Thank you SO much for this. For me, it’s that total lack of empathy, purpose and community that makes it all not worth it. Where did campfires go?? I have an iPad and an iPhone, Nintendo switch and a big tv downstairs, (grandparents’ house) these things can be entertaining, but I would trade it ALL back in a heartbeat to have a campfire every night where everyone gathers around and unwinds together. Seriously. Where did that go? Because that used to be the absolute best part of the day, and it’s just vanished, and hasn’t been replaced.
Millennials and Gen Z are faced with all of the expectations for success but none of the opportunities or advantages. This economy and job market have been a paper tiger since the early ‘70s.
Uniquely beautiful thing about hunter gatherer is there was no class system, no hierarchy, no concept of money or rich or poor meaning no corporate overlord or in the case of medieval times no nobles to artificially keep you down. Whether you swam or sink was COMPLETELY contingent on your own merit, nothing else
Good basic point but I'm pretty sure most hunter-gatherer societies had forms of hierarchy. Difference is those hierarchies served the common good of everyone in the tribe unlike today where it's a zero-sum game.
Don't forget about the horrors of the Victorian Era. People were sick all the time, consumed drugs mixed with poison (they didn't know it was), and were horribly abused by their superiors.
Even as someone whose doing pretty good for a zoomer, im absolutely furious knowing how hard it is to get ahead. When the same guy saving and investing as well as ive been able too, back then would have owned and paid off a home and halfways to retirement still.
I just moved back in with my parents. Three years of complete slavery. I earned nothing. The moment money came into my account it left. Cameras giving us " speeding fines" , bosses firing us because the jobs are automated, shitty pay not in line with inflation, boring job that make us dumber, instagram to make us compare to others. So so fucked.
Yeah you worded it well. The gaslighting is insane They tell us to acquire a skill lol as if that's the problem. The shit wages even if you acquire skill is the problem
Tell me about it. I had a family member, say "get into automotive and be a break technician" because they saw something about it on TV. I looked up the average salary of one, and they're making around the same amount I am.....yeah sure, I'll go pay to get retrained and go do a more stressful job just to make only a couple bucks more an hour 🙄 😂
The fact that they could easily get a job walking into a business vs having to send out 1,000's of applications with little to no success is mindblowing. They'll never accept the fact they used their privileged position to turn a Economic Utopia into a Dystopia
@toddpacker1015 Yes. It really is true. I don't want to give details, it's country specific. But literally rage when my older family members tell me how much they paid for their house or how much mortgage they are paying currently and how low their pay is. I want to turn violent against the current sstem when I hear how ridiculous house prices and rents are today for younger people.......
Awesome video man, all that great info laid out for all to understand and see. And based on some of these comments, many people's programming is getting in the way of understanding where we are in not normal.
It does seem like people still smoke more since I see at least one other person smoking whenever I go out into the community. My mother would tell me that people smoke a lot less since there aren't cigarette butts everywhere you go like there were 40 or 50 years ago. But I think the only reason there are hardly any cigarette butts when you go out in the community is not because people smoke less, but because there are stricter laws against littering than in the past in addition to no longer being allowed to smoke wherever you want. (I don't smoke)
So on the point about winter in medieval times I think is bunk, sure the peasants may not work the field but they didn’t just get that time off, they would have done other things to survive the winter.
Read the passages in Anna Karenina where Levin works the fields with the peasantry. Not only was the work less grueling; it was meaningful as well. Levin undergoes a deep spiritual transformation after experiencing the authenticity of peasant life. This was based on Tolstoy's own life experience.
No I don't think so but no fourth turning phase is ever easy but from all the fourth turnings I think this is one of the easier ones but I could be wrong I'm not omniscient
Except you can’t use many of these resources and the ones you can use, are either worthless or there are barriers preventing you from using them to their fullest extent.
