You're right. I don't want to work. I've been working every day since I was 16. I'm 42 and don't have a damn thing to show for it. I can't blame these kids for not wanting to work. I've neglected my family, worked 50 hours a week, now I have carpal tunnel and severe arthritis in my neck... all for what? I can't even save up for a down stroke on these ridiculously priced houses! Rent is killing me.
Agree. I've been working since 16, now nearly 60. Got very little from it. If it were up to me I'd never lift a little finger again. There is too much (useless) work being done. See Bertrand Russell's "Why Work?" or his "In Praise of Idleness".
Agreed. I think traditional full-time work is the major problem here. If we as a society were able to pay all our bills working part-time, I think we would be much better off. Full-time work (when you don't enjoy it or feel fulfilled by it) is so unhealthy. I've been working since I was 16 years old too. I haven't had a break. The longest I've had has been 2 weeks off when I was transitioning from 1 job to another. I have never been able to take some months off and explore life or be free from a boss or any authority. I'm 37 years old now and freaking miserable. The crazy thing is, I have a very good job but the lack of freedom is really starting to make me sick. The restrictive work schedule of Monday-Friday 9am-6pm, plus traffic is killing my soul and what hurts more is I've been trying to make money online (which is a better way of making money, not having a boss dictating your schedule or your life) but it's extremely difficult and competitive so I don't know. Working full-time is soul-crushing ☠
That's just it. I dont think most people are afraid of work out of pure laziness, they don't want to break their bodies and minds and have nothing to show for it. I am a believer that working to simply exist is what is soul crushing. If you know you are working, and your 40-50 hours per week is actually getting you ahead a bit...THAT is motivation. Toiling your life away to know you will have nothing to show is demoralizing, depressing, and completely demotivating. If you took a person that "doesn't want to work" and offered them a job that not only paid enough to provide more than basic life necessities, but gave them a proper work/life balance I think you would find that there aren't as many "lazy" people out there as you think. "Lazy" in this case is interchangeable with "unmotivated". I've seen this happen first hand. Years ago I worked at mcdonalds and there was this one kid that was seen as lazy and not a good worker. We hated seeing this kid on days that we worked. He was slow, talked too much, and generally didn't seem to care beyond what he absolutely HAD to do. Ran into him at a jobsite a year later after I had left the arches. He was one of the hardest working and motivated guys there. One lunch break I was talking to him and said if he worked half as hard at mcdonalds as he was here we would have loved working with him His response... "My work ethic and motivation have always been balanced with how I'm paid. Minimum wage gets minimum work."
@@XuliusCaesar Here i am 26 i worked a couple of years in my country and Germany, UK and i don't want to do this shit in my whole existence because this shit is anything but life. . it's horrible existence. . In my county i have to save 10 years nearly my full salary to buy a house...
Like someone else commented, this video is indeed insulting to blue collar workers. I disliked the vid, & as for following, he has lost a potential sub
It explains all the tents across America & why we have no factories here. Everything shipped overseas because we refuse to work hard. The future ain't looking too good for America
The problem is being treated like a 6th grader for 40+ hours a week, only to have the government take 50% of your hard work to fund shit that really doesn't benefit you. I understand working to support yourself, but at the same time its also a waste of life. That's just my opinion.
Erik damn right when you have to have a job you hate and to get treated like a fifth grader and to only make enough to pay your damn bills and still have to survive until 2 weeks later Fuck this goofy Nerd.
@Devil Dagger the younger generations were absolutely spoiled. Yes it’s difficult, but it was also insanely difficult50 years ago, 109 years ago, 200 years ago, etc. The difference is that we in the 21st Century do not engage in back breaking physical labor in a simple but harsh life. We now engage in psychological mind numbing labor, in an easy life based on extreme materialism, and conveniences we are brainwashed into believing we need. More stuff, keep buying, keep consuming, it all is an endless cycle.
@Erik, have you ever researched how those tax dollars DO “benefit” you, and your family? As you get older, you will be grateful for all of it. If You don’t like it, I heard there is cheap land in Mexico and Venezuela.
@@occipitalneuralgia2339 That might be the case when the government actually wants to do right by their citizens, we have a government that believes we are server them, when the government is suppose to serve the people. I pay Social Security taxes, I'm betting when the time comes, it wont even be around for me or people in that age group. That's just my opinion my opinion and everyone is free to have their own.
@@tmorelli1982 Dental assistant. But I'm gonna study Website design. I got to do something and I read if you will put in 20 hrs then you can Learn a new skill
@@joad47 If your job doesn't pay enough to cover even the lowest rental in your area you could working full time and still end up homeless with no food reguardless of you employment status.. Picture this you are working every shift you can possible get knowing at the of the month you will be homeless. What is the point of having a job that doesn't put food on the table or keep a roof over your head? That is WHY we have jobs correct? Let's be honest here it's rarely because we love going to them.
