It’s such a slap in the face. I did everything everyone told me to do. I worked hard in school, got the degree, found a career and I still live paycheck to paycheck in debt just due to cost of living. I don’t have expensive habits, I have a strict budget, and every effing week is a struggle. Only to hear some billionaire say it’s my fault for being lazy
Well have you ever tried not eating. It's saved me and my kids a lot of money for rent. Oh Charlie just passed while I was typing this out so i guess we got lucky dinner is free tonight.
Same! I went to college, studied hard, got a BS and 3 medical certifications, I don’t live extravagantly, just pay my bills, and buy necessities mostly on sale, no trips/travel/vacations ANYWHERE, and I too live paycheck to paycheck due to cost of living. I worry about keeping food in my fridge some months. Tell me how a healthcare professional should have to worry about staying fed. Rent for a studio where I live is over 2k a month. And comparable to most major cities. I could move more rural but my pay would go down significantly and the amount of jobs decreases significantly. So what is a good option!!! People with millions in the bank should just stfu about regular folk problems.
That happened to me and my husband in 2000. Both professionals, college graduates living paycheck to paycheck without being able to buy a home. We ended up moving to a smaller, much cheaper city and it was the best decision we ever made. Bought our first home and 8 years later upgraded to a bigger home. Had our 2 kids, great schools, small town feeling, peaceful environment. Our families love to visit. Unfortunately, so did everyone else so now housing in our new city has become unreachable for younger people. I figured my teenagers will just have to find their own up and coming small city where they can thrive and build their own lives.
I have no doubt whoopie worked hard to get to where she is. She's not a CEO's son who was given a profitable business or a small loan of $1M. But how come a comedian and actor--you know ppl who are supposed to know humans so well--doesn't believe everyone works as hard as she did. I used to look up to her, but she's so out of touch now. :-(
She wasn't always a millionaire celebrity. Temper your rage. She put on a one women show too break into show business From her bio "Before making it as an actress, she worked as a bank teller, a bricklayer and in a mortuary. 1994: Became the very first woman to host the Academy Awards solo."
@@SciFantasyFreak I didn't mean as in people who good at their job but mindless slaves Guess there are enough people out there that defend this stuff you have to clarify 💀
Your sentence is extremely misleading I'm pretty sure most people would read that and go "oh so he supports millionaires paying their workers nothing" your own sentence is misleading man.@@pantman687
@@CJ-dt5mh who elected these people? Who allowed these people in and voted for the entitlements that bankrupted our system? Who let them be teachers and professors?
Totally agree, man. I've found that there are 3 responses to personal suffering: 1. Total apathy. "So long as I've got mine, I don't care about anybody else." 2. Universal suffering. "I suffered, so you should suffer just as much as I did." Or the correct response: 3. Compassion. "I don't want anyone to have to suffer the way I did."
@@jerryeastman170 You would still need to be able to afford property to build the house on. Even though it would still be considerably cheaper (especially if you know people who can help build the house) you would still need a lot more money than most young people have.
@@jerryeastman170you realize it’s more expensive to build your own don’t you? You have to buy the property and THEN buy the supplies and pay people to build it. It’s arguably more expensive than buying a home.
You think she was born rich? She is wrong about inflation numbers based on this video but even Andrew Tate says stop whining and improve yourself to get money
@@foxboy6145They’re not lazy they’re smart. We did a cost benefit analysis and realised it’s not worth it. They call us lazy for not wanting to work to death in a ridiculously unfair system. Thinking you can outwork inflation is ridiculous.
Exactly!! I think for the most part, most people are fine with 8 work hours. But what people don't like is when those work hours are with loud coworkers, office drama, depressing cubicles with bad chairs, and the long commute that goes with it. I recently got the opportunity to do remote/hybrid work for my company, and guess what? No productivity was lost, and I am way more happier for it.
I would LOVE if I could work 4 hours and still make enough to pay rent and survive but that's a far off dream when the current situation doesn't even allow for an average 8 hour work day/40 hour work week to result in pay for basic needs.
@Cat22275 But that is NOT functional since everyone wants open hours and doesn't give consistent schedules especially for anyone who has family or other obligations. Sheesh, I'm a teacher with a master's and can't afford a home where I live...
Their ignorance stops them from seeing that nuance, which would be the most important thing about this conversation 😕 their youth and today's youth basically live on a "different planet", nothing is how it should be, down is up and up is down... And these people are gaslighting everyone. 😑 It would be wiser to just stay quiet, but oh look, old people are not a reliable source of wisdom anymore either! 😑😑 So done with her generation.
@@creativia6639 How are they "ignorant!"😅 They WORKED VERY HARD THEY SAVED THEY DIDN'T SPEND IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN HARD THEY DIDN'T "JUST GET EVERYTHING" & UT WASN'T EASY ITS ALWAYS BEEN HARD! GET YOURSELF A CLUE & GROW UP ! (& DO NOT TAKE "UNIVERSITY COURSES!") THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REAL WORLD! STOP BUYING THE LATEST PHONE STOP BUYING DESIGNER BAGS & CLOTHES & MORE STOP GOING ON EXPENSIVE HOLIDAYS THAT'S HOW THEY DID IT? SACRIFICE COMES FIRST ALWAYS HAS🙏🏼🇬🇧
Anybody under twenty-six Thinks they have it "so hard!" & think Working 7 days per week & working Nine hours per Day + a Commute Is "too much!" Well thats how they did it! Many did it By owning their own Business & Working 80-90 hours per week For the First Twenty Years After College Good luck with that Attitude.. Good luck! 🙏🏼🇬🇧
You are correct. It doesn't matter what generation you are from. boomers, gen x, y, z, millennials. You can work 2 or 3 jobs and save every penny but they keep raising prices to make what we want unobtainable.
I’m so tired of rich, out of touch celebrities telling my generation to get off their asses & work when in reality we work so hard at back breaking jobs, spend our money to get degrees for jobs that pay garbage, do excessive amounts of over time or shift covers yet still can barely afford to feed ourselves & keep a roof over our head.
Work smarter not harder, working smart is mentally harder then the labor needed to work hard, you don’t have to use your brain in a normal job the ceo is the one who has to use his/her brain, there is a reason fewer people are rich because it’s extremely difficult to the average person to work smart
@@dkznikolaj7013but millennials were told the only way to be successful and make a living was to get degrees. Now I have these useless pieces of fancy paper just sitting in my house.
@@marktheshark7623i mean there’s plenty of boomers that were like deli workers or worked in the bakery and all sorts of brain numbing easy jobs that retired as millionaires. They got a pension and annuity both paying out thousands a month. Then they get social security and whatever they saved or invested themselves. I’m not saying today that you can’t invest in an Ira and retire a millionaire because you can if you simply save 50% of your earnings of your high school job and invest it into an Ira and never touch it or add another penny to it. That’s compounding interest. But social security will be gone by the time I’m old enough to receive it. You’ll be hard pressed to find a job that offers a pension or annuity these days. Like we’re definitely getting screwed when it comes to buying property. I mean if you were to take the money from the ira at like 35-40 you would have like 300k so you could use that as leverage to buy a home. But most people don’t know shit about investing and our parents didn’t really need to do all that to be able to afford a house. So yeah you’re right we need to work smarter not harder. But it’s not like boomers were smarter than us or worked smarter jobs. I mean my uncle was a burnout plumber who has his personal investments and then he gets 8k a month between his pension and his social security. That’s 96k a year just for working as a plumber for 35 years. I got nothing against plumbers. And I’m not necessarily saying plumbers are stupid. But it’s definitely a labor intensive job that is much harder than smarter. And sure people can still join the plumber’s union and do that today. But they’ll pay into social security but most likely ain’t getting it. Also the pensions and annuities have been gutted plus union jobs have dropped by a huge margin.
That expression originally meant to do something impossible that would only happen once a life time. Kind of crazy how often its used now by rich people and older people when talking about the struggles of the poor.
I was minding my business at work when this old lady decided to rant to me out of nowhere about how ridiculous it was that people want to increase minimum wage. She was going on about how she was a grocery store manager and she made $200 a month and that was enough for her. I looked at her and said "my mortgage is 1k/month."
Ok....but raising the minimum wage is part of the problem. You might get paid a little more....but companies just pass that on to the consumer(which Is you BTW)
@@powdercowboy90 while that is true, the rant was still a little delusional (and weird). She basically walked up to a random person sitting on the floor toothbrush scrubbing the grout in the lobby and said "Why are you all demanding to be paid more? I made $200/month managing a grocery store in the 70s and I lived comfortably, so why can't you?"
@@powdercowboy90yes but they don’t HAVE to do that. That’s the point. THATS the problem. They keep from paying people livable wages by going “well everything will just get more expensive” as if everything isn’t already just getting more expensive anyway
I’ve been working two jobs totaling an average of 40 hours/week since my junior year of high school. I’m about to start college and as of yet, I still can’t afford my first semester. Insurance is crazy, and I help out with bills and things of that sort. It’s no stretch for one to see the state we’re in now and think it fictional.
Here’s the thing, no ones saying they didn’t bust their butt to get to where they’re at. The point is we’re busting ours own butts and not coming out as good.
truth, same if not more work is being put in yet it's worth less. with how most economical systems are set, it's the cost of living increasing with every new human made to make sure we dont burn through all the resources on our planet. and it's only gonna keep snowballing from here, the best example being that american citizen population is bigger than the entirety of the US's defense groups. so if the government really were to start pulling on the leash and tell everyone not to be so damn greedy they'd have a revolt on their hands.
maybe the government should stop taking so much out of our paychecks? i dont feel like i make a ton of money, but i gross $1150 a week and i only see $792 of it. idk about you but $1400 a month the government takes from me would literally be the difference between living paycheck to paycheck to being able to save for a car, a house, etc. the crazy part? the government says i owe them even more money at the end of the year... im not going to blame my employer for a problem the government causes. i earned enough money to be well enough off and my employer pays me enough money to be well enough off, the only reason im not well enough off is the government.
People nowadays are having just as much work, probably even more, and not nearly as much of a reward as they did back then. Is like working double for half the paycheck.
People nowadays are having just as much work, probably even more, and not nearly as much of a reward as they did back then. It is like working double for half the paycheck.
Exactly, and the “millennials and gen z’s don’t wanna work” rhetoric is so tired- the economy isn’t at the same place as their generation grew up in AT ALL
Whoopi, you dropped out of school at 17 and immidiatly became an actor, the only job youve ever had was playing pretend Edit: anyone hating on this comment missed the point of the whole video you just watched, what are you doing on this type of content if you don't agree with it?
@@kayc2579 that’s not inherently bad Actually it might have been a good thing… you can distill an economy to simple values What you need to look is the more abstract things Hours worked to mean and mode cost of living etc
YES! It's insane. Another thing that drives me nuts is this relative I have that basically will discount any issues I have by saying something about his life problems. Like somehow saying that just erases my problems. It drives me insane and they all do it.
To be fair. Many old folks are still working today. Buying houses today. And paying for college tuitions today. Old folks living today pay today's prices, not 1980s prices.
I'm an old man with his own house. What I did was work 2 jobs (20 hours total) and just save, save, save. I made $23-28 thousand per year for several years. It was rough but It can be done.
I was actually homeless for a while on purpose because I found out how much cheaper it was to just live in a tent. No joke, saved up 330k and bought me a nice little place.
@@matthewsanchez7953capitalism lmfao yea you probably believe your vote matters and changes the agenda too. Your mindset is the problem did you forget housing shelter is one of 4 basic human needs of life and government profiting off the other 3 we are modern political servants taxed into slavery dont believe me open your eyes and educate yourself better.(away from the government instituted education they use to produce your shown stockholm syndrome)
I’m a conservative and I wouldn’t say that just cuz you’re fortunate doesn’t mean it was handed to you, they caught a break and the stars aligned, Whoopi isn’t truthful in the work harder like the guy said but she is right that people my age are lazier and don’t want to go into work and they want everything handed to them, parts of both can be truth
Well, but if i hear Gen Z whine how 9to5 is unfair, just because all their Life they benefited from their parents wealth/achievements, i can understand the frustration of older people.
@@Nr.7-Sevenwell yes it's unfair when I don't get paid what I should/would need to be to support myself. Try living off an entry level job. Good luck.
@@mattsutman1154 Always remember the difference in States, my friend. An apartment in New York will not compare in price to a full deluxe house almost mansion in Tennessee. I promise you the house is paying way less in rent than the tiny thing in New York.
This Gen Xer is standing up for both generations. Basically....the Boomers (like Whoopi) fkd us all. And we're STILL paying for them. My Mother (a Boomer) never worked more than part time. Always lived in a house, always had a new car. Always had everything she needed, which continues to this day. I work 50hrs a week to bring in what she does. And she retired at 60. And The Boomers didn't raise us either. Gen X raised themselves because of the Boomers' intense levels of self-interest. And the ruling class is all Boomers. They act exclusively in their own self-interest and continue to fk over everyone.
I work 50-60 hours a week as an aircraft mechanic. My wife is a psychologist. We are both disabled veterans and STILL struggle to make ends meet. There are 10 people living in my house, with the majority being adults. This economy is not sustainable.
@SoloRenegade whoopi raised her kid on welfare. I don't know the rest of her story, cuz I'm not a fan. It's just common knowledge for those of our generation. The insult is that she is accessing your generation of having no work ethic.
Bait a switch. You never addressed her point. “If you only want to work 4hrs, it’s going to be hard to get a house.” Your point is valid, but it’s not addressing her point.
idk where he got his information from but i can go get a job at walmart,mcdonalds,dominos or any retail or fast food place and the minimum wage is like around 16 an hour and those are low paying jobs a regular kid coiuld start off at ups or fedex and get paid more but only work 6 hours a day part time with that extra bonus and raise they offer nowadays in 2024 idk why i keep seeing these comparison videos with unrealistic numbers i havent seen a single job paying 7 dollrs an hour 😂😂😂 respectfully but i do agree that times are different now than back then however machinery and technology has made jobs easier which he didnt take into account labor has been cut back significantly since early 2000s because there are more online and stay at home jobs and alot of useless things werent as expensive back then like entertainment tvs and toys were all they needed now its ps5s and pcs 😂 times change in every way not just the salaries and wages also there are way more opportunities in places lie the US now because there are so many different types of avenues that weren't even a thing back then like really think about it these mfks were building raild roads and working in construction and factories with minimal safety equipment and less advanced tech as kids alot of it was done by hand too the work and labor was tougher but the pay wasnt less it just seemed that way because everything was lower in value
@@ShisuiDUchiha Minimum wage can change depending on the state. BUT the FEDERAL minimum wage is $7.25. and you're not taking into account the cost of living which is SUPER high rn. And most of the higher paying jobs in the US require a college degree which is several times more expensive to obtain than a couple decades ago. They aren't made up numbers, they're actual recorded statistics. $16 bucks an hour is not gonna cut affording a place for practically 2k a month in rent, then your utilities like electric, water, waste, and cable. Then if you have a car you pay insurance and car payments if you haven't already paid it off. Then you have to have groceries and hygiene necessities. Several decades ago you could afford to support a whole household on minimum wage if you're smart with you're money but everything from the cost of living to the cost of food and gas has become so expensive that people who work minimum wage have to get several roommates just to make it work. We absolutely have it several times harder financially then any of those older generations who grew up in those times.
I could work 18 hours a day, 6 days a week, and never be able to afford a home. At this rate, I will never retire. I will need to unalive myself if I want to stop working.
