Why not ask the people in this cohort..... That would be scientifically more accurate. A first hand source .... Instead of interviewing third hand sources

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You have to wonder if it is being oblivious and acting by them. People that have no faith in the system, low pay ($30/hour is same as $8-10/hour back in 2019), men no longer pursuing relationship after seeing divorce courts steal other men's children/life savings, young women no longer brainwashed that it is evil if they are single/childless, Men who are not selfish enough to bring a child into this wicked and evil system, prices rising so fast on everything you cannot do anything so why work 50-100% extra when inflation will cause at most 1% or 2% improvement in your life, people realizing how many are dying earlier now in theirs 50s/60s/70s since the pandemic infection/same protein entered into billions done coercively which has damaged health and people realizing life is too short to work so hard for 30-40 years hoping one will get even 2-5 years in retirement since you delayed retirement date.

Go try driving Uber for a couple weeks or working in a kitchen (real work) and then try paying all your bills off that and maybe you'll see why people are giving up. You two sound like Scrooge McDuck giving his maid a hard time for not working hard enough while swimming in gold. You two have no idea what you're talking about.

Why is this seen as a problem? I see it as hope that the citizenry is waking up to the reality of this economic system only serving the oligarchy. Are you not aware of this reality?

1 there is no common religion 2 in many parts of the country, we are swamped with foreigners, my phone alerts are in spanish, why? 3 there are no good jobs, wages are kept low by massive immigration. 4 if men can not find good women, there is no reason to work. Feminism has poisoned the well. 5 massive inflation, prices double every 10 years since 1974, but have doubled in the last 5 years. in terms of purchasing power, the average man has not had a real raise since 1980. 6 constant economic and psychological warfare on the middle class by the rich. why have child, if you are living in a dystopia? Now you can not even get women. no community, no religion, no job, no women. why buy anything? live minimally wait for the zombie apocalypse. because it will come. now Biden wants to take us to WWIII, you know who is not afraid of anything now. the ones who have nothing to lose.

Obviously your younger than the “boomers” Well I’m a boomer. I started working and living on my own in the 70s at 17 years old. My mortgage was over 10%. Income rates were much higher. I moved to the USA at 23 from Australia. Married at 20. Retired at 62. Worked for over 5 years in Iraq and Africa. Never made working over 54,000 except when I worked in a war zone for 5 years. I never expected anyone to help except God. And no one else did. I rose up through the ranks to Head Chef. No fat pension besides S.S. and my own monies. I have no resentment towards anyone else except whiners who are great at whining but not great on sucking it up and getting the job done. Try it.

Well said …

I'm 36, never married, homeless since the pandemic, and living in an old Toyota Sienna minivan now, despite working, and not addicted to drugs.

​@@johnbirman5840 the world doesn't revolve around your gen anymore. We know you guys made it, you don't have to remind us. We don't care. Gen x and forward have to fix the mess you've left for us, and we know you're not with us, so just stay out of our way and don't come crying to us when nobody visits when you're old.

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And yet there are openings in many union jobs and other jobs that pay decently in blue states: pharmacy tech, LVN ,RN, electrician ,aircraft mechanic, teacher, social worker, cybersecurity expert and on and on.

US democracy is a facade = ilusion= Corporation$ Totalitarianism

Well said!!!!!!

Here here, brother!

It only adds further insult that Adam is so clueless that he interviews a member of the class that gaslights us endlessly about how it's a "lack of confidence" you problem, not a parasitic ruling class that controls our institutions. Just vote harder Goy!

A shorter version: "What incentives do I, as a man, have to give 40-50 years of my life to a society that despises, exploits, and demonizes me?"

Perfect! Neither Adam or any of his guests will pretend to notice the low quality of women, the attack on men and how it effects men's ambitions to create, strive and succeed which drives the economy. Notice the lack of quality and reliability of products now? That is from intelligent men going Gault.

Plus affirmative action. I’m half Italian so I just claim to be Hispanic.

@@millennialsecularandauthri3338maybe that’s what I need to do. But I’m a light skinned blah person and Hispanics always approach me speaking Spanish.

@@MegaTamarra id just put Black then

And just because an employer would WANT another employee and show it by posting some crappy job offer, it doesn't mean they are effectively "demanding" an employee with the proper economic incentives like a high enough salary. For example, what if there were 100,000 new job postings tomorrow, each offering a $1 per year salary? Are those 100,000 jobs real. No! Maybe we should not be considering the NUMBER of job postings, but rather the amount of dollars being offered for labor. In my simple example, you would say there is a $100,000 labor bid on the market. Whether that is 1 x $100k job or 100,000 x $1 job, it's $100k offered for potential workers.

yes 100% agree, there is no shortage. It is really not worth working anymore especially for the younger generation. only to break even on paying bills , scraping by. paying all the taxes, paying into SSI and for the government to just spend that money on something else and not have it for when people retire... millennials, gen z & alpha will have to work until their dead. there is no more retirement, no more insensitive to work! Let's not forget the government pays people more money not to work.....

@@aaron159r2 Precisely. I've been making this point for years now and it's as if people refuse to see through the propaganda. A lot of jobs often won't train you, and if they do, the social fabric is different than previous, and inflation is worse. The rise of feminism and modernity has led to a situation where men, without any chance of getting married or having a girlfriend at young ages, have no incentive to work "just because". I'm a high level professional and see successful, tall men all the time that laugh at the idea of marrying a woman in the west - there is frankly no return on investment.

The dirty tricks in the world of corporate hiring would completely shock most people.

@@mrw417please elaborate

Your mini van is your home.

