Also, didn't his generation normalize backpacking across Europe in their mid-20s? Isn't this just the same thing, except more domestic and being able to publicly share pictures?
Bill Maher strikes me as the type of adult--let alone comedian--to see what the youth's interests are & what they're invested in, and before even considering their perspectives on anything, he decides to make bitter-sounding lame ass humor positioned from the view of a geezer who *barely* remembers what being young was like. then he reiterates those weak ass unfunny points to other geezers whose entire post-retirement personality are being old and crabby
@@droomzy im poor and my life sucks but I genuinely prefer it to what you describe because I couldn't live with myself. What a pitiful and cowardly way to be.
@@Loctorak agreed my boy! & I hope your life situation begins to improve; the mentality is a key aspect, & from the look of it you at least aren't bitter about other people's lifestyles so you're clearly doing *something* right! wish you the best 🤞🏾
WELL YES, AND ASIA AND Latine America and anywhere else. Preferably cheap places with lots of cheap drugs. But back then, you could tune in, turn on, drop out, wander around, drop back in, and often still build a middle-class life. That is not so easy now. But they did not start it. There are great writers who have written about their wanderings going back to the 18th century, and in some cases, long before that.
*death happens* Bill: haha im just so dark ahh!!! van life amirite??? 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Reminder: When Bill Maher refers to "enduring those early shitty jobs", he specifically means when he sold weed in college. Literally the closest to a real job he's had.
I am fortunate enough that my Great Grandfather is not just still alive, but at 103 years old he's still relatively aware and able to interact with people. He's a great guy. More relevantly, he was born in 1920, seven years before the first television, and so directly got to see the rise of TV as a medium, and the 'boom' of movies (although movies already existed when he was born, they didn't start catching on in America until 1910, and didn't become "big" until the 20's). Because he likes keeping up with the world, he does watch Bill Maher and other people of the sort. I asked him about this, and he had a few things to say: most notably that the arguments Maher (and others like him) are bringing up against Influencers are almost the EXACT same arguments he heard being used against TV and movie stars growing up. That they aren't doing any real work, that their popularity is negatively influencing the youth to be lazy, that it's "easy money", etc. ALL of them are almost exact repeats of a hundred-year-old argument. As the man himself said, with the unique perspective of his age: Their names may sound alike, but Bill Maher isn't a modern Jack Paar, even if he thinks he is.
That's super interesting but not surprising. It's unfortunate how many arguments like this never go away but instead just change topics. IIRC, the same arguments made claiming violent video games causing violence was also used against guys like Shakespeare
I think it’s allowed since he’s referring to us millennials as if we’re in our early 20s. I’m 32, my fiancé’s 37, millennials are up to FORTY YEARS OLD. I’m going to call them boomers as long as they keep calling us children 🤷♀️
Kayla Gillette I think it’s because of the way he grew up, my parents were almost born in the baby boomers era. Older Generations tend to get mad when people like “influencers” mainly being millennials and gen z, get popular off playing games and making videos because they had to work very hard to get even a quarter of what people are making today off the internet. Generations always have to be a war.
The fact that he said ”these kids don’t want to work a shitty job and live in a shitty apartment” says it all. Nowadays, its 2-3 shitty jobs, to live in a shitty apartment with a bunch of roommates.
at least he gets the economy sucks and it is easy to spot he uses it to make fun of those that don't wanna live like that. "You don't want to suffer what WE had to suffer, how dare you!" > that's actually why some things don't change. Because what people suffered through and no longer have to go through, they don't care about changing even though they wished it had when they had to go through it and when people find ways to avoid that, they don't like that.
Hell, I make roughly the average American salary (42k or so) and I can only afford half of my mediocre apartment. Don't know how anyone ever expects someone to truly function independently when certain parts of the world mandate you make six figures to do so.
@@raffy234 Bill Maher ever suffered a day in his life? Read his Wikipedia page, the guy went from a middle-class home to the Ivy League. He was the host at Catch a Rising Star a year after he graduated from Cornell. I strongly doubt he ever had an apartment where he had nothing but a mattress on the floor and all his clothes in a pile in the corner while shuffling back and forth from his day job as a cook at Denny's and his night job delivering pizza.
