TikTok rants that the boomer generation doesn't understand the true cost of living and is out of touch with reality- the current cost of living, rent prices, living wages, housing market, etc. #boomer #outoftouch
@@chrisripley154 Nah man landscaping, and especially higher level landscaping, is a much higher skill job than you think, there's a reason so many DIY projects have to be redone by professionals
$12/hr for back breaking manual labor? No thanks, Walmart will pay $17-18. If you can't match Walmart, known by many as the worst employer ever, you're going to struggle finding reliable labor until your company folds.
I unloaded 20,000 pounds of tires from shipping containers by hand for the equivlent of that and never thought of complaining. I was glad to make the money to help pay for college.
@@TagaPag-qk3sn My college cost in today's dollars is only acout $1,150 a year more than I paid. I checked the last time someone said that. Such a good deal my son is currently going there and he is working his way through college while renting an apartment..
That landscaping Lady isn't out of touch,, she's cheap and greedy. She wants dedicated, hard working professionals at basement bargain prices. Does she not shop? ...pay bills? Who does her grocery shopping for her? How is she not aware of today's pricing for everything when just going to the grocery store is a gut punch at the checkout? How does this Lady run a business and not understand current economics?
@@AnneSaluppo-t2p These type of business owners want unicorns but are only willing to pay for donkeys. And feel like they just need to keep searching for someone not aware that they can make more at other easier jobs, not realizing how the internet works in spreading information like how much people make everywhere else.
You do know the difference between gross and net profit, right? Also, if you think you're the first generation who had disagreements with their parents over business ideas, etc, you lack ANY clue.
Hmm, lets see how hard it is for you... You can earn from home sitting on your butt, you can learn from home sitting on your butt. You can work from anywhere in the world connected to a good job somewhre else in the world sitting on your butt. You can get rich off youtube like many do. There are at least hundreds more carreer fields that didn't exist forty years ago. We didn't have one hundredth the opportunity you do and then you fail and blame someone else for it. Pure comedy.
I’m a dog walker and I make an average $20-30 per half hour (not including travel) and have a steady clientele. I make more walking dogs part time than what she’s offering
@@Bulmachan224you ask for decent pay and accept nothing less than it and value yourself. You definitely don’t let out of touch older people offer you insultingly low wages and begrudgingly accept it.
Okay but how developed and expensive is the area you work? How long have you been walking dogs? How much capital, including your own labour, have you invested in your business? How much is dependant on the network of clients you've built over the years? (Dont actually answer im just making a point) These kids are sitting there reading books at work. You heard it from her own mouth. She doesn't work at all for less than $20. $12 is honestly more than they deserve to be some admin assistant at an office. I bet she can't even type, because the zoomers really don't know how. They only know ipad.
@@tictacterminatorGrandpa, do you even KNOW what an Ipad is? And that you can use the touchscreen to TYPE on it like you TYPE on your phone, tablet and laptop since so many laptops now have started having both wide screen touchscreen option and isolated small touchscreen you're probably used to? You're THE PEOPLE that DON'T WANT ANY INNOVATION and would rather have us, your OWN CHILDREN burn ALIVE in a fiery inferno that YOU CAUSED than have because you know you will be LONG DEAD BY THEN so it really doesn't matter if the rest of us and the animals and plants we love survive.
I’m a Radiotherapist, 3 years of college and it takes around 1 year to train a Radiotherapist into being ACTUALLY good at their job. 37.5% of my salary goes into my rent, a 2 bedroom basic flat and I live with a friend. MULTIPLE of my colleagues have 2 jobs. 2 jobs despite us having a diploma and working under the government ☠️
My dad paid his way through college by working a summer job pumping gas, checking oil levels, cleaning windshields, and getting tires to pressure. He didn't have to compete with Chinese millionaires to buy housing. American boomers fail to realize that they grew up following the economic equivalent of a mass extinction.
@animal0mother Only the old boomers those of us at the tail end had to deal with Carter, Clinton, Obama, and now Biden. College was 400 for upto 22 credits. Housing was cheap, but 13-18% interest, jobs paid 20-40k, since 1980 inflation has gone 285%. In just the last two years housing went from 200 to 420k. Look at groceries 100 worth in 2020 is now 400. So the life of a Boomer hasn't been all wine and roses. Prices will not go back down unless there is a depression.
Yep, boomers would have had to work a min wage job for about 11 weeks for afford college, just the idea sounds so ridiculous to me. They really had it easy.
@ItsOKtobeNormal Yes, but our dorms were horrible, our buildings were old, no a/c. Our campuses were basically mud, you all couldn't handle it. You are paying for all the amenities nothing else.
Right, why work to stay in a shit situation? Your generation should be more like you. People will work, but only if they're able to have money left after paying the bills, the others of your generation would agree with this concept if it was happening to them they would complain so hard. Glad you are real one.
I'm a boomer. After High school I had to sign up for Civil Service. My friends did so too. The war in Viet Nam was raging with no end in sight. I was drafted into the army. I was sick to my stomach. I ended up in Viet Nam. I'm lucky to have done my time and not maimed or dead. It was not pleasant. Myself and others in Nam were "hardly" spoiled to be there.
As a millennial, I thank you for your understanding. It's too rare from your generation, so I really want you to know that you're one of the good ones. Thank you.
Right. My parents were boomers and we were so broke. My dad was an appliance repairman and mom was a babysitter. Talk about being broke. We wore used clothes.
I cant fucking believe that for the past 18 years ive had my time wasted in the education system being told that hard work and determination is going to get me places. Working twice as hard as a boomer did in the 80s won't even give me a moderately liveable wage.