@@bighoss8793 Well, the world is my bathroom then... 🚽

I lived in a session of secondhand vans from eighty's through ninety s . Own a half acre on lakeside in the hills now . Ant much to look at but a dry place to sleep with people constantly wanting to buy it . Go jump it the lake . . .

I live with family members because, even with a good job, I STILL could not afford these outrageous rent (or even house note) prices! Maybe if I could miraculously go without utilities or food I might be able to scrape buy, but then what about insurance, income and property taxes, etc.? This economy is absolutely absurd and untenable.

Good on you. I often thought about converting a van and quitting the system because I'm not going to work for continually debased currency as the rich net worth keep inflating from the asset bubbles that they keep pumping. If they don't allow deflation I'm checked out entirely. Their monetary policy is inept.

Soooo many folks are underemployed. Yeah they are working, but doing gig type stuff with no benefits including workers comp. It is not easy to get a decent job with full benefits.

No one lies like the people of Washington D.C.

​@@randyosborne3971Anyone who is rich is a liar. Except Warren Buffett. I like him.

they omit key numbers. how many fell off unemployment and are unable to collect anymore???? they dont want to talk about that.

What good would a better UE statistics do for you?

No, it isn't causing that. This is chess, not checkers - it is the white Christian Protestant mindset that has mastered "every man for himself" capitalism. I am not a communist, either, because I do not believe in polity and economic models arising from Abrahamism. Address THAT, and everything else falls in place.

With the money we're spending in the Ukraine, we could build a house for every homeless person in the US.

All of these empty houses and no housing available. So why are these property investors investing in them? Property taxes still have to be paid. When the banks reposses your house they just let it sit and rot in the meantime demanding higher resale value

We should start a squatter movement drizzle drizzle. If you find a house that's been vacant for more than 6 months you forcefully move into it have the utilities turned on and take up legal action against the homeowners who obviously don't have a vested interest in that house. Force these big investors into bankruptcy.

If you think the USA is bad... Come to the UK with a half as less for the same skilled work

Of all the comments I have read so far, yours is the one that resonates with me. Jobs that pay decently demand more and more of their employees and one reaches a point where the money just isn't worth it.

Good that 25 years of full time work have allowed you to accumulate sufficient funding for an early retirement. I saw very similar cases at IBM…after many years of stagnant wages, many experienced specialists retired with a golden handshake.

This is so true. I totally relate to what you mentioned. I prefer to invest in myself and learn investing skills to make a living rather than paying out of pocket for MBAs and more professional certifications that are overpriced and guarantee absolutely nothing but a hole in your bank account for the “privilege” of sucking up to self-centred, often morally bankrupt C-suite.

This was the story of my life in IT. Accept contract at the same rate of 15 years before, provide good work value, get ejected. Rinse, repeat. If we had IT unions, my career would have been much better. Conservative right-to-work laws and mercenary corporate tactics fck everyone. Except for the C-suite.

indeed

Do you mooch off people?

@@blobmonster9494 Haha, when the rich live off government grift, money printing, deficit spending. Why do you think the 34 trillion in federal debt is for? Taxes doesn't even begin to cover it. You think your little taxes pay for other people? What about Ukraine and Israel? How are they contributing to you? other than their aipac oligarchs own our government.

@@blobmonster9494maybe he is kicking back on everything he has already put out in blood sweat and tears

Sounds like homeless

Amen Brother !

From me to you- I was at the same place. I decided to get land and grow a garden and animals. Not perfect by any means, but solves some issues(admittedly while creating others.

Don't worry. Enjoy the decline :D

The government hates you? You sound mentally ill.

Try to find a job in Asia as an English teacher.

Same in France. I'm French. The west is done....

Under stated and this fact wont ever make msm cuz facts like this are offensive to vv0m3ns fragile egos

Love this equation. ❤ It put things into perspective

Modern retirement is a modern thing, maybe since 1960s.

True, but not everyone has the luxury of being able to retire early and travel the world. And not everyone has the ability to start a six or seven-figure business from scratch. The ever-increasing cost of living has kept many on the hamster wheel.

Excellent point...! I never really thought about that in such real terms..

Love it ...agree with the concept . The reality is 90 % of us will always be the worker bee...so the 10% can have it all. MONEY = POWER.

I was a hiring manager pre-pandemic and yes i can say modern job interviews are ridiculous. All I wanted was someone capable of doing the job and someone who meshed well with the team. I'm currently out of the workforce and starting my own company and id never do more than a two stage interviews. Well, technically three stages, but by the time you meet the executive team you are already hired and its just a formality at that point...

@@TheNewCarryTrade BS U were NEVER a hiring manager. My opinion

Yes

@@mba2ceo Personal testimony in comments sections is worthless. Anybody can say anything.

"[T]he rational response to a society with this level of mental illness is to withdraw." This! Could not have been stated any better! 💯

Buy stocks then

@@SunofYork I do, thanks dad. Unfortunately, many Americans cannot afford to and it’s their situation I’m referring to.

@@hood6854 Most of them asked for it by their choices at school. I have a Samsung S5 and I don't run a big red 80k pickup, although I COULD afford 20 of them...cash.. I have never smoked cannabis...

National monetary policy has bailed out out the housing and stock market with experimental QE and ZIRP for a few decades now. It's not evilness of corporations or investors, it's governmental politics (true, likely hijacked by corporate lobbies) that contribute to the perverse incentives that discourage people from wanting to work. The payoff just isn't there when financial assets are so expensive relative to underlying economic activity.

@@SunofYork Such a boomer take.