For real I live with my aunt and I work a job that pays way more than minimum wage yet I barely scrape by with a car payment, rent, phone, and other house needs.
Work smarter, not harder. You control how much your worth and ultimately how much you get paid at the end of the day. Maybe the issue is your job or overall career choice. There are a TON of jobs paying 100k+ a year. Most people also have side gigs that bring in at least $1-2k extra per month.
@@Jspath3"a ton" care to name 10 ? and don't add surgeons,the college bills in the us will kill you long before you finish med school if you don't have a rich relative to give you a small loan of 1000000 dollars
In the 80's I was going to college and working a minimum paying job. I had a car and I had 2 room mates in a 2 bed apt to afford rent at about $100 not including utilities. It was hard, but it was workable. NOW - unless i had a *really* generous family member willing to fork out for my college, there's no way in hell I could do it on a minimum paying job. I'd be living at home so I could afford the car to get to college. It's ridiculous..
They may be, but he's numbers aren't accurate. If the minimum wage is 7,50$ then there's no way the rent is 1900$. The minimum wage is 7,50$ in Idaho. Rent is 1000$ + . In Arizona its 14,35$. The rent is 1500$+. In neither of those states have I seen an entry job offering the minimum wage. In Idaho it's usually 15$+ and it Arizona is 17$+. So his numbers are clearly from Google and not pulled from real life. It may be harder, but his numbers are way off.
@@Cannibalizee Minimum wage has nothing to do with the average rent price and he's using average statistics for multifamily homes throughout the whole US, which varies around 2k in 2024. Obviously not all renting prices will be the same, this is just the average.
@@Cannibalizeealthough my states min wage is higher at $15, a studio where I live is 1,900… a studio. Most one beds are 2.5k+ and most jobs here will pay only min wage for entry level. Jobs that pay more require a degree for the most part. I’m happy that I was lucky enough to know someone renting a one bed for a good price 3+ years ago but a one bed in my building rn would be $2k+
Well I'm 64 and I can't agree. But I sacrificed hard to get where I am. And I mean sacrificed. I didn't have a furnace in my home for 10 years until I could afford it. I boiled water on the stove for 3 months until I could afford a hot water heater. I now have no bills no credit cards and I don't live above my means. Am living the good life now
I had my first son at age 19 in 1980 and my second son in 1982, and my third daughter at 37 in 1999. I am considered a boomer, and I am not a fan of these lables/categories. I worked in the mental health and health field for most of 2 decades, and was also a paid vocalist ( most I made from a NYE gig was $400, $1 to 2 average for other work ). I also have some college education and Graduate Physician Assistant . I have yet to escape poverty. The wages have remained stagnant since the 70's. Am I right ?😂
Not all millennials are the same. What's not mentioned is the wide disparity amongst millenials. Remember, millenials fought the global war on terror. Many of us sacrificed our youth for our country. Other millenials didn't and have differing opinions. The disparity is so wide that I'll watch millenials complain about millenials not realizing they are a millenial themselves. It's wild.
How do these people not realise that they got payed lower numbers yes, but money was worth much more, saying $200 a month is fine makes sense when a mortgage might be roughly $180, but $200 is not fine now because mortgages now are not $180, they are $1000, these people need to google the word inflation.
Well also have more government programs compared to the 1980s which could explain the high cost of everything. Sense the same programs to help ppl also jack up prices with the aid
@@phantomblade89entire generations can’t afford housing, and it’s not because of alcohol or other vices. The cost of living has increased, the value of an education has been diluted, and the wages have not kept up. If you’re surrounded by alcoholics and drug addicts, maybe change your company.
Of course she doesn't take it into consideration, cost of living means nothing to her. I'm also sick and tired of celebrities saying they work hard. Acting is not hard. Its a skill and should be appreciated, but it's not hard work. And those that get lucky enough to be in major pictures. Compared to most people , actors really don't break much of a sweat.
All generations are struggling today. But I can tell for a fact that 12 dollars an hour in the late 90's gave you twice life that 24 dollars a hour today does.
I get that -but my kids can live with me rent free -I didn’t have that option and was in sheer panic anytime my car needed something and begging the mechanic for the cheapest fix. My kid can just borrow my car if theirs is broken down …. It’s all apples and oranges , different challenges for different generations.
@@mostdopecaptain3350with you there, my first ever job I was the only one making over 10 hours a week in overtime to the point the boss had to hard cut my hours. I was only working for 9 dollars each hour and I was homeless trying to save up for an apartment
Thats not even true anymore. One of the best people I had to work with recently left because they werent giving him enough. I promise u they arent finding a replacement for him in awhile
@@dakota8381 ik someone in the exact same situation... she has a JD and over a decade of experience, asked for a raise (she's underpaid in her role to the tune of 10 k). She was denied it. When they hired someone without a JD or any experience at a higher salary than what she makes, she put in her notice. Now the boss is expecting the new hire to do the job and the other employees to pick up the slack. Infuriating.
That's assuming the place you work at gives a shit. They'd rather make every other employee stuffer than hire competent people who know their worth who want to get paid.
Literally I was picking up an extra shift every single week, working 6 days a week, and even THAT is not enough to pay for my f*****g school. Yeah, soooooo lazy we are. Only working 6 days a week! I should really work 7 days a week in order to appear diligent, huh?
@@ianjohnson1249the simple answer is yes, if you want to go to school and you aren’t getting it handed to you. Then yes 7 days is what you need to do. Just saying.
Worked 10-12 hours a day and I barely got $1000 per paycheck. Then I get fired for being absent from work even though I called in and had a note Edit: probably should have specified that this paycheck I was getting was not weekly. Most jobs pay bi-weekly, including my prior place of employment. Especially retail. And past tense on the word “worked”. Still don’t have a job and I’ve been applying and searching for months.
I stopped calling these people celebrities a long time ago. There's nothing to celebrate about them, because they certainly don't celebrate the average person.
I agree, I don't see celebrities as anything more than someone who is good at their job. Good for them, someone pays them all that money, but there are many others that are great at their job and more worthy of my respect.
No one working “4 hours a day” is looking to buy a house. They are either 16 years old looking for extra money or part time people in school. Mfs be working 10 hour shifts 6 days a week and STRUGGLING to buy a house
@@benjaminvolk9106if he works 60 hours a week he should be doing decent depending if he had a kid and other things going on, also if you’re working a minimum wage job you need to stop wasting your time and find a better job that’s more sustainable. I know that last part sounds harsh and idk his story but people need to understand you can’t just keep working the same job making low hourly wage and think you can make up for it on overtime.
@@TheSnommel nopeshell say that her life is much harder than ours despite she gets paid to just sit infront of a camera to give an opinion she may have known hardship im the past, i dont know, but shes clearly out of touch with this take
@@kaijukingdom2686”she may have known hardship in the past.” They did acknowledge it and even if she did that just makes her a ladder puller. Not a person worthy of listening too. She’s also a liar. No millennial or Gen Z that I know work four hour weeks. They’re either part time students who legally cannot work more than part time hours due to being a student with financial aid or they’re working overtime or even two full time jobs to make ends meet. But no. Somehow they have it easier than her? A woman with connections in broadway and the acting sector? She may have worked but she still had a leg up, and now refuses to give a leg up or even RECOGNITION of the hard work of others.
I work 12 hour shifts on average, every day, and often times forfeit my weekends to OT as an ICU nurse. I’m suffering from clinical burnout and sleep deprivation because of how stressed I am with finances despite literally having no life outside of work. Where’s my talkshow and millions of dollars, Whoopie? I don’t care how bad Boomers thought they had it, maybe it was ‘bad’, but they voted to make it _considerably worse_ and now don’t have to fight to get into an abusive job market as new workers with no resources just to get systematically taken for granted.
That is how work is for nurses no matter what, that’s just your career, so not the best example no offense lol. You’d be working like that even if we were in an amazing economic situation, it’s just the nature of medical care. Thank you for what you do btw.
And then there’s me applying and applying and applying for months and only hearing back from 3 companies while 2 of them I’m pretty sure are a scam and the other one pays 12$ which is what I made at my first job 4 years ago. There’s no way to win unless I sell my soul, or my body. The boomers are beyond out of touch and I’m tired of living in the hellscape they’ve created. Plus I’m gay and if the republicans get their way I’ll be labeled a “sex offender” and sent to a for profit prison to do manual slave labor for billion dollar corporations until I break. If things don’t get better I’m either traveling out of the country for a better life or to a state that will euthanize me.
@@cottoncandyaddict but they shouldn't be making so little money for skilled and valuable labor that they're struggling with finances even after working more than full-time hours. That's the point. Back in the 70s, someone working more than full time in the medical field would never be unable to pay for housing.
@@2GoatsInATrenchCoatwell if you dont accept the role a Pakistani or An Indian or Bengali or any other kind of Asian and other migrants will. You're not special sweetie 😂
I'm a boomer, and I get it. I was there. We had it easy in comparison. It's not so much that prices are higher, it's that incomes have been stagnant for 40 years. When you add the gains of productivity, you can see how badly working people are being screwed today.
Prices are higher too. Why is a family pack of chicken wings $20? That's insane. Why is bread $6 and milk $8? I brought 24 items when I went shopping recently and paid over $200 for it. When I was younger I could buy a basket full of items. Now as an adult going into my 40's I have to spend a minimum of $600 to get where I used to be then. So yes it's all of that. And NOBODY wants to pay their workers as well as them working long hours. I had to quit a job because I was tried of begging for over time to make ends meet just to pay for daycare. Daycare for two children just two is $2100 a month. That's rent money. It's cheaper to be at home with the children and let my hubby work but then that gets costly too. What's really going on?
@@jaifyre702 All of that is wrong. Houses are over twice as big and people voted in politicians and HOA's that do extreme NIMBY policies. And you know, pumping an unfunded $2T into the economy overnight will raise inflation. IT DOESN'T JUST HAPPEN BECAUSE "CORPORATIONS BAD".
Ima boomer. I worked long long hours, often 2 or more jobs, raised a family, paid all those bills that busted our responsible budget, etc., fully “paid my dues”, and it was not easy -indeed, often challenging or sometimes scary. BUT I wasn’t bombarded by information, stimulation, so many other “..ations”, 24/7, from so many sources & where many are known false (but which-when-how?), where “news cycles” occur in a matter of hours, where what was bad is now good is now bad is now…, where what was good is now…, where everything is temporary, where if it’s not temporary then it’s changing(?), where there is a new threat of disease, weather, war almost daily, “nickeled & dimed” for ANYTHING constantly, with constant threat of attack, robbery, scam, cheat… etc. … etc…. ad infinitum… As a young adult struggling with establishing career & family, and after moaning as to the trials & tribulations thereof, my Dear Departed Mother made a remark that was oddly reassuring: “I don’t know if I’d have survived if I’d had to deal with the world you face today.” I’m with you Mom. I’ve done all I can for my kids & grandkids.
@@Blackrage843 and The Rock to my understanding. Then when a disaster hit they went whining on social media to get people who aren't rich to pay for the repairs
I’m a 75 year old boomer and it’s impossible for young people today to be able to afford the things that my wife and I did when we got married in 1971.
@@crabon8172 A new home for $24,000, a new Volkswagen Beetle. Two years later an infant daughter with a stay at home wife to take care of her of her on just my income for the next 13 years.
They voted themselves right into this problem. Remember when our parents used to say and I quote.?.?.?. You made your bed now lie in it.?.?.? It is Tonic for their souls.
Mine is to point out that literally every generation since the invention of the printing press has used the exact words, "Nobody wants to work anymore". It's just out of touch old people complaining about young people who live in the world they fucked up.
@@roseykitten798 I think you are right…the reality is the rich want you to work for them for as little as possible. Do not put rich people in public office!!! Especially those convicted of crimes.
There is a reason my 25yr old son lives at home with a job that pays over 50K a year. He pays his student loans which are ridiculous. My husband and I ran the numbers from our 1995 dual income household and put it in today money. He makes 30k less than we did with the adjusted numbers.
Exactly. And then there’s that weird question everyone asks at 18, “when are you moving out ?” “Look for any apartments yet” “stayin in a dorm?” No im not . How tf are people moving out at 18 anymore ? I don’t even want to THINK about the repercussion costs of a dorm . And then RENT? AT 18 ??? There’s no way in hell😭
woah that is crazy! i’m 27 and a couple years ago i moved back in with my parents and it’s WILD how much money i’m saving. i rly wish ppl would stop judging adults who live with their parents.. likee what they’re doing is SMART.
Ikr so what if i live with my parents im just saving money so that when i want to move out i jave the money there plus if anything were to happen to them (god i hope not) im there and i can take care of them its a win win for all except anyone who complains about it cause they have nothing better to do with their life@@elise7525
“…our dual income”, …less than what WE did”. And I’m sure both of you had already been working for a few years and had moved up a bit. While I’ll agree with the high increase in education and living expenses there are better ways to make substantially more income than getting a four to six year practically useless degree but increasing minimum wage isn’t going to work. Just look at what’s happening in California. Businesses have increased their prices while laying off employees or closed down completely. Who do you think is going to pay these high minimum wages. I’ll give you one guess…WE are in the form of high prices and lost wages. Do I have the solution? No. But I do know from almost 50 years of taking care of myself and my family that $20 minimum wage is going to completely defeat the purpose.
Well then at 60 maybe you should check a few things. Like how many of those numbers are either just plain wrong or are being deceptively used. They have some valid points but when they complain about being unable to buy a median priced home then compare it to a starter home and tie it to having a minimum wage job, I lose my sympathy pretty quickly. Look all around in this comments section. Not one bothered to see if his numbers were making correct comparisons or even if they are factually correct. I am tempted to roll my eyes and leave them on "Well you dumb pricks, of course you can't buy a home on minimum wage." And let them figure it out. They have some real issues in their but I am not interested in their whining when they are not even bothering to check their facts. That is just lazy. I blame the internet short format for making kids this damn dumb. They don't check anything, they make a snap judgement and then move on to the next 30 second pile of horseshit.
@@Snipergoat1 Only thing that's noticeably wrong is the 1980 median household income figure. Should be closer to 50k. Otherwise, everything else looks in line with what I've looked up in the past. As such the rising cost of living looks even worse.
tbf she's also stuck inside the Hollywood celebrity bubble and echo chamber. They see working class people every day but have no idea what it's like to live like that any more.
@@Snipergoat1and yet you’re also in RUclips shorts mindlessly watching 30 seconds worth of crap as well. You sound like someone who would appreciate this advice, so here it is: touch grass.
@@Snipergoat1So I looked up every single one thanks to you. Pretty much everything is accurate but the college tuition and fees. 1980 is right but today is more like 22k. So instead of 13x it's 10x and the median household income today should be 220k instead of 77k if had gone up the same. I'd like to know your perspective on this because you seem to have more knowledge or maybe you are just projecting your stupidity onto strangers on the internet.
Yeah, Whoopi, no one who works 4 hours a day in this economy is expecting to buy an entire house. Most people who do want that work 2 full time jobs, which still isn't nearly enough for rent. It's not our fault that inflation fucked us over beyond reason.