Like my Dad pointed out to me once; the trend of people wanting to be influencers is not a new thing. Things go in cycles: when my Dad was a kid in the 70s and 80s every kid with a guitar wanted to be the next Jimmy Page.
Didn't kids in the 1960s say they wanted to cowboys and Indians? When I was 9, I wanted to be a kids' bop singer, Disney actor or make a funny video on RU-vid and cameo in a diary of a wimpy kid movie. Now I'm in college studying radiology. Bill burr said it best 6 years ago. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u2d48eZLyqs.htmlsi=Q6AwPhc39uWOo-W4
@@neehaalot of things, ranging from effort to needed work flow. With sports/music, that needs to be you 100% if you want to really be good and make money with it. Now, all you need to do is get lucky with the algorithm and find the right fanbase. You can be famous on RU-vid without it consuming you.
I’m a nurse. My wife’s a teacher. We want our daughters to travel and experience the world instead of being a workhorse and then dying unfulfilled. Bill Maher is leaning hard into his inevitable irrelevance, and good riddance.
@@aureateseigneur5317 I don't entirely mind self check-out, from what I've seen there still needs to be someone to supervise them in case a customer needs help, but what annoys me is it feels like every big grocery store is horribly understaffed in the check-out area - and the self check-out only perpetuates that problem Usually I don't see enough people shopping at one place to warrant the store opening a bunch of check-out lanes but it's still like, _could you spare the money just in case???_
People also don't want to do those jobs anymore, you used to actually make a living doing those jobs. my brother recently started at the same company as my dad in the same position. Hes making the exact same amount my dad was making 25 years ago, not adjusted for inflation. literally the exact same amount for the exact same job. My dad moved up and makes a lot more now, but the fact that the opening position hasn't changed their wage at all in 25 years is insane. This is a high risk mining job too, and the starting wage is still considered good, it was just super good back then.
@@mf.danger9235I started working in construction almost exactly 21 years ago. (left 6.5 years later) The guy who was teaching me on day one had started 24 years before. I was making 20% less on my first day than he did on his first day, not adjusted for inflation. He was only making 50% more than his day one pay, also not adjusted for inflation.
Retail is literally a circle of working class hell. Let's see, would I rather sit in some stupid store all day, folding shirts and putting stuff back on shelves in between bouts of shitty-ass Karens throwing fits, or would I prefer to work for myself, make my own schedule, and do something I actually enjoy doing for an audience that also enjoys what I'm doing? Such a hard choice, Bill, you complete and utter tool.
Except many younger millennials (such as myself) agree with him entirely. This is like when people in the early-mid aughts attempted to pretend that reality TV was just as worthwhile. It's not and neither are the vast, vast majority of content creators.
originally I wanted to be a content creator but now i have to quit and get a lower paying less fulfilling job because this old guy said i’m weird for it
Bill is like your dad that watches football and asks you why you were watching a youtuber play a video game instead of playing the game, and then you ask him why doesnt he play football and he is just like boy be quiet
The most amazing thing about this is that one of the major issues that Bill also likes to talk about is how wrong ageism (towards old people) is wrong. It’s INSANE to me that he can’t see the irony of shitting on ageism and everyone younger than 40 in the same breath.
"Traveling is for retirement" None of us are going to be able to retire, Bill. Especially not if we're working those retail and service industry jobs that are just so available right now
Uh, none of us are going to retire because we'll die of a pandemic and/or a climate catastrophe before we have the chance. Also, travelling is more enjoyable when your destination isn't underwater, on fire, or so hot that birds fall out of the sky.
@@homemadefilms5718 when they retire???? Shit boomers still going to be collecting their pay checks keeping their jobs that they should have retired from 30yrs ago as they enter the 3rd stage of rigor mortis
I wrote off Bill Maher when Neil Degrasse Tyson had him on Star Talk, and Bill compared the space program to baby learning to walk, but in the backwards sense “why didn’t we wait till we developed the technology to go to space and go then, why doesn’t a baby wait till it legs grows and walks then” I was so flabbergasted how dumb that was I never paid an ounce of attention to him ever again
To be fair, Neil is the bill maher of science communication. The man is unnecessarily verbose when explaining simple concepts, extremely smug towards those he sees as less educated, and is accused of some very heinous acts. Taking either of them seriously shows a lack of seriousness when involved in either of their fields. Let me paint it like this, if someone has multiple joe rogan appearances, they probably arent a great person to be listening to regularly.
