So .... are you voting for Turd Sandwich or not?

The job market is shit and so are the employers*

The coming innovations of the singularity are not shit though, people should figure out a way to build replicating robots (robots made out of legos, and the robot makes the lego parts out printing or molding resin), so we can build solar panels and compute at a massive scale on the moon and sahara.

Dating market is definitely not shit. But the rest is accurate.

And truth be told, the people who inhabit this country are overwhelmingly shit as well.

Exactly. Work ethics as a simple employee is a joke. It a scam to shame the little guy into higher productivity with no gain. Also one employees high productivity makes the others look bad and if all others follow they just screw themselves over for the profit of the company

This is true, which is why in many professions you need to bounce after a year or two. If you failed to negotiate a compensation that is in line with your productivity, then you need to find another employer that values your time and talent properly (or create your own company, or become a private entrepreneur).

The correct way to get rewarded for working hard it to do the bare minimum day to day, and then when you are on a key project with a lot of management visibility, work 80-100 hours for a few weeks and be the hero. Rinse and repeat. It's worked for me, at least -- I've tripled my compensation in ~5 years.

Especially in the military

well said. more wirk equates ti more when it used to be your land, your products, your home... now more work ids more for someone else's enrichment

People like him are part of the problem. Business owners who don’t pay enough to match the cost of living, and then rationalize it by saying “it’s more than I made at that age” or justify the disparity in their income vs their employees with “well I worked my ass off.” They’ll always demand “the truth” but will always find a way to exclude themselves from it, or any complicity in the problem.

​@@QEsposito510 You can't really expect him to be a non-profit out of the generosity for strangers or his country. He pays what you're market price is. The problem lies in artificial dumping of your price via immigration and inflation, because you're paid in cheap dollars while rich assetholders just get a big loan which depreciates itself automatically and get richer by owning appreciating assets instead of living of $ wages.

I started realizing this when I bought a house. My mortgage wasn't changing. Rent went up every year. My mortgage never went up. At the end the renters were out all the money. Me? My house had doubled in value. Borrow money, then devalue the loan so it shrinks without even having to pay it off. ​@@user-fn2oy1rq5p

Look at Tom's wife and you will understand why he is coping so hard.

@@QEsposito510 That's called a socialism, bro. And it has never worked, never in the history and nowhere in the world.

There is a saying in some Eastern European countries from the time of socialism, they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work. Zero commitmen,t quality goes down, prices go up. To sustain the 1% again. pushing out the curve

When Weinstein started talking about the “good jobs” like “lawyers” this guys first example was “teachers.” Lol. What an out of touch rube.

9:54, 10:10 quote timestamp

We should all just be CEO's and youtube 'Influencers' like this guy. Lets all be Andrew Tate. I don't know who the mugs will be for us to rip off and get rich off of, but I'm going to attract into my being the life that I want by focusing on it. Fkn work ethic man. All it takes.

@@BonusHole I work an insane amount of overtime each year so that I can invest more. But cost of living is so insane that even though on paper I earn a 90th percentile wage. I can't afford to buy a house anywhere close to wear I work. And the boomers and Gen X think we're all just retarded while they gatekeep everything. The housing market is just a giant game of hot potato, hoping you're not bag holding when it finally crashes. And the Job market has had the lower rungs of the ladder deleted so that you cannot advance your career.

YES. See hypernormalization film. outstanding, and not many saw it.

The meta of the game of life has become figuring out a way to thrive in that kind of an environment

When you obliterate the means of a society - which started in earnest with the end of the gold standard, and the destruction of value of our currencies ever since that point - you generate a hopeless society, you generate a society that learns to reject the morales that can't get them ahead in life, and they will ultimately lose their optimism, which will turn into resentment, and pessimism. Apathy happens when you have no fight left.

@rich3090 - Nah... it was done a long time ago, way back. Even Cicero, in his observations in "The Nature of Gods" as spot on in a lot of observations, and are relevant to this day. And that is just a starting point for more information/knowledge/observations. Do you think anything is somehow different now? It simply has to do with a "human nature", and that... hasn't been changed at all. Pure greed and competition. At some point even Alan Greenspan, mentioned that in one of his interviews. Pure... human nature, basic one. All because you (on average) have been conditioned to that since the early childhood, going through the basic education system designed mostly to produce "workers and good employees", your parents and general environment, day to day work - all of whom are repeating the same message. And at the end you are most likely thinking that this is "normal". You may "feel" different from time to time, knowing that there is something wrong there or maybe it shouldn't be like that, but you cannot put your finger on it, cannot vocalize that fully. And your feeling is right, it is just you going to ignore it anyway, put it somewhere at the back of your mind. Leave it for later. And you are not going to do anything to change it. After all, the economy and stock market must grow constantly - we are bombarded with that basic info all the time from various media (even if the resources are limited; you cannot get more stupid and ego driven than this), and "I'm happy to be working 8:00 to 17:00+ every day" (not including the time to get to the office and back), doing almost the same things every day while waiting for my retirement, in the name of all that. A pinacle of the average life, with a house and a car, and a holiday once a year, watching entertainment all day long, and going to a local pub/restaurant/short trip once in a while. "Bread and Circuses" - and not much has changed since that "observation". Too bad for everything else, including human nature, and taking care of your spiritual/internal growth - as there is no time for it anymore. Including taking care of the planet itself. Do you think in Cicero's time, all of that was somehow different? Nah. At the basic level, all the same: Bread and Circuses. All about greed, temporary power, holding more resources than the other guy, chasing your own ego with complete disregard of the nature/planet - and so on. Nothing has changed since then.

@@tannhauser5399 Well said. People, in general, are mean spirited and often quite spiteful in going about their daily activities. It's not a good foundation for a evolving socioeconomic landscape.

It was giving women the right to vote, I'd say.

