As a borderline boomer/gen X, I had to look after my parents and bury them after my brother's untimely death at 28. Also raised my son and gave him a university education, helped him buy a house and did the renovation - paid off his car, his 1 student loan & tried to save for my own upkeep, that all changed when the economy crashed last year - so please not all off us lived a privileged & easy life - as the song say 'every generation blames the one before' - I hear your pain & was 40 years old when I could buy a little house for myself & my son & lived through the insane price increases - not all of those 2 generations inherited. Fight on & change the world to a better tomorrow for your loved ones, and I pray you succeed - for most of us, it was and is a daily struggle - from South Africa. God Bless
@@jer1776i somewhat disagree , it’s low education. Low educated (heavily indoctrinated) people cannot think past impacts on their personal lives. Then they claim they were blindsided or find out “if it can happen to me it can happen to anyone” but what they will NEVER say is “I’m sorry for my behavior before, you were right. Can you help me so I don’t fall for this BS again?” Nope they will make the mistake again and call it a one time thing because capitalism and American exceptionalism.
Slightly off topic, but my boomer mom finally understood me when I showed her the “entry level” filtered jobs on LinkedIn that all require 3-5 years of indusrtry experience. I felt seen when I heard her screaming at her computer “THREE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IS NOT ENTRY LEVEL!”
Networking is more important than sending a resume online to be filtered by an AI that kicks you out if you don’t cut and paste the right keywords. Companies are looking for dependable people to work. Getting to know people in your field IRL or on LinkedIn is invaluable. My unsolicited advice is to apply for something you want even if you don’t meet all the requirements. Best of luck to you!
My aunt had been telling me to buy land and have a home built, thought the home itself would be less than 30 grand. She decided to do it herself and spent over $150k for the exact thing she was telling me to do. She has since stopped complaining about me not owning land or a custom home.
They said, as I worked construction and farm work from 12-18, had a whole list of other jobs from telemarketing to a dozen factory jobs. They work ruins/ed my health, I never made enough to survive. Everyone was taught to be cut-throat. All the women are spoiled by boomer culture and an attitude of F sons, and spoil till you ruin daughters, so finding a woman to split bills with is impossible, besides... shes already gotten hooked on Chads before she eve turned 18 and out of highschool, so she gets 3-7 year itches unless you run game and maintain frame and blah blah blah.... moron stuff that sucks cause its true... As they say, you can do anything in the world to a woman(and shell be okay with it) except for bore her. Finding even one roommate who doesnt trash the place and take advantage of you and leave you with the bills is a near herculean task, especially when even if they do try to do their best theres no way for either of us to keep our heads above water. Everytime I go to the doctor its always 4 months of driving around for tests that they dont even think relate to the issue to 'rule things out' because they gotta milk my insurance and who cares about the actual health issues...the hospitals gotta balance their budgets after performing their 12th surgery on the boomer whos taking 200$ a month in medications so they can quarter ass a job they havent been qualified for since they were 45 and now theyre 65 while making all the damn money the company earns cause of seniority, as they sit back lazily milking everything Boomers are scum. They always have been. There are rare individual exceptions. But F boomers
Also saw some Boomers that knew this was gonna happen but said: ''I don't care about this becase its gonna be only after i am long dead, so its not gonna affect me''
You’re the morons who advocated for Starbucks employees making $25 an hour to make a latte and advocated for massive social welfare programs. You don’t get to claim a victory lap by somehow inexplicably blaming capitalism when the inflation and economic conditions are the natural consequence of your stupid policies and anyone who has taken a high school economics course should be able to recognize this.
You’re the morons who advocated for Starbucks employees making $25 an hour to make a latte and advocated for massive social welfare programs. You don’t get to claim a victory lap by somehow inexplicably blaming capitalism when the inflation and economic conditions are the natural consequence of your stupid policies and anyone who has taken a high school economics course should be able to recognize this. And no, you don’t want to work, which is why your “fixes” to these problems always involve more ass sitting money (like forgiving student loans because you decided to major in dance). The video literally says that our property taxes went up. Yeah, again, to subsidize the rest of the lazy turds who contribute nothing to the tax base but want to suck on the government’s teet.
You aren't lying. My father-in-law was out with us a few months back and he ordered a whiskey and it was like $12. He couldn't believe it and almost fell over. Yep old man, that's the world we live in now.
Semi Mechanic here, we are struggling to charge appropriately for parts & oil because the prices have gone up so much that its becoming so unjustifiable. We are at the point where we are purchasing trucks from auctions to stock high value second hand parts just to try help out our good customers. Some parts for the brand i work for have gone up 3-400% in the past 5 years. A clutch alone is now worth $1800. $600-$800 in oil and filters for a simple service...
Boomer here. I was right there with you. I've been complaining for decades. You are correct, those that were more comfortable didn't understand. I've been working well past "retirement" and will need to work forever. The American dream was nothing more than propaganda. Corporations own/rule America...and Oligarchs.
I was complaining back in 2017 about how prices for things haven’t kept up with wages, and I was told to stop buying a coffee once a week. My boomer relatives can’t go on their 3 vacations a year and NOW inflation is a problem??
I agree with your comment, but a tip I live by now is (good) instant coffee. In my home country it's eq. $10 for 120 cups and IMHO better than most coffeeshops
Food banks have to keep strong. Lack of social services could kill anyone once you're broke, specially since America is designed for such intent@@Koindizzle
I was forced to retire (as a graphic artist) at 62 because I was “over qualified”. I freelanced the last 15 years because no one wanted older workers. My pay actually went down instead of up (same thing happened to my husband, a retired printer). Our house is 3x more expensive than when we bought it 30 years ago. If we had to buy the same house today we couldn’t afford it. Our wages certainly did NOT increase 3x over the years!
i was the last of learning graphic design in college kids around 2010's, Ai has taken over and i am very adept with it, but art has gone a new direction. its interesting. never could have gotton a job, ended up working on boats now painting and fixing its a trade really enjoy working with my hands and now i get to put all that talent into creating my own show around the work i do
My dad is in his 50s and i live with him, im 24 and work a full time, salaried job with my college degree. He came with me to tour some apartments and he was in SHOCK about the rent prices. Now he knows why im worried I won’t be able to afford to move out again
@@dawnr7798 Our hearts are bleeding for you while our wallets are strapped thin as fuck trying to help our kids and support our boomer parents who are also struggling while trying to figure out wtf we ourselves are going to do with no inheritance coming down and no younger generation who can support themselves, let alone us in our old age while we continuously watch what meager savings we have get wiped in 401k ponzi schemes.. we're fine. Just fine.
They're essentially boomers just less racist lol. The gen xers are all losing their jobs to ai and still coping saying that its the future of every industry.@dawnr7798
I love how old people always say “im on a fixed income.” As much as that does suck, so are we! The entire working class is on a fixed income lol wages have been stag for years!
This has always bothered me. I don't understand how everyone isn't on a fixed income. Except the very wealthy. My mom tries to say it's bc I can just work more and I'm like lol honestly so could you though. Yes you are retired but if you need more money then you go to work just like you're telling me to do.
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
As a boomer(66 newly retired) I was not blind to the struggle. Both of my 40ish daughters and their families live with me because they can’t afford to move out. My retirement has turned into a daycare and taxi service, but hey, my Mom did it for me. Bless her heart!
The way they used to get people to work was by making sure a job enabled you to have a home, a family, stability, etc. If that isn’t true anymore why should anyone work?
I’m a boomer, and I have to say I have learned so much from your videos. I don’t have kids, so I don’t see it first or even second hand. Because of you I have become an advocate for pay raises for staff at my retirement community. Thank you for your work.
@dorisatkinson7259 Ty for speaking up & advocating! As a GenExer, likely I would be ur kid if u had any. I'll tell u y we call-out boomers, we were the most ignored & abused & neglected generation. Meanwhile The Greatest Generation (Depression Era)->ur parents might fall under this cat. often did everything the could to help their children. Then boomers have refused to retire to open the job market. They've kept wages low for many. There's a reason they're called "The Me" Generation. Many have sucked up all the resources. Now we can't afford to help our own children the younger one's. They also took up w/ a lot of bad behaviour, they gave us NOTHING to respect or honor, but then DEMANDED from their children what they did not earn. Obvi not all, but so many are just deplorable. Thank you so much for being one of the good one's!
Just remember, the fight isn't about making more money, it's about paying less for the things we buy, because bad policy has made everything so expensive.
@dorisatkinson7259 Ty for speaking up & advocating! As an X, likely I would be ur kid if u had any. I'll tell u y we call-out boomers, we were the most ignored & ab*s3d & n3gl3ct3d generation. Meanwhile The Greatest Generation (Dep. Era)->ur parents might fall under this cat. often did everything the could to help their children. Then boomers have refused to retire to open the job market. They've kept wages low for many. There's a reason they're called "The Me" Generation. Many have sucked up all the resources. Now we can't afford to help our own children the younger one's. They also took up w/ a lot of bad behaviour, they gave us NOTHING to respect or honor, but then DEMANDED from their children what they did not earn. Obvi not all, but so many are just deplorable. Thank you so much for being one of the good one's!
I had one and realized that would be hard enough. Hasn't changed my mind, not since that hospital bill alone, before diapers and food and everything else. I'm glad I have my kid, and that he's healthy, but oh my God. 😮
Thanks for this video. I’m a 53-year-old Gen Xer and a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe. I figure I have about 17 more years till retirement. my daughter, thankfully qualified for a scholarship at a state school. She is our only child. IMHO, my family will most likely have to live very frugally in our retirement. I think a lot of us are gonna have to do the same. Thanks again take care.
I think people need to look more into starting their own businesses. Even if its just a side hustle. We need to stop relying on corporations that clearly dont give a fuck about us.
@blackpillfitness9136 or ditch money all together and go to bartering . How? Well, it can start with men focus on doing only hands on jobs like construction, carpentry, plumbing, etc. etc. Jobs used to physically build towns and villages And forget about making businesses or being lawyers etc. And women forget about the accountant and focus on just finding and supporting men like the carpenter and giving them kids/ helping their fellow woman give birth to more kids, While forgetting about working and college or careers all together. So now with thousands and millions of men with such hands on skills they can come together and literally build separate communities AWAY from the system all together with women giving them plenty of kids to keep the anti-establishment train going.
But you'll need plenty of guns too. The government will absolutely TRY to send armed thugs to force such separate communities to rejoin their system by way of force.
In general you are still lazy so to speak as a generation but so were all of the generations before you when they were your age. They hadn’t learned “real life” yet. Life is tough and so is work. The challenges of each generation has a different level of technology to work with and the technology of the boomers did less of the actual work than the technology of today. I’m Gen x and was always told to get a “real job” when I was in my 20’s. I was making enough money to support a family of 5 on just my salary but it wasn’t manual labor and looked easy. I will tell you instead of complaining and clapping back just say ok and move on. The complaining is what aggravates my generation. The videos this guy makes is actually hurting your cause with the older generations. He is becoming the face for yall and he comes off as a whining douchebag. My advice is to just keep pushing forward and eventually it will get better. Figure out a way to build your own business instead of working for someone else. There is way more freedom and income that way. You get to choose your income not someone in another state who makes more in a year than your house is worth. The first 2 years will be tough but it gets easier after that. Just don’t give up.
@thebryantedwards6220 braindead take. People can't make enough money to afford a house either way you slice it. "You get to choose your income" bullshit. You're given a range and 35 an hour isn't enough to afford a family. But then again, you're Gen x, I don't expect you to understand how good you had it.
As a boomer, that is still working, I have always had a special place in my heart for Millennials and their battle with today's prices. It's so damned unfair to not be able to live in a decent apartment, drive an affordable car, the insurance,, work for a salary that wouldn't sustain a child. How can they SURVIVE? Makes NO sense!!!!
The answer is simple: we can’t! My husband is a letter carrier for USPS and has gone 600 days without a contract or increase. They also just jacked our insurance premiums up to $276 biweekly for the two of us, and I still have to pay $200 a month for medications. I work as a staff accountant for a smallish business. Once upon a time we’d be solidly middle to upper middle class, but now? We share a vehicle and live in an apartment we have little hope of leaving anytime soon. Sadly, I know we’re luckier than many. I’m afraid to imagine what the next decade will bring.
@@Alicia-Renebut yet, no one even takes a second to educate themselves on Bitcoin. Just keep using their fake fiat money and watch your efforts and energy be stolen by the central bankers.
And who voted for them Your generation did this. Do not forget that. Ar your expense and you insisted that was fine. You insisted to the later generations its fair wheb it clearly isnt.
@ my father still works as well at 62 he probably will never retire. But is this something that we should be celebrating? I mean if someone wants to work then fine, but if not they should be able to live for a couple of years (at least) without having to punch a clock.
You do know boomer is short for baby boom right? And that it happened right after WW2 when people stopped fearing the end of the world enough to have kids en masse. The youngest 'boomer' would be in their late 60s with most being well into their 70s. . I asked because I've noticed more and more kids use boomer to refer to my generation which has always been Gen X. If you mean ages 45 -65 then that's Gen X all day long.
“The economy is doing great! The dollar is stronger than ever! Why are you complaining about inflation? It’s not that bad.” Had that conversation with my top 1% zoomer child cousin who was getting their international business degree. He didn’t feel the impact of inflation so he didn’t understand the struggles everyone else is facing. “We were in Panama and my friend said he didn’t want to spend $50 on a meal. It’s just $50. That’s nothing to sweat about.” $50 doesn’t always sound like a lot, but I know $50 can sometimes really make a difference for someone. The “haves” won’t understand the complaints of the “have nots” until they are effected.
@ Not gonna lie I actually confused myself on whether to agree or not 😂. The thought, “yeah they’re right…or is this one of the exception cases…no…maybe…maybe not” flew through my head.
Damn. I'm at the point where not getting $50 one day would make or break me for the week. And blowing that on one meal? Hells no. I'm still kicking myself for my fast food addiction years ago and how much money I wasted when I could've been learning to cook from home. Now I'm a better cook, but wish it hadn't taken me so long. It really is cheaper to do it at home; I just think it's the time management and the cleanup that prevent more folks from thinking they can do it.
My father is 79, and you nailed this 100%. This last year is the first time the economic situation was felt by him and my mom. Their generation has lived in the thought that you buy the best to ensure quality and longevity or benefit. That belief combined with economic upheaval insanely driving prices up is the crossroads of them opening their eyes as the wallets got hit. Their food cost went up 600 month, medications up 600 to 1000 month, all costs to their home and vehicle tripled and that became an impasse of retirement income not keeping pace with living.
@laundrygoddess4 I'm not sure where you are at in the country, but the prices of food to feed one person with actual healthy food is high as hell, yet alone two people with very specific meal plans. My father is able to elk hunt every fall and that includes 12 to 15 miles daily through northern Idaho mountains. To keep doing that in your late 70s requires an incredible regiment of exercise, vitamins, supplements and proper diet. My mom is also active but has crohns so her diet is also extremely specific. And yes, that means a 600 per month increase in their food bill.
Yep, I'm 66 . Property taxes have doubled. Although our house value doubled we still can't go anywhere because all the houses have doubled. Buy a brand new car, no way, 60 to 70 thousand. We need to keep that in our IRA's to survive..
I’m Gen X with 3 now adult Gen Z kids. The one thing I have never done to them is tell them to stop complaining and just go buy in-house. I encouraged them to stay living at home and help with the bills because it’s cheaper.
@@dwainsimmons3447I’m sorry to hear that! This economy sucks and most places want a certain amount of work experience or bare minimum GED. What about starting your own business? Something you can do right from home?