Well, actually, it's not too bad. It's all about your mentality. There's gonna be shit customers, obviously, but I generally remember very little about them. I've been working at a walmart for a year and a half, which, granted, isn't a long time, but while I don't love my job, it's fine. I get cash at the end of the day, so whatever. Plus, in my walmart, I've been told that the section I work in is one of the worst because of the managers, which are total cunts. Most women end up quitting or switching from my department after a few months, but the guys only last about 1 or 2 weeks tops, which I found weird, but I found out from my coworkerd that the reason why they leave is because the managers are not just cunts, but also sexist towards men, which makes sense in retrospect, since they treat me a bit worse than everyone else, I've noticed. On top of that, I'm not even an adult yet, and they're old ladies, so that's another strike against me in their eyes. Even so, I don't really care, I still like my job and I'm not switching departments, somewhat because I'm okay with my spot, and also because I just want to spite them by staying lol. So far, im the guy who lasted the longest, by a mile, and I have a feeling that pisses them off. So, again, if you perceive it as bad, it will be bad, but if you stop caring, all of a sudden, it gets better, so people who say retail is horrible, yeah, in terms of pay, it's not gonna be sustainable long term, but as a teenager who's just trying to hustle, hell yeah!
@@cabbagedemon5944 well, you gotta pay based on how much it's worth. Working at a walmart is very easy, there's almost nothing to worry about as long as you just do your job. The thing is, working retail is something that really mostly requires a large quantity of employees, not high quality. If I owned the Walmart, I wouldn't pay much, because it isnt a hard job, and I can find new hires everywhere. Now, if I really need new hires, I'll pay a bit more. But if I'm not pressed for employees, im going to keep it low. I can't spend that much money on so many employees, that would cost me thousands that I need to pay taxes, property fees, money for new orders, the shipment, a bunch of shit. And if someone really needs money, well, they can just ask for more hours, that's what I do when I have a lot of time off, I work full time. Otherwise, I keep it at a minimum because college is important and I can afford to lose the job if I have to. You could also get more money by taking more responsibilities too, like my managers. They do the same thing that I do, but they also have to count the boxes, organize tasks, that sort of thing. So there's options. And, of course, if that doesn't work out, find another job. I hear Costco's pay a LOT of cash, they're just very strict, so if you can handle the pressure, go there. Plus, since we're in a shortage of employees, any retail place would be more than happy to welcome you, Costco probably included
@@TheRealBlazingDiamond the company has deemed the job the employees are doing as necessary. Otherwise, those positions wouldn't exist. So why should somebody doing something the company has deemed as necessary not be paid enough to support themselves? Work is a transactional process. You, as the worker, only have one thing you can sell the company: Your time. You give them your time. They give you currency. Also, my time is more important than your job. It should be on the employer to actually draw people in, not the other way around.
You can also see Bill's boomer mindset where everyone is a "teacher, doctor, astronaut" All these jobs are highly specialized and require high degrees of education. This is pretty privileged talk from Bill because students have to go into hundreds of thousands of debt to be one of those. Teaching as well doesn't pay well either for all the expenses you have.
as a gen z, I can safely say that not only is being famous not important to me, but it even scares me. the positives do not outweigh the negatives, like at all
I've actually thought about this, and I think the best kind of fame to have would to be an animator, or a RU-vidr who uses an animated character to represent themselves. The idea that I couldn't walk down the street in complete anonymity scares tf outta me too.
When he started talking about "#vanlife" Influencers I thought " huh bit weird to bring up with the Gabby Petito case going on-" Then he actually started talking about it and I was like " oh shit- w-we're actually doing this?? now??" Like how tone deaf is that? Ugh I shouldn't be surprised at this point
Tbf, no one covering the murder of Gabby Petito actually gives af about what happened to her, they're just chasing ratings. To be even fairer, Bill Farts used her tragic murder as a segue to his lazy boomer standup set
@@starllama2149 You do realize it's way harder to be a comedian now than back then, right? Like we live in an era where making a joke can get you not only targeted by people, but also stalked and killed in the absolute worst case scenario. All Bill Maher has ever done in his life was deal weed, tell jokes, and spout his opinions on HBO.
