How Old People Took Over The World
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The average age of a public company CEO is now 58 years old, the average Director is 63…
The average member of Congress is over 60, and the only reason the incoming senate isn't the oldest ever elected is because so many of its members are dying in power pulling down the calculation.
If Donald Trump serves his entire term he will be the oldest president in history… after replacing the oldest president in history…
And don’t worry we are not alone, the leaders of the two most populous countries in the world India and China are also 74 and 71 respectively.
The AVERAGE person living in the world today is on AVERAGE ruled over by someone FORTY years older than them… and it all happened because of a few small demographic changes…
So how did old people take over the world?
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A few months ago I got into an online argument with someone in town, supposedly a 60-70 year old man who claimed he owned 7 properties in town and rented 6 of them out. He claimed young people, including his own daughter, were too stupid and lazy to buy a house. Like my dude, you own them all!!!
I wouldnt want someone under 35 heck 45 who has history even attempting to lead
the end of the vid reminded me of my first corporate job, it was crazy, basically i had my job, a week in they were like oh you need to fill in for insert elderly employee while they use their pto, they were gone the whole week, the following week two elderly women took off... mad overtime immediately, rinse repeat, i was like dang they take a lot of time off, my boss gaslit me like "no they just take this week off every year youll get your turn," new employee policy was 10 days pto no accrue/rollover. about a month in i bumped into a secretary getting coffee who was super nice, shortly into small talk she was like "are you doing alright?" yes just fine, and you? "well i just worry about the new employees being taken advantage of since the older ones have so much pto, they dont hire to compensate it so the new guy ends up working multiple jobs..."
turns out the company used to have a policy every year of employment added three days to annual pto no limit. so the entire department who had been there for +/- 40 years had ~120 days of pto, four months worth of pto not including holidays and weekends!
she spilled the beans i am forever greatful, its crazy the benefits/pensions companies used to hand out
Sell that soap, baby!
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The line missing in the beginning is "...and the average male, who served, worked and paid taxes their whole life doesn't live as long as any of those averages"
it seems like the bottom line is, they took opportunities and slammed the door behind them. we're playing musical chairs with people who are not getting up when the music plays.
And then they get angry at you when you try to move them and disqualify them. like they earned that chair for life.
Wrong. How did seniors take over? Penicillin. Life expectabcy was 47 before it. It is now well over 25 years longer than that. If you don't die, you live longer, you work longer, you get more stuff, and you need it longer before you pass on what is left to your kids.
@lon8983 that would be one of those "opportunities" to which i referred, yes.
So I don’t think penicillin alone would have done all of this. Did you watch the video? Penicillin isn’t really responsible for wealth disparity within a generation. Penicillin didn’t create the Internet. Penicillin alone didn’t create the large baby boom cohort. There are entire books written about the baby boom cohort, and it’s really not as simple as the invention of penicillin
@@lon8983they aren’t passing anything to their kids is the issue. Most still want to work into their elder years, many live at home and or rent out their properties. Jobs and land/houses have never been passed down. This is why genx but mostly millennials have gotten shafted so badly , all the upper roles still taken by greedy old people.
My personal favorite was that Texas Congresswoman who stopped showing up for work and was eventually found by a reporter in a nursing home for dementia patients. We're so f**ked.
SHE WAS THERE 6 MONTHS AND STILL COLLECTING A PAYCHECK
@@jmyuh8130If a 30 year old did that at any job they’d be fired. If a 16 year old did that at god damn McDonald’s they’d be fired.
We are only f’d if we allow ourselves to be. Don’t allow it to happen.
@miranda-ok7ed They wouldn’t just be fired, they’d be imprisoned for fraud. But it’s okay when old politicians and elites do it. Don’t forget, the welfare state is only bad when it helps regular people, and it’s good when it “subsidizes” corporations and wealthy elites.
She was found MONTHS later...and had still been drawing pay...I have so many questions:
You mean to tell me NOBODY NOTICED she hadn't been to her offices, or to any meetings, that whole time? And it's not like dementia that severe just comes out of nowhere. How long was she serving in office while dealing with mental decline issues???😬😡
Edit: and if what she was doing was so non-essential that she could be ABSENT FOR 5+ MONTHS, and things apparently kept running, then why does that position exist?! And if it IS essential, then who was doing all her work while she was hospitalized?!
Last year we had a guy in his 30s run for a non-partisan county position. He has a detailed plan for improving trafic flow. He lost to a 72 year old woman who came out of retirment to run because she was bored. The only platform she ran on was she had worked for a couple of local maniplaities for a combined amount of 50 years. She had absolutly no new ideas.
She won 70% of the vote.
That was his problem. He wanted change and used logic. Logos is the worst way to persuade people. People don’t want change. People don’t want facts. They want things to stay the same but they have more money individually and they want leaders who make them feel excited and happy.
For the record I want things to change but anytime I suggest any ideas they are shot down with lazy talking points that I already knew they were gonna say. Old people talk down on young people regardless of what’s being said.
Unfortunately rhetoric trumps logic
The status quo will put an 80 year old dying of cancer in charge of society before it'll support a 35-40 year old who's overqualified for the job. The lead-poisoned locust generation are collectively sociopaths
@ezekielschmittart this woman didn't even have rhetoric, she simply said "50 years of experience" while offering no solutions.
@@mrjustadude1 HOLY SHIT .
I'm gonna level with you, my experiences with old people has actively shattered my belief in the value of experience.
Indubitably agree. I remember talking with one person, and he was absolutely flabbergasted, when I said, that gaining life experience does not make this very life experience inherently good.
The fact that the older generations at my work can get away with "sorry I'm not good with computers" which would get me written up, really sealed it for me
Gotta play the game if u you want to win. Pay to play baby
Most people cannot even think about someone else's experience. They only see things from their point of view and don't realize it is heavily narrow compared to the amount of data and information there is in this world.
@@SA2004YGOr just stop playing the game and just chill your life while seeing everything falling apsrt around you like I do lol
The scene in Succession when the shareholders met and they all showed up in wheelchairs and oxygen tanks is so relevant.
What season n episode? Don't remember this....had to be 4 which was the worst for me so I may have gaffed it off
old people blame young people for problems that old people create, a tale as old as time
"the damn kids today..." (That we raised)
Millennial here. I attended something called neighborhood city council (think one level lower than city council) when I first moved to Los Angeles. This was in DTLA, I lived close to skid row, and I really wanted to make the city a better place to live.
For a couple years I regularly attended meetings, assisted with policy proposals, volunteered for events, etc. When elections rolled around I ran, quite enthusiastically. Since this was an advisory council to the actual city council, the election was done by the other members of the council.
I came in second to a banker from one of the “local” banks (i.e. Bank of America), who dressed well and spoke like a politician. This guy had NEVER been to a meeting, was not at a single event, and had no tangible policies.
I found out later he was a “friend” of some of the council’s. Kinda hard to stay motivated/involved after experiences like that.
Damn
It really makes it feel like it's not even worth trying, doesn't it?
