Agreed while there are some boomers who understand what's going on rn none are in political roles. And it is extremely hard to find a boomer that is understanding what is going on
@Kate-rv6kx sometimes I wonder if the only reason they are trying to fix the homeless problem rn is because they are worried that the homeless will start sleeping on the golf courses they like or will start staying outside the expensive restaurants they like
The other day, my boomer dad and his friend were talking about how easy our lives are and how we haven't faced real struggles, and to be fair, we're all immigrants, but then I politely retorted with how much of our expenses goes to survival and what our real problems are. My dad's friend listened and changed his tune, saying "he's right, i think he's hit the nail on the head". So I don't know about American-born boomers, but immigrant boomers seem to be willing to understand. They just need us to speak to them in person.
This is something to consider for sure. If they're first generation, being new here wasn't very easy - culture shock, language barrier, and some hostility is not very pleasant.
I think being an immigrant boomer is different, though. There definitely is a lot more struggle tied to the life of an immigrant. For American- born boomers, they don't have much of an excuse in calling us lazy, entitled, and saying we have it so much easier. Too many Americans share the same story of their grand/great grandfathers graduating from highschool and immediately getting a decent job, and carrying on in their twenties with their grandmother staying home to take care of 3 or more children, living in a beautiful and safe house/neighborhood. It has become so difficult to find a decent job, and it's terrible that my generation was told to go into debt to obtain a great paying job, and then it's this hard to find a job paying more than minimum wage? What is going on? Forget all of that- why on earth is it this hard to buy a house now? Our grandparent and great grandparents did not have to go through this. 😊
I can speak on this. One side of family growing up was fresh immigrant, other side all American. Agree on immigrant boomers being more open to hearing you out but they still have alot of the same views/opinions of the younger generations and our struggles at the end of the day. American boomers however… man I had a grandfather who got a massive inheritance, was given 20k a month from his late 20s to his death to do nothing! Man never shut up about how hard they used to work and how this generation just expects all these handouts and who’s gonna pay for these things and blah blah blah. Fox News talk points for days all while enjoying free money from his daddy (who fought in ww2 and then started a successful business) Seriously the boomers are the worst ever. Disgusting vitriol filled generation. They got theirs, the rest of us can eat it.
I am a Boomer. In 1980, when the minimum wage was seven dollars an hour, a studio apartment in Toronto cost $175 a month. The same apartment now is $1800 dollars a month. What I want to know is why isn't the minimum wage seventy dollars an hour in Ontario?
Thank you for understanding basic math, something many boomers don’t understand. I had to sit down with my dad and show him how expensive everything is compared to the median income and median household income.
My boomer mother could not understand why I changed jobs. I got this huge lecture on the importance of company loyalty. She said I was ungrateful for the opportunity. I attempted to explain that if I continued to go into the office every day, security would remove me. I could get arrested for trespassing. The company I was working for went out of business. The owner took all the money and fled the country with his girlfriend.
I worked at a restaurant back in January and the restaurant was a prostitution ring, the owners were trying to coerce and force me into selling my body , they offered me thousands of dollars to go to New Orleans with them , to have a 3sum, when I refused , the bullying started …..people don’t understand how toxic the workplace can be nowadays. This was a restaurant , in a small , quiet, sleepy mountain town .I quit btw 🙄 The stress, was making it to where I could not eat or sleep… so I had to quit! Boomers didn’t have to deal with the toxicity, we do !
lol what?? If your mom could not understand why you left, I think she has more issues than just being a boomer… I was waiting for your story to state that you left because the new job paid you more but instead, it’s because the old boss closed the business out of nowhere and left… how does she not understand lol
Ya, because government officials are going to sacrifice their million dollar pay outs from corporations. Excessive holidays. And top of the line health care. You're not wrong, but people look out for themselves first. And others when it's convenient. Especially when they are in possession of authority and power.
Well most of them are boomers and they are making their money from selling to millenials and Gen z, hints why they complain that these two generations don't buy anything. Boomers will start losing money if this continues and most will go broke before they die
I’m shook. Every time I go to the doctor, they ask if I’ve felt like I might be unable to feed myself or my household within the past month. I always say no, because of pride. But I’m realizing now that only eating once a day and paying rent that costs as much as a mortgage isn’t how life is supposed to be.
@scottierasberry4449 current administration FJB has changed America is less than 4 years. All Democrats say they care but their policies reflect the opposite. True Story. BIDENFLATION
@scottierasberry4449 Democrat policies are the reason why groceries, gas, rent, electricity, and health insurance are so high. The Democrats don't care about your struggles. Actually, their motto is that you will have/own nothing by 2030. Wake up and stop voting for them.
My stepsister's rent in Florida is almost 4 times my monthly mortgage payment in Georgia. I've been telling her for several years to get a house but she "doesn't want the responsibilities."
@donotneed2250 I live in Central Florida but bought my house in 2020 when mortgage rates were 2.8%. Our mortgage payments are $1,900 a month for a 2000 sq. ft. house on 5 acres. Affordable housing is still available, but you have to want the responsibility of ownership.
I'm a boomer. I'm voting for who I think is best. I can see how hard things have gotten for young people. Most boomers are just everyday working people. A lot of us are still working in retirement because we can't afford to quit. We're stuck in our houses because we can't afford to move. You think it's hard to work everyday? Try working everyday when your 60+ years old.😢
Sucks no doubt... The issue is that generationally boomers were not socialized in admiting when they are wrong. I'm not saying none of you are able to just saying it is so for a majority. Personal emotions were more valued than rationality. Psychologically it's part of your generation's identity that being in the wrong and admiting it is a show of weakness to be attacked instead of being a strength that push you to do better. And well, identity is the hardest thing to alter. I'm a millenial, we were raised as the generation that was always doing something wrong... on the plus side we can admit is and not attack others when they admit they did something wrong. Again, not all boomers... my mother and her second husband are like that, saying the most inane disprovable thing and when confronted by facts they attack you savagely to protect their perception of self instead of confronting their issues. So ehen it turn to political and social position they are very ill informed about, well they vote for things they believe over things that are true 100% of the time.
My father inlaw thought an average mortgage payment was less than half of what the average payment is. He is 73, retired and no mortgage. No idea of the cost at all.
I remember a comment I read recently where a girl's boomer mom recently got a divorce and had to find an apartment, and was shocked at current rental prices. Her mom hasn't uttered a word of criticism of the younger generations since.
@@enigmaticallis3110 there isn't much to understand but everlasting greed in all men. Nobody will change that ever but catastrophes which will humble us.
Many millennials I know in my age group vote dem purely because of social policy, not so much because of economic policy. A lot of them are doing so because they fear the republican social policy that seeks to force many of us into conformity.
@@HumilityListens It helps to vote in local elections. People only show up every two to four years for large elections, then wonder why everything still sucks in their own backyard. Meanwhile, old folks consistently show up to vote for anything and everything they can, and you bet your ass they're only looking out for themselves.
Voting is the guise and gaslighting that the government does to stay in power. Lie to the people and tell them they have a say and control, but do everything behind their backs to get away with all the corruption. American government is CORRUPT af! …and anyone working for them is a f***ing sellout that is part of the problem!
In order to run for any political office, politicians have to raise a certain amount of money. The money comes from corporate donors. The more money the corporations give to "their" politician is what determines who gets voted for. The more money the politicians raises, the more votes he will get. Corporations run this country, and they hand pick the politicians they want in office. The government is the mouth piece, but the corporations are the brains. Corporate America also owns us, and if we can't pay, the corporations will be happy to give us all loans with interest rates they set so we can pay them every dime we have. Ever wonder why the government doesn't step in and stop price gauging? Because they can't. No politician wants to lose funding from their donors.
The boomers had it better tha. Their parents and thsir kids because their selfish greedy scumbags. Their parents would be dissapointed in them and the gen x and millenials and gen z hate them they ruined this country and made our lives hell
It's really just magazine headlines you're fighting with. Not a single person my own age went to use the person-check out, while the boomers did, to make sure I had a job, and almost all the talk was about how hard, not just we have it, but they have it themselves, trying to live in this era with a 1970's SS or pension check. And I live in a dead-center middle class area. I just don't see what you guys see, promoted posts and headlines are not representational.
The 81 year old Boomer. No question. He has 50+ years of solid experience and the world takes him seriously. The other one has a decades long track record of bungling damn near everything he's ever touched. And the entire world laughs at him. He also displays symptoms of multiple language and cognitive disorders.
@@slosh177 that’s not bad but remember that any real change that way takes decades: without the party’s backing any candidate has a huge disadvantage in getting elected. And getting party backing means towing the party line
As a Gen Xer, I'm sick of how Boomers pulled all the ladders up and refused to admit it, and then they refuse to understand the economy today isn't identical to the economy in the 70s.
Um do you not rrmember the government implemented gas shortage in the 70s?? It went by your license plate determined how you got gas. Without gas you cant support your family back then.
Inflation under Biden is what caused our HOT MESS. Trump controlled Inflation to a minimum. A (2.8%) interest rate on my home in early 2020 proves it. Why didn't everyone take advantage of this???
As a later boomer, I have spent my entire adult life watching my paycheck fail to keep up with my costs. Blame the rich who bought the politicians not the generation.
For the people asking what he’s doing about it, well I think he’s doing great even just by informing the public. Having public opinion on your side, even if you’re not a politician, is extremely important. There is not much a single person can do by themselves, but by educating people on what’s going on around us will hopefully get more people to be proactive: act, vote, petition, protest etc. There is power in numbers! Real change can happen if more people became aware of what’s going on and ACT
@@ms.pirate Oh hell, there's no informing going on. Everyone I know and most of us are boomers have known all of this for decades. Are your relatively young friends so clueless about the world around them that they need informing? Sad if so.
Blame it on drop kids at school (daycare) and keep them away from multi-generational situations like early 1900's households, learning to imitate what society is like, and just stick them with other people their age, and you wonder why young adults can't function? My Hs had no shop class, no auto repair, no skills based classes at all, no class explains how taxes work, no classes explaining budgeting, and then people like yourself, "well I have this wealth of knowledge, so why don't you do as I know to do?" Older gens aren't sharing their stories, and then discounting ours, you want respect, we'll respect is earned not given, want to earn respect, tell your story without embellishments, without holding negative aspects of the story, so the moral you use for reasoning can be understood, without it becoming "I did this, skip to the end I was successful, so why aren't YOU working harder lazy kiddo?"
They voted for policies that benefited them back in the 70s-80s, then they got older and had more money, then they voted for policies that protected that money. Problem is.... that screwed over the younger generations.
Be realistic. In the 70s and 80s we were finishing school, getting jobs and career starts, buying homes, starting families. Everyone votes in their interest and no one has a crystal ball to be able to see what will happen over the coming decades. We are concerned for the opportunities of our children and grandchildren and we help them as best we can.
Everyone votes in their own best interest. The whole point of the video is this guy imploring boomers to vote in his own best interest instead of I am 100% certain he is voting in his best interest.
If we voted to have our money, then how come only less than 10% of us have it? ???????? If I voted for money, it sure as shit would have been for everybody.
As a tail end boomer ... please let me apologize you. I do understand the situation and vocalize it to other boomers when I can. Keep up the good work!
If you're a tail end Boomer like me (1960-64), we're not what everyone's thinking of when they hear 'boomer'. We've been called Gen Jones because we got none of the boomer benefits.
You can't do anything and nothing needs to change except your victim mentality. Oh btw, we invented all the technology. Knowing how to use an app doesn't make one technologically gifted. Look at all the people your age who are highly successful. There's plenty of them. What are they doing that you're not? Why are they not crying and you are? You want to solve some problems? Start with yourself.
@@FooFan-b3k 50 years ago you could buy a house on minimum wage. Now you cant even rent a sutdio apartment on min wage. Either post some numbers or shut up. The evidence speaks for itself.
@@aquari_2344 sadly there is nothing anyone can do about these two bozos, I’m certainly not voting for either one of them. Also nothing can be done about their age anyone can run for president at 45 and above. So….have are corporation CEO run for it that’s who is running the country anyway
I'm a boomer the prices today are so HIGH that my dayggter had to move back in with me. She has been trying to purchase a house and even living wuth me she struggles. Term limits should be set for sure. My late husband and i always said the government and world that was being left for our kids was very sad.
I was talking with my boomer father the other day who is well off and collecting social security. He was shocked at how much I pay towards social security and Medicare each month. I understand why boomers want to get back what they paid into social security. But many of them don’t understand how much more the working class is paying into it now. I would much rather it go into an account I have some transparency and control over, and pay a tax on that when I retire to help my fellow elderly that are less fortunate. We all can see how badly the system has been managed by our politicians, yet because the majority of boomers don’t want their funds getting messed with in any way our politicians avoid the topic of fixing it at all costs.
@@wrightcargleMy father is 77. He is sharp, and does a decent job keeping in the loop but he was shocked to hear that I’m paying over $700 a month on those taxes alone. I make pretty decent money, and so did he, but going over that cost and others he understands a little better why my life looks different than his did at my age.
That reminds me: we need to eliminate the income cap on social security withholding. Everyone, especially those that make over $170k/year should be contributing the same percentage of their income into the SS system.
@TheAnnoyingBoss In Danville, Va (for example) you could finagle a 12.5% down payment on an average home value of $115,500 and get in under 15k but with closing costs and everything you're closing in on 18k. But they'll let you finance closing so you could up your monthly payment from $667 to about $800 and swing the under 15k at close on an average home there. There is also Youngstown, Ohio, Fort Wayne, IN , and Hickory, NC to consider.
My dad apologized to me over the price of a paint he recommended. He sent the link and was like “oh I’m so sorry, it was much cheaper when I bought it 20 years ago”
My parents too. They know how hard it is for my kid. My kid, 18, has just moved out, but doesn't have a job, or a bank account. We all worry about her. My family doesn't care if she's not working. We'd like for her to come home, get settled into a stable place. Then look for a job, and open a bank account with the money she makes. This bouncing from one friend to the next is concerning.
Am a Boomer myself, worked 2 Jobs for 10 years, to barely afford a 1 bedroom apt. No it's not your generation. Its 40 Years now of this trickle up economic philosophy that has largely demolished the middle class, and created a situation where even if Dad is working 2 jobs, Mom still has to work. Its nuts, . But so long as this is seen as a generational issue, and not about class we will not make progress towards fixing this mess.
