Gen Z, Millennials Have Hard Time 'Adulting' | The View
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Whoopi is SO tone deaf on this subject. Her generation could buy a home and raise a family on one income. I’m over here trying to rub 2 pennies together to make rent every month because it keeps skyrocketing. It’s not the same.
This and very other subject.
@@LR-mh8hs LOL so true. I cringe every time she gets ready to speak, because I Know she's about to be on some dumb sh!t.
Ofcourse is not .... simply one politician farts in white house ... and the entire global economy get pooped under inflation so imagine outside your continent how much the rest of the world who have same body figure (human like) as you , yet not americans are suffering ...because inter currency has been introduced and imposed up on them as dollars 😢😢😢😢
Exactly. I’m a registered nurse in CA and I can’t even buy a house. Apartment alone sucks up my whole paycheck.
How will I ever save money 🤷
Back then a house cost like 40-50k. Now a house costs like 400-500k but we certainly don't make 10 times more than they did back then.
They need to revisit this topic with real economic data so they can have an informed conversation. They're talking as if college tuition and egg freezing are affordable to the average young person.
They need to revisit this topic with real people and a calculator lol
@@beccaquin6021yes bring in a millennial who is drowning in student loan debt and paying almost 50% of their income to rent. Not Alyssa who has a cushy daytime tv spot. She doesn’t represent millennials and I’m tired of her acting like she does.
Even the mentioning of freezing your eggs shows that even the youngest cast member is out of touch. I don’t know anyone my age that can afford that. My family members who are no longer within childbearing age could afford it but not Millenials and Gen Z.
@@brandong298 True. The vast majority of Americans do not have five figures of disposable income lying around, regardless of age.
amen
Whoopi’s tone is a prime example of why things are so tough for younger generations.
Exactly.
THIS.
wah wah keep whining
@@stephanielight4161 you're the only one with a whiny tone here
@@stephanielight4161 all good. Your time will come when social security dries up and y’all ask us to bail you out 😂
The problem is, Whoopi, even working multiple jobs, people still can't afford to buy a house in some areas.
Back in her day 1 income was enough to raise a family and retire on.
Apparently we still can in her eyes.
And forget it if you need to care for a disabled adult or adult child. No memory coverage for seniors.
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@KD-ew9ds lies. One income was never enough in my house. My parents never owned property or even a a used luxury car. I wore goodwill cloth. Me a woman have bought 5 houses. So I'm with whoopi
@@enidmercedadIf your parents weren't good enough, that's on them.
Whoopi don't do this. You have $40 million dollars. Homes are unaffordable, and people are priced out of their area.
She worked for her money tho she didn’t inherit it so her words have some value
You think that was just handed to her? She had to WORK for it.
@@hornydolphin7953 Yeah, but she’s one of the very small percentage of actors that made it big in Hollywood. There are hundred of thousands of people that try to become actors and don’t get the luck that she had. Yes she works hard, but she also is lucky that she made it and makes millions of dollars a year she has no idea what the working class have to go through.
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Whoopi’s comment on this topic was so offensive to the working class people. When someone (like her) makes multi million $ annual salary. she’s out of touch with reality. She dismisses it that all GenZ & millennials just one at work 4 hours a week.
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The average price of a home today is is $425,000. Several years ago, the average price of a home in America was around $215,000. And 20+ years ago the average price of a home was $140,000. People’s salaries have not gone up with inflation. I wonder how would be her grandchildren would be doing on buying a home, if they weren’t getting her $ millions money.
@@mrbear1302And? 😂I went from homeless to being better off
@@hornydolphin7953 she acted. Thats not work. Lmfao. She also is on the View for only 4 hours a week making millions 😂😂😂
I work 48hrs a week in medical imaging. I make great money. I wouldn't be able to afford the average home in this housing market. Could I work more? No, because I have an autistic child that has therapy 8hrs a week after school. I love Whoopi but she's out of touch for sure.
Also, why should you be working more than 48 hours a week to get a house? No bro. That should be more than enough!!
you should be able to work
40 hours a week and afford all the necessities and a lot of your wants. What good is life if you work every second of the day and don’t get to enjoy it? You have children you can’t raise because you are constantly working.
Thank you! First off, hats off to you! Secondly, don’t you agree that most people 30 and up now that buy houses and so on get into relationships and or go into it with someone else? There is not more, like you say, I work 48hrs a week and I can afford a 3 bedroom house… things have shifted tremendously for the average millennial. I hate that this conversation turned into “freeze your eggs” vs let’s do the math, millennials, and newer generations now have to pay, phone, cable, monthly subscriptions, gyms, car note, care insurance, student loans, credit cards and any miscellaneous thing that may bring you happiness like traveling or something, we are up against a wall with bills that certainly the generation before us and the previous one to that, did not have at all.
What is your wage? Why did you have a child before buying a home?
@@mrbear1302 By the grace of God I have a home. But if I did not I am saying I would not be able to afford it. I will share my wage with you when you pay my bills, thank you.
