Baby Boomers Are Becoming Criminals | Asmongold Reacts 

''So... what are you in for?" -"Couldn't help myself... stole an apple" "Ah... so, life?" -"Yep."

We used to live in communities, now we have jobs, live in boxes, and live hundreds of miles from family.

Boomer Economics. My father got an inherentance from his parents. Me and my sisters had to pay for his funeral.

Well, how are you supposed to build a support system in Japan when the culture is about working so much that you don't have time to socialize? And then they wonder why their population is dropping. Dude, you're not giving your people enough time to date each other and you're surprised there's not enough baby-making going on?

I can't wait for Asmon to be 80 years old and everyone typing "Old man yells at clouds" every time he talks about controversial things lol

I like how in Japan shoplifting gets you 10 years, but in America stealing $1,000 worth and the trolley they open the door for you and pat you on the back

Some old guy in my small town robbed the local bank with a golf club last year, solely so he cld get a his infected tooth pulled. Showed me an interesting side of life

Bro, your personal take on retirement is shared by a lot of people, even those of retirement age. Even those who do retire, all too often it's the beginning of the end for them, because they don't know what to do with themselves, have lost their social network (work), and become depressed. Retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially if you're not married.

There’s an old Japanese woman in some village and she’s knitted dolls to represent the people who have left the town and it no shit looks like something out of a horror movie.

The thing is, a lot of these policies and mindsets are results of decisions and actions boomers made. My boomer parents very proudly and smugly told me not to expect or plan for inheritance; because they intended on spending everything before they died. They are also well aware of how lucky they were for being born when they were; how housing is impossible for our generations, let alone rent and cost of living; it's not 'their problem'. Cool. They shouldn't be surprised then when they are dumped in the cheapest, nastiest retirement home to rot and I don't bother to visit - why would I? "it's not my problem"

Retirement as a concept only works if you have enough money.

They didn't choose the gangsta life the gangsta life chose them.

"Grandma what are you doing?" "I'm doing some clearning."

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As an Arizona resident, the homeless look like Mad Max extras out here. They're crispy, dusty, and mentally insane. All we need is Immortan Joe saying "Do not, my friends, become addicted to water."

One time when I was homeless I blacked out in front of a store and woke up in a cell with my own shower. I was the happiest I'd been in months.

The older you get , the less scary life in prison sounds 😂

That’s why family is so important

Can you imagine retiring in prison, with your friends, free shelter, free food. You wake up, play cards with your old gang, the cells are constantly open because what are you gonna do? Trip someone with your walking cane? Prison guards are your new nephews, and you tell them stories about owning houses and stuff, but they never believe you. Maybe you grow some plants during the time you're allowed outside.

So, I’ve worked in prisons for the military (ours aren’t even close to as bad as civilian prisons) and I can say that the issue with prisons is the staff. That and the ignorant lifelong criminals that want to perpetuate crime even in confinement. Correctional Officers (COs) have one of the toughest jobs in the world, especially in civilian prisons. And prisons probably have one of the hardest times of any career trying to find new employees. Guards work long hours (8-12+ hours) a day in super stressful environments. They are responsible for enforcing rules nobody wants to follow, stopping contraband everyone wants to keep, ensuring inmates survive their shift, and making sure they go home at the end of the day. They have such a high turnover rate that many senior guards lose motivation in training the newbies because why put all this effort into training some who will quit in the next two months. New guards lack the presence, communication skills, and knowledge to be successful. They also have less rapport with the inmates and don’t know what to be on the watch for meaning any time a new guard steps on the block it’s open season for the inmates. Guards lacking good communication skills are also at a higher risk of pissing off the wrong guy and getting attacked. Civilian prisons are so much worse than military because their guard force is so much more undisciplined. Sure their senior officers have way more experience than most military guards. But because we’re the military we have a much better control of our guards. We always said that the biggest security threat to a prison is the staff. Have you ever thought about how inmates that have been locked up for years get their hands on phones, narcotics, and weapons? It’s the staff that bring it in. The military is so absurdly strict on their guard force that most guards wouldn’t even toy with the idea of bringing stuff in for an inmate to make a quick buck because they know that they will 100% be caught at some point and probably end up in prison themselves. Civilian COs don’t have that luxury. Their coworkers are just that, a revolving door of new guys and many of them would like to make a quick grand brining in a $30 pre paid phone or $40 of weed. And if a CO does last they have some of the worst health in the country. They suffer from things like PTSD, depression, anxiety, insomnia, heart problems, and diabetes at rates way higher than any other profession. They constantly have to change their sleep schedules, they’re on high alert most of the time they’re awake, and they get to be the first witnesses in what criminals do to other criminals. Also their world view is slanted just like police but arguably worse. They spend dozens of hours a week locked in a room with grapists, PDFs, murderers, and any other vile human you can think of. They also see people they know are innocent or helpless in the prison system and there’s nothing they can do about it. Cops deal with that criminal one time, then the COs deal with them for years. Prison reform starts at correctional officer reform. A better, safer, educated, more motivated guard force is what we need. Not new dumb laws that eliminate prison times for tons of crimes. If prisons could start by eliminating contraband I’d say at least 50% of their problems would be solved.