The thing is the modern way of living is outdated and jobs are a meaningless way to aquire meaningless belongings to appear successful in a meaningless society. Nobody should have to pay for water nd food tbh. Why can't we all just have jobs that directly help ourselves and each other and move away from this slave lifestyle to provide a profit for the people at the top. Its not about not wanting to work, its about seeing through the illusion of what society says its important
Exactly !!! Why do something what does not mean shit to me yeah we need the money for food etc fuck this ive had enough of it worked my ass off after having 21 jobs i really dont want anything anymore really i dont want nothing from nobody i dont want anything from the world fuck this slavery
@@mementomori5374 I'm 15 and im scared of working forever until i die in a shop it's scary i didn't know we had to do all this to survive i just realized it now :(
@@iryssiaOof i understand your fear my friend i was scared of it to. Those scary thoughts also came to me. Youre just 15 thats awesome follow what you love or like to do follow your passion thats what i have learned. I would say this to my 15 years old self. If you wanna talk i am here goodluck my friend
No. I don't want to work. I don't want to work 8 hours a day 5 days a week only to have to work a second part time job just to pay bills that are too high. I have no life. Yes, our parents had to do it. I'm sorry because it sucks. But that's their own fault. This generation saw our parents struggle and we're not going to do it.
But how not to? I hate to work as well and no I won’t be an I influenced or artist or something. How to survive? If I’m not having a talent how to survive without wanting to commit suicide literally
@@Olivia-bs5wj We change things. It's all made up. Working 8 hrs a day was made up by a Chinese guy a long ass time ago. Who said we needed to work 5 days a week? We vote and we change the work culture.
@@jasminelondon910 I know but I don’t know how to change? Work makes me honestly suicidal and you can’t say that out loud, at least not here in Sweden cause people wants to be so good and successful and independent. When you can’t or hate to work everyone will turn against you.
@Olivia I will pray for you my friend The Bible says in Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you" declares the Lord "Plans to prosper you, and not to harm you,plans to give you hope and a future" If you ask God for help He will answer you Jesus says in Matthew 7:7-8 "Ask,and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: "For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened" You have a beautiful future, please ask God to show you His path for you He is faithful and will help you Take care Olivia Praying for you ♥️
This guy has a son probably that is lacking as a man. Which means he is lacking as a father and likely wants to blame laziness and complacency for his son not working and being a leech. So he tells everyone it's mens fault for not making a decision to sacrifice for less and less opportunities or as I call them family a home land and equal treatment under the courts. Account for that.
@@clydedenby1436 I can't say we owe it all to them, the military (funded the same socialist way as the Dept of Education) protects our sovereignty, rule of law protects our rights. By the way, Margaret Thatcher should have been executed for the torture and murder of hundreds of Republicans in Ireland, but that's another issue
I will be very honest: I absolutely DO NOT want to work anymore but to be more specific, I think the major issue is traditional full-time work... I think what's happening currently is with the advancement of technology, MANY people are finding BETTER ways to make money (for example: making money on youtube or via social media platforms, or making money selling products online, etc) and that is leaving many other people to grow more hatred towards having to work traditional jobs (for example: the 9-5 rat race ☠)... A traditional full-time job that fulfills no purpose other than to survive can be soul-crushing, mentally and physically unhealthy... I believe previous generations had it harder due to less technological advancements but not anymore... There is no reason anymore for so many of us to be stuck sitting at a desk or at any place for 8+ hours... We could be doing so much more with that time, pursuing other interests, learning, being creative or simply more leisure... Traditional full-time jobs are abusive if you think about it. It is a subtle, indirect torture so that we can keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. It's a shame. Maybe this generation of millennials will revolutionize the workforce so that we can all pay our bills with part-time work instead... We will look back at traditional full-time work, like we look back at the times when workers worked in factories for 12+ hour shifts as a horrible way of living life on this planet.
@kyre lymrick I wonder how so many people are out of work right now and able to make it. How the heck are they doing it?? They must have a partner or a parent that can support them. I wish we could be free from work without struggling or at the very least, allow us more flexibility and ALOT more time off. I fantasize about the day I can quit and stop having someone else dictate my life, my schedule. I want to be the authority of own my life!
Honestly most of the successful people working on RU-vid are putting in 10-15 hour days working. I have met a lot of burned out folks who can’t quick because the pay is so good. I also know when I was selling my crafts online, that I had to spend three times as much time marketing the products then making them. A 10 hour day marketing, shipping,answering emails, etc took away from the creative work that was necessary and that I loved. My point is that no one seems to be happy. Just remember the millions before you…your ancestors, most likely were engaged in “mindless, soul crushing work” too. That’s how the society, cultures, cities etc. got built. Most real work is drudgery, and there is a majority of those jobs and they do not pay what the should. They never did.
@@occipitalneuralgia2339 We are not living in those previous times anymore though. With technological advancements, we should all be able to live off part-time work. I hate full-time work. I can't wait for the day I can quit and not have someone dictate my schedule anymore.
Do I deserve what I have? No, and I feel guilty about it every second of my life. Do I want to waste my life in a misserable job? No, and I feel guilty about it every second of my life. Though, regardless, I'd rather lay in bet and slowly rot away than live a miserable working life.
The late Antonin Scalia hit the nail on the head when he observed "The transformation of charity into legal entitlement has produced donors without love and recipients without gratitude."
It's worse now. The ungrateful recipients actually presuppose some moral deficiency in the donor and moral superiority in themselves justifies theft, and ultimately murder of the donor to "even the score" of imaginary transgressions, which prevented the recipients from magically having as much without effort. The takers (not recipients) have humongous egos with no foundation in reality that the brush of a feather can cause narcissistic injury to (being triggered).
@@asktheetruscans9857 How true. All cults push the "we are the chosen" and "the meek shall inherit" narratives. They demonize everyone outside of the cult, and forbid any peer-to-peer dialog with non-members. The left has basically become a quasi-religious cult.
I saw this in a comment someplace - I think it sums things up nicely: Hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times.
