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Record Millions Of Prime-Age Adults Giving Up On Ever Finding Work | Nicholas Eberstadt 

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While the official unemployment rate remains at a low 3.9%, there is an epidemic in the US and other Western countries of men -- and now increasingly women -- without work.
These are millions of otherwise able-bodied working age adults who have given up on finding work, often driven to do so out of frustration and despair. It's gotten to the point where 1 in 6 prime working age men has no paid work at all.
What is causing this?
And what can be done about it?
Because when an increasing percentage of your prime working age population stops contributing to economic productivity, not only do they suffer the consequences of diminished prosperity -- we all do.
For a deep dive into this pressing crisis, we're fortunate to speak today with Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the book Men Without Work.
Get Nicholas' book here: www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Wo...
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@adam.taggart
@adam.taggart Месяц назад
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@penderyn8794
@penderyn8794 Месяц назад
Why not ask the people in this cohort..... That would be scientifically more accurate. A first hand source .... Instead of interviewing third hand sources
@scottstanko
@scottstanko Месяц назад
😊😊😊😊😊😊s😊
@rejectionistmanifesto8836
@rejectionistmanifesto8836 Месяц назад
You have to wonder if it is being oblivious and acting by them. People that have no faith in the system, low pay ($30/hour is same as $8-10/hour back in 2019), men no longer pursuing relationship after seeing divorce courts steal other men's children/life savings, young women no longer brainwashed that it is evil if they are single/childless, Men who are not selfish enough to bring a child into this wicked and evil system, prices rising so fast on everything you cannot do anything so why work 50-100% extra when inflation will cause at most 1% or 2% improvement in your life, people realizing how many are dying earlier now in theirs 50s/60s/70s since the pandemic infection/same protein entered into billions done coercively which has damaged health and people realizing life is too short to work so hard for 30-40 years hoping one will get even 2-5 years in retirement since you delayed retirement date.
@grantgoldberg1663
@grantgoldberg1663 Месяц назад
Go try driving Uber for a couple weeks or working in a kitchen (real work) and then try paying all your bills off that and maybe you'll see why people are giving up. You two sound like Scrooge McDuck giving his maid a hard time for not working hard enough while swimming in gold. You two have no idea what you're talking about.
@Recuper8
@Recuper8 29 дней назад
Why is this seen as a problem? I see it as hope that the citizenry is waking up to the reality of this economic system only serving the oligarchy. Are you not aware of this reality?
@El-up1ri
@El-up1ri 26 дней назад
I think people realised that they re working for taxes, bills, few sandwiches and a daily coffee.
@inkyandthebrain
@inkyandthebrain 19 дней назад
Some people are lucky if they can treat themselves to a sandwich here and there.
@jupiterthree5228
@jupiterthree5228 19 дней назад
​@@inkyandthebrain I never treat myself to any item, I treat myself to fewer hours of work. I'd rather have free time than have things.
@thomaslusk7621
@thomaslusk7621 17 дней назад
Well said El-up And that is that.
@3waytie
@3waytie 16 дней назад
All the while their taxs are funding a genocide as Obama builds his third mansion crushing the great new hope the young had with him
@zachhendrix01
@zachhendrix01 16 дней назад
I feel this ​@@jupiterthree5228
@C4rnif3X
@C4rnif3X Месяц назад
Work 40-60+ hours a week for the rest of your life, for chump change that can't afford the hyper inflated goods and services and rehashed tired entertainment, all while your hard work is never good enough for the boomers in charge. I think people feel a disruption is looming, and just waiting for something to happen - because this ain't it anymore.
@brusso456
@brusso456 Месяц назад
1 there is no common religion 2 in many parts of the country, we are swamped with foreigners, my phone alerts are in spanish, why? 3 there are no good jobs, wages are kept low by massive immigration. 4 if men can not find good women, there is no reason to work. Feminism has poisoned the well. 5 massive inflation, prices double every 10 years since 1974, but have doubled in the last 5 years. in terms of purchasing power, the average man has not had a real raise since 1980. 6 constant economic and psychological warfare on the middle class by the rich. why have child, if you are living in a dystopia? Now you can not even get women. no community, no religion, no job, no women. why buy anything? live minimally wait for the zombie apocalypse. because it will come. now Biden wants to take us to WWIII, you know who is not afraid of anything now. the ones who have nothing to lose.
@johnbirman5840
@johnbirman5840 Месяц назад
Obviously your younger than the “boomers” Well I’m a boomer. I started working and living on my own in the 70s at 17 years old. My mortgage was over 10%. Income rates were much higher. I moved to the USA at 23 from Australia. Married at 20. Retired at 62. Worked for over 5 years in Iraq and Africa. Never made working over 54,000 except when I worked in a war zone for 5 years. I never expected anyone to help except God. And no one else did. I rose up through the ranks to Head Chef. No fat pension besides S.S. and my own monies. I have no resentment towards anyone else except whiners who are great at whining but not great on sucking it up and getting the job done. Try it.
@generator6946
@generator6946 Месяц назад
Well said …
@Network126
@Network126 Месяц назад
I'm 36, never married, homeless since the pandemic, and living in an old Toyota Sienna minivan now, despite working, and not addicted to drugs.
@cosmicllama6910
@cosmicllama6910 29 дней назад
​@@johnbirman5840 the world doesn't revolve around your gen anymore. We know you guys made it, you don't have to remind us. We don't care. Gen x and forward have to fix the mess you've left for us, and we know you're not with us, so just stay out of our way and don't come crying to us when nobody visits when you're old.
@taketheredpill1452
@taketheredpill1452 24 дня назад
Don't have children. Don't bring anyone into this madness...
@PraveenSriram
@PraveenSriram 24 дня назад
I couldn’t agree more or stronger with your comment
@KikoValleyMan
@KikoValleyMan 24 дня назад
Even the goats aren’t breeding as much. I think they sense the chaos too.
@PraveenSriram
@PraveenSriram 24 дня назад
@@KikoValleyMan ohhhhh I definitely 👍 agree
@thomaslusk7621
@thomaslusk7621 17 дней назад
I'm 63 , Worked my ass off my whole life and I see the young know this Shit show is not something to get involved in.
@PraveenSriram
@PraveenSriram 17 дней назад
@@thomaslusk7621 agree completely
@jwilliam2255
@jwilliam2255 Месяц назад
The "official" unemployment rate is an almost utterly worthless statistic.
@keithspernak6456
@keithspernak6456 Месяц назад
Soooo many folks are underemployed. Yeah they are working, but doing gig type stuff with no benefits including workers comp. It is not easy to get a decent job with full benefits.
@randyosborne3971
@randyosborne3971 Месяц назад
No one lies like the people of Washington D.C.
@GenerationX1984
@GenerationX1984 Месяц назад
​@@randyosborne3971Anyone who is rich is a liar. Except Warren Buffett. I like him.
@ChickenMcThiccken
@ChickenMcThiccken Месяц назад
they omit key numbers. how many fell off unemployment and are unable to collect anymore???? they dont want to talk about that.
@MrSteeDoo
@MrSteeDoo 28 дней назад
What good would a better UE statistics do for you?
@jeffb.140
@jeffb.140 Месяц назад
There is no labor shortage. That's all BS! Just because they post a job offer doesn't mean there is a job on offer!
@aaron159r2
@aaron159r2 Месяц назад
And just because an employer would WANT another employee and show it by posting some crappy job offer, it doesn't mean they are effectively "demanding" an employee with the proper economic incentives like a high enough salary. For example, what if there were 100,000 new job postings tomorrow, each offering a $1 per year salary? Are those 100,000 jobs real. No! Maybe we should not be considering the NUMBER of job postings, but rather the amount of dollars being offered for labor. In my simple example, you would say there is a $100,000 labor bid on the market. Whether that is 1 x $100k job or 100,000 x $1 job, it's $100k offered for potential workers.
@KingNothing0
@KingNothing0 Месяц назад
yes 100% agree, there is no shortage. It is really not worth working anymore especially for the younger generation. only to break even on paying bills , scraping by. paying all the taxes, paying into SSI and for the government to just spend that money on something else and not have it for when people retire... millennials, gen z & alpha will have to work until their dead. there is no more retirement, no more insensitive to work! Let's not forget the government pays people more money not to work.....
@johndamascus6039
@johndamascus6039 Месяц назад
@@aaron159r2 Precisely. I've been making this point for years now and it's as if people refuse to see through the propaganda. A lot of jobs often won't train you, and if they do, the social fabric is different than previous, and inflation is worse. The rise of feminism and modernity has led to a situation where men, without any chance of getting married or having a girlfriend at young ages, have no incentive to work "just because". I'm a high level professional and see successful, tall men all the time that laugh at the idea of marrying a woman in the west - there is frankly no return on investment.
@mrw417
@mrw417 Месяц назад
The dirty tricks in the world of corporate hiring would completely shock most people.
@jedpittman6739
@jedpittman6739 Месяц назад
@@mrw417please elaborate
@hvac_tech3
@hvac_tech3 29 дней назад
3 americans. 2 dont work. 1 works at mcdonnalds part time. Ubers on weekends and delivers packages for amazon. The US says we have 100% employment.
@fremontpathfinder8463
@fremontpathfinder8463 23 дня назад
And yet there are openings in many union jobs and other jobs that pay decently in blue states: pharmacy tech, LVN ,RN, electrician ,aircraft mechanic, teacher, social worker, cybersecurity expert and on and on.
@raymundogonzalez6450
@raymundogonzalez6450 23 дня назад
US democracy is a facade = ilusion= Corporation$ Totalitarianism
@hschan5976
@hschan5976 21 день назад
@@fremontpathfinder8463 There are so many fake job advertisements these days it's impossible to tell if there really is a position behind the ad. On the one hand there might be real staff shortages in some industries but on the other hand there are millions of people potentially wasting hours a day writing applications and even prepping for interviews for jobs that don't exist.
@tmmartinesq.6216
@tmmartinesq.6216 21 день назад
Threw percent unemployment, allegedly.
@wildfirez5764
@wildfirez5764 18 дней назад
@@fremontpathfinder8463dude, nobody in my experience is willing to teach or give opportunity. DEI and Affirmative Action with Application Tracking Systems have made things very complicated.
@hiddenname9809
@hiddenname9809 28 дней назад
It's time business owners stop treating people as disposables. We are human beings, not toilet paper.
@Jamhael1
@Jamhael1 22 дня назад
The bourgeois will do anything for the poor, except get out of their backs.
@PraveenSriram
@PraveenSriram 22 дня назад
Crude analogy
@Jamhael1
@Jamhael1 22 дня назад
@@PraveenSriram no, it is VERY realistic, in fact...
@boreofwrath837
@boreofwrath837 18 дней назад
It's a trickle-down effect. Business owners don't know any better. They are only people, and people are only livestock for the gods, because even gods get hungry and have to eat. Consider the source.
@Jamhael1
@Jamhael1 18 дней назад
@@boreofwrath837 the "trickle-down economics" is been applied since the Reagan administration, and it NEVER WORKED, except for the rich.
@Peterl4290
@Peterl4290 27 дней назад
My main concern is how to survive all of these financial and political crisis, especially in light of the US political power struggle.
@larrypaul-cw9nk
@larrypaul-cw9nk 27 дней назад
Bad year for me, META down 40k, ALLP down 35k, Draft Kings down 6k, NIO down 15K, ABML down 8k, and my wife doesn’t know. I'm just hanging on to Jim Cramer's words about opportunities in volatile times so perhaps, I either wait for a recovery or pick profitable investments to substitute for my loss.
@sabastinenoah
@sabastinenoah 27 дней назад
With the assistance of an investment advisor, I was able to diversify my $401k portfolio across multiple markets, earning over $980k in net profit from high dividend yielding stocks, ETFs, and bonds in just a few short months.
@sabastinenoah
@sabastinenoah 20 дней назад
I took charge of my portfolio but faced losses in 2022. Realizing the need for a change, I sought advice from a fiduciary advisor. Through restructuring and diversification with dividend stocks, ETFs, Mutual funds, and REITs, my $1.2M portfolio surged, yielding an annualized gain of 28%.
