know you personally and this is not a knock, I'm generalizing, but kids fresh out of school simply lack the skills to even be trained on the job. It's cultural as well as financial
Born too early to be a dystopian enjoyer.
Born too late to be a boomer and get an easy lease on life.
Born just in time to witness the moral, economic and cultural colapse of Western Civilization.
I think a big issue for a lot of guys with the bootstraps mentality is that the older generations saying this all the time had a goal, you have people depending on you, it gives you a reason to wake up in the morning. You have purpose. And sadly a lot of guys including me simply dont have anything to motivate us to do that. I went to school, because an LPN make around 60k a year, nothing to scoff at. I've worked almost 3 years straight without any major breaks because the nursing shortage is so bad they wont grant me any time off. I've saved up a decent amount of money but am no closer to owning a home despite already paying off my student loans since the required down payments in my city are ridiculously high, everything outside of the city is rural and hours away from my friends and people I care about. I'm an introvert, akward with people I'm attracted to and the couple times I have tried to get a relationship off the ground I got rejected and botched relationships with those people. And theres always that fear of being called a creep or worse when trying to approach women which definitely doesnt help so I've kind of given up. So im burnt out, no closer to any of my goals and have little to show for all my work. And personally I want and need someone to build something with. I don't see any point in doing it for myself. All at the age of 22
I'm 25, and same thing. Just returned to school and finished my first semester to become a teacher (Only need two-ish years because of my prior education). Hopefully, I can meet someone there and I enjoy the job because with all the benefits we'd both get and having the benefits of two-person living I might just be able to live a decent life.
"Working hard has a higher success rate at making money than complaining about the government," is exactly what the government wants you to think. The longer they can keep you just barely above water and willing to dish out insane work hours to make ends meet, the more value they can squeeze out of you in the short term. How is the guy demanding a higher pay for additional responsibilities ever going to get any sort of credibility if there's someone willing to take on those responsibilities for no extra pay because he's grateful to have a job in the first place? How is someone working two jobs, 7 days a week ever going to have to time to think about or push for change on a societal level when the vast majority of time is spent just surviving. It's their goal to exhaust you to make rebellion impossible. It's a form of control. And it's working, sadly. I'm glad that kid is angry. I'm glad he's sharing that anger. We need it right now.
This country was literally founded by people complaining about the government lol
@@jamestipton7872 Well, actually, now you can't do anything because we the governement didn't you know? We were allowed to rebel several centuries ago, but you can't right now because we say so, now keep figuring out your taxes even though we know perfectly what you owe us because we get paid lobby money by the tax helper companies to do so.
Care to know what the word government means? Govern - CONTROL. Ment - MIND. There ya go
This is why the working class needs to overthrough the government and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat according to the guidance of Marx.
Working smarter and harder will do infinitely more than bitching is still true
The American dream is not gone and forgotten, it was murdered and buried in a shallow grave.
American dream is about Screwing other people so that they can have a better life,
and make Shareholders happy.
it's like an overgrown plant, unchecked growth leads to the destruction of other plants in the area as well,
you can only grow so much, if you kept growing at all cost past your Peak, you'll become a parasite.
Nah, not at all. Why are 1 billion people trying to come here right now.
@@fareshajjar1208 Why would any third world person want to move to a first world. Do you have to remind yourself to breathe?
The american dream worked for boeing?
@@sliime2369 Because they have upward mobility here that does not exist in their own country. My neighbor was broke immigrant 8 years ago and now he has 6 plumbers working under him. Buying a million dollar house in PSl Florida.
All these wannabe Econ majors that are fighting over the fact the man shouldn’t be able to afford a house over 3x minimum wage is wild. America is cooked
My dad was a mechanic and I had a stay at home mom. We grew up (3 kids) in a 3br house. We lived cheap, but made it. That wouldn’t be possible today.
@@glowormsit's possible. the difference is kids today think non essential goods and services are essential so they keep pissing their money away without even knowing it
@@gloworms yes i agree with you
@@simunator maybe. My dad bought that house in the mid 80s for $40k. Today the Zillow estimate is $358k.
@@simunatorSuch as?
The vast majority of times I hear people bitching about capitalism the complaint at its roots almost always are the result of the injection of socialism or communism into our economic system.
Why is it so many people seem to be allergic to even the slightest amount of critical thinking.
Term limits need to be a thing. Power corrupts over time. I don't care which party it is.
Are you saying that there aren't term limits?
HUH? They are a thing.
What? 😂😂
We already have term limits. They come up every election day. The problem is with us not taking advantage of it...
@@Undefined01463the Supreme Court justices are sworn in for life they have no term limit.
After occupy WallStreet they changed the plot into exclusively race bc we were on the right track to real change. It worked btw
Yep identity politics
Tea party too was a non race based protest talking about the same thing
I'm here to bring up Yuri Bezmenov once again, as people seem to keep forgetting him.
@breakupgoogle don't forget about countless people left homeless thanks to covid. Which immediately made them and their opinions invalidated to those still above water.
YUP 🙌💯
Uniparty is absolutely true. When an "outsider" comes in they both work together to get that third party who doesn't want to play by the "rules" kicked out.
Haha and you think the US went multiparty would make any difference. IM from the UK all it dose is fragment parties overall making it all weak. UNITED WE STAN , DEVIDED WE FALL...
This is true, I think, ironically, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are both good examples of this.