Tax the household two fold. The household can consume fancy gadgets two fold. Government and corporations love 3rd-4th wave feminism

The "battle of the sexes" was the greatest con ever perpetrated on the masses by the minority using authoritarian power.

@@styxrakash4639 The ignorant incel and sexist men here disgrace the channel…what are you doing wrong that your channel attracts these losers? Men have fouled their own chances by voting Republican and expecting to be rewarded for their loyalty…Mire people are joining Unions than ever, even doctors. You can’t go back losers… nothing but taxing the billionaires and businesses fairly, shoring up Medicare and social programs and investing in education is going to help America. But you’ve already lost with your throwback mind set.

overpopulation forced up the price of land and homes, forcing both parents to work or live in abject poverty .

Why can’t everyone just be the best at everything? It’s solid advice!

if tom does well, everyone needs to shut up

Yes it does. Thats why happens when youre an atheist

Narcissism, on display.

The catch is how do you balance the work it takes to build a home and drive enough of a profit to maintain a business and grow and continue to build more homes?

@@chriswf Buy a house that's already made, do nothing, sell at 2 to 4 times the price you bought it for a few years later. Collect rent while you wait, they pay the mortgage, you don't. You don't provide any value to society yet make tons of money for having money in the first place. The renters stays renters forever.

Growing up in my fathers house, it was ALWAYS clear, that, that place was not mind, I did not belong there, it was only a matter of time before I was out, and he would never call or care that I existed. Thanks for everything Dad. You low life piece of crap.

a home you live in is not an investment..it its shelter..nobody is taught that.

@@Derzull2468 do nothing??? you have never owned investment properties have you??

People area starting to wake up to the nightmare of their slavery you own nothing no vacations no fun no savings no life stressed out lil slave working 2 jobs to survive

I bought a used 30 ft 5th wheel camper made 20 years ago. I put a steel roof over it on a very rural lot where I can plant fruit trees, hunt, raise chickens, and grow vegetables. Cost was under 10,000. I put about 4000 into solar panels and batteries, and about 3000 into prepping supplies & tools, electric tiller,. mower & weedeater, air rifles, distiller, shortwave radios, seeds, fruit trees, etc.

Lied to all your life

​@@baneverything5580cool story bro,

@@richardcrocker8048 “They lied to me.” Falling Down (1993 movie).

Bingo!

your unborn child owes $82,000 to the government and that will increase rapidly before he/she reaches term.

@@chad1682what? 😂

​@@karlwheatley1244😊

Yup, I won't do it.

"If you're bleak, you're bleak". George Castanza

_“How's that hopey, changey thing working out for ya?”_ ~ Sarah Palin

Things get worse before they get better. Don't give up :)

Honestly, it all depends on how mentally prepared you are to live without a society when it collapses. If you're ready to become a new Genghis Khan, it ain't so bleak.

@TarsonTalon love your mindset!

He’s acting in bad faith. He knows this but an admission makes him part of the problem.

Ye he (and people like him) also doesn't understand how much LUCK plays a huge role in his circumstances.

@@1_jahwarrior Very true. They think it's all them and their "hard work". They don't seem to understand that others work just as hard, or harder, but didn't have things line up the right way. A lot of variables are factored into success. "Hard work" is only one part.

It's called survivorship bias.

@@diabetusdan8 It's a weird mindset to me. All my life I've understood that there are haves and have-nots. I understood that some have a better chance at success in life than others. I understood that I was blessed to be born in the US, in the year I was born. My life would have had an entirely different trajectory if I was, say, a female born in China when they only wanted male babies. It baffles me that some people think everyone has the exact same life. I mean...just take a second and look around.

That quote is brilliant, but haunting. Prophetic.

The young generation doesn’t want to work in a mill and settle down. They want to sit in a comfy chair, move a mouse, and be young forever.

Yeah what do you think would happen when we went from 1 billion people in 1920 to 8 billion in 2020

great angle, never heard it put so well before. look at the s. hole that the UK has become for evidence.

I used the paper mill example with my daughter. In 1978 my buddy was making $15 an hour at St.Regis, bought a house, had a family.

My desire to retreat to the woods is off the charts as well. I have a doctorate and the debt associated with that but my finance and I make a combined >300k and are in the same book.

@@Aftersun371 Houses are that cheap in DFW? You should take it to be honest, I'm sure you can afford it being a VP

Similar background, but different boat. I have a BS in physics and do well working for the government as an engineer/software developer/physical scientist and have a decent low 6 figure income. I was able to buy a house in my area, but in 2021 during, but well before the peak of price spikes and while interest rates were pretty low (3% for me). That being said... the only house I could afford was a 60 year old place that was a major fixer upper. I wouldn't even be able to afford the same house today if I were buying which is hilarious and sad only 3 years later. Anyway, society is effed. I feel grateful living in my 65 year old crumbling hovel as it's more than most people have. Will never experience love or have a family. Just hope I croak before I get too old and and can't wipe myself.

Absolutely Ridiculous. I think we will start to see a rise in unconventional living arrangements. Living in a car doesn't seem like such a bad option nowadays. Even if you do buy a house at these rates, at least 80 percent of your payments are going towards interest on a 30 year loan. I think it is best to slum it out and save money for brighter days. I'm stuffing whatever I can in a HYSA right now because the stock market will most definitely crash.

" We're on the Road to nowhere"

Slavery

exactly :)))))

Anyone with a KZfaq channel does pretty much haha

No, that's not it, it's girls demanding crazy stnadards

Yeah the idea that you can take a single product, and _always_ sell it for more than you bought it, is just absurd. Not to mention, if their idea was to sell to younger generations, that means the entire retirement plan was "have the kids pay for it".

Wait till you see real estate in Canada. Fifty percent more for the same house just across the border and 25 percent less average wages. Totally stuck here.

@@timothyirwin8974 Yeah Canada is fucked.