@seanhepner
@seanhepner 20 дней назад
Would you mind recommending a specialist with a variety of investment options? This is extremely rare, and I eagerly await your response.
@sabastinenoah
@sabastinenoah 20 дней назад
Her name is “Vivian Carol Gioia” can't divulge much. Most likely, the internet should have her basic info, you can research if you like
@karlstrauss2330
@karlstrauss2330 Месяц назад
People are tired of subsidizing boomers social security. I worked full time with side hustles for over a decade thinking I was gonna eventually “make it.” Some years I never used company Paid Time Off. I showed up on time, was a “team player” and did everything I was supposed to do. One day I woke at age 30 and realized that I put in all that work and I had nothing to show for it. No wife no kids, no home no nothing. But boomers will blame me and say that need to stop complaining and “work harder”.
@cordfortina9073
@cordfortina9073 Месяц назад
​@blobmonster9494why bother if you have no one to support?
@bernie57
@bernie57 24 дня назад
"boomers" paid into the system their entire working lives. Should they not receive the benefits they were promised by the government? I think the culprit is government itself, with its colossal -- truly epic -- waste, corruption and mismanagement. Think of the hundreds of billions we are spending to prop up a corrupt Ukranian state.
@TS-rd7oy
@TS-rd7oy 23 дня назад
Boomers paid into social security, just as you are if you get a paycheck. Good Lord, educate yourself
@andrealynnwinchester9156
@andrealynnwinchester9156 21 день назад
Hon, it’s not the boomers on social security…it’s the rich and powerful, corporations and congress. The boomers PAID INTO SOCIAL SECURITY. That’s where the money came from…government STOLE IT to use to enrich themselves and their buddies so now there’s not enough money left to cover things. If they had left it alone and invested it properly…things would be fine. The rich got greedier and now this is where we are.
@bugaboo3807
@bugaboo3807 20 дней назад
Yeah, let’s talk about how many check are being written to the boomers this year…so ridiculous. And lying about the job statistics. We are turning into a sick country in the US.
@nathanielringdahl
@nathanielringdahl Месяц назад
I think the trickle down is that the dating market is so bad that when men lose interest/ability to date women and start families, they by default don’t find work worthwhile
@beloved-child
@beloved-child 24 дня назад
Under stated and this fact wont ever make msm cuz facts like this are offensive to vv0m3ns fragile egos
@alwkicksta
@alwkicksta 19 дней назад
Not to mention the 304ish, cunning, and entitled behavior of women.
@KNGDDDE
@KNGDDDE 14 дней назад
Low key I kinda feel like it's always been bad, the public simply can't afford to keep it under wraps. The level of degeneracy rose too fast for the already not to be the standard.
@robinshood1268
@robinshood1268 12 дней назад
Plus the work truly is not worthwile and people who have social responsibilities like partners or children don’t work because they want but because they have to.
@samuelsingh520
@samuelsingh520 12 дней назад
Absolutely agree with all of you guys, Amen! 👍
@oscarvaldez7142
@oscarvaldez7142 Месяц назад
I have a Masters degree and worked for 25+ years in the business world with various certifications. I chose not to return to work after the pandemic as Corporations do not want to pay a fair salary commensurate with my experience. While the CEOs and C-Suite employees reward themselves with high pay, bonuses and stock options, they expect very experienced workers to accept the same stagnant salaries that the employee made 10-15 years ago while working 60 hours a week. Also, a lot of corporations these days only want to hire people as contractors so they don't have to provide health benefits, vacation, etc. I'm enjoying my free time now and am glad I'm no longer a slave to the greedy corporations who won't pay a fair and reasonable salary.
@penderyn8794
@penderyn8794 Месяц назад
If you think the USA is bad... Come to the UK with a half as less for the same skilled work
@valerietweedie4376
@valerietweedie4376 Месяц назад
Of all the comments I have read so far, yours is the one that resonates with me. Jobs that pay decently demand more and more of their employees and one reaches a point where the money just isn't worth it.
@Anza_34832
@Anza_34832 Месяц назад
Good that 25 years of full time work have allowed you to accumulate sufficient funding for an early retirement. I saw very similar cases at IBM…after many years of stagnant wages, many experienced specialists retired with a golden handshake.
@Ama-wj8sl
@Ama-wj8sl Месяц назад
This is so true. I totally relate to what you mentioned. I prefer to invest in myself and learn investing skills to make a living rather than paying out of pocket for MBAs and more professional certifications that are overpriced and guarantee absolutely nothing but a hole in your bank account for the “privilege” of sucking up to self-centred, often morally bankrupt C-suite.
@BOULDERGEEK
@BOULDERGEEK Месяц назад
This was the story of my life in IT. Accept contract at the same rate of 15 years before, provide good work value, get ejected. Rinse, repeat. If we had IT unions, my career would have been much better. Conservative right-to-work laws and mercenary corporate tactics fck everyone. Except for the C-suite.
@Rubijoyal
@Rubijoyal Месяц назад
I have to argee with others here. I am 35. Been working since I was 15 and constantly stuck in jobs that are low skill and low pay and often times taking pay cuts, overworked, no negotiation for wages, understaffed and constantly having take on more job responsibilities and not compensate for it. Working myself to death since High School and never once had health benifts, thanked for my hard work or a raise or promotion. I sold my heart and soul for my job and recived nothing
@karlstrauss2330
@karlstrauss2330 Месяц назад
If you never got a college degree, you’re stuck in low wage jobs forever. The only way out is to take on tons of debt so you can get a higher paying job so you can work more to pay off that debt… its insanity
@cordfortina9073
@cordfortina9073 Месяц назад
Your best hope is UBI. I really believe UBI will happen because AI is going to make a lot of jobs disappear in the next 10 years.
@millersfloorcoatings
@millersfloorcoatings Месяц назад
Go to a two year tech school program for one of the trades
@Nostrildomus
@Nostrildomus 29 дней назад
Anyone can 'Go Union'
@MrSteeDoo
@MrSteeDoo 28 дней назад
Did you pay attention in school?
@ryanthomas3880
@ryanthomas3880 Месяц назад
The questions no one wants to ask: Why bother to work when you are taxed into the ground (property tax, sales tax, income tax, etc.) and what net income you have is actively and purposefully inflated away by a corrupt monetary system that will self-destruct eventually due to the inherent reality of a debt-based monetary system? Why bother to get married in a society where men have been actively and purposefully hallmarked as villains and perpetuators of "toxic masculinity"? Don't get me started on the inherently imbalanced status men hold in social constructs like divorce proceedings, alimony, and family law. This interview is hitting at superficial manifestations of a society and Western civilization in terminal decline. The answer to your questions could easily be answered by another question: "Why bother?"
@bitcoindaddy1
@bitcoindaddy1 Месяц назад
Well said!!!!!!
@aaron159r2
@aaron159r2 Месяц назад
Here here, brother!
@danielwakefield6025
@danielwakefield6025 Месяц назад
It only adds further insult that Adam is so clueless that he interviews a member of the class that gaslights us endlessly about how it's a "lack of confidence" you problem, not a parasitic ruling class that controls our institutions. Just vote harder Goy!
@Falconlibrary
@Falconlibrary Месяц назад
A shorter version: "What incentives do I, as a man, have to give 40-50 years of my life to a society that despises, exploits, and demonizes me?"
@Mr42960
@Mr42960 Месяц назад
Perfect! Neither Adam or any of his guests will pretend to notice the low quality of women, the attack on men and how it effects men's ambitions to create, strive and succeed which drives the economy. Notice the lack of quality and reliability of products now? That is from intelligent men going Gault.
@LTXsp
@LTXsp Месяц назад
Listening to two elitist wealthy guys discuss the goings on of the "common folk" is priceless humor. Thanks for the laughs guys!
@RawOlympia
@RawOlympia 23 дня назад
indeed
@neilmcdougall4927
@neilmcdougall4927 22 дня назад
All for stigma and shame for the little people
@focusedfreebird
@focusedfreebird 22 дня назад
Yeah truly hysterical
@cadcad-jm3pf
@cadcad-jm3pf 21 день назад
The old guy with the stiff upper lip looks like a Soviet caricature of a capitalist villain.
@zach7754
@zach7754 18 дней назад
😂
@jmamft
@jmamft Месяц назад
You are missing the point. What if I no longer care? The system is sick, and I have no desire to work to maintain it when all that happens when you are successful is that somebody comes along and takes it all away?
@marty.l
@marty.l Месяц назад
@blobmonster9494 Haha, when the rich live off government grift, money printing, deficit spending. Why do you think the 34 trillion in federal debt is for? Taxes doesn't even begin to cover it. You think your little taxes pay for other people? What about Ukraine and Israel? How are they contributing to you? other than their aipac oligarchs own our government.
@Preciouspink
@Preciouspink Месяц назад
@blobmonster9494maybe he is kicking back on everything he has already put out in blood sweat and tears
@jharknessxrp
@jharknessxrp 29 дней назад
Sounds like homeless
@Nostrildomus
@Nostrildomus 29 дней назад
Amen Brother !
@MrSteeDoo
@MrSteeDoo 28 дней назад
Looking for a free lunch?
@FarmerRobbie
@FarmerRobbie Месяц назад
In general, men work (groom themselves, maintain fitness, and pretty much everything we do) to attract and provide for a mate and children. Not sure if you’ve seen the state of dating lately. Kids are expensive and the world has become such a place that I think a lot of people are refraining from bringing children into it.
@TizerWales
@TizerWales Месяц назад
Well said.
@johndamascus6039
@johndamascus6039 Месяц назад
Yes, even if you found a wife (fat chance, lol) the legal structure is another death blow. There are so many elephants in the room, and it's sad we can't get older men to address them - mostly it's because they don't want to be criticized for telling the truth about what men desire and why they would actually work - and it's NOT for wives who act like men, are overweight, and can leave at any time. The only fixes are really drastic, such as mass die off or implosion of the country or its legal structure into something else. Sad, really.
@NothingisasitseemsPodcast
@NothingisasitseemsPodcast 29 дней назад
@@johndamascus6039 Very well said!
@imaxinsertnounherex
@imaxinsertnounherex 12 дней назад
Yeah, even if you find a chick that isn't going to ask for the world to consider allowing you to date her, she's likely to bail at the next best option and take half your shit. Plus the cost of kids is preventative for most.
@planetmchanic6299
@planetmchanic6299 2 дня назад
The satanic syndicate was engineered to ruin so called society. These dudes are clueless. The whole thing is bogus, a hoax. Corporate greed is cannibalize young people just like it always has since the beginning. Only way to win is not to play.
@titolovely8237
@titolovely8237 Месяц назад
it's pretty simple. the wages that are paid dont buy anything, and the non tangible things men want are also unavailable (marriage, children, stable communities, honorable institutions). and dont get me started on the absurd requirements for these jobs. these employers want a 15+ year experienced professional with a phd for $22/hr. it's laughable. hell even just applying to these positions requires you to take pre employment testing, then go through 5 rounds of interviews only to be offered 30% less than what youre making currently. it's a joke. these employers dont want workers, they want slaves. At a certain point i think people just give up, and you cant blame them. the rational response to a society with this level of mental illness is to withdraw.
@TheNewCarryTrade
@TheNewCarryTrade Месяц назад
I was a hiring manager pre-pandemic and yes i can say modern job interviews are ridiculous. All I wanted was someone capable of doing the job and someone who meshed well with the team. I'm currently out of the workforce and starting my own company and id never do more than a two stage interviews. Well, technically three stages, but by the time you meet the executive team you are already hired and its just a formality at that point...
@mba2ceo
@mba2ceo Месяц назад
@@TheNewCarryTrade BS U were NEVER a hiring manager. My opinion
@joshuahummel7017
@joshuahummel7017 29 дней назад
Yes
@maxshea1829
@maxshea1829 29 дней назад
@@mba2ceo Personal testimony in comments sections is worthless. Anybody can say anything.