Jail in Norway is my retirement plan.

14:30 "She had an OnlyFans! You think she was spending MY money?!" No, chatters; she was spending yours.

the UK is fucked they'll put you in jail for 5 years for hurting someone's feelings

Old people stole your future now they want to steal your spot in jail damm old people won't stop huh

"When I was younger I imagined Japan as like, in the future" It's funny that many Asians like me also used to see America as this futuristic utopia, until I made a twitter account and I'm like "Oh yeah they also have their own problems."

in canada, i've seen people do crimes of just enough severity for them to avoid the cold winters in prison/jail. most the time, shoplifters just get taken away in a cop car, and released with a slap on the wrist. The store I work in literally has the same 4 people shoplifting at least once a week. Cops get called they are taken away and then they get released a day or 2 later. It's sad.

Giving money to foreigners instead of people who have paid taxes all there lives.

People do that shit here in Alaska all the time. Mostly the homeless, you see our winters are quite literally lethal. If it is -50 outside, your best bet is to break a shop window and await the authorities. You get 3 meals, a warm room, and a blanket.

00:43 Really dude? You never wanna retire from your multi-million dollar job that involves sitting at a desk all day? Shocker.

Older population doesn't necessarily mean healthier country... Most likely means fewer births

A wise Boomer once said: “The root of all evil is not money. It is the lack of money.” - Uncle Roy

Man having to commit a crime so you can get better care than being free is f**king wild.

“The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.” ― Aristotle

The death of the extended family. As developed countries shifted from agriculturally based economies to industry and then services related economies, the population growth shifted to cities and away from smaller local communities where extended families lived as one family unit. Ma and Pa now had to provide their own living arrangements (home or apartment). No more two or three generations living together in a large farmhouse. The city slicker kids didn't want Ma and Pa around anymore. In most developed countries, housing costs have risen faster than incomes. This affects the retired and elderly more the working population. If your retirement income is only SSI, you will find it almost impossible to live the lifestyle you had when you were working.

UBI (or rather just giving everyone $1000) won't actually fix anything. Look at the ridiculousness that is college tuition, (numbers are just for example) the government said "hey we'll cover $5k of that" and then the colleges raised tuition by $5k.

Just call it the 'Golden Age of Crime.' where age is just a number... of felonies.

What'd yall think will be more likely? 1. Universal Basic Income 2. Normalize self deletion like how they try to normalize identity politic

That decrease was China's "great leap forward" China also has more debt than Japan.

5:20 Part of it is the prison industrial complex. The 3 strike rules. A bunch of these people get thrown in for 20 years in their 20s and become institutionalized so they just immediately offend to get back into the system. The Prison system is known for giving unreasonably harsh punishments to non-violent crimes that don't deserve it.

Weird how the less diverse a developed country is the lower its crime rate and higher it's prison standards. What an odd coincidence

Meanwhile in California you can steal every last item from a dollar store and the cops won't even show up.

"that's a bicycle" as if its a unnamed beast that's been discovered

Loneliness in old age hits different, some of us might be laughing at their situations now, but when our time comes, who will be laughing

"African PVP servers" is wild bro 😂.

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My brain saw the thumbnail and briefly decided the title was something related to Elder Scrolls

As a old person who cant aford to retire. Its more economical to rob a bank and go to prison for 10 to 15 years than it will be to live out in the free world.

I am a Japanese living in the countryside of southern Japan, and I can really feel that Japanese society is aging. The most common age group among Japanese people is probably in their 60s to 70s. The average age of Japanese is over 50 years old. However, I am not pessimistic. It may be economically painful, but I think it is a good thing for remodeling the social structure that the analog generation that produced many children is getting older and they are being weeded out. We will continue to have hard times as we are now for at least another 20 years, but I still see it as a necessary time.