@@rinkohorowitz google anything you need at any time. You need food? you can find anything from government assistance to Uber eats that will bring food straight to your door. Need a home? You can again seek government assistance, find a room to rent, buy a camper van, trailer, tent. Need medical help? 911. Need a job? Research and apply to any of them. It's silly to think a caveman who would have starved in winter because he failed to kill a deer, or a medieval peasant who got an infection from an animal bite and died slowly had it much better than us. This are still good for the most part today. But the natural course of history tells us it's about to get bad before it really gets bad.
Its wild that you genuinely think you have it harder than say, people in the dark ages. Youre making money from uploading videos of yourself talking while playing video games.. you make these videos because you know its an easy topic that spurs emotion, not because your points are actually valid. Poor youtuber has it so hard 😢
Resentment. Crabs in a bucket. The nobility and clergy would have had a relatively easy lot in life in the middle ages--that's what you're grieving about here, that this guy is lucky enough to be the modern day equivalent of a scribe back then. Not a macro view of society. In the middle ages universities were more democratic than they are now; the guilds had more power than labor does now; usury was banned by the church...
Even if it's reaching a bit, it's only by a little. We only really have creature comforts and modern medicine (that most of us can't afford anyways) on them.....but they lived a much more honest and fulfilling life in a small tight-knit tribe. Yes, life was hard, but it was also a much more natural way to live amongst friends and loved ones
@@12yearsa57 Take one look around you and think to yourself one simple question. "Is this natural and normal, are people more or less happy, and are they more or less healthy"
You didn't do enough research bro. Only 0.15% of the workforce makes Federal minimum wage because State minimum wage is always higher and workers always get that amount or more. Almost no one is getting paid Federal minimum wage.
@@thephilosophicalgamerfr No kidding? (sarcasm). What I'm saying is that in order to get more accurate data, you need to make a chart comparing the minimum wage State by State during those times and see how they compare. Overall, things are looking better than what you claim.
@@DaclaudLee Except my audience is from all over the country and even the world so going state by state makes no sense. Things are looking exactly as I claim and everyone who watches my videos and has to pay rent today agrees.
@@thephilosophicalgamerfr it actually does. In 2015 nearly every State had minimum wage that was nearly identical to the federal, so you can make that comparison. Now in 2025 more than half the states are at double digit minimum wage (many States are double the federal). So a lot has changed.
@@DaclaudLee And in 1960 just about everyone who wanted a job could get one just by showing up and asking for one essentially. While since 2008 you have to apply 500 times just to get one BS interview. Even if we hypothetically doubled the minimum wage it still doesn't come close to the $40 equivalent minimum wage boomers had. And it's literally hundreds of times harder to get a job now. I didn't have time to factor in how much harder it is to get a job in the first place on top of how shit the pay is now. So if anything things are way worse than I made it seem in the video.
Thank you SO much for this. For me, it’s that total lack of empathy, purpose and community that makes it all not worth it. Where did campfires go??
I have an iPad and an iPhone, Nintendo switch and a big tv downstairs, (grandparents’ house) these things can be entertaining, but I would trade it ALL back in a heartbeat to have a campfire every night where everyone gathers around and unwinds together. Seriously. Where did that go? Because that used to be the absolute best part of the day, and it’s just vanished, and hasn’t been replaced.
I have a lot of good memories with bonfires as well. Grandpa used to make them all the time.
Millennials and Gen Z are faced with all of the expectations for success but none of the opportunities or advantages. This economy and job market have been a paper tiger since the early ‘70s.
Uniquely beautiful thing about hunter gatherer is there was no class system, no hierarchy, no concept of money or rich or poor meaning no corporate overlord or in the case of medieval times no nobles to artificially keep you down. Whether you swam or sink was COMPLETELY contingent on your own merit, nothing else
Usury is the problem
Good basic point but I'm pretty sure most hunter-gatherer societies had forms of hierarchy. Difference is those hierarchies served the common good of everyone in the tribe unlike today where it's a zero-sum game.
Millennial here, keep fighting the good fight. Working conditions in the west are miserable for no good reason.
Don't forget about the horrors of the Victorian Era. People were sick all the time, consumed drugs mixed with poison (they didn't know it was), and were horribly abused by their superiors.
Sounds like the military
Sounds like the military
There weren't Boomers back then, so no need for Money.
or interest. which btw is the biggest enslaver.