"A government powerful enough to give you everything you want, is also powerful enough to take away everything you have." Don't recall who said that, but he was absolutely right.
There is no security in life. Yeah sure I can have an amazing well paid job but I can get fired or get sick or anything, nothing is secure and for sure
@Greg Ingram becuase more government control is what we need. Plus who likes having thier own private property. With a track record like that I'm surprised all 195 countries are socialst heading towards communism.
When work doesn't pay bills or keep up with inflation, why work at all? You are working downward and not upward. And don't come at with "you got to upskill". How can I upskill when 10hrs of my day is robbed by a job? Don't come at me with "you got to manage your time better". How can I manage my time when there is no time to manage in the first place? All the things I need to do gets pushed to the weekend: chores, buy food, laundry, errands, possible appointments, and other things people must do before they even have a chance to rest. And where is the time to rest? "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". Implies that there is more to life than work. And the other part of that quote is"...But all play and no work makes him something worse." Understandable, people need discipline to regulate themselves to be something more. Which further implies BALANCE OF WORK AND LIFE. Millions and millions of people live paycheck to paycheck, working themselves ONLY TO PAY BILLS and nothing more. When the cost of living surpasses your monthly paycheck, it's a race to the bottom causing people to either work to death or at least die doing what they love. Be it sitting on a beach or watching tv, life is more than just work. This video is ignorant and half-assed. You didn't even work on your research (pun intended).
Taxes and regulations were designed to cripple America and force its citizens to be dependent, criminal, or both just to survive. We the people have the power, we have to choose where to spend our money and let the old guard die.
Claudia Juarez I live off the labor of my employees. In return I provide them with constant employment, and a livable wage. For this I spend my time talking with potential customers, getting the funding for projects, getting the permits for the projects, carry the insurance for the project and bear the wrath of a customer and the cost when an employee screws up. I am the one a customer will call at all hours of the day or night if a problem occurs. I teach my employees skills and provide specialized equipment as needed. I am the last paid. After 10 years or so some are ready to start their own business and they live off the labor of their employees. Yeah, I live off the labor of my employees and am proud of it. I encourage you to give it a try instead of complaining.
Then why did you leave that country if you're so proud of it? How can you be proud of it and at the same time abandon it for something else lol? Because deep down you know your country is a shithole. My parents are from Mexico. I take no pride in that. There's a reason I'm here and not there.
@@pearlsswine7416 Leaving the place you are originally from to pursue better opportunity does not necessarily make the place you left a shithole. Let's face it, America is becoming a shit hole. Left to the liberals it will become one.
@@newagain9964 Based on that, Kennedy's statement of "ask not what the country can do for you but what you can do for your country" no longer stands true? How about making a contribution instead of always having a hand out... People look to government to solve their problems when in fact, government is the problem...
@@tick7146 huh? when did I ask where is my handout? And I partially agree, govt AND the private interests than run the gov are the problem. U don’t know me, yet u assume a lot with ur boomer talking points.
@@newagain9964 I've listened to Millennials talking points for too long and all I hear is "gimme, gimme, gimme." Take responsibility for your life and stop blaming others for your lack of success. Pretend the government doesn't exist and you will be much better because of it...
D. F. Your point was well stated before, sir, and now you put it so beautifully, I’m taking a screenshot of your words and sending it to all the gen z in my family :)... I agree with you a 💯
@Wyrd walker good point. I still feel like the odds are rigged against the majority though, as a way of strangling us out of the pic. That will leave no middle class gap u will either have almost literally nothing or u will be a top 1 percent. This is all by design. But in any case, we all should have been living modestly all along. We all share the blame for wanting, to a degree. We also had tech and convenience pushed on us too though, to get us dependant now where we are where it gets harder and harder to break out of the grid unless u give up money and everything else. And one day soon we will have to do that make no mistake. It's their control tool. Always has been and always will be. Life wasn't supposed to be about money and possessions it was supposed to be about helping your neighbor loving them as yourself, working in small communities planting gardens raising livestock taking care of your family and helping those around u. This would have been true joy true peace and happiness, yes u won't have the conveniences but u wouldn't have missed what u never had. Impossible today for this to happen sadly and the damned elite knew this all along! Humans aren't made for this period. Older gens were willing to bend the knee and say yes to big gov and work endlessly forever for nothing. Younger gens aren't buying into that BS cuz the net is pulling up around us and there's not enough hours in the day to even work to pay the core bills for most people. That's why this video in a way to me, makes me wanna say "quit playing" the thing is when u don't struggle u don't see. When u struggle like us for a long time, u see fully damn well what's going on
Wyrd Walker. I like your statement. And you are right. When my friends kid was in 8th or 9th grade, she wanted my old iPhone 4. She could connect to WiFi to listen to music, chat, etc. But could not use it as an actual phone. She was fine with that, only because everyone would at least see she had an iPhone.
I've been unemployed for years and i feel envious that my friends are having jobs and can provide for themselves. I get hired this month but then again I keep complaining how hard it is... wanna go back to the life of unemployed lol. A life were i wont be stress. But if I'll quit, i wont have the money.... I don't have any choice but to endure this.
What kinda job you working? It depends on the job and how you like it. There are MANY WAYS to get money in the US. It's not like you need a company job
@@isaacwest4635 I'm what's called a Pond Tech at a salt mine. I just drive around and fill out paperwork on the ponds and maintain them and clean them and run pumps to keep them supplied with brine. Another example of a low stress job would be a receptionist or payroll of course you'd have to be good with numbers. Oh almost forgot Pharmacy Technician although that can be kind of boring.