Honestly, these rich old fools have _no effin' right_ to call us lazy and unambitious when they keep blatantly and _intentionally_ stacking everything against us.
My buddy Jesus had the exact same experience here in ktown. Extremely disheartening.
Money talks
That bankers gonna cash out on all the Scam homeless nonprofits of the city ig. LA is a corrupt dump now
It really sucks having your quality of life being reduced because people who had a better quality of life at your age 40 years ago NEED you to make their quality of life in old age even better (while they know full well that you're going to also have to sacrifice quality of life in YOUR old age)
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That's very well said.
The world makes more sense and you get more peace when you realize everyone's priority is their own well being. Once you stop expecting ANYTHING from others, you will be much more at peace.
@@testing6753 Yes and leaving the world better off for others is a hard pill to swallow.
You got that right and things these days really are getting more and more bad now than ever.
@@shaha9 you know the thing is, a lot of people are "empathetic" as they say and wants to do good for the world but most of them actually won't even try to make a small difference. People only talk but no actions.
I have been working on local elections for the last 6 years and a majority of candidates are in their 60s with hundreds of thousands of dollars in disposable income to fund their campaigns. Every campaign I worked in, the younger candidates in their 30s were beat out in the tens of thousands in donations by the friends of the seniors running.
Thankfully I got a chance to run for school board in my city and get elected. I’m dropping the average by a few years as I’m 28.
A lot of billionaires behind a y pac
You aren’t pissed off enough about the fact your future is being decided and ruined by people who won’t be around to live through it.
True
I’m 28 and running for city council this year! (I have also voted and spoken at council.)
Good luck my man!
good luck sir
If you voted Democrat, you're not welcome.
Let's goooo buddy ! Ban those cars !
What city is it if you don’t mind sharing
"Well I have 50 years more years experience. Where's my prune juice again?"
Experience is important but over time it has a depreciation of returns.
You can have lots of experience at doing a job wrong or in an extremely narrow scope.
they don't have experience as they stopped engaging with any kind of production, the market and average people decades ago
“If you’ve been working for the last 50 years how come there’s still a lack of real assets for sale even though your generation outnumbered mine, what were ya doing that whole time, making photocopies???
Experience is the biggest lie, you gain experience only when you learn new things, which can be also something new in the area you already know. But more the experience you have, the less you encounter anything new and won't actually learn. Experience also depends on how proactive you are, you can have more experience with 1 year than another person with 3. After a while, most people become stagnant and won't learn a lot, because it is comfortable to do things they already know
Perhaps they got that old by preferring prune juice over soda.
My grandparents bought land and built a house for around 75k in the 90s. That property is now worth 990,000$. I'm probably never going to see that wealth in my life because they're likely going to keep living independently till they're 100. My parents will be lucky if they get the house when they're or 70 while me and my siblings are probably going to be renting because houses cost 450k around here. You know I love them and don't want anything bad happening to them, but as a family oriented man I really do feel some resentment towards boomers for hoarding all the land in the world.
My dad at 69 complains about his mortgage in a HOA neighborhood and just bought a 2015 Mercedes AMG his 3rd car for a 1 driver home of 2. Meanwhile I'm renting my first home at the age of 44 driving one 26 year old car for my home of 2 drivers and 3 youths. They had and have it all and are in no rush to pay it forward.
450k? In my area, you don’t find anything larger than an apartment for under 700k.
@@Don-ds3dy the entire history is people buying land at one price and selling for more. Your grandparents prob thought the same cuz Rockefeller bought railroad money for pennies. Anyone who buys a home is buying it at the all time high typically speaking and then it goes higher. Just dont go buy a dodge charger, rims, tattoo and every new iphone model that comes out and invest in your future instead and youll be good
I don't blame individual older people for making decisions in their own best interests, but I do blame government policy that largely causes these things, think zoning laws etc, and the older people as a generation are making those laws as the video explains.
@ same as every generation. Its not as if 50hrs ago the 20 something’s were calling the shots
I am 36 and on the city council of my town. I dramatically bring down our average age. Being this young brings its own challenges and sacrifices. I understand now why our government at any level is so old. When you’re “young” like I am and in the middle of raising a young family, you will sacrifice countless family dinners, miss games and recitals, have to use your own PTO to attend city events and conferences, all with the hope that what you’re doing is going to make a difference for your family and all of the other families in your community.
Is it a job worth doing? Absolutely. Will you have to make hard decisions and sacrifices? 100%. Talk with your partner every single day. Stay on the same page. We need every young person we can get. It’s time we rise up to take on our responsibility and ensure our future and our children’s futures are secure.
What I think I'll never understand is how greedy humans are. Why do people find money so appealing but not free time, peace of mind or solidarity? It's also quite crazy how people think they're free and have a say in public matters just because they chose the individual that's gonna be the puppet for a certain time...
Because they are trained, from birth, to desire wealth collection over actually living an interesting life.
@@jacobford8415 I guess that's very common. I wasn't, never during my childhood I felt that I'd be valued according to my money
It's cultural
Personally i think most of the time its not "the greed of people" but "the greed of those who already have" that gets passed as oh all humans are greedy in order to share the problem
I agree. Corporate society creates narcissism which brings glamor perhaps but not happiness.
Here in Spain we have a demographic problem as the older generation accumulates most of the wealth and property, while the retirement pensions are increasing every year and the youth's wages are miserable and we pay more than 50% in taxes to keep the Ponzi scheme of the pension system going on. It's a disaster.
Your demographic problem lies in the demographic your government imported.
RIP any teenagers wanting to actually live or grow up
@@gregoryporch8395Spain has some of the lowest numbers of immigrants of any European nation. Most of Spain is literally empty and has lost population. You ignorant American. You can’t even get your hatred right.
@@gregoryporch8395 actually, importing high qualified immigration should help with the problem. But all we get is Islamic military aged males with poor reading skills 🤷🏼♂️
@@gregoryporch8395Big yikes. Shame on you.
Here to collect my useless heart emoji. Our local school board had a referendum asking for $40mil to expand some 9th grade recreation wing. It was so corrupt it taught me to vote in low level elections.
lol
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Did it pass? Did the sponsor leave as soon as his kid went to HS?
I once went to some local town hall meeting as some kind of mandatory EMS guy, the whole room was full of 60+ year olds complaining about property lines, property values, and trying to bring in young people for cheap labor. I later learned that half the members of the board were related to my boss and were literal millionaires compared to him and they used their power to...guess what...try and take his property because it looked a bit ugly and brought the value of their homes down or something like that. If they're not trying to hoard properties from the young, they're trying to steal it from less wealthy boomers.
What school district is this?
Too bad we don’t have a voucher system. We could just sort those problems out ourselves by simply not paying those schools that we feel like do a disservice to us. Power would be one step closer to the people.
The 'greatest transfer of wealth in history' is not from the older generations to the younger ones. It is from the older generations to corporations, and it is happening right now.
Yep. They cracked the code before anyone else could get in on that action.
Corporations made of, who? Older generations?
True, the corporations are also in the boomers retirement portfolios so a good way to sell an asset for huge return and have a millennial manage the asset for wage salve income levels working in a corporation in the boomers pension plan. Genius.