@@AwesomeIlOll3000 ho ur so far off the mark with this statement. Clear you do not know your own countries political situations nor the the geopolitics
@AnonIllumi Oh boy, here we go. I am not sure what you mean but this. I gave two examples, one from the left and one from the right, in which two presidential candidates, two "outsiders" were forced out. Not sure what you are taking issue with.
@@AwesomeIlOll3000 One is outsider other is just too much of a clown to keep at the top another go, vastly differing circumstances.
My grandpa's house was something like $70,000 in the 1970's, and FHA house, nothing fancy, but a 3 bedroom 1 bath with a carport..
A credit card scam led to the bank taking his paid for home, for a $20,000 credit card over the phone scam against a disabled veteran elderly person.
The house was sold for around $90,000 around 2008 or so.. and that home never made it above around $120,000 in value over the next 10+ years.
I've waited for the house to be back on the market, hoping to buy my family home back..
*I bet it's a $300,000 house now.. completely unaffordable.. I'm afraid to even look.* 🤦
"what is your dream job?" "dream of working? are you insane... i dream of not having to work"
Who the F would work instead of you to supply you with daily necessities?
That about sums it up. Most guys only work at a job so he can afford to do HIS work. Create his art, build his classic car, get his "man cave" going. Build his doggy house or play on his killa new guitar rig and piss the neighbourhood off with his punk/metal drumming! It's exceedingly rare that any man no matter who he is will have a dream job of any description.
Dream jobs include being an astronaut or an auto racing champion. Possibly a "tech guru" for those so inclined, or certain careers like being an airline captain definitely come to mind. Don't forget fighter pilots either! Being 'Knights of the Sky' has probably been a dream job for some guys since aircraft were invented.
Very few people grow up dreaming of grinding away in an office or a factory. Those are Jay-Oh-Bee style jobs. They are an essential part of the economy in any industrialized country but for most people (not all) they are NOT living the dream as it were and it's just how they make bread.
Big miss here, politicians don’t talk about the big issues impacting us not because we’re too stupid to understand, it’s because they don’t want to fix these issues. They don’t really want to fix these massive issues like corporate ownership of private housing because they get a lot of money from those corporations. Our stupidity comes into play in the fact that it’s so easy to distract us from the things that directly impact most of us with things that impact very few.
incentives, people go with the flow, and politicians are more apt than anyone to do this, but the lie that they serve the people keeps being said, when now its painfully obvious they don't, this happens every time, and every time, it ends with well, them not being around anymore.. and never does the next batch of corrupt elite learn.
C.R.E.A.M. Follow the money.
Has nothing to do with corporate ownership, it's all because of government policies not allowing for more housing to be built. Take California for example; they could just build a boatload of skyscrapers and make it affordable, but they refuse to, and now the middle class is leaving in droves. It's basically illegal to build any new houses & apartments and takes year and years of approval for anything new to be build.
It's much more profitable for them to not fix the issues and let people suffer. It's people failing people.
Facts
When I was 19 back in 1982, I did not feel like this at all. I moved out of the house after high school in 1981 and was able to pay for an studio apartment by myself with a part time job while going to school. The cost of housing now is complete BS. Corporate rental home ownership has to go. I totally feel this guys rant. Justified. My 19 year old son has no chance of getting his own place at this point, since you need a minimum income of $5800 per month to rent a one bedroom apartment in our area in SoCal. The current economy is totally skewed towards the rich, who, coincidentally, buy the politicians who make the rules.
Wild because you and your neighbors voted for this over the past 50 years.
@eightlights4939 how would he know this was gonna happen?
@@WokioWolfy Common sense? Researching what you are voting for? Not voting based on feelings? Shall I go on?
@@eightlights4939 makes sense.
@@eightlights4939surely has nothing do with hundreds of millions of immigrants.
Lack of rent control. It used be that rent was a small part of the economy. Now rent determines how much we are paid. The more we are paid, the more rent goes up.
The house grew up in which was cheap as fuck is now worth over a million dollars.
The house I grew up was cheap as fuck too ….and it still is. 😂
We bought ours 9y ago for 39k and we put about 60k into it and now it’s worth 300k
Investment managers buying up homes
Yep. I grew up in a house that cost my parents $200k brand new. We were priced out of the area after 9 years. They sold the house for $750k, which was nice, but just to own the house cost them over $20k/year between property taxes and HOA fees that were a fraction of the price when they bought the house. That obviously doesn't include the mortgage and utilities. It's fucking disgusting how much it costs to own any piece of property.
Except that when they bought it it wasn't "cheap as fuck" and they still had to work to be able to keep the house. The fact that property appreciates in value over time doesn't somehow negate that fact.
My dad worked at Walmart in the tire center for 12 years raising 4 kids with a stay at home wife and 2 cars. We had great Christmases, summers, birthdays. I have 1 kid, my wife and I both work, and we can bearly afford a car, food and rent. We make 3 times what my dad made with the adjustment for inflation. Something is broken. Its only been 15 years difference. I hate to think what another 15 years of this will do.
Yeah, back then you alone could literally work at a grocery store, raise a family of four, own multiple cars, and still live comfortably. Can’t do that anymore. Someone made a good point about this: the Simpsons for example, if that show debuted today, it would just be Homer and Marge with no kids, and barely affording an apartment.
@S113Productions yeah bro future looking very grim for me. 16 right now, and all I can do is hope this clears up as I can't control the billionares causing the problems.
Price of housing has gone up 10X while wages have gone up only 4.5X
Whyd you have a kid your can't afford?