Bill Maher the kind of douche to hear of a 16 year old person wanting to be a comedian and says "you gotta work the tough, crappy jobs until you're 30- *like I did*- before thinking like that," to then turn around and tell the 30 year old who has done those jobs and say "you should've built up your career when you were 16, because now you got no chance or connections *like I do*".
bill: "kids these days aren't working the shitty jobs when they're young" also bill: *son of a radio announcer and editor at NBC* also bill: *started doing comedy at 23*
Bill's energy really feels like: "Hmm, a girl got murdered? It was her fault for being annoying. Let's talk about why she, and others like her, deserve it." I know that's not what he means, but that's what it feels like to me
It's actually so disgusting like you're literally murdered and your final moments are being broadcasted on Bill Maher to talk about how people spending time in a van suck, like that has nothing to do with anything
I'm kinda shocked he said "too much attention has already been paid" to the case. Like... a person with a following was murdered & her fiance's on the run, of course people are paying attention. It really does feel like he's saying people shouldn't care because HE doesn't see her as having any value.
I would like to thank this channel for making a point of citing sources. The use of citing sources incorrectly is one of the big criticisms about Bill Maher, and it’s nice that this video holds itself to a higher standard.
I’m gen Z and work 60 hours a week on a construction site and have nothing to show for it because people Bills age make sure I pay extortionate prices for rent and food
bill fart is one of those guys that you think is funny when you were younger because your parents watched him and the older you get you realize he’s just an out of touch old man who loves attention
jeff bezos, a boomer, killed nasas ability to go to the moon for an entire year. heres the story on that, if its ok that i link that here. if not i can remove the link. its from a channel called breaking points. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tdR0oLzSXVQ.html
@@LlopmondDunderbridge Bill is firmly a Boomer. Gen-Xers suck for different reasons (I'm one), which mostly have to do with giving up on life and feeling like trying to make any real change or difference in the world is basically impossible and pointless. We just want to go hide in the corner and let everyone else fight about everything. A lot of us feel pride towards the Y and Z "kids" trying to change the world...but not enough to actually help out in any meaningful way.
@@rustybrooks8916 is that why there is very little media attention towards them? (Although maybe they are heard/seen, but my algorithm just doesn't show it to me.)
@@rustybrooks8916The reasoning of most if not all boomers is quite astonishing, I've come to terms with this recently. It's a generation of people that only think in the box, and will instantly mock a way of life that is alien to them. They are the quintessential "get a job and don't you dare leave it" generation and have programmed the generations after them to live in fear.
Seeing a guy worth millions smugly telling me that “there’s so much work out there” after I spent a year finding a job after I lost my office job to automation, it makes me feel ready to go postal.
"There's so much work out there" but it's jobs that nobody wants cause they no benefits, low wages, or you live at work...or a combination of all 3. What Bill and his ilk don't understand is that we don't have a workers shortage, we have a good employer shortage.
@@The_Real_Frisbee This. I graduated from undergrad at the beginning of the pandemic and haven't been able to find jobs that pay more than $12/hr with crappy employers and not even for full time, not in my field. I've been surviving the last year and a half off temporary and part time work. Is it really that bad to ask for a decent wage? (Spoiler alert! It isn't)
@Safwaan Oh hey fellow Midwesterner!! I'm in WI!! Our minimum wage is literally $7.25 so a lot of the jobs in my area are literally like "ooooh $12 an hour is so much better!!!" But the cost of living is really high in my area of WI. In the city I live you need to be making like $20/hr to afford a one bedroom apartment and live decently.
It’s funny because Jon Stewart had a totally different take on this, he said that the internet has democratized criticism and people like Maher are just mad that everyone else has a platform now, and not just him…
I know for a fact that Bill Mahar is salty about “influencers🤮” because they don’t need a laugh track or an entire film set to be more entertaining than him.