As a millennial, working hard and still earning pennies, I'm offended by Whoopi's dismissal.
Likewise
Facts! I work 40 plus hours and I have a daughter in a 2 income household. It's fkkn hard man
Well keep in mind back in Whoopi's day you could drop out of high school get a job in a factory requiring an IQ of 70, and make enough to buy a house fully paid off in 2-3 years.
Yeah, nice try with the eugenics.@@JohnFreedman0
@@ceterisparibus8966 I don't think you know what eugenics means. Unless you think Whoopi is the peak of evolution and humanity has been on a decline since.
You could have also acknowledged that back in that time factory work was upper middle class where as now well look at the mass strikes over low wages, and the plethora of bailouts and free cash handouts to keep plants running.
This segment is how you know being in the 1% disconnects you from the working class. Those Gen Y numbers aren't hypothetical, Whoopi.
Thank you!
Whoppi and people who think like her are ruining the Democratic party not young people that refuse to accept less or be silent. We want to be paid a living wage. This pissed me off so much.
If Whoopi didn’t make it in Hollywood she’d be working at Dollar General. She’s out of touch and doesn’t realize how lucky she is.
Thank you.
Yes, thank you!
Whoopi is so ridiculously out of touch!! She irks me cutting Alyssa off when she makes valid points.
Yep!!!
Whoopi is soo ageist. My parents always tell me how jobs had better benefits in the 70s and 80s and everything was relatively more affordable then. It’s not the same and just when we are old things will not be the same for the younger generations. She really got under my skin on this one. When they discuss age on the show she gets so defensive about older folks, and now she’s dismissing real life problems of millennials.
It's not ageist in this instance, its the money.
People today do bust their butts too - they just get less distance with it.
@@Alarik52It's ageist because she's victim blaming young people specifically, even though everyone who isn't rich like her is struggling right now.
I love a rich boomer telling us working class millennials we aren't working hard enough. SMH. The view is really plummeting.
Whoopi, I’m a millennial who has earned her MBA and a doctorate degree (DBA) from a reputable, accredited, public state university while working full-time in higher education and maintaining a part-time job. I’ve yet to earn wages that afford me the opportunity to purchase my own home or raise a child to the standards I’d prefer. I, too, have “busted my behind.” So, respectfully, no.
Sounds like your education didn’t teach you how to make a good living. There are people in this country with 2 and 4 year degrees or apprenticeships that are making good money busting their behinds, but you’ve spent all those years in school for mediocre wages. It’s all about choices.
Go into sales That's where the money is
@@paja7647 I don’t deny that. In fact, I 100% agree. Yet, Whoopi’s statement was about millennials being lazy and not wanting to work for more than four hours a day.
I’ve selected my choices/ made my decisions based on the best of my knowledge. As a millennial who has never stopped trying to improve herself while consistently working hard (working full-time and part-time for all those years while also in school), I still disagree with Whoopi’s assessment.
I wish she would see your comment. Your personal story speaks powerfully to the conversation.
Thank you,@@jkstubbington! I wish so, too.
Whoopi is always very dismissive of the problems of younger generations
For anyone that agrees with Whoopi, might I present to you *the cost of post-secondary education*
She’s very dismissive of anything that she doesn’t like or her idea to talk about
My thoughts exactly!
Cause younger generations are Lil brats and too sensitive
Yeah I’ve noticed that too.
Yep. It’s really gross to listen to.
Ok Whoopi was gas 3-5 dollars a gallon when you were 25-30 um no. Did food cost an arm and a leg? No. Was a one bed apartment 2000 dollars a month? No
$2.70 here, it depends by state and city.
Her generation had a draft, no mental health treatment for veterans, no ADA accessibility for anyone, children didn't receive treatment for autism because it wasn't diagnosed, there were no limits to sexual harassment in the work place IF a woman could get hired for the job. There were many issues when Whoopi was 20-30 that millennials have never had to encounter because her generation worked to address them.
@@PierreHNicano it doesn’t.
Even if it was the same, just because things were bad for the previous generation, doesn't mean the next generation should also have to deal with that.
@@aggy5372Things are supposed to get better every generation so even if it were the same that’s not okay it’s especially not okay to get worse. I am a black gay man you I acknowledge some things are better but economically they aren’t.
Alyssa is right. Millennials will go down in modern history as the first generation that had it harder than their parents or grandparents, regardless of how many hours you work or time you put in. I'm working 7 days a week, and still struggling.
Facts
I get called lazy for working 32 hours a week... while going to school and studying to become a doctor- with straight As..... and then when I complain about being constantly broke I get the whole cry me a river- whoa is you. This is not a flex. I am so anxious. I am so unhappy while cashing my dream. I don't even qualify for a grant based on my income from TWO YEARS AGO when I was busting my butt. In what world does that make sense?