This is why it's important to look at the economic policies of anyone you plan to vote for. Left or right, doesn't matter. Bad economic policy leads to this
They have, for the bottom end. Not so much the middle professional incomes. Some stuff hasn’t really changed in price over the course of 50ish years. Nominally yes because half a century of inflation, but not in real costs. I look at my boomer father’s mustang. He bought it new 53 years ago, costed him 3,319$ or as he put 2 years wages for the bottom end of the income spectrum. If I look at a modern new mustang same trim and everything, well what do you know once again roughly 2 years wages if you’re on minimum wage in my state. There’s always an issue with using the “average” wage, or median wage. Those numbers are skewed. A better metric is measuring the proverbial floor because there’s a hell of a lot more people on the bottom rungs than the middle or top end. My own wages when I worked minimum wage between from 2010 to 2020 essentially doubled from 10 to 19.75. The more professional incomes didn’t get that kind of pay raise.
@@Bonanzaking, your pay may have doubled but I can assure you that your COL has probably quadrupled. My dad just turned 70. He's obviously retired, but in 1980, he made $12.00 per hour as a carpenter. My mom didn't work. She stayed at home and raised four kids. Fast-forward 44 years, and that same job pays, on average, $22.00 in my state. In 1980, the average house price in my state was $47,000 (my parents built their first house on my dad's income only for $43k). Today, the average home price in my state is $339,200. So, in 44 years, wages have not even doubled (in this specific example), but the cost of a house has increased by a factor of 7. In other words, if now were 1980, my dad could only afford to pay about $100k for a house - but they cost, on average, 3.5x that. This doesn't even take into account automobile costs, food costs, utility costs, personal needs costs, etc. To afford a house that costs $339k, a carpenter in my state in 2024 would need to earn $76.92 per hour.
@@rickcorley2592 doubled nominally, the raise was never really a raise. It was keeping up with inflation. My cost of living didn’t quadruple, even after all the crypto money.
@@tarkelson2457fr, a good example I can think of is the Gower brothers, they started off humble but now they’re millionaires. (I just love RuneScape, wanted an excuse to mention them and can’t wait for Brighter Shores)
These people don’t realize that current economy isn’t theirs! If it was that simple we wouldn’t be complaining, but with so much excess money she is made, she doesn’t have to worry about the economy.
Why would you even a want a house? Renting is far superior, especially if you rent a house. You don't pay property tax. You don't have to pay for repairs you didn't cause. You don't feel tied down to one city for life. Your address/place of residence is harder for others to find out since you aren't the owner of the house.
My lease ended a few months ago, my roommate and I elected to move back in with our parents. My landlords realtor passively mocked us saying her mortgage rate was 18% when she bought. I asked what she paid, she tells me her condo cost $9000. I said, if you can find me a condo for $9000 you let the seller know a cash buyer is ready to close today.
IF u will humor me - the timeshares are fkn ruined by aho's who have kids that are like everything now. nope not because they are more intelligent or have more information at their fingertips. its because they are narcissistic in general. and need to understand society should be gentle. unlike our past admins granted.
Yep, you're right. My dad's take home pay was $330.00 a week in the early 50's and we had a stay at home mom, one vacation a year, two cars, a new 1700 sq ft ranch with full basement home in the suburbs, and groceries for a family of four was $40.00 a week and dad put two us through college without breaking a sweat.
He gets the median household income part wrong. Likely around 50k. As this is what Mother Jones cited & St Louis Fed had above 60k before 1990. Women entering the workforce, immigration & currency dilution, debt.
Wake up people, the country has grown in size since that time, of course things get more expensive as population grows. We have over 300 million people in this country now, funny how no one ever mentions that part.
Most of the boomer generation is like that. It's crazy because you can show them the numbers; surely they notice how expensive everything has become. It just seems like the logic isn't getting through. I'm not sure if it's willful ignorance or what but I truly cannot understand how they can deny these facts, and with such arrogance!
She said "if you want to work 4 hours it's going to be harder for you". That's truth. It's not the fault of entire generations that US politicians allow business to run the country, nor that people perpetuate regulation is a dirty word. I notice he didn't mention the 18% mortgage rates in the late 80's early 90's so the average mortgage then was what it is now on those days wages. But no, they were all handed it on a plate.
@@Sol_Bulldid you miss how she completely misconstrued that discussion? 4 hr work days has been a conversation topic for a couple years. And that’s specifically about efficiency and better moral in office jobs.
Getting a what??? Repeat that??? Today theres like 20,000 script every year, it means everyone can get a fkm job. And thats in hollywood, now you can work at any place by minum. Then back in the days you had 2 option, work or starve. Theres a diference.
Yeah I'm 55 years old and when I hear one of my generation complain about Millennials and Gen Z not being willing to work to get ahead I just laugh at them and start asking questions about what their costs were at age 20... then ask them what that same thing costs today. Eggs... when I was 20 years old eggs were $.50 a dozen. They are at LEAST 6-10x that now. A gallon of milk was $.35 and now is 10x that number at least. I bought my first condo when I was 19 because I saw rent as throwing away money. I paid $17,750 for a 2bd, 1bath on a golf course. I saw listings in that exact same neighborhood for condos that are now 35 years older and they were listed at $237k and $250k (the 250 was the same as mine with a 'view of the fairways'). It is, bluntly, really hard to see how young families in the middle to lower income brackets can make the 'American Dream' work today.
Not 100% true. Each generation takes blame. I know past generations made mistakes and one of them was coddling their children. We know the world sucks, but we didn’t figure the younger generation would just give up and complain all the time, all the while not putting forth real effort and sacrifice to make their situation better. All we hear is take accountability and out of the same mouths we hear kids always focused on how they feel and lean on labels like anxiety and fairness and BS they will only make you feel like a victim. Life isn’t fair. It’s not going to get any easier either. Toughen up or you’ll be left behind. No malice intended at all.
@@istillbetalkinyou’re out of touch if you think there is always something you can do. Younger people have to be extremely lucky to make a good living. And that is ENTIRELY the fault of older generations. If you think otherwise then you’re just stupid. Older generations are sadly the ones always in office, they’re always the ones fucking everything in the economy up. That is an indisputable fact. You know why life isn’t fair? Because the older generations, too selfish and stupid to actually try and make a good future for the kids made it that way. And judging by your comment, you’re obviously one of those older generation folk
@@istillbetalkin I agree 100%partisipation trophies blaming their parent's for everything, all their boundary issues 🙄I could go on and on, each generation takes responsibility, not these one's it's everyone else's fault😢
I remember having this conversation with my mom and seeing her eyes finally light up. I asked her how much she paid for a semester of college. She answered and then added, “but that was a lot back then.” So I asked her, “yes, but was that the equivalent of 6 months worth of your salary?” I don’t think I’ve ever won an argument so completely before or since.
Loans for college were not guaranteed by the government back then. Once the government said they would guarantee loans, colleges started jacking up prices.
@@Uwill49ding ding ding! We have a winner. But wait, there's more! The same is true for the medical field, insurance, finance, and much of big business. Crazy that they get ez bailouts and garaunteed money, and WE pay for it.
its even worse in other countries than USA. Houses and rent is same price as USA, but our average salary is 1k so 12k in 2024 haha. Europe cough. Asia and Russian average salary is even worse, but everything is slightly cheaper than USA. haha. End of the world. Millennials and genz don't even want to work anymore. we do our bare minimum just to survive. Forget the old folks 40 and over they can't even keep up with the software and production speeds and KPI's at work that need you to work x10 than our parents did. The things are very bad. We work x10 and get payed -x10. Hoddor BTC, break this evil cycle.
@@Uwill49THIS. Was looking into a grad school option in NC and surprise surprise.... the tuition was EXACTLY what the government offers in grad school tuition.... 60k
Jesus christ you too? Grandpa always tells me to save but it's damn near impossible. I gotta have SOMETHING in the bank. Can't believe how bad it's gotten over the years.
Others hear that too?? 😂 My dad Said sth like "Well, it's about your priorities. If you want a flat (house is No topic anyway) then you have to save" - SAVE WHAT?? There is nothing to save. And even If, it would take us 10-15 years to only bring up the 20% of basic Money the bank wants before granting you a credit 😭 also every flat with two kids rooms cost around 500k here. Who has half a million for a flat without even a little garden?? That has nothing to do with priorities anymore
@nicoleebner4929 my gramps was trying to use math, but the thing is, I don't even know if he knows what he's talking about, he was saying the average apartment cost $1,000 and I make $16.66... and that if I save, then I can get a apartment soon and that it takes "patience" like BRO... I pay rent to my parent which is $320 and THAT IS CHEAP but I still struggle with it due to food I'm buying for myself, and I'm trying to save for a car which it not working out well due to the cost of living. Man I get scared if to by new shoes for how difficult it is and my gramps don't believe me!! I love my gramps but he is living in the wrong time lol
@@nicoleebner4929 yeah it seems to be very common sadly lol my partners grandma kept asking us "why dont you just buy a house?" like its that simple?! ... instead of renting, been renting all my life, dont own anything and we got nothing to inherit either (except parents debt lol). meanwhile she grew up in a big house and inherited 2 big apartments in one of the best central expensive neighborhoods in the capital and bought herself a house in a village 40 mins from it(hella expensive area now due to the closeness to the capital city too). i think it finally got into her head a bit when we showed her a normal apartment goes for like 500k ... even the shitholes are like 300k ... we make 25k~ a year ... and thats not even on the low side for this country! minimum wage is 7k a year... wtf how can the older generations be so damn clueless? inflation is crazy as well, shops increase their prices every other week but paychecks barely move for years.
My mom flat out said I would never be able to buy a house unless I got married or hit the lottery. It hurt when she said that, but she wasn’t wrong lol.
It’s so frustrating to hear the older generation say things like that, like they just choose to be blind to what’s actually going on because they’re so ready to criticize the next generations just for the heck of it.
you missed her whole point which is this generation doesnt want to work. if you dont work how do you expect to be able to buy anythng. everybody has it hard and he loves to vomit numbers but the older generations did have it harder. now you have all the info of the planet at your finger tips and you still crying about not being able to make money. nobody feels sorry for the zoomers. you guys forget that the great depression was a thing. how do you think the people fared during that hmm? also ww2?
@@HunterR1223 A mistake on the ones who made minimum wage unlivable. Not the hard workers themselves. You seem to be blaming the workers for not doing something better when you are ignoring the heart of the issue which is that more and more well paying jobs are not becoming so.
My Dad and Mom bought our house after being married for only a year. He worked full-time and she didn't work at all. In 1974, they bought our 1100 sqft. 3 bed 1 bath house for $15,000. It's worth over $300k now (and rising). Boomers have NO concept of the vast changes that have occurred in the past 20+ years. Our buying capabilities are nowhere near the same.
But still doable. Most of us had second hand everything in our first houses. My Mum and Dad did and so did I. My son just bought his first house in the same town and was until recently paying his mortage/bills alone on a 38hr week in a blue collar job. I get the US can be harder but it's not the fault of previous generations. Rather greedy politicians pandering to corporations. Just blaming everyone else won't fix it. I notice in this guy's 'averages' he didn't mention the massive 80's recession nor 18% mortgage rates so payments were then what they are now but on 80s wages.
That was 50 years ago. I love how ppl don’t even say where the home is located. Just like today home prices are different depending on location. Inflation was steady until the last 4 years. Except for the early 80’s and 2008. It’s going to take time and years of lower inflation to stabilize the economy and make things more affordable again. The government needs to slow down spending or we will never stabilize the economy.
People from each generation either have understanding or they don’t. The difference is, people like Whoppie, are self-absorbed and living in their own world, and contrived sense of reality. Some people’s mindsets and memories are stuck in a previous era, while others, including Baby Boomers stay current, pay attention, and want to learn and grow with the changing times. Just as it will be for your generation as people age. That’s why it’s good to be careful if categorizing an entire group of people that you do not know; since you could be included in that type of unfair judgement too. I’m a Baby Boomer and have been living these past 20 years. I’ve been through the changes, and this current nightmare too, with tremendous empathy for these younger generations just starting out. I hope everything gets better, we’ll all have some relief, and you’ll receive all the peace and happiness your heart can hold. 😊
Gen-X here and let me say, I appreciate you breaking this down. This is why I really hate when people make comparisons. We're often times comparing surface level shit and not breaking things down like this dude has done.
And yet this guy never adjusted the value of the dollar from 1980 to 2024 to account for inflation. This comparison he is making is done in very bad faith ignoring inflation and the fact a dollar went a lot farther in 1980 than it does in 2024 due to the dollar being worth more.
Still doesn't negate the fact that hardwork and consistency pay off. Obviously I'm stereotyping here but this generation doesn't want to be inconvenienced in any way with having a job. I didn't own a home until I was 42. Depending on your financial choices (mine were not good in my 20s) it takes time.
@leevy6753 I get that, but I also think we were suckers. We put up with way too much with some of these jobs. Giving 15-20 years and these companies not giving a crap. We can all learn something from each other I guess.
@@Milner62 I feel like that literally just supports his point though? If not only the surface numbers increased and income went up roughly 3-4x and college and a house is 13x and 7-8x respectively, and the dollar went further back then to boot, that's literally just supporting his point of it being shitty for people who had it much easier to bitch about people RIGHTFULLY feeling ripped off when they have it harder. Like if it looks bad not adjusting for inflation then doing that is just going to support his point further, it doesn't make him wrong or in bad faith
@@xxwolfrider3xxYeah I really do not understand the guys point.. Adjusting for inflation helps his argument, it doesn't hinder it.. Just looking at inflation alone also doesn't explain the full picture but looking at it with these other facts and data points absolutely contributes to the same argument..
To put it into perspective in Brazil you see these same numbers but in the currency here, Americans are paying the same as a 3rd world country. Ignore the exchange rate conversion and you will see how bad it is.
As a 57 year old Scot who worked hard I will readily admit that younger people have it financially harder. The mortgage rates are an absolute joke and many start their careers with student debt. Scotland differs from the rest of the UK with course fees and Scottish students should not if my understanding is right have student debt as fees are paid. I feel for young people today and my experience of being poor and working hard to improve my life doesn’t change that. I had hoped it would be easier for my children but sadly that’s not the case ❤️🏴
I'm a Scot (2020 uni graduate) you still leave uni in debt if you used a student loan. So yes while education is free, most if not all students have debt to pay through students loans. Also Masters degrees are not free. Its just undergrads which are free.
@@joe94c my daughter is currently looking to buy a house I am horrified by the house prices and the mortgage rates. It’s really brought it to my attention.
@@Lassie_W thanks for the info my daughter graduated in 2017 so not much change. She also had student loans but I feel we are blessed with course fees being paid otherwise people who are financially poorer would not have any opportunity to further their education and improve their lives. I have a few nursing colleagues who have completed their masters fully financed by the NHS so a few employers will finance if it improves the workplace. ❤️🏴
@@angelahamilton1656 just wish that the older generations didn't need to know someone to believe us when we say millennials and genz have it hard. I feel like the average boomer will watch this video and tell us to stop buying coffee, like it makes a difference
A lot of people are stuck with part time jobs (it is nearly all of the new jobs in the past 16 years). It doesn't mean that they only work 4 hours (some do) just that they need more jobs to be equvilant to past full time.
Most people 18-25. What they don’t realize, is they could have 2-3 part time jobs like every one I knew in the 90’s did. But, excuses and internet addiction are their biggest problem. They think they should have the mcmansion and brand new influencers furniture. Not the starter home shack with hand me down furniture.
@@Cat22275 Ah. I'm sorry! I didn't realize that you knew most people 18-25! Google "Unemployment rate in the United States from 1990 to 2023, by age." I'm aware that this doesn't take into part time workers. Nevertheless, Millennials, Gen X, and even Gen Z have worked more hours per week at EVERY age than Boomers did. I worked easily every Saturday and Xmas for a decade. I racked up 80hr work week constantly. You stole from your mommy and then spun around and stole from your daughter. I'd punch sand on your grave, but it would require me to visit it.
