Why You'll Never Achieve The American Dream
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Before watching the video:
Yes, because I never lived in America, and don't have it's dreams =]
Have you figured out yet that objective political theory tends to adhere to laws similar to physics?
Please get some real plants, it really hurts me.
Maybe an epiprenum... Its very easy
@@72marshflower15 , точно. Закон Ломоносова-Лавуазье: то, что кого-то убыток, для другого -- прибыль))
"Lobbying: what every other country calls corruption and bribery"
Yep
In my country lobbying is literally illegal
As a young I heard lobby in US and it is okay. But it really looks like corruption. 😂
@@piccalillipit9211Good on you lot. The USA could learn a lot from you all.
@@Abdul-Akeem_Akinloye Well Im British but I live in Bulgaria - which is officially the most corrupt country in the EU. But this is BS. Its just that they are very BAD at corruption here - its small scale obvious stuff like cops taking $20 bribes.
The UK and the US have WAY more corruption - they just legalise it and give it job titles.
Don’t get in the way of my FREE-DUMBS!!!!! ‘Murica baby! /s😂
“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach. Then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.” - Huey P. Newton
Anonymous was supposed to do something about it. What happened to that?
Sounds like what happens before straight up revolution
There are no heroes! Where is the genius hacker exposing all the elites dirty secrets?
@@BlabbermouthRexwhat exactly are you expecting them to do?
@@Rastaferrari829 What they kept boasting they would.
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Government should be afraid of the people...
V for Vendetta??
@@bryschwagger9256 Indeed!
@@the_rubbish_bin Love that. *Heavily* underrated movie. I'm glad my partner shared it with me.
@@bryschwagger9256 One of my favourite films
Yeah they can only take so much.
More and more people might face a tough time in retirement. Low-paying jobs, inflation, and high rents make it hard to save. Now, middle-class Americans find it tough to own a home too, leaving them without a place to retire.
The increasing prices have impacted my plan to retire at 62, work part-time, and save for the future. I'm concerned about whether those who navigated the 2008 financial crisis had an easier time than I am currently experiencing. The combination of stock market volatility and a decrease in income is causing anxiety about whether I'll have sufficient funds for retirement.
This is precisely why I like having a portfolio coach guide my day-to-day market decisions: with their extensive knowledge of going long and short at the same time, using risk for its asymmetrical upside and laying it off as a hedge against the inevitable downward turns, their skillset makes it nearly impossible for them to underperform. I've been utilizing a portfolio coach for more than two years, and I've made over $800,000.
How can I reach this person?
‘’Aileen Gertrude Tippy’’ is her name. She is regarded as a genius in her area and works for Empower Financial Services. She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.
I checked Aileen up out of curiosity and i must say i am impressed by her Credentials. i emailed her already, waiting on her response.
because you have to be asleep to believe in it
These exact words went through my mind when I saw the title of this video
Should it concern me that I thought of the tiktok conspiracy lady first before Carlin when I read this comment lol
@@chiriko7335the who?
So true
@@chiriko7335yes
As the boardgame Monopoly tried to teach us: the board doesn't get any bigger, and once one player owns all the properties... the game is over and all but one player loses.
Yup, the game monopoly has an interesting backstory. It was originally invented (by a woman and basically stolen) as a lesson to show just that.
the game is over when the angriest flips the board
and the board we are being played on is the earth. we must defeat the burgeoisie before they destroy our planet completely. there is no planet b.
It's actually a very poor lesson because it presents a world where the capitalists are ruthlessly competing and only taking money from each other. In reality the capitalists would be finding ways to avoid direct competition which each other in order to extract maximum rents from non-players. Then at the end of a fixed number of turns everyone is far wealthier and the player who has extracted the most profits from "the board" (aka society) would be the winner.
@@JimmyJacpotsSo the guillotine it is.
It’s to late, most people don’t change until they hit rock bottom, which is a common mistake of all humanity.
"A generation lost in space, with no time left to start again"
The American Dream = to possess things we don't want, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't even like.
😂💯💯💯💯!!!
"We buy things we don't want with money we don't have to impress people we don't like... all to try to grasp a power that we will never taste"
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
"Working jobs we hate to buy s*** we don't need"
I literally would be happy with just my apartment's rent being NBD. That and affordable food. Dont even care about healthcare. Ive made my peace with the implications.
In the American ideal of having no kings over us, we eventually just formed a new royal class of oligarchs; we're now all serfs in a technofeudalist world where everything is owned by (land)lords and merchant kings.
The idea that as a species, we have evolved out of a system where a small subset of population controlling the rest 99% has always been a myth. Maybe someday, but biological evolution simply don't move that quickly.
Best and most underrated comment on this video! 💯👏👏
The Robber Barons put themselves in power. The people who cast the votes decide nothing, the people who count the votes decide everything
Underrated
And oligarch/plutocrat scumbags
You know the older I get the more this just makes sense
@Kingoftheironfist656 And the longer that the working class stays inactive, the more the capitalists will continue to scam us. We need some serious organizing!
It’s called a dream because when you wake up you understand it’s not real
@austinpowers1999 The question is: What should we do, after we wake up, after we gain our consciousness?
UNITE@@RoughDetails
Socialist Revolution @@RoughDetails
@@davidecatani3426 Oh yeah...give the government all your stuff and hope it redistributes it...Surely that's never gone wrong before...Or how about someone working at mcdonalds making just as much as a doctor, yeah that's fair, makes sense...clearly they're both doing equally as much for society...Supply and demand? nah what's that, fake? Wait...why are we out of stuff?