They’re not doubling their money when eggs are up 300%. If they’re living in the home all they are doing is doubling their taxes, insurance, and utilities. It’s called inflation. Everyone pays the price.

Dont you know its all thanks to his amazing work ethic? Just work harder for him to make him more profitable and everything will magically work out for you. Pinky promise.

I unsubbed from this channel a while ago. Tom is very, deeply out of touch. And has no idea or self-awareness.

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@@nobodynowhere21 That's a very good idea, indeed...

Yeah, that bugged the hell out of me. Even when he's talking about he is paying his high performing worker better, I'm sitting here contemplating on all the high performing workers in vast corporations whose only way of making more money is to get a promotion to the next (and often noticeably smaller) tier hoping that their skillset still is valued in that tier but knowing they have to try even if they don't think it will be because it is one more step on the path to financial security. And then there is the fact that the financial security path itself keeps getting longer and longer with every major expense increasing at seemingly ever faster rates. I think it's great that he pays his worker better when they do good work, but also, financial security shouldn't be held behind the ability to be the absolute best at what you do. We've got too many people for that...seriously. Financial security (not riches) should be an everyday person kind of thing...and it is becoming more and more only a thing the elite have access to.

That's when you have fun and try to break it

@@instrumentalmhmmm! throwing wrenches in gears is fun , its like breaking glass 💩

You kindve have to eat

@jaleesa00 not everyday. Food is easy enough to find free anyway

Bitcoin gives individuals a way out of Dollar inflation.

And your job is to create more desperate people.... i mean have kids.

Right there with ya bro

i think you represent most of your age group at this point

Same. But you've dodged a bullet. Stay out of the rigged system. Find a hobby, stop drinking and drugs, and getting in better physical shape, made me feel much better.

You can still marry and adopt orphans. They are many that need a Dad. Children are a reward from God. Psalm 127:3

change the surroundings, stay fit and healthy, move closer to forest, river, mountain, take walks early mornings.

Well said!

The elites are the only ones who pay anything

History tells us that the initial lack of consequences for the elites is not a new phenomenon, and it ends the same way. The only new aspect to the game this time around is that they think their bunkers will save them from the bullets and blades. In the end, whether they go mad or starve underground, or come out to the face the consequences, the net result will be the same.

Very very well said!

Yehh

because then they would have to seriously reflect on why we are printing money at the rate of achieving 1 trillion in debt every 100 days right now in order to fund social security, medicare, military expenditures, etc. it means at some point something has to stop and break.....no more social security, no more overseas military adventures, etc. People rely on this and don't want it to stop. the people are corrupt and so are the politicians.

Talk about the rising population

Read the Bitcoin white paper. BTC fixes inflation for those that use it.

We talk about it all the time. Were you been?

I purchased a new house 4 years ago. It depends on where you live.

Yep, sexy women.

it's call scamming time to scam them back they pretend to pay us so we pretend to work rofl

He could really take his show to the next level by putting all his assets aside, putting together a resume with just his college info, and applying for jobs on indeed. Then working those jobs and trying to save enough for a down payment on a house in California. That would make great content.

Even by the end of the video Tom couldnt grasp what Eric was telling him

Several reason that I see: Too much money printing has devalued the dollar, and hence, the reason for everything going up in price. Women's lib has hurt women by making them believe that it's more important to have a career than to raise a family. Men being turned off on dating by women's attitudes. Tic Toc Young people ha inv been brainwashed that the earth is dying due to ",climate " change.

@@Th3Chuzzl3rI was an entrepreneur, it gets to our heads..we think its easy, everyone can do it, not realizing it takes a certain personality type. I still struggle with that.

@@silvertone1 It's not just personality. There simply isn't enough room for all the people who want to be entrepreneurs, so there are always going to be far more losers than winners

Other than the role of gadgets, me as a mother of 3 small boys, the s3* traffng and news about how so many people abduct children playing walking on the street RUINED IT. If only people never see children as a way of money and devious acts then you would still see kids playing on the street. Have you seen posts of missing children heck even teenagers and younger adults still go missing.. So no, I’d rather see and know my children are safe. We take them to parks anyway, but for them to be in front of our house esp having that one instance where a car with 2 adults inside started driving slowly and passenger side was about to open their car door- when they saw my 1yo walking on our driveway (i think they didn’t See me as I was infront of our van) frightened me as hell. Soon as I ran for my toddler the car sped up. So do not villainize parents who prefer their kids being in their house or just the backyard, blame it on the sick individuals with their sick immoral behavior.

True... my own neighborhood DIED. We all grew old, and no replacement. When I was young, there were a LOT of kids. Maybe it's for the best. This horrible system will collapse without new slaves being born into it. Probably WHY our country is being purposely invaded by people that'll breed, no matter what. Feed the machine. I'll die alone, but I'm good with it.

Your 15 are no more? I'm so sorry.........I am so sorry.

@@Runco990 You are never alone. You have yourself. You are having an experience that you are "recording" in a time of change. Live big? If you can't find love, create it. One day we all are leaving the body. What counts are that which we can take with us. We must use our time wisely. Love and blessings to you!

Past 25 years I came to my old street, where we were playing outside with the neighbours. Now I saw only one chield playing, though the playing equipment was modernised. To tell you the truth, I cried.

aint this the truth

When you say she literally sucked do you mean like "literally"?

"Working hard" for someone else, especially if they're greedy and sadistic, costs WAY more than it pays. I'm a lawyer. First job out of school was traumatic. Imagine being forced to take on the workload of three people with very little experience and, when you ask for help, you get gaslit about "how easy the work is" by partners that have no meaningful experience in the field and are only in it for the money. Then to keep up with the workload, you work late into the night so often that you're on a first name basis with the janitor and have each other's phone numbers just in case either of you need to get back into the building late - only to later be told you're not working hard enough. Cherry on top? My salary was under the industry norm. I was constantly stressed and my health started to deteriorate. This host is operating under a skewed alternative reality.