Omg you are me. Everyone says work is for developing and bla bla. And if you don’t have money you can’t have a home or food. Well I don’t want to wake up and be alive and go work just to afford eating and sleeping aren’t motivating
i agree with you but i think it has to do alot with money. i would say its NOT the WORK that people dont wanna do but simplly because our BASIC NEEDS ARe not meant on this planet.
"Working" has always been part of human life, just before the work people did was directly affecting themselves and their families. (Hunting, gathering, farming, making things from scratch, ect.)
When I was first starting out in the working world it was very easy to land a good job that paid well, all we had to do was talk to a couple of people and shake a few hands and we were in, I wouldn't make it past the online screening process today, I feel for the kids who are not being offered any meaningful work.
Why would you feel for spoiled rotten brats (that's what some millenials and gen z'ers are are) and yes I am apart of that millenial generation) ??? Because I don't and I won't because those two generations are the most selfish and self absorbed people I have ever met (and again I am a millenial so I know of which I speak)
Rare ... very rare... is the man/woman who live an inspired life who finds the unity of work and play and gets paid well for it. For the rest of us mortals, by the sweat of our brow must we work so that we may eat. Genesis 3: 19 .
That meant farm, hunt, fish, build, etc. Not go to Transglobutron and help Satan destroy the planet. Please don't quote the Bible (especially something like Genesis) to try and explain modern day insanity.
Angryolized So people working in a factory are destroying the world? He can quote the Bible whenever he wants and if it offends snowflakes that is just a great bonus lol.
It's sad how many have been conditioned to think working 12 hours a day for pennies to (hopefully) have and be able to (hopefully if you're in good health) enjoy the things they want in the last 10 years of their life is the way that life should be. What was it all for? I know people who worked like a dog, saved and saved, talking about "work hard now for your retirement" and then dropped dead before they got there. SMH The overall point of having a good work ethic is true, but the work culture we have now is severely unhealthy and nearly pointless at the end of the day.
@@bwillems1000 I agree, but I don't see it as a choice between Good and Bad . . . it's between Bad and Worse. The sooner we all come back around to the idea of giving the federal government less to do, the better off we'll all be. Don't see it happening anytime soon, though -- we've been addicted to Big Gubmint for a long, long time.
@@bwillems1000 all politicians (and even bureaucrats to much extent) will serve their own self interests first. Then their friends/funders 2nd. Power stakeholders 3rd....I still don’t think “the ppl” even make it to 4th.
Turns out...you don’t have to! Who would have thought I put in 27 years at the same job and I could have been a huge societal parasite instead? Guess what? I have NO debt, own my home on 6.5 acres and have a retirement income that I worked to save so I could retire and not be a burden to anyone. THAT works and always has. But then, ethics in life don’t seem to apply anymore. So sad to see this happening, but happy to be old enough to know I will die before this shit gets even worse.
This is a senseless rant, coming from a place of privilege smh. Not once in the entire video did you highlight the difference in the economy our parents went through and the youth is going through now. Back in the day, it was waaaay easier to buy a house. The scenery has changed and you cannot blame the current generation for what they are going through. Our feelings and struggles are valid too.
My mother is bipolar, she can't work. She isn't stable enough for it. I remember having to eat tortillas and syrup because we didn't have any money. I often wonder what life would be like for her if she had more help. If people had enough time and money to give her a hand. If even the tiniest sliver of the 3%'s money went to people like her or just people in general. If the government I live in actually gave a damn about the people that slave away to them. Am I lazy for that? Am I entitled? Should my mother work despite her mental condition? Simply try harder on days when she can't get out of bed. Snap out of it when she thinks her dog can turn into a magic otter. Just work despite it. I don't think so. I see so many people just expect people to work and slave and break themselves when till they can't anymore, but why? That's so stupid. This video is stupid.
Diana Hess. Sounds like you had great parents. Taking the time to teach a good work ethic isn't a easy job. And I bet you and your sibs are better for it. Hug you parents and say THANKS
I worked before I was 18, and was only too happy to pay my mother rent. And when I turned 18, I was very happy to leave my parent’s house and strike out on my own! I had less chores in my own house than I did in theirs! I love my parents very much and am so glad they taught me the value of money and the rewards of hard work.
If I'd pulled that crap on my parents, I would have heard "Now here's something to cry about", followed by a slap to the face. Disapprove? Well, what's worse? A little temporary discomfort to have a lesson drilled in, or NOT getting that life lesson and becoming a spoiled entitled little piece of crud who's out being an SJW and other wastoid activities?
@@petuniasevan You too would be crying like a little girl (we all would) if we had to work on a cotton plantation. Its all relative. Mostly we work so the rich get richer. Hard doesn't always result in a comfortable life either. Most of the time it doesn't.
Another problem is that young people who take pointless courses in university are amazed that no one wants to hire someone who has a degree in gender studies.
Lava1964- If Bernie or AOC take over, and promise "free" college, we'll have a plethora of useless graduates out there complaining that they have a four year degree and can't find a job.
@@Columbus1152 my highest honors 4.0 perfect attendance wasn't good enough to offset my privileged white male status. I guess I should have identified as a sub-gendered minority class member. Damn.
I took gender studies and it helped me greatly to distinguish the differences between the sexes. Blue is for boys and pink is for girls. Why are bicycle frames different for boys and girls?.