And socialism is just Communism-Lite...
@@RoughDetailsI've been searching for the exit since I woke up
The system isnt broken. Its working exactly as designed.
This is also my reflex response every time I hear that. I add that the current main beneficiaries are trippin’ balls because it looks like the jig is about up…
“Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you with wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”
No design, just nature.
Yesss BUT, as a right leaning capitalist myself, it seems CRAZY to me how others deny and feign ignorance to the natural shortcomings of the model and refuse to do something about it. They generally answer with some sort of rant about how much worse socialism and comunism is. That is totally beside the point!
@@kenim Can you prove there is any short coming with owning your own property instead of the government doing so? Alternatives being worse is not besides the point at all, you have no viable alternative that preserves any ounce of personal freedom.
Prove and explain the shortcomings that are due to private property ownership aka capitalism, and provide a solution that doesn't have the same issues.
@@LiberatedMind1what’s natural about man made situations ?
my new dream is not dieing of microplastic buildup before I'm 45.
More micro plastic in the ocean than fish? Think of the stock market though bro. Won't anybody think about the poor billion dollar corporations and their margins?
Oh I'm sure I'm full of em. My job had me working with epoxy dust and silica powder for years. It's only a matter of time now.
While I'm sure they are unhealthy for us, the fact remains that in most of the developed world (except the US, as it doesn't have universal health care like 96%+ of the developed world does and has the lowest life expectancy of the developed world), average life expectancy has been constantly increasing over the past 40+ years.. even with the ever increasing microplastic consumption. Modern medicine is still keeping us alive longer than ever before. That said, I'm sure it's increasing our risk of cancer or other illnesses.
Don't worry, you have good odds of an AI apocalypse, bio-weapon pandemic, nuclear armageddon, or just cascading environmental disasters killing you off long before the micro-plastic-induced cancer does!
Look into plasmapheresis, it helps remove microplastics and you are paid for it. Also, don't drink from disposable plastic as much as possible.
I beg to differ with one small point. You can also obtain a secondary education by agreeing to risk life, limb, eyesight, and sanity fighting in the ruling elite's imperialist wars.
Awardees all combined had murdered million in Iraq when it invaded for Weapons of Mass Destruction. No WMDs found. Iraq obliterated and US & UK plundered Iraq's oil, killed President Saddam Hussein, and US dismantled duly establish government, gave rise to ISIS which are armed from US surplus weapons.
You already doing that by working a back breaking job at the oil rigs what’s the problem
Wait wait wait, you distrust the government, which I also do to be fair....but you're pro communism...how do you think the wealth gets redistributed?
Ukrainian here. I'm experiencing fascism first raw baby. Thanks to democracy and freedom the last time I was outside my apartment is May 12 (today is June 3rd). Hiding at home not to get thrown into meatgrinder to fight for -US hegemony- rules based world order. And thanks to capitalism my parents now are living worse than under socialism. (BTW, the apartment I live in was given to my grandma for free by evil empire called USSR)
Удачи брат 😢
Good luck. So sorry this war is happening. There are many Ukrainians here in Italy rn.
USSR and its disgusting communist system was even worst than capitalism today. This is coming from an American citizen who happened to live in Communist Cuba for 25 years. Also, nothing is ever free, in both in a communist and a capitalist system of government. Don't be naive.
Unfortunately we America s are most propagandists people in worldwide you're people are being killed due to America greed
Держись там
I've been pointing this uncomfortable truth out to family, friends, and peers for 40+ years.
Most laughed it off, I was the crazy guy. Most are no longer laughing it off, though.
Thank you for expressing the situation so clearly and perfectly. I do not do Patreon as a rule; today you became the exception. Your work is too important, it needs to be supported.
Thanks so much! I’m glad to be of service
@@SecondThought You have a true gift for conveying information in away that is easily understandable to all. Thank you for your hard work putting these videos together and for sharing them, particularly on RUclips where I can easily share them.
I've been at it for nearly a decade now. I remember when chatbots were hilariously bad and people were even then very worried about automation. Ten years later and gpt-4o is telling bedtime stories and reffing paper rock scissors games through video. It's incredible how much I hear others worry about economic conditions while still showing anti-socialist sentiment.
@@ChrisGuerra31 Most people I've met stubbornly conflate "democracy" with "capitalism" and cannot be persuaded to see the difference even in the face of facts and definitions.
Our education system and media have done a _wonderful_ job of keeping most people misguided and ignorant. 😞
But God forbid they admit that they treated you like you were crazy.
I'm a photojournalist/videographer, but before that, I was a network engineer. I trained for years, got several certifications, and finally landed a job as a network engineer with a major company I won't name. I was making more than twice the salary I made before starting that job. Yet despite the "great" salary and having no children and no debt, I still had to live with a roommate if I wanted to live comfortably. I'm from Fairfield County, Connecticut, 30 miles from New York City. EXPENSIVE. It's just crazy......
Yea is nuts in NYC. I have a 3500sqft house where the mortgage in western Mass is about what it was for a 1000sqft apartment and that was in Queens, so Manhattan is even crazier
If there's one good thing that covid did, it was normalize remote work. I live in the PA countryside but work for a tech firm in NYC, and doing that I was able to afford a home
@@d.w.stratton4078 In this day, and age, why would you want ... or need, a 3,500 sqft house? *CRAZY!*
Did you go to Uconn?
