I know it! I am part that loosing generation🍌... I am one paycheck family in this generation💩 and is totally screwed if I loose my burger flipping, customer greeting, sign flipping job... 🌎💘💰
americans are so UNEDUCATED now, they CAN'T even find their OWN country or continent on a map, biology is a THEORY as you are not born male or female as you can CHOOSE later what you identify as, and they DON'T know their OWN history. american dream is a lie
You'd have to strike it rich to have that kind of privilage. I'd suggest; oh wait, your F'd either way. But I do hope your one of the lucky ones! Good luck out there :)
My dad hated that guy over him saying things like that and he's 65 now... Still saying how he's going to win the lottery one day and buy a farm, I like to quote Of Mice and Men around him since he doesn't get it nor read it.
@@TheStrayHALOMAN I suppose Carlin's main comedic layout is observational but saying what most of us think, albeit exaggerated during his time, but now fairly accurate in the assessment that things are only getting more difficult. Life is what you make it but things are surely getting harder societally and economically in this day and age. I'd imagine your father mainly hated him for his pessimistic, albeit realistic outlook and his observational comedy stepping on his hopefulness. It's great to have hope and optimism, it's what drives us forward in trying times. Very hard to explain that to someone already set in their mindsets though
@@derekgregg9009 I presume you pay tax and rent though? You can't just pack up and live in the woods since they like to tax any land you settle on. Theres no such thing as free unless theres no mans land essentially.
I am EXTREMELY lucky to inherit my parent's house. Without that, I could no longer survive. At 60, no one will hire me. I work for myself and just barely get by. It was totally different when I was young. I'm literally watching society collapse to feed the insatiable greed of a few. I am so very sorry for today's generation....
52 here, and plan to work part-time after 62 to supplement the income I hopefully will be receiving from social security. Not sure if the numbers will still work out by then, with inflation and everything. Here's hoping. Mind if I ask what you do? I'm looking to start up a sole-proprietor cottage-industry in-home shop or buy a machine or something.
@@erdelegy You and me both! I repair and restore vintage electronics. It's a dying art. Most people today are fine with their phones, or just tossing and buying new. Electronics repair USED to be an honorable trade. Before everything, including US, became disposable. Although, being able to repair EVERYTHING in my house, has saved me many, many thousands of dollars.
@erdelegy The young generation deserves this hellhole economy. None of us have empathy and love for others. We're all so greedy and selfish, more than any other generation before, it's sickening to see.
@@JohnS-il1dr It started way before that. The moment Nixon opened up china and took us off the silver standard, followed by the carter moron creating the department of education to destroy American intellect and innovation, then NAFTA by that arkansas pdf file ended domestic manufacturing well before a single robot was building things.
@aliveonmoonrocks Exactly in the u.s 1800s, when rich folks started gathering in secret. It has been global for quite a while now. The bad folks have risen to the top everywhere in the world and are in control
I’m 43. The other day I was visiting my parents and said that I will need to learn self-defence for when I have to fight for food as an elderly man. They laughed. I don’t have the heart to tell them it wasn’t a joke.
If the time comes that you’re fighting for food you’ll learn that years of jiujitsu are no match for the strength of an index finger. If you have no weapon then you’re just holding the food for someone else
Born in 1980 im 44 now and have 16k in the bank, i pay 630 a week rent from my 1040 a week i earn, then insurance, food, power and maybe one take out meal. broke until next week. I'm from New Zealand. a 2 bedroom 1950's built mouldy damp unit will set you back 1 million dollars here, no garden and parking maybe for one car. But heres the kicker, You have to have 20% of the value of the property to even be considered to buy it. So you have to save 200k to buy, spend 1.8M -2.2M on a 30 year mortgage at about 1200 a week mortgage payment. Then you need another 28k a year for homeowners insurance, water rates 3k a year, council rates 5k a year. And oh you will need about 80-100k to make the house habitable. I have given up on owning and i invest all in stocks, crypto and term deposits. I wont have a home when i retire but i will have close to 1M by the time im 70. Sad fuckin life.
@@CultureCrossed64 It's more than just religion, it's their way of life. They keep it simple, which probably not only helps their community prosper in both self sufficiency as well as their mental health/state of mind. I'm an atheist myself, in my opinion there's plenty of both good and bad that's come from religion
They have their downsides too. One of my best friend's dad is completely shunned from there community because he chose to leave. I don't think it is morally right to essentially disown your own child just because they don't believe what you do. However, I agree they were right about a lot of things.
@@bedtimestories1065 Their protecting their way of life, removing penalties and shunning is what allowed the modern world to slide into degeneracy. In the past, people were ostracized from societies all the time, certainly was preferable to being executed or imprisoned. Hell, it's not even restricted to the Amish, a lot of modern families do the same: 1. A family member married a single mother, ostracized. 2. A family member married another ethnicity or race (r same gender), ostracized. 3. A family member has different political views, ostracized. And that's okay, people have the right to distance themselves from sources of stress in their lives.
When you're 30, politicians will raise the retirement age to 70. When you're 40, politicians will raise the retirement age to 80. When you're 50, the only retirement is dying while on the job. It's a downward spiral.
I went from $58k to $85k from switching jobs twice over the course of 7 years. Don’t let boomers fool you, payment won’t keep pace with your skills or cost of living if you stay at a job forever.
Most of us older millennials have zero loyalty to a job. They pay me more? I'm out. I have good bosses/owners which TBH is very rare. Loyalty to good PEOPLE not to a "GOOD" company.
@@SirRichardHardenThicke Imagine you have a really good boss in your current job but you get an offer from another company with a good pay increase, would you leave?
This is why the firm belief of letting kids think they can be anything they want to be, is the most cruel, immoral and unethical thing humanity has laid down on.
It was a way of hypnotizing ourselves that we don't have to take care of our kids and plan for the future. Traditional cultures that don't do that and know that's absolute nonsense soar ahead of modern cultures.
I talked to a lot of guys who had 30 to 40 years in the union. I asked him why they're not retiring. A lot of them answered it's for health insurance. But many more of them just said something along the lines of "I'd be bored without work" That's the saddest thing ever to me. Someone spend so much of their life working that they don't even know what to do with themselves if they don't work. But the sad part is they're working and they don't even really like it it's just all they ever knew. And none of the younger people can move up cuz all of good positions are clogged with people who are only there because they'd be bored...
Wanting to keep working is not sad. What's sad is that you think everyone is not happy with their work, because there are people who do enjoy what they do for a living. I could get 100 million dollars tomorrow and you'd still find me tinkering with a computer because I love doing that. Of course, I'll intersperse that with copious amounts of travel, but I won't ever truly stop "working" because I like doing that, even if just for my own personal projects.
They need to step down and make way for the next generation. The kids need decent jobs too, they don't want to work for shit pay and zero growth potential. You can't blame them.
@@metalmike570I can't step down. My job is doing biomedical research in Asian cultures. It requires a baccalaureate and a doctorate and years of experience. I know three languages. I don't know of any young person trying to replace me. It took about 25 years of schooling. No young person I know wants to do that much work. So I get paid $$$ per hour because I have have extreme job security. Maybe if younger generations learned rare skills, that would help them.
From my understanding, a lot of countries are suffering , not just American. Research info outside of the US…whatever happens in one country will eventually affect us and vice versa.
The world reserve currency has changed many times over history. On average they only last 94 years. The US has been the WRC since 1921 sooo... our time is just about up.
We are taxed close to 40% overall, not including the tax we pay buying groceries/supplies/internet/phone, yet we get SO LITTLE in return. At the amount we're taxed, we would have universal healthcare and free tuition. Yet we STILL pay for health insurance AND dental (cause teeth aren't included as a part of your body?!). We're also not guaranteed Ss IF we retire (we paid into it for decades!!), current retirees are barely getting by, while illegal migrants get $13k in food stamps and $5k in cash. Engraged is an understatement as to how I'm feeling. This country rots from within.
Our tax dollars subsidize corporations. We have companies paying so little that full time employees require financial aid to merely survive. We subsidize industries that make the most wealthy more wealthy off the backs of the working class. Corporations are now buying up housing. In some instances whole communities. We will live in a society in which no one owns anything. Corporate greed will lead to nation if indentured servants. And the politicians are in the pocket of corporate America. Corporate leaders and politicians are all traitors to the country as well as every hard working American.
Illegal immigrants are getting jack shit, I should know. I am one, if i don't work I don't get pay that day. No money=go hungry. Don't you have to be a resident to be able to take advantage from those government programs?
what most really can't see is WHO is really DOING this and WHO is "they"... And that's the reason why all of this is happening to us. Do you know who "they" are? Starts with a j - vvs
@@entrepreneurjoeytv2841 Little do you know that you will be the elderly person who had grown to hate AI in your earlier years because it replaced you. And now you can't bathe yourself nor change yourself without, 24/7 help.