Same here. Community colleges and lower-cost universities provide excellent education. My oldest is getting his associates at community college, it transfers 100% to a state university where he can finish it up as bachelor's, and for both he can remain living at home. No student debt, and the rest of the money I saved bought him a car. A NEW car. My youngest only needs an associates from a specific community college and his career starts with decent pay and benefits, union too. And they are both happy with their career choices. Pragmatism FTW!
I’m older gen Z, my parents are older gen x with the same attitude. There’s no way I would’ve been able to survive the professional world, let alone learn and build on those job skills if I had to worry about bills/moving. I’ve lived on my own before so it doesn’t really bother me, but I don’t plan on living at home forever. You’re doing a good thing man.
I'm Gen X, but I still did the first 2 years of college at community college to save money and get my GE courses out of the way. Probably saved me around $20k to $30k of college debt back in the late 90s to early 00s
Exactly! This generation crap needs to stop. It's just another way they keep us distracted and blaming each other while the top 1% continue take everything.
My daughter tried to move near me into an apartment for $1,400 a month, one bedroom and no windows except in the kitchen, and only one door in and out of the apartment I told her not to get it. Slum Lord fire trap.
@@prim.an.propher1505 _"The home we sold in 2020 was an $1800 mortgage, the new owners are leasing it for $3500"_ I purchased my home in 1994 for $115,000. It is valued on Zillow for $525,000
Cool. I can show you apartments I own in Houston (in a hip/trendy area near downtown) that were $900/month “all bills paid” 4 years ago and still $900 today.
My dad caught on pretty early. But he's still a boomer who struggles to admit the world they spent most of their life in no longer exists. He'll sometimes default to retorts like "if you cant afford groceries then just dont buy groceries." It's funny watching his brain go through the "no wait that doesn't make sense" process. As if my house magically stocks itself with groceries and i only go to the store because it's fun. I think it's hard for him to know that the only advice he has to give isnt enough to help us anymore and he's in some denial about it because it means he's no longer relevant.
Housing and renters equivalent is something like 40% of CPI. My state has near low housing inventories. This economy is by design. My town voted in Republicans who promised not to build. Can you believe that? You have countries all around the world that have figured out how to build but in the US people get out their garlic and holy cross if they hear new construction down the block.
Elections have always been a fluke. I'm Russian, I know this first hand. Ain't no way the last 3-4 elections we've had had results that weren't faked, and I doubt that all countries are more honest. We've never come out of slavery (and by us I mean the whole world) we just have new names for it.
I'm GenX. Hi, Milennials. I graduated from college in 1997. Apartment rents were horrendous and the job market was awful. This has felt wrong for a long time - - to me. It has definitely gotten worse and worse though. I see you and I hear you.
Oh cry me a river. That's not even close to truth. When I started working, after being forced into the military for two years, I made $2.75 an hour so don't tell me about how bad you have it. You just want it NOW and aren't willing to work your way up to it.
Nope. The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic Charity, has nursing homes where you can dump your Boomer for free. That's where mine is. After getting thrown out at 18 "because the hotel closes at 18" I am totally uninterested in supporting my Boomer mother in any way. I'm 52 and my Millennial kids live with us when they need to or want to. Our house is not a hotel, it's a home. I don't care how old my kids get, so long as I'm alive they will always have a home.
@@nuclear_candy❤❤❤ sorry your mom did this to you 😢 but you’re a good mom for not doing it to your kids. Thank you for not continuing generational trauma and abuse.❤ I hope your mom is ok. No she didn’t make the right choices but I understand your pain.
@@nuclear_candy as a millenial dad at 31, yeah thats pretty much my stance with my son too, his mom and i seperated on friendly terms so all is good, but my little guy will always have his place at my place
Just how it was. It was done to make you stand on your own two feet whether its right or wrong. Happened to my brother and me and we both own multiple properties. I'm gen x. Learn alot about sacrifice when all of a sudden your paying your own way. Before the internet the fella at the pub would just give you a teaspoon of cement with your beer. Mind you we both still drive second hand cars with no aircon.
@@nuclear_candy Makes me feel grateful for my boomers, wow. I'm incredibly sorry and angry that happened to you. Thank you for being kind to your kids and breaking that cycle. ❤️🩹
This Boomer and friends have always agreed with Millennials and Gen Zers about cost of living. Rents and housing prices are ridiculous and you can't find a used car for a reasonable rate. Here's the other thing you guys got right - corporations will game workers into unpaid work and use threats to get a 40 hour employee to do 60. It's why businesses don't want universal health care. That takes away employee flexibility. FYI, all Boomers aren't wealthy and many of us have been or are where Millennials are. We feel your pain.
I am a Parent and Grandparent supporting Millennials, Gen X, and Gen Z. I remember the So-Called Energy Crisis of 1970. The cost of everything was going up. Trust me nothing has changed.
@@TrevorHambergerhow is that exactly? If everyone who lives in the same country pays the same amount in taxes that goes directly to pay all the people who work in healthcare so when you need help you don’t need to pay…how is that giving away your rights? Our government should also pay for the schooling and education of anyone who chooses a career in healthcare because that is a job that gives back to the wellbeing of humankind and NO-ONE, I repeat, NO ONE should be profiting off of anyone’s illness. Other countries do this and it works. People have been lied to by American propaganda that we can’t have this or that it wouldn’t work. Germans have universal healthcare and even with higher taxes we Americans are paying more than them. We pay more because of how high our deductibles are and we also don’t get a lot of other things that they do. In the end, Americans pay more. Do some research before you spread more lies, please. I for one would rather see my tax money going to universal healthcare than to funding war that kills innocent children, or paying for some stupid wall or more border control. I want more for me and my fellow Americans. Stop defending for profit healthcare when it’s the biggest reason so many Americans die in the first place. People like you are uneducated and have fallen prey of American propaganda.
Im a boomer, and a retired mortgage specialist. I've been through 2 failed economic disasters. I have also been very vocal and I'm angry that this DOJ did not enforce the laws and this administration didn't understand we were in a war! Bunch of cowards and idiots really underestimated the situation. Unforgivable!!
Remember y'all! This is class war, not generational! Welcome the boomers on board! Edit: Thank you guys for standing with me on this one. If we want to win we have to #unite. Even if we have legitimate issues with each other. Who knows, maybe after all this is over we'll have more respect for each other. Love you all, never let them divide us.
@@grit1679 It's called divide and conquer. Hating eachother based on age is part of that. You want to win or lose? Edit: I understand how you feel though. I get it, but this is about defeating a greater evil.
I'm a Boomer. All my Boomer friends and I support Bernie Sanders and have for years. The last election we voted Kamala. The rich and tech bros are your enemy. Not old people. I left home at 14 and worked 3 jobs to get by. No benefits with any job ever. Not everyone had it easy. We still marched for civil rights. I live on just over $1,000 a month and have no retirement, no savings. Took my walker out and marched for BLM. Old people are as diverse as young people.
100%. Generation theory is just another hateful simplification pushed by alt right (Steve Bannon loves it) Scapegoating an age category is such a low level of analysis. So simple. Earth is flat and the (insert generation) is the cause of your problems 🐣
My boomer mother, on her third husband, told me "the hotel closes at 18" and out the door my Gen X ass went. Luckily, my mother has now learned that the nursing home is open 24/7. Millennials, you deserve so much better. My heart goes out to all of you struggling to make it in this world. I'd rather my taxes go to help you guys, than one penny go to support the "me generation" Boomers.
@stephenkolostyak4087 Nope. Married 3 months after I turned 18, celebrating 35 years this year. First child three years later. We have a total of 4, and they live with us anytime they want or need to. Our house is not a hotel. It's a home. I do, however, find your comment horrific. One of my adult children is a single father, and lives with us full time. He gained full custody because his girlfriend has personal issues that made her unable to take care of the child. Should we throw out our son and grandson? I cannot imagine throwing out one's own grandchild, for any reason. We warned our son about his child's mother; do we now "punish" both our son and our grandson by abandoning them? Had any of our children gotten pregnant as a teen, we would have done everything we could to support both our child and our grandchild. The thought of one of our kids out there with one of our grandkids, alone, in this day and age just makes me shudder. At least when I was thrown away I was able to rent an apartment for 275 bucks. As a single person with no dependents I was easily able to afford that. By the time I got married and we had our first child we only paid 425 for a 2 bedroom apartment. If you throw your pregnant child out nowadays, you're dooming your own relatives to homelessness and hunger. Who does that??! My mother played absolutely no role in our children's lives. She refused to be called "Grammy" in public at age 55, claiming our family "made her look old". Here's a bit of advice for you: be careful assuming things about others. "Assume makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me".
Ppl are just slow 😅 I've grown up With all the kids in the United States.Because I live in the most overpopulated military town in the United States & sense elementary school,We've all said that by the time we get old, we won't get a social security check.Why was that not the biggest duh about the economy being crappy since back then 😅
Gen X survivor here, sandwiched between helping boomer family & Millennial/Gen-Z family & their kids 🤦🏼♀️ worried about how everyone will get on once i sell my home & move abroad later this year, they all have an open invite to follow me, but of course it’s not feasible for everyone to uproot for international relocation, & survival skills will be put to the test, i thank God i was hurled into the official working world at 15 & on my own at 18, work & words don’t teach what life experience does 💪🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🌈☀️
I think “boomers” online had a lot of negative things to say but as someone who works in health care field with the boomer population I have encountered many of them who sympathized as they saw their kids and grand kids struggling with 1500$ rents etc.. just my two cents
@@Olive-765 There's one diff b/t the generations. GenZ gets to write the articles regardless of their class status. The vast majority of boomers have never been heard from. But GenZ has been trashing them for years because they don't know that their *hippie values* came from boomers.
I'm 63.. the last of the "Boomers". Never, ever been anywhere close to being a 10%'er. Solidly blue collar with a strong education and artsy streak. Always thought Reagan was an economic arsehole with his "trickledown" bullsh*t. I've watched my meager financial gains be absolutely destroyed by insane housing costs. I have two sons.. 20 and 22.. both good, smart young men. Both are struggling to get a foothold to move forward without a mountain of educational debt that doesn't give them a decent return on their investment.The level of distrust in the systems and workings of our modern society is truly disheartening.
My grandpa is 84. He just is feeling it now because he made his normal order on Amazon last month the bill. 5,700 dollars ! For nothin, a blender some clothes and household items. It used to be 17 or 18 hundred dollars. That was a hard conversation. I can not earn enough money in a month to cover that, and my household. Insane inflation.
60yo here. Lived through it too. Between you and me, I'd take Reagan's policies over Obama's "new normal" anytime. I think they're actually two sides of the same uniparty tho. They fight and call names for the cameras, then slap each other on the back and laugh at the country club when we're not looking. My father had a name for them-- rat bastards. Many are beginning to think rat flambay might be a tasty dish.
Its more like that they just couldn't see it because the economy didn't effect them, at least the vast majority of boomers. It's not an intentional way of putting down younger generations but still their mindset is the reason why things never change, i would still blame them for how things ended up because they don't even attempt to see things from another perspective
I’m GenX. There’s a reason we are called “The forgotten generation.” Once again when the discussion is about generations, it goes straight from bloomers to millennials. And most of us have also been trying to get through to the Boomers (our parents).
Yyyyyup, about 5 years ago my dad stopped calling me and my brothers lazy and useless and started saying we shouldn’t even try to buy a house anymore. That’s when I knew I’d finally won. 😊
For real! Wouldn't have anything if it wasn't for my grandparents I would have been homeless, my Grandma was a nurse and my grandpa was a farmer boy then a a bunch of different jobs like audio tech in the 80s and taxi cab driver in the 90s and then a school bus driver, they were never rich and it's sad to see them live so poor still :( I'm also poor myself it's more due to job availability in my city I do home health but it only gets so much and I live with my fiance and his parents. We get by ok at least. My mom refuses to work for anything and lives off the government though and it's sad
My general experience is that Silents & Boomers had wisened up by the time their grand children came around, but were still in la-la land for their own children. But better late than never.
Part of that is due to the government refusing to do proportional taxation. If the billionaires paid their fair share we could afford the very much needed infrastructure bill that was passed. Instead the orange dude is going to cut taxes further for the rich. How is the budget supposed to get fixed if they don't bring in money? You can bleed out the people at the bottom we have nothing left to give.
considering something like 46% of the government's budget is going to assist older people (as in 65+), it's a little surprising that they are struggling
@@FabulousCucumber-ip9humy dad’s a boomer, he is one the hardest working men I’ve ever met. Many of his friends are the same way too. Life is hard in every generation. And yet every generation compares itself and blames each other for hardships (old and young). When the real people we should be blaming all along is our corrupt governments and leaders. Corrupt governments and leaders have been screwing people over for millennia, causing rifts between everyone and everything. We need to stop blaming each other (stop playing the self-pity parties) and focus on the real root cause of our issues.
@@HeyHoUndSoWhere’s the Gold to back America up ? You think printing money out will ever bring us to a reduced inflation ? Now money in Fort Knox you do know that right !!
@@HeyHoUndSo Being an ostrich with your head in the sand and simultaneously sneering at people who are worried about multiple signs of a major economic crisis is going to age like the finest of milks.
I farm and I have an older neighbor in his seventies who runs cattle. We've talked about this for at least 8 years how prices are out of line. We mostly focus on ag, but what we notice is that for what land is selling for, paying for it with either cattle or farming is nearly impossible. Asset prices are too high for the return that they are capable of generating be it farm ground or housing.
The reasons asset prices are so high is due to: 1.Bank credit lending being out of control, Instead Bank credit lending needs to be focused on productive lending for productive purposes. 2. Central bank FED, printing money but the Financial institutions are using that the put everyone into excess debt. That includes government. The financiers, elites, etc. collect huge interest but takes more and more money out of everyone's pockets.
Yup, then trump and musk just tanked the CR, which had funds to help farmers through the winter. Welcome to the trump oligarchy. If you thought it was bad before, we ain't seen nothing yet
My parents own a farm. They had to take their farm trucks to gas up and also had cans to fill for the tractors.... A man with his little vehicle coup at the next pump laughed at them when they coughed at the price of gas. The man scoffed at them and told them they should have smaller vehicles! My parents laughed right back at him and said they are farmers and asked him if he liked the price of groceries or how their cost to distribute them felt to him, cuz that's where it comes from. They said the man looked guilty immediately and apologized. Ppl DO NOT understand the issues. Sad.
@@AJtraductora I know people who have gotten caught driving on the street with farm diesel (no road tax) in their truck. If your parents do this, they need to be careful.
I'm Gen X who saw my educated Boomer parents struggle for other reasons (father was headhunted; moved across the country for that job; was promised a lot of stuff that was never put in writing and didn't happen; struggled to get a home until the mid-90s because mortgage lenders in the 80s still required years of stability). I'm glad because it allowed me to see reality. But it breaks my heart that my father had to step out of retirement because a part time job was necessary income. Now it looks like my mother will also have to. And we have two terrified young adults who can see the value of higher ed (trade or academics) but can't figure out how to make it work without either starving through apprenticeships or taking out loans they don't see as a reasonably opportunity cost. They became adults at pretty much the suckiest time.
My son managed it by working his way up through the ranks in auto repair. His father did electronic repairs and could do a bit in auto repair. That gave him a grounding and an advantage in diagnostics. Then he worked a lot of shite jobs until he could get a better paying job. So, a hard slog, but no educational debt.