Valuable skills are what gets you places. Now everyone goes to college and the standard has fallen. Getting ahead by going to college is like trying to see better at a baseball game by standing up... when everyone else in the stadium also stands up. Find something that few people can do and costs a lot of money to hire someone for. Do the fuck out of it. That has been the equation since the beginning of time. Always has been, always will be. There was an era when projectionists made the equivalent of 6 figures (because film was a bleeding edge technology and there were only a few of them). Ever see "Catch me if you can"? ... the way everyone reacted to jet pilots... "Are you a real life polit Mister! WOW!" Same thing (in the 60s). Information/Education has never been more easily accessible.
The education system is to condition future workers for the system, not teach anyone anything. That's why education is repetitive, regimented, etc. Most of the stuff you learn in school you could learn in 10-20% of the time you spend on it in school.
Only a millennial would be so arrogant as to believe they work twice as hard as boomers. Let me assure you, as someone who was raised by a hardworking boomer single mother, who had to wake up at 5:00 in the morning to work two jobs and take three buses just to get to those jobs all while caring for two kids......You have NO idea what hard work truly is.
I went to school, worked as a waitress, babysat, worked in the garden , all at the same time. Bye the way, my waitressing started at age 14. I had a full time job after graduation, on top of helping my grandparents and the garden. Don’t you dare to tell me you work harder than me and my age group. I’m now 61 and still working full time.
I worked two jobs 60 hours a week for 7 years and got a college degree while doing it. I saw the point. My wage then and cost of college as well as my rent (in the state I live in) was the equivalent to today's in today's dollars.
@@patland1762You did not work 60 hours a week while attending classes you liar! You must have never slept for that to be possible. Lol you all have delusions of grandeur.
This. My first job was at a tree cutting service. I learned everything I could from how to rake properly to how to repair the wood chipper and work every type of tractor and skidsteer my boss had. And what did I get, for doing everything right according to boomers? $9 an hour. NINE dollars per hour. I am only 30 btw. So this is recent experience.
@@wolfgangfegelein2450I worked in a lumber yard when I could have been crushed or impaled by any number of things in 2007 for $6 an hour. A full 40hrs wouldn't even get me $250 (and this is before taxes were taken out) and cheapest rent in the area was $500 in a place nobody wanted to live.
@@wolfgangfegelein2450 I in no way mean for this to be an attack upon your efforts or situation. Did you go to college? Even 46 years ago that kind of labor paid minimum wage. I learned at the age of sixteen that working manual labor I was not going to make it and decided I would do anything it took to get a college degree and elevate the skills I could use to make a living. After graduating High School it took 7 years of 60 hour work weeks, 16 hour work days on Sunday for 5 years and often 6 nights sleep a week while attending college. It worked.
I'm a boomer and am TOTALLY on the side of young people and love seeing you push back on low wage employers. You deserve the same standard of living as I got at your age. Loved the math shown in this video. Oh, and I ate paint chips as a little kid.
My dad(who is a gen x but acts like a boomer) goes on and on of how we “young punks” are wrong and about how if minimum wage went up then everything else would go up….ummm dad do you even look at the economy now??(we live in a tiny isolated village and I’m the only one online so ofc not 🤦🏻♀️) there’s been a lot of inflations since he worked for someone else. He hasn’t worked outside of his “broke empire”(I call it that cause he keeps making up multiple businesses instead of sticking to one) Heck the people in my village refuse to work for less then $17 an hour especially since every thing is so high anyway cause of shipping. I make like $800-900 a check off of $17 and I barely see any of that cause I have a loan to pay, rent to my dad to pay, I pay for my own food, etc. I’m trying to save money because I’m trying to get out of his claws(hense why I have the loan cause I bought a 10k school bus to make a home out of) but it’s hard when they keep taking my money 🤦🏻♀️ AND I have to have some money for taxes too.
Bloomers will tell you how much better things were when they grew up and in the same breath insist that they had things harder than their kids’ generation
You know people wonder why so many millenials are at a failure to launch stage this is it. Our formative years where we were supposed to get out of the house and pick ourselves by our bootstraps was robbed from us, and we couldn't afford our rent because the 2008 financial crisis left us without jobs or the ability to afford our rising rents.
I do landscaping with my own company also. $20 is the bare minimum that you can pay inexperienced teenagers to "have fun" and "play" in super hot weather, doing manual labor, and expect them to stick around for one summer. Sometimes you may have to go as high as $28. $25 is very normal.
I'm a retired boomer who occasionally does a bit of paid gardening. The minimum I get is $35 per hour for light gardening , most times it's $ 40 + per hour. Anyone paying less is a rip off .
I wish I got 20 and hour landscaping. It was... 14ish years ago? I got 9. Wouldn't go back, not because of the pay or work, but because the owner of NewLands Landscaping and Nursery was a narcissist.
Businesses will never come back because they shipped all their business overseas to cheaper countries. They don't care that the work is shoddy,it's cheaper and makes them more money for the stockholders.
Years ago, around the early 2000s, I had a converstaion with my father about the differences in living costs from his generation to mine when I was having trouble finding a suitable apartment. He's a boomer and I'm millennial. He told me about how it doesn't seem to be that bad. I asked him how much his first place was. His first place, with my mom, both working and making like $4 or $5 an hour, IN 1980 was a studio apartment, in Huntington Beach California, a block away from the beach, utilities not included was $100 was a month and that was expensive?! I laughed at him and told him that same apartment, not ever remodeled or upgraded either would be $3000 without utilities included now (when this conversation took place). His eyes got all wide and said "Really?! But it's not even in a good part of town!" I told him it didn't matter, the fact that it was by the beach is automatically going to raise the price to horrendous hights and, again, imagine that it also probably has never had an upgrade either. He was like damn yeah that sucks. Yes it does, dad, yes it does.