If you never got a college degree, you’re stuck in low wage jobs forever. The only way out is to take on tons of debt so you can get a higher paying job so you can work more to pay off that debt… its insanity

Your best hope is UBI. I really believe UBI will happen because AI is going to make a lot of jobs disappear in the next 10 years.

Go to a two year tech school program for one of the trades

Anyone can 'Go Union'

Did you pay attention in school?

sounds like the family i grew up in. we had a popup camper and mini bikes.

Exactly, and that was on about $8000 per year, plus able to take vacations and save.

And in 1965 the women were far more likely to be fit, feminine and friendly

Im just the beginning on genz and had my mom having the audacity to tell me she never made good money but she had a 4 bedroom house with 2 living rooms finished basement we had a pool a seperate garage with 2 doors and enough space to fit 2 cars and a sit down lawn mower the jobs when she got the house with my dad (my dad did general labor at construction not even blue collar trade) she worked at wendys and A&W meanwhile I am an operator for one of the largest cheese plants in canada making 3x the wage of both their incomes combined I have no debt and have only my phone internet and Amazon subscriptions I can't even get a down payment on a home for the next 6 years at these prices she bought her first home at 22 without family help so me getting told to pick myself up is just a kick in the teeth

Dont be so dramatic. You can still achieve the same thing with the same job. 😂😂😂 You just have to work 300 years. Thats the only small difference.

Read Bible, dare i say a wife might balance you naturally

Know when to fold um . . .

Glad that you are finding something to keep you above the pitfalls of substances and funk that you want to avoid. Sorry it is work (I too am somewhat of a perfectionist, so I do the same when I am working) but I hope the best for you. And, in response to a comment above mine, a wife will not balance you out. That is absurd. A healthy and caring partner *could* possibly help you have some balance and other places to put that energy, but who’s to say the “wife” would be balanced either?!? Sorry, I couldn’t let that nonsense slide by. You are enough. You are doing enough. The problem is capitalism, not you. ❤️‍🔥

Not trying to be mean, but it’s always been that way.

Unfortunately true. The middle class is dead since long and thus you feel this way. Hang in there and try to save and invest to further accelerate your wealth as well as upskill where possible over time as you see fits. You can do this. 💪

Barely afford to live?? What town? You need to move. My employer pays for my housing, my 2010 F150 is paid for, my cost of living is around $1200/month. Nobody can tell me you can't live on $100k. I live on $21/hour fulltime. People need to stop buying things they can't afford.

don't have kids; no one should...

@@taketheredpill1452 I disagree - if I had 10 kids & no money I’d view myself as a richer person that had no kids. Children are a gift from God

@@workthenumberswjake - You're right. We disagree...#FundamentallyOnEverything

Correct this is what I did and it finally worked out. However 2008 wiped me and my saving completely away. However, I say don’t give up. And do not go into debt. Live in a pre-manufactured shed.

There is no future in any trade the way they are going...... Quick money and 💩 work.....

He made his choice

Wish you guys the best. This is the way to go moving forward.

Men are coddled by parents more than women. Women are expected to mature earlier.

Shame on his boss…

My wife used to work there that place is a shit hole

"I'd been treated badly, too." Poor you. Did someone look at you cross-eyed? Grow up and move on instead of moaning about how 'badly treated' you feel.

@@ng67432 Another bad boss has logged into the chat 😂 Do you resemble that remark, buddy?

Thats how inflation works. When your business costs go up (because of inflation) you either have to cut jobs, cut the hours of those that stay, and increase the productivity of those still working. Simple economics. But apparently the Lowe's dude didnt get that in school.

Put that effort into a business.

​@@blobmonster9494why bother if you have no one to support?

@@cordfortina9073 to help yourself or someone else.

"boomers" paid into the system their entire working lives. Should they not receive the benefits they were promised by the government? I think the culprit is government itself, with its colossal -- truly epic -- waste, corruption and mismanagement. Think of the hundreds of billions we are spending to prop up a corrupt Ukranian state.

Boomers paid into social security, just as you are if you get a paycheck. Good Lord, educate yourself

Well said.

Yes, even if you found a wife (fat chance, lol) the legal structure is another death blow. There are so many elephants in the room, and it's sad we can't get older men to address them - mostly it's because they don't want to be criticized for telling the truth about what men desire and why they would actually work - and it's NOT for wives who act like men, are overweight, and can leave at any time. The only fixes are really drastic, such as mass die off or implosion of the country or its legal structure into something else. Sad, really.

@@johndamascus6039 Very well said!

Oh, yeah. I'm 58, and I knew at age 10 that this was going to be a problem. I never married, never had children to give to the demons to do what they want with them.

germany for sure a bizarre attitude esp with the migrants

I’m right behind you. 73 days. I can’t wait.

Congrats to you🎉

Lots of Germans are going to Sweden. Are you in the north?

Not the same, in America if you don't have a Job you have no affordable Health insurance until you are 65, you also have dangerous infrastruture (accidents), a poorly educated work force and no affordable child care or Family Leave if that matters in the equation . Vaccination is a moot point, don't really care if you get Long Co~Vid or not.

no. they would relish to hire you for free if they could.

Same for the younger folks. Employers will blame every little thing for their pitiful salary offers or just outright outsource the role to India/work a skeleton crew.