Influencers more entertaining? Come on my guy, both are terrible in this regard. Actual content creators however are very different. People on all platforms put in large amounts of work to create something entertaining and informative. Influencers are not of that fold. They are much closer to bill maher than creators like eddy really. They are rare, put in essentially 0 work themselves, most of it is about them, not their actual products, achievements or whatever, and they reep most of the benefits, instead of their teams who work 10x as hard.
Man, f his audience. Stop laughing on demand at his lame ass comments. If you turned up to watch his show, you're not smart or interested in politics, you're just boring.
"He pauses for applause and laughter when he doesn't get any" might be the greatest summation of this over-the-hill "I'm racist/misogynist but I vote Democrat, so it's FINE. IT'S FINE!" asshole I've ever heard. "Why don't you just work a job that doesn't pay you enough for rent and food, you lazy idiots?" is ... such a take.
Millionaires like him need the rest of us doing shitty jobs and living in shitty apartments so he can stroke his own ego for a living and have his own mansion
@@layton6202 The only way people will stop doing it, is if everyone in the 99% stops doing it. Edit: A bit poorly worded there, I orginally meant that people will only stop working their lives away for these rich scumbags if everyone does so. Strikes are still possible even if it doesn't include the whole workforce of a company.
I saw a segment from a little while ago where Bill was trying to defend Biden in a convo with socialist professor Cornell West, and Dr. West was accusing Biden of enabling Saudi war crimes and Bill, 100% unironically, said “but he’s a politician that’s just what they do.” Really just shows what a sad, horrifyingly rigid worldview man’s got.
Okay I get your point and it's extremely valid but when you put "entertainment" in quotes like that it makes me think you're talking about a veeery different kind of entertainment lol
The most annoying thing to me is when he just waits for a round of applause after one of his “hot takes” with a quirky little smile on his face like “someone had to say it” lmao
I was on the brink of vomiting EVERY TIME omg it was so cringey🤮🤣 he really thought he was serving some hot tea like we haven’t already heard all this baloney on Facebook
Nah, most annoying is when the audience would boo or get annoyed with what he said. His smugness often resulting in him saying, "Oh fuck you! I'm right and you know it!"
He always gets the Generations wrong. I caught a clip when I was over at my parents and he was bitching about Millennials… as if they were 20 years old. I told my folks, “Does he not realize they are in their 30s and even 40s?” And my parents were all defensive of him… ugh.
Also, if you can criticize a generation for someone doing their job while also being in a horrifically abusive relationship and getting murdered, well, I think his generation has no leg to stand on. Murder rates were higher when he was young.
His first job was selling pot in college and his second job was as a comedian. Dude has never worked a real job a day in his life, and all because his daddy raised him with a silver spoon. Is this where the boomers are getting their facts from? Honestly, sounds about right.
@@A.G.P.115 I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say here bud, but I'll be patiently waiting if you care to elaborate. If you're assuming I'm a millionaire, you'd be sorely mistaken. Just like I am lol.
Running a weekly show is extremely difficult and is definitely a full time job, his job is probably more stressful than most people reading this comment. Have you seen what’s it’s like running a media show? Oh wait you haven’t, you’re talking out of your ass.
I love how they call working class lazy and simultaneously tell them if they got a better job their situation would improve. Then immediately decry them for taking those steps.
I work in retail and there is a nationwide shortage of retail workers, and honestly I support it. It’s people realizing that it’s just not worth it anymore after the hell the past nearly 2 years has been for us. The amount of boomers I get bitching that we are short staffed and “no one wants to work anymore” is fucking insane. They simultaneously tell us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, if we want better pay get a better job, minimum wage jobs are meant for teenagers and blah blah blah then when an ass load of workers quit to get that better job then Karen is angry she can’t try on because we are so short staffed we can’t have the fitting rooms open or we reduced our hours of operation because we don’t have the staff to be open our normal 12 hour days. It’s bullshit. They can’t have it both ways
That would imply upward class mobility is a possibility in the traditional job market. 🤣 Younger people look at wealthy influencers and see hope that they could be like that.