Cry Me a River
I know Whoopi didn't just pull the "pick yourself up by the bootstraps" line. She is so out of touch! My parents were able to buy and sell probably 10 or 11 houses during their marriage. All on one salary, and also being middle class. My WAY older siblings have all owned a couple houses as well, all middle class. My husband and I have finally bought our first, and most likely last, house and it took us 15 years to do it. We own our own business and make way more than both our parents ever made, but we still weren't able to buy a house until recently. It really is harder for my generation and younger, no matter how hard we work for it
I make more than what my mother made at my age but can’t afford a house and she bought a house at my age and just finished paying it off. I have to rent and don’t get to write it off on my income taxes like my mother did.
Exactly.
Exactly!! My lower middle class parents have a much nicer/bigger house than any of their kids, who are all making over $140k. And my mom never worked. It’s rough out here.
Rich boomers look at your story and say "well you clearly didn't work hard enough?"
I agree with Alyssa on this one. It is a fact that the cost of living has only gone up. No one is saying that the generations before millennials didn't, "bust their behinds" but you had the ability to work hard and afford the cost of living. That is just a lot harder now. Sure, technology has given us a lot of opportunities, but that doesn't mean the cost of living and interest rates have gone down.
Thank you for saying that.
Try living with interest rates of 18%! That has happened twice in my working life along with massive inflation. We got through it, the new generations will find a way too.
I'm 66 and I worked my butt off as a single mother of 3, but I agree with Alyssa too. My sons had it tougher in a lot of ways. College debts, higher cost of living, sky high rental and mortgage costs, more mental health issues due to social media, school shootings, climate change, a worse, underfunded education system... and a whole lot more. The PROBLEM is we should think of our future generations, 7 generations yet to come. We have left this world worse off for our children.
im a gen X and i agree with you. the avg price of a home to an avg salary is like 8x vs what it was in the 80s. that's just fact. i get Whoopi but if you bust your butt back then, you can afford a couple of houses. now if you do the same maybe a single apt coop in nyc.
Right! I had an older coworker tell me that she (and I quote) "did old jobs like baby sit" to afford her down payment. 😳
I hope i never get to the point when i just stop empathizing with younger people and begin to paint them all with the same out-of-touch, bitter brush. Whoopi gets so irritated and so rattled at the very appearance of a younger person critizing older people. But she does it to younger people all the time when these topics come up and its ok. I don't understand the double standard.
I love being around younger adults. They know so much about technology and are experiencing life .
I have been in relationship with a man 30 years my junior and it has been a fabulous learning experience.
It keeps you young.
So true and I am tired of it. Like, what is happening here?
Why is Whoopi being dismissive about the situation? It is much harder for millennials in this economy. Who’s working 4hrs a day? Most of us have a full-time & par-time and not even making six figures.
Wealth.
She needs more RUclips money and we are providing.
facts
Whoopi’s generation gave us the housing crisis the auto maker crisis the environmental crises from smog to ocean pollution to aquifer pollution. Much obliged ma’am.
Yeah the other day there was an ageism topic and she was all (and i might get the quote wrong) “our generation made decisions that you benefit from.” Sorry… what?
Thank you, the Baby Boomer generation.
So true!
I'll agree with the housing crisis. In terms of ocean pollution it hasn't changed and 95% still comes from Asia. Automakers are fine they just moved 85% of their production to Mexico and elsewhere.
Whoopi's attitude is exactly why Millennials and Gen Z need to vote that generation out of office. Listen, every generation gets shade thrown at them, but the dismissiveness and condescension from millionaires like Whoopi is unwarranted, nobody expects to work 4 hours a day.
Gen Z and millennials are working two jobs, going to college, working out in the gym to maintain their mental and physical health, yet they can't afford basic rent let alone buy a house. They are the most responsible family planners bc they don't want children they can't provide for. They didn't deserve that BS from Whoopi!
Whoopi is so out of touch and wildly ignorant about this topic. 1) The cost of homes & housing have gone up astronomically. (It's $1.3 million where I live, and it's just your basic family unit home - it was $70k in the late 70's.) 2) Cost of living have gone up across the board. (Gas, childcare, etc) 3) Wages have not kept up with inflation.
This is not about laziness, this is about catching a break when it comes to cost of living. I can't even afford mental health care services, dental services, etc. My medication costs are insane.
I hate when they fight ageism against Whoopi’s age group but they don’t say a word when she constantly disses millennials
I am currently working 50+ hours a week as a nurse to buy a house since I am priced out of the current market and it is not easy at all. But I am willing to do what needs to be done. I don't know why Whoopi is acting like most only want to work 4 hours a week. Almost everyone I know has had to look into additional streams of income on top of their full-time work to make ends meet. It's also a privilege to freeze your eggs so to suggest it can be done as easily as buying a gallon of orange juice at the store oversimplifies the matter.
It's the delusion of wealthy folks.....
She's a rich boomer. They're all delusional, soulless ghouls.
Alyssa: We're the first generation to be less off than our parents.