Sounds like she sucked good. Maybe that's the work ethic needed 😫

Yea, when you got a woman under you wich you can copulate with I think most men will do the same.. It s just fkd up from the beginning

Be stronger. Emotionally weak men are the worst!

@@lesasmith4692 na ran through 304s are not worth the squeez. 94 % of women have had their holes destroyed by the time they are 25

Men should try being partners then….

I’m a living example of this statement, me and close friends have sat and planned out having assets put into LLC’s or family member names just so our security net doesn’t get removed. Women are terrified too, plenty of men who can leave them vulnerable as well.

​@@nicolajane7389Women should try being partners.

Double the work force, half the wages. One day you'll wake up and see that the 19th doomed us all. 104 years is all it takes.

In some cities even a dual income isn’t enough to buy

@@kp8972 in toronto canada, two salaries cant' even put up a mortgage .

That's because he earned dollars that had actual value. Money today is worthless.

@@deanakers7394 that’s disgusting. Politicians suck.

Probably depends on a specific socioecological environment (pan troglodytes proactive political games over status, dispersed fertile females (social atomization) and offspring (antinatalism based on consent), compared to pan paniscus society based on more or less egalitarian female/male coalitions and playful prosociality/sociosexuality for promotion of group stability regardless of age and gender as a byproduct of domestication syndrome (Richard Wrangham). Not sure about Trobrianders, Kaluli, Sambia people, Marind Anim, Piraha, Big Namba, Kung San, Mosuo and all the extinct undocumented hunter-gatherer societies with different effects on epigenetic expression.

Never give up. You win with a family

"The family..." It's a lot harder to have a family without a community, without some support beyond that, isn't it?

@@uvwuvw-ol3fg No, the answer is one youtube would not allow.

Where I live there's kids fartin aboot all the time. You could move.

This is brilliant.

And someone reminded me that it does not cost that much to build a good home. I feel lucky at least I have a clean one. But I share it, nothing in my budget to own after 24 years in the workforce.

I don't suppose a single person here would trade that for their smart phone.

Silent tax on everyone.

This is why a certain group of people have been kicked out of 109 countries throughout history. They hijack the government and the currency, and over time the currency becomes inflated. This happens over and over again and it is happening now, once again.

It's not, it's flat out theft. We don't even get to vote on whether to print more money or not. Banks and governments have prior knowledge before printing and can move their wealth from cash to commodity and then sell the commodity for a higher value later. It's insider trading...

​@neilb3299 the asset holders get wealthy off of it.

Right, lol what a dumb comment.

There's a reason why the inscription is in Latin too.

The all seeing eye.

@glitch... insightful beond recognition The laugh is on all of us🎉 😂😊😅

@@Exisles Freemasonry symbol.

We people are at the bottom of the pyramid

Yup. The supreme court ruled that 'protecting housing values' was a valid reason to infringe on the property rights of others. Suddenly, nobody anywhere is allowed to build anything -- because increasing supply lowers housing values. Dumb ass shit.

Very good point! Also they were being rewarded, that's why they work more. When I worked 60 hr/week as a young man who was getting $8.25, it didn't matter how much I worked, it just wasn't working!

Well sure, if you sweep floors for a couple years, you might make what an executive makes with one stroke of a pen on an off day. Work smarter, not harder.

@@jitterball ..yep, me too...but now that i'm approaching 50, it's a totally different ball game.

It worked better when the lower skill labor wasn’t being pumped into the country en mass. Even moderate skill labor, which was more than adequate in past generations, is no longer viable unless you want to live in a small apartment in a crappy area and never have a family. You can only work so many hours and then throw health issues in the mix because we have a sick culture.

I like the way you think....too many don't peel the first layer

Exactly, and out of reach altogether for some. When i saved up a 10% deposit here in the uk, they then declined and wanted 25%, then i heard about people's monthly payments going through the roof making a family friend homeless and my enthusiasm melted.

Doesn't "Mortgage" mean death pledge?

Went to university, graduated, and now the fast food workers have been given pay raises to where college is a death sentence

Just smashed my mortgage to bits in 10, on my own 😁

To live in a pod and eat bugs! And then, a coffin!

Then why the hell are you married?

@@constantobjects For every other fulfilling reason other than reproducing.

@@constantobjects He enjoys being divorcegraped.

Having children is the only reason for your existence.

@@constantobjects To impress her girlfriends.

Yes, how are we suppose to compete financially and as value laden individuals alongside 'women' who make 20k a month on onlyfans. With my skillset I could be teaching phd courses, but I'm a nobody. I have no credentials officially to do so, but I have the skillset. As a white, straight male who is anti-progressivism, no university in the US would ever consider me, even if I did.

Eastern Europeans are very greedy though. Most are very into money.

@@dogegamer3288 Thats true to some extent. I m not sociologist so I can explain why but one group is very money and power oriented while other is very humble and tries to avoid conflict. The only explanation I can think of is that, at least in my country, its very small population and has always been under some sort of foreign influence and the safest way to survive was to work in the interest of foreign power states. Basically, to sell interest of your own people for limited power (status) and money granted to you by foreign government. Thats why many people use any sort of symbols (like expensive cars etc.) and like to show of money. But I dont know... must be some study about it somewhere :)

@@JesusIsKingAndSavior Very telling that you wrote 'compete' rather than cope.

You are cooking with gas when you realize what we smallfolk think are bugs are actually features!

Maynard Keynes is known as the "father of macroeconomics". He was a Fabian socialist and served as "director of the British Eugenics Society"

Historically, marriage has been viewed as patriarchal, wherein the husband holds authority over his wife and family. However, the introduction of marriage license contracts by the government introduced a secular element into the marriage. Pastors who officiate marriages using government-issued licenses have legally destroyed Biblical marriage and promoted an egalitarian view of marital relationships. This governmental intrusion into the religious domain undermines the autonomy of religious organizations and compromises their ability to uphold traditional values and principles. Furthermore, the acceptance of government-mandated marriage licenses tacitly endorses the state's authority over marital affairs, relegating religious institutions to mere conduits of state-sanctioned unions rather than guardians of sacred vows. In this way, feminism and egalitarianism infiltrate religious organizations under the guise of government-sponsored initiatives, eroding traditional patriarchal structures and promoting secular values within the government church.