Born and raised in NYC, went to college, got a degree and was appalled at how little electronics engineering jobs were paying. And it was extremely competitive. Now im in a tiny city upstate and things are still unaffordable. With little to no real job security. I have to live under a slum lord to afford to stay up here or pay $2000/mo (more than 30% my income)
Its this or move back home and work odd jobs around queens and scrape by without building a family of my own. The imperial core is a nightmare
I have heard it explained like this... You order a small pie.... The rich guy takes 5 slices of 6... He then says "that guy wants to take your slice"
I dont get it
@@tr3m0r36government taxes your pie
You don't get it? It's not the government... It's the inequality... The rich person grabs everything and then leaves the crumbs for the middle class to squabble over and fight each other.... Soo we blame our neighbor instead of the rich guy taking everything!
@@tr3m0r36 The rich people take the most and convince the poor people, that aren't getting much already, that someone else who's poor is trying to take their slice. Instead of the poor guy saying, why do I only get one out of 6 slices, the poor guy is now much more focused on other poor people trying to take his one piece instead of the rich guy who did nothing and still got 5 of 6 slices.
As a guy who lost his childhood home because of unfair and unjustified US sanctions, i feel like this is karma.
What country are you from that did something to a neighbor or the world to get your country into trouble?
@joeme supposedly it was over the nuclear program of Iran, but it wasn't us who broke our deal about it. IRI was complying with every part of the deal, but trump had to break our hard earned deal.
We iranians forced IRI to accept the deal, and in the end, we were left in the dust. Our economy ruined and hardliners in the government used the actions of the US to take over the government.
@@Storming360 Sorry about your luck living in hell but those that live there make it what it is, a wasteland unless you are in control, then you have a palace with guard to keep the people out.
@joeme you seem to be absolutely brainwashed. Please watch something other than cnn and / or Fox.
Have you been in iran? Of course not. I never said i was poor, i actually have a bigger house now, but the sanctions hurt the ordinary iranians.
@@Storming360 You are using the wrong definition of poor.
Your situation not your pocket book.
What is a fox & a cnn? Mouthpiece for morons? I'll pass on them and the rest of publicly traded news outlets.
I'm reminded of a paired saying that seems pretty accurate to these situations:
"The system is broken and needs fixing."
"No, the system is working as intended and must be destroyed."
Yea, a social revolution is needed
Communists 🥶
This ❤
☝🏾✨ EXACTLY.
@@kaiwatson18have nothing to do with this, typical american mindset, when they find problems within their society, instead of trying to fix it, they distract themselves by trying to find problems in others lol.
Reform sounds so much easier than revolution, but every time reform was implemented the counterreform pushes back stronger
Don’t forget how they infiltrate any type of movement that resembles uprising like BLM
The ruling class is the counter reform.
That's what happened to the reform movements of the 60s and 70s.
In favour of reforms, against the reformists.
Reforms are always appreciated,what we cannot do is stop at that.
They take advantage of the fact that it takes creativity, cooperation, hard work, and time to build a society or anything else worthwhile, but almost no effort to steal, corrupt, and destroy.
Second thought is like therapy for me. This also counts for Hakim, Yugopnik, and other communist RUclipsrs. Y’all are awesome!
haven’t heard of yugopnik but if he is like the rest I will check him out.
@@Wandkater he’s pretty cool. He’s one of the hosts of their podcast
@@Wandkater Yugopnik has a great video regarding LinkedIn, and also, his family is from ex-Yugoslavia, so he has a very unique perspective to things.
What you called "Gig-ification", here in Brazil we call it "Uberization" (or 'Uberização', in portuguese). Its basically the same process.
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
― Warren Buffett
EVERY worker in the world should know this quote.
Let’s see how old mate thinks when the revolution is knocking on his door
@andrewmackenzie325 nobody's revolting unfortunately. Masculinity is "toxic" now and we're surrounded by snowflakes, ticktock heads and confused social norms like inclusion politics. Our society as it stands would never muster up the courage to revolt the way our forefathers did or the way others do in other countries. The few that are still strong enough, are not enough to get the job done my friend. It's a shitty reality and I fear for my kids.
@@andrewmackenzie325revolution will just lead to the creation of new elites. Always does.
@@zuzanazuscinova5209 but what if it doesn't? What if the old system was renewed with the installation of a few safe guards against corruption were installed? We shouldn't be so defeatist.
Over the last few years, my world view has really crystallized, and you summed up the reason very well when you said something like (paraphrasing) "once you stop seeing these problems as independent, but rather symptoms of the greater threat, this all becomes much easier to understand." Understanding how capitalism leads to all these various problems, from school shootings to our abysmal healthcare system to climate change, really is eye opening.
Same 🤝
Humanity, as a whole, is embarrassing. There's almost nothing redeeming about it whatsoever. Especially when one considers just how much self-predatory behaviors it exhibits. It's pathetic. Thousands of years of "evolution", and THIS is what mankind is all about?! That's LUDICROUS. But it is also the reality.
What does George Carlin say about the American Dream?
"The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.
Another reason you don’t see many mom and pop stores anymore. The big corporations bought them all out. And they’ve made it almost impossible to be able to open up any anymore.
Rent for shops is also huge now
One word: Walmart
That was 20 years ago. Another word i. 2024 is Amazon@@sd-xk7qr
This might be your strongest "duck capitalism" video. There was a fire inside while writing this, and I'm so about this.