@@scrappydog7741you mean tax and spend conservatives (starting with Reagan). Why don’t you educate yourself before spouting Fox News talking points? Dem presidents ALWAYS fix the messes that Rep presidents make. 🙄
And they always told us, don’t worry when we get old and pass away there will be tons of houses for y’all. Which should have been the case, except for all of the freakin corporations and foreign investors buying up all of them in cash. 🙄
@Dave-854 this boomer "doesn't like it" because it evades the real problems. My nephew eats every meal in a restaurant or does carry out. He is virtually homeless because he "can't afford "
@Dave-854 no I didn't. It's my broke ass fault you don't have any money. Own what you say or shut your bigoted cake hole. The comment you made is still right there.
I’m a boomer and I think younger people work harder than we did… way harder. The only thing I criticize about young people today is that they don’t read and aren’t very intellectual.
I’m a lawyer! I’ve read MANY books. I’m 31… so now I’m advocating with Liberal Party USA 🇺🇸 fueled by an understanding of history, science, philosophy, and case law… in addition to working in politics for a decade. It’s time for a new party with new ideas.
I just started ignoring people who were calling me lazy after explaining to them several times how hard things are now. They need to understand that things are not the way they used to be anymore.
No you many not be lazy but I bet what you call having and needed everyday, my generation called it a luxury. I bet you were 20 before you were on a plane, or I bet you had more then one TV and bathroom in your home or apartment, and that car you drive bet you and wife or husband has one,nope only one for us. And how about that air in you home and car, got them I bet, nope none here.
@@vietnamvet4533 Internet isn't a luxury anymore and I'm not irresponsible with money. Also we only have two tvs in our apartment and we eat mostly at home and with all of that things are still high.
@@pixelgirl843 yeah it's almost as if i blow all my money on shit i don't need and don't put my bills before entertainment. I'm allowed to have things for myself doesn't mean I'm reckless with money. I'm not directing this at you but at the person who assuming how I handle my money. Also I didn't get on plane until I was 25 because I flew back home because I needed somewhere to stay. Oh and also I have developmental disabilities and have to live off wellfare for right now which I HATE DOING but it's hard getting employed when you have no GED and your busting ass to try to better your life so with all disrespect to @vietnamvet4533 piss off.
@@vietnamvet4533 also i don't drive and i live in a crappy one bedroom apartment. When you assume you make an ass out of you and me. Also I walk everywhere unless my girlfriend drives me. I never had a drivers license.
Not true. Born in 1962. I agree with EVERY point made in this video. It's time!!!!!!! Please! amazing techy, educated young people need to be running things. They are the only hope for our world.
That’s a big one I keep telling everyone, they don’t leave their positions until they’re like 80, like Nancy Pelosi. They don’t want to get out of the way.
My boomer parents used to give me the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” talk when I asked for help while working 3 jobs and still requiring assistance from a food bank. Then the economy hit them in the wallet. My mom had to take a call center job to keep up with bills. She called me crying, apologizing for not believing me when I told her how hard it was. When I became disabled, my dad apologized as well. Told me he would keep a roof over my head and food in the fridge without question or expectation. My mom is now home bound with her own medical issues. I help them, they help me. Some boomers have seen reality and are working with their millennial family to survive. My mom has changed her political affiliation to independent and is now in favor of social programs she once despised. Change can happen. Hopefully more will wake up.
@@ms.pirate The internet was originally designed to exchange information. It’s the greatest tool humankind has ever devised. Imagine life before the internet. Before texting. Before a musk rat got his dirty hands on Twitter. We take the Information age for granted.
Thank you. I am a boomer and I see how bad things have become. Imagine working and saving and needing to retire, and all of a sudden, everything you worked for and saved is worth less than half of what it was when you were working. Boomers are the largest age group of people becoming homeless.
I am a boomer (both technologically and culturally aware)and I agree with you 1000000000000%. We do not need fossils in government. We need fresh young innovative forward thinkers! Please keep up the great work on your channel.
There are also a lot of expenses boomers did not have that are actually necessities now. Cell phones, computers, and subscriptions to use them. How does one work without those additional expenses? How do you live in most places without a car that needs gas, oil, licenses, and insurance? All things people starting out decades ago, did not need. I am a boomer and blame corporate greed. Stopped income from corporations by cutting taxes, made single family real eatate an investment so corporations start buying up the inventory and stopped building low-income housing for those who are starting out and those who have less skills all because it is leas profitable. This is why we need regulations, corporations are all about profit and could care leas about the workers or the country. Also, allowing a few corporations to run any aspect of life. Groceries about four corps run about 70%; gas a few corps that set the price. That is not capitalism, it is theft from the consumer all for them to accumulate wealth and continue to buy politicians. Maybe one step would be to take person status away from corporations and go back to when they could not donate to politicians; thank the gop for tax cuts for the wealthy and corps and giving them personhood so their donations as their right to free speech....smdh
Corporations aren't persons, even legally. They are entities, not persons. If you take that status away there will be no control of them at all. The development companies where I live are building modest housing, because that's all we hillbillies can afford. The consumer still controls the market. Things like cars? Well, we've had many car lots dry up and go out of business, because paying new luxury car prices for used cars and/or stripped down new ones wasn't well received here, and we didn't buy cars. The big fancy housing development is sitting there behind its walls, at about a third capacity while the new one with smaller houses is mostly full. Also, if your job requires you to have a certain technology or tool, they have to pay for it, so go see your HR department and make the arrangements.
It's like Boomers are taking the hit for what the corporations and corrupt politicians have done. Tell me what candidate will do something about corporate greed and corruption and I will support that one.
@@TheQueenRulesAll I've got a cell phone, but no computer. (Personal) No need for one with what's basically a computer in my pocket. Even then, it doesn't have to be an extravagant one nor an expensive monthly bill. And there are free cellphone and wifi plans available literally everywhere in the country. I'd also say that people now have less of a need for a vehicle with public transit everywhere, particularly in places with high rents and housing prices, like NY, SanFran, and LA. Outside of those places, if someone needs a car, like I do, again- it doesn't have to be a brand new one with a $1,000+ monthly operating expense. Corporate greed is part of it, but not as much as keeping up with the joneses is. Far too many people with current year iPhones, nice new cars, and new Air Jordans are watching TV on a 75 inch flatscreen while also receiving government assistance. And blame the GOP all you want, but it wasn't conservatives demanding $20+/hour for fast food workers, and it isn't the GOP that has gas prices and grocery bills 150-200% higher than they were 4 years ago.
I think older generations think that admitting that things are harder now economically will make it seem like they had it easy. No one wants their origin story debunked.
@@spacegirl226 So you're saying every banker is Jewish? Not a single Anglo-Saxon banker, not a single black African banker, not a single Indian banker? Do you understand how unreasonable you sound right now?
Boomers had the best period of usa and made it into the worst possible future for usa who is now basically in a civil war against everything from the element carbon to cruel and inhumane taxes frees regulations costs. They tolerate hyperinflation the boomers have 500k houses with 800 dollar payment they take a loan on. They dont work to reduce they will work to increase it and then complain this is the boomers voting for joe and whe. Theyre 80 they refuse to sell their 40k house for any less than 1.5m. They set it up so its rigged if I want to buy a motel to try to run it the best so i have the highest quality lowest cost rental in town so its worth it everything is set up to work against me because the banks and landlords depend on putting the minimum humanly possible down payment if one even at all in cricumstances as well so what happens is in 1960 and 70 80 90 that wouldve worked because you put 5k down on a 50k house and in ten years it was worth double yoh could just appriase it every year and oull the extra out and you could pay the bill on tbe original 50k and you wouldnt even need a job anymore for a roof over your head alone at least. So a lot of these people would put 10k down on a 100k house and complain about the interest and then in 20 years they had a 250k house and now its a 500k house and i believe it a lot are nice houses the one im in id pay 500k if i had it its a good house but as for people like me by the time i am buying one its going to be a million 2 million dollae house in the cheapest places the boomers will be dead then for good but people like me will have 538 jobs simoltaneously i will need an army of robots to do it elon musk will die dying banking off me like its a sport and i will still be homeless without a house and no kids because i cant afford food and you all fucked this up and turned us into orwells.1984 because you got addicred to money money than reading books ruined the world and died. Maybe if not now when will we change things to where im not burneded with the national debt of every retard who ever lived. You see even boomers demanding their own childrens childrens childrens national debt be used to pay off gender studies degrees because the boomers promoted college for too long to the wrong people whod have been billionares if they didnt send them to college saying theyd be unemployable if not and plunge them into debt. To "become hirable and proven to be trainable" these boomers are so far behind and gave caused many many of the major problems that have driven humanity to the brink all because thet didnt believe in their kid to be able to fill out the online form and pay 10 dollars to register a business to get an id number for tax purposes and open the quickbooks app and take a picture of their recipts when they buy something for the business. They send them instead into 200k in debt for gender studies degree or something else barely nit really useful comapred to real worl ld expirience to "become hirable proven to be trainable on the job" so now instead theyre actually a huge debt liability to the businesses who see them as looking to the business to be the finanial proof the degree was worth it. My business im doing isnt going to be hiring these people I took math classes and didnt get a degree so I cant be sacrificing my businesses financual security in this orwellian shithole nightmare just so some boomers idiot offspring can have a padded ego about their degrees usefulness when theyre actually so useless they come out of college and the only thing they can do in my business is basic accounting and i dont have a degree and i do the accounting marketing i do the inventory i do the actual nitty gritty business building they dont even have the mental comprehension skills for because they never even tried to start a gumball machine business when they were 18. They struggle to understand the stock market they think teslas are efficient envuormentally friendly affordable and reliable and if they think theyre financing this lifestyle off my business im working for free for my business and I am not funding that lifestyle. If they come to my business i will be running smoother than sewing machines expecting me to pay back their harvard business degree while they do the accounting i can do for free while i do everything else for free then they can have fun begging walmart to pay back their degree or perhaps somd other corporation thats om the edge of bankrupcy because too many communist scumbags have propagandized anticapitalist propaganda enough to plunge us into permanent struggling along with the vast numerous other moronic imbiciles who have taken this precious earth that had prosperity and turned it into a tax robbing civil rights abokisbing slabery promoting shithole nightmare with cruel and inhumane interest rates
The age isn't the issue with our modern congress. The issue with modern congress is that without term limits, the most manipulative and greedy people are rewarded for taking advantage of the system and polarizing it to 1 of 2 extremes.
I was shocked to see how old these people in our govt are....TERM LIMITS! The system was set up to be civil service....you leave your job, serve your country....go back to your job where you would make way more money than being in govt.....the original idea has been flipped on it's head!!
GenX got the last wave of economic good fortune. Hence why Boomers don't pick on them because they "think" GenX "earned" their way, when really Millennials got left holding the bag of the ponzi scheme the Boomers implemented. Hence the generation battle. All of my GenX siblings and in-laws are rolling in the dough in "normal" jobs that only required a high school diploma. Now those same jobs require a fancy degree and an unpaid internship to even have a shot at getting hired. But my husband's degree and unpaid internship was met with unprecedented layoffs so even THAT huge sacrifice didn't pay off. Millennials were SCREWED!!! And Boomers don't want to take accountability for it.
The Greatest generation: 1901-1927 The Silent generation: 1928-1945 Baby Boomer generation: 1946-1964 Gen X: 1965-1980 Gen Millennial:1981-1994 Gen Zoomers: 1995-2009 Gen Alpha: 2010-2024 Gen Beta: 2025-2039 Gen Gamma: 2040-2054 Gen Delta 2055-2069 Gen Eplison: 2070-2084 Gen Zeta: 2085-2099 Gen Eta: 2100-2114 Gen Theta: 2115-2129 Gen Iota: 2130-2144 Gen Kappa: 2145-2159 Gen Lambda: 2160-2174 Gen Mu: 2175-2189 Gen Nu: 2190-2204 Gen Xi: 2205-2219 Gen Omicron: 2220-2234 Gen Pi: 2235-2249 Gen Rho: 2250-2264 Gen Sigma: 2265-2279 Gen Tau: 2280-2294 Gen Upsilon 2295-2309 Gen Phi: 2310-2324 Gen Chi: 2325-2339 Gen Psi: 2340-2354 Gen Omega: 2355-2369
You think us Gen Xers (and boomers) didn't have it hard? Give me a break. A lot of us struggled for years paycheck to paycheck. I worked my tail off day in and day out and never seemed to get ahead. Stop blaming other gens and do something to make a change if you hate your situation so much. Stop blaming. Work hard and vote smart.
@@lovetodance The younger generation doesn’t work half as hard as the older generations. They choose to struggle because they lack good work ethics and most have very little skills. These kids think 40 hours is full time 😂😂
I don't know, what I might have done, as a so called boomer, but I am sorry. I'm sorry that my kids and grandkids have to struggle so much. . . I struggled my whole life and still do. Prices are up for everyone. I realize that young people today try as hard as they can, and I absolutely agree that our government needs more younger people in office. I don't understand why the only options for the president are all so old, I would totally vote for a young candidate. I'm sorry for the state of our society, it seems like everyone is mad or offended by everything, all the time. Wondering if that's what those malignant old codgers in Washington and Corporate media are wanting for us to do. . . ❤
You didnt struggle if youre a boomer. Not like us now. The peak of your struggle will be remembered as the bottom of ours. Your parents generation struggles were worse than yours also. You boomers are ungrateful you do very little your words do not speak louder than your liftimes lack of actions
Ill tell you what my father did. Put his multiple marriages before his kids while allowing the schools to raise us. This created a divide in the generations. He also complained, rightly about liberal spending while also supporting unnecessary foreign wars that cost just as much. He and people like him have allowed the country to fall apart by wasting their political capital on making Iraq, etc. happen instead of fighting the creation of all these new federal agencies. One of tye deeper issues i see with the generation, btw is their hedonism. Its subtle, but you replace sex and drugs with television and serial monogamy, they are moatly all hedonistic hippies who only go to church on christmas while fancying themselves the moral arbiters.
Beautifully done. I know a few (mostly excluded from wealth due to racialization, other intersectional issues, etc) who acknowledge that their conceptualizations of generational behaviour were inaccurate but not the ones capable of participating in redistribution of wealth/power.