Destroyed and rebuilt! Absolutely!

Some part of the system has not yet been used. 2A for one.

"If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning." - Andrew Jackson

@@dustinross2618 It's good to see there's others out here who understand what's going on.

@@JohnDaniels Same. We just need to keep watering the tree. Someday someone will enjoy the shade.

A generation that will never retire or own a home that slaves away harder than ever just to afford to rent a bed to sleep in. Thomas Jefferson predicted the future.

@@snark567 Greed and corruption at the highest levels

And this delusion that his "work ethic" made the difference, instead of him getting lucky 1,000 times and probably having great connections. The world is filled with people who work their asses off and 99.99% of them are BROKE.

@@FirstLast-gk6lg successful people desperately want to believe that it's their work ethic or brilliance that gave them success if they acknowledge maybe it was 20% work, and 80% luck, they might have a heart attack

"If voting changed anything they would make it illegal." - Emma Goldman Tons of good political sayings are attributed to Mark Twain and HL Menken that weren't their quotes at all. I guess it just speaks to how legendarily intelligent both were considered.

@@liwojenkins 👍🏾

I feel like people go out of their way to avoid this truth. Always trying to solve other symptoms, while ignoring that glaring (and obvious) issue.

Shits been controlled from almost the start, only became more obvious when the Federal Reserve was founded. Land of the free my ass.

👍

Yeap

he comes across as being a bit detached from reality.

Indeed.

One of the main reasons your generation got screwed over is because no one wanted to speak up. People saw all this coming, but didn't want to rock the boat. They rationalized everything away and approved of everything, while tacitly knowing it was wrong.

We're moving to a more spiritualized culture on Earth. This will necessitate the old structures and paradigms of society going the way of needless things. You feel them crumbling away, causing rising chaos and disorder.

I'm raising 3 young men and understand why you see your situation this way. I can also say if continue to work hard eventually the tables will turn and you be on top. It's not forever.

@@davidm1149agree

I'm 53 and thank God my personality disorder kept any of my girlfriends from marrying me. My friends were DESTROYED without exception.

Every man needs to have had one woman who "wasn't good for him."

This is almost all Western women now.

@@gregorysagegreene Why are you out here cursing the world?

@gregorysagegreene Agreed and a good point. I've been there (divorced) and done that. That's how men learn going through that shit.

Nonsense. That is exactly why you'll be a fierce minuteman. Because you have a real reason to fight.

They did. Now that there is no Soviet union they are not worried about ever being challenged. They do not fear revolts or anything like that. People in America barely have enough backbone to join a union. And many of the industries that could significantly further union goals. Are not allowed to be organized.

Keyword: "we", the rest of the world are ticking over just fine. It's only western countries faced with this new and unique problem, and it's only a problem because we gave up our colonialist ways. If we hadn't, this wouldn't've been a problem.

I definitely agree with you. I’m old enough to remember the 70’s and people were patriotic and loved our country and were proud to be Americans. Today, I sense foreigners come here just to get work. They want a better life but couldn’t care less about our country. I also get the feeling the people in our government are doing things counterproductive for the country. It seems like we really don’t have to worry about Putin or any dictator invading our country. The current government, President Biden and the majority of the Republicans and Democrats in Congress are making terrible decisions that are destroying our country. Not securing our borders and giving billions to a Ukrainian dictator to fight a proxy war with Russia. That’s insane! So, yes, we are living through the end of the United States and I share the feelings that a lot of Americans feel. I don’t want the country to fail. We vote and it doesn’t seem to help. Both parties continue to promote these endless wars. Now that we have millions of these illegals roaming the country, we don’t have to worry about Mr. Putin or North Korea or China. Our own government is destroying the country and they have nothing but contempt for the American people. Why would anyone want to bring a child into this country? So he can be taught in the schools to change his sex? If I was still living in the 70’s and someone told me, this is what the country will turn into, I wouldn’t believe it.

@@nightowl5475 I agree with everything you’ve said. I was born in 73. This country is unrecognizable to me too. And there are reasons upon reasons for this but the bottom line is that’s it’s not fixable. IMO. Yes, the system we are forced to live in…the whole thing….you can’t even begin to list the problems with that but humanity…human beings…have changed drastically in this country too. I don’t have much hope left. Some days are better than others. I try to judge the world thru the people that I encounter every day. There are still good people out there. I try to be more kind and friendly to others. I love my family and try to keep us close. It’s the only answer I have to fix anything. Once you see and accept what’s going on, you can never unsee that. How do people go back into living in a system that is keeping them down and on purpose? The answer is you don’t. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out that’s for sure.

Wealth gap caused this....imo

@@Carl-hs420a how did colonialism help the west? also what makes you think you can get it back? the english gonna go tell china what to do? go ahead and try it doubt theyll say "ok and thank you sir" to you but go ahead. the west isnt the only place with nukes

They're ruining fiat currency and will tell you their digital currency will be ok lol

ths scam works like that. FED prints money, and buys stocks of companies like blackrock, black rocks buys hauses with printed money to drive the prices UP, they want expect return by not sellling hauses but by renting them, also they lobby for strick zoning laws, and setting high property taxes;) THAT IS SCAM

BTC4lyfe

spot on

Fix the money, fix the world

Yep! Totally. Having a work ethic might mean you'd have to fist fight somebody in the parking lot. But it comes down to the pump and dump philosophy leading our kids to believing that noone has their back when they excel.

It's weird isn't it! These idiot companies punish the workers but will still fire you if you don't work!

