The fact that he said ”these kids don’t want to work a shitty job and live in a shitty apartment” says it all. Nowadays, its 2-3 shitty jobs, to live in a shitty apartment with a bunch of roommates.
at least he gets the economy sucks and it is easy to spot he uses it to make fun of those that don't wanna live like that. "You don't want to suffer what WE had to suffer, how dare you!" > that's actually why some things don't change. Because what people suffered through and no longer have to go through, they don't care about changing even though they wished it had when they had to go through it and when people find ways to avoid that, they don't like that.
Hell, I make roughly the average American salary (42k or so) and I can only afford half of my mediocre apartment. Don't know how anyone ever expects someone to truly function independently when certain parts of the world mandate you make six figures to do so.
@@raffy234 Bill Maher ever suffered a day in his life? Read his Wikipedia page, the guy went from a middle-class home to the Ivy League. He was the host at Catch a Rising Star a year after he graduated from Cornell. I strongly doubt he ever had an apartment where he had nothing but a mattress on the floor and all his clothes in a pile in the corner while shuffling back and forth from his day job as a cook at Denny's and his night job delivering pizza.
originally I wanted to be a content creator but now i have to quit and get a lower paying less fulfilling job because this old guy said i’m weird for it
Reminder: When Bill Maher refers to "enduring those early shitty jobs", he specifically means when he sold weed in college. Literally the closest to a real job he's had.
Is that because it was in the parking lot of a 7/11, a place people where doing actual jobs? (The joke is that I took the term closest and used it literally) Thank you I'll be here all week.
Well, actually, it's not too bad. It's all about your mentality. There's gonna be shit customers, obviously, but I generally remember very little about them. I've been working at a walmart for a year and a half, which, granted, isn't a long time, but while I don't love my job, it's fine. I get cash at the end of the day, so whatever. Plus, in my walmart, I've been told that the section I work in is one of the worst because of the managers, which are total cunts. Most women end up quitting or switching from my department after a few months, but the guys only last about 1 or 2 weeks tops, which I found weird, but I found out from my coworkerd that the reason why they leave is because the managers are not just cunts, but also sexist towards men, which makes sense in retrospect, since they treat me a bit worse than everyone else, I've noticed. On top of that, I'm not even an adult yet, and they're old ladies, so that's another strike against me in their eyes. Even so, I don't really care, I still like my job and I'm not switching departments, somewhat because I'm okay with my spot, and also because I just want to spite them by staying lol. So far, im the guy who lasted the longest, by a mile, and I have a feeling that pisses them off. So, again, if you perceive it as bad, it will be bad, but if you stop caring, all of a sudden, it gets better, so people who say retail is horrible, yeah, in terms of pay, it's not gonna be sustainable long term, but as a teenager who's just trying to hustle, hell yeah!
@@cabbagedemon5944 well, you gotta pay based on how much it's worth. Working at a walmart is very easy, there's almost nothing to worry about as long as you just do your job. The thing is, working retail is something that really mostly requires a large quantity of employees, not high quality. If I owned the Walmart, I wouldn't pay much, because it isnt a hard job, and I can find new hires everywhere. Now, if I really need new hires, I'll pay a bit more. But if I'm not pressed for employees, im going to keep it low. I can't spend that much money on so many employees, that would cost me thousands that I need to pay taxes, property fees, money for new orders, the shipment, a bunch of shit. And if someone really needs money, well, they can just ask for more hours, that's what I do when I have a lot of time off, I work full time. Otherwise, I keep it at a minimum because college is important and I can afford to lose the job if I have to. You could also get more money by taking more responsibilities too, like my managers. They do the same thing that I do, but they also have to count the boxes, organize tasks, that sort of thing. So there's options. And, of course, if that doesn't work out, find another job. I hear Costco's pay a LOT of cash, they're just very strict, so if you can handle the pressure, go there. Plus, since we're in a shortage of employees, any retail place would be more than happy to welcome you, Costco probably included
@@TheRealBlazingDiamond the company has deemed the job the employees are doing as necessary. Otherwise, those positions wouldn't exist. So why should somebody doing something the company has deemed as necessary not be paid enough to support themselves? Work is a transactional process. You, as the worker, only have one thing you can sell the company: Your time. You give them your time. They give you currency. Also, my time is more important than your job. It should be on the employer to actually draw people in, not the other way around.
Also, didn't his generation normalize backpacking across Europe in their mid-20s? Isn't this just the same thing, except more domestic and being able to publicly share pictures?
Bill Maher strikes me as the type of adult--let alone comedian--to see what the youth's interests are & what they're invested in, and before even considering their perspectives on anything, he decides to make bitter-sounding lame ass humor positioned from the view of a geezer who *barely* remembers what being young was like. then he reiterates those weak ass unfunny points to other geezers whose entire post-retirement personality are being old and crabby
@@droomzy im poor and my life sucks but I genuinely prefer it to what you describe because I couldn't live with myself. What a pitiful and cowardly way to be.
@@Loctorak agreed my boy! & I hope your life situation begins to improve; the mentality is a key aspect, & from the look of it you at least aren't bitter about other people's lifestyles so you're clearly doing *something* right! wish you the best 🤞🏾
WELL YES, AND ASIA AND Latine America and anywhere else. Preferably cheap places with lots of cheap drugs. But back then, you could tune in, turn on, drop out, wander around, drop back in, and often still build a middle-class life. That is not so easy now. But they did not start it. There are great writers who have written about their wanderings going back to the 18th century, and in some cases, long before that.
I am fortunate enough that my Great Grandfather is not just still alive, but at 103 years old he's still relatively aware and able to interact with people. He's a great guy. More relevantly, he was born in 1920, seven years before the first television, and so directly got to see the rise of TV as a medium, and the 'boom' of movies (although movies already existed when he was born, they didn't start catching on in America until 1910, and didn't become "big" until the 20's). Because he likes keeping up with the world, he does watch Bill Maher and other people of the sort. I asked him about this, and he had a few things to say: most notably that the arguments Maher (and others like him) are bringing up against Influencers are almost the EXACT same arguments he heard being used against TV and movie stars growing up. That they aren't doing any real work, that their popularity is negatively influencing the youth to be lazy, that it's "easy money", etc. ALL of them are almost exact repeats of a hundred-year-old argument. As the man himself said, with the unique perspective of his age: Their names may sound alike, but Bill Maher isn't a modern Jack Paar, even if he thinks he is.
That's super interesting but not surprising. It's unfortunate how many arguments like this never go away but instead just change topics. IIRC, the same arguments made claiming violent video games causing violence was also used against guys like Shakespeare
I love how they call working class lazy and simultaneously tell them if they got a better job their situation would improve. Then immediately decry them for taking those steps.
I work in retail and there is a nationwide shortage of retail workers, and honestly I support it. It’s people realizing that it’s just not worth it anymore after the hell the past nearly 2 years has been for us. The amount of boomers I get bitching that we are short staffed and “no one wants to work anymore” is fucking insane. They simultaneously tell us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, if we want better pay get a better job, minimum wage jobs are meant for teenagers and blah blah blah then when an ass load of workers quit to get that better job then Karen is angry she can’t try on because we are so short staffed we can’t have the fitting rooms open or we reduced our hours of operation because we don’t have the staff to be open our normal 12 hour days. It’s bullshit. They can’t have it both ways
That would imply upward class mobility is a possibility in the traditional job market. 🤣 Younger people look at wealthy influencers and see hope that they could be like that.
I think it’s allowed since he’s referring to us millennials as if we’re in our early 20s. I’m 32, my fiancé’s 37, millennials are up to FORTY YEARS OLD. I’m going to call them boomers as long as they keep calling us children 🤷♀️
Kayla Gillette I think it’s because of the way he grew up, my parents were almost born in the baby boomers era. Older Generations tend to get mad when people like “influencers” mainly being millennials and gen z, get popular off playing games and making videos because they had to work very hard to get even a quarter of what people are making today off the internet. Generations always have to be a war.
Like my Dad pointed out to me once; the trend of people wanting to be influencers is not a new thing. Things go in cycles: when my Dad was a kid in the 70s and 80s every kid with a guitar wanted to be the next Jimmy Page.
Didn't kids in the 1960s say they wanted to cowboys and Indians? When I was 9, I wanted to be a kids' bop singer, Disney actor or make a funny video on TH-cam and cameo in a diary of a wimpy kid movie. Now I'm in college studying radiology. Bill burr said it best 6 years ago. th-cam.com/video/u2d48eZLyqs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Q6AwPhc39uWOo-W4
@@neehaalot of things, ranging from effort to needed work flow. With sports/music, that needs to be you 100% if you want to really be good and make money with it. Now, all you need to do is get lucky with the algorithm and find the right fanbase. You can be famous on TH-cam without it consuming you.
bill: "kids these days aren't working the shitty jobs when they're young" also bill: *son of a radio announcer and editor at NBC* also bill: *started doing comedy at 23*
@@aureateseigneur5317 I don't entirely mind self check-out, from what I've seen there still needs to be someone to supervise them in case a customer needs help, but what annoys me is it feels like every big grocery store is horribly understaffed in the check-out area - and the self check-out only perpetuates that problem Usually I don't see enough people shopping at one place to warrant the store opening a bunch of check-out lanes but it's still like, _could you spare the money just in case???_
When he started talking about "#vanlife" Influencers I thought " huh bit weird to bring up with the Gabby Petito case going on-" Then he actually started talking about it and I was like " oh shit- w-we're actually doing this?? now??" Like how tone deaf is that? Ugh I shouldn't be surprised at this point
Tbf, no one covering the murder of Gabby Petito actually gives af about what happened to her, they're just chasing ratings. To be even fairer, Bill Farts used her tragic murder as a segue to his lazy boomer standup set
Seeing a guy worth millions smugly telling me that “there’s so much work out there” after I spent a year finding a job after I lost my office job to automation, it makes me feel ready to go postal.
"There's so much work out there" but it's jobs that nobody wants cause they no benefits, low wages, or you live at work...or a combination of all 3. What Bill and his ilk don't understand is that we don't have a workers shortage, we have a good employer shortage.
@@The_Real_Frisbee This. I graduated from undergrad at the beginning of the pandemic and haven't been able to find jobs that pay more than $12/hr with crappy employers and not even for full time, not in my field. I've been surviving the last year and a half off temporary and part time work. Is it really that bad to ask for a decent wage? (Spoiler alert! It isn't)
@Safwaan Oh hey fellow Midwesterner!! I'm in WI!! Our minimum wage is literally $7.25 so a lot of the jobs in my area are literally like "ooooh $12 an hour is so much better!!!" But the cost of living is really high in my area of WI. In the city I live you need to be making like $20/hr to afford a one bedroom apartment and live decently.
All of Bill Maher's opinions on influencers/creators seem to come from a place of insecurity because of how new media is eclipsing old media. I imagine ratings have only gone down for him over the years, and he probably holds a lot of resentment towards the creators people are choosing to watch instead of him. It radiates "it must be the children who are wrong!" energy.
His show still passes a million viewers average, which is good for (very) late night talk show TV in general, but he's also on HBO, which doesn't pay the same way as basic access in relation to viewership. Also, you can say the same about every content creator pissing their pants when he says their jobs are illegitimate- like dude, let the old man ramble and eventually die. You're not doing anything worthwhile by replying emotionally, which is probably a reaction he'd hope for anyway
Exactly my thoughts. Back in the day, one would have to move to either Los Angeles or NYC in order to get into show biz. But now, some kid in Ohio can accumulate a larger following than these old dudes, and that pisses them off!
I’m a nurse. My wife’s a teacher. We want our daughters to travel and experience the world instead of being a workhorse and then dying unfulfilled. Bill Maher is leaning hard into his inevitable irrelevance, and good riddance.
@@poika22 Not quite sure what you’re implying here by putting quotes around “travel,” or why they would need therapy. If you’re going to say something demeaning about someone else’s children (online, of course, because there’s no way you’d say this to my face), at least make it clear, clever, and the least bit relevant.
@@_Sloppyham If I was being "comprehensible" aka. blatant, the comment would get automatically hidden by youtube bots before anyone saw it. Welcome to 2024. I didn't choose it to be this way, but it's on you to work out the implication. It really isn't that difficult.
The funniest thing about Maher is that if you look back at his early career- 90% of it was making fun of EXACTLY who he’s become. He’s the punchline now, which is why they are missing in his ‘comedy’.
Maher was actually really good around 2004-2008 when Bush was President and Maher was flaming him all the time, I don’t even recognize this douche anymore.
I saw a segment from a little while ago where Bill was trying to defend Biden in a convo with socialist professor Cornell West, and Dr. West was accusing Biden of enabling Saudi war crimes and Bill, 100% unironically, said “but he’s a politician that’s just what they do.” Really just shows what a sad, horrifyingly rigid worldview man’s got.
Bill is like your dad that watches football and asks you why you were watching a youtuber play a video game instead of playing the game, and then you ask him why doesnt he play football and he is just like boy be quiet
@@kevindonahue2251have you noticed that you like doing an activity other people do not enjoy? It’s probably because you just like it and they don’t. It’s as simple as that.
Okay I get your point and it's extremely valid but when you put "entertainment" in quotes like that it makes me think you're talking about a veeery different kind of entertainment lol
When I was a kid, pre-influencer, everyone I knew either wanted to be a Popstar or an Actor. Kids literally haven't changed at all, just the media they find enticing
And lets be real, wanting to be an astronaut is an equally stupid dream as trying to be a popstar, as both are far out of reach for most normal people. You have to know people and go to the right college, and have the right family to become an astronaut. It's not some easily achievable "if you put your mind to it" kind of goal. It's a highly political process.
@@stevenpuckitt212 and without the drive that dreams can provide, the slim amount who make it wouldn't have. Without generating the skills they wouldn't have succeeded when getting that opportunity most don't get
@@johnathanwalker8395 I don't disagree. I just find it amusing when people use wanting to be president or an astronaut as some example of 'real dreams' when it's no more attainable or realistic than being the next Prince or Brad Pitt. No dream is entirely out of reach and people have to overcome the naysayers to often achieve them. It's just a bad faith comparison when people use it. I'm just pointing out that it is just as much a fantasy as wanting to be a celebrity for 99.99% of people that attempt to do it.