@HickoryDickory86
@HickoryDickory86 26 дней назад
"[T]he rational response to a society with this level of mental illness is to withdraw." This! Could not have been stated any better! 💯
@dathoodieguy7121
@dathoodieguy7121 Месяц назад
As a man supporting his family while barely able to feed myself on these crappy wages, I’m nearly at my breaking point of just trying to leave this country or give up trying anymore I am tired of working and not able to afford to eat. What is this nightmare? Is this the American Dream?! At 29 I am suffering with no family besides the one I made myself and now I can barely feed them I am reliant on this Government who hates me. I can’t stand this country anymore…
@Snappypantsdance
@Snappypantsdance Месяц назад
From me to you- I was at the same place. I decided to get land and grow a garden and animals. Not perfect by any means, but solves some issues(admittedly while creating others.
@ravensfinancial
@ravensfinancial Месяц назад
Don't worry. Enjoy the decline :D
@MrSteeDoo
@MrSteeDoo 28 дней назад
The government hates you? You sound mentally ill.
@frederika3013
@frederika3013 28 дней назад
Try to find a job in Asia as an English teacher.
@blueamenaa749
@blueamenaa749 28 дней назад
Same in France. I'm French. The west is done....
@millertime6
@millertime6 26 дней назад
One thing he doesn’t discuss is the workplace itself. They’re mostly toxic. Managers spend more time gaslighting and showing favoritism than leading. It becomes quite taxing over time.
@AdrianCarroll-fj5ce
@AdrianCarroll-fj5ce 13 дней назад
Yep. It's also very soul crushing to see the amount of nepotism that really defines who gets what role. If you aren't in the club you might as well check out.
@jmack8767
@jmack8767 9 дней назад
I don't know that there's a solution to that from the corporate management perspective. People are generally kind of nasty when they are stressed, and it's much easier as a manager to treat people badly if you have your own stresses to manage.
@bridgetkirk7065
@bridgetkirk7065 5 дней назад
Thank you! I'm 55 now and every job I've had I've left because of toxic management. I'm reluctant at this point to get a job as I'm certain it will be more of the same.
@princessmarlena1359
@princessmarlena1359 2 дня назад
Exactly. Employers are incompetent and corrupt p in he ads.
@fml5910
@fml5910 2 дня назад
Agree with you there. And we have to deal managers gaslighting and lying to get good workers fired.And at the same time playing favorites with the tattle tales, and butt kissers that the only thing they do is take up space, and collect their disguised paycheck which in reality is a welfare check.
@johnscott2964
@johnscott2964 Месяц назад
If you're a senior citizen, it doesn't matter if the jobs are there; they're not there for you. Employers would rather have no one.
@ChickenMcThiccken
@ChickenMcThiccken Месяц назад
no. they would relish to hire you for free if they could.
@Scrunchie_777
@Scrunchie_777 28 дней назад
Same for the younger folks. Employers will blame every little thing for their pitiful salary offers or just outright outsource the role to India/work a skeleton crew.
@davekohler5957
@davekohler5957 23 дня назад
Senior citizens built the system we currently live in and a lot still control corperations and governments.
@pmscalisi
@pmscalisi 12 дней назад
@@davekohler5957maybe 0.5% of them do. The rest are just peasants like everyone else.
@peterbelanger4094
@peterbelanger4094 8 дней назад
@@davekohler5957 Only a small minority of them actually have control. There are more impoverished seniors than well off ones. Stop stereotyping, that one is WAAAY off! Our society has lost respect for it's elders.
@maryosgood9933
@maryosgood9933 Месяц назад
Have either of you walked the streets and spent time with young people? Not at the country club but in general, all walks of life. Our country has kicked them in the teeth. Now change is taking place. We will never return to the old ways. It's over! I've raised 3 kids and watched them and their friends find their way. It dirty, it's hard, it's their reality. Greed has now consumed its own tail.
@francisravenscroft-dw6gi
@francisravenscroft-dw6gi Месяц назад
Covid was a wake up call. 'we are only going to be here once' Working people give up 45 years of their lives to pay perhaps to get 15 years of retirement- that is a poor return.
@Boc3phu5
@Boc3phu5 Месяц назад
Love this equation. ❤ It put things into perspective
@erinsweet8147
@erinsweet8147 Месяц назад
Modern retirement is a modern thing, maybe since 1960s.
@joshspiker
@joshspiker Месяц назад
True, but not everyone has the luxury of being able to retire early and travel the world. And not everyone has the ability to start a six or seven-figure business from scratch. The ever-increasing cost of living has kept many on the hamster wheel.
@ousamaabdu794
@ousamaabdu794 Месяц назад
Excellent point...! I never really thought about that in such real terms..
@dkalbfleisch3150
@dkalbfleisch3150 Месяц назад
Love it ...agree with the concept . The reality is 90 % of us will always be the worker bee...so the 10% can have it all. MONEY = POWER.
@scottdorsey8220
@scottdorsey8220 Месяц назад
Loneliness and disconnection among the young is most concerning and disappointing. No society can flourish under those conditions.
@deborahcurtis1385
@deborahcurtis1385 Месяц назад
It's an epidemic and loneliness is a high risk factor for bad mental health and poor physical health outcomes. Depression is regarded by the World Health Organisation as the biggest threat to public health, higher than cancer.
@lorib5398
@lorib5398 29 дней назад
I really want to just start dance halls everywhere. To help. Improve the connection and engagement of young people. We can all learn ballroom, dance and that's affordable and cheap.You can dance on a basketball court.
@MrSteeDoo
@MrSteeDoo 28 дней назад
They can fix that by setting down the cellphone.
@jacobmansfield-go9fz
@jacobmansfield-go9fz 28 дней назад
@@lorib5398 solid idea but women wouldn't show up, would just be a bunch of dudes.
@glassycreek1991
@glassycreek1991 16 дней назад
​@@lorib5398You would be shut down. They would blame you for monopolizing public space. They did that for yoga classes in San Diego. That is why there is no community outreach.
@bryanclements2864
@bryanclements2864 Месяц назад
Got to 25 minutes waiting for them to discuss any real talking points. All they did was obfuscate and bullshit, while skirting around anything meaningful or impactful and making excuses that didn't address shit. Was this supposed to be a feelgood piece for the old guard and the wealthy? That's all it feels and sounds like.
@newjerseyselfdefense6199
@newjerseyselfdefense6199 19 дней назад
I like people like you lol!
@hood6854
@hood6854 Месяц назад
Money doesn’t go into raises or investing in workers. It goes to stock buybacks and dividends for investors. Most of the working class are getting tired of working harder for less.
@SunofYork
@SunofYork Месяц назад
Buy stocks then
@hood6854
@hood6854 Месяц назад
@@SunofYork I do, thanks dad. Unfortunately, many Americans cannot afford to and it’s their situation I’m referring to.
@SunofYork
@SunofYork Месяц назад
@@hood6854 Most of them asked for it by their choices at school. I have a Samsung S5 and I don't run a big red 80k pickup, although I COULD afford 20 of them...cash.. I have never smoked cannabis...
@aaron159r2
@aaron159r2 Месяц назад
National monetary policy has bailed out out the housing and stock market with experimental QE and ZIRP for a few decades now. It's not evilness of corporations or investors, it's governmental politics (true, likely hijacked by corporate lobbies) that contribute to the perverse incentives that discourage people from wanting to work. The payoff just isn't there when financial assets are so expensive relative to underlying economic activity.
@Friendznco
@Friendznco Месяц назад
@@SunofYork Such a boomer take.
@HelloNotMe9999
@HelloNotMe9999 Месяц назад
Problem 1: Employers refuse to train anyone. Problem 2: The vast majority of job listings the government say exist are for “ghost jobs” that employers have no intention of filling, and just post to have a perpetual stack of resumes in case they might need someone at some future position. Problem 3: Employers don’t pay anything close to what labor is worth. Problem 4: Government regulation makes it almost impossible for employers to take any level of risk on an employee who has the slightest hint of a mistake the made 20 years ago because they were a dumbass kid.
@HorseRadish403
@HorseRadish403 21 день назад
My gf was looking for a new job for 2 years. Finally found one
@kingmelanin7468
@kingmelanin7468 17 дней назад
Problem 1 was huge since 2008. Now, employers have taken their efforts and put it into hiring methods. Not only do you have to be the perfect candidate, but they'd rather waste time/money having you also survive a hunger games style hiring process instead of training candidates with potential to be great employees.
@quanita7116
@quanita7116 16 дней назад
Problem 4- yup! Especially now when police can be used tyrannically and they arrest you for any little thing. One of my college friends was never able to get a job in accounting due to a record when she was very young. I have gotten her interviews but no one will hire her. People make mistakes but you have to be squeaky clean to get a job or run for office.
@ericpelton4533
@ericpelton4533 14 дней назад
Problem 4 has no solution. No one will hire me, therefore I have no work experience, and with no working experience AND a miild criminal record(one misdemeanor 26yrs ago) it is completely impossible to find a legal job. JUST EUTHANIZE ME!!!!!!!🥵
@oscard9429
@oscard9429 14 дней назад
Why should I pay you to train you?
@shawnPATSFAN
@shawnPATSFAN Месяц назад
Housing is the primary component that is causing the fiscal stress and the feeling of hopelessness. Is unacceptable for society to price out it's younger generation. The gap between the haves and the have nots is so large that it's not surprising people are just giving up. We need to get housing prices down. We need to remove 100% of investor money out of residential resale real estate of four units or less. We are vastly becoming a third world country with a severely lessened quality of life. What happens when you're playing Monopoly and one person ends up with most of the real estate and money ? That's what is happening in real life.
@NameRequiredSoHere
@NameRequiredSoHere 24 дня назад
With the money we're spending in the Ukraine, we could build a house for every homeless person in the US.
@frankherman5195
@frankherman5195 24 дня назад
All of these empty houses and no housing available. So why are these property investors investing in them? Property taxes still have to be paid. When the banks reposses your house they just let it sit and rot in the meantime demanding higher resale value
@exhibitdesign901
@exhibitdesign901 13 дней назад
It is sad that things are proportionally expensive. I have a rental house and I rent to a young family. I intentionally keep the rent much lower than the current market, because of the cost of things nowadays. It seems most landlords try to milk every last cent out their properties when they could afford to offer a better rate to their renter. This has resulted in a wonderful renter/landlord situation for me. When I sell the house, it will NOT be to the highest bidder or a corporation, but to a young family starting out (or to the current family if they are interested). Sure I will make a profit, that is the point of owning a house, but I don't need to be greedy. I keep the house well maintained and the renter and I have a great rapport.
@Guitar6ty
@Guitar6ty 11 дней назад
Same happening in Europe.
@shawnPATSFAN
@shawnPATSFAN 11 дней назад
@@exhibitdesign901 you're one of the few ones with a conscience... Good job lead by example...
@paulbeel8358
@paulbeel8358 Месяц назад
I have worked with an employment counselor for years, and both of us have witnessed that old folks never get an interview. Mostly for reasons related to work culture and the generational gap. When you get NO for an answer no matter what, you eventually walk away. I've documented my entire experience. A fucking nightmare.
@TheNewCarryTrade
@TheNewCarryTrade Месяц назад
I'm sorry friend. I was a hiring manager for a software firm and I hired 50+ talent. I hired jr talent as well, but honestly I found the work ethic of the older guys to be far superior. I once hired a 62yr programmer and he was a rockstar...he was difficult to manage, but he could run laps around a similar 20 something hire for my team. I'm starting my own company now and I will continue to hire the older guys.
@frederika3013
@frederika3013 28 дней назад
I am young... and I dont get interviews either. I am in East Europe (in EU) and our gov is giving big companies money to hire young people. So the young people are hired by corporations and paid from our taxes. Practically they work for free. Pretty insane right, its a scam. Corporatocracy and rentier capitalism destroyed jobs. When the Soviet Union fell one of the criteria for entering the EU was forcing our national companies to be privatised by the west - '.free market'right ehm... Western companies bought our national companies kicked all the people out and closed, in order to destroy us as competition. Now they are paying us peanuts, our economies were totally dismantled. It was the biggest scam and trap of the century we were too naive. We thought communism was hell... No, our commies had hearts of gold in comparison to imbeciles running the west.