You will be delighted to know that you can rent studios and even 1 bedrooms in Huntington Beach today for closer to $2000/mo. A little more gets you on site amenities like a gym, pool and grills. An older studio like you described only updated a bit since the 80s, is listed for $1800/mo with water and trash included and washer/dryer on site plus your own garage parking. So it looks like things got a little more affordable in Huntington Beach in the past 20 years, which is good.
It very well could be over 3,000. I wish more people woudl wake up and realize stuff like this. I had a boomer dad who gave me shit in 1995 because the amusement park I worked at did not give me a straight 40 hour! It's shit toxic thinking. I need therapy form dealing with people like this. Help me.
@@Lonovavir For 16 years I rented for $700/mo. a 3-bedroom, single bath, built on garage, nice fenced in back yard. We bought in '19. That house now rents for $1100, pretty reasonable for this part of the country.
I mean a random $250 bonus would have like "cool thanks i guess" but hyping it up by telling you its going to change your life when in reality its like "thanks for gas money for the month". Although it could be worse i have a friend who worked a large company which made record level profits during and after covid during covid they only kept up with normal raises and then afterwards switched to employee apprehension Fridays instead. Which started as fast food pizza enough for the whole office but in less then 2 years turned into bottom of the barrel "cheese" pizzas from an unknown shop that was not even enough to feed 1/3 of the staff. The last year before she quit they got rid of the pizza and gave everyone a small less then a pound bag of fun sized candy bars all while still having record breaking profit years.
I know a company that offers to the under 20 staff FREE tickets to the local symphony. Except that they're never told when the tickets are available, while the boss goes to the shows using the tickets. But, the boss will brag about how she gets free tickets to the show and that's an incentive for good work. 1. they never get the tickets so no incentive, 2. how many under 20 year olds are willing to work harder just to hear Beethoven, so no incentive.
Sounds like it's the employees fault for having no taste in music. I'm on the younger end of the millennial scale and I'd go to hear Beethoven any day.
Sounds like it's the employees fault for having no taste in music. I'm on the younger end of the millennial scale and I'd go to hear Beethoven any day.
@@johnsherman6718 I'm not one of those people, actually, but have friends in this situation. I just support my spouse and mother. I'm just saying for every Millenial and Gen Zer who "has to live at home" because they can't afford to be on their own, there is a Gen X or Boomer whose kids didn't move out at 18 (like a lot of Gen xers and Boomers DID), so they are supporting adult kids still - keeping them on health and even auto insurance,.etc. and not being able to downsize. Most I know dont charge any room or board so their kids can save up for a mortgage downpayment. In addition, a lot of people have senior parents moving in at the same time. You can love your family and not resent having to support them, but the reality is that a lot of people well past what used to be retirement age are supporting adult kids and senior parents now. Even if they love doing it, it's STILL a financial strain and means postponed retirement dreams. It's a physical strain as well. My friends who are doing it don't complain, but you can't help but see the toll the added stress puts on their lives and health. How weird of you, and lacking in compassilon, to miss the fact that even things done out of love can be difficult and stressful.
I commend your doing what you can. I'm sure it's very difficult! I sympathize with you. I'm also impressed with your kindness of character. You're quite a caring, loving exceptional person! It's hard I'm Sure. You are a good guy! I wish you only the best of future fortune for your kindness to those you provide for.✌🏼
My aunt and uncle are boomers and are in la la land 90% of the time. They are both retired, buy a new Mercedes every 2 years and their hobby is collecting vintage children's toys (and that stuff is *expensive* to do), without having kids or anyone else to take care of. But they rant and rave about inflation every chance they get. My aunt has the audacity to go to a store where they have food and veggies for people with a low budgets, because 'it is the only place with fair prices anymore'. It pisses me off to an extent I can't even express.
Saying a person is in La La land because they complain about inflation is strange? Everyone should be screaming about inflation. But you don’t complain about our government / Fed? You complain about a citizen complaining about inflation? Government is evil people are good. Remember that .
And Boomers tried to "enlighten" their parents and failed as well. Starting to recognize a pattern here? Maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are?
Puh-leese. The Greatest Generation gave the Boomers everything. They took it all and then refused to pay it forward like their parents did for them. *See all of George Carlin's material on the Boomers for further instruction. Good day, Sir Shookethness.@@jakeviolet2195
We didn't spend time "ENlIGHTENING" parents or elders. We respectfully just knew we had alot "yet" to learn from THEM. We weren't "self important" per se. It was drilled in us to respect our elders because they have life experiences of living that we had not encountered yet.
I have a good one. I’m born and raised in CA and moved out because you get a bigger bang for your buck else where. Was feeling kinda home sick and was talking to my dad about maybe renting in CA for a year just to be back and he was so confused why I wouldn’t just buy a house in California if I’m going to be there anyway. Ummmm I don’t have 1 million dollars for a home back where I grew up in socal in a SAFE area. Like wtf is so hard to understand about this.
Agreed. As a Bay Area native and Gen Xer, I weep at the way the (modest) house I grew up in - in Silicon Valley - went from around $260,000 in the mid 80s to around $2 million today.