@@stevenpuckitt212 because we as a society have never taken care of workers and look down on people who are content. Nothing is more loathsome in hustle culture than someone who is fine with a modest and comfortable living.
Except many younger millennials (such as myself) agree with him entirely. This is like when people in the early-mid aughts attempted to pretend that reality TV was just as worthwhile. It's not and neither are the vast, vast majority of content creators.
The most amazing thing about this is that one of the major issues that Bill also likes to talk about is how wrong ageism (towards old people) is wrong. It’s INSANE to me that he can’t see the irony of shitting on ageism and everyone younger than 40 in the same breath.
Bill's energy really feels like: "Hmm, a girl got murdered? It was her fault for being annoying. Let's talk about why she, and others like her, deserve it." I know that's not what he means, but that's what it feels like to me
It's actually so disgusting like you're literally murdered and your final moments are being broadcasted on Bill Maher to talk about how people spending time in a van suck, like that has nothing to do with anything
I'm kinda shocked he said "too much attention has already been paid" to the case. Like... a person with a following was murdered & her fiance's on the run, of course people are paying attention. It really does feel like he's saying people shouldn't care because HE doesn't see her as having any value.
I know for a fact that Bill Mahar is salty about “influencers🤮” because they don’t need a laugh track or an entire film set to be more entertaining than him.
Influencers more entertaining? Come on my guy, both are terrible in this regard. Actual content creators however are very different. People on all platforms put in large amounts of work to create something entertaining and informative. Influencers are not of that fold. They are much closer to bill maher than creators like eddy really. They are rare, put in essentially 0 work themselves, most of it is about them, not their actual products, achievements or whatever, and they reep most of the benefits, instead of their teams who work 10x as hard.
Man, f his audience. Stop laughing on demand at his lame ass comments. If you turned up to watch his show, you're not smart or interested in politics, you're just boring.
*death happens* Bill: haha im just so dark ahh!!! van life amirite??? 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
It is insane to me that Bill's generation doesn't want a better life for their kids and grandchildren, they wanna see them suffer and do worse than they do. Shits bananas.
They think they were the one who had it hard so they think their kids and grandchildren need to have it hard too and don’t even realize they have it way harder
You can also see Bill's boomer mindset where everyone is a "teacher, doctor, astronaut" All these jobs are highly specialized and require high degrees of education. This is pretty privileged talk from Bill because students have to go into hundreds of thousands of debt to be one of those. Teaching as well doesn't pay well either for all the expenses you have.
Imagine seeing that a woman, someone's daughter, is dead and immediately think about how their job is 'easier' than yours when you were their age, and get angry about it.
@@antononononon Ironic, a statement about "merit" coming from a guy who posts controversial comments on TH-cam for attention. If you don't think her life had merit, I can only imagine how you loathe yourself. You're just some guy seeking approval on the internet and you aren't even succeeding there. I'd pity you if you were only worth the energy. Maybe keep your edgy bs to yourself next time buddy
"They've learned how to monetize fucking off" Uhh, good for them. Anyone who has learned how to make a living doing what they want for fun absolutely deserves it.
I mean, isn't that basically what Andy Warhol did at The Factory? Yes, he made the famous silk screens, but he also: Partied with everyone from Truman Capote to random University students and street kids (the "party favors" rivaled that of The Height at it's glory) people running around in body paint while he made "avant-garde" films, revelling in rubbing elbows and making connections with (and for) people he thought would inspire each other and all the while cooking up creative little one-liners for the press. (The most well known, and misquoted, being the "15 minutes of fame" prediction.) He did *very* well for himself, even after being shot. It really didn't seem to phase him, or change the way he did "business".
Honestly, I don't think that influencers deserve the money they have, but a lot of them have it because of corporations using them to advertise, not because "the kids are lazy".
bill fart is one of those guys that you think is funny when you were younger because your parents watched him and the older you get you realize he’s just an out of touch old man who loves attention
My daughter just sent this to me after a conversation we were having about how much we hate BM. I’m gen x and, like him *shudder*, an atheist and I find him and his voice & opinions abhorrent. Millennials, Gen Z, if you can make a living off of being yourself and being an influencer, absolutely effing GO FOR IT. Someone else said it and I absolutely agree, he’s just mad that younger generations are able to make a living doing something that they enjoy. Fuck that guy. Fuck his take on this, it’s so hateful and damaging.
Leena Norms just made a video about this “laughing at children” attitude, and she said it comes down to jealousy. She did say A LOT more in the video, but that is the essence of the message. She also said we need to stop laughing at children, when the adults have laid the foundation for them. I remember being ELEVEN YEARS OLD and my P.E. teacher screaming at all of her student sthat WE were ruining the planet, and that SHE wants her hypothetical kid to see a tree when it is born……see the irony? I was 11 and this woman was at least in her 30s telling us we did so much wrong. When you are eleven you are still listening to everything your parents tell you. If I ask for water and my parents give me a plastic bottle of water, how is that my fault. We need to stop blaming and laughing at kids for just doing absolutely normal things, like aspire to be a content creator.
Yes! Thank you for putting that sentiment into words. I remember having a small existential crisis as an elementary school kid about having to change the world because I was an animal lover. And people wonder why gen z doesn’t want to live on this planet
I had the same weird experience in my high school science class. Our teacher acting the climate crisis was up to our generation to solve/figure out, meanwhile he’s in like his 30s.
It’s funny because Jon Stewart had a totally different take on this, he said that the internet has democratized criticism and people like Maher are just mad that everyone else has a platform now, and not just him…
"Traveling is for retirement" None of us are going to be able to retire, Bill. Especially not if we're working those retail and service industry jobs that are just so available right now
Uh, none of us are going to retire because we'll die of a pandemic and/or a climate catastrophe before we have the chance. Also, travelling is more enjoyable when your destination isn't underwater, on fire, or so hot that birds fall out of the sky.
@@homemadefilms5718 when they retire???? Shit boomers still going to be collecting their pay checks keeping their jobs that they should have retired from 30yrs ago as they enter the 3rd stage of rigor mortis
A lot of people bring up the protestant work ethic but Bill is honestly such a good example of the catholic work ethic. “Things are miserable but we shouldn’t change it” what!?
omg thank you for breaking down that horrible "kids want to be youtubers now" take - I worked with teachers all summer and so many of them had been working for like a decade, and they said it has only changed from being "I want to be a rock star!" or "I want to be a movie star!" to something that's actually more accessible for them to do. Like why would you be disappointed that kids feel empowered to become influential public figures or successful creatives.
I’m so glad they realized this. The dream of being a TH-camr today is just the equivalent of wanting to be an astronaut 20 years ago. But even now there’s only been 600 astronauts in human history, and tens of thousands of big online creators
When I was a kid, nobody wanted to be an astronaut anyway. This was in the 90s, so pre-TH-cam by a long while, and kids wanted to be ballerinas or firemen or Pokemon trainers when they grew up.
@@gingermaniac5484 Damn straight. Pokemon trainers get to travel the world too and have epic fucking adventures. I’d become a Pokemon Trainer in a goddamn heartbeat.
Yeah, everytime I see people talking about that I think about how half the kids I knew when I was younger wanted to be a singer/actor, despite having no actual interest in singing or acting and sigh. Kids just want to be famous! It looks cool and fun to them, it's not *new*
Millionaires like him need the rest of us doing shitty jobs and living in shitty apartments so he can stroke his own ego for a living and have his own mansion
@@layton6202 The only way people will stop doing it, is if everyone in the 99% stops doing it. Edit: A bit poorly worded there, I orginally meant that people will only stop working their lives away for these rich scumbags if everyone does so. Strikes are still possible even if it doesn't include the whole workforce of a company.
His first job was selling pot in college and his second job was as a comedian. Dude has never worked a real job a day in his life, and all because his daddy raised him with a silver spoon. Is this where the boomers are getting their facts from? Honestly, sounds about right.
@@A.G.P.115 I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say here bud, but I'll be patiently waiting if you care to elaborate. If you're assuming I'm a millionaire, you'd be sorely mistaken. Just like I am lol.
Running a weekly show is extremely difficult and is definitely a full time job, his job is probably more stressful than most people reading this comment. Have you seen what’s it’s like running a media show? Oh wait you haven’t, you’re talking out of your ass.
If Bill wants more people to become teachers, nurses, and astronauts, maybe he should worry more about making college affordable, and less about young people finding better ways to make money without getting up to their eyeballs in debt before they're even 30.
@@ethanhoward8506 He has a very public platform and boomers listen to him- meaning he has some sway with voters. We need more people who will vote for someone who wants to rework the college education system to be affordable.
@@ethanhoward8506 Influence holds a lot of power. That goes for TV hosts/traditional media too. He’s been in the game as a “content creator” for years. His net worth is what most Americans will never ever see or spend in their lifetime.
Well, at the same time, you have to choose your college wisely. Don't try to go into stuff like gender studies, for example, because that won't get you a job at all, instead go for stuff like computer sciences, which is actually really good to make cash, since people with skills in programming and the like are very sought after, or you can take other classes, like engineering or science, anything that you really want to do, just make sure there's a job attached to it. Next, accumulate some money before hand. When I was in sec 5 of high school, I worked at a walmart during the weekends and the Monday evening, I got a shit ton of money. Then I went to college an now I have no issues paying my fees every session.
@@LlopmondDunderbridge Bill is firmly a Boomer. Gen-Xers suck for different reasons (I'm one), which mostly have to do with giving up on life and feeling like trying to make any real change or difference in the world is basically impossible and pointless. We just want to go hide in the corner and let everyone else fight about everything. A lot of us feel pride towards the Y and Z "kids" trying to change the world...but not enough to actually help out in any meaningful way.
@@rustybrooks8916 is that why there is very little media attention towards them? (Although maybe they are heard/seen, but my algorithm just doesn't show it to me.)
@@rustybrooks8916The reasoning of most if not all boomers is quite astonishing, I've come to terms with this recently. It's a generation of people that only think in the box, and will instantly mock a way of life that is alien to them. They are the quintessential "get a job and don't you dare leave it" generation and have programmed the generations after them to live in fear.
@@starllama2149 You do realize it's way harder to be a comedian now than back then, right? Like we live in an era where making a joke can get you not only targeted by people, but also stalked and killed in the absolute worst case scenario. All Bill Maher has ever done in his life was deal weed, tell jokes, and spout his opinions on HBO.
@@xenasaur520 Now I've heard some outlandish things on what libertarianism is, but that by far takes the cake! The point of modern libertarianism is to roll back the role of the federal government, and for legislation that is created not affect people and their personal lives/rights nor peoples jobs. Another way to put is how Democrats tend to favor personal lives not being affected by the government. While Republicans favor the government not intruding on the economy. Libertarians tend to gravitate towards these two ideas.
The most annoying thing to me is when he just waits for a round of applause after one of his “hot takes” with a quirky little smile on his face like “someone had to say it” lmao
I was on the brink of vomiting EVERY TIME omg it was so cringey🤮🤣 he really thought he was serving some hot tea like we haven’t already heard all this baloney on Facebook
Nah, most annoying is when the audience would boo or get annoyed with what he said. His smugness often resulting in him saying, "Oh fuck you! I'm right and you know it!"
I’m gen Z and work 60 hours a week on a construction site and have nothing to show for it because people Bills age make sure I pay extortionate prices for rent and food
Bill's generation to us: "follow your dreams, find a way to monetize/live off doing what you love" Bill's generation when some of us find a way to do that: "wow what a piece of shit"
“if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life” *finds a way to make a living while doing something they love while, on the surface, looking like they aren’t doing any work* “no, not like that”
Yeah, exactly. But even if you don't do that, you're still screwed. If you get a "real job" they just shit on you for working for minimum wage, or if you make more they say you're overpaid because it's not "hard work". If you complain about being sore, or tired they hit you with the "you don't know what tired is! Talk to me in 30 years, then you'll know what tired is", or "don't complain! You should be grateful they gave you a job!" There's no winning. Old folks are just hell bent on finding a reason to shit on us for some reason. I don't know why it's like that, but it's disgusting. We live in a deeply sick culture, and the people who played the biggest role in making it that way blame everyone else for it.
According to his Wikipedia, Bill Maher paid for college by selling weed and started doing comedy immediately. In his 20s he was fucking around SELLING WEED and DOING COMEDY!! I’m sure his parents were BEGGING him to get a real job. I really don’t know what he thinks he can judge ANYONE on.
while simultaneously trying to act like he's going on this spiel cause he cares about the tragic death of someone and/or the job market....absolutely disgusting
I think it’s so sad to see him gloss over somebody’s death in such a way. Think of her family members seeing this segment making fun of them on TV so soon after these events.
Gabbie Hannah was roasted for less but Bill Maher is like "I think I can turn this girls murder into a joke." How drunk did he have to think this was funny?
@@SaintShion Dude, we're talking about a woman that was found dead in the wilderness being used to go on a pointless rant about people finding other means to try and make money online while also being able to step out of work that likely pays absolute shit. If Billy the Bitch wanted to talk about people being horrible content creators while including Gabbie Petito, he literally had room to talk about people claiming to be psychic and in touch with Gabbie Petito.
Boomers hate Millennials/Gen Z so much that they find our deaths to be comedy. But then get mad at us for calling COVID the Boomer Remover. Sorry, you started it.
The stupid thing is that there are legitimate reasons why influencers have a negative impact on our culture but he chose to go the boomer route instead. I suspect that he enjoys his very cushy lifestyle now and he just says whatever he thinks will make his audience keep giving him money, and right now, his target audience is boomers who have amnesia about what it was like to be young.
there are so many issues with bias and misinformation with "new" media being that creators and anyone with an audience seem to think they're now qualified to take on subjects they're not. but of course the old man has to go on a rant about how people spend their youth and what they choose to do creatively.
