1950s Parents Reveal Their Feelings About 1960s Baby Boomer Children 

David I’ve been watching your interviews for probably two years now, and finally realized I wasn’t even subscribed. Really love this, thank you for your work

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You can check every newspaper every year from 1890 - 2024. They all complain "nobody wants to work anymore." Only a total moron would miss this

Good one!

....and I’m happy to be 52! 😎

Lol

@UFHoee , where did that come from? nobody said that... sheesh,,

Wow, spot on!!

That's about the long and short of it. They inherited a nation, we inherited broken promises and lies.

I walk this somber street on the boulevard of American dreams

There were lots of depressed young people in the 60s who were worried about being shipped off to Vietnam, or dying in a nuclear holocaust.

@@DrumWild at least they had jobs and could expect to buy a house. We still live in fear of nuclear holocaust now, admittedly no where near as much as the 60s but it is still a real threat. Especially with growing tensions with Russia at the moment and more countries possessing and/or developing nuclear weapons like North Korea, Iran and Pakistan. A nuclear war between say Iran and Israel or Pakistan and India would be the end of humanity much like a US-USSR war in the 60s would've been.

Implying the "old" are "people". Good joke.

What an epiphany!

Man up!

I tell you I was shocked.

I thought they were little mice too

Swear such a revelation

THIS! Also kids are individuals. Some love time together BUT some don't. Being a parent means listening and understanding your child's cues. But also EXCEPTING them too. I loved spending time with family but my sister hated it. - my grandparents "spoiled" the grandkids only bc they didn't have time for us all. I fear it's getting worse, when parents have to worked 40+hrs and feel guilty. It's making me sad coming to this realization. :(

I am one of gen Z and that dynamic isn't uncommon now. I was given everything. Except my dad's time. His definition of quality time together was watching television in silence. We are much more open now in conversing about our needs.

Just be careful they don't get the idea the world revolves around them. Never had, never will, but you wouldn't know it from the way some folks, of no specific age, behave these days.

Speak for yourself. I still have the train set my dad bought for me as a child. I am 57 now. (Sigh)

Yeah I was pretty much left alone and given nice things Ended up hanging out with gangsters and hoodlums

@@anewagora I just cant imagine being so stupid that I dont know children have their own thoughts. One shouldnt need a doctor to tell them this, you have to be pretty monumentally dumb to forget one's own childhood.

I've seen at least half the mothers I know act like there kids are pets.

People forget that they were once children who needed a loving caring person there for them to wipe their ass and dry their tears and kiss their boo boos and make them feel safe.

Gingeta_Creacha some people aren’t meant to be parents which in this generation is lower in percentages because most parents treat their children like they have no brain of their own. Also some parents didnt have real parents to teach them how a mother/father should be. Now a days everyone be getting pregnant n know nothing about how to treat a child or even take care of them. I see woman who have a child n get disgusted that they even poo, those are degrading ugly woman who don’t deserve to be mothers but some woman don’t think like that.

@@SnakeWasRight yeah my sister, who is 25, always thought my parents were "brainwashing" me into their opinions, when really I had my own thoughts. Only a few months ago did it stop, since I turned 13.

SpeedStriker and gen z feel the same way as the millennials.

Gen z know that things won’t get better regardless of work, and don’t give a shit.

@@hughmungus1999 I do :c

@@cosmosisrose Gen Z knows they're not even gonna make it to 30

all of the worst generations

Damn right he is, sounds like a great great man, and I'm sure he taught you and you learned how life is if you want to succeed

A grateful boomer. You don’t see that every days

@Kuber Aseh I see you edited your comment. Care to display the original? Or are you too ashamed to show your spelling error lolololoolookoll

@Kuber Aseh lmao, its the fucking internet. honestly, i pity u.

@@strangerx8606 You don't pity anyone, you're just lashing out because he got an emotional rise out of you.

Most of us weren’t spoiled because our parents had little money to do that. In Australia post war families were still struggling to make ends meet. Baby Boomers have had the benefit on knowing money was not a prerequisite for happiness.

Boomers grew up to be narcissists and many of their kids became teenage and adult narcissists

The danger of sweeping generalisations is that they are always wrong and the feeble minded use them to prove some point or other that suits their own angry disposition.

​ @Martin Loney So true. You also have to consider who really (literally) profits from sowing hatred between generations? If regular people of all generations worked together we'd have a living wage and health care here in America. Instead we have people getting manipulated into this "OK Boomer" nonsense and billionaires who don't pay taxes.

@@nekkidpossum4397 a very interesting question. The collective power of all compassionate people would bring wonderful change. Division suits the powerful vested interests.

I mean your not wrong chief.

clayton shirey you’re*

Ricardo, you're right. I went through the same thing. My marriage fell apart and I worked 3 jobs to care for my 2 children without any assistance and $200 monthly child support. So, it made my daughter fight for her marriage of almost 12 years. My son has divorced with one child and he pays over $1000 monthly voluntarily for one child. They've both learned a lot from me and try to do things differently. They've often called and thanked me for doing everything I could to make sure they had comfortable lives. They said they missed me, but they understood, now.

Exactly how it is for me, I commute 30 mins out of town to work 10 hour days in a sheet metal shop doing dangerous hard labor just to be able to afford a shitty one bedroom apartment. We have other options these days though, the internet has allowed quite a lot of opportunity for entrepreneurial work.

I hear you bro, 2 jobs here and still cant make ends meet, rent is thru the roof and homes are priced for rich people it seems, wages are stagnant yet food utilities even taxes keep going up, I used to believe in working hard, doing something anything would be rewarded with a stable life, but it aint the case anymore, I have a crappy phone I got a 6 year old car I commute nearly 3 hours since traffic is a nightmare, I dont sit at home at all, have tried other jobs but the wages dont keep up with the cost of living, we are getting screwed big time, yet we can afford foreign aid, perpetual wars and a wasteful military but you ask for a little break its "how dare you entitled asshole you want free shit, you bum" Im like "yeah enjoy your medicare old fart, even tho I wont have any when Im your age yet Im forced to pay for it now" smdh.........

RemixedVoice Underrated comment & parenting 😂

Ah, yes. The Christian crusades and satanic panic of the 80's and 90's. What horiffically self righteous and socially regressive time in american cultural history.

nerd Surfer Omg, I was a teenager in the early 2010's and yes, my parents did force me to wear oversized clothing. "Because I would grow more" they used to say, but I know the real reason was that backwards mormon law of chastity. Like, I was an extremely skinny, average height boy, who should have worn a XS size and they usually made me wear M or L sizes.

I was a kid of the 80s and saw the TV shows and protests from the Christian groups against heavy metal. Amazing how panicky people were over it.