The stepping out of retirement thing is real. My dad keeps talking about retiring and I keep saying it's not realistic and how if he leaves his work he'll be shooting himself in the foot by being unable to find the same kind of pay. Its bad enough he was passed over for promotions constantly because of his age (they don't say that, but it became obvious after several times trying to get the district manager position... they only picked younger people). Meanwhile I miss when my mom wasn't working, but realistically that supplemental income has been saving their bottoms. She was originally only working to get to the next tiers of social security. Me? I gave up on looking for work. My permanent injuries knock out most options available to me (can't stand for long periods, can't lift more than five pounds) and no one cares about degrees, just experience. Plus my last job threatened me so much that it has left me completely neurotic in regards to work and authority; I had panic attacks every day if I didn't take medicine for that. Apparently that's not normal. Neither is getting vertigo and nausea at the sheer prospect of going. Fun times! And that's what happens if you threatened an employee that you'll fire them if they miss a single extra day of work without a sick day to cover it... when the prior days they missed were required by company policy (i.e.: you're not allowed to come in with covid, stay home if the roads are icy and dangerous. ...oh and you don't get sick days until you've worked for six months anyway). Garbage place. They were scared when they fired me (guess why) because I had a ridiculous number of client compliments on that floor. I was great at my job. Their loss. Mine too.
Well.....I went through a LOT of that.....from 1982, until about 1993 (unfortunate events, bad timing, etc.).....things should have been better than that for the youth, by now.....
@@polywog9591 Kroger admitted they raised prices on basic groceries over 3 times what inflation justified and bragged that there's nothing anyone can do about it
Well, to be fair, it's both. Inflation is fairly global. It's actually more under control in the US than other places. The price gouging is definitely out of control though.
I don't think ignorance is even an excuse anymore. You literally have the library of all human knowledge at our fingertips. My generation is still mostly living at home with our parents because of this. The boomers were supposed to keep planting trees for their children and grandchildren. Not chop down the whole forest laid by the Silent generation and prior so that they can each own 3 vacation homes and 12 air BNBs around the world. I am only living independently from blind luck but even that I fear is about to end.
Your generation is still mostly living at home because your boomer parents allow it. It sounds like they can afford it because they made some wise investments. Have you ever asked them about the sacrifices or difficult choices they made as young adults?
I tried to show a comparative graph about housing prices to my boomer parent, and he literally looked for any reason to tell me the graph was not accurate. "Yeah, but we had 13% interest rates!" What's 13% of $300k compared to 6% of $1mil? (Hint: it's half as much)
Boomers had decades to vote for economic policies for long-term prosperity. If they are starting to hurt now due to shortsighted policies, while they still hold so much voting power, that's their fault. I will not be voting to help them at all. Meanwhile, I've given up on SS altogether and will be planning my retirement assuming SS dries up.
The only policy that matters is stopping immigration. And that has not been up for a vote, except when people vote for liar Manchurian candidates and there was one referendum in California that was overruled by a Jewish judge.
If humans acted with the long term in mind we would have colonized the solar system decades ago, solved climate change and be living in a utopia right now, unfortunately boomers couldn't think longer than tomorrow and they just didn't bother to fix our issues while they had the chance
I'm a Boomer. All my Boomer friends and I support Bernie Sanders and have for years. The last election we voted Kamala. The rich are your enemy. Not old people. I left home at 14 and worked 3 jobs to get by. No benefits with any job ever. Not everyone had it easy. We still marched for civil rights. I live on just over $1,000 a month SS and have no retirement, no savings. Took my walker out and marched for BLM. Old people are as diverse as young people. Please stop dividing people by their age.
I put my money into whatever investment seems sound long term. Even have different collections of stuff that may actually be worth something when I'm in my 70s.
I can't believe it took Boomers going through their own turmoil to realize that we Millennials and the Zoomers knew what we were talking about all these years.
If you Millenials and Zoomers had a clue, worked hard, made good decisions, etc. then you wouldn't be struggling. My son is Gen Z... worked his way through college, graduated with honors with a serious degree, got a good job, basic apartment and car so he can pay his student loans and save for the future. He is doing it... WHY CAN'T YOU?
@SomeguynamedExactly what it sounds like. Toast with avocado mashed on it. As someone who likes both toast and avocado, it’s meh at best. I’d rather have an over medium egg on it instead.
Won’t the avocado fall apart in the toaster? But in all seriousness if you want a nice treat slice an avocado lengthwise after you remove the seed and lay the slices on a greased baking sheet then crack an egg on top of each one and bake them. Serve with some garnish. I say treat because omg eggs are $7.00 for 18!
@@AezlyndWanderin Those egg prices aren't going down until they fix the avian flu virus that has been killing birds by the millions. And that isn't going to happen any time soon because GenZ men just voted to put RFK in charge of viruses, which he thinks are proteins. Get ready for $7 per egg. And if you don't like it, recall that an entire generation of GenZ men who *should* know better, voted for that.
Imagine us Gen X folks coming of employment age in the early 90s behind the Boomers. Boy were they haters when the saw us arriving with our far better computer skills and openness to newer technologies. I hated working under most of them who viewed us a threat and not a colleague.
Gen X was a good time to start working. You had a nice run in the 90's to get careers going and houses were very cheap then. You were lucky to be too young to buy houses in the 80's when interest rates went crazy. Gen X got to buy houses after that crashed house prices. Milennials graduated into the 08 crash and were dead on arrival in the workplace. Some milennials who did a trade did way better and were able to buy a house In the 2000's before prices really went crazy. If thry bought in their mid 20's with a journeyman wages it was possible then. We didn't know how expensive housing would get. I waited too long. Thank god for alberta.
@@rustyscrapper Many of us who graduated from.college in the early 90s graduated into a horrible economy left by George Bush Sr. It took several years for people to find a decent job. We placed a lot of hope in Clinton.....that's another story!
they were in denial precisely because they knew there is nothing they could do about it anyway. You can vote but your vote won't have any effect. Yes they could have voted better and if enough people did that different liars would be voted in.
"It’s almost like having empathy and not being a selfish person benefits EVERYONE! Woah! Who woulda thought?" If only GenZ men had voted that way. Instead they voted for fascism and higher prices and no empathy for anyone except billionaires and "oppressed white christians."
@krishannam1346 or how about our current one? At least the next president's party didn't ignore voters and shame them for caring more about being able to pay bills than about 50 genders and abortion.
Truth. My mother is almost 80 and now I’m helping her with food/bills because she can’t make ends meet on a fixed income. We need to protect Social Security and be there for the working class - all generations. Contrary to social media, a lot of boomers did not have a great life.
@@avril.227 no boomers had a great life people forget that even the wealthy were jumping out windows when the stock market crashed. My grandma use to tell me about patchwork dresses made out of sugar and flour sacks. Her brothers britches made from seed and grain sacks which her mother used to bleach out logos from. Milk bottle returns and even city people had chicken coops.
The economy has been rigged to benefit the rich only and they will call you a radical lazy leftist community ists for the things you stated just to save their ass.
You are speaking the truth!! As a boomer, I didn't have the best life with opportunities or dealing with consequences as a result of a life of crime. I can say that I have a dry roof over my head, some food in the house, able to keep up with my bills and squeaking a quarter to get pennies by the grace of God. Praise the Lord!!!
Gen X here and my baby boomer parents had a hard life. This clown makes it sound like boomers had the easiest life on the planet. Try going to Nam at 18 years old. In fact my dad's entire senior class graduated and all joined the military.
I'm in my 60's. My mother is nearing 90. My oldest is 40+ and my youngest is 30+. I've long known the financial state my children were having to deal with, and it's no picnic for us (me and my husband) either. Blaming ALL of my generation is just as ridiculous as calling ALL people my kids' ages "lazy and spoiled." My kids all work, they don't expect anything handed to them; I've watched them struggle, I've helped when I could and still do. Unfortunately, I'm sandwiched in between helping my mother and helping them while caring for a husband with a (thank heaven, so far, slowly) degenerative disease that will eventually take him from me. You're so right that not all boomers have had it easy and aren't deaf, dumb, and blind.
Preach brother, this problem is spread far and wide across the world. We are in a housing/living crisis in AUS. I knew about 2 years ago the idea of ever actually buying a house was fleeting. It's now become impossible unless you have family support to rely on. Like you I will continue to point out the seemingly obvious.. This system is broken and does not work.
Losing one's Social Security is a good reason NOT to be quiet. I'm just realizing that you guys on this thread might be the children and grandchildren of the racist, xenophobic, misogynist people who voted for Trump. Am I right? Also, there are not enough boomers to vote Trump into office by ourselves (though I never voted for him), so some people in the younger generations must have voted for him, too. Also, to my recollection, most of the yelling Trumpers I've seen in video clips, including most of the protesters and insurrectionists on January 6, 2021, were not old. Am I right there, too?
This is the comment I was looking for. Melanie, my parents have never voted for him, either, but we all know many Boomers have. Anyone who has disposable income and hasn’t done so already can join AARP. There’s no age requirement anymore, and they lobby for laws that protect things like Social Security and Medicare. Your first year is only $12.
My grandmother (born in 1939) complained a few years back when all of the city's property taxes were readjusted. Grandpa had passed 6 months beforehand, so his social security income was gone. Grandma was worried that she would lose the house. Yeah, the only reason that I have my own house as a millennial is because I inherited it from my parents. My family of three is only possible because my fiancé found a really good factory job and I stay at home with our child. Childcare is more expensive than what I could earn working a full-time, minimum wage job. But no minimum wage job would let me work full-time because then they would have to give me benefits like health insurance.
I'm so hatef-... erm, I mean, happy that you're fortunate enough to have a house. It's such a blessing and I genuinely hope you get to hang onto it and continue passing it down as a life raft to your family.
@@thetwistinside2857 Doesn't feel like a blessing. I got it after my mom died from breast cancer. I drove her to radiation, chemo appointments along with to and from her bilateral mastectomy. I acted as her hospice nurse, had to watch as she wasted away after deciding to stop eating and drinking. Sure, I live in my childhood home. I realize how very rare that is, but my mom didn't get to see our first fruit harvest. She wasn't there when I gave birth, and she won't be there at my wedding. We have all been dealt a horrible hand, and it is getting worse with older folks not retiring due to inflation and Social Security not being so secure. Things need to change. There is no such thing as "the middle class"; we are all "the working class". We are living paycheck to paycheck, begging for raises and more overtime while we're all burning from both ends. We can't leave it up to the 1% to make change; they like how things are. They are the *reason* things are this way.
Being able to inherit a home has been shown to be a significant factor in being able to generate wealth. When you (not you, specifically) leave your kids/grandkids with nothing, you can't be surprised when they have, well, nothing!
I forgot who first said it but "t's a recession when your neighbor loses his job n a depression when you lose yours." Lot of wisdom in this. Of course it's natural for things to affect us more when they happen to us. There are also people too busy or preoccupied with their own life responsibilities n even challenges to think much about others especially if we don't think there is much we can do to help anyway. Such people are not necessarily bad or uncaring people but if you know someone personally who is struggling n all they want from you is acknowledgement of their reality and all you can do is blame them or make them feel less than with your judgements,lack of empathy and understanding, well then you have crossed over into a pretty crappy person. If the person you are judging, shaming,deriding especially without knowing much of the details is a family member you claim to love, you don't actually love them at all.
I've never understood different generations bashing each other. It's pointless. We are all in this world together and should be supporting each other. Every generation has something valuable to offer.
Because different generations are raised in different environments and when they see people reacting differently to different situations, they can't help but judge despite not realizing everyone doesn't have the same background
"No one deserves to feel financailly insecure"... WRONG. People who don't work hard, don't save, spend foolishly, don't learn a valuable trade or get a worthwhile degree DO deserve to feel insecure.
@youtubecommentator6023 You just gave the standard reply of someone who can't discuss facts... attack someone whose viewpoint you don't like. Pathetic.
Yep, I've noticed. Multiple of my uncles (+my dad) are unable to find jobs that pay them a living wage or have 401k... And starting to figure out that they're lucky if they find a job at all. Especially in IT. One of them, along with several others I know, have switched away from IT after 1-2 years of job searching. Others are coming out of retirement and working again because inflation ate through their retirement budget.
Same here. My husband's step-dad used to tell him off all the time about him not able to find a job after his company laid of 25%. Only when step-dad was laid off too and wasn't able to find a job in IT a year later... well he ended up retiring instead because the job market was terrible and doesn't mention the job thing anymore
Gen X here… from what I’ve seen of my peer group and above, they’re just distracted by finding ways to blame you for it. They still seem pretty loud condemning Gen Z for the breakdown of society or something. “These kids today…” yeah, never heard that before, Methuselah. I mean, they started out blaming us in the 90s after they got tired of blaming their parents for everything and blaming time for making them become their parents. My experience is that a narcissistic golden child generation like theirs will never really become any more self-aware. Those among them capable of grasping reality did so in the 60s and never stopped. The rest sink deeper into senility.
it’s great to see, unfortunately i think it won’t last long. it’ll just be a trend and when things get just ever so slightly better people will drop the issue and it’ll be right to where we started.
@@javantm1676Yeah, unite in hunger. Is the 11 millionth time y’all try it and it inevitably falls into tyranny and scarcity going to be the one that magically works? Or will it just be another “not real communism” example?
@@NameorsomethingIdunno aww that's cute, didn't know american in both it's military and corporation operation are in the name of socialism did shell ruin the amazon in the name of anarchism? ohhh i guest brits was communist as they carved up the global south. sorry buddy but facts don't care about your lil fee fee
Lots of older people, especially women, have student debt, will never own a home, are very low income, and have no choice but to work well beyond the retirement age. Class solidarity is better than pitting generations against each other
Exactly right! The 1% wants us fighting each other instead of uniting and taking back our country. This is NOT young vs. old, left vs. right, white vs. black/brown/red/yellow, etc., cis vs. LGBTQIA+--it's the 99% (that's ALL OF US HERE) vs. the 1%. Bashing each other accomplishes nothing. BTW, there are LOTS of boomers (and some Silent Generation members) who DO see what the younger generation is going through and we want to right those wrongs.
I just read in a local group a woman’s mortgage was 950 6 years ago and she’s paying 1800 now with the property tax increases. She doesn’t know what to do bc she’s being priced out of her home literally. It’s so fucking sad!!
When I bought my house the mortgage was 930. 11 years later it’s 1100. Last year it was 960 jumped to 1055 due to insurance and jumped to 1100 due to taxes. I really need to look into reducing my insurance
This is why a lot of elderly are having to take out reverse mortgages on their homes. Despite what people think, they don't all have a lot in retirement savings, and if they're living on social security alone, the average ss benefit is about $1,500/mo.
The part of the country you live in, the city or town all factors in, in the housing market. No telling where anyone lives who are commenting here. Think about the price of Cars!! They cost more than houses use to! Did Boomers do that to ourselves??? Decades ago, starting, in the 70s, we had a few barely used cars. A few had no a/c. One new, and drove it to 100k miles. 'I' bought the next car new out of fear, and drove it for 10 yrs to 110k miles, when the replaced engine went out. I bought my current car when it was 3yrs old and is now 18 years old. It's a means of transportation. It has 145k miles. My insurance has nearly doubled. Did I do that to myself?? Do I need all of the bells and whistles that are now standard on most cars?? I'm crossing my fingers I can pay for repairs to keep it going. The Power steering barely turns!! I buy fluid regularly. I was recently advised to get new tires, again, while I can get some credit on these. I can get some credit on my two year old battery, so that's getting replaced in a few days. I nearly lost my house twice. The furnace, a/c and hot water tank are all 25+ years old. I'm crossing my fingers on those, too. Did Boomers raise the prices of those to screw ourselves??? Then there's the roof! So, be careful about blaming Boomers. Many of us lived within our means a lot more closely than you think.
Be careful what you sow. Because eventually you will reap what you sow. You are allowing the oligarchs to vilify people so you think taking away benefits will help you in the end. Their purpose is to reduce their own taxes and increase their profits. If everyone paid SS tax we could reduce the percentage as well as fund the system to the betterment of everyone. Instead they keep pushing to reduce their overall taxes while claiming it’s this gender, that generation, these people supporting those politics are the bad guys while giving everything to the corporations and leaving nothing for the average citizen. Don’t be duped.