Also, if you can criticize a generation for someone doing their job while also being in a horrifically abusive relationship and getting murdered, well, I think his generation has no leg to stand on. Murder rates were higher when he was young.
bill has the "i suffered so everyone else should too" mindset like a lot of other older people. they recognize issues for the purpose of complaining about them, but are terrified of solutions because it makes them feel like they were cheated out of the headstart they think gen z and millennials were handed alongside a cell phone.
Boomers love to claim young people have it so easy now, as we work shitty jobs for shitty pay with no hope for future retirement, meanwhile boomers could work a minimum wage job for a summer and afford college.
@@maevem316 he's definitely spent more of his adult life wealthy than he has poor. Shit, his dad was a news editor and radio announcer. You think this guy ever knew what it meant to struggle with money? No doubt he had a ten mile long headstart when he headed off to Cornell compared to the influencers he's decided to shit on. The man's absolutely tone deaf.
everything bill said is so appalling in light of HIS references to gabby's murder. to him young women are just shallow photos on instagram, he doesn't see her as a person even in her death? if the name of my family member was in his mouth, correlating her tragedy with laziness and vapid self-obsession, idk what i'd do. i want to say "fuming" but i think i'd just be broken. mean old men. get him eddy
Yeah, this one was bad, even for him (and he's no stranger to putting his foot in his mouth). It's mind boggling to me that he isn't a TH-camr. There's a network behind this, there is a professional team behind this. And not a *single* person raised a red flag that it came across tasteless? They literally could have kept the exact same diatribe and just changed how he introduced it, but they probably chose to keep it in the hopes it would generate clicks so he'd *finally* gain some internet relevancy.
yet he is already set for life, not some 30 something worried about his livelihood. hes just a prick ether grifting or is legitimately an idiot selling his shlock to other old people
I wrote off Bill Maher when Neil Degrasse Tyson had him on Star Talk, and Bill compared the space program to baby learning to walk, but in the backwards sense “why didn’t we wait till we developed the technology to go to space and go then, why doesn’t a baby wait till it legs grows and walks then” I was so flabbergasted how dumb that was I never paid an ounce of attention to him ever again
To be fair, Neil is the bill maher of science communication. The man is unnecessarily verbose when explaining simple concepts, extremely smug towards those he sees as less educated, and is accused of some very heinous acts. Taking either of them seriously shows a lack of seriousness when involved in either of their fields. Let me paint it like this, if someone has multiple joe rogan appearances, they probably arent a great person to be listening to regularly.
I'm in my 50's and def a 'normie'. I applaud younger ppl who buck the whole "work your whole life to enjoy a few years of retirement when I'm tired all the time and continuously groan when I attempt to get out of a f***ing chair." Way to go Gen Zed (and Millenials?). If my kids can avoid the struggles and stress their dad and i endured, RIGHT ON! We don't have to keep living like our predecessors. Jesus.
The thing is, if it were even possible to have the life that our parents had, of still being a work horse and not having the best healthcare but with the possibility of having a house, retirement, a car, affordable higher education, and some level of leisure time and vacation, we wouldn't be so fucking radical. But none of those things are on the table for us, except for very few. That's why we're so angry and fed up, and it's making us question the entire setup.
"Nobody these days seems to be up for enduring those early shitty jobs and shitty apartments." BECAUSE WHY WOULD WE, BILLIAM? Why would we INTENTIONALLY say "oh hey look, it's a terrible experience that makes me unhappy. Give me some more of that!"
@@DavidLopez-tj7jl the US is printing money to pay off debt, which will devaluate the dollar. And since there's no regulations to keep the minimum wage up to date with inflation and devaluation, every time, people are paid less for the same jobs that could've let you afford your own house and college bills like in the 60's (i think) as that was the last time the minimum wage was changed to keep up with inflation. Also a housing problem comes from companies buying EVERY single house and building they find and turning them into apartments for rent, making stationary houses extremely rare and expensive, and allowing them to also make rents more expensive by catching up with inflation
Bill Maher the kind of douche to hear of a 16 year old person wanting to be a comedian and says "you gotta work the tough, crappy jobs until you're 30- *like I did*- before thinking like that," to then turn around and tell the 30 year old who has done those jobs and say "you should've built up your career when you were 16, because now you got no chance or connections *like I do*".
I love how bill was trying to say "there's millions of jobs open that aren't shitty" and proceeded to list some of the actual worst jobs people could experience
@@kuromi8384 Yeah, 25 years of experience or a fucking degree that you can't afford to get to still make barely above minimum wage just to get out of retail and sit behind a desk and get yelled at all day by some exec. ☠ I literally can type 100 wpm, am very computer savvy and have all the skills for an office job but because I don't have a piece of paper, no call back. So here I am in retail wasting my talents having weird old men ask me if we sell porno in a THRIFTSTORE. I make more at the thrift store than some of the DEGREE NEEDING office jobs I applied for, btw. CRINGE. Thank you for attending my Ted Talk.
Especially being a teacher. Being underpaid to deal with entitled kids (Especially in Middle/High School) and their entitled parents sounds like a living hell and I have a lot of respect for teachers who are able to endure all of that
Bill Maher thinks 'attention' is a limited good, so whenever someone else is getting some, he thinks that means they're stealing attention from him. Which, if you're a narcissist like Bill, is a problem.
It was such a popular take though. The one I hated the most was "brown girls also get murdered and nobody cares" as if it was somehow a race issue that it got coverage, even though this girl was somewhat famous, and there was a manhunt for the boyfriend.
@@GeneralTaco155555a Hm there were equally as famous brown girls with followings on the internet who were murdered by their partner and it may have been covered by a few forums. It is a race issue. Two things can be true. And saying “it’s not the time” is not the answer. You are proof that the only time people ever really listen to us is when they’re annoyed by us raising a fuss “at the wrong time”. I agree with the original poster though, that saying “too much attention has been paid” is extremely distasteful and uncalled for when referring to anyone’s murder.
I love how he was like "there are plenty of good jobs" and proceeds to list off things that require at minimum a bachelor's and more often a master's or something like education where you are required to get a minimum of a bachelor's and told that all your time is worth $40k a year max all the while education spending is minimum at best and the jobs are few and far between on a good year.
that and you're not guaranteed a position at any place in your field after graduation and it could take years of applying and working outside of your field of expertise before you actually get to work in it. This man is acting like we can get jobs right out our parents' wombs.
I would like to thank this channel for making a point of citing sources. The use of citing sources incorrectly is one of the big criticisms about Bill Maher, and it’s nice that this video holds itself to a higher standard.
Bill Maher: "traveling the country in a van and experiencing life without responsibilities should be something only older people do when they earned like in my day!" Also Bill Maher: grew up in a time when young adults making wildlife communes going to music festivals and traveling for the sake of personal enjoyment is all that generation is known for in history.
Not to mention he's a member of a generation that could own a six bedroom, two story, house, two cars, have three kids, a fridge full of food, and a pocket full of spending cash all on a single factory worker's salary. They had it so much easier than we do and with each passing generation it'll get worse. Its hard to take his "work harder" stance seriously when his entire generation gets to own land while that's a luxury for the rest of us.
@@NottherealLucifer Exactly, Baby Boomers were by far the most entitled generation, basically piggybacked off their parents' GI Bills from WW2, then they have the audacity to insult us Millennials/Gen-Z for not "working hard" when most of us aren't trust fund kids like Bill and have to actually work a good paying job just to live in a shitty apartment.
Yes, everything you have around you that is less than 30 years old just materialized, beamed down from the Enterprise. What an uninformed comment this is.
I love how some people live in a reality where “kids used to say they wanted to be a firefighter or an astronaut” as though all those kids who said that they wanted to be a actor or a rockstar or a ballerina or a superhero didn’t exist
Dude can't even pick a lane on what he hates about this generation. We're somehow both a bunch of homeless hippies to him but also apparently as rich and privileged as he doesn't realize he is.
as a gen z, I can safely say that not only is being famous not important to me, but it even scares me. the positives do not outweigh the negatives, like at all
I've actually thought about this, and I think the best kind of fame to have would to be an animator, or a TH-camr who uses an animated character to represent themselves. The idea that I couldn't walk down the street in complete anonymity scares tf outta me too.
This was the rant I really needed in my life. How... how absolutely clueless do you have to be to not realize the parallels between what you do and what creators do? I... I just can't.
Bill strikes me as the type of guy who willingly avoids being self-aware knowing it'll gain him the most views and money to act like such a high horse riding rich asshole.
I mean the only difference is that hes a mainstream celebrity so the world is more likely to focus on him, but he's still like "oh look at these fucking selfish kids with an audience"
I remember considering doing a TH-cam vs TV topic for a contrast and compare essay. My professor was incidentally a baby boomer, and said it’s a bad idea and “would be like comparing apples to oranges”.
I am a boomer and a Progressive and I've been noticing for some time that Bill is becoming more and more pathetic in his opinions and his comedy. Is it age? Is it excessive wealth? He's always been arrogant, but he used to be arrogant about big issues. Now he's becoming arrogant about trivia. You have done a great service by calling out Maher's newfound irrelevance. Thanks!
I said the same thing. I am from the tail end of Gen X and I remember when my dad would watch Bill Maher. While I didn't always agree with his opinions -- and, as you said, he's always been arrogant -- I at least thought he tried to make his points on important world issues. Now he is just a cranky old man who is completely out of touch with the real world and uses his position to scream "HEY YOU KIDS! GET OFF OF MY LAWN!" It's sad.
@@TomWDW1 i would watch Bill Maher with my parents in the early 2010s when I was in high school mainly because at the time there weren't liberals or leftists calling out obvious bad conservative takes and Bill was the smug one doing that. But yeah overtime he's just devolved into a condescending neolib who is more angry about "woke culture" than he is centrist democrats like Sinema and Manchin voting against lowering prescription drug prices.
I actually used to watch his show too, when I was in high school I would ask my mom to record it and I would watch it after school with her, I’ve always enjoyed shows about political commentary. But around 2016 he became very mean spirited, even more than usual. It became obvious that he was writing for old people on Facebook, and I don’t remember what the last episode I watched was but he said something so stupid that we just turned it off
Boomers: "Damn, I really wasted my whole life working. I wish I had travelled and enjoyed life more when I was young and still had energy." Also boomers: "Stop enjoying life! You're young, you need to be slaving away at work!" Also, yeah, Bill Maher is 100% an influencer. The irony is palpable.
Someone higher up mentioned a Jon Stewart quote about Maher that he's just mad that the internet has allowed anyone to become prominent in political punditry, so he's being drowned out and forgotten, and he's totally right, as are you. He's now a small influencer in a sea of them.
jeff bezos, a boomer, killed nasas ability to go to the moon for an entire year. heres the story on that, if its ok that i link that here. if not i can remove the link. its from a channel called breaking points. th-cam.com/video/tdR0oLzSXVQ/w-d-xo.html
@@layton6202 *Checks channel* No he doesn't. He only manages to crack a single million anytime he uploads one of those big controversial takes that people come to most likely from other TH-camrs (such as the one in this video). And considering he doesn't stay in the attention span of those people for longer than that day, yeah I'd say little.
@@The_Sharktocrab it's not just because he's old though, and not even because he's rich either. plenty of not rich people genuinely believe that others should suffer through life, that everyone has to "earn" a decent life, and they have good lives because they're good smart people.
He always gets the Generations wrong. I caught a clip when I was over at my parents and he was bitching about Millennials… as if they were 20 years old. I told my folks, “Does he not realize they are in their 30s and even 40s?” And my parents were all defensive of him… ugh.
You know if Bill had to talk about millennial influencers, could he not at least pick one that actually doing deplorable stuff, like family vlogging channels that basically rob children of privacy?
yeah there is a problem but when he isn't addressing the problem and just shaking his wrist at an ENTIRE generation (two to be precise) for creating a source of income is so dumb
Older generations trashing younger generations will never end. Part of why younger generations don't want to work the same jobs as their parents is because they grew up seeing them burnt out assuming they saw them at all since plenty of parents work multiple jobs just to afford basic needs for their children, and missing them grow up in the process. So yes Bill there are good reasons why kids don't want to get into the same working environment as their parents.
My immigrant mom worked 3 jobs just to support 4 kids. By her mid 40s, she couldn't even lift her right arm above her shoulder. So when I hear Maher and generally Fox news claim we should stop complaining about poor wages and get multiple jobs and be miserable and break myself until I die, it gets me so frustrated. It's definitely a position of privilege when the minimum wage when adjusted for inflation was almost double what it is now in the 1960s, to claim Millenials are lazy and killing marriage and households and whatever else these Boomers complain about is nonsensical. Don't get me wrong, Millenials have their issues and boy so do Zoomers, but when the problems Boomers call out were caused by Boomers themselves, it's kind of a slap to the face.
@@alexs1640 If wages kept up with productivity and inflation the minimum wage would be 26 dollars an hour, even 15 an hour at 40 hours a week is 30,000 dollars a year which is just over poverty. We know if the bottom line is making a livable wage then everything does better as a result, unfortunately the people in charge can't be bothered to pretend they care about poor people.
@@yourtoastershandemover2211 I constantly talk to people about the golden age of America from 1930 to 1980 when social ideas helped the most amount of people with the rich footing the bill at a maxed out 91% marginal tax rate. Now obviously with loopholes and write offs, it was effectively 46% but Bill Maher fails to take this into account when he shits on generations that didn't have this boon. Somewhere along the line (Reagan) the rich learned that instead of taking home 50 million and having another 50 million go to the benefit of the rest of us, just get all 100 million and let the others eat cake. Despite as you have said, the middle class powers the economy. And with the decline of the middle class since Reagan, nothing has preformed as intended. But then again, socialism was the downfall of America and the world came to an end when businesses left America over the high taxes and America was no more... oh wait...
