No it is not much easier now, its just that now common losers with zero talents or abilities apart from "good looks" can become instantly famous for no reason at all

yonathon: you just explained why it’s easier to become famous now

@@marambula not at all... there are so many more people now and a much lower percentage have that chance. Just that more assholes can gain visibility easier, not success

Yeah! You're right. Technology has made it significantly easier. If you wanted to be a rock star, a star athlete or a celebrity, there was at least some hard work involved. Wouldn't you say? Now a days it seems all you need is to have a cell phone and good wifi.

@@motorheadbanger90 Exactly. You really needed to have some talent that you had worked on. And then you create something of value.

So true. I have done both. I managed to see some of the world while young. And I have worked my tail off supporting a family, having a mortgage, and now am retired. But, still not free of responsibilities. I have a frail 92 year old father and my only sibling with terminal cancer, so I can’t really enjoy hopping around the planet as would like. Also, Elvis is dead and I don’t feel that well myself. My advice to the younger generations is to work hard and play hard.

@@guitarmike37308 good and sound advice sir. Life doesn’t have to be an either/or.

wise advice

Truth. was anyone ever on their deathbed saying "I should have spent more time at the office"?

Exactly. While much the “content” these young people make is quite shallow and uninteresting I still believe it’s wise to live your life and have adventures while you’re young. Especially in the world we are in now, I would do the same if I were them

Lived in Nashville in my 20s a good bit. May not seem like traveling from Bama, but I was severely sheltered having grown up in a town of 1,000. Definitely glad I was young spirit wise.. but I was lacking in maturity which led to a bunch of squandered opportunities.

Marijuana tester ? Helll, yes !

Yup. Bill came too much across like the grumpy old fart on this one.

The problem is, as the population grows, land and space doesn't grow with it. Technology moves on and many jobs are increasingly obsolete. We are reaching an era where a lot of people simply don't really have to work to make society work. Technology and machines means jobs that required thousands of people now barely require a hundred. It is yet another great disruption like the industrial age before it. Add wealth concentration in the mix and I'm not sure what the solution is. Maybe universal basic income is the solution, maybe something else is. What we do know is this is something we haven't faced before, and I'm not sure anyone has any good answers on how this is supposed to work.

Nah he hit the "bullseye" with this one.

He wasn't talking about someone with an actual job and skills. He was talking about people trying to do van living and travel their occupation with hopes of other people with jobs paying for their recreation. Not sure why this ruffled your feathers.

I think you misunderstood what he was saying. It was a commentary on influencers and the entitlement that comes with it, not someone opting for a semi unique lifestyle that is frugal so they can save or get by easier.

Maybe because he's interviewing Politicians/Political Commentators/Academics. Contributing to the public discourse on issues that hold actual substance, instead of posting pictures of his ass or showing you how to do your makeup or just being a dumb bimbo walking us through the minutiae of his life? Maybe because he's actually producing something of value?

@@kshaur13 what value is that? Unless you enjoy bullshitters talking to bullshitters. The only difference with Bill and Influencers is pay packet and audience. Here’s a subject worth discussing workers on strike and retail and service workers quiting there jobs.

@@kshaur13 If you're looking at it on purely numbers, bill gets about a million viewers per show, which is far fewer than the people that post pics of their ass, doing their makeup or vlogging get, so surely on the principles of the free-market, Bill's work has objectively less value than vlogger, makeup artist and Only fans models

@@qurkee163 Why would I look at it on a purely numbers basis? I'm talking about value. You're trying to quantify value by viewcounts? That aside, why don't you add the views per show to his KZfaq numbers and then his numbers on all other social media platforms and then tell me about the people posting pictures of their ass who are doing more to influence positive change in our society...

@@kshaur13 Even if you add the views from clips and videos on youtube and other platforms, and those rarely break a million views, so that doesn't really help your argument. Also just because you like something doesn't mean it has a guaranteed value to society as a whole, Bill Maher is an old-out of touch-myopic white dude worth hundreds of millions, he literally doesn't give a shit about you. I just realised you're Sargon of Akkad (a literal white supremacist btw) so I know using logic to argue with you is just gonna trigger your little snowflake heart

Oh yeah it’s so ironic to listen to that take from someone whose main attractive point isn’t his life or who he is or how he looks but what he says… Wait something is wrong here…

People pay to watch Bill Maher? I don't think so.

Glad I wasn't the only one to catch that.

Bill Maher’s primary job is being a standup comedian. He tells jokes for a living and those jokes can either be impersonal (eg Jimmy Carr or George Carlin) or personal (eg Kevin Hart). Bill’s success at being a court jester for the masses has allowed him to become the host of a popular late night show and he’s still incredibly impersonal on his show since it’s primary focus is political humor. His private life, however, is primarily discussed on a seperate podcast.

He said that on purpose thats why he let out that sly look at then end. Its not hypocrisy because he is entertaining, working, writing jokes, having guests talk, etc. Content creators dont do any of that.

He's right though

@@geewhiz5926 he literally described himself, besides the idea that gen z is trying to "make a living" by posting on instagram is laughably out of touch

@Kirin Yardberry what he does for a living and what these "social media influencers" do for a living are not the same thing

@@geewhiz5926 thats such a vague assumption, "social media influencer" isn't one brand of person. It's like saying an engineer is more valuable than someone in the liberal arts... you're comparing a specific title to a general term to describe any activity in a huge space

@Kirin Yardberry an engineer is more important than someone in liberal arts in what they contribute to society as a whole

So true. The United States is a sick country that needs a lot of change.....not Trumpism, but socialist policies that assure people decent lives and wages. Bees and ants have survived one helluva long time by being the ultimate socialists. We need to move closer to their lifestyle. Otherwise, The Hunger Games will soon be reality instead of just a movie.