@@thestarisalie 😂
The problem isn't following through with the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality. It's that even if you HAD that same mentality and worked JUST as hard as your fathers and grandfather's did in the jobs they had. In this economy, you STILL would be hard struggling every day.
Thats not true at all. People expect to live in the middle class lifestyle they grew up in. Thats the end result, not where you start. Their grandparents didnt start at middle class. Their parents didnt start at middle class.
Young people feel entitled to live in a good area at a cheap price. That never was reality.
Your first house is not going to be middle class. Get over it just like your grandpa did.
@@thebenc1537 You missed the entire point... you could start out in the lower class, work JUST as hard in the exact same jobs as your father and grandfather, and at the end of the day, not even touch the level of financial security they did. The POSSIBILITY of elevating your status to middle class just isn't there anymore.
@@jeffreyavalos782 thats a complete lie. You buy a cheap small starter home and build equity. Everyone can do it.
@@thebenc1537 "cheap" starter home... 😂
@@jeffreyavalos782 yes a starter home is supposed to me a small cheap house. What is funny about that?
Ohh you are just ignorant of the truth. I will educate you some if you wish. For starters go to zillow. Search your state for houses under 200k. Youll find tons of them for sale in rural/semi-rural areas.
If you are too lazy to drive further to work then thats your problem.
where in the constitution does it say the government has the right to pledge the gold of the population of the nation as collateral for a debt to a private bank ? that is what happened 1913 we gave control of the money to a private bank. for some reason none of you have ever noticed.
I’m a software engineer working out of Austin. I make 115k. I can’t afford to live in Austin. I bought a house on temple
And that's why that area is now over priced to hell.
Not your fault, do to the bullshit Austin pulled for over 2 decades
i am a software solutions architect and i bougt a 83^m house in the capital with cash in 4 years while living in a rented chicken coop size room. im 22 with no degree
Good. Why would you want to.
@TrevorMauk😂😂
Austin is now like Seattle and Portland, Democrats have ruined the cost of living.
Like Ricky Gervais said...Remove the safety labels for two years, THEN let the remaining population vote.
I never thought I would agree with this, but I do now. I think that's exactly what happened. There is a balance between eugenics and no child left behind. Let people reap their consequences.
This guy wouldn't make it a day without labels.
I have a Christian version of that: wait 50 years and then let people vote. People who are too stupid to have children obviously won't matter soon enough. And it won't go in a circle because this is the first time in human history that we have the ability to say no to children both socially and economically.
*chuckles* im in danger 😂. But on the other hand i already dont read warning lables.
lol … very true.
"pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" doesn't fucking mean anything.
it was first said as a joke about "doing impossible tasks" you cannot lift yourself up off the ground without some form of leverage. THAT'S THE JOKE. so saying, "you know, it sucks to hear it but pulling yourself up by your bootstraps really does work." like, no it fucking doesn't. it's like saying, "if you're hungry, eat the air!" and saying, "i know you guys don't want to hear this, but it works." you're out of touch.
Right, it surprises me that this phrase has been taken as an actual stance. As you said, it's quite literally an impossible feat to pull yourself up by your own boot straps. It's ironic.
It's one of the original gaslighting phrases.
way too many people get "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" and "bootstrapping" confused. the first as stated above means doing the impossible. the other means to start small and work your way up.
@@williamsimmons8274 the second is based on the misunderstanding of the first. It's still reductive.
I pulled myself up and it didn’t work. I worked a shit low pay job and paid for my own school while living with my parents. Both full time. Got a software degree, now I can’t find a job and make 40k working 50 hours a week. Fucking bullshit.
Working hard doenst do shit.
I worked like 220h a month at nightshift and got like 2k for it.
Meanwhile ppl are getting like 6k for smoking allday.
You gotta have the right papers and know the right ppl to get a good paying job.
This has nothing to do with your contribution to society.
And mostly ppl that earn a lot are not contributing to society instead they harm society.
Do we realy wanna live in a world that rewards harming society and punishes contributing?
papers don't matter if you know the right people.
i worked frontline healthcare for a bit and management were given bonuses (incentives) to save on all areas of the budget, including payroll. incentivized to keep the facility understaffed, under trained and lacking in supplies/tools. we're cooked.
I figured this out when I was a kid. Glad people are learning the hard way, at least.
We've been screwed with no vaseline for decades, and here we are
Always use a water based lubricant!
My friends lose their shit when I have Vaseline in my glove box.
But its for the targa roof seals so they don't leak 😂😂😂
A 450k house in Texas is literally what a house in California was like 10 years ago
My exact thought when he said this was bro in cali you aint getting anything for under a mil. There is no shot I am ever going to be able to afford to buy a house in Cali in my lifetime.
I live in a small town in TN.
The housing prices have tripled compared to what they were in 2018/2019.
Huh, I wonder what started 10 years ago? Oh yeah, Californians moving to Texas.
@@whiskeyniner6416Try Idaho.
California is the problem its i fecting the rest of the country
Asmongold reacting to a guy reacting to a guy freaking out.
working hard and complaining about capitalism are not mutually exclusive. I used to do 380 hours a month, doing 16-hour shifts in fine dining for 11 years. all I got was debt, anxiety, and 7 heart attacks.
7?! What is that like hyper tension 9? Be safe my friend. I would say go chill on a beach but the way this economy is it might wind up being your new home if you take a day off to enjoy yourself. But seriously take care.
@Vancev99x apparently had a hole in my lower left ventricle, but the overworking and stress sure didn't help.