People will call you extreme for being passionate but spreading ideas to help everyone will be worthwhile
Enjoy your 69th like 😉
@@briangruenewald7536nice
He sounds like a communist tbh. You gotta be careful with both sides of the spectrum. Both Capitalism and Communism. But Capitalism is obviously many times better
@SoldierOfChrist316 Yeah I have to agree. We cant be so extreme that we go to the other side as that has problems of its own. The only way is to create balance. Easier said than done though
"How far is our ruling class willing to go?"
I have just a date for you, fellow Americans: 6th of January 2021. And many will still vote for that guy this November.
Yeah Trump is the problem. Were you awake while watching the video, or did you turn your brain off. Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Trickledown worked. I was just at goodwill paying 15$ for a 200$ golfclub that some rich guy had sitting in his garage until he died. Feels awesome!
I am a part of the last generation that could pull off the American Dream... and just barely so. My kids have no chance. Their kids have no chance. That's why we're moving. Not for my benefit, but for my kids and their kids. Will it be difficult? Yep. My parents, who are still alive, refuse to move with us and think I'm over-exaggerating the problem. As Boomers, they don't understand. They had part-time jobs that were enough to pay for college. This is a very emotional topic for me, as I was raised that the American Dream was possible for anyone. I believed it and, against all odds, I achieved it. I don't have a college degree. It's virtually impossible now even with a college degree. Socialism is such a boogieman in the US that the things government should be doing here aren't being done.
America exists to serve Israel. This is the reality that some refuse to accept. America is just a base for them lol
Moving out of country? Which one?
@@bigbud8182 Izrr rael.. oh wait they don't accept immigrants
Civil rights act and "nation of immigrations" the boomer delusion, you are welcome
i'm also curious where you can go, cause i've had the same thought
This hits too hard, my wife and I are making what our parents think is a lot of money yet we can't afford a house and starting our family.
This is why I just don't feel like having kids in this country. It's pushing families closer to more poor conditions compared to not having a family. If i find someone outside the country, then I'll gladly move out, but until then, im just minding my own business and try to survive as long as I can.
@@Perseus5 Lets not act like capitalism hasn't worked its magic outside the US
@Kingzzxepic I know, but just the thought of moving to a different 1st world country and starting a family there sounds better that starting one here with the toxic culture we have and the politicians pinning society against each other.
@@Perseus5 I understand, thats fair, we are extra bad. I have thought about moving somewhere else too.
Same, every minor challenge fucks us and we are already paycheck to paycheck plus credit. We have degrees and work history! My chronic health is at the point like, I can’t afford to live on disability nor can I afford to work cuz the benefits don’t cover the costs of my conditions
You forgot about the regime in Russia. Where one person has been occupying power authority for 25 years. And started a war against Ukraine.
He’s got videos on Ukraine and Russia tho. This is about a specific US thing
His statement about the Black Panthers at 14:45 into the video is priceless.
Just a disabled autistic lady trying to survive even though yet another job has encouraged me to leave because I'm too difficult to work with. I just want to eat and help support my family, feels like i'm stuck in a perpetual loop of never being good enough
Sorry to hear that. I know a couple people in similar situations. Hang in there. With community, people can make it.
You are good enough. And nobody is better than you ❤
Sorry to hear about that. Two books that I believe can really help you are the power of now and the detox miracle sourcebook. They’ve helped people heal spiritually and physically (including mental health) and have helped me a bunch. Also remember that the word autism (I believe an anxiety disorder like adhd) is a word someone came up with to describe what you’ve been struggling with but that doesn’t mean you can’t eventually heal.
Same. Can't afford to live. Absurd saying it but true.
a thousand tycoons owning everything and ending up with all the world's money is capitalism working exactly as designed
Like fascism, capitalism ends up with one monopoly standing on a pile of skulls screaming " I won! " into the void
Before watching this, I always said, _"a labouring class person in the United States is a slave to municipalities, banks, and insurance companies."_ After watching this, I have a better understanding of why I say it.
I love your editing! you're so good at making your points easy to understand and motivating. Thank you!
"What? The "Land of the free"?
Whoever told you that is your enemy"
United States of Izzrael 😂
Well, it was the land of the free, before the colonizers came.
@blakehelgoth5247 Well, yeah, but this is a Rage Against the Machine lyric from the song "Know Your Enemy."
In the land of the FEE and the home of the slave.
In the land of the FEE and the home of the slave.
This. This is late-stage capitalism. We did it. Congratulations everyone. The shareholders have never been richer. We did it. The Ouroboros has almost eaten itself up to the neck.
Reagan’s neoliberalism has benefited America. Just the upper 15%. This is bipartisan now. Democrats and Republicans are essentially the same on economic issues!
Now's the time to learn to hunt, farm and fight!
Its not late stage capitalism, its just the decadence of USA, the American dream has become the nordic dream 🤩
So what do you suggest? Socialism? Any system, can be corrupted.
@jljl5449 Huh, I thought they deleted my comment I can't see it lol
Hey, great editing on this video! Really fun and dynamic. Also, thank you for your call to action at the end about how to get involved; It’s the clearest and easiest to understand so far. Keep up the great work!
Think about the extras expense we have today, Cell phones, internet, Netflix, multiple Cars, more electricity being used, ect.
These videos always make me cry cuz I left the states over ten years ago, thinking I’d eventually go back, but it just gets worse and worse. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, they taught us that with modern technology and progress, humanity was just getting better and better. This isn’t the future they mythologized for us, not at all.
where did you go? can i come too? do you know anyone there who needs a husband??? 😪
Girl take me with you cause I'm gen z and trapped here until I die, can't even afford to leave
Technology helping was a lie. The machines replaced you. What happened to the horse when the car and truck were invented? Straight to the glue factory.