@ParisianThinker
@ParisianThinker 2 дня назад
@@TheNewCarryTrade It's true. Boomer generation knows how to work.
@z.d.davidson
@z.d.davidson Месяц назад
Job is a demeaning term. "A man who works all day has no time to make money." -John D. Rockefeller. The richest, most powerful people in the world do next to nothing in terms of real labor. We live in a nepotocracy. Unless there is a massive reckoning that forces the top 0.01% to do actual work again, what incentive does everyone else ruled by such a cohort have to give half their life over to corps that deem everyone replaceable? The answer is zero.
@MS-dx6yz
@MS-dx6yz Месяц назад
Corps...corpse. Same same.
@FreeSpeech4All
@FreeSpeech4All Месяц назад
This is 100% correct. If we all stop working, who will they steal money from to pay for their yachts and mansions?!? 😮
@graceamsterdam5404
@graceamsterdam5404 Месяц назад
Personally, I blame the governments for making deeply devastating and extremely wasteful decisions that do nót serve the tax payers. It is the tax payers money!! And ofcourse it is a fact that social media has a depressing effect on especially the young-ish people: comparing fake lives to your own real life.
@BryceClark-nh3zv
@BryceClark-nh3zv Месяц назад
@@FreeSpeech4All Artificial Intelligence
@vcash1112
@vcash1112 Месяц назад
Sounds about right the more you work the less you make…😢
@svenhinrichsen458
@svenhinrichsen458 Месяц назад
I quit working at 56 years 2 years ago. It was my own decision. I don't wanted to pay taxes to my deluded GOVT (Germany) anymore. I sold all I owned and migrated to Sweden. Btw...unvaccinated, well educated and self sufficient. I am out - and I am happy 👍🏻
@davenchop
@davenchop Месяц назад
germany for sure a bizarre attitude esp with the migrants
@user-99.99
@user-99.99 Месяц назад
I’m right behind you. 73 days. I can’t wait.
@handyrams4822
@handyrams4822 Месяц назад
Congrats to you🎉
@Falconlibrary
@Falconlibrary Месяц назад
Lots of Germans are going to Sweden. Are you in the north?
@bargdaffy1535
@bargdaffy1535 Месяц назад
Not the same, in America if you don't have a Job you have no affordable Health insurance until you are 65, you also have dangerous infrastruture (accidents), a poorly educated work force and no affordable child care or Family Leave if that matters in the equation . Vaccination is a moot point, don't really care if you get Long Co~Vid or not.
@sudo2998
@sudo2998 Месяц назад
As a single never-married man in my early late 40s, I can tell you how tough and exhausting it is, mentally and emotionally, to stay productive and not fall into substance abuse or into a psychological funk. I think I push all that energy into my work, where I've become an obsessive perfectionist, oftentimes at the cost of my health.
@user-rq6ej3dh9o
@user-rq6ej3dh9o 29 дней назад
Read Bible, dare i say a wife might balance you naturally
@Nostrildomus
@Nostrildomus 29 дней назад
Know when to fold um . . .
@walkerbomb
@walkerbomb 25 дней назад
Glad that you are finding something to keep you above the pitfalls of substances and funk that you want to avoid. Sorry it is work (I too am somewhat of a perfectionist, so I do the same when I am working) but I hope the best for you. And, in response to a comment above mine, a wife will not balance you out. That is absurd. A healthy and caring partner *could* possibly help you have some balance and other places to put that energy, but who’s to say the “wife” would be balanced either?!? Sorry, I couldn’t let that nonsense slide by. You are enough. You are doing enough. The problem is capitalism, not you. ❤️‍🔥
@minoozolala
@minoozolala 24 дня назад
Not trying to be mean, but it’s always been that way.
@xisigma
@xisigma 20 дней назад
Same age as you, single all my life. I’m very hard on my own prospects, but last week I went to the local hotspot street and it felt good. Maybe I’ll try talking to girls again. Just pick a place where it’s safe, and no one will smash your car.
@workthenumberswjake
@workthenumberswjake 27 дней назад
I’ve been working full time for 8 years. I’m nearly 30 years old - I work in a corporation. My wife & I make $150k a year. We can barely afford to live. We don’t watch TV, make 90% of our meals, and rarely splurge on any large purchases. The American dream is 1000% dead. No one cares at work. And I mean NO ONE. Our US dollar is worth squat & I am scared for the future. We are moving backwards, quickly. Law biding citizens are no longer valued - they are called racists and bigots.
@iamphil1598
@iamphil1598 26 дней назад
Unfortunately true. The middle class is dead since long and thus you feel this way. Hang in there and try to save and invest to further accelerate your wealth as well as upskill where possible over time as you see fits. You can do this. 💪
@luannkelly5071
@luannkelly5071 26 дней назад
Barely afford to live?? What town? You need to move. My employer pays for my housing, my 2010 F150 is paid for, my cost of living is around $1200/month. Nobody can tell me you can't live on $100k. I live on $21/hour fulltime. People need to stop buying things they can't afford.
@taketheredpill1452
@taketheredpill1452 24 дня назад
don't have kids; no one should...
@workthenumberswjake
@workthenumberswjake 24 дня назад
@@taketheredpill1452 I disagree - if I had 10 kids & no money I’d view myself as a richer person that had no kids. Children are a gift from God
@taketheredpill1452
@taketheredpill1452 24 дня назад
@@workthenumberswjake - You're right. We disagree...#FundamentallyOnEverything
@Falconlibrary
@Falconlibrary Месяц назад
I went to Lowe's a couple of days ago to get some lumber cut, and the young man who was cutting it confided in me that he was about to walk off the job. It wasn't the hours, it wasn't the wages, it was that his boss was overworking him: there were supposed to be four people in the department and there were three missing. I told the young man his boss was overworking him because his boss knew he was a good and reliable worker; that's why the best employees burn out while the slackers don't. My advice to him was to learn to work at his own pace and not worry about what the boss wanted, because it was obvious he was NEVER going to please his supervisor. And that's the typical American workplace. It's a wonder anyone gets out of bed in the morning to go to our miserable jobs. I was a college professor, not a clerk in a store, but I could relate very well to the young man's discontent, because I'd been treated badly, too. The #1 reason I've quit jobs, the #1 reason anyone quits, isn't the difficulty of the work, or ridiculous hours, or low wages--it's bad bosses. Unless and until we address workplace culture in the USA, there'll be a constant and growing labor shortage.
@mradeelmirza
@mradeelmirza Месяц назад
Shame on his boss…
@robertwalker-gc1ds
@robertwalker-gc1ds Месяц назад
My wife used to work there that place is a shit hole
@ng67432
@ng67432 Месяц назад
"I'd been treated badly, too." Poor you. Did someone look at you cross-eyed? Grow up and move on instead of moaning about how 'badly treated' you feel.
@Falconlibrary
@Falconlibrary Месяц назад
@@ng67432 Another bad boss has logged into the chat 😂 Do you resemble that remark, buddy?
@DrBlood-cq2cm
@DrBlood-cq2cm Месяц назад
Thats how inflation works. When your business costs go up (because of inflation) you either have to cut jobs, cut the hours of those that stay, and increase the productivity of those still working. Simple economics. But apparently the Lowe's dude didnt get that in school.
@BillionaireTaxEvader
@BillionaireTaxEvader 27 дней назад
Job postings are probably 75% fake. I just had 3 interactions with 3 different companies in the past few weeks, and all 3 have ghost job postings online.
@fullytokd
@fullytokd 14 дней назад
+ indians making fake posting to data mine
@sapientquanta759
@sapientquanta759 25 дней назад
No. The creeps are drunk on luxury. I'm not going to be dragged into the "we're all responsible" BS this time. It's pretty damn obvious who caused this situation and I guarantee you nothing will be done that will stop them in any way.
@robinwheeler5394
@robinwheeler5394 Месяц назад
A lot of young people are living with their parents still. Especially men!! I see this all the time. Men are not like women. They don't need stuff. They can live in a basement, or whatever.
@TS-rd7oy
@TS-rd7oy 23 дня назад
Men are coddled by parents more than women. Women are expected to mature earlier.
@KNGDDDE
@KNGDDDE 14 дней назад
We also aren't being sought after to be taken care of
@RPNN
@RPNN Месяц назад
Have you tried applying for job lately? Miracle your resume gets through a layer of HR idiots and keyword filters. Most of time you don't even get an email back.
@JustKJ109
@JustKJ109 2 дня назад
The job hub sites are terrible. Just misleading and give your info away
@lastnamefirstname2390
@lastnamefirstname2390 Месяц назад
This country is doomed. As a younger person, let me tell you. America will go the way of Rome.
@whydotheathensrage
@whydotheathensrage Месяц назад
going, going, almost gone
@judithsmith9582
@judithsmith9582 Месяц назад
Rome ultimately fell because they didn't have the tax base to support their overextended military (industrial complex) obligations.
@BrandonWombacher-cp7uh
@BrandonWombacher-cp7uh Месяц назад
Yep. America had a good run.
@deborahcurtis1385
@deborahcurtis1385 Месяц назад
Take a look at how China is going, then weep. I'm not saying the US is all sunshine and roses - far from it - but other nations are imploding. It's internationally a colossal problem. We have to find a way to pull together, whether it's community involvement, or other networks so good people don't self destruct. Blaming ourselves is the worst thing and it's happening. If you look at Kurt Cobain, he was painfully aware of the bs in society and he had physical pain he tried to self manage. He came from the wrong side of the railway tracks and not even success could compensate. AND the situation was orders of magnitude better than now for young people.
@tweetybird3597
@tweetybird3597 Месяц назад
More like, " Sodom and Gomorah."
@staciesworld81
@staciesworld81 Месяц назад
Was this a joke? Is this a joke? How out of touch can you be. You can't save to get ahead when you have hundreds of thousands of dollars in student debt and the price of everything just keeps going up. Employers have no loyalty to anyone but shareholders so people are being laid off by the thousands when they were barely getting by to begin with and you can apply for 100 jobs and get 15 interviews and maybe 8 call backs for any jobs that might be able to pay your mortgage and barely anything else.
@exhibitdesign901
@exhibitdesign901 13 дней назад
Student debt is a big problem. It is scandalous the interest rate on student loans. That is one of the big things that needs to be addressed. Student loans used to have lower below market rates, now they are crazy. I also think tuition should be subsidized instead of other social programs. Something needs to be done at the Federal level concerning the cost of a college education. As well, degrees need to focus on viable careers.
@patstevenswhohatesbuttermi5861
@patstevenswhohatesbuttermi5861 9 дней назад
@@exhibitdesign901 But if they subsidized college so everyone had a chance there wouldn't be (edit: there may not be so many) poor people to exist as examples to keep everyone else in line. And they wouldn't be able to make people mad that someone used EBT to buy steak instead of at their boss who doesn't pay them enough to feel comfortable to buy those steaks.
@BB-bx4dp
@BB-bx4dp 4 дня назад
Dang, 15 interviews and 8 calls back on 100 resume sends? That's a miracle by today's standards
@ad6417
@ad6417 Месяц назад
What a timely video. One of my sons trained as an electrician but cannot get hired because he won't join the union. He was working as a part-time janitor that was the only job he could get. He was being harassed by a female co-worker so I told him to quit. We started our own business because honestly that's the only way he's going to have a future. You have to create your own career.
@markwriter2698
@markwriter2698 Месяц назад
Correct this is what I did and it finally worked out. However 2008 wiped me and my saving completely away. However, I say don’t give up. And do not go into debt. Live in a pre-manufactured shed.
@joshuahummel7017
@joshuahummel7017 29 дней назад
There is no future in any trade the way they are going...... Quick money and 💩 work.....
@MrSteeDoo
@MrSteeDoo 28 дней назад
He made his choice
@kevintsuyoi901
@kevintsuyoi901 23 дня назад
Wish you guys the best. This is the way to go moving forward.