Out of the business now, I have been working odd jobs until I can find a job that will allow me to sit down while I work for the first time in my life.
It's not capitalism that is making your life hard.
@@axel8406 it sure as shit ain't helping
It absolutely is the current socio-economic system
Bro, my parents bought a acher of land and built a 280m2 house in 1998 for $108,000, that house is now worth over $800,000. We dont have much hope.
Already poeple who own farms.. if they pass it down are going to get taxed to death on it where htey cant even inherit the farm. Its getting bad
r/boneappletea
Soon chin money will be equal to the USD
@@npcimknot958 the new unrealized gains tax plan by the current administration would apply this to family homes as well. So if you can't afford to buy the house your parents paid off you then lose it.
ur parents "🤣😂🤑🤑
Guy said he makes 3x the federal minimum wage, what bootstraps would he pull himself up from? That\s the problem, you work all day and make nothing.
Something has to change, and it's not our wage
Logistically speaking it's shameful because we're the wealthiest nation of all and have no reason why we can't be living the kind of life where (like in the late 1800 and early 1900) you could work a minimum wage job and buy a house and raise a family.
I worked as a teacher at a community center and I would listen to boomers talk about how they're avoiding taxes on their 3rd or 4th house. The amount of money they avoid paying via careful accounting is honestly something else. Meanwhile I'm working two jobs and I can never even think about living near that area, it's like we live in different world.
Landlords gobbling up homes left and right, and NIMBYism where nobody (Liberals OR Conservatives) want new housing built near where they live, are just devastating young people wanting to get a start in life. In the end that will hurt everyone. I hope the movement to find solutions will gain momentum. In the meantime, TikToks like this are a start.
Not to mention ppl running up bs erroneous "business" credit and write offs....complete bs thinking we won the Cold war with all this redistribution of wealth and fraud
@@WardenWyrd It wont change untill our world goverments get "new blood" for leaders. Its criminal how much anyone under 30 isnt represented (Even older maybe)
They wont change a system that benfits them and we can only hope the next ones change it rather than just use it to enrich themselfs.
See the problem isnt that we're lazy and not working hard. Its actually quite the opposite, gen z is forced to work 4x more than our parents and almost 8x more than our grandparents. This is what we find unacceptable and stupid, this is why "pull up your boot straps" dont mean shit to us because the world is a lot different and we would most definitely have to work harder than previous generations to achieve the same results (house, fam, car)etc.
its not that we work harder because we dont, In general our work lifes have improved an amazing amount but its everything else thats fucked , Simple to put we work the same for less
working longer for increasingly abstract and useless degrees and certifications is a major part of the problem
most jobs barely need a high school education (though a broad grounding in history/arts/science/literature/etc is beneficial)
coercing everyone, by means of taxes, into college and beyond is outright destructive, they should learn on the job
@@DG-mk7kd the problem with learning on the job is that companies see that as a fucking waste of time and money.
The issue is you think you get to have what previous generations got.
how does gen z have enough time to work 8x more than their grandparents? wtf does this mean?
I was told by my financial advisor that I was in the upper 2 percent. I’m like- are you kidding me? I mow my own lawn, use coupons and drive a 5 year old minivan I bought for 18k.
So you’re smart with your money then
@@TheNateWalking basically. Just lived way below means. Debt would have eaten at my soul.
@@melvano4014 and why should you have to keep adjusting your means to fit their ever-increasing bullshit? more power to you, but that shouldn't be the solution.
@@letmediecast amen!
@@letmediecastyou have 3 choices: live within your means and be debt free, live above your means by financing everything and complain when you have no money, and typing out the third option will get me banned on UA-cam.
I'm dealing with this right now, same situation as him. Three times the minimum wage but if I were to go out on my own, I'd just barely be able to cover rent alone. That isn't covering utilities or gas or proper savings.
The juice was so worth the squeeze in our grandparents' day and age, it was worth being uncomfortable in a job because you could expect you were going to provide for a whole ass family and have a McMansion in exchange for it. It didn't even require being particularly smart or skilled. Every single braindead boomer got to thrive with no education and only on the job training. Now even if most people work their ass off they're going to get screwed. If we are going to get screwed, we may as well get screwed in a job where we don't have to walk three miles in the snow to get to it.
my boss at the old drive in resturaunt i worked at was a prime example. old as can be, but happily living a comfortable life for the past 30-40 years as a fast food employee / manager. he preached and preached about how "nobody wanted to work hard anymore" all. the. time. he lived in his own little bubble for his whole life and never noticed that the wealth he accumulated overtime and the seniority he gained at the company was a perfect storm. like, i can't even afford to eat right let alone save up for anything sustainable. he would be EXACTLY where i am today if he were my age today. underpaid, overworked, given all the shitty jobs that physically wear me out. IF I COULD AFFORD THE PROPER NUTRITION FOR MY BODY, MAYBE THE HARD WORK WOULDNT BE SO TAXING. it's insane. i hate it.
Is welcome to brandon's world
Yup. I worked my ass off to get a college degree, worked and managed a subway the whole way through. I had an interview for a job in mt field and I was rejected because someone with 8 years of experience was hired over me? But they were very impressed with me and that was the only reason because I don’t have enough experience? It’s so ridiculous. The only job I’ve been able to get is Walmart since graduating in December. My field doesn’t pay much more than Walmart now too. Gen z is outraged and lazy for a reason, because we will never have anything.