That's how it was back then all that shit shocked people with no effort to even shock people

What's with this ridiculously rude "change my mind" comment I keep seeing? I honestly couldn't care less what you think. About anything. Right from the start you sound like a dick so why would I bother?

@@Renee-rw7un there is this one meme of this guy sitting at a desk with a sign saying “change my mind” and people will edit it to be like “pineapple on pizza is good, change my mind” so when people say change my mind at the end of a post, they don’t actually mean try to change my mind, they mostly mean “I have a strong opinion and I am ready to defend it”

@@Renee-rw7un did you just get offended? Wow the irony

@@iliad8988 Lmao, my thoughts exactly. When someone dislikes a good point yet can't come up with a logical counterpoint taking offense is their go to. Sad state of affairs.

Get a better job

They had to deal with Eddie Haskell

It might seem absurd to hear that, but before the war children tought ot be young adults, ready to be shaped and molded int owhatever was needed, hence why child labour was such a common thing (Among other things) A child was just an asset, after the war, the value of a child suddenly became more real a new generation after a horrific incident involving the whole world.

Before they were disposable child labor. Oh how things have changed

And, apparently still a work in progress at the time, "women are real people!" It's just crazy to think how recent all this was.

Low key this video is suprising because like my grandma told me she lived as child as like "children are supposed to be seen not heard." Which is bs to me but facts at the same time.

Hello Zen we never had mobile phones loans on every thing you saved for what you wanted your main priority was your home and food on the table it was an embarrassment to owe money in those days different generations so don't moan😂

Maggie Oakley that’s just the point. It’s almost impossible to live now without owing money. I can assure you nobody wants to live that way but with the price of living going up drastically and the minimum wage at only about $14 (Ontario, Canada), along with added expenses such as a phone (which is very difficult to live without nowadays), young people have no choice but to go into debt. The average price for a house in Toronto in the 1980’s was about $109,000. In 2019 it is approximately $1.3 million. Tell me how my generation is supposed to save up for that?

@@hellozen5970 Gen x here. You are correct. Just because you can get an "easy" loan doesn't mean you want to. It's a loan that has to be paid back and it will take a lot of work for most people.

Maggie Oakley mobile phones, that’s an extra bill and loans have to be paid back, we have way more expenses and a higher cost of living to deal with with a wage that is too low for the cost of living. If anything your generation had it way better than us. So please shut your mouth especially when you have no clue what you’re talking about

The most spoiled and entitled generation ever who had to work very little in comparison to their children now are calling their children lazy and entitled when they work harder and for less money than they did. Can't wait til your selfish generation of shit heads becomes to old to run the country anymore because you fucking broke it.

@New Tunes For Old Logos thank you.

@New Tunes For Old Logos or one parent needs to make around $120k a year or one parent could work from home

@New Tunes For Old Logos house payments, utilities, phone, internet, tv, car insurance, car payments, food, putting some in savings, gas, house insurance, travel, and other odds and ends. Also don't forget 30% goes to taxes. If you're job doesn't cover it, health and dental insurance. So yeah, that's where it goes

@@jeffgayzose8129 house payment with insurance and taxes 2k Phone $100 Internet $50 Gas $300 Dental $100 Health let’s throw it at $1000 And in what country are you in to be taxed at 30%? Filing single 0 you don’t even get to the 30s until after 163k and married is at over 300k So assuming you take 30% of 10k We have 7k to do bills and what not I’ve listed $3550 in bills Now we have $3450 for savings, fun and food…. There’s plenty and if it’s not then you just don’t have any financial skills to make money work…::: I make like 74k a year on 40 hrs and like 80-90 depending on the year, file single 0, have a stay at home wife and two kids…. There’s still money left over

@New Tunes For Old Logos bills, taxes, car payments, home payments, and just regular accessory expenses brother

Watch the video Boomer supermarket. It is almost like a documentary of a mom and her two children shopping in 1963. You wouldn't believe how cheap they got a basket of food. Type. Boomer Supermarket. Into RU-vid.

@@katec3963 Around 1991 I moved into a three-bedroom duplex with a couple of friends. Not too bad; one floor, one bathroom; but a large living room with a fireplace, and we could each have our own space. We paid $500 a month. Minimum wage was about $7.50/hour. Looked into rents in the same town recently, since I was flirting with moving closer to my elderly parents. Would have liked a three-bedroom again, since I now have two kids. Unfortunately, I can't even afford a one-bedroom apartment; they *start* at about $1,500. Minimum wage, meanwhile, has also gone up. To $10.50/hour. So, minimum wage has gone up by what, roughly 30%? Meanwhile rent, for a *smaller* place, has gone up 150%. But it's more than just that. Because, back in the day, working full time, you'd gross about $1,200.00 (before income tax etc). So even paying all of the rent by myself, I would still have had $700 left over for everything else (again, less taxes, so realistically more like $450. But still; it's a positive number). And splitting the rent with my two roommates (one for each bedroom, and the only way we could afford a roof over our heads), I only had to cover $167.00 in rent, leaving me with almost a theoretical thousand dollars (okay, so like $700) for my share of food, electricity, etc, not to mention gas and car insurance. Tight; but doable. Nothing left over and the fridge was usually empty (we were in college and therefore only working part time); but we had lights and a roof. So, rent has gone up by a thousand dollars. But working minimum wage? Even full-time, you're only grossing $1,680. So people earning minimum wage these days only have $480.00 more each month (less income tax, etc) than I did almost thirty years ago. And out of that, they're somehow supposed to cover an additional $1,000.00 each month in rent *alone*, when everything else--food, gas, etc--has also gone up at least 100%. If you can stretch a budget to make that work then please, do share it with me.

KryssLaBryn Not to meantion renters othern still expect your to make at least double your rent.

Well I remember buying lawn seats in the early eighties for $6-8 - about twice the minimum wage - now people are paying anywhere from $80 -$1000 to go to a concert while minimum wage is around $9. Are the musicians really worth that much that you would work 10 to 100 hours just so you get a chance to hold your phone up at a concert for 2 hours. That also is something I never quite understood - going to a concert used to mean being at the concert and living the experience - instead of recording it to view at a later time. The simple fact is : you only have control over how you spend your money - living in an location means you are subject to the whims of the local rental/purchase costs of real estate - which I have to admit has gotten out of hand. But cooking at home , buying used cars, not buying a $5 coffee every morning, not buying clothes you dont need, or not buying the latest smartphone each year (think about it - if you are making $35000 - can you really afford to spend $1000 on a new phone) will help you build your bank account. The think I always do before making a purchase is to question - "Do I really need this?" - then wait a few days and ask myself the same question. For me , the answer is usually NO.