Bill is often hit and miss, but usually at least funny when he misses. Good on these kids I say. Being at the bottom end of Gen X in my mid 40s I've worked in 3 factories that were moved out of country. I don't begrudge the people who got those jobs, but I do the people who moved them there to save a few bucks. I'm certified in three different trades, but again the Boomers won't go away and retire, so always crap pay doing crap work there. There is no more start at the bottom and work your way up. The Boomers put an end to that. I hope the future generations can turn this around, but for the most part it is our generation still getting the shit end of the deal here. College got too expensive to attend with no guarantee of a job when you were done. Housing costs are unfathomable when put in perspective of past generations. Last construction crew I worked with the foreman was freakin 80 years old. Sure I have a ton more experience and knowledge than most people in the field, but when someone who should be living on a beach and fishing somewhere is still working it leaves me competing with people half my age and my body can't hold out much longer. I'm just lucky I've stayed healthy and not afraid to constantly be starting from the bottom. I've at least got a house on some land and not in poverty, but I'm never too far away. Lots in our generation have it much worse and it will continue to get worse for them in the next 15-20 years.

@@dzd2371 End of the roll gen x here (early 40s) I've worked in the trades for 9+ years. 3 different employers. None "signed me up" for legit apprenticeship. One got fined 40k and laughed it off because they save twice that yearly in labour costs. Numerous regulators on sites just to see them walk away cuz theirs always an excuse. It's always gonna' happen next week. Boomers and connected people's kids wonder why my hope and patience run thin as I watch the years tick by doing work for half of what It's worth so the boss can buy another new truck and afford his kids sports car payment. I feel like too much of the trades is going the way of college, rife with false promises by people who never had to suffer the same indignance.

@@hhiippiittyy That's a good point. I was probably in my late teens the last time I even heard of someone going through a legitimate apprenticeship. I'm sure you still can..plumbing/carpentry/etc, but they are awful hard to come by, or at the very least super rare. I have a lot of experience dealing with "electricians" who have a 2-year associates they did have to spend a lot of money to get, so they expect a big payday. When in actuality someone coming out of a 2-3 month vo-tech class, or has just picked up things along the way, much like I had to do will have more knowledge that's actually useful in the job market. It leads to them being frustrated as well as anyone that hires them when you still basically have to train them. It does nobody any good in the long run except those making money at the top of it. Guess I should of became a college administrator.

Shhhh. We gen Xers don't exist and aren't allowed an opinion.

Love the Simpsons reference!

Because they are exactly that.

don't compare him to grampa simpson - grampa is a nice person.

He’s in the last psychological stage of his life and rather than feeling fulfilled, he feels regret and despair. He’ll only get more cruel

Because you don't have a sense of humour and apparently doesn't know what sarcasms is ... before say, "Ok Boomer" I am going to let you know that I am milleninal, and I just see as much as the generation before us how stupid this world is about to become .. Watch Idiocracy and you will see where this world is heading.

He’s also been doing stand-up for 40 years!

He is a famous comedian. What about these clowns?

He works for his money …. So yes !

@@egbukwuprince he literally makes money off of sitting there and making fun of people because he saw a woman die

@@egbukwuprince as do all other content creators? How is he different?

He bought a minority stake... if you spent more time in the business world and less time being butthurt over videos on KZfaq you might understand the distinction

@@kshaur13 Yea, a stake worth $70 million is not insignificant, you're prolly some 14 year old that just watched the Wolf of Wall Street and Ben Shapiro, and now think you know the inns and outs of the business world. Stop defending the hyper wealthy and realise how they're fucking you

For real. He quite literally is an influencer himself.

Matt Taibbi spotted the irony. And for anybody that also missed it, Bill Maher is hammering kids for doing exactly the same thing he is doing. Trying to make a living through entertainment, subscribe and like. They are all entertainers and not like...real workers doing real work.

His willful ignorance knows no bounds. I used to be a big fan, until I dove deeper into the message and saw the hidden agenda. The guy is ONLY concerned with keeping the money flowing in, so he can enjoy his cabanas and cigars while he sunbathes in Monaco. Straight up...no rich person is EVER allowed to knock poor people for trying to enjoy life. It is reckless and heartless and demands condemnation.

Exactly. He just hasn't evolved to see there are celebrities created outside of "showbiz" This is just such a boomer take from a dude that doesn't even have a "real" job like the one's he's suggesting these influencers get

Bill: I don't get to fuck around and do nothing! I work for a living! Also Bill: And we're off for the next 2 months this summer. And don't miss pre-ordering tickets for my 4 month long comedy tour starting Novemeber. Where I hop on a bus and go city to city across the nation, spending only a few hours every few days getting ready and telling jokes to people before moving on and visiting another town every 4-8 days. Dude's a fucking hypocrit to the max. He simply hates younger people because they have the *GAWL!* to question him and his antiquated views on modern day life that haven't aged well in the 30+ years he's been on tv.

Yeah things are so bad, that only those otherwise unemployable even try teaching as a profession, creating a loop of Garbage in Garbage out generation.

I really had only one teacher who never had a problem with it. not with the parents and not with the mean students :D She wrote every hour we had her a test. Did some stuff and then another. until the class and parents shut the fuck up. Teaching isn't a child's play. It's work. First you have to grow up, and then you can be a teacher. I remember it from university and see it nearly every time I meet teachers for my kids. They never grew up.

@@stemill1569 And yet somehow you would rather teach through the comments section of KZfaq rather than become a teacher irl. Wonder who needs growing up.

Pretty odd syntax for a teacher

We need to reverse the undeniable deficit of male educators.

no, they did not, do you think ordinary poor peasants in feudalism had so much fun, working all day in almost slavery conditions to benefit some fat ass king or feudal lord (? that was life before capitalism and that is life in societies without capitalism...