I'm so sick of older generations acting rude and condescending towards younger ones... *We are literally a product of you and the environment you made for us*
Blows my mind how they can't make that simple connection. Well, not actually. I think we all (millenials/gen z) know it's because by doing so, it would mess with the "truth" they rely on to feel safe and accomplished. It's like those trash parents who expose their kids on national television (trash Dr. Phil) for being unappreciative and difficult. Time to roll the home footage... uh-oh! It shows the parents failing every step on the way towards being emotionally intelligent, mature and nurturing role models. Ones that will solve problems with awareness, compassion and logic - not just shutting everything down by "breaking" the child mentally or abandoning it emotionally. You know, ways to make a child blame itself for everything and ultimately lose faith in themselves (their supposed "ego") in order to conform to their parent's lack of knowledge. 😒 All because older generations can't stop to "take a good look at themselves". 🤦🏼♀️ _Pssst!_ To all of you that has been, or is currently, stuck with toxic parents: This shit messes you up, but it can be fixed in a way that _won't_ break you down before it builds you up. Don't lose faith in yourself, or the hope to find yourself behind the rubble set in your way. Take your time. No need to prove yourself deserving of it and possibly giving up because you've been conditioned to believe you can't even do that and thus don't deserve it - just take your time.
That would be because the younger generation is also a byproduct of what they didnt yet realize was reality- so there is always a component of 'what the HECK is going through this kids head?!?!" and it will happen to you too when your children are old enough to be in your position. It is simply a lack of perception available to any human being where age causes a disconnect in empathy due to impersonal experiences. Not everyone grows up to remember exactly what it was like when they were young, or what they would be like if they grew up in the present, and thats another factor that comes in. Then, take in that every generation is a marked difference in critical thinking, adaptive thinking, and general cognitive ability that is is NO WONDER older generations, especially those who have children, are unable to comprehend the priorities or more IMPORTANTLY how their brains just plan function. Human experience is not equal, and people of all ages forget that you dont see the same colours even now as the person next to you
I am the youngest of five , the only non boomer, and yes I have watched them all of them being super selfish and not caring about tHe future even though hey have kids. The boomers really were the worst and lazy parents who let TVs and phones entertain their kids instead of social structures.
Imagine seeing that a woman, someone's daughter, is dead and immediately think about how their job is 'easier' than yours when you were their age, and get angry about it.
@@antononononon Ironic, a statement about "merit" coming from a guy who posts controversial comments on RU-vid for attention. If you don't think her life had merit, I can only imagine how you loathe yourself. You're just some guy seeking approval on the internet and you aren't even succeeding there. I'd pity you if you were only worth the energy. Maybe keep your edgy bs to yourself next time buddy
As someone who hates the term influencer, because frankly you're still a content creator, it's still exactly what Bill tries to be. Had he had internet connection when he was 30 and he'd have been a political influencer considering his need for attention
Bill's generation to us: "follow your dreams, find a way to monetize/live off doing what you love" Bill's generation when some of us find a way to do that: "wow what a piece of shit"
“if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life” *finds a way to make a living while doing something they love while, on the surface, looking like they aren’t doing any work* “no, not like that”
Yeah, exactly. But even if you don't do that, you're still screwed. If you get a "real job" they just shit on you for working for minimum wage, or if you make more they say you're overpaid because it's not "hard work". If you complain about being sore, or tired they hit you with the "you don't know what tired is! Talk to me in 30 years, then you'll know what tired is", or "don't complain! You should be grateful they gave you a job!" There's no winning. Old folks are just hell bent on finding a reason to shit on us for some reason. I don't know why it's like that, but it's disgusting. We live in a deeply sick culture, and the people who played the biggest role in making it that way blame everyone else for it.
According to his Wikipedia, Bill Maher paid for college by selling weed and started doing comedy immediately. In his 20s he was fucking around SELLING WEED and DOING COMEDY!! I’m sure his parents were BEGGING him to get a real job. I really don’t know what he thinks he can judge ANYONE on.
I’m currently a freshman in high school, in one of my classes we did a personal presentation. Not one person said a social media job, there are like 30 people, Bill, Shut up
When I was a kid, pre-influencer, everyone I knew either wanted to be a Popstar or an Actor. Kids literally haven't changed at all, just the media they find enticing
And lets be real, wanting to be an astronaut is an equally stupid dream as trying to be a popstar, as both are far out of reach for most normal people. You have to know people and go to the right college, and have the right family to become an astronaut. It's not some easily achievable "if you put your mind to it" kind of goal. It's a highly political process.