For anyone wondering about that massive drop in 1960: I looked into it from the source (Our World in Data); the regional graph showcases that the global drop was almost entirely due to a massive drop in Asia. Mao's Great Leap Forward was from 1958-1962 approximately. Do the math.

1:25 no asmon. the problem is they aren't having children. leaving more and more old people only while there's less and less young people.

*Sigh, another person who doesn't understand what life expectancy means... It doesn't mean that people get older, it mostly means that less people die young anymore. Even in Ancient Rome the life expectancy might have been 20-30 but once you managed to survive to age 20 you are very likely to reach age 50-60. In UK in the 18th century the chance of your kid dying until the age of 5 was nearly 75%, they managed to decrease it to around 30% in the 19th century which boosted their life expectancy from 25 years to over 40 years. Basically life expectancy takes into account the amount of people who died through illness, crime or even accidents, that's why it is so high in japan. The country takes health very serious (like mandatory health checks every single year), the crime rate is very low and they also have tons of safety measures to decrease accidents. On contrary the life expectancy in USA is somewhat low compared to other first world countries because their crime rate is high, their health care sucks and they don't care so much about safety.

"everybody knows stealing is wrong, don't steal shit" Funny, corporations steal all the time. Nothing meaningful like prison happens at all.

Asmongold comparing streaming to real work 😂😂

I guarantee you a Japanese prison feels like a Hilton compared to a rural nursing home in the US.

This is dumb, I know most of y'all are children but have you never heard of a compound felony. That's what it's called in America. Petty theft x3 = felony. That's why our American jails/prisons are full of non violent offenders. Old people who have nothing and homeless have done this forever especially during the winter so that they can have a warm bed and three meals. Not everything is some new phenomenon. It's literally just humanity on repeat.

A lot of elders in Japan are purposely committing crimes because they can get 3 hot meals a day, a place to live, and healthcare or medical assistant if they needed because someone is there to care for them. I remember one of the old ladies was asked why she wants to stay in prison, and she told the interviewer because if she were to go out, she struggle to barely feed herself and eat only one meal a day, but inside the prison she can get 3 hot meals a day, shower, bed, and all of those basic necessity for care. It's sad but that's the reality because they don't have any relatives to care for them when they go out to society, so they're better off staying in prison because at least the guards check on them and take care of them. And they have other cellmates to talk to. That's essentially what it is.

5:44 the 99% conviction rate isn't because of harsh courts or effective prosecutors. It's because losing a case is considered such a hit to reputation that they don't even bother attempting to take someone to trial if there's even a minor chance that the person could potentially beat the charges against them. It's like "guilty until proven innocent, but we're too scared to even suggest that you might be guilty unless you make it painfully obvious"

''So... what are you in for?" "i stole a peace of grass off someones property" "Ah So life?" Yep.

As a Black person who calls my friends out about this all the time, hate is definitely taught.

Every time you say "we will eventually need a UBI" all I hear is the government is going to charge me more taxes and I am already looking for a 3rd job.

That is not civil war, thats senile war

08:15 1000 yen is currently $6.89 USD. No longer $9, wow!

Japanese jails/prisons are actually okay. The food is pretty amazing, but there is lots of discipline. It's kinda like joining the military.

They've got nothing left to lose.

Here in London, my dad got arrested and when he got out he told me that prison was very comfortable, had a good bed and TV and 3 meals and a shower...

10:35 this looks like a line a super villain would say without context

They all saw that Seinfeld episode with Uncle Leo- “I’m old! I don’t know where I am! What’s this in my pocket???” 😂

its crazy even king von the rapper who was literally a serial killer told stories about how he would have to take care of his elderly cell mate and help him go to the bathroom and stuff

*You either die a hero , or live long enough to see yourself become the villain*

The increase in elder prison population in the USA is mostly due to mandatory minimum sentences that started in the 80's and 90s. Judges used to be able to use their Judgement, now they can only give large minimum sentences. So in the US more people have been giving super long sentences for small crimes, and the elderly are getting much longer sentences.

it's not old people turned into criminals, it's criminals turned old

To be fair, stolen food does taste better

they slowed the death penalty 15 years ago now they get old instead of dead.