I'm 42 and to me, it just feels like one giant pissing contest. Everyone's situation is different. I know boomers who are struggling mightily and I know Gen Z'ers who are thriving
The genz who are thriving come from generational wealth and solid financial backing or got famous on social media. Not many of us who come from poor areas get to leave because we don't have the money to.
@catalyst7707 I don't know what I'm considered, as I was born in 1990. So, I guess I'm a millennial. However, my parents are both poor. I worked harder than anyone else in my 20's. Came from no wealth and can pretty much retire if I wanted to at 34. All I know is when all my friends were having fun in their 20's, I was paying off homes. I worked and worked and had no life. Now I can enjoy the rest of my life without financial stress.
@@ToxicAudri All of my children are hard working, but the struggle is real. I'm born 1961 so I feel real between generations. I try to relate to everyone. We all have something in common and can contribute to making this a better place to live. With an equal amount of caring, compassion and understanding we can do it! I have faith in humanity and I will not give in to name calling and belittling people because of difference of opinion or age. We must work together for our future generations.
@@pixelgirl843 Gen X accountant and financial advisor here. Its not the Boomers fault. They are benefiting from the economy as it existed in the 60's, 70's and present. Blame the elected officials going back to the 70's.
@@Retired_Life_1and what gen has held political majority since the 80's when they were on average in their 30's? Millenials are predicted to hold political majority by 2038, I would be 50 at that time, so 20 years ahead of us on political power for one, also in those 70's what gen was also able to Vote? Boomers. I don't blame all as a whole, my issue is with Boomers who say, just vote them out, how when no one not in others pockets can run without money, or get their message to all gens as Boomers mostly stick to TV news, and FB.
@@Retired_Life_1 it is the Boomers' fault because they pulled up all the ladders that existed in the 60s and 70s and voted for politicians that changed the economy into the nightmare it is for everyone that came after. Stop pretending like they all passively did nothing, and its an "I hate it when that happens" moment when this is the end result of decades of deliberately building prisons and eroding the safety net that wthatthey overwhelmingly supported.
The issue isn’t how boomers are voting it’s more how the younger generation is not voting. Millennials have surpassed boomers by over 2.7 million. However boomers are more reliable about voting.
😂 we are owned by companies and a corrupt caucasians . This is a republic not a democracy. Not everyone has the luxury of free time off of work or the delusion of votes actually doing anything
The issue is that voting is a waste of time and an illusion that you have a say in the matter. You don't. The people we "vote" for are selected, and the people calling the shots have never been voted for and are deeply entrenched in the system. They rule over us based on who has given them the most money to force their destructive agenda on the masses, the filthy peasants. You have no say in anything. These people hate you and want you dead and don't give a rip about how you and your family are struggling. You're supposed to struggle. They aren't struggling, so why do they care if you are? No one is going to save us but ourselves. Voting is a sham that has so many people fooled into thinking putting a letter behind someone's name is going to improve a situation or make it worse. It always gets worse because of the people running the show from the shadows, the Deep State if you want to call it that. Getting worse is how the world is intended to be so you'll put up with any government diktat for a breadcrumb of relief while they tighten the noose further around our necks. There is no political solution. You are witnessing theater intended to keep us divided and fighting amongst ourselves instead of uniting and fighting back against the people who are intentionally destroying us for their personal gain. It's well past time to understand this and wake up. Get involved with your community. Live outside the system so it can't touch you. Become self sufficient. Help others. Turn off the tv and control what media you consume. There's no voting our way out of this mess.
Why vote? They're just going to put in office who they want anyway, and it's more often than not someone twice my age. So why bother? It's a lose-lose no matter who I vote on, because even voting for an independent is bad since they won't get the same chances as some big party
For gawd’s sake, I’m a “boomer” and I hate lumped in with the enlightened, tech unsavvy, and all around ignorant of what’s going on in the world. You also need to understand that many of us are in the exact same situation as millennials. You need to educate yourself as well! I have my tent and sleeping bag ready for the possibility that I will be homeless (around 40% of the homeless are seniors). I agree we really need new ideas. We need new actions. But, don’t keep generalizing!!!
As someone who works with people Gen Z through Boomers, I can tell you that there are workhorses and whiners in every generation, there are problem people and solution people in every generation, and there are makers and takers in every generation.
We’re not talking about generational differences. The trends of one generation will always apply to the next. We’re talking about how, on an statistical level, the current generation has it worse than the boomers, yet they still insist we have it easy
It's not about that. What it's about is the cost of living has been drastically going up while wages have not. If this inflation rate continues then it'll get to a point where no one will be able to afford it, which is close to happening, and is purposely being done. Once no one can afford to live, it makes us vulnerable to the government saying since no one can afford anything then capitalism failed, and will be able to push communism as the solution to a desperate nation. This is the strategy communism has used throughout history. Which is why the company Blackrock is buying so much residential homes that is driving the housing market up. Either way the cost of living is to expensive, and if the inflation rate continues and our purchasing power keeps diminishing then our currency will eventually be worthless. The solution is difficult, but first we need to bring prices down, and need to strengthen our currency globally, which is difficult since now oil no longer has to be purchased with the American dollar in the middle east, only solution I can think of is for us to reopen all our own oil pipelines and start competing with the middle east over oil since we have more oil here than they do and can make it so every country comes to us for it rather than them. Amongst oil if we focus on global trade and strengthening our global relations then our currency should not only go back to being as strong as before but even stronger.
My old parents came to America in their 30s, with me, a little kindergartener. Back then, my dad could just earn $25,000 a year and feed us 3 people, and my mom studied English and worked in the American-Chinese restaurants. Life was good in the 1990s. Chinese immigrants during this time generally didn't want to go back because of the great disparity between the USA and China. Nowadays, it's more of a personal choice. If one can find a job in the US or in China, then one will just follow the job and the money. One doesn't have to work for shit in the US anymore and think that the US is 100% better no matter what. I also think Chinese and overseas Chinese people and other East Asians tend to be very involved in their offspring, and if their offspring is struggling, the elder generation can feel it. Sure, there may still be cross-generational issues, but what's the use? You are still dependent on the kids, and the kids are dependent on you. This kind of interdependency will force people to be more understanding of each other. In the West, people value more independence, and alas, this comes with a price.
I wish this worked. It used to be this way. It is no longer. The government everywhere has gerrymanderd the states so badly that we are being represented by people who have stolen our vote
I'm a gen Xer, who had most scholarships of undergrad and medical school, I only have 180k leftover that wasn't covered by scholarships. but guess what boomers, this MD well never be able to buy a house likely. they outsourced all of us to nurse practitioners. I matched into a fancy 5-6-year long residency which folded. they won't let me sit for a family medicine or general physician type of board exam. they only do residency for 3 years. I did almost 5. there's a lot of doctors like myself who are going to say screw it. somebody's going to have to take care of you as you get older. have fun in a pathetic urgent care type place where you get 5 minutes of attention. at least I can diagnose myself, otherwise I'd be terrified.
I’m so lucky I have parents who are well-off but they GET IT. And they are some of the few out there. They absolutely see what’s going on and are trying to figure out how to help us navigate without making us rely on them (unfortunately, I’m moving back home again at 35 because I’m getting a lower salary with my new job and there is literally no affordable housing in Vermont🙃) Other boomers need to STOP trying to gaslight us into thinking that living at home in your thirties is normal and okay. It’s not!
@@smeghead765Are you going to actually state what is wrong with their statement, or are you just going to imply they are wrong for the likes it’s earning you? All these people love to complain and instead of engaging in anything worthwhile it’s just an endless ocean of editable copypasta and gotcha games.
@@Valaditmore than likely their comment was to soothe their own fragile ego. If it wasn't, they would have elaborated on why the person was wrong in their opinion and tried to educate them. Don't even bother with people like that, your time is precious and they're not worth it. 💛
@@Valadit nah. I'll just leave it at that without elaborating because of my one whole like that I was farming. Just kidding. So every single time I have seen disagreement with Citizens United expressed it all comes down to a claim that the court said corporations are people. (It didn't.) And that such an idea is absurd. (It's not.) First, let's take a particularly delicious nugget and set it to the side. That nugget is the fact that the government's position was that they get to decide what you are allowed to say. Period. Yes, really. They wanted to be able to decide if you were allowed to tell other people negative things about candidates. This was for everything like TV, radio, books, social media. At first they argued that this was only to stop bad actors from lying during campaign season because that might effect the outcome of an election. I mean, duh? That's exactly the point right? If you think one candidate is a really bad choice and you want others to agree with you then you should be allowed to tell everyone why. But when pushed they refused to agree to a set time limit so really they just want to be the permanent arbiters of what you can say about any politician at any time and anywhere. Most commies love this idea because they are inherently anti freedom. Now if you're not one of those then you can already see why CU was correct and you don't need any further explanation. But if you are a pinko then allow me to scare you with this thought: Trump. What if Trump had total control of the government and suddenly decided that you weren't allowed to criticize him for fear of swaying the electorate? Main point numero dos. Most people have a problem with the ruling because they don't like the idea of corporations buying politicians. This sounds reasonable at first until you realize a few things. At the time of this ruling the scale of the 2020 coup was not known so there was still a theoretical need to convince the voters. So buying a politician didn't matter unless you could buy the votes to put them in office first. This places those of the anti CU camp in a very awkward position. Either people can be tricked into believing anything with a couple of commercials (in which case they are too stupid to be allowed to vote) or they won't change their principles for any reason (so nothing to worry about). But none of that really matters because they are opening the book in the middle. Let's back up and start from the beginning. Are you okay with buying politicians at all? If not I have a really spiffy idea you'll love later. Or are you okay with buying politicians so long as it's you who does the buying? Be honest with yourself. There's no trick question here. Because communists love to say they're against the rich but their actions tell a different story. So corporations shouldn't be able to spend money to support candidates that align with their business interests. But individuals can. Which individuals? Well all of them but we both know that's not an even playing ground. The rich can spend much more than the poor which is why poor people pool their money together. If you are against Citizens then you are against poor people pooling their money which is distinctly anti communist. On the other hand all communist ideology is contradictory and nonsensical so maybe I should say it's perfectly consistent. All of these arguments are based on the presupposition that lobbying for special interests will always be a thing. No matter how many laws you pass about bribery these supposed public servants always seem to make tens of millions per year despite being paid nowhere near that much. That's why statists waste time fighting over this dumb shit. The later I mentioned: Instead of fighting over who gets to buy the politicians, what if we made buying them pointless? As long as they have the power to pass legislation that controls businesses and people there will always be a powerful incentive to buy them. If we remove their ability to control anything then there is no reason to buy them. The state is the source of corruption. Eliminate the state and you'll eliminate the corruption.
@@smeghead765All political campaigns should be equally funded based on the position. You don't spend correctly, you can't get your message out, too bad.
Yes!! You explained this perfectly!! I’m 38, and my mother is 62. My mother wants to buy a Mercedes with her house money if it sells. I’m begging her to put something aside for her security should something go wrong, because social security will be gone in ten years and she’s alone. She doesn’t understand she will NEVER get her lifestyle back. The money she will get from this house is NOTHING. It’s a used trailer. It’s not like it’s a paid off brick and mortar. I have a camper in my back yard should she become homeless that she can live in. I’m going to have to take care of her soon
Boomers are delusional. A lot of oldies tryong really hard to get on social security now too as if many people like me vow to never pay into that ram rod scam job ever again.
Gen Xer here, Why do boomers need to apologize and why do they need to help? Isn't apologizing to "you" about your feelings, and isn't helping you feeding into the Mil and Z stereotypes? who cares if they understand and who cares if they apologize, and don't look to them for help, they are grandparents now, they are in no position to help you.
My boomer mom, assuming she is representative of the generation, is incredibly stubborn. I was job searching lately and she insisted that if I wasn't going to each business, in person, multiple times a week, I wouldn't get hired. She didn't care that every company tells you explicitly not to do that, she was right and that was that. That's just one example. She is still in a world that, in her mind, hasn't changed since about 1987.
My Silent Gen parents were like that. They had the craziest ideas about how things worked. The fact that not a single shred of information supported their idea was irrelevant, of course, lol. And I was always confused in their world.
Well, that's because life for her was hard and in order to be able to raise you that's what she had to do ....life wasn't filled with the technology you have today making her struggle obsolete.....Things today are easier in one sense but still struggling, People today have not got the stamina to make it through struggling, sorry to have to say that but it's true. However I agree people shouldn't have to work like we do in order to live on this planet and pay for what nature provides for us.
@@JoysTinyAndHerLife How hard or easy her life was is irrelevant and she is fine with technology. The problem is that she refuses to accept that times and standards change, and she nags to no end if you don't do things the way she thinks they should be done.
@@TheQuantumWave It might help to know that some of it could be that your not seeing all the space between black or white there's a lot of different shades of grey in that space. Perspective through one person's eyes are different then another's looking at the same situation...... Give her some slack remember you wouldn't be here to enjoy this world if not for her.
@@JoysTinyAndHerLife I'm seeing things fine. As I said twice now, she's the one who doesn't see things but it's all moot anyway as I went NC with her this year for a completely unrelated matter but the same issue of her thinking everyone needs to do things the way she would, or they are wrong and need to be told about it at every conceivable opportunity. She thinks I should follow her career advice and since I don't, she nags me to death about it. When that didn't get her anywhere, she called my wife and tried to turn my wife against me by feigning sympathy with her for having to deal with my career choice, which my wife has no issue with in the first place so there's nothing there to even sympathize with. Some moms are just a-holes. After 55 years, the benefit of the doubt has been expended and then some.
I appreciate that things are harder for many of us now. Boomers lived through worse - post WW2 depression, Korea, Vietnam, 20+% interested in the 70s, recessions, etc. don’t expect sympathy from them. We all need to stop the blame game and work to fix it together.
No they didn't you clown they didn't deal with a pandemic. Post WW2 depression you must be confused it's WW1 that was the one that had a great depression after the war and it was the silent generation that dealt with WW1 and the depression after the war the greatest generation was the one before the boomers Americas economy was booming post WW2 Vietnam was gen x stop making excuses for the people who leveraged are future for there own comfort there own parents would be ashamed of what the boomers have left us with.