@@paytonogallagher3284 It means more inequality.
Well said, unfortunately
As someone who's 53 ( Gen-X ) what I see is that corps run by the old farts older then me, are not hiring young people an training them. They prefer to hire younger old farts like me who have the experience, which is a bloody stupid idea. A lot of my generation have enough wealth to conisder retiring early leaving a shortage in the workforce.
Yes, not everyone wants to work until they die.
Every job I've held since the pandemic has involved working with people who don't want to train new people for the job, two colleagues I trained under even said they never received training and just figured the job out. Both were lying, they had excellent support above us in the command chain who I trained under after they kicked the can. Some time in the last 10 years we watched conscientious leadership get replaced by narcissistic leadership.
Baby boomers have been smart, but no one said they have been wise.
This has been my number one complaint since I entered the workforce around the time of the financial crisis, nobody wanted to hire juniors anymore and train. I can see the consequences now. Everyone is complaining about the lack of skilled workers - especially because of the huge push for our generation to waste time and money on higher education. We should have been learning on the job in our teens and twenties.
@ we as younger Americans are being replaced in the workforce. There is no intention to preserve wealth to the next generation. Not even to immigrants-they’ll work for cheaper because it beats their alternative. The only way to fight back is to refuse to buy corporate, buy only local business and be your own business l
It just an example, but I work with a 67 yo lady, who has retired 3 years ago. Just 2 months after her retirement, the boss called her to come back because they couldn’t fill her position. In many aspects she works better then the young girls, but this poses the question. Ten years ago people needed to retire for health reasons at some point, but now retirees are in such a good health, it’s not worth it to spend time looking for the next right person, when you can keep the old one.
Dude your comment embodies the thinking of "work until youre not profitable" and that is fucking terrible.
Its great that we get to be healthier when getting older, but i dont want that extra health to be usted in extra work hours 😂
@ I understand what you mean, but in her case, she is not forced to go back to work for financial reasons. She is a widow, her daughter and grandchildren live in a different country. I can imagine her going from 40-45h/week to 0. So maybe it will be better if we progressively reduce the hours for the aging coworkers and maybe make them stay longer with more vacations.
The hardest thing about being a Gen-Xer is that you don't get the benefits of the Boomers but you do get lumped together with them by the Millennials. For the record I'm in my 50's and my oldest supervisor is 82. This makes me the young whippersnapper that no one should listen to.
And that supervisor was able to get were he is because when he was in his 50s his supervisor retired at a reasonable age
The problem is that gen x is split in half. The older half is as bad and evil as the boomers. The younger half are doing alright. Much like millenials, the older half still could get into the housing market, they aren't thriving, but they are doing okay. The younger half is basically a lost generation, along with Gen Z.
I work with both the young and old gen , the old guys are total scum.
Millenials didn't get any benefits from Boomers either. They are poorer than Boomers. And possibly X gen
As a Millennial I like to think the older Gen X probably did somewhat benefit from the Boomers. While the younger ones got rolled over with the Millennials unless they were kind of lucky or smart during the great recession. The door might have still been slightly opened, but that effectively closed it.
Gen X was the most loyal Trump voting base. More % of boomers voted for Harris than Gen X. Your cohort is part of the problem.
Out with the old, in with the... also old...
HMW liking his own comment
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In the Soviet Union, after the top position exchanged hands three times, they quipped: "in monarchy, power is passed from father to son; in communism, it is passed from grandfather to grandfather"
Oof
Old to ancient, ancient to museum exhibit
I am on my local planning commission and have been on city council. I am 40 and I am the "young" influence on the council.
You totally nailed it. The public comment part of the meeting is 95% retired people yelling about parking or why we shouldn't build any more housing.
Its hard when you're 40 and you're still not being accepted by the council so you become Darth Vader.
Same here in germany. I live in one of the oldest parts in terms of population age in western Germany. Life here sometimes feels like a giant open air retirement home.
New infrastructure? Nah, grandma dont wana get disrupted in here last 10 years by construction. Speedlimits? Gets lower and lower to hide the bad driving and dont even dare asking if there is an age where you aint fit to drive. Culture? Old people stuff. No rock, no loud noise, everything has to be shut down till 21:00 because old money wants to sleep.
New Homes? Yes, expensive one on our cost line and city centers, which mostly only one group has enough money for. And so on and so on.
@ you say that like its a bad thing, but as millennial getting older, I sure want that, so I'll just learn what the boomers did and keep the thing running.
You can have your rock-n-roll far away in the Berlin factory.
Imagine a 1000 meters walled city extremely dense with lots of factories, like a cyberpunk city, the entrance for hell.
Concentrate everything that's bad into a single place and wall it off, so the rest of the country-side can be beautiful, expensive, peaceful and quiet and not polluted.
@@luizmonad777It is a bad thing. I'm 40 years old (so a millennial) and I would despise being stuck living in a city that does nothing but follow the interests of the elderly to the detriment of all else.
@@luizmonad777To put this in simple terms for you: would you rather more enjoy your life when you're healthy and able between 20 and 60 or when you're old and sore and tired between 60 and 80? The former is twice as long as the latter and because you're not rich, don't plan on living much past 80.
I'm at a really wired stage in my life whete everone doing anything cool, intresting or innovative is noticeably younger than me, but everone in charge of anything is noticeable older than me.
Ditto
40s?
It sounds like you are a millennial who has been left out of management by the boomers and the tech explosion happened after you went to university.
I’m 75 and I’d love to see more young people in local, state and federal government. Old people should have been mentoring replacements. They just don’t want to give up power.
While I don't have time to attend right now, I used to attend every City Council meeting in my rather large Florida county and talk about mass transit. I became so well known for it that I started to get introduced as "The Bus Guy" as a joke (I didn't mind it) when I'd take the microphone to speak my 3 minutes.
I've been a little too busy to go since my wife got a cancer diagnosis in 2022 (she's fine now), but I plan to start going again given our current political climate.
I never, ever miss an election. Even when there are only referendums on the ballot, I go vote.
Not sure what part of the county in Florida, but it seems like Florida managed to beat the other states to get something you could call a high speed rail with Brightline. Sure it might not be anything amazing like Japan's or other country's rail systems, but at least we got something. Took decades, but at least the state can claim that success, unlike California.
@@kosmosXcannon Brightline is inter-city rail and provides very little actual intra-city transit. Florida cities still require you to own a car and to drive everywhere, much to the detriment of our economy.
Of course, it's not just a "Florida" problem; it's an "America" problem. NIMBYs refuse to allow municipal organizations to make any headway towards better transit because the believe that mobility is a zero-sum game. Drivers are completely unwilling to accept even the tiniest of inconvenience to dramatically improve the walkability and transit options of our cities.
We need elected leaders who have the strength of moral character to tell the NIMBYs and car owners to pound sand and do what is necessary to modernize our cities.
we wish your wife a fast recovery (its always a long and complicated road. thanks for being active. allot of us are guilty of not being.