Lol you are delusional

@@marshallc.t.2554 ​ i love getting called delusional for having a take inspired by my family in Europe and my time studying fr multiple degrees in a field relevant to my point. y'all rly owned me, everything i know abt the world was wrong and u were right all along, thank u for showing me the light 🙏

@@SeattlePioneer see previous reply, i cant be bothered to make a special little reply fr each of u individually

Exactly.

Also, the continual disrespect he shows to his own live audience is distracting. He's so often annoyed by reactions to his 'bits' and remarks that it seems to me he was happier doing the show from his back yard.

he's having a hard time trying to find "maids".

@@ApologyToYou Yeah but his audience also hasn't known how to react to a lot of stuff regardless. I get the groan at them applauding something stupid

"The only difference". "Only". You sure bout that one.

Yeah. I think he and others are a bit salty about younger folks realizing that life is short and worth enjoying.

And yet, he goes on these anti-everyone younger than him rants every episode.

Lol!! Do you know any influencers or aspiring influencers? They are not really “enjoying” life. Most of them are doing everything for the likes and followers. You obviously don’t know anyone who is/wants to be an influencer and have definitely never traveled with one. The ones I know of are a miserable lot, who travel to “perform” for the cameras, and don’t even enjoy the places they are visiting once the camera is off. It’s all about likes and followers. There are, of course, plenty of young people who travel for fun and to enjoy life, but you don’t know about them because they aren’t putting up everything on social media for public consumption and likes/followers. No one should feel salty about any of the phony garbage people post on social media to try to influence others. It’s hilarious that you think rich, famous, can travel anywhere he wants Bill Maher is salty about young people traveling. Which brings me to another topic about all the people who throw out “salty” or “jealous” anytime anyone criticizes anything. Nope.

But that's the echo effect of aging ... becoming are complaining parents.

@@sarahfoxx3381 your premise is absurd. It relies on the idea that no influencers are enjoying life. That’s simply asinine.

Yea but every kid under the age of 25 wants to be an influencer. Remember that when you have long lines every where you go

@@kylem2693 Thats never going to be the case. Not everyone can do that sort of work and not everyone will make a living from it Don't worry there will still be people around to serve you in the shops. If not I'm sure we'll get robots to do it considering how much is self service this is now anyway.

So Stephen , you're obviously lazy

@@kylem2693 that’s literally not true? nobody I know wants to be an influencer. you’re just listening to some out-of-context statistics that confirm your biases.

Who can afford HBO, he’s selling to who’s buying. I like him, but sometimes he just sounds old.

The difference is, his presentation is worth paying for.

@@rajanraymond232 Says you and your money, and the money of people who watch him on HBO. I happen to find him supremely unwatchable, and I’m only here because I had a hard time believing that even he could stoop so low as to talk shit about a recently murdered woman. Your money votes. My money votes. People who can afford to keep producing content (be they videos, photos, articles, etc.) will continue to do that. But what Bill Maher does is not substantially different than what he’s making fun of. He literally called himself a “normie” even though he has a show on prime time cable and is a partial owner of the Mets. How is that not the most transparent BS?

@@AdamODell Dude, he called himself normie ironically. Do you believe the part where he says he had to sell drugs too? Come on man. We conservatives know how to take a joke. 200 years back, liberalism was all about accepting the contrary opinion, now you guys can't even take a joke ? The world does turn upside down, it seems.

@@rajanraymond232 Who said I was a liberal? And I don’t really care if he’s joking or not. He’s just complaining about a media trend that hurts his bottom line. He just comes off as insecure and unfunny.

@@rajanraymond232 you say 'we conservatives know how to take a joke' yet all you do is vehemently defend bill maher in this comment section, get a life

Bill has ALWAYS been a P.O.S. This whole segment reeks of boomer

Had they been working, maybe he wouldn't have killed her.

@@TheJuanh911 are you seriously that insensitive... someone has died, tf is wrong with you

I really get old man yells at clouds vibes from him. And I'm old too.

@@stanis083 yesssss

@@richardshortall5987 I think a lot of people are jealous.. jealous that they didn't think of that.. that they are stuck in a cubical with vapid management and only getting 1 week a year "vacations" .. and are not driving around the country experiencing LIFE!

Keep in mind... that we have been brainwashed to "work hard until you are 65 then "retire" and move to florida OR if you are lucky travel the world. Most folks die by 70-75 so .... VOILA!

and Bill is from that generation.. "work hard and "be useful" and THEN retire.... some folks are like WTF? Also keep in mind.. younger people can't afford to BUY a house or think about expensive traditional vacations.. they see the material world bullshit sold to us by Corporations as ... bullshit.. so they are seeing the world and doing for themselves instead of being a cog in the machine and seeing the illusion of "working hard, climbing the corporate ladder " and whatever.. that is a bullshit life anymore. I am a Gen Xr and I got caught in this limbo state... sucks..

@@caelidhg6261Yeah. 'European Vanlife' is a smaller movement. Why? Europeans get 5 - 6 weeks paid leave off per year. And they don't even have to be pregnant. It's about Quality Of Life. How to maintain a strong economy and still have a better quality of life.

@@caelidhg6261 spoken like a true lazy bum

cuz Bill worked most of his life to develop his comedic skillset and actually has talent.

@@mikephillips4617 he’s kinda slipping and becoming an old man yelling at young people to get off his lawn.

Uh... I think you can't even begin to compare...Go on you Bill ! love your show ;)

@@mikephillips4617 If someone will pay for the content that Van travel youtubers provide, then, according to the laws of the market, that is also valuable.

creating "content" can be done by anyone with a smart phone. Creating a TV comedy show and still be relevant after 30 years is called talent.

Goin' up the country.