Whoopie: No, we were.
It's amazing watching this legendary icon's brain contort itself to be about her.
Actually "better off" is so vague. People of Alyssa's age didn't settle for days at grandma's or the local lake for their entertainment. They all seem to think that their parents went to Cancun, Italy, Maccu Piccu. When in reality, we just made due. We had parties in our basements or back yard. We didn't need to have the new car. Try driving a 75 Granada with duct tape to keep passenger door closed. Start your money making (i.e. job) in middle school. Paper route? Lawns in summer. Heck, I made $50 extra bucks a month just taking trash bins to the walk for our elderly neighbors. Alyssa, go and see what kind of house your parents got the first time out. It was probably 1,000 ranch. They gave younger kids hand me downs. We ate left overs. Stop whining.
@@CogensFamilyTV It's not vague, it's based on actual real data that people have researched. You're delusional. Alyssa's parents were immigrants and she knows exactly where they did or didn't go on vacation because she would have been able to go on the vacation with them lol. What's hilarious is that even if you account for all those hard jobs, the amount you earned still had more purchasing power relative to what they have to do.
Great actress, lousy moderator. And, yes, should have retired several years ago.
@@LR-mh8hsshe seems to throw comments around like a drunk grandparent at a family reunion... thinking her age is somehow knowledge
Wow whoopie. No one is out here saying they just want to work 4 hours and make millions. Although Jeff bezos makes way more than that, but I digress. We are saying we want living wages. If I make 12 bucks an hour, and my company doesn’t do raises, all I can do is work overtime. That comment shows how you don’t understand what we are going through as millennials.
Also I don’t want kids because of finances, and school shootings. Climate change, income inequality. Take a seat whoopie and listen to Alyssa.
Whoopi is very boomer in that she thinks young people are always just nagging about stuff and don't have unique circumstances that she can't relate to. Joy, however, usually sympathizes with the younger people's plights.
Exactly.
You hear joy talk after. She's with Whoopi sadly. She used the "our life was harder than thou" excuse.
Very boomer and very rich
I was wrong. Joy is usually on the same page as Whoopi with this one (see yesterday's clip). 😆
Oh goodie, the classic "They don't want to work" argument from Whoopi... cos that hasn't been debunked a thousand times over
Whoopi's failure to acknowledge the different circumstances millennials and gen Z face sounds eerily like the 'all lives matter' dismissal of BLM. Admitting housing and education were much more affordable back then does not in any way diminish her struggle or incredible accomplishments as a black female comedian/actress in the 80's and 90's.
Whoopi DID NOT admit housing and education were more affordable back then. She said they had to work harder because they didn’t have opportunities but Alyssa cut her off before she finished her thought.
What does “all lives matter” and BLM have to do with the topic??
And just think most of our politicians are even older and more out of touch than Whoopi.
I think that people have different struggles no matter what generation it is. In Whoopi’s and Joy’s generation women couldn’t get credit without their husband’s consent…unimaginable now.
And their parents had greater struggles - civil rights and out and out racism, where it was perfectly legal to say upfront that Irish, Italian etc need not apply for certain jobs - anyway, I just think that yes, fears that this generation have are valid, but the progress that has been made sometimes goes unacknowledged leading to frustration on the part of those who went before.
Which is a long winded way of saying there’s a generational gap between Whoopi & Joy and the rest of the panel.
@@Chillhardshe has to work harder cause she was in the arts, black and a woman. If she’d been smart, academically accomplished and so on she’d be on part with condoleeza rice and other accomplished black women. I think the point is, there is no working hard and you’ll become middle class, that doesn’t work and the middle class doesn’t exist as it is. There is the 1 percent and everyone else. There’s different level of poor, but we’re all essentially poor with iPhones that’s what she doesn’t get. I would love for her to answer what does her daughter do? There’s a ton of people that support their families but they can’t give them the kind of love that I’m sure Whoopi gives her family, that’s cause she’s rich.
Whoopi is tone def. Sit this one out, Whoop. You don't understand our struggle. At the end of the day, the cost of living is ASTRONOMICAL compared to the salaries.
In terms of purchasing power for food, gas, housing, and other typical expenses the median wage today would have to be $200,000 to be on par with Whoopi's in her 20s. It's less than $60,000.
Whoopi is so out of touch
Not really, some people don’t want to work as hard as are parents did.
@@PierreHNica “some people” lol. Most are barely getting by with a 40 hours week job that used to be considered cushy
@@PierreHNica our
@@PierreHNicawho, please put a statistic or something. You sound really ignorant.