Yes, something like this: AI and its Impact on Society Oct 31, 2023, updated on May 22, 2024 We must ask ourselves, "What will happen when AI has taken 85% of jobs present in 2020? What will we do? How will we eat and survive without incomes from jobs or other means?" What is disturbing is that while AI is taking these jobs, the gov't and the corporations have not done ANYTHING to prepare us for an AI'ed civilization. They have not said anything about major retraining of an entire economy to something else, and they have not followed up on a discussion of universal basic income. This is supposedly supported by a lack of information in the latest government budgets submitted and approved as reported by some KZfaq videos. It appears that the US gov't and the corporations intend to kill off the majority of Americans passively, through starvation from lack of income to buy food. (check and see if farming production is declining or will start to decline ahead of the "starvation phase") (also check to see if the "makeup" of robot equipment allocation would change to reflect a trend away from retail and services for the masses, possibly indicating an extinction of the American public - this means taking a robot from Chipotle and repurposing it for some other job not related to the public, or scrapping affected robots to be remade for some other purpose that has nothing to do with the public) It appears that the decline of farming has already started with the state of Maine buying farm land under the pretext that there are "forever chemicals" present at around 20 parts per TRILLION (safe level is said to be only 4 parts per TRILLION), which does not make sense, BUT this would rope in a LOT of land across the US. Other states may follow suit in addition to the ten states that have similar laws in place. Another farm-closure trope used in the drier states is a water shortage. This way, there are only enough people alive to get some things done, and the rest is done by AI, and the survivors who planned this can claim the whole country for themselves. Imagine having an estate mansion half the size of a mall on several dozen thousand acres of land, and robots would be used to maintain and clean the estates and do the farming FOR THE ESTATE OWNERS. The White Man's wet dream of civilization. What will the Native Americans south of the US border do when they see this coming, especially when they can buy firearms legally now? Hopi prophecy...

Senior citizens built the system we currently live in and a lot still control corperations and governments.

You don’t have to be unemployed to get those things though. Most on welfare work full time jobs they’re just low paying jobs.

Exactly…why work just to still be poor?

@@shaymalchione809 Valid point. I don't feel that your comment and mine exclude each other. Depending on situation you might be able to work a little, in other states you mustn't really make anything or you lose the benefits.

Denver Colorado taxpayers are spending $115,000 per homeless person per year. I wonder if any of that money is wasted? Pathetic.

However, the bottom is going to fall out unless you stop it: AI and its Impact on Society Oct 31, 2023, updated on May 22, 2024 We must ask ourselves, "What will happen when AI has taken 85% of jobs present in 2020? What will we do? How will we eat and survive without incomes from jobs or other means?" What is disturbing is that while AI is taking these jobs, the gov't and the corporations have not done ANYTHING to prepare us for an AI'ed civilization. They have not said anything about major retraining of an entire economy to something else, and they have not followed up on a discussion of universal basic income. This is supposedly supported by a lack of information in the latest government budgets submitted and approved as reported by some KZfaq videos. It appears that the US gov't and the corporations intend to kill off the majority of Americans passively, through starvation from lack of income to buy food. (check and see if farming production is declining or will start to decline ahead of the "starvation phase") (also check to see if the "makeup" of robot equipment allocation would change to reflect a trend away from retail and services for the masses, possibly indicating an extinction of the American public - this means taking a robot from Chipotle and repurposing it for some other job not related to the public, or scrapping affected robots to be remade for some other purpose that has nothing to do with the public) It appears that the decline of farming has already started with the state of Maine buying farm land under the pretext that there are "forever chemicals" present at around 20 parts per TRILLION (safe level is said to be only 4 parts per TRILLION), which does not make sense, BUT this would rope in a LOT of land across the US. Other states may follow suit in addition to the ten states that have similar laws in place. Another farm-closure trope used in the drier states is a water shortage. This way, there are only enough people alive to get some things done, and the rest is done by AI, and the survivors who planned this can claim the whole country for themselves. Imagine having an estate mansion half the size of a mall on several dozen thousand acres of land, and robots would be used to maintain and clean the estates and do the farming FOR THE ESTATE OWNERS. The White Man's wet dream of civilization. What will the Native Americans south of the US border do when they see this coming, especially when they can buy firearms legally now? Hopi prophecy...

Corps...corpse. Same same.

This is 100% correct. If we all stop working, who will they steal money from to pay for their yachts and mansions?!? 😮

Personally, I blame the governments for making deeply devastating and extremely wasteful decisions that do nót serve the tax payers. It is the tax payers money!! And ofcourse it is a fact that social media has a depressing effect on especially the young-ish people: comparing fake lives to your own real life.

@@FreeSpeech4All Artificial Intelligence

Sounds about right the more you work the less you make…😢

Not only employers, our parents' generation too have ruined it for Millenials and generations after.

The poor used to put their kids to work, they could use that as an income stream to help pay for having them but that was stopped with labor laws. 🤣

​@gormenfreeman499 teach your kids to trade in the markets while they are young and then labor laws don't apply if they are making their own money.

@@handyrams4822 Leftists will simply raise your capital gains taxes, there is no way to prevent the fruits of your efforts being handed over to the entitled party class

American should go back to living together throughout life. This would mean not sending your kids to public school, though. This is one of the main ways the government drives a wedge between parents and family.

I'm sorry friend. I was a hiring manager for a software firm and I hired 50+ talent. I hired jr talent as well, but honestly I found the work ethic of the older guys to be far superior. I once hired a 62yr programmer and he was a rockstar...he was difficult to manage, but he could run laps around a similar 20 something hire for my team. I'm starting my own company now and I will continue to hire the older guys.