6 years of college, 5 years of trade school, 50 hours a week, over an hour drive each way, and I'm barley getting by. I paid off all my student loans, but now I get to pay for the younger generations too. I'm getting fucked from all sides
Should've just done trade school and skipped college. Plenty of people doing well with just that and no student debt to pay. Would've been a great starting point for you.
@dumdumgarcia2830 in my case I have to respectfully disagree. I got my degrees in physical education, health science, psychology and a good philosophy minor, and I use those skills every day. Trade school also gave me skills I use everyday as a homeowner of a 124 year old fixer-upper turned into a beautiful home. However, a few months ago my employer sent me to demo what i was told was "general exhaust and safe" but it was sulfuric acid exhaust covered in asbestos and I uncovered emails proving they knew. I reported it to my union, but they refuse to acknowledge my accident report because the union is also covering up 22 years of this company (VBI LLC) breaking the CBA and stealing benifits. I'm missing at least 20K and have lung damage insurence companies won't cover because it's a workplace incident with no record. Point of the story, the working man gets screwed no matter where he tries to sell his labor. If you read all this, thank you. It feels good to vent to someone who listened, the union and the lawyers just don't care.
Corporatism that's what's happening. In the 50s, the USA ranked in the top 3 most capitalist countries; now, it is 25th and is becoming a Corporatist country.
Corporatism is a stage of capitalism lol. Without capitalism the system can’t be lead to corporatism. 😂😂😂😂 bro is completely lost. The “country” itself is a corporation, and they have a branch in South America, Chile, that’s why they just need their passport to come here no visa, approval or anything need!
Remember "Married With Children" from the 1980s? Al Bundy was a lowly schlub who worked at a shoe store - but he was still able to buy a house in the suburbs and support a family of four, all by himself. Nobody watching the show back then thought there was anything strange about that at all.
By 1995 I thought it was strange and unreallistic. After 2000 housing prices doubled and continued to climb. So by late 2007 and 2008 the bubble busted.
By the newest statistics, Slovenia has overtaken Britain's middle class in living standard, that's how hard the Brits dropped the ball. Pozdrav iz Rovinja.
Unless you work in a mortuary, in which case you need to come in to work today, and for the rest of your life, and a few days more before you get put into the grave.
@@presidentmerkinmuffley6769 in order to effectively rebel, you have to mobilize. to mobilize, you have to organize. gl with organizing b4 the feds come and plant some drugs or whatever in your home, then raid it. they arent concerned with that anymore. havent for a long time actually...hence why they have narrowed it down to pre-thought crime, etc on lone wolfs. you heard me right, they are so advanced now that its only "worry" is solo lone wolfs. Ever heard of Ted Kysanski ? Ta-DA !!!
No one should be coming to America to "make it". They should fix their own countries and stop exploiting America. America is for Americans, no one else.
I'm an airplane mechanic with a stay at home wife and 5 kids so far. It's entirely possible to live well in any time, you just have to rethink how to do it.
@@odysseusdadon1234that mentality is crazy. He's not thinking about them as humans living in a world far above him. Alot of parents are actually selfish out here
@@Onemadfiddler Can you ensure your kids will have a bright future? It's hard to imagine with stagnant wages, increasing inflation, and endless government spending.
@@Onemadfiddler I hope that you make enough to provide for your children on your own, and not relying on handouts from the government (aka taxpayers) to do so........
The western dream is dead, my single mom in New Zealand bought her 3 bedroom house in 1983 for $29,000, same house in now worth approx 500,000. Wages aren’t keeping up with salaries. Just last week I was stupid and did 4 OT, and the government took 1/2 of it, then the question is why work hard. I’ll be departing the west in a few years to live in South East Asia.
Wages aren't keeping up with costs? There are still places in the west where a person can get a house for 3x the gross of a single income. In 1910, did people in the West basically all have detached homes they bought?
If I ever end up working at McDonalds I'll take my sweet time actually making the burger look like the picture on the menu, and your fries will always be hot. I got yalls back.
Peasants had it tough since most work was physical labor BUT they also had a more relaxed pace of work, had the winter months free and a LOT more holidays over the year. So while modern people generally work less intense, they do work FAR longer and that leads to overwork and even death.
Not true, by many metrics even medieval peasants had things pretty good. Their own land and home (ok it was probably leased, but basically theirs in return for a share of the produce). Only busy during harvest months, plus lots of holidays thanks to the church. It’s also not talked about much, but men at the bottom of the social ladder could actually find a decent wife to have kids with. Not so easy today
The issue is, since so much is shaped around an old education system, while everything else is advancing, means that people in charge are too scared to actually change it.
We are about to become the hardest and toughest generation ever. Or crumble under the pressure. Your choice. Play the game, to destroy the game and rebuild it. They want a great reset. We will give them what they want, but not how they want it.
AN AMERICAN DREAM LYRICS (NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND). Like Hell ... So Lets give them far, far more than they could ever, ever, ever have bargained for!! Let's do it lads!!
*I plan to retire at the end of 2025 at 62 after 36 years in Telecom as a sales engineer. My wife will retire in May 2026 and she's loving life! But walking away from a good income stream and building the nest egg to living from the nest egg is a scary proposition couple with the alarming recession and CPI report*
I feel your pain mate, as a fellow retiree, I'd suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. For me, I had my share of ups and downs when I first started looking for a consistent passive income so I hired an expert advisor for aid, and following her advice, I poured $30k in value stocks and digital assets, Up to 200k so far and pretty sure I'm ready for whatever comes.
My advice: for newbies to grow financially this year, invest. Saving is good, but investing elevates your finances. Why newbie make huge losses on trade is because investing without proper guidance can lead to mistakes and losses. that will stop you from trading, this has been one of the biggest problem to new traders, I've learned this from my own experience
Tracy Britt Cool Consulting was my hope during the 'bear summer' last year. I made so many mistakes but also learned so much from it, and of course from Tracy.
As a Miami resident, you could just go to jail. 3 hots and a cot, I’ve told myself I’d rather go homeless than ever pay above 70% of my income on housing.
*And no one is complaining when billionaires every year donate billions in cash or stock to there're own charitable companies that's operated by their kids and family members.*
Then you can live out your medieval fantasy of dying from a splinter at 32 because you're not going to be a knight or a feudal lord, or a noble or a king, you are going to be a serf living in squalor.
You literally have nothing to lose, do you want to work forever for nothing just to scrap by? Or do you want to go do something absolutely wild and be heard?
Move to a remote town and you can live comfortably for a while until the lizard people eventually come around to monetize your little slice of heaven. It's bound to happen.
It's almost to the point where I'd rather die now. When society no longer serves the individual, the individual has no incentive to participate. When the individual is forced to participate with nothing in return, that's slavery.
@@lifevest1 Love the 25% interest charged [on that principal $80] but in 2025 forward that projection is too low (already is); more like 55%-70%. But yeah, the concept is already in action.
I wish there were people in the right places that truly wanted to create a solution instead of having cooperations and greedy leaders running the ship.
Humans will always eventually find a way to R&D their way to labor obsolescence, even with the "right people" you talk about. Automation of work has long been a goal of humans. Blaming greed is a red herring, robots have always been a threat to take jobs away.
Pensions will never really be sustainable, not with the growing number of old people living longer. If everyone learns and takes financial literacy to heart, coupled with meaningful reforms that allow for cheaper medical costs and housing, 401ks should be a fine compromise.
@@stephenfowlie742 kids cost literally like $5 a day. How expensive is fucking milk and bread? Clothes are cheap, etc. I grew up poor, when I buy something nice like a new car, I cherish it
@@Shahzad-KhanI'm guessing you're extremely ignorant, or trolling. Legit can't tell. Upon a babies birth, we in the US immediately pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $10,000-$20,000. Then comes the cost of all their vaccines, then yes, food is there. But then there's schooling. Does your child need to use the bus? You're paying $30 a day for that privilege. We only go downhill from here. Have to work to pay for all this? That'll cost you half your salary to watch your child while you're at work.
The government takes a nibble here, a nibble there, and they take with a different tax at every opportunity. It might not seem like much at each occurrence, but it adds up and subtracts from workers’ wallets
A friend of my had another job lined up and ready to leave his current one. When I noticed a few weeks later that he was still driving the same company vehicle, I'd asked what happened. He said they gave him a raise, and some paid training as well. Sometimes smaller business are better to work for which is why it's such a shame they've been under attack for decades.
Under attack? LOL, small business aren't directly targeted by anyone, but like any business big or small, they have to remain competitive in the markets they serve in. There are plenty of small businesses thriving today, there's no grand sinister plan to destroy them.