A lot of us Gen X are hurting too. I know people my age who choose between paying rent and eating everyday. I am partially disabled, but have been denied disability, and have almost nothing to my 50+ years. I was able to work for a few years, but then couldn't afford rent anywhere. I would be homeless without them,. Now I have age-related issues and may have to stop working again. I will probably never have my own home.
I'm Gen Jones. I had kids later, in my thirties. If I hadn't, I would not have understood how hard it also is for younger gens to get a job. A decent job. We have seen it with the housing market for years. We've seen it for a LONG time.
and then on top of our own struggles, if we have parents who need a little help, we feel terrible about not being in any kind of financial position to do much (if anything) about it. it's a sick, sad world.
Yeah. Went through that during covid… rent or food. It’s funny when people comment: you’re so nice and thin, how do you stay that way? And I want to say “poverty”. (I know not all struggling people are thin.)
@ it’s important to some, people that will make a difference in your future will care. Unfortunately, people passed judgment on poor spelling, then they question your intellect, ponder that .
what about f'kin and sh*t??? Please tell us all how to kerrectly spell those😂your grammar better be spot on for these Internet experts in the comment section or they may not listen to what they're reading! 😂
Boomer here. Many many many of us never threw off on younger people. I have felt it. I have felt every punch since wage stagnation began in the 80s. Wage theft. I want my money back with interest. Thank you. That is all.
I’m Gen x and I’ve been calling out the boomers for 30 years now. My own parents will die in debt which the sale of their home might cover after the funerals.
Get them to do a Transfer Upon Death Title!! It will make the house pass probate and not be eligible in the Medicare lookback period!! And it will not be considered part of their estate by creditors!! It guarantees the house will go straight to the beneficiaries listed on the deed!!
@@TheLeijosa ABSOLUTELY NOT!! If a person's assets pass into probate upon death then debt collectors have the right to contact the spouse, lawyer or executor and collect the debt! If it's a house, and the owner used Medicare to pay for a nursing home before death, then Medicare will lool back 7 years for assets in the estate and force their sale!!! My father was forced by Medicare to sell my grandmothers house because of that. That made my mother finally get the TTOD done to protect her home.
Good observation. I'm a Boomer & Gen X because I was born a year into one and right before the other. I figured this out 30 years ago. There were property owners/businesses that let their greed get the best of them and it worked out in their favor. I heard all of the chatter first hand. First of all, downtown was taken over thru eminent domain. Businesses and homeowners who had been there for decades were forced to give up their homes and businesses, some since earlier 1900s. Apartment buildings were refurbished into condos at 3x the previous rent if not higher. Downtown was bulldozed to make way for huge venues, etc. There were many with dollar signs in their eyes that truly didn't care what happened to anyone. Property taxes have not only been higher, they were illegally inflated. The property taxes didn't pass audit, but the overcharge wasn't returned. So elders who worked all their lives and paid off their homes and retired are sellng their homes because they can't pay the property taxes especially with valuation being insane on top of that. They are being forced to give up their homes as a result. I purchased a 2 bedroom home in the mid 1980s for $35,000. That same house now has a market price well over $250,000. I wouldn't even be able to rent that home now. It isn't just inflation. Add to that all the short term rentals now or property owners who just rent month to month now because they got burned during covid. This has been going on for decades. It will get worse now. Welcome to the shite show. 😊
We had a family meeting and as a result of that we 3 generations bought land with a house and decked out sleepout and put a granny flat on it too. It's win win...shared expenses and we all have our own space. We feel very blessed because we have a quality of life that would not be the same if we d not been sharing.
You're Generation Jones. We have nothing in common with boomers. I was a latchkey kid. And I'm 62; Our generation was the first to have social security full retirement age raised to age 67.
Hey champ I always supported the young adults in this country. On other platforms I always stated that higher education should be affordable. That corporate rental property was forcing rents up. That the young people today should have the same opportunities as we had in the 60s and 70s.
And how about the credit system wasn’t even introduced in there U.S. until 1989?! So we’re trying to survive under a system that they didn’t even have to! It’s the audacity for me.
@@jlspracherDo you live in America….? If you do and don’t know that it takes creditworthiness (as in a certain credit score) to obtain much of ANYthing of large purchase- a house, a car, for some people:, furniture, etc…… welp, you have MUCH more remedial lessons to learn than what I can teach you here. Good luck! 🍀
@@therealkoolaidandkale you made it sound like credit didn't exist exist at all so... It's not my fault that you can't be specific. You should work on that. It will make life so much easier. Merry Christmas
I bet the credit rating system was instituted to reduce favoritism/classicism/sexism/racism that had. Been inherent in the system and make it more objective.
I'm the oldest of the GenXers, born in 1965...right on that fence where they don't consider me a Boomer, but I also don't feel like GenX. I've known for years that Millennials were going to get a raw deal, left to clean up all the c.rap of the older generations. It's not fair, I totally agree. FWIW, I have nothing saved up and don't see retirement in my future.
'68 here and my partner will never get to retire. He has a crooked back but still works as a service manager in the motorcycle industry. He is in massive debt and no retirement savings. Life sucks.
It’s Citizens United: this is an ongoing problem since its inception in 2010. The minute that passed, we have been careening towards today’s world. That’s your answer and everyone reading this should call their Representatives and Senators and tell them to get rid of it.
Sir, congrats on seeing a peice. But your true warning sign was in 2008, during that massive bubble poping that lead to the debt crisis the entire world is facing. That can be said to be the root, but even then that taproot sinks deep into history. A whole lot of short term decisions+ corruption+ complacentcy+ a end of history mentality+ ignorance+ the education system making people less able to critically think for themselves generation after generation. Ect.
Its a Supreme Court decision not a federal law. Congress can't do anything unless it's to pass a constitutional amendment. But even if they did Citizens United was just the final nail in the coffin, not the root cause.
Gen X here and I’ve been trying to educate Boomers on the economic realities faced by Millennials and now Gen Z for a couple of decades…. It’s crazy what they don’t get unless it affects them personally
The Founders said they didn’t think we could have a republic if there was a great difference in wealth. The governments sanctioned few corporations which were only for build large projects and then ended. In a free market the government doesn’t charter corporations therefore there are no corporations in a free market.
You guys largely got fucked by the great recession, your generation knows how rough things can be and didn't chat shit about just drinking less coffee.
I'm a Boomer. I've been with you all the way. This is corporate greed. I fully intend on working until I'm 70 and then I'm only hopeful that I might get social security.
Until it happens to you, that's what they say.
This is 100% the Republican mindset. The problem doesn't exist until it affects you.
America has become such a low trust country of selfish people. Its sad.
@@jer1776 "I'm fine so the hell with everyone else!"
As a borderline boomer/gen X, I had to look after my parents and bury them after my brother's untimely death at 28. Also raised my son and gave him a university education, helped him buy a house and did the renovation - paid off his car, his 1 student loan & tried to save for my own upkeep, that all changed when the economy crashed last year - so please not all off us lived a privileged & easy life - as the song say 'every generation blames the one before' - I hear your pain & was 40 years old when I could buy a little house for myself & my son & lived through the insane price increases - not all of those 2 generations inherited. Fight on & change the world to a better tomorrow for your loved ones, and I pray you succeed - for most of us, it was and is a daily struggle - from South Africa. God Bless
@@jer1776i somewhat disagree , it’s low education. Low educated (heavily indoctrinated) people cannot think past impacts on their personal lives. Then they claim they were blindsided or find out “if it can happen to me it can happen to anyone” but what they will NEVER say is “I’m sorry for my behavior before, you were right. Can you help me so I don’t fall for this BS again?” Nope they will make the mistake again and call it a one time thing because capitalism and American exceptionalism.
Slightly off topic, but my boomer mom finally understood me when I showed her the “entry level” filtered jobs on LinkedIn that all require 3-5 years of indusrtry experience. I felt seen when I heard her screaming at her computer “THREE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IS NOT ENTRY LEVEL!”
That’s when I edit my resume and just start lying.
@@glojay_00at this point, just go for it. You know those employers won't even pay attention
@@glojay_00As a teenager who hasn't entered the work force ... Does that work?
@@glojay_00😂😂😂
Networking is more important than sending a resume online to be filtered by an AI that kicks you out if you don’t cut and paste the right keywords. Companies are looking for dependable people to work. Getting to know people in your field IRL or on LinkedIn is invaluable. My unsolicited advice is to apply for something you want even if you don’t meet all the requirements. Best of luck to you!
My aunt had been telling me to buy land and have a home built, thought the home itself would be less than 30 grand. She decided to do it herself and spent over $150k for the exact thing she was telling me to do. She has since stopped complaining about me not owning land or a custom home.
Right, and where are you going to buy undeveloped land? Around here developers snatch it all up to build 20 McMansions on 5 acres.
150k for anything anywhere near a major city in NA is almost a steal rn
That still seems affordable! 150k is not bad for land plus cost to build a house! Your aunt was right! Just off.
Lmao, buying land itself can start at 30k and with the rising cost of materials building a home can cost just as much as buying
Buy a mobile home.
We've only been telling them about this alternate reality for nearly 20 years now. But we were "crying, complaining and didn't wanna work!!"
They said, as I worked construction and farm work from 12-18, had a whole list of other jobs from telemarketing to a dozen factory jobs. They work ruins/ed my health, I never made enough to survive. Everyone was taught to be cut-throat.
All the women are spoiled by boomer culture and an attitude of F sons, and spoil till you ruin daughters, so finding a woman to split bills with is impossible, besides... shes already gotten hooked on Chads before she eve turned 18 and out of highschool, so she gets 3-7 year itches unless you run game and maintain frame and blah blah blah.... moron stuff that sucks cause its true...
As they say, you can do anything in the world to a woman(and shell be okay with it) except for bore her.
Finding even one roommate who doesnt trash the place and take advantage of you and leave you with the bills is a near herculean task, especially when even if they do try to do their best theres no way for either of us to keep our heads above water.
Everytime I go to the doctor its always 4 months of driving around for tests that they dont even think relate to the issue to 'rule things out' because they gotta milk my insurance and who cares about the actual health issues...the hospitals gotta balance their budgets after performing their 12th surgery on the boomer whos taking 200$ a month in medications so they can quarter ass a job they havent been qualified for since they were 45 and now theyre 65 while making all the damn money the company earns cause of seniority, as they sit back lazily milking everything
Boomers are scum. They always have been.
There are rare individual exceptions.
But F boomers
same with any other crisis thats boiling over now
Also saw some Boomers that knew this was gonna happen but said: ''I don't care about this becase its gonna be only after i am long dead, so its not gonna affect me''
You’re the morons who advocated for Starbucks employees making $25 an hour to make a latte and advocated for massive social welfare programs. You don’t get to claim a victory lap by somehow inexplicably blaming capitalism when the inflation and economic conditions are the natural consequence of your stupid policies and anyone who has taken a high school economics course should be able to recognize this.
You’re the morons who advocated for Starbucks employees making $25 an hour to make a latte and advocated for massive social welfare programs. You don’t get to claim a victory lap by somehow inexplicably blaming capitalism when the inflation and economic conditions are the natural consequence of your stupid policies and anyone who has taken a high school economics course should be able to recognize this. And no, you don’t want to work, which is why your “fixes” to these problems always involve more ass sitting money (like forgiving student loans because you decided to major in dance). The video literally says that our property taxes went up. Yeah, again, to subsidize the rest of the lazy turds who contribute nothing to the tax base but want to suck on the government’s teet.
And seeing their neighbors working instead of retiring.
Been seeing more than usual older folks working at Walmart and fast food
Like that McDonald’s employee who turned in Luigi…
Almost my entire lowes is seniors one told me he came out of retirement becuase. His money was going down faster than estimated when he retired
Yup I saw someone that must've been 80 pushing carts the other day. 😂
Was in Taco Bell last week and the friendly old woman taking orders at the cash register was 71.
@@ohseeus5406 That will be you someday, when you get to be that old.
You aren't lying. My father-in-law was out with us a few months back and he ordered a whiskey and it was like $12. He couldn't believe it and almost fell over. Yep old man, that's the world we live in now.
Now Order him a Double Shot of Mid Whiskey and handem the 34 dollar Tab.
And sadly thats a reasonable price in some places.
Seriously, I'm sure he'd stay on that floor if he saw that a whole bottle of Maker's Mark is like $50 now. 😂
@ wasnt it always?
$12...that's it?
Not so long ago people used to advertise $19.99 for an oil change. That same procedure is now $80.
My partner just paid $120 for a 5 year old car. He's even friends with the dealership since he works at another one. Unreal
170$ yesterday for an oil change and changing my cabin air filter
Shoot, it costs more than $19.99 to buy the oil and filter to change it yourself, lol!
Semi Mechanic here, we are struggling to charge appropriately for parts & oil because the prices have gone up so much that its becoming so unjustifiable. We are at the point where we are purchasing trucks from auctions to stock high value second hand parts just to try help out our good customers. Some parts for the brand i work for have gone up 3-400% in the past 5 years. A clutch alone is now worth $1800. $600-$800 in oil and filters for a simple service...
you shouldn't have a car if you can't spend a couple hundred on maintenance once or twice a year
Boomer here. I was right there with you. I've been complaining for decades. You are correct, those that were more comfortable didn't understand. I've been working well past "retirement" and will need to work forever. The American dream was nothing more than propaganda. Corporations own/rule America...and Oligarchs.
why they call it dream, gotta be dreaming to be in it.
They're going to be even less comfortable when They find out their "$1.2mil" POS house is worth nothing if no one can afford it
The property taxes are going to take all their social security if it’s still a thing in the coming administration.
Some corporation will. 😮
@cc1k435 nah they'll wait it out until the price is JUUUUSSSTTTTT above a reasonable price where a family can afford then snag it right then
@@cc1k435 exactly. The corporations will always have enough
Blackrock can afford it. And will rent it back to you.
I was complaining back in 2017 about how prices for things haven’t kept up with wages, and I was told to stop buying a coffee once a week. My boomer relatives can’t go on their 3 vacations a year and NOW inflation is a problem??
Its never been a spending problem, and was and always is a earning problem. Cant even get a basic job anymore and when you do its not enough.
Boomers kids have moved back home, so everyone can take care of each other.
I agree with your comment, but a tip I live by now is (good) instant coffee. In my home country it's eq. $10 for 120 cups and IMHO better than most coffeeshops
@@NDK0 always this....first time i had a starbucks coffee i got mad for wasting money on that crap....only bought it cause coffee emergency
Food banks have to keep strong. Lack of social services could kill anyone once you're broke, specially since America is designed for such intent@@Koindizzle
I was forced to retire (as a graphic artist) at 62 because I was “over qualified”. I freelanced the last 15 years because no one wanted older workers. My pay actually went down instead of up (same thing happened to my husband, a retired printer). Our house is 3x more expensive than when we bought it 30 years ago. If we had to buy the same house today we couldn’t afford it. Our wages certainly did NOT increase 3x over the years!
i was the last of learning graphic design in college kids around 2010's, Ai has taken over and i am very adept with it, but art has gone a new direction. its interesting. never could have gotton a job, ended up working on boats now painting and fixing its a trade really enjoy working with my hands and now i get to put all that talent into creating my own show around the work i do
And this is why we millennials live with our parents to save more money!
@@anxietyand that's ok 🤫 😊some parents love helping their kids. 😅
@@anxiety also, a lot of boomers live in huge houses. They own multi-gen homes now.