You would if you'd have bought one when you were young. Inflation works both ways. I don't think you can blame CA on "Boomers" , unless of course you mean "useless leftist economically illiterate Boomers", in which case I agree.
@@GretaZ-dd3lu It's silicon fucking valley, you just happened to grow up in the epicenter of the 2nd industrial revolution, those are some rather unique circumstances.
I'm watching this after my grandma held me hostage on the phone, screaming at me about how well she did at life by my age, and how I should be doing as well her, and how I should be living on my own, and be able to get whatever job I want. As if I haven't been trying to do all that since I turned 17 🙄
Hugs 🫂 to you, internet stranger. I’m a tail-end GenX mom of 4 GenZs… I truly feel for my children. My Boomer parents get on me for my 21 and 23 year olds still living at home with me. I understand why they have to, but my parents don’t.
@@MsAubrey I'm happy to hear your kids have such an understanding mother. Unfourtionatley the whole 18 years and out thing isn't really possible anymore without ending up in the military or a homeless shelter.
@@ak5659 Honestly, I believe my genration is more privileged than your grandparents because they had to live through harsh race and gender discrimination and we have resources like the internet. But I'm happy they are able to empathize with our economic struggles :)
@@patland1762They work every bit as hard as you did, often more so, and for a longer period of their lives. They have to get far more creative with how to make money. And yet they still can't afford what you could afford with the same or less effort.
@@jonquilgemstone Sorry. I doubt they worked harder than I did. I started working at16. I worked 60 hour weeks for seven years to work my way through college. I then worked mostly 12 hour days sometimes sixteen or more hour days for a week at a time trying to deliver on multiple simultaneous projects on every job I had after graduating from college. I actually put in 5 years of work in a 3 year period on my second corporate job (when equated to 40 hour work weeks). I did that for most 38 years after graduating except the period that I raised three young kids by myself after their mother died at a young age (then I worked 8-12 hour days and only occasionally more, much of that time when they were asleep at night). I did not have paid time off of any kind for 28 years nor did I have a pension in those 28 years. I think I know lazy when I see it. I know multiple Gen-Whiners that do nothing but play video games all day living off their parents and one who is so hooked on his video gaming the he can't keep a job because of it, playing all night and sleeping when he is supposed to be working..
@@jonquilgemstone They don't have to get far more creative with how to make money than my generation did. Heck you have thousands more carreer fields and job options now than my generation did and working for yourself is so much easier now. I can make $500 in a day selling stuff on ebay which was not possible in the past when I was young and the only large scale network was Darpanet in the univiersities. There was no public network and we had a ten thousanth the computing power that the youth hold in their hands today in their phones. You couldn't simply sit in you bedroom and learn almost everything you need to know to make money by watching youtube or researching the internet at your fingertips. We didn't have the option to earn or learn from home. The youth has so conned itself for failure when they have unlimited oppotunities if the sought them.
@@INNIMA There's more poor boomers than there are rich boomers. You've got destitute boomers, and you''ve got playing-golf-all-day boomers. Not all boomers are the same.
@@AngryBoomer2024 Whichever type of Boomer…they’re all lazy, entitled, greedy, pot smoking, hippocrites that have wreaked havoc on the greatest country Evar
@@AngryBoomer2024 Early boomers are more likely to be rich. The ones born in the mid-to-late 50s tend to have it worse. 1957 saw the peak in births for that generation. By the 60s there was overcrowding in schools and many other issues. They had it rougher than people 10 years older than them. Some still did well and if they were lucky enough to buy a house for a pittance (as was possible when they were young, even after only scraps were left by early boomers), they are sitting pretty today watching their kids struggle to even afford to rent and eat.
4:03, if your new employer tells you that you're first raise isn't for six years, you made two mistakes from the get go. 1-You should have known the pay package and rates of increase before even taking the job. IF you need that job and can't get that info, I understand. That's where point 2 kicks in. 2-AS SOON as my new employer tells me my first raise won't be for 6 years, I'm already looking for a new job.
This! And if she can't live on her salary after only 2 years of 3% rent increases, her rent was too close to her salary to start with. Just stupid on her part (you never rent that percentage of your income).
@@DevilTrojanChic That's hard to do for half the country. Rent and mortgages have far outpaced income in the last 3 years. Even with the rapid rise in income since 2018.
Sounds like a boomer comment. "Just get a better job bruh"... it took me 8 months out of college to find a job. ANY job. Got hired at Kohl's finally over 30 mins away for part time hours and crap pay. Took me 8 months to find even that. I love when Dave Ramsey hears someone's tale of being in deep shit financially and his advice is "you need to raise your income." I bet they never thought of that. What a financial genius.
@@crystalandmarkvrb 1-I didn't say that, BRUH. I made two points. The second one was obvious. 'Start looking' as soon as you took a job you "needed". Also, your whining about 30 minutes away. Oh geez, Gawd forbid you can't find a job you can walk to in 5 minutes. Half the country is driving 15-30 minutes to get to their jobs. Or their taking lesser jobs than they wanted to so they didn't have to drive so far.
