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Four years ago, America and the rest of the world saw its most intense spike in unemployment in recorded history…
In today’s news cycle that is ancient history, but what it’s ignored, is what has been left behind.
There are now over 10 million people (mostly men) in America who are not working, not studying, not retired and not institutionalized… they are just doing… nothing…
Covid accelerated this trend, but it’s been going on for decades… since the 1960’s about 0.1% of American men have given up on work to never come back… EVERY… SINGLE… MONTH
So why are so many people giving up so consistently? And more importantly… how are these people surviving without a job in this economy?
There are a lot of reasons why someone might not participate in the labor force.
They might have retired, they might still be studying for qualifications, there are people who are too sick to work, stay at home spouses, members of the military who are clearly working but don’t officially count as part of the labor force and then of course there are just really rich people who don’t need to work to maintain their lifestyle. There are also just regular people who are unemployed…
These groups have always existed but there is a new group growing alongside them which are people who have just given up…
So it’s time to learn How Money Works to find out how these people are surviving without work, and what it means for the rest of the workforce if they never come back…
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We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.
@@zhye5588lol don't be delusional brother. You don't need a great war or great depression to just your existence or have a purpose. Find your purpose within. You don't need to seek it outside. But I agree with your conclusion. Our lives are great depression. 💯
@@zhye5588 lol wut? Plenty of conflicts and causes out there. Climate change, Ukraine, Corporate exploitation take your pick. But the only call you answered was to be a consumer and now you are whining about the price tag it comes with.
These big companies can and have made more millions now go get ur ai and dont bother us.
“…the luxury of a prestigious career” Do you ever think about what the quality of that prestige is, or who generates it? Do you care if you have prestige among violent thieves?
The world is literally dying. Insects, fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and trees are all being decimated. Do we concern ourselves with profitable market solutions to this existential problem? Do we decry those concerned with the survival of their own species with simplistic pejoratives? And what happened to the idea that these “lowly” service (servant) jobs are “essential” to society and must continue to operate in the pandemic? Now they’re relegated to untouchable caste again?
People give up because they stop believing the lie. Half of your taxes paid has gone to illegal war for two decades. When someone tries to discuss this, most people are critical or apathetic, and dismiss concerns about reality as constricted to a fantastical virtual realm.
Will this message be heard? People are trying to engage with society and you just won’t listen.
The majority of humans DO want to work / be productive. But the majority of humans also don't like working for poverty wages while being sh!t on all day and getting nowhere.
Nailed it! When I used to work in the oil fields I was raking in at least 7k a month after taxes but although I have tried getting back to work in that field I am having zero luck.
@@shaykespeeer7040 let's be real most jobs produce nothing and exist to justify the bureaucracy or tick boxes for subsidies
@@TRG29338"most"? Please elaborate.
Also working in construction and having some office droid come and tell you how to do your job properly.
AI wants your job more.
1:29 "group is primarily between 25 and 55" - basically the entire workforce pre-retirement lol
yh basically any educated work force that isnt new to the job considering that most decent degrees are 3 years minimum
Yeah I never understood why these ranges are so damn big
The ruling elite told us that we will "own nothing and be happy."
This is the predictable result. Why bother working just to own nothing.
There is no incentive to do anything.
Yeap, he glossed over the importance of the age group and stagnated wages, the key demographics and made it about everything else, this should have been his focal point. Everything else in this video feels like fluff compared to age group and wage stagnation.
@@trademark0013it's to pretend it isn't everyone. If there's one person working they will still find a way to spin it.
Too much effort, not enough recognition and/or pay.
Also : lacks any sense of meaning
Yeah people would eventually realise that living for yourself is meaningless it took only some 300 years
Indeed🎉
Especially if not having a girlfriend or being married
Same thing man.
I think religion has played a lot of that role of providing meaning for so long, but since more and more people are leaving, it seems like they haven't found a good replacement.
27 year old hvac technician here, the constant stress on both my body and my mental state makes me think about giving up and moving back in with my parents every day. The work is tough, my boss wants me to squeeze the money out of clients who have none, and when trying my hand at dating, women look down on me for my blue-collar profession. Rent and food prices go up every year, but my wage stays the same. Really, the only reason why im working is so don't starve when im 65 years old in my "retirement."
You need to work a minimum number of years for that, yeah.
Right on spot.
I work in medical. Young. Not ugly. Asked a girl out whom im out of her league, figured i would throw the gal a bone. Still got denied 😆 she's not even a looker. Women these days don't know what they want I'm going to find me a cute homeless girl. Tired of games and dealing with uppity ....
Retirement is a joke! It may not be there when your time comes or you may not live long enough to see that Retirement...
Our parents were happy working together to make ends meet, women nowadays want you to finish the race and then share. If you bring this up, you get called a misogynist because there's no denying that it's happening.
It's simple economics, the pay is terrible and the workload is insanely high.
Not too add that modern corporations have become insanely toxic where they pay you very little but make winning a job or working for them seem like you've just been given the soldier's medal of honour lol
The lemon is not worth the squeze anymore, plus inflation devalue more the already limited purchasing power
@@momo99123they act like buying the cheapest pizza around is some big award
also it ain't worth to work hard.
If we earn enough to enjoy our hobbies..thats enough.
no point of being slave to system.
@@NoOne-kx7zs it's like why would you work 20 years at a corporate job to just afford a house like
Why? Simple. The juice ain't worth the squeeze.
It looks like the data is starting to back up that simple anecdote.
Cost of living go up. Cost of apartment go up. Salary no go up. Me no go outside.
100% this
It's crazy how some people are surprised when income has barely changed in decades but prices have soared 2 to 3 times in the past 4 years alone.
@@UnbihexiumTheStable all the wealth gains have gone to the top 1% or 0.01% , working is of no benefit to the average person anymore. People are finally waking up to this.
There is no labour shortage. There's a wage shortage.
a shortage of recognition and meaning also
And a shortage of jobs
This 100%.
And they’ll keep importing millions of people every year to suppress wages
@@trickslies844 “stop being a burden to those around you” tell me you have parents that didn’t love you without actually telling me.
The increase in job dropouts is alarming, hinting towards the deepening socio-economic disparity and the ingrained stigma around low-wage or "unglamorous" jobs. We must focus on enhancing the desirability of all jobs and increase awareness about vocational training to bridge the widening gap.
great. thanks for volunteering. let me know when you open your business that does just that.
Like we say in Russia: "There is a lack of high-qualified underpaid specialists"
We say that in Germany too.
ruZZia is a terrorist state
In USA we have an abundance of tech bro specialists, what we lack is trades and manufacturing. We have plenty of highly paid money hoarding government funded globalist corporate financiers willing to loan out unlimited amounts of debt aka fake money though.
We say that in [put your country here] too.
@@ivagov5758we don’t say that in norway
It should be illegal for a news story to talk about a labor shortage and say "look how many jobs are posted" without also mentioning what wage those jobs offer, and what the price of housing is where the jobs are
And they ignore that survey which showed that around 40% of job postings are for jobs which don't exist
My mom brings this up all. the. time. Yeah, cool mom. I could go delivery for Amazon and work a 14 hour shift where I can't go to the bathroom until I'm done or I get penalized and make $12/hr. Sounds like a worthwhile and fulfilling use of time.
I get so pissed off when I see those headlines. If theres a shortage why is it taking me and most of my peers 500+ applications for entry level role
@@iammaxhailme
This! "How much does this job pay?"
A carrot an hour? No thanks.
And no one is looking into "since October 2019, native-born US workers have lost 1.4 million jobs; over the same period foreign-born workers have gained 3 million jobs". So out of all this mess you're being replaced lmao google it before any redard comeback.
Housing used to be 2x annual income it's now 10x annual income.
Nailed it
In our country its 20x its fun coming from one of the best schools with engineering degree and knowing i will probably never own a house.
before or after taxes
Yeah and interest payments where 10x what they are now so overall they actually paid more.
@@trickslies844 do the math, no they didn't.
15 percent of a 20k mortgage is far less than 7 percent of 350k.
Come on
Having a wife, house and a family is a huge motivation for increasing income. With dating ruined, housing unaffordable and women not wanting to have kids what is the point if you’re in the bottom 80%?
agreed by dating app data from okcupid and tinder and university studies we know that woman find 95% of men unattractive and only 5% of men are attractive and only 1% of men get a like and a match. woman find 80% of men physically unattractive usually based on superficial stuff like height minimum height is 6'2 that is 3% of the male population and then they want a man that makes six figures and only 12% of adults between men and woman make six figures put them together you are looking at less than 1% of the male population. So most men don't even have a chance to date.
People seem tired to play a game that's rigged against them.
Well apparently not because the video clearly said they play league of legends 🤔
The System was never Rigged. it is doing Exactly what it has been designed to do.
Which is to keep you as Poor as Confused as Sedated as Idiotic as Directionless as possible.