Exactly. The guy sounds like a butt-hurt boomer who's also out of touch with the new economy. It's kind of hilarious to see him mock and ridicule influencers when that machine is generating millions of dollars right now. Not sure if this rant was necessary.

Drifting has always held some fascination for me, but it never occurred to me to finance it by filming it. Probably because it wasn't possible. I guess you could write a book. I would say that it might be interesting to see the edited adventures of some drifters, but not a ton of them.

YES!!! SO TRUE!! Bill’s an angry Boomer!!

I hear Route 66 was popular

He gets it. He nodded and smirked. The audience got it and laughed. This wasn’t my favorite Maher rant by any stretch but I think he gets the irony. I do think he thinks it’s different with him though because he talks “important stuff”.

@@chrispineo1979 i think he says « they don’t want to work they us normies » when he’s literally worth a shitload of money definitely wasn’t self aware

Bill makes people laugh. he works on his comedy and has talent. he doesn't get his views by filming himself waking up in the morning. so your logic is flawed.

​@@giltuito1545 If you think Maher writes his own segments, that's adorable. I promise you that the typical vlogger puts more actual work into their craft than Maher does; Show hosts rely on writing staff, camera staff, show directors, etc to do all the heavy lifting. Vloggers, along with most other independent content creators, are preforming as entertainers, camera operators, video editors, and sound directors all on their own. If you don't like that type of content, that's absolutely fine. But don't be ignorant about it everything it entails.

Or talks at all, as in « has things to say », whether insightful or not, whereas so many of the people he’s gunning at want to be famous without having to work for it and can’t bear not being the interesting thing in and of themselves wherever they go.

I also sense that people would rather not work for nothing than work for a little more than nothing. our dollar is worth nothing with constant inflation and it's not getting better.

Even if terrible jobs did pay more, why is Bill acting like his generation didnt go around in vans in their youth? Hippie trail anyone?

@@travisethridge4062 And our inflation should be so much worse than it is. We've been artificially deflating it. Just as we've been hating on China for doing the same

US jobs do pay a lot more than 3rd world countries like mine. But US is getting more expensive now than even Eurozone countries. Speaking from experience. Too many regulations giving excuse of quality are being used to intentionally keep the prices high, same in europe and US. But increasing in US

@@DieNibelungenliad Excellent point!

Because he is 😅

10 million per year and worth 140 million, he's not even a billionaire, what a loser.

All the comments here sound like a bunch of whiny, narcissistic, envious millennials and zoomers out of touch with reality and have never had a brutally hard job in their life. Literally proving Bill's point.

@@Nsaishie the thing is, he IS that guy. Has the easiest job in the world. He is an influencer. The funny thing is that he dosent like influencers without realizing that he literally is one of them

@@benc.3128 Big difference with internet content creators is that he has a big team behind him, doing all sorts of things. A marketing department that watches trends and make visuals/ads, scriptwriters that write what he needs to say, camera people that record everything and have the knowledge and skill to get a good shot, sound people, light people, a team to edit all the video's and way more. A popular content creator on the internet often does all of those things themselves, in addition to presenting, preparing episodes and more. The content itself can be a job in itself, depending on the channel. Many people on KZfaq are straight up teachers (of things like history, politics, craftsmenship, languages, Computers and networking, programming and so on) , travel guides, comedians, newsoutlets or something else. And they have to consistently keep making quality content, or their channel will drop down the algorithm FAST.

WtF??? What you wrote makes no sense 😕

@@wazgoodjj Shut up, you don't know how powers if 10 work

No, he is just mocking making a living by fucking off. There are millions of people of my generation who actually work and dont go AWOL to make a living.

@@rajanraymond232 Hi Rajan. When was the last time you touched grass?

@@rajanraymond232 Can you please explain how traveling equates to "going AWOL"?

@@rajanraymond232 you're not very smart

@@rajanraymond232 lmao you’re in every comment thread. You a Bill Maher burner?

Did you ever stay down by the river? (sorry, I couldn't resist)

😂

Ah key words: You WORKED. While doing "van life". Good on ya!

That's a fine way to travel. I'm happy doing grunt work for 18 months at a time if the pay off is 2-3 months in Nepal or Cambodia or Vietnam. Working hard is that much easier when there's an objective. I'm pushing 60, and it's still a great way to live.

Would you mind sharing what you did to earn money? I'm planning on taking some time off after my current boss retires and travel around with someone, but I have no idea what I can do to earn money. I've got enough saved up, but I still want to fully embrace things, maybe make it permanent. My travel partner does contract work, and can literally go anywhere and find a construction gig at minimum. While I have no problem with physical labor, most people would look at me, a skinny woman, and opt for someone else. I just got back from I'm a "trial run" and was offered a spot as an assistant to my friend's current boss, but that's not realistic to do everywhere. I can't do hair, I'm not artistic, I can't/don't blog, I just don't know what my marketable skills are and it's the real thing holding me back from fully embracing the opportunity.

I to like an average guy sit on my arse in a TV studio getting paid a fortune to criticise other people. I mean there's one of us in every street. 🤷

Yeah made cringe. This dude never had a real job

And in addition to that, he's a content creator himself.

@@MrDagren HAHA yea thats not the same. Having a job on TV for over 20 years is not the same as a 18 year old making a tictoq dancing for 30 seconds thinking that she is exactly the same as the person on TV for 20 years... like you do i guess.

It’s a fucking joke 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Yes, like Bill him self

The pay has increased tho! Fast food is paying at least 12 an hour in Alabama.

@@Jakob_DK i thought that during the video. He’s ranting about people wanting to become famous in front of a camera, while that’s literally his life.

They pay HAS risen actually. Target and most places here offer you $15 to start, even warehouses are offering $16 to $20 in my area.

Ultimately, there is nothing wrong with wanting to become an influencer. But just like real life, millions of people plan on becoming music stars, rappers, professional athletes and millionaires. Only a handful will realistically ever accomplish that however...