@@KryssLaBryn minimum wage @7.50 a hr. Where where you located? Minimum wage was 2.85 in 1990, 1991. In the state I was in. It went to 3.15. Eventually Went to 4.25 a hr in 93. Staying that way for several years.

Well, they are

Arrogant Anarchist keep saying that and you might realize, children aren’t anything but bags of stupid.

Watch me sweetheart. wonder why kids tend to deal with serious self esteem issues? It’s because we insult them and degrate their intelligence simply for their age. I doubt you work with kids or are around kids enough to realize how creative and interesting they can be if allowed to flourish and aren’t told they’re stupid or that they should be seen and not heard. Just look at teenagers of today. Many of them are very politically active and do their best to influence and affect the world around them. That young woman who survived a school shooting and then went on to make national news with her speech is a wonderful example. Kids are humans beings. They have no genetic difference to you. Stop acting like your better than someone just because you’ve got more wrinkles on your face.

A D no we are all heartless, soulless beings that want attention every second of our lives.

@@mr.shibeman1146 stop pushing ur negativity on others. Ypu just aren't happy with yourself so you don't want others to be happy.

@lil doinker what you describe is what my childhood was like in the 70s, and i lived in a good sized city. what was your childhood like, and what prevented you from being free?

60's childhood i had was like that. we were a bunch of wild things! in summer we'd hit the door, our friends were waiting. sometimes, you didn't even go back home 'til the streetlights came on. nothing bad ever happened to anyone i knew in my whole town. maybe stitches if you fell out of a tree or such. truly feel sorry for kids now. they've never known freedom and fun in our 'old fashioned' way.

I remember both my grandparents and mother mentioning that. It sounds like heaven. I still wish I could of gone outside as a kid/teenager. But it's a different time now, how sad.

@@Sapanator what's different, out of curiosity?

@@toddinthemiddle When I was six playing outside I was gang r**ed and later beaten. After we stopped being homeless I wasn't allowed outside. Like I said, to me what you guys are describing, it sounds like heaven.

early gen Zer/late millennial here, totally agree. The more I learn about psychology, the more I understand there is no such thing as “spoiled”. Kids are just reacting to their environments. If a parent is having issues with their kid, they need to reflect on what the real issue is and take responsibility for the results of their own parenting. (Then ideally make a change.)

Millennial here. You know how when someone complains about today’s youth, you have this picture in your head about this little old man with a bony frame, balding head and pants pulled up far enough to give a wedgie? Well, the Boomers couldn’t wait. I think I was the ripe old age of fifteen when I was told I was an entitled, lazy little good-for-nothing. I don’t even remember what I did, but I remember being amazed that the one calling me such and railing against my generation couldn’t have been older than his thirties. Now that my generation are getting a bit older and preparing to hand the torch to the zoomers, I sort of get it. It’s not that anything is wrong with us, it’s that we’re younger. It’s like the Boomers think that if they make enough of a stink, somehow it will negate the effect of time. They’re old now, my generation is on our way to being old, and someday Gen Z will be old. Boomers are just scared and like all cowards, take it out on someone who can’t fight back.

@@fablethewolf825 I hear you and have noticed that too. Certain people of all generations are quick to deflect their own feelings of inadequacy onto others, sometimes their parents or their children. Please don’t take it personal or classify an entire generation by the opinions of a few. I think we ALL we’re dealt that hand at your age unfortunately, and I still think it’s unfair. You constantly hear, “you’re old enough to know better” AND “you aren’t old enough to decide” selectively! I will be 60 this year and now wish I had someone doing that to me so I could say, “okay, you decide please” because I’m exhausted from making decisions. :) I really DO remember that time in life above all, as the most frustrating. Apparently I’m tired now. I am supposed to have all of the wisdom now and the most important thing I’ve learned is I can still learn from people of all ages simply by listening. Perhaps you can help me if I ask a stupid question? Hopefully this won’t make you throw away what I just told you bc I’m just being honest. Here’s my question I think you can answer: Which generation do I fall into? I mean, am I a baby boomer or what? I’m honestly admitting I don’t know. I’ll be 60 this November but I’ve heard the Baby Boomers phrase used before we grew up referring to children conceived after WW2? We were, but I’m the youngest of 4 so? Please pardon my typos, regardless of the question. I’m not stupid haha, just can’t see well anymore due to aging, medical issues and allergies. Thank you. Have a great long weekend! :)

@@crystalbelle2349 Baby boomers are technically those born 1944-1964. However, my mother was born at the end of 1963 and she doesn’t identify with boomers at all. She doesn’t remember and/or wasn’t born when all of the defining moments for them happened. She will argue vehemently that she’s Gen X lol. So I’m inclined to think that maybe whoever decided on the years should have ended it a few years earlier. Do with that what you will :)

Point is that after WW2 every generation has been more spoiled than the next.

There was a time when managers and supervisors were expected to know all the knowledge of a sector and were able to spot who were the hard workers and who were the bluffers. Now this is harder to find in many industries. Each department fights the other departments to pile work onto the weakest department and make their own lives easier. Management only react to crisis situations and adopt a short term view on running things. Service, loyalty and initiative are no longer the pathways to better pay that they once were. Now truly effective and successful workers go into free lance positions, not working for a particular company, so as to be able to develop themselves and avoid corrosive, morale sapping and obstructive office politics and cronyism rampant in the modern Corporation. The good workers hop from job to job pushing for pay rises along the way and always keeping a resume updated only with universally accredited skillsets and jobs experiences that are externally marketable and known. THey avoid specialisation and internally peculiar proprietary roles, useful in only one company, like the plague.

do you have debt

@@paccawacca4069 No thank God I never had debt. I do not believe in debt. Never had and never would believe in commiting to anything bigger than I could handle for 6 months of no income. Sort of like a siege everybody should have a contingency fund set aside to cover relocation, house sell and buy and other bills which happen when a jobs loss means getting another job.

Ain't that the truth!!

mmhmm, how the times have changed

SAME

Same - this video is bullshit

I was born in 1993 to a narcissistic father born in 1950 and an image obsessed mother born in 1947. By all accounts from their siblings both had very supportive parents and privileged childhoods. My life was "Be seen not heard" and "You are our property, not your own person." They both could have done with a good slapping around in childhood. I learned what bad parenting looks like and I've chosen to raise my children with a compassionate yet firm hand. Every Boomer I've ever known who had a "rough childhood" ended up as an entitled shit adult. We would have a better world if most of them had never reproduced.

Same - born 40 years later. Doesn't mean it's representative, just bad parenting

Wow, that sucks. Sorry you had to endure that. I was born in 72’. My parents were strict and had their own issues, but why have kids if they are only to be seen not heard? That’s Twisted.

