Why A $100,000 Salary Can’t Buy The American Dream 

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My professor once stated to our class "No one really cares about poor people" and as I have aged to maturity he was right it's all cap.

Why do i need $6000 to move into a cardboard apartment.

My entire adult life I’ve felt like I’m one emergency away from having nothing… living the full American dream here

The apartment we lived in when we moved to Indiana in 2019 is now an air BNB. We're now paying $100 more per month for a rotting 1950's trailer that we paid for that beautiful two bedroom.

People working at charities created to solve the homeless problem in San Francisco make $200k+ yearly. Why would they want to solve the problem and lose their jobs?

"The world has enough for everyone’s needs, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” - Ghandi

The world could end poverty, but they don't want to. Evil needs that dark energy from human misery to feed from.

We are all trapped in the Greed Timeline.

Blackrock, Vanguard, a handful of other private equity firms, and people who can't afford homes are the ones buying homes. Blackrock offered me 250% to buy my home five years ago when I had bought it for 65K. Now my home is worth four times what I paid for it, and it's only climbing, even relative to inflation.

I watched my mom graduate from a trailer home to a 2 story house all by herself, only for her to have to retire in a tiny prefab rental shack on a salary higher than anyone in my family has ever made, adjusted for inflation.

I’m from Sweden, pretty well off and I used to study in San Diego. I can’t imagine how regular people get by, in Sweden even the poorest people don’t have to go without a home

Governments gives the slaves the illusion of freedom

Being homeless with a 20$/h job is crazy...

Canada is falling just as fast. Its sickening what is happening. We are funding war yet bringing in millions of immigrants from the war lol we have a carbon tax. Yes. And a government tax and a provincial tax. I am one of the many new underclass. There is no middle class.

How is it that I contribute to building thousands of homes but yet I don't have one

Dude I’m 21 with a 3 month old son man I stay in Austin by myself man and shit is just getting more scarier by the Dsy man and now that I’m grown on my own it’s like damn you really are on your own with no one giving a damn man rent so damn high out here I be stressin tf out

I payed off my mortgage, but I don't own the dirt my house sits on, so I pay thousands a year in property taxes, too. Three liens, then you're out...

Why The U.S Can't End Poverty? -- 'They' don't want to.

My parents emigrated from Albania where the home ownership rate is 96.3% since the West is apparently "richer". After watching this video, it makes me wonder whether the West is really richer.

fun fact, the hostile architecture in america is also present here in spain, i witsh i could share a picture, but i don't have one i took myself and i cannot confirm if the pictures online are taken in spain

8:12 Those aren't dead bodies, those people are alive.

As a man who was once homeless after depression, drugs, and divorce, I can say that there is help. But you gotta want it. All that was required of me was: 1. Stay clean 2. Keep a job The rest was completely up to me.

They've made the situation so grave that in order to change the system you must be inside the system, or you can leave the system and start from scratch makes a better doable alternative off-grid

As they say, it is a blessing to live in first world countries of you are one of the elites and rich, even the higher middle class self made professionals are struggling juggling both dangerous stressful jobs and growing financial needs. And it is a curse to live in a mn expensive developed country if you are not one of those elites and rich citizens.

Stephen Curry was one of the people that publicly was against that multi family project in the bay.

I often agree with the saying "eat the rich" but the only problem with that is everyone has a different definition of rich.

Humanity will never end Poverty as there will always be people without the mental health, mental ability, work ethic etc to properly contribute to society and they're will never be enough resources to make up for all of them.

Moon is really on his grind rn, punping these out. Good for you dude!

Poverty is big business, billions spent not on the problem, but the salaries of those hired to "fix" it. I have come to realize most of the things in life are setup to fail. Take Psychiatry for example, if you get cured you stop going. It started with light bulbs, and all went downhill from there.

Before I watch: I was asking this question for 5 years now.

All we have been asking for the past 10 years is A goddamn cost of living adjustment

I’ve worked extensively with the homeless. Some can be rehabilitated and are genuinely just down on their luck. The majority are either mentally ill, parasites, addicts, or a combination of all 3. People who are just going through a hard time usually get back on their feet pretty quickly.