Yea its partly your fault 🤡
My dad is in his 50s and i live with him, im 24 and work a full time, salaried job with my college degree. He came with me to tour some apartments and he was in SHOCK about the rent prices. Now he knows why im worried I won’t be able to afford to move out again
So your Dad is Gen X, I was wondering how the X Generation was reacting to all this.
@@dawnr7798 Our hearts are bleeding for you while our wallets are strapped thin as fuck trying to help our kids and support our boomer parents who are also struggling while trying to figure out wtf we ourselves are going to do with no inheritance coming down and no younger generation who can support themselves, let alone us in our old age while we continuously watch what meager savings we have get wiped in 401k ponzi schemes.. we're fine. Just fine.
@@ambermarshall2263Holy smokes, as a GenXer, you nailed it 💯
They're essentially boomers just less racist lol. The gen xers are all losing their jobs to ai and still coping saying that its the future of every industry.@dawnr7798
I love how old people always say “im on a fixed income.” As much as that does suck, so are we! The entire working class is on a fixed income lol wages have been stag for years!
This has always bothered me. I don't understand how everyone isn't on a fixed income. Except the very wealthy. My mom tries to say it's bc I can just work more and I'm like lol honestly so could you though. Yes you are retired but if you need more money then you go to work just like you're telling me to do.
Except working at age 90 is a wee bit different that at age 20. Maybe nobody will notice though
@@rsb7608 except people don't retire at 90, they retire at 55-65, so they can keep working if they want more money...this is point that was being made
They act like they didn’t have their entire life to avoid that outcome
Ain’t nobody crying for old mf who didn’t plan properly.
We unable to plan properly because of these greedy fucks.
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The entire gig economy has entered the chat
did he actually say that? Based.
You should start a business tomorrow.
@@Berserk1Manga pretty sure, I’ve seen him quoted saying that many times
"and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living."
As a boomer(66 newly retired) I was not blind to the struggle. Both of my 40ish daughters and their families live with me because they can’t afford to move out. My retirement has turned into a daycare and taxi service, but hey, my Mom did it for me. Bless her heart!
This is insane
Same. ❤
Thanks for caring 🙏🏻
Thank you for helping the little ones. It’s hard out here!!
40ish? You don’t know how old your daughters are? You really are a boomer!!
Almost there "A loaf of bread shall cost a days wages" we're cooked lol
The way they used to get people to work was by making sure a job enabled you to have a home, a family, stability, etc. If that isn’t true anymore why should anyone work?
Because it beats being owned by the state
because your govern-ment got everything that goes on in your head it's in the name
@@alaia-awakenedWhat? You think people who work or NOT owned by the state?😂😂😂
@@alaia-awakenedif you work the state owns you.
Very good question. Don’t work for a wage, it’s too insecure
I’m a boomer, and I have to say I have learned so much from your videos. I don’t have kids, so I don’t see it first or even second hand. Because of you I have become an advocate for pay raises for staff at my retirement community. Thank you for your work.
@dorisatkinson7259 Ty for speaking up & advocating! As a GenExer, likely I would be ur kid if u had any. I'll tell u y we call-out boomers, we were the most ignored & abused & neglected generation. Meanwhile The Greatest Generation (Depression Era)->ur parents might fall under this cat. often did everything the could to help their children. Then boomers have refused to retire to open the job market. They've kept wages low for many. There's a reason they're called "The Me" Generation. Many have sucked up all the resources. Now we can't afford to help our own children the younger one's. They also took up w/ a lot of bad behaviour, they gave us NOTHING to respect or honor, but then DEMANDED from their children what they did not earn. Obvi not all, but so many are just deplorable. Thank you so much for being one of the good one's!
Thank you ❤
Just remember, the fight isn't about making more money, it's about paying less for the things we buy, because bad policy has made everything so expensive.
Doris you are epic
@dorisatkinson7259 Ty for speaking up & advocating! As an X, likely I would be ur kid if u had any. I'll tell u y we call-out boomers, we were the most ignored & ab*s3d & n3gl3ct3d generation. Meanwhile The Greatest Generation (Dep. Era)->ur parents might fall under this cat. often did everything the could to help their children. Then boomers have refused to retire to open the job market. They've kept wages low for many. There's a reason they're called "The Me" Generation. Many have sucked up all the resources. Now we can't afford to help our own children the younger one's. They also took up w/ a lot of bad behaviour, they gave us NOTHING to respect or honor, but then DEMANDED from their children what they did not earn. Obvi not all, but so many are just deplorable. Thank you so much for being one of the good one's!
My favorite is when people tell me I'm selfish for not having kids lol
I want kids so badly, but I can't in good conscience bring a child into my home if I'm struggling to support myself.
I had one and realized that would be hard enough. Hasn't changed my mind, not since that hospital bill alone, before diapers and food and everything else. I'm glad I have my kid, and that he's healthy, but oh my God. 😮
No one says this.
@@charlesyoungblood9414 Not to men.
@@charlesyoungblood9414 Not to men.
Thanks for this video. I’m a 53-year-old Gen Xer and a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe. I figure I have about 17 more years till retirement. my daughter, thankfully qualified for a scholarship at a state school. She is our only child. IMHO, my family will most likely have to live very frugally in our retirement. I think a lot of us are gonna have to do the same. Thanks again take care.
To be fair EVERYONE who isn’t independent wealthy or from generational wealth, is on a fixed income.
I think people need to look more into starting their own businesses. Even if its just a side hustle. We need to stop relying on corporations that clearly dont give a fuck about us.
@blackpillfitness9136 or ditch money all together and go to bartering . How? Well, it can start with men focus on doing only hands on jobs like construction, carpentry, plumbing, etc. etc. Jobs used to physically build towns and villages And forget about making businesses or being lawyers etc. And women forget about the accountant and focus on just finding and supporting men like the carpenter and giving them kids/ helping their fellow woman give birth to more kids, While forgetting about working and college or careers all together. So now with thousands and millions of men with such hands on skills they can come together and literally build separate communities AWAY from the system all together with women giving them plenty of kids to keep the anti-establishment train going.
But you'll need plenty of guns too. The government will absolutely TRY to send armed thugs to force such separate communities to rejoin their system by way of force.
@@blackpillfitness9136it would be nice if everyone's "side hustle" want trying to sell me more crap, though.
@@TheRomanTribuneyeah you’d need to basically go form a new society to do that like the Amish.
Anyone else having a hard time feeling bad for these people that called us lazy for years?
Punching down.
@@theoldaccountthatiusedtous6767 I agree, they were punching down, which makes it hard to care when they're getting punched down to the same level.
You do enough of feeling bad for yourself, there’s no need for any more.
In general you are still lazy so to speak as a generation but so were all of the generations before you when they were your age. They hadn’t learned “real life” yet. Life is tough and so is work. The challenges of each generation has a different level of technology to work with and the technology of the boomers did less of the actual work than the technology of today. I’m Gen x and was always told to get a “real job” when I was in my 20’s. I was making enough money to support a family of 5 on just my salary but it wasn’t manual labor and looked easy. I will tell you instead of complaining and clapping back just say ok and move on. The complaining is what aggravates my generation. The videos this guy makes is actually hurting your cause with the older generations. He is becoming the face for yall and he comes off as a whining douchebag. My advice is to just keep pushing forward and eventually it will get better. Figure out a way to build your own business instead of working for someone else. There is way more freedom and income that way. You get to choose your income not someone in another state who makes more in a year than your house is worth. The first 2 years will be tough but it gets easier after that. Just don’t give up.
@thebryantedwards6220 braindead take. People can't make enough money to afford a house either way you slice it.
"You get to choose your income" bullshit. You're given a range and 35 an hour isn't enough to afford a family.
But then again, you're Gen x, I don't expect you to understand how good you had it.
Everything continues until enough of the comfortable become uncomfortable.
The irony here is how many still are financially reckless.
Human nature 😢
🎯🎯
Bingo
Like with healthcare denials.
But no they won't ever recognize they did this to themselves. They'll just keep blaming us younger generations 🙄
As a boomer, that is still working, I have always had a special place in my heart for Millennials and their battle with today's prices. It's so damned unfair to not be able to live in a decent apartment, drive an affordable car, the insurance,, work for a salary that wouldn't sustain a child. How can they SURVIVE? Makes NO sense!!!!
The answer is simple: we can’t! My husband is a letter carrier for USPS and has gone 600 days without a contract or increase. They also just jacked our insurance premiums up to $276 biweekly for the two of us, and I still have to pay $200 a month for medications. I work as a staff accountant for a smallish business. Once upon a time we’d be solidly middle to upper middle class, but now? We share a vehicle and live in an apartment we have little hope of leaving anytime soon. Sadly, I know we’re luckier than many. I’m afraid to imagine what the next decade will bring.
@Alicia-Rene that's exactly what I'm talking about!
And gen Z. I’ll never be able to retire
@@Alicia-Renebut yet, no one even takes a second to educate themselves on Bitcoin. Just keep using their fake fiat money and watch your efforts and energy be stolen by the central bankers.
We're just told to "be more grateful, shut up and get over it."
As a boomer, I can tell you that Congress, the president, and president-elect are too old.
I keep saying this, we need fresh perspectives in there, the need to cap the age and get them out of there
Congress has been a fraudulent entity since the act of 1871 was passed
True, but the conversation is not about that.
And who voted for them
Your generation did this. Do not forget that. Ar your expense and you insisted that was fine. You insisted to the later generations its fair wheb it clearly isnt.
They will sort it self out give it time 😅
Yep my dad just told me that he knows people who are going back to work because their property taxes went up.
Talk about a tight budget!
Sounds like they're pulling on those boot straps.
@ that’s exactly what I told him too lol.
My dad is 76, never stopped working.
@ my father still works as well at 62 he probably will never retire. But is this something that we should be celebrating? I mean if someone wants to work then fine, but if not they should be able to live for a couple of years (at least) without having to punch a clock.
GenX here. I'm glad you passed us over. I'm going back to the forest now
The boomers just couldn't resist the avocado toast any longer
Hey!!!! I like avocado 🥑 toast. It’s good
As a boomer I can tell you that I love avacado, and I love toast.....but together, not so much!
Hahahahahahahaha this gave me a good chuckle 🤭🥑💚✨.
Truth.
You do know boomer is short for baby boom right? And that it happened right after WW2 when people stopped fearing the end of the world enough to have kids en masse. The youngest 'boomer' would be in their late 60s with most being well into their 70s.
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I asked because I've noticed more and more kids use boomer to refer to my generation which has always been Gen X. If you mean ages 45 -65 then that's Gen X all day long.
“The economy is doing great! The dollar is stronger than ever! Why are you complaining about inflation? It’s not that bad.”
Had that conversation with my top 1% zoomer child cousin who was getting their international business degree. He didn’t feel the impact of inflation so he didn’t understand the struggles everyone else is facing.
“We were in Panama and my friend said he didn’t want to spend $50 on a meal. It’s just $50. That’s nothing to sweat about.”
$50 doesn’t always sound like a lot, but I know $50 can sometimes really make a difference for someone.
The “haves” won’t understand the complaints of the “have nots” until they are effected.
Affected not effected.
@
Not gonna lie I actually confused myself on whether to agree or not 😂.
The thought, “yeah they’re right…or is this one of the exception cases…no…maybe…maybe not” flew through my head.
Damn. I'm at the point where not getting $50 one day would make or break me for the week. And blowing that on one meal? Hells no. I'm still kicking myself for my fast food addiction years ago and how much money I wasted when I could've been learning to cook from home. Now I'm a better cook, but wish it hadn't taken me so long. It really is cheaper to do it at home; I just think it's the time management and the cleanup that prevent more folks from thinking they can do it.
$50 on a single meal is insane
$50 is a lot of money. Spending $50 on a single meal for a single person is crazy.
My father is 79, and you nailed this 100%. This last year is the first time the economic situation was felt by him and my mom. Their generation has lived in the thought that you buy the best to ensure quality and longevity or benefit. That belief combined with economic upheaval insanely driving prices up is the crossroads of them opening their eyes as the wallets got hit. Their food cost went up 600 month, medications up 600 to 1000 month, all costs to their home and vehicle tripled and that became an impasse of retirement income not keeping pace with living.
We never had over a thousand billionaires either. And they definitely didn't.
How can food costs go up 600? It shouldn't even be 600 total much less 600 more
@@laundrygoddess4You'll understand when you're the one doing the shopping and not your mom. 😊
Buying the best didnt create inflation, government printing trillions of new dollars created the rapid inflation.
@laundrygoddess4 I'm not sure where you are at in the country, but the prices of food to feed one person with actual healthy food is high as hell, yet alone two people with very specific meal plans. My father is able to elk hunt every fall and that includes 12 to 15 miles daily through northern Idaho mountains. To keep doing that in your late 70s requires an incredible regiment of exercise, vitamins, supplements and proper diet. My mom is also active but has crohns so her diet is also extremely specific. And yes, that means a 600 per month increase in their food bill.
Yep, I'm 66 . Property taxes have doubled. Although our house value doubled we still can't go anywhere because all the houses have doubled. Buy a brand new car, no way, 60 to 70 thousand. We need to keep that in our IRA's to survive..
I’m Gen X with 3 now adult Gen Z kids. The one thing I have never done to them is tell them to stop complaining and just go buy in-house. I encouraged them to stay living at home and help with the bills because it’s cheaper.
I’m struggling to get a job.
@@dwainsimmons3447I’m sorry to hear that! This economy sucks and most places want a certain amount of work experience or bare minimum GED. What about starting your own business? Something you can do right from home?
Same here. Community colleges and lower-cost universities provide excellent education. My oldest is getting his associates at community college, it transfers 100% to a state university where he can finish it up as bachelor's, and for both he can remain living at home. No student debt, and the rest of the money I saved bought him a car. A NEW car. My youngest only needs an associates from a specific community college and his career starts with decent pay and benefits, union too. And they are both happy with their career choices. Pragmatism FTW!
I’m older gen Z, my parents are older gen x with the same attitude. There’s no way I would’ve been able to survive the professional world, let alone learn and build on those job skills if I had to worry about bills/moving. I’ve lived on my own before so it doesn’t really bother me, but I don’t plan on living at home forever. You’re doing a good thing man.
I'm Gen X, but I still did the first 2 years of college at community college to save money and get my GE courses out of the way. Probably saved me around $20k to $30k of college debt back in the late 90s to early 00s
The VAST majority of wealth generated by the U.S. economy in the last 50 years has gone to the top 10%, and most of that has gone to the top 1%.
Exactly! This generation crap needs to stop. It's just another way they keep us distracted and blaming each other while the top 1% continue take everything.
And will likely continue to do so.
Correct.
This is sounding...eerily similar to The Great Depression
And since most of our politicians fall into the 10%, they’re not about to change anything
A friend of mine showed a place he stayed in 4 years ago for $825/month is now $1400/month. SMH
My daughter tried to move near me into an apartment for $1,400 a month, one bedroom and no windows except in the kitchen, and only one door in and out of the apartment I told her not to get it. Slum Lord fire trap.
The home we sold in 2020 was an $1800 mortgage, the new owners are leasing it for $3500
@@prim.an.propher1505 _"The home we sold in 2020 was an $1800 mortgage, the new owners are leasing it for $3500"_
I purchased my home in 1994 for $115,000. It is valued on Zillow for $525,000
Cool. I can show you apartments I own in Houston (in a hip/trendy area near downtown) that were $900/month “all bills paid” 4 years ago and still $900 today.
@@codycast that's an anomaly. What are you even saying? Yes places like that still exist but once again it's rare. Economy is fucked.
They are starting to realize they are going to be living with their kids and grandkids.
Only if they treated their kids well otherwise it'll be "try not to freeze this winter cause idgaf if you live or die"
Better than going into some scam of a nursing home and having the entire inheritance ripped away!