Yeah, he saved the best line for last -- it just wouldn't be Bill Maher in the 2020's without another swipe at cancel culture.

The hypocrisy of the statement is absolutely astounding.

That literally aligns.

One of the dumbest if not the dumbest sentence to come out of Bill Maher's mouth in the past few years. Anyone at all who doesn't see why it is dumb I am not sure if I can put it into words... "If you hate the nazis so much why do you keep arresting them?" --- "If you think murderers are so terrible why do you keep putting them in prison?"

@@Thunderwalker87 woke much?

It feels like somewhere along the line GenX got thrown in with Boomers. Which is crazy because we were the first generation to call them out for their bullshit.

No one ever remembers us. We are the forgotten generation. Too old to be pioneering the latest trends, too young to be The Man.

Possibly because he's highlighting a generation gap, and we in "Generation X" (who comes up with these stupid names?) are in the middle. I was 37 when the smartphone was invented, and except for occasionally googling something while I'm away from my laptop, I could get by with an old, "dumb" cellphone.

Yes, we get no respect. We're not boomers. We're more tech savvy and less bigoted. LOL

Alzheimer's ?

Sounds like an incredible tool for environmental sustainability

@@RiverogueLander its not sustainable its a result of 60 years of cost going up and wages staying the same my mom bought a ford mustang gt convertible in 69 from working at a fast food place now a days the medium house hold can't afford payments on your avg suv owning a house isn't possible anymore rent takes %70 of your income or more in the 90's women went to work because house holds couldn't make it anymore for the boomers if the wife wanted to work it was a choice now its even worse so untill its standard to have 3 people in a relationship they just work for nothing but more debt and you wonder why they are rejecting it people are drawn to van life because they are tried of having 2 jobs just to pay rent

@@joejacko1587 Boo hoo. I like living out of my van. My buddy offers me an apartment to live in for a few months each year. I park there, but I dont use the apartment. Id rather use my van. I do use about 30 gallons of petro per month, but I would use it even more if I was in a studio apartment and commuting to work everyday instead of social media influencing. When you live in a van, you buy a 100 times less stuff than if you lived in a house. My annual climate control and cooking cost is $10 of propane.

@@RiverogueLander You stole my point. Following the corporate path to success is likely to doom the planet. Also, maybe it's time the kids went on a general strike, rather than just becoming a cog in a machine that feeds the uber rich. When you get old, the for profit healthcare system will take what you have left, unless you're lucky.

@@kennethedwards1677 due to my lifestyle, I will most likely die prematurely: eaten alive by a grizzly bear, drowning in a river while whitewater packrafting, or starving/freezing to death in the wild after a broken leg. I am ok with this. At least I am living the life that I want to live, and I will also leave a smaller footprint. I may die no different than trillions of other wild animals. I was awarded a small veteran pension to allow this lifestyle

Why did not the state of Texas cite Cheney for violations of hunting/shooting protocols-regulations ?

Yes, I remember the guy apologized to Cheney.

Wasn't so terrible. He shot a lawyer, after all.

And. ” Bubba” Clinton said: “last time I shot somebody in the face, I got impeached. 🤣🤪😆

@@sunshine3914 Yup. The guy said he was sorry for the hurt he caused towards Cheney and his family. That was insane. Cheney shoots someone, and the guy he shoots apologizes to Cheney?

At least one required some work and skill. The other is just "look at my posts and adore me for being me!"

Good insight!

Yes.. other's fame drives own aspirations for most people.

@@leok7193 which is the skill which traditional entertainers also use, right? Just because it's not on TV, does it make it a lower skill?

@@richardshortall5987 but How many athletes do make it? 10 out of 1000? And what does success mean in athletics? Getting one of the three coveted medals. What has happened to the rest who worked hard and never reached that goal? Hard work is hard work. Let's stop dividing the population even more than what we already are. Let people try anything they wish to try to make their lives better.

Ironically, he's a part owner of the Mets. He'd give it back to 'em.

@@chrisb8655 I pretty much adore Bill but I highly doubt that if the ball came from a kid.

Bill is a common sense guy… he said what needed to be said

@@itsmeprasad1987 nope. He said what old grumpy people would say. Only difference is, he is rich and never really experienced hard labour. If you can get by doing what you want to do and have people watch it, by all means do it. None of his or anyones business... he isnt doing anything else really, only that he gets paid millions and airs on HBO.

@@Ganiscol Yeah, Bill here is the height of hypocrisy. Talking about not everyone can be the Truman show, while hes had 3 decades of shows with his name in it. This sounds more like a guy who doesn't understand the current flow, and is yelling at the clouds with grandpa simpson.

I mean they are working for nothing the housing market is so screwed up from the generations before hell the payment on you avg suv is out of the range of the median household income level the boomers really screwed thing up before if a women wanted to work or be a house wife it was her choice by the time the 90's and genx they needed to work in order for the family to pay the bills and prices have gone up and income has not for the last 50 years so untill its standard for 3 people to be a relationship they can't make ends meet working and only getting more in debt nothing to show for it I wonder why they are rejecting the "normal life"

They are right to travel when they're young! Even if the world doesn't go to Hell, it basically happens to us all when the body wears down. Don't hate. Congratulate. Participate.

No way, we are the coolest generation X. I have had so curve balls thrown at me by life. And I just keep getting better and stronger. Depression and all that is for some,but not for me. I love a good challenge. School of hard knocks That was Generation X You're crying WALK IT OFF.

As an old guy, I'm there too. The future is increasingly only good for families who are already well off and stable. Without old money, you may never catch a break. The best alternative now is to do something "extreme", and try to profit off of it. Thus the vlog.