Vote Trump 2024 And all America's lives will change for the better🙏
Very well spoken,my friend.. you actually have Put enough thought into it, that you actually understand it. You’ve earned my respect today if nothing else.
The guy in the car is speaking straight facts though. My dad when he came to America as a legal immigrant at 14 with my grandfather and was able to afford a house with a single minimum wage job on his own with his son, no schooling whatsoever since he was a farmer, couldn't speak a lick of English, and was still able to afford housing. Right now, the house I'm renting is 1800 a month, I make 2000 a month after taxes. If I lived alone, i simply couldn't live anywhere unless I got a roommate or a second job just to cover my car insurance, phone, and internet, the most basic of basic needs.
I can't see how this is all going to work out, but I'm guessing it'll be a revolution once people hit their breaking point. Our forefathers who made America fought their mother country over a 3% tax, now Americans get literally anything they can buy taxed, you pay tax for the roads, your taxes go to government housing, your taxes go to the military, your taxes are being collected to be laundered to countries that hate us, etc. To be honest, I'm not feeling represented in government and I'm sure most normal people would say the same. For God's sake, I'd rather have my taxes going to getting a homeless dude back on his feet and not send millions to the middle east for "gender studies programs" to the group of people known for stoning women, beheadings, and throwing gay people off rooftops
Yep.
Been saying it for a good while. I was done after 7 months of Biden.
Problem is everyone with voice that matters refuses to do much, hell even celebrities are blacklisted for speaking the truth about the current administration.
he wants to be a famous tiktoker working 15 minutes a day, get real this is not a real job
@@Kspice9000 what means black listed ? what about the FAMOUS AMERICAN FREEDOM OF SPEECH ? Freedom of speech is the basics. It is all starts with freedom of speech. In Russia we do not have freedom of speech. I do not know any country in the world with real freedom of speech. I thought USA were that country. I even participated in green card programm. But than the war with Ukraine started so my green card programm is fcked. And know i am thinking that i don't need the green card, because anyway you have no freedoms, like people in Russia do not have any freedoms. So why one have to bother about moving to USA. No reason at all. Even mexicans.
My immigant parents bought a 3br home 2 ba for 75k when mom worked as a house cleaner and my dad worked at a factory
"Our forefathers who made America fought their mother country over a 3% tax"
No, they didn't. There were many, many more reasons that were far worse than taxes. You can read them in the Declaration of Independence.
Yo you can't write it off by saying working hard is better than "complaining".
I had a 4.0 GPA in college and I couldn't get a job that paid above $10 an hour in my field of study. Why the hell did I work so hard for not being able to afford to live. I literally couldn't afford to work in my field of study. All it did was give me debt.
Keep voting Democrat, ha!
whats your field of study?
@@mgtowcowboy8159because under trump everyone had a huge salary and a job, right?
Did you have a degree in art? If so that's the problem.
What was your degree in? Did you work any internships in your field of study? Network in your field of study?
Etc……
There are still pockets of America where you can still afford to live---but prices have gone up everywhere. One work around is to secure a remote work job where you are, once secured, move to a less expensive part of the U.S. You will be paid more if you get the job living in a more expensive area. Once the remote job is secured, the move to one of the pockets of low areas in the U.S. Second option is to get friends to pool money to buy a piece of land together. Check zoning! Modular homes and tiny houses can sometimes be bought on the cheap. Each person who invested in the land, can install a modular home or tiny house. And if anyone wants to sell, the others in the group have the first right to make a purchase offer. You share the land, but you can install a house. Modular homes are cheaper and bigger than a tiny house ---and if you have the land--a lot of the cost is reduced. Does that stink? Absolutely. But it still lets you find a way to work around the p roblem. Do I love tiny houses? Nope, but you can buy a 2nd hand one on Marketplace for cheap. If you can put up with the tiny house for a while---you can pay off your part of the land and save to build a bigger home or install a modular home.
No term limits is a bad take. We shouldnt have people being career politicians with half of their job being only to work to retain their job.
And he praises Bernie who is just as much a coward and warmonger as the rest of them
Yes and no. This also weeds out people that have a lot of experience with the job and are good at it. Term limits exist and it's called "voting". These people can be voted out at any time during an election.
We should have term limits, politicians are supposed to represent the people, these seats should be shuffling frequently, but people just vote for the name they've heard before that's on their sports team.
100%. Politics was never meant to be a career. It is supposed to be a public service.
@@bej4987 They have term limits. It's called voting. These boomers represent the people that vote. Simple as.
I was 18 when financial crash happened. I’m now 33. It’s worse now than 2008.
I’m 42, it’s really bad now. Sometimes I jokingly post things like accelerate when I see the 60billion for Ukraine, 30 billion for Israel bill this past month, because the only way for the things to get better is for things to continue to get much worse.
@Spitsworth 35 here also, things are not gonna get any better sadly enough!
I was in high school at the time so I didn't pay attention to much political stuff back then, but I do remember gas being $4.50ish per gallon in my area...in 2010. Now with minimum wage and average wages being what, 20-30% higher? and gas in that same area is hovering around $3.50 a gallon now? So its cheaper and wages are higher compared to 2010.
Not saying the economy isn't in the shitter, but if the cost of living is comparable to gas prices in any way shape or form, we're better off now than in 2010. I'm now curious to see how much houses, rent and food compared in the 2008 crash compared to nowadays.
@@MrPerson61 Bro, wages haven't changed where I live. And gas has rose by 40% so I got no idea what you're talking about.