Money is the biggest and top priority 18-21+ (or any age, the earlier the better, for yourself down the road)
Who else would waste their kids' and grandkids' future to buy consumer junk from Home Shopping Network? 📺
Delusional take.
@@breatheeasily4013 says the offended dude who doesn't recognize a joke 🙄
Reality is, we live in rhe silent depression.
Even as someone whose doing pretty good for a zoomer, im absolutely furious knowing how hard it is to get ahead. When the same guy saving and investing as well as ive been able too, back then would have owned and paid off a home and halfways to retirement still.
The boomers had it a lot easier.
I just moved back in with my parents. Three years of complete slavery. I earned nothing. The moment money came into my account it left.
Cameras giving us " speeding fines" , bosses firing us because the jobs are automated, shitty pay not in line with inflation, boring job that make us dumber, instagram to make us compare to others.
So so fucked.
Advice ? I can only do remote too
Yeah you worded it well. The gaslighting is insane
They tell us to acquire a skill lol as if that's the problem. The shit wages even if you acquire skill is the problem
Tell me about it. I had a family member, say "get into automotive and be a break technician" because they saw something about it on TV. I looked up the average salary of one, and they're making around the same amount I am.....yeah sure, I'll go pay to get retrained and go do a more stressful job just to make only a couple bucks more an hour 🙄 😂
At this point, you have to pay to work.
The fact that they could easily get a job walking into a business vs having to send out 1,000's of applications with little to no success is mindblowing. They'll never accept the fact they used their privileged position to turn a Economic Utopia into a Dystopia
@toddpacker1015 Yes. It really is true. I don't want to give details, it's country specific. But literally rage when my older family members tell me how much they paid for their house or how much mortgage they are paying currently and how low their pay is. I want to turn violent against the current sstem when I hear how ridiculous house prices and rents are today for younger people.......
I’m old and I live with my dad. I invest all my money well most of it. Rent is a waste of time.
I'm a young 19 yr old man almost 20 I want a gf
Same bro @@UCPDeltaDesertNightCamo2026
Wait, so if the 60's Boomers had roommates they could pay their entire rent with 2 or 3 days of work!!!!!!
Older baby boomers and some gen X ruined the entire world for younger people and still young men constantly get shit on 🤦🏾♂️
It's dumb
Awesome video man, all that great info laid out for all to understand and see.
And based on some of these comments, many people's programming is getting in the way of understanding where we are in not normal.
2 year ago were ,I work 12h a day, and i will never do it again. At least I don't have debt and i can cover Besic need. It's enough for me!
My mom works 12 hours an hour, but has half the week off.
I feel for these college lads
I'm probably not gonna go to college
It does seem like people still smoke more since I see at least one other person smoking whenever I go out into the community. My mother would tell me that people smoke a lot less since there aren't cigarette butts everywhere you go like there were 40 or 50 years ago. But I think the only reason there are hardly any cigarette butts when you go out in the community is not because people smoke less, but because there are stricter laws against littering than in the past in addition to no longer being allowed to smoke wherever you want. (I don't smoke)
I’m a young millennial and even tho things were better for boomers I would miss the technology games anime manga too much to want to go back
In this economy. You gotta make more than one hour of work.
Its hardest now cuz I'm in it
So on the point about winter in medieval times I think is bunk, sure the peasants may not work the field but they didn’t just get that time off, they would have done other things to survive the winter.
Read the passages in Anna Karenina where Levin works the fields with the peasantry. Not only was the work less grueling; it was meaningful as well. Levin undergoes a deep spiritual transformation after experiencing the authenticity of peasant life. This was based on Tolstoy's own life experience.
I think you should contrast with third world countries for another video good video!!
And we don’t even know how to hunt and clean a kill anymore . Some of might if they actually come from a hunting family
You should visit african villages
No I don't think so but no fourth turning phase is ever easy but from all the fourth turnings I think this is one of the easier ones but I could be wrong I'm not omniscient
10:34 i stand by it. We have every resource a human can need at our fingertips.