@@alexs1640 Uncontrolled capitalism is as dangerous as any other system, I always laugh when people worry so much about socialism or communism here but ignore the damage that capitalism with no controls have inflicted. Companies and individuals have as much wealth as states at this point, wages have stagnated and people are quitting those jobs in droves as a result. The US is one of the only developed countries in the world to not have guaranteed maternal leave, affordable public education or healthcare, and we have some of the worst average wages. Ironically this style of capitalism breeds socialist ideals, if people want to stop the spread of socialism then the money needs to stop going exclusively to the rich.
Bill Maher is just one of those guys that makes a career out of just being himself (really rude suit and tie bitch) and gets confused why people make a career out of being themselves (relatable to most people watching them, and not actively trying to make everyone uncomfortable.) People like bill Maher are actually embarrassing. But he would probably "roast" me, cause he is rich, and I am not. Thanks for making this video, Eddy.
imagine hearing about the murderof a young womanwho happened to be a van life influencer, going "oh i know a perfect joke for that" and opening with "we need less van life influencers" like can you be more insensitive
It's called projection. And being pissed about young folks having fun after he has wasted his youth being a turd is called displacement of anger. Bill, you're mad at your wasted youth, not kids in vans. Frued would be proud
you dunked on Bill so hard, I almost felt bad for him, then you reminded me that a murder of a woman is what inspired him to roast a whole generation of people.... anyway
@@CameronM1138 Are you talking about the time that he used Stan Lee’s death as a springboard for his segment on how comic book readers need to grow up? Because I thought of that as well, and it’s really ghastly how this is multiple shows in which he has looked at someone who died and said “my point tonight is that the things they did in their life are invalid, and anyone who consumes it is deeply stupid.”
As a previous fan of Bill, thank you for making this video and putting into words why I have slowly but surely lost all interest in hearing him speak over the past five years. He seems bitter and unwilling to adapt - just my two cents, but I can't stand what he puts out there anymore. This is one excellent example of it.
That's how I felt about him myself. I used to admire him as a shining figure of the left, even if I thought he went too far on attacking religious people instead of just religion. He still tells it like it is when it comes to some things like the dangers of slipping into authoritarianism via Trump(I won't get too far into that here), but the rest of the time, he really is just, as another poster said, full blown old man yells at cloud. Someone who refuses to accept the changes in the world around him or accept that people who are into pop culture are valid, and especially hates the young for enjoying things he was brought up not to enjoy as an adult.
I'm so sick of older generations acting rude and condescending towards younger ones... *We are literally a product of you and the environment you made for us*
Blows my mind how they can't make that simple connection. Well, not actually. I think we all (millenials/gen z) know it's because by doing so, it would mess with the "truth" they rely on to feel safe and accomplished. It's like those trash parents who expose their kids on national television (trash Dr. Phil) for being unappreciative and difficult. Time to roll the home footage... uh-oh! It shows the parents failing every step on the way towards being emotionally intelligent, mature and nurturing role models. Ones that will solve problems with awareness, compassion and logic - not just shutting everything down by "breaking" the child mentally or abandoning it emotionally. You know, ways to make a child blame itself for everything and ultimately lose faith in themselves (their supposed "ego") in order to conform to their parent's lack of knowledge. 😒 All because older generations can't stop to "take a good look at themselves". 🤦🏼♀️ _Pssst!_ To all of you that has been, or is currently, stuck with toxic parents: This shit messes you up, but it can be fixed in a way that _won't_ break you down before it builds you up. Don't lose faith in yourself, or the hope to find yourself behind the rubble set in your way. Take your time. No need to prove yourself deserving of it and possibly giving up because you've been conditioned to believe you can't even do that and thus don't deserve it - just take your time.
That would be because the younger generation is also a byproduct of what they didnt yet realize was reality- so there is always a component of 'what the HECK is going through this kids head?!?!" and it will happen to you too when your children are old enough to be in your position. It is simply a lack of perception available to any human being where age causes a disconnect in empathy due to impersonal experiences. Not everyone grows up to remember exactly what it was like when they were young, or what they would be like if they grew up in the present, and thats another factor that comes in. Then, take in that every generation is a marked difference in critical thinking, adaptive thinking, and general cognitive ability that is is NO WONDER older generations, especially those who have children, are unable to comprehend the priorities or more IMPORTANTLY how their brains just plan function. Human experience is not equal, and people of all ages forget that you dont see the same colours even now as the person next to you
I am the youngest of five , the only non boomer, and yes I have watched them all of them being super selfish and not caring about tHe future even though hey have kids. The boomers really were the worst and lazy parents who let TVs and phones entertain their kids instead of social structures.
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The fact that he said ”these kids don’t want to work a shitty job and live in a shitty apartment” says it all. Nowadays, its 2-3 shitty jobs, to live in a shitty apartment with a bunch of roommates.
at least he gets the economy sucks and it is easy to spot he uses it to make fun of those that don't wanna live like that. "You don't want to suffer what WE had to suffer, how dare you!" > that's actually why some things don't change. Because what people suffered through and no longer have to go through, they don't care about changing even though they wished it had when they had to go through it and when people find ways to avoid that, they don't like that.
Hell, I make roughly the average American salary (42k or so) and I can only afford half of my mediocre apartment. Don't know how anyone ever expects someone to truly function independently when certain parts of the world mandate you make six figures to do so.
@@raffy234 Bill Maher ever suffered a day in his life? Read his Wikipedia page, the guy went from a middle-class home to the Ivy League. He was the host at Catch a Rising Star a year after he graduated from Cornell. I strongly doubt he ever had an apartment where he had nothing but a mattress on the floor and all his clothes in a pile in the corner while shuffling back and forth from his day job as a cook at Denny's and his night job delivering pizza.
How can someone say "those children dont want to have a bad life, what a stupid generation" and think its a good point
Currently living in a double wide trailer with seven other people. Three of those my kids..
originally I wanted to be a content creator but now i have to quit and get a lower paying less fulfilling job because this old guy said i’m weird for it
Awww man, this fossil with an ego the size of Jupiter says TH-cam is weird. Better quit!
@@EllieMiller510 I don’t know, do we have a chart comparison of this? Because I would say Jupiter pales in comparison.
Sad but true lol 😂
Brody x Eddy is truly the most ambitious crossover
holy crap, I havent seen your channel in years when I also really wanted to animate shit
bill maher is as insecure as he is insufferable lmao
I fucking love your content dude
I wasn’t expecting you here but I’m glad to see you lol
You could of not added lmao
Woah your last name is my first name. Wicked.
woah didn’t expect to see you here man
Reminder: When Bill Maher refers to "enduring those early shitty jobs", he specifically means when he sold weed in college. Literally the closest to a real job he's had.
Is that because it was in the parking lot of a 7/11, a place people where doing actual jobs? (The joke is that I took the term closest and used it literally) Thank you I'll be here all week.
At the college he paid next to nothing for because it was heavily state & federally funded. Gotta love it.
"There are plenty of good jobs in... Retail..." Just goes to show he hasn't interacted with a retail worker in at least 40 years
He probably has, by being the shitty customer retail workers tell horror stories about
Well, actually, it's not too bad. It's all about your mentality. There's gonna be shit customers, obviously, but I generally remember very little about them. I've been working at a walmart for a year and a half, which, granted, isn't a long time, but while I don't love my job, it's fine. I get cash at the end of the day, so whatever. Plus, in my walmart, I've been told that the section I work in is one of the worst because of the managers, which are total cunts. Most women end up quitting or switching from my department after a few months, but the guys only last about 1 or 2 weeks tops, which I found weird, but I found out from my coworkerd that the reason why they leave is because the managers are not just cunts, but also sexist towards men, which makes sense in retrospect, since they treat me a bit worse than everyone else, I've noticed. On top of that, I'm not even an adult yet, and they're old ladies, so that's another strike against me in their eyes. Even so, I don't really care, I still like my job and I'm not switching departments, somewhat because I'm okay with my spot, and also because I just want to spite them by staying lol. So far, im the guy who lasted the longest, by a mile, and I have a feeling that pisses them off.
So, again, if you perceive it as bad, it will be bad, but if you stop caring, all of a sudden, it gets better, so people who say retail is horrible, yeah, in terms of pay, it's not gonna be sustainable long term, but as a teenager who's just trying to hustle, hell yeah!
@@cabbagedemon5944 well, you gotta pay based on how much it's worth. Working at a walmart is very easy, there's almost nothing to worry about as long as you just do your job. The thing is, working retail is something that really mostly requires a large quantity of employees, not high quality. If I owned the Walmart, I wouldn't pay much, because it isnt a hard job, and I can find new hires everywhere. Now, if I really need new hires, I'll pay a bit more. But if I'm not pressed for employees, im going to keep it low. I can't spend that much money on so many employees, that would cost me thousands that I need to pay taxes, property fees, money for new orders, the shipment, a bunch of shit. And if someone really needs money, well, they can just ask for more hours, that's what I do when I have a lot of time off, I work full time. Otherwise, I keep it at a minimum because college is important and I can afford to lose the job if I have to. You could also get more money by taking more responsibilities too, like my managers. They do the same thing that I do, but they also have to count the boxes, organize tasks, that sort of thing. So there's options. And, of course, if that doesn't work out, find another job. I hear Costco's pay a LOT of cash, they're just very strict, so if you can handle the pressure, go there. Plus, since we're in a shortage of employees, any retail place would be more than happy to welcome you, Costco probably included
@@TheRealBlazingDiamond the company has deemed the job the employees are doing as necessary. Otherwise, those positions wouldn't exist.
So why should somebody doing something the company has deemed as necessary not be paid enough to support themselves?
Work is a transactional process.
You, as the worker, only have one thing you can sell the company:
Your time.
You give them your time.
They give you currency.
Also, my time is more important than your job.
It should be on the employer to actually draw people in, not the other way around.
Lol guy really said if I was Walmart I’d exploit my workers
Also, didn't his generation normalize backpacking across Europe in their mid-20s? Isn't this just the same thing, except more domestic and being able to publicly share pictures?
You’re so right!
Bill Maher strikes me as the type of adult--let alone comedian--to see what the youth's interests are & what they're invested in, and before even considering their perspectives on anything, he decides to make bitter-sounding lame ass humor positioned from the view of a geezer who *barely* remembers what being young was like. then he reiterates those weak ass unfunny points to other geezers whose entire post-retirement personality are being old and crabby
@@droomzy im poor and my life sucks but I genuinely prefer it to what you describe because I couldn't live with myself. What a pitiful and cowardly way to be.
@@Loctorak agreed my boy! & I hope your life situation begins to improve; the mentality is a key aspect, & from the look of it you at least aren't bitter about other people's lifestyles so you're clearly doing *something* right! wish you the best 🤞🏾
WELL YES, AND ASIA AND Latine America and anywhere else. Preferably cheap places with lots of cheap drugs.
But back then, you could tune in, turn on, drop out, wander around, drop back in, and often still build a middle-class life. That is not so easy now.
But they did not start it. There are great writers who have written about their wanderings going back to the 18th century, and in some cases, long before that.
I like how he's implying that being an astronaut is more realistic than being an influencer somehow.
Yeah after his "back in my day kids wanted to be astronauts" bit I was thinking, okay so you're mad that kids have more attainable aspirations now?
Especially considering there are literally 48 astronauts in the entire world right now.
“Oh why back in the 2030’s did kids wanna be owners of shipping company’s and today they wanna be teachers?
@@LemonyFresh And nowadays you either need a Masters’ degree or be like the best test pilot in the military
Honestly, it kind of is.
I am fortunate enough that my Great Grandfather is not just still alive, but at 103 years old he's still relatively aware and able to interact with people. He's a great guy. More relevantly, he was born in 1920, seven years before the first television, and so directly got to see the rise of TV as a medium, and the 'boom' of movies (although movies already existed when he was born, they didn't start catching on in America until 1910, and didn't become "big" until the 20's).
Because he likes keeping up with the world, he does watch Bill Maher and other people of the sort. I asked him about this, and he had a few things to say: most notably that the arguments Maher (and others like him) are bringing up against Influencers are almost the EXACT same arguments he heard being used against TV and movie stars growing up. That they aren't doing any real work, that their popularity is negatively influencing the youth to be lazy, that it's "easy money", etc. ALL of them are almost exact repeats of a hundred-year-old argument.
As the man himself said, with the unique perspective of his age: Their names may sound alike, but Bill Maher isn't a modern Jack Paar, even if he thinks he is.
Thats really cool and interesting
my granpa is 102 and he just watches reality tv and has bad hearing lmao
Bill burr said it best 6 years ago.
th-cam.com/video/u2d48eZLyqs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Q6AwPhc39uWOo-W4
That's super interesting but not surprising. It's unfortunate how many arguments like this never go away but instead just change topics. IIRC, the same arguments made claiming violent video games causing violence was also used against guys like Shakespeare
this is pretty interesting, also he is going strong at 102 y/o is very inpressive
Bill’s entire personality now revolves around the fact that a kid once said ok boomer to him.
I love how they call working class lazy and simultaneously tell them if they got a better job their situation would improve. Then immediately decry them for taking those steps.
So true.
I work in retail and there is a nationwide shortage of retail workers, and honestly I support it. It’s people realizing that it’s just not worth it anymore after the hell the past nearly 2 years has been for us. The amount of boomers I get bitching that we are short staffed and “no one wants to work anymore” is fucking insane. They simultaneously tell us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, if we want better pay get a better job, minimum wage jobs are meant for teenagers and blah blah blah then when an ass load of workers quit to get that better job then Karen is angry she can’t try on because we are so short staffed we can’t have the fitting rooms open or we reduced our hours of operation because we don’t have the staff to be open our normal 12 hour days. It’s bullshit. They can’t have it both ways
Not to mention, he's shouting all of this from atop his mountain of wealth.
That would imply upward class mobility is a possibility in the traditional job market. 🤣 Younger people look at wealthy influencers and see hope that they could be like that.
Boomers: maybe invest your money
Us: invests in stocks and overthrows the market in our favor.