Nope, Whoppi is not out of touch. Most kids won't put up with a beater car. I drove a 75 Granada that had duct tape holding its passenger door closed. But it did the job every morning. Most gen z/millenials don't wear or know how to darn socks, or they don't wear hand me down clothes. They all seem to want to be dressed for the next Cochella. We Vietnam era babies (gen x) made due. We didn't pay for $8 latte frappacinos. Try to get regular coffee, make a pot instead of the Starbucks rip off crap. Get a used car. Get a job after school. I had 3 jobs. paper route, and cutting grass and bagger during high school. Kids now a days all need to have parties not in their basement, but at the latest bouncy house play gym. So they come out at 18 thinking they can get whatever they want when they want. I had 8 chores at home: mow lawn, garbage, dishes, vacuum, rake, dust, keep room tidy, gutters. I did the work, got an allowance. If I forgot...no allowance. There are numerous ways to be money savvy.
Millennials (our generation) and Gen Z have a hard time being adults because of how the world was left behind to us that was devastating due to events like the financial crisis in 2008 and climate crisis.
I know millennials that work their … off. A lot have full time jobs but also need a second job. It’s ridiculous! The prices go higher and higher. I’m with Alyssa. Do your research. College tuition has also gotten ridiculous.
Whoopi’s generation was always projected to do better than their parents! I don’t know where she got her info from. A few weeks back Sunny and Alyssa tried to tell her about the financial crisis millennials are facing and she basically dismissed both of them! I looove her but it’s very unsettling how she never wants to hear anything about the young ppl in our country! I don’t usually get offended but as a millennial, I am today!
As another millennial I'm right there with you!
I'm right there with you on that.
Whoopi is a great actress but a lousy moderator. That's a fact!
Whoopi is SO OUT OF REACH! And then she gets irritated when she’s called out and obligated to retract whatever nonsensical thing she said. Someone get this lady some statistic thay clearly show that no millennial “wants to work four hours a day” we want a job that secures a decent living with a possibility of paying for education and basic living conditions honey… 🙄
Thank you.
This woman was in sister act I think and now she apparently knows the economic system inside out. If you don't have knowledge or understanding, say nothing. There are no opinions when clear facts can be presented.
Doesnt whoopi work for an hour 4 days a week? Yet shes making millions
And half the time she sits there pouting and rolling her eyes. I lost all respect for her with this one.
yeah but she worked really hard to make Sister Act 30 years ago so of course she has a right to lecture us.
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Whoopi....so dismissive...she is being intellectually dishonest....ugh. I hate she makes a joke of what a younger person's issue are when they bring them up. My only downside of Whoopi.
Arrogance.
I see a lot of folks are disappointed with her stance on this. She needs to dig deeper on this issue, because everybody can't be wrong
It’s hard out here, I’m working 2 jobs and still barely making it
One pays my rent and the other for my other bills and whatever else I need, it’s sad. I need those prices from 20 years ago lol 😂
To boil the issues millennials are having with "adulting" to only wanting to "work for 4 hours" is such a mischaracterization and is willfully ignorant of the issue. Like, work 4 hours? Uhh, we don't want to work 4 JOBS to have to get what our parents were able to get with one!
Correct
Woopie only works 4 hours a week and makes millions.
As a millennial it’s hard to adult I still have to sometime ask my parents to borrow money
These old heads just don't understand our plight as millennials. Student loan debt, inflation, gas prices, high taxes, divided country with race Wars, daily mass shootings in America. etc.
It’s actually shocking how dismissive and unaware of actual realities.. life is not what it used to be period!!! It’s Expensive
Whoopi needs to check her bias at the door. How do you say in one breath no one listens to women abou their health and ppl need to believe women when they say things but then turn around and dismiss a whole other population as whiny brats. Isn’t she doing the same thing? Pls make it make sense!
I make $70k per year in Kentucky. Should be doing great. Average house is $240k. That is $1,700 per month…. That is an entire paycheck! My rent is $1500. How can anyone afford it?
They don’t wanna talk about that. It’s whoopie being agist. I agree man. The disconnect is insane
70000 is $5300 per a month
You can still make it and save
I almost always agree with Whoopi. I’ve always loved her for sure, but this was just plain wrong. I am GenX. I am degreed, and I have worked my butt off with as many as three jobs at a time. I am a teacher now. You can’t ever say I don’t work my butt off and yet, I will never be able to own a house. I have no savings. Partly because I’m a single mom and partly because I had to take a year to fight stage four cancer. She is so off here on so many levels, she has changed my whole view of her. She, more than anyone, should know the struggle is real.
Love Whoppi, but she was out of touch on this one =/
Nope she is right on. Kids today never bought a beater car. Never had to darn their socks. Don't wear hand me down clothes. There are plenty of places to live that don't cost an arm and a leg. Stop buying $8 orange pumpkin spice latte frappecinos. Get regular coffee and make a pot. Get food that can make 2 or 3 meals. Have home parties for kids in the basement or back yard, instead of having to rent the best bouncy house or playtime gym. Don't expect a house in your 20's. Save, save, and yes save. Don't expect your first home to be a McMansion. My first house in 2005 cost around $165,000. I stayed there 7 yrs, then used the equity to buy a bit bigger home. But this unrealistic expectation of what you should afford at a gen-z or millennial age is not healthy. Most good jobs in the 50s yes allowed you to live in a home, etc. But tour those houses made in the 50's...they are 1,000 maybe 1,200 and one car garage. They were not huge houses. People didn't go on extravagant vacations, etc. They went to the beach, backyard, neighbors, maybe if you were lucky, a trip or two to another state. But this (Italy, Machu Piccu, Cancun, etc) is the reason kids have unrealistic views on what they "deserve"...