Bro, my rent in of itself went from 2,100 to 2,300 and now there is mandatory costs on throwing away our trash. And I don't mean for disposal with the guys driving the trucks. I mean because apartment complexes now lock up the trash bins and they personally have to grab them from your space. Double dipping.
Not to mention houses used to cost 350k to around at most 500k.
Now it's a minimum 600k to 3 million. HOW ARE WE JUSTIFYING THIS!?
"ChAngE mInimUm wAGe..." Shit, people are getting paid more. Guess we'll just up the cost of everything to compensate. Making it so that NOTHING CHANGES. Oh, and groceries. I go buy about 250 dollars worth of groceries a week... 60 dollars for a small slice of meat and 35 dollars for beef? And maybe some bread... 12-20 dollars a loaf.
@@MrPerson61You are mistaken. No gas anywhere was $4.50 in 2010.
The problem with “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” is hard work isn’t important. Knowing people is far more important, being born rich is more important than hard work. Hard work is not valued because it’s not incentivized, it’s exploited. Hard work doesn’t work, doing as little as possible to get by works better.
Exactly.
If you work hard your deemed "too valuable for the means of production" and will never be moved up.
The key is to be deemed a likable, useful idiot that can be easily manipulated by upper management but not capable/stupid enough to not be viewed as a threat.
That bootstrap nonsense is what you hear from propagandist like Jordan Peterson.
Op is right, but also Just bring down rent prices. Literally fixes everything. Boomer are renting thier kids into poverty. 1 house is enough
Rapid inflation does not negate working hard and should never be regarded as such. "Bootstraps" is a personal motto that works. But in the current economy, I can understand why people would be disillusioned.
@marcozegikniet9301 "propagandist"
Lol did you just get kicked off a campus by police?
This is where asmond is semi wrong. Its not that he's wrong but the conversation is wrong. Its not "it's better to work hard than to complain" the conversation should be to work hard and continue to complain. You can and should do both. the way asmond put it is that you should work hard, suffer and shut up. But I THINK he meant what I said here. These ppl complaining aren't "just sitting around complaining about capitalism" they're actually hard workers that are still suffering and have every right and need to complain. Between myself and my wife we work 3.5 jobs and we make just enough JUST ENOUGH to survive and not have to look at the price of bread. That's not even the way we should be striving to be. That should be normal amongst people that work ONE good job. The problem is when you have an explanation from ppl who haven't lived it. not talking shit about asmond but he went from nothing to what he is now. Very little work very little experience when it comes to that. Yeah he saw his parents live a certain way but it was different then too and that was on his parents and their working or not. Yah I've heard his story but life is different now than it was 10 years ago. Talk about being priced out of your neighborhood. Check ball ground GA. 15 years ago you wouldn't find a few houses over $150k. Now they're STARTING at 400k 3 miles outside of town. Inside town (and i use town loosly because it's a dozen shoppes like ice cream shops and pizza joints and a burger bus) youre looking at around 800k to 2 mil. North Georgia is getting very very VERY heavily taken over by corpos and big money pushing people OUT. This week alone our property taxes went up another 31% THIRTY ONE PERCENT. Its all over the local papers and local facebook groups. We don't even have a Chick-fil-A in the county. Nothing that comes close to entertainment. No Dave and busters. No theater. Nothing but grocery stores and a Walmart. You're not even considered to be in the mountains yet. It's 1 county below any mountains thats why it's called the Foothills. And what's the sad sad truth is that everyone buying these houses are people that live 50 miles south at closest. Toward Atlanta. And I'd say 20% of these houses are second homes that stay vacant. Its frustrating.
At age 19 I didnt not feel what this kid is feeling. But at age 47 I am now. I sold my condo I owned since 2005 in 2020 right before the massive spike in home value increases and now I cant find my own place. This is insane. In 4 years I went fromm having a good amount of disposable income each month to now being in the negatives every month. I havent changed anything about my lifestyle. Now the money I got from selling my condo is draining away and I have nowhere to go. It's impossible to live on 50k a year almost.
Start making changes to the way you spend your money man. Gotta tighten up and spend smarter. Unfortunately inflation is out of control, so you gotta adjust with it. I'd start looking for a higher paying job in your field or adjacent.
@@Adiopowered Hes calling out pattern recognition here something is not right, the answer is not to keep blindly accepting it.
@@Adiopowered yup. It's insane. I'm going to have to pretty much cut out all extra spendetures and not eat to be able to afford my own place. Great weight loss plan.
You didn't change anything and expect everything to stay the same? That is so stupid lol
Yeee 4 years ago I was living a decent life now making even more money as journeyman plumber my money gets eaten up and my expenses are the same, I don't go out to drink, eat out a 20$ meal like once every 2 weeks, I don't drive my truck other then to work and gym no joy rides for me, it's sad 4 years ago with less money I felt more rich
People looking down on others living in trailers, but I’d rather live in my trailer and save about $1300/mo (I pay $489/mo PITI) than live in an apartment with 2 other randos and still be struggling. For comparison, a decent 1 bedroom apartment in my city is $1400-$1500/mo.
Renting is a scam. Always has been. You’re paying family home prices for less-than-mediocre accommodations in a space that will never be yours. Where I’m from, $1800/mo would get you into a nice 2-3 bedroom house with a few acres of land. If you can afford a $500,000-$750,000 house out here, you’re living like the McAllisters from Home Alone. That’s probably part of the reason why a lot of people feel hopeless is because there’s no end to your treadmill. Worrying about making the month’s rent will be hanging over your head every day for the rest of your life. My trailer will be paid off in a little over 4 years and all I’ll have to pay after that is power/water and a couple hundred dollars per year in property taxes. I may not be living like a celebrity, but I make less than the kid in the video and have no stress.