And then there's gen X in the background

I'm already doing it

Hell no! I refuse to act like boomers act towards us young people!

Snow Bunny Prince that’s what we all think but we probably have don’t it at some point. If you have gone to high school, you know that the school unanimously hates on the freshman just because they are freshman. That is an example of people hating on the younger generations.

@@rou8390 I've never done that but I have seen others do it. I dont understand the disdain people have for the younger generations tbh! We should be encouraging and helping each other! 🐰💕

Best and very accurate comment!!!

@@Andre.W96 You nailed it!!!! So true

@@Andre.W96 tbh i dont think gen z aren't all that bad (yet) other than their music where the "rapper" sounds like hes half falling asleep because he ate 2 dozen xanax bars

@@RogueCowTurd that's just the gang culture in youth... It sucks :'(

Juvenoia is nothing new!

Mom was always home I think that was a big benefit for me. The neighborhood bullies would beat me up and I could run home to my mother.

This is exactly what the video was talking about. You're so self centered that you can follow "Mom was always home" with "I raised myself". The generation after you were latchkey kids who got themselves up for school, dodged gang members once they got there, had everybody asking them what they would go to college to study, and made their own dinner. All while your generation constantly cried about "kids these days." All before the age of 10. But please, tell us how bad you had it growing up in the 50s.

@@mikaelgaiason688 You do realize you just told a 74 year old woman she doesn't know the meaning of hard times, right? As for me, I think a few videos on Vietnam POW camps, might give me some perspective on what, 'hard times,' are all about. Or perhaps, what growing up with agent orange, was all about. Suffering is suffering...

@diane9247 I was born in 1953 my dad drove Mack Trucks and my mom ran around on him with a married man. Why did they make this as some special time. Yes we could play outside but there were structured things to learn. Yeah I lived alone for many years. Didn't marry till I was 44. Raised his 4 children and then divorced. So much for the white picket fence in living happily ever after.

@@sweetdrreemz That old lady never said she was Vietnamese. Yeah, they had hard times when her generation decided to bomb and gas them. She didn't though.

But everything was much cheaper bak then, in 1969 with 1 dollar, u could pay 25 cents for cigarettes 25 cents a gallon of gas, 15 cents for hamburger, 10 cents for a phone call, the rest on candy or a comic book.

Apartments were cheaper too, like closer to 80 dollars per month or 120 per month.

@@barrycalvillo2466 that was my point.

That's what happens when the government spends money it doesn't have. It eventually comes out as inflation, and often it's the next generation that pays. Now it's happening at a rate never seen before, totally exponential. Of course there are winners in this system: those who are behind the Federal Reserve (whom even congress is forbidden from knowing the names of).

Sounds wonderful. Retirement is an experience unfortunately I will never have. As an independent filmmaker, there is no such thing. No 401(k) etc. David Hoffman - filmmaker

Here's a hug 🤗

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker You're doing an exceptional job. Ty for these generational insights. And, I'm confident that you'll figure out your retirement. Cheers.

Right on. And continue to enjoy these years. You've earned it. And, remember you're never too old, to rock and roll.

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker so who told you that you weren't allowed to invest in the stock market by yourself and that you had to have an employer do it for you?

They have completely destroyed the economy for generations to come

Charles Clapper yes, also the same generation that ruined future generations.

Charles Clapper lol they went Vietnam on their own accord. The U.S had no business going there.

Charles Clapper i completely agree

Charles Clapper Statistically speaking boomers did have the best run out of all generations, a lot of baby boomers when they got older didn’t really consider the Cold War to actually be an issue and we’re rarely effected by it or by any other societal issue, that’s why the 50s and early 60s are called “the golden years of America.” By a lot of (white) boomers today, many people from today’s era would even consider the 50s to be a better time than now. Yes it did have its downsides but you can’t deny that they DID in fact have the best time period to live in economy wise.

You can pick 1 or 2 of the 3. Not all 3.

better skilled job, specialize in being special. You’ll always find someone hiring, recession proof jobs are a must as well

@@atl3630 [Laughs in world outside the US]

Its always been hard. Almost impossible to live on one paycheck, therefore working spouse or roomates. It was true 40 yrs ago for me its true now. Of course you want to be paid fairly, dont blame you.

Game Hero you can do so in the US you just gotta work hard.

I agree

Exactly. There is no real value in being performative.

All to make a buck by solving problems that are manufactured to be solved.

You are 💯 correct

THIS

I guess simple minds will settle with less...

Whatever that means..

I was fortunate that my parents Cannes a lot when I was young. They taught me how to can jam. One of these days im going to learn how to use a pressure canner, but first I need to figure out what to can.

Same...

Funny how people want schools to do the job of the parent...

well said, I feel the same 👏👏❤️

@@Lee-km7qq well I homeschool so in our house the parents do the jobs of the school AND the parent. My mom never learned to can either so she couldn't have taught me. She taught me to sew clothing though. ☺️

Who? Boomers? My boomer parents did not agree with that sentiment.

I don’t think it’s a generational thing...it all depends on how you were raised and if you want to continue abusive behavior, encourage narcissism or engage in a healthy parent/child relationship where you can be a parent and friend. My mom was born in 67 and dad in 64 and they weren’t that great tbh. It really is just based on the person.

@Not My last name exactly 🙌👏

Carlos Matos well, in a sense. But that's not what the video was saying. It was saying the way the 1950's parented wasn't perfect. It's saying it bred a generation of crazy wild kids because they hated what their parents were. It's basically saying what went wrong in that generation

@@phant0m0th_ my mother and father were born in the same exact years as your parents... strange.

Yes, now people are to lazy for it to be.

Zion segregation? that is not the american dream.

Remember the 50s was a time before the immigration act of 1965 which boosted inflation

Well, that's debatable. Literature from around this time and even before (such as Of Mice and Men) started commentary on the death or nonexistence of the American Dream. It's just more obvious now because everyone can share their complaints and financial concerns in seconds.

The American dream is marketing. Nothing more, nothing less.

I am not sure who that he is that you are referring to. Please give timecode. David Hoffman filmmaker

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker its at 1:45 onwards!

Freedom is important but people need responsibility to feel purposeful too, and to give meaning, which is what a lot of people simply don't feel now. Comfort kills ambition. The fact is that human beings do need hardship to thrive. Unlimited comforts just end up destroying humans because humans will always look for some kind of adversity and something to fight for/against, even if they have to make it up, hence the ridiculous "social justice" causes of today. If people were given actual adversity, those social justice causes would disappear overnight when people realize how frivolous and stupid they are in comparison.