Okay, I'm a Boomer. I never once thought that the current generation was lazy and I see how hard it is for them to make it in today's environment. But I don't understand what you want us to apologize for or how we can help. Perhaps you haven't noticed that some of the Boomer population is hitting it kind of tough as well. Social security threatened, pensions eliminated or reduced. This is not a generational problem - it's a country problem. And yes we do need to vote better - but we can't seem to agree on who's better.
Whether a rep wins or a dem wins, it doesn't matter because we're all still stuck under the shadow of Reagan. The status quo hasn't changed in decades.
Well wait for project 2025 to come into effect if trump is elected. You want to see changes? Be careful what you wish for! No good will come of it if trump is elected, democracy will be over.
@@daSora_1No, that is the entire problem. For 200 years the value of the Dollar was relatively stable, then we went off the Gold Standard and that is when inflation kicked in. But somehow the buying power of gold/silver remains the same. Hmmm, what does that tell us?
@@kiltedsasquatch3693 inflation is a problem no shit, but it is absolutely NOT the only factor at play I mean seriously how could you say something so obviously wrong. I mean just to point out a single other factor besides inflation that is hurting the housing situation, companies are buying up mass amount of homes and then renting them out. Because of this they gain market control and squeeze out the locals through higher pricing that they can afford to do since there's no alternatives, they bought them all. It's a major problem and there is legislation trying to be passed to prevent this. And that's just a SINGLE example.
I wouldn't say get out of the way but please start allowing Gen Xer and millennials to take control and move forward. If boomers did that and give advice to the next generation I think will move forward. Boomers need to pass the torch to the Gen Xer and older millennials. Boomers holding onto the control is hurting us more than helping.
@@Here4TheHeckOfIt Alot of them, don't even care about that. They literally don't care about anyone else besides themselves. Boomers are the most selfish generation of all time. They're actually worse than Gen z and Gen Alpha.
That's your problem. You care too much about the feels. You keep expecting life to be fair. Who cares what you're feeling. No one ever asked us how we were feeling, did we need a little help, how was school going. We put our heads down. We worked 2, 3 jobs if we had to. I worked fulltime as a security guard while I went to college fulltime carried a 16 unit per semester load. I ended up in the emergency room one night from the stress and the strain. I took one day off and then I pulled my big girl pants back on and went to work because I knew the world would never wait for me. You all need to get tougher.
@@ka6459 And I can empathize with you, Im not claiming that you personally didnt have it hard. On an individual basis we've all struggled. The point that we are making here is that the older generations had such a massive advantage its not even funny. I also made a video proving this; found out that based off of the median income and median housing in 1970 this ratio was about 15%. If you look at 2024 it shoots up to 47%. Meaning that the median monthly housing cost takes up 47% of our monthly median income. The sad part about this, is that if you look at 2019, this 47% was actually 17%, in line with 1970. So only in the last 5 years has GenZ been getting completely screwed over.
I want to stop funding their healthcare and social security until wages are up and housing affordable again like we had in the 90's, until then, they need to be the ones feeling the consequences for their poor leadership.
You’re contradicting yourself. You are to the right when it comes to boomers healthcare, but want leftist policies for yourself. I voted for Bernie. Do you have a problem with that?
Late Boomer '59 (Gen Jones) I was saying this exact thing. We need Gen X and Millennials to get elected to local and federal offices. Term limits are also needed. Im sorry for Boomer mentality that pulled up the ladder for future generations and refuse to get with the current times.
The real problem is people think that all boomers are rich and that there aren’t all the other rich entitled generations who think the same way. Look at Trump, do you think his kids are suffering because things are more expensive??
@@ChadDidNothingWrong a lot of boomers are on social security and struggling to eat. Some of them are homeless. Yes as a whole the boomer generation is wealthier but that doesn't mean all of them are doing well. The richest people I personally know all tend to be fairly young.
@@fafnyrslair My boomer neighbors are disabled and barely surviving in a tiny one bedroom. But most of my parents boomer friends are living well in gated communities, vacationing in Europe, and hanging out at the country club. It's all about statistics. The well-off boomers tend to have well-off millennial kids, because that's just how it works.
Boomers destroyed usa to a level previoualy thought unimaginable. They created grant cardone to scam us with sales pitch propaganda until ebough smoothbrains hand him all their money
Some do. I think getting to a point where they're able to listen is crucial. Making it relatable to the older generation is also important. My mom is as closed off as a locked safe. She hates having to learn anything new. She also hates having her bubble of knowledge popped. So I put it in terms she understands. She loves shopping... I asked her how long the lines are, how many registers were open today? Did you use the self check out. Oh, the lines were super long, and only one register open. "Gee, I wonder why?", I asked her. Did you see any employees walking around while you were shopping? No, there wasn't any employees to be found. I bet they aren't hiring as many cashier's or employees as they used to. I'll bet the self checkouts really save the stores money. Oh, she says that must be it. I told her because they have self checkouts, my kid can't get a job working retail. My mom finally understood, and she says, it's like that in every store now. Then, I asked my mom, what do you propose my kid do for work? She realized at that moment how difficult finding a job really is. She actually felt sorry for all the kids today.
My dad said he was sorry for how poorly he acted while raising me because of the venom my mother whispered in his ear. My mother did the "Im sorry but.." and tried victim blaming woe is me lines, now she's stuck with a child who wont contact and a child who cannot, and sadly my father passed this January.
My boomer mom passed away in January. Several years ago, she made apologies to me about some of the things she did in my brother's and my upbringing. One thing my mom always believed in was keeping up with the times and staying informed and updated with current events. It's something I myself, a Gen Xer, strive to do every day. Keep up or stay lost in time, as my mom used to say.
Its the age old story of old people and their greed! They will quite literally condemn their children and grandkids for money they will never spend and be eaten up by inheritance tax whilst whinging about taxes at the same time of course
Boomers are not a homogenous block, no Gen-Anything is. It's a media troupe that is popular and is shorthand for not thinking through ideas. EVERY generation thinks the younger ones have it easy, EVERY gen. The big difference is we have Social Media to cry on for +1 support and to validate our food choices and pronouns. Get it done, don't worry about social media, instead look to your family and friends for actual support.
I don’t think anyone over the age of 65 should be in Congress, Supreme Court, or Presidency lol. They’re just collecting free money and don’t account for 99% of the country. Also cut the pay for these positions ffs. They should be doing what is best for the country, not making a sizable living off of it.
No deference in age discrimination and race discrimination. You can lump everyone into the same box..It definitely makes a person look childish and poorly educated
So is continuously voting for the same people that destroyed our once great cities and are currently doing the same to the country. But that didn't stop people.
We want Boomers to stop gate keeping a future they're not going to be a part of, while at the same time demeaning us for not paying for their retirement.
JFK did an interview with Piers Morgan. Literally one of the very first things he brings up to Piers-why housing in unaffordable-investment firms buying it all up, etc. But people won’t vote for him because of covid. So whatever.
@@kaygeayla Literally every candidate talks about improving the economy. Improving the economy has nothing to do with these issues unless they are explicitly mentioned. Unless rent control, blocks on multi-billion dollar corporations buying up affordable properties, ensuring social security will stay viable for those who are paying into it, increasing the minimum wage, limiting AI replacement of jobs, etc... are mentioned it's all empty words that improve the economy for those who are already doing well while leaving 2-3 generations of Americans robbed of a shot at the American dream unless they are a statistical anomaly.
Im glad that i have parents and grandparents that offer help because they actually know how hard it is to survive nowadays. Pay rates arent climbing up with the cost of living, minimum wage hasnt even gone up for the last 24 years. We are drowning in debt just to survive or living paycheck to paycheck just being one bad day away from being homeless.
And the reply just prove that some people think they're never wrong ever. If you've never genuinely told anyone "I am sorry", you're a sociopath or a narcissist.
@warweasel2832 we're talking about finances.....not feelings. Why does Diane think she's a victim? People make wrong financial decisions all the time. You don't have to blame others or be a narcissist to figure that out.
I appreciate this. I don't hate boomers, I just want them to understand. I am not lazy and entitled. I am financially literate. I still can't make it.
Agreed while there are some boomers who understand what's going on rn none are in political roles. And it is extremely hard to find a boomer that is understanding what is going on
@@phoebegradert9790 it's not on their news
I hate them
@Kate-rv6kx sometimes I wonder if the only reason they are trying to fix the homeless problem rn is because they are worried that the homeless will start sleeping on the golf courses they like or will start staying outside the expensive restaurants they like
Same thing happened in the boomer era but that does fit his divide the nation agenda.,
The other day, my boomer dad and his friend were talking about how easy our lives are and how we haven't faced real struggles, and to be fair, we're all immigrants, but then I politely retorted with how much of our expenses goes to survival and what our real problems are. My dad's friend listened and changed his tune, saying "he's right, i think he's hit the nail on the head". So I don't know about American-born boomers, but immigrant boomers seem to be willing to understand. They just need us to speak to them in person.
This is something to consider for sure. If they're first generation, being new here wasn't very easy - culture shock, language barrier, and some hostility is not very pleasant.
I think being an immigrant boomer is different, though. There definitely is a lot more struggle tied to the life of an immigrant. For American- born boomers, they don't have much of an excuse in calling us lazy, entitled, and saying we have it so much easier. Too many Americans share the same story of their grand/great grandfathers graduating from highschool and immediately getting a decent job, and carrying on in their twenties with their grandmother staying home to take care of 3 or more children, living in a beautiful and safe house/neighborhood. It has become so difficult to find a decent job, and it's terrible that my generation was told to go into debt to obtain a great paying job, and then it's this hard to find a job paying more than minimum wage? What is going on? Forget all of that- why on earth is it this hard to buy a house now? Our grandparent and great grandparents did not have to go through this. 😊
I can speak on this. One side of family growing up was fresh immigrant, other side all American. Agree on immigrant boomers being more open to hearing you out but they still have alot of the same views/opinions of the younger generations and our struggles at the end of the day. American boomers however… man I had a grandfather who got a massive inheritance, was given 20k a month from his late 20s to his death to do nothing! Man never shut up about how hard they used to work and how this generation just expects all these handouts and who’s gonna pay for these things and blah blah blah. Fox News talk points for days all while enjoying free money from his daddy (who fought in ww2 and then started a successful business) Seriously the boomers are the worst ever. Disgusting vitriol filled generation. They got theirs, the rest of us can eat it.
I thought I read they just need to speak to them in prison. Phew.
American born boomers still think if we stop drinking Starbucks everyday, we can buy a $700,000 house on a $12 paycheck.
I am a Boomer. In 1980, when the minimum wage was seven dollars an hour, a studio apartment in Toronto cost $175 a month. The same apartment now is $1800 dollars a month.
What I want to know is why isn't the minimum wage seventy dollars an hour in Ontario?
Thank you for understanding basic math, something many boomers don’t understand. I had to sit down with my dad and show him how expensive everything is compared to the median income and median household income.
It’s still $7/hr in Texas
Because a cheeseburger at McDonald's would cost $100 that's why.
Minimum wage in 1985 was $3.35 an hour. Where do you get $7.00??
@@alansach8437Toronto..
My boomer mother could not understand why I changed jobs. I got this huge lecture on the importance of company loyalty. She said I was ungrateful for the opportunity.
I attempted to explain that if I continued to go into the office every day, security would remove me. I could get arrested for trespassing. The company I was working for went out of business. The owner took all the money and fled the country with his girlfriend.
I worked at a restaurant back in January and the restaurant was a prostitution ring, the owners were trying to coerce and force me into selling my body , they offered me thousands of dollars to go to New Orleans with them , to have a 3sum, when I refused , the bullying started …..people don’t understand how toxic the workplace can be nowadays. This was a restaurant , in a small , quiet, sleepy mountain town .I quit btw 🙄
The stress, was making it to where I could not eat or sleep… so I had to quit!
Boomers didn’t have to deal with the toxicity, we do !
lol what?? If your mom could not understand why you left, I think she has more issues than just being a boomer…
I was waiting for your story to state that you left because the new job paid you more but instead, it’s because the old boss closed the business out of nowhere and left… how does she not understand lol
@@jdbsoccer100 Once she'd get up on her high horse, even common sense couldn't stop her from tearing into me.
Your mom needs serious help if she can't understand that you can't keep working at a business that doesn't exist anymore @@RR66125
@@RR66125I think your mom is abusive. It’s not about her age
Ooor we should start demanding term limits for EVERY political seat. No more career politicians!
They should also have to go 20 years to get their retirement and their retirement should be the same as the military.
..... and then we can just choose from a bunch of different 80 year old?
@@bigduke2452 not sure who you're replying to or how your comment makes sense to either of ours.
@@bigduke2452 Good point! Maybe along with term limits there should be age limits too!
@@shanzys2cents now we're talking lol
RESPECT! I’m 65. It’s time for the next generation to make the decisions about what they want their world to look like.
Ya, because government officials are going to sacrifice their million dollar pay outs from corporations. Excessive holidays. And top of the line health care.
You're not wrong, but people look out for themselves first. And others when it's convenient. Especially when they are in possession of authority and power.
Don’t forget the insider trading
Boomers, the generation of
"fuck you, got mine"
Well most of them are boomers and they are making their money from selling to millenials and Gen z, hints why they complain that these two generations don't buy anything. Boomers will start losing money if this continues and most will go broke before they die
RFK want's them gone too. He's for strict term limits along with transparency and accountability.
@@rinnypinkthe dude didn’t even qualify for the debates and literally has been medically diagnosed with brainworms. He’s not coming to the rescue lmao
I’m shook. Every time I go to the doctor, they ask if I’ve felt like I might be unable to feed myself or my household within the past month. I always say no, because of pride. But I’m realizing now that only eating once a day and paying rent that costs as much as a mortgage isn’t how life is supposed to be.
@scottierasberry4449 current administration FJB has changed America is less than 4 years. All Democrats say they care but their policies reflect the opposite. True Story. BIDENFLATION
@scottierasberry4449 Democrat policies are the reason why groceries, gas, rent, electricity, and health insurance are so high. The Democrats don't care about your struggles. Actually, their motto is that you will have/own nothing by 2030. Wake up and stop voting for them.
My stepsister's rent in Florida is almost 4 times my monthly mortgage payment in Georgia. I've been telling her for several years to get a house but she "doesn't want the responsibilities."
Most of my adult life ( mid thirties ) rent has cost more than a mortgage if you consider square footage. Both have gone up unfortunately.