I visited a church across my street that's stood there since the 1870s. The pastor gave me the history of that church and told me 3 surrounding blocks of residents all attended that church and everyone knew each other so well the sense of community was VERY strong. After cars were invented, those residents now drive out of the city or state to different churches and today no neighbor knows who the other one is. The church is still doing well despite how long its stood, but it's a different atmosphere because most of the attendees don't live in the area. Sense of community is critical. Even Africans don't have these issues

So, living expenses have gotten so bad that people are committing crimes just to have some kind of peace and, sometimes, a roof over their heads

Yeah I would not compare Japan to western countries. Totally different cultures, and ways of thinking.

2:52 Your typical African PVP servers 😂

With universal income comes servitude. You speak out against the government? You're a trouble maker and trouble makers get less money. You don't want the government assigned job? You're not contributing to society. Reduced income. But the government wouldn't do that. Right...

I'm dying 😂 OMG culling strike debuff cast on yourself by over eating!!!! That made my day, I literally burst out laughing in the breakfast area of my hotel. I like the in-game/IRL references but this one takes the cake! The cake of culling strike LMFAO

One generation with nothing left to offer and another with nothing left to give

What I dont understand is - how can you have multiple children and (grownup) grandchildren (the 80yo lady) and still feel lonely in life. To the point that you feel "nostalgic" about your prison time. Thats complete bullshit. Not being able to talk to ppl around you. Even to your family. Thats some sicko society if you ask me.

Government looking at this problem and just going to turn us all into prisoners

I don’t really understand why aren’t more countries having “colony-settlements” like Russia. It’s basically a town full of people convicted of crimes of carelessness, light or mid seriousness of offence crimes. They’re allowed to use cash, to live with their families inside or even outside of colonies in some cases, they in majority work as the regular people with the two differences being: they must not break rules (curfew, laws and freedom of travel) and they must check in with their (sorta) parole officers. It’s clearly easier transition than standard russian prisons (Google how the cells look, lol). It’s probably the best way to reintroduce inmates back to society, or rather not to alienate them in the first place.

So I'm a dev in Japan. My wife, Japanese, is a nurse. We're early 40s. No kids. Let me tell you: there is ZERO chance we get to retire. None at all. There is no hope for younger generations.

16:30 I was living in Phoenix, Arizona for the past 4 years and I've never been in California but I've never seen so many homeless people all over that state. And yeah they turned to beef jerky in that sun. It's $120°.

You mean they commit other crimes besides how they drive?

I came here expecting old people acting like this is GTA, what I got was just sad 😢

0:44 from what i seen a lot of them won't retire because "I'd be bored"... Basically they can't find a hobby so they keep working because it's all they've ever known to do. Pretty sad really. Their whole personality revolves around work.

This reminds me of that episode in SpongeBob where Mrs. Puff doesn’t want to go out of prison anymore

I own a restaurant, on New Year’s Eve last year I got a police call, apparently a homeless man shattered my door to my store and just ate a little bit of bread while they waited for the police to arrive. It was raining for like 2-3 days straight at this time of year. It’s not a myth. Thing that sucks for me more that same night it was rainy somebody side swiped my car and ran off. On the way to that store. The freeways were empty the fact that they managed to drive next to someone in the slow lane (4 lane freeway) and hit them and just runoff. Man that was a shitty night.

Universal basic income is never going to solve the solutions you think it's going to solve.

All of their sons are watching asmon and playing genshin. 🍑

The bigger trend is younger people are getting in less trouble. When we took lead out of the environment, kids got smarter and less violent.

To us, the Japanese prison system is regimented boot camp, rules like no loud talking but, when someone is being crushed under poverty, they "can breath, be myself. Even temporarily." Asmon said it, 'JEEEEE-SUS'.

That granny would have automatically been jailed for life since it was her third strike...

At first, I was 100% against the idea of Universal Basic Income. I still don't like it, but now I know it'll be necessary. We need it. Something horrible will happen soon if we won't have it. Asmon didn't change my mind. Life did.

17:39 all you need is to make water free, and a basic nutrition bar that can be given out anywhere for free with all needed basic nutrition.

It doesn’t help that if they were abusive to their kids while raising them there’s a high chance their children will cut them off when they become an adult. Why would you want to support someone like that?

They were criminals before, you just didn't notice. Its just a matter of time before you slip up and get caught.

It's disturbing that no one is having enough kids either.