If dedication and loyalty still got you promoted and wealthy, more people would be trying to work and work hard. Everyone is quiet quitting and unhappy at work everywhere now.....incentive has been removed

Rehabs profit the most from drug sales. I remember when my town got 65 million for treatment. The drug problem exploded at that point. Everyone I knew that was on drugs at the time suddenly had oz of black and meth.

Its profoundly sad, how cruel and selfish people can be, we need to evolve away from this or we're doomed

Machiavellianism = The strategy and action behind achieving a goal devoid of emotion and/or virtue. The dark triad is a psychological theory that describes three personality types: Machiavellianism: Traits include manipulation, duplicity, and self-interest Narcissism: Traits include being selfish, arrogant, and lacking empathy Psychopathy: Traits include a lack of empathy or remorse, antisocial behavior, and being manipulative and volatile The dark triad is considered a subclinical syndrome, meaning it's not a clinical disorder but is close to being illegal. The dark triad was first published in 2002 by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams. The Big Five traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) have been suggested as a taxonomy for studying the dark triad.

I lived next to the Bay Area and grew up in California only to see the decay spread from top to bottom. Now, the decay is all over America. My rent and taxes kept rising and once I retired from the Navy I moved to Japan. You people get what you vote for....yes YOU PEOPLE!

The spiral has to end at one point, but it's horrifying trying to figure out how deep we've still to go before it all comes down. And there's no guarantee that what follows that will be any better than what we have now. Human nature and greed has been holding us back as a species since forever.

To be fair... If I was homeless in USA... I'd rather be in California than up North... You ever slept outside in below freezing temperatures...???!!!

i have over 20 years experience in my field and can't even get a dishwashing job. over 200 applications for 2 interviews and 0 job offers. A lot of people here in comments section blame people for not trying hard enough. you are blind to the problem and are seeking the easy way out. It's easier to blame people instead of the system itself.

From Cali, NIMBY + Corruption. Thankfully it's mostly just the upperclass areas that have this attitude.

My wife and I started looking for a house to buy, as new parents of two kids, in 2020. We had no idea the market was going to skyrocket to complete unaffordability with incredibly high interest rates which would make housing completely unaffordable for us, so we were pretty picky when we should have jumped on some of them, in retrospect. Now, when we find a house that even approaches affordability(being able to at least make the payments and being house poor) it gets snatched up before we can even get ahold of our realtor. Each and every time it ends up being either a wealthy realtor who buys and rents/flips houses for a living, or an investor who buys a 350K home and turns around to rent it out for 3200 a month. It's a nightmare. The rich or investment/real estate companies are the only ones positioned to buy anything, since they can come in with cash and outbid any single family no problem. So the wealthy are getting more wealth, and the already poor are becoming more poor as the cost of living continues to climb while wages stagnate and their rents climb higher and higher. I'm not a filthy commie, but I'm seeing more and more why this shit appeals to people and why they seem to jump at the chance to throw down the elites with violent force. I make twice what my dad made at my age, and I can barely keep a roof over my families heads...

I actually agree with the "Not in my backyard" people. They should just move to a cheaper state and less crowded state if California isn't working out.

Saw a documentary on California-Half those people choose to be homeless or end up loving the homeless life- the ones who are also drug addicts & homeless choose to be homeless due to the hard drug such as Tranquilzers, Fentanyl. People don’t want to change

At the end there wont be anything or anyone for the rich to exploit, then they will have to change

It's worth noting there are documented cases of states sending homeless people to other states. They give homeless people one-way tickets on Greyhound. Climate and access to care are important factors as well.

Ireland has a similar issue. However the issue has been made much more apparent and, being honest, far worse due to the immigration crisis we have on our hands. Tens of thousands of foreign nationals have been settled and housed in the space of 3 years with plans to expand the system. Yet, the Homelessness crisis is apparently a conundrum that can't be solved. Governments the world over can end Homelessness tomorrow if they wanted to. They just choose not to.

