I just had the most depressed chuckle of my life dude

That’s 104k BEFORE taxes 😭😭 we’re all fucked

Almost made me end it all with this one lmao

My company charges $400 for health insurance and $1800 for a family.

That or gut out the things you can technically live without. Riding a bike saves you a ton of money from not having car payments, insurance, gas bills ect. Downside is you basically can never date cause no one takes you seriously 😅

Or even if you do get scheduled 40 hours for months, you could have a job like mine where you still get no benefits because you are considered part time even though you work 40 hours a week consistently but every once in awhile will just schedule me for 32 in a week.

Oh so maybe we have too many people in the labor market. Gee wonder why?

My experience (that is both anecdotal and limited to a single field) indicates that the employers in my field have some impressive cognitive dissonance; they want to have (and frequently enforce) as few people on a client as possible, then when *anything* happens to one of them and the client is suddenly short-staffed the employers act like there's nothing that could have been done at any point and it's now the remaining worker's jobs to pick up enough slack to keep the client from firing the company, who will then not move to fix the problem they caused. One poor girl had a 72 hour work week until she had a stroke that partially paralyzed her.

@@MarkTexasYankeethat’s actually not true at all. There’s more open jobs right now than when we were in the 2008 recession. I believe it’s something like 13 million jobs are open right now and there’s almost the same amount of unemployed people. I can’t remember the stats exactly, I just read them recently though but the crazy thing is, is now- men especially- of working age, are currently ACTIVELY not looking for work. Explain that please

@@PiXie232Is that for entry level positions or special education positions? Are employers rejecting these unemployed people due to prejudice? We can’t really be sure unless we go look at the statistics and research?

Basically, the government threw a bunch of money at the real estate industry so they can divide the classes up even more. Why? Because suffering is funny (to them and the real estate industry).

Or you're so dumb you don't understand what value added is.. you're also so dumb you don't understand that wages and labor are subject to the forces of supply and demand just like goods and services.. go learn a valuable skill that is rare that pays.

Inflation has nothing to do with $20 an hour not being $100,000+

@@yomanthisiseli yes it does.. inflation steals the purchasing power of that $20.. Actually you can make $20 an hour to $100,000. Let's say you're self-employed or not you can play the scenario to either.. but you're self-employed producing some kind of good in service but working 16 plus our days. Building some type of product or giving a service to the general public that you're selling for a value-added of what it took to manufacture or provide it..

@@dextile98 when your nose inflation exists he's talking about artificial value added inflation.. the general public is willing to pay only so much for a fast food Burger. Your wage is determined by the customer's willingness to pay for the product.. if you get paid $15 an hour your boss needs to make $30 an hour.. because at that price they're able to sell burgers.. if you are officially demand by law by abusing your Democratic vote to give you that raise. And it's $20 an hour. You better produce $40 an hours worth of burgers. If your employer has to increase the value of those burgers to the point where the customers no longer buy them.. you no longer even have a $15 an hour job . Great job. This could also apply to you being self-employed.. customers determine your wage.

What banana cost $10? 😮😅

😆 great show I miss it. I haven’t seen it in YEARS but i immediately heard Gob voice 🤣

Yeah I send this to my parents every time they ask why I don't get a better job. Look at national averages! Where? I'll apply!😂

And one paycheck away from being homeless. Better not lose that job. I remember when 20 dollars an hour was Middle-class living

I've seen more people walking on the side of the road lately, Biden gots to leave we need to better the economy

They right, Forbes says that 80% of Americans can't afford a $1000 emergency.

It truly never made sense to me when they said "people on average have less than 500 in savings.

My daughter's, friend was working 15 hours a week in 2020 before shut downs she made $600.00 in 12 weeks something like that at Mc Donald's.

@@AC-qi9wowtf, that cant be legal

Or making $20 an hour 😂

So get a second job. It's not rocket science.

@@jmast1 these

💔💔💔 that’s the story with a lot of my family members, it pisses me the F off and breaks my heart all at the same time! One relative was experiencing pain on her ear, tried home remedies, but nothing worked. By the time she went to a doctor, she was told she had burst eardrum which was infected… Even more severe, my uncle had been experiencing discomfort and tingling on his limbs, and even had to pull over a few times when driving because his limbs would “fall asleep.” Turns out 3 of his major arteries were clogged, one of them was 90% clogged, and he had a heart attack! Thankfully they called an ambulance and he’s alive to tell the tale, but he almost died. They had to use a defibrillator and did 2 separate surgeries to unclog his arteries, starting with the one that was only functioning at 10%. I know not everything is preventable and even annual visits for a physical (if you’re lucky to have health insurance) doesn’t catch everything, but I do wish everyone and their mamma had access to healthcare that did not leave people bankrupt!!! This country is so messed up, y’all. Geez…

You must have missed the part about the average college graduate is making slightly above $20 per hour working in an entry level position. I can personally attest to this. I made $15 per hour in my first job after college working as a Quality Control Analyst at a pharmaceutical manufacturing company in 2010. That’s $21.61 in today’s money adjusting for inflation.