The thing is, until then they will make the stupid people in different countries shoot each other instead of the govt. I mean, just look at Ukraine and Russia today (or Israel and Arabs).
Fuck your nihilism and blame shifting. The country is going to hell because of you. For the record, I mean you specifically. You and those like you. Sneering fools who repeat faux intellectual bs they heard from Noam Chomsky.
As a 41 year old with no college degree, when I think about this, it is terrifying. I can’t even find a decent job as it is. And with new and more educated potential employees continuously flowing in, it will only get more difficult. I took a chance at bettering my life by becoming certified as a personal trainer, and while this work is gratifying, it barely pays the bills. The remainder of my life seems bleak. I feel like I will be working until I die. I suppose I should have thought of this while I was in my 20’s but unfortunately I was partying and doing drugs. It took me until I was 37 to get my shit together and it was probably too late. Just thinking about this is horribly depressing and I’m really having trouble keeping a positive mindset.
It's almost like scalping the general public to within an inch of bankrupcy leads to lack of children, lack of savings, lack of retirement, and ultimately lack of people capable of doing any meaningful work.
In Australia the same thing is true. The Australian dream to own a home, have kids, a good paying job etc is all dead. Shit im a disabled man and even when the Australian dream was alive i had little chance of making it. But now? Even the average non disabled non mentally ill person has no chance. So ive given up. So I've decided to try and buy some land and put a tiny home on said land. Thats all i need. As for a family i don't want one nor can i afford one
Bro, I about to anyone who will listen about property taxes. This alone is so revealing about where our nation is. You cannot own property in the US. Even if you pay off the mortgage, you WILL pay rent in the form of property tax to the government. If you don't, they WILL come and take your home out from underneath you, with no regard for you and your family. I often wonder how in the world Americans ever let it get to this point
Alarmist hogwash. Do you actually know the backstory of each of those franchises because it obviously looks like you don't if you think you can get an amalgamation of those universes based on the video.
Buy a house in the city first, pay it off, rent it out and buy land. Then you have passive income to live on your land. Homestead. Goodbye society, im not playing your game. But if you didnt buy that house 15 years ago you will have to make do with drawing passive income from index funds.
@@MrWackozacko first, this is the biggest problem we face;also, if people would pay and rent, they would but you can't buy and make it worth it unless you can already afford it.
@@kennethyates1725 Thats right, luckily for me i saw all this coming when i was a kid so had been planning since childhood. Im going to start a commune and help as many people as i can but the rest of yall need to find a way
"You will own nothing, and you will be happy," You don't think the sick evil fucks who pull the strings behind the scenes didn't think of that? Everything is by design. Watch what happens in 2030. It's about to get a whole lot worse.
What happened when the horses were no longer needed after cars were introduced? Did those horses retire and live long lives? Or were they dispatched? We are the horses. They plan the same fate for us.
No it’s not. The average student loans are half the average income of college graduates in the US. People can save a lot by going to community college and transfer to a state school and get a solid degree in STEM. Some people get useless degrees from high prestige universities and live HCOL coastal cities and cry when they can’t get an earn enough to pay student loans, rent and save for an expensive house. College educate people in the LCOL midwestern cities are doing much better.
When people are forced to Eat the Bugs but can't afford them they will be fined or arrested for eating Bugs in the Parks. Instead of Game Wardens checking a person's catch they will be checking your jars and nets for your catch to make sure you are catching Hatchery Bugs.
Funny thing is bugs have never been cheap. Always thought about buying powdered ants as a protein supplement before it became a headline, and it was always exponentially more expensive than whey.
Y’all? Every time a Moon vid comes through, I’m Leonardo DiCaprio, finger point meme status. Can’t be so damned depressed when yah don’t feel so alone, you know? 😅🍻
@ilyas80s65 can you explain why most of the HedgeFund managers are Jevvish? Larry Fink manages BlackRock and is buying up houses. Why do they make NGOs that bring in mass migration? Why are they degens like Epstein?
The new American dream is to live in your already paid off suv and be able to travel the country and work remotely in your vehicle that you furnished into a tiny mobile home. But wait until they start charging people to park on the side of public streets for night. That is coming too
Retirement isn't about work vs. no work. It's about the freedom to choose work or no work without consequences. Big difference, and really cool if you can get there.
@@VeritasAequitas31415 There's news of a few countries, Switzerland and Canada iirc, that are beginning to offer right-to-die procedures for people with treatment resistant depression. I have a suspicion this procedure, were it to become normalized and adopted in other countries, would be used to clear out individuals who are financially and physically unwell too.
@@VeritasAequitas31415 There's news of countries, Switzerland and Canada iirc, beginning to offer euthanasia services for people with treatment resistant depression. I have a suspicion this procedure, were it to become normalized and adopted in other countries, would be used to address those who are financially and physically unwell too.
@@VeritasAequitas31415 There's news of countries, Switzerland and Canada iirc, beginning to offer *unalive* services for people with treatment resistant depression. I have a suspicion this procedure, were it to become normalized and adopted in other countries, would be used to address those who are financially and physically unwell too.
I kinda needed this video. I've been in somewhat of an increasing mid-life crisis, with an increasing fear of my health failing sooner rather than later. This video was an important and helpful reminder that a long life is no longer worth it, and seeing it all end sooner rather than later will be a comfort because there's just no gold at the end of this rainbow. The longer I live, the longer I wake up every day in terror of losing a job I'll never be able to afford to leave. The only way to escape the constant terror of not being able to make a living anymore is when it's just no longer necessary.
It's sad but true, and I literally had the same exact thought just earlier today... Getting close to 40 and having some potential health issues arise but no health insurance so I have to continue on til the problems become unmanageable and then I'll die. But the thought did not make me sad, it was almost a sense of relief that I wouldn't have to struggle any more.... And that is SCARY, especially to know that others are thinking the same right now too 😕
The government will find a way to disown you by means of taxes or by making war happen in your place (in which case your home property is the first thing which becomes worthless, with you unable to leave country with it).
The threat of automated trucking is overstated. AI can't unload those trucks, the plurality of loads aren't as simple as pulling up to a dock, and public sentiment is out the window when they start driving into school buses (doesn't matter if they're more safe than humans in that case). It currently has no means of responding to flaggers, police, poor road conditions, dirt roads, uncontrolled rail crossings, it can't respond to mechanical issues, it can't refuel itself, it can't chain up in the winter, it can't adjust straps or put down chocks etc etc. It's use cases are going to be restricted to specific intermodal routes in limited geographic regions and even then your cost savings on drivers and even then your cost savings on drivers is going to be deeply offset by specialized mechanics and mobile response mechanics, special insurance, and downtime when you're trying to call some crappy call center in Delhi to reboot your 300,000 AI semi because it's doing donuts in the Walmart parking lot honking at a Waymo.
I don't think driverless trucks are coming any time soon. Assuming they perfect it well enough, The cost of such tech would be too expensive to be mainstream.
@@roobs4245 its proprietary tech. Aurora maybe one other company is working on driverless trucks in the us. It means they have to sell the technology to other companies. I am a trucker and I could be wrong but I would not expect this to be mainstream and replace jobs at mass scale for a while. And the trucking industries has a lot more issues to worry about.
From what I understand this isn't capitalism, since the tax is at least 50% and on top of that gov regulations creating monopolies, it's not a free market
Depends on where you look. There are areas where costs are affordable, the question is if you actually would want to live there. But technically affordable.
You nailed the main reason for the cost of living crisis - the superrich buying up houses as assets, and (sometimes) renting them out for extortionate fees. Solve that problem, and you'll find all the other issues like "wages aren't keeping up" etc suddenly aren't a problem at all.
My Father was an engineer. All he had was a High School diploma. Made 85K a year when he retired on January 2, 2000. I did 4 years in the military and have a Bachelors. In 2024 I STILL do not make what he made. LOL. Let alone a REAL pension, full medical.
It's so hard to have hope these days, I recently got charged for 158 dollars for a 6 minute virtual visit to the doctor. That kind of shit is putting me suicide watch.
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If your goal in life is to retire, just never work.
I hate online biz 😂
I know it! I am part that loosing generation🍌... I am one paycheck family in this generation💩 and is totally screwed if I loose my burger flipping, customer greeting, sign flipping job... 🌎💘💰
americans are so UNEDUCATED now, they CAN'T even find their OWN country or continent on a map, biology is a THEORY as you are not born male or female as you can CHOOSE later what you identify as, and they DON'T know their OWN history. american dream is a lie
Id rather live on the countryside living off my own food somewhere in nowhere than to support this fucked up system with my lifetime and work
Wait until they make it illegal to live off of your own food without some expensive license.
break unjust laws
Yep, energy and water literally fall out of the sky or free. With those two things you can grow anything anywhere
That's why I moved philippines 😂
You'd have to strike it rich to have that kind of privilage. I'd suggest; oh wait, your F'd either way. But I do hope your one of the lucky ones! Good luck out there :)
That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it
- George Carlin
one of the dumbest quotes
shows you how long this problem has been persisting for lmao
Carlin wasn't funny, just whiny.