So that you're Co-dependent and never break free from their Stronghold.
But it's the majority of men that seem to be weak willed and just sitting at home playing video games. Women are just fine.
That's why everyone needs a less than legal side hustle.
@@hellfire6714 That's a different game. League of legends was designed to be fair.
Work sucks, dating sucks, housing sucks. What's the fucking point?
Same my life suck and girls are so fucking wierd
You don't get to choose the situation you are born into, a lot of people are born in 3rd-world or authoritarian countries with even less freedom and opportunity. And yet what can you do? Play the hand you are dealt and make the most out of it. Same thing people have been doing for all of history. You might not be able to change everything, but you can at least make the world a little brighter for a few people around you.
@@adrianm72033rd World and Authoritarian is where Western countries are heading.
Facts.
@@adrianm7203 Dating doesn't suck in these countries.
I have been working since I was 12, it was a must in order to not go homeless. The world for the lower class is often being talked about/for by people who have never experienced it. It's laughable how people think the "peasants" just don't want to work anymore cause they would rather play "fortnite," when the real reason is there is nothing to work for. Why put in my 8 to 16 hour days if my quality of life isn't going to get better. Look at covid, the essential workers were and are still treated like trash. We're not blind or stupid. We are providing value and it's just being gaslit by the people who consider themselves better because they were lucky enough to have stability. Work is work and without the people swinging the hammers and flipping the burgers the people crunching the numbers at the top won't have their quality of life either. Anyone who works and contributes to society shouldn't have to struggle only to have the bare necessities slowly stripped from them. If people want to give up, they are allowed to do that. Concider that the only peaceful rebellion that actually may work.
Funny, I just had a conversation with another construction worker and we were talking about exactly what you said. We're fodder for the machine
If the game is rigged then don't play the game.
While all the news is about how great the Stock Market is. Income inequality. Work in male dominated industries isn't valued.
YES, these type of people forget to ask WHY those people go out of the work force.
true but the same people that you deem valuable are hedonists and acting / voting against their interests
America doesn’t value hard work. Hard work is for poor people. America values rich people, people with prestigious job titles, who tell the little people what to do, who talk and bullshit. They have lunch, take a phone call, make deal on the golf course. That’s the stuff we value.
The maker of this video himself says he has a “prestigious job”. As a RUclips creator. There you go. That’s the work we value.
Pretty sure he’s talking about his career in finance but I agree that’s not really hard work either
One would think that a country which cares soo much about hard work, that they build a dream myth out of it, would end up with a pretty large labour movement.
Not the USA.
i think the prestigious job part was how he used to work as an investment banker
We also Tax working people, but not the piles of money the Rich have to make more wealth.
To quote Scott Galloway, 'We Tax Sweat but not Capital'.
If you work for a living, you're paying at least 35% of that including State and Sales Taxes, probably closer to 40%. If you're borrowing against your Equity to buy more Shares/Businesses/Property you pay 0%. That's BS.
Boomer guilt tripping doesn't work anymore
idgaf what life was like "back in your day"
Life is too short to be a wagey
@@googleoperationcyclone Back in their day they weren't competing in a global labor pool that is willing to work for 1/20th of what it takes to scrape by here. Boomers will deny this.
Neet Life Rules
@@googleoperationcyclone back in their day they werent competing in a global labor market where 20 people could be hired for your measley pay. Boomers will deny this.
@@googleoperationcyclone I am trying to reply but youtube keeps deleting because Im calling out a practice they themselves use that Boomers never had to deal with. We live in bad times.
Facts lol fuck work bruhhh so much to life than being a slave to the system
Im 25 went to college and work a full-time job as a refrigeration technician. I don't blame other men for not working. I feel zero fulfillment from my job; it's just something to take up my time, and the amount of money I make will never be enough for an adult life.
Newsflash: Nobody feels "fulfillment" from a job as an employee. Life under cápítàlì$m means being a worker sl@ve for the owner class. We must overcome the cancer that is cápítàlì$m in this century.
I hope you'll find a job you like or at least not dislike eventually. Best of luck. 🙏🙏
Studs Terkel's book "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" demonstrates that regardless of time period, people have been feeling the way you do since work began. There truly is nothing new under the sun.
Is it possible to learn a new higher paying skill?
@@brodriguez11000 the exchange is enough money to do other things. When money is too low, there's no point
Here's the deal. My household brings in a decently above average income, has 2 STEM degrees, and has been SAVING for 3 years, having no vices like smoking or drinking, never been in a legal situation, have not been on any vac. trips or living a luxury life, and only have student debt....we still can NOT AFFORD a starter home....Why would they want to work 10X harder than our parent/grandparents to be able to own nothing?!?!
'Starter home' also seems to be a dying concept. The only ones I see (in NJ) are at least 50 yrs old. I like that 3D printing is catching on a bit more in the homebuilding industry. It's a cheaper way to build, but homebuilders and carpenter unions will likely fight against it.
You did everything you was told.
Meanwhile, I have an associate degree, and a home. I’m a math guy so I have the utmost respect for stem.
Move away from the coasts
@@sylouistill the same
@@handleyobusinesswhat are you doing with an associates in math that you were able to afford a home?
Remember, no matter how much you don’t contribute to society, you’ll never be a bigger leech than the rich already are and always will be
I'd rather be nothing than less than nothing 😂
And what’s worse is those rich clowns are the ones celebrated whilst producing so much anxiety (by cutting benefits, stagnating wages), etc.
Good point
Jealousy is ugly.
@@theoneafterthelast im not talking like upper middle class here im talking about the billionaires and companies that actively write our laws
There is no worker shortage. I’m fresh out of college with a degree in mechanical engineering and it’s currently impossible to find a job in Germany.
Why go into Engineering when all the manufacturing is in China and Vietnam lol. Chinese engineers and laborers are much cheaper
There's a worker shortage for exploitative jobs. There's no worker shortage for good jobs with good wages and benefits.
Yeah, where I live too
@@ArchesBro engineering is not manufacturing
I'm from Poland and i graduated mechanical engeenering year ago. I spent that year mostly on seeking job and market so impossible that i started learning german to escape... I guess im fucked if even natives can't get one. Not like i didn't know things are tough there, but come on, its germany...
lmao there are no jobs, I applied to hundreds of positions over the last six months and only now have I gotten a job at McDonald's, no one is hiring!
What state are you in?
There are plenty of jobs hiring in DFW.
It is an embarrassing trait of americans to assume eeveryone on the internet is also american.
@@pauljackways1473well the video is largely about this phenomenon in AMERICA so idk maybe you're the odd one out here.
Ive been there twice in my life. About 6 months each. Where i applied to everything willing to learn anything and got absolutely nothing but mcdonalds and the second time a gas station job. Its absolutely ridiculous.
if society offers me nothing why should I contribute?
noOoOoo you have to go and work so we can get DEI jobs doing nothing
Ditto, society already screwed it's people why stay? It's like an abusive relationship.
You are fined with taxes when you contribute, but rewarded with others taxes for doing nothing.
@@cherubin7th Hahah good point!
Then go and try to live in a forest or a field far away from society and lets see how it goes.
They said if you want to be successful, you just need to be good with numbers, study stem, learn to code. I have two stem degrees and I can code in multiple languages. Yet according to them I am a lazy POS at home all day 'playing video games'. Fuck outta here. It's crazy that they didn't even mention the horrors of the job search. Hiring committees are completely unwilling to take any risks and give ppl a goddamn chance. Something as simple as a gap in the resume is enough to send it to the discard pile. Companies are unwilling to invest in training people. They expect you to perform the job perfectly on day one. The ultimate goal of corporations in this capitalist hellscape is to squeeze every last penny exploiting workers to increase their bottom line and then they pretend to have no clue why so many people are out of work and struggling.
👏 👏
I started my science degree when the nation's media was saying that we needed more people doing R&D.
Came out the other end, found out that the real problem was that nobody in the country was willing to pay people to do science work.
There were still newspaper articles and the like saying we needed more people with science degrees a decade after I'd realised we already had far more than the economy actually wanted. The government just seemed to think that more people with science degrees would mean that more science would magically get done without anyone having to pay for it. Apparently scientists are fuelled entirely by the quest for knowledge and don't need such trivial things as "food" and "a place to live".
I actually doubt that there are so many people unwilling to work. From what I’m seeing these jobs are fake. They let you go through several round of interview and work on a project for free and then it’s goodbye.
America hasn't been capitalist since before the second world war. Last year government accounted for more than half the economy for the first time. What most western economies are in the present day is closer to oligarchies than it is to a free market system. Just a handful of massive corporations using lobbying and personal relationships to bend government in their favor. Most industries have little to no competition.