It makes more sense to work in retail than some entry level positions in other professions. Manager positions in retail often pay $20+, but it takes a lot of luck and hard work to get into a leadership position quickly. I was hired to be a manager for Kroger and Sprouts externally, but through H-E-B and Target, it appears to take years.

Newsflash minimum wage is supposed to be able to support LIVING. Back in 1950 a person could pay off a 5 year mortgage on a house working for minimum wage. And that IS what entry level is supposed to be.

@@Johnnybravo40 are we still in 1950s? technology makes everything easier but expensive. inflation is not just the only issue. a lot of things that they use back in the days are already been replaced by high technology all those stuff have a price.

​@@szhinkoszhinko5006 minimum wage is the minimum wage determined necessary for survival. It is not feasible to survive on anymore. It has not shifted with the times. Companies are pocketing billions while allowing their employees to be homeless, and need government benefits just to survive. It is wrong. It contradicts the very meaning of the term minimum wage. Licking boots does nothing but keep the common man underpaid and overworked. Billionaires don't need you advocating for them.

Then don't work fast food. I see both sides of the argument, but this side of the argument is just as wrong as the other. 1.) If you don't live in a shithole state, then your problems become significantly less, and "I live in Cali, I can't afford to leave!" Is not good enough because it's a lot cheaper than people say. Damn sure cheaper than staying. 2.) If you spend that much money on a degree and then waste it by applying at Wendy's, then that's a you problem. That being said, a $20 minimum wage is crazy because all the money in the world ain't gonna stop the McDonald's worker from fucking up my order. There's no reason you should be paid $20/hr when you can barely manage $10/hr work. And for the people who are rude to the fast food worker, you're still a piece of shit, lazy worker or not. Your parents should've taught you better than that.

That number is skewed down by those who aren’t working in their degree field and those who got degrees to work in fields that don’t pay well by design and didn’t *actually* require degrees to begin with. What’s criminal is going to school, getting into debt, and then completely botching your life because you got a $120k+ piece of paper that doesn’t pay well 😂 college should be for degrees to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, etc.

youre paid for what youre worth; if your degree is not useful, OR you are terrible at the given field, that is YOUR fault

Spending that much for college when you aren’t even worth $24 an hour is crazy

@@TATTOSANDWHISKEYwell, if workers were actually paid well, your baconator with cheese would probably come out way better. Just saying.

They don’t but they keep voting for them out of pure faith lol.

The guy running the podcast became rich from his pyramid scheme

That man is a Fox News anchor and one of the most cringeworthy ones at that. He's completely out of touch.

He makes $12 million a year but can't do basic math.

He's a fox news anchor. Anybody who watches fox or votes for conservatives needs to stop complaining. This nonsense is literally because of conservatives and their boner for corporations.

He shouldn't be allowed to run a company or give talks of any kind.

really though.

Yep. That’s how it works …just like in the 60s $3/hr was good money.

we’re enslaved by central bankers

I make 16 doing exhausting manual labor I want to kms every day

I don’t wanna say the people who wanted to raise the minimum wage got what they wanted. It kind of seems like they did only they didn’t understand the catch. Now even entry level college graduates are suffering from that decision when they probably deserved the increase in pay more than the minimum wage jobs. Trade guys too, none of the useless degrees people always get cause….fuck knows why. Hell, teachers need to get paid more, maybe if they did, we would have higher quality ones rather than settling for those who are left.

Only sensible comment on this short.

People are only aware of what they are exposed to. You're not aware of his reality either. I didn't listen to the news guy as much as the Tuber, and I was shocked by what he said because in my neighborhood all the people who work at fast food places are teenagers. You never see an adult with adult bills working these places unless they are the manager.

Yeah that’s freaken insane. Tried to rent a place for $1,600 which was expensive even in a ghetto neighborhood. “Must make 3x rent, give arm maybe 2 arms and 2 legs and first months rent, last months, and last last months as well.

Unless you just crossed the border illegally and then they'll probably give you a free apartment and a credit card with about I hear up to $10,000 on it. Some have gotten cars too.

It's freaking ridiculous. To afford a decent sized $3k-4k apartment you need to be making like 6 figures. Get the RV's out, everyone!

In California they just passed a law keeping landlords from requiring 3x and heavily limits the deposits

@@Vayxes finally some common sense here.

$20/hr felt good back when my rent was $800 / mo

I was living on my own making less than 15 an hour just ten years ago!