@@stevenpuckitt212 and without the drive that dreams can provide, the slim amount who make it wouldn't have. Without generating the skills they wouldn't have succeeded when getting that opportunity most don't get
@@johnathanwalker8395 I don't disagree. I just find it amusing when people use wanting to be president or an astronaut as some example of 'real dreams' when it's no more attainable or realistic than being the next Prince or Brad Pitt. No dream is entirely out of reach and people have to overcome the naysayers to often achieve them. It's just a bad faith comparison when people use it. I'm just pointing out that it is just as much a fantasy as wanting to be a celebrity for 99.99% of people that attempt to do it.
@@stevenpuckitt212 because we as a society have never taken care of workers and look down on people who are content. Nothing is more loathsome in hustle culture than someone who is fine with a modest and comfortable living.
you dunked on Bill so hard, I almost felt bad for him, then you reminded me that a murder of a woman is what inspired him to roast a whole generation of people.... anyway
@@CameronM1138 Are you talking about the time that he used Stan Lee’s death as a springboard for his segment on how comic book readers need to grow up? Because I thought of that as well, and it’s really ghastly how this is multiple shows in which he has looked at someone who died and said “my point tonight is that the things they did in their life are invalid, and anyone who consumes it is deeply stupid.”
imagine hearing about the murderof a young womanwho happened to be a van life influencer, going "oh i know a perfect joke for that" and opening with "we need less van life influencers" like can you be more insensitive
Bill Maher is just one of those guys that makes a career out of just being himself (really rude suit and tie bitch) and gets confused why people make a career out of being themselves (relatable to most people watching them, and not actively trying to make everyone uncomfortable.) People like bill Maher are actually embarrassing. But he would probably "roast" me, cause he is rich, and I am not. Thanks for making this video, Eddy.
yet he is already set for life, not some 30 something worried about his livelihood. hes just a prick ether grifting or is legitimately an idiot selling his shlock to other old people
I think it's also that a lot of these hard-working jobs (construction, retail, etc.) dont offer living wages anymore. The cost of living in the United States has skyrocketed to an insane amount, and salaries and businesses aren't paying what workers should be getting. So it only makes sense that more and more people are turning to content creation because A: it's something they love, and B: it actually makes a living wage
“There are plenty of jobs available” lists a bunch of jobs that require 4+ years of expensive schooling and intense dedication and self sacrifice to the point of severe burnout (minus construction on the schooling I think)
"They've learned how to monetize fucking off" Uhh, good for them. Anyone who has learned how to make a living doing what they want for fun absolutely deserves it.
I mean, isn't that basically what Andy Warhol did at The Factory? Yes, he made the famous silk screens, but he also: Partied with everyone from Truman Capote to random University students and street kids (the "party favors" rivaled that of The Height at it's glory) people running around in body paint while he made "avant-garde" films, revelling in rubbing elbows and making connections with (and for) people he thought would inspire each other and all the while cooking up creative little one-liners for the press. (The most well known, and misquoted, being the "15 minutes of fame" prediction.) He did *very* well for himself, even after being shot. It really didn't seem to phase him, or change the way he did "business".
Honestly, I don't think that influencers deserve the money they have, but a lot of them have it because of corporations using them to advertise, not because "the kids are lazy".
while simultaneously trying to act like he's going on this spiel cause he cares about the tragic death of someone and/or the job market....absolutely disgusting
Always funny when the older generations who are quick to take all credit for contributions or advancements to society, also simultaneously shrug of the consequences of said Society and blame the younger people who are just existing in a world they aren’t really old enough to have impacted yet. No accountability or world awareness really from people like bill.
All of Bill Maher's opinions on influencers/creators seem to come from a place of insecurity because of how new media is eclipsing old media. I imagine ratings have only gone down for him over the years, and he probably holds a lot of resentment towards the creators people are choosing to watch instead of him. It radiates "it must be the children who are wrong!" energy.