@@cmgweb6951 did you here what Mark said? he said 8 months to get ANY job and he was in new york you dork. Even applied for a fry cook job as a fast food restaurant and a folding laundry job at a factory. That was when MY husband was just out of college during the 2008 crash.... He is now an over the road truck driver that his base is over 6 hours away and only gets home 4 days out of the months so that his wife (me) can stay home with our 5 children and home-school and run a farm.... you really have no idea who you are talking about you mouse turd of a brain. If he could he would work closer and he did for a year but after a year of $11 an hour we both were tired of pinching pennies and not being able to buy our kids simple things so after 5 months of looking for something local he decided to go over the road because he works hard and wants his family to be provided for. I am sure he will comment but man you are trying to diss the wrong guy. sincerely Mark's wife Crystal
I remember I was being paid $15 an hour for my FT job. I was talking to a well paid boomer about buying a house. I said we were looking at places, but the fact is they were in such bad condition the cost of repairing them made them the same as a new house. She says to me: Well, why don't you just build your own house, buy some property and build one? And, then she described how that was a genius idea. Yeah, so can't afford a new house, but can afford to build one, lay sewer, etc. Are you kidding me?
You get your property, start paying it off, get an RV or a trailer to live in while you build, buy your materials over time, do without some things and make it happen.
@@NANASplash you have to check zoning laws with this and you can only live on the property in an RV for a year, this is the law in texas for rural areas.
To put it all in perspective. The minimum wage in 1963 was $1.25/hour or five silver quarters. Those same quarters today are close to $30. The massive printing of the FED and massive deficits spending of government is what destroyed the worth of your paycheck.
That's a bit disingenuous, that much SILVER is worth $30. Silver and Gold are through the roof, that doesn't mean that currency inflation since 1963 is 2400%. I agree that dollar devaluation plays a major role, but $1.25 certainly did not buy $30 worth of goods and services in '63. An even greater factor is the fact that in 1963 the US still was basically the only industrial nation left on the Earth. Japan was nothing, China not even a dream and the Wirtschaftswunder was just beginning. In other words, we could pay someone to brainlessly turn a screw in Detroit so well because Detroit was the only place with assembly lines in the Solar System. Gen Z is competing with the entire world, as well as bad domestic leadership that is still in the hands of (now demented) Boomers. It doesn't help that they've spent their entire young lives voting for economic illiterates either, BTW.
@@ak5659 There are more young voters than old. Participate in a primary and elect someone younger. Of course, this requires Gen Z putting a phone down for 15 seconds as well as taking civics beyond "Colonizer evil derp"
My boomer parents retired, with 2 pensions and additional medical benefits. My mom never worked. For 50 years, she stayed home and let me tell you, we kids were her personal maids, cooks and cleaners. They don't understand how I cannot survive on 2 jobs and additional house and pet sitting side gigs. I live like a pauper, in an apartment. I am grateful my son found a summer job, that offers more than 40 hours (Because they can't find anyone to even show up.) He is starting at $14. It's not alot but he is hustling those hours. He is not lazy, he just graduated high school and already has two years experience. It's hard to stay positive and explain all this bs to him.
I make about $15 base as an STNA. A little more with overtime and shift difs. I split my rent with my fiance, which is 1,300 a month. The only reason we get that deal is we rent from his family. So I pay about 600 and he pays the rest because I also buy groceries. Now add in insurance, gas etc. The only reason we survive is our families help us- and yet nobody understands why we aren't having kids lol. 😂
I knew modern day finances were out of whack but I had no idea by how much! I truly feel for your generation. I think this explains quite a bit of what's going on in our society today.
I'm Generation Jones . Born the last 38 days of 1964. I look at Boomers and think they purposely play stupid about the cost of things and pay disparage. I'm well paid and retire next month with a full pension, but I have enough sense to see how ridiculously hard things are for young people. I love the way ya'll don't keep quiet about the poor treatment ya'll go through.
Some sources(sociologists,I believe) track the baby boom all the way to 1964(I'm two years older than you). Others stretch it to 1970 and maybe a few years after. If you accept this math,we are both boomers. No,for most of my life I didn't think I was a part of that either. Read this in a newspaper either in the late 90s or early 2000s. Not sure I feel a part of it or even accept it. It did come as a surprise because I kept seeing those folks at Woodstock. I was only seven when that happened and have no memory of it at all. Staying out of this fight. lol
See… you get a pension. I WISH that was still a thing outside of law enforcement or high ranking government. Even my son that’s in Air National Guard won’t get a pension.
I think many young people have been sold a false bill of goods. They were told they should go to college, and many took on a great deal of debt to so. In many cases the resultant degree has not translated into a decent paying job. Where there are decent paying jobs are in the trades. However, there appears to be a real shortage of young people who have an interest to get into the trades. This is something I speak to contractors in various trades about. Most of them are boomers and they have been having a devil of a time to find young people to join their companies. I was told that starting pay for a plumbers apprentice is $23 with benefits. If someone is smart and they hustle, within 5 or so years, they could be running their own business and making considerable income (in excess of $200K per annum).
@@ak5659 I agree. People have been told that for years and now there is a real shortage of tradespeople, who now demand big bucks to do any kind of work. I also give you a lot of credit working as a HS teacher. The students are tough to deal with at that age. Stay well.
Until most of the Boomers retired, there were no trades jobs available. Just saying. I WANTED a trades job and no one was accepting apprentices for decades. It’s the right time for my kids though. Daughter is in HVAC (no education money spent) and one son working on generators (military trained/air national guard, so no education money spent). Signed “the forgotten generation” X
@@MsAubrey Sorry to hear that happened to you. Might have been a function of where you were located. In the Northeast, most young people did have the opportunities during the last 20-30 years, and those who took advantage of them are well situated today. Sounds like things are working out favorably for your children, which is great.
@@kevin7151 I’m 45 and have been working since I was 14 on paper, since 8 off the books and started paying rent to my parents at 16. There’s rough times for everyone, but quite frankly, it’s harder for GenZ than it has been in the past for the rest of us. My daughter, in HVAC, is making what I did at her age, 24 years ago. Make it make sense. Same part of the country, and the cost of everything has tripled in the last 24 years. ETA: I’m in SE Michigan. In a blue collar neighborhood.