@thomaslusk7621
@thomaslusk7621 17 дней назад
My parents were Dirt poor and the one thing they told me was if your going to work for someone make sure your in the union , Now at 63 I'm so glad I joined the Teamsters 41 years ago...
@bastroman4845
@bastroman4845 Месяц назад
I'm about to be 31 and I'm swearing off doing more than 29 hours of work a week for the majority of the rest of my life. Corporations, women, incentives, bidennomics, fuck all of it I don't work for you I won't pay taxes anymore until I get paid
@MrSteeDoo
@MrSteeDoo 28 дней назад
Loser
@ziomudru
@ziomudru Месяц назад
In 1965 with a single blu collar paychecl you could afford a house, wife at home with 3 children, and 2 cars
@nobullshoot
@nobullshoot Месяц назад
sounds like the family i grew up in. we had a popup camper and mini bikes.
@sdfswords
@sdfswords Месяц назад
Exactly, and that was on about $8000 per year, plus able to take vacations and save.
@ousamaabdu794
@ousamaabdu794 Месяц назад
And in 1965 the women were far more likely to be fit, feminine and friendly
@dylansmith6078
@dylansmith6078 Месяц назад
Im just the beginning on genz and had my mom having the audacity to tell me she never made good money but she had a 4 bedroom house with 2 living rooms finished basement we had a pool a seperate garage with 2 doors and enough space to fit 2 cars and a sit down lawn mower the jobs when she got the house with my dad (my dad did general labor at construction not even blue collar trade) she worked at wendys and A&W meanwhile I am an operator for one of the largest cheese plants in canada making 3x the wage of both their incomes combined I have no debt and have only my phone internet and Amazon subscriptions I can't even get a down payment on a home for the next 6 years at these prices she bought her first home at 22 without family help so me getting told to pick myself up is just a kick in the teeth
@Landstalker1999
@Landstalker1999 Месяц назад
Dont be so dramatic. You can still achieve the same thing with the same job. 😂😂😂 You just have to work 300 years. Thats the only small difference.
@Perry.Okeefe
@Perry.Okeefe 28 дней назад
Because almost everyone goes through high school, a diploma has been made effectively useless. It is a commodity and the value has been pushed down to zero, and kids know this. So we are forcing all our kids to go through 12 years of wasted time, in a miserable prisonlike environment where they are forced to spend time with abusive kids, we are teaching them leared helplessness. Now add to this an environment of free, hyper arousing, ubiquitous entertainment constantly trying to devour their attention. This is a disaster. Maybe now that girls are also being effected we will care enough to try to fix it.
@Wanderer2035
@Wanderer2035 25 дней назад
Ultimately what I think what it comes down to is, *they don’t give a shit about me, so why should I give a shit about them?* To completely not give a shit about them means to quit working for them entirely. Even if it means my own life. Even if it’s means losing all my money, becoming homeless, and then dying from that, still, why should I give a shit about them? They treated me like crap my whole life, scammed me, exploited me, completely wasted massive amounts of my time (large parts of my life), used me like a tool, never cared when I was hurting or suffering, bullied me in many cases, so why the fuck should give a shit about them? This is how a lot of people feel, where they’ve been treated so badly and so exploited for so many years, they just don’t wanna work for a system like that anymore. Even if it means becoming homeless and dying, it truly is the epitome of “I’m done with this shit, I don’t care anymore.”
@Wanderer2035
@Wanderer2035 25 дней назад
Also I’m including the education system in this too. A lot of kids are treated like shit from like the 3rd grade onwards. Their dreams and aspirations are often crushed from standardized testing, making them hate learning which is tragic, they’re often heavily bullied, the constant boredom they experience from sitting through those mundane useless classes just completely kills their positive outlook on life, sleep deprivation, this all massively damages their development as a person which a lot of it is trauma, and now it’s finally all coming out, as a massive FUCK YOU back to the society that put them through this.
@neilmcdougall4927
@neilmcdougall4927 20 дней назад
Certainly helps overcome the fear and welcome the utter bliss of not being able to boot up everyday with this in mind
@TheMedicalCodingGuild
@TheMedicalCodingGuild Месяц назад
In many states you are better off being unemployed and on government aid. Just do the math: healthcare, rent, food, childcare (if applies), eldercare etc. If you are working, you spend 110% of your income on these things. If you are unemployed and or poor enough, you get these for free or almost free. In a lot of cases it just doesn't make sense to work if you end up in the red anyhow. And before anyone flips out: I am NOT on any benefits. These are just observations I made the last couple years based on what I see around me.
@shaymalchione809
@shaymalchione809 Месяц назад
You don’t have to be unemployed to get those things though. Most on welfare work full time jobs they’re just low paying jobs.
@Jenjenn1111
@Jenjenn1111 Месяц назад
Exactly…why work just to still be poor?
@TheMedicalCodingGuild
@TheMedicalCodingGuild Месяц назад
@@shaymalchione809 Valid point. I don't feel that your comment and mine exclude each other. Depending on situation you might be able to work a little, in other states you mustn't really make anything or you lose the benefits.
@PatBlot-lm6zx
@PatBlot-lm6zx Месяц назад
Denver Colorado taxpayers are spending $115,000 per homeless person per year. I wonder if any of that money is wasted? Pathetic.
@jamj1877
@jamj1877 24 дня назад
Corporations provide the employment in low paying jobs, the government provides the benefits. The company receives the tax credits.
@Network126
@Network126 Месяц назад
It's not even worth it to work anymore. I'm homeless in an old Toyota Sienna minivan in Los Angeles, after losing my housing twice during the pandemic, and couldn't afford the skyrocketing rents. I work and I'm not a drug addict.
@bighoss8793
@bighoss8793 29 дней назад
Your mini van is your home.
@Network126
@Network126 29 дней назад
@@bighoss8793 Well, the world is my bathroom then... 🚽
@Nostrildomus
@Nostrildomus 29 дней назад
I lived in a session of secondhand vans from eighty's through ninety s . Own a half acre on lakeside in the hills now . Ant much to look at but a dry place to sleep with people constantly wanting to buy it . Go jump it the lake . . .
@HickoryDickory86
@HickoryDickory86 26 дней назад
I live with family members because, even with a good job, I STILL could not afford these outrageous rent (or even house note) prices! Maybe if I could miraculously go without utilities or food I might be able to scrape buy, but then what about insurance, income and property taxes, etc.? This economy is absolutely absurd and untenable.
@reneeimage3879
@reneeimage3879 23 дня назад
Why isn’t he talking about all the companies that outsourced jobs specially after pandemic! I know quite few people who used to have great jobs but now they struggle because of greediness of these corporations they lost their jobs to someone overseas! Why he does not mention the policies implemented that discriminates against talents ? He seems to know nothing about the suffering of those who try for months and months without success! You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know older people not going back is because companies don’t hire them! Please get real !’ You don’t need statistics or book to read it’s obvious what’s going on!!
@trevorsebastian1341
@trevorsebastian1341 Месяц назад
The problem with comparing our situation to 1965 work rates is the fact that the typical customer service job now is MUCH more complex and difficult compared. While there are still some jobs that are super boring, most jobs have 1 person doing the work of 3 while working with three computer screens simultaneously, while dealing with the stress of pissed off customers.
@Guitar6ty
@Guitar6ty 11 дней назад
In 1965 you would probably have been working in a trade in manufacturing but your government outsourced all those jobs to China and SE Asia.
@forgottenamericana
@forgottenamericana 29 дней назад
We have a pay to expense ratio problem. Too expensive to live. Employers aren’t loyal to their employees anymore. No pensions. Crappy benefits. Unfulfilling careers. There’s more.
@skylinefever
@skylinefever 16 дней назад
These people want the loyal employees that existed decades ago, but without making on job training, regular pay raises, regular promotions, and a pension available. They are trying to get all the upsides without paying for downsides.
@randymarsh8816
@randymarsh8816 Месяц назад
Young men are motivated by the prospect of a family. When 80-95% are undesirable by women, then the prospect goes away. Hence, no longer motivated.
@nicholasbroadhurst9096
@nicholasbroadhurst9096 Месяц назад
Lol yea, they act like it’s some great mystery…
@aerparts
@aerparts Месяц назад
Yep, men got nothing to work for and a system that hates them...gonna be fun to watch them try and keep things running with all the new 70iq imports.
@AlmaMelvin58459
@AlmaMelvin58459 Месяц назад
Don't forget that 80-90% of whamans today are undesirable to the men. Feminism, single moms, phone tards(tictok,instagram,tinder...)
@dylansmith6078
@dylansmith6078 Месяц назад
Yes but I wouldn't put them as undesirable I'd more put it as society as a whole hates men in general so they are demotivated. I have never had problems meeting women and having relationships I am not that attractive I'm not feminine. But I just am also not afraid to talk to them and most importantly not afraid of rejection. Dating sites are horrible for men it is far easier to talk to them in public don't lure them to a dark ally just talk in an open place where they feel safe.
@jeffb.140
@jeffb.140 Месяц назад
That's the problem with boomers .. they can't talk about the giant elephant(s) in the room
@gauloise6442
@gauloise6442 Месяц назад
If you don't have kids, and you live with family, you can do odd freelance jobs and have a fairly nice life. Then you can one day inherit that family house, and who cares after you go. Compare that to wage slavery. You talk about the workforce dropping out of the social contract, but it is the employers who broke that contract decades ago when all you are to them is a number of an spreadsheet. Not having kids is the main thing that keeps you free and with options, unfortunately.
@watamutha
@watamutha Месяц назад
Not only employers, our parents' generation too have ruined it for Millenials and generations after.
@gormenfreeman499
@gormenfreeman499 Месяц назад
The poor used to put their kids to work, they could use that as an income stream to help pay for having them but that was stopped with labor laws. 🤣
@handyrams4822
@handyrams4822 Месяц назад
​@gormenfreeman499 teach your kids to trade in the markets while they are young and then labor laws don't apply if they are making their own money.
@jimeyhat
@jimeyhat Месяц назад
@@handyrams4822 Leftists will simply raise your capital gains taxes, there is no way to prevent the fruits of your efforts being handed over to the entitled party class
@zwatwashdc
@zwatwashdc Месяц назад
American should go back to living together throughout life. This would mean not sending your kids to public school, though. This is one of the main ways the government drives a wedge between parents and family.
@user-cc5od3zk4p
@user-cc5od3zk4p 28 дней назад
Can anyone honestly blame them? Why be a wage slave? What’s the incentive? Can’t afford and, home, food, car. Why bother.
@BreadAndGatorade
@BreadAndGatorade 28 дней назад
And if your really lucky you get a temporary wife who divorces you and takes your children away and turns them against you
@Kami-cw7en
@Kami-cw7en 19 дней назад
You also forgot the jobs take about 300 per pay check for health care each month for coverage and that does not include having to see the doctor, you still need a Co-pay.. Israel has free basic healthcare, even Canada does as well.. America is just a low life corrupt shit hole for wage / debt slaves to die for the corporate overlords.
@jason19872011
@jason19872011 Месяц назад
I believe the reason young men don't work is that they aren't finding girlfriends for many reasons and also the pay for most jobs isn't enough for them to afford their own home. Couple those together and it leads to a empty meaningless existence.
@maryholloway5487
@maryholloway5487 25 дней назад
So sad and tragic-especially if you didn’t come from wealth!
@glassycreek1991
@glassycreek1991 16 дней назад
Women don't want to be girlfriends or wives because this country has weaponize fertility against us. It all goes down to greed. They are screwing all of us over.
@johnroberts7797
@johnroberts7797 Месяц назад
I retired at 62, to avoid a company vax mandate. Many friends and colleagues did the same.
@SunofYork
@SunofYork Месяц назад
I have had 7 vaxes they are great. a million anti vaxers died. they were superstitious weirdos.. and usually trumpists
@marciamakoviecki3295
@marciamakoviecki3295 Месяц назад
What are you living on? Most people don't get a pension and have low savings at that age. Most older people need to keep working because inflation is killing the dollar every year.