The moment I "made it" and got promoted to $120k a year, it was 2021, right when housing spiked like 300%, and everything got so expensive it was like I was making 60k-80k again. Very cool. Said fuck it and lived with my mom till The start of this year. Very thankful to her, i have a really solid monetary safety net and investments due to not really ever spending it.

I live about an hour and a half south from Jackson in Sublette County. They're trying to dig their bullshit into our county too.. so annoying.

If there is a very small crack in a ship and there are adequate pumps the water can be maintained at a level that would be considered safe.

I’m very lucky. My job let’s me doing 4 day work weeks or 9 day fortnights if I put in an extra 1-2 hours a day. It gives so much time to focus on myself and not work myself to death. More companies need to do this

I think it's good to shine a lot of awareness on everything that's happening. I've been homeless before, and I'll tell you, the fear of poverty is a lot worse than actual poverty itself. 100%. The mass fear and neurosis that comes from trying to stay out of poverty is driving ppl to their breaking point. However, ppl who descend into poverty actually become better equipped to deal with it in the future, and those who rise out of it generally do very well for themselves.

The big problem is all the government regulations that prevent new housing from being built, causing housing costs to skyrocket. The same issue with collage tuition, government involvement has caused cost to skyrocket. Government needs to get out of the way.

I'm so glad I don't live in the U.S and I feel bad for normal people who do.

It's a drug problem more than anything. If someone is sober they can still find some way to have shelter, even if it is renting a room in a house.

I dont think the state should force small towns to expand. I live in a small rural town and they are turning it into apartment lots with 6 story buildings, because the town is forced to build. No one asked for this or wants it. California is just to crowded and people just need to spread out, not cram closer together

There’s a Fentanyl crisis Here on RU-vid with you and Tommy G dropping bangers within hours of each other ❤

From my experience living in California, most of us are compassionate for the homeless, but when they're yelling, screaming, being a nuisance, and obviously drunk or on drugs it gets old. You don't know how you really feel until it affects you. Lifetime self proclaimed democrat here, but enough is enough

This is a very complicated issue, but I believe affordable and government housing is not the answer. Usually when one gets built crime increases in the area, so I get why most homeowners would not want to have them in their backyard. We need to come up with a smarter solution.

Moon can you talk about the housing crisis in Canada next, i live in a small town with about 50k people, even here the rents are so bad there’s homeless and i heard the fentanyl got here too😢

In my country i pay about 40% income tax, the more i earn the higher it gets. In return i can be unemployed for basically forever and still have a decent income. This of course also brings a lot of people taking advantage of it with it but somehow the system still works. We still have homeless people here but many of them are illegal immigrants or teenagers leaving home but the people who live on the actual street is very low. I can imagine you can't sell the idea of giving away half your income to poor people in America.

The problem is big cities are pricing out the middle class. And the middle class and lower classes refuse to leave. We in the rural parts of the US still have a strong middle class. If you live in big cities you are throwing your life away instead of building one. Get out of the big cities and move to a rural area. We are desperate for educated people to work in these areas.

There’s no problem that the government and crony capitalism can’t make worse

God bless you and your work sir MOON respect from Croatia 😇😇😇👍👍👍😎😎😎

People complain yet not in my backyard😮😮😮😮

Society needs a struggling group to scapegoat for every ill their community experiences, to know how "good" they are as a person, and to profit off by making a system that doesn't reflect genuine concern.... yet most people judging those that suffer fear looking within themselves, at their motives and values, their communities values, and the why behind what they see.

Blackrock's Larry Fink said "you will own nothing and be happy" People just let this shit happen

It's bewildering to me how fast America turned from being the dream place to become a hell. It's truly to sad to see common people suffering like that. We need to humble down these billionaires!!

HALT! It could (there were ideas like building tiny houses for the homeless!) but it's not what the powerful want! Why? How can you exploit people without them standing up to you? You got to have something to THREATEN them with and homelesness is a powerful threat, especially if you have kids - "You wouldn't want your kids to grow up on the street or taken from you, would you? No? THEN GET BACK TO WORK! I don't care that you are in pain/overworked/burnt out!"