Yep trailer park life is legit
Lived in run down trailers my whole childhood life and had and amazing time with all the other trailer park kids that have been my closest friends still to this day after 30 years. I've always been grateful that I came from having nothing and it's helped me appreciate the little things in life much more.
100%. there is a distinction between a well kept trailer and one that is being neglected.
Problem is that living in a trailer park means living with other people who live in a trailer park.
@@TheTundraTerror So it's just apartment life.
"Just work hard" - guy who became a millionaire by sheer luck.
And? If he hasn't gotten rich he would still say to work hard. Because more often than not, that's the path to success
@chrisg4305 just working hard isn't enough. And Asmon creates a false dichotomy : you work hard or you complain. The white dude in the video does both. And the situation won't change if nobody complains.
It takes being in the right place at the right time, with the knowledge and resources needed to take advantage of the opportunity to succeed, as well as hard work, to make the opportunity happen.
It's like baking a cake. If you know how to make a cake and put in the time and energy to make the cake, but there's no sugar, you'll get a cake that'll taste awful. ALL the ingredients need to be in place to make the cake a success.
@Morbacounet work hard and do more you need to do more then what's required
@@chrisg4305 No, everyone who has ever gotten anywhere ever, worked SMART and probably very DIRTY, and NOT hard. Just about every mfracker who got rich like this says to work hard, when they NEVER did, or not even close to people who literally worked themselves to death. Tell THEM that, i am pretty sure they can no longer hear your from their overworked graves.
My current right wing conspiracy theory is that COVID was meant to keep the next generation of voters stupid, and not an actual threat to humanity as a species
It was never an existential threat. The fatality rate was not high enough to be worried about it wiping us out, and that risk was mostly concentrated among the elderly and obese.
The first video is not about hating America, is about hating the system. In Europe is the same or worst in most countrys.
The system in America is uniquely garbage. Europeans worry about refugees. The refugees are already inside the house over here.
what the hell are u talking about? i dont know a single person working 2 jobs, coz "they have to"... not ONE... USA is not the country u wanna look at, when looking at "standards" that should be followed, it's what u wanna look at, for what NOT to do...
There are many things wrong with the united states, unfortunately, there are more things wrong with countries OUTSIDE the united states, european ones being obvious examples.
@@spyro257 I don't know anyone else either.
@@spyro257 you need to get out more
You cant lecture me about pulling myself up when youve stolen all the bootstraps.
I'll sell you back the bootstraps for a 500% markup
Was just about to say
“how can i pull myself up by my bootstraps when they are too expensive”
Stop crying. In most other countries life is way harder than in the US. Give me a break!
@@fuerstmetternich1997 This is such a dumb take, of course you can complain about things going wrong even if somewhere else they are worse
The whole saying is kinda stupid. Because the whole point is that you can't pull yourself up by the bootstrap. You need help.
You can't physically pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Go ahead: put on some boots, grab the straps, and try to pull yourself off the ground. You won't manage to "pull yourself up" in any meaningful sense because gravity is a thing. You can pull yourself up by a chair, a rock-climbing grip, or someone else's hand; you cannot pull yourself up by your bootstraps, or anything attached to your body. If you could, transportation infrastructure would look very, very different because humans would be capable of levitation.
The expression "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was originally used to refer to a task that's impossible.
I hate when my parents said "when I was 25 yo, I already married and start a family. When I was 28 yo, I already have 2 kids." Bla bla bla bla... 🤦😑 She keep ranting with owning a house, some lands, etc. Excuse me. She got it thanks to her granma. She is not working day by day. Start from 4 am and go to fast food restaurant. She never work in warehouse and pork butcher shop where you are not allowed to take a break that long. You have to stand up for hours. You are not allowed to take a pee or relieve yourself. It is cold but you must get up early.
She complain why I am not eat healthy, clean the house all the time, buy this and that. Excuse me. I am not eating that much. I go to nearby store and buy some foods. Then go to sleep. Sleep in the bed is like luxury to me. but she dare to complain about my life and even keep bother me with question "WHEN YOU GONNA MARRIED?". 🔥👀 W T H. I am not thinking about dating. Dating who? I am working from monday to Sunday. From morning till night. When I am sick, no one care. No money. Living cost is high. I still have student loans that need to be paid. So I hate those old generations who said that young folks are not working hard enough. Just go away please. I am sooo tired. I really want to get long sleep and never wake up.
I feel you, it's hard in these times but at the end of the day, working hard is better than groveling and being miserable. Keep pushing and opportunities will arise I'm sure 🙏
Stay up family. We are all in this together and your experience is a shared one. It’s hard out there for the young working class right now but keep on pushing and speaking your mind brother. One person at a time we have to change this world
English bad as well
@gospelofsatoshi9168 Congrats for the most shallow and empty reply to such a serious subject that is effecting both the middle and poor working class people in America struggling to make ends meet. The political class outsourced many jobs overseas and focuses on issues that don't help people struggling to survive, ie. foreign wars, climate change, heavy focus on identity politics and the border. Which leaves the poor working class out of any meaningful conversation or change for the better when it comes to addressing the cost of living expenses in our own country. Some of the cheapest houses on the market and yes that includes rural neighborhoods like one I live in are around 250k - 400k plus so even owning a house is out of the question for most people. Rent for even a little studio size apartment went from 300-400 dollars a month some 8-10 years ago to 700-900 or even 1100 dollars or more a month not including some utility expenses today. The price of what was once 1 dollar for cheap Walmart brand eggs is now $3.00 for a dozen. Meat, bread, fruit and vegetables have gone up a lot as well, even a box of $0.34 ramen is now over a freaking dollar now these days. It's like our government expects us to work excessive hours, live out of an old car or tent while going to work, have no retirement and just be poor and miserable while in a job for a employer that gives two $hits less about you and will replace your @ss in a moments notice if you're sick or become unable to work for a period of time. So F - the hell off with that pull yourself up by the bootstraps bull$hit!