What's so bad with that? Sounds like a party now get out there how else rich ppl gonna stay rich hire a bunch of Mexicans? Oh wait

Ever thought if the corporations and companies are faring worse in the inflation ? No? Just regurgitate whats told to you by politicians? LOL. The issue is the pay has not risen along with the inflation and price gouging has made companies record profits in the last couple years. All you had to do is look at the profit records published by the companies themselves to know your narrative is flawed. But why bother, just parrot

I make $23.50 an hour and my rent is only 1,400 a month and I’m not going out but I have enough to pay my bills and enjoy myself I think most people spend too much

HEY stop putting intelligence in this. only people who have no clue rule here

Convenient for you to not mention what year it was when you turned 18

@@bananaana1860 1980s. but it doesn't matter, it would be the same in the 1950s or 1960s or even the 1920s for that matter. what you said would hold true. for some reason no one understands the basic concept of economics. only thing is, they stopped teach it in high school

@@joeydepalmer4457 the 1980s was completely different, old people are so out of touch…

@@pourmydrank no young people just love to whine more

Or basic arithmetic.

Righhtttt

Boomers… f…ing entitled… people who can’t see the world from different perspectives… how do we keep having people over 60 in position of power? And we expect them to know and decide about modern world? You want to work forever… ok, do it, but you shouldn’t be the one making decisions that affects the all company, or the society, or the State, or the world… gerontocracy is getting crazily real and all over… narcissistic white man that can’t let go of power… that’s why we are having problems in economy and politics… boomers raised the generation with most degrees in history, just to not let them lead or have a life…

He’s so privileged he never had to actually develop any skills

Or you guys are so dumb that you expect a fast food chain to pay for you to live in your own place working at a restaurant. Those are jobs for people just getting into the workforce and getting experience, not to live on your own and support a family lmfao

“Just stop buying avocado”, “ buy a cheap fixer upper and flip it” ass people. Our economy isn’t as bad and even I knew it’s completely clapped. Know a person who bought a “fäbod”(closest word I can find is chalet but the pics are WAY of) in a rural area, it cost more than I make in a year and that’s calculated to support one person comfortably.

You clowns think 20 an hour is acceptable

He’s a 100% certified idiot. If I spend $5 on coffee every single day for 100 years straight, that’s $182,500. Not even close to $1M.

And both of you still believe a million dollars is a lot of money, when it's just enough to buy a house! The millionaire ain't what it used to be...

If you are working at McDonald’s, it means you have no ambition and haven’t made an effort to gain a marketable skill. So, you don’t get to have your own apartment. Get a roommate and,BAM! hundreds more dollars a month to put toward other things.

So no one eats fast food during the day? When high school students are at school?

If you work full time you deserve your basic human needs to be met, at the minimum

The problem is is that those starting jobs to jump off of either don't pay anything for you to get your foot in the door or will literally not let you get your foot in the door. Also, the prices aren't going up because of salaries they're going up due to a combination of supply chain issues with all the wars and Mr. Cheetos tariffs for 4 years, Because of food delivery services like doordash that rich people constantly use and more importantly because they realize they could do it and get away with it.

So let me get this straight? You want your local McDonald's staffed open to close by the same teenagers that most folks *swear* can't do more than operate the phone? You DON'T want adults in higher positions that fix what they "screw up"? Also, are you aware that in most states, managers can't even be bonded for cash handling under the age of 18? You want that store run by "untrustworthy" "unteachable" teenagers? Huh. I don't. I believe a *child* should concentrate on their education. Sincerely, A Fast Food Manager with more than 15 years cumulative experience, who *still* can't make ends meet

@@jordanwhite352 Oh noooooo. Dont blame Trump for this. The supply chain issues started with the plandemic. That crushed businesses. And lets not forget about all the money printed during that time that was like a shot of nitrous to the inflation fire. None of this had to happen

Or so bad at math

i mean you could make 100k a year with 20 an hour if you work 14 hours every day

Reminds me of the clip of the streamer Adin Ross who thought the average American makes 100k a year LOL

That's why he is the 'EXpert'. Useless talking head saying things that aren't even a little bit true to relieve the predatory class of their (almost nonexistent) guilt from being the exploiters and robber barons that they really are.

He is including digits to the right of the decimal.

Elon Musk said if you wanna make it like they do you gotta work like 90 hrs a week at each job…he has three companies so that’s what 270 hrs a week he works… 😂😂😂 yeah right he don’t work more than 20 hrs a week probably cuz he’s out enjoying his money everyone slaving away helped him get..just like the rest of the top people and the BS they spew about working…its all a smoke screen cuz if people realized that back when the industrial revolution started they figured everyone in America would only need to work at most 20hrs a week and still be living high on the hog..that was if pay kept up with production rates like they had been previously…but the owners didn’t want that..

20 an hour is actually pretty good money when you look at what minimum wage is 🤷 I make it work making less than that just fine

This!