My dad hated that guy over him saying things like that and he's 65 now... Still saying how he's going to win the lottery one day and buy a farm, I like to quote Of Mice and Men around him since he doesn't get it nor read it.
@@TheStrayHALOMAN I suppose Carlin's main comedic layout is observational but saying what most of us think, albeit exaggerated during his time, but now fairly accurate in the assessment that things are only getting more difficult. Life is what you make it but things are surely getting harder societally and economically in this day and age.
I'd imagine your father mainly hated him for his pessimistic, albeit realistic outlook and his observational comedy stepping on his hopefulness. It's great to have hope and optimism, it's what drives us forward in trying times. Very hard to explain that to someone already set in their mindsets though
One of my coworkers used to say “I’m going to die with my work boots on”…he did.
I saw a 70 year old working at Walmart in 08. That's when I assumed I'd be lucky to retire at 75.
Mind you he was doing a back flip on a dirt bike in Mexico but he was in those boots....loved them damn things
Americans retire too early.
@@pierrechampagne5687 Right : ) do tell. There's a good story there, sounds like.
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“You can retire when you expire.”
-Courtesy of your loving masters.
I don’t have any lol
@@derekgregg9009 I highly doubt that lol.
@@Infelious I play music for a living and I’ve done everything I can to stay away from the system. My whole life has been about not having masters.
@@Infelious but I’ll still never be able to retire! But that’s because I’m self employed
@@derekgregg9009 I presume you pay tax and rent though? You can't just pack up and live in the woods since they like to tax any land you settle on. Theres no such thing as free unless theres no mans land essentially.
I am EXTREMELY lucky to inherit my parent's house. Without that, I could no longer survive. At 60, no one will hire me. I work for myself and just barely get by. It was totally different when I was young. I'm literally watching society collapse to feed the insatiable greed of a few.
I am so very sorry for today's generation....
They can cope and cry about it.
@@TheEnclave419 cold blooded. where's the love? no empathy for others?
52 here, and plan to work part-time after 62 to supplement the income I hopefully will be receiving from social security. Not sure if the numbers will still work out by then, with inflation and everything. Here's hoping. Mind if I ask what you do? I'm looking to start up a sole-proprietor cottage-industry in-home shop or buy a machine or something.
@@erdelegy You and me both!
I repair and restore vintage electronics. It's a dying art. Most people today are fine with their phones, or just tossing and buying new. Electronics repair USED to be an honorable trade. Before everything, including US, became disposable.
Although, being able to repair EVERYTHING in my house, has saved me many, many thousands of dollars.
@erdelegy The young generation deserves this hellhole economy. None of us have empathy and love for others. We're all so greedy and selfish, more than any other generation before, it's sickening to see.
This was all done by design
Facilitated in March 2020
@@JohnS-il1dr It started way before that. The moment Nixon opened up china and took us off the silver standard, followed by the carter moron creating the department of education to destroy American intellect and innovation, then NAFTA by that arkansas pdf file ended domestic manufacturing well before a single robot was building things.
Much earlier than 2020 haha
@aliveonmoonrocks Exactly in the u.s 1800s, when rich folks started gathering in secret. It has been global for quite a while now. The bad folks have risen to the top everywhere in the world and are in control
There are too many people. It must be addressed.
I’m 43. The other day I was visiting my parents and said that I will need to learn self-defence for when I have to fight for food as an elderly man. They laughed. I don’t have the heart to tell them it wasn’t a joke.
Are you British?
I live in SE Wisconsin about a mile in from Lake Michigan’s shoreline. I’m aware I will be at the epicenter of the US Water War.
@@lifevest1huh?
If the time comes that you’re fighting for food you’ll learn that years of jiujitsu are no match for the strength of an index finger. If you have no weapon then you’re just holding the food for someone else
@@rickfastly2671 The great lakes have the largest supply of fresh water in the US, possibly the world
This is not an American-only issue. Here in Central Europe we gen Y and younger don't expect to ever retire either.
it's a late-stage capitalism issue. A pyramid-scheme issue.
Everywhere else is the same. The rich get richer, the poor become even poorer
Same in NZ. Time for a correction.
Well we dont get children so in a decade or so all that we build belongs to the migrants.
Born in 1980 im 44 now and have 16k in the bank, i pay 630 a week rent from my 1040 a week i earn, then insurance, food, power and maybe one take out meal. broke until next week. I'm from New Zealand. a 2 bedroom 1950's built mouldy damp unit will set you back 1 million dollars here, no garden and parking maybe for one car. But heres the kicker, You have to have 20% of the value of the property to even be considered to buy it. So you have to save 200k to buy, spend 1.8M -2.2M on a 30 year mortgage at about 1200 a week mortgage payment. Then you need another 28k a year for homeowners insurance, water rates 3k a year, council rates 5k a year. And oh you will need about 80-100k to make the house habitable. I have given up on owning and i invest all in stocks, crypto and term deposits. I wont have a home when i retire but i will have close to 1M by the time im 70. Sad fuckin life.
Let's face it, the Amish understood this long ago; hats off to them.
Religion good, hedonism bad. It's not like the Amish have a monopoly on that concept lol
@@CultureCrossed64 It's more than just religion, it's their way of life. They keep it simple, which probably not only helps their community prosper in both self sufficiency as well as their mental health/state of mind.
I'm an atheist myself, in my opinion there's plenty of both good and bad that's come from religion
They have their downsides too. One of my best friend's dad is completely shunned from there community because he chose to leave. I don't think it is morally right to essentially disown your own child just because they don't believe what you do.
However, I agree they were right about a lot of things.
@@CultureCrossed64 religion is based on ignorance, your comment is proof of this.
@@bedtimestories1065
Their protecting their way of life, removing penalties and shunning is what allowed the modern world to slide into degeneracy. In the past, people were ostracized from societies all the time, certainly was preferable to being executed or imprisoned.
Hell, it's not even restricted to the Amish, a lot of modern families do the same:
1. A family member married a single mother, ostracized.
2. A family member married another ethnicity or race (r same gender), ostracized.
3. A family member has different political views, ostracized.
And that's okay, people have the right to distance themselves from sources of stress in their lives.
When you're 30, politicians will raise the retirement age to 70.
When you're 40, politicians will raise the retirement age to 80.
When you're 50, the only retirement is dying while on the job.
It's a downward spiral.
I try to be a good man. I don’t want to have to become a monster just to get ahead in this life
Wake up.
Welcome to humanity. You should have started investing the SECOND your baby feet touched the ground.
Nothing good about demons
I agree. I can very well die today and this can be my last message. And if I do, I will live and die a good man
@@kirdot2011 demons aren't real bro 🙄
Well crap Pelosi is a multimillionaire "public servant" and doesn't retire. So what chance do I have?
Biden house outlived the Crypt Keeper!
She is greedy that’s why keep stealing
I feel your pain lol 😭
because she wants power, wealth isn’t enough
It's not her fault it's the billionaires.
I went from $58k to $85k from switching jobs twice over the course of 7 years. Don’t let boomers fool you, payment won’t keep pace with your skills or cost of living if you stay at a job forever.
Most of us older millennials have zero loyalty to a job. They pay me more? I'm out. I have good bosses/owners which TBH is very rare. Loyalty to good PEOPLE not to a "GOOD" company.
I just allways answer the phone to the agencies. If its more I move. I've quit and started something else twice in one month once.
Depends on where you live. $80 000 is living comfortably here
@@SirRichardHardenThicke Imagine you have a really good boss in your current job but you get an offer from another company with a good pay increase, would you leave?
@@SirRichardHardenThickeno loyalty over a paycheck.
This is why the firm belief of letting kids think they can be anything they want to be, is the most cruel, immoral and unethical thing humanity has laid down on.
why do you think we have kids being being taught they can choose their gender? because it is the only illusion of choice we have left.
It was a way of hypnotizing ourselves that we don't have to take care of our kids and plan for the future. Traditional cultures that don't do that and know that's absolute nonsense soar ahead of modern cultures.
You can be anything you want to be as long as it's wanted by the rich people.
@@clray123 Yeah no lie on that one!!!!
Kids can be anything they want: gay, transgender, pansexual or any of the leters in LGBT+. Can't be straight tho, that's racist
I talked to a lot of guys who had 30 to 40 years in the union.