@ That's why I said it was at least "something" gotta walk before you can run. I might ironically consider NIMBYs the worst type of person to ever exist. Yes even lower than the general politician and media outlet. Mostly because they enable such institutions.
I can at least respect a person that is honest about not wanting to support something and is not a hypocrite about it.
This is it. People with kids and a job, struggling to get by, often don't have the time to go to these things. That's why they're dominated by old people and a few keen students.
I'm in my late 20s and was really involved with local civic associations for a few years after I graduated college. Counterproductively, that experience turned me off to being involved with local politics on that level again. I was explicitly made the token young black person more than once, and once I realized that most of the people I was working with didn't care about finding solutions to problems so much playing hot potato with them, it knocked the wind out of my sails.
Never really got into the civic service, but I know about history to know a general idea on how things are played. Mostly because people's skills is like my worst skill and some charisma is basically required, until you are there long enough it isn't required. Once you realize how things are played, it's probably maddening if you want to actually do something meaningful. I'm kind of crazy just for inferring it.
Yeah people in power tends to attract the worst kinds of people. If I want to be generous, I would say about 5% probably try to do go. So they don't really matter unless something is close to being a tie breaker. A politician's greatest weapon is quite literally running the clock.
There is probably a reason why dueling used to be a thing. At least that would force the average age down a bit.
Please don't disengage. I started going to county meetings in my mid 20's. It started off just getting to know my local commissioner and now I'm in my mid 30s. I am not yet a commissioner but I'm a very well respected person in my community and town. I am also a member of the Lions a community organization that helps people. Please do not stop engaging with your local government. We need people under 50 to be engaging with our leaders. Our biggest issue at the moment is the amount of people moving to my county and all the new infrastructure that needs to be built. Talk to your local representative if your able to and find organizations to join to help. It takes time. We need to be heard. Older people are retiring in my county from their posts. A change is coming. Be prepared.
Sounds like you’re exactly where you should be. If no one else is gonna care but they’re pulling you on stage with them, take full advantage and be that guy. At least don’t have to give up hope yet
I'm sorry, it often really is a disheartening game. If there's an issue you are passionate about, please consider trying again now that you know the playing field. Taking this step back was exactly the right move, gave you room to breathe and reevaluate your plan.
Thats really messed up. This kind of racism must feel like s**t.
I've been to a city council meeting. They said the pledge of allegiance, talked about a housing project for disabled adults and how much it'd effect the budget, said a closing prayer, and ended the session. Done in about about 10 minutes. It was in my hometown of about 8k people, so I guess there wasn't a lot to talk about, but I really expected there to be more to it. I was also the only other one in the building.
Saying a prayer wtf, there is supposed to be a separation of church and state. Called secularism. In fact thats what makes this country so fucking great compared to others (still major problems), the USA constitution also does not mention the word god once in it and that is intentional. secularism is the separation of church and state and that should apply at the local and federal level
LOL at least they didn't vote themselves pay raises!
You really prefer a short 10 min meeting than a 4 hour one
My municipality tend to get public meeting that are 3 hours long sometime it really necessary but other time it's what the hell are we still here for
I took a college class called "Urban Politics" and we attended some city council meetings as part of the course. We were usually some of the only people there
my mom is a teacher and has been taking my siblings and i to city council meetings since we were in middle school, so she really bestowed in me how important our voices are. i’ve been voting locally and being active in my community thanks to her :)
Theres an old picture of a checkout register with a sign: "No senior discount. You've had twice as long to get the money."
This ship is encrusted with all these old barnacles, and we're slowing to a stand-still.
This is waaay to good
unfortunately not all boomers are rich
@@maryamw-d7l you can always make excuses, but life will eventually backfire on you. But I know there's loads of people hoping someone else will sort it for them.
@@maryamw-d7l too bad, pull yourself up by your bootstraps boomer
Dude, they gotta thank the gods they are still alive. In any other given time in human history they would already have died by something, or would be killed shortly to avoid being a cumbersome to everyone else
Showing up to your city council meetings is the best way to show that there's a demand for more housing from our age bracket. Very few people show up, so your voice means a lot more
I looked up the times, and sadly I see exactly why more young people can't show up. Most of us can't take time off work to attend a meeting at Monday at 1pm. Especially if you need to commute to another city just to work at a job.
I'll make more efforts to get out to them when I can stabilize my finances. I'm usually wfh so I can pull it off. My next elections are on midterms anyway so I'll be there for sure.
it doesnt matter because NIMBYs will not vote for more housing. Getting stuff done by showing up and protesting/voting stopped working in the 1970s
I remember tryin to go to my local city council meeting, but seemed like every time I tried they kept moving the location day of and only a certain group of people seemed to know beforehand where it would be. Like they were gatekeeping the meeting. I eventually gave up going. I was just a young citizen trying to get involved with my small town
I can't even make my workplace townhalls bc of how busy they keep me & gatekeep my paycheck.
In Switzerland, it is same problem. How Money Works there is that the elderly made compulsory (and now you can go to prison) if you don't have health insurance that costs 650 CHF (==700 USD) per month. Health insurance was 30 CHF in 1980s and 1994 they voted to be compulsory deceiving the people that it would be lower if the 7 millions inhabitants pay for it. But they kept increasing it and found it normal to do a 10% per year increase over the last 30 years. Now the old people want comfort in their pension. In the end my boomer dad disowned me for the profit of my 2 younger sisters would helped him to steal my company. Result : no salary for 4 years, had to sell my apartment and now in court for the succession. My sister is a State official.
In about 5yrs they will start dropping like flies, and hopefully we can start progressing society
One can only hope ❤
I am 24 and part am on the local Muncipal Council and active in getting younger people to engage more in politics! Great job educating more people on this topic
I just turned 26 and I am involved with city council and am on a city commission. It’s pretty easy to get involved. If you are capable of showing up and can read and follow directions/procedures you can get involved. Look at your city’s website and search for opportunities to get appointed. This video is 100% right. There are lots of important things happening at the local level and the only way you’ll be able to see the change you want is to show up to make it happen.
The ‘capable of showing up’ part is difficult enough. People our age are normally working/studying full time and don’t have free time at 11am on Wednesday for community meetings. Retired old people have the whole day to go complain about the new bike lane they never use.
I have a hard time believing this to be true. All of the cities in my area have commissions that convene after normal work hours. I work a full time job and so do most of the people I serve with. If you live in a city that genuinely doesn’t have opportunities I apologize, but you gotta at least check. I’m not going to sit here and say it’s always easy or it isn’t tiring to jump through hoops and over barriers but nothing will change unless we change it.
@@carterhu411 my local council isn’t even open on weekends and only operates 9-5 weekdays the same hours normal people are at work. I assumed this was the norm for every place since that’s every council authority I’ve ever known works like that.
Fair play. Everywhere is different. The only other thing I’ll say is to look for committees, boards, and commissions that can work for you. Find volunteer opportunities and build networks of support.