@@ct7999I’m not an Elon fan but, he was saying this to people trying to be successful. After you are successful you can do whatever you want. Also did you forget he started PayPal? He was definitely working over 80 hours a week at the start of his career path

Thats what I do, and I still have roommates. California sucks. The Bay Area sucks more.

That's what I thought too. $100 my ass

Right!?! Because they "deserve it". Just sick when people can't even afford to live who are at the bottom of their businesses pay scale.

CEOs are paid high wages because that’s what is agreed upon with investors or boards. Those jobs aren’t exactly easy. Most people don’t have the mental capacity to do anything remotely close to that. Hell, most people don’t even understand how taxation works.

​@@theoriginaljohngalt2450how does that boot you're licking taste?

I don’t think you know who decides that

@@Mster_J Doing some research will tell you that. It’s pretty simple.

You missed the sarcasm in that.

​@@deerrunner3617That wasn't sarcasm, he's just not very bright.

“Out of touch” means mathematically moronic.

you just ignore the fact that things change from your generation on

@@jasonlacroix6083 no, actually watch the full clip of what he was talking about and not this cut down version where theres no context

Facts

Don’t care about you. Just pay these workers a livable wage.

@@ReggieRed91 You are missing the point. They are entry level jobs, kids don't need a living wage. If we did pay a living wage for a fast food worker, are you willing to pay $20.00 for a happy meal? Or maybe we just do away with all fast food workers and use technology to order and cook your food.

This is all lost on people that liked the video unfortunately.

@@ItsRandomKam Listen carefully. He didn't say $20 an hour was $100K. He was pointing out that someone that makes $20 isn't making an average income. Just another spin job. There is enough wrong in our country so you don't need to make chit up or intentionally taking things out of context. If Mr Smith wanted to be honest, he would have shown the 30 seconds before and the 30 seconds after the guy asks " ...is that six figures?" We all need to walk the f up and pay closer attention.

and subtract your soul from that too being if you work that much you will no longer have one.

@@ueehurstonsecurity8887also subtract family friends, your dreams and just about everything in life except that job

You can make $20 an hour at fast food in the richest city in Washington state but you’re correct. They will never fucking schedule you 40 hours and after taxes it’s pretty brutal.

I don’t know where you’ve been at, but they are making that much doing fast food where I live at they pan them that amount somebody working fast food who make $22 an hour and they’re not even a manager, but if you add the rest of the stuff you saidand that would be true to be an imaginary but the making of $20 an hour is not imaginary it’s real

@@NotesNNotesthe McDonalds right up the road from my house now starts people at $18/hr. I’m in Washington but definitely not a rich town.

Yeah I was waiting for this comment its more like 11 to 13 dollars easily

I mean they do in CA. AND as a result, going to Wendy’s is now $45 for two combo meals 🤷🏻‍♀️ Might as well go to Applebee’s for the 2 for $24 deal

20 Haha. I make 8.50.

If they pay you 20 an hr. Good luck trying to get 40hrs a week.

@@TheMessCalledJessyea blame it on the workers and not the CEOs making millions sure

where are you living? what are the prices 50 miles away? or maybe you can go to another state entirely but you don't want to do that right?

​@elduderino7767 you know it costs a lot of money to move right?

@@Brebre7681 only if you want it too

Why though? Is it no one is paying more?

You need to spend your free time building more skill so you can get a higher paying job.

Yup, and all Jesse has said in the past. The crap he talked about minimum wage being raised etc. and that's minimum! This clip is 20$ an hour. Which is a good job these days.

I fucking lost it, you can't write this shit

You already know the drill, right wingers are deathly allergic to facts, math, empathy, and reality. Exposure to any of these things risks turning them into a dreaded RINO, or worse, a liberal.

Dudes like this decide minimum wage and run out country… no empathy AND can’t do basic math, excellent

@@DayTukErrJawbs Maybe listen to the entire podcast and get context? Not being able to critically think is why you're broke.

No joke how can this guy be so far off. It’s close to $600

We've been fighting for 15$ minimum wage for 20 years. We should be fighting for 30$ now but most people can't fathom that. People with degrees want to shoot you down because they barely make 30$ an hour without realizing they should be making 60$.

Inflation is the result of rising minimum wage. Everything has gone up BECAUSE minimum wage is now $20/hr. Businesses now have to raise prices so they can pay their employees. Its a fucked system. And gov Newsom fucked the entire state by raising the min wage to $20

These businesses aren't running for charity. If the government forced these companies to pay their employees more, where do you think the extra money will come from?