Working-class Germans still live better than working-class North Americans or Australians, though...

I don't know any working class Germans to ask. What do you mean by _"being more driven as an employee will often get you chased off"?_

Being driven as an employee results in you being punished. Either you scare higher ups and they try to make sure you don’t get any power, because they think you’ll overtake them. Or they’ll overwork you to cover up for the mistakes of some worse employee and effectively punish you for being too good.

Elaborate

You're the embodiment of that meme of the dog in the burning house, saying "this is fine".

@@WonderxSkills here is an example: around the 10 minute mark, they guys are basically saying: 'my workers don't have the same work ethic that I do. They go home after working a full day, and don't continue to work more for me once they get home in the evening, or weekends. I just don't get it'.

The juice isn’t worth the squeeze

Calhoun’s mouse utopia experiment

@@andrewmackenzie325they all died. “Entire crops were lost” 🤑🤢

bingo!

Yup. Ask me how pumped I am to keep grinding when I've been laid off twice in the past year as an over-40 straight White male with 25 years experience working in Corporate America's woke DEI/ESG-powered HR Departments. Odds are, my career is over and it's time to start waving at Walmart customers, or head back to school for retooling. To rack up $150-200K in new debt, graduating with a new degree that is worthless in the fight against blatant ageism.

It's because we're in the early stages of hyper-inflation in a failed Keynesian economy. Permanent growth and permanent inflation work; until they don't.

So don't birth them. If your area has unfit conditions for breeding, DO NOT BREED!!!

well thats just it we wont unless the homestead act becomes a thing or the economy completely collapses aside from that not happening and on top of it its only matter of time before most of the jobs will be covered by AI

I bought my home in 2019 and pay about $1000 a month. If I bought on the same terms today my payment would be close to $2400.

@@vladimirofsvalbard9477 Omg we’re in the EARLY stages? I cannot imagine it getting worse - or I don’t WANT to imagine it getting worse because it already seems demoralizing & unsustainable.

Good point of view

I respectfully disagree, a giant stick frame house in the United States should be cheaper than a MUCH smaller house elsewhere. Due to the fact that this is one of the largest countries on earth, mostly empty space, and almost entirely forested. Therefore, the land and the materials for the house SHOULD be dirt cheap and they were until about 50 years ago.

@@FirstLast-gk6lg canada is even worse in this regard.. talked to a buddy in denmark about it once and he thought i was lying about the price of houses around here..

Corporate fascism. Big companies get bailouts while mom and pop businesses go bankrupt. The Pandemic was the most recent iteration of this policy as Walmart and Amazon got rich while we were locked up in our homes.

Most true comment on here Rich freeloaders are the problem We need wealth and asset limits to fix our current system of financial slavory and restore the free market

Yeah, that's what I learned today. Apparently share buy backs are used to manipulated company performance and then the company can issue share purchase schemes to dilute those shares and inject cash back into the enterprise. The perfect scheme for stealing cash from poor investors.

For example , my apartment complex mandates that renters must accept cable service, which costs $ 85 / month . Renters are being forced to pay for a third party service that they may not want The apartment ( MAA ) owns thousands of units in 13 states . An internal powerpoint presentation was leaked that showed how much profit could be made per unit paid to each party, i.e., MAA and Spectrum

@@boweevil6442 The rich guy club protecting their profits. Our old apartment complex in Maryland just went from $975 to $1600 per month in one year, with no upgrades, and no end in sight to the inflationary price hikes we are going to feel until we get the money printing debt problem under control in this country. Its going to be a blood bath for the peasants.

No its gravity.

Best comment. The handlers want this country to collapse.

Yup. Controlled demolition of the economy since 2020. Whitney Webb has been covering the terrifying details, look he rup.

Exactly. Eric is simply describing how the system works. Big Deal.

The tribe Is behind it all.

and "free" Democrat voters...

Just above slavery

Pretty much. People don't care how hard you work, just that they can pay you nothing for it.

Society doesn’t value me so I don’t value society

It's UTOPIAN. (i.e. IF you take AWAY the "incentive, for hard work," for most people... then ONLY the superficial (5- 10% of the narcs and/ or psychos, motivated by "PERSONAL gain, and selfishness") are going to Excel in a world gone MAD... and turned, upside- down! (This "excuse, for a "society..." is already now: "circling, the New = in the worst ways "Old World Odor / to REAL Re$et," drain pipe.)

Because it is capitalism, comrade...

You don't need to be validated for "hard work" as long as YOU are getting somewhere

In fairness one of them knew why but was making the point, the other person (in red) was puzzled and was trying to pin it on the stereotype of the lazy young person who just can't match his "insane work ethic".

Also demanding people spend more time on building and maintaining a family, while also working loads more on their stupid office jobs 🤷‍♀️

@@ekaterinastaneva9922It’s these lazy young people who insist they need sleep every single night. Spoiled brats!

if only there were a surefire way to get employees more committed. 🤔 🤔 nah, gotta get another yacht.

“My employees make more money than I did at their age.” Yeah and everything is 2-3 times more expensive now 🤡

Add demanding, constant and exhausting

It's why people like me opt out.

You resent them more than you love them.

exactly

The Covid scare panicked everyone. Really bad bug could actually cause a worldwide collapse. Remember the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? So why did the Davos Crowd begin a game of chicken with Putin?

in Chinese, "Country" is spelled as "nation + family" 國家. there has been 2 prominent saying regarding it during peace time, have harmonious family, have a prosperous nation during war time, if the nation falls, families falls with it. the a prosperous nation and a solid family can not survive without each other.

Maybe that's why they are allowing thousands to cross the southern border to try and keep the nation going...... because of the low birth rate of America citizens.

@@sunso1991 Eh, all you have to do is force the men to pay for the failure, then the nation can still prosper. And short term is all the ladies live for.

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Ha! What a statement!