Boomers: NO YOU DID IT WRONG
As much as I think throwing out “boomer” is overdone,….the boomer energy here from Bill is almost palpable.
I think it’s allowed since he’s referring to us millennials as if we’re in our early 20s. I’m 32, my fiancé’s 37, millennials are up to FORTY YEARS OLD. I’m going to call them boomers as long as they keep calling us children 🤷♀️
Aside from an age range "boomer" is also a mentality, if someone chooses to act like a boomer they should be called out as such.
@@Rubydoomsday quite true. The generation labels are already pretty arbitrary. If Bill wants to throw them around haphazardly, why can’t we?
@@doctahjonez Though it's very easy with Bill Maher, he's a boomer in age _and_ mentality.
Kayla Gillette I think it’s because of the way he grew up, my parents were almost born in the baby boomers era. Older Generations tend to get mad when people like “influencers” mainly being millennials and gen z, get popular off playing games and making videos because they had to work very hard to get even a quarter of what people are making today off the internet. Generations always have to be a war.
Like my Dad pointed out to me once; the trend of people wanting to be influencers is not a new thing. Things go in cycles: when my Dad was a kid in the 70s and 80s every kid with a guitar wanted to be the next Jimmy Page.
Didn't kids in the 1960s say they wanted to cowboys and Indians?
When I was 9, I wanted to be a kids' bop singer, Disney actor or make a funny video on TH-cam and cameo in a diary of a wimpy kid movie.
Now I'm in college studying radiology.
Bill burr said it best 6 years ago.
th-cam.com/video/u2d48eZLyqs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Q6AwPhc39uWOo-W4
youtube is kind of different than those kids in the 70s and 80s wanting to be a rockstar and kids in the 90s wanting to be tony hawk or michael jordan
@@exodus6996 how?
@@neehaalot of things, ranging from effort to needed work flow. With sports/music, that needs to be you 100% if you want to really be good and make money with it. Now, all you need to do is get lucky with the algorithm and find the right fanbase. You can be famous on TH-cam without it consuming you.
@@raccoon8743 actually maintaining that fame is hard work even the shitty bait channels put in alot of work tbh.
bill: "kids these days aren't working the shitty jobs when they're young"
also bill: *son of a radio announcer and editor at NBC*
also bill: *started doing comedy at 23*
He says he had to sell pot during college to ‘make enough money to start doing comedy’ lol
"comedy"
its always the same story every fucking time, old shitdiapers preach about how lazy everyone is and then they always have rich parents, everytime
How old was he when he stopped doing comedy? I didn't know that he ever even started
@@buddygang9834 the Adam Corolla grift?
Bill has unrelenting “Art degrees are meaningless but I do consider myself an artist of my craft” energy
@@Electricsheep86 Tell me, because I will never be close to famous- How does Bill’s boot taste?
@@mothman4672 this guy under every comment.. I’m convinced he’s Bill Maher’s burner account
And he didn't waste time on art degree to get there.
@@Electricsheep86, your existence is God’s failure.
this comment gives off "I wasted money on an art degree and im trying to justify it on youtube" energy
"Kids just don't want to be spit on by anti-maskers for minimum wage anymore, and that's their fault" is certainly a take.
Maybe get a different job or create one?
@@KrAOLo That's some Ben Shapiro levels of stupid
@@brightroot5719 Ben Shapiro is a tool. But it's not. I have lived overseas for 30 years created companies and jobs wherever I went.
Not even that man. The management at my old job just refused to hire more people, so we were always short staffed, so we’d have to get our hours cut.
@@KrAOLo well yeah trying to be an influencer would be a different job…
Old people love calling genz lazy but then refuse to use self checkout or put their cart backs at grocery stores.
I feel like lazy has become the new word for sloth
Cart narcs. Best channel😂
I refuse sell check out because that should be someone's job. Not putting carts back just baffles me tho.
@@aureateseigneur5317 agreed, I don't use self checkout because I want that to be an entry level job. people who don't put carts back are awful though
@@aureateseigneur5317 I don't entirely mind self check-out, from what I've seen there still needs to be someone to supervise them in case a customer needs help, but what annoys me is it feels like every big grocery store is horribly understaffed in the check-out area - and the self check-out only perpetuates that problem
Usually I don't see enough people shopping at one place to warrant the store opening a bunch of check-out lanes but it's still like, _could you spare the money just in case???_
When I was watching the opening bit I had a feeling he might go to Gabby Petito, but I thought that’d be too tasteless.
Jesus Christ.
When he started talking about "#vanlife" Influencers I thought " huh bit weird to bring up with the Gabby Petito case going on-"
Then he actually started talking about it and I was like
" oh shit- w-we're actually doing this?? now??"
Like how tone deaf is that? Ugh I shouldn't be surprised at this point
Yeah I had that feeling, and when he went that low I was shocked. But, to be a cynic for a minute, should I really be that shocked? 🤷♀️
Thought your name was "Ghost Cum" 😂
Bill Maher has demonstrated many, many times he has neither taste or grace.
Tbf, no one covering the murder of Gabby Petito actually gives af about what happened to her, they're just chasing ratings. To be even fairer, Bill Farts used her tragic murder as a segue to his lazy boomer standup set
Seeing a guy worth millions smugly telling me that “there’s so much work out there” after I spent a year finding a job after I lost my office job to automation, it makes me feel ready to go postal.
Yeah, it's fucking ridiculous, especially seeing how the hiring process is also changing.
It's almost like he is oblivious to the economic crisis that's happening right now 🤔
"There's so much work out there" but it's jobs that nobody wants cause they no benefits, low wages, or you live at work...or a combination of all 3. What Bill and his ilk don't understand is that we don't have a workers shortage, we have a good employer shortage.
@@The_Real_Frisbee This. I graduated from undergrad at the beginning of the pandemic and haven't been able to find jobs that pay more than $12/hr with crappy employers and not even for full time, not in my field. I've been surviving the last year and a half off temporary and part time work. Is it really that bad to ask for a decent wage? (Spoiler alert! It isn't)
@Safwaan Oh hey fellow Midwesterner!! I'm in WI!! Our minimum wage is literally $7.25 so a lot of the jobs in my area are literally like "ooooh $12 an hour is so much better!!!" But the cost of living is really high in my area of WI. In the city I live you need to be making like $20/hr to afford a one bedroom apartment and live decently.
All of Bill Maher's opinions on influencers/creators seem to come from a place of insecurity because of how new media is eclipsing old media. I imagine ratings have only gone down for him over the years, and he probably holds a lot of resentment towards the creators people are choosing to watch instead of him. It radiates "it must be the children who are wrong!" energy.
He just doesn't understand it
His show still passes a million viewers average, which is good for (very) late night talk show TV in general, but he's also on HBO, which doesn't pay the same way as basic access in relation to viewership. Also, you can say the same about every content creator pissing their pants when he says their jobs are illegitimate- like dude, let the old man ramble and eventually die. You're not doing anything worthwhile by replying emotionally, which is probably a reaction he'd hope for anyway
isn’t he an antivaxxer? i think there’s a lot of things bill doesn’t understand
He's not anti vaxx, quite the opposite. And of course he was smug about it when he discussed it.
Exactly my thoughts. Back in the day, one would have to move to either Los Angeles or NYC in order to get into show biz. But now, some kid in Ohio can accumulate a larger following than these old dudes, and that pisses them off!
I’m a nurse.
My wife’s a teacher.
We want our daughters to travel and experience the world instead of being a workhorse and then dying unfulfilled.
Bill Maher is leaning hard into his inevitable irrelevance, and good riddance.
Enjoy paying for their therapy once all that "travel" catches up with them.
@@poika22 Not quite sure what you’re implying here by putting quotes around “travel,” or why they would need therapy. If you’re going to say something demeaning about someone else’s children (online, of course, because there’s no way you’d say this to my face), at least make it clear, clever, and the least bit relevant.
@@poika22if you’re going to make a point, at least make it comprehensive
@@_SloppyhamI think you meant comprehensible. You’re right though
@@_Sloppyham If I was being "comprehensible" aka. blatant, the comment would get automatically hidden by youtube bots before anyone saw it. Welcome to 2024. I didn't choose it to be this way, but it's on you to work out the implication. It really isn't that difficult.
The funniest thing about Maher is that if you look back at his early career- 90% of it was making fun of EXACTLY who he’s become. He’s the punchline now, which is why they are missing in his ‘comedy’.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
colbert also while we are at it
Ah, yes, the long form joke.
@@georgemagnum6116 He's always been an ass clown. Even when his content was more tolerable.
Maher was actually really good around 2004-2008 when Bush was President and Maher was flaming him all the time, I don’t even recognize this douche anymore.
"Young people, stop doing something rewarded by capitalism", say old capitalists who are opposed to any kind of systemic change.
That’s exactly it
Well said
Based
I saw a segment from a little while ago where Bill was trying to defend Biden in a convo with socialist professor Cornell West, and Dr. West was accusing Biden of enabling Saudi war crimes and Bill, 100% unironically, said “but he’s a politician that’s just what they do.” Really just shows what a sad, horrifyingly rigid worldview man’s got.
This
He is literally an influencer, but for… old people.
And a lot of the criticisms he throws at younger influencers are true for himself.
He's an old fashioned influencer.
When your his age what will you have to show?
Not just old people, but old stubborn people that have a narrow view of the world and are sure The world is the same as it was when they grew up.
@@yetanotherretroreview4476 what kind of question is that? What about you? Will you learn grammar by the time *you're* his age?
Bill is like your dad that watches football and asks you why you were watching a youtuber play a video game instead of playing the game, and then you ask him why doesnt he play football and he is just like boy be quiet
Honestly though, why would you do either of those things?
@@kevindonahue2251Because we enjoy doing those things. Don't need another reason.
@@kevindonahue2251cuz its fun to watch people do stuff
for real
@@kevindonahue2251have you noticed that you like doing an activity other people do not enjoy? It’s probably because you just like it and they don’t. It’s as simple as that.
Bill Maher: I HATE HOW PEOPLE MAKE MONEY OUT OF ENTERTAINMENT
Also Bill: Makes a shit ton of money out of "entertainment"
☝
I rest my case.
Certainly stretching the definition of “entertainment”
Okay I get your point and it's extremely valid but when you put "entertainment" in quotes like that it makes me think you're talking about a veeery different kind of entertainment lol
And that's the only kind of job he's ever had.
When I was a kid, pre-influencer, everyone I knew either wanted to be a Popstar or an Actor. Kids literally haven't changed at all, just the media they find enticing
yeah this isn't new.
And lets be real, wanting to be an astronaut is an equally stupid dream as trying to be a popstar, as both are far out of reach for most normal people. You have to know people and go to the right college, and have the right family to become an astronaut. It's not some easily achievable "if you put your mind to it" kind of goal. It's a highly political process.
@@stevenpuckitt212 and without the drive that dreams can provide, the slim amount who make it wouldn't have. Without generating the skills they wouldn't have succeeded when getting that opportunity most don't get
@@johnathanwalker8395 I don't disagree. I just find it amusing when people use wanting to be president or an astronaut as some example of 'real dreams' when it's no more attainable or realistic than being the next Prince or Brad Pitt. No dream is entirely out of reach and people have to overcome the naysayers to often achieve them. It's just a bad faith comparison when people use it. I'm just pointing out that it is just as much a fantasy as wanting to be a celebrity for 99.99% of people that attempt to do it.
@@stevenpuckitt212 because we as a society have never taken care of workers and look down on people who are content. Nothing is more loathsome in hustle culture than someone who is fine with a modest and comfortable living.
He has fully entered his “Old Man Yells at Cloud” stage.
I have no idea what this is referencing but I absolutely love it lol
@@elizabeth2621 simpson
@@leahflops9425 ~opening jingle play~
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Except many younger millennials (such as myself) agree with him entirely. This is like when people in the early-mid aughts attempted to pretend that reality TV was just as worthwhile. It's not and neither are the vast, vast majority of content creators.
Dude every 14-year-old says the old man yelling at a cloud thing, think of something new.
The most amazing thing about this is that one of the major issues that Bill also likes to talk about is how wrong ageism (towards old people) is wrong. It’s INSANE to me that he can’t see the irony of shitting on ageism and everyone younger than 40 in the same breath.
Bill's energy really feels like: "Hmm, a girl got murdered? It was her fault for being annoying. Let's talk about why she, and others like her, deserve it." I know that's not what he means, but that's what it feels like to me
It's actually so disgusting like you're literally murdered and your final moments are being broadcasted on Bill Maher to talk about how people spending time in a van suck, like that has nothing to do with anything
I'm kinda shocked he said "too much attention has already been paid" to the case. Like... a person with a following was murdered & her fiance's on the run, of course people are paying attention. It really does feel like he's saying people shouldn't care because HE doesn't see her as having any value.
@@rubyrider7902 exactly. Him saying that is basically saying, “she’s not a celebrity, so her death doesn’t matter”
@@rubyrider7902 I think on some level he’s also aware that people probably wouldn’t pay as much attention if he was murdered
Nice to see another Jack fan here!
I know for a fact that Bill Mahar is salty about “influencers🤮” because they don’t need a laugh track or an entire film set to be more entertaining than him.
Ikr, plus this video ratio's Bill's lmao
Influencers...ha!
Influencers more entertaining? Come on my guy, both are terrible in this regard. Actual content creators however are very different. People on all platforms put in large amounts of work to create something entertaining and informative. Influencers are not of that fold. They are much closer to bill maher than creators like eddy really. They are rare, put in essentially 0 work themselves, most of it is about them, not their actual products, achievements or whatever, and they reep most of the benefits, instead of their teams who work 10x as hard.
Man, f his audience. Stop laughing on demand at his lame ass comments. If you turned up to watch his show, you're not smart or interested in politics, you're just boring.
shots fired
*woman is tragically murdered*
Bill: Can you believe what her job is? *holds 30 seconds waiting for laughter and applause to start*
1 minute 30 second*
was*
_laugh track_
@@generichuman6220 *1 hour and 30 minutes
*death happens*
Bill: haha im just so dark ahh!!! van life amirite???