Old ppl always have this problem though. Its just the Boomers have alot of power and a shitty attitude on the whole. My Silent gen grandmother would send me to the store 10 yrs ago with a grocery list of 12 items and a $20 bill 😂. Im like ok gramma you know this will only buy 4 things. So give me another 20 and ill pay the other 40. (She had a decent pension and could afford to pay for half her groceries she really just didn't know the cost).
They feel entitled to endless amounts of our free labor and as an elder millennial, my most productive years were horribly underpaid still mad about it. Waiting to pee on some graves.
Yep that $12 an hour is really about $9 take home at 40 hours a week that is about $1400 a month the cheapest states median rent on a studio/one bedroom apt is about $950. This means after rent you have to survive on about $400 which these days might cover food and car expenses assuming you already own the car. You want clothes well you cannot even afford thrift shops you just have to find good yard sales/estate sales, medical insurance nope just hope you can get medicaid. Hobbies include staring at the wall in the dark or sleeping because anything outside would wear your shoes out and risk injury and thus losing your income.
@@zoyxing That’s criminal! I’m a CPA and I charge $80/hour for bookkeeping while being much faster than these data entry clerks. More importantly the work is accurate.
Quickbooks is like...if you own a tiny business and do your books yourself. I just...who uses that outside a mom and pop company? My company's clients are using Oracle and SAP. I do not know what that lady was talking about.
It's nearly impossible to keep up with inflation as an employer. If I'm selling products or services I'm tied to the income market; my price is determined by the earnings of the buyer. But inflation is driven by the debt market. A house goes from $300k to $800k because the banks can just issue that much debt, inventing new money. Employers don't have that ability.
@@theviewer9363 I've been dealing with that since I started working in 1970. It hasn't changed. Heck at one time a gallon of gasoline cost more than an hour of minimum wage. And our cars didn't get near the gas mileage they do now.
I'm a boomer and definitely in touch with what's going on economically in this nation. It's been maddening watch my generation wage economic war on younger generations. My generation care more about the welfare of some endangered snail than giving their children and grandkids an unpayable debt. Madness
When I ran my company in the eighties and nineties I made sure I paid my employees more then all my competitors. I also had some of the best workers. Go figure.
All of this should not be normal. Yet many people amongst older generations have normalized it so much... Now it's all "you young people are so lazy, you don't want to work". I've been working part-time since I'm 13 and full-time for many years now. I've done many hard labour jobs while studying but it's never good enough. I never work hard enough to have any credibility and if I struggle, guess what the answer is? I don't work enough. It's beyond frustrating, to have been working my ass off for so long and to have a master's degree and still be considered a lazy, spoiled entitled brat.
The problem is that boomers are lazier than the generations they talk about. Try and get them to do menial tasks. You'll ask yourself how they even made it this far.
In my case it's true. I don't want to work. It causes me literal pain, whether sitting at my desk or any of the service industry jobs I've had. So why do I do it? It's not bad enough for me to get disability (even though right this minute my pain is 6/10 on the pain scale and I'm just enduring it). Even if it was, I'm in too much debt. I simply have to work, sometimes two jobs. I don't want to. They don't get to tell me how to feel about it. They can shut their pieholes.
I feel ya! I started working at 14 and put myself through an engineering degree. I have worked in environmental protection since graduating; my boomer mother won’t even recycle 🙁 Congrats on your hard work👏
@@networth00 I'm 26. Five years ago I had nowhere enough money to pay for a house because I was paying my studies. Now... I sort of have enough money for a house (in theory) but house prices and loan interests are much to high. And my job doesn't pay all that much.
My Boomer Dad graduated from one of the best schools in Canada with a geology degree. When he married my mom, he was in his thirties and still was living with a roommate with no house and a few thousand bucks under his mattress. If he'd had any sense at all he would have been able to own at least a couple of houses, which would be worth millions now.
Here to destroy a myth. Not all baby boomers are rolling in cash with lavish houses throwing our social security dollars around ensconced in our paid for houses. Many, many of us lost jobs and careers from 2001 to 2008 and never recovered. I am 70 years old, former IT worker, lost my house and am no living in an overpriced rental working for 15.hr as a maintenance man. I will have to ask off a half day to go to my own funeral. To lump us all together is no more accurate or helpful than lumping all gen z and millennials together. Also remember that we have gen z and millennial kids and are too painfully aware of hard how they have it. This is how lavish we live: "According to an April 2024 AARP survey, 20% of adults aged 50 and older have no retirement savings. The survey also found that 61% of people in this age group are concerned they won't have enough money to support themselves in retirement." Baby boomers are not the problem. The rich are the problem, regardless of their generation.
My mom, an early end boomer, sends each grandchild $5 for Christmas, and each great-grandchild $1. Last Christmas, my son, his wife and their son received a whopping $6, total. We don't resent mom. We make fun of her. There is going to be a whole bunch of ""Your momma's so cheap....."" jokes
This first story is just….Yikes. People literally make more at McDonald’s. A “good” job is a job that pays enough to pay rent AND bills every month. If you don’t offer that, don’t expect “good” employees unless it’s a starter job/1st job for experience.
I mean its kinda sad that a "good" job is now considered something that will allow you to pay the bare essentials in order to live. Imo a "good" job allows you to pay your bills while maintaining a decent lifestyle while also allowing you to save and improve your future, the crazy part is that used to be the norm.