His show still passes a million viewers average, which is good for (very) late night talk show TV in general, but he's also on HBO, which doesn't pay the same way as basic access in relation to viewership. Also, you can say the same about every content creator pissing their pants when he says their jobs are illegitimate- like dude, let the old man ramble and eventually die. You're not doing anything worthwhile by replying emotionally, which is probably a reaction he'd hope for anyway
Exactly my thoughts. Back in the day, one would have to move to either Los Angeles or NYC in order to get into show biz. But now, some kid in Ohio can accumulate a larger following than these old dudes, and that pisses them off!
It is insane to me that Bill's generation doesn't want a better life for their kids and grandchildren, they wanna see them suffer and do worse than they do. Shits bananas.
They think they were the one who had it hard so they think their kids and grandchildren need to have it hard too and don’t even realize they have it way harder
everything bill said is so appalling in light of HIS references to gabby's murder. to him young women are just shallow photos on instagram, he doesn't see her as a person even in her death? if the name of my family member was in his mouth, correlating her tragedy with laziness and vapid self-obsession, idk what i'd do. i want to say "fuming" but i think i'd just be broken. mean old men. get him eddy
Yeah, this one was bad, even for him (and he's no stranger to putting his foot in his mouth). It's mind boggling to me that he isn't a RU-vidr. There's a network behind this, there is a professional team behind this. And not a *single* person raised a red flag that it came across tasteless? They literally could have kept the exact same diatribe and just changed how he introduced it, but they probably chose to keep it in the hopes it would generate clicks so he'd *finally* gain some internet relevancy.
Hi bill! I’m a gen z who works 5 to 6 hour shifts at Dunkin’ Donuts while still doing high school online and starting my acting/comedy career while also fighting multiple debilitating mental illnesses! Tell me how I’m lazy.
If Bill wants more people to become teachers, nurses, and astronauts, maybe he should worry more about making college affordable, and less about young people finding better ways to make money without getting up to their eyeballs in debt before they're even 30.
@@ethanhoward8506 He has a very public platform and boomers listen to him- meaning he has some sway with voters. We need more people who will vote for someone who wants to rework the college education system to be affordable.
@@ethanhoward8506 Influence holds a lot of power. That goes for TV hosts/traditional media too. He’s been in the game as a “content creator” for years. His net worth is what most Americans will never ever see or spend in their lifetime.
Well, at the same time, you have to choose your college wisely. Don't try to go into stuff like gender studies, for example, because that won't get you a job at all, instead go for stuff like computer sciences, which is actually really good to make cash, since people with skills in programming and the like are very sought after, or you can take other classes, like engineering or science, anything that you really want to do, just make sure there's a job attached to it. Next, accumulate some money before hand. When I was in sec 5 of high school, I worked at a walmart during the weekends and the Monday evening, I got a shit ton of money. Then I went to college an now I have no issues paying my fees every session.
I am a boomer and a Progressive and I've been noticing for some time that Bill is becoming more and more pathetic in his opinions and his comedy. Is it age? Is it excessive wealth? He's always been arrogant, but he used to be arrogant about big issues. Now he's becoming arrogant about trivia. You have done a great service by calling out Maher's newfound irrelevance. Thanks!
I said the same thing. I am from the tail end of Gen X and I remember when my dad would watch Bill Maher. While I didn't always agree with his opinions -- and, as you said, he's always been arrogant -- I at least thought he tried to make his points on important world issues. Now he is just a cranky old man who is completely out of touch with the real world and uses his position to scream "HEY YOU KIDS! GET OFF OF MY LAWN!" It's sad.
@@TomWDW1 i would watch Bill Maher with my parents in the early 2010s when I was in high school mainly because at the time there weren't liberals or leftists calling out obvious bad conservative takes and Bill was the smug one doing that. But yeah overtime he's just devolved into a condescending neolib who is more angry about "woke culture" than he is centrist democrats like Sinema and Manchin voting against lowering prescription drug prices.
I actually used to watch his show too, when I was in high school I would ask my mom to record it and I would watch it after school with her, I’ve always enjoyed shows about political commentary. But around 2016 he became very mean spirited, even more than usual. It became obvious that he was writing for old people on Facebook, and I don’t remember what the last episode I watched was but he said something so stupid that we just turned it off