I am young... and I dont get interviews either. I am in East Europe (in EU) and our gov is giving big companies money to hire young people. So the young people are hired by corporations and paid from our taxes. Practically they work for free. Pretty insane right, its a scam. Corporatocracy and rentier capitalism destroyed jobs. When the Soviet Union fell one of the criteria for entering the EU was forcing our national companies to be privatised by the west - '.free market'right ehm... Western companies bought our national companies kicked all the people out and closed, in order to destroy us as competition. Now they are paying us peanuts, our economies were totally dismantled. It was the biggest scam and trap of the century we were too naive. We thought communism was hell... No, our commies had hearts of gold in comparison to imbeciles running the west.

Yes. I'm 58, deaf all my life, and now unskilled. I got no for anything other than office work retail, and odd jobs. I got the F out of America 6 years ago.

Sounds like a solid modern path to destruction.

It's an epidemic and loneliness is a high risk factor for bad mental health and poor physical health outcomes. Depression is regarded by the World Health Organisation as the biggest threat to public health, higher than cancer.

I really want to just start dance halls everywhere. To help. Improve the connection and engagement of young people. We can all learn ballroom, dance and that's affordable and cheap.You can dance on a basketball court.

They can fix that by setting down the cellphone.

@@lorib5398 solid idea but women wouldn't show up, would just be a bunch of dudes.

Nope. Especially when this happens: AI and its Impact on Society Oct 31, 2023, updated on May 22, 2024 We must ask ourselves, "What will happen when AI has taken 85% of jobs present in 2020? What will we do? How will we eat and survive without incomes from jobs or other means?" What is disturbing is that while AI is taking these jobs, the gov't and the corporations have not done ANYTHING to prepare us for an AI'ed civilization. They have not said anything about major retraining of an entire economy to something else, and they have not followed up on a discussion of universal basic income. This is supposedly supported by a lack of information in the latest government budgets submitted and approved as reported by some KZfaq videos. It appears that the US gov't and the corporations intend to kill off the majority of Americans passively, through starvation from lack of income to buy food. (check and see if farming production is declining or will start to decline ahead of the "starvation phase") (also check to see if the "makeup" of robot equipment allocation would change to reflect a trend away from retail and services for the masses, possibly indicating an extinction of the American public - this means taking a robot from Chipotle and repurposing it for some other job not related to the public, or scrapping affected robots to be remade for some other purpose that has nothing to do with the public) It appears that the decline of farming has already started with the state of Maine buying farm land under the pretext that there are "forever chemicals" present at around 20 parts per TRILLION (safe level is said to be only 4 parts per TRILLION), which does not make sense, BUT this would rope in a LOT of land across the US. Other states may follow suit in addition to the ten states that have similar laws in place. Another farm-closure trope used in the drier states is a water shortage. This way, there are only enough people alive to get some things done, and the rest is done by AI, and the survivors who planned this can claim the whole country for themselves. Imagine having an estate mansion half the size of a mall on several dozen thousand acres of land, and robots would be used to maintain and clean the estates and do the farming FOR THE ESTATE OWNERS. The White Man's wet dream of civilization. What will the Native Americans south of the US border do when they see this coming, especially when they can buy firearms legally now? Hopi prophecy...

then the women talk down to the men.

Karma 😂

Hi I’m woman the point is that we are getting much education example I speak Spanish,English and Portuguese plus my degree education on finance…my husband it’s just a Plummer them compliant that I get a constable jod…it’s education.

​@@Marleny-qp9co You don't write as though you're college educated. FYI, your husband, who's "just a plummer", is adding more tangible real world value to our economy then most college graduates ever will. He also has more upside earning potential than most college graduates ever will. My point was that men are now being openly discriminated against for mid level corporate positions, even those positions that don't require a bachelors degree. The good news is that AI (a.k.a., artificial intelligence) is coming to put the spoiled white collar labor fakers in their proper place. Right now we have way to many over-paid, over-educated and non-productive bureaucratic paper pushers in our society. When we get back to actually producing real goods and services that people actually want and need then you'll see our economy improve. While the paper pusher economy favors women, the productive economy favors men.

@@Marleny-qp9co token hire spotted.

That's because the workforce no longer wants young white men like myself. They want women and minorities. They also want women and minorities to take over traditionally male jobs. The current trend is to get a million women into the construction industry and take away men's jobs. Meanwhile, women complain that they can't find a guy that makes the same or more than them. It's a Scooby Doo mystery out here "rolls eyes"

You know whats insane? I am an eastern European on the EU side of Europe, Im 39 and I cannot find a decent guy even though I used to look like a model when I was younger. One idiot after another. Greedy, selfish, dumb, cheaters, egotistical thats how many men are these days. When I walk around streets in my city I see mostly women everywhere and very few guys. Its scary. As if they all left to other countries. But what is even scarier on a dating app I see mostly non European looking males (when I browse European countries). I am a blondie typical light European I cannot find someone who would attract me. Someone who would look like me, someone from my tribe. And I have nothing against other races or other nationalities whatsoever but there is something hurtful when you are trying to find someone from your own tribe and its impossible. Something is so wrong. You feel it deep in your heart.

Yes, a lot of those people have "white-manned" themselves and made me F embarrassed to be white. I think it is time to clean this up.

Lol yea, they act like it’s some great mystery…

​@@nicholasbroadhurst9096boomer logics

Yep, men got nothing to work for and a system that hates them...gonna be fun to watch them try and keep things running with all the new 70iq imports.

Don't forget that 80-90% of whamans today are undesirable to the men. Feminism, single moms, phone tards(tictok,instagram,tinder...)

Yes but I wouldn't put them as undesirable I'd more put it as society as a whole hates men in general so they are demotivated. I have never had problems meeting women and having relationships I am not that attractive I'm not feminine. But I just am also not afraid to talk to them and most importantly not afraid of rejection. Dating sites are horrible for men it is far easier to talk to them in public don't lure them to a dark ally just talk in an open place where they feel safe.