@@subverted6555 My experience in life is that you are correct that one big stuff happens, smaller stuff becomes less important. But that's true on the both sides. True for social justice issues and also true (hopefully) with those issues that the other side raises constantly, sexual orientation, etc. I think of the Cuban missile crisis, 9/11, and some of these really bad fire as we been having near us in California as such experiences. In fact my house and my archive largely burned to the ground in 2008 changing things in some surprising ways, including some good ones. David Hoffman filmmaker

i think they meant that they thought it was the only thing that mattered in life. I agree being free and happy are the priorities, but you also have to have responsibility in order to be free and happy. that man worded it really weirdly

One of those fall-outs is soaring national debt.

And this is how the greatest generation ever (WW2), gave birth to the worse generation ever (Baby Boomer) The whole purpose of this video is so, we don't make the same mistake with our children. We see a lot of it on TV today, program made by Baby Boomers are very self center as in thinking their parents mistreat them, because they didn't spend enough time playing catch with them as kids. My mom is like that. I mean my grandpa worked so hard when he was young that he suffer long term liver damage when he is old and my mom still angry at him, because he wasn't at home enough when she was a kid.

Those are very true words, for those of us who never saw the process of getting that benefit.

There was a time when a person could get a decent paying, stable job without years of college and tremendous debt, and could work there until retirement. Companies valued their employees and employees were loyal to their employers. Then these American companies started moving overseas for cheap labor, and the shareholders' and CEO's profits became more important than taking care of the employees. It's hard to have a better life when the world has changed the way it has.

@@jeancorriveau8686 National debt doesn't matter ever since the moment post WW2 economic boom begin, no matter how high it is it doesn't have any impact on economy at all, US has national debt 200% higher than thier GDP while China has it 400% higher than thier GDP and yet somehow they are able to keep up and are suffering problems from completly other cases

Children were considered assets, especially for farmers. The more kids you had, the more workers you had for your crops. And the more kids you had, the more security you had in retirement because they would take care of you in your old age.

Right. Women had babies to provide farm labor. When a wife died in child birth another stupid woman would take place.

@@michaelwhisman7623 well choices for everyone were limited back then and people had to eat.

Interesting. My father was def considered an asset, where his family made him work starting at 8 yrs old on the farm.

Not so, it's an idea that goes far back in theology.

Ryan Hartwell It's more that they can't get a job

Yeah honestly, back then they could afford a lot more with a super freaking basic job. Those same jobs nowadays either pay less or everything else costs more, and to even get the job you have to jump through a ton of hoops and spend a ton of money to maybe get your foot in the door. Then boomers and Gen X have the gall to say we're lazy because of it.

Professor Rosenstock more like womens studies and art degrees dont get you anywhere. Jobs are everywhere if you actually try. It was their choice to go to college for fields with either no job security or fields with no jobs.

justanotherblankchannelman you do realize that gender studies and art make up such a small and insignificant amount of chosen majors, right? Gender studies is just a specific form of history and art majors are usually on scholarship or funded by parents. Even engineers are facing market over saturation.

are you living on planet earth with the rest of us? i got an art degree from a small liberal arts college back in 2013, and i'm currently earning almost $80,000 a year working only 40 hours a week. i'm managing editor at a local medical marketing company. what type of degree do you think is worth it? computer science? nursing? law? sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but none of those degrees guarantee anything. immigrants willing to work for less money and a glut of jobseekers in those fields are making it increasingly difficult to find positions. meanwhile, those of us with art degrees and a bit of talent are having no trouble getting interviews--and getting hired. sorry, but i think you're working on some long outdated concepts...y'know, like when half of the country worked in factories or on farms? the world has changed. people need to change with it.

The patriarchy is sadly almost as strong as blind religion.

@FC-hj9ub Leave your narcissistic, pseudoscientific interpretation of good-faith oldschool feminism out of this.

Our school put boys and girls through both home ec and shops. We all liked that.

Boys didn’t get to take home ec here. And girls weren’t allowed in the boys’ draughting/shop classes. And I, a girl, ended up being stuck taking sewing and never made anything that wasn’t inside-out or backwards 😂. My grad year was 1983. I think it’s better now. My son took cooking and sewing (and he did much better than I did).

It’s a shame indeed, as a member of gen z, I’ve had to teach myself all that, and my parents were busy working so we could afford to have comforts and a sense of saftey. Life has been good to me the way I see it, I’m not forced into crime, on drugs, or affording food or a roof. I mean, hell what more could you want in life, a place to rest your head and feel safe with a family that loves you. I think that’s all you really need

I was born in 1955. Went to a Catholic high school and took college prep courses. Then I didn't go to college! The only practical course I took that was of any benefit to me was typing. I wish I had taken home ec.

You can learn anything on RU-vid. If kids want to they will once it becomes a necessity. There’s no excuse now! We didn’t have the internet when I was a teen.

Angel Eyes millennials are more entitled tho

Every generation vexes the generation before them. This video didn't show that there were women in the Army as auxiliary groups, women who took temporary jobs to support WWII efforts, and were in factory jobs in WWII and displaced instantly by the veterans when they came home. It was devastating to many women who wanted to continue those jobs. I wonder if part of the 1950's was to emphasize that a woman should return to the job of being homemakers and get a husband and raise a family and leave the salaried work for men.

@Garrett Dodds It's too bad masculinity is portrayed as toxic, because there are a lot of talents that men bring to the table. Generally taller and more muscular than women, they can get the stuff off the high shelves at the grocery,and they can spot me if I'm uncertain with my movement or balance. Or also moving large, unwieldy things like furniture down steps or flipping over or turning mattresses. I believe men should be allowed to show their feelings but also work together in projects like DIY. One of my favorite pictures my mom bought was of a man giving his full attention to carving a bowl out of wood, about the size for a casserole or to hold fruit on the table, or toss salad. This man looked gentle, strong, focused, and determined, in every way what I see good men are. Caring. Respectful. Feeling. The men's dynamic is often different from women's dynamic, but each brings unique talents to the family.

The great depressioners were entitled

Ginny Jolly I wish people would realize that. Men and women are different for a reason.

Well he wasn’t a boomer if he would have been 100 last year! The 1920’s babies were the young people who fought WWII, and who had the babies when the war was over. He was a parent of Boomers!

@@andrewhaywood3853 They were “the greatest generation”

That sounds like the type of childhood I'd wish my daughter to have. The issue is, there aren't any children playing outside anymore, at least not in the neighbourhood we live in. Children here are being kept indoors most of the day. I really do worry about my daughter's creativity and problem solving skills.

That sounds amazing.