I don't know where they'd be staying, my husband and I are still renting. 💀
That is common place in some countries,it’s a win win for both generations!!
Oh many don’t have kids that tolerate them lol
My dad caught on pretty early. But he's still a boomer who struggles to admit the world they spent most of their life in no longer exists. He'll sometimes default to retorts like "if you cant afford groceries then just dont buy groceries." It's funny watching his brain go through the "no wait that doesn't make sense" process. As if my house magically stocks itself with groceries and i only go to the store because it's fun. I think it's hard for him to know that the only advice he has to give isnt enough to help us anymore and he's in some denial about it because it means he's no longer relevant.
Yea that was my parents until I was in my 40's. My grandparents who got married during the Depression understood properly all along.
Yeah, f the boomers
Typical
They do such mental gymnastics by sport.
Once I say "you still stuck on 80-90s? Such times aint coming back ever again". They snap and shut up.
It does not mean he’s no longer relevant. That’s an awful way to think about your family.
Tell the Boomers to go bootstrap, get a job, and to stop complaining. You know, the same crap they told us!
You just gotta stop buying lattes and avocado toast 🙃
What Blacks have been telling Whites for 50 years+, but yall said BOOTSTRAPS 😂
Tell them to go to college and take out mortgage sized loans for a worthless education and an impossible job market competing for unlivable wages.
@@bleakautomaton4808Inb4 boomers find out we actually live off of ramen and tap water
No sympathies for boomers
They are now realizing, how they voted for 50+ years has consequences.
Housing and renters equivalent is something like 40% of CPI. My state has near low housing inventories. This economy is by design. My town voted in Republicans who promised not to build. Can you believe that? You have countries all around the world that have figured out how to build but in the US people get out their garlic and holy cross if they hear new construction down the block.
They knew exactly what they were doing, burning it out so nobody else could benefit from it. The bill just came due earlier than expected
Elections have always been a fluke. I'm Russian, I know this first hand. Ain't no way the last 3-4 elections we've had had results that weren't faked, and I doubt that all countries are more honest. We've never come out of slavery (and by us I mean the whole world) we just have new names for it.
@@mrceadthey miscalculated badly because unlike young people it'll be much harder to recover at Boomer's current age
True voting blue ruined us
I'm GenX. Hi, Milennials. I graduated from college in 1997. Apartment rents were horrendous and the job market was awful. This has felt wrong for a long time - - to me. It has definitely gotten worse and worse though.
I see you and I hear you.
Boomers left nothing for their descendents. Most of us are working like first generation Americans building a legacy from scratch.
Oh cry me a river. That's not even close to truth. When I started working, after being forced into the military for two years, I made $2.75 an hour so don't tell me about how bad you have it. You just want it NOW and aren't willing to work your way up to it.
Boomers are still alive. (But this will change hard in the next 10 years)
@@DavidCardonaESM Absolutely.
no, the X gen were the 1rst génération of rebuilders. But of course you forgetting us......or do think we are boomers.
Could that be because they are living in the boomers basement.
the truth is nursing home costs have doubled in 8 years. theyre going to feel it when they have to move into their kids apartment as a room mate.
Nope. The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic Charity, has nursing homes where you can dump your Boomer for free. That's where mine is. After getting thrown out at 18 "because the hotel closes at 18" I am totally uninterested in supporting my Boomer mother in any way. I'm 52 and my Millennial kids live with us when they need to or want to. Our house is not a hotel, it's a home. I don't care how old my kids get, so long as I'm alive they will always have a home.
@@nuclear_candy❤❤❤ sorry your mom did this to you 😢 but you’re a good mom for not doing it to your kids. Thank you for not continuing generational trauma and abuse.❤ I hope your mom is ok. No she didn’t make the right choices but I understand your pain.
@@nuclear_candy as a millenial dad at 31, yeah thats pretty much my stance with my son too, his mom and i seperated on friendly terms so all is good, but my little guy will always have his place at my place
Just how it was. It was done to make you stand on your own two feet whether its right or wrong. Happened to my brother and me and we both own multiple properties. I'm gen x. Learn alot about sacrifice when all of a sudden your paying your own way. Before the internet the fella at the pub would just give you a teaspoon of cement with your beer. Mind you we both still drive second hand cars with no aircon.
@@nuclear_candy Makes me feel grateful for my boomers, wow. I'm incredibly sorry and angry that happened to you. Thank you for being kind to your kids and breaking that cycle. ❤️🩹
This Boomer and friends have always agreed with Millennials and Gen Zers about cost of living. Rents and housing prices are ridiculous and you can't find a used car for a reasonable rate.
Here's the other thing you guys got right - corporations will game workers into unpaid work and use threats to get a 40 hour employee to do 60. It's why businesses don't want universal health care. That takes away employee flexibility.
FYI, all Boomers aren't wealthy and many of us have been or are where Millennials are. We feel your pain.
If you actually want to have universal health Care you want to eliminate the entirety of your human rights
I am a Parent and Grandparent supporting Millennials, Gen X, and Gen Z. I remember the So-Called Energy Crisis of 1970. The cost of everything was going up. Trust me nothing has changed.
@@TrevorHambergerhow is that exactly? If everyone who lives in the same country pays the same amount in taxes that goes directly to pay all the people who work in healthcare so when you need help you don’t need to pay…how is that giving away your rights? Our government should also pay for the schooling and education of anyone who chooses a career in healthcare because that is a job that gives back to the wellbeing of humankind and NO-ONE, I repeat, NO ONE should be profiting off of anyone’s illness. Other countries do this and it works. People have been lied to by American propaganda that we can’t have this or that it wouldn’t work. Germans have universal healthcare and even with higher taxes we Americans are paying more than them. We pay more because of how high our deductibles are and we also don’t get a lot of other things that they do. In the end, Americans pay more. Do some research before you spread more lies, please. I for one would rather see my tax money going to universal healthcare than to funding war that kills innocent children, or paying for some stupid wall or more border control. I want more for me and my fellow Americans. Stop defending for profit healthcare when it’s the biggest reason so many Americans die in the first place. People like you are uneducated and have fallen prey of American propaganda.
If you're a boomer and still blaming corporations and business owners for government caused problems, you're lost
@TrevorHamberger Your comment makes zero sense.
Im a boomer, and a retired mortgage specialist. I've been through 2 failed economic disasters. I have also been very vocal and I'm angry that this DOJ did not enforce the laws and this administration didn't understand we were in a war! Bunch of cowards and idiots really underestimated the situation. Unforgivable!!
Remember y'all! This is class war, not generational! Welcome the boomers on board!
Edit: Thank you guys for standing with me on this one. If we want to win we have to #unite. Even if we have legitimate issues with each other. Who knows, maybe after all this is over we'll have more respect for each other. Love you all, never let them divide us.
Who are you kidding?
@@grit1679 It's called divide and conquer. Hating eachother based on age is part of that. You want to win or lose?
Edit: I understand how you feel though. I get it, but this is about defeating a greater evil.
I'm a Boomer. All my Boomer friends and I support Bernie Sanders and have for years. The last election we voted Kamala. The rich and tech bros are your enemy. Not old people. I left home at 14 and worked 3 jobs to get by. No benefits with any job ever. Not everyone had it easy. We still marched for civil rights. I live on just over $1,000 a month and have no retirement, no savings. Took my walker out and marched for BLM. Old people are as diverse as young people.
100%. Generation theory is just another hateful simplification pushed by alt right (Steve Bannon loves it) Scapegoating an age category is such a low level of analysis. So simple. Earth is flat and the (insert generation) is the cause of your problems 🐣
The boomers think they're part of the upper class, but like.. millionaires aren't the problem, billionaires are.
My boomer mother, on her third husband, told me "the hotel closes at 18" and out the door my Gen X ass went. Luckily, my mother has now learned that the nursing home is open 24/7.
Millennials, you deserve so much better. My heart goes out to all of you struggling to make it in this world. I'd rather my taxes go to help you guys, than one penny go to support the "me generation" Boomers.
//My boomer mother, on her third husband, told me "the hotel closes at 18" and out the door my Gen X ass went. //
Single mom, huh?
@stephenkolostyak4087 Nope. Married 3 months after I turned 18, celebrating 35 years this year. First child three years later. We have a total of 4, and they live with us anytime they want or need to. Our house is not a hotel. It's a home.
I do, however, find your comment horrific. One of my adult children is a single father, and lives with us full time. He gained full custody because his girlfriend has personal issues that made her unable to take care of the child. Should we throw out our son and grandson? I cannot imagine throwing out one's own grandchild, for any reason. We warned our son about his child's mother; do we now "punish" both our son and our grandson by abandoning them?
Had any of our children gotten pregnant as a teen, we would have done everything we could to support both our child and our grandchild. The thought of one of our kids out there with one of our grandkids, alone, in this day and age just makes me shudder. At least when I was thrown away I was able to rent an apartment for 275 bucks. As a single person with no dependents I was easily able to afford that. By the time I got married and we had our first child we only paid 425 for a 2 bedroom apartment. If you throw your pregnant child out nowadays, you're dooming your own relatives to homelessness and hunger. Who does that??!
My mother played absolutely no role in our children's lives. She refused to be called "Grammy" in public at age 55, claiming our family "made her look old".
Here's a bit of advice for you: be careful assuming things about others. "Assume makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me".
Go make money. You'll thank them later instead of being a Molly cuddled 25 yr old
Sounding like a whole man baby
Thank you! 🥰
What you're not seeing is that big corporations are responsible, they're gouging and manipulating the markets pure and simple.
Government makes inflation. They're the only ones who can print money
Ppl are just slow 😅 I've grown up
With all the kids in the United States.Because I live in the most overpopulated military town in the United States & sense elementary school,We've all said that by the time we get old, we won't get a social security check.Why was that not the biggest duh about the economy being crappy since back then 😅
Who was voting for that to happen? Making the rich richer to save a buck.. now we all suffer.
No this is the result of bad policies throughout the past 5 generations finally catching up.
@@maren1679yea sure, keep listening to the belly up propaganda machine!!
Gen X survivor here, sandwiched between helping boomer family & Millennial/Gen-Z family & their kids 🤦🏼♀️ worried about how everyone will get on once i sell my home & move abroad later this year, they all have an open invite to follow me, but of course it’s not feasible for everyone to uproot for international relocation, & survival skills will be put to the test, i thank God i was hurled into the official working world at 15 & on my own at 18, work & words don’t teach what life experience does 💪🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🌈☀️
I think “boomers” online had a lot of negative things to say but as someone who works in health care field with the boomer population I have encountered many of them who sympathized as they saw their kids and grand kids struggling with 1500$ rents etc.. just my two cents
There are good ones our rhere!
There are so many older adults who struggle with poverty, they just aren't the ones who get to write the articles.
Boomers in the real world were hippies. Boomers online are trolls posing as boomers.
@@Olive-765 There's one diff b/t the generations. GenZ gets to write the articles regardless of their class status. The vast majority of boomers have never been heard from. But GenZ has been trashing them for years because they don't know that their *hippie values* came from boomers.
My rent in SoCal was that when Clinton was president. That same apartment is 3400 today. Was 100 in 1971 when they were built
I'm 63.. the last of the "Boomers". Never, ever been anywhere close to being a 10%'er. Solidly blue collar with a strong education and artsy streak. Always thought Reagan was an economic arsehole with his "trickledown" bullsh*t. I've watched my meager financial gains be absolutely destroyed by insane housing costs. I have two sons.. 20 and 22.. both good, smart young men. Both are struggling to get a foothold to move forward without a mountain of educational debt that doesn't give them a decent return on their investment.The level of distrust in the systems and workings of our modern society is truly disheartening.
My grandpa is 84. He just is feeling it now because he made his normal order on Amazon last month the bill. 5,700 dollars ! For nothin, a blender some clothes and household items. It used to be 17 or 18 hundred dollars. That was a hard conversation. I can not earn enough money in a month to cover that, and my household. Insane inflation.
Have they tried selling oxycontin? Pharmaceutical sales is a good paying job in the usa.
60yo here. Lived through it too. Between you and me, I'd take Reagan's policies over Obama's "new normal" anytime. I think they're actually two sides of the same uniparty tho. They fight and call names for the cameras, then slap each other on the back and laugh at the country club when we're not looking. My father had a name for them-- rat bastards. Many are beginning to think rat flambay might be a tasty dish.
Yeah it was all Reagan. Nothing to do with Tip O’Neil, or President Carter before him or outrageous Democrats spending ideas. All Reagan. 😂
@@Null-o7j I suggested OF with yo momma.
Cause they didn't care till it affected them. Like all boomers they are the me generation.
Its more like that they just couldn't see it because the economy didn't effect them, at least the vast majority of boomers. It's not an intentional way of putting down younger generations but still their mindset is the reason why things never change, i would still blame them for how things ended up because they don't even attempt to see things from another perspective
@AlyssaKohuth AMEN! EVERYONE keeps missing, their own parents called them "The Me Generation"
@AlyssaKohuth YEP! Everyone forgets what their own parents called them, "The Me Generation!"
100! And let's not forget, their parent's gave them that title!
@AlyssaKohuth 100! And let's not forget, their parent's gave them that title!
I’m GenX. There’s a reason we are called “The forgotten generation.” Once again when the discussion is about generations, it goes straight from bloomers to millennials. And most of us have also been trying to get through to the Boomers (our parents).
Yyyyyup, about 5 years ago my dad stopped calling me and my brothers lazy and useless and started saying we shouldn’t even try to buy a house anymore. That’s when I knew I’d finally won. 😊
If you call that winning, then I guess lol.
@@garylsorrell when you're living through shit you need to take whatever you can
@@garylsorrell when you're living through bs you need to take whatever you can
@@garylsorrell when life sucks you need to take whatever you can
Sorry to break it to you buddy, but neither you or anybody else is “winning” in this economy. Hilarious thought though.
Not all boomers were out of touch. Lots of them are the ones helping their children and grandchildren
For real! Wouldn't have anything if it wasn't for my grandparents I would have been homeless, my Grandma was a nurse and my grandpa was a farmer boy then a a bunch of different jobs like audio tech in the 80s and taxi cab driver in the 90s and then a school bus driver, they were never rich and it's sad to see them live so poor still :( I'm also poor myself it's more due to job availability in my city I do home health but it only gets so much and I live with my fiance and his parents. We get by ok at least. My mom refuses to work for anything and lives off the government though and it's sad
My general experience is that Silents & Boomers had wisened up by the time their grand children came around, but were still in la-la land for their own children. But better late than never.
They have a home..that they own..and their own yard..it must be so nice..I'm going to shut up before I start crying again
This is so real💔
Thats how i get to sleep at night... or a beer. Only therapy i can afford.
own nothing and be happy (or free) whatever the autocrats of wef say
I mean a house back then costed a couple blueberries and it’s payed off
Go to town no one‘s heard of you’ll find houses for under 100,000 Trust me. You might have to commute an hour to work but
It would probably help the inflation situation if the federal government wasn't spending $2 trillion more than it brings in.
Finally. Someone who sees the real problem.
Part of that is due to the government refusing to do proportional taxation. If the billionaires paid their fair share we could afford the very much needed infrastructure bill that was passed. Instead the orange dude is going to cut taxes further for the rich. How is the budget supposed to get fixed if they don't bring in money? You can bleed out the people at the bottom we have nothing left to give.
considering something like 46% of the government's budget is going to assist older people (as in 65+), it's a little surprising that they are struggling
@@tacticallemon7518 boomergibs and oil wars. None of it necessary.
Boomer: the real ME generation. Grew up in the best economy in history and feel like they had it rough.
💯
Literally, they were born right after the great depression and WW2.
Poor sniveling whiny thing.