@@sean32038 Ecuador, Mexico, China, Germany, Thailand, Belize… and yes 😆👍
@@MoondustManwise get a bachelors degree in the easiest thing you can find, it doesn’t matter what the degree is in. Then, take a TEFL course. Then get your passport and you can go work almost anywhere you want teaching English
***I was on SSDI totally disabled and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation helped me get my degree online. When I’m not in the states, I don’t have anxiety anymore. Haven’t been on any medication for over ten years. Don’t even have chronic pain issues anymore. I’ve defied all the doctors’ ominous predictions about my bleak future.
You can make your life what you want it to be. It’s a process but you can do it.
"They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
Asleep? Or high AF on some dangerously good stuff?
Kudos on the audio and visual editing on this one! Super clean and evocative, noticed a difference just wanted to send some love
Wow, huge support for your work! Amazing there are people like you, opening eyes to the real problems!!
"No, there's nothing wrong with me;
This is how I'm s'posed to be
In the land of make-believe
That don't believe in me."
It took until this past year for me to realize how profound this Green Day lyric is.
The American Dream is to leave.
No healthcare, s@#$ education, s@#$ roads, shit retirement, etc.
The US is ranked:
47th in life expectancy
31st in education
26th in economic freedom
48th in safety
24th in corruption
You want taxes to go towards helping the citizens of the country instead of blowing up the middle east? It sounds to me like you are a lazy socialist who just hates to work... If you worked harder the 6 figure medical debt wouldn't look so bad /sarcasm
If only! Yet moving takes money, during a time where most people can barely survive. Passports can be difficult or expensive to get. And those most vulnerable/marginalized tend to be outright banned from taking on other citizenships by the host country.
Its a,ways wild how there are still ppl who do not see this or think this, especially from the working class, i want to wake up my family but i dont know how
Yeah and even that is just a dream. Unless you already have a good job and good health, you won't be allowed to move anywhere else. And if you have other marginalized attributes, it only further limits where you can even consider going.
Only the US accepts immigrants in large number. Nobody will take you
We knew this since George Carlin said : the american dream, you have to be asleep to live it.
You're doing some really good work with this channel, man.
Boy, does RUclips hate you.
I watch EVERY video you publish as soon as I see it (and as soon as I'm available), I'm subscibed and hit the bell (notifications set to all). And yet, it burries these videos both in my feed and in my notifications.
Since you're not on Nebula anymore (sorry that happened), I guess I better throw you some money on Patreon.
Keep up the good fight!
That's what YT does. Who's controlling it again? Ohh, yeah.
Google or MS Assist dose not even publish search results, it's controversial
The American Dream: Subjugating your neighbours, and half the globe.
Misrep...the whole globe lol
Hell yeah based.
So true
Yeah, I'd say that's an apt description.
@@WizDomSon Or for 15% of Americans the disc😆
Bravo JT and team! Love to see the excellent production quality and how the visual style has developed since your earlier videos! It hits the right notes to inform in an entertaining way. Also particularly love the radical optimism and call to action towards the end. Kee up the great work! A luta continua ✊🚩
I have achieved it
So much for your premise
This is why I can’t even buy a used car after sleeping on peoples couches and working full time and yet all my money goes to expenses and what little savings I have!
don't worry, the grocers will pay a bonus to their CEO of about 5 billion while they are acquiring for free all government services to make you pay even more
@@SantasGAINdeer it's expensive to be poor fyi
@@Sinaebdid you seriously have someone try to argue about "poor people getting free shit"? By your reply, it seems like it. 🙄
Just get your parents to buy you a car thats what i did simple
@@Dustin_Bins more like "how can you not have money!"
I just love how the American dream really consists of a time. Right after world war II until about 1969
It was right after WWII until about the early 1990s. The dream has collapsed. You're right, it was for a time.
This is why I left the U.S years ago, I understood what he was saying a little over a decade ago.
Anyone still gripping for some hope, that life for them and their families will improve in the next few years, will come to find out it won’t.
In the end things will only get worse, for anyone reading this I hope that it will awaken you and find an exit strategy away from being a modern slave and leave that decrepit and decadent nation which was once a great country in the 50’s to the mid 60’s.
I’ve got my fingers crossed (LOL) that the wheels won’t come all the way off in the next five years. I’m 61 years old, and if someone had told, say, 18 year old me that he’d be seriously plotting to retire in a foreign country, I’d have said that person was off his rockers. “It ain’t perfect, but it’s home!”
But here I am. Finally got tired of treading water in a septic tank I guess?
Incredible production. Keep this coming!
Excellent. Best one yet. Keep doing what you're doing.
The corporate ownership of single family homes is the biggest problem.
The housing lobby says "We just need to build more homes!"
Except a significant percentage of those homes get bought by corporations and investment groups too. And the problem is that once a corporation owns a home, it's gone. A corporation never needs to move, never has kids and needs a bigger home, never dies and leaves the home to its kids.
We will never be able to make homes affordable to working class families again unless we institute progressive land/property taxes and/or ban corporate ownership of single family homes entirety. It will be painful, and almost certainly require a taxpayer bailout. But this time, we should bail out the single homeowners and not the banks and investors.