@@Cat22275 Wait so people fit 2-3 part-time jobs with college and job searching? I assume college as well since 18-25 is right out of high school. Also, just a genuine question, how does transportation work with even 2 part-times and (assuming) college? I had one part-time job during college and had a 5+ hour daily commute via bus.
My first used car in California in 1971 was $200, gas was 21 cents a gallon, and my rent was $140. Now in 2024: My last used car was $28,000, gas is $6, and rent is $2200.
i dont understand you people fear mongering about rent. i have a super nice apartment 40 minutes outside a major city, 15 minutes from my full time job, low crime nice neighborhood with a park, rent is $600 a month. 2200 is just you being dumb imo.
I don’t know anyone over the age of 16 that only wants to work 4 hours. I’m So tired of these people talking down to us. *even though these issues don’t affect me too many others are deeply struggling to live out here. This “stop being lazy” narrative has to stop.
I did a semester in a University in California. I wrote a paper about unvoulentarily part time work. I started with asking if anyone had a part time job. About a a third raised their hand, but when I asked if they would also want o just want to work part time after they got their degree they kept their hands up. I was baffled. Part time while studying is fine, because you are doing 100% college so you only have time for a part tiem job on top of that, but to keep working part time after you get your degree??
im a full time college student and looking for part time work close to where i lilve is a struggles. mcdonald's isn't hiring at all. no one calls back , or even lets me know they've looked at my resume. ntm did u know, that on indeed and linkedin, companies will make fake job advertisements? yeah, i swear the universe is giving me every reason NOT to work when i genuinely want toooooo 😭
I sure do. My husbands eldest daughter and her boyfriend don't want to work then complain about not having money 🤔 they think they're entitled to other people's money though.
Im 27, no job. If I tried to get a job, they’d ask about my I haven’t had a job in years so… I’m pretty much stuck even if I do get some miracle therapy to make me stop crying the moment I even think about it.
if you watch the breakfast club, the principle mentions that he makes $31k a year and owned a home. the movie was released in 1985. with inflation adjusted to 2024, the salary comes to $92k. the average person isn't making that much money a year as they earn $40-50k a year. so for genz and millenials, they would need 2-3 jobs to earn the amount that the boomers made. it's beyond working hard.
100% it is an absolute travesty what has happened to young adults. I ended up in a very blessed position where I could buy a home. But the vast majority of people today cannot, and will struggle to ever get there. I refuse to own more than one home, as it makes the situation worse. Yet I know many in the older generation who buy multiple homes, and rent them at extortionate prices to pay for their pensions etc, and then complain about the youth being lazy. What is lazy, is getting rich off the backs of others, especially when those people are the ones who are paying for multiple landlord's mortgages. People need to stop being greedy, and actually think about future generations, as they are the ones expected to take on tax burdens for a nation, and to fill the jobs that keep infrastructure and services running. I tip my hats to you younger, you're expected to perform significantly better than the generations before you, have to deal with our debt burdens, and have to deal with weird political and social engineering environment we helped to create.
Exactly, it’s not that our generation doesn’t want to work. It’s that they refuse to hire people, refuse to pay a livable wage, and most the time expect us to pull 9-12 hour days. Work ethic isn’t the problem, burnout and poverty is.
@@purple-mtn-laurel I’m not going to say where I come from because it’s the internet so I could lie. I will say this, I see people from the poorest nations come to the US and somehow make it to middle class or even become millionaires yet people born here can’t 🫤 do you know why they succeeded other than hard work? they are not afraid to move. People born in America would rather stay in a familiar 💩 hole than to move 1 state over and take a chance at having a better life. We are wiling to keep our kids in a place that we know damn well that the likehood of them joining a gang or committing crimes is above 80%. I wish I didn’t spend high my life believing the type bs this dude is saying. Every generation will say it’s harder than the last, it’s simple math but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible or as hard as you think. i won’t go through the math and science of it but i will tell you a way to make money that people don’t think about. If you have a friend or family member that’s single and willing to be away from home, tell him to go to a trucking company like swift trucking. They will let him keep the truck while his off. He could actually live in it which has plenty of room. At a minimum he would have $50,000 in his account by the end of the year to invest, create a business, or continue working at the company. If he continues to drive for swift, after 2 years he could leave and make double that at a better company. In the past 10 years, as long as a person did not have an extremely bad criminal record, I have been able to find easy solutions to get them paid. Now, let’s get back to him (this video) talking about the 400k avg for a house. Don’t live in those areas. America is huge!! Lots of safe affordable places to live in this country.
I feel so bad for our young folks today. I was able to buy a house at 23, the payment was like $250. How can these kids ever achieve their American dream. Our country has let them down, and "celebrities " need to shut up.
I'm 25 and feel utterly hopeless... not because I'm poor, but because I'm making almost 6 figures as an engineer and climbing my company as fast as I can and I still feel that I'll never own a home... like, there's not much further up for me to go 😢
You speak like our country is some "entity" that has a mind of it's own. Our country hasn't let us down, we have let ourselves down. People aren't intelligent enough to fight for the right things that actually matter... And corporations are taking advantage of it. This was always the inevitable outcome of capitalism.
I totally agree with you. Anyway, the American Dream does not exist anymore. At least not for 80 percent of your population. Glory to capitalism,^^. Greetings from Germany and Russia
It’s such a slap in the face. I did everything everyone told me to do. I worked hard in school, got the degree, found a career and I still live paycheck to paycheck in debt just due to cost of living. I don’t have expensive habits, I have a strict budget, and every effing week is a struggle. Only to hear some billionaire say it’s my fault for being lazy
Well have you ever tried not eating. It's saved me and my kids a lot of money for rent. Oh Charlie just passed while I was typing this out so i guess we got lucky dinner is free tonight.
Same! I went to college, studied hard, got a BS and 3 medical certifications, I don’t live extravagantly, just pay my bills, and buy necessities mostly on sale, no trips/travel/vacations ANYWHERE, and I too live paycheck to paycheck due to cost of living. I worry about keeping food in my fridge some months. Tell me how a healthcare professional should have to worry about staying fed. Rent for a studio where I live is over 2k a month. And comparable to most major cities. I could move more rural but my pay would go down significantly and the amount of jobs decreases significantly. So what is a good option!!! People with millions in the bank should just stfu about regular folk problems.
@@iananderson4754May i introduce you to tax fraud
Damn thats dark😂😂@@iananderson4754
That happened to me and my husband in 2000. Both professionals, college graduates living paycheck to paycheck without being able to buy a home. We ended up moving to a smaller, much cheaper city and it was the best decision we ever made. Bought our first home and 8 years later upgraded to a bigger home. Had our 2 kids, great schools, small town feeling, peaceful environment. Our families love to visit. Unfortunately, so did everyone else so now housing in our new city has become unreachable for younger people. I figured my teenagers will just have to find their own up and coming small city where they can thrive and build their own lives.
So sick of multi millionaire celebrities saying "we busted our butt"
I know right
I have no doubt whoopie worked hard to get to where she is. She's not a CEO's son who was given a profitable business or a small loan of $1M.
But how come a comedian and actor--you know ppl who are supposed to know humans so well--doesn't believe everyone works as hard as she did. I used to look up to her, but she's so out of touch now. :-(
She wasn't always a millionaire celebrity. Temper your rage.
She put on a one women show too break into show business
From her bio
"Before making it as an actress, she worked as a bank teller, a bricklayer and in a mortuary. 1994: Became the very first woman to host the Academy Awards solo."
@@morganseppy5180 Well said! 👏
@@morganseppy5180 she was a diversity hire actor. Acting in "sister act" isn't a hard job.
Funny how these *millionaires* are trying to gaslight the younger generation while they live the high life
They want "good" workers
@@pantman687they HAVE good workers. They DON'T pay good enough wages.
Source: I'm a young adult in the job market.
@@SciFantasyFreak I didn't mean as in people who good at their job but mindless slaves
Guess there are enough people out there that defend this stuff you have to clarify 💀
@@pantman687 ohhh, gotcha. Sorry, I misunderstood!
Your sentence is extremely misleading I'm pretty sure most people would read that and go "oh so he supports millionaires paying their workers nothing" your own sentence is misleading man.@@pantman687
Boomers aren’t mentally capable of hearing that gen z and millennials have it harder than they did. Their egos would explode.
Frrr
It's not just that we have it harder, it's that it's their fault that we have it harder is impossible for them to understand.
@@Va11idusno it’s not the boomers fault
It’s financially irresponsible politicians, generally liberal. Yes you can be a liberal republican
@@CJ-dt5mh who elected these people? Who allowed these people in and voted for the entitlements that bankrupted our system? Who let them be teachers and professors?
@@CJ-dt5mh I wouldn't blame the individuals, but as a generation they failed us.
The "I suffered so should you" mentality is miserable energy.
Totally agree, man. I've found that there are 3 responses to personal suffering:
1. Total apathy. "So long as I've got mine, I don't care about anybody else."
2. Universal suffering. "I suffered, so you should suffer just as much as I did."
Or the correct response:
3. Compassion. "I don't want anyone to have to suffer the way I did."
@@connald483 well said
“Our generation had it harder, so we should stop improving because they don’t deserve an easier life.”
Exactly It’s Weird Like They Sleep More Comfortable Knowing We Uncomfortable
They HAVENT EVEN SUFFERED LIKE US
I work 40 hours a week and can’t afford a home. That shouldn’t happen.
So go build your own
@@jerryeastman170 You would still need to be able to afford property to build the house on. Even though it would still be considerably cheaper (especially if you know people who can help build the house) you would still need a lot more money than most young people have.
@@jerryeastman170 “just build your own house bro”
@@jerryeastman170 I can’t afford the materials my guy that’s the point
@@jerryeastman170you realize it’s more expensive to build your own don’t you? You have to buy the property and THEN buy the supplies and pay people to build it. It’s arguably more expensive than buying a home.
Whoopie is out of touch. No one wants her opinion anymore.
Did we ever?
You think she was born rich?
She is wrong about inflation numbers based on this video but even Andrew Tate says stop whining and improve yourself to get money
@@jmrson6655Andrew Tate is also an accused rapist. So maybe find someone else to quote.
@@jmrson6655Andrew Tate who sells rip off courses isn’t a reliable source
@@jmrson6655 If anyone is out here listening to Andrew Tate or Whoopie Goldberg for genuine advice I feel sorry for you lol
so disgusting of them to believe an entire generation is lazy
she didnt say that
Not all of us yeaar a Lot but Not all
I mean, a lot of them ARE lazy.
@@foxboy6145They’re not lazy they’re smart. We did a cost benefit analysis and realised it’s not worth it. They call us lazy for not wanting to work to death in a ridiculously unfair system. Thinking you can outwork inflation is ridiculous.
@@rinkohorowitz Oh, they're DEFINITELY lazy and stupid.
I don’t want to work 4 hours. That’s how many they give me and I beg for my coworkers, who are also begging me, for hours
That's very true they brag about all these millions of jobs. But they're not full time jobs. They're barely even part time jobs.
Exactly!! I think for the most part, most people are fine with 8 work hours. But what people don't like is when those work hours are with loud coworkers, office drama, depressing cubicles with bad chairs, and the long commute that goes with it. I recently got the opportunity to do remote/hybrid work for my company, and guess what? No productivity was lost, and I am way more happier for it.
Exactly. It's not that we don't want to work, we do but corporate jobs are not giving anyone hours.
I would LOVE if I could work 4 hours and still make enough to pay rent and survive but that's a far off dream when the current situation doesn't even allow for an average 8 hour work day/40 hour work week to result in pay for basic needs.
@Cat22275 But that is NOT functional since everyone wants open hours and doesn't give consistent schedules especially for anyone who has family or other obligations.
Sheesh, I'm a teacher with a master's and can't afford a home where I live...
Doesn't matter how hard you work when prices become unobtainable.
Their ignorance stops them from seeing that nuance, which would be the most important thing about this conversation 😕
their youth and today's youth basically live on a "different planet", nothing is how it should be, down is up and up is down... And these people are gaslighting everyone. 😑 It would be wiser to just stay quiet, but oh look, old people are not a reliable source of wisdom anymore either! 😑😑 So done with her generation.
It isn't unobtainable
You save
& don't spend
That HASN'T CHANGED!😅
@@creativia6639
How are they "ignorant!"😅
They WORKED VERY HARD
THEY SAVED THEY DIDN'T SPEND
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN HARD
THEY DIDN'T "JUST GET
EVERYTHING"
& UT WASN'T EASY
ITS ALWAYS BEEN HARD!
GET YOURSELF A CLUE
& GROW UP !
(& DO NOT TAKE
"UNIVERSITY COURSES!")
THAT HAVE NOTHING TO
DO WITH THE REAL WORLD!
STOP BUYING THE LATEST PHONE
STOP BUYING DESIGNER BAGS
& CLOTHES & MORE
STOP GOING ON
EXPENSIVE HOLIDAYS
THAT'S HOW THEY DID IT?
SACRIFICE COMES FIRST
ALWAYS HAS🙏🏼🇬🇧
Anybody under twenty-six
Thinks they have it "so hard!"
& think Working 7 days per week
& working Nine hours per Day
+ a Commute
Is "too much!"
Well thats how they did it!
Many did it
By owning their own Business
& Working 80-90 hours per week
For the First Twenty Years
After College
Good luck with
that Attitude..
Good luck!
🙏🏼🇬🇧
You are correct. It doesn't matter what generation you are from. boomers, gen x, y, z, millennials. You can work 2 or 3 jobs and save every penny but they keep raising prices to make what we want unobtainable.
I’m so tired of rich, out of touch celebrities telling my generation to get off their asses & work when in reality we work so hard at back breaking jobs, spend our money to get degrees for jobs that pay garbage, do excessive amounts of over time or shift covers yet still can barely afford to feed ourselves & keep a roof over our head.
To be fair, the way to win when it comes to degrees is to not get them.
Degrees are fucking worthless.
THIS IS SO REAL.
Work smarter not harder, working smart is mentally harder then the labor needed to work hard, you don’t have to use your brain in a normal job the ceo is the one who has to use his/her brain, there is a reason fewer people are rich because it’s extremely difficult to the average person to work smart
@@dkznikolaj7013but millennials were told the only way to be successful and make a living was to get degrees. Now I have these useless pieces of fancy paper just sitting in my house.
@@marktheshark7623i mean there’s plenty of boomers that were like deli workers or worked in the bakery and all sorts of brain numbing easy jobs that retired as millionaires. They got a pension and annuity both paying out thousands a month. Then they get social security and whatever they saved or invested themselves. I’m not saying today that you can’t invest in an Ira and retire a millionaire because you can if you simply save 50% of your earnings of your high school job and invest it into an Ira and never touch it or add another penny to it. That’s compounding interest. But social security will be gone by the time I’m old enough to receive it. You’ll be hard pressed to find a job that offers a pension or annuity these days. Like we’re definitely getting screwed when it comes to buying property. I mean if you were to take the money from the ira at like 35-40 you would have like 300k so you could use that as leverage to buy a home. But most people don’t know shit about investing and our parents didn’t really need to do all that to be able to afford a house. So yeah you’re right we need to work smarter not harder. But it’s not like boomers were smarter than us or worked smarter jobs. I mean my uncle was a burnout plumber who has his personal investments and then he gets 8k a month between his pension and his social security. That’s 96k a year just for working as a plumber for 35 years. I got nothing against plumbers. And I’m not necessarily saying plumbers are stupid. But it’s definitely a labor intensive job that is much harder than smarter. And sure people can still join the plumber’s union and do that today. But they’ll pay into social security but most likely ain’t getting it. Also the pensions and annuities have been gutted plus union jobs have dropped by a huge margin.