@SunofYork
@SunofYork Месяц назад
@@marciamakoviecki3295 WRONG ! the dollar is HIGH. When I immigrated I got 2.14 dollars for a GBP. Now it is 1.20... I doubled my money bringing it to the US and I would double it again if I set it back to England at today's HIGH dollar rate... Stop listening to trumpers !
@petersheenan4482
@petersheenan4482 Месяц назад
@@marciamakoviecki3295 Buy some gold and silver.
@handyrams4822
@handyrams4822 Месяц назад
You're my hero.
@DPH1M1M
@DPH1M1M Месяц назад
2 months ago I retired for my only career of 15 years. It was a tough decision as I am still “young” almost 40. I sold my way over priced house that I got as an unlivable foreclosure and put a even larger amount into the war chest. I have now purchased land instead of another house, a mining claim that I can go work and camp on and only have 1 bill to pay per month, my car and insurance. Life is a choose your own adventure story, everyone tries their best to be “successful” however most seem to be stuck chasing an illusion of what that looks like. Don’t be afraid to make calculated chances happen, keep your bills as low as possible and learn to go without things you don’t really need: streaming content, internet, cable tv, and other entertainment just keeps you with less each month. Or go live how you want to, just stop b**ching about it. In the end the US will be dismantled like most of Europe and we will be pushed into a world system with cashless banking and driven to the cattle cars once again.
@mpolo17
@mpolo17 Месяц назад
Jobs that don't pay well are demoralizing in itself. It's very easy to see why people would not want a job that is extremely stressful, requires their lives to revolve around it but pays basically nothing while someone else (like a fat rich CEO) gets even richer from it. Those super rich have lobbied to keep minimum wage down with their money in order to get more money. Not taking part in work in an unfair system is the only tool left in the arsenal of those who have been taken advantage of. This is a silent REVOLUTION of despair and anger.
@skylinefever
@skylinefever 16 дней назад
I often joke that if it wasn't for xbox live and p*hub, the corporate execs of America would be like the corporate execs of 1789 France.
@BillionaireTaxEvader
@BillionaireTaxEvader 27 дней назад
The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%-And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure.Sep 14, 2020
@maryholloway5487
@maryholloway5487 25 дней назад
And lives are being destroyed because of THIS!!
@ParisianThinker
@ParisianThinker 2 дня назад
Billionaires own us.
@kingintef5017
@kingintef5017 Месяц назад
Im 40 i was explaining to my teenager, that when I was a teenager. I could take a 5 dollar bill go to 7 eleven and buy a sandwich, bag of chips, soda, and a candy bar and get some change. Now you can only get 1 of the 4 and get change, in less than 25 years.
@HazzyWazzey
@HazzyWazzey 18 дней назад
That’s just the reality of inflation and wouldn’t be an issue if you earned the same relative amount as you could 25 years ago. But we don’t. Not even in the slightest. Here in the UK, CPI, the consumer price index stating the rate of inflation, doesn’t include asset price (housing) inflation. Wages are not even tracking CPI rises let alone keeping up with the cost of housing. CPI is also manipulated and tinkered with and doesn’t truly show the true increase in costs we’re all experiencing. Combine that with an impending climate emergency, covid corruption and insane political instability across the entire world, where does one find much hope?
@rustyscrapper
@rustyscrapper Месяц назад
And to answer how men who dont work support themselves: I give people rides for money I help people in the neiborhood finish concrete, but i cant work for a concrete finishing contractor because " i dont have experience" I finish drywall and paint but i cant work for a contractor because "i dont have experience" I am a master landscaper but i havent worked for a contractor for 15 years because the pay is non existent. They want to pay me the same as ding dong cant speak english how do i use a shovel. I restored an old house and now its a rental property. I fix broken furnature I help people move I dont get a penny in social assistance. I save money without "working" My mom gives me $200 for christmas. Theres my income.
@valerietweedie4376
@valerietweedie4376 Месяц назад
I have actually wondered if the men "who don't work" just don't work in jobs that these statisticians count. If a person can get a decently priced rental - no frills - and is willing to live a quiet, simple life, a person can get cash jobs on the side. The big issue is health. All is OK as long as a person has his health.
@Ella-Bella2024
@Ella-Bella2024 Месяц назад
Offer to work for free for a week to prove you can do the job, if they will hire you. That allows them to see the quality of your work and your work ethic first. Do you show up on time. Are you pleasant to work around. Do you have a strong work ethic. Good luck.
@valerietweedie4376
@valerietweedie4376 Месяц назад
@@Ella-Bella2024 That is a really good idea.
@BOULDERGEEK
@BOULDERGEEK Месяц назад
If you can control your outflows, you can control what you need for income. I chose geo-arbitrage. Slow travel to cheap places, what they used to call third-world. I have friends who live in Aspen. I live in South America. Our lifestyles are pretty comparable for quality and personal enjoyment. My net worth is 1/25th of theirs. My Income is 1/40th. They still work and I do not. I think I win.
@Snappypantsdance
@Snappypantsdance Месяц назад
@@BOULDERGEEK hey, I’m from Co Springs. Well, lived there for 35 years. Loved CO. Moved away. Sounds like you’re doing great. Thanks for sharing!
@trevordowney6425
@trevordowney6425 Месяц назад
I would argue that these people not giving up on work, it's fair pay they're giving up on.
@survivingthetimes
@survivingthetimes Месяц назад
😆 Fair pay? When in human history has there been a time where the masses have received fair pay? They're nowhere as unique as they think that they are. They're always going to be on the bottom until they shut off the pron, put down the video game control, quit smoking so much weed, and just quit feeling sorry for themselves.
@trevordowney6425
@trevordowney6425 29 дней назад
@@survivingthetimes Haha! So true. But, I'm talking about the ones who actually work and have aspirations. There was fair pay before the Federal Reserve got their grimy little hands on the politicians and ever since the frog has slowly been boiled. No country works more hours on average than Americans and we've gotten to the point now that some cannot even afford a basic cost of living while working two or three jobs. Then you have people who see where the tax money goes and lose motivation. I don't want my tax dollars going to diddling children or supporting crack habits or funding surveillance company's to surveil me, etc... This whole trans humanism movement is demonic. No, I'm not motivated to work just to exist. That's not why I'm here...
@jamesconley9753
@jamesconley9753 Месяц назад
I’m not far in but I’m 43, and I’m done with the rat race. Got a rural home, almost 5 acres, orchards, garden this year and some sort of meat animals in the next 1-2 years. I’m done paying into a system I don’t agree with so I’m doing my part to starve them out-say what you will, I understand the implications, and I have family on social security. If only they had done something similar in their time, it wouldn’t be this bad. And this is all legally done, it’s not that I don’t pay my taxes, it’s that I’ve built my life to have a low taxable footprint. And no, with no “earned income” I don’t get the $10,000 in child tax credits. Also, paying taxes is not the social contract. Being a good neighbor and person is. Income tax is barely 100 years old. What did we do for thousands of years before that!? What was the social contract then? College is expensive because millions were pushed to get degrees (huge increase in demand) they don’t need and are subsidized with tax payer money, so cost doesn’t matter to the person spending it-colleges know that and jack up rates. Would a person with a degree fill a job that doesn’t require a HS diploma? Few. We saw after the GFC that people “waited” for a job that was befitting their “talents” and after the recent global events? We saw people go back to work after the 150% unemployed ended. Want more babies? End feminism (men don’t want a feminist, feminists rarely want babies 600,000-1,000,000 abortions a year can’t be wrong!) and stop pushing men and women into degrees they can use once they earn them. Push them into the trades. Want more people working? I end welfare-more accurately, end generational welfare. Give 5 years, 72 payments, of welfare per SSN. The govt provides just enough money to suffer along at a minimum existence. Figure out chronic pain, disability, autism rates etc. something medical is going on in this country. We have food ingredients that are OUTLAWED in Europe. Is it our food? Is it our medicine? Is it our labor tearing up our bodies? Is it a mixture? Bottom line; y’all need to get out and talk to people and stop speculating with 70 year old data and surveys to the govt.
@solarlight10
@solarlight10 18 дней назад
The FDA is a massive joke. The food system has gotten completely out of control. 20-50yo cancer rates are increasing. So much toxic trash in all of the products. Plastic everywhere "shedding" constantly, forever chemicals my tap water smells like chlorine. Like they just discover Lunchables snacks have lead and other metals in the product like how the eff is that even getting into the product?? Yet they are still on store shelves. FDA is to busy taking bribes and protecting corp profits. Thanks 🤡's . Beyond frustrating
@skylinefever
@skylinefever 16 дней назад
These guys probably have massive investments in toxic food incorporated, and can't afford to bite the hand that feeds them.
@winthorpe2560
@winthorpe2560 Месяц назад
Peasants were evicted from their land through enclosure acts. Many were forced to seek work in towns and cities. Many were forced to leave the UK completely and were shipped off to America. Prosperity was eventually shared more equally with Labour until globalism allowed capital to move production abroad. This has left the peasant class with no work and no common land to return too
@penderyn8794
@penderyn8794 Месяц назад
The English aristocracy gains no matter what....
@julianskinner3697
@julianskinner3697 Месяц назад
It was turnips from the new world. Once they could grow turnips they could keep animals alive through winter. Then sheep in paddocks growing wool became profitable and land owners pushed their workers out. That's why we need unions and taxes on wealth. You cannot trust the billionaires so you have to keep them in check all the time.
@kellio8087
@kellio8087 Месяц назад
We feel hopeless when every time we turn around, something else gets higher in cost!
@michaeljacobs4546
@michaeljacobs4546 Месяц назад
@56: Yes my plumber lives in a house far larger than mine, has less financial stress and is not working evenings or weekends as I often am; and takes days to return my calls when my toilet is exploding. Makes me feel like the fool who spent a decade in graduate school when I could have taken shop more seriously.
@peternorthrup6274
@peternorthrup6274 21 день назад
I retired at 55. What do I do all day? I know one thing. I'm not working anymore. At 62 I started SS $2343.00 per month. I started early and worked my ass off so I chould get out early. My wife gets $1850.00 per month. We do just fine. Are nice home is paid for. No kids. I have my hobbies. Most companies require a drug test these days. Have fun
@exhibitdesign901
@exhibitdesign901 13 дней назад
People are overlooking the trades to make great income and form a life for themselves. Most often the trades are performed by immigrants, ever see a caucasian roofer? Because of the tech jobs that people migrated to back in the internet boom, people felt that physical labor was beneath them. Yet everyone needs electrical, plumbing, carpentry and other types of physical work done. Bring back shame? Yes, our culture needs to be ashamed that we look down on the trades.
@karlstrauss2330
@karlstrauss2330 Месяц назад
This might be a bitter pill to swallow, but I think we have entered a post-traditional work era. Men as a group aren’t getting married and aren’t going back to work at the same rates as they used to and those trends won’t be reverting anytime soon. Time to sober up and accept the current reality instead of yearning for the cultural norms of the 1950s to make a comeback.
@infraaa_
@infraaa_ Месяц назад
It's even worse than he describes. **Not a single full time job has been created since 2018 for native-born Americans. ALL job growth over the past 6 years has gone to people not born in the US**
@infraaa_
@infraaa_ Месяц назад
Also, just gotta say this is very ironic considering our conversation yesterday. It sounds like my anecdotal experience lines up with the data. Very sad state of affairs.
@Boc3phu5
@Boc3phu5 Месяц назад
The full-time. Jobs that exist are only those that are labor taxing and you can only do those for a certain amount of time. It will be too much for the body to handle
@nobullshoot
@nobullshoot Месяц назад
as a IT hiring mgr I get 22 Indian resumes (H1B, H4) and 2 middle eastern, 6 native born americans.
@paulgarton6115
@paulgarton6115 Месяц назад
​@@nobullshootThe folks pushing Ukraine are pushing Indian IT replacement of native workers. Some companies require executive permission for any exceptions.