The English aristocracy gains no matter what....

It was turnips from the new world. Once they could grow turnips they could keep animals alive through winter. Then sheep in paddocks growing wool became profitable and land owners pushed their workers out. That's why we need unions and taxes on wealth. You cannot trust the billionaires so you have to keep them in check all the time.

It has always been dirty and hard except for about a 30 year window.

I have actually wondered if the men "who don't work" just don't work in jobs that these statisticians count. If a person can get a decently priced rental - no frills - and is willing to live a quiet, simple life, a person can get cash jobs on the side. The big issue is health. All is OK as long as a person has his health.

Offer to work for free for a week to prove you can do the job, if they will hire you. That allows them to see the quality of your work and your work ethic first. Do you show up on time. Are you pleasant to work around. Do you have a strong work ethic. Good luck.

@@Ella-Bella2024 That is a really good idea.

If you can control your outflows, you can control what you need for income. I chose geo-arbitrage. Slow travel to cheap places, what they used to call third-world. I have friends who live in Aspen. I live in South America. Our lifestyles are pretty comparable for quality and personal enjoyment. My net worth is 1/25th of theirs. My Income is 1/40th. They still work and I do not. I think I win.

@@BOULDERGEEK hey, I’m from Co Springs. Well, lived there for 35 years. Loved CO. Moved away. Sounds like you’re doing great. Thanks for sharing!

going, going, almost gone

Rome ultimately fell because they didn't have the tax base to support their overextended military (industrial complex) obligations.

Yep. America had a good run.

Take a look at how China is going, then weep. I'm not saying the US is all sunshine and roses - far from it - but other nations are imploding. It's internationally a colossal problem. We have to find a way to pull together, whether it's community involvement, or other networks so good people don't self destruct. Blaming ourselves is the worst thing and it's happening. If you look at Kurt Cobain, he was painfully aware of the bs in society and he had physical pain he tried to self manage. He came from the wrong side of the railway tracks and not even success could compensate. AND the situation was orders of magnitude better than now for young people.

More like, " Sodom and Gomorah."

Loser

So what happened? Like me, sometimes people are dumb on a topic

It's an agenda. All by design and going as planned.

yeah it's all blks fault even tho we are the majority and control the US and other western countries controlling the money supply LOL

@@jefesalsero Lots of problems and only reactions at the moment

Also, just gotta say this is very ironic considering our conversation yesterday. It sounds like my anecdotal experience lines up with the data. Very sad state of affairs.

The full-time. Jobs that exist are only those that are labor taxing and you can only do those for a certain amount of time. It will be too much for the body to handle

as a IT hiring mgr I get 22 Indian resumes (H1B, H4) and 2 middle eastern, 6 native born americans.

​@@nobullshootThe folks pushing Ukraine are pushing Indian IT replacement of native workers. Some companies require executive permission for any exceptions.

You can hardly call white Europeans who speak the European language of English....."NATIVE" .... That's a bit of a stretch boys 😂

😆 Fair pay? When in human history has there been a time where the masses have received fair pay? They're nowhere as unique as they think that they are. They're always going to be on the bottom until they shut off the pron, put down the video game control, quit smoking so much weed, and just quit feeling sorry for themselves.

@@survivingthetimes Haha! So true. But, I'm talking about the ones who actually work and have aspirations. There was fair pay before the Federal Reserve got their grimy little hands on the politicians and ever since the frog has slowly been boiled. No country works more hours on average than Americans and we've gotten to the point now that some cannot even afford a basic cost of living while working two or three jobs. Then you have people who see where the tax money goes and lose motivation. I don't want my tax dollars going to diddling children or supporting crack habits or funding surveillance company's to surveil me, etc... This whole trans humanism movement is demonic. No, I'm not motivated to work just to exist. That's not why I'm here...

I have had 7 vaxes they are great. a million anti vaxers died. they were superstitious weirdos.. and usually trumpists

What are you living on? Most people don't get a pension and have low savings at that age. Most older people need to keep working because inflation is killing the dollar every year.

@@marciamakoviecki3295 WRONG ! the dollar is HIGH. When I immigrated I got 2.14 dollars for a GBP. Now it is 1.20... I doubled my money bringing it to the US and I would double it again if I set it back to England at today's HIGH dollar rate... Stop listening to trumpers !

@@marciamakoviecki3295 Buy some gold and silver.

You're my hero.

Some do

I would never put my livelihood in the hands of a union. I was born and raised in Flint, MI and saw how they decimated that city that will never recover.

I would if I had to do so😊

At my local McDonalds ….theyve gone to Ai taking your order and then the only employees inside are all part of a family from India that owns the store.

MacD wouldn't hire such person either they would say your over qualified. Unless he lies on his resume and make it much worse. Also MacD pay 9,5 not 7 an hour

You mean the world. This is a worldwide problem.

True, and from the bottom up. We have a massive welfare system of people that are lazy and irresponsible. Crime is rampant and practically authorized in places like San Francisco and NY City. It’s becoming unlivable.

Congress is the destroyer of the Constitutional Republic and the Constitution. They are for sale. On the take. BOTH PARTIES .

@@CharlesVaughn-bm9gq No agency for recourse. Planned obsolescence for all

The zipper!

Confess your sins. Lemme guess, you’re a lazy millennial/Z. 😂

Yes😂😂😂

Intellectual by trade . Didn't take him long to figure out working for someone else ant where you want to invest your talents .

Priest of Satan.

I don’t think they mean you, you be considered looking for work. Still on the unemployment list, not dropped out list.