"pull yourself up by the bootstraps" we can barely afford the boots lmao
And they don't even come with the straps
And the saying meant to try to do an impossible task
That expression originally meant to do something impossible that would only happen once a life time. Kind of crazy how often its used now by rich people and older people when talking about the struggles of the poor.
I got the heel of the boot
And the boots we already have are actively falling apart
I was minding my business at work when this old lady decided to rant to me out of nowhere about how ridiculous it was that people want to increase minimum wage. She was going on about how she was a grocery store manager and she made $200 a month and that was enough for her. I looked at her and said "my mortgage is 1k/month."
Ok....but raising the minimum wage is part of the problem. You might get paid a little more....but companies just pass that on to the consumer(which Is you BTW)
her rent was 185 $ a month in 1980 and water was 2$ probally then could get milk bread and eggs all for under 5$
@@powdercowboy90 while that is true, the rant was still a little delusional (and weird). She basically walked up to a random person sitting on the floor toothbrush scrubbing the grout in the lobby and said "Why are you all demanding to be paid more? I made $200/month managing a grocery store in the 70s and I lived comfortably, so why can't you?"
@@powdercowboy90yes but they don’t HAVE to do that. That’s the point. THATS the problem. They keep from paying people livable wages by going “well everything will just get more expensive” as if everything isn’t already just getting more expensive anyway
I wish my house payment was $1k 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 my rent is $2k
Four hours a week? Has she spoken to a single young adult that wasn't privileged in her entire life?
Exactly because I work close to 80 hours every pay period and hate my existence some days just to make rent gas money and food
I’ve been working two jobs totaling an average of 40 hours/week since my junior year of high school. I’m about to start college and as of yet, I still can’t afford my first semester. Insurance is crazy, and I help out with bills and things of that sort. It’s no stretch for one to see the state we’re in now and think it fictional.
@@Vickolai
Interesting,,,
I’m curious, what do you do for work?
Even if she did she wouldn't give af
@@EveryWayWorksplenty of folks have to work two full time jobs to get by now (🙋), just saying
“Why aren’t millennials and Gen-Z having kids!?” Bish look at the numbers…
WE CANT AFFORD THEM.
Omm 😂😂 BIG FACTS 💯
Gotten so bad we can't afford ourselves
That's my only reason for not having a child right now. I can't afford to give them the best life
Imagine wanting the best for your kids, and the best is not having them in a messed up time like this.
@@turtlelore2sad but true
Thank you for addressing this foolishness… I hate old school mentality sometimes 🤦🏽♀️
If a single person working a full time job can’t afford a 1 bedroom apartment on their own, the system is broken
My bro and sil just cancel their lease, 2 bdrm, 1 bth is $2400 a month. That doesn't even include utilities and other bills.
I have a Masters. Single person. Full time salary job with benefits. Can’t afford a 1 bedroom apartment.
Vote Kamala if you want to live on the streets!
@@MeadowSongs whats your masters for? medical field? lawyer? education?
That's what I've been saying ... Making $5 more than minimum wage an hr and still nowhere close to my own apartment.
Here’s the thing, no ones saying they didn’t bust their butt to get to where they’re at. The point is we’re busting ours own butts and not coming out as good.
truth, same if not more work is being put in yet it's worth less. with how most economical systems are set, it's the cost of living increasing with every new human made to make sure we dont burn through all the resources on our planet.
and it's only gonna keep snowballing from here, the best example being that american citizen population is bigger than the entirety of the US's defense groups. so if the government really were to start pulling on the leash and tell everyone not to be so damn greedy they'd have a revolt on their hands.
maybe the government should stop taking so much out of our paychecks? i dont feel like i make a ton of money, but i gross $1150 a week and i only see $792 of it. idk about you but $1400 a month the government takes from me would literally be the difference between living paycheck to paycheck to being able to save for a car, a house, etc. the crazy part? the government says i owe them even more money at the end of the year... im not going to blame my employer for a problem the government causes. i earned enough money to be well enough off and my employer pays me enough money to be well enough off, the only reason im not well enough off is the government.
People nowadays are having just as much work, probably even more, and not nearly as much of a reward as they did back then. Is like working double for half the paycheck.
People nowadays are having just as much work, probably even more, and not nearly as much of a reward as they did back then. It is like working double for half the paycheck.
Exactly, and the “millennials and gen z’s don’t wanna work” rhetoric is so tired- the economy isn’t at the same place as their generation grew up in AT ALL
Whoopi, you dropped out of school at 17 and immidiatly became an actor, the only job youve ever had was playing pretend
Edit: anyone hating on this comment missed the point of the whole video you just watched, what are you doing on this type of content if you don't agree with it?
@@gabehart7898
actor: professional pretender
and the economy was so good back then that worked out well for her, that shitt won't fly today.
And if it wasn't for Patrick Swayze, she wouldn't have gotten her big break role on Ghost
You think the economy was good in the 70's?? They admit to having had 13 percent interest rates. I remember even higher.
@@kayc2579 that’s not inherently bad
Actually it might have been a good thing… you can distill an economy to simple values
What you need to look is the more abstract things
Hours worked to mean and mode cost of living etc
I despise when they say we don't want to work. All we can do is work
he's wrong about minimum wage, its 15 something a hour where i live and higher in most other places
@@peterhanlon-v5l lucky for you
@@peterhanlon-v5lHes not wrong, not everywhere has the same minimum wage
This drives me NUTS when old people pull that bs. Thank you for calling her out.
YES! It's insane. Another thing that drives me nuts is this relative I have that basically will discount any issues I have by saying something about his life problems. Like somehow saying that just erases my problems.
It drives me insane and they all do it.
To be fair. Many old folks are still working today. Buying houses today. And paying for college tuitions today. Old folks living today pay today's prices, not 1980s prices.
@@waleed3103 yeah but they got the head start is the point.
@@Astrovite oh my gosh, so many family members are just like that. I can't stand it!!
I'm an old man with his own house. What I did was work 2 jobs (20 hours total) and just save, save, save. I made $23-28 thousand per year for several years. It was rough but It can be done.
Who are these people working only 4 hours?!
Me
Non existent, they just like being on a high horse
Restaurants
Actors. Like her. When her career took off which paid for her house (s), she wasn’t working 8h a day everyday.
High schoolers
I hate it when people who are enormously fortunate lecture the rest of us on not working hard.
I was actually homeless for a while on purpose because I found out how much cheaper it was to just live in a tent.
No joke, saved up 330k and bought me a nice little place.
That's Capitalism baby.
@@matthewsanchez7953capitalism lmfao yea you probably believe your vote matters and changes the agenda too. Your mindset is the problem did you forget housing shelter is one of 4 basic human needs of life and government profiting off the other 3 we are modern political servants taxed into slavery dont believe me open your eyes and educate yourself better.(away from the government instituted education they use to produce your shown stockholm syndrome)
I’m a conservative and I wouldn’t say that just cuz you’re fortunate doesn’t mean it was handed to you, they caught a break and the stars aligned, Whoopi isn’t truthful in the work harder like the guy said but she is right that people my age are lazier and don’t want to go into work and they want everything handed to them, parts of both can be truth
She’s fortunate because she worked hard
AND THATS JUST THE MIDDLE CLASSES 💀💀💀
Only people who hardly work ever say people need to "work harder.'
yeah because entitlement
youd be surprised, i have friends who are convinced the 9-5 life is peak existence. humans got their wings clipped by the industrial revolution.
Well, but if i hear Gen Z whine how 9to5 is unfair, just because all their Life they benefited from their parents wealth/achievements, i can understand the frustration of older people.
@@Nr.7-Sevenwell yes it's unfair when I don't get paid what I should/would need to be to support myself. Try living off an entry level job. Good luck.
And those are people that are missing teeth 😅
It’s sad how even when you put all the numbers ON THE SCREEN, people will still try to debate and act like this isn’t a massive economical crisis.
What are you renting for $1900?
My house payment (purchased 3 years ago) is $700.
@@mattsutman1154 I live with my parents because I can’t afford a home of my own. Maybe you meant to reply to someone else?
@@mattsutman1154 Always remember the difference in States, my friend. An apartment in New York will not compare in price to a full deluxe house almost mansion in Tennessee. I promise you the house is paying way less in rent than the tiny thing in New York.
@@ljb5163 you agreed with the numbers. They’re deceiving. It wasn’t personal.
@@robertwolfgan absolutely! So move.
So glad millennials are sticking up for gen z. We are gonna be tight in the nursing home
@@irelanddddd those spots are going to the replacement americans streaming across the border
Also, because Genz is our kids so yeah we're gonna stick with them
We all should be sticking together us and the younger gen is screwed
This Gen Xer is standing up for both generations.
Basically....the Boomers (like Whoopi) fkd us all. And we're STILL paying for them.
My Mother (a Boomer) never worked more than part time. Always lived in a house, always had a new car. Always had everything she needed, which continues to this day. I work 50hrs a week to bring in what she does. And she retired at 60. And The Boomers didn't raise us either. Gen X raised themselves because of the Boomers' intense levels of self-interest.
And the ruling class is all Boomers. They act exclusively in their own self-interest and continue to fk over everyone.
Nah bro we gotta work until the day we die no nursing homes for us.
I work 50-60 hours a week as an aircraft mechanic. My wife is a psychologist. We are both disabled veterans and STILL struggle to make ends meet. There are 10 people living in my house, with the majority being adults.
This economy is not sustainable.
And people like Woopie basically made sure of it.
And anyone who STILL listens to her is as brain-dead stupid as she is.
she is so disconnected that none of these numbers would mean anything to her.
she's never worked hard. she was a hollywood star most of her life
I mean have you listened to the slop she's said on the View? She hasn't had a fucking clue for decades. 😂
I'd love to see her take on what the federal poverty guidelines are, considering these numbers
@SoloRenegade whoopi raised her kid on welfare. I don't know the rest of her story, cuz I'm not a fan. It's just common knowledge for those of our generation.
The insult is that she is accessing your generation of having no work ethic.
Bait a switch. You never addressed her point. “If you only want to work 4hrs, it’s going to be hard to get a house.” Your point is valid, but it’s not addressing her point.
These are the kind of people who help put us in the mess we are in.
idk where he got his information from but i can go get a job at walmart,mcdonalds,dominos or any retail or fast food place and the minimum wage is like around 16 an hour and those are low paying jobs a regular kid coiuld start off at ups or fedex and get paid more but only work 6 hours a day part time with that extra bonus and raise they offer nowadays in 2024 idk why i keep seeing these comparison videos with unrealistic numbers i havent seen a single job paying 7 dollrs an hour 😂😂😂 respectfully but i do agree that times are different now than back then however machinery and technology has made jobs easier which he didnt take into account labor has been cut back significantly since early 2000s because there are more online and stay at home jobs and alot of useless things werent as expensive back then like entertainment tvs and toys were all they needed now its ps5s and pcs 😂 times change in every way not just the salaries and wages also there are way more opportunities in places lie the US now because there are so many different types of avenues that weren't even a thing back then like really think about it these mfks were building raild roads and working in construction and factories with minimal safety equipment and less advanced tech as kids alot of it was done by hand too the work and labor was tougher but the pay wasnt less it just seemed that way because everything was lower in value
@@ShisuiDUchihahad to stop reading a couple lines into your comment. The lack of punctuation is too confusing and cringe.
@@ShisuiDUchiha Minimum wage can change depending on the state. BUT the FEDERAL minimum wage is $7.25. and you're not taking into account the cost of living which is SUPER high rn. And most of the higher paying jobs in the US require a college degree which is several times more expensive to obtain than a couple decades ago. They aren't made up numbers, they're actual recorded statistics. $16 bucks an hour is not gonna cut affording a place for practically 2k a month in rent, then your utilities like electric, water, waste, and cable. Then if you have a car you pay insurance and car payments if you haven't already paid it off. Then you have to have groceries and hygiene necessities. Several decades ago you could afford to support a whole household on minimum wage if you're smart with you're money but everything from the cost of living to the cost of food and gas has become so expensive that people who work minimum wage have to get several roommates just to make it work. We absolutely have it several times harder financially then any of those older generations who grew up in those times.
These actors have nothing to do with our lives. They provide entertainment on TV and movie screens.
How?
I could work 18 hours a day, 6 days a week, and never be able to afford a home.
At this rate, I will never retire. I will need to unalive myself if I want to stop working.
Facts
For real I live with my aunt and I work a job that pays way more than minimum wage yet I barely scrape by with a car payment, rent, phone, and other house needs.
Work smarter, not harder.
You control how much your worth and ultimately how much you get paid at the end of the day. Maybe the issue is your job or overall career choice. There are a TON of jobs paying 100k+ a year. Most people also have side gigs that bring in at least $1-2k extra per month.
Join a union both for work and a tenant's union. Alone we beg together we bargain
@@Jspath3"a ton" care to name 10 ? and don't add surgeons,the college bills in the us will kill you long before you finish med school if you don't have a rich relative to give you a small loan of 1000000 dollars
In the 80's I was going to college and working a minimum paying job. I had a car and I had 2 room mates in a 2 bed apt to afford rent at about $100 not including utilities. It was hard, but it was workable. NOW - unless i had a *really* generous family member willing to fork out for my college, there's no way in hell I could do it on a minimum paying job. I'd be living at home so I could afford the car to get to college. It's ridiculous..
He's absolutely right. I'm 63 and things are much worse now than they were 20 years ago😮
They may be, but he's numbers aren't accurate. If the minimum wage is 7,50$ then there's no way the rent is 1900$. The minimum wage is 7,50$ in Idaho. Rent is 1000$ + . In Arizona its 14,35$. The rent is 1500$+. In neither of those states have I seen an entry job offering the minimum wage. In Idaho it's usually 15$+ and it Arizona is 17$+. So his numbers are clearly from Google and not pulled from real life. It may be harder, but his numbers are way off.
@@Cannibalizee Minimum wage has nothing to do with the average rent price and he's using average statistics for multifamily homes throughout the whole US, which varies around 2k in 2024. Obviously not all renting prices will be the same, this is just the average.
Your full of crap. Rent is absolutely over 1900/month not including utilities. Rent outpaces minimum wage 13x.
Stfu@@Cannibalizee
@@Cannibalizeealthough my states min wage is higher at $15, a studio where I live is 1,900… a studio. Most one beds are 2.5k+ and most jobs here will pay only min wage for entry level. Jobs that pay more require a degree for the most part.
I’m happy that I was lucky enough to know someone renting a one bed for a good price 3+ years ago but a one bed in my building rn would be $2k+
Well I'm 64 and I can't agree. But I sacrificed hard to get where I am. And I mean sacrificed. I didn't have a furnace in my home for 10 years until I could afford it. I boiled water on the stove for 3 months until I could afford a hot water heater. I now have no bills no credit cards and I don't live above my means. Am living the good life now
There's nothing worse than being talked down on by a multi-millionaire celebrity who basically thinks you deserve to be poor.
I assure you that's the mentality of 99% of rich people. That the poor deserve to be poor. They like having so much and and many having so little
That's the elite class for you, they hate us middle class folks.