The average life expectancy for a homeless individual in the US is 50 YEARS OLD! They are 3x as likely to be the victim of crime than the perpetrator. The homeless make up less than 2% of LA’s total population, but are 17% of its homicide victims. ✌🏼

Why are they raising everything up and not our jobs? 🤦‍♂️

9:27 The role of the eco-fiends in stopping affordable housing cannot be underestimated. I have seen it in California time and time again.

Is it possible to see what influence any lobbying has had on this? My take home was that USA is in decline due to greed.

The american dream has turnt into the american nightmare.

Poverty and suffering are very profitable.

650,000 people is around 0.2% of the U.S. population. Trust me, it’s realistically one of the best countries, we’re just so negative about things now

seriously at this point I'm convinced Moon is a content creating AI

There's no solution either not even a "final" one (god forbid) because most people can't afford new taxes and the rich refuse to pay new taxes.

Most homeless are not addicts. Speaking as a recovering addict myself. Divorce, jobless, low wages, many reasons for unhoused. Side note: war on drugs makes drugs worse. Regulation and legality

100,000k can and does buy the American Dream. Spoken by a real life American in his mid 40's.

In my city people HATE the homeless, like they want to send them to a concentration camp last I peeked at them talking about it in a local group. They always vote against anything that would help the problem then complain when the problem gets worse. It's sad, I've been homeless and while a handful of people suck out there I think all people need their basic needs met before they can be of use to society.

When will it get to the point where we say if we can't have normal housing neither can you? And start damaging their precious investment properties?

Life feels like a fucking nightmare you can't wake up from

It’s like the drug trade, countries could end it in a week or two, if they wanted. But there’s too much profit!

Yo I hope you do a video on JCCA. They are terrible at taking care of kids there. I should know because I suffered a lot of abuse when I was there for 9 years.

At least 27 women on Tiktok have been punched by homeless people in the last 36 hours.

Here in Canada, houses are bought by a family of 6 Indian adults, and they share bedrooms. This drives up the cost so you need 6 full time incomes to pay for 1 house. It's like this because the government wants it to be like this.

Eat the rich 🤑

11:17 hopefully these communities will stop voting for this

My wife and I make $150,000 in the DC area and it’s still not enough to be comfortable.

Looks a lot like Vancouver and surrounding cities.

It's getting to a point where you have to build your own house from scratch to be able to afford living on your own.

Welcome to Cyberpunk 2077

Does anyone actually think that the governments that are responsible for the homeless issue are actually going to fix the homeless issue?

I don't know where mobile homes are "250$ a month" but it's not in our reality. I have a friend who lives in one and it's 700$ a month. My apartment is that price and my apartment is much nicer than his mobile home. Mobilehomes are no longer the an afford place to live.

The most annoying thing about this for me is that despite these huge issues, essentially making them a third world country, Americans are insistent at sticking those noses in and judging other parts of the world

I’m about to end up homeless pretty soon

Look... you can rag on NIMBY's all you want to. But if you want an example of what happens when people don't stand up for the quality of life of their towns, look at the SF Bay Area city of Antioch. Before the housing bubble burst in 2008, Antioch was one of the most desirable places in the Bay Area. When the housing bubble burst, multi-family housing owners sought a way out by converting their apartment buildings to Section 8 housing. The result is that Antioch has gone from one of the best places in the Bay Area to one of the WORST in under 10 years. Section 8 housing breeds crime and that is a FACT, despite how many Liberals are in denial of it. These desirable places in the Bay Area did not get that way by accident; they are beautiful and well run because a lot of people fought tooth and nail to make them that way, despite the politicians who wanted to turn them into slums. California's approach to the homeless crisis is imbecilic and will only succeed n expanding the legions of ineffective, corrupt non-profits gorging themselves at the public trough. Even when they try to help they usually just make things worse (rent control). San Francisco currently has THOUSANDS of vacant apartments. The reason they are vacant is that no one wants to rent at sub-market, because SF's rent control laws make it so that if you rent at sub-market, you are stuck making sub-market for however long the tenant wants to stay - even if it's for the rest of their lives.

Poverty isn’t necessarily fixable. It can be reduced however.