This kind of teaching is exactly why I hate work, it's because instead of me being a child and doing what children should be doing, I was WORKING...... Now I am an adult and I can totally permit myself not to work but I just can't because I have an inner parent forcing me to do shit I don't want to be doing.. and it's agonizing, I make money no doubt, but it's agony and torture of self.
@@MikeSmith-vg6bfThat was mine too! The local dairy had to install cameras because so many people were taking the crates! That was before you could buy them!
Yeah people don’t understand this. They think if you don’t work your ass off you won’t do anything, but that’s so not true. Although I don’t know how to survive in this way, cause right now I have to work
Am 49 now, and working since 14. But, I do IT work, and now these jobs keep going to India.... My work ethic is just about unmatched, but you employers want to pay them 20% what they pay me, knowing that they would still need 4 of them to do what I do!
I considered going into IT, but I do not want to work hard only to have my job offshored. I feel for anyone who works hard, only to be over looked for a cheaper option
Agree: I worked for a company which was bought by a company from India. After all the training, etc., in the end, it took 8 of them to do what 1 of the American workers did. I always wondered just _how cheap_ the labor must be to support the long-distance international data lines, 8x the number of people; along with 8x as many chairs, desks, computers, software licenses, etc. I guess it _must_ pay?!?
@@josephgaviota It is a shame what is happening to Americans in the IT and programming industry. I discovered I like programming a few years ago, I am actually geeky enough to enjoy sitting at my desk for an hour or 2, solving programming problems. However, I am now in my mid-30's and I know I need a stable job so I can save for retirement, that is why I went into the medical industry. I never understood offshoring (okay, I understand the profit motive), it must be more difficult to manage someone who is half way around the world, security issues and American customers are not going to want to talk to someone who speaks English with a thick accent. Not trying to be rude to them, but I think IT is a job that should be done locally.
All jobs that are repetitive in nature can be replaced not only by cheaper labor but also by computers. Programming is great if you know how to provide something that is not being provided yet. I see so many things businesses need and I have one big idea that is not being done yet and for whoever has the skills/capital they will make a lot of money. So my point is identifying a need and providing a solution a.k.a idea is where the big payout is and that will never be able to be outsourced. People living and being raised in other countries do not have the slightest clue of the needs of the American economy.
Let's get real, you don't want to work. You want money which you take to do work you hate. If that's not the case then give the money back and work for free.
as a young person having just left school, i'm pretty eager to start working. Problem is no jobs want us! The point you made about feeling like we deserve a good paying job just because we exist is true, but i'm willing to do the work and still get rejected! Every job requires you to have experience, but ironically in you can't get work experience without already having work experience.... me and other young people are stuck in that loop. I have friends who are very hard working and are struggling to get an income rn, its not to do with laziness.
In fla the dmv has been privatized. So your Medicare and other programs are the feds , and by the way polls show Americans want healthcare for all .i couldn't get any insurance before the affordable healthcare act . i have a preexisting condition . so when i get really sick in the future you tax payers will have to foot the bill unless we keep something as healthcare insurance
They already are! I am in Canada and although there are many pluses to our system, it is not with out fault. We spend massive amounts of money to provide 'ok' service. Don't let anyone tell you it is 'free'. 9, 10 sometime 15 hours waiting to get looks at...then there is the exorbitant parking fees.....
@@joeshmoe7967 at least you can get health care . my neighbors are Canadian 4 different couples they like their system . so im not sure it all that bad . you would have to wait here also unless you got big bucks they will take good care of you here
@Chuck Finley of course its not free . if you understand the markets insurance is expensive why . record profits. We can do better but who would rip us off then?
You have to remember things were easier when I was a kid, born in 64, my mom didn't have to work, my Dad worked one job and we had one car and a nice row home in a nice neighborhood in Philly, our way of life was so much easier then but as time goes on it's getting harder and harder. When I got married and started having kids both parents had to work and we had to put our kids in daycare which is another cost. Very hard and frustrating to do, I got married in 93. Now these kids can't even get married and start a family of their own and it's very frustrating for them. Why did things have to get to the point were it is damn near impossible for these kids today to even start a family? So sad. I really feel sorry for a lot of these good kids in today's world, it's really not their fault it's their Grandparents fault, that generation forgot were they came from. Our way of life has deteriorated so much that it is so damn depressing and remember it's NOT the millennials fault but their Grandparents fault because their the ones who took everything from this great country especially having a nice way of life! That generation took a way of life, pensions, social security damn near everything that they thought was owed to them and left these poor kids today with nothing but a 22 Trillion dollar debt that they have to find a way to pay off. Thanks to that nifty fifty generation who screwed this country up so bad god only knows if we can get America back on track again, so stop labeling and calling these kids names like millennials or lazy it's really the old people in 2020, you know the ones over 80 who ruined America and the generations way of life that followed!!! 😉
things were not easier, people back then were more humble and didnt live beyond their means. Today everyone wants the best of everything and don't want to work (or save) to get it.
You are blaming the older people, but really, most men who served in WW2 and the Korean War had the GI bill and help from the Government to buy a house. My dad bought a nice 2 starry home in the suburbs, and supported my non working mom and three kids. He wasn’t special, and no college education. Just a dedicated factory worker all his life. Mom never drove a car. We didn’t have them pay for college, and we did not engage in costly afterschool activities or take expensive vacations, nor did the kids go to summer camp. We survived all that.