EXACTLY
Obama failed to do that and gave us trump. Yes we can became no you won't thanks to fascist Moscow Mitch. And rethuglicans and demorats in our corporate Congress cheered him on. Mission accomplished.
Completely wrong. Zoning makes it illegal to build housing of various sizes for people in different stages of their life. So all we have left are large single family homes which are always going to be expensive. It's easy to blame evil bankers. But your town is at fault for the high price of housing.
Building more homes is the answer to both the housing shortage and to corporations buying up homes. Residential real estate has been historically a very bad investment. And it makes sense; investing in a business that actually produces something should be more lucrative than buying a house that just sits there. But we have went from building an average of 12 million homes per decade from 1950-2009 to 7 million homes the last decade.
It is not a coincidence that investors started buying up homes at a much greater rate over that time. Homes only become a good investment if we make the scarce. If we double the number of new home builds over the next decade investors will run away from buying up houses.
@@kyleolson9636build more is not the answer in finite space.
I'm a Boomer, and the American dream was gone by the time I was in high school, if not before.
My parents lived through the Great Depression. What I learned from them is to save every scrap of everything.... because, "you never know."
What I did learn was frugality, how to fix almost everything, make what I didn't have. I know electrical and plumbing, and never went to school for it. My dad taught me...
I became am artist, musician... I'm different. It's no way to make a living. I know, I tried, and tried, and tried.
I got jobs, where I used the skills my dad taught me, got.my hands dirty, often got paid shit, and my superiors treated me like I was an idiot to be humiliated, and controlled. I'd challenge them, eventually, got fired... their egos can't handle a grease monkey to out-maneuver them intellectually...
Work... the curse of the drinking class.
I'm now retired, living on a pittance of Social Security, struggling.
I have no idea how the generations after me are going to do it.
Reagan fucked up so much for the working class while setting things up for the owning class to have it all. We're there... they do.
Sorry to hear you are struggling. I hope things get easier for you.
Hi, boomer, from a (just) pre-boomer. I hope you live in a warm climate. Moving to a warm climate (and a kinder country) has so far given me 23 years more than my poor father. 😎
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Good for you!
My hobby is my health and sanity.
I've no TV (25 years). The idiocy, drama, everything an ad of some kind, endless pretty faces, perfect sets and scripts... the superficiality, is nausiating. Just the sound alone is enough to make me cringe.
I've a mute button for ads here on YT.
Where did you move to? What do you do for fun? Hobbies?
I do dislike winter... but thanks to climate change, they're nothing like when I was a kid. This year, there was one snow storm where I could use a snow blower. Even that melted in a couple days. I could've shoveled it.
I'm staying put. I cannot afford to move anyway. Plus, I really love my abode.
The urban areas an hour to my South are culturally vibrant, an intellectual oasis. I wouldn't live there because of the noise, but I go for the music, art, and intellect that I cannot get in the gun infested, redneck area I live...
Last night I played with the trio I'm in... a new situation, the gig in one of these cities above. The bar, not a TV in sight... patrons, all briliant, appreciative of whatever we threw at them... Blues, old Jazz, Country, bastardized old rock, crazy comedy. Rave reviews, compliments, kept coming all night. A trumpet player sat in, blew me away, he was so good. The bassist/leader is a trans-female, and a riot to work with. This is why I'm happy staying. The hour drive, well worth it.
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My struggles are real, but as long as the saving last, I'll be good.
The simple answer is that later generations won't retire. We'll work until our bodies wind up in a gutter. And the entire, miserable time, we'll be reminded of how privileged we are to be able to work.
this channel is one channel everyone needs to listen to
Ive been binge watching this channel for hours now
Thank you so much for making such educational videos ❤
nezukochani01 Keep binging, 99% of the videos on this channel will give you food for thought.
I truly believe that those videos made me realize more stuff, and made me a better person.
And, I think that the same thing happened to every person that I shared one of those videos with.
Might be because JT presents stuff with simple terms...
(Btw, Demon Slayer is awesome)
Your videos are amazing and are only getting better! Thanks again JT
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Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains
Uh huh
Marketing is always best when people forget that it was Marketing.
Excellent Excellent Razor Sharp Commentary that is so Vitally needed at this very Moment... Thank You!
Brilliantly edited and written! An important video essay. Hope a lot of you kids see this, digest it, and act. Too many have been hoodwinked by the rich, and sadly content like this drowns in a literal ocean of consumerist content: whereby shopping for durables and tech has actually become a vicarious, para social experience for the young and poor.
And it’s SO refreshing to see an essayist such as yourself actually building a community response and organising!
European here.
Statistically, by most definitions ,the American dream has never really been achievable to begin with for many americans.(Same here , no judgment)
It's like winning at the lottery but with a touch of unfairness added.
There's a reason both those are a dream for most people.
That’s true, but in the USA it was once relatively easy to defend things like free or affordable education, now, millions of dollars are spent on pundit propaganda and internet trolls who demand that the public should not receive affordable education.
In the past in the USA, even without universal healthcare, both large cities and rural areas had locally funded healthcare which made it affordable.
In the past there were opportunities for potential homeowners to buy government subsidized homes and below market value, often far below.
So although this dream was not achievable by everyone, at least there were real public opportunities.
In the EU it is a bit different. In France, there were riots at the mere thought of raising tuition in Germany too, even the furthest right parties would be considered left in the USA.
People call lottery tickets a stupidity tax. I think of them more as raffle tickets to a better life. For very little money, you can buy the chance to hope for a few days.
@@NWPaul72 Whatever floats your boat.