Brilliant analysis Brother. Funny as all out too.

Hehehehehe!

Come up with a plan my man. There's always a way out. Even if it's moving to a small town somewhere and living off the land.

Well said 👍

People? Women control community, always have. People lol. My ass, dudes barely like talking to their friends. Fucking people lmfao

Rubber mats and padded playgrounds also did something

I am 43, we were allowed to fight on the play grounds at first, but, by middle school, got in a little trouble, but, not much. Now, they call the cops on you for fights... So now, we have all these, shit talking kids, that don't get beat up on the play ground...kids now, don't get to fight, they never learn the pecking order and it shows...​@@KvaltorKvit

And when in time do you pinpoint this moment? Cus I can assure you it was much earlier than you think, we used to have child labor to make the commodity cheaper to give you a hint.

The sad part is, it didn't during the years from after WWII up to 1970, during those years wages increased by a manageable level above the inflation rate, that is why the middle class grew enormously after WWII.

@@kyliepechlerWhat the f*ck happened in 1971??

​@@ihbrzmkqushzavojtr72mw5pqf6 that's when the bankers stole all of the silver that used to back the US dollar.

​@@ihbrzmkqushzavojtr72mw5pqf6 this is a sarcastic question correct? If not 1971 is the year we abandoned the gold standard.

@@Washedup007 kind of, it seems many things started going downhill on the 70s I suspect it is indeed related to the gold standard

We're dealing with this at our company right now. We have people with engineering degrees running production CNC machines. The company claims to be devoted to letting people advance, but when any attempt to advance is made you never hear anything back from them. I run Swiss machines, which is one of the most complicated CNC machines out there. I've been trying for 2 years to get moved to the Tool & Die shop so I can learn manual machining and jig/fixture making. I've also tried to get time with the design and test engineers, but that happens rarely. My problem is they can't let me move anywhere b/c there's less than 10 people out of 300 employees that can operate a Swiss machine.

​@oldscratch3535 isn't that the best? Prove your worth to a company and they lock you in that role with no advancement because they "can't lose you"

@@oldscratch3535only way to get a raise is move nowadays

then ask us to work 2x more lel

I have to change employers every few years to get a raise. Doing the same job.

Start your own business

The only way is to buddy up with the owner at a small-mid-startup. In those situations they can't just fire you, they need you to go out drinkiing on friday nights after work. Or one boss depended on me to score him cannabis before legalization. Those bosses need me lol.

Solution, dye your skin brown, get a fake ID, and line up at the border.

As a paralegal working for a local law firm, what i have found with my job experience is: the more you are willing to invest in learning the job and industry you are in, and the more skills you acquire, your value to your employer actually can increase far above what you are being paid, which is a good thing because an employer who is "losing money" on an employee is going to fire that employee. So, one way to obtain a raise or promotion is to invest in your education and your proficiency in your job role. Develop the skills you need so that you become an INDISPENSABLE part of your employer's business, and try to get involved in different departments within your place of work. If you show through your work ethic, personal integrity and moral responsibility, AND you develop more skills and proficiencies over time, then when you approach your boss and request a raise, your employer is more likely to seriously consider your request. To summarize this, figure out how you can become indispensable at your current job; maintain high work ethic standards and personal moral standards, be kind to those you work with and work for, stay humble, and you will do well in your job and in life.

​@@silvertone1love your networking mentality! Note taken

We know who runs that industry

Not even close to problem solved but I understand the sentiment. More like, abolish the IRS, cut the Federal Government by 95%, abolish the Federal Reserve, impose EXTREME measures on corporations including forcing them to hire exclusively American employees, make outsourcing illegal, make foreign ownership of land and business illegal, deport 50 million people who shouldn't be here, impose a national sales tax of 7% and use it to pay for a $1,000/month UBI, totally rework marriage laws and divorce courts, impose extreme financial measures on our trade partners and opposition, and crack down on crime by handing out millions of death sentences to career criminals across the country. And even after all this, it may take 2 full generations to heal the society. We are deep, deep down a hole

I feel you . HUGGERS.

It's only going to get WORSE. Brace yourself fools😂

I don't understand why people have children in today's sick world. How selfish

Teach your kid to have hope and accept any job that comes by. He/she will need it. Nowadays I don't even care if I have to shovel shit if it pays. I don't live for my work. That should be a motto for everyone.

Holding onto homes they sell or rent or dying in place because they can't afford long term care and their children are too busy to provide elder care since both spouses have to work to pay rent?

I don't think that's really the reason though. If you've bought a house and own it, it really makes no sense to downsize in a lot of cases. Especially if your house isn't in a super expensive location, it'll often be _more_ expensive for those old people to downsize than it would be for them to stay where they are.

​@@orirune3079 One of the big problems is that there's nothing to downsize to. Municipalities and developers have been pushing larger and larger homes for decades, and made it more and more difficult to build smaller houses, or senior-friendly apartments. A lot of the problem for seniors here is that they voted to create this problem. Many want to downsize, but can't -- but now both they and their millennial grandchildren are suffering for it.

How would I, as a newly retired person, when the downsize house I would but costs more than the house I’ve lived in for decades. The taxes alone works against be able to make that transition.

So, everyone is just holding on to what they paid for after taxes, instead of selling it cheap to people who want it cheap? How selfish, eh. The old. The whites. The Jews. ... yeah. Stop defining groups to hate for your failure.

My dad raised four children on a builders wage and my mum didn't work part-time until her youngest was in junior school. Those days are gone.

It can still be done. I have friends who manage, they just rent cheap places - not nice condos - in sketchy areas. But sketchy in Canada is not sketchy in the usa. We may get robbed but we won't get murdered.