@@CogensFamilyTV You are as out of touch as Whoopi.
Best of luck to ya!
@@abernathymonsoon4638 I am doing just fine. I don't have student loans, because I didn't view college as a hobby. I saved, scrimped, and ate left overs so I could afford to put down 20% on a house then used that equity to buy a better home later. I don't expect to live in NYC. Here in upper MN, you can live well for 1/2 the cost. Yep, my 401K had its best year in 5 so, I am doing well. Good luck to you.
@@CogensFamilyTVeven just looking at the statistics, income versus expenses is way more costly for the newer generations
@@CogensFamilyTVHouses now cost $400k instead of $150k and wages haven’t risen!!! What the heck is wrong with you boomers?
I’m sorry but I think that woopie is wrong on this one. You can work 45 hours as I do as an engineer but still can’t afford to have children. Thinking it’s based on people being lazy is just wrong some are but most people in my generation work just as much if not more than their parents but can’t afford it. It’s being more intentional about children and trying to do better for their children not just have children to have children. Our generations are not the same stop acting like they are or that it’s bc we are lazy when in reality most aren’t it’s a select few.
Whoopi being an out of touch mega-millionaire not understanding todays issues? Couldn’t be!
Whoopi, I love you but that was an out of touch response. I actually can’t believe the only conservative on the table was making sense.
I'm in Whoopi's generation and I love her dearly but I'm with you guys. She's dead wrong and poorly informed on this one
But Whoopi does in fact "work" 4 hours a day and can still afford a house .. just kidding... more like a dozen of them.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
“If you want to work only 4 hours it’s going to be hard to buy a house” what is she talking about? You know I love Whoopi‘s advocacy and her sense of humor and how she is deeply passionate about the abortion rights topics but subjects like these she’s just out of touch 🤦🏾♀️
The level of out of touch whoopi is, is just.... 🙄
Thanks Whoopi. I feel so much better now that I hear that I’m not doing enough. My full time job is not enough and I’m looking for a 2nd job. Who has time to rest or live, right? I need to work much harder just like my parents did.
I’m sorry but Whoopi please get out of your top 1% out of touch bubble. People who work full shifts and have another job are still fighting to keep the lights on (hence why they’re working two jobs).
4 hours?! You mean 4 days - it’s called work-life balance and that can be quite important once you start having children to begin with. Whoopi is out of touch…but she also wasn’t listening to anything being said at the table.
My parents are Gen x and bought a house when they were 20 for $70,000. That same house is well over $300k now. Not even 20 years later. Whoopi can go eff off
Thank You Alyssa for speaking out ! - Millennial
Whoopi is totally wrong about the situation with Gen Z and Millennials.
Whoopi’s attitude is THE problem.
Sara was so spot on about the entire situation. A true voice of reason.
Whoopi is PROFOUNDLY ignorant on this issue. This lady really needs to educate herself. There are a 1000 videos on RUclips by journalists/economists who can "enlighten" her to this fact.
The women on this stage start clutching their pearls when it’s time to discuss older politicians holding on to positions of power , and how this has lead to many people feeling like there should be term limits. They are almost always offended by these kinds of conversations. But they literally waste no time in being condescending & dismissive of young people. They assume we’re all stupid, that we have no idea what we’re talking about & that our struggles or concerns aren’t valid. They do this often actually & it’s really annoying how hypocritical they can be.
Whoopi was so off the ball on this one. I saw Sunny agreeing and really expected a little more critical thinking on that stance.
Whopper is so rich, she lives in a different world than the rest of us. My parents are in their 69s and even they are talking about how the struggles of the younger generation is harder.
Isn’t whoopi the one who hates boot straps comments from republicans 😂😂
Exactly.
Whoopi on another planet.
I’m usually on board with Whoopi, but she’s wrong on this one. So many of my generation are working 2-3 jobs and still barely getting by.
It is true, though, that a lot of us saw our parents overwork themselves at a job they hated. So we don’t let our jobs define us. We value our time outside of work and want to work as little as possible while still taking care of our bills. Why is that so wrong?