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bill maher is the son of a network executive who sold pot to get into comedy but sure i have to get a real job.
I love how Bill doesn't even say "Gabby Petito," he just calls her "The young woman who got murdered." The disrespect is truly astonishing.
If he gives her a name it means shes an actual human being and not a concept he can complain about.
Right?! God he is an absolute prick
@@CANDY-in9js fr???
I don't know if we watched the same video but he in fact does call her gabby petito
He’s the definition of a boomer
Eddy that stache looks like it’s about to gain sentience.
Looks like it's bout to take off like a moth or a bat.
*ascends off Eddy’s face*
“My people need me”
I figured it already had, but it was disrespect for the mustache to mention in a video about such a dickhead.
I want that mustache to be my new dad
It's absolutely glorious
It is insane to me that Bill's generation doesn't want a better life for their kids and grandchildren, they wanna see them suffer and do worse than they do. Shits bananas.
But they are doing worst.:/
And that son of a birch 🌳 doesn’t even have kids. What stake does he even have in the future?
They think they were the one who had it hard so they think their kids and grandchildren need to have it hard too and don’t even realize they have it way harder
Misery loves company.
@The Stonefish you are part of the problem
You can also see Bill's boomer mindset where everyone is a "teacher, doctor, astronaut" All these jobs are highly specialized and require high degrees of education. This is pretty privileged talk from Bill because students have to go into hundreds of thousands of debt to be one of those. Teaching as well doesn't pay well either for all the expenses you have.
Imagine seeing that a woman, someone's daughter, is dead and immediately think about how their job is 'easier' than yours when you were their age, and get angry about it.
imagine seeing a dead person with no merit 24\7 on TV
@@antononononon I dont watch tv :D
@@antononononon Do people need "merit" to be mourned and lost?!
@@antononononon Ironic, a statement about "merit" coming from a guy who posts controversial comments on TH-cam for attention. If you don't think her life had merit, I can only imagine how you loathe yourself. You're just some guy seeking approval on the internet and you aren't even succeeding there. I'd pity you if you were only worth the energy. Maybe keep your edgy bs to yourself next time buddy
@@antononononon oh excuse me, edge lord over here 🙄
"They've learned how to monetize fucking off" Uhh, good for them. Anyone who has learned how to make a living doing what they want for fun absolutely deserves it.
Ikr? Isn't that what the good ol' American Dream was all about? I can't with stupid rich people like him, they make absolutely no sense.
I mean, isn't that basically what Andy Warhol did at The Factory? Yes, he made the famous silk screens, but he also:
Partied with everyone from Truman Capote to random University students and street kids (the "party favors" rivaled that of The Height at it's glory) people running around in body paint while he made "avant-garde" films, revelling in rubbing elbows and making connections with (and for) people he thought would inspire each other and all the while cooking up creative little one-liners for the press. (The most well known, and misquoted, being the "15 minutes of fame" prediction.)
He did *very* well for himself, even after being shot. It really didn't seem to phase him, or change the way he did "business".
EXACTLY
It's also exactly what he himself does.
Honestly, I don't think that influencers deserve the money they have, but a lot of them have it because of corporations using them to advertise, not because "the kids are lazy".
bill fart is one of those guys that you think is funny when you were younger because your parents watched him and the older you get you realize he’s just an out of touch old man who loves attention
hi nick, i like ur cat
literally
Ratio
For me, that was Jeff Dunham, but looking back, his stuff was actually pretty racist.
Nailed it Nick!
I like how those type of people say gen z needs to go outside yet when we do they tell us to get a job
Fr. Plus we’re learning how to make lives for ourselves in the jacked up world they’ve left us with! It’s insane.
My daughter just sent this to me after a conversation we were having about how much we hate BM. I’m gen x and, like him *shudder*, an atheist and I find him and his voice & opinions abhorrent. Millennials, Gen Z, if you can make a living off of being yourself and being an influencer, absolutely effing GO FOR IT. Someone else said it and I absolutely agree, he’s just mad that younger generations are able to make a living doing something that they enjoy. Fuck that guy. Fuck his take on this, it’s so hateful and damaging.
He’s such a hypocrite.
Leena Norms just made a video about this “laughing at children” attitude, and she said it comes down to jealousy. She did say A LOT more in the video, but that is the essence of the message. She also said we need to stop laughing at children, when the adults have laid the foundation for them.
I remember being ELEVEN YEARS OLD and my P.E. teacher screaming at all of her student sthat WE were ruining the planet, and that SHE wants her hypothetical kid to see a tree when it is born……see the irony? I was 11 and this woman was at least in her 30s telling us we did so much wrong. When you are eleven you are still listening to everything your parents tell you. If I ask for water and my parents give me a plastic bottle of water, how is that my fault. We need to stop blaming and laughing at kids for just doing absolutely normal things, like aspire to be a content creator.
This is so true. I can’t imagine lashing out at kids like that. Pathetic
I'll check it out.
Yes! Thank you for putting that sentiment into words. I remember having a small existential crisis as an elementary school kid about having to change the world because I was an animal lover. And people wonder why gen z doesn’t want to live on this planet
I had the same weird experience in my high school science class. Our teacher acting the climate crisis was up to our generation to solve/figure out, meanwhile he’s in like his 30s.
Local curmudgeon yells at actual children for living in the world he created, also talks down on a literal murder victim for comedy
It’s funny because Jon Stewart had a totally different take on this, he said that the internet has democratized criticism and people like Maher are just mad that everyone else has a platform now, and not just him…
Exactly. Bill’s upset that he isn’t the top dog anymore. He’s afraid of becoming irrelevant.
@@bigpapamagoo8696 well he’s 100% irrelevant, so mission failed well get em next time
I just realized how much respect Jon Stewart has for this generation than Bill Maher would ever allow...
Maher is the anti-stewart
@@bigpapamagoo8696 He is irrelevant, the only people that watch him are neckbeards and boomers
"Traveling is for retirement" None of us are going to be able to retire, Bill. Especially not if we're working those retail and service industry jobs that are just so available right now
And I don’t think the corpse of the Great Barrier Reef or the burnt-down forests of California are gonna be fun sites to see
thats not even factoring the fact any of us could be hit by a car tomorrow, enjoy life while you can or your a fool.
Uh, none of us are going to retire because we'll die of a pandemic and/or a climate catastrophe before we have the chance.
Also, travelling is more enjoyable when your destination isn't underwater, on fire, or so hot that birds fall out of the sky.
On the bright side, when they retire, their jobs will go to us
@@homemadefilms5718 when they retire???? Shit boomers still going to be collecting their pay checks keeping their jobs that they should have retired from 30yrs ago as they enter the 3rd stage of rigor mortis
Bill is the “I had to suffer, why should they?” kind of person instead of the “I suffered and I’ll do what I can to make sure others don’t have to.”
He's that, but without the part where he actually suffered.
I think you meant "why shouldn't they?"
Not now he's not. He's gone full blown suffering for everyone.
A lot of people bring up the protestant work ethic but Bill is honestly such a good example of the catholic work ethic. “Things are miserable but we shouldn’t change it” what!?
That describes about 95% of everyone who has ever lived, and 100% of everyone who has ever had power.
omg thank you for breaking down that horrible "kids want to be youtubers now" take - I worked with teachers all summer and so many of them had been working for like a decade, and they said it has only changed from being "I want to be a rock star!" or "I want to be a movie star!" to something that's actually more accessible for them to do. Like why would you be disappointed that kids feel empowered to become influential public figures or successful creatives.
I’m so glad they realized this. The dream of being a TH-camr today is just the equivalent of wanting to be an astronaut 20 years ago. But even now there’s only been 600 astronauts in human history, and tens of thousands of big online creators
When I was a kid, nobody wanted to be an astronaut anyway. This was in the 90s, so pre-TH-cam by a long while, and kids wanted to be ballerinas or firemen or Pokemon trainers when they grew up.
@@FrenkTheJoy hell, most people still want to be pokemon trainers (not for battle, just like, a dog trainer lol) because pokemon are fucking amazing
@@gingermaniac5484 Damn straight. Pokemon trainers get to travel the world too and have epic fucking adventures. I’d become a Pokemon Trainer in a goddamn heartbeat.
Yeah, everytime I see people talking about that I think about how half the kids I knew when I was younger wanted to be a singer/actor, despite having no actual interest in singing or acting and sigh. Kids just want to be famous! It looks cool and fun to them, it's not *new*
Bill’s argument: “if you have the option to escape from the cycle of shitty jobs and shitty apartments, you shouldn’t take it.”
wtf Bill
Millionaires like him need the rest of us doing shitty jobs and living in shitty apartments so he can stroke his own ego for a living and have his own mansion
@@tazzioboca and y'all keep doing that
@@layton6202 The only way people will stop doing it, is if everyone in the 99% stops doing it.
Edit: A bit poorly worded there, I orginally meant that people will only stop working their lives away for these rich scumbags if everyone does so. Strikes are still possible even if it doesn't include the whole workforce of a company.
“We suffered, so it shouldn’t be any better for our kids”
@@unlimited8410 They will never stop working they'll just keep complaining about it
His first job was selling pot in college and his second job was as a comedian. Dude has never worked a real job a day in his life, and all because his daddy raised him with a silver spoon. Is this where the boomers are getting their facts from? Honestly, sounds about right.
You must know what's it like then...
Alex Power tf is that supposed to even mean with his comment 🤣
@@A.G.P.115 I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say here bud, but I'll be patiently waiting if you care to elaborate. If you're assuming I'm a millionaire, you'd be sorely mistaken. Just like I am lol.
Running a weekly show is extremely difficult and is definitely a full time job, his job is probably more stressful than most people reading this comment. Have you seen what’s it’s like running a media show? Oh wait you haven’t, you’re talking out of your ass.
@@A.G.P.115 i know what it's like to have to keep a real job and work hard, yes
I’m 73 and have been hearing the same BS my whole life! The older generation always thinks the younger generation are all fucked up!😅. Ok BOOMER!!
If Bill wants more people to become teachers, nurses, and astronauts, maybe he should worry more about making college affordable, and less about young people finding better ways to make money without getting up to their eyeballs in debt before they're even 30.
AMEN
I’m not defending him or anything, but how would you expect a tv host to make college more affordable?
@@ethanhoward8506 He has a very public platform and boomers listen to him- meaning he has some sway with voters. We need more people who will vote for someone who wants to rework the college education system to be affordable.
@@ethanhoward8506 Influence holds a lot of power. That goes for TV hosts/traditional media too. He’s been in the game as a “content creator” for years. His net worth is what most Americans will never ever see or spend in their lifetime.
Well, at the same time, you have to choose your college wisely. Don't try to go into stuff like gender studies, for example, because that won't get you a job at all, instead go for stuff like computer sciences, which is actually really good to make cash, since people with skills in programming and the like are very sought after, or you can take other classes, like engineering or science, anything that you really want to do, just make sure there's a job attached to it.
Next, accumulate some money before hand. When I was in sec 5 of high school, I worked at a walmart during the weekends and the Monday evening, I got a shit ton of money. Then I went to college an now I have no issues paying my fees every session.
Bill Maher has the most infuriating combination of 'old man yells at cloud' and 'how do you do, fellow kids' I've ever seen.
It is his way of hiding the fact he is also part of the problem that voted in the problems we have today.
@@LlopmondDunderbridge Bill is firmly a Boomer. Gen-Xers suck for different reasons (I'm one), which mostly have to do with giving up on life and feeling like trying to make any real change or difference in the world is basically impossible and pointless. We just want to go hide in the corner and let everyone else fight about everything. A lot of us feel pride towards the Y and Z "kids" trying to change the world...but not enough to actually help out in any meaningful way.
Be careful, the ADL will come after you for a comment like that!
@@rustybrooks8916 is that why there is very little media attention towards them? (Although maybe they are heard/seen, but my algorithm just doesn't show it to me.)
@@rustybrooks8916The reasoning of most if not all boomers is quite astonishing, I've come to terms with this recently. It's a generation of people that only think in the box, and will instantly mock a way of life that is alien to them. They are the quintessential "get a job and don't you dare leave it" generation and have programmed the generations after them to live in fear.
Bill Maher, who’s never worked a day in his life, describing himself as a “normie” is my joker moment
That's bullshit. He very much had to work through it to get to where he is today. The grind was much harder back then for comedians.
@@starllama2149 You do realize it's way harder to be a comedian now than back then, right? Like we live in an era where making a joke can get you not only targeted by people, but also stalked and killed in the absolute worst case scenario. All Bill Maher has ever done in his life was deal weed, tell jokes, and spout his opinions on HBO.
I am going to become the joker
@@TheManinBlack9054 Based and edgepilled.
you're awful, Maher.
how about another joke, Maher?
"People say there are no good jobs these days" no no no no no, Bill, people are saying that there are no GOOD PAYING jobs.
For someone who claims to be a libertarian, Bill sure doesn't like it when people live like they want to.
Lmao
He does not claim to be a libertarian lmao, he’s a liberal.
@@sungukyun2608 He's definitely a libertarian if you listen to what he says on most subjects. He does not align with the left.
the point of libertarianism is to legally own slaves and get rid of the age of consent
@@xenasaur520 Now I've heard some outlandish things on what libertarianism is, but that by far takes the cake! The point of modern libertarianism is to roll back the role of the federal government, and for legislation that is created not affect people and their personal lives/rights nor peoples jobs. Another way to put is how Democrats tend to favor personal lives not being affected by the government. While Republicans favor the government not intruding on the economy. Libertarians tend to gravitate towards these two ideas.
Bill Maher has the self-awareness of a pine cone.
That’s kind of rude, most pine cones are lovely
Pine cone at least have benefits for nature
Don't people understand that he's self aware that he is his generation "influencer" it's part of the joke. He's a comedian
@@ashtrae7953 Doesn't Maher understand that comedians are supposed to be funny?
I’m not ashamed to admit it, but your comment actually made me legit lol.