It will come from all of the million dollar bonuses that go to the CEOs ​@@TJ-wt9op

You will never be in anything other then poverty working min wage. You could pay $100 an hour and they would still be at the bottom, the prices will just inflate to account for the increase. A can of coke would cost $10.00 and gas would be $30 a gallon. The exonomy is based on competition and min wage are the benchwarmers. They can train most anyone to do the job in a few hours. They require no skill and have min responsibility.

lol I’m doing that now, I’m like fk all the other shit let me just keep it simple and be a electrician

But it shouldn’t have to be this way. We NEED college-educated citizens in our workforce. It’s so important for us to grow as a society and to grow our economy. If college becomes even more unaffordable, which it is on track to be; we will have a shortage of essential workers such as people in the medical field. What drives college costs up are the greedy 1%ers and lack of regulation from the government. These greedy 1%ers are able to pay lawmakers off so they won’t pass laws to regulate the ridiculous costs. It’s a baddddd situation we’ve got brewing.

In the USA in the rest of the world is free. So it's not a scam in the rest of the world.. In the USA is between scam/Tax evasion/ debt trap

Yep, going to a local college and spending less than 3k a year to get a certificate to work a job that starts at 80k. People need to stop signing their life away for a psychology degree

@@blaketurner4506 news flash they don’t care about the productivity of our society they just want slaves that are dumbed down and obedient hence why college is so expensive… if they truly wanted the society and this country to be productive the way this country would be running would be towards countries like Japan. They take care of the infrastructure of their country, they have productive programs in their prison systems and they have a small percentage of crime. The government here wants control of all aspects of this country, they want us to be zombies nothing more.

I mean.. I'm a millennial and no, we weren't saying this 20 years ago lol. Because it wasn't like this 20 years ago.

@@TheAcaciaStrain1I was doing the math I said this 20 years ago!

Yeah 2014 everything's been downhill

​@@TheAcaciaStrain1 I was. I've been in the workforce for 17 years.

I have been too.

Are you kidding me???

Get a real job that you can get 60 hrs a week

@@johnjames5842 this answer is getting old,they chose to be independent contractor for a reason ,so instead of talking about finding solutions to have more opportunities as an independent contractor ,you are talking about a job ,yes we kind find a job but we don’t want to be in a job ,it seems this platform is not for your response ,it’s reversed and petty .

Have a very hard time believing that any government position is only paying you $13.50 an hour

@@johnjames5842that’s what I have rn. 60hrs a week at 21.51 / hr. That’s just short of 80k a year…. Things are still tight.

It’s so sad and terrible people who do child care, elder care or people with disabilities care make so little 😢

Fast food workers are more important than those who work healthcare or any type of emergency careers. At least that's the way it seems XD

My husband makes that as an assistant manager of an entire store. I assume you're in Kentucky. They pay as little as they can get away with here.

I’m a garbage man I make $18 😂

I make 22 an hour at 19💀

Work in a restaurant man. I make 25-40 an hour. I made 11 an hour my first job coming out of college. Don't even care to try to use my degree ever again.

Actually the average salary is $50k/year which is $25/hour

​@@jared-kf6foyou're lucky. I've worked in restaurants and never made that much. Not even managers make that muchp

Dude most people make between 21 and 27 an hour just go get a real job that takes a little bit of skill 😂

@@BobbiFlash he's talking about these entry level jobs

And the more businesses pay, they more things will cost.

The issue is prices will never really go down, the capitalist economic model relies on constant growth for shareholders, so prices will always go up to pad the pockets of the owner class.

@@UrbanArmadajust to add as well, when business start to cut cost or don’t pay there employees fairly so that the shareholders can make more there are less people buying products. If you don’t pay employees enough to buy anything in the current market then they won’t buy and business will start to go under. It hits especially hard for small family owned businesses that don’t have the savings or back up that big business do. So yes it is a problem in pricing and pay

It wont go down because you are flooding the market with more money with these minimum wage hikes.

@@UrbanArmadaand the culture has successfully demonized any attempt to rectify this problem is "communist" so that doesn't help either

Yea it has big “if you save a quarter every day for a year you’ll have $10,525” energy

They didn't say hours. Figure it at 80 hrs 40 of that is time and a half so 30 an hr and no weeks off. There I fixed your math.

More like mentally challenged lol

@@shawnshurtz9147yes, because working 80 hours a week is completely realistic… 40 isn’t even good, yet here we are

@@shawnshurtz9147McDonald’s doesn’t allow overtime. The math is still f*cked.

Wow. Thankless statement of the week goes to.... 😂

My senior father told me to go buy a home like it's no biggie. Median house cost in my area is in the 500,000s, my income is less than 50k after tax 😢 Sorry dad, I respect you but you're just another out of touch old timer who doesn't understand how hard it's become for the younger generations and the politicians you keep voting for are actively making it more difficult for my generation.

Wow I'm sorry. My friends parents bought their house with both of them just working at a grocery store. Good luck buying a house nowadays working at Kroger....

​@@P.e.m.a. well really who is she to judge?