@@occipitalneuralgia2339 Exactly you just proved my point. The way of life years ago was way more easier, in today’s world it’s impossible to even start a family and even harder to buy a house. Trust me it’s the greed of the generations from years ago that caused this mess for the millennials. Now they are burden with a 30 Trillion Dollar debt that the old people created. I really feel so sorry for the millennial generation for this mess and to no fault of their own but the old people who created this mess, especially the ones over 80 years old!
@@diezeled No not the nifty fifty generation, those bastards stole everything from America, they stole a way of life that was so much easier to get married and have kids and moms didn’t have to work or even drive, everything was good quality with a cheap price tag. They really didn’t have to deal with minorities like the kids today have to deal with and that’s because that generation gave the minorities everything so they wouldn’t be called a racist so they left it for my generation and our children’s generation to have to take the burden of being called racist. Also,they were too young for WWII still too young for the Korean War and too old for Vietnam. Trust me this generation got away with everything the problem is that they forgot where they came from and now my generation and my children’s generation have to pay for their laziness and their I don’t give a shit attitude towards the generations that followed.
This is an oversimplification of a more complex problem. I have seen people work, but I see more people toil just to survive. I have seen CEOs give themselves raises while cutting 50,000 jobs and dumping the work of 20 on to 1. I remember a seminar on employee management, where they were open to questions. One employer said they wanted to put more work on one employee but didn't want to give them a raise or additional benefits, the response was "Explain to them they should be glad to have a job.". I added if you ask for more effort there should be compensation either in benefits or money, or expect the employee performance to go down as your paying less and demanding more. (That went over well) If I go back 50 years and talked about making waitresses and service staff pay taxes on tips, I would be the laughing stock of Congress. Now restaurants use tips as INCOME to pay wait staff less, regardless of how good they are, they have to get good reviews to get the hours, you know tips that can equal 1 dollar on a $1000.00 food bill. The younger generation is being wooed to socialism due to the inequality of getting ahead, while the rich are not getting richer by hard work, just by being the one with the money and exploiting the benefits of it. What they fail to understand is socialism is in truth nothing changes, only who controls what, the rich stay rich and the poor and middle class are told to sit down and shut up or else. As a farmer once said something "They promise of compensation, and of freedom, but they still steal my chickens regardless."
I agree. What I see is slavery but I see folks who have more than I could ever afford. Some people thrive on work. Others are walking around in their sleep.
@@lexitaylo6166 you should join or start ur own worker owned coop. These corporations and even closely mom/pop businesses aren’t gonna pay u what ur worth.
@@newagain9964 Mom/Pops are different then corporations, their profit margins are more lean. Which is why lock downs did so much damage, non-corporation businesses (Mom-Pop/Small start ups) generate more income for the Government then Corporations. However Corps have lobbies and money to throw, so you can guess who gets preference.
@@heavensent4284 How bout when you go to COLLEGE.YOU GO FOR A DEGREE THAT IS MARKKETABLE. A whole lot of Barista's and hash slingers at Chipotle have l liberal. ARTS degrees such as Poetry,Modern Lesbian Dance. They can' T find a job.GO FIGURE.
@@waltzabelski7589 Or a degree in left hand puppetry... People need to focus on "jobs in a box" degrees ie: engineering, dentist, architect, software engineer etc.. Educations that are focused on getting real jobs not fictitious pipe dreams... The last time I looked, I didn't see any jobs for poets or philosophers...
lol I’m a millennial and I believe in hard work. In fact my supervisor had said I had really good work ethic. I would say the majority of my friends are hard workers and providers for their family however it may have been the families we grew up in to teach us what good values are and the value of hard work. we are at the front end of the millennial phase. Most of us can’t relate to our generation. However I have trained lazy people in a variety of different jobs and ages, and it is discouraging. My boss once asked me ( while I was in my early twenties ) to train a lady who was old enough to be my mother. As I was training her, she said “ yeah, I don’t feel like doing this”. I was shocked. She walked away to go talk to her friend. 🤦♀️ she didn’t last longer than a day.
@@MistyEry This is good to hear. But understand that there was a day when managers didn't NEED to compliment his employees about work ethic....they just had it and worked.
I don’t want to work but I do because I like living in a house and feeding my children. It definitely isn’t anybody else’s responsibility to provide for me and my family.
Right if you go back to the early 1900'S and back if YOU didn't provide for the family you didn't survive. Of course there were always folks who got together to help each other but if you didn't try you were left on your own. So different and not that long ago.
@@noahhowellstone1264 why exactly is anyone entitled to have a job that is “fun?” It’s a blessing to have that, but let’s face it, the majority of the world does not have that and never will. Why are Americans so spoiled and think they are entitled???
@@taragorman6434 God didn't say it: a Jewish scribe said it. The Bible, unlike the Koran, is not supposed to be personally authored by God. He's a god, not a fucking writer. Of course, whoever said it, it's true.
Same for me. It did make a difference in their lives. Now that they are on their own they are very productive self sufficient people. I am grateful for that as well. AND, they have thanked me for it countless times. Hopefully yours do the same.
My seventeen-year-old son he works he goes to school.. He cannot wait to get out and venture into the world... He hates the idea of socialism...and he has a lot of friends that do and feel the same way he does..... These young socialist think they're going to walk in and take this country they got another thing coming.... Judas priest.
Having a master implies slavery. Slavery implies hard work. They just want to live like spoiled royalty because that's how they were raised by their parents, and by this nations culture. They were fed a delusion that the world revolves around them since the day they were born, and now you expect them to just forget it, and toil away for 8 hours a day like the rest of us? Fat chance.