Thanks for what you do!
i would argue that boomers started on a level playing field, by having experienced decent education, good job opportunities that also paid well and enabled them to expand in to new territories.
who is more willing to venture capital or become self-employed, someone who barely makes over paycheck to paycheck, or the person who can try, fail, work some minimum wage job and then retry simply because they arent constraint by financial problems.
and what did boomers do? they voted for stuff like trickle down, deregulation etc. basically destroying all the opportunities they had for the generations that come after.
Exactly. The fact that boomers can raise 3-4 children while new generation struggles to even gets by for themselves is pretty obvious.
Boomers basically sold everybody out for five years of monkey sex from the late 60s to early 70s.
The selfish generation. In the UK, we have something called the 'triple lock on pensions' where pensions always go up by one of three inflation measures, whichever is higher. Every political party knows that it needs to be abolished because it's unaffordable, but they all know it'll be political suicide to do it. So we have a situation where childcare, free university, pay rises for nurses, disability benefits, etc, are all cut while ever increasing pension payments are ring fenced. There was even a huge controversy recently when they finally stopped rich pensioners from claiming payments to help with their utility bills in the winter (which was a universal benefit for all pensioners, and it was thought that in a period of government cuts, perhaps not allowing multimillionaires that happen to be over 65 to claim benefits might be a good way to cut expenses). Most countries have a demographic problem when there won't be enough working people to cover the costs of the boomers' pensions, and yet boomers continue to overwhelmingly vote against bringing in more working-age people from overseas to help pay for it, and yet simultaneously refuse to accept the inevitable consequences of that decision..
@@joepiekl what planet are you living on? the mass migration is unprecedented and is the opposite of what you are saying here regarding migration. Boomers are shafting you with mass migration whilst robbing you of wealth opportunity and convinced your generation opposite side of the species to be independent worker bees rather than family focussed, leading to the very population problem you are describing. I mean wow
Government is wildly larger than 40 years ago and expects to run every aspect of our lives, so I don't know what you mean by deregulation.
Always voted, but arguably the more important thing is showing up to meetings and voicing your interests and concerns. A lot of council meetings and municipal review meetings happen during the day when everyone is working. The only people who show up are retired, rich, or astroturfed. Showed up on my lunch hour once and was told, 'people you're age should be working' 🙄
Boomers had life on easy mode. They'll lie and say it was so hard and we all know damn well it wasn't.
I go to community organization meetings, I almost met my city council rep, but he rushed out of the room when he saw me. I've been putting in service requests with my city to improve my neighborhood.
Sometimes it's dismaying, other times kinda rewarding; but what I've learned in the last six months is if you want a better neighborhood you have to fight for it (albeit, through a wave of laziness and stupidity).
This is what happens when you get fed the "work until you drop" mentality. We need to make early, or at the very least, retiring at your retirement age, sexy.
That'd be great... if it were financially viable in the first place. It used to be, but now it's not. Why? Because old people are robbing us, like the video explains. It won't get better until something snaps, and when that something does snap, it won't be pretty for the ruling class.
No need. To quote Paula Cole via Dawson’s Creek: “I don’t wanna wait for our lives to be over.” I worked the same job for over 20 years, and almost all the folks I saw retire died within a year or two. I’ve got contemporaries who think if they don’t keep working, they’ll die. I retired at 48 because I wanted time to BE retired. Even if I don’t make it to 70, I’ll have been retired as long as I worked there.
Although early retirement comes with its own risks, like the backlash in France and the stagnation in China. It's not so much the stoppage of work by age as the sharing of wealth by the oligarchs.
I go one step further. Old people should be compulsorily retired. This happens in many countries, like here in Brazil. And get that, people are eager for such retirement. The only ones that aren't obliged are the ones that never really worked in the first place: politicians and business owners. Sadly not even our laws force them out yet, so they keep hanging and leeching on younger work filing their pockets until they're as dense as a black hole
Greed has no end sadly. When you reach an old age and are overpaid for an easy job doing almost nothing, why would you quit? You won’t. Ppl who “retire” tend to be ppl in trades who broke their bodies down too much to continue
In this life you gotta have luck, hard work means nothing if you aren't given the right opportunities. It's like pedaling on a bike with a broken chain, you won't go anywhere no matter how much effort you put in.
What else can you do? You try your best with the cards you get. Giving up is not an option.
It’s on you to figure out where those opportunities are.
@@slim_krakow4174the lesson here is to not waste your time pedaling harder (as you are told to do by boomers).
@@carsonhunt4642 Picture this, you are trying to start a project and looking to hire someone, are you going to choose the person that spends their time practicing the skills you want to utilize, or the person that does absolutely fuck all besides playing video games and complaining about how working hard gets them nowhere (they haven't tried).
The reality is there is a massive shortage of useful people in the world and working hard is a sure way to become one of those useful people. It's still difficult to display your use but the only way for people to recognize it is if you have use in the first place. Working hard is not choosing 3 dead end jobs to make ends meet, it's planning a life with room for growth. Instead of 3 dead end jobs, take an apprenticeship and build a set of skills something.
The issue many people don't want to confront, is that working shit jobs that get you nowhere is miserable but it's not hard, it's actually very easy. The expectations are incredibly low, the job is easy, there is nothing to learn and there is no pressure to perform, the pay is garbage and that makes the job "hard." However, it is not hard, you aren't going home and studying to make sure you can continue to perform, you aren't asking for guidance and performance reviews, advice and networking to make sure you continue to improve, you just show up, brain afk for 8 hours and leave with no effort expended. Sorry, that's not what hard work is.
Hard work is one thing, but you have to direct it sensibly. There is no point in working yourself to death in a dead end job. All you need to do is ask yourself if the job you work in right now has any reliable options for career progress. If the answer is no, don't bother. Work your contractual hours and go home. Invest the hard work into something that has a chance to result in success.
I vote in every local election. When we moved into a new town, we lobbied the city council hard to change the laws to allow backyard chickens, which we were able to get through after about 2 years. We went to meetings, emailed the council, and emailed candidates in the election that year to see who was "pro chicken". 100% that local elections and city council has the most impact over your day-to-day life.
It turns out democracy takes continuous time and effort to make it work. If people spent half the time speaking and writing to their reps as they do complaining online, they would have a lot more political impact.
@@SurmaSampo pretty easy for older wealthier people to afford all that extra time. While the younger generation is too busy digging themselves out of debt, they were probably ticked into taking.
@@kosmosXcannon I don't believe that young people are too stupid to understand the consequences of their actions, and if they are, what value would their participation in governing bring?
Finding the time being hard is a cop out. If they want the benefits of influencing politics then there is a cost to that just like there is a cost for every other choice to be made.
@@SurmaSampo yeah and most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Goodluck getting people to do something if it means that if they mess up, they now live on the street.
Let alone finding enough time to actually get that organized to pull something up. When there are vested interests trying to keep people divided. That's what happened with Occupy Wallstreet and one of the purposes of social media.
As long as the temperature doesn't drastically change, the frog is going to get boiled alive and not think of jumping out of the pot.
Don't get me started with how actual civics are never really taught and I think that's by design. Do you know of the tactic people used to fight with and put an end to the Prohibition era, that could have also been used on the War on Drugs if people knew about it?