What, a video that is not about you? What is the world coming to?

I guess you should have saved money.

and war machine

Totally agree with you. The migration of wealth from the lower classes to the richest people has been increased so much that it's unsustainable. People need to take control of the means of production and not let some finance bros on wall street dictate their life, whether they can afford a family or a house or a retirement. I'm a high-earner who just got laid off and it's not because my business wasn't doing great. It was until the last year or so when shareholders decided to cutting (i.e. 50% of the workers) would be the way to save money when they could have put more money into actual productivity increasing measures. Now I'm left to scramble to find something in this economy of gig work, when I was making 6 figures last year.

Out of touch.

So what do you propose? Should people simply be pushed out of their jobs once they hit a certain age and replaced with younger workers whether they want to retire or not? I understand that there are certain occupations such as airline pilot that have this requirement, but the average office worker doesn't have the same physical and reactionary requirements as an airline pilot. No one "owes" you a job just because you are a younger worker. If you are talented and driven you will get work without having to depend on an 'older' worker being forced out of their job.

@user-jl8yy5ir7s Hey, thanks. I appreciate the compliment and shared sentiment.

they throw away so much food because its too expensive...

Amen amen! Two things I am doing to protest the housing market overvaluation: 1. I refuse to stay in an Airbnb or similar that is not owner occupied (totally cool with people hosting travelers in the house they live in. Houses are for living in!) 2. I refuse to rent a home from a large institutional property investor. I know some people don’t have the option, but we can try. If everyone did this, I think it would make a difference. In addition, I’ve started shopping at several grocery stores and only buying the cheapest items at each. Shopping sales to protest the price hikes. I also have stopped buying any extra goods from large brands. Clothes and shoes come from thrift stores or small business.

@@rachellenelson126 Interestingly, in Seattle there is a "upscale" grocery chain called PCC Markets. They sell the typical over-priced, over-hyped, natural, locally sourced, alternative dietary needs food and cater to wealthy Seattite yupis. Just the other day, their CEO released a statement basically begging their customers to come back and spend more money at their store. Specifically, he called out shoppers that buy cheaper goods elsewhere and only go to PCC Market for specialty items. The CEO requests that their customer base make it their one-stop shopping center for groceries. Ha! Then he had the nerve to say something like, "we need to remain profitable if we are to continue serving our community mission". As if their nebulous, virtue signaling mission (which is bankrupting them) is more important than their customers ditching the store because prices are no longer worth the crap they're trying to sell. Here is link to this unbelievable act of CEO begging...(progressivegrocer.com/pcc-community-markets-ceo-urges-members-spend-more) And I also love that many Airbnb owners are realizing that owning a property for vacation rental isn't an easy source of effortless riches. Basically they have bought themselves a job. And that job is being an innkeeper or hotel management. Not glamorous, easy or a guaranteed get-rich-quick scheme. It's just another job attached to a low yielding (also concentrated and poorly diversified) capital asset that comes with repair, maintenance, legal liability and tax obligations. I am fully convinced that if the US government had a nationwide car loan-backed security purchasing program at the Fed or started issuing goverment sponsored agency loans for automobile purchases (like how we have for houses), people would run out in droves to buy up all the remaining vehicles (driving prices up to INSANE levels) just to become Uber drivers and taxi management companies. We are living in a parallel universe now, where stupid was smart for so long that the two are indistiguishable.

That is one of the Big Lies our "leaders" are selling. There are many others.

People were reminded a few years ago that even with a federal mandate to waive some of the usual limits the UI system is a colossal waste of time. On this go-around people aren't bothering with it and the statisticians don't see us.

Our wonderful government doesnt report people not looking for work. So if youre sitting in moms basement playing video games and getting disability rather than looking for a job, you wont be counted as unemployed.

The Federal Government doesn't account for people who are working three PT jobs to account for one salary, with no benefits.

We do based on government statistics that only count those getting unemployment benefits

I couldn’t agree more or stronger with your comment

Even the goats aren’t breeding as much. I think they sense the chaos too.

@@KikoValleyMan ohhhhh I definitely 👍 agree

How's your diet/exercise/activity/sleep? I'm trying to climb back into shape after a rough few years with an intense tech job plus starting a family. Are you able to get traction on that stuff?

Good luck to you and hopefully your health can take a turn for the better. I recommend to not watch the news to closely and look into more positive things in life so if you are only have the possible 5 years at least they will be a positive years for you to experience. We will all get to the end of our days at one point. Most of the time it happens when you least expect it. The other day a man was driving to the grocery store and someone speeding hit him and that was it for that man.

@@yiani31 The progress is uneven. But I'm not giving in. I have tons of time to work on it now. So there's that. But I don't personally know a single gen Xer that's made to 60 years of age here in Canada. And there's been dozens.

​@@wanderingfidoLook into tonic herbs of Traditional Chinese Medicine. They can be remarkably rejuvenating and rebuild your strength.

@@wanderingfidooof I’m sorry to hear that 28 yrs in and a few yrs left for yourself.. and not in top heath either.. I hope you get more time than you think ✌️

Agree with almost everything you said except that all of this elimination of jobs and workers has been going on well before Reagan's 1980s trickle down started. Just look at places like Detroit or certain places in Ohio for example.