Regardless of the generation, all I see is how greedy politicians have got us to this point of no return. This ain't about right or left, it's about politicians spending as much as they want and giving us normal folks the bill; them making it seem like it's the other party's fault because of who they voted for, or whatever BS we've been fed. Congress should have 100% transparency with every penny they spend, just like a pastor. If you income comes from the people you're supposed to serve they deserve to know how you spend their money, and politicians shouldn't make more than minimum wage; considering they're supposed to serve the general public.
I love it when they do all the math and demonstrate the mathematical FACT that the economy is impossible for this generation. Then the Butthurt Boomer Brigade comes in to deny it with, "Nuh-uh, it was harder for us! You're just lazy..." thus demonstrating the reason they are out of touch and unreasonable. They are still doing the thing that made the economy suck for their grandkids!
Then the the classic jobhunting advice “just walk into these places and tell them you’re ready to work”. 95% of them will just tell you to piss off and apply online!
They are not wrong in this video, but who do they vote for? There was only one presidential candidate in '08 and '12 who talked about abolishing the fed income tax and the Federal Reserve. Your money is being devalued in purchasing power because of out of control fed spending from both parties. There is no such thing as free. I'm GenX, and not doing that well either.
Not just boomers, but older people in general at any time in history. As people age or retire, they work and buy less, have decades of living when prices were lower, and have a hard time keeping up with current costs and pay rates.
Why is this all Boomers fault instead of wealthy corporations and government who are the ones to blame. It took us until We were 40 and had two professional jobs to afford a house in 2000.
@@patland1762they’re quite literally holding onto their positions into senescence. Congress has never been older and still majority baby boomers in their 60/70s it has never been so dominated by such an old generation in its history. Look at the average age of boardrooms and ceos at major businesses it’s almost always boomers or older gen x. They’re literally not getting out of the way for anyone else to take their place. 2nd presidential election in a row between the SAME two boomers in November.
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 And why is that oh brilliant one? Better health care and medical advancements. We are the generation that had a lifetime covered by antibiotics for the first time. LOL
A great example of Boomer entitlement, my mom just retired from working as a school psychologist, she has a pension and free health insurance for life as her retirement benefits. In the same conversation about my current and future job prospects she said I'm making below poverty line at my job but then suggested that my other mom and I move to "reduce costs" because we live in a paid off house that gets reduced taxes, yet renting a condo would cost less somehow
Just because a job doesn't start good doesn't mean it's not good, i started working Papa John's as a delivery driver at 4.25 plus tips. I became a shift manager one night a week. I applied and got the manager designate position when gm was leaving. I then became the gm for 80k a year. It's not that boomers or anyone is out of touch. Yes don't know how to work up the ladder. You don't understand that you shouldn't live in a high cost area for a short commute. Live frugally below your means until you don't have to.
Most jobs in my area start at $18-$20 an hour with no experience. Heck Rutters and Sheetz starts people at $18 an hour so why would anyone work for less than $18 an hour if everyone and their uncle pays at least that with no experience? My personal living wage is the federal minimum wage due to having bought a cheap property, cheap older cars outright and am almost off grid. Of course I make over $21 an hour and only work 3 nights a week so I am coasting to retirement.
Can hardly make it past the first story. The level of absolute, stunning, peak Fluoride-fueled unreality of these "people" is so strong, it's actually warping reality. The Day of the Pillow draws near.
Don't know why this showed up again...... My parents were Silent Generation. They were like Boomers on steroids. The weird thing was my Greatest Generation grandparents understood my work/economic situation much better than my parents ever did.
Anytime you generalize a whole group of people than you are FOS. Yeah boomers, especially wealthy boomers maybe but not all of us. At 70 I have always been an activist for better pay, equality, and progressive policies. So not “all of us”.
It's lead poisoning. I can say it in another comment, just not in the same comment. And I can't go on about how it affected so many and then stopped, to some extent. You'll have to look up our history with it.
Maybe it's the really well-off boomers who think that way, but I am a boomer in a relatively low-level job. More than half my pay has gone to rent all my working life. I have found that all of these poor attitudes can be found consistently found in corporations and employers who benefit from paying the low wages. Not to deny that many older folks don't get it - my parents were relatively clueless about my reality when they were around.
Sigh. You acting like SOME boomers ARE out of touch means ALL boomers are out of touch shows how YOU are out of touch with reality. But I know, hate on any group that's "not like me", because THAT will solve your problems, just like all the other nonsense on RU-vid. /s
Ok, I’m a boomer….im not out of touch. I know that I made $10,000 a year in my first job and was able to rent very comfortably. I see my child who makes $35,000 a year in her first job and she can’t rent. I see the prices, I get it
I'm so sick of the generations denigrating each other. It's too bad we fall for the manipulation that started this and keeps it going. We all would do so much better by collaborating and communicating. We can learn so much from each other. Our present struggles are not that far apart. Let's stop blaming each other.
A big piece of the problem is that older generations often will not accept economic reality. Case in point. I started in my current field in 1990 with zero qualifications beyond the skills I demonstrated to get hired. I now have national certification and a bunch of other credentials. Today that starting wage is $5/hr MORE than I make now after adjusting for inflation. Few people of my parents' generation will ackowledge this reality.