@@chady7009 are you brain broken? US IS a capitalist hellhole. Ever since neo-liberalism, it has been lasseiz-faire capitalism. Capitalism LEADS to oligarchies or monopolies. Competition means that there will be winners and losers at the end of the day. Winners take the losers pie and increase their market share. Not only that, people who have capital ARE able to influence the gov by lobbying. Thats how you have a system working for the rich and the ultra rich, not for the remaining majority. Capitalist, at the end of the day, DONT want COMPETITION. Saying otherwise, is idiocy and getting duped by the elites.
34 y o woman, also quit my job. After 11 years of teaching where I worked my ass off to "improve myself as a professional", I realize I would never reach a "cruising speed". Every day I felt like I might fail at my task. Every management meeting I heard what I could to more or better. I thought that after 11 years you could be comfortable enough just to show up to work, do your job, leave. I didn't want any promotion and yet responsibilities kept piling up and classes full of teenagers were not easier to manage. Lots of experienced teachers quit or left with a burnout as well. I don't know where this pressure all come from. Even if you have a contract, you still feel insecure at work. When you are in your 30's you can still change carreer so I decided that is was not worth it and as I don't have kids, why should I not? Now I'm happily painting and living a cheap life. Don't need a fancy car or holidays. You don't need those leisures when you are not spending your week at work.
Imagine if teachers actually prepared their students for the economic realities of the world and the nature of the power structures that will attempt to exploit them instead of over analyzing Moby Dick like an autist.
Those state approved lesson plans weren't written by lobbyists, right?
I can relate. I left the public school system after 15 years due to burnout. I only felt needed when exam season was near. That is when the admin would actually check on me, not to see if I was okay, but to ask if I thought the students were well prepared.
Way to miss the point. Schools have a varied curriculum. I learned literature AND politics at school. And autism is not an insult anymore, it's not 2013.@@TRG29338
I agree, I am also a former school teacher who transitioned into tech. Tech bros think they have the most stressful jobs but they wouldn't last 2 weeks in healthcare and education.
I'm so sorry. Teachers demand more respect.... and pay!
Got to work 10x harder than our grandparents did, just to live an average life.
But they had to walk to school uphill both ways??!!
In the snow
while women try to bring us down even though they are doing better
Barefoot
@@HowMoneyWorksway better, i would pick adventure over rotting in a cubicle
If working doesn't actually pay for anything, what's the point? A friend of mine got laid off from a shitty job during COVID, and their quality of life increased thanks to social programs: All of a sudden, they had the help necessary to reasonably afford food, medical needs and housing when they were seriously struggling with those things before.
That's not me knocking welfare, but knocking low-paying jobs and unaffordable expenses. What sane person would choose to work a dead-end job that can't pay for necessities when they could just not work and be better off?
That means there exist jobs making and delivering that food, providing medicine, building and maintaining housing. The spoiled rich who have done no real work should be doing those jobs, and be forced to accept that they have already been paid for their labor.
Wildest thing is the number of jobs that seem to be actively trying to pay JUST ENOUGH to disqualify people from those programs, making them worse-off than before getting said job
@@robnergal575 Wildest thing is we let politicians get away with cut-offs for welfare instead of scaling by income... In what universe does it make sense that if you earn an extra dollar you suddenly lose hundreds?
This was my biggest problem with COVID. Can’t work but so many people making more than they made when working. I also know people that had to work all the way through but there was a point where they weren’t needed Fridays. They were still able to apply for the pandemic benefits based on losing one day. It made no sense to me.
Felt like a giant waste of money that wasn’t thought through.
This. I didn't go on welfare, but I crunched the numbers, and I realized that I would have equally as much money for myself if I quit my full time job and went part time. I saved enough in childcare costs and other expenses that it was worth it to work less. It's annoying that I still don't have any money, but at least I can be poor and have a large chunk of my day to myself instead of working all day every day and having the same amount of no money. Why would anyone work a terrible job for terrible pay when they can have a better quality of life through welfare programs, saving on big expenses like childcare and travel to/from work, etc? My kid is actually in school now, but I'm looking into other ways to make money. Why give up my time just so that I can go through the stress of having a crap job all over again? The only thing I have to gain by going back to work is money, and the amount I would get just isn't worth it.
Why are guys not working anymore? Here are some things that come to mind:
They are sick of being degraded by a-hole bosses.
They see that "hard work" no longer gains them anything----It only makes someone else rich
They realize that their pay barely covers the cost of the job (work clothes, transportation, tools, professional/union dues, etc...)
The commute has become too long and/or dangerous.
The neighborhood of the office/jobsite has become too dangerous.
Small businesses (where they always worked) are be eradicated, and they simply don't fit into the corporate world.
Manufacturing, construction, and other creative/productive jobs are disappearing, and they simply don't fit into the "service economy".
The 9-to-5, M-to-F monotony is causing them to lose their minds.
They have tasted freedom, and simply can't go back to the hell of wage-slavery (can you blame them).
They have found that the ONLY remaining chance to get ahead, is to go into business for themselves (underground economy).
Cos why not? Honestly. The system is so clearly designed to help the VERY few at the cost of the many. Why play a game you know you’re not going to win?
I agree with the sentiment, but the words got me. Do you only play games you know you will win? Like do you only play on tutorial mode with cheats?
@@teknoh So you're saying that people should play games that are obviously rigged against them? People are willing to play games on even grounds but no one's dumb enough to try their luck when things are obviously rigged against them even if there is a miniscule chance of winning.
@@teknoh I mean... if you had a boss with a garanteed one hit kill attack that is impossible to dodge, how long would you play that game for?
It's like playing a game with micro transactions. What's the point of getting good at a game when someone has already bought the best gear in the game. There is no reward for skill or effort
What’s your definition of winning? Owning a yacht, driving a Lamborghini and having 10 wives? Bruh…stop scrolling, life is simple. Men see other people’s lives on social media and because they feel they can’t get that they’ve given up.
But I’m not complaining, do you…it means that those who are willing to put in the work will stand out above them and always win. And I’m fine with that.
“This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Still as true as ever today.
That is socialism in general. That's the way it always works
@@Seagaltalksocialism is about owning means of production by the workforce, not capitalist. Not sure what you are talking about.
Well since socialism is bad and individualism is good everything is currently fine.
@@MelfiortheOne In theory. In practice what actually happens is the means of production becomes owned by an oligarchy that uses the Marxist rhetoric as one tool to keep the masses in line. Some animals are more equal than others.
Everybody always talks about Dr. King's dream but nobody ever talks about his plans to achieve that dream. (Hint: It wasn't more Capitalism)
American dream is dead. Nowadays, working hard doesn’t get you far enough + social media bombard us with images of rich ppl who scammed their way up and openly brag about it.
Add to it no free tome left to enjoy the life and no appreciation from women who look down on regular working guys. Being a working man nowadays feels like being a loser
Its sad reality, trying to be financially smart AND attracting a decent women. If you make an average wage and want to be stable until you die, you have to be frugal. That means a small old house, a cheap old car, and rarely going out to eat. Very few people want that life. Even when you have a nigher net worth, you'll look poor. Mine's up there nowadays but people still try to offer charity. And women look at me like I'm a homeless drifter. Sorry to offend your eyes but I want enough when I'm 90.
I'd say American values are screwed as much as the financial situation.
@@jeabo0adhd 1. An old car drains A LOT of money. I got a 2012 Dodge, and in 2 years I have had it, I spent more money on fixing it than I paid for it in the dealership.
2. A small old house in Canada is still out of reach for most people.
3. For those who work full time in trades, eating out is a necessity. I, for example, simply don’t have time and to cook.
And finally, what is the point of working hard if you are not distinguishable from a “homeless drifter”? You may not even reach 90 yo, and if you do, are you sure you will not regret living such a miserable life?
For me, working hard had always seemed like a stepping stone to achieving my personal goals. Now, it feels more like a waste of my best years
@@arseniytikhonov2283 all facts. Women want nothing to do with regular guys who have regular jobs, only after they become single moms or become fat and used up by a lot of men, THEN they want to settle with those regular men. Key word: settle. They still think they are above you. Clown world.
Try looking for women in Southeast Asia then. I don't know if you've heard of "Passport Bro".
Does brain a workman mean having a service job?
I think it’s a more philosophical reason. What is the point of all this progress and technology? It’s to make our lives easier, right? There have been books on the end of work. With AI advancing it’s inevitable that we will need significantly fewer people to run the machines that support the functions of life. It’s also obvious that all this consumerism doesn’t fill the spiritual void in our souls. Living more simply results in happier outcomes. The more things you own the more they own you. Add in a real lack of upward career advancement due to ever increasing educational red tape, and increased competition due to globalization of the workforce. The lack of nuclear family promotion in society. Men have no family, career, or country to fight for anymore, so why bother.
Remember, majority of unskilled low paying jobs were considered essential employees. This job market is a joke!
The ultimate luxury: sleeping in.