Marconion, what kind of work do you do? I really like your plan.. I'll be 45 this year and want to figure out some kind of slow scale back plan like you're doing. Maybe even find a different job or line of work. I've been working in supply distribution sales for 21 yrs

@@millersfloorcoatings it really doesn't matter what kind of work you do anyone can do this if they first of all set themselves up for success. What i mean by that is to be be debt free which i am. The last 2 years i've done this on about 22K per year. To be fair i have worked for now 37 years (never been unemployed) and have always made less than 40K per year. The last 3 years i have worked in the food service industry and in the past worked in retail for 15 years, 12 years in hotel hospitality and 7 years in senior care. I always live at or below my means. If i can do it anyone can!

@@marconion awesome! I've actually been working since I was 14 yrs old, granted some of those jobs were part time while I went to school, summer jobs, etc.. So 30 years in the workforce. Also completely debt free. I guess the fear for me right now is quitting the full time job I've been doing for about 22 years. For many reasons, I want to leave and live life and time more on my own terms, enjoy my interests and hobbies. I guess I just need to figure out my expenses and what I really need to live on. I live pretty basic.

@@millersfloorcoatings so i see we have been on similiar paths. Being debt free is the key to all this. Lifes to short.... do it while you can and still have your health.

@@marconion agreed, working towards debt free is a main component. Thank you for your encouragement sir, and keep on living well!

Rather than a flight from work we're seeing the collapse of the economy. Since 2022 you see an absolute collapse in available work. These are not choices these are people who are refugees in their own country.

Incentives really matter when it comes to behaviors. It's happening all over the world. Governments have catered to a single Boomer generation for long enough that policy is stacked against the next 2 generations. The logical reaction for today's workers and youth is to check out of the rat race and enjoy life on one's own terms, even if that mean accepting a "lower" quality of consumer lifestyle. I used quotes because having free time and not being tied to a shitty job for shitty pay is very valuble for some people and is not a "lower" quality of life. This is why you see youth in China adopting a "tang ping" attitude (lay flat), or the red pill version of the attitude "bai lan" (let it rot). Why toil your life away if there is little to no benefit? Any generations of the past would have come to the same conclusions. People aren't different across time, we just grow up under different conditions so our actions and behaviors are correspondingly adapted.

excellent comment

So sad and tragic-especially if you didn’t come from wealth!

I didn't do as well in my career as my Father did. I made more than my mother. But I also worked harder and was subject to more abuse (IT systems engineering and operations management).

If you are an engineer you should start at maybe 80k a year. Why aren't you thriving? You think a degree gives you a Ticket to riches? You still have to work to be a GOOD engineer.

@@MrSteeDoo I'm GenX, so the jobs were not there under Obummer. And engineers in some parts of the country are not starting at $80k. You must be a boomer and not too bright on economics. Sure, there are high paying jobs out there with an engineering education, but they are not the norm. CS majors will be taking a pay cut this year with all the layoffs over the last few months. Don't forget corporate America always looking to abuse the H1 system to lower wages.

I don’t understand this whole quiet quitting thing. If you think there’s something better out there, then quit already! There are people who will gladly take your “crappy” job off of your hands

@@jharknessxrp People will take your job but only if it pays more than 18 dollars an hour.

@@jharknessxrpquiet quitting is a propaganda term. It would be more accurately described as working your wage.

But he knows the statistics that some other boomer gathered after paying some Gen Xers to hire some millennials to go out and ask some Gen Zers about. 😂🤣

@@FreeSpeech4All Nice summary

shilling his BOOKS ? got $$$ :) ?

FJB!

​@@jkmarshall3553 F Trump too!! Same turd; just different (red/blue) polish.

Check out Blair Fix - power theory of wages

75 is very low, you must be in a good field that's in demand. Took me nearly 2 years to find full time work. Number of applications was probably 4 digits

It's going to get worse, possibly: AI and its Impact on Society Oct 31, 2023, updated on May 22, 2024 We must ask ourselves, "What will happen when AI has taken 85% of jobs present in 2020? What will we do? How will we eat and survive without incomes from jobs or other means?" What is disturbing is that while AI is taking these jobs, the gov't and the corporations have not done ANYTHING to prepare us for an AI'ed civilization. They have not said anything about major retraining of an entire economy to something else, and they have not followed up on a discussion of universal basic income. This is supposedly supported by a lack of information in the latest government budgets submitted and approved as reported by some KZfaq videos. It appears that the US gov't and the corporations intend to kill off the majority of Americans passively, through starvation from lack of income to buy food. (check and see if farming production is declining or will start to decline ahead of the "starvation phase") (also check to see if the "makeup" of robot equipment allocation would change to reflect a trend away from retail and services for the masses, possibly indicating an extinction of the American public - this means taking a robot from Chipotle and repurposing it for some other job not related to the public, or scrapping affected robots to be remade for some other purpose that has nothing to do with the public) It appears that the decline of farming has already started with the state of Maine buying farm land under the pretext that there are "forever chemicals" present at around 20 parts per TRILLION (safe level is said to be only 4 parts per TRILLION), which does not make sense, BUT this would rope in a LOT of land across the US. Other states may follow suit in addition to the ten states that have similar laws in place. Another farm-closure trope used in the drier states is a water shortage. This way, there are only enough people alive to get some things done, and the rest is done by AI, and the survivors who planned this can claim the whole country for themselves. Imagine having an estate mansion half the size of a mall on several dozen thousand acres of land, and robots would be used to maintain and clean the estates and do the farming FOR THE ESTATE OWNERS. The White Man's wet dream of civilization. What will the Native Americans south of the US border do when they see this coming, especially when they can buy firearms legally now? Hopi prophecy...

Religion ?

Bidenomics

Jab

🎯@@liana2136

Endless wars

I am 39 and literally do not know one person my age doing this.... I can not even imagine a scenario where my parents would be willing or able to support my old ass.... How? why?