... or a free ride as evidenced by 90% of my community college students going to school for free. At my CC, approximately 25% of them graduate. It's horrible to watch.
I don’t want to work, I don’t want to go college and I’m not sure why. I live with my parents and hate it. I have no very very little motivation for anything.I’ve tried military and left after 6 months because I simply didn’t want to do it. Right now my life is so uncertain and I’m jobless with no future and it’s all down to my attitude and the way I think. I realise it’s on me to change this but have no idea where to start. It’s just getting to much..
I can relate to you. Except mine isnt official work, but business. by age 12 i handle 35% of the business, and before I graduated college I handled 95% of the business to the point where I know more about the business than my Father who taught me. And yes, Im also tired.
@@vess2067 The idea of a nuclear family is a blip, an exception to everything that went before and everything that came after. The idea that a Mum would stay home and play house while Dad went to work is a 1950's phenomena. Especially in the working class, Mum and Dad would have to go out to work and children over the age of 14 were often pushed to work too. Sometimes younger. Life was hard and during the war, especially in Europe, it got even harder. All hands to the pump to bring in the cash. Then the 1950's post war boom happened. Money became easier to come by, people could afford their own property and the rise of suburban life as we know it now got in to full swing. At the same time TV came on to the market and shows that portrayed a stay at home mum and a hard working and loving father became the 'ideal'. It wasn't a reflection of real life, it was a utopia, one that people could strive for and if they worked hard they could get. It wasn't there before TV and we are now in an economic society that promotes 'all hands to the pumps' once again. Just an observation, take it for what its worth.
One of the most shocking examples came when my wife and I were talking with our neighbors daughter who, at 25 years of age, finally moved from her parents house into an apartment. Everything in her apartment ran off of electricity, except for the hot water tank. She was telling us how unfair it was that she had to pay for her water, AND she "apparently" had to pay to heat it up. At 25 years of age, she was totally unprepared for real life experiences and responsibilities. Her parents were the same people who scoffed at our kids when they were flipping burgers, and bussing tables for their first jobs at 16, when their allowance was stopped. They made the comment, "our kids will never flip burgers." Well, our kids have successful, blue collar careers, and they're constantly complaining because their daughter has moved back home because she couldn't hack reality.
@@millennialpodcast1438 When you say "I'm the son", I'm guessing that you are saying you can identify your own life with that of the son-in-law I speak about above? That being the case feel free to contact me as possibly I may be able to help. Cheers
I retired at 43 from the Air Force after 23 years and know how you feel. After the AF I did some woodworking selling things at craft shows to help supplement my pension to make ends meet for a few years. After the real estate market exploded a few years ago I sold my home and used the equity to buy a smaller home outright. Now that I don't have a mortgage I don't work and can live on my retirement fairly comfortably. I live pretty frugally and I now save every penny cause you don't know about the future and to help me get to Social Security at age 62.
@@kivie13 Run the numbers on SS! Even waiting only a year will get you a much bigger check. My check at 62- $1700. At 65-$2500, and at 70- $3300. I will work part time if I have to to stick it out, I want the big bucks for my swinging 70's!
@@SharlenesJourney I'm now almost a year into retirement. So far, good! But at 24 you need to find your passion. What do you love to do? You will find your career in what you are called to and you will probably make plenty of money in the process. But even if you don't you will be living right. Better to be poor and joyful than self absorbed, surly and rich. You are here for a purpose! Find it!
It's not that people just don't want to work; most people don't mind working. What people don't want is to work their asses off for table scraps; hard work and dedication should be appropriately rewarded, but that's rarely the case nowadays.
I'm getting ready to retire after working almost 50 years....starting in high school. I loved working, made terrific friends, developed a terrific work ethic, and supported my family. THAT IS THE AMERICAN DREAM. Wake up young folk, stop listening to the progressives, AND START CONTRIBUTING TO SOCIETY!!!!!
After working, just as you described working from a young age, I retired because I was sick for a time. I am NOT on Disability. I want to go back to work so bad, I can taste it, but not quite well enough yet. Hope there's at least a part-time job available for me.
Shows you already screwed up... a child should know that their chores are part of what makes the household “run” .... we were never paid for our chores, we had a roof over our heads and food in our stomachs in exchange for our chores... I’ve had a job since I was 15 and we kids all moved out at age 18 and we never needed monetary help, all these years, from our parents!
Who tf wants to work? Just cuz you like being a modern day slave doesnt mean thats inspiring to thw rest of us. Y'all like calling us lazy and this and that, deep down you're just feeling dumb that you go to some stupid job 40 hours a week to pay expensive bills for the rest of your life. Oh how dare i not want to do that🙄🙄
That's easy to understand because work is a way to convert your life into money subtract from your life, time when you are sleeping working going to work preparing for work and you will be living whats left. So if you value your life you should avoid work like smoke or drugs.
@@deltaxcd good assessment, I'd just like to add that anyone who values their _work_ more than their _life_ would do well to invest in the most expensive and luxurious bed available to them since the majority of their free time will be spent sleeping so they can be rested ans energized for work so they can pay off that BALDACCHINO SUPREME the most expensive bed available in the market at just over 6 million dollars and is hand carved by Stuart Hughes out of Ash and Cherry wood.. wtf is he and why is the bed so expensive? No idea, they can look it up on their lunch break if there is time after eating their economy brand bologna sandwich on some of that enriched bleached white bread
I had a girlfriend in the 90s who was like the girl described in the opening. Her reason for not working was, "I can't find anything in the want ads for anyone looking for a visionary." Translation: "I don't like work!"