@donotneed2250 I live in Central Florida but bought my house in 2020 when mortgage rates were 2.8%. Our mortgage payments are $1,900 a month for a 2000 sq. ft. house on 5 acres. Affordable housing is still available, but you have to want the responsibility of ownership.
I'm a boomer. I'm voting for who I think is best. I can see how hard things have gotten for young people. Most boomers are just everyday working people. A lot of us are still working in retirement because we can't afford to quit. We're stuck in our houses because we can't afford to move. You think it's hard to work everyday? Try working everyday when your 60+ years old.😢
Sucks no doubt...
The issue is that generationally boomers were not socialized in admiting when they are wrong. I'm not saying none of you are able to just saying it is so for a majority. Personal emotions were more valued than rationality. Psychologically it's part of your generation's identity that being in the wrong and admiting it is a show of weakness to be attacked instead of being a strength that push you to do better. And well, identity is the hardest thing to alter. I'm a millenial, we were raised as the generation that was always doing something wrong... on the plus side we can admit is and not attack others when they admit they did something wrong. Again, not all boomers... my mother and her second husband are like that, saying the most inane disprovable thing and when confronted by facts they attack you savagely to protect their perception of self instead of confronting their issues. So ehen it turn to political and social position they are very ill informed about, well they vote for things they believe over things that are true 100% of the time.
My father inlaw thought an average mortgage payment was less than half of what the average payment is. He is 73, retired and no mortgage. No idea of the cost at all.
I remember a comment I read recently where a girl's boomer mom recently got a divorce and had to find an apartment, and was shocked at current rental prices. Her mom hasn't uttered a word of criticism of the younger generations since.
sounds like he did a good job... sounds like you aren't doing a good job so far.
@@erikaw7767 actually I bought my first house in the summer of 2006. So I am doing a very good job thanks.
@@erikaw7767 actually I bought my first house in the summer of 2006, so I am doing a very good job thanks.
@@erikaw7767 sounds like you didn't get the point
I'm a boomer and i appreciate your engagement. You are right, keep it on.
😑 go away
This comment healed something in me.
@@gnarkillgnarkill7725No u
Thank you for your understanding 💚💚
@@enigmaticallis3110 there isn't much to understand but everlasting greed in all men. Nobody will change that ever but catastrophes which will humble us.
I am a female boomer. After listening to this video and reading the comments, thank Christ I never had any kids.
I’m glad you didn’t too
As a millenial though, im also terrified of how people around my age vote, so theres that...
Many millennials I know in my age group vote dem purely because of social policy, not so much because of economic policy. A lot of them are doing so because they fear the republican social policy that seeks to force many of us into conformity.
Voting doesn't do anything
@@HumilityListens It helps to vote in local elections. People only show up every two to four years for large elections, then wonder why everything still sucks in their own backyard. Meanwhile, old folks consistently show up to vote for anything and everything they can, and you bet your ass they're only looking out for themselves.
Voting is the guise and gaslighting that the government does to stay in power.
Lie to the people and tell them they have a say and control, but do everything behind their backs to get away with all the corruption.
American government is CORRUPT af! …and anyone working for them is a f***ing sellout that is part of the problem!
In order to run for any political office, politicians have to raise a certain amount of money. The money comes from corporate donors. The more money the corporations give to "their" politician is what determines who gets voted for.
The more money the politicians raises, the more votes he will get.
Corporations run this country, and they hand pick the politicians they want in office. The government is the mouth piece, but the corporations are the brains.
Corporate America also owns us, and if we can't pay, the corporations will be happy to give us all loans with interest rates they set so we can pay them every dime we have.
Ever wonder why the government doesn't step in and stop price gauging? Because they can't. No politician wants to lose funding from their donors.
There wouldn't be nearly as much conflict between generations if the first shots weren't being fired from the finish line
THIS
Just casually dropping peak literature on YT shorts
Nailed it. Well spoken.
The boomers had it better tha. Their parents and thsir kids because their selfish greedy scumbags. Their parents would be dissapointed in them and the gen x and millenials and gen z hate them they ruined this country and made our lives hell
It's really just magazine headlines you're fighting with. Not a single person my own age went to use the person-check out, while the boomers did, to make sure I had a job, and almost all the talk was about how hard, not just we have it, but they have it themselves, trying to live in this era with a 1970's SS or pension check. And I live in a dead-center middle class area. I just don't see what you guys see, promoted posts and headlines are not representational.
“…vote appropriately”
Who do you want me to vote for, the 78-year-old boomer or the 81-year-old boomer?
The 81 year old Boomer. No question. He has 50+ years of solid experience and the world takes him seriously. The other one has a decades long track record of bungling damn near everything he's ever touched. And the entire world laughs at him. He also displays symptoms of multiple language and cognitive disorders.
How about the Independent Party?
Partisan politics have done more damage than the Taliban.
I would focus more on congress not just US but also in your state.
@@slosh177 that’s not bad but remember that any real change that way takes decades: without the party’s backing any candidate has a huge disadvantage in getting elected. And getting party backing means towing the party line
As a Gen Xer, I'm sick of how Boomers pulled all the ladders up and refused to admit it, and then they refuse to understand the economy today isn't identical to the economy in the 70s.
Um do you not rrmember the government implemented gas shortage in the 70s?? It went by your license plate determined how you got gas. Without gas you cant support your family back then.
Inflation under Biden is what caused our HOT MESS. Trump controlled Inflation to a minimum. A (2.8%) interest rate on my home in early 2020 proves it. Why didn't everyone take advantage of this???
The 70s? Like during the Carter administration? Go look up mortgage rates at that time.
@@josorr 1977- Mortgage Rate 8%
1981 - Mortgage Rate 18%.
DEMOCRATS are fiscally IRRESPONSIBLE. CARTER ADMINISTRATION.
As a later boomer, I have spent my entire adult life watching my paycheck fail to keep up with my costs. Blame the rich who bought the politicians not the generation.
For the people asking what he’s doing about it, well I think he’s doing great even just by informing the public. Having public opinion on your side, even if you’re not a politician, is extremely important. There is not much a single person can do by themselves, but by educating people on what’s going on around us will hopefully get more people to be proactive: act, vote, petition, protest etc. There is power in numbers! Real change can happen if more people became aware of what’s going on and ACT
Informing the public about important stuff like this is really important.
What's he doing about it?
He's making TH-cam videos detailing EXACTLY what it's like, mathematically. Can't argue with math!
@@pixelgirl843 His videos are full of mistakes, from which costs outpace labor to who own rental properties.
@@ms.pirate Oh hell, there's no informing going on. Everyone I know and most of us are boomers have known all of this for decades. Are your relatively young friends so clueless about the world around them that they need informing? Sad if so.
Blame it on drop kids at school (daycare) and keep them away from multi-generational situations like early 1900's households, learning to imitate what society is like, and just stick them with other people their age, and you wonder why young adults can't function?
My Hs had no shop class, no auto repair, no skills based classes at all, no class explains how taxes work, no classes explaining budgeting, and then people like yourself, "well I have this wealth of knowledge, so why don't you do as I know to do?"
Older gens aren't sharing their stories, and then discounting ours, you want respect, we'll respect is earned not given, want to earn respect, tell your story without embellishments, without holding negative aspects of the story, so the moral you use for reasoning can be understood, without it becoming "I did this, skip to the end I was successful, so why aren't YOU working harder lazy kiddo?"
They voted for policies that benefited them back in the 70s-80s, then they got older and had more money, then they voted for policies that protected that money. Problem is.... that screwed over the younger generations.
Money? We're not using money. Federal reserve notes are not money
Be realistic. In the 70s and 80s we were finishing school, getting jobs and career starts, buying homes, starting families. Everyone votes in their interest and no one has a crystal ball to be able to see what will happen over the coming decades. We are concerned for the opportunities of our children and grandchildren and we help them as best we can.
Everyone votes in their own best interest. The whole point of the video is this guy imploring boomers to vote in his own best interest instead of I am 100% certain he is voting in his best interest.
The problem is that politicians are enacting policies that benefit their donors and not citizens. They are owned.
If we voted to have our money, then how come only less than 10% of us have it? ???????? If I voted for money, it sure as shit would have been for everybody.
As a tail end boomer ... please let me apologize you. I do understand the situation and vocalize it to other boomers when I can. Keep up the good work!
If you're a tail end Boomer like me (1960-64), we're not what everyone's thinking of when they hear 'boomer'. We've been called Gen Jones because we got none of the boomer benefits.
That’s so true. We don’t want you to change anything, we want you to get out of the way so that WE CAN.
What a rube, nobody can get out of the way. We are stuck where we are
You can't do anything and nothing needs to change except your victim mentality. Oh btw, we invented all the technology. Knowing how to use an app doesn't make one technologically gifted. Look at all the people your age who are highly successful. There's plenty of them. What are they doing that you're not? Why are they not crying and you are? You want to solve some problems? Start with yourself.
@@rdrdrd7777 Both presidential candidates are senile. They are certainly not stuck.
@@FooFan-b3k 50 years ago you could buy a house on minimum wage. Now you cant even rent a sutdio apartment on min wage. Either post some numbers or shut up. The evidence speaks for itself.
@@aquari_2344 sadly there is nothing anyone can do about these two bozos, I’m certainly not voting for either one of them. Also nothing can be done about their age anyone can run for president at 45 and above. So….have are corporation CEO run for it that’s who is running the country anyway
I'm a boomer the prices today are so HIGH that my dayggter had to move back in with me. She has been trying to purchase a house and even living wuth me she struggles. Term limits should be set for sure. My late husband and i always said the government and world that was being left for our kids was very sad.
I was talking with my boomer father the other day who is well off and collecting social security. He was shocked at how much I pay towards social security and Medicare each month.
I understand why boomers want to get back what they paid into social security. But many of them don’t understand how much more the working class is paying into it now. I would much rather it go into an account I have some transparency and control over, and pay a tax on that when I retire to help my fellow elderly that are less fortunate.
We all can see how badly the system has been managed by our politicians, yet because the majority of boomers don’t want their funds getting messed with in any way our politicians avoid the topic of fixing it at all costs.
I'm 62 and try to explain things to my 85 year old step mom and it goes right over her head.
@@wrightcargleMy father is 77. He is sharp, and does a decent job keeping in the loop but he was shocked to hear that I’m paying over $700 a month on those taxes alone. I make pretty decent money, and so did he, but going over that cost and others he understands a little better why my life looks different than his did at my age.
The boomers think 15k is a house downpayment. Fully senile holding us back
That reminds me: we need to eliminate the income cap on social security withholding. Everyone, especially those that make over $170k/year should be contributing the same percentage of their income into the SS system.
@TheAnnoyingBoss In Danville, Va (for example) you could finagle a 12.5% down payment on an average home value of $115,500 and get in under 15k but with closing costs and everything you're closing in on 18k. But they'll let you finance closing so you could up your monthly payment from $667 to about $800 and swing the under 15k at close on an average home there. There is also Youngstown, Ohio, Fort Wayne, IN , and Hickory, NC to consider.
My dad apologized to me over the price of a paint he recommended. He sent the link and was like “oh I’m so sorry, it was much cheaper when I bought it 20 years ago”
My parents too. They know how hard it is for my kid.
My kid, 18, has just moved out, but doesn't have a job, or a bank account. We all worry about her.
My family doesn't care if she's not working. We'd like for her to come home, get settled into a stable place. Then look for a job, and open a bank account with the money she makes.
This bouncing from one friend to the next is concerning.
@@NinjanimegamerSounds like poor parenting.
@@HaveAHuff sounds more like an adult making their own decisions
@@MeatballYaro2 And who is supposed to teach young adults to make rational, responsible decisions? That's right, parents.
@@HaveAHuff and as an adult, if you decide to be fully independent, and not take advice, then that's on you
Am a Boomer myself, worked 2 Jobs for 10 years, to barely afford a 1 bedroom apt. No it's not your generation. Its 40 Years now of this trickle up economic philosophy that has largely demolished the middle class, and created a situation where even if Dad is working 2 jobs, Mom still has to work. Its nuts,
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But so long as this is seen as a generational issue, and not about class we will not make progress towards fixing this mess.
Funny you should mention 40 years
That's how long certain choice members of Congress have held office.
The rich and powerful love it when the masses fight among themselves.
Yes! Because it means that the masses are distracted.
Word❣️
The average billionaire age is 62 and that includes Zuck
Genex here I'm with you as a mother watching her children struggle to even try to eat I'm with you. It's time to get these dinosaurs out of office😂
Same - GenX with their eyes open
Yessss
Yes please get rid of the tax and spend liberals asap.
Yes please get rid of the tax and spend liberals asap.
@@scrappydog7741you mean tax and spend conservatives (starting with Reagan). Why don’t you educate yourself before spouting Fox News talking points? Dem presidents ALWAYS fix the messes that Rep presidents make. 🙄
And they always told us, don’t worry when we get old and pass away there will be tons of houses for y’all. Which should have been the case, except for all of the freakin corporations and foreign investors buying up all of them in cash. 🙄
Also, by the time that happens it would be to late for most of us to have the families we could finaly afford anyway
“Been in congress 612 years and collecting social security” facts 💯
😂 yes
No, these are NOT facts, are they little fella, these are exaggerations he used to make a point, right? What are you kids like - inaccurate!
@@tezzo55 What percentage of Congress are boomers?
@@squidvis Tell me.
@@tezzo55 I'm not gonna spoon feed you, entitled boomer.
Learn how to research something for once in your life.
Boomers don’t like hearing it, even if it is truthful, because it discredits any hard work they truly invested into succeeding.
@Dave-854 this boomer "doesn't like it" because it evades the real problems.
My nephew eats every meal in a restaurant or does carry out. He is virtually homeless because he "can't afford "
@@tammyhanlon3057 you missed my point entirely, boomer
@Dave-854 no I didn't. It's my broke ass fault you don't have any money. Own what you say or shut your bigoted cake hole. The comment you made is still right there.
Bullshit
It's simple narcissism dude
I’m a boomer and I think younger people work harder than we did… way harder. The only thing I criticize about young people today is that they don’t read and aren’t very intellectual.
I’m a lawyer! I’ve read MANY books. I’m 31… so now I’m advocating with Liberal Party USA 🇺🇸 fueled by an understanding of history, science, philosophy, and case law… in addition to working in politics for a decade. It’s time for a new party with new ideas.