@penderyn8794
@penderyn8794 Месяц назад
You can hardly call white Europeans who speak the European language of English....."NATIVE" .... That's a bit of a stretch boys 😂
@nicholasskeels5428
@nicholasskeels5428 29 дней назад
Slavery never ended
@ChickenMcThiccken
@ChickenMcThiccken Месяц назад
the root cause of this; is thinking along the lines of.... "they can figure out themselves" ; but the ones who had everything from the get go are not aware how hard it is " to figure it out ourselves".
@dognextdoor
@dognextdoor Месяц назад
I usually like Adam’s interviews, but this one was laughably out of touch. I can almost see the silver spoons peeking out of their mouths.
@winthorpe2560
@winthorpe2560 Месяц назад
A 50 year old man isn’t going to go from $100k a year union job to 7 dollars an hour at McDonald’s
@KK-pm7ud
@KK-pm7ud Месяц назад
Some do
@DrBlood-cq2cm
@DrBlood-cq2cm Месяц назад
I would never put my livelihood in the hands of a union. I was born and raised in Flint, MI and saw how they decimated that city that will never recover.
@JJS73
@JJS73 Месяц назад
I would if I had to do so😊
@jonEmontana
@jonEmontana Месяц назад
At my local McDonalds ….theyve gone to Ai taking your order and then the only employees inside are all part of a family from India that owns the store.
@bennyboy5374
@bennyboy5374 Месяц назад
MacD wouldn't hire such person either they would say your over qualified. Unless he lies on his resume and make it much worse. Also MacD pay 9,5 not 7 an hour
@officialstylechild
@officialstylechild 16 дней назад
This doesn’t take a brain scientist to figure out. Young people have figured out that there’s no job out here that will pay them enough to survive comfortably. So most of them are staying at home, not working at all playing video games and scrolling through social media.but honestly, it’s really none of your business if people are working or not there’s not a law that says you have to work
@philmanads1980
@philmanads1980 Месяц назад
Idk. Maybe some don't want to live in corporate servitude, witnessed their parents or themselves divorce raped, and participating in a gray/black market purchases freedom from what both of you consider society. What gives any of us license to judge others who want to live anyway they choose?
@bear5730
@bear5730 25 дней назад
People are always asking "why aren't people working???" My brother in Christ, why WOULD people be working??
@dazedhavoc
@dazedhavoc Месяц назад
I was told we have the lowest unemployment of all time.
@edcotterjr1926
@edcotterjr1926 Месяц назад
That is one of the Big Lies our "leaders" are selling. There are many others.
@tactileslut
@tactileslut Месяц назад
People were reminded a few years ago that even with a federal mandate to waive some of the usual limits the UI system is a colossal waste of time. On this go-around people aren't bothering with it and the statisticians don't see us.
@DrBlood-cq2cm
@DrBlood-cq2cm Месяц назад
Our wonderful government doesnt report people not looking for work. So if youre sitting in moms basement playing video games and getting disability rather than looking for a job, you wont be counted as unemployed.
@DIVISIONINCISION
@DIVISIONINCISION Месяц назад
The Federal Government doesn't account for people who are working three PT jobs to account for one salary, with no benefits.
@teebone2157
@teebone2157 Месяц назад
We do based on government statistics that only count those getting unemployment benefits
@martinross6416
@martinross6416 Месяц назад
He looks like a priest…lol
@christinecortese9973
@christinecortese9973 Месяц назад
The zipper!
@user-99.99
@user-99.99 Месяц назад
Confess your sins. Lemme guess, you’re a lazy millennial/Z. 😂
@lgee9027
@lgee9027 Месяц назад
Yes😂😂😂
@Nostrildomus
@Nostrildomus 29 дней назад
Intellectual by trade . Didn't take him long to figure out working for someone else ant where you want to invest your talents .
@maxshea1829
@maxshea1829 29 дней назад
Priest of Satan.
@quentinprice2222
@quentinprice2222 Месяц назад
The money is broken thus the incentive to work is broken. If there is no social mobility there is no motivation
@joshuakruger9455
@joshuakruger9455 17 дней назад
We've eliminated the community and as such we've eliminated any semblance of community solidarity. We do not trust in our leaders, be they political, corporate, or religious. We do not trust our coworkers, our neighbors, or our institutions. We do not trust the news, the education system, the professionals or the experts. Lacking any foundation of trust there is no motivation to act in anyone's interests but our own, and if the personal benefit of work isn't enough to justify the cost, then many will simply choose to do nothing. Why play a game you will never win?
@krowzzzzz9050
@krowzzzzz9050 Месяц назад
Guy I was making close to 200k couple years ago. Now I’m doing DoorDash . Do I wanna work ? Yea, I’m I looking for work ? Yea, km just not getting any interviews or even call back with thousand of application I sent , the one I got interviewed they end up with someone with phd . So please stop saying we are not looking for work , it just does not have any work that what we going went to collage for (CS)
@erinsweet8147
@erinsweet8147 Месяц назад
I don’t think they mean you, you be considered looking for work. Still on the unemployment list, not dropped out list.
@Gillsing
@Gillsing Месяц назад
What, a video that is not about you? What is the world coming to?
@MrSteeDoo
@MrSteeDoo 28 дней назад
I guess you should have saved money.
@peternorthrup6274
@peternorthrup6274 21 день назад
It's obvious you were overpaid. What did you produce or contribute to the bottom line? That's what companies look at these days. We're you a burden on there health care? College students are willing to work for a fraction of what you made. Did you work for a company that had lots of VPs? I always wondered what they did? To many long lunches? To many Fridays off? Of course they will can you.
@krowzzzzz9050
@krowzzzzz9050 21 день назад
@@peternorthrup6274 Brh it is like average senior level. salary in software development lol
@jacketppotato4354
@jacketppotato4354 Месяц назад
Go and do one of these jobs for a month, You will understand why people are not motivated to do them.
@skylinefever
@skylinefever 16 дней назад
I often joked about how hard it would be to employ people if BS jobs paid 200K a year and needed to extra qualifications.
@PraveenSriram
@PraveenSriram 24 дня назад
I’m 40 years old on the autism spectrum and live and take care of my elderly parents and have given up on getting married and having children 🧒 and furthering the cycle 🔁 of human misery and suffering.
@ParisianThinker
@ParisianThinker 2 дня назад
Good you are caring for your parents. They need you and you need them.
@user-dy3hz9yf8h
@user-dy3hz9yf8h 29 дней назад
56 yr old professional here. You spend your 20s getting an advanced education and experience to make good money. You only have 20 years namely your 30s and 40s to make money! At age, 50 employers (beset with private equity owners), start to look askance at you. You need to either be rich, have your own business or be satisfied with leftovers by age 50. Most people dont quit they are just jettisoned from the workforce way before their normal retirement date. This is what then leads to either depression, disengagement, addiction or maybe even criminality! The US economy is FABULOUS at creating low wage jobs!!!!! And destroying well paying jobs. The family you support is in the US at US prices not in Guatemala at their prices. The private equity people running these shops need more and more peons to do service work for them: uber drivers, yoga instructors, food delivery people, burger flippers, bedpan changers in nursing homes. You wont find middle aged American males in these professions.
@wdw2540
@wdw2540 Месяц назад
The mid level jobs are all going to women. My two sisters work in offices for decent pay while I sit at home and study stock charts all day. If you go around my town you'll see that almost 100% of office jobs are being held by women. The system wants female workers so that leaves many blue collar man with the choice of either competing for starvation wages against desperate "newcomers" or simply dropping out and working outside of the system. I chose the latter.
@ProtoType9090
@ProtoType9090 Месяц назад
then the women talk down to the men.
@brunoqnzbk7891
@brunoqnzbk7891 Месяц назад
Karma 😂
@Marleny-qp9co
@Marleny-qp9co Месяц назад
Hi I’m woman the point is that we are getting much education example I speak Spanish,English and Portuguese plus my degree education on finance…my husband it’s just a Plummer them compliant that I get a constable jod…it’s education.
@wdw2540
@wdw2540 Месяц назад
​@@Marleny-qp9co You don't write as though you're college educated. FYI, your husband, who's "just a plummer", is adding more tangible real world value to our economy then most college graduates ever will. He also has more upside earning potential than most college graduates ever will. My point was that men are now being openly discriminated against for mid level corporate positions, even those positions that don't require a bachelors degree. The good news is that AI (a.k.a., artificial intelligence) is coming to put the spoiled white collar labor fakers in their proper place. Right now we have way to many over-paid, over-educated and non-productive bureaucratic paper pushers in our society. When we get back to actually producing real goods and services that people actually want and need then you'll see our economy improve. While the paper pusher economy favors women, the productive economy favors men.
@jacobmansfield-go9fz
@jacobmansfield-go9fz 28 дней назад
@@Marleny-qp9co token hire spotted.
@user-fk8qh7cc8k
@user-fk8qh7cc8k Месяц назад
Look at the dollar and how it depreciated. Then look at big business building factories in other countries. The people in the past made the business then they move it out of the country. How about all the steel mills shutting down the last 50 years because USA didn’t want to buy USA steel. How about no furniture, shoe, clothing factories in the USA. It sounds like big business moving jobs out of the USA is the problem. Business years ago stoped pensions and went to 401k. This all happen from 1980’s to 2000’s to working class people. Now we are unionizing Starbucks. This is where we are at. All of americas inventions that were made in the USA are now made in other countries. It’s not one’s generation is greed over people.
@skylinefever
@skylinefever 16 дней назад
I also joke about how the best cars in my family were made in the USA. They rolled off tge Marysville Ohio Honda line.
@Guitar6ty
@Guitar6ty 11 дней назад
Same in the UK and Europe it is a slave system.
@lloydthurstondinwiddieakag297
@lloydthurstondinwiddieakag297 Месяц назад
782 applications only two interviews and no job offers!
@judyd8310
@judyd8310 6 дней назад
Where
@ReidWest-gz8nv
@ReidWest-gz8nv Месяц назад
I’m a 40 year old Millennial & know multiple people my age that have completely given up on life/career/everything. They don’t work;nothing. Many haven’t for years. All aged 32-42. Living off our baby boomer parents. Quite disturbing.
@sarahhaylor1036
@sarahhaylor1036 Месяц назад
I am 39 and literally do not know one person my age doing this.... I can not even imagine a scenario where my parents would be willing or able to support my old ass.... How? why?
@Kami-cw7en
@Kami-cw7en 19 дней назад
In other countries its quite common for kids to live with their parents until they can afford to find a place to rent. What was the point of creating offspring if your going to kick them out and abandon them just like society and government? Perhaps if your country was not shit a degenerate place their would be more jobs for young men and women and they would be able to find apartments or homes to rent or buy. Look at Canada and their housing market crisis due to the immigrants. Things are not so black and white.
@nutech1810
@nutech1810 14 дней назад
​@sarahhaylor1036 exactly
@carinwiseman4309
@carinwiseman4309 Месяц назад
Capitalism needs a reboot. New anti-trust laws, rent control, and workplace reform are needed bigtime.
@Clairevoyante
@Clairevoyante 25 дней назад
Totally agree with you. The migration of wealth from the lower classes to the richest people has been increased so much that it's unsustainable. People need to take control of the means of production and not let some finance bros on wall street dictate their life, whether they can afford a family or a house or a retirement. I'm a high-earner who just got laid off and it's not because my business wasn't doing great. It was until the last year or so when shareholders decided to cutting (i.e. 50% of the workers) would be the way to save money when they could have put more money into actual productivity increasing measures. Now I'm left to scramble to find something in this economy of gig work, when I was making 6 figures last year.
@MrWebrockk
@MrWebrockk 18 дней назад
this isn't capitalism, it's Judaism.
@JustKJ109
@JustKJ109 2 дня назад
It's no leaders bold enough thatbelieve in our system to fix it.