@@SurmaSampo You say this with so much confidence but fail to realize that most of these younger people don't know that these are things you can even do, none of that was taught in public schools, the only thing that was made of importance was college and only focus on that and finding a job to pay for it, kids are trying to live their lives and hang with their friends and figure out how to find jobs in a terrible market and are plagued with addicting content through out all of the social medias which is what they grew up with, so they're distracted and don't know any better that's why this country has a lot of ill educated people, the ones that are supposed to be educating don't teach you the more important things that matter, they only teach you precalc, english and science and history as if any of that will help when they need to tackle the real life. where's the classes that teach you about financial literacy in highschool? teaching us how to do our own taxes or how to plan for retirement, how to invest?, or how to choose a career that's right for them, or learn how they can participate in local elections because only presidental and mayoral elections are all anyone ever talks about when you're young and in a school setting, there's so many factors as to why we are the way we are, and a big one is because we weren't taught how to live, we have a flawed education system
and i bet you; people like you of your age didn't even bother to teach your own kids about the existence of these things so they can make an impact. Also a lot of poor families are just focused on trying to get by to put food on the table, so who the hell is going to have the time to find out about those things?? you're out of touch and this is coming from a 21yr that has took the time to learn these things on his own, I literally just happened to stumble on this topic and wondered why we were never taught these things when growing up
so you just chalking it up to be that young people don't have an excuse, just tells me that you have a lot to learn. I bet you never took the time to consider how hard many of us have it cuz a lot of older people have the mentality of thinking for themselves and point fingers at people thinking like; "oh it's easy", its not. if you were born at the same time as us, only then you would know.
Japan has enough to say about why old people are not good for keeping business innovative. We Americans don't often look to lessons learned abroad
theres america and only america when you live in america.
a m e r I c a 🇺🇲
12:30 Hearing "old people" defined as "people over the age of 40" hurts my (apparently) old soul😩
If you consider an average life expectancy of around 80 40s is middle aged. Sure, more people are living beyond that, but over 80 is when it's not too unusual for someone to suddenly pass or for their health to decline rapidly. The average age might change, but I don't think it will be by that much even if some life longer...
40s is still young though
"To become an old politician, you first have to become old. The best way to get old, is to stop being poor." I don't know why this is so funny. 11:50
Dam, I’ll never be old then 😢
I voted in a local election for the first time as a 20 year old and found that;
There's like no info on the candidates.
You get their flyers and that's basically it.
Attempting to find more available information on the internet is not possible because it does not exist.
So there is not much reason to prefer one candidate over another and it feels like there is no point of voting because you do not have any idea of what the outcome will be.
Atleast that's assuming that it is not bipartisan.
Yeah, these local campaigns haven't really adapted well to the information age. You need to talk to locals, watch local news channels, or find townhalls where they speak. For the younger generation, we're so isolated from each other that we'll never talk about this local stuff as word of mouth.
I served as a planning commissioner advocating against car dependent development in my township. I worked alongside the trustees on several committees and subcommittees mostly advocating for sidewalks in new developments, developing a plan to add sidewalks in existing developments, advocating for form-based zoning, and bringing a milage to the township voters to maintain our bus service to the city we're adjacent to. I was successful in stopping the development of one drivethru, but failed on three others. I left because I often left the meetings late at night and angry. Does this count? Edit: born in 84.
making a difference is hard cause your always fighting up steam and against people with more money.
Born in the 80s? Boomer, lol
@@drtyhay Nah,ore like gen x/millennial.
Almost all of the worst experiences I've had in the workplace came from boomers And other older generations.
Massive groupings of people in positions of power that don't understand their job, don't understand the jobs below them, don't understand technology, give up as soon as the job gets hard, pass all the blame down the chain, poured all of the awards at the top of the chain, and hold anyone below them back preventing company progress because of what I can only define as "you are not paid enough for your opinion to matter"
You heard him! He said, "we all go and seize the means of production!" Let's do it people!!
I am learning new things in my 30s. I recently learned that we have city council meetings, we have people who walk up there and talk about issues concerning the common men in our cities and the counsellors listen to them, you just have to be a resident to talk, anyone can go and listen. There were a lot of young people there. It was fascinating to watch.
We live in a World Ruled by Fire Lord Ozais and we have no Uncle Iroh that understands the role of youngsters in the world.
Millennials are in their 40s now. Waiting on someone else to push you or change things for you is in part why we are in the current condition we are.
Ok boomer in disguise.
Bernie Sanders is Uncle Iroh
This is the most stupid comment I've ever seen. Watch another show
"Life is just like my children's cartoon!"
I've only become conscious of council meetings since I've become a council worker. In some regards I'm quite lucky that I get to see some of the high level decision making that influences my job. But can also get upsetting when they talk like they know us, and so are justified in winding up the workload and keeping wages down, yet they never interact with us.
Tell us more, if you can, for example, why do councils care so much about rich people and money, and ignore even very popular policies?
@andreaslind6338 Bare in mind, I ain't no expert. Been in this job only 3 years so far.
- Rich people have the time to be at council meetings. Same for retirees
- Rich people have the time and money to run for council
- They're part time jobs, and they can hire others to fill in for their absence in their businesses
- They're more conscious of the influence council has over the business, so are more active
- Some councillors are just brown nosers. A way to get rich is to suck up to those who already are
That's just what I can think of as I'm having breakfast before work.
@@andreaslind6338 bear in mind, I've only been at this job for a few years, I ain't no expert:
Rich people in town are typically business owners and/or landlords. They are much more aware of how council decisions impact their ability to do things. They have the time to go to council meetings and the money to employ others to do work in their stead.
They also have the time and money to run for council. That's why environmental councils are full of farmers that give themselves free reign to chuck poop in rivers.
Many other councillors are brown nosers. One of the main ways of making money is to suck up to those with money.
The
"Act like your friend, shove more work onto you, keeping wages low, then don't interact with you." Part just sounds like your just being manipulated.
Nothing will change unless young people rebel. The funny part is we have all the power. We produce everything and fight all the wars. I’ll never understand why young people don’t run everything
Because we are too immature to get any inch of power. The priorities of the youth are the contrary a country needs or wants.
The average age of every successful rebellious leader is over the age of 40. Nobody respects some 20 yo because they lack the sufficient time to build a reputation of accomplishments. There is only one government type that has actual youthful leaders and it is Monarchy because they are born with the legitimacy rather than having to take 20 years to prove it.
My grandad always said that old people shouldn't have rights to vote, nor have any rights to run in politics past 60 years old, and i always wondered why. Now that I'm much older I understand more and more.
I have been to a city council, spoken at a city council meeting, and voted in a number of municipal elections. ❤
Thanks for doing your civic duty, Deadpool!
Deadpool really polling through.
You have missed one crucial thing. Demographic decline. The average age of developed countries has been increasing rapidly in the past decades. And this is not changing. This implies that the share of people of voting age that are old will increase, not decrease
I was surprised that was not mentioned in the clip.
When you think about it. That kind of always been the case. It's been common knowledge that younger people don't vote as much as older people. I guess the average kind of continues to go up.