Pedophilia is rampant. Even in the 90s when I played unsupervised by mom I had people approach me in a white van and offer me candy. On a separate incident and old man asked me to go to his appartment and play games. I said mom told me never to do that and I didnt go. About a week later we found out a man got an unsupervised 5 year old to go with him and he assaulted her. My two besties were molested. Cant let kids wander

Wish I had that, oh well, can’t change the past

Yeah, now everyone is a damn helicopter parent. Children ought to be able to freely interact with each other, they don't need constant supervision and regulation.

Zarathustra Zarath I’ve always thought the same thing, faces from the 50s look so plain I think

different makeup maybe

It's the camera quality and fashion, mate. Our faces didn't literally morph.

Aron Larsson We got fatter. So we kind of did morph

I agree

I heard it too. Later found out they were both spoiled brats growing up. 🤣

And yet you are still offensive. I guess you didn't learn much.

@@kathymcmc Fucking hell Kathy, bet your kids hate coming home for xmas

@@heybejaybe809 lmao the only way Kathy has a baby is if she stole one from the hospital

@@mikaelgaiason688 Hehe

What year was your dad born ?

You din't pick up those socks without some "encouragement" though. My son flat out tells me "no" with a smile on his face. If he was a boomer he would have been beaten. I will tell him it's not ok to say no and he has to do it and with a lot of my time and stress he will do it eventually. But I don't smack my kids around to make them comply. That would he so easy! It's hard being a parent who puts in the extra effort.

This. We stopped protecting and providing for our kids and instead expect them to be self supporting at 18. Well 20lb bags of rice don't cost a nickel anymore and houses go for more than 10K. Good luck finding a job with really good benefits and a pension outside of government.

@@ih82r8 IRAs are literally a thing. But they don't teach about that in schools anymore, so I guess they're screwed.

@@miffedcuttlefish6139 IRAs are subject to only the amounts we can contribute individually, and depending on salary and cost of living, that may not be a lot. Employer (SARSEP) pensions or matching 401k contributions are fewer and fewer.

My son recently bought a house worth $600,000. I told him that in past generations, we bought what we could afford. He replied, that's not the way anymore. So, He will have to work all his life, so it's more a debt than a mortgage.

@@jeancorriveau8686 Great point! :)

correct..i am a boomer ..i see the difference..folks do not see what happened..its another reality..

This clip is about the parents to the generation born after WW2, though. These parents had to live through war and depression. They are not talking about Millenniels or even Generation X.

you can thank the 1965 immigration act for that

Maybe if people get an education they will make more money. A high school diploma is not an education.

Most people can't live within their means because living isn't within their means.

The distribution of sex has apparently changed along with the Feminist indoctrination. Now a small proportion of men are having lots of sex, and the majority are having little or none. Meanwhile, sexual activity is necessary for an adult male. Without it we are likely to become depressed, and depressed we are likely to become violent. Women made a bunch of hasty entitled demands and never stopped to think of the long term consequences. Doubling the workforce halves the value of labour. So now instead of just dad having to work to live comfortably both adults have to work to get by cheque by cheque. In the end, women may need to be oppressed for them to understand how good they had it.

@@freefallwefall You almost kind of make some valid points. But there's a line, and you're stomping all over it.

@@freefallwefall incel

Not on my watch. As soon as i would assume or see someone following my daughter, I would pull out that strap real quick. No questions asked.

I would have been afraid if I were them. My husband would have attacked them.

But if you call this sexism some men are going to whine

Julie Purpleskater So, which one did you go for in the end? The first or the latter or something different?

Julie Purpleskater Meh, not everyone thought that way. I was a kid in the 60s and my dad always told me I could become the first female Prime Minister of Canada.

My mother had to work in my family farm from childhood till marriage. My grandmother still work with agriculture. But it was in the countryside, my father grew up in an entirely different culture where women stayed in kitchen.

@@thejoyofreading7661 Well, whining begets whining. If you whine about people whining, then you can expect people whining about people whining about people whining.

Word!

Anom Mona there’s a distinction between strong men and overbearing men. Strong men actually make life better, while the overbearing type is just trying to fool everyone into thinking he is strong by pushing people around.

Bullshit saying if you take a look at history.

@The Flying Dutchman >The fall of Rome Which one? The fall of the western Rome took more than a century - that's a lot of generations. Also, It had a ton of external drivers, like great migration.

That's a truly unfortunate pattern. "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."

I think the whole point is that it was the thought that women could only find fulfillment through motherhood

And now the internet is doing the same to the generation growing up. The future is fucked.

@@damiancampbell7534 well no, because at the same time, this generation isn't going to have kids anyways

I was born in 87 and my parents were born in 45. Making it appear like the perfect family was usually the goal

@Andrea Mendenhall I'm a millennial raised by baby boomers

Couldn't be more true unfortunately.

oh my god preach.

@Ashvin Vaidyanathan Teachers need to be paid what they are worth and they are worth allot! Professional athletes on the other hand...not worth a fraction of what they are paid.

@Bruco Alidas I wasn't aware since I never follow anything sports related, except who wins the World Cup. It's terrible how young men now a days are being duped and their masculinity being slowly eroded by the NWO under everyone's noses. I loved it when men where men. They were so much fun then. Now it seems to me young men have lost their way and their confidence. Sigh.

Right. If a woman does a job she is "naturally suited for" where is the skill in that? Pay her a sensible wage. Her bonus is her contribution to society.

Her point was not that her job couldn't be a real job if it weren't men's work. Her point was that being a paid professional --doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc. just wasn't supposed to be an option for her, even if she wanted it, regardless of whether a man would typically do those jobs. I would imagine that even if there were no male doctors, she would consider being a physician to be a real job, because it requires specialized, higher levels of education and comes with a hefty salary.

Old ideas die hard. Grandmother-in-law told new sister-in-law (who was about 12 at the time) that girls couldn't do math. Didn't take on grandma, but made sure new sister-in-law knew that was crap!! Oh, and that was in 1982.

@@whisperingsage the comment isn't about nurses vs. doctors. There are things doctors know and can accomplish that nurses can't as well but OP is talking about the limitations society places on females holding certain occupations.

Did your grandmother not hear of Elizabeth Blackwell?

@@Juliaflo , bigots hate facts

So are you a doctor or not lol

Same

i hope it gets better for you bro....it snot easy out here

Bit instead if blaming the government, banks inflation, etc, let's blame feminists, old men and young ppl. Yeah.

7:16 I was born in 1980, in South Africa. At age 17 at high school I completed a full aptitude test with the rest of my grade to see which careers we were suited to. I was told all of the ones mentioned here... Today I run a busy Arts and Entertainment company, I'm a a multipotentialite who works on over 40 different creative areas. Despite being gifted in music and arts I was never encouraged to follow that career path! 1997!!