I just started ignoring people who were calling me lazy after explaining to them several times how hard things are now. They need to understand that things are not the way they used to be anymore.
No you many not be lazy but I bet what you call having and needed everyday, my generation called it a luxury. I bet you were 20 before you were on a plane, or I bet you had more then one TV and bathroom in your home or apartment, and that car you drive bet you and wife or husband has one,nope only one for us. And how about that air in you home and car, got them I bet, nope none here.
@@vietnamvet4533 Internet isn't a luxury anymore and I'm not irresponsible with money. Also we only have two tvs in our apartment and we eat mostly at home and with all of that things are still high.
@@vietnamvet4533 dude, WTF is wrong with you? "Bu Bu, But you have the luxury..." NO, THEY DON'T. They can barely afford housing!!
@@pixelgirl843 yeah it's almost as if i blow all my money on shit i don't need and don't put my bills before entertainment. I'm allowed to have things for myself doesn't mean I'm reckless with money. I'm not directing this at you but at the person who assuming how I handle my money. Also I didn't get on plane until I was 25 because I flew back home because I needed somewhere to stay. Oh and also I have developmental disabilities and have to live off wellfare for right now which I HATE DOING but it's hard getting employed when you have no GED and your busting ass to try to better your life so with all disrespect to @vietnamvet4533 piss off.
@@vietnamvet4533 also i don't drive and i live in a crappy one bedroom apartment. When you assume you make an ass out of you and me. Also I walk everywhere unless my girlfriend drives me. I never had a drivers license.
They aren't going to listen
… or go away. They will be voting from the grave at this point.
Its the lead poisoning.
Not true. Born in 1962. I agree with EVERY point made in this video. It's time!!!!!!! Please! amazing techy, educated young people need to be running things. They are the only hope for our world.
For real! My mother does understand things are harder now but she thinks things will turn around or magically be ok.
Yeah, their to stubborn and think their always right, because of "experience" before any of us were born 😮💨
That’s a big one I keep telling everyone, they don’t leave their positions until they’re like 80, like Nancy Pelosi. They don’t want to get out of the way.
My boomer parents used to give me the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” talk when I asked for help while working 3 jobs and still requiring assistance from a food bank.
Then the economy hit them in the wallet. My mom had to take a call center job to keep up with bills. She called me crying, apologizing for not believing me when I told her how hard it was. When I became disabled, my dad apologized as well. Told me he would keep a roof over my head and food in the fridge without question or expectation.
My mom is now home bound with her own medical issues. I help them, they help me. Some boomers have seen reality and are working with their millennial family to survive. My mom has changed her political affiliation to independent and is now in favor of social
programs she once despised. Change can happen. Hopefully more will wake up.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think the internet got my mom to understand the housing crisis. She said it to me once, but we didn't bring it up again.
@@ms.pirate The internet was originally designed to exchange information. It’s the greatest tool humankind has ever devised.
Imagine life before the internet. Before texting. Before a musk rat got his dirty hands on Twitter.
We take the Information age for granted.
Conclusion of your story is ppl change when shit hits their fan
Thank you. I am a boomer and I see how bad things have become. Imagine working and saving and needing to retire, and all of a sudden, everything you worked for and saved is worth less than half of what it was when you were working. Boomers are the largest age group of people becoming homeless.
I am a boomer (both technologically and culturally aware)and I agree with you 1000000000000%. We do not need fossils in government. We need fresh young innovative forward thinkers! Please keep up the great work on your channel.
They never will admit they are wrong.
There are also a lot of expenses boomers did not have that are actually necessities now. Cell phones, computers, and subscriptions to use them. How does one work without those additional expenses? How do you live in most places without a car that needs gas, oil, licenses, and insurance? All things people starting out decades ago, did not need. I am a boomer and blame corporate greed. Stopped income from corporations by cutting taxes, made single family real eatate an investment so corporations start buying up the inventory and stopped building low-income housing for those who are starting out and those who have less skills all because it is leas profitable. This is why we need regulations, corporations are all about profit and could care leas about the workers or the country. Also, allowing a few corporations to run any aspect of life. Groceries about four corps run about 70%; gas a few corps that set the price. That is not capitalism, it is theft from the consumer all for them to accumulate wealth and continue to buy politicians. Maybe one step would be to take person status away from corporations and go back to when they could not donate to politicians; thank the gop for tax cuts for the wealthy and corps and giving them personhood so their donations as their right to free speech....smdh
Four years with a democratic house, senate, and president, and we're in way worse shape than just four years ago, and you want to blame the gop?
TRUTH !!!!
Corporations aren't persons, even legally. They are entities, not persons. If you take that status away there will be no control of them at all.
The development companies where I live are building modest housing, because that's all we hillbillies can afford. The consumer still controls the market.
Things like cars? Well, we've had many car lots dry up and go out of business, because paying new luxury car prices for used cars and/or stripped down new ones wasn't well received here, and we didn't buy cars. The big fancy housing development is sitting there behind its walls, at about a third capacity while the new one with smaller houses is mostly full.
Also, if your job requires you to have a certain technology or tool, they have to pay for it, so go see your HR department and make the arrangements.
It's like Boomers are taking the hit for what the corporations and corrupt politicians have done. Tell me what candidate will do something about corporate greed and corruption and I will support that one.
@@TheQueenRulesAll I've got a cell phone, but no computer. (Personal) No need for one with what's basically a computer in my pocket. Even then, it doesn't have to be an extravagant one nor an expensive monthly bill. And there are free cellphone and wifi plans available literally everywhere in the country. I'd also say that people now have less of a need for a vehicle with public transit everywhere, particularly in places with high rents and housing prices, like NY, SanFran, and LA. Outside of those places, if someone needs a car, like I do, again- it doesn't have to be a brand new one with a $1,000+ monthly operating expense. Corporate greed is part of it, but not as much as keeping up with the joneses is. Far too many people with current year iPhones, nice new cars, and new Air Jordans are watching TV on a 75 inch flatscreen while also receiving government assistance. And blame the GOP all you want, but it wasn't conservatives demanding $20+/hour for fast food workers, and it isn't the GOP that has gas prices and grocery bills 150-200% higher than they were 4 years ago.
I think older generations think that admitting that things are harder now economically will make it seem like they had it easy. No one wants their origin story debunked.
The banksters are your problem. Not the boomers.
The boomers sure are contributing to the problem though.
And the banksters are whom? ✡️
@@spacegirl226 I see you're onto something!
@@spacegirl226 So you're saying every banker is Jewish? Not a single Anglo-Saxon banker, not a single black African banker, not a single Indian banker? Do you understand how unreasonable you sound right now?
@@rockysandman5489 it's only unreasonable if you don't know history. You sound like you don't know history.
I started taking my mom to open houses and showing her the estomated monthly mortgage payment to get her to open her eyes.
Boomers had the best period of usa and made it into the worst possible future for usa who is now basically in a civil war against everything from the element carbon to cruel and inhumane taxes frees regulations costs. They tolerate hyperinflation the boomers have 500k houses with 800 dollar payment they take a loan on. They dont work to reduce they will work to increase it and then complain this is the boomers voting for joe and whe. Theyre 80 they refuse to sell their 40k house for any less than 1.5m. They set it up so its rigged if I want to buy a motel to try to run it the best so i have the highest quality lowest cost rental in town so its worth it everything is set up to work against me because the banks and landlords depend on putting the minimum humanly possible down payment if one even at all in cricumstances as well so what happens is in 1960 and 70 80 90 that wouldve worked because you put 5k down on a 50k house and in ten years it was worth double yoh could just appriase it every year and oull the extra out and you could pay the bill on tbe original 50k and you wouldnt even need a job anymore for a roof over your head alone at least. So a lot of these people would put 10k down on a 100k house and complain about the interest and then in 20 years they had a 250k house and now its a 500k house and i believe it a lot are nice houses the one im in id pay 500k if i had it its a good house but as for people like me by the time i am buying one its going to be a million 2 million dollae house in the cheapest places the boomers will be dead then for good but people like me will have 538 jobs simoltaneously i will need an army of robots to do it elon musk will die dying banking off me like its a sport and i will still be homeless without a house and no kids because i cant afford food and you all fucked this up and turned us into orwells.1984 because you got addicred to money money than reading books ruined the world and died. Maybe if not now when will we change things to where im not burneded with the national debt of every retard who ever lived. You see even boomers demanding their own childrens childrens childrens national debt be used to pay off gender studies degrees because the boomers promoted college for too long to the wrong people whod have been billionares if they didnt send them to college saying theyd be unemployable if not and plunge them into debt. To "become hirable and proven to be trainable" these boomers are so far behind and gave caused many many of the major problems that have driven humanity to the brink all because thet didnt believe in their kid to be able to fill out the online form and pay 10 dollars to register a business to get an id number for tax purposes and open the quickbooks app and take a picture of their recipts when they buy something for the business. They send them instead into 200k in debt for gender studies degree or something else barely nit really useful comapred to real worl ld expirience to "become hirable proven to be trainable on the job" so now instead theyre actually a huge debt liability to the businesses who see them as looking to the business to be the finanial proof the degree was worth it. My business im doing isnt going to be hiring these people I took math classes and didnt get a degree so I cant be sacrificing my businesses financual security in this orwellian shithole nightmare just so some boomers idiot offspring can have a padded ego about their degrees usefulness when theyre actually so useless they come out of college and the only thing they can do in my business is basic accounting and i dont have a degree and i do the accounting marketing i do the inventory i do the actual nitty gritty business building they dont even have the mental comprehension skills for because they never even tried to start a gumball machine business when they were 18. They struggle to understand the stock market they think teslas are efficient envuormentally friendly affordable and reliable and if they think theyre financing this lifestyle off my business im working for free for my business and I am not funding that lifestyle. If they come to my business i will be running smoother than sewing machines expecting me to pay back their harvard business degree while they do the accounting i can do for free while i do everything else for free then they can have fun begging walmart to pay back their degree or perhaps somd other corporation thats om the edge of bankrupcy because too many communist scumbags have propagandized anticapitalist propaganda enough to plunge us into permanent struggling along with the vast numerous other moronic imbiciles who have taken this precious earth that had prosperity and turned it into a tax robbing civil rights abokisbing slabery promoting shithole nightmare with cruel and inhumane interest rates
Has it worked?
@@ak5659 yes!
The age isn't the issue with our modern congress. The issue with modern congress is that without term limits, the most manipulative and greedy people are rewarded for taking advantage of the system and polarizing it to 1 of 2 extremes.
The issue is they all kiss the wall and work for israel. Not america
It’s both.
Congress will never vote to limit themselves.
Agreed the liberals and the Biden crime family are major culprits of corruption.
It is also age. Look how many white heads of hair you see in congress 😂
I was shocked to see how old these people in our govt are....TERM LIMITS! The system was set up to be civil service....you leave your job, serve your country....go back to your job where you would make way more money than being in govt.....the original idea has been flipped on it's head!!
GenX got the last wave of economic good fortune. Hence why Boomers don't pick on them because they "think" GenX "earned" their way, when really Millennials got left holding the bag of the ponzi scheme the Boomers implemented. Hence the generation battle.
All of my GenX siblings and in-laws are rolling in the dough in "normal" jobs that only required a high school diploma. Now those same jobs require a fancy degree and an unpaid internship to even have a shot at getting hired. But my husband's degree and unpaid internship was met with unprecedented layoffs so even THAT huge sacrifice didn't pay off. Millennials were SCREWED!!! And Boomers don't want to take accountability for it.
They did earn their way tho LOL. They have high skilled jobs and you work at burger king😂😂😂😂
The Greatest generation: 1901-1927
The Silent generation: 1928-1945
Baby Boomer generation: 1946-1964
Gen X: 1965-1980
Gen Millennial:1981-1994
Gen Zoomers: 1995-2009
Gen Alpha: 2010-2024
Gen Beta: 2025-2039
Gen Gamma: 2040-2054
Gen Delta 2055-2069
Gen Eplison: 2070-2084
Gen Zeta: 2085-2099
Gen Eta: 2100-2114
Gen Theta: 2115-2129
Gen Iota: 2130-2144
Gen Kappa: 2145-2159
Gen Lambda: 2160-2174
Gen Mu: 2175-2189
Gen Nu: 2190-2204
Gen Xi: 2205-2219
Gen Omicron: 2220-2234
Gen Pi: 2235-2249
Gen Rho: 2250-2264
Gen Sigma: 2265-2279
Gen Tau: 2280-2294
Gen Upsilon 2295-2309
Gen Phi: 2310-2324
Gen Chi: 2325-2339
Gen Psi: 2340-2354
Gen Omega: 2355-2369
So many gen x live paycheck to paycheck, I am one of them.
You think us Gen Xers (and boomers) didn't have it hard? Give me a break. A lot of us struggled for years paycheck to paycheck. I worked my tail off day in and day out and never seemed to get ahead. Stop blaming other gens and do something to make a change if you hate your situation so much. Stop blaming. Work hard and vote smart.
@@lovetodance The younger generation doesn’t work half as hard as the older generations. They choose to struggle because they lack good work ethics and most have very little skills. These kids think 40 hours is full time 😂😂
I don't know, what I might have done, as a so called boomer, but I am sorry. I'm sorry that my kids and grandkids have to struggle so much. . . I struggled my whole life and still do. Prices are up for everyone. I realize that young people today try as hard as they can, and I absolutely agree that our government needs more younger people in office. I don't understand why the only options for the president are all so old, I would totally vote for a young candidate. I'm sorry for the state of our society, it seems like everyone is mad or offended by everything, all the time. Wondering if that's what those malignant old codgers in Washington and Corporate media are wanting for us to do. . . ❤
It’s frustrating because wages haven’t went up and rent is so expensive. It 50% of my monthly salary and I have roommates and a very good job.
You didnt struggle if youre a boomer. Not like us now. The peak of your struggle will be remembered as the bottom of ours. Your parents generation struggles were worse than yours also. You boomers are ungrateful you do very little your words do not speak louder than your liftimes lack of actions
Ill tell you what my father did.
Put his multiple marriages before his kids while allowing the schools to raise us. This created a divide in the generations.
He also complained, rightly about liberal spending while also supporting unnecessary foreign wars that cost just as much.
He and people like him have allowed the country to fall apart by wasting their political capital on making Iraq, etc. happen instead of fighting the creation of all these new federal agencies.