And this attitude perpetuates the growing rich/poor gap; on average the economy is still growing just fine, they're being left behind. There's great money to be had for people with skills. Even trades that only require a 1-year diploma can earn 6 figures easily now, but most people prefer to go into a lifetime of student loan debt, it's the extortion of people with big dreams and no common sense.

I have work at 1 I don't have time to look at trees. Loser

I can think of maybe two times in the past year where I really wish I had taken a picture and didn't. It is at least a weekly occurrence that people around me are taking pictures and I just take in the moment and enjoy it. The trade-off is worth it.

I recently watched that special again not too long ago. All I could think was thankfully George didn't have to deal with everyone having a smartphone. Those truly were prophetic words when he was still talking about shoulder mounted camcorders.

Tell me you're lame without telling me you're lame.

@@EventualWarlord I don't think that many christians ever went to George Carlin shows. I mean, it's not like he was an unknown quantity. It not like he was changing his material every week. He was a known brand since the 60s and I suspect that the only christians who would ever go to his shows were either masochistic, or who wanted to write complaints against it.

Imagine if everybody did that. There would be nobody to drive the bus you caught. Nobody to serve you your ale in the pub. Nobody to fly the plane which you were getting drunk on. If everybody were an "influencer", exactly who would there be for them to influence? Other influencers?

@Yellahboiii exactly,

@@kristopherloviska9042 you've argued against your own point. You: imagine if everyone did this thing that would make it impossible to do this thing if everyone did it.

But did you raise any kids.....hmmmm probably not....did you make a humanitarian contribution....probably not...did you do ANYTHING to take care of the next generation like they did for you...hmmmm probably not. What you have done is cool for a small slice.....but not for most

@@kristopherloviska9042 yes exactly what thos guy said. Preach!

It’s really suspicious isn’t it?

its because those that agree with him are working and dont have the time to reply to vids all day. tho I just did, so getting the irony... :)

@@jobkuhnke And what "work" does Bill do?

@@haileyr4027 His talent or his craft did not just appear he worked at it loooong and hard......practice can be work, it's how you get good at something that in turn gives you leverage to ask or demand more....sorry if your work or lack of it is not a labor of love you sound bitter

@@lindateasley5815 yes and you just described an influencer. Influencers can be bakers, musicians, artists, photographers. They “practice” and work too!

And few trust that the systems in place now won't be dissolved by greedy bastards voted in by terrified reactionaries. By the time I reach retirement age eligibility will be pushed back to 85.

blah, blah, blah... The exact same stupid, vapid, inbred thinking that has been around for at least 100 years now and yet very little has changed, IT NEVER DOES!!!

Hell, I'm a Millennial, and the way things are going, I fully expect not to survive to past 50.

@@guffmuff90 I’m 60 & I made a decent living without ever finishing high school. Decent enough to pay off 2 homes & 7 vehicles in less than 10 years. An astronaut might be able to accomplish that today, but not a fireman nor a teacher.

But statistically the vast majority will reach retirement age.

Ironically this. And when he speaks of fighting for the working-class to rip on content-creating Millenials especially one who was tragically murdered, it's a bit tone-deaf as he is not only a content creator but also has a purchased minority ownership interest in the New York Mets.

@@rickardkaufman3988He's a hypocrite because he invests his money in something?...or maybe simply because he's successful. I, and millions of others, are minority shareholders of Apple. I guess we're hypocrites too.. I'd buy a piece of a professional sports team tomorrow if I could afford it because it's a very high odds, lucrative investment. You can't make a large, smart investment and care for the average person at the same time, can you?

@@markladenheim5352 he's a hypocrite because he's talking about how people don't want to work and are so self absorbed when he basically does the same things as them but the only difference is that he's rich

@@desulek7835 How do you think he got rich? You think he inherited his money? He's worked his ass off in the entertainment/comedy business for 40 years, and, because people love his work, he's now paid extremely well. If it's so easy you should try it.

@@markladenheim5352 i never said it was easy but the fact that he's going after people now for basically trying to do what he did just online and also complaining about how people want better jobs while he's rich and 'famous' seems a bit hypocritical

@Jezzy Klein Right on target! Westerners didn't have cameras in the 1980's/90's.

See Caddyshack "Hey Wang what's with the pictures, it's a parking lot"

Actually, that was going back to the 50s and 60s - tourists with their YashicaFlex or Nikons!

japanese workers typically get 1 week of vacation per year. travel photos help them get through the other 51

There is a big difference between taking pictures to preserve memories of historic sights/places, and taking pictures of tonights dinner.

So true, and what counts as a 'job opening', 28 hours a week , 32 hours? We have a small chain of high priced grocery stores here that is hiring and the pay looks ok until you realize it is not 40 hours which will yank $100 a week out of your potential pay. The whole store is staffed like that, just a precious few people actually getting 40 hours.

$7 per hour #winning

They do if you have the right skills. There are high paying jobs in a myriad of fields. Those companies however will not break down your door and drag you to the office. You have to actually apply for them, be qualified and show up when hired...

yeah, i love how when capitalism fails bc companies are too cheap to offer a livable wage it suddenly turns into socialism's fault. this is capitalism at its finest. If companies want to give employees a fair salary, they'll find the employment they need.

@@crackills1 True. Companies lobbied for years to get Right to Work laws passed. You are an at will employee, you can be fired at any time for any reason, and your worth is zero anytime we decide it is worth zero. Today, employees are quitting at a moments notice, not showing up, or blowing off a job for another one paying more. Yet the same companies that pushed for and abused that system for years are now crying foul when the shoe is on the other foot. Enjoy corporate America. You know what they say. Be careful what you wish for. You may just get it...

It's as if he googled "working class jobs" and just listed off the first 5 he found. My parents are teachers and that job is an utter nightmare. I would've killed to do what I like for pay versus working 3 shit jobs to pay for college. I'm happy that people now have that option.