@JohnTaylor-ts8wk
@JohnTaylor-ts8wk Месяц назад
It’s amazing how many people really believe that the younger generations today are lazy and lack the incredible work ethic of the hippie generation in the 1960’s. 1. The myth of the jobs Americans wont do. Some jobs in the US are cyclical, like trucking and construction. In 2021-2022 we needed a lot of these people, but you can’t just walk in with no training even though these jobs don’t require degrees. Trucking started collapsing 18 months ago, and I’m in construction where we are finally over the boom and struggling to keep our workers busy. Other jobs, like retail clerks, are part-time minimum wage jobs that come nowhere close to paying the skyrocketing costs of rent today, especially in the big cities where these jobs are available. In addition, these jobs have always been high turnover, and have always put out hiring signs because they know that even if they have no openings, employees tend to move on. These aren’t living wage careers. 2. Manufacturing jobs are gone. The reason why working age black males in the 1960’s had higher employment rates than working age white males today is because they could get living wage jobs in manufacturing. Their lives were difficult, but they could afford to rent a place and feed a family in it. 3. Many of our unemployed aren’t even counted in the population, let alone the labor force. We have unprecedented illegal immigration with no way for these people to work and no plan for them whatsoever, all in the midst of a homelessness crisis. 4. Young people today often work much harder for much less. The problem isn’t that younger people have lost the great moral values of their hippie elders, it is that the opportunities for working age jobs just aren’t there for most. Look at the articles gone viral on the 35-year-old millennial family man who died at his desk after working 100 hour weeks for 3 weeks in a row! Do you think he was raking in the dough for a fabulous future? I doubt it, he was stressed out and terrified of losing his income and getting thrown out on the street along with his wife and kids. That can happen very quickly when basic rent is 40% of your income, and unemployment can’t come close to covering it!
@aaron159r2
@aaron159r2 Месяц назад
Incentives really matter when it comes to behaviors. It's happening all over the world. Governments have catered to a single Boomer generation for long enough that policy is stacked against the next 2 generations. The logical reaction for today's workers and youth is to check out of the rat race and enjoy life on one's own terms, even if that mean accepting a "lower" quality of consumer lifestyle. I used quotes because having free time and not being tied to a shitty job for shitty pay is very valuble for some people and is not a "lower" quality of life. This is why you see youth in China adopting a "tang ping" attitude (lay flat), or the red pill version of the attitude "bai lan" (let it rot). Why toil your life away if there is little to no benefit? Any generations of the past would have come to the same conclusions. People aren't different across time, we just grow up under different conditions so our actions and behaviors are correspondingly adapted.
@valerietweedie4376
@valerietweedie4376 Месяц назад
excellent comment
@Guitar6ty
@Guitar6ty 11 дней назад
Spot on the whole of the west is being treated the same way that the Tzars of Russia treated the peasants.
@SpiKSpaN-ei6zq
@SpiKSpaN-ei6zq Месяц назад
This country is circling the drain. I see it every day. Most of the people I've worked with over the last 17 years are stressed and irritable to the max. The young white men that used to be everywhere that I worked seem fewer and fewer every year, and it's mostly older white guys now. And the young white women..they are all gone now. I've seen maybe less than a dozen in the last five years. This change is so drastic in such a short period of time, it's blowing my mind. The best word I can use to describe the feeling I'm getting is OMINOUS!!
@ravensfinancial
@ravensfinancial Месяц назад
That's because the workforce no longer wants young white men like myself. They want women and minorities. They also want women and minorities to take over traditionally male jobs. The current trend is to get a million women into the construction industry and take away men's jobs. Meanwhile, women complain that they can't find a guy that makes the same or more than them. It's a Scooby Doo mystery out here "rolls eyes"
@frederika3013
@frederika3013 28 дней назад
You know whats insane? I am an eastern European on the EU side of Europe, Im 39 and I cannot find a decent guy even though I used to look like a model when I was younger. One idiot after another. Greedy, selfish, dumb, cheaters, egotistical thats how many men are these days. When I walk around streets in my city I see mostly women everywhere and very few guys. Its scary. As if they all left to other countries. But what is even scarier on a dating app I see mostly non European looking males (when I browse European countries). I am a blondie typical light European I cannot find someone who would attract me. Someone who would look like me, someone from my tribe. And I have nothing against other races or other nationalities whatsoever but there is something hurtful when you are trying to find someone from your own tribe and its impossible. Something is so wrong. You feel it deep in your heart.
@blacksuite1
@blacksuite1 17 дней назад
As long as others can pick up the slack the company can run.
@ChristAliveForevermore
@ChristAliveForevermore 15 дней назад
A lot of young white people have died due to drugs or are homeless or at home. The world is upside down.
@RaqueLauren
@RaqueLauren 28 дней назад
When old people don't retire and remove themselves from the workforce it locks out the next guy who should have that well paying job to raise a family on. Do we not understand basic logic and math? Wtf
@KayFabe87
@KayFabe87 25 дней назад
So what do you propose? Should people simply be pushed out of their jobs once they hit a certain age and replaced with younger workers whether they want to retire or not? I understand that there are certain occupations such as airline pilot that have this requirement, but the average office worker doesn't have the same physical and reactionary requirements as an airline pilot. No one "owes" you a job just because you are a younger worker. If you are talented and driven you will get work without having to depend on an 'older' worker being forced out of their job.
@skylinefever
@skylinefever 16 дней назад
​@@KayFabe87nobody "owes" anyone anythibg. That's the problem with unwritten social contracts. Incels filled the social contract that said women would like them if they were nice guys. It never happenned, and then the NPC said "incels feel entitled to women's bodies."
@glassycreek1991
@glassycreek1991 16 дней назад
its not as simple as that. sometimes the next job pays a fourth or fifth of what it originally was paid or may be gone completely leaving staff with skeleton crews. Meanwhile they will advertise that they are hiring to look like they are growing.
@JustKJ109
@JustKJ109 2 дня назад
If older than you people want to work and they get hired that's there's. You got no right to cry . Employers hire who they want.
@standinginthegap7118
@standinginthegap7118 Месяц назад
People want a living wage with health and retirement benefits. Otherwise the way the system is set up you’re better off going onto disability and government programs like section 8 and food stamps. There is no longer any honor given to hard work and most jobs are services where employees are daily degraded, screamed at, cursed at and at times physically attacked by customers. I work at a spa and it happens daily there. Workers are frequently crying in the break room, having heart episodes and nervous breakdown because of the stress of dealing with the public these days. And this is in a spa. People don’t want to be around other Americans because Americans are rude, disrespectful and at times violent. I’m 49 and I am working for 2-3 more years ft saving money and buying an acre of land with a camper on it and starting a self sustainable off grid farm and withdrawing from the workforce because people are out of control. If it wasn’t for people and their out of control behavior I would work until 65.
@ryanwhitley9789
@ryanwhitley9789 Месяц назад
Come on guys, why are you wasting everyone's time talking about functional healthy society and children and families and all that stuff. Let's stay focused on things that are important. BANKS, what banks want, what banks like, what banks need, how banks feel. Making sure banksters get their bonuses and that no chosenites have to worry about loosing any shekels. Thats what the taxpayers are for, eating losses for banks. Please let's stay focused on what we can all do for banks, they are what's important here. 🐷
@padimills1494
@padimills1494 Месяц назад
And companies have done away with pensions....
@CapitalismDeathSpiral
@CapitalismDeathSpiral Месяц назад
Dumbest thing companies did out of greed
@jonb32oz
@jonb32oz Месяц назад
Literally takes 3+ interviews anywhere. With 75+ applications until you finally punch through.. White collar work is drying up and everyone is being gaslit about the true state of affairs.
@jacobmansfield-go9fz
@jacobmansfield-go9fz 28 дней назад
75 is very low, you must be in a good field that's in demand. Took me nearly 2 years to find full time work. Number of applications was probably 4 digits
@nadinemaag5834
@nadinemaag5834 Месяц назад
If Adam would actually want to know, he would ask those who are in this Situation. Instead he is interviewing an old man who does not know.
@FreeSpeech4All
@FreeSpeech4All Месяц назад
But he knows the statistics that some other boomer gathered after paying some Gen Xers to hire some millennials to go out and ask some Gen Zers about. 😂🤣
@aaron159r2
@aaron159r2 Месяц назад
@@FreeSpeech4All Nice summary
@mba2ceo
@mba2ceo Месяц назад
shilling his BOOKS ? got $$$ :) ?
@skylinefever
@skylinefever 16 дней назад
A bunch of people in an ivory tower shouting down at us commoners.
@BB-bx4dp
@BB-bx4dp 4 дня назад
​@@FreeSpeech4All no way would this guy actually pay the millennials for their work...at least not anything over the $7.50 minimum wage.
@boreofwrath837
@boreofwrath837 18 дней назад
Income tax. The government only makes money when people make money. If I have to work less and go hungry in order to prevent even a few pennies from trickling up, then so be it.
@CAVEMAN93able
@CAVEMAN93able Месяц назад
Why would anyone wish to support the tax machine?
@whydotheathensrage
@whydotheathensrage Месяц назад
and war machine
@marconion
@marconion Месяц назад
At 55 years of age i decided to put together my 10 year retirement plan. Originally i was going to hustle and work 40-60 hours per week to retire at 60 years of age. Life is too short folks so the plan now is to work until i'm 65 years of age but work only 3 days a week (Wednesday, Thursday & Friday). I'am on year 3 of this plan and loving it. I don't let work consume my life anymore. I'm enjoying my extra free time while i still have my health. The covid effect!
@millersfloorcoatings
@millersfloorcoatings Месяц назад
Marconion, what kind of work do you do? I really like your plan.. I'll be 45 this year and want to figure out some kind of slow scale back plan like you're doing. Maybe even find a different job or line of work. I've been working in supply distribution sales for 21 yrs
@marconion
@marconion Месяц назад
@@millersfloorcoatings it really doesn't matter what kind of work you do anyone can do this if they first of all set themselves up for success. What i mean by that is to be be debt free which i am. The last 2 years i've done this on about 22K per year. To be fair i have worked for now 37 years (never been unemployed) and have always made less than 40K per year. The last 3 years i have worked in the food service industry and in the past worked in retail for 15 years, 12 years in hotel hospitality and 7 years in senior care. I always live at or below my means. If i can do it anyone can!
@millersfloorcoatings
@millersfloorcoatings Месяц назад
@@marconion awesome! I've actually been working since I was 14 yrs old, granted some of those jobs were part time while I went to school, summer jobs, etc.. So 30 years in the workforce. Also completely debt free. I guess the fear for me right now is quitting the full time job I've been doing for about 22 years. For many reasons, I want to leave and live life and time more on my own terms, enjoy my interests and hobbies. I guess I just need to figure out my expenses and what I really need to live on. I live pretty basic.
@marconion
@marconion Месяц назад
@@millersfloorcoatings so i see we have been on similiar paths. Being debt free is the key to all this. Lifes to short.... do it while you can and still have your health.
@millersfloorcoatings
@millersfloorcoatings Месяц назад
@@marconion agreed, working towards debt free is a main component. Thank you for your encouragement sir, and keep on living well!
@vaughncolasanti2398
@vaughncolasanti2398 29 дней назад
In the 1980s we started down this path of trickle down economics. All it has done is transfer wealth from working families to the top 10%. While at the same time not understanding that in a consumer based economy, working families do most of the consuming. The answers are get money out of politics, change the tax code, and change policy to promote working people.
@vrj40
@vrj40 27 дней назад
Agree with almost everything you said except that all of this elimination of jobs and workers has been going on well before Reagan's 1980s trickle down started. Just look at places like Detroit or certain places in Ohio for example.
@skylinefever
@skylinefever 16 дней назад
​@@vrj40Attract other countries to build things here. I often talk about how many good cars come from Marysville Ohio.
@nelsfrye8570
@nelsfrye8570 Месяц назад
It’s more existential than this, though people always want to search for practical reasons. The people not working are just the most obvious example of the general malaise. You don’t get to end religion and community and not face consequences.
@BreadAndGatorade
@BreadAndGatorade 28 дней назад
Why would I contribute to society more than I perceive I benefit? I am 36 and having a family is untenable with how relationships are treated as disposable. Men are treated like second class citizens. I work enough to pay my housing and bills and do nothing else to contribute to overall society. People only care about this issues insofar as it will cause decay when men don’t participate. Let the strong empowered women take over.
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