One of tye deeper issues i see with the generation, btw is their hedonism. Its subtle, but you replace sex and drugs with television and serial monogamy, they are moatly all hedonistic hippies who only go to church on christmas while fancying themselves the moral arbiters.
Beautifully done. I know a few (mostly excluded from wealth due to racialization, other intersectional issues, etc) who acknowledge that their conceptualizations of generational behaviour were inaccurate but not the ones capable of participating in redistribution of wealth/power.
I'm 42 and to me, it just feels like one giant pissing contest. Everyone's situation is different. I know boomers who are struggling mightily and I know Gen Z'ers who are thriving
Total sense ❤ x
You should look at distributions, not anecdotes.
Bubble view
The genz who are thriving come from generational wealth and solid financial backing or got famous on social media. Not many of us who come from poor areas get to leave because we don't have the money to.
@catalyst7707 I don't know what I'm considered, as I was born in 1990. So, I guess I'm a millennial. However, my parents are both poor. I worked harder than anyone else in my 20's. Came from no wealth and can pretty much retire if I wanted to at 34. All I know is when all my friends were having fun in their 20's, I was paying off homes. I worked and worked and had no life. Now I can enjoy the rest of my life without financial stress.
I'm a boomer, I'm behind you 100%
I wish more of you gen was, we need all the support we can get to oppose the ststus quo that's destroyed the American dream.
@@ToxicAudri All of my children are hard working, but the struggle is real. I'm born 1961 so I feel real between generations. I try to relate to everyone. We all have something in common and can contribute to making this a better place to live. With an equal amount of caring, compassion and understanding we can do it!
I have faith in humanity and I will not give in to name calling and belittling people because of difference of opinion or age. We must work together for our future generations.
@wrightcargle, Thank you! You're a rare breed.
Your generation enslaved my generation and destroyed usa plundering the prosperity the boomers parents generation created.
@@wrightcargleYou're my dad's age.
I paid a 13% mortgage during the Jimmy Carter presidency. My car was at 16%. As soon as rates dropped, I refinanced. It was rough.
I'd be fine with them just stopping the verbal abuse, bullying, fibbing and outright lying.
You can't talk to them because they don't want to take responsibility for their actions.
@@pixelgirl843 Gen X accountant and financial advisor here. Its not the Boomers fault. They are benefiting from the economy as it existed in the 60's, 70's and present. Blame the elected officials going back to the 70's.
@@Retired_Life_1and what gen has held political majority since the 80's when they were on average in their 30's?
Millenials are predicted to hold political majority by 2038, I would be 50 at that time, so 20 years ahead of us on political power for one, also in those 70's what gen was also able to Vote? Boomers.
I don't blame all as a whole, my issue is with Boomers who say, just vote them out, how when no one not in others pockets can run without money, or get their message to all gens as Boomers mostly stick to TV news, and FB.
@@Retired_Life_1 it is the Boomers' fault because they pulled up all the ladders that existed in the 60s and 70s and voted for politicians that changed the economy into the nightmare it is for everyone that came after.
Stop pretending like they all passively did nothing, and its an "I hate it when that happens" moment when this is the end result of decades of deliberately building prisons and eroding the safety net that wthatthey overwhelmingly supported.
@@Retired_Life_1 Who voted for them?
The issue isn’t how boomers are voting it’s more how the younger generation is not voting. Millennials have surpassed boomers by over 2.7 million. However boomers are more reliable about voting.
😂 we are owned by companies and a corrupt caucasians . This is a republic not a democracy. Not everyone has the luxury of free time off of work or the delusion of votes actually doing anything
@@markhernandez1149 Who votes for either of the likely victors. I don't consider either a winner.
The issue is that voting is a waste of time and an illusion that you have a say in the matter. You don't. The people we "vote" for are selected, and the people calling the shots have never been voted for and are deeply entrenched in the system. They rule over us based on who has given them the most money to force their destructive agenda on the masses, the filthy peasants.
You have no say in anything. These people hate you and want you dead and don't give a rip about how you and your family are struggling. You're supposed to struggle. They aren't struggling, so why do they care if you are?
No one is going to save us but ourselves. Voting is a sham that has so many people fooled into thinking putting a letter behind someone's name is going to improve a situation or make it worse. It always gets worse because of the people running the show from the shadows, the Deep State if you want to call it that. Getting worse is how the world is intended to be so you'll put up with any government diktat for a breadcrumb of relief while they tighten the noose further around our necks.
There is no political solution. You are witnessing theater intended to keep us divided and fighting amongst ourselves instead of uniting and fighting back against the people who are intentionally destroying us for their personal gain. It's well past time to understand this and wake up.
Get involved with your community. Live outside the system so it can't touch you. Become self sufficient. Help others. Turn off the tv and control what media you consume. There's no voting our way out of this mess.
Why vote? They're just going to put in office who they want anyway, and it's more often than not someone twice my age. So why bother? It's a lose-lose no matter who I vote on, because even voting for an independent is bad since they won't get the same chances as some big party
Trump is far better for us than the democrats (im 22)@@googleuser868
For gawd’s sake, I’m a “boomer” and I hate lumped in with the enlightened, tech unsavvy, and all around ignorant of what’s going on in the world. You also need to understand that many of us are in the exact same situation as millennials. You need to educate yourself as well! I have my tent and sleeping bag ready for the possibility that I will be homeless (around 40% of the homeless are seniors). I agree we really need new ideas. We need new actions. But, don’t keep generalizing!!!
We do want them to change things. Just not the past.
As someone who works with people Gen Z through Boomers, I can tell you that there are workhorses and whiners in every generation, there are problem people and solution people in every generation, and there are makers and takers in every generation.
We’re not talking about generational differences. The trends of one generation will always apply to the next. We’re talking about how, on an statistical level, the current generation has it worse than the boomers, yet they still insist we have it easy
It's not about that. What it's about is the cost of living has been drastically going up while wages have not. If this inflation rate continues then it'll get to a point where no one will be able to afford it, which is close to happening, and is purposely being done. Once no one can afford to live, it makes us vulnerable to the government saying since no one can afford anything then capitalism failed, and will be able to push communism as the solution to a desperate nation. This is the strategy communism has used throughout history. Which is why the company Blackrock is buying so much residential homes that is driving the housing market up. Either way the cost of living is to expensive, and if the inflation rate continues and our purchasing power keeps diminishing then our currency will eventually be worthless. The solution is difficult, but first we need to bring prices down, and need to strengthen our currency globally, which is difficult since now oil no longer has to be purchased with the American dollar in the middle east, only solution I can think of is for us to reopen all our own oil pipelines and start competing with the middle east over oil since we have more oil here than they do and can make it so every country comes to us for it rather than them. Amongst oil if we focus on global trade and strengthening our global relations then our currency should not only go back to being as strong as before but even stronger.
@@mikehancho7426bingo!
My old parents came to America in their 30s, with me, a little kindergartener. Back then, my dad could just earn $25,000 a year and feed us 3 people, and my mom studied English and worked in the American-Chinese restaurants. Life was good in the 1990s.
Chinese immigrants during this time generally didn't want to go back because of the great disparity between the USA and China. Nowadays, it's more of a personal choice. If one can find a job in the US or in China, then one will just follow the job and the money. One doesn't have to work for shit in the US anymore and think that the US is 100% better no matter what.
I also think Chinese and overseas Chinese people and other East Asians tend to be very involved in their offspring, and if their offspring is struggling, the elder generation can feel it. Sure, there may still be cross-generational issues, but what's the use? You are still dependent on the kids, and the kids are dependent on you. This kind of interdependency will force people to be more understanding of each other.
In the West, people value more independence, and alas, this comes with a price.
Run for office, get in and make change. We need more practical voices...
It doesn't work that way, unfortunately. You have to have backers with deep pockets. That is the nature of our political system: absolute corruption..
I wish this worked. It used to be this way. It is no longer. The government everywhere has gerrymanderd the states so badly that we are being represented by people who have stolen our vote
Oh? Its that easy?
The establishment (Boomers) aint letting anyone in who will not play ball.
Takes money, and thats money we dont have.
Practical voices get killed. And I meant that literally.
My dad tells me that prior to reagan, the majority of non-fastfood jobs offered free health insurance.
Healthcare wasn't free, it was paid for by your labor.
Prior to 1960 there was no reason for healthcare to exist. And there still isn't. Healthcare is widely just a scam used to rob you blind
I'm a gen Xer, who had most scholarships of undergrad and medical school, I only have 180k leftover that wasn't covered by scholarships. but guess what boomers, this MD well never be able to buy a house likely. they outsourced all of us to nurse practitioners. I matched into a fancy 5-6-year long residency which folded. they won't let me sit for a family medicine or general physician type of board exam. they only do residency for 3 years. I did almost 5.
there's a lot of doctors like myself who are going to say screw it. somebody's going to have to take care of you as you get older. have fun in a pathetic urgent care type place where you get 5 minutes of attention. at least I can diagnose myself, otherwise I'd be terrified.
I’m so lucky I have parents who are well-off but they GET IT. And they are some of the few out there. They absolutely see what’s going on and are trying to figure out how to help us navigate without making us rely on them (unfortunately, I’m moving back home again at 35 because I’m getting a lower salary with my new job and there is literally no affordable housing in Vermont🙃) Other boomers need to STOP trying to gaslight us into thinking that living at home in your thirties is normal and okay. It’s not!
They dont get it dude. Theyre old they dont get it. They bought every scam they dont get it dude
Or.... Here is just a radical idea... Get ready... STOP SPENDING MONEY WE DON'T HAVE! STOP VOTING FOR PEOPLE WHO BLOW OUT THE BUDGET ON "FREE" CRAP!
OMG! Thank you for saying this without putting anyone down! This is completely the truth.
Get. Rid. Of. The. Citizens. United. Ruling... Now.
Tell me you don't understand that ruling without actually telling me.
@@smeghead765Are you going to actually state what is wrong with their statement, or are you just going to imply they are wrong for the likes it’s earning you?
All these people love to complain and instead of engaging in anything worthwhile it’s just an endless ocean of editable copypasta and gotcha games.
@@Valaditmore than likely their comment was to soothe their own fragile ego. If it wasn't, they would have elaborated on why the person was wrong in their opinion and tried to educate them. Don't even bother with people like that, your time is precious and they're not worth it. 💛
@@Valadit nah. I'll just leave it at that without elaborating because of my one whole like that I was farming.
Just kidding. So every single time I have seen disagreement with Citizens United expressed it all comes down to a claim that the court said corporations are people. (It didn't.) And that such an idea is absurd. (It's not.)
First, let's take a particularly delicious nugget and set it to the side. That nugget is the fact that the government's position was that they get to decide what you are allowed to say. Period. Yes, really. They wanted to be able to decide if you were allowed to tell other people negative things about candidates. This was for everything like TV, radio, books, social media. At first they argued that this was only to stop bad actors from lying during campaign season because that might effect the outcome of an election. I mean, duh? That's exactly the point right? If you think one candidate is a really bad choice and you want others to agree with you then you should be allowed to tell everyone why. But when pushed they refused to agree to a set time limit so really they just want to be the permanent arbiters of what you can say about any politician at any time and anywhere. Most commies love this idea because they are inherently anti freedom. Now if you're not one of those then you can already see why CU was correct and you don't need any further explanation. But if you are a pinko then allow me to scare you with this thought: Trump. What if Trump had total control of the government and suddenly decided that you weren't allowed to criticize him for fear of swaying the electorate?
Main point numero dos. Most people have a problem with the ruling because they don't like the idea of corporations buying politicians. This sounds reasonable at first until you realize a few things. At the time of this ruling the scale of the 2020 coup was not known so there was still a theoretical need to convince the voters. So buying a politician didn't matter unless you could buy the votes to put them in office first. This places those of the anti CU camp in a very awkward position. Either people can be tricked into believing anything with a couple of commercials (in which case they are too stupid to be allowed to vote) or they won't change their principles for any reason (so nothing to worry about). But none of that really matters because they are opening the book in the middle. Let's back up and start from the beginning. Are you okay with buying politicians at all? If not I have a really spiffy idea you'll love later. Or are you okay with buying politicians so long as it's you who does the buying? Be honest with yourself. There's no trick question here. Because communists love to say they're against the rich but their actions tell a different story. So corporations shouldn't be able to spend money to support candidates that align with their business interests. But individuals can. Which individuals? Well all of them but we both know that's not an even playing ground. The rich can spend much more than the poor which is why poor people pool their money together. If you are against Citizens then you are against poor people pooling their money which is distinctly anti communist. On the other hand all communist ideology is contradictory and nonsensical so maybe I should say it's perfectly consistent. All of these arguments are based on the presupposition that lobbying for special interests will always be a thing. No matter how many laws you pass about bribery these supposed public servants always seem to make tens of millions per year despite being paid nowhere near that much. That's why statists waste time fighting over this dumb shit.
The later I mentioned: Instead of fighting over who gets to buy the politicians, what if we made buying them pointless? As long as they have the power to pass legislation that controls businesses and people there will always be a powerful incentive to buy them. If we remove their ability to control anything then there is no reason to buy them. The state is the source of corruption. Eliminate the state and you'll eliminate the corruption.
@@smeghead765All political campaigns should be equally funded based on the position. You don't spend correctly, you can't get your message out, too bad.
Yes!! You explained this perfectly!! I’m 38, and my mother is 62. My mother wants to buy a Mercedes with her house money if it sells. I’m begging her to put something aside for her security should something go wrong, because social security will be gone in ten years and she’s alone. She doesn’t understand she will NEVER get her lifestyle back. The money she will get from this house is NOTHING. It’s a used trailer. It’s not like it’s a paid off brick and mortar. I have a camper in my back yard should she become homeless that she can live in. I’m going to have to take care of her soon
Boomers are delusional. A lot of oldies tryong really hard to get on social security now too as if many people like me vow to never pay into that ram rod scam job ever again.
Social Security will NOT be gone in ten years or EVER if you elect the right Congressmen and Senators.
@@calamityjean1525 hahaha right. Y’all say this every election. Both parties say this but nothing ever changes.
She sounds financially irresponsible
@@BreezybriefswithBrooke totally. She always had been.