@@aprd Yours as well.
you set a limit on how many houses a person or group/company can own. it's a very simple fix.
This is the best solution. I commend you and can't believe i didn't think about it first
For anyone wondering why housing is the way it is - the Federal Reserve does a thing they call "Quantitative Easing" where they print money and buy mortgage backed securities, among other things. These MBSs are traded like a stock but represent a large group of mortgages. This is done to boost the economy but the side effect is housing prices go up because you have more buyers getting loans (demand) chasing the same amount of supply. This has been going on since 2008 and ramping each year. So the economy looks better on paper because there's more activity but if you aren't in the boat, as a homeowner or a bank, you get more left behind each year this goes on.
Don’t forget the part where institutional corporations were acting as banks and getting 1% interest loans directly from the federal reserve between 2020 and 2022. Capitalism doesn’t exist when one entity pays $600 less a month on a mortgage than a normal human.
This is also compounded by issues like CA fighting tooth and nail to kill single-family housing, the cost of building materials (which is hugely dependent on gas prices) and the cost of building permits/licenses.
So it sounds like if supply was increased then everything would be hunky dory.
one way to fix the housing issue of people buying up multiple properties is to have no property tax on your primary residence and then double or triple the tax on the other properties
Based
Also only private individuals can own single family housing.
Great idea
Make it so that the property tax per house progressively increases, the more houses one owns.
Also, require US citizenship for purchasing. It’s not just corporate investors taking up the market, but foreign ones as well.
Better idea: abolish property tax. It goes to funding public schools so they will have to be abolished, which is another win. You won't have to fund other people's kids indoctrination, and they will have to pay for private school or home school.
Regulations from Department of Education? No problem! Abolish that too! Government is not the solution, it is the problem.
Not only are these people working hard, they are ALSO complaining because working hard isn't enough anymore, nothing will change if all you do is work hard. People have to express their griefs with society in order for things to change. What kind of argument are you making???
"Hard work" doesn't work anymore.
Smart work and luck works.
People in a manual labor job can work hard, do ungodly amounts of overtime and try (and fail) to better themselves.
Yet they still can't pay their rent or buy a home, can't eat good and if something breaks you better hope you have the smarts and skill to fix it yourself.
Let alone the countless health issue's that pile up from hard work on bodily complaints.
From your back and knees going to hell, and your psyche and memory breaking down due to irregular sleep patterns from shift or night work, doing long overtime or not having any downtime to just relax.
Meanwhile somebody in a office supervisor job, scrolling down meme sites half of the day doing only the regular hours, bringing more money home then the hard worker.
Yes I know there are also those that actually put in the work and are a godsend for many of those working under them, as these supervisors or other leading role people are not only doing their job, but putting in the extra effort.
But those numbers are much lower compared to those that don't even do the bare minimum and get overpaid for it too.
I'm not from the US, but I'm pretty sure its similar over there.
Just saying, what's the point of working yourself nearly to death if you will end up with even less capital then before you started?
Especially in the US I guess, where the hard working man/woman will go in dept due to the medical bills their hard work has given them.
Yeah it's the same. Are you from the UK, Canada or Australia by chance?
No
This is so true. I went from a powerplant job to an oil n gas accounting job. I literally bullshit most of the day and make about 4k a month. I try not to be sleazy, but it’s true. I don’t do shit and make at least 2.3x the hard laborer
@@sebastianmartin8665so an incentive exists to move away from labour into the managerial class...which isnt productive. Who will produce? The millions of migrants who will now do your former job for 50% less. But does that stop the housing crisis? Inflation? This system is a house of cards.
Its not just America. Entire Europe is falling off the same cliff.
It's for the same reason most likely. The way most western economies are run are very similar, so what is causes these problems in our country is causing the same problems in your countries. For example, in the US at least, housing prices are extremely over-priced because of the way our realty industry is regulated. From a practical speaking perspective though not technically legal term speaking perspective, realtors are basically insider trading through the use of contractually enforced pricing algorithms and resource aggregation. Every realtor uses these algorytms because it has been proven to boost profits if they are used and the algorithm has figured out if it overprices every single property, then people have no choice to buy one of the overpriced properties, which further raises the value and price of every other property add infinitum. There are other contributing factors, but that is the biggest one IMO, as the other factors used to exist for decades before these algorithms did but we didn't have this problem.
@GHOSTSTARSCREAMyou’re 100% wrong. Europe taxes their European out the ass. They have no where else to go… but they must go higher. You still have room. Europe will fall long before the U.S.
it s even worse here in Europe.
@GHOSTSTARSCREAMthe US has resources on par with Europe, and if you’re wildly misinformed enough to think European countries aren’t greedy would you like to open a history book and see what they do?
@GHOSTSTARSCREAMyou are so wrong. and i m from France, i know what i m talking about.