They also think they're the hardest working
@@FabulousCucumber-ip9humy dad’s a boomer, he is one the hardest working men I’ve ever met. Many of his friends are the same way too.
Life is hard in every generation. And yet every generation compares itself and blames each other for hardships (old and young).
When the real people we should be blaming all along is our corrupt governments and leaders.
Corrupt governments and leaders have been screwing people over for millennia, causing rifts between everyone and everything. We need to stop blaming each other (stop playing the self-pity parties) and focus on the real root cause of our issues.
Whole system is getting ready to collapse. It always speeds up at the end.
Okay Mr. Conspirancy 🙃
@@HeyHoUndSoWhere’s the Gold to back America up ? You think printing money out will ever bring us to a reduced inflation ? Now money in Fort Knox you do know that right !!
@@HeyHoUndSo Being an ostrich with your head in the sand and simultaneously sneering at people who are worried about multiple signs of a major economic crisis is going to age like the finest of milks.
@@HeyHoUndSoconspiracy? Have you not been paying attention? Everything is falling apart. It’s not a conspiracy, open your eyes
@@HeyHoUndSo Okay hotshot, explain how the way it's going can ever last
I farm and I have an older neighbor in his seventies who runs cattle. We've talked about this for at least 8 years how prices are out of line. We mostly focus on ag, but what we notice is that for what land is selling for, paying for it with either cattle or farming is nearly impossible. Asset prices are too high for the return that they are capable of generating be it farm ground or housing.
This is SUCH an important part of the conversation! Thank you for sharing!
The reasons asset prices are so high is due to: 1.Bank credit lending being out of control, Instead Bank credit lending needs to be focused on productive lending for productive purposes. 2. Central bank FED, printing money but the Financial institutions are using that the put everyone into excess debt. That includes government. The financiers, elites, etc. collect huge interest but takes more and more money out of everyone's pockets.
Yup, then trump and musk just tanked the CR, which had funds to help farmers through the winter. Welcome to the trump oligarchy. If you thought it was bad before, we ain't seen nothing yet
My parents own a farm. They had to take their farm trucks to gas up and also had cans to fill for the tractors.... A man with his little vehicle coup at the next pump laughed at them when they coughed at the price of gas. The man scoffed at them and told them they should have smaller vehicles! My parents laughed right back at him and said they are farmers and asked him if he liked the price of groceries or how their cost to distribute them felt to him, cuz that's where it comes from. They said the man looked guilty immediately and apologized. Ppl DO NOT understand the issues. Sad.
@@AJtraductora I know people who have gotten caught driving on the street with farm diesel (no road tax) in their truck. If your parents do this, they need to be careful.
GenX here...your continuing rivalry with your parents is mighty entertaining to watch. Feels good to be forgotten.
I'm Gen X who saw my educated Boomer parents struggle for other reasons (father was headhunted; moved across the country for that job; was promised a lot of stuff that was never put in writing and didn't happen; struggled to get a home until the mid-90s because mortgage lenders in the 80s still required years of stability). I'm glad because it allowed me to see reality. But it breaks my heart that my father had to step out of retirement because a part time job was necessary income. Now it looks like my mother will also have to.
And we have two terrified young adults who can see the value of higher ed (trade or academics) but can't figure out how to make it work without either starving through apprenticeships or taking out loans they don't see as a reasonably opportunity cost. They became adults at pretty much the suckiest time.
Consider taking them abroad to study.
My son managed it by working his way up through the ranks in auto repair. His father did electronic repairs and could do a bit in auto repair. That gave him a grounding and an advantage in diagnostics.
Then he worked a lot of shite jobs until he could get a better paying job. So, a hard slog, but no educational debt.
The stepping out of retirement thing is real. My dad keeps talking about retiring and I keep saying it's not realistic and how if he leaves his work he'll be shooting himself in the foot by being unable to find the same kind of pay. Its bad enough he was passed over for promotions constantly because of his age (they don't say that, but it became obvious after several times trying to get the district manager position... they only picked younger people). Meanwhile I miss when my mom wasn't working, but realistically that supplemental income has been saving their bottoms. She was originally only working to get to the next tiers of social security.
Me? I gave up on looking for work. My permanent injuries knock out most options available to me (can't stand for long periods, can't lift more than five pounds) and no one cares about degrees, just experience. Plus my last job threatened me so much that it has left me completely neurotic in regards to work and authority; I had panic attacks every day if I didn't take medicine for that. Apparently that's not normal. Neither is getting vertigo and nausea at the sheer prospect of going. Fun times! And that's what happens if you threatened an employee that you'll fire them if they miss a single extra day of work without a sick day to cover it... when the prior days they missed were required by company policy (i.e.: you're not allowed to come in with covid, stay home if the roads are icy and dangerous. ...oh and you don't get sick days until you've worked for six months anyway). Garbage place. They were scared when they fired me (guess why) because I had a ridiculous number of client compliments on that floor. I was great at my job. Their loss. Mine too.
Well.....I went through a LOT of that.....from 1982, until about 1993 (unfortunate events, bad timing, etc.).....things should have been better than that for the youth, by now.....
@availanila we might need a bit more money, but one is looking!
This isnt inflation. This is PRICE GOUGING
Greedflation
Thank you. Record profits say it all.
No. It's inflation.
@@polywog9591 Kroger admitted they raised prices on basic groceries over 3 times what inflation justified and bragged that there's nothing anyone can do about it
Well, to be fair, it's both. Inflation is fairly global. It's actually more under control in the US than other places. The price gouging is definitely out of control though.
I don't think ignorance is even an excuse anymore. You literally have the library of all human knowledge at our fingertips. My generation is still mostly living at home with our parents because of this. The boomers were supposed to keep planting trees for their children and grandchildren. Not chop down the whole forest laid by the Silent generation and prior so that they can each own 3 vacation homes and 12 air BNBs around the world. I am only living independently from blind luck but even that I fear is about to end.
Your generation is still mostly living at home because your boomer parents allow it. It sounds like they can afford it because they made some wise investments. Have you ever asked them about the sacrifices or difficult choices they made as young adults?
Exactly. They fcked up big time .
Well said!
Eh, living at home should have always been normalized as it is in so many cultures. It has a lot of benefits.
I tried to show a comparative graph about housing prices to my boomer parent, and he literally looked for any reason to tell me the graph was not accurate. "Yeah, but we had 13% interest rates!" What's 13% of $300k compared to 6% of $1mil? (Hint: it's half as much)
I am a late boomer, 1962.
I have been singing this tune for a long time. You are absolutely right. Our generation dropped the ball..
Boomers had decades to vote for economic policies for long-term prosperity. If they are starting to hurt now due to shortsighted policies, while they still hold so much voting power, that's their fault. I will not be voting to help them at all. Meanwhile, I've given up on SS altogether and will be planning my retirement assuming SS dries up.
The only policy that matters is stopping immigration. And that has not been up for a vote, except when people vote for liar Manchurian candidates and there was one referendum in California that was overruled by a Jewish judge.
If humans acted with the long term in mind we would have colonized the solar system decades ago, solved climate change and be living in a utopia right now, unfortunately boomers couldn't think longer than tomorrow and they just didn't bother to fix our issues while they had the chance
I'm a Boomer. All my Boomer friends and I support Bernie Sanders and have for years. The last election we voted Kamala. The rich are your enemy. Not old people. I left home at 14 and worked 3 jobs to get by. No benefits with any job ever. Not everyone had it easy. We still marched for civil rights. I live on just over $1,000 a month SS and have no retirement, no savings. Took my walker out and marched for BLM. Old people are as diverse as young people. Please stop dividing people by their age.
The only thing that generates economic policies that benefit workers are strikes.
I put my money into whatever investment seems sound long term. Even have different collections of stuff that may actually be worth something when I'm in my 70s.
I can't believe it took Boomers going through their own turmoil to realize that we Millennials and the Zoomers knew what we were talking about all these years.
snake eating its own tail basically
It just has to boil to the point where even they feel the pain lol
they don't care about anyone other than themselves. They still don't... they're just pissy it's happening to them too now.
Young people struggling? THEN WHY DO THEY OWN A SMART PHONE
If you Millenials and Zoomers had a clue, worked hard, made good decisions, etc. then you wouldn't be struggling. My son is Gen Z... worked his way through college, graduated with honors with a serious degree, got a good job, basic apartment and car so he can pay his student loans and save for the future. He is doing it... WHY CAN'T YOU?
Now we all know where they can put that avocado toast, do we?
That one always bugged me because I've literally never eaten avocado toast 😂
@Someguynamed
A poor choice of condiment that costs extra.
@SomeguynamedExactly what it sounds like. Toast with avocado mashed on it.
As someone who likes both toast and avocado, it’s meh at best. I’d rather have an over medium egg on it instead.
Won’t the avocado fall apart in the toaster?
But in all seriousness if you want a nice treat slice an avocado lengthwise after you remove the seed and lay the slices on a greased baking sheet then crack an egg on top of each one and bake them. Serve with some garnish.
I say treat because omg eggs are $7.00 for 18!
@@AezlyndWanderin Those egg prices aren't going down until they fix the avian flu virus that has been killing birds by the millions. And that isn't going to happen any time soon because GenZ men just voted to put RFK in charge of viruses, which he thinks are proteins. Get ready for $7 per egg. And if you don't like it, recall that an entire generation of GenZ men who *should* know better, voted for that.
Meanwhile Gen X is paying for our parents AND our children. We’re not going to make it.
Imagine us Gen X folks coming of employment age in the early 90s behind the Boomers. Boy were they haters when the saw us arriving with our far better computer skills and openness to newer technologies. I hated working under most of them who viewed us a threat and not a colleague.
Gen X was a good time to start working. You had a nice run in the 90's to get careers going and houses were very cheap then. You were lucky to be too young to buy houses in the 80's when interest rates went crazy. Gen X got to buy houses after that crashed house prices. Milennials graduated into the 08 crash and were dead on arrival in the workplace. Some milennials who did a trade did way better and were able to buy a house In the 2000's before prices really went crazy. If thry bought in their mid 20's with a journeyman wages it was possible then. We didn't know how expensive housing would get. I waited too long. Thank god for alberta.
@@rustyscrapper Many of us who graduated from.college in the early 90s graduated into a horrible economy left by George Bush Sr. It took several years for people to find a decent job. We placed a lot of hope in Clinton.....that's another story!
This RUclipsr never mentions GEN X
Does he know we exist?!
@@valeriefromoregon Millenials are Boomer offspring so we are very frequently just ignored or forgotten as we have always been.
I could see this.
WOW! It’s almost like having empathy and not being a selfish person benefits EVERYONE! Woah! Who woulda thought?
Please tell that to our next president.
they were in denial precisely because they knew there is nothing they could do about it anyway. You can vote but your vote won't have any effect. Yes they could have voted better and if enough people did that different liars would be voted in.
"It’s almost like having empathy and not being a selfish person benefits EVERYONE! Woah! Who woulda thought?"
If only GenZ men had voted that way. Instead they voted for fascism and higher prices and no empathy for anyone except billionaires and "oppressed white christians."
@@krishannam1346Elon???
@krishannam1346 or how about our current one? At least the next president's party didn't ignore voters and shame them for caring more about being able to pay bills than about 50 genders and abortion.
Truth. My mother is almost 80 and now I’m helping her with food/bills because she can’t make ends meet on a fixed income. We need to protect Social Security and be there for the working class - all generations. Contrary to social media, a lot of boomers did not have a great life.
@@avril.227 no boomers had a great life people forget that even the wealthy were jumping out windows when the stock market crashed. My grandma use to tell me about patchwork dresses made out of sugar and flour sacks. Her brothers britches made from seed and grain sacks which her mother used to bleach out logos from. Milk bottle returns and even city people had chicken coops.
The economy has been rigged to benefit the rich only and they will call you a radical lazy leftist community ists for the things you stated just to save their ass.
You are speaking the truth!! As a boomer, I didn't have the best life with opportunities or dealing with consequences as a result of a life of crime. I can say that I have a dry roof over my head, some food in the house, able to keep up with my bills and squeaking a quarter to get pennies by the grace of God. Praise the Lord!!!
Gen X here and my baby boomer parents had a hard life. This clown makes it sound like boomers had the easiest life on the planet. Try going to Nam at 18 years old. In fact my dad's entire senior class graduated and all joined the military.
I'm in my 60's. My mother is nearing 90. My oldest is 40+ and my youngest is 30+. I've long known the financial state my children were having to deal with, and it's no picnic for us (me and my husband) either. Blaming ALL of my generation is just as ridiculous as calling ALL people my kids' ages "lazy and spoiled." My kids all work, they don't expect anything handed to them; I've watched them struggle, I've helped when I could and still do. Unfortunately, I'm sandwiched in between helping my mother and helping them while caring for a husband with a (thank heaven, so far, slowly) degenerative disease that will eventually take him from me. You're so right that not all boomers have had it easy and aren't deaf, dumb, and blind.
Preach brother, this problem is spread far and wide across the world. We are in a housing/living crisis in AUS. I knew about 2 years ago the idea of ever actually buying a house was fleeting. It's now become impossible unless you have family support to rely on. Like you I will continue to point out the seemingly obvious.. This system is broken and does not work.
They’re quiet because they suddenly realized they might lose their social security now.
if that's why they voted for, then I'm happy that's what they're going to get.
Amen 😂 to us all 🙏
@@craig6363As a boomer, I did NOT vote for this because I did NOT vote for Trump, ever.
Losing one's Social Security is a good reason NOT to be quiet.
I'm just realizing that you guys on this thread might be the children and grandchildren of the racist, xenophobic, misogynist people who voted for Trump. Am I right?
Also, there are not enough boomers to vote Trump into office by ourselves (though I never voted for him), so some people in the younger generations must have voted for him, too. Also, to my recollection, most of the yelling Trumpers I've seen in video clips, including most of the protesters and insurrectionists on January 6, 2021, were not old. Am I right there, too?
This is the comment I was looking for. Melanie, my parents have never voted for him, either, but we all know many Boomers have.
Anyone who has disposable income and hasn’t done so already can join AARP. There’s no age requirement anymore, and they lobby for laws that protect things like Social Security and Medicare. Your first year is only $12.
My grandmother (born in 1939) complained a few years back when all of the city's property taxes were readjusted. Grandpa had passed 6 months beforehand, so his social security income was gone. Grandma was worried that she would lose the house.
Yeah, the only reason that I have my own house as a millennial is because I inherited it from my parents. My family of three is only possible because my fiancé found a really good factory job and I stay at home with our child.
Childcare is more expensive than what I could earn working a full-time, minimum wage job. But no minimum wage job would let me work full-time because then they would have to give me benefits like health insurance.
This
That's the design Boomers built for us. 🤷♂️
I'm so hatef-... erm, I mean, happy that you're fortunate enough to have a house. It's such a blessing and I genuinely hope you get to hang onto it and continue passing it down as a life raft to your family.
@@thetwistinside2857 Doesn't feel like a blessing. I got it after my mom died from breast cancer. I drove her to radiation, chemo appointments along with to and from her bilateral mastectomy.
I acted as her hospice nurse, had to watch as she wasted away after deciding to stop eating and drinking.
Sure, I live in my childhood home. I realize how very rare that is, but my mom didn't get to see our first fruit harvest. She wasn't there when I gave birth, and she won't be there at my wedding.
We have all been dealt a horrible hand, and it is getting worse with older folks not retiring due to inflation and Social Security not being so secure.
Things need to change. There is no such thing as "the middle class"; we are all "the working class". We are living paycheck to paycheck, begging for raises and more overtime while we're all burning from both ends. We can't leave it up to the 1% to make change; they like how things are. They are the *reason* things are this way.