The most annoying thing to me is when he just waits for a round of applause after one of his “hot takes” with a quirky little smile on his face like “someone had to say it” lmao
lol dude is spewing boring and predictable reactionary takes and thinks he's a rebel.
@@morenitomoreno1282 fr xD
I was on the brink of vomiting EVERY TIME omg it was so cringey🤮🤣 he really thought he was serving some hot tea like we haven’t already heard all this baloney on Facebook
@@richierich7098 right?? Lmao
Nah, most annoying is when the audience would boo or get annoyed with what he said. His smugness often resulting in him saying, "Oh fuck you! I'm right and you know it!"
I’m gen Z and work 60 hours a week on a construction site and have nothing to show for it because people Bills age make sure I pay extortionate prices for rent and food
Bill's generation to us: "follow your dreams, find a way to monetize/live off doing what you love"
Bill's generation when some of us find a way to do that: "wow what a piece of shit"
“if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life”
*finds a way to make a living while doing something they love while, on the surface, looking like they aren’t doing any work*
“no, not like that”
Yeah, exactly. But even if you don't do that, you're still screwed. If you get a "real job" they just shit on you for working for minimum wage, or if you make more they say you're overpaid because it's not "hard work". If you complain about being sore, or tired they hit you with the "you don't know what tired is! Talk to me in 30 years, then you'll know what tired is", or "don't complain! You should be grateful they gave you a job!"
There's no winning. Old folks are just hell bent on finding a reason to shit on us for some reason. I don't know why it's like that, but it's disgusting. We live in a deeply sick culture, and the people who played the biggest role in making it that way blame everyone else for it.
According to his Wikipedia, Bill Maher paid for college by selling weed and started doing comedy immediately. In his 20s he was fucking around SELLING WEED and DOING COMEDY!! I’m sure his parents were BEGGING him to get a real job. I really don’t know what he thinks he can judge ANYONE on.
He also loves to make fun of participation trophies...which no millennial or Gen-Z child asked for, but which our parents decided we needed to have.
Then, they screwed us over by increasing student loans astronomically and stacking the income cards against us.
Bill Maher's job is literally being an influencer. It just used to be a more exclusive club and he really doesn't like that.
while simultaneously trying to act like he's going on this spiel cause he cares about the tragic death of someone and/or the job market....absolutely disgusting
I think it’s so sad to see him gloss over somebody’s death in such a way. Think of her family members seeing this segment making fun of them on TV so soon after these events.
Gabbie Hannah was roasted for less but Bill Maher is like "I think I can turn this girls murder into a joke." How drunk did he have to think this was funny?
@@SaintShion Accusing him of being drunk is generous. He's just a shit bag
thank you im filled with anger rn lmao her murderer hasnt even been caught yet
@@SaintShion Dude, we're talking about a woman that was found dead in the wilderness being used to go on a pointless rant about people finding other means to try and make money online while also being able to step out of work that likely pays absolute shit.
If Billy the Bitch wanted to talk about people being horrible content creators while including Gabbie Petito, he literally had room to talk about people claiming to be psychic and in touch with Gabbie Petito.
Boomers hate Millennials/Gen Z so much that they find our deaths to be comedy. But then get mad at us for calling COVID the Boomer Remover. Sorry, you started it.
Imagine having a 'paid' live audience that barely laughs and claps.
The stupid thing is that there are legitimate reasons why influencers have a negative impact on our culture but he chose to go the boomer route instead. I suspect that he enjoys his very cushy lifestyle now and he just says whatever he thinks will make his audience keep giving him money, and right now, his target audience is boomers who have amnesia about what it was like to be young.
exactly... instead of dealing with the real issues, he goes the easy route, attacking kids. Weak sauce
there are so many issues with bias and misinformation with "new" media being that creators and anyone with an audience seem to think they're now qualified to take on subjects they're not. but of course the old man has to go on a rant about how people spend their youth and what they choose to do creatively.
he looks so proud that he made a segment criticising an entire generation due to someones murder
I despise this disgusting man almost as much as Howard stern.
Also, if you can criticize a generation for someone doing their job while also being in a horrifically abusive relationship and getting murdered, well, I think his generation has no leg to stand on. Murder rates were higher when he was young.
@Joe Tund Maher fan spotted. Opinion ignored.
@Joe Tund Maher fan spotted. Opinion ignored (II)
bill has the "i suffered so everyone else should too" mindset like a lot of other older people. they recognize issues for the purpose of complaining about them, but are terrified of solutions because it makes them feel like they were cheated out of the headstart they think gen z and millennials were handed alongside a cell phone.
Which is ironic, because I doubt he's really suffered *that* much. It's more of a "I feel like I suffered, so everyone else should too" mindset, lol
The thing is, Bill didn't suffer.
Boomers love to claim young people have it so easy now, as we work shitty jobs for shitty pay with no hope for future retirement, meanwhile boomers could work a minimum wage job for a summer and afford college.
@@maevem316 he's definitely spent more of his adult life wealthy than he has poor. Shit, his dad was a news editor and radio announcer. You think this guy ever knew what it meant to struggle with money? No doubt he had a ten mile long headstart when he headed off to Cornell compared to the influencers he's decided to shit on. The man's absolutely tone deaf.
Yup agreed
I'm A 63 year old veteran and USED to like Bill Maher. Now he sounds like an old man sitting on his porch yelling at kids to stay off his lawn.
Bingo
These young "influencers" are the kids infringing on his media "lawn"
He's salty no kid ever said they wanted to be a late night talk show host when they grew up
everything bill said is so appalling in light of HIS references to gabby's murder. to him young women are just shallow photos on instagram, he doesn't see her as a person even in her death? if the name of my family member was in his mouth, correlating her tragedy with laziness and vapid self-obsession, idk what i'd do. i want to say "fuming" but i think i'd just be broken. mean old men. get him eddy
Yeah he’s always been a raging misogynist, it’s sad that people think he’s worth listening to
Yeah, this one was bad, even for him (and he's no stranger to putting his foot in his mouth). It's mind boggling to me that he isn't a TH-camr. There's a network behind this, there is a professional team behind this. And not a *single* person raised a red flag that it came across tasteless?
They literally could have kept the exact same diatribe and just changed how he introduced it, but they probably chose to keep it in the hopes it would generate clicks so he'd *finally* gain some internet relevancy.
He's a real life sitcom. Why does he stop for laughs and applause
@OwO fake owo?
Yeah.
@@hlethaby Most definitely.
Same with most talk show hosts
Proof you don't watch Maher, because he usually stops to glare at his audience for clapping for stupid things.
He's only upset because online content creation is slowly phasing out the 24/7 TV news cycle
Nailed it. He's salty that the media oligopoly is crumbling.
Thank you Chris! That’s what it’s about
yet he is already set for life, not some 30 something worried about his livelihood. hes just a prick ether grifting or is legitimately an idiot selling his shlock to other old people
I wrote off Bill Maher when Neil Degrasse Tyson had him on Star Talk, and Bill compared the space program to baby learning to walk, but in the backwards sense “why didn’t we wait till we developed the technology to go to space and go then, why doesn’t a baby wait till it legs grows and walks then” I was so flabbergasted how dumb that was I never paid an ounce of attention to him ever again
To be fair, Neil is the bill maher of science communication. The man is unnecessarily verbose when explaining simple concepts, extremely smug towards those he sees as less educated, and is accused of some very heinous acts. Taking either of them seriously shows a lack of seriousness when involved in either of their fields. Let me paint it like this, if someone has multiple joe rogan appearances, they probably arent a great person to be listening to regularly.
I'm in my 50's and def a 'normie'. I applaud younger ppl who buck the whole "work your whole life to enjoy a few years of retirement when I'm tired all the time and continuously groan when I attempt to get out of a f***ing chair." Way to go Gen Zed (and Millenials?). If my kids can avoid the struggles and stress their dad and i endured, RIGHT ON! We don't have to keep living like our predecessors. Jesus.
And the nerve bill has to act like a working class member. LOL the guy hasn’t worked in years.
The thing is, if it were even possible to have the life that our parents had, of still being a work horse and not having the best healthcare but with the possibility of having a house, retirement, a car, affordable higher education, and some level of leisure time and vacation, we wouldn't be so fucking radical. But none of those things are on the table for us, except for very few. That's why we're so angry and fed up, and it's making us question the entire setup.
This is a W level take right here
awesome perspective
That’s why AI an important part of change
My mother is almost 70 and she refers to Bill Maher as "that grumpy old man".
is She wrong tho?
My mom (also 70) calls him “the curmudgeon”
Lol. Your mother is right.
Lemme buy you're mother a beer
"Nobody these days seems to be up for enduring those early shitty jobs and shitty apartments."
BECAUSE WHY WOULD WE, BILLIAM?
Why would we INTENTIONALLY say "oh hey look, it's a terrible experience that makes me unhappy. Give me some more of that!"
In a few years no one will have jobs or apartments. Because your over printed money will be worth nothing.
@@WeWokeTheGiants lmao cringe alert
@@xrik7865 it's not just the fucking truth
@@WeWokeTheGiants explain yourself please
@@DavidLopez-tj7jl the US is printing money to pay off debt, which will devaluate the dollar. And since there's no regulations to keep the minimum wage up to date with inflation and devaluation, every time, people are paid less for the same jobs that could've let you afford your own house and college bills like in the 60's (i think) as that was the last time the minimum wage was changed to keep up with inflation.
Also a housing problem comes from companies buying EVERY single house and building they find and turning them into apartments for rent, making stationary houses extremely rare and expensive, and allowing them to also make rents more expensive by catching up with inflation
Bill Maher the kind of douche to hear of a 16 year old person wanting to be a comedian and says "you gotta work the tough, crappy jobs until you're 30- *like I did*- before thinking like that," to then turn around and tell the 30 year old who has done those jobs and say "you should've built up your career when you were 16, because now you got no chance or connections *like I do*".
I love how bill was trying to say "there's millions of jobs open that aren't shitty" and proceeded to list some of the actual worst jobs people could experience
Not just experience. Also most of those jobs especially in the US pay horribly. Hell teachers barely make more than minimum wage
And isnt he a libertarian? Shouldnt the market pay better jobs that are needed more?
And all those places don't even fucking hire 😭😭 They won't hire you unless you have fucking 25 years of experience 💀
@@kuromi8384 Yeah, 25 years of experience or a fucking degree that you can't afford to get to still make barely above minimum wage just to get out of retail and sit behind a desk and get yelled at all day by some exec. ☠ I literally can type 100 wpm, am very computer savvy and have all the skills for an office job but because I don't have a piece of paper, no call back. So here I am in retail wasting my talents having weird old men ask me if we sell porno in a THRIFTSTORE. I make more at the thrift store than some of the DEGREE NEEDING office jobs I applied for, btw. CRINGE.
Thank you for attending my Ted Talk.
Especially being a teacher. Being underpaid to deal with entitled kids (Especially in Middle/High School) and their entitled parents sounds like a living hell and I have a lot of respect for teachers who are able to endure all of that
Bill Maher saying “too much attention had already been paid” when talking about a murder case is so infuriating.
he's a fucking jerk, I wonder how much attention he would get when HE kicks the bucket (certainly not much)
Bill Maher thinks 'attention' is a limited good, so whenever someone else is getting some, he thinks that means they're stealing attention from him.
Which, if you're a narcissist like Bill, is a problem.
It was such a popular take though.
The one I hated the most was "brown girls also get murdered and nobody cares" as if it was somehow a race issue that it got coverage, even though this girl was somewhat famous, and there was a manhunt for the boyfriend.
@@GeneralTaco155555a Hm there were equally as famous brown girls with followings on the internet who were murdered by their partner and it may have been covered by a few forums. It is a race issue. Two things can be true.
And saying “it’s not the time” is not the answer. You are proof that the only time people ever really listen to us is when they’re annoyed by us raising a fuss “at the wrong time”.
I agree with the original poster though, that saying “too much attention has been paid” is extremely distasteful and uncalled for when referring to anyone’s murder.
It's not a great thing to say, but it was all over the news here in Canada for weeks too. I'm not sure why, tbh.
I love how he was like "there are plenty of good jobs" and proceeds to list off things that require at minimum a bachelor's and more often a master's or something like education where you are required to get a minimum of a bachelor's and told that all your time is worth $40k a year max all the while education spending is minimum at best and the jobs are few and far between on a good year.
that and you're not guaranteed a position at any place in your field after graduation and it could take years of applying and working outside of your field of expertise before you actually get to work in it. This man is acting like we can get jobs right out our parents' wombs.
Him thinking retail is a "good job" just tells me he hasn't met customers
@@maryellenparmenter9303 or worked for minimum wage in decades.
Hold on, working in construction requires a bachelor degree?
Not trying to be mean or anything, just curious.
@@bustanut5501 no that doesn't, unless you want to be management which is typically a 2-year degree
I would like to thank this channel for making a point of citing sources. The use of citing sources incorrectly is one of the big criticisms about Bill Maher, and it’s nice that this video holds itself to a higher standard.
Bill Maher: "traveling the country in a van and experiencing life without responsibilities should be something only older people do when they earned like in my day!"
Also Bill Maher: grew up in a time when young adults making wildlife communes going to music festivals and traveling for the sake of personal enjoyment is all that generation is known for in history.
“but that was different because reasons!"
Not to mention he's a member of a generation that could own a six bedroom, two story, house, two cars, have three kids, a fridge full of food, and a pocket full of spending cash all on a single factory worker's salary. They had it so much easier than we do and with each passing generation it'll get worse. Its hard to take his "work harder" stance seriously when his entire generation gets to own land while that's a luxury for the rest of us.
@@NottherealLucifer Exactly, Baby Boomers were by far the most entitled generation, basically piggybacked off their parents' GI Bills from WW2, then they have the audacity to insult us Millennials/Gen-Z for not "working hard" when most of us aren't trust fund kids like Bill and have to actually work a good paying job just to live in a shitty apartment.