Yall should really read whoppppie story she came from nothing
@@havenrabthat means absolutely nothing. Rich people who come from nothing let all that money get to their head.
@@deadinthenight next case
whoopie, with all due respect, *middle finger*
sincerely, genx, millenials, & genz
Minus the “all due respect” part
@@timetowakeup6302no no, all due respect is still zero
I had my first son at age 19 in 1980 and my second son in 1982, and my third daughter at 37 in 1999. I am considered a boomer, and I am not a fan of these lables/categories. I worked in the mental health and health field for most of 2 decades, and was also a paid vocalist ( most I made from a NYE gig was $400, $1 to 2 average for other work ). I also have some college education and Graduate Physician Assistant . I have yet to escape poverty. The wages have remained stagnant since the 70's. Am I right ?😂
Not all millennials are the same. What's not mentioned is the wide disparity amongst millenials. Remember, millenials fought the global war on terror. Many of us sacrificed our youth for our country. Other millenials didn't and have differing opinions. The disparity is so wide that I'll watch millenials complain about millenials not realizing they are a millenial themselves. It's wild.
That is wrong. You clearly are also bad at math and did not listen to this video. @@lisathomas5719
I love these videos actually almost cussing celebrities out without actually cussing them out
How do these people not realise that they got payed lower numbers yes, but money was worth much more, saying $200 a month is fine makes sense when a mortgage might be roughly $180, but $200 is not fine now because mortgages now are not $180, they are $1000, these people need to google the word inflation.
We know money was worth more back then. The problem he’s talking about is tis how the difference in % is crazy
even adjusted for inflation it's not even close buddy
If they used logic, they wouldnt be able to take advantage of us 🤷♂️
And the US dollar was worth even more in the 1950s, 60s and 70s
He's saying a median household could afford things which isn't the case anymore. A single person income was enough to run a house, it's not anymore
People forget the cost of living has increased. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
Well also have more government programs compared to the 1980s which could explain the high cost of everything. Sense the same programs to help ppl also jack up prices with the aid
poor get poorer because of the moronic decision they make.
I see so many waste their money on drugs, booze and lottery
@@phantomblade89entire generations can’t afford housing, and it’s not because of alcohol or other vices.
The cost of living has increased, the value of an education has been diluted, and the wages have not kept up.
If you’re surrounded by alcoholics and drug addicts, maybe change your company.
@@wtf1a1athat’s not even remotely true. Regan would be considered a bleeding heart if he ran for office today.
Of course she doesn't take it into consideration, cost of living means nothing to her. I'm also sick and tired of celebrities saying they work hard. Acting is not hard. Its a skill and should be appreciated, but it's not hard work. And those that get lucky enough to be in major pictures. Compared to most people , actors really don't break much of a sweat.
I have an old newspaper from 1989 and they were selling 3 bedroom 2.5 bathroom house for $18,500. That's only 35 years ago. Let that sink in.
1989 was 35 years? 😮 😮
I suppose I could try, but my mother always told me to keep sinks away from the house.
Ok, I'll let a sink into my new house
Where? We moved in the early 80s and the house was 55k 3 bed one bath in IL.
in today's money?
"You HAVE to work your blood out and you CANT complain about it" cause god forbid someone actually wants a more confortable work life
All generations are struggling today. But I can tell for a fact that 12 dollars an hour in the late 90's gave you twice life that 24 dollars a hour today does.
I agree...
I get that -but my kids can live with me rent free -I didn’t have that option and was in sheer panic anytime my car needed something and begging the mechanic for the cheapest fix. My kid can just borrow my car if theirs is broken down …. It’s all apples and oranges , different challenges for different generations.
I'm not.
Facts today a 100k a year is now minimum wage. 🤷🏾 sad. And our kids really have it bad to get an apartment. They have to have two or three roommates
Gen-X wasn’t buying houses in the 1980’s….shit….I was born in 1973!! It’s been even a longer struggle for some of us!!!
If you’re getting paid hourly what in the fuck is working harder going to do..
Righttt 😂😂
THIS
By worker harder they mean working longer... for a lower salary...
depends on what you're working on
@@tylerlong7733what the fuck ever. Shit logic
Saying we only work 4 hours is crazy. Classism has never been more apparent; the view is a joke 😂
More like generation-ism XD.
I wish I could work 4 hours lmfaoooo
Jokes are funny, though
Yeah for real. Try 14 hours 7 days a week!
@@mostdopecaptain3350with you there, my first ever job I was the only one making over 10 hours a week in overtime to the point the boss had to hard cut my hours. I was only working for 9 dollars each hour and I was homeless trying to save up for an apartment
She's just defending the leaders of her religion, if it was Trump in government she would have said something completely different.
"You aren't paid for how hard you work, you're paid for how hard you are to replace."
-some smart guy somewhere
Thats not even true anymore. One of the best people I had to work with recently left because they werent giving him enough. I promise u they arent finding a replacement for him in awhile
@@dakota8381maybe they need to open starting level positions that require 10 years of experience
@@dakota8381 ik someone in the exact same situation... she has a JD and over a decade of experience, asked for a raise (she's underpaid in her role to the tune of 10 k). She was denied it. When they hired someone without a JD or any experience at a higher salary than what she makes, she put in her notice. Now the boss is expecting the new hire to do the job and the other employees to pick up the slack. Infuriating.
I have never heard this quote before, but it just blew my mind.
That's assuming the place you work at gives a shit. They'd rather make every other employee stuffer than hire competent people who know their worth who want to get paid.
She really said "if you only want to work FOUR HOURS" like there aren't people who have two f**king jobs working 60 hours a week and struggling.
Literally I was picking up an extra shift every single week, working 6 days a week, and even THAT is not enough to pay for my f*****g school. Yeah, soooooo lazy we are. Only working 6 days a week! I should really work 7 days a week in order to appear diligent, huh?
@@ianjohnson1249the simple answer is yes, if you want to go to school and you aren’t getting it handed to you. Then yes 7 days is what you need to do. Just saying.
3 jobs here. Still struggling.
@yeahriightt24 or maybe. The government needs to do something about it before people mental health go down the drain and stuff happens. Just saying.
@@kingboji958 maybe it does. Doesn’t help answer the question that was asked. Now does it?
Worked 10-12 hours a day and I barely got $1000 per paycheck. Then I get fired for being absent from work even though I called in and had a note
Edit: probably should have specified that this paycheck I was getting was not weekly. Most jobs pay bi-weekly, including my prior place of employment. Especially retail.
And past tense on the word “worked”. Still don’t have a job and I’ve been applying and searching for months.
take your skills to a new company
@@lilmamagc If they can with how jobs work these days.
sounds like my job you miss less than 3% of the work days in a year and your fired
@@lilmamagcLike it’s that simple to just… switch jobs. People with degrees can hardly find jobs anymore.
@@medina4926 Hopefully you aren't relying on a degree to get you a job.
“I don’t understand! Why are these young people we raised suffering from the financial crisis we caused?”
I stopped calling these people celebrities a long time ago. There's nothing to celebrate about them, because they certainly don't celebrate the average person.
I stopped spending money supporting Hollywood actors! Let them get regular jobs!
Instead of celebrities, they need to be called Entitledies 😂
womp womp
I agree, I don't see celebrities as anything more than someone who is good at their job. Good for them, someone pays them all that money, but there are many others that are great at their job and more worthy of my respect.
Yup just another person in my eyes nothing special about them same bone and skin as everyone else
No one working “4 hours a day” is looking to buy a house. They are either 16 years old looking for extra money or part time people in school. Mfs be working 10 hour shifts 6 days a week and STRUGGLING to buy a house
I be doing 5 10/12 hour shifts just to trying to stay afloat 😭 and trying to save for a decent vehicle (I’m 21)
try 12 hours and then ya got it lmfao.
Hell some people can only work 4 hours they should still be able to support themselves... disabilities exist
@@therebelofchaos1674no you don't 20 extra bucks isn't gonna do anything
@@goreandhoodies3626 they meant they're working 12 hour shifts instead of 10
I work 60 hours and can’t afford a home.
That’s because you work at a dead end, no skill job and voted for Biden: you made the mess
@@benjaminvolk9106if he works 60 hours a week he should be doing decent depending if he had a kid and other things going on, also if you’re working a minimum wage job you need to stop wasting your time and find a better job that’s more sustainable. I know that last part sounds harsh and idk his story but people need to understand you can’t just keep working the same job making low hourly wage and think you can make up for it on overtime.
I work 32 hours a week and own 3 homes…… I grew up in a trailer with 4 siblings and I’m in my mid 30s
Rookie numbers
@@TopODaMerninHow did you do that if you don’t mind me asking?
Wtf. I literally worked two jobs, and still didn't have enough money. I had to resign from one so I'd have time for my medical residency.
Thank you for telling Whoopi the truth. She needed it
Yes, but will she listen
@@TheSnommel nopeshell say that her life is much harder than ours despite she gets paid to just sit infront of a camera to give an opinion she may have known hardship im the past, i dont know, but shes clearly out of touch with this take
@@cpmtn1995So…you are gonna disregard the fact that maybe she had to work hard to get where she’s at right now?
@@kaijukingdom2686”she may have known hardship in the past.”
They did acknowledge it and even if she did that just makes her a ladder puller. Not a person worthy of listening too. She’s also a liar. No millennial or Gen Z that I know work four hour weeks. They’re either part time students who legally cannot work more than part time hours due to being a student with financial aid or they’re working overtime or even two full time jobs to make ends meet.
But no. Somehow they have it easier than her? A woman with connections in broadway and the acting sector? She may have worked but she still had a leg up, and now refuses to give a leg up or even RECOGNITION of the hard work of others.
@TheSnommel I don’t think she’ll even see this or care that much (no idea who she is tho)
Whoopi needs a reality check
Every boomer does
@@yurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-n4p Some boomers have it fairly hard these days and aren't at all joining Whoopie in her song and dance.
Are you making 77k working 4hrs 😅😅😅
@@darkhands4448 no but she is. Prolly even more
@@peachpunch9465 so how would you get to that level?
I work 12 hour shifts on average, every day, and often times forfeit my weekends to OT as an ICU nurse. I’m suffering from clinical burnout and sleep deprivation because of how stressed I am with finances despite literally having no life outside of work.
Where’s my talkshow and millions of dollars, Whoopie?
I don’t care how bad Boomers thought they had it, maybe it was ‘bad’, but they voted to make it _considerably worse_ and now don’t have to fight to get into an abusive job market as new workers with no resources just to get systematically taken for granted.
That is how work is for nurses no matter what, that’s just your career, so not the best example no offense lol. You’d be working like that even if we were in an amazing economic situation, it’s just the nature of medical care. Thank you for what you do btw.
You're so correct. Im a boomer and my adult children are working so much harder than i ever did to "afford" basic living. God bless our nurses.
And then there’s me applying and applying and applying for months and only hearing back from 3 companies while 2 of them I’m pretty sure are a scam and the other one pays 12$ which is what I made at my first job 4 years ago. There’s no way to win unless I sell my soul, or my body. The boomers are beyond out of touch and I’m tired of living in the hellscape they’ve created. Plus I’m gay and if the republicans get their way I’ll be labeled a “sex offender” and sent to a for profit prison to do manual slave labor for billion dollar corporations until I break. If things don’t get better I’m either traveling out of the country for a better life or to a state that will euthanize me.
@@cottoncandyaddict but they shouldn't be making so little money for skilled and valuable labor that they're struggling with finances even after working more than full-time hours. That's the point. Back in the 70s, someone working more than full time in the medical field would never be unable to pay for housing.
@@2GoatsInATrenchCoatwell if you dont accept the role a Pakistani or An Indian or Bengali or any other kind of Asian and other migrants will. You're not special sweetie 😂
I have been working 45 hours since I was 19 and I still can't afford a house. She's just so ignorant and misinformed.
I'm a boomer, and I get it. I was there.
We had it easy in comparison.
It's not so much that prices are higher, it's that incomes have been stagnant for 40 years. When you add the gains of productivity, you can see how badly working people are being screwed today.
Thanks for this. 😊
Prices are higher too. Why is a family pack of chicken wings $20? That's insane. Why is bread $6 and milk $8? I brought 24 items when I went shopping recently and paid over $200 for it. When I was younger I could buy a basket full of items. Now as an adult going into my 40's I have to spend a minimum of $600 to get where I used to be then. So yes it's all of that. And NOBODY wants to pay their workers as well as them working long hours. I had to quit a job because I was tried of begging for over time to make ends meet just to pay for daycare. Daycare for two children just two is $2100 a month. That's rent money. It's cheaper to be at home with the children and let my hubby work but then that gets costly too. What's really going on?
@@jaifyre702 All of that is wrong.
Houses are over twice as big and people voted in politicians and HOA's that do extreme NIMBY policies.
And you know, pumping an unfunded $2T into the economy overnight will raise inflation.
IT DOESN'T JUST HAPPEN BECAUSE "CORPORATIONS BAD".
You got that spot on about the wages
Ima boomer. I worked long long hours, often 2 or more jobs, raised a family, paid all those bills that busted our responsible budget, etc., fully “paid my dues”, and it was not easy -indeed, often challenging or sometimes scary. BUT I wasn’t bombarded by information, stimulation, so many other “..ations”, 24/7, from so many sources & where many are known false (but which-when-how?), where “news cycles” occur in a matter of hours, where what was bad is now good is now bad is now…, where what was good is now…, where everything is temporary, where if it’s not temporary then it’s changing(?), where there is a new threat of disease, weather, war almost daily, “nickeled & dimed” for ANYTHING constantly, with constant threat of attack, robbery, scam, cheat… etc. … etc…. ad infinitum…
As a young adult struggling with establishing career & family, and after moaning as to the trials & tribulations thereof, my Dear Departed Mother made a remark that was oddly reassuring: “I don’t know if I’d have survived if I’d had to deal with the world you face today.” I’m with you Mom. I’ve done all I can for my kids & grandkids.
Wasn’t Whoopy one of the people who bought up property in Hawaii after definitely not causing a fire that forced people out of their homes?
Her and Oprah
Hypocrites, the lot of them. Nobody with that much money ever has useful ideas for those of us with less, and barely any scruples to string together.
@@Heretic_Jones agreed
@@Blackrage843 and The Rock to my understanding. Then when a disaster hit they went whining on social media to get people who aren't rich to pay for the repairs
With a DEW.
You forgot to add
1) Competition for jobs
2) Travel cost
3) AI replacements
And only fans and tik tok and RUclips revenue
Also job requirements. Degrees being a must was not really a thing back then
Then get a real job and not a dumb desk job.
Facts
@@cateatfood6634my cousin is a doctor she's still struggling, are you saying that's not a real job? She's saving people out there!
I’m 19 working well over 40 hours a week and there is still no way I could afford to live on my own
I’m a 75 year old boomer and it’s impossible for young people today to be able to afford the things that my wife and I did when we got married in 1971.
What could you afford in 1971 that a Gen Zer, can't afford?
@@crabon8172 watch the video and find out
@@crabon8172 A new home for $24,000, a new Volkswagen Beetle. Two years later an infant daughter with a stay at home wife to take care of her of her on just my income for the next 13 years.
They voted themselves right into this problem. Remember when our parents used to say and I quote.?.?.?. You made your bed now lie in it.?.?.? It is Tonic for their souls.