That’s only the tip of the iceberg
And non-stop coffee drinking ☕️
Turns out, the most valuable asset a man has is: Time
Yes! I have a really hard time functioning in the morning. I'm just not a morning person, even if I go to bed early. I have some health problems that affect my sleep, so mornings are just hard. What's frustrating is that a lot of jobs don't actually need to be done at the butt crack of dawn. They could be done later, but employers don't seem to care.
You need a job in order to pay rent and eat. These men don’t have a job they don’t make any money so can’t afford to buy food. Therefore, they are living with their Mum and taking other peoples resources as they have no money to buy food for themselves..
For most people a minimum wage job isn’t worth the aggravation
When I was minimum wage I was so jealous of the people who were able to collect welfare and disability...you have a better life if you pretend like you have chronic back pain than if you go to you minimum wage job, just saying.
@@zvmZvm0102 if they were pretending, why couldn't you? sounds like you were a sucker for a corporation when you could have been "pretending like you have chronic back pain".
is it because they, in fact, weren't pretending? and that maybe work nowadays just genuinely fucking sucks? and they were actually unable to perform the work due to health problems?
@@pretzelise2226 They were and I could but didn't because I felt I had something to lose by lying. You really think all those "single mothers" are single? Lots of gals don't get married today and say they don't know who the father is so that they can get full welfare benefits. The dad lives with them...
@@zvmZvm0102Source?
@@zvmZvm0102sounds simply like you're jealous of people claiming welfare/benefits
Let it rot
It's not just the Western world. Japan had this problem for decades. China has been seeing this spike recently as well. You might also know them as NEET, lost generation, lying flat, or hikikomori.
Don't forget that india is also on its way
Also seeing the absolute lack of self awareness these countries have when they bemoan declining birth rates as well. Like bruv, no one is having kids because they are too tired and focused on surviving on shit wages or have life consuming work hours.
Too many people. There's also too many elderly people.
@@Orphic_being No, too much bureaucracy and corporate welfare ensuring unfair advantage in exchange for hiring unqualified box tickers that satisfy Larry Fink's fetishes.
@@StarlightDew Honestly it's so obvious at this point I'm sure everyone knows, they're just desperately looking for an alternative because they know actually solving the root of the problem is impossible due to the influence of the companies. Just imagine being made the leader of a country for a moment and trying to make the companies pay people properly. Honestly I feel you would need ultimate power globally to fix it at this point, if you don't want to sacrifice a few countries in the process.
Let's be honest, why would a man want to destroy himself in a system stacked against him. He can do the minimum and just get by. Or give 110%, put up with a toxic workplace stacked against him, be miserable and still just get by.
with an 80% chance the woman takes half plus kids for tiktok clout.
@@hyperteleXii damn bro that sounds like an oddly specific you problem, plenty of us learned not to mess around with crazy
@@Greenitthe Look at divorce stats, women usually take custody and usually win the money aspect due to stuff like title 4D for the good of the judges retirement plan. They also divorce 70% of the time give or take as compared to the man's 30%. One does it for irreconcilable differences aka i am not happy and does it willy nilly. The other one goes for it does when actual serious stuff occur aka drugs usually, this would be men.
@@JonDoe-nu3ix stop believing these Red pill bs talking points. Vast majority of the time when men file for custody they get joint custody according to all the data and studies.
we’re talking about men who are refusing to get a job this is not about women. You need a job in order to pay rent and eat. These men don’t have a job they don’t make any money so can’t afford to buy food. Therefore, they are living with their Mum and taking other peoples resources as they have no money to buy food for themselves..
Men want to have a wife and children.
If they can't get jobs that allow them to support a family, there's very little reason to work.
You'll be surprised how easily a man is willing to ignore his own needs
they're just roundabout ways to impress
Add to that, women are hypergamous. They will date their equal or somebody superior to them financially. The more women make, the smaller their dating prospects get. Low wage men have no incentive to try anymore. I’m a disabled vet making 6 figures at my job. I would quit today and buy a trailer in the south if I wasn’t married.
I feel like it cuts the other way too, if a man can't find a woman who wants to start a family with him, then he won't want to get a high effort, high pay job.
Most men don't need much, if they have a wife, they'll need more (most women aren't happy with 2 fold up chairs, a TV on a old cardboard box, and paper plates), and if they have kids they'll need a lot more. So if men can't start a family, I'm not surprised there are working less.
You are leaving out the most important factor: outlandish expectations from women due to social media, e.g. men have to be 6'3", have a 6-pack, and make more $ than they do. It's really hard to get married.
@RealSerie26 Due to inflation, the expectation is now a 6'5 height, an 8- pack, and a minimum 250 k salary.
There seems to be a trend of talking about lazy men lately. If I may put my 2 cents in…
It sounds like a crisis of purpose.
You’re supposed to not think of your purpose when you slog through these soulless jobs, feeling disconnected from the community even though you’re getting paid. You just do what you’re told and pretend like what you’re doing is a good thing because having a job is “good.” It leaves you empty for a long time. If you’re forced to be empty for long enough, it sprouts into nihilism . Why do anything? Why not do nothing? Internalize disposability.
I’m not sure so much if it’s depression. It’s more of the natural effect of treating people like they’re not human beings with hopes and dreams.
Why are we surprised that these people are disconnected and unmotivated?
Yeah, of course people don't want to sit in a job putting numbers into spreadsheets with no idea what effect they really have on the world while their boss yells at them for not putting enough numbers into enough spreadsheets and that overtime is needed to put more numbers into spreadsheets. Just to get home too exhausted to be able to socialize or pursue hobbies and still struggle to pay bills to stay alive.
What's the point?
Great point.
This!!
@@NihongoWakannaiTbh putting numbers into spreadsheets was the good old days. Now that gets outsourced remotely to a 3rd world country with no minimum wage, or an expensive and inaccurate software does it for you. While the local workers that remain instead spend their time pushing services and billing plans on to clients that neither want nor need them, getting yelled at by bosses for not getting enough on board, and yelled at by clients for wasting their time and money with bs.
Men that don't have a family to bring the bacon home to don't have that purpose. As for nihilism, why do you think so many men support Trump/MAGA?
I killed my health for 13 years for shit pay, I refuse to continue to do that. I would rather be dead than work another shit job. Give people a living wage and you'll notice how fast these jobs that are always not filled because they suck disappear.
I agree 100%.
It is worse than that. The dollar lost all its value at a rate higher than interest on your savings. Every penny you save up is being leeched up to fund Israel and Ukraine. They use inflation to extract wealth from your savings without changing the number of dollars in your account.
@@WarningStrangerDanger Are "they" in the room right now?
@clamhammer2463 No, "they" are in the federal government. The IRS can not collect enough taxes to fund their foreverwars, so they just mint new money and gift it to weapons manufacturers and foreign countries. That increased money supply directly devalues the dollar.
Biden-Harris opened the border to keep low paid jobs low paid.
Men are dropping out of the labour market and the dating market because it is just not worth it anymore.
I don't know who fucks you around more a girlfriend/wife or an employer
Because they are being pragmatic. Having a wife and children = having a lot of headache, that you were dumb enough to sign up for. Working means sacrificing your own health, time, sleep, etc. for company, that can't care less about you and for money, that is unlikely to compensate for it.
@@ceu160193 You got to get a decent job that allows you to work whenever you want 90% of the time, as long as you finish your work. Then you might be covered time, money, sleep and overall health wise.
Then when the population rapidly declines and there aren't enough men to resolve issues only men can solve, we will probably be blamed even ahead of the toxic narratives that politics, feminism, and prospective employers that have caused this issue to begin with.
I'm a chad and I've checked out a long time ago. I'm sick of women and woke people 😊😂🎉🎉f u all
Jobs are so shitty that dudes decided to stay home and goon it up.😂
My full time career is crankin the hog, brother
@@chikkin.salad.sandwich a real American
you know us men, always goonin it up at the goon station. Alright, I gotta go pick up some more goonie goon juice. Goon on brothers.
We have an ethical obligation to goon since we live in a consumer-coomer economy. The Fed just lowered interest rates to help stimulate growth too. Uncle Sam needs us to pump up those numbers, so we best get to it, brothers.
@@LustyLichKing 🤣
This almost like you were saying Americans slowly becoming ひきこもり (Hikikomori). What is also a major problem in Asian countries.
There is no such thing as a labor shortage-only a wage shortage.
If I save every penny I make...
I could afford to buy a house in 12 years.
If I save up for a down payment... which will take 5 years, I will have paid that off the loan in 30 years and have paid 2x the cost of the home.
both cases, are saving every penny I make - pan handling for food, getting rides from friends and living on the street.
don't forget about taxes and inflation. In 12 years, the goal posts will have moved so much
@@spoonikle pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and hover in place while getting a haircut young man
Why would anyone want to work in fast food for 14 hours a day just so that they can afford rent and food and maybe 1 or 2 choice luxuries a paycheck?