Inflation has entered the chat
@thephilosophicalgamerfr dieing economy has entered the chat. It's going to get worse before it gets worse.
Except you can’t use many of these resources and the ones you can use, are either worthless or there are barriers preventing you from using them to their fullest extent.
@@rinkohorowitz Exactly
@@rinkohorowitz google anything you need at any time. You need food? you can find anything from government assistance to Uber eats that will bring food straight to your door. Need a home? You can again seek government assistance, find a room to rent, buy a camper van, trailer, tent. Need medical help? 911. Need a job? Research and apply to any of them.
It's silly to think a caveman who would have starved in winter because he failed to kill a deer, or a medieval peasant who got an infection from an animal bite and died slowly had it much better than us.
This are still good for the most part today. But the natural course of history tells us it's about to get bad before it really gets bad.
Its wild that you genuinely think you have it harder than say, people in the dark ages. Youre making money from uploading videos of yourself talking while playing video games.. you make these videos because you know its an easy topic that spurs emotion, not because your points are actually valid. Poor youtuber has it so hard 😢
Resentment. Crabs in a bucket.
The nobility and clergy would have had a relatively easy lot in life in the middle ages--that's what you're grieving about here, that this guy is lucky enough to be the modern day equivalent of a scribe back then. Not a macro view of society. In the middle ages universities were more democratic than they are now; the guilds had more power than labor does now; usury was banned by the church...
Tbh I feel we do have it easier, we just work more.
This is reaching a little I’d rather be living in the USA Today than be a caveman lol
Even if it's reaching a bit, it's only by a little. We only really have creature comforts and modern medicine (that most of us can't afford anyways) on them.....but they lived a much more honest and fulfilling life in a small tight-knit tribe. Yes, life was hard, but it was also a much more natural way to live amongst friends and loved ones
@ yes I definitely agree with that last part
Your programming is showing.
@@NOYB1776 provide me reason some reasons bro, I am interested in your point of view
@@12yearsa57 Take one look around you and think to yourself one simple question. "Is this natural and normal, are people more or less happy, and are they more or less healthy"
I'm Gen Z and we live in the easiest times ever. Literally. Who had it worse - us or all the men dying in wars all across history?
Came on, bro!
Lmao so you think wars no longer exist ok
@@thephilosophicalgamerfr In the West, they dont. For now.
@@breatheeasily4013 umm ok, so we're going to pretend that Gen Z doesn't exist outside of the west? Lol
@@thephilosophicalgamerfr Lol. You get what I mean, man.
@@breatheeasily4013 it won't be this good for much longer. It's going to get worse before it gets worse.
You didn't do enough research bro. Only 0.15% of the workforce makes Federal minimum wage because State minimum wage is always higher and workers always get that amount or more. Almost no one is getting paid Federal minimum wage.
State minimum wages existed in boomer days too
@@thephilosophicalgamerfr No kidding? (sarcasm). What I'm saying is that in order to get more accurate data, you need to make a chart comparing the minimum wage State by State during those times and see how they compare. Overall, things are looking better than what you claim.
@@DaclaudLee Except my audience is from all over the country and even the world so going state by state makes no sense. Things are looking exactly as I claim and everyone who watches my videos and has to pay rent today agrees.
@@thephilosophicalgamerfr it actually does. In 2015 nearly every State had minimum wage that was nearly identical to the federal, so you can make that comparison. Now in 2025 more than half the states are at double digit minimum wage (many States are double the federal). So a lot has changed.
@@DaclaudLee And in 1960 just about everyone who wanted a job could get one just by showing up and asking for one essentially. While since 2008 you have to apply 500 times just to get one BS interview. Even if we hypothetically doubled the minimum wage it still doesn't come close to the $40 equivalent minimum wage boomers had. And it's literally hundreds of times harder to get a job now. I didn't have time to factor in how much harder it is to get a job in the first place on top of how shit the pay is now. So if anything things are way worse than I made it seem in the video.
bro skipped Industrial revolution
Its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
@@joshualogsdon5752second only to the agricultural revolution.