I was luck to get a house about 15 years ago before the housing market crashed. I fudged a couple numbers and they gave me a house at 19yrs old. I still have it today. If I tried to get a house today they would laugh in my face

Yes!! This is why immigrants are succeeding in Canada. They have family values that we just don't in Canada. The boomers kicked all their kids out at 18! Not just a generarlization it was truly the norm. They just wanted their kids gone. I cAnT wAit tO eNjOy mY rEtIrEmEnT.

Yup, if you have never experienced it yourself you can't believe it.

Same for me too.

And yet, it is the responsibility of every adult to themselves become a well adjusted and complete individual. People can change and improve themselves, fight the demons they inherited from their parents so they don’t in turn pass them onto their own children.

This bothers me and humbles me. Much love

Because you were a woman, of course. No girls allowed.

@@Christine-kq9ok Yeah. That's like a top demand field now. Wish I went that route.

That's sad

Not true. This video is about middle class suit wearing men and tv shows. It has little to do with the average American then or now.

@@sue9378 the tv shows were a reflection of the community at the time, if it went too beyond that it would be cancelled

But the economy is great better than it has been in years. He forgets to say only if you are in the top 1% or living off the public and flying to Florida for gulf most week-ends.

@@barbarapinkston7435 what are you talking about? The inflation is horrible. It is deff not better now, you just think it is because entertainment and MSM clouds judgement and compassion for the issue

@@corywiedenbeck1562 I don't know what you are talking about. Unemployment is higher because people have to work 2 or 3 jobs and that is both people in a household have to work to hopefully get a place to live Healthcare is bankrupting families, climate change bringing destructive weather everywhere and the man in the oval office is a nasty name calling liar.

It's because so many see their kids as extensions of themselves and not separate people

Before that it was children should be seen and not heard.

Stupid generation still made progress for us, imagine if this was never “discovered” and we were just “discovering” this now? Just like they’re still “discovering” that animals have feelings and that trees make noises the naked human ear can’t hear. Can’t exactly trash a generation for making progress, no matter how small.

I mean we still have parents thinking that their 6-9 year old is trans. Just because their kids say they are so, and now we have a major issue on our hands where parents are fighting for the right to allow their kids who’s minds aren’t fully developed to physically and chemically change their sex. We live in wild times

Youth culture has ruined our society.

I hear ya. Except I haven't had a raise in 2 years.

What's that today adjusting for inflation like $10 raise?

I told my job I got my bachelors and they raised my wage. By 10c.

I asked for a raise. I was told - .25 now, and another .50 at the end of the year. At the end of a year the company switched hands and I had to sign some paperwork. I said "I was promised a raise" and I was told that I was "so entitled". I quit that day but got full employment insurance because the paperwork had stated I was "laid off" temporarily until the other paperwork was signed! I became pregnant immediately and lived off of EI for months in perfect bliss. (Ok other 4han being really sick) Checkmate!! They even tried to dispute it but my paperwork proved I was "laid off". 🤷‍♀️😅

@EGGBERT INKABOD ?

back in the day children were meant to help around the house and farm... if you lost one or two its ok you an just have another... its still like this in many parts of the world...

Those wars have definitely still left its mark!! I say this all the time. We haven't gotten over it. It spilled over into generations.

Lol same

It’s a book

Children were seen and not heard. Children were secondary to everything.

Well if you consider all the molestations that went on at the time...

I think it’s referring to fact that people didn’t consider the interior lives of children

TV?

No, just give a quick scroll through my Quality Content playlist.

Explanation+shameless self-advertising!

Just feel like I should point out that cancer always manifests itself spiritually. You're not special.

Why is this so relatable?

Oh trust it wasn't us. My dad's parents were moving from the south because my grandfather was a ww2 vet and was threatened with lynching in Mississippi. He was a hard worker and in Chicago still couldn't find great work denied the GI bill and didn't get the white middle.class welfare aka FHA loans. Ppl really pretend that hard work will get you there. Nobody was working harder than some of those black Americans who were rewarded with second class citizens. It surely wasn't those ppl growing up starting love sex revolutiined and voting in terrible policies that would screw generations to come. They were trying to finally gain thier equal citizenship.

Facts

There were more black owned business in the 1950’s than any other time in history. Blk people were hard workers and strives to take care of their families. In the ‘60’s the government started handing out welfare checks and food stamps and destroyed a great race of people by making them feel sorry for their self. Sad really.

@@sevinstorey4365 “…any other time in history *up to that point.” Yes, black people were thriving. We always have. This does not mean that we were feeling that same excess that white america was feeling. There was still predatory banking, redlining, Jim Crow, we couldn’t vote yet, etc, etc, etc, etc. This is the typical white response. “Black people were doing better than ever!” Well duh, no slavery… but you could still get legally lynched because it’s Thursday.

I feel as though that’s pretty obvious...racism and all

More like a side chick.

Lmfaooo

Hey it’s not fair to make assumptions! He could’ve been a drug dealer.

My dad also "worked" that late

LOL

Happy New Fears the “massage”? Was it a back rub or foot massage?

@@memberofthelambily1340 lmaoooo

In another decade, every other decade is a dystopia. It's only yours that's real and just... Right?

Sadly that's what people of her generation considered "real professions." Like those old politicians who call teaching a part time job and sadly young generations who believe them.

Back then, those jobs weren't taken seriously as they technically still are now. They were and still are, primarily female jobs. A woman could be a nurse, but not a doctor. A woman could be a teacher, but not a scientist. This led to a lot of woman holding a grudge towards those professions, because they wanted to have jobs men were going to, because the were given with so much more respect. It's wrong for the woman to look down on teaching and nursing professions as though they are serious professions, but it's also wrong for society in general to view those professions as "easy for the ladies to do, and if a man does it he's a sissy".

T Nicole well try and remember, 95%of the things you buy, you dont need. Simplify your life and you will be free

Nobody needs jam. Its 80% sugar. Besides you can learn to cook from RU-vid.

I got a D in home economics because our teacher was a mean old fuss pot that assumed certain things were innate in females. When the only boy in the class could crochet and I couldn't - she was UPSET. And this was in the late 1980s!

You traded Home Ec for Sex Ed. Lucky you.

@rocky mountain lass LOL! No, my home ec teacher was married and loved to "show off" her grown son when he came to town to visit. I got the feeling she felt that she felt I wasn't trying hard enough because I must've been "subversive feminist" invading her class. I grew up in a very conservative town. My mother was a stay at home mom, and she encouraged me to be whatever I wanted to be - I think she was actually afraid for me to become a stay at home mom. But, I was observant of how my father treated her like she was one of us kids, and I KNEW that life was not for me. Basically, kids learn at the feet of their parents big time.