This will self-regulate. Along with the increase in age comes the collapse of the social security systems for the elderly, which can only be prevented by everyone working so much longer that we will soon see a decrease of the average lifespan. The problem isn't so much that people are old, it's that they are not working any more, so their priorities are opposed to those of the younger, still working people.
Yes, and they're not informed because they still watch MSM
Since wealth and social power are the most addictive things in existence, don't keep waiting for anyone to retire anytime soon.
Hence politicians attending meetings in wheelchairs or walkers and dying in office. The addiction to the power and wealth explains why they are still working instead of retiring.
I'm 34 and not only do I vote, I talk at council Open sessions, regularly send emails, contribute to a non profit local lobbyist, and participate in a group of local activists. Telling all the young people around me to talk to the council is one of my hobbies!
I’m 30, spent 7 years in University, have a Master’s degree, have all the energy and motivation in the world and no one seems to want to hire me.
I’m in the same boat but older. I can barely even get responses from applying at bottom of the barrel jobs. I have a masters degree in a stem field.
Definitely have time to go to local city council meetings
Rule by the old was societally normal for most of human history. Thing is since industrialization and especially computerization, that "wisdom" is increasingly obsolete -- we're no longer concerned about how to hunt and farm and know the local environmental patterns like all our ancestors had figured out, nowadays it's the youth teaching the elders how to "operate a remote control" (or an AI assistant) and think ahead on how to adapt it into life going forward.
The main advantage of the elderly is they had their whole lives to build up their network of buddies, which is what politics is all about.
Fair, but you have to remember that arriving at certain ages, like 80/90 years old was a sort of miracle back then. In ancient times reaching the 60 y.o. (like Romans) you were old A.F. and that kind of Old was "good". I'm italian and our life expectancy is 82 y.o. for man and 84 (or 86) for women. And this is the mean between all deaths. There are people talking about being in your 60es does not mean your old.
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Noah PBUH and everyone around him lived 900 years. Imagine how much control old people had back then!
A sinful woman at the time was told the prophecy that modern people would only live 80 years, and she was surprised and said "If I had only eighty years to live, I'd spend it all in prayer and worshipping God SWT and doing good deeds."
The difference between those old ppl and these ones is like he said In the video.... the old ppl were born exactly in the biggest leap of technology growth in human history. Combined with the biggest jump in population. The last 100 years has seen more technology made then the last 2000 years combined. So being born in 1950 right in the middle of it gave you full advantage. Being born now is kindof a lose lose technology has slowed down alot in the last 10 years. I feel bad for the new generations tbh. It's like they missed out on all the chances of being rich
@tuelzalt technology development has stagnated mostly due to greed, not lack of innovation. Why make something that actually is a major change, and why SPEND all that money in a gamble when we just increase the planned obsolescence. I mean, the fact that Apple continues to release a new iPhone every year and makes BILLIONS from each release shows that people are directly responsible for it as well as they don't care about advancing in anything but the eyes of others on the societal ladder.
I did vote in our version of city council elections, and even agitated my friends to vote. And significant change in representation indeed brought significant change in city management.
We’ll be old too one day guys. Make sure that as you age, you don’t drift from the younger generation. Teach them and share your experiences with them. Encourage their enthusiasm for making the world better. Prep to pass the torch.
You just motivated me to start going to my city council meetings, haven’t been yet but definitely going to now
When I was 18 I used to run a public access channel… City council meetings looked like a meet and greet at a nursing home. It was a commented on novelty if anyone under 40 showed up.
I think the fact that the idea of respecting your elders which is usually good in a society that focuses on the future and that society’s continuation but the fact it’s mocked indicates now indicates our elders have failed and we all know it
Respecting your elders started getting mocked after our WWII & Korean War vets died and were no longer around to hold the line.
Gen X has made it their life mission to make sure everyone knows how terrible they are. They have always been a generation of narcissists. Gen X will tell you they loved their grandparents, but loathed their parents. Not caring about the state of the youth is not new, they abandoned their own own kids to do whatever they wanted. You can even see exactly this divide in the last election. Yes, Gen X also doesn't like the millenials, but that is because they are the younger sibling that acts similarly to the Boomers.
I vote locally. Witness me!
you have been witnessed.
Witnessed!
Testify!!!
Me too! I've had no luck convincing my friends that voting locally is worth their time, but they're always complaining about whoever's in charge regardless 🙄
WITNESS!!
0:50 funniest trump quote
29. Went from showing up at town hall meetings to campaigning with our newly elected mayor, and being selected for our Planning Board in 7 months. (Hoping to push for more housing units)
It's hard to get involved, but there's a lot of local power waiting to be grabbed if young people are willing to brawl for it.
Oh God the clip at the beginning is just too much, I had to look away 😂😢
There should be an age limit for positions of power or at least mandatory examinations/cognitive testing past 70 or something
Currently it is illegal to introduce such rules, and the only people that could change those laws... are them...
I'm strongly opposed to age limits, but even more strongly in favor of cognitive/aptitude testing. No need to limit getting incompetence out of the way until it's over 70. Or 65. Or 18.
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Yeah, cognitive conditions for service are much better than an age limit.
@@jeffw991
I agree, but apparently the filter objects to me saying so in more detail.
@HowMoneyWorks there has to be some loop hole though like the current mandatory retirement for Federal agents.
7:46 The reason for this stat. Is you have a bunch of old people who are semi-retired or retired & have time to be engaged. Vs. the rest of us who are trying to survive the current hell scape, work 12 hr shifts or working 2 to 3 jobs... these "analyst " can't put 2 & 2 together b/c they have no critical thinking skills...😢
Also local gov. Is only open during 9-4pm doing there gravy job.
Also, great vid. topic, Thanks for doing it.
Man not even a 9-5, must be nice.
Democracy failed because people are too poor and busy to vote.
SubhanAllah.
I just got to that part of the video, and so far, I haven't heard a reason given for why the stats shake out this way. If one is coming in the video, by now, it must be from the channel giving a guess as to why, but we're a bit away from the mention of the actual statistic about voting in local elections by now.
Regarding your remark about the "gravy job" though, the last time we had a local election, I googled everyone running, read a little bit of their ideas, and if they are incumbent, I also decided to look at their page on my local legislature website documenting their attendance. So, yes, it's a gravy job, but after reading that, no, they don't even show up for it, never mind do the job, and it doesn't appear they can be fired for not showing up in my city. I was fuming mad. Only one dude voted more than five of six times on stuff. I'm still honestly mad.
@@janewaysmom Holy crap! On the showing up to vote. Its great you managed to read up and find a way to be engaged.
I live in Belgium for 5 years and one of the the things that make me happy is seeing very young people on the ballots here.
The politics are less corrupt and power is more decentralized so young people have a chance here despite the aging population.
Doesn't Belgium have compulsory voting tho?
@@user-ic9vz8sp1xNot enforced, both men and women. So? I see it as part of your civic duty to contribute to who YOU want to be the leader, election results would’ve been different for the united states if 30 million or so voters decided not to vote this time around.