Low paying jobs need to suck to motivate people to seek more challenging jobs like doctors, engineers, and programmers. Low paying jobs should remain open to the entry level job seekers, not turn into a career with health benefits and paid time off.

@@plinyelder8156 low paying jobs don't have to suck and even higher paying jobs suck, I'm motivated by making more money. I think most people are.

It's work. Somedays I enjoy what I do some I despise it. It's work we do it to be productive, get shit done and earn money to survive not hold hands with the other guys sing coombaya and enjoy the fuck out of ourselves. Also in order to get to a better job or career you're gonna have to do some shit you don't want to do.

Best comment on here.

Maybe I'm slow here, but if you think having a job is so terrible, then wouldn't it stand to reason you would want others not to have jobs and thus, get them fired? I think I'm missing the point here? Help internet!

@@danielstoddard8681 basically if working is hard and the worst option in life, you would want that person to keep having to work there (as if it’s their own prison) instead of “freeing” them by getting them fired.

@@cbhitman1174 your grammar is somewhat convoluted. Are you saying getting people fired is a positive thing?

@@cbhitman1174 I'm with Daniel, and I still can't wrap my head around the logic of Bill Mahr's sentence.

@@pdcdesign9632 I’m explaining Bill’s joke to the person that in the lazy nimwit’s point of view, it wouldn’t be in their best interest to have someone get fired from a job if in their eyes the concept of work is such a bad proposition.

Bill Maher makes 10 million each year being an influencer, he can't let people make enough to survive by doing the same thing. This is an old rich white man kicking down the ladder so nobody can follow.

He's not wrong though people like Brian and Gabby should not be famous, ever.

Bill Maher worked his ass off for decades to get famous. Babies want to be famous yesterday. You missed the point.

@@n00f There was no point. He used the murder of a girl to punch down at people who are younger than him and trying to make their living. He's garbage. _He_ missed the absolute irony in his own statement. Can't say I'm surprised, though. Other people write his jokes for him and he probably doesn't read them until he sees the prompter the night of. This is literally a grown man screaming, "That's not fair! It took me a long time to become a multimillionaire! How come these kids can do it before they hit 30?!"

Just a mouthpiece for the destruction of the constitution. As long as he feels rich enough to survive the globalist agenda he could care less about slamming people that want to live a free life. The very one he is promoting to be villianized. Got news for you Bill your bosses could give a crap less if you are dead or alive if they have their way. Try stopping with the bullcrap monologue attacking good people that are using their God given freedom. The very freedom provided by the constitution, the very document you seem to wipe your ass with.

Exactly. Doesnt it dawn on him that they are doing exactly the same thing he does. Amazing

I thought he _was_ aware and was making fun of himself... hence the follow-up joke about being a "marijuana tester".

Did not know that these content creators who retire at 30 and travel the world in a van interview authors, politicians, analysts and activists or argue about current events. I thought they just travel from one place to another, take photos of sunrises, meals, famous landmarks, and sunsets. There is no comparison, really.

He knows that David 😂😂

Whooosh, right over thy head

The wealth will eventually be transferred from those older generations to the younger one's. No matter how successful you become, and how many toys you accumulate, you still can take them with you when you die.

Great recession of the 1930s? Born by the millennials? You need to brush up on your history, young man.

@@redbaron6805 the Healthcare industry is going to get that inheritance long before any millennial gets it.

@@leok7193 He was presumably referring to the '08 recession (AKA Great Recession), not the Great Depression of the late 20s/30s

@@benjamindover4337 I would say that claim is pretty doubtful. The estimates are the wealth transfer will be over $30 Trillion over the next two decades. Some of that will go to healthcare and other things, most of it will not.

He’s not talking about everyone who is a social media influencer. He’s talking about the untalented ones who don’t do anything but act stupid on camera, who takes pictures of themselves. The ones who are like the kardashians. Im sure he doesn’t mean that everyone who is a social media influencer is lazy and stupid, etc. Yes there is so many talented people who are very intelligent who work, and is a social media influencer who use their platforms for good things to show their talents to get somewhere in life. He’s not talking about those people. He’s talking about the ones who are like Kylie Jenner. Who takes pictures of herself and brags and shows off their life style who doesn’t do anything important or interesting. Which there is more of those influencers than the ones we want to see. Let’s be honest those types are the most popular and have the most followers instead of the talented ones. I’ve seen many talented artists who are social media influencer but they don’t have a lot of followers or views but the ones that are like the kardashians have millions. It is true that most people who are on social media find those influencers interesting than the ones that are hard working and talented. Get what I mean?

Yes those types content are work. I don’t think he’s talking about those types of influencers. The ones he is only bashing in this video are the ones are like the kardashians. Just takes photos of themselves and show off their stuff. Like he said the ones that are not interesting.

Bill actually was a comedian, and not just famous by being famous!

Yep. I'm still paying off a finance degree I stopped using in 2008 when the crash wrecked the industry and forced me to go another way.

@@orange_blossoms_sunset If people don't do the crap jobs, he might actually have to, instead of talking down to everyone.

I've been screwed by so many shitty jobs because that's all I'm qualified to do. Getting yelled at for the last 16 years by people who think they're better than us

Who will do all the work then. Guess the system can just collapse. Do you think all the food power and gas get made with a magic wand.

@@hillbillyhippie3164so kids are supposed be miserable to prop up the system? If someone finds a way to make their hobby into a living more power to them.

I wonder often how he lacks so much self awareness

It's his thing to spew the right wing old man stuff without realising that even Plato has said the same lines about young generation thousands of years ago. He is just quite good at it so even as a critical listener I find myself sometimes agreeing. Until I remember that maybe 1% of kids are full time content providers and rest of them flip burgers, study or sell drugs or whatever.