As kids, we had the burden of achieving a full ride scholarship.

College is still not required to have a life. In fact today it’s a one way ticket to debt slavery for the majority of attendees.

@@ordinarydevin 🤣🤣🤣 Free ride to debt baby !

Life is all about trade-offs. Every generation has its challenges.

College is just a bunch of useless liberal studies trash that makes you no actual living wages when youre through with it. just to shove noses into politics.

You didn't have it easy at all, Ned. And that is not what this video is saying. Remember that this is a clip from a six hour television series I made on the 1960s and I heard many stories like yours and some from those who had the horrific experiences you had, became some of the greatest 60s rebels. I don't know if that happened to you. But to be sure, you didn't have it easy. David Altman filmmaker

@rocky mountain lass I was raised the complete opposite. My dad would constantly bitch, scream, moan and complain about every minor setback and inconvenience. I've never known someone so be so self obsessed and entitled. Even as a child I could see how pathetic it was. A real man (or just adult in general) tries to solve problems, not play the victim every single chance he gets.

That jelly being declared a flop? I have to disagree. I grew up with my mom’s homemade jelly. I much preferred it to be soft like that. It had better flavor (to me) than the firm kind. Unfortunately, my dad preferred for his jelly to “stand up and look you in the face”, as Mother described it. She most often deferred to my preference since I ate it the most, though. It’s how I try to make it now, but how runny / firm is mostly left to chance since I’m not as good at it as my mom was.

I was born in 1947, at the forefront of the boomer generation. My family motto: Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do, or do without. We never had credit cards or loans that I know of. I got a paper route at 12, and been working virtually every day since. Worked my way through college & took 8 years to get a 4 year degree. No one I knew was fat. However, I do feel a lot of sympathy for the youth of today. You have been short-changed by the money changers who bankrupted the country with the Vietnam war and had to take us off the gold standard. It was then that our "money" became nothing but fiat, and unlimited amounts could be issued. It wasn't the boomers who declared that war, but it was the boomers who fought it. You have been short-changed educationally, too. I know that my son's K-12 education was not as rigorous as mine, and can only imagine how sad it is today. Not enough history, math, writing, science...in other words, the basics. Not enough individualism & too much conformity. There's much more, too.

Well said. Gen X (the gen before millennials) got screwed over by Boomers too. They have the largest debt than any generation and I know some Gen X'ers that are still paying off college loans. Jobs were scarce after X'ers graduated from college in the 90s and we were compounded with debt. The housing crisis of the millennium, all those foreclosures, yep Gen X. Meanwhile Boomers appreciated the value of their homes and decided to play games with 30 year old X'ers by giving us those variable interest rates bc no-one could afford a home. Noone. Meanwhile Boomers are sitting comfortably while taking their time to retire while the rest of us are looking for jobs, paying loans, mortgages, raising kids. Meanwhile they shit on the X'ers calling us slackers since we were kids. Now they ignore us and crap all over millennials. Boomers are the most self absorbed and gave very little thought to posterity.

My mother, a boomer, said university was free back when she was my age. She has many achievements from uni: arts, biology, maths. But for me, it's 7 - 10 grand to do a single course. So despite me wanting to study psychology and animal care, I find myself much better off working as a cleaner, but with the wage I'm on I can't afford to even rent a place! But back when dad was my age he could already afford a house.. (I'm gen Z btw, 21 years old)

The “Greatest Generation” gave us the worst generation.

@@libbylulu148 Agreed 100%! My parents are Boomers and spoiled beyond belief, yet have the nerve to call me "spoiled". Meanwhile, I'm working 2 jobs just to make rent on a small 1 bedroom apt while they had a home built for them within a new HOA. All of my adult life I've been working just to get by, re-pay debt I have incurred, and try to live the best I can. I can't afford college, nor do I have the time to devote to it. I've been searching for ways I can try to make more money, as I'm trying to save for a down payment on a home, but the process has been pretty slow. The amount of rent I'm paying each month equates to a mortgage payment so I figured I would try to buy. I've also noticed that Boomers don't really help their kids financial either. Not that I'm asking them to support me, but some help with the down payment would be nice especially since they bought a new home, have another home in a different state, and vacation twice a year to Hawaii. But I DO see the light at the end of the tunnel though. I've been able to get out of credit card debt, and actually have something in savings as opposed to always being in the negative, but I credit that to my current company I work for now. They've helped in ways my own parents never have and I'm very thankful to be working there. I now have hope for what little future I have left, and may actually be able to become a home owner and am looking to start a small business! If the people in your life see you struggling and don't lift a finger to help, you lift all 5 fingers and wave goodbye because they were never your people in the first place. Take care. ❤

Boomer taxes built the infrastructure you're sitting on. Grow up.

Name of the novel?

It's also selective, ahistorical, manipulative nonsense, and is often employed as rhetoric by extremist groups. You can apply it to literally any point in history if you frame things in the right way.

​@@bartholen 100%. That's a quote that keeps getting perpetuated because of its ability to make historically illiterate people go "oh wow so true!"

im only in high school and this comment got me real worried about mah future 🤦

this is sad

With a greater prospect of homelessness

working hard these days just benefits the rich

@John Pershing only 750?! That is a deal. A dumb studio around here...far from your job is $1200. And your income must be 3x the rent. My fiance works at a top company making only $16 an hour. For this area it is real bullshit. Wenare working to leave the US once I get my master's degree.

Indeed, when I went to college and took macro economics they talk about how the conomy is growing and household income has increasingly risen... What a load of crap, while the economy has grown; household income has only risen because the continuos inclusion of women in the workforce, women studying higher paying careers, women getting equal pay... That's it, nothing to do with corporations paying more out of their fabulous increase in production.

how about the fact that the boomers could go to college for about twenty bucks or something a semester! Look at it now!

Alice Wonderland that's why I'm learning how to weld in the Army. High paying, in demand, and not sought out for. It's a perfect job for those ambitious enough to work for it

You're forgetting also that you could get a blue collar job now and live pretty good if you are willing to buy way out in the boonies. The house would be nice and so on just like back then or you could live in the hood. In so cal you would have to drive around 100 miles one way it's possible just not the same and very time consuming on our jacked up freeways

Dawson Heinbaugh go into welding plumbing. It's harder to get into than the iron workers union but the guys you'll be around will actually have an iq. I work construction and the farther away from those brutes the better, plumbers are much better tradesmen. Looking it that too a journey man with little to no responsibility in Los Angeles get 46/hr. HVAC gets around 46 as well Electrician gets 43 Not sure about the other trades, I hear some rumors of iron workers up near 70 but like I said the farther away from those guys the better, zero iq