Yes, everything you have around you that is less than 30 years old just materialized, beamed down from the Enterprise. What an uninformed comment this is.
Exactly.
I love how some people live in a reality where “kids used to say they wanted to be a firefighter or an astronaut” as though all those kids who said that they wanted to be a actor or a rockstar or a ballerina or a superhero didn’t exist
Or a princess
Or a dinosaur
Dude can't even pick a lane on what he hates about this generation. We're somehow both a bunch of homeless hippies to him but also apparently as rich and privileged as he doesn't realize he is.
as a gen z, I can safely say that not only is being famous not important to me, but it even scares me. the positives do not outweigh the negatives, like at all
I agree. After seeing how the media treated Britney Spears in 2007, I came to the realization that being famous isn’t exactly a good thing
I've actually thought about this, and I think the best kind of fame to have would to be an animator, or a TH-camr who uses an animated character to represent themselves.
The idea that I couldn't walk down the street in complete anonymity scares tf outta me too.
I keep wanting to start a gaming channel...but I don't want the attention......the irony is not lost on me lol.
This was the rant I really needed in my life. How... how absolutely clueless do you have to be to not realize the parallels between what you do and what creators do? I... I just can't.
Bill strikes me as the type of guy who willingly avoids being self-aware knowing it'll gain him the most views and money to act like such a high horse riding rich asshole.
I mean the only difference is that hes a mainstream celebrity so the world is more likely to focus on him, but he's still like "oh look at these fucking selfish kids with an audience"
It's hypocrisy, a rampant disease among the species throughout time
I’d assume that he thinks it’s different because it’s mainstream media vs individual creators
I remember considering doing a TH-cam vs TV topic for a contrast and compare essay. My professor was incidentally a baby boomer, and said it’s a bad idea and “would be like comparing apples to oranges”.
I am a boomer and a Progressive and I've been noticing for some time that Bill is becoming more and more pathetic in his opinions and his comedy. Is it age? Is it excessive wealth? He's always been arrogant, but he used to be arrogant about big issues. Now he's becoming arrogant about trivia. You have done a great service by calling out Maher's newfound irrelevance. Thanks!
I said the same thing. I am from the tail end of Gen X and I remember when my dad would watch Bill Maher. While I didn't always agree with his opinions -- and, as you said, he's always been arrogant -- I at least thought he tried to make his points on important world issues.
Now he is just a cranky old man who is completely out of touch with the real world and uses his position to scream "HEY YOU KIDS! GET OFF OF MY LAWN!"
It's sad.
I’m a gen Z I agree completely. His Religiuous documentary will always be timelessly funny though
@@TomWDW1 i would watch Bill Maher with my parents in the early 2010s when I was in high school mainly because at the time there weren't liberals or leftists calling out obvious bad conservative takes and Bill was the smug one doing that. But yeah overtime he's just devolved into a condescending neolib who is more angry about "woke culture" than he is centrist democrats like Sinema and Manchin voting against lowering prescription drug prices.
I actually used to watch his show too, when I was in high school I would ask my mom to record it and I would watch it after school with her, I’ve always enjoyed shows about political commentary. But around 2016 he became very mean spirited, even more than usual. It became obvious that he was writing for old people on Facebook, and I don’t remember what the last episode I watched was but he said something so stupid that we just turned it off
@@chimi1999 same here. My parents still watch him and were generally confused when I'd criticize him
"Kids don't want to be astronauts anymore" -this should have been more of a critique of the lack of science and educational spending
This video has aged like a fine wine, Bill has only gotten worse
Boomers: "Damn, I really wasted my whole life working. I wish I had travelled and enjoyed life more when I was young and still had energy."
Also boomers: "Stop enjoying life! You're young, you need to be slaving away at work!"
Also, yeah, Bill Maher is 100% an influencer. The irony is palpable.
Someone higher up mentioned a Jon Stewart quote about Maher that he's just mad that the internet has allowed anyone to become prominent in political punditry, so he's being drowned out and forgotten, and he's totally right, as are you. He's now a small influencer in a sea of them.
Ironically, probably the coolest thing astronauts have done in the past 15 years was Chris Hadfield becoming a content creator vlogging from space
jeff bezos, a boomer, killed nasas ability to go to the moon for an entire year.
heres the story on that, if its ok that i link that here. if not i can remove the link. its from a channel called breaking points.
th-cam.com/video/tdR0oLzSXVQ/w-d-xo.html
HA
@@commentor2013 perfect chance for a rickroll
Dont forget the astronaut who hacked into her wifes bank account FROM SPACE. Being the first space crime
@@IDoABitOfTrollin thats what the space force is for lol
The thing is, why does he care? He’s literally just being spiteful.
He cares a lot about the few minutes of potential relevance and attention it gives him. It's an insecurity thing.
Salty old man is salty
@@whatswiththisnewhandlesthing he gets million's of views tho I wouldn't call that little
@@layton6202 *Checks channel*
No he doesn't. He only manages to crack a single million anytime he uploads one of those big controversial takes that people come to most likely from other TH-camrs (such as the one in this video). And considering he doesn't stay in the attention span of those people for longer than that day, yeah I'd say little.
@@The_Sharktocrab it's not just because he's old though, and not even because he's rich either. plenty of not rich people genuinely believe that others should suffer through life, that everyone has to "earn" a decent life, and they have good lives because they're good smart people.
He always gets the Generations wrong. I caught a clip when I was over at my parents and he was bitching about Millennials… as if they were 20 years old. I told my folks, “Does he not realize they are in their 30s and even 40s?” And my parents were all defensive of him… ugh.
You know if Bill had to talk about millennial influencers, could he not at least pick one that actually doing deplorable stuff, like family vlogging channels that basically rob children of privacy?
yeah there is a problem but when he isn't addressing the problem and just shaking his wrist at an ENTIRE generation (two to be precise) for creating a source of income is so dumb
it's because he's not actually upset at exploitative monetization, he's just mad that people younger than him are trying to be happy.
Older generations trashing younger generations will never end. Part of why younger generations don't want to work the same jobs as their parents is because they grew up seeing them burnt out assuming they saw them at all since plenty of parents work multiple jobs just to afford basic needs for their children, and missing them grow up in the process.
So yes Bill there are good reasons why kids don't want to get into the same working environment as their parents.
Imagine being the guy who shits on millennials who are in their 30s and 40s, now with careers and families. This shit is wild.
My immigrant mom worked 3 jobs just to support 4 kids. By her mid 40s, she couldn't even lift her right arm above her shoulder. So when I hear Maher and generally Fox news claim we should stop complaining about poor wages and get multiple jobs and be miserable and break myself until I die, it gets me so frustrated. It's definitely a position of privilege when the minimum wage when adjusted for inflation was almost double what it is now in the 1960s, to claim Millenials are lazy and killing marriage and households and whatever else these Boomers complain about is nonsensical.
Don't get me wrong, Millenials have their issues and boy so do Zoomers, but when the problems Boomers call out were caused by Boomers themselves, it's kind of a slap to the face.
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If wages kept up with productivity and inflation the minimum wage would be 26 dollars an hour, even 15 an hour at 40 hours a week is 30,000 dollars a year which is just over poverty. We know if the bottom line is making a livable wage then everything does better as a result, unfortunately the people in charge can't be bothered to pretend they care about poor people.
@@yourtoastershandemover2211 I constantly talk to people about the golden age of America from 1930 to 1980 when social ideas helped the most amount of people with the rich footing the bill at a maxed out 91% marginal tax rate. Now obviously with loopholes and write offs, it was effectively 46% but Bill Maher fails to take this into account when he shits on generations that didn't have this boon.
Somewhere along the line (Reagan) the rich learned that instead of taking home 50 million and having another 50 million go to the benefit of the rest of us, just get all 100 million and let the others eat cake. Despite as you have said, the middle class powers the economy. And with the decline of the middle class since Reagan, nothing has preformed as intended. But then again, socialism was the downfall of America and the world came to an end when businesses left America over the high taxes and America was no more... oh wait...
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Uncontrolled capitalism is as dangerous as any other system, I always laugh when people worry so much about socialism or communism here but ignore the damage that capitalism with no controls have inflicted. Companies and individuals have as much wealth as states at this point, wages have stagnated and people are quitting those jobs in droves as a result. The US is one of the only developed countries in the world to not have guaranteed maternal leave, affordable public education or healthcare, and we have some of the worst average wages. Ironically this style of capitalism breeds socialist ideals, if people want to stop the spread of socialism then the money needs to stop going exclusively to the rich.
Bill Maher is just one of those guys that makes a career out of just being himself (really rude suit and tie bitch) and gets confused why people make a career out of being themselves (relatable to most people watching them, and not actively trying to make everyone uncomfortable.) People like bill Maher are actually embarrassing. But he would probably "roast" me, cause he is rich, and I am not. Thanks for making this video, Eddy.
Bill Maher empty… YEET
thank you for the phrase "suit and tie bitch", i'm gonna pepper this into all my conversations from this point on
@@sludgeparty Right??! I thought the same thing 🤣
This is so spot on
imagine hearing about the murderof a young womanwho happened to be a van life influencer, going "oh i know a perfect joke for that" and opening with "we need less van life influencers" like can you be more insensitive
It is truly an incredible superpower that Bill doesn't notice how much he's criticising himself
👁️Projection👁️
👄 _wannabe broadcasters_
He has always been tone deaf, his stand up specials are THE WORST.
It's called projection. And being pissed about young folks having fun after he has wasted his youth being a turd is called displacement of anger. Bill, you're mad at your wasted youth, not kids in vans. Frued would be proud
My theory is that his monologues are written by some genius in the writer's room who is subtly satarizing him through irony
"You may have outsmarted me, but I outsmarted your outsmarting!"
Loool
I want this to be true so badly
BAHAHA
you dunked on Bill so hard, I almost felt bad for him, then you reminded me that a murder of a woman is what inspired him to roast a whole generation of people.... anyway
roast is used loosely here, at the very least it's cooked rare, at worst it would turn the most reserved, monkish chef into Gordon Ramsey
And it's not even the first time he's used someone's death as an excuse to ramble on about his bad takes.
@@CameronM1138 Are you talking about the time that he used Stan Lee’s death as a springboard for his segment on how comic book readers need to grow up? Because I thought of that as well, and it’s really ghastly how this is multiple shows in which he has looked at someone who died and said “my point tonight is that the things they did in their life are invalid, and anyone who consumes it is deeply stupid.”
Never feel bad for Bill at this moment in time.
@@hrishiv27 yep.
Bill Mahr literally flipped from left to right, as soon as weed was legalized.
"How dare kids these days do exactly what I did my whole life, but on their own without being part of a trillion dollar entertainment cartel?"
As a previous fan of Bill, thank you for making this video and putting into words why I have slowly but surely lost all interest in hearing him speak over the past five years. He seems bitter and unwilling to adapt - just my two cents, but I can't stand what he puts out there anymore. This is one excellent example of it.
I've never seen his show before this. What kind of segments did he do that you were into and what turned you off?
I remember I watched “Religulous” when I was in my edgy atheist phase and I thought he was just the smartest funniest man in the world.
Me too. I used to kind of like him, but he could not adapt to the times. Now he just sounds like an asshole.
@@PhantasmalBlast yeah I liked that one too.... but even back then, he made me cringe. He has gotten worse over the years
That's how I felt about him myself. I used to admire him as a shining figure of the left, even if I thought he went too far on attacking religious people instead of just religion. He still tells it like it is when it comes to some things like the dangers of slipping into authoritarianism via Trump(I won't get too far into that here), but the rest of the time, he really is just, as another poster said, full blown old man yells at cloud. Someone who refuses to accept the changes in the world around him or accept that people who are into pop culture are valid, and especially hates the young for enjoying things he was brought up not to enjoy as an adult.
I'm so sick of older generations acting rude and condescending towards younger ones... *We are literally a product of you and the environment you made for us*
Blows my mind how they can't make that simple connection. Well, not actually. I think we all (millenials/gen z) know it's because by doing so, it would mess with the "truth" they rely on to feel safe and accomplished.
It's like those trash parents who expose their kids on national television (trash Dr. Phil) for being unappreciative and difficult. Time to roll the home footage... uh-oh! It shows the parents failing every step on the way towards being emotionally intelligent, mature and nurturing role models. Ones that will solve problems with awareness, compassion and logic - not just shutting everything down by "breaking" the child mentally or abandoning it emotionally.
You know, ways to make a child blame itself for everything and ultimately lose faith in themselves (their supposed "ego") in order to conform to their parent's lack of knowledge. 😒
All because older generations can't stop to "take a good look at themselves". 🤦🏼♀️
_Pssst!_ To all of you that has been, or is currently, stuck with toxic parents: This shit messes you up, but it can be fixed in a way that _won't_ break you down before it builds you up. Don't lose faith in yourself, or the hope to find yourself behind the rubble set in your way. Take your time. No need to prove yourself deserving of it and possibly giving up because you've been conditioned to believe you can't even do that and thus don't deserve it - just take your time.
That would be because the younger generation is also a byproduct of what they didnt yet realize was reality- so there is always a component of 'what the HECK is going through this kids head?!?!" and it will happen to you too when your children are old enough to be in your position. It is simply a lack of perception available to any human being where age causes a disconnect in empathy due to impersonal experiences. Not everyone grows up to remember exactly what it was like when they were young, or what they would be like if they grew up in the present, and thats another factor that comes in. Then, take in that every generation is a marked difference in critical thinking, adaptive thinking, and general cognitive ability that is is NO WONDER older generations, especially those who have children, are unable to comprehend the priorities or more IMPORTANTLY how their brains just plan function. Human experience is not equal, and people of all ages forget that you dont see the same colours even now as the person next to you
They be die soon
Yeah, all generations after WWII are pretty pathetic.
I am the youngest of five , the only non boomer, and yes I have watched them all of them being super selfish and not caring about tHe future even though hey have kids. The boomers really were the worst and lazy parents who let TVs and phones entertain their kids instead of social structures.