Whoopi, your view point is in danger girl! You're clearly out of touch of what's going on but that is expected “boomer” behavior. Instead of putting us Millennials and even Gen Z down you guys should be extended us grace. We have been through a lot like every other generation but one thing is for sure I work my tail off 40+ hours a week! As a millennial who has been working since the age of 15, who grew up in a single parent household, who went to college and even pursued extended education afterwards it is hard to make it these current times. For example, I've been in the process of saving money for a home for the past 6 plus years while trying to pay my student loans. However the pandemic hit and through big wrench into my plans but hey that's life. Lord knows when I will be able to purchase my first home but fingers crossing someday before I hit 40 years old 😅. Anywho, Whoopi check your 1% privilege and extend some grace. Thank you ❤
"People pick it up and they do what they do and they raise themselves and this is what you gotta do its called being a good citizen"
wow stick a fork in me , I'm done! The ramblings of a cranky millionaire, thank you for these actionable words Whoopi *eyeroll*
Whoopi just did the Kim Kardashian “get up and work” thing. So out of touch. You gotta be careful when you’re an A lister and speak down to people about things you don’t even fully understand or appreciate.
Back in the day working 2 or even 3 jobs COULD LAND YOU a house and lot in like 8-10 years..
these days, for most regular people one NEEDS to have 2-3 jobs to pay the BILLS in a rented BOX apartment.
THE DISCONNECT IS REAL.
Thank the US government that favors big business over the labor force, both Democrats and Republicans.
Houses start off at a million dollars in my hometown these days. My parents paid $200,000 30 years ago for the same house. Obviously we have to work more than 4 hours a day or hopefully our parents leave us something when they die.... For the first time 30 something year olds are outnumbering 20 something year olds for having their first child. Probably because they spent their 20s setting up their career... Put that in your pipe and smoke it Whoopi
Jeez, Whoop, that was a little dismissive. I get it, life can be very challenging and we can learn how to navigate the stuff that we just HAVE to deal with, but the notion of "Well, we had it hard, you're gonna have it hard" isn't a good way to look at things. Just my two cents...
My mother worked for Kellogg’s and purchased a home for $16,000. Raised 5 children after a divorce and we made it. The cost of housing and vehicles is ridiculous. They don’t even make things to last.
This is basically why I have no use and little to no respect for Whoopi. She has a shameful, dismissive take on this issue. And once again, Alyssa was trying to explain things to her...but she cut her off. Whoopi is a big part of the problem. Our elders are out of touch, and don't give a Sh!t.
Sara pretty much summed it up, I don’t want to have kids until I’m financially stable, and I’m no where near that right now but at some point I do want kids. I may have to keep that freezing eggs in option though.
Sara should not be giving this advice. She is a terrible parent and already ruining and traumatizing her own kids.
@@JocelynE-v8xthat's kinda of mean to call her a terrible parent.
Disagree with Whoopi. Not every millennial or Gen Z is lazy. Some of us are still working their 🍑 off and still can't live on their own, without it being a studio. No no no
Exactly! I spoke to my mom about this topic, and she was in her 20s in the 1970s. She told me that she had it much easier back then.
Whoopi, I strongly disagree. Life is simply way more expensive. Income is way down, costs are way up. For example, the median income in 1972 was about $10,500, the cost of a home was 2.5 times that ($26,000), and the median cost of public college was less than 4% ($394) of the average income per year. In 2022, the median income was $67,521, a home is about 6.5 times that ($440,300), and the median cost of public college is more than 16% ($10,940) of the average annual salary. This is largely due to the new Gilded Age we are living in right now which favors the rich and has broken down unions and the right to organize.
Whoopi, lova ya but you got this wrong. What is speaking right now is your privilege. The problem is that folks my age cannot afford property for the most part because of inflation and horrible wages. No one should be working two to three jobs and still struggle. It is not like back in the day where college was afforable, now it is exponentially more expensive. I complain a lot about my own generation (Millennials) and Gen Z, but here, sorry you got it wrong.
Whoopi please!!! Oh my god how can she said that they need some professional on a topic like this
Not sure I like the gas lighting of Millennial's here. Sad.
Whoopi, people are working their butts off, and still can't get close to owning a home. Disappointed that you have no empathy for our generations who have really gotten hit hard by the affordability crisis.
The amount/length of time you work, has nothing to do with the potential benefit or payout from putting in countless hours. The quality of work is more important than the number of hours you're doing a task to make money. There are people who work 4-6 hours a day or a week! and make crazy money online. Thats the thing with our parents and grandparents' generation, they gave up so much of their time to jobs, just to have a basic, somewhat comfortable life. Millennials and younger generations, realize that time is valuable, and we look for ways to cut down time and raise our income/profits from the labor we decide to put into something.
AMEN. Perpetuating the insanity of the labor system is part of the problem. The 40hr work week is a very arbitrarily assigned standard, developed and designed for the industrial age. So many revolutionary eras later, same labor system? Madness.
I love whoopie…. But her mentality is the reason why 3 generations (some of genx aren’t doing too great either), are some of the most highly educated, hold the management and power positions at work:… but are statistically WAY underpaid in terms of inflation, the increase of cost of living from when whoopie was young, and total debt from school.
Ignoring the problem and saying “it will fix itself if you work harder” is exactly what the ruling class want to hear.