I certainly wouldn't, the beaches in Florida are warm I'd just go down there and wait for my time to come.
Hard work used to be rewarded, it isn't anymore, so people are giving up.
I mean the hurricane is in Florida now. 😂 The time has come for many men doing folly at the beach past summer time.
just rent and food is a stretch let alone luxuries. i live just outside st louis which is ass and one of the cheapest places places to live yet anyone i now besides a few exceptions in the ages 17-30 live with roommates and rent. very few own a home or even rent by themselves and this is with a wage higher than minimum.
Dude on 14 hours in fast food you still would not be able to live in Florida. Don't come here average rent is well above what 14 hours at fast food will provide you. You would need to live in a car
@@charleshart5563 Lots of people are living in their cars
@@charleshart5563He's saying he would go down there to be homeless and die
I finally checked out of the workforce due to physical disability (partially caused, or at least made significantly worse, by working) in my 30s. Wish I did it a decade or two earlier when it was first diagnosed. 20 years of working six to seven days a week, and my standard of living is no better than acquaintances from high school who have never even tried to get a job. Looking back on my teenage and adult years spent working 50, 60, sometimes 90 hours a week, to still be destitute makes me feel like I got scammed out of my life. Still don't know what a vacation is like, I always used vacation time to work side jobs for the week to get an extra paycheck once or twice a year. Everybody in my life who told me I need to "just work harder" and "take any job" is complicit in that scam.
How is working a scam when you were able to feed and clothe your wife and children through working. I’m a woman and I work even when I’m sick. I have worked in 3 different fields. Started working at 13 or 14. I don’t get what men are complaining about? Some people would love to be American. I do sympathize with the price point of things but I don’t understand why men would rather beg in old age then to work when they are young?
@@candyxoxo19 You're making a lot of assumptions right off the bat.
While working 6-7 days a week, my income was still low enough to get food stamps, or else I wouldn't have been eating.
At 35 years old now, most of my wardrobe is still clothes from high school and college because there's never excess money left for new clothing. Its a financial blow every time the soles fall off my shoes or boots that I wear for work.
Then onto your last statement:
"I don’t understand why men would rather beg in old age then to work when they are young"
Where did that even come from? All I've done was work from when I was young til recently, all while needing a spine surgery for the last 17 years, and where did it get me? Begging in old age anyways🤔
Like I've been saying, it was a scam which I should have never started participating in.
@@RobFRC oh my word so sorry to hear about your medical issues. That’s really hard. I think that people with medical issues should be taken care of a lot better in our country.
@@candyxoxo19 That issue was noted in the very first sentence of my original comment you replied to.
@@RobFRC You’re right❣️
True. My job wasn't much, but it was honest day to day work in grocery. It got worse when more was expected with no pay increase since Covid. The straw that broke the camel's back was when newcomers got promoted to jobs I would've taken in an instant just so that the "status quo" stayed the same. So much for 10 years of loyalty...
I'm living off of my savings at the moment, still on the hunt for a new job that'll make use of my learned skills. I'm sure someone will hire a cashier/stocker/bookkeeper hybrid like myself 😅.
Best of luck to you man, I worked in automation and aerospace, took time off for myself to realize I basically can't come back. Hope it works out for ya homie, maybe we'll find something soon.
How did you get those savings from probably from your mom or from other family members?
@@dorino9057 I usually save about 30% of my weekly earnings for emergencies. I also never spent what I received through tax refunds and from unused vacation and sick pay from my job.
@@dorino9057 I usually save about 30% of my savings every week. I also never spent my tax refunds, vacation, and sick pay from work. It gets easier when it becomes a habit over time.
@@HellCat_Kenny Thanks, we'll get there one of these days!
Most honest work just isn’t respected.
most workers aren't respected either 😅
It's so backwards. The jobs that keep society running, the truly hard jobs are the ones that are looked down upon. A world without garbage men to move the trash, farmers to feed us all, or construction workers that build the very cities we live in is a world which couldn't work. Yet, it seems we're headed that way somehow.
It's sad that the general advice to get work is to basically lie. We deserve better than this
@@angelcrush3320 I have zero respect for your comment. Didn't even read it. You STINK of worker class and doing work. Ew.
Don’t put your self worth in the hands of someone else.
I can tell you why I've given up. Because I've been applying for jobs non-stop since I graduated college in 2021 and haven't been able to get ANYTHING. I have work experience in comp sci (also got my bachelors degree in 3 years, not 4), fast food and retail but wasn't able to land a job in any of those fields over the past 3 years. After wasting my time on nearly 2,500 job applications that didn't result in employment, clearly the job market is broken and I'm not participating in it until it's fixed.
It's people lying on their resumes that is also a problem. You should also embelish your resume but make sure you can back up what you claim. Also make a LLC and try a business related to your field of study ,showing you are 'employed' there and put your experience there.Job market is messed up and employers usually lie about the role and want to screw you over pay.
It's not you, my company posted a microbiology lab technician position and got 1,000 applicants. The job market just really has sucked the past several years.
Sorry to hear that. Hope you see a way through.
You have not been able to get a job in fast food (or retail)? That seems hard to believe. 😮
it's extremely hard to get even those jobs if you live in the middle of or the outskirts of a major city. Job hunting is hell@@dvdv8197
Having free time is biggest luxury of life. Most people realize it late.
Having worked at McDonald's before and now in the admittedly tenuous position of Software engineer, I know for a fact I'd coast as long as possible on video games and social security if the other option was McDonald's. I'm not that strong a person, and I definitely see no value in its own right in hard work.
Mcdonalds has always seemed like a horrible place to work, the constant beeping would drive me crazy.
Being a pizza delivery driver was actually pretty fun ngl.
@@NihongoWakannai Its not the beeping that drives you crazy its the overbearing managers and hostile customers
I can tell you exctly why. Often they finally land what seems to be a golden opportunity, and after 6 months to a few years of psychotic burnout style work they realize despite putting their wellbeing on the back burner...they STILL won't be able to comfortably afford their lives...so they throw in the towel. Men are pragmatic. If the option is sacrifice your entire life for wages that won't make a difference or give up and enjoy your limited time here on earth however possible...many will choose the latter, especially if they have no partner/children. And yes most of them are living with boomer/gen X family who were able to buy into society when the rungs were within reach AS THEY SHOULD BE.
This script was horrible. You didn't touch on a single legitimate reason for this trend, and basically went, "lazy men who want to stay home and play games" as if any man in their right mind legitimately wants that fate ignoring that it's the cheapest and least destructive way to just numb oneself to a painful reality.
I enjoyed the video and the information, although I do see the script as highly reductive. The truth of the matter is a greedy wealthy few are hoarding. We are seeing the return of the Great Depression, and this time it is global. The issue is a repeating offender, and the economic gambles they take to keep it all to themselves. The assumption that in general the men are lazy and that is why this cohort is not working is reductive and does not ring valid when reasoned.
Fucking this. Why kill myself at a job I hate to make money I can't even spend at the expense of doing the things I like with the people I love.
Fuck you, no.
@@riffcrypt8438yeah keep that stupid mindset up, you’ll only increase young men like myself not working to take care of you bastards
In short
Laziness?
I’m one of the rare men that is a stay at home spouse. We are about to have our second kid so the amount we save from childcare is more than what I would make. Crazy times
Same here. We chose to not have kids but we got ourselves an old house I'm fixing up.
@@zachweyrauch2988 We got lucky and I had my grandma leave me her home but she took out some medical debt against it so it wasn’t completely free but cheaper then most homes
Where does one find such a wife? Asking for a friend.
You god damn unicorn, live the life for us bro 🫡
You do realise that you are the one responsible for what you make? So it’s crazy how low your potential is! But at least someone takes care of the children so I give you that
*I'm favoured only God knows how much I praise Him,* $230k every 4weeks! I now have a big mansion and can now afford anything and also support God’s work and the church.
Only God knows how much grateful i am. After so much struggles I now own a new house and my family is happy once again everything is finally falling into place!!
Wow that's huge, how do you make that much monthly?
I'm 37 and have been looking for ways to be successful, please how??
It's Ms. Susan Jane Christy doing, she's changed my life.
I started pretty low, though, $5000 thereabouts. The return came massive. Joey is in school doing well, telling me of new friends he's meeting in school. Thank you Susan Christy, you're a miracle.
Gaming "low cost entertainment" hmmm
Yeah uninformed old-schoolers talking about Gaming being cheap is hilarious. Shows they legit have no knowledge about it.
Especially with that HOTAS setup in the B-roll. that probably costed at least $600+
@@Radahntheconqueror gaming was even more expensive in the 80s and 90s
It's actually one of the cheaper entertainment options.
Of course you need a pc or a console and a few games, but going out to drink every weekend night is gonna add up.
The federal minimum wage is 7.25 an hour. Assuming there are 40 consistent hours (rare in minimum wage work), that is less than $300 a week. This comes to $1,218 a month, gross. About $1000 net. The average rent in Arkansas, one of the cheapest states to live in, is $1055.