Not necessarily. I came from a really poor family, and a single mom who worked endlessly to get by for all of us. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, with clinical depression. I hate people. Sometimes I hate the way they look, smell, walk, talk. Sometimes I just want to be home alone. I don't live with my family, I live in a 2 bedroom 2 bath 1,124 sqf apartment near the city for $1,500 a month, with my dog. I don't wanna go to work because I don't get paid my fcking worth. I believe that we're worth every minute. We work hard every damn second in this country to make ends meet, the least us labor class can earn is what we spend every minutes of our days doing. I'm starting a new job at $12.50 an hour. An hour. Raising costs doesn't match with the money we're paid. $15 and hour? Screw that. I don't see why a CEO has to make $20,000 an hour for making others do their job. The labor class works hard every minute. I don't wanna work. I'll be honest, not because of the commute or the grind of life lost serving the entitled bullies in society, but because I'm not making my worth. I'm worth more. We all are You call it laziness but I did grind. I'd work overtime. I'd come in on terrible weather when others called out. I'd stay from opening to close. I'd cover others shifts. I'd come in on days I wasn't meant to. For N-O-T-H-I-N-G. Nothing. I was let go. Absolutely yes people have to realize they don't earn shit because they were born into a well off family. But spouting bs about dreams and hard work ethic getting people places is called the "American Dream", which is a fcking lie and given to those who "look" the part.
And when they actually go to work the instant delivery of the smartphone "rush" and social media makes them think something is "wrong" with the employer because they been there 2 weeks and aren't promoted yet. So they quit and job hop for 5 years. Doesn't work like that. You just might to "heaven forbid" "prove yourself" to get promoted..... I know the horror. I own a service business.... I pay $10 a hour for "help".... Yet can't find someone that wants to literally work maybe 3 hours a day to earn some money. If I go out of business eventually it won't be from lack of clients to service. It will be from not finding someone that "wants to work".... great video.
I would tell my kids, "Well when you're 18 and on your own..." When they were younger they'd think "Whoopee, I can't wait to be 18." But then as they got closer to 18 they would think "Hmmm, what's this 'on your own' clause'", lol.
Now that its summer break, my son comes to work with me. I own a small home improvement buisness and he's 13. Him and i get to spend the day together. I teach him a trade(and yes, i do pay him a little) and he gets to see how hard money is to come by. When we get home, he has house chores and so do I. I love my son way to much to see him become a lazy burden on the tax payer. One thing the so called "progressives" need to remember is that in most communist countries(the end game of socialism) the government forces people to work at the end of a gun. Raise your kids right!
Great that you teach him those values. When I was 15, (I have a disability), my dad said 'your friends are doing manual work, use your brain', or similar words. So I started part time in my mother's business.
That is great. My father had me mowing yards at age 10. I worked 3 jobs while raising my 2 sons and they started working at 15. My sons are grown now and work ethic has helped them both excel in life. Crazy that working hard is now looked at as a novelty and not the norm.
I genuinely did not ask to be born. I will happily take my own life away in exchange for not having to work the next 50 years. Provide a reliable means, and I'm first in line. Work poisons a blissful life until the point where it is excruciating.
++ exactly, we are all born into this system, while we might just as well have been born on another earth in another civilization that wasn't built on mass slavery, we could build such a system so future children are born in a better system, but guys like OP defend the old system as if that's the way to live.
Working our lives away for what? Where does it truly get us at the end of our lives? We pass away and we are asleep forever afterwards. We didn’t ask to be born but yet have to work to get by. We want to enjoy our short lives while we are here, not work them away. A revolution (like SCARY SOCIALISM) is needed now more than ever I am afraid. That’s if we are gonna have meaningful, enjoyable lives that is.
The price of modern living does not match what blue collar workers make, and that goes for any blue collar worker! Keep in mind we are the ones the country runs on. The hardest working people basically just live to work. Just think about all the taxes and money you spend just to have a job! Anymore to live comfortably you need an absolute minimum of 80k you can get bye on much less but you’re not going to be enjoying much lol
A lot of older people don’t understand that young people have nothing against working hard, they have something against jobs ie. selling your time for chump change. Plus if we do what our parents did we would have a lot less either way because everything is more expensive…….significantly more.
Clicked this video hoping it was a "Gacha" video. It's not. A lot of us are killing ourselves mentally, physically, spiritually at these jobs merely because at the moment, it is fulfilling a need i.e. food on the table, paying for rent, car insurance, internet, electricity, phone service etc. The only thing it is not fulfilling is a purpose.
Te issue isn't not wanting to work but how much harder it is to find decent jobs, how much companies screw you over nowadays and how much they expect from you. My mom and dad managed to land office jobs that employed them their whole life, didn't require a college degree, gave them plenty of benefits and insurance, and even still pay them a pension after retirement. Good luck landing anything more than shitty dead end jobs with those qualifications nowadays.
I don't know who he thinks he's talking to when he says "YOU just don't want to work" Offensive to the core. I've known a dozen people who have died on the sidewalk in the last couple of years because they couldn't get to their feet. Meanwhile this self-righteous person is yucking it up.
Yeah thats nonsense i just dont want to work anymore because of the fights i had racism discrimination after my 21th job i was like fuck it i never want to work again its probably nothing for me and i did my best almost with most of the jobs even when i really did not want to do those jobs because they all mean nothing to me.