Not at all

@@yelnickmcwawa5858 Bill is absolutely an influencer. Influencers don't just talk about themselves in a room, they bring up other topics, show off their skills, invite on guests or review experiences and products. Bill is a political influencer. That doesn't make travel influencers, metalwork influencers, doctor influencers, fashion and beauty influencers, or anyone else invalid. They literally are the same. Nobody watches Bill Maher for the topics. Anyone could talk about those topics. They watch because it's Bill Maher talking about the topics. I would equate Bill Maher to something like Philip DeFranco or H3H3 or Sam Cedar or even Hasan Piker.

@Sebastian oh yes because US corporate culture and its customers are known for treating its employees well, LOL

What a sob story. Don't kids watch "Power of Tens" in school anymore that shows how massive the universe is?

Stop whining, quit social media, buckle down, learn, think, master a real skill, help others, make the world better, create meaning in your own life, earn a living. our ancestors always had to work hard. it’s not a new thing.

@@glennthompson1971 damn right. Many jobs suck, but that's how you generate money for yourself, *_while keeping the world going._* Being an influencer is not essential, aspirational jobs and goals used to serve some global purpose at least, although you could say that the "i wanna be famous/rich" goals have always been there, and being an athlete or musician might not serve a whole lot of purpose in terms of logistics and farming etc., but taking pictures of yourself, that you probably don't even look at anymore 1 second later, aside from checking the likes on it, is not something that contributes to society, arguably it results in the opposite. I like to make music and record some video's sporadically, but yeah, i do that as a hobby, i still have my (essential) job to pay the bills. Working sucks, but it does ground you, success should be earned, not given. And sure, knowing the right angles and filters for taking pictures does require skill, but you could also just show a nipple and money will come your way, it doesn't NEED to require skill, people on OnlyFans could tell you something about that, they're like the Uber of Porn, amateurs taking jobs from the pro's, but yeah, that's a whole different can of worms.

Feeling insignificant or inferior is nothing new, but the way to, as you suggest, exploit it has become easier. So what are you saying? They inflate their image so that they can get likes and feel significant? What's that for weak shit... i don't wanna sound like a Repugnicunt, but... pull yourself up by your bootstraps, join life, it sucks.

Because the whole country comes to a standstill. the government runs out the debt while we look for lost retards in the national parks.

Did you pay for it by making others waste their time and money watching your videos? Or did you pay for it with money you or your parents saved? They aren't the same thing.

Exactly! Enjoy your youth while you have it. If you wait until your sixties, it won't be as worthwhile.

But how sad is that you spend your 30s and some of your 40s trying to get some sense rather than starting out with some??

@@awesomewxyz7083 I worked, saved, spent it and started over. Heheh, I confess that I don’t understand the appeal of following someone else’s adventures on social media, but it’s not really my place to judge others’ entertainment. Or maybe it is, I dunno.

If he's trying to kill off and alienate what's left of his fan base he's doing a really good job by being so out of touch.

He is referring to the people not wanting to get a serious job, yet participating in the cancel culture.

@@indiebaby If you get offended by what he says, you were never his base. He is not a democratic party mouth piece like Colbert or Oliver. He will not always toe the "liberal snowflake" line.

@@rajanraymond232 its really ironic how he talks about getting a real job instead of trying to get paid fucking off while he gets paid to fuck off. He uses dubious surveys to underline a point that isn't actually true, blaming a generation for a situation that he is more responsible for than any one of the people he talks about. As a antivaxxer her is more responsible. He also talks as if his generation didn't fuck the entire economy up. His generation kept minimum wage stagnant while investing in real estate, driving up prices on property so much that a minimum wage job doesn't even cover that shitty apartment that you have to live in to get to better jobs. Using a tragedy to shit on a generation is pretty on brand for a shitty smug idiot.

@@rajanraymond232 yeah I still don't get it. Wouldn't it be ironic if they _did_ want a serious job yet participate in cancel culture/try to get people fired? I think "yet" implies some sort of irony that doesn't fit here.

who wants to live like this. I'd rather sell fucking drugs. might be illegal but you dont depend on some old boomers.

If everyone thought like that, nothing would ever be produced, and we'd all be in poverty. Time for people to just grow up and do things they don't like for the good of the community.

@@Mechaghostman2 Time for people to cook their own fucking food.

😂

Escapism is fun.

There's a lot of jobs now. You should def be looking and applying

@@jens8223 Are you under the impression I am currently unemployed? Why would you assume that? Are you also under the impression that people who were homeless, and with no resources, have somehow had there circumstances elevated by a pandemic? If they were homeless and unwashed before, why do you think closing down shelters and homes has somehow helped?

@@matthewhines9787 um no you just said you worked at a hotel yet have a college degree. I was just saying there's a lot of opportunities now and you should try applying. 🙄

@@jens8223 But what causes you to believe I'm unemployed now?

@@matthewhines9787 bro who said you're unemployed 😭🤣 even if you are employed there's always better opportunities and that doesn't mean you have to settle and stop looking. Are you sure you went to college?

Except that once that van life is over you get nothing out of it, no education, no career.

@@danteyoutu What about working at Target for 20 years. What are you really getting out of it ?

@@danteyoutu You get an education like you wouldn't believe. I've learned so much more from traveling the world than anything else I've ever done. When you look back on life what memories will be the ones that defined you and shaped you? Exploring the world and trying new things or working yourself to death for some 9-5 that seldom brings you happiness, satisfaction, or even enough to truly enjoy life.

@@SomethingSomethingg you get memories. That’s good but it’s not an education. When you get back from your van life in your 30s what’s next? Where do you work with the “education” you got from traveling?

@@Local11-m9r well, after 29 years in Target you for sure will have gone up in the command chain, perhaps saved enough to study something business related and take a bigger position at Target. In other words, you are being responsible.