I asked him why they're not retiring.
A lot of them answered it's for health insurance.
But many more of them just said something along the lines of "I'd be bored without work"
That's the saddest thing ever to me. Someone spend so much of their life working that they don't even know what to do with themselves if they don't work.
But the sad part is they're working and they don't even really like it it's just all they ever knew.
And none of the younger people can move up cuz all of good positions are clogged with people who are only there because they'd be bored...
Wanting to keep working is not sad. What's sad is that you think everyone is not happy with their work, because there are people who do enjoy what they do for a living. I could get 100 million dollars tomorrow and you'd still find me tinkering with a computer because I love doing that. Of course, I'll intersperse that with copious amounts of travel, but I won't ever truly stop "working" because I like doing that, even if just for my own personal projects.
@@dumdumgarcia2830 sounds more like you want a hobby tbh.
A job is not traveling all the time and tinkering with a computer.
They need to step down and make way for the next generation. The kids need decent jobs too, they don't want to work for shit pay and zero growth potential. You can't blame them.
@@metalmike570I can't step down. My job is doing biomedical research in Asian cultures. It requires a baccalaureate and a doctorate and years of experience. I know three languages. I don't know of any young person trying to replace me. It took about 25 years of schooling. No young person I know wants to do that much work. So I get paid $$$ per hour because I have have extreme job security. Maybe if younger generations learned rare skills, that would help them.
@@hotrodhunk7389What would you do if you didn't have to work?
You can't tell me America isn't it's way to becoming a 3rd world country. The only difference is dollar still has power over other currencies.
It's not just America all of the OECD nations are becoming like this.
Because we link it to oil. If that’s gone people we see what it’s based on: nothing
From my understanding, a lot of countries are suffering , not just American. Research info outside of the US…whatever happens in one country will eventually affect us and vice versa.
It’s because of illegal aliens . You import the third world then you become it
The world reserve currency has changed many times over history. On average they only last 94 years. The US has been the WRC since 1921 sooo... our time is just about up.
American Dream? Nah, we're living in the American Nightmare.
No shit.. no matter how hard i work i can’t ever get ahead😊
more like global nightmare, by the looks of it
What's the George Carlin line? It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. 😡
They just use us and make us dig our own graves.
cody rhodes🥲
We are taxed close to 40% overall, not including the tax we pay buying groceries/supplies/internet/phone, yet we get SO LITTLE in return. At the amount we're taxed, we would have universal healthcare and free tuition. Yet we STILL pay for health insurance AND dental (cause teeth aren't included as a part of your body?!). We're also not guaranteed Ss IF we retire (we paid into it for decades!!), current retirees are barely getting by, while illegal migrants get $13k in food stamps and $5k in cash. Engraged is an understatement as to how I'm feeling. This country rots from within.
Our tax dollars subsidize corporations. We have companies paying so little that full time employees require financial aid to merely survive. We subsidize industries that make the most wealthy more wealthy off the backs of the working class.
Corporations are now buying up housing. In some instances whole communities. We will live in a society in which no one owns anything. Corporate greed will lead to nation if indentured servants. And the politicians are in the pocket of corporate America. Corporate leaders and politicians are all traitors to the country as well as every hard working American.
13k in foodstamps lol shut the fuck up
You know who has Universal Healthcare? Israel. You know who pays for it? American taxpayers.
Meanwhile corpos and billionaires pay almost nothing.
Illegal immigrants are getting jack shit, I should know. I am one, if i don't work I don't get pay that day. No money=go hungry. Don't you have to be a resident to be able to take advantage from those government programs?
STOP THINKING RAISING WAGES WILL DO ANYTHING. WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON BRINGING COSTS DOWN. HIGHER WAGES WILL MEAN EVEN HIGHER INFLATION AND PRICES
So many morons try to shift blame to corporate greed alone while completely giving the government the pass...
Read up on what inflation and deflation are, you're unlikely to actually want the latter and what it entails.
Given the state of the world, I'd be surprised if I even live to 65. It all seems so bleak now.
If that's what you believe, make every minute count.
@@MrChannel2010 i don't think there is much time left for humanity, find Allah and invest in the after life while u still can...
@@2few-rt8fd ALLAH does not exist so we're are all doomed.
@@MrChannel2010that’s why you gotta live fast and hard, always hard. 😉
what most really can't see is WHO is really DOING this and WHO is "they"... And that's the reason why all of this is happening to us. Do you know who "they" are? Starts with a j - vvs
The Simpsons predict that the only job that will be open will be caring for the elderly in the retirement homes.
Underrated comment, true but sad 😢.
Paid by ...........what? Food stolen from pensioners?
Nah the AI go take care of them
@@entrepreneurjoeytv2841 Little do you know that you will be the elderly person who had grown to hate AI in your earlier years because it replaced you. And now you can't bathe yourself nor change yourself without, 24/7 help.
Hah, those jobs are horrible.
By "killing off" I mean making it practically impossible for the lower class to survive and poverty will cause them to die out on their own.
Pelosi literally slipped up and stated that population reduction is a goal of the Democrat party in a press conference.
We wil have a revolution before that happens
AN AMERICAN DREAM LYRICS (NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND)
If your goal in life is to retire, just never work.
Jack ass🗣️💀
Living in the woods is a better alternative😂
@@darknessinc.Inc830 you cant live in the woods still. government demands taxes and that land would require it. Otherwise, hope they never find you.
@@kennethyates1725
If they do you can just take the feds with you on your way out 🤷🏼♂️
@@ohgeezrick2019 swamp puppies might get em. leave it to ol amos moses.
6 years of college, 5 years of trade school, 50 hours a week, over an hour drive each way, and I'm barley getting by. I paid off all my student loans, but now I get to pay for the younger generations too. I'm getting fucked from all sides
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Should've just done trade school and skipped college. Plenty of people doing well with just that and no student debt to pay. Would've been a great starting point for you.
@dumdumgarcia2830 in my case I have to respectfully disagree. I got my degrees in physical education, health science, psychology and a good philosophy minor, and I use those skills every day.
Trade school also gave me skills I use everyday as a homeowner of a 124 year old fixer-upper turned into a beautiful home. However, a few months ago my employer sent me to demo what i was told was "general exhaust and safe" but it was sulfuric acid exhaust covered in asbestos and I uncovered emails proving they knew. I reported it to my union, but they refuse to acknowledge my accident report because the union is also covering up 22 years of this company (VBI LLC) breaking the CBA and stealing benifits. I'm missing at least 20K and have lung damage insurence companies won't cover because it's a workplace incident with no record.
Point of the story, the working man gets screwed no matter where he tries to sell his labor. If you read all this, thank you. It feels good to vent to someone who listened, the union and the lawyers just don't care.
Well.. There is a guy 81 years old working in the highest government position..
Antonio?
@@govtom4pretty sure he meant Biden
He ain’t working 😂
@@TheSwedishHistorian You’re right. I wonder how old his body doubles are?
And a 78 yr old trying to replace him
Corporatism that's what's happening.
In the 50s, the USA ranked in the top 3 most capitalist countries; now, it is 25th and is becoming a Corporatist country.
Been a corporation since the Act of 1871
What are you gonna do? Eat the rich 😂😂😂
@@memsysrkill
Corporatism is a stage of capitalism lol. Without capitalism the system can’t be lead to corporatism. 😂😂😂😂 bro is completely lost. The “country” itself is a corporation, and they have a branch in South America, Chile, that’s why they just need their passport to come here no visa, approval or anything need!
@@speedibusrex how you gonna do that when they have everything 🤣🤣
Remember "Married With Children" from the 1980s? Al Bundy was a lowly schlub who worked at a shoe store - but he was still able to buy a house in the suburbs and support a family of four, all by himself. Nobody watching the show back then thought there was anything strange about that at all.
By 1995 I thought it was strange and unreallistic. After 2000 housing prices doubled
and continued to climb. So by late 2007 and 2008 the bubble busted.
we would rather import workers and export jobs instead of doing what's best for our country. simple as that.
Don't say "WE", it's "THEM".
Profit > wellbeing of the nation
And the people say the "good" guys won the WW2.
@@Cyricist001 the good guys did not win WW2. I’d rather be speaking German
@@biometal770 You would be killed for not being pure Aryan buddy...
The boomers got away with it.
I’m just happy many of them are still alive to the see how their actions have effected this country. Most useless generation to ever exist.
and didnt leave you nothing? bad luck then.
F the boomers.
Some of them are suffering too
It's not the boomers... it's those in power.
here in Slovenia we say:'' i only need to work today and for the rest of my life and then im free''.