Being able to inherit a home has been shown to be a significant factor in being able to generate wealth. When you (not you, specifically) leave your kids/grandkids with nothing, you can't be surprised when they have, well, nothing!
I forgot who first said it but "t's a recession when your neighbor loses his job n a depression when you lose yours." Lot of wisdom in this. Of course it's natural for things to affect us more when they happen to us. There are also people too busy or preoccupied with their own life responsibilities n even challenges to think much about others especially if we don't think there is much we can do to help anyway. Such people are not necessarily bad or uncaring people but if you know someone personally who is struggling n all they want from you is acknowledgement of their reality and all you can do is blame them or make them feel less than with your judgements,lack of empathy and understanding, well then you have crossed over into a pretty crappy person. If the person you are judging, shaming,deriding especially without knowing much of the details is a family member you claim to love, you don't actually love them at all.
They are complaining and expecting their Gen X children to dip into their funds to help them pay for their lifestyle.
I've never understood different generations bashing each other. It's pointless. We are all in this world together and should be supporting each other. Every generation has something valuable to offer.
Boomers started it. We’re just their punching bags.
@@seasonsstarsstudios boomers didn't start the inter gen bashing....it has been like this forever !
Because different generations are raised in different environments and when they see people reacting differently to different situations, they can't help but judge despite not realizing everyone doesn't have the same background
@@immyownperson1375Fact is, a lot of people lack empathy.
Fact is, a lot of people are shit human beings.
@@immyownperson1375
Was about to type similar. Thank you.
I feel bad, obviously, because no one deserves to feel financially insecure…
BUT IT FEELS GOOD TO BE RIGHT!!!
Yessss!! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
Nobody deserves it, but damn some people really asked for it
"No one deserves to feel financailly insecure"... WRONG. People who don't work hard, don't save, spend foolishly, don't learn a valuable trade or get a worthwhile degree DO deserve to feel insecure.
@a1aprospects470 hah, you've got issues. Hope you can work through them someday
@youtubecommentator6023 You just gave the standard reply of someone who can't discuss facts... attack someone whose viewpoint you don't like. Pathetic.
Yep, I've noticed. Multiple of my uncles (+my dad) are unable to find jobs that pay them a living wage or have 401k... And starting to figure out that they're lucky if they find a job at all. Especially in IT. One of them, along with several others I know, have switched away from IT after 1-2 years of job searching. Others are coming out of retirement and working again because inflation ate through their retirement budget.
Same here. My husband's step-dad used to tell him off all the time about him not able to find a job after his company laid of 25%. Only when step-dad was laid off too and wasn't able to find a job in IT a year later... well he ended up retiring instead because the job market was terrible and doesn't mention the job thing anymore
IT is a young man's game. Good luck after 50...
You mean greedflation.
@@chiaralisticaGood luck after AI takes over IT.
@@flutini1 I'm honestly thankful that I'm 50. The younger folks are really going to have a tough time.
Gen X here… from what I’ve seen of my peer group and above, they’re just distracted by finding ways to blame you for it. They still seem pretty loud condemning Gen Z for the breakdown of society or something. “These kids today…” yeah, never heard that before, Methuselah. I mean, they started out blaming us in the 90s after they got tired of blaming their parents for everything and blaming time for making them become their parents.
My experience is that a narcissistic golden child generation like theirs will never really become any more self-aware. Those among them capable of grasping reality did so in the 60s and never stopped. The rest sink deeper into senility.
hell yeah class consciousness is at all time high baby
Only true war is class war. Hello, comrade? ❤
it’s great to see, unfortunately i think it won’t last long. it’ll just be a trend and when things get just ever so slightly better people will drop the issue and it’ll be right to where we started.
@@MsJMHS workers of the world unite greeting from indonesia
@@javantm1676Yeah, unite in hunger. Is the 11 millionth time y’all try it and it inevitably falls into tyranny and scarcity going to be the one that magically works? Or will it just be another “not real communism” example?
@@NameorsomethingIdunno aww that's cute, didn't know american in both it's military and corporation operation are in the name of socialism did shell ruin the amazon in the name of anarchism? ohhh i guest brits was communist as they carved up the global south.
sorry buddy but facts don't care about your lil fee fee
Lots of older people, especially women, have student debt, will never own a home, are very low income, and have no choice but to work well beyond the retirement age. Class solidarity is better than pitting generations against each other
Exactly right! The 1% wants us fighting each other instead of uniting and taking back our country. This is NOT young vs. old, left vs. right, white vs. black/brown/red/yellow, etc., cis vs. LGBTQIA+--it's the 99% (that's ALL OF US HERE) vs. the 1%. Bashing each other accomplishes nothing. BTW, there are LOTS of boomers (and some Silent Generation members) who DO see what the younger generation is going through and we want to right those wrongs.
Thank you 🙏
@Staronqueen Partly just speaking from my own experience; but then I learned that I was not alone, there are many of us
Exactly!
Yes!!
I just read in a local group a woman’s mortgage was 950 6 years ago and she’s paying 1800 now with the property tax increases. She doesn’t know what to do bc she’s being priced out of her home literally. It’s so fucking sad!!
She needs to contest it. There’s a max per year on a homestead they can increase it
Those numbers sound made up, but the sentiment behind it is all too real
When I bought my house the mortgage was 930. 11 years later it’s 1100. Last year it was 960 jumped to 1055 due to insurance and jumped to 1100 due to taxes. I really need to look into reducing my insurance
This is why a lot of elderly are having to take out reverse mortgages on their homes. Despite what people think, they don't all have a lot in retirement savings, and if they're living on social security alone, the average ss benefit is about $1,500/mo.
The part of the country you live in, the city or town all factors in, in the housing market. No telling where anyone lives who are commenting here.
Think about the price of Cars!! They cost more than houses use to! Did Boomers do that to ourselves??? Decades ago, starting, in the 70s, we had a few barely used cars. A few had no a/c. One new, and drove it to 100k miles. 'I' bought the next car new out of fear, and drove it for 10 yrs to 110k miles, when the replaced engine went out. I bought my current car when it was 3yrs old and is now 18 years old. It's a means of transportation. It has 145k miles. My insurance has nearly doubled. Did I do that to myself?? Do I need all of the bells and whistles that are now standard on most cars?? I'm crossing my fingers I can pay for repairs to keep it going. The Power steering barely turns!! I buy fluid regularly. I was recently advised to get new tires, again, while I can get some credit on these. I can get some credit on my two year old battery, so that's getting replaced in a few days.
I nearly lost my house twice. The furnace, a/c and hot water tank are all 25+ years old. I'm crossing my fingers on those, too. Did Boomers raise the prices of those to screw ourselves??? Then there's the roof!
So, be careful about blaming Boomers. Many of us lived within our means a lot more closely than you think.
I'm a boomer. Been with you 100% of the way.
Nah, the only reason they're behaving themselves is they don't want the younger generations to start pushing for medicare/social security reductions.
Reduce them now. Why am I paying for their retirement and not my own?
Seriously, system is broken and we will get nothing. Can I keep my money and invest it myself?
This issue is the one I care about the most. Let me save what I pay into SS and I won’t need a corrupt government worrying about my own retirement!!!
Be careful what you sow. Because eventually you will reap what you sow. You are allowing the oligarchs to vilify people so you think taking away benefits will help you in the end. Their purpose is to reduce their own taxes and increase their profits. If everyone paid SS tax we could reduce the percentage as well as fund the system to the betterment of everyone. Instead they keep pushing to reduce their overall taxes while claiming it’s this gender, that generation, these people supporting those politics are the bad guys while giving everything to the corporations and leaving nothing for the average citizen. Don’t be duped.
Already happening the younger generation don't work normal job which means no money being put into taxes
A lot of us Gen X are hurting too. I know people my age who choose between paying rent and eating everyday. I am partially disabled, but have been denied disability, and have almost nothing to my 50+ years. I was able to work for a few years, but then couldn't afford rent anywhere. I would be homeless without them,. Now I have age-related issues and may have to stop working again. I will probably never have my own home.
I'm Gen Jones. I had kids later, in my thirties.
If I hadn't, I would not have understood how hard it also is for younger gens to get a job. A decent job. We have seen it with the housing market for years.
We've seen it for a LONG time.
and then on top of our own struggles, if we have parents who need a little help, we feel terrible about not being in any kind of financial position to do much (if anything) about it. it's a sick, sad world.
Gen Xers are the ones that talked a lot smack during the elections. They are the worst offenders of not knowing what things cost now.
Gen Xers are the worst offenders of not knowing what things cost now 😑
Yeah. Went through that during covid… rent or food. It’s funny when people comment: you’re so nice and thin, how do you stay that way? And I want to say “poverty”. (I know not all struggling people are thin.)
Millennials are FOURTY F'KIN years old ain't nobody telling us SH*T
@@schooloftonyhumphries2647 it spelled forty. But nobody can tell you anything obviously not your teachers either.
@@Jane5720proper spelling isn't crucial, cus people like you show and correct it....
@ it’s important to some, people that will make a difference in your future will care.
Unfortunately, people passed judgment on poor spelling, then they question your intellect, ponder that .
40 and 30
what about f'kin and sh*t??? Please tell us all how to kerrectly spell those😂your grammar better be spot on for these Internet experts in the comment section or they may not listen to what they're reading! 😂
Boomer here. Many many many of us never threw off on younger people. I have felt it. I have felt every punch since wage stagnation began in the 80s. Wage theft. I want my money back with interest. Thank you. That is all.
They’re not understanding brother, they’re just dying
gen Z are not my "brothers" there is no millennial AND gen Z there is one and the other.
And leaving BILLIONS to us! But that never gets mentioned because it goes against the political narrative to beat up out parents and grandparents.
@@maxthelab8457 Might wanna look into where those billions actually are, chief. Most of us aren't going to see one red cent of it.
Let them
@@milesobrien4231 If it legally belongs to your parents and they will it to you then you WILL see it.
I’m Gen x and I’ve been calling out the boomers for 30 years now. My own parents will die in debt which the sale of their home might cover after the funerals.
They don't have life insurance?
@ nothing impactful
Get them to do a Transfer Upon Death Title!! It will make the house pass probate and not be eligible in the Medicare lookback period!! And it will not be considered part of their estate by creditors!! It guarantees the house will go straight to the beneficiaries listed on the deed!!
Debt usually goes with death. Unless you mean what they owe on their house, which can be taken over by you or sold. You’re doing fine!
@@TheLeijosa ABSOLUTELY NOT!! If a person's assets pass into probate upon death then debt collectors have the right to contact the spouse, lawyer or executor and collect the debt! If it's a house, and the owner used Medicare to pay for a nursing home before death, then Medicare will lool back 7 years for assets in the estate and force their sale!!! My father was forced by Medicare to sell my grandmothers house because of that. That made my mother finally get the TTOD done to protect her home.
Good observation. I'm a Boomer & Gen X because I was born a year into one and right before the other. I figured this out 30 years ago. There were property owners/businesses that let their greed get the best of them and it worked out in their favor. I heard all of the chatter first hand. First of all, downtown was taken over thru eminent domain. Businesses and homeowners who had been there for decades were forced to give up their homes and businesses, some since earlier 1900s. Apartment buildings were refurbished into condos at 3x the previous rent if not higher. Downtown was bulldozed to make way for huge venues, etc. There were many with dollar signs in their eyes that truly didn't care what happened to anyone. Property taxes have not only been higher, they were illegally inflated. The property taxes didn't pass audit, but the overcharge wasn't returned. So elders who worked all their lives and paid off their homes and retired are sellng their homes because they can't pay the property taxes especially with valuation being insane on top of that. They are being forced to give up their homes as a result. I purchased a 2 bedroom home in the mid 1980s for $35,000. That same house now has a market price well over $250,000. I wouldn't even be able to rent that home now. It isn't just inflation. Add to that all the short term rentals now or property owners who just rent month to month now because they got burned during covid. This has been going on for decades. It will get worse now. Welcome to the shite show. 😊
We had a family meeting and as a result of that we 3 generations bought land with a house and decked out sleepout and put a granny flat on it too. It's win win...shared expenses and we all have our own space. We feel very blessed because we have a quality of life that would not be the same if we d not been sharing.
@@lornasherwood1373Blessed indeed because not everyone comes from good family that can make things work!
You're Generation Jones. We have nothing in common with boomers. I was a latchkey kid. And I'm 62; Our generation was the first to have social security full retirement age raised to age 67.
Hey champ I always supported the young adults in this country. On other platforms I always stated that higher education should be affordable. That corporate rental property was forcing rents up. That the young people today should have the same opportunities as we had in the 60s and 70s.
And how about the credit system wasn’t even introduced in there U.S. until 1989?! So we’re trying to survive under a system that they didn’t even have to! It’s the audacity for me.
"the credit system"?
@@jlspracherDo you live in America….? If you do and don’t know that it takes creditworthiness (as in a certain credit score) to obtain much of ANYthing of large purchase- a house, a car, for some people:, furniture, etc…… welp, you have MUCH more remedial lessons to learn than what I can teach you here. Good luck! 🍀
@@therealkoolaidandkale you made it sound like credit didn't exist exist at all so... It's not my fault that you can't be specific. You should work on that. It will make life so much easier. Merry Christmas
I bet the credit rating system was instituted to reduce favoritism/classicism/sexism/racism that had. Been inherent in the system and make it more objective.
@@jameswilkerson4412 or for banks to make more money, but your is also true
I'm the oldest of the GenXers, born in 1965...right on that fence where they don't consider me a Boomer, but I also don't feel like GenX. I've known for years that Millennials were going to get a raw deal, left to clean up all the c.rap of the older generations. It's not fair, I totally agree. FWIW, I have nothing saved up and don't see retirement in my future.
Google "Gen Jones" and you may that find your fellow peeps feel the same. :)
'68 here and my partner will never get to retire. He has a crooked back but still works as a service manager in the motorcycle industry. He is in massive debt and no retirement savings. Life sucks.
It’s Citizens United: this is an ongoing problem since its inception in 2010. The minute that passed, we have been careening towards today’s world.
That’s your answer and everyone reading this should call their Representatives and Senators and tell them to get rid of it.
Sir, congrats on seeing a peice.
But your true warning sign was in 2008, during that massive bubble poping that lead to the debt crisis the entire world is facing.
That can be said to be the root, but even then that taproot sinks deep into history.
A whole lot of short term decisions+ corruption+ complacentcy+ a end of history mentality+ ignorance+ the education system making people less able to critically think for themselves generation after generation. Ect.
Its a Supreme Court decision not a federal law. Congress can't do anything unless it's to pass a constitutional amendment. But even if they did Citizens United was just the final nail in the coffin, not the root cause.
Gen X has been holding it down. People act like we are doing super well.
We're not😅
Gen X here and I’ve been trying to educate Boomers on the economic realities faced by Millennials and now Gen Z for a couple of decades…. It’s crazy what they don’t get unless it affects them personally
nobody likes to listen to us GenX'ers... sadly.
we're usually right!
“A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold” -Justice John Paul Stevens
The Founders said they didn’t think we could have a republic if there was a great difference in wealth. The governments sanctioned few corporations which were only for build large projects and then ended. In a free market the government doesn’t charter corporations therefore there are no corporations in a free market.
Could have stopped the quote at "effectively"
Thank you for keeping Gen X out of this debate!
- a Gen X’er
You guys largely got fucked by the great recession, your generation knows how rough things can be and didn't chat shit about just drinking less coffee.
Haha we’re always ignored!
We always get screwed, but as we say "whatever"😂
Gen X is actually the problem right now… 😏
How so?
I'm a Boomer. I've been with you all the way. This is corporate greed. I fully intend on working until I'm 70 and then I'm only hopeful that I might get social security.