​@@NeoAutodroid, dang. Way to out your dad for being a Democrat.😢

That's the mindset of the GOP these days

A lot of these people are so out of touch with reality or can’t see past their own lives to realize that people don’t live like them. Most Americans are shocked when they discover that even some people with university degrees are forced to work minimum wage jobs.

Also what fast food job is actually paying out $20 an hour? That’s hourly pay if you’re maybe a shift manager or a supervisor, but most people in fast food aren’t either. So they arguably have less spending money than the numbers given in this short.

I believe California raised the minimum wage to $20, ​@@beeziebubs2756

And people think that man is smart. He shows his idiocy.

Its very common in many regions for teenagers to work in fast food. Not very common for adults who have adult bills. So there many be a disconnect but it's for the same reason you can't understand them. You haven't lived or experienced it. In my neighborhood, all fast food places employ teenagers. Its a great first job. But not a good job for adults.

Facts, it’s never their concern until it’s at their door step and that’s a lot of things for everyone

These people hate us and are evil.

Who is they? Why do you people think that the government is somehow responsible for you?

The most taxes at that!

Not federal

Easy to forget since rich people don't pay taxes

That is absurd! Disabled veterans shouldn’t have to live in poverty.

I know a registered nurse who used to work at Aventura and she never made that kind of money.

​@MagicToenail depending on the part of the country and the job as an RN ie: Hospital vs Nursing home, etc...wages are between about $36-$55 hr. So anywhere between 65k-120k roughly.

That's with no time off. It's super easy if you just go with 50 weeks a year to get a close estimate. Yearly = Hourly * 2k and.

Hourly is just base rate *2080 give you your annual salary

Walmart is hiring truck drivers for $110,000 a year. But I’m assuming that’s too much work for you lazy pricks.

That means government will own your house. You identified the problem, but you are proposing a terible solution. Corporate monopolies imposed by government regulations those same corporations lobbied for are causing blackrock to own 50% of the entire housing market therefore raising the cost of house. Not only that but they central banks have influence on the mortage rate and migrants are invading US like crazy, also driving up the cost of housing

Tell me about it. 2.5k average for a 1bdrm in southern California

You are correct!

Agree!!

stop complaining about free market, you evil communist.

Don't disrespect my dope customers like that 😠

Try working auto parts. Customers expect you to know every vehicle off the cuff. And you get paid less than fast food.

Because with experience your salary grows exponentially compared to a fast food worker? Depending on your field, I don’t know why my generation is so self defeating.

See this might be a revolutionary idea to your conformist mind, but have you ever thought that instead of spending your time complaining about people you think below you getting higher wages, you could, I dunno, demand higher wages as well for being better prepared? No? Well, guess your degree was a fucking waste if even the fast-food workers are smarter than you.

Yes bit unlike McDonald's you will get pay increases and larger ones at that. Plus benefits. Education pays.

I'm making $29/hr as an electrical apprentice full time and I can barely support my partner and I. This economy is fucking dogshit.

​@@i-love-comountains3850either you live in California, or you're choosing to have an expensive standard of living

So tell your partner to get a job.

Honestly you shouldn't be able to live off a fast food workers salary it is a part time job that highschoolers normally take, the issue becomes when jobs like construction or electricians or somthing that is ment to be a 30 year career becomes somthing you can't live off of, no one should live off flipping hamburgers

18?? where im at it’s 13

it's not and they limit the hours you're given.

​@ericapoultryz1007 most jobs don't even pay you that and even if they do they find someway to steal or manipulate you. But yes either way it's fucking horrible

9hr

I made salary as a sushi chef. $600 a week. They fired me when I had a medical emergency and almost died. I worked 70 hours a week and would have literally been out sick for 1-2 weeks

Fast food minimum wage in CA is 20$ an hr.

You, like the rest of us, were sold the myth (though it use to be true) that going to college would get you a good paying job and would set you up for life. I would say that unless you are going into a field that absolutely requires a college degree (law, medicine, accounting, etc) then don't go to college. Take at least 5 years to work and figure out what you like. Then figure out how much you will make with that college degree in the field of your choice or if you even need a degree from college. If you are going to make enough to cover the debt and your expenses then go back to school if you want. You will have some money saved up to go to school so your loans won't be so high and the understanding of what that degree will actually get you for salary when you graduate. Or go into a trade. They are high paying jobs and very in demand.

@@2avcrm literally one of the most intelligent KZfaq comments Ive seen on this subject. Couldn't agree more

I ask myself that nowadays almost everyday. The answer is because our high school told us to. We were dumb kids set up to fail by the generations that came before.

@@2avcrm a skilled trade can get you near six figures within 5 - 10 years, depending on the trade. This is something that's changed drastically in the last 10 - 20 years... as grad students continue to not change their own light bulbs because they don't have basic homeowner skills. Heck, you can easily make six figures with a small landscape crew these days... if you are the owner of the business.