Sam še dons pa do smrti grem na šiht, pol sm pa frej😂
@@nikavsec814 tu sm meu u glavi ja haha
The Slovenians I've met are horrible greedy people who love paying low wages while hiring recent immigrants.
By the newest statistics, Slovenia has overtaken Britain's middle class in living standard, that's how hard the Brits dropped the ball.
Pozdrav iz Rovinja.
Unless you work in a mortuary, in which case you need to come in to work today, and for the rest of your life, and a few days more before you get put into the grave.
"When all other rights are taken away the right of rebellion is made perfect." -T.Paine
The Rapper?! Sike
gl with that. paine didnt have to deal with a massive hi-tech security and surveillance apparatus in place.
@@Gizziiusa The longer the chain the easier it is to break.
@@presidentmerkinmuffley6769Give us the real example of how easy it is to break?
@@presidentmerkinmuffley6769 in order to effectively rebel, you have to mobilize.
to mobilize, you have to organize.
gl with organizing b4 the feds come and plant some drugs or whatever in your home, then raid it.
they arent concerned with that anymore. havent for a long time actually...hence why they have narrowed it down to pre-thought crime, etc on lone wolfs.
you heard me right, they are so advanced now that its only "worry" is solo lone wolfs.
Ever heard of Ted Kysanski ? Ta-DA !!!
No way I'm ever getting in a driverless Uber. Those cars will drive you right into an oncoming train.
No way I’m ever getting in a car with a complete stranger….people said that about taxi cabs in 1907
Bro mentioning the best case
Your hypocrisy lol
Or straight to Uncle Ray Ray’s house
@@rashaidirvin6541self driving cars are not safe rn
America is no longer a country you come to to make it. It’s a country you come to when you’ve already made it.
Some make it. Others don't. The true American dream for some and a nightmare for others.
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The illegal immigrants rushing over the border daily beg to disagree.
No one should be coming to America to "make it". They should fix their own countries and stop exploiting America. America is for Americans, no one else.
@@dumdumgarcia2830 well it's also been proven they are given a lot of hand outs to make it in the states. Basically, you lot are being replaced!
Only rich people can afford families now. Bringing children into the world would be cruel to them.
I'm an airplane mechanic with a stay at home wife and 5 kids so far. It's entirely possible to live well in any time, you just have to rethink how to do it.
@@Onemadfiddler you saying so far is crazy, you want more kids after 5 ?
@@odysseusdadon1234that mentality is crazy. He's not thinking about them as humans living in a world far above him. Alot of parents are actually selfish out here
@@Onemadfiddler Can you ensure your kids will have a bright future? It's hard to imagine with stagnant wages, increasing inflation, and endless government spending.
@@Onemadfiddler I hope that you make enough to provide for your children on your own, and not relying on handouts from the government (aka taxpayers) to do so........
The western dream is dead, my single mom in New Zealand bought her 3 bedroom house in 1983 for $29,000, same house in now worth approx 500,000. Wages aren’t keeping up with salaries. Just last week I was stupid and did 4 OT, and the government took 1/2 of it, then the question is why work hard. I’ll be departing the west in a few years to live in South East Asia.
Me too. They take half my overtime in the US
Just do, as more in New Zealand does.....Build A Tiny House.
Don't wait, act now. Bye.
Wages aren't keeping up with costs?
There are still places in the west where a person can get a house for 3x the gross of a single income.
In 1910, did people in the West basically all have detached homes they bought?
If I ever end up working at McDonalds I'll take my sweet time actually making the burger look like the picture on the menu, and your fries will always be hot. I got yalls back.
You are a keeper
As long as there's no cum in it. I'd appreciate it
You must be Japanese
Thank you, good sir
Need more like you FR
peasants being able to live well was a brief period of history, were returning to the mean
Peasants had it tough since most work was physical labor BUT they also had a more relaxed pace of work, had the winter months free and a LOT more holidays over the year. So while modern people generally work less intense, they do work FAR longer and that leads to overwork and even death.
Not true, by many metrics even medieval peasants had things pretty good. Their own land and home (ok it was probably leased, but basically theirs in return for a share of the produce). Only busy during harvest months, plus lots of holidays thanks to the church. It’s also not talked about much, but men at the bottom of the social ladder could actually find a decent wife to have kids with. Not so easy today
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Cherish the sweet memories then. All you got right now...
@@Cyricist001 People in their 20s are dropping dead from heart attacks
The issue is, since so much is shaped around an old education system, while everything else is advancing, means that people in charge are too scared to actually change it.
I don't think scared is the right term.
The people in charge want to stay in charge, therefore they resist and push back on change as much as possible to keep the throne per say
And the fact that People are inherently selfish and only care about themeselves and their Kin
@@adammurphy7562per se.
yeah, they should get with the times and start teaching MMT instead of outdated neoclassical stuff
We are about to become the hardest and toughest generation ever. Or crumble under the pressure. Your choice. Play the game, to destroy the game and rebuild it. They want a great reset. We will give them what they want, but not how they want it.
AN AMERICAN DREAM LYRICS (NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND). Like Hell ...
So Lets give them far, far more than they could ever, ever, ever have bargained for!!
Let's do it lads!!
Knights Of The Old Republic?
Wow, so edgy! LOL
*I plan to retire at the end of 2025 at 62 after 36 years in Telecom as a sales engineer. My wife will retire in May 2026 and she's loving life! But walking away from a good income stream and building the nest egg to living from the nest egg is a scary proposition couple with the alarming recession and CPI report*
I feel your pain mate, as a fellow retiree, I'd suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. For me, I had my share of ups and downs when I first started looking for a consistent passive income so I hired an expert advisor for aid, and following her advice, I poured $30k in value stocks and digital assets, Up to 200k so far and pretty sure I'm ready for whatever comes.
My advice: for newbies to grow financially this year, invest. Saving is good, but investing elevates your finances. Why newbie make huge losses on trade is because investing without proper guidance can lead to mistakes and losses. that will stop you from trading, this has been one of the biggest problem to new traders, I've learned this from my own experience
Tracy Britt Cool Consulting was my hope during the 'bear summer' last year. I made so many mistakes but also learned so much from it, and of course from Tracy.
I'm surprised that this name is being mentioned here, I stumbled upon one of her clients testimonies on CNBC news last week...
I keep hearing a lot about Mis. Tracy Britt Cool Consulting O'Reilly, she must be really good
I'm just gonna buy a tent, and smoke rocks on Miami Beach, and panhandle.
That’s illegal now lol
Lol you and everyone else now
They made it illegal... 🙄🤮
As a Miami resident, you could just go to jail. 3 hots and a cot, I’ve told myself I’d rather go homeless than ever pay above 70% of my income on housing.
@@XanVicious I spent too much time there already, and got too many habits to manage for that.
*And no one is complaining when billionaires every year donate billions in cash or stock to there're own charitable companies that's operated by their kids and family members.*
The y got the game figured out...But how about you??? Eehh??
Something will happen, believe me, and we'll go back to swords and horses.
Knights with AKs!!!
Then you can live out your medieval fantasy of dying from a splinter at 32 because you're not going to be a knight or a feudal lord, or a noble or a king, you are going to be a serf living in squalor.
I'll probably get a donkey.
Einstein was asked what weapons will be used in world war 3 and he said he did not know but he knew the weapons for world war 4. Rocks and sticks.
And dragons.
I’m in the uk and I will never retire. I’m 41. My dad just retired in his 60s and is struggling. Life’s hard
Sh..t will hit the fan by then anyway
@@s3ra9h1m well yeah definitely
You literally have nothing to lose, do you want to work forever for nothing just to scrap by? Or do you want to go do something absolutely wild and be heard?
Move to a remote town and you can live comfortably for a while until the lizard people eventually come around to monetize your little slice of heaven. It's bound to happen.
At least you're not speaking German.
It's almost to the point where I'd rather die now. When society no longer serves the individual, the individual has no incentive to participate. When the individual is forced to participate with nothing in return, that's slavery.
If AI takes over everything and the people no longer have viable jobs who do they expect to buy the stuff they’re selling.
The markets will just shift to target the rich
Payment in installments. Can’t afford that $80 grocery bill? Don’t worry, pay in installments of $25 over the course of 4 weeks. See what I did there?
@@lifevest1 Love the 25% interest charged [on that principal $80] but in 2025 forward that projection is too low (already is); more like 55%-70%. But yeah, the concept is already in action.
You do realize parts of this video were made using AI, right?
@@Draketheminer yeah I know
I wish there were people in the right places that truly wanted to create a solution instead of having cooperations and greedy leaders running the ship.
Problem is that good people don't want power, only the more questionable people want it, and want to badly enough to do questionable things to get it
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Humans will always eventually find a way to R&D their way to labor obsolescence, even with the "right people" you talk about. Automation of work has long been a goal of humans. Blaming greed is a red herring, robots have always been a threat to take jobs away.