@@silvertone1 Never trust... a 🍁

@@silvertone1it can’t be done you are competing globally for resources and jobs 8 billion people now

@@didforlove Not when the job is local and you need to be physically present. That 8 billion drops to maybe 100,000 locals and most are already employed or don't want the job. If you need to be healthy, ie stand or lifT sometimes...even fewer are prepared or even able. If you need to know the city well, that excludes all recent immigrants. If you need perfect English that also eliminates many.

Adjusted for inflation, it's not actually that much of an increase in value.

How much did wage increase over the same period? ​@@neilb3299

THE PRICE DID NOT RISE THE VALUE OF YOUR MONEY COLLAPSED

The value of the dollar...way down....soon to go lower...prepare.

@@neilb3299 I don't think anyone is making the argument homes have gotten inherently more valuable. When people point out the massive price discrepancy they're decrying how fake and worthless our money and consequently our wages are nowadays.

Lol 🤣

True that. If you are between 25-35 years old your parents likely had the opportunity to purchase their home for 50% the relative value of today. 500K home today on an inflation adjusted basis to 1985 would be roughly 240k

It's been longer than that I'm 42 and growing up everyone's parents worked both mom and dad full time jobs. My grand mother went back to work full time when her youngest was in first grade that was 1963.

@@JBurns253 Roughly 5x the price our parents paid near end of 90's

I agree with this. I'm a 36 year old millennial that got four years of the Bush era economy under my belt before The Great Recession. *Everyone* in construction lost their jobs. My parents were both boomers who were raised on single incomes, but all three of their kids are struggling to keep our heads above water in this madness. I buy little boxes of Folger's Instant Coffee and last year they were eight packs for $1. This year they became seven packs for $1.25. A small example, but a 15% reduction in product plus a 25% price hike equals out to 40% inflation on such a small thing.

lol this has been YOUR problem since 2001. I started my own company in 2008 and to this date made millions, just self education and hard work, not blaming other.

They will be powerless and be happy and like it.

I Agree 💯. All of the land stealing and insurance ground and natural disasters that never got addressed. It happened in African American communities first, but we were called ghetto, lazy and intelligent. Now that people who can afford homes can't get them insured ( Florida). Have fires and they get nothing to rebuild ( CA and Hawaii) or not no water AZ and WA. We told you so

And now they are taking your retirement checks. And nothing you can do about it.

They are waiting for Gen X to die off. They already have control but once we are gone.... checkmate

It's pointless to keep small stores alive. Amazon especialy is no problem at all, because it does not control anything you need, that's why it is so easy for people to not use amazon - what is also the reasl reason why the plutocratic system likes to blame it. The real problem are the oligarchs who control what you NEED to survive. Because you can't say no to it.

Deport 50 million people, and make it illegal for companies to hire anyone who isn't an American Citizen.

Less value means they pay less, slave or feudal class

@88bombshell - Cicero and his observations in "The Nature of Gods" enteted the chat... Human nature, greed and competition. Even Alan Greenspan a while back was vocal about it. You cannot change it. It is just now we can access more information, and all it is shows us - is that all of it is also getting worse. Much worse. But at the end, nothing will change. Brutal competition at almost every level (even the local corporate office when you are competing for a role or a position within a corporate office just to feel better or have more money, or my house is better than the neighbours one, or my car is better, I own more, and so on), all about greed, some temporary feeling of "power", the next year stock market price, all driven by a basic human ego - while the whole ecosystems are dying in the name of current & future profits (such as plankton which is producing almost 50% of oxygen on this planet). Yeah, a pure human nature... nothing more. The market and corporate behaviour is simply a larger reflection of that approach.

1. China switched predominantly to fiat currency in the 12th century, and has been using it since. That's a pretty long time.

@@vylbird8014 What currency was that?

@@ColbyAzimuth Just look it up. It gets complicated, the names changed - it wasn't always the same fiat currency, but it was always some form of fiat. Still used silver for international trade though.

@@vylbird8014 I spent a lot of time looking up a many different Chinese fiat currencies. None of them lasted longer than a century because of the huge inflation from over-printing. None. Not one. Is "just look it up" your standard answer when promoting wishful lies? Withholding information is not the same as informing people.

​@@vylbird8014 Oh right, I forgot that China is famous for having economic stability and no famines 😂

We told our daughter to not buy a house. She is better off saving $20 a week and gaining compound interest. That will be worth more than a house could be for her.

In a normal society they'd find good men and get married but now daddy is the husband in an economic and protection sense

@@Wilhelm4131 There are vanishingly few financially independent young men. The state takes everything from men. From education to corporations to government policy our whole society is designed around kneecapping men so women can use their shins as stilts to feel equal. Women only like men who are taller. Its not wonder marriage rates are in the gutter as with birth rates.

So rent a studio or share an apartment. 1-bedroom can be split into a 2-bedroom (one takes the living room). If they don't allow it pretend they are a gay couple. I don't understand the obsession with a 1-bedroom. A bachelor/studio/bachelorette is the way everyone starts out.

@@Wilhelm4131 Not so. Good men are the ones that were against this system when everyone else was mostly blind and went unheeded but for a select few. Now the "good times" are coming to an end.

And if cities fail, the country fails.

@@rerite2 not necessarily…. Strong communities are often not the norm, in large urban areas. North America is 50%+ rural. And it’s these areas that still operate under a high trust/performance society

@@HarrisonCountyStudio -- From Census.gov: The percentage of the population living in rural areas in the United States, which is a significant part of North America, increased from 19.3% in 2010 to 20.0% in 20201. This change is largely due to revisions in the criteria for defining urban and rural areas by the U.S. Census Bureau. It’s important to note that these figures are specific to the U.S. and may not represent the entirety of North America, which includes Canada and Mexico. However, they do provide a useful reference point for understanding rural demographics in the region.

@@HarrisonCountyStudio do you have behavior or outcome stats to show that? Like that sounds more like a belief than a piece of evidence based knowledge.

@@HarrisonCountyStudio How is the fentanyl crisis treating folks in the country side. I hear per cappa its worse there.