Also, side note, anyone who thinks it's "easy" to get on American disability, has never tried to do it.
Or got lucky when they did try
@@Haystacks imagine paying over 1k per month to live in Arkansas
Strawman. Virtually no one works for Fed. min. wage. Statistically almost no one.
And then mostly in their youth before age 24.
Min. wage is $18 where I live and it's still tough.
So govt. mandated min. wages don't work period.
Politicians only green light hyper expensive condos for construction here then pat themselves on the back that 10% are set aside for affordable housing. Flip that script 180 degrees and we'd stand a chance. Bring back S.R.O.s for low skilled workers so they can actually save and those who are barely above homelessness can have somewhere to go other than the street.
Higher wages just mean higher rent.
You need the right disability. Broken body from working to hard for too long? Denied. Too fat to get out of your house? 3 month wait. Multiple Sclerosis? Good luck. Hooked on drugs/booze? 6 month wait. This is the reality of my parents and their fight against the system.
Don't forget, even if you make more than minimum wage you're still screwed. The median usual weekly real earnings for full time workers is $368. So the majority of people are earning at most $1472 a month, gross.
It was time to break out the pitchforks decades ago.
It's hard to even get into the fucking trades. Like i feel like I'm trying to become the CEO to get into a union apprenticeship
for no reason too
I just posted a comment about this. The bar is set too high and most people cannot reach it but unions are entirely oblivious to that or don't care.
old heads gatekeep so that their salaries can stay high
yup, I realized after 2 pre apprentice courses that tradesman have little reason to hire apprentices, you're a burden while you learn and competition once you're qualified, only the truly selfless train and they're a dying breed
Gatekeeping... it's an intrinsic part of what unions do.
There is also a corporate problem, last week I was offered a job during my second interview and told to look for an email with my training schedule. Yesterday I got an email from the company saying they were not hiring me because I lack the necessary skills, I have 15 years in the same industry.
people keep looking for reasons why people don't want to work, when corporations continue to run the way they always have... until they change, nothing will
based but its easy to forget corporations havent always run this way - they've always been greedy but we used to have systems that hold them accountable. the most recent antitrust-mandated breakup of a company on a large scale was the breakup of AT&T in 1982, union activity peaked decades before that and gave us the 40 hour work week and plenty of other modern work 'luxuries'
"Lazy" is a boomer idea in my opinion. Not in a bad sense mind you, they grew up in a time when not working was seen as the ultimate low blow being in a war or just after it. However life is inherently lazy, it's encoded into every living being to gain as much as possible with as little work as possible. You can't get around that. So calling somebody lazy trying to insult them or get them to work isn't going to do anything because honestly that's what 90% of people would want. Being an "entrepreneur" who spends their day doing nothing because they made good investments in the past is no different to low income "lazy" people, it's just that they got a good start and could live a lazy life in excess. Both do the same the only difference is their start, yet one is called lazy while the other is successful, it doesn't make sense.
Right, the danger isn't really that everyone wants as much as they can get for as little effort as possible - it is only dangerous/wrong when people start extorting and leeching and robbing others. Checking out of the workforce is not bad unless you feel entitled to be provided for by someone else for free.
"it's encoded into every living being to gain as much as possible with as little work as possible"
You nailed it, and it is called energy preservation and every living being is evolved like to use as little as possible to gain as much as possible ( this is applicable for every cells in human body to the basic viruses etc ... )
When the environment is unfavorable, the correct strategy is to conserve energy. So you can travel through time looking for a better moment to act. We simply live in an evil, immoral world that needs to pass first, then the rebuilding begins.@@Gabor-y3h
@@Alex-qf2lb I dunno brother, when someone has done everything society told them to do to be a productive, contributing member and they still can't achieve financial stability - particularly when that is a widespread trend and not just one guy - it's society that needs to improve itself not the individual, and society that needs to pick up that bill.
We let the billionaires extort and leech and rob society for decades, sitting on their ass doing nothing but collecting checks, lets start with the angry mob there and not the impoverished guy, y'know?
Exactly. The inherited wealth and "trickle down" crime syndicate and grifting class who do nothing do absolutely no actual real work real labor are never called "lazy." So that tells you right there it's the plantation owners controlling the "conversation." The people who work their fingers to the bone who actually do the actual work are paid the very least to amount to virtually nothing.
The problem is not that someone has to clean the toilet. It's that we don't value the toilet cleaner.
If by "we" you mean the women, and by "the toilet cleaner", you mean men doing all the dirty work.
@@hyperteleXii No, I meant society doesn't value low-skilled workers enough. Men or women.
What do men care about how much other men value them? We're not gay.@@midnightflare9879
Bingo! The people who sets & pays the wages tells you exactly how they feel.
There's no such thing as a worker shortage. The shortage is in the pay. You want somebody to stand and do hard work all day but you wanna pay the minimum wage. The free market speaks. If you have a shortage of workers then you need to raise your wages. Just because that was a historically minimum wage job doesn't mean it will be that way forever.
If the salary would be SIGNIFICANTLY more than what you can get by not working, watch employment skyrocket again.
But nope, corporations have become soooo greedy that, despite making MASSIVE profits, they REFUSE to pay the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of their workforce a liveable wage.
It's disgusting.
Here in the UK approximately 40% of people claiming universal credit (an unemployment benefit basically) are actually in work. Wages are shit
Corporations? No, your problem is with the government. You clearly don't understand basic economics. Public policy where millions of economic migrants and illegal aliens are allowed to come in results in housing costs spiking while wages are massively undercut, effectively creating a slave class to solve the massive inflation problem caused by public policy where money printer go brrr to fund overseas wars, stimulus checks, increased welfare, and Democrat state governors forcibly looking down the entire economy way longer than necessary to virtue signal.
You voted for it. Don't blame it on corporations.
Corporations? No, yoůř problem is with the government. Yōu clearly don't understand basic economics. Public policy where millions of economic migrants and illegal alïens are allowed to come in results in housing costs spiking while wages are massively undercut, effectively creating a slavę class to solve the massive inflation problem caused by public policy where money printer go brrr to fund overseas wąrs, stimulus checks, increased welfare, and Dêmocraț state governors forcibly looking down the entire economy way longer than necessary to virtue signal.
Yøu voted for it. Don't blame it on corporations. Edited for RUclips censorship.
tripple wages to make up for what was going on since the 1970s then we can talk. currently i do some casual freelancing software dev (i do have a degree...), but really even if working full-time, there is no prospect of actually building up a decent life atm...taxes are moronic in that bracket, wages are a joke, all while the big expenditures in life become harder and harder...the goal post is accelerating faster than i could ever run.
@@JodyBruchonright on the money
The bigger question, what has the employer done to motivate men to stay in the work force? I worked from 15 to 47 (now 51) and I never saw anything get better. The employer wants more skills & certifications, more time, and there's no promise of a pension for 30X years of dedication.
No health care, no promise of future employment, no 30 days paid annual leave, and in the US we work more days than any other nation. The only guarantee we get is that our job will eventually be moved overseas when we start to cut into their profit margins.
You forgot the most important thing: No wife and kids at the end of the tunnel.
“Wife and kids” are highly likely to end up with divorce and child support.
So the problem is YET AGAIN low wages… Pay the people at the bottom more or we all suffer.
doesn't matter, it's only we who suffer
You'll see that forced labor will be more and more common.
@@bobSeigar yeah wages were kept stagnant because of that philosophy yet things got more and more expensive anyway
sounds like it's YOUR head that's been stuck in your ass, not his
@@sigmamaleaffirmationhypnob7340 Okay Beta Knob.
You really don't understand the basics of economics and that's why you are poor.
I would get stable prices instead of playing the wage game. This would fix so many problems
A man’s time & energy are his most valuable assets. We don’t want to spend these assets to receive less back. Simple as that. I’m unemployed, sold my car for some savings, and am working on my diet & health instead of wasting my time & energy for little reward.
Well, why bother busting my ass if I can never get ahead. I lost almost everything in the last housing collapse and finally got a new house to only be on the verge of another housing collapse combined with a recession/depression.
The complete lack of self-awareness in this video is just staggering.
No mention of ghost job listings or how hiring in many places is done by an AI program and how that has caused people to give up looking for work
State and Federal governments create ghost jobs for political reasons to make the economy look like its doing better than it actually is.
Also no mention of people who are doing Uber, DoorDash and Instacart as a full time job are they counted as unemployed?
@@elizabethdavis1696if it's Britain any job over I think 4 hours a week is counted as employed
@@elizabethdavis1696 we are counted as undead
@@elizabethdavis1696Those usually need to register and pay taxes, so they do count as working. The ones who don't are those working in the underground economy
3 observations I’ve noticed:
1.) The fact that entry level positions need a degree and so much experience for what would be considered slightly above minimum wage is insane.