Because then they would have to work or suffer like us. And, of course they can't have that.
Newer generation in US: What the hell is a pension?
Companies: Don't worry about it, take your 1% 401k match and be grateful peasant.
Plantations here we go!!
My company doesn't even offer a 401k match lol 😑
Pensions will never really be sustainable, not with the growing number of old people living longer. If everyone learns and takes financial literacy to heart, coupled with meaningful reforms that allow for cheaper medical costs and housing, 401ks should be a fine compromise.
Now you need a $100k degree to get a $15 an hour job
Unless you learn a trade.
@@ChimpingBulldogThe trades are too brutal man. Currently working one right now and it was a terrible decision.
Start your own business.
Don’t forget the 10 years experience!
McDonald right now totally full with intellectual derelicts aka university graduates...sweet!
Jokes on you, I don't plan on making it to retirement age.
Don't you dare go hollow
A world where you cant afford to have children...future generations will thank us.
Except they won’t exist, if they aren’t born
Tell this to all muslims
@@simulatednatas y’all reducing your own gene pool being sold by western propaganda and psyops lmfao
@@stephenfowlie742 kids cost literally like $5 a day. How expensive is fucking milk and bread? Clothes are cheap, etc. I grew up poor, when I buy something nice like a new car, I cherish it
@@Shahzad-KhanI'm guessing you're extremely ignorant, or trolling. Legit can't tell. Upon a babies birth, we in the US immediately pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $10,000-$20,000. Then comes the cost of all their vaccines, then yes, food is there. But then there's schooling. Does your child need to use the bus? You're paying $30 a day for that privilege. We only go downhill from here. Have to work to pay for all this? That'll cost you half your salary to watch your child while you're at work.
The government takes a nibble here, a nibble there, and they take with a different tax at every opportunity. It might not seem like much at each occurrence, but it adds up and subtracts from workers’ wallets
Now they are calling them "fees"
Spot on. A nibble there and here is chunks accumulated
90% of income goes to tax.
A Million Here! A Million There!...
A friend of my had another job lined up and ready to leave his current one. When I noticed a few weeks later that he was still driving the same company vehicle, I'd asked what happened. He said they gave him a raise, and some paid training as well. Sometimes smaller business are better to work for which is why it's such a shame they've been under attack for decades.
Under attack? LOL, small business aren't directly targeted by anyone, but like any business big or small, they have to remain competitive in the markets they serve in. There are plenty of small businesses thriving today, there's no grand sinister plan to destroy them.
@@dumdumgarcia2830Outside of covid where they were illegal to operate while corporations were allowed. Biggest wealth transfer in history btw
They talk about this “great reset” we need one of our own, we need a total reset if the govt
The thing is, until then they will make the stupid people in different countries shoot each other instead of the govt. I mean, just look at Ukraine and Russia today (or Israel and Arabs).
they wont allow us
The American dream lasted about as long as an actual dream does. It was a fantasy- sold, bought, and now out of stock.
So wise. Wow. So helpful.
Fuck your nihilism and blame shifting. The country is going to hell because of you.
For the record, I mean you specifically. You and those like you. Sneering fools who repeat faux intellectual bs they heard from Noam Chomsky.
The boomers bought it, those that came after can pay of that debt.
Still people who made the American dream come true. A Musician that used to be unknown, is suddenly a millionaire.
AN AMERICAN DREAM LYRICS (NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND)
As a 41 year old with no college degree, when I think about this, it is terrifying. I can’t even find a decent job as it is. And with new and more educated potential employees continuously flowing in, it will only get more difficult. I took a chance at bettering my life by becoming certified as a personal trainer, and while this work is gratifying, it barely pays the bills. The remainder of my life seems bleak. I feel like I will be working until I die. I suppose I should have thought of this while I was in my 20’s but unfortunately I was partying and doing drugs. It took me until I was 37 to get my shit together and it was probably too late. Just thinking about this is horribly depressing and I’m really having trouble keeping a positive mindset.
Go to the trades.
Pipeline, Wild turbines, nuclear power, ect. All 100k a year after a couple years
@@SamLee-ds7fi Keep dreaming. Trades are the easiest to replace with cheap illegals.
@@SamLee-ds7fiplumber, electrician, hvac technician mri tech
@@SamLee-ds7fi yep yep, don't forget oil fields
That alright, you'll be dead in not too long from now. Each year keeps getting shorter. Enjoy the ride I guess
It's almost like scalping the general public to within an inch of bankrupcy leads to lack of children, lack of savings, lack of retirement, and ultimately lack of people capable of doing any meaningful work.
"It's called the American Dream, 'cause you to be asleep to believe it."
George saw it all coming.
Oh, he tried warning us.
AN AMERICAN DREAM LYRICS (NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND)
Ditching my employer for better pay, its the only solution and in my case it really screws them because a replacement costs more than me now
That’s tough 🤷♂️
Excellent call!! Well done!!!!...
In Australia the same thing is true. The Australian dream to own a home, have kids, a good paying job etc is all dead. Shit im a disabled man and even when the Australian dream was alive i had little chance of making it. But now? Even the average non disabled non mentally ill person has no chance.
So ive given up. So I've decided to try and buy some land and put a tiny home on said land. Thats all i need. As for a family i don't want one nor can i afford one
In 1982 it took me 2 weeks to pay my yearly property tax bill.
Today it's 9 weeks
You have forgotten how checks work?
@@roobs4245 nonono it's 2 weeks of my INCOME
and now takes 9 weeks worth of my INCOME
@@roobs4245You dumb or slow?
Bro, I about to anyone who will listen about property taxes. This alone is so revealing about where our nation is. You cannot own property in the US. Even if you pay off the mortgage, you WILL pay rent in the form of property tax to the government. If you don't, they WILL come and take your home out from underneath you, with no regard for you and your family. I often wonder how in the world Americans ever let it get to this point
@@choosetolivefreeproperty and income taxes need to be abolished along with the “federal reserve”
Looks like some kind of Blade Runner/Fallout/Mad Max/Book of Eli future is closer than we think....
Basically every video Moon makes is a variation on one of those dystopian movies
Too late!! Happened in the '80s... but no one noticed. Remarkably!!
Enter The Matrix: 1999
Alarmist hogwash. Do you actually know the backstory of each of those franchises because it obviously looks like you don't if you think you can get an amalgamation of those universes based on the video.
14:45 These trucks are going to become targets for organized gangs. This is so foolish.
Buy a weapon. Learn bushcraft. Leave everything behind.
How am I supposed to attract woman in that scenario? Or should I just learn to fuck the forest critters? Lol
Until a ranger kicks you off of public land or you have to pay tax on private land
Buy a house in the city first, pay it off, rent it out and buy land. Then you have passive income to live on your land. Homestead. Goodbye society, im not playing your game. But if you didnt buy that house 15 years ago you will have to make do with drawing passive income from index funds.
@@MrWackozacko first, this is the biggest problem we face;also, if people would pay and rent, they would but you can't buy and make it worth it unless you can already afford it.
@@kennethyates1725 Thats right, luckily for me i saw all this coming when i was a kid so had been planning since childhood. Im going to start a commune and help as many people as i can but the rest of yall need to find a way
What happens when a large portion of the population can no longer afford the products and services of these companies ?
Realistically though, What are they going to do? Stop buying food and renting a place to live?
"You will own nothing, and you will be happy,"
You don't think the sick evil fucks who pull the strings behind the scenes didn't think of that?
Everything is by design. Watch what happens in 2030. It's about to get a whole lot worse.
whats going to happen then is bots will be buying and selling everything.
What happened when the horses were no longer needed after cars were introduced? Did those horses retire and live long lives? Or were they dispatched? We are the horses. They plan the same fate for us.
@@likwidshoe i assume we put them down. too many of them. horses used to be common and now they are a luxury once again. funny how that works.
Student loan debt doesn't help, it's modern day indentured servitude.
No it’s not. The average student loans are half the average income of college graduates in the US. People can save a lot by going to community college and transfer to a state school and get a solid degree in STEM.
Some people get useless degrees from high prestige universities and live HCOL coastal cities and cry when they can’t get an earn enough to pay student loans, rent and save for an expensive house.
College educate people in the LCOL midwestern cities are doing much better.
If you served 4 years active duty college is/was free.
Having student loan debts is not indentured servitude. Making taxpayers pay your outstanding debts is indentured servitude for THEM
Being an American is indentured servitude. Join us in Mexico!
I doesn't help that these kids don't seem to know what they want to do with their lives. A PhD in youtube isn't going to cut it.
When people are forced to Eat the Bugs but can't afford them they will be fined or arrested for eating Bugs in the Parks.