I am 26 and was Deputy Mayor and Councillor for my hometown from 2019 to 2023. I was 20 when elected and 24 when I ended my term. During my time I helped facilitate development of the first Cannabis store, implementing a new Waste management agreement and amalgamation with our surrounding county saving our town from becoming non-viable and ensuring we are able to maintain our identity when it was projected our town would dissolve 10 years prior, when I was in 3rd grade and heard about it during a school assembly.
At 23 I went with my mom to city council meetings and attended did a “citizens seminar” 6 week course where we met members of local governance in different branches. Got food, given a lecture where we took notes, learned a lot and got to speak with these people. Ranged from waste water, zoning, fire/ police
i think a better title would be "How old people are in charge" or something bc big words are scary to the algorithm
I posted it 10 seconds ago, it could be terrible for all you know :)
@@HowMoneyWorks I would like to voice the contrary opinion. _Gerontocracy_ is a great title and its meaning is explained by the thumbnail. A lot of people like collecting _-cracy, -phobia,_ and similarly grouped words.
I'm a town planner for my local Council at a regional town so I attend a fair few Council meetings, but you are spot on with all the Councillors being over 40. One lady is so old that we are worried that she will kark it any moment. And we have been trying for ages to get them to be ok with higher density housing but they are very against it. :(
Higher density housing is better for profiteering only, nothing else.
You know what REALY pisses me off? The owner (not manager) of my company is less educated than me, and never worked as hard as my peers from my generation, but because a little piece of paper says that he is the owner, he will receive all the fruits of our labour. If this was a meritocracy, me and my peers should own the company. We make all of the Operations and bring the money in. But "this is just the law" i guess. If this was a pirate ship, we wouldve already hung our good for nothing Captain
I have voted in local elections, have spoken directly to several members on my city council and actively discussed policy with them. It's honestly one of the most impactful branches of politics and one of the ones most reachable to the average person.
Current older generations in power lived in such different conditions decades apart from their young constituents that they are soooooo detached from the way the recent generations live and operate socially. Like they're literally as old as my great-grandfather/mother, if that puts things in perspective. They understand absolutely nothing about how to lead them. I just hope that as we grow old and (hopefully) established in society that we don't treat our future generations in the same way.
I was a city councillor aged 23. No one really minds because in the UK local government has had all its ability to influence anything stripped away and its responsibility strictly defined, without enough money to even deliver the basics.
I've sat in on 1 local city council meeting but it's incredibly hard for me to attend because they happen on Mondays at 1 PM and last at least two hours. *Generously* I could attend for an hour if I don't mind sacrificing my lunch break. I wonder if this is part of the problem
It is. It varies place to place but these council meetings happen when younger adults are generally working. And thanks to hustle culture/grind mindset these meetings seem even less relevant to younger folks.
Yes, the meetings happen during work hours because that is also the work hours for councillors and their staff. It is also a workplace.
It absolutely is. Mines on Tuesdays bi-weekly at 6pm. So I'll be in rush hour and get there at maybe 645 at best. More likely 7pm+. So people who can attend every meeting are either retired (old people) stay at home spouses (unlikely with dual income households), or have some ability to set their own hours and schedule them in.
Turns out the game was rigged from the start.
That's the frustrating part. Affluent old people have unlimited free time on working to block progress. We can't show up if we want to.
@jayspeidell Yes you can. You could choose to take a part time job or work in a bakery to give you more time in the day to participate. You could start your own business and allocate time to participation.
Yes, you don't have all the advantages of someone who already worked for 40 years. Shocking.
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The line missing in the beginning is "...and the average male, who served, worked and paid taxes their whole life doesn't live as long as any of those averages"
I JUST finished undergrad and it feels so bleak out here. I can't imagine how it is for the teens and young adults looking around and realizing that this world is run by people who don't care about the mess they leave behind and are making it harder for the younger generation to replace them.
The solution to this is branding. It's utilizing the connection of people of a similar age to create a barrier between those above and those below.
sadly, we all work 40h a week, which makes it hard to be present for town election and votes
40h per week to pay exorbitant taxes to support the age-care pensions of those people who are strangle holding the younger people.
I havent worked a 40h week in years, ugh I hate trade work
I do 50 sometimes more lol
i definitely saw all of this 14 minute video and i do my civic duty 😉
watching at 20X speed.
@@HowMoneyWorks i wish then i could watch every one of your videos in a snap. (shameless begging)
Same dude same
In small towns it's hard due to the same "extended families" keeping their own in city hall for a few generations. And then they have to "tow the family line" otherwise they'll be disowned due to causing grandpa to "roll in his grave" if they don't maintain "his way" through their time in office.
Sorry if this was confusing, I just woke up it's 6:30 am.
Love being able to be civically involved; started with volunteering for me because i was getting towards my mid 50s and was semi retiring and didn’t want to be bored
Highly recommend Volunteering .. it will renew your faith in humanity and the social connections that you make and social “contracts” through cooperation is priceless
The best communities are the ones where everyone is familiar with each other and has everyones best interests at heart across all levels
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I have been to a city meeting about an infrastructure proposal. Surprisingly the mostly older people there were more open minded than I expected about the proposal. Classic concerns about project costs seemed to be the biggest barrier.
I have not say in a city council meeting but I did watch a recording.
Anodotial, but yes the youngest member looked like in their 50s and oldest in their 70s
This is because anybody under the age of 50 is probably struggling to get by on two jobs. Also, afaik, most city council meetings take place at old-people-o'-clock (the middle of the day) when responsible, non-retired, young folk are going to work. Some HOA boards do exactly the same thing intentionally. It's corrupt. It's discrimination. It's taxation without representation. We deserve better. But we won't get it unless being older than 60 becomes extremely difficult again.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826lol. It's a catch 22. To be represented you need to vote. But you're not informed so you don't know who to vote for. And finding local electorates online is nearly impossible.
It's not the best, but I found out my city does uoad recordings of local meetings. That could be th Le first step to make sure the busy can keep tabs.
Live in Canada but have actually been booking time off work to attend as many local council meetings as I can next month. I did vote in the last municipal election and am planning to run for council myself in the next one 1.5 years from now. I'm 24 now and will be 26 during the time that I'll be running. Go to your local council people, you'll stand out just for being there!
When it comes to government another reason why relates to the thesis of the book "Bowling Alone". There has been a steep generational decline in social participation in organizations especially those related to government. There are far fewer adults coming of age today who are active in local government or political organizations as there were during the 40s.
I’m 21. I attended a bunch of city council meetings for my summer job in real estate. The redundancy and ineptitude of the Toronto city council is astonishing.
Please heart me. I have voted for pro-housing candidates in the city council 3 elections in a row and all of them have lost
I'll bet everyone who watches this video can guess who voted against them.
If only my City's counsel meeting wasn't Monday in the middle of the day
By design?
We had a supermarket owner on our local council. His was the only supermarket allowed to be open on Sundays. Interesting coincidence.
I have actually gone to a city council meeting. We went to protest blatant bigotry by the council. I wish it was for a more positive reason, but that’s not what small town America is like, unfortunately.