2.) Companies don’t have as many internships or invest as much in the training of employees and would rather just hire someone with experience already.
3.) Education and training are expensive. No one wants to go into 50k to 100k in debt for a job that pays a little better. If education were free or heavily subsidized without having to get a dozen scholarships that would be the best. You then have fewer excuses.
Did I beat the thirst bots?😮
You beat the thirst bots... you did not beat the sock bot.
Yes, but did you time the market this week?
I know about the conservative political bots, but what is a thirst bot? 😅
@@duancoviero9759 look at the top 50 comments of any recent Asmongold video, and you'll see them for yourself. They're groups of bots with photos of suggestive females (or parts of females) who comment on a video with comments which fit in with the majority of the other top comments, but they exist to tempt humans to click on their RUclips profile pages to see their advertisement for their OF pages (money).
@@duancoviero9759 the bots claiming to link to NSFW stuff via YT links or OF links, or the equivalent shady shit you occasionally find in your spam folder. In reality it's all viruses and scams.
There’s no such thing as a labor shortage, only wages that are too low.
Costco doesn’t have a labor shortage.
Maybe disability programs are now just America’s version of a guaranteed minimum income.
Costco takes care of their employees though. A buddy works there and he’s moved up pretty regularly with better pay with each internal role.
@@lloydrichardson9248 That's his point.
@@thedownwardmachine My buddy works at Costco. He’s complained to me about his store refusing to hire more people, and how everyone is essentially doing the work of 3+ people. Apparently Costco has been more focused on expansion in our region, as they have been in the process of opening up 2 or 3 more stores. My buddy has also tried to sell me on Costco being a good place to work with good benefits. The constant switching between complaining and promoting makes it sound like he’s stuck in a toxic relationship. 😆
But seriously, he’s one of the hardest working people I know and he’s been fighting burn out for far too long now. He’s become more bitter working there, and has been coping with increased use of weed and alcohol. It’s very concerning to watch happen to a good friend 😞
@@Corwin19 that sucks to hear. It takes a lifetime to build a reputation and only a moment to destroy it, I hope Costco doesn’t make that mistake. Thank you for sharing, and I hope for the best for your friend.
Also companies not hiring or pretending to try to hire so they can bring in forgien workers for cheap.
There's a crisis of meaning on-going, & perhaps they feel it's not worth it at all.
I dont blame them.
There is no meaning if you can't afford to live.
I can feel it, I work a pretty meaningless job now and it definitely drains me more than the job I had more meaningful input even though I'd work longer hours at that job when needed.
But remember, men are the ones with "privilege" they say
@@TomyPesantes you're ahead of the curve, all the ppl with a good job/career are in for it when agi drop
@@theforsakeen177 Lol I guess so sadly, and I hate that I feel like I'm being negative for negativity sake, but it's not like that unlike what my family members think. I definitely try to keep positivity in certain situations but understand that I can't make things better with just the education level I have currently and the money I currently have, I have to be realistic and not dream too hard and accidentally hurt myself again like I did in college.
I have a friend who just gave up a few years ago. He's 46 years old and moved into his mom's house. She covers everything and he just plays xbox all day. Meanwhile i work 2 jobs at almost 80 hours/wk.
America is reverting to multi-generational living.
Someone PLEASE answer me! How are these people getting on disability?! I'm 28, was on dialysis, and got a kidney transplant at age 18 and it took me frekin 6months to be accepted and receive disability. That was with filing all the paperwork, naming my doctors, medications, hospitals, an investigation etc. Then 3 years post transplant they took it away because "You're cured!" despite needing expensive life saving meds. Now I'm 28, live at home, and work on vending machines for 16/hr and cant afford healthcare (i'm uninsured), cant get Medicare, and my hospital bills go right to collections which have damaged my credit so bad I'll NEVER own a home. Why can't I get disability if these people can??
Exactly what i was thinking lol. It's crazy hard to get.
they aren't, these scumbags are lying through their teeth so they don't have to admit the system has failed and their greed is killing a generation. anyone who says "welfare queen" or "disability parasite" has never even tried to get it or tried living with it.
a man can quite easily ignore reality if his paycheck depends on it and these ghouls all depend on pretending things are hunky dory and it's just those damn lazy youngsters ruining everything
What motivates people to work? Money, which allows people to live a life by buying a place and eventually have a family. If jobs don’t pay enough, then people will be less motivated to work
For men, marriage is a losing proposition. It takes a man 10 to 15 years to recoup after a divorce.
The answer is bring in millions from India and SE Asia.
I was unemployed for 9 months because despite this supposed "labor shortage," what it really is, from what I have seen, is what organizations see as a viable candidate shortage.
During those 9 months I had 7 interviews that went well, callbacks and the whole thing, but always got told they went with someone who had more experience. I'm no schlub; I have a decade of leadership and account management experience, but it basically came down to "We don't want to train someone new, we want a body we can slot in."
It was only through sheer luck that I was able to get a full-time job worth anything, and once I did that I immediately got a part-time job and started working on developing a business because I never want to be in that position again.
I just finished the video and like that you touched on the struggle I went through.
Glad you found something. I am still looking for my next role, same trying to start my own business too.
@@eXclusive1 I genuinely wish you the best of luck.
@@LordMogatronif they think the candidates are unviable now, wait until their hiring pool consists of Zoomers who missed highschool during the pandemic and never learned to write or talk because of chatGPT.
Answer: People dont want to work only to survive...
1:05 I NEED to see that dude fist that stack of chips in his mouth
Its Simple - My desire to not work FAR Outweighs my desire for luxuries.
Yup! My wife finds it hard to believe at how little I want. She keeps saying working is for me…I tell her I could live on 500 a month, its not for me that Im doing it.
Just curious, what's your living situation? Do you have your own place?
@@Meat-Puppet I have an RV and a little plot of land away from town. I have solar and starlink,I can live on next to nothing.
Took me 12 minutes to fully realize this whole video is just an ad for a book
And for people to lick the boots of capitalism
The right choice of an investment has always been a big problem for me I know picking a wrong investment will leave a big scar in the future
It’s really heartbreaking to see how inflation and recession impact low-income families. The cost of living keeps rising, and many struggle just to meet basic needs, let alone save or invest. It’s a reminder of the importance of finding ways to create financial opportunities. You've helped me a lot sir Brian! Imagine i invested $50,000 and received $190,500 after 14 days
Absolutely! Profits are possible, especially now, but complex transactions should be handled by experienced market professionals.
Some persons think inves'tin is all about buying stocks; I think going into the stock market without a good experience is a big risk, that's why I'm lucky to have seen someone like mr Brian C Nelson.
Finding yourself a good broker is as same as finding a good wife, which you go less stress, you get just enough with so much little effort at things
Brian demonstrates an excellent understanding of market trends, making well informed decisions that leads to consistent profit
This video is about me as a young man who doesn't work anymore.
I simply just don't care and hardly cared to begin with. How do I survive? I live with my parents and have a good sum of savings I was planning to use either to become a shareholder of the mill I worked at or to get a home. However, both options would of financially locked me in more debt than I would likely ever be in again. It's the norm but I don't want to be a slave to my debt working a job I despise to make people I don't really like, rich, in a country that doesn't even care about you. I don't go anywhere, do anything, or really socialize. My physical and mental health was quite severe leading up to the point I couldn't take it anymore and quit my job. So right now I'm just trying to get help in those regards.
Nobody can blame you for choosing the good option when it was 'take time to live life and try to enjoy it' or 'suffer perpetually indebted servitude'. I hope you find a way through mate, rooting for you
BEHOLD, the modern man
Once you realise its a slave system masquerading as a democracy everything falls into place.
I don't want to wake up at 6 get ready for work, use an hour to get to work, work 8 hours and then travel back home for an hour to have a bite to eat, go to sleep so I can get up at 6 am to repeat this nonsense all over again. I've dropped my living standards to almost bare minimum, I've gotten used to it and I can do whatever the hell I want, as long as it doesn't require a lot of money. I am fine with that. You can go to work, your choice.
People don't realize it's not 9-5 it's 7-6 lol. Traveling and traffic cost time tooo, I would say it's solid 10 hours slavery
No marriage
No protecting and providing women
No military service
No saving society
Go your own way.. Be a free man... Live for yourself brother...
👎👎 Out-of-touch capitalist bemoaning loss of cheap labor and repeating every trope of the gaslighting corporate class. Do better, elitist, or I'm unsubbing
Im making more money than i ever have... an amount of money i thought would make me "wealthy" or at least very well off when i was graduating highschool. Basically, i acheieved my goal through what i thought was hard work.
Now it barely covers cost of living and a few fun things... and its either a few fun things or a little bit of savings... not both.