Instead of Game Wardens checking a person's catch they will be checking your jars and nets for your catch to make sure you are catching Hatchery Bugs.
Funny thing is bugs have never been cheap. Always thought about buying powdered ants as a protein supplement before it became a headline, and it was always exponentially more expensive than whey.
@@Pwn3540 You mean whey more expensive?
Latest Thriller: "Bugs In The Park". Anyone watched it?? What's the story line.? The main takeaway?
Our bloated government is destroying the ability for average people to live.
Unchecked capitalism eventually ends up with people being treated as objects to be used and abused.
We don't live under capitalism. This is corporatism.
@@likwidshoe Unchecked capitalism is pretty much corporatism.
@@botezsimp5808 This is what you get outside of systems that practice free trade coupled with strong borders. It's a natural consolidation of power.
We should try the middle road then, the third position.
@@Cyricist001 what is "the third position"?
House prices in Colorado went from a 180000 almost $200000 to now over a million. Just in 15 year's. Brutal
Y’all? Every time a Moon vid comes through, I’m Leonardo DiCaprio, finger point meme status. Can’t be so damned depressed when yah don’t feel so alone, you know? 😅🍻
Dirty Establishment politician and elitist, that’s who you can blame.
If you have the intelligence of a toddler then yeah
And who votes for them?
And the smol hats
@@Pwn3540antisemite..
@ilyas80s65 can you explain why most of the HedgeFund managers are Jevvish? Larry Fink manages BlackRock and is buying up houses. Why do they make NGOs that bring in mass migration? Why are they degens like Epstein?
Tiny Hat Gang laughing all the way to the CENTRAL BANK...
Yep
there's a reason why Spain had its golden age, right after expelling them for usury.
Oy vey how did RUclips allow this comment to stay up!
Juicy!
Berg Witz Baum Stein Every Single Fucking Time
The new American dream is to live in your already paid off suv and be able to travel the country and work remotely in your vehicle that you furnished into a tiny mobile home. But wait until they start charging people to park on the side of public streets for night. That is coming too
Retirement isn't about work vs. no work.
It's about the freedom to choose work or no work without consequences.
Big difference, and really cool if you can get there.
I think they wouldn’t 17:06
This is the real reason behind the euthanasia pods popping up currently.
Can you elaborate?
@@VeritasAequitas31415 There's news of a few countries, Switzerland and Canada iirc, that are beginning to offer right-to-die procedures for people with treatment resistant depression. I have a suspicion this procedure, were it to become normalized and adopted in other countries, would be used to clear out individuals who are financially and physically unwell too.
@@VeritasAequitas31415 There's news of countries, Switzerland and Canada iirc, beginning to offer euthanasia services for people with treatment resistant depression. I have a suspicion this procedure, were it to become normalized and adopted in other countries, would be used to address those who are financially and physically unwell too.
@@VeritasAequitas31415 There's news of countries, Switzerland and Canada iirc, beginning to offer *unalive* services for people with treatment resistant depression. I have a suspicion this procedure, were it to become normalized and adopted in other countries, would be used to address those who are financially and physically unwell too.
@@VeritasAequitas31415 I've tried several times, but youtube's auto flag bot keeps deleting my comment. Sorry.
I kinda needed this video. I've been in somewhat of an increasing mid-life crisis, with an increasing fear of my health failing sooner rather than later. This video was an important and helpful reminder that a long life is no longer worth it, and seeing it all end sooner rather than later will be a comfort because there's just no gold at the end of this rainbow. The longer I live, the longer I wake up every day in terror of losing a job I'll never be able to afford to leave. The only way to escape the constant terror of not being able to make a living anymore is when it's just no longer necessary.
no matter what happens, don't give up
It's sad but true, and I literally had the same exact thought just earlier today... Getting close to 40 and having some potential health issues arise but no health insurance so I have to continue on til the problems become unmanageable and then I'll die. But the thought did not make me sad, it was almost a sense of relief that I wouldn't have to struggle any more.... And that is SCARY, especially to know that others are thinking the same right now too 😕
Plan to do the same in three years in Canada. There’s no point anymore.
This is why i plan to purchase a house for both of my kids before they are even in double digits.
i wish you were my father.
I'm here if you ever think about adopting an adult
The government will find a way to disown you by means of taxes or by making war happen in your place (in which case your home property is the first thing which becomes worthless, with you unable to leave country with it).
The threat of automated trucking is overstated. AI can't unload those trucks, the plurality of loads aren't as simple as pulling up to a dock, and public sentiment is out the window when they start driving into school buses (doesn't matter if they're more safe than humans in that case). It currently has no means of responding to flaggers, police, poor road conditions, dirt roads, uncontrolled rail crossings, it can't respond to mechanical issues, it can't refuel itself, it can't chain up in the winter, it can't adjust straps or put down chocks etc etc.
It's use cases are going to be restricted to specific intermodal routes in limited geographic regions and even then your cost savings on drivers and even then your cost savings on drivers is going to be deeply offset by specialized mechanics and mobile response mechanics, special insurance, and downtime when you're trying to call some crappy call center in Delhi to reboot your 300,000 AI semi because it's doing donuts in the Walmart parking lot honking at a Waymo.
I don't think driverless trucks are coming any time soon. Assuming they perfect it well enough, The cost of such tech would be too expensive to be mainstream.
No it wouldn't. The cost is in training the model. Once you have that, you can copy it to millions of trucks at zero cost.
Cost of tech drops over time.
It will eventually come. I've already been to a restaurant where they have robots serving you. It IS coming
@@roobs4245 its proprietary tech. Aurora maybe one other company is working on driverless trucks in the us. It means they have to sell the technology to other companies. I am a trucker and I could be wrong but I would not expect this to be mainstream and replace jobs at mass scale for a while. And the trucking industries has a lot more issues to worry about.
skip the annoying paid promotion advert at 9:11
Jump ahead button exist now, but thanks for the consideration
As usual brilliant analysis.
"It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it".
-You know who.
AN AMERICAN DREAM LYRICS (NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND)AN AMERICAN
End stage capitalism is a pain.
You spelled Federal Reserve wrong.
@@c4662 Pst......the deferal reserve is NOT federal.
Better than peak socialism, where we'd all be dead for complaining about how awful it is.
From what I understand this isn't capitalism, since the tax is at least 50% and on top of that gov regulations creating monopolies, it's not a free market
@@Astraea7522This is socialism, next step is totalitarian communsim
its too dangerous for an old person to work at McDonalds. lots of fights happen there
😅😅😂😅😅😂😅😂
It's the new UFC.
Slippery floors too.
Sucks to be them, maybe they shouldn't have been asleep at the wheel while it was going on. This didn't happen overnight.
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The housing market is so bad, its impossible to get something affordable
Build a Tiny House. Where do you live?.
Depends on where you look. There are areas where costs are affordable, the question is if you actually would want to live there. But technically affordable.
You nailed the main reason for the cost of living crisis - the superrich buying up houses as assets, and (sometimes) renting them out for extortionate fees.
Solve that problem, and you'll find all the other issues like "wages aren't keeping up" etc suddenly aren't a problem at all.
“They’re gonna make you do this until you’re 90..”
"The greed of the few outweighs the needs of the many."
“The American dream”. More like The American nightmare
Nixon going off the gold standard in 1971 is a HUGE contributor to all of this globally
Nope, it happened wayyyyyy before Nixon.
Cough! Cough!! Cough!!!...Ahem...
My Father was an engineer. All he had was a High School diploma. Made 85K a year when he retired on January 2, 2000. I did 4 years in the military and have a Bachelors. In 2024 I STILL do not make what he made. LOL. Let alone a REAL pension, full medical.
We were educated and schooled by a system for a world that doesn't exist anymore
Age 70 and you retire to the soylent plant
Animal Farm...
@@infiniteunity1667 have you noticed the trend to get us more relaxed about what we consider food?
Can we blame 100% of this on billionaires ?
No just 99%
They should mention the Gini coefficient.
Maybe blame (((them))) if you want to spice things up
Blame the Jews
No, because the government has it's fair share of the blame as well
Boomers had it so good.... Not gonna lie, i have extreme resentment toward them for it......
That is illogical. They got lucky, that's it.
Mortgage rates in the 80s in the UK were 16% when many boomers were buying houses.
Don't fall for the Us vs. Them mentality. Hate usury, moneylending and greed - not a whole group of people.
@@roobs4245
And they made the future generations pay for it.
they had quality control for sure!!
i will change the world i promise. just wait 30 years.
It's so hard to have hope these days, I recently got charged for 158 dollars for a 6 minute virtual visit to the doctor. That kind of shit is putting me suicide watch.
Keep those phones ringing!!!