Idk, I'm long term/career retail. 10yrs at my current place, which is soul sucking, but they'll pay me $30/hr to stock shelves and listen to Karens complain, so 🤷‍♀️

Make sure you eat a very clean low inflammation diet. I have two family members with Lupus and this really helps them keep it under control

You relying on the right One (GOD ) to get you through! Blessings in JESUS precious name! 🙏 ❤

@@la6136 you got this! Don’t allow doubt to creep in

save your money = stop spending it on stupid stuff. Live with the folks a few years and get your act together.

​@rupe53 what stupid stuff am I buying genius?

Well, you don’t need to live in a 1 bedroom all by yourself, you could get room mates, split utilities, take public trans, save money. Don’t act all entitled like that would be beneath you. Many many immigrants came here and started just like that with even less starting income and built their own small businesses and families.

@@ericlosey998 how am I supposed to know your personal spending habits? I was working with the list of expenses given in the video and thinking back to when I was in that situation... but didn't have a car payment, iPhone, and many things on his list. OTOH, I was able to pay my rent and save up for a home, which I bought at age 23.

@@rupe53 No you were lucky the place where you lived it all worked out. First and foremost you did not make the legal minimum or if you did you worked multiple jobs. Again in many places $20 an hour is not much to buy all the things the video creator mentioned based on the math exclusively.. Everyone can't live without the same things because different places are very different. And plus somehow you saved money? WTF man you never listed your total amount made minus the amount spent when averaged out? I only saved my first 35K by being lucky enough to save an average of 6K per year ($1,200 (5 year average) expenses minus 1,600 income (lowest year) most common ($1,800)

Working a minimum wage job was never intended to provide a living lol. It’s supposed to be for a kid in high school or college… The minimum wage in CA went up to $20 a hour. The results were mass layoffs, businesses having to close and the cost of living actually went up lol. Who knew if you had to pay employees more, those businesses would have to charge more money to customers to stay open. Basic math….

​@@ConnorGreen-x2r never understood these arguments. 1) Why should students/teenagers get paid less? They're doing the same jobs. 2) Do you expect all basic jobs to filled with only students/teenagers? The majority will still be filled with working adults. 3) should people not expect to be able to afford to live when they have a full time job? How can they continue working if they can't pay for food and shelter?

​@@ConnorGreen-x2rit was 💀 💀 💀

I'm a boomer and completely agree.

Another boomer here. Any boomers who don't get it are just as clueless as the rich idiot thinking $20/hr could be 6 figures. I say he's rich, because if he wasn't he would have a clue that $20/hr isn't anywhere near 100K/yr. Cost of housing relative to minimum wage is crazy now. Wasn't bad when I was young. Education cost is also crazy now, and most bachelor degrees don't increase earnings potential enough to pay for the loans.

Young people are working hard? Not in CA lol. I don’t even see kids outside, playing with friends, being adventurous. Kids are so lazy now, always inside playing video games. I remember when getting the whole neighborhood to play tackle football on the street was the fun thing to do. Being proud of all my cuts and bruises. Now kids dont even know the difference between a man and a woman lol. I’m only 35, but I already had a career in under welding at 19. Now I’m retired. 16 years working a job that’s ranked top 3 most dangerous in the US

​@@ConnorGreen-x2ryou sound like an AH. You assume kids stay indoors to play alone because they're lazy... oblivious that the world has changed since our youth. Its not safe for kids to play outside alone anymore.

As a boomer you bought a used car, didn't buy a $1000 dollar cell phone and pay $100 a month for service, and ate at home.

thank Obama for that.

My Father has done that to me my entire life. I can't tell you how often I've heard about how much he did with half of what I make per hour. Of course, he's talking about a time when gas was 25 cents a gallon, and his 6 bedroom/3.5 bath home was less than half of what I paid for a 3 bedroom/1.5 bath home 25 years later. Needless to say, his half of what I make went a lot further.

@@cate9540 Back when a dollar was actually worth a dollar and not only worth 60 cents like it is now.

You probably are to him/them. I guarantee what you prioritize is different from what the older generations prioritize

​@@NawtChoDaDdy my brother in Christ we are prioritizing survival

​@jasonwatkins4290 there's no reasoning with him, he's too far gone 😢

Yeah that was a horrible take. However this video is a very good example of what happens when you are not fiscally responsible. The breakdown of expenses is atrocious he is over spending by alot.

No, he was taking averages here. I know I spend less in each of these categories than what he listed, but I also live somewhere with a relatively cheap cost of living. Across the country though, yeah no, that’s gonna be a lot higher overall.

Fast food workers are overpaid, majority of workers are which forced companies and everyone else to raise their prices so they can live comfortably but ultimately means they have less money to spend as more goes to necessities

1st, Jesse didn't claim $20/hr was 6 figures. 2nd) $20/hr for a fast food job is being overpaid.