Oh my goodness bro your content is a breath of fresh air. Can’t believe I’m new to this channel
Gen Xer here, Why do boomers need to apologize and why do they need to help? Isn't apologizing to "you" about your feelings, and isn't helping you feeding into the Mil and Z stereotypes? who cares if they understand and who cares if they apologize, and don't look to them for help, they are grandparents now, they are in no position to help you.
My boomer mom, assuming she is representative of the generation, is incredibly stubborn. I was job searching lately and she insisted that if I wasn't going to each business, in person, multiple times a week, I wouldn't get hired. She didn't care that every company tells you explicitly not to do that, she was right and that was that. That's just one example. She is still in a world that, in her mind, hasn't changed since about 1987.
My Silent Gen parents were like that. They had the craziest ideas about how things worked. The fact that not a single shred of information supported their idea was irrelevant, of course, lol. And I was always confused in their world.
Well, that's because life for her was hard and in order to be able to raise you that's what she had to do ....life wasn't filled with the technology you have today making her struggle obsolete.....Things today are easier in one sense but still struggling, People today have not got the stamina to make it through struggling, sorry to have to say that but it's true. However I agree people shouldn't have to work like we do in order to live on this planet and pay for what nature provides for us.
@@JoysTinyAndHerLife How hard or easy her life was is irrelevant and she is fine with technology. The problem is that she refuses to accept that times and standards change, and she nags to no end if you don't do things the way she thinks they should be done.
@@TheQuantumWave It might help to know that some of it could be that your not seeing all the space between black or white there's a lot of different shades of grey in that space. Perspective through one person's eyes are different then another's looking at the same situation...... Give her some slack remember you wouldn't be here to enjoy this world if not for her.
@@JoysTinyAndHerLife I'm seeing things fine. As I said twice now, she's the one who doesn't see things but it's all moot anyway as I went NC with her this year for a completely unrelated matter but the same issue of her thinking everyone needs to do things the way she would, or they are wrong and need to be told about it at every conceivable opportunity. She thinks I should follow her career advice and since I don't, she nags me to death about it. When that didn't get her anywhere, she called my wife and tried to turn my wife against me by feigning sympathy with her for having to deal with my career choice, which my wife has no issue with in the first place so there's nothing there to even sympathize with. Some moms are just a-holes. After 55 years, the benefit of the doubt has been expended and then some.
August 15, 1971 USA going off the gold standard was the first day towards where you see asset prices today
I appreciate that things are harder for many of us now. Boomers lived through worse - post WW2 depression, Korea, Vietnam, 20+% interested in the 70s, recessions, etc. don’t expect sympathy from them. We all need to stop the blame game and work to fix it together.
No they didn't you clown they didn't deal with a pandemic.
Post WW2 depression you must be confused it's WW1 that was the one that had a great depression after the war and it was the silent generation that dealt with WW1 and the depression after the war the greatest generation was the one before the boomers Americas economy was booming post WW2 Vietnam was gen x stop making excuses for the people who leveraged are future for there own comfort there own parents would be ashamed of what the boomers have left us with.
Post WW2 depression? Not sure what you mean, that was when the economy was booming.
@@midnight816 he's a boomer trying to steal the achievements of the silent generation so doing what Boomer's typically do
@@midnight816Not in post WW2 Europe and in the 70s in America.
My rent in the 80's was under 300. Now you add a grand to it for the same space. It's affecting me too. Corporate greed is strangling is all.
What was the pay in the 80s for your profession, though?
Okay, I'm a Boomer. I never once thought that the current generation was lazy and I see how hard it is for them to make it in today's environment. But I don't understand what you want us to apologize for or how we can help. Perhaps you haven't noticed that some of the Boomer population is hitting it kind of tough as well. Social security threatened, pensions eliminated or reduced. This is not a generational problem - it's a country problem. And yes we do need to vote better - but we can't seem to agree on who's better.
Whether a rep wins or a dem wins, it doesn't matter because we're all still stuck under the shadow of Reagan. The status quo hasn't changed in decades.
Well wait for project 2025 to come into effect if trump is elected. You want to see changes? Be careful what you wish for! No good will come of it if trump is elected, democracy will be over.
Darn neoliberalism.
The problem is that we keep letting the government devalue our money
That’s part of the problem but that is just one small piece of a very complicated puzzle
@@daSora_1No, that is the entire problem. For 200 years the value of the Dollar was relatively stable, then we went off the Gold Standard and that is when inflation kicked in.
But somehow the buying power of gold/silver remains the same. Hmmm, what does that tell us?
@@kiltedsasquatch3693 inflation is a problem no shit, but it is absolutely NOT the only factor at play I mean seriously how could you say something so obviously wrong. I mean just to point out a single other factor besides inflation that is hurting the housing situation, companies are buying up mass amount of homes and then renting them out. Because of this they gain market control and squeeze out the locals through higher pricing that they can afford to do since there's no alternatives, they bought them all. It's a major problem and there is legislation trying to be passed to prevent this. And that's just a SINGLE example.
@@daSora_1 what is inflation?
@@kiltedsasquatch3693 no rebuttal huh
I wouldn't say get out of the way but please start allowing Gen Xer and millennials to take control and move forward. If boomers did that and give advice to the next generation I think will move forward. Boomers need to pass the torch to the Gen Xer and older millennials. Boomers holding onto the control is hurting us more than helping.
Boomers have been telling you that these new policies are stifling. You didn't listen because it felt good and you want them to say sorry
Exactly
They rode through life on a gilded high horse and criticized us for being slow in the mud.
“PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ HAS SPOKEN!!!”-Baby Boomers
They will never do that
They don't want to admit that they screwed things up for the future.
@@spades1288 No, they just don't care
It will ruin their image of themselves of some tough person who made it after sooo many struggles. In short, it's an ego's tale.
@@Here4TheHeckOfIt Alot of them, don't even care about that. They literally don't care about anyone else besides themselves. Boomers are the most selfish generation of all time. They're actually worse than Gen z and Gen Alpha.
@@spades1288 Even if we did so what? Get on with your life and do something productive
That's the only thing we want...empathy.
WHY???
@@kawmort Because GenZ is constantly told we are lazy, when in reality we are just demoralized.
I want a livable wage and an affordable house.
That's your problem. You care too much about the feels. You keep expecting life to be fair. Who cares what you're feeling. No one ever asked us how we were feeling, did we need a little help, how was school going. We put our heads down. We worked 2, 3 jobs if we had to. I worked fulltime as a security guard while I went to college fulltime carried a 16 unit per semester load. I ended up in the emergency room one night from the stress and the strain. I took one day off and then I pulled my big girl pants back on and went to work because I knew the world would never wait for me. You all need to get tougher.
@@ka6459 And I can empathize with you, Im not claiming that you personally didnt have it hard. On an individual basis we've all struggled.
The point that we are making here is that the older generations had such a massive advantage its not even funny.
I also made a video proving this; found out that based off of the median income and median housing in 1970 this ratio was about 15%. If you look at 2024 it shoots up to 47%. Meaning that the median monthly housing cost takes up 47% of our monthly median income. The sad part about this, is that if you look at 2019, this 47% was actually 17%, in line with 1970.
So only in the last 5 years has GenZ been getting completely screwed over.
This guy for president! Or at least a congressional seat! Where are you located because you’re my write in candidate?
WE WANT A SINCERE APOLOGY AND AN END TO THE MOCKERY.
I want to stop funding their healthcare and social security until wages are up and housing affordable again like we had in the 90's, until then, they need to be the ones feeling the consequences for their poor leadership.
You’re contradicting yourself. You are to the right when it comes to boomers healthcare, but want leftist policies for yourself. I voted for Bernie. Do you have a problem with that?
You can rescind your social security number at any point. Get a book called vultures in eagles clothing
@@VM-oi3dkyes I have a huge problem with you voting for Bernie. Every single thing Bernie wants to do is called socialism and its enslavement
@@VM-oi3dkI have a problem with that. Trumps approach to the economy is far better than gutting the system to have it collapse within a generation
Late Boomer '59 (Gen Jones) I was saying this exact thing. We need Gen X and Millennials to get elected to local and federal offices. Term limits are also needed. Im sorry for Boomer mentality that pulled up the ladder for future generations and refuse to get with the current times.
The real problem is people think that all boomers are rich and that there aren’t all the other rich entitled generations who think the same way. Look at Trump, do you think his kids are suffering because things are more expensive??
And why are things more expensive?
Um....they are rixh compared to us.
Also whatndoes trumps kids have to do with anything. Theres always been wealthy families bro
@@ChadDidNothingWrong a lot of boomers are on social security and struggling to eat. Some of them are homeless. Yes as a whole the boomer generation is wealthier but that doesn't mean all of them are doing well. The richest people I personally know all tend to be fairly young.
@@fafnyrslair My boomer neighbors are disabled and barely surviving in a tiny one bedroom. But most of my parents boomer friends are living well in gated communities, vacationing in Europe, and hanging out at the country club. It's all about statistics. The well-off boomers tend to have well-off millennial kids, because that's just how it works.
I can't barely afford to eat and I'm 32 years old, it's all a joke
Honestly they don’t care
Boomers destroyed usa to a level previoualy thought unimaginable. They created grant cardone to scam us with sales pitch propaganda until ebough smoothbrains hand him all their money
Some do. I think getting to a point where they're able to listen is crucial. Making it relatable to the older generation is also important.
My mom is as closed off as a locked safe. She hates having to learn anything new. She also hates having her bubble of knowledge popped. So I put it in terms she understands. She loves shopping...
I asked her how long the lines are, how many registers were open today? Did you use the self check out.
Oh, the lines were super long, and only one register open.
"Gee, I wonder why?", I asked her.
Did you see any employees walking around while you were shopping?
No, there wasn't any employees to be found.
I bet they aren't hiring as many cashier's or employees as they used to. I'll bet the self checkouts really save the stores money.
Oh, she says that must be it.
I told her because they have self checkouts, my kid can't get a job working retail.
My mom finally understood, and she says, it's like that in every store now.
Then, I asked my mom, what do you propose my kid do for work?
She realized at that moment how difficult finding a job really is. She actually felt sorry for all the kids today.
Life is full of choices.
Choices have consequences.
Choose wisely.
Stop playing the "poor me" victim card
Every generation thinks they are going to "turn this country around".
"We just want them to understand..."
Amen.
My dad said he was sorry for how poorly he acted while raising me because of the venom my mother whispered in his ear. My mother did the "Im sorry but.." and tried victim blaming woe is me lines, now she's stuck with a child who wont contact and a child who cannot, and sadly my father passed this January.
My boomer mom passed away in January. Several years ago, she made apologies to me about some of the things she did in my brother's and my upbringing. One thing my mom always believed in was keeping up with the times and staying informed and updated with current events. It's something I myself, a Gen Xer, strive to do every day. Keep up or stay lost in time, as my mom used to say.
And that is how you turn a person from an ally into an opponent
Its the age old story of old people and their greed! They will quite literally condemn their children and grandkids for money they will never spend and be eaten up by inheritance tax whilst whinging about taxes at the same time of course
Boomers are not a homogenous block, no Gen-Anything is. It's a media troupe that is popular and is shorthand for not thinking through ideas. EVERY generation thinks the younger ones have it easy, EVERY gen. The big difference is we have Social Media to cry on for +1 support and to validate our food choices and pronouns. Get it done, don't worry about social media, instead look to your family and friends for actual support.
I don’t think anyone over the age of 65 should be in Congress, Supreme Court, or Presidency lol. They’re just collecting free money and don’t account for 99% of the country. Also cut the pay for these positions ffs. They should be doing what is best for the country, not making a sizable living off of it.
So, age discrimination is what you want.
Many of them are still working...
Also they are still the largest population by age...
We want them to stop voting like its 1965
Don't go to college if it's not cost effective. Where are these young politicians. I'll vote for them but I only saw Trump and Biden on the ballot
Generational hate is really stupid.
I do wish his videos were less boomer targeted, but maybe that's just me. I think he gives good info and is raising good awareness though.
Age is something we can never escape. He who takes the most trips around the sun, wins.
@@kiltedsasquatch3693 It seems we agree on the important bits, so you will have to deal with my wording, friend.
No deference in age discrimination and race discrimination. You can lump everyone into the same box..It definitely makes a person look childish and poorly educated
So is continuously voting for the same people that destroyed our once great cities and are currently doing the same to the country. But that didn't stop people.
"JUST STOP BEING ANNOYING. Please"
We want Boomers to stop gate keeping a future they're not going to be a part of, while at the same time demeaning us for not paying for their retirement.
The problem is that we don't even have a candidate that is even talking about these issues in any regard.
JFK did an interview with Piers Morgan. Literally one of the very first things he brings up to Piers-why housing in unaffordable-investment firms buying it all up, etc. But people won’t vote for him because of covid. So whatever.
Vivek!!! He was talking about all of this! He's a Millennial!
I'm pretty sure trump is addressing the economy and cost of living
Can you not become a candidate?
@@kaygeayla
Literally every candidate talks about improving the economy. Improving the economy has nothing to do with these issues unless they are explicitly mentioned.
Unless rent control, blocks on multi-billion dollar corporations buying up affordable properties, ensuring social security will stay viable for those who are paying into it, increasing the minimum wage, limiting AI replacement of jobs, etc... are mentioned it's all empty words that improve the economy for those who are already doing well while leaving 2-3 generations of Americans robbed of a shot at the American dream unless they are a statistical anomaly.
My boomer parents are 1000% part of the problem. Somehow they think they are always right and none of the problems are their generations fault.
What did your parents do to you
@@kimjones2056 birth him
@@loft777 her name is Jennifer
@@Jennifermcintyre maybe you lack the wisdom your parents have.
Im glad that i have parents and grandparents that offer help because they actually know how hard it is to survive nowadays. Pay rates arent climbing up with the cost of living, minimum wage hasnt even gone up for the last 24 years. We are drowning in debt just to survive or living paycheck to paycheck just being one bad day away from being homeless.
I have never heard a boomer say 'Iam sorry' and probably never will.
What kind of a scenario do you have running in your head?
@@dianelundrigan631 why would they have to say sorry??
And the reply just prove that some people think they're never wrong ever. If you've never genuinely told anyone "I am sorry", you're a sociopath or a narcissist.
@warweasel2832 we're talking about finances.....not feelings. Why does Diane think she's a victim? People make wrong financial decisions all the time. You don't have to blame others or be a narcissist to figure that out.
Not ever if you demand it.