@@bradgarrett7790whos they gen z and millennials
"No one wants to work these days" can easily be met with "no one tried to fix this when everyone your age knew about these issues in the 90s"
They'd rather make other suffer than admit that they had no balls and were complacent as corporations and the like abused them.
They were profiting from the increase and still are! Work twice as hard for half as much than them!
Mine is to point out that literally every generation since the invention of the printing press has used the exact words, "Nobody wants to work anymore". It's just out of touch old people complaining about young people who live in the world they fucked up.
@@AnaseSkyrider This fucking comment right here! Gold comment award goes to you!
@@roseykitten798 I think you are right…the reality is the rich want you to work for them for as little as possible. Do not put rich people in public office!!! Especially those convicted of crimes.
There is a reason my 25yr old son lives at home with a job that pays over 50K a year. He pays his student loans which are ridiculous. My husband and I ran the numbers from our 1995 dual income household and put it in today money. He makes 30k less than we did with the adjusted numbers.
Exactly. And then there’s that weird question everyone asks at 18, “when are you moving out ?” “Look for any apartments yet” “stayin in a dorm?” No im not . How tf are people moving out at 18 anymore ? I don’t even want to THINK about the repercussion costs of a dorm . And then RENT? AT 18 ??? There’s no way in hell😭
And the worst part is he cant even afford to get by alone. You were probably supporting a family with that extra 30k.
woah that is crazy! i’m 27 and a couple years ago i moved back in with my parents and it’s WILD how much money i’m saving. i rly wish ppl would stop judging adults who live with their parents.. likee what they’re doing is SMART.
Ikr so what if i live with my parents im just saving money so that when i want to move out i jave the money there plus if anything were to happen to them (god i hope not) im there and i can take care of them its a win win for all except anyone who complains about it cause they have nothing better to do with their life@@elise7525
“…our dual income”, …less than what WE did”. And I’m sure both of you had already been working for a few years and had moved up a bit. While I’ll agree with the high increase in education and living expenses there are better ways to make substantially more income than getting a four to six year practically useless degree but increasing minimum wage isn’t going to work. Just look at what’s happening in California. Businesses have increased their prices while laying off employees or closed down completely. Who do you think is going to pay these high minimum wages. I’ll give you one guess…WE are in the form of high prices and lost wages. Do I have the solution? No. But I do know from almost 50 years of taking care of myself and my family that $20 minimum wage is going to completely defeat the purpose.
My man, keep up this awesome channel!!!!! I've been saying the same thing since the late 80's !!!!!
"My life was so hard! I had to wake up and go talk to people on TV!"
I mean there is still much more to it than that but I agree with what you're getting at
I read her Bio.
There was a lot of eating ultra processed Junkfood before work.
That’s probaly not the only thing she does-
And do stand-up and become a Hollywood success story.
@@privateprivate1865she doesn't need stand up her talk show is a straight fucking comedy from start to finish 🤣
Well said. I am 60 and cannot believe how stupidly arrogant and out of touch my generation is.
Well then at 60 maybe you should check a few things. Like how many of those numbers are either just plain wrong or are being deceptively used. They have some valid points but when they complain about being unable to buy a median priced home then compare it to a starter home and tie it to having a minimum wage job, I lose my sympathy pretty quickly. Look all around in this comments section. Not one bothered to see if his numbers were making correct comparisons or even if they are factually correct. I am tempted to roll my eyes and leave them on "Well you dumb pricks, of course you can't buy a home on minimum wage." And let them figure it out. They have some real issues in their but I am not interested in their whining when they are not even bothering to check their facts. That is just lazy. I blame the internet short format for making kids this damn dumb. They don't check anything, they make a snap judgement and then move on to the next 30 second pile of horseshit.
@@Snipergoat1 Only thing that's noticeably wrong is the 1980 median household income figure. Should be closer to 50k.
Otherwise, everything else looks in line with what I've looked up in the past. As such the rising cost of living looks even worse.
tbf she's also stuck inside the Hollywood celebrity bubble and echo chamber.
They see working class people every day but have no idea what it's like to live like that any more.
@@Snipergoat1and yet you’re also in RUclips shorts mindlessly watching 30 seconds worth of crap as well. You sound like someone who would appreciate this advice, so here it is: touch grass.
@@Snipergoat1So I looked up every single one thanks to you. Pretty much everything is accurate but the college tuition and fees. 1980 is right but today is more like 22k.
So instead of 13x it's 10x and the median household income today should be 220k instead of 77k if had gone up the same.
I'd like to know your perspective on this because you seem to have more knowledge or maybe you are just projecting your stupidity onto strangers on the internet.
Yeah, Whoopi, no one who works 4 hours a day in this economy is expecting to buy an entire house. Most people who do want that work 2 full time jobs, which still isn't nearly enough for rent.
It's not our fault that inflation fucked us over beyond reason.
This is why it's important to look at the economic policies of anyone you plan to vote for. Left or right, doesn't matter. Bad economic policy leads to this
I'm Gen X (49 years old). I agree with this video 100%. Wages have yet to keep up with the cost of living.
We saw the start of it.
They have, for the bottom end. Not so much the middle professional incomes. Some stuff hasn’t really changed in price over the course of 50ish years. Nominally yes because half a century of inflation, but not in real costs. I look at my boomer father’s mustang. He bought it new 53 years ago, costed him 3,319$ or as he put 2 years wages for the bottom end of the income spectrum. If I look at a modern new mustang same trim and everything, well what do you know once again roughly 2 years wages if you’re on minimum wage in my state.
There’s always an issue with using the “average” wage, or median wage. Those numbers are skewed. A better metric is measuring the proverbial floor because there’s a hell of a lot more people on the bottom rungs than the middle or top end. My own wages when I worked minimum wage between from 2010 to 2020 essentially doubled from 10 to 19.75. The more professional incomes didn’t get that kind of pay raise.
@@Bonanzaking, your pay may have doubled but I can assure you that your COL has probably quadrupled. My dad just turned 70. He's obviously retired, but in 1980, he made $12.00 per hour as a carpenter. My mom didn't work. She stayed at home and raised four kids. Fast-forward 44 years, and that same job pays, on average, $22.00 in my state. In 1980, the average house price in my state was $47,000 (my parents built their first house on my dad's income only for $43k).
Today, the average home price in my state is $339,200. So, in 44 years, wages have not even doubled (in this specific example), but the cost of a house has increased by a factor of 7. In other words, if now were 1980, my dad could only afford to pay about $100k for a house - but they cost, on average, 3.5x that. This doesn't even take into account automobile costs, food costs, utility costs, personal needs costs, etc.
To afford a house that costs $339k, a carpenter in my state in 2024 would need to earn $76.92 per hour.
@@rickcorley2592 doubled nominally, the raise was never really a raise. It was keeping up with inflation. My cost of living didn’t quadruple, even after all the crypto money.
They never will.
don't you love when rich people explain what it's like to not be rich
Very few of them were born rich.
@@alansach8437and all of them have been rich for so long that they forgot what it was like to be poor
@@pizzaslice3891 and economy has changed so much it wouldn't matter if they remembered anyway
@@alansach8437wrong. The majority of them were given everything they have with very little work
@@tarkelson2457fr, a good example I can think of is the Gower brothers, they started off humble but now they’re millionaires.
(I just love RuneScape, wanted an excuse to mention them and can’t wait for Brighter Shores)
These people don’t realize that current economy isn’t theirs! If it was that simple we wouldn’t be complaining, but with so much excess money she is made, she doesn’t have to worry about the economy.
I totally agree that prices are so much higher now than they were before, but still, life right now has never been easier
Hahaha. I work 50-60 hours a week and I’ll never afford a house. But thanks
Oh, yass! She's always been so so funny!
Income tax should be outlawed.
@@02091992able Income tax? How about just raising incomes in general!
Lol sucks2suck
Why would you even a want a house? Renting is far superior, especially if you rent a house. You don't pay property tax. You don't have to pay for repairs you didn't cause. You don't feel tied down to one city for life. Your address/place of residence is harder for others to find out since you aren't the owner of the house.
My lease ended a few months ago, my roommate and I elected to move back in with our parents. My landlords realtor passively mocked us saying her mortgage rate was 18% when she bought. I asked what she paid, she tells me her condo cost $9000.
I said, if you can find me a condo for $9000 you let the seller know a cash buyer is ready to close today.
Those Gen Z can’t get a full time position as employers don’t have to pay holidays, health and life insurance. Let’s keep it real.
u really should follow timeshares. and i really should not put that out there.
IF u will humor me - the timeshares are fkn ruined by aho's who have kids that are like everything now. nope not because they are more intelligent or have more information at their fingertips. its because they are narcissistic in general. and need to understand society should be gentle. unlike our past admins granted.
@@dcs4555timeshares are a scam period
find me a self aware, class conscious landlord and i will introduce you to a talking whale
Can yall imagine how awesome it would be if rent averages went back between $243 and $400
Omg we'd have SO much more money to allocate to other things! 😭
I'd even take $800 right now. That'd be $200 I'm saving.
Ohmygod that would actually be incredible, boomers were living the dream smh
I would gladly even pay the maximum amount of $400 month. Dude we would actually be able to save back to get a house 😅.
Bro I would cry. Literally I would break down in tears because if that was the case I could live on my own independently.😢
"Why do you need to live in your parents house? Back in my day, when the economy wasn't failing..."
Yep, you're right. My dad's take home pay was $330.00 a week in the early 50's and we had a stay at home mom, one vacation a year, two cars, a new 1700 sq ft ranch with full basement home in the suburbs, and groceries for a family of four was $40.00 a week and dad put two us through college without breaking a sweat.
@@JB-dp4ie my fault gang i forgot you know bro's dad better than he does
1950s? Because that $330 would be the equivelant of almost 4,000 a week now, so no wonder he could do that
He gets the median household income part wrong. Likely around 50k. As this is what Mother Jones cited & St Louis Fed had above 60k before 1990.
Women entering the workforce, immigration & currency dilution, debt.
Wake up people, the country has grown in size since that time, of course things get more expensive as population grows. We have over 300 million people in this country now, funny how no one ever mentions that part.
Thank you for saying this. She was so confident with being so completely off the mark and wrong.
Most of the boomer generation is like that. It's crazy because you can show them the numbers; surely they notice how expensive everything has become. It just seems like the logic isn't getting through. I'm not sure if it's willful ignorance or what but I truly cannot understand how they can deny these facts, and with such arrogance!
She said "if you want to work 4 hours it's going to be harder for you". That's truth. It's not the fault of entire generations that US politicians allow business to run the country, nor that people perpetuate regulation is a dirty word. I notice he didn't mention the 18% mortgage rates in the late 80's early 90's so the average mortgage then was what it is now on those days wages. But no, they were all handed it on a plate.
@@tkps No one said that. I know they worked their asses off. It doesn't mean that we don't either though.
Did you miss the part where she said working 4 hours?
@@Sol_Bulldid you miss how she completely misconstrued that discussion? 4 hr work days has been a conversation topic for a couple years. And that’s specifically about efficiency and better moral in office jobs.
People forget she was on welfare. She never busted her behind. She got lucky getting a job in Hollywood by accident.
Getting a what??? Repeat that??? Today theres like 20,000 script every year, it means everyone can get a fkm job. And thats in hollywood, now you can work at any place by minum. Then back in the days you had 2 option, work or starve. Theres a diference.
She did bust her butt and when was she on welfare?
Yes! Thank you!
So being on Welfare made it easier for her? I'm confused by that statement.
Ok, it goes to show that money really does change people. She forgot where she came from.
Yeah I'm 55 years old and when I hear one of my generation complain about Millennials and Gen Z not being willing to work to get ahead I just laugh at them and start asking questions about what their costs were at age 20... then ask them what that same thing costs today. Eggs... when I was 20 years old eggs were $.50 a dozen. They are at LEAST 6-10x that now. A gallon of milk was $.35 and now is 10x that number at least. I bought my first condo when I was 19 because I saw rent as throwing away money. I paid $17,750 for a 2bd, 1bath on a golf course. I saw listings in that exact same neighborhood for condos that are now 35 years older and they were listed at $237k and $250k (the 250 was the same as mine with a 'view of the fairways'). It is, bluntly, really hard to see how young families in the middle to lower income brackets can make the 'American Dream' work today.
They have to blame the generation, otherwise they have to blame themselves and they don't want to
Not 100% true. Each generation takes blame. I know past generations made mistakes and one of them was coddling their children. We know the world sucks, but we didn’t figure the younger generation would just give up and complain all the time, all the while not putting forth real effort and sacrifice to make their situation better.
All we hear is take accountability and out of the same mouths we hear kids always focused on how they feel and lean on labels like anxiety and fairness and BS they will only make you feel like a victim. Life isn’t fair. It’s not going to get any easier either. Toughen up or you’ll be left behind.
No malice intended at all.
@@istillbetalkinyou’re out of touch if you think there is always something you can do. Younger people have to be extremely lucky to make a good living. And that is ENTIRELY the fault of older generations. If you think otherwise then you’re just stupid. Older generations are sadly the ones always in office, they’re always the ones fucking everything in the economy up. That is an indisputable fact. You know why life isn’t fair? Because the older generations, too selfish and stupid to actually try and make a good future for the kids made it that way. And judging by your comment, you’re obviously one of those older generation folk
@@istillbetalkinwhat an incredible tone deaf Dogshit take
@@istillbetalkin I agree 100%partisipation trophies blaming their parent's for everything, all their boundary issues 🙄I could go on and on, each generation takes responsibility, not these one's it's everyone else's fault😢
@@Misty-nl7vzyall are ducking accountability right now as you preach about it yet again. You're so boring and predictable 😒
I remember having this conversation with my mom and seeing her eyes finally light up. I asked her how much she paid for a semester of college. She answered and then added, “but that was a lot back then.” So I asked her, “yes, but was that the equivalent of 6 months worth of your salary?” I don’t think I’ve ever won an argument so completely before or since.
Loans for college were not guaranteed by the government back then. Once the government said they would guarantee loans, colleges started jacking up prices.
@@Uwill49ding ding ding! We have a winner.
But wait, there's more! The same is true for the medical field, insurance, finance, and much of big business. Crazy that they get ez bailouts and garaunteed money, and WE pay for it.
its even worse in other countries than USA. Houses and rent is same price as USA, but our average salary is 1k so 12k in 2024 haha. Europe cough. Asia and Russian average salary is even worse, but everything is slightly cheaper than USA. haha. End of the world. Millennials and genz don't even want to work anymore. we do our bare minimum just to survive. Forget the old folks 40 and over they can't even keep up with the software and production speeds and KPI's at work that need you to work x10 than our parents did. The things are very bad. We work x10 and get payed -x10. Hoddor BTC, break this evil cycle.
@@Uwill49THIS. Was looking into a grad school option in NC and surprise surprise.... the tuition was EXACTLY what the government offers in grad school tuition.... 60k
I mean, yes, if you only work 4 hours a day, your ass be broke. But it has nothing to do with age or generation.
I need to send this to my grandpa, he doesn't believe me when I said "I will never be able to afford a house on my own"
Jesus christ you too? Grandpa always tells me to save but it's damn near impossible. I gotta have SOMETHING in the bank. Can't believe how bad it's gotten over the years.