What am i supposed to do? Work twice as hard and hope to get twice the pay? That doesn't happen. We all know that. My boss already thinks he pays everyone too much. Other businesses pay worse. Compared to my peers im "doing well"
Im not getting ahead. Wtf am i supposed to do?
old toyota corolla
What job do you have?
@@GreenEnvy. Engineering program management (customer facing) in the avionics industry
@@calebplumleeoutdoorsbro has a big boy job (not knocking on you lol if anything agreeing with your point)
@@Archchill lol. If it makes you happy... I still fkn hate it. Absolutely hate being a pawn for bosses to use to get rich while worrying about if I'll ever retire 😪
This guy seems a bit too cluelessly privileged to really get what's going on. He doesn't talk about the ridiculous gatekeeping employers have, including ghost job postings & having umpteen requirements for job that doesn't pay enough. It's almost impossible to get on disability benefits so I doubt there's much of an increase. More ppl applying for all kinds of benefits though.
@@minngael whats the deal with ghost postings? Data collection? Manipulating the narrative to inflate the percieved amount of available jobs? Targetted demoralization?
@@TRG29338The guy who made this video has one on that topic too. I don't remember the details, but a part of it is that there is prestige in looking like you are growing as a company and need new staff.
@@TRG29338 Data collection is a big one (it's traded widely back and forth), and also companies can announce positions that don't exist as a PR move and maybe testing waters on how to attract investors by making the company look more dynamic.
@@TRG29338 Mostly the first two. You can also include selling the data for side money.
@@TRG29338its to put up the facade that their business has upwards mobility to investors, and or to tell the govt "ugh we just can't find anyone" so they can pay a H1B visa worker for half the pay while the govt subisidizes the rest of said workers salary.
He also pointed out one of the biggest reason in the video. Which is a predictable job, with the rise of contracting and no need for a veteran workforce it made getting those jobs just a risk. You will end up putting a lot of time and energy into a job that could drop you 6 months in. Putting that on your resume on why every 6 months you get dropped is still a hard pill to swallow for most companies. A lot of men can easily make money from day trading or even scalping. Not glamorous but if you can make 100k a year without leaving the house than that's better than making 80k with people you don't even want to talk to.
Also the sheer lack of respect men get for their efforts if rampant in even my job.
50 year old childless cat-ladies work in HR.
the funniest part is that companies who regularly drop workers after a couple months refuse to hire people who worked at other companies who regularly drop workers after a couple months 🤣
These bots are getting sophisticated
@@bubbleboy821 yeah, lol, day trading for a living. It's like playing the casino for a living.
@@charlieng3347 The biggest joke is people do play the casino for a living. LOL. I'm just getting to that people are finding alt means to get cash without a 9 to 5.
People don’t want to train younger people. They don’t want to pay as well
Those are rookie numbers, we gotta bump those numbers up.
Just not worth it. When you clock in for work, corporations are doing everything they can to pay you as little as possible and extract as much work as possible. When you clock out, corporations are doing everything they can to charge you as much money as possible while giving you as little as possible.
This is the result of unchecked capitalism. There are no incentives for CEOs or shareholders to consider the "good of society" when making decisions. They are purely committed to profit for shareholders, conceptually every corporation would have slaves if they were allowed to because that would be optimal for the bottom line. The only thing stopping them is regulation.
Back in Americas "prime" when it became the superpower that it currently is is, there were lots of unions and regulations on corporations. An average man could have a job that supported a wife, some kids own a home, a car and maybe even a vacation or two. Now you'll be lucky if you have enough money to buy a PS5 to entertain yourself in your 600 sqft apartment.
Capitalism has brought a lot of prosperity but when it goes unchecked by the government this is the result. I feel like capitalism is akin to a nuclear reactor. Crazy potential, but if the government down lower the rods in to control the reaction then it'll lead to a meltdown. The people just get squeezed harder and harder until they give up.
The underground market is one of the best places to go: cottage industries, cash businesses, things like that. If you play in the above-ground-market you're going to have a hell of a time getting ahead. If you start to really win the game it's likely a megacorp will either buy you out or sic the regulators on you.
@@Kontingency_Krusader Yeah because those things actually allow you to scale your income with your effort! The more you sell the more you make.
I could willingly work 80 hours a week at my corporate job and do so much for them, and at the end of the year they'll pat me on the back, give me a 1.75% raise that doesn't even match inflation, and maybe buy us a pizza at the Christmas party.
Yesterday I saw a short where food companies were exploiting prison labor for less than $2 per hour.
The prisoners are effectively not being paid, and are punished if they don't work, so they're effectively slave labor for the prison and food companies.
Is it unchecked capitalism or is it uneducated consumerism? Enough people fed the monsters that exist by buying their stuff at the prices they offered because they don't know how to live otherwise.
@@goodfortunetoyou I mean, they're prisoners, they're lucky they're even paid. Work is good for us, it's just that we're usually exploited and mistreated when doing it that we think it isn't good. But it becomes obvious when you either volunteer or even help a family member out with something.
Oh screw this. Ive spent the last 3 months begging for employment. Forced into homelessness because these people that complain about people needing to work are not quick enough to hire once I got down low enough no return is possible.
You are more of the problem than you know. If we dont understand that all human behavior is maintained by our imagination. Yes. Our imagination. It is used to maintain an identity, a role in a society and the monetary system. Like a school yard game that all the kids are playing except they dont acknowledge that money is backed by participation and nothing else.
So keep making videos and when people give up dont question why they are giving up but question why we have phrases like "money doesn't grow on trees" yeah but fruit does and lots of things that some dumbo will take from me and give me paper and break my back, keep me weak, tell me im doing a good job then throw me away when the bottom line is threatened.
I want to live for a living but some jackel is insisting i need something other than food water shelter and community.
People dont want to work just to survive...
I recently read about some guy who applied to a large number of positions with the same resume, one he used a woman's information, and one a man. His reply rate with the woman's ID info on the header was some absurd % higher. It's over for men and they're dropping out of a system that is geared to hate them.
yeah it is kinda funny how that works. Every job I ever had, women got paid the same or more than I got for half the workload, yet all I ever hear and see is soc media or people in real life telling me that women are underpaid and do more of everything bla bla bla.
Hell, a job I had a couple years ago at this electronics factory was the best example: I assembled a large component every 30 minutes, put a sticker on it with a barcode and measured resistances at two points then dropped it on a pallet, when the pallet was full I had a person take it away and started a new one. Couple months in I had this newly hired girl who's entire job was to sit at the end of my workbench and every half an hour she would place a sticker and do the measurement, then I had to pick up the thing and put it on a pallet and continue as usual. Her job was literally to do ~15 seconds of work every half an hour for 10 hours. Couple weeks after she started, I found out that she's making 2 euros more per hour than I did lmao. That's when I decided to quit... If not for this bullshit, I prob would still be working there since I did enjoy my job despite the low wage
There are also AI filters everywhere. If your application doesn't slide through them conveniently, you may get ditched on the spot even if you fulfill and even surpass all real criteria.
@@sigmamaleaffirmationhypnob7340i worked as an automation engineer out of school and was routinely pit down and scolded for even the slightest mistakes, i got a different job being the maint. tech on automated process lines. There was a female engineer there who would mess stuff up for us CONSTANTLY and I mean, cost us so much time and money, she very rarily if ever got more than a slap on the wrist. I kept getting so angry because I essentially had the same job, and knew that I'd get fired for more maybe half of everything she messed up. Not trying to be sexist but thats a real experience i've witnessed first hand.
@@jmizzonini if I remember correctly, the resume with a woman’s name received 800% more replies than the same resume with a man’s name on it. Just…clown world
@@noway8662I wonder if there is people out in the dark web that can crack exactly what AI application filters companies have in place so it’s easy to bypass the bot?
I am 27 and an unemployed man. My wife makes enough money that we value the time we spend together more than the tax burden of whatever meager income I can bring in. I'm disabled, so I can only work part time anyway. Rather than spend my 20/ish hours of working at a job I spend it cleaning our house and taking care of our dogs. We got rid of my car and with my wife being able to come home to food made, and the house clean, we spend more time with eachother than we did before. My hobbies are wood carving, video games, and painting.
Good for you.
Honestly this is a good take. To hell with traditional Bibble-infected gender roles.
I'm currently working slave labor hours in graduate school for my PhD, like 60-80 any given week. All powered by the HOPE that I can land a well-paying job to help support a family on.
@@Organic_Chemistry_Junkie Like what sort of job? Pharma? Agriculture? Petro.?
@@Organic_Chemistry_Junkie PhD is just not worth it. Too much effort that nobody asked you to do in the first place.
I work, and my wife stays at home with our 3 year old. We refuse to pay for daycare.
I spend my day recovering from a full blown burnout, working on my depression (on and off for 8yrs now) and learning how to handle my late diagnosis of autism and ADD. Work, ESPECIALLY for min wage (even though I'm in the Netherlands), is the very last thing on my mind right now, for better or worse.