@@NWPaul72 Hope is free.
@@matthewkopp2391The US is uniquely messed up
The question should not be how far the ruling class will go, but instead, how quickly they will implement.
United States of Israel 🇮🇱🤣
Man !
That was a great video .
Well done !
Thank you !
"What happened to the american dream?! People woke up!" The Comedian! The Watchmen!
Thank u. I enjoyed this overall. It's important to note black and brown people where largely excluded from New Deal programs, especially in the South and Southwest, respectively.
Screwed out of the GI Bill benefits too IIRC
And the G.I. bill
Yep. Critiques of our system and new alternatives to it *must* be completely inclusive. To get the entire picture of just how bad things are and the work needed to remedy them, intersectional education is essential.
And many of those Black families who DID manage to own an intergenerational home, lost it to the 2008 crisis.
Its not important to note, everybody knows that now. And as a brown person myself I'm such of hearing I should be treated differently when plenty of white people are suffering these days too. Identity politics are a distraction.
Student debt is the modern equivalent to indentured servitude, but without the job.
I can't believe I've never seen that so clearly till now. Nice one. My line has always been: America is a plantation, morphing into a madhouse.
stealing that with your kind permission, to put on the wall at the college I teach at. Thank you. ;P
Worthy information, interesting and completed analysis.
When boomers became dominant in government, management, banking, education, they changed everything. Many of them got into management positions before they turned 30. I worked at an organization in which a boomer was hired in 1979 and by the time he was 37 he was president of the organization. And on top of being president he was also the treasurer, board member and eventually had five titles.
Get ready for most comments to be like "nah huh you're just envious of rich people" by people who will get back to pounding natty light while making 8 MPG in a new truck only to hit the front of a Domino's Pizza.
You called it 😂 People are really like "if you just invest in crypto and be homeless for 10 years, you can afford a house"
@@mrping2603shhh careful the weird bot chain comments could hear you lol
That's the main problem of our system, not even the capitalists - but the brainwashed simps who think they're capitalists and have "made it" at 100k/year.
Don't forget the broken air conditioner
They act as if anything a billionaire does could justify their massive bank accounts while they scrape by making median wage doing blue collar labor. One day they might get to be the boot though.
The thing that really bothers me is that as a single man in my 40s, had I made 5-6 years ago what I'm making now, I could've had a really nice home. Unfortunately, the goal posts have moved considerably. Many homes in my area have doubled in price since the 2010's and rents are through the roof. Homeless have started to appear where there weren't any before.. Groceries have become just as bad as any critical utility bill. I'm simply saying that our collective situation is untenable.
Your in in your 40's and still don't have house? What?
@@barhat961 I somehow detect a hint of reproach?
@@JULYXXIV what you saying bro i don't get it?
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@JULYXXIV That is why renters unions are necessary; the rent prices (and the AirBnB) have pushed - all around the world - the house prices to the sky.
I'm living it. It can be done, but it's harder than ever.
This is a GREAT video and presentation @SecondThought. Keep them coming! Sub’d
I am so happy this channel exists.
Also american ruling class was motivated to give the working class a larger part of the surplus value because they had to make capitalism look good for the workers to compete with the soviet union and to make the working class less class conscious
This is a very good point!
This comment would also be an excellent point under @knutthompson7879's comment about how capitalists during the Cold War had motivations to pay their workers better (compared to Soviet workers), at least until communism "failed". Once capitalism "won" capitalists had ZERO motivation to keep up the good pay as the only competition (after the fall of the USSR) was other capitalists.
Before McCarthyism organized labor and socialism were fundamental parts of American culture. Every right we have as workers today was fought for by unions. Most industrial labor has been moved to exploited third world nations so capitalists can get around paying living wages. This proves Marx right about the labor theory. Labor creates value but that fact is ignored by liberal economists.
Like how streaming services were cheaper and now we're back to cable
You're right. That's why it has gone to shit. Now Israel is doing to the US what the US did to the rest of the world.
i just wanna own a house.... ive never lived in a house that i didn't share with a relative i hate
Exactly. Spot on. Crazy how my daughter is learning these things in 6th grade social studies and math class... statistics..crazy. This is why school is important guys...
Great video!! New sub now!! Keep it going!❤
I always enjoy your content! My budget is limited but I need to find a way to become a patron. I am in about 100% agreement with your thesis. One salient point is that capitalism
is extractive. Extractive of the environment. Extractive of people's free time. Extractive of civic participation. Increasingly, many things are fine tuned for this extraction. As your talk proceeded, I remembered something on one of Werner Herzog's films, Grizzly Man. In it, it portrays a late to hibernate grizzly that is attempting to fetch dead salmon at the bottom of a river. As the director points out, what looks like play is actually an act of desperation. This grizzly is basically feeding at the bottom of a dumpster, fetching half decayed fish. And some Americans, and many worldwide, are fetching from their local dumpsters. Things have reached a point where many acts across the US are acts of desperation. The appeal of a single leader who can 'fix everything' is an act of desperation.
Thanks so much! Grizzly Man is a fantastic film
Hence the French Revolution.
Homelessness and debt but moreso hopelessness, apathy and greed are at an all time high!
The American dream was only extended to some and to others it’s always been a nightmare
The American Dream really was only alive from 1945 to 1973.
True
Cheap real estate. Now the landlords are kings.
Keep in mind that this dream was “for whites only”. It’s another reason why white middle class thrived - cheap colored labor that did not compete for skilled high pay jobs.
and only for yt people.