Others hear that too?? 😂 My dad Said sth like "Well, it's about your priorities. If you want a flat (house is No topic anyway) then you have to save" - SAVE WHAT?? There is nothing to save. And even If, it would take us 10-15 years to only bring up the 20% of basic Money the bank wants before granting you a credit 😭 also every flat with two kids rooms cost around 500k here. Who has half a million for a flat without even a little garden?? That has nothing to do with priorities anymore
@nicoleebner4929 my gramps was trying to use math, but the thing is, I don't even know if he knows what he's talking about, he was saying the average apartment cost $1,000 and I make $16.66... and that if I save, then I can get a apartment soon and that it takes "patience" like BRO... I pay rent to my parent which is $320 and THAT IS CHEAP but I still struggle with it due to food I'm buying for myself, and I'm trying to save for a car which it not working out well due to the cost of living. Man I get scared if to by new shoes for how difficult it is and my gramps don't believe me!! I love my gramps but he is living in the wrong time lol
@@nicoleebner4929 yeah it seems to be very common sadly lol my partners grandma kept asking us "why dont you just buy a house?" like its that simple?! ... instead of renting, been renting all my life, dont own anything and we got nothing to inherit either (except parents debt lol). meanwhile she grew up in a big house and inherited 2 big apartments in one of the best central expensive neighborhoods in the capital and bought herself a house in a village 40 mins from it(hella expensive area now due to the closeness to the capital city too). i think it finally got into her head a bit when we showed her a normal apartment goes for like 500k ... even the shitholes are like 300k ... we make 25k~ a year ... and thats not even on the low side for this country! minimum wage is 7k a year... wtf how can the older generations be so damn clueless? inflation is crazy as well, shops increase their prices every other week but paychecks barely move for years.
My mom flat out said I would never be able to buy a house unless I got married or hit the lottery.
It hurt when she said that, but she wasn’t wrong lol.
It’s so frustrating to hear the older generation say things like that, like they just choose to be blind to what’s actually going on because they’re so ready to criticize the next generations just for the heck of it.
There’s a difference between working hard and becoming a millionaire and working hard and still living paycheck to paycheck they cant seem to grasp
And this clown ignores the fact that there were no opportunities to make money using social media. Stop whining and figure it out.
you missed her whole point which is this generation doesnt want to work. if you dont work how do you expect to be able to buy anythng. everybody has it hard and he loves to vomit numbers but the older generations did have it harder. now you have all the info of the planet at your finger tips and you still crying about not being able to make money. nobody feels sorry for the zoomers. you guys forget that the great depression was a thing. how do you think the people fared during that hmm? also ww2?
Working hard for McDonald's for 20 years is a personal choice, and frankly a mistake.
@@HunterR1223 A mistake on the ones who made minimum wage unlivable. Not the hard workers themselves. You seem to be blaming the workers for not doing something better when you are ignoring the heart of the issue which is that more and more well paying jobs are not becoming so.
@@Duran762 its not your fault if you work at mcdonalds but its your fault if you stay there and expect something to change about your life.
My Dad and Mom bought our house after being married for only a year. He worked full-time and she didn't work at all. In 1974, they bought our 1100 sqft. 3 bed 1 bath house for $15,000. It's worth over $300k now (and rising).
Boomers have NO concept of the vast changes that have occurred in the past 20+ years. Our buying capabilities are nowhere near the same.
But still doable. Most of us had second hand everything in our first houses. My Mum and Dad did and so did I. My son just bought his first house in the same town and was until recently paying his mortage/bills alone on a 38hr week in a blue collar job. I get the US can be harder but it's not the fault of previous generations. Rather greedy politicians pandering to corporations. Just blaming everyone else won't fix it. I notice in this guy's 'averages' he didn't mention the massive 80's recession nor 18% mortgage rates so payments were then what they are now but on 80s wages.
That was 50 years ago. I love how ppl don’t even say where the home is located. Just like today home prices are different depending on location. Inflation was steady until the last 4 years. Except for the early 80’s and 2008. It’s going to take time and years of lower inflation to stabilize the economy and make things more affordable again. The government needs to slow down spending or we will never stabilize the economy.
People from each generation either have understanding or they don’t. The difference is, people like Whoppie, are self-absorbed and living in their own world, and contrived sense of reality. Some people’s mindsets and memories are stuck in a previous era, while others, including Baby Boomers stay current, pay attention, and want to learn and grow with the changing times. Just as it will be for your generation as people age. That’s why it’s good to be careful if categorizing an entire group of people that you do not know; since you could be included in that type of unfair judgement too. I’m a Baby Boomer and have been living these past 20 years. I’ve been through the changes, and this current nightmare too, with tremendous empathy for these younger generations just starting out. I hope everything gets better, we’ll all have some relief, and you’ll receive all the peace and happiness your heart can hold. 😊
Gen-X here and let me say, I appreciate you breaking this down. This is why I really hate when people make comparisons. We're often times comparing surface level shit and not breaking things down like this dude has done.
And yet this guy never adjusted the value of the dollar from 1980 to 2024 to account for inflation. This comparison he is making is done in very bad faith ignoring inflation and the fact a dollar went a lot farther in 1980 than it does in 2024 due to the dollar being worth more.
Still doesn't negate the fact that hardwork and consistency pay off. Obviously I'm stereotyping here but this generation doesn't want to be inconvenienced in any way with having a job. I didn't own a home until I was 42. Depending on your financial choices (mine were not good in my 20s) it takes time.
@leevy6753 I get that, but I also think we were suckers. We put up with way too much with some of these jobs. Giving 15-20 years and these companies not giving a crap. We can all learn something from each other I guess.
@@Milner62 I feel like that literally just supports his point though? If not only the surface numbers increased and income went up roughly 3-4x and college and a house is 13x and 7-8x respectively, and the dollar went further back then to boot, that's literally just supporting his point of it being shitty for people who had it much easier to bitch about people RIGHTFULLY feeling ripped off when they have it harder. Like if it looks bad not adjusting for inflation then doing that is just going to support his point further, it doesn't make him wrong or in bad faith
@@xxwolfrider3xxYeah I really do not understand the guys point.. Adjusting for inflation helps his argument, it doesn't hinder it.. Just looking at inflation alone also doesn't explain the full picture but looking at it with these other facts and data points absolutely contributes to the same argument..
To put it into perspective in Brazil you see these same numbers but in the currency here, Americans are paying the same as a 3rd world country. Ignore the exchange rate conversion and you will see how bad it is.
The US is a 3rd world country to anyone who isn’t the top 5-1%
As a 57 year old Scot who worked hard I will readily admit that younger people have it financially harder. The mortgage rates are an absolute joke and many start their careers with student debt. Scotland differs from the rest of the UK with course fees and Scottish students should not if my understanding is right have student debt as fees are paid. I feel for young people today and my experience of being poor and working hard to improve my life doesn’t change that. I had hoped it would be easier for my children but sadly that’s not the case ❤️🏴
I'm a Scot (2020 uni graduate) you still leave uni in debt if you used a student loan. So yes while education is free, most if not all students have debt to pay through students loans. Also Masters degrees are not free. Its just undergrads which are free.
I'm from hull. My parents bought a house for 60k in 1999. My friend recently bought a house on the very same street for 200k
@@joe94c my daughter is currently looking to buy a house I am horrified by the house prices and the mortgage rates. It’s really brought it to my attention.
@@Lassie_W thanks for the info my daughter graduated in 2017 so not much change. She also had student loans but I feel we are blessed with course fees being paid otherwise people who are financially poorer would not have any opportunity to further their education and improve their lives. I have a few nursing colleagues who have completed their masters fully financed by the NHS so a few employers will finance if it improves the workplace. ❤️🏴
@@angelahamilton1656 just wish that the older generations didn't need to know someone to believe us when we say millennials and genz have it hard. I feel like the average boomer will watch this video and tell us to stop buying coffee, like it makes a difference
Who the heck is out here working only four hour days?!. She pulled that fact out of her butt.
A lot of people are stuck with part time jobs (it is nearly all of the new jobs in the past 16 years). It doesn't mean that they only work 4 hours (some do) just that they need more jobs to be equvilant to past full time.
Most people 18-25. What they don’t realize, is they could have 2-3 part time jobs like every one I knew in the 90’s did. But, excuses and internet addiction are their biggest problem. They think they should have the mcmansion and brand new influencers furniture. Not the starter home shack with hand me down furniture.
She probably heard of "the 4 hour work week"(it's a book - didn't get to read it but am curious abt it) and will not let it go 😅
@@Cat22275 Ah. I'm sorry! I didn't realize that you knew most people 18-25! Google "Unemployment rate in the United States from 1990 to 2023, by age." I'm aware that this doesn't take into part time workers. Nevertheless, Millennials, Gen X, and even Gen Z have worked more hours per week at EVERY age than Boomers did. I worked easily every Saturday and Xmas for a decade. I racked up 80hr work week constantly. You stole from your mommy and then spun around and stole from your daughter. I'd punch sand on your grave, but it would require me to visit it.
@@Cat22275 Wait so people fit 2-3 part-time jobs with college and job searching? I assume college as well since 18-25 is right out of high school.
Also, just a genuine question, how does transportation work with even 2 part-times and (assuming) college? I had one part-time job during college and had a 5+ hour daily commute via bus.
My first used car in California in 1971 was $200, gas was 21 cents a gallon, and my rent was $140. Now in 2024: My last used car was $28,000, gas is $6, and rent is $2200.
also make ALOT MORE money now days
@@corruptsoljawe are making more but it isn’t enough to actually keep up with how much everything costs
@@corruptsoljacan you tie your shoes?everthing is more expensive bar electronics, everything.
@corruptsolja The things you need is a lot more money.
i dont understand you people fear mongering about rent. i have a super nice apartment 40 minutes outside a major city, 15 minutes from my full time job, low crime nice neighborhood with a park, rent is $600 a month. 2200 is just you being dumb imo.
man inflation hit hard af
It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out cost of living was much easier to endure back in the day.
People keep pandering to boomers feigning ignorance. At some point we need to accept that they are pathological liars with absolutely zero empathy
I don’t know anyone over the age of 16 that only wants to work 4 hours. I’m
So tired of these people talking down to us.
*even though these issues don’t affect me too many others are deeply struggling to live out here. This “stop being lazy” narrative has to stop.
I did a semester in a University in California. I wrote a paper about unvoulentarily part time work. I started with asking if anyone had a part time job. About a a third raised their hand, but when I asked if they would also want o just want to work part time after they got their degree they kept their hands up. I was baffled. Part time while studying is fine, because you are doing 100% college so you only have time for a part tiem job on top of that, but to keep working part time after you get your degree??
im a full time college student and looking for part time work close to where
i lilve is a struggles. mcdonald's isn't hiring at all. no one calls back , or even lets me know they've looked at my resume. ntm
did u know, that on indeed and linkedin, companies will make fake job advertisements? yeah, i swear the universe is giving me every reason NOT to work when i genuinely want toooooo 😭
I sure do. My husbands eldest daughter and her boyfriend don't want to work then complain about not having money 🤔 they think they're entitled to other people's money though.
@@Unni_Havaschange is scary?
Im 27, no job. If I tried to get a job, they’d ask about my I haven’t had a job in years so… I’m pretty much stuck even if I do get some miracle therapy to make me stop crying the moment I even think about it.
if you watch the breakfast club, the principle mentions that he makes $31k a year and owned a home. the movie was released in 1985. with inflation adjusted to 2024, the salary comes to $92k. the average person isn't making that much money a year as they earn $40-50k a year.
so for genz and millenials, they would need 2-3 jobs to earn the amount that the boomers made. it's beyond working hard.
“Just get a normal job” - boomer
@@metris5402fr, why will they always judge but never look into it, jus them saying phones and friends and etc, excuses tbh
lol my wife and I watched it a few weeks ago and were laughing so hard.
and even 92k isnt a ton!!
ITS NOT THAT WE DONT WANT TO WORK WE DONT WANT TO WORK FOR NOTHING!!! WE WILL HAVE TO WORK FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES AND HAVE NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT.
live with it if you arent rich then its not going to be very good for you we all have to deal with it and yet you dont see all of us complaining
When Whoopi talks about cost of living or political affilation, she has no idea.
I don't think she has much of an idea about anything anymore tbh
Anymore? I'm certain she never did..
100% it is an absolute travesty what has happened to young adults.
I ended up in a very blessed position where I could buy a home. But the vast majority of people today cannot, and will struggle to ever get there.
I refuse to own more than one home, as it makes the situation worse.
Yet I know many in the older generation who buy multiple homes, and rent them at extortionate prices to pay for their pensions etc, and then complain about the youth being lazy.
What is lazy, is getting rich off the backs of others, especially when those people are the ones who are paying for multiple landlord's mortgages.
People need to stop being greedy, and actually think about future generations, as they are the ones expected to take on tax burdens for a nation, and to fill the jobs that keep infrastructure and services running.
I tip my hats to you younger, you're expected to perform significantly better than the generations before you, have to deal with our debt burdens, and have to deal with weird political and social engineering environment we helped to create.
@@catherinerivers7883 nah she did once, hence why she got famous - she was liked on and off the camera once upon a time
Exactly, it’s not that our generation doesn’t want to work. It’s that they refuse to hire people, refuse to pay a livable wage, and most the time expect us to pull 9-12 hour days. Work ethic isn’t the problem, burnout and poverty is.
This guy is speaking nonsense.
If you think it's nonsense, you must live quite the spoiled, comfortable life. Good for you.
@@purple-mtn-laurel I’m not going to say where I come from because it’s the internet so I could lie. I will say this, I see people from the poorest nations come to the US and somehow make it to middle class or even become millionaires yet people born here can’t 🫤 do you know why they succeeded other than hard work? they are not afraid to move. People born in America would rather stay in a familiar 💩 hole than to move 1 state over and take a chance at having a better life. We are wiling to keep our kids in a place that we know damn well that the likehood of them joining a gang or committing crimes is above 80%. I wish I didn’t spend high my life believing the type bs this dude is saying. Every generation will say it’s harder than the last, it’s simple math but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible or as hard as you think. i won’t go through the math and science of it but i will tell you a way to make money that people don’t think about. If you have a friend or family member that’s single and willing to be away from home, tell him to go to a trucking company like swift trucking. They will let him keep the truck while his off. He could actually live in it which has plenty of room. At a minimum he would have $50,000 in his account by the end of the year to invest, create a business, or continue working at the company. If he continues to drive for swift, after 2 years he could leave and make double that at a better company. In the past 10 years, as long as a person did not have an extremely bad criminal record, I have been able to find easy solutions to get them paid. Now, let’s get back to him (this video) talking about the 400k avg for a house. Don’t live in those areas. America is huge!! Lots of safe affordable places to live in this country.
@@BigpopsMcGee me when I have schizophrenia
@@shinydecidueye9593 me when I want to be a victim
I feel so bad for our young folks today. I was able to buy a house at 23, the payment was like $250.
How can these kids ever achieve their American dream. Our country has let them down, and "celebrities " need to shut up.
The only way anyone can achieve the American dream is if theyre sleeping.
@@chicofromph33nix64thats why i been sayin i hate america
I'm 25 and feel utterly hopeless... not because I'm poor, but because I'm making almost 6 figures as an engineer and climbing my company as fast as I can and I still feel that I'll never own a home... like, there's not much further up for me to go 😢
You speak like our country is some "entity" that has a mind of it's own. Our country hasn't let us down, we have let ourselves down. People aren't intelligent enough to fight for the right things that actually matter... And corporations are taking advantage of it. This was always the inevitable outcome of capitalism.
I totally agree with you. Anyway, the American Dream does not exist anymore. At least not for 80 percent of your population. Glory to capitalism,^^. Greetings from Germany and Russia
She is clueless.