We, have left the world in a much worse state than what we had. Then we've dumped it on our kids to deal with. It's the Patriarchy. We need to think long range, leave the planet healthier for the generations yet to come.
Whoopi vs Alyssa, the conflict where the generation gap is on full display.
i hate how dismissive whoopi gets during money convos (i.e. met gala tax the rich convo a while back) ... she has not been poor in a very long time and alyssa was pointing out facts
I chose to watch The View on RUclips. Because although the hosts discuss what they (or their Producers) consider "Hot Topics", I can usually predict what each host will say: Whoopi will make funny characters (from her old stage Comedy Show) and then act like the "Sage" because of her age. Joy does fairly much what Whoopi does with her "wise-cracking". Sunny will play the "lawyer" and sometimes visibly pout if she is not taken as seriously as she prefers. The only two who seem invested in the show are Alyssa and Sarah. The three aforementioned are just "pulling down a paycheck" while doing other things.
I usually agree with Whoppi, but this time I can't. My son was in Iraq and Afghanistan and he's 100% disabled because of TBI. He literally has holes in his brain. He works for the government and makes almost $100,000 a year, but he's also a divorced parent with 2 children who still pays his ex child support as if she had them full-time because of the state laws. He still can't afford to buy a house. And he lives in a mid-size city in the med-west.
Something is off here, 100% disabled with tbi, but making $100k working? Sounds like he’s defrauding the government.
whoopi showing how out of touch she is again. Young people would work hard if we were paid a living wage today and be able to afford housing and food and vehicles like her generation could. we are literally working over 40 hours a week to not even be able to pay all of our bills
Wish the view would bring an economist like paul krugman or joseph stiglitz to talk about these topics.
I’m 64 with a college degree, had decent paying jobs since 1980 and couldn’t afford to buy a house in Brooklyn NY.
????? Nobody in the last 50 years has ever, ever, ever who isn't a millionaire said "I can afford a house in Brooklyn." You probably can't afford a house in San Francisco either. Or Bel Air. Neither can we. Neither can probably 98% of the US population. Did you seriously expect to be able to buy property in BROOKLYN NY on a "Decent paying job" income???? Do you not know why everyone lives in Jersey and commutes in??
I just looked up the median price in Brooklyn. $999k. I bet that's like a 1br condo, I'm not even going to check.
Whoopi needs to come back to middle class and feel what we feel talking like this.
I had a coworker working 50+ hours a week just to afford rent for his own apartment. Managers even had to tell him "sorry we can't approve you to pick up this shift" when he asked why they said "you can't work 7 days in a row". THIS is the issue. Whoopi is so out of touch.
I LOVE ME SOME WHOOPEE😢
but it truly gets on my nerves how WAY OUT OF TOUCH she is on modern day life struggles. 20 or 30 years ago a family could have survive on 1 income, NOT ANYMORE😠
Whoopi is so out of touch! Im 60 and i can see it!
Now I love me some whoopi but I agree with Alysa y’all didn’t have to go through half of what we have to go through that’s why y’all can sit up there and say “work 4 hours”
Whoopi is normally on point, but i can’t believe how wrong she is here. When was the last time she worked a minimum wage job 🙄
Alyssa, thank you for saying, your generation gave us the house crisis...
Alyssa has low-key delivering master classes on how to softly yet directly shade the table.
The idea is that you walked so we can run. In terms of real estate, the older generation bought land and built houses so we... can rent.
Every generation was not thought to do worst than their parents - Woopie knows this because her generation fought for equal rights. She literally fought for our lives to be better.
This is just an example of when the dissonance is louder than the intention and is a common trait of those older than millennial.
You don't inspire others by telling them that you had it hard. We actually don't need inspiration for this topic, we can figure it out, and we figured it out. We made our plans and voiced our opinions, and that was the data that was read. Statistics are not polls, so maybe listen.
In 1982 the average 5 year mortgage rate was 19.25% median income in 1982 was 23k average house price was 70k.
2020 average US home price $329k median income was $68k
Yes in 1982 average home proce was a little more that 3 years salary. And in 2020 4.8x but at 1% interest rate.
Millennials have been crying about home prices for years.
And even now at these interests rates, which are the highest they've ever seen. It's nothing compared to Whoopi's generation.
My father was a plumber pipefitter and my mom worked 3 jobs in the 80s just to get by.
While that's true, the difference here is what this generation has seen is SUSTAINED economic uncertainty their entire lives with no let up due to wars, recessions, terrorist attacks and pandemics. So, they never get a break or a chance to even get on the ladder before getting thrown off. What happened after the 80s? The booming 90s.
Whoopi just does not understand seriously. You can bust your butt in todays time until your hands are bloody red and it will still not suffice for you to be financially stable and stay financially stable. The cost of living was way cheaper back then where only one spouse would have to work and the other takes care of the housing of the family. Nowadays both couples work AND also need to deal with maintaining there home for the sake of there loved ones and that is called chronic economic anxiety.