​@brontoab1 exactly. If working at a fast food place made you 6 figures, then imagine what doctors, lawyers, etc, would charge us? Everything will become expensive. You get paid according to your skill. Simple as that.

And they have no clue how to shop. They think bread costs 13 bucks, you need id to shop, and yet they are the ones that can’t do math. Amazing!

Bullshit, THEY KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH IT IS... THEY KNOW ITS CHUMP CHANGE, THEY ALSO KNOW MOST WILL TAKE IT, OR STARVE!!! 😂

That would still be under 6 figures

​@@colleennikstenas4921if your bread costs $13 or more you need to stop buying it. You're not really paying $13 for bread are you. Or did I just completely misunderstand your statement?

@@raminrouchi202$20*24 hours*365 is $175k

If we are all being honest with ourselves. It isn’t hard to make far beyond a livable wage in the US. I was not even half way done with my geoscience degree before I got a job paying me to travel around the country making $2k a week. You just have to make yourself valuable. Anyone, literally anyone, can work fast food. It isn’t supposed to be a career. Gain qualifications to get a job that not everyone can do so you can live with no money stress. It really isn’t hard.

Facts

This being “exactly what they want” and them being out of touch are not mutually exclusive things.

@@MP-et1euSorry it isn’t. I’ve already seen too many friends & acquaintances get hired by Corporate America being let go. I’m talking these people got hired 10 to 25 years ago have been let go a couple of years before Covid hit. They saw their benefits get cut. Some were told at town halls AI will be in place in 5 years. That Vice- President had smirk on his face. Last week I had a friend get cut. She’s 40 years old now for the job hunt.

Ah yes, the ominous "they".

When you are used to living modestly on 10 dollars an hour, 20 an hour IS life-changing money.

Maths is hard

@@kensurrency2564 it's not hard to use Google though

This is an extremely short piece taken extremely out of context.

You need to make 30$ an hour to earn 100k but you'll need to make around 35 - 40$ and hour to actually take home 100k

30x40x52 is like 60k. This is assuming you get 40 hours in fast food or any job. Much more to earn 100k and even more to take 100k home

His job requires him to not know anything about anything and not to care. That is how he makes the big bucks in mainstream media. If they had any shred of character, they wouldn’t be able to lie for a paycheck

You think he actually wrote that book? Rich people hire others to write their books. He probably gave someone some notes and they wrote it for him.

Was it a math book? That’s like saying “this artist made a whole ass painting, sold it at auction, and doesn’t know how to weld

It’s an easy job to pander.

​@@heyaisdabombnot to defend him, but an autobiography from a rich person has to have some merit vs biographies which are lower in value

What!? You didn’t watch the TV show they put out “How to be a billionaire?”

If they DID do that, it would probably be arranged as a stipend of $20/hour, or $480/day, and the person doesn't have to do any work to earn it. Living it up on a cozy 14,400 per month and deluding themselves that that in any way represents the situation that the working class is in.

There was a dude who did that earlier this year, well, he didn’t more extreme version of it where he got rid of his assets for a while, and tried to become a millionaire again didn’t work. He quit got sick and depressed.

​@thesauceisme and he didn't even clear 100k even with his connections and knowledge.

But also without any of their contacts etc, and unnamed/totally in disguise, so they can't cheat Because that's a huge advantage And for at least 3 years

Facts. Me too. And to think "the children are the future", or "education is the way"...like I went into debt attending college to get pooped on after the fact in the matrix of the "real world" 😢 amurderca amurderca

Wow! That's terrible.

In PA starting pay for special ed teachers is about $27 an hour and summer pay is 35+ an hour

Thank you for doing what you do, even for the terrible pay, know that you are appreciated. Praying so your working conditions improve.

Now thats something special. You should be proud of yourself.

Stay safe. And think ahead

I’m sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, raising minimum wage results in less skilled workers than yourself getting paid more than their labor is worth which inflates the cost of living overall making your income less valuable.

@@hiro96789a lie. The minimum wage had stayed the same for over 40 years but inflation has risen 31.6%. The internet is an educational tool use it.

@@hiro96789 you’re a mouthpiece for the rich that benefited off of your labor, but I hope you’re able to one day realize just how much you’re being exploited, and decide to do what you can to fix that. I’m rooting for you buddy 💪

I was in that same predicament. My way out was just getting lucky and applying to jobs that pay better and offer room for promotion. I started off working at burger King, and decided to get my MED badge to work as a budtender. Much easier work, the pay on average is 19.50 and hour and after 30 days you get like a 25 cent increase and the tips were awesome. Most days I went home with 100 dollars in tips and at the bare minimum around 60, and that went towards my rent and food, so I could actually have money in my account from my actual.paycheck. Like I said it kinda just comes down to luck and constantly glued into indeed. I know you're gonna find a way good luck man!