And not to everyone.
Your editing has gotten so good
yeah, holy smokes. I was slightly shocked at how high the quality jumped.
Yup at this point I can show these videos to any normie in the world and it would grab their attention all the way through
Not easy for any leftist content!
Indeed. I loved the "nickel and three strawberries" line lol.
I couldn’t disagree more! The retention editing style is so distracting!
@@Saintofsnacks that's easy to solve if you want, you can listen to the video without watching
In Canada lots of couples of dual professionals will have home, dog, and a $90k truck, $70k SUV, & $60k camper, and we can not deduct mortgage expenses from taxes. And no debt for degree.
As a gen z American just about to go to college tomorrow i cant tell you how lucky i am but it sucks to see how so many like me wont be able to go to college its horrible.
That Americana of the 40s and 50s seems to conspicuously have some people missing from the smiling faces...
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The American dream used to exist post ww2: restart your life in NA because it was destroyed in Europe. Now all of your life is owned by mega corporations
Ukraine is going to be the next big move then ? Bettt
To a large percentage of Americans, particularly one that are not white, straight men, American Dream has never been achieved. The 50s seem great to some because the government invested trillions in new infrastructure, give housings and education to WW2 veterans, and the fact that the rest of the world is in ruins - if you're looking away from the fact that it's also the decade of Korean War. But it doesn't matter, because even if the US is still stuck in the 50s mindset (in some ways, it still is), the US would be comparatively terrible now because countries ravaged by World War 2 obviously didn't stay in ruins forever.
@@mickeyg7219 Absolutely. The average American has a much better life today than they did in 1960. Even if you argue than the average white male in 1960 had a better life in 1960 than today, they weren't the average American. White women and all minorities have in much better now than they did 60 years ago.
@@D4llastnah. If they join the EU they’ll be bound by the Euro which restricts growth.
The American dream never existed. It was a massive lie. There's no going back to anything
An excellent breakdown.... Well done!
When i was a kid, growing up in Leningrad ( st.peterburg) i kept asking mom and pop when was the utopia going to happen? Why hasn't it come yet? I was naive to believe in the communist dream. Naive to believe that everyone would be able to live in peace without greed. But humanity is greedy, and because of greed it created capitalism and fascism. In school they taught us that is was humanity goal to one day reach enlightenment and become communist paradise around the world were everyone shares the world and all the good thing that earth provided.They always saidit was possible, but looking back I'm sure that deep down they knew the propaganda was all a fairy tale just as much as this American dream. It majes me sad because back then at least we believed in a dream and we was working for it. Now nobody believes in anything. Because everything changed in 1991 when USSR dissolved and the economy collapse. Peoples life saving turned worthless overnight, the next morning people wake up to learn that they now penniless. Everything happened yet nothing happened too. Everyone just stayed put in our apartments. Everyone was instantly poor. Everyone had to go do a side job that was often illegal, but nobody care because everyone still has to eat. It came to be my opinion that we had already lived in the utopia and that it slipped away and it was lost. There will be a time in America when everyone will be poor like it was in Russia in the 90s. There will be lots of crime and everything will be broken and dirty and nobidy will come fix it for 20 years, lot of people will drink/ do drugs themselves to the grave. Many, many old people will have heart attacks and drop the moment they see their accounts are worthless. It will be a hard time. I know because I grow up in Russia in the 90s.
Sad to say, but it's already happening here. Karma's a bitch !
To be fair America has/had many ill-gained advantages the USSR didn't have and decades more time since modern history for each country starts at industrialization. Worry not, America will continue to decline and Russia and other countries rise. 100%
A lot of businesses are taking advantage of consumers by price gouging. I paid over $380.00 on regular car maintenance, like oil change, fuel injection cleaning, brake fluid flush. I got an estimate for 4 new tires which was $1500.00. My new shingle roof will cost me over $48,000 financed over 30 years. I refused to get certain healthcare issues taken care of because of the cost. This isn't sustainable, society will collapse in my opinion.
Eventually, all the wealthy families will "win". They'll have algorithms, bots, and other machines to do everything. There will be no need for the other 90%. 💪😎✌️
I was doing roofing about 15 years ago in charge of people 5 grand to scrape off the three layers of shingles and put a whole new layer up there I am shocked at that price but I'm not surprised.
Owning a house and getting a new roof are luxuries in most of the world. Human condition is by default poverty. Don't breed.
I’m a student, having a part time job along with going to school full time only pays for housing/an apartment. Not food, not the tuition, no gas, nothing else.
part time jobs where I'm at give about 1400 a month with a decent one, and a 1 bed apartment is 1500. I couldn't even afford a place to stay, much less anything else, with a good part time job
Don't feel bad: There are 23,000 students in the California State University system living out of their cars. It's not your fault, buddy, it's the system.
And it's evil.
Thank you my friend that was incredibly thorough.😊❤ And quite alarming, although not surprising.😊❤
The quality of these videos has been totally revolutionized over the last few years
It’s nice to know I’m not alone. Years before I ever saw a ST video I arrived at the conclusion that most of us are just being exploited.
Now I see my thoughts being articulated by multiple people.
I’m not crazy or at least not about this particular thing.
The generational divide is so big because our experience are so different.
To our parents it is as easy as being a good person that’s works hard. If you don’t have a house with a family and good life it’s just because you are not working as hard as they did.
I really thought this for a long time because that’s what I’m being told.
It’s nice to see it all spelled out.