@@ak5659 To a point, I fully agree. We're going to find people in every generation who do not understand experiences outside their own. Labeling the difficulties as generational, though, is not only inaccurate, it is harmful. There are more older people who understand and accompany you in your experience, and those similar, than you may know. Without conversation and collaboration we don't have a good path to better circumstances. Remember the tactic of Divide and Conquer. I'm probably older than you and fully identify with current economic challenges. My generation has given up on finding jobs and have shifted the numbers in the homeless population no matter how educated, experienced, intelligent, energetic, or otherwise qualified. I can't agree with your statement that older people do not accept economic reality. I do find that those who experienced the benefits of an economic boom in their adulthood often do not understand how profoundly conditions have shifted. Those pare typically in a generation older than baby boomers. But my point was not to indicate where or who presents the most difficulty in our society. My point was to say that we are stronger together than divided. We all have out skills and perspectives. Together we are better off as a whole rather than by segmenting ourselves into tiny demographics and complaining about others. Every person and population has value. As an Indigenous person I know how well communities can do with finding the best and most valuable in everyone to share makes for a better community and a stronger front against an enemy. Do you think there is no enemy? Ask yourself who benefits from the results of dividing us and making enemies of the generations.
My grandparents are boomers and we made them retire (my dad and grandpa made a trucking company thing in the 90s- it's not a big one by any means but it definitely is good!) And they absolutely suck. I hate it say it. But they do. Obviously, when they "retired" they got a cut from what they would usually make. This cut makes it where no way in hell they would "feel it" in any way shape or form. And they are out here whining "oh we are feeling it" even though they just bought a new Tesla, a really nice sports car (forget what its called), have a million what seems like futuristic/very modern renovations to their house, buy $60 worth a cookies (they are huge cookies from a local store- these cookies they do not need EVERY WEEK- especially my gpa bc he is diabetic- he stopped taking his diabetic meds), and when they are out, especially my grandpa, it is EVEN WORSE. Hes entitled, hes rude, he thinks he knows better than everyone, hes an embarrassment. I dont trust being in a room with either, especially in a car. He almost caused a wreck in a McDonald's parking lot bc the place was busy (on a Friday) and the nice girl at the window said to pull forward around the building to go to the numbered parking spots. What does the lunatic of my gpa do? He backs up almost into someone elses car, almost t-bones two others, all bc (and he said this) "the customer is always right". Few days ago at my waitressing job I heard a boomer complain that we, his servers are lazy, during a dinner rush, bc we didn't get his food out in 2 minutes, and that we make up excuses bc he payed his college one summer in fast food. Everyone I know, and this isn't just "whiny teens/20 yr olds", this is ppl in their 40s, all have terrible relationships with their boomer parents and grandparents. They are all incredibly narcissistic, selfish, entitled. Its like "wtf happened to yall did the leas get to you?".
@@patland1762 im 19 and working for $6.15 in a "small town city" and paying for college thats about $25,000 /yr (thats the amount thanks to scholarships bc I was a 3.9 GPA) to be and interior designer 🧍 When she was my age college was $700 and her wage was about $3. What in the hell else can I do? My grandparents are alcoholics and are narcissists. My GenX parents already went no contact with one side of the family bc of how abusive they were and are. Ig to you they have all right to almost put ppls' lives at danger bc what? Bc they were able to make some money for themselves? Bc they had advantages?
Don't take anything patland1762 has to say with a grain of salt, judging from the other dismissive comments that have made no real argument. they made they have lead in the brain, are an internet troll or did not watch the video.
@@spencersharp8155 😃😃😃 Awwwwwww poor Spencer LOL. I guess the truth is too much for you especially if it doesn't fit your views and misconceptions and since you didn't know, the phrase is "without a grain of salt". English not your first language?
“You probably make more than me now. I made about $50/hr”… ok boomer😂. It’s like she doesn’t realize that $50/hr is $104,000, which is more than the median household income in most of America
You're mad at the class of '80 because the class of '50 destroyed the unions that the class of 1920 built. Corporations set these numbers, not your grandma. Spend a little less energy on trans rights and a lot more on fair wages. Good luck, Skyler.
Hardly. You make it hard for yourselves and who you keep voting for, then when they jam higher costs up your ass, you blame everyone else but YOU who voted for it. I'm not even a a Boomer, but watch leftists cause this crap for decades.
@@HashknightGaming Ironic, considering Gen Z and even Gen millennials are voting for shitty politicians like Biden and even wanted to vote in war criminals like Hillary Clinton. You are more alike than you care to admit. Get over yourselves.
Part of the reason employers are reluctant to give employees more money is due to the payroll tax that would increase... Remember when you get a raise so does the government. If only we could remove payroll tax, which is completely unnecessary. Also, we need to be doing what we can to lower the cost of living by lowering taxes... We do that, we would all be doing better financially. But instead we keep running on this hamster wheel. Raise taxes... Raise the cost of living .... Raise minimum wage... Raise taxes... Raise the cost of living... Raise minimum wage ... Ect. I'm not anti tax, I do believe some taxes bring us good things, like trash pick up, librarys, the turnpike... But we all know politicians are paying themselves way too much, (I'm talking about infinity pools in their basement way too much), they waste our money on the most absurd things, and continue to fund this perpetual war machine that always seems to need more money. People should be paid a comfortable wage, but the cost of living shouldn't be as bad as it is right now. This problem is completely fixable, if each generation would stop pointing fingers at each other, and start pointing fingers at the government perhaps we would get somewhere.
I’m a Gen X and my two cents is I agree with this person $12 an hour is ridiculous. I’m also blue-collar and I can tell you landscaping is busting your hump in the sun and it’s not very fun. If you want people to do that type of work look at what things cost nowadays.
Please stop blaming every boomer for every problem in the world. Many know how the world has changed and are still working so are quite aware of the money problems of today.
