Also for those pressed to argue my video down I’d rather you address the numbers I presented in the video as opposed to your opinion on how hard you think people “don’t work”. Your subjective opinion sits on a different spectrum than the numbers and economic outcomes presented. Make sure the arguments correlate. Also when it’s all said and done, if Gen Z and Millennials did exactly the same amount of work Baby Boomers did back then they’d still be economically behind based on the way the country is currently set up.
💯%!!!!! The young people today are the VERY BEST people yet! I'm gen x & can see that they care about humanism far more than anyone else has historically. Also whoopi's words are reminiscent of white supremacist talking points. Love you & I'm soooo subbed!
Older millennial teacher here (37), who owns a home, owns a car, a single parent, student loans up the wazoo! And I CANNOT afford my bills from month to month. No assistance. And I cannot get a second job because who’s going to watch my toddler?! Oh and I only have $50 in my child’s savings account because I can’t afford to keep putting money in it.
As a millennial, I'm almost 40. Why do they keep talking about me like I'm a teenager? I've worked for 22 years, what are they even talking about? I work 70 hours a week, man.
A bit late, but yes it is crap to keep treating us like that. Especially since a decent amount of those veterans people like to say they care about and then ignore? Millennials. Most of the people who fought in and now have lifelong issues due to those damn conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq are millennials. So not only did millennials pay for the stupid decisions made back then after 9/11, but we will (and are) paying the cost of their stupid choices here in the US. The damn gall it takes to say to an entire generation (a bunch of them former soldiers who have all the fun that comes with, now back in the US and struggling with how those issues combined with the others of our generation) are all lazy or entitled is a load of bullshit.
As a Senior, I'm EMBARRASSED that SO MANY Elders have the mindset like Whoopi 🤦🏾 How in Hell can't they see the difference with society now verses back then 👀 We didn't secure ANY safeguards or protections for future generations... we let the rules buckle & change under our watch 😒 it seems like we're jealous & in competition with the youth, instead of being inspired to learn from them. So what, that our kids have more advantages then we did 🙄 we had more than our parents & we selfishly started acting like - I got mine - forget the rest of you
The older generation completely disregards that a lot of us make money online and remotely now. It’s not 1960 we don’t have to be in an office building 40 hours we can literally make TH-cam videos.
@@easiersaidwithmegexactly. We don't consider shaking your butt on only fans or videoing yourself playing video games a job. Anything other than those "niches" requires education to be competitive in the field. BTW, showing your butt on OF isn't a real job, just part of the oldest profession in the world, prostituting yourself. And it'll bring in money, but at a cost. No good man sees those women as wifey material, just trash. And using your looks to make a living only lasts a few years, but the stigma is forever.
@@JohnaFactsDontCare... I said nothing about only fans at all.. weirdo. lol I’m talking about selling products online like art… etc, podcast, remote work, working from home jobs.. you can work at a call center from home
So many people have bachelor's degrees but no professional job because there weren't any offers! There are people with college degrees working for minimum wage out of necessity.
I dropped out of high school to get a job and I work beside college graduates everyday making less than me and owe more. Seems like nobody is truly valued regardless of the route they take IMO
I'm Gen X working poor ,with a Gen Z child and yes, these kids are not lazy , they are broke from bad policies. Great job Calvin!!! Whoopie needs to shut up, she's rich and detached from real life.
Yes!!! I’m older Gen Z. I graduated with a degree in biology with research projects I was involved in all 4 years and it took me 3 months to get a job. Every job that rejected me in those three months not because I was lazy but because I did not graduate with a year of working experience in a laboratory setting. Keep in mind I worked part time in a hospital and was involved in several extra circulars and graduated with honors. The job I finally got once I actually started to land interviews only paid me $18/hr. The cheapest apartment I could find in a decent area in my city was $900. We are not lazy we just cannot make a living under these conditions. How am I supposed to want to take care of kids and take out a loan for hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a house when I’m nervous about paying off the few student loans I have? Or I know I’ll have to go into more debt to receive a masters to make a livable wage?
@kaymitchell6143 blessings to you and yes, it's no joke put here. Rich people are really detached from real life. Stay lifted and blessed in all you do 💜
I'm a late millennial(graduated high school in 2013), I went straight into working because I couldn't afford college, but my friend got a business degree and every job wanted multiple years of experience for entry level positions. He's now going back for his masters while working at a comic book store because it's the only job he could find.
I mean no offence to your friend, but what kind of business degree, and from what school? Not all degrees are created equal, and sometimes higher wages come with higher level degrees and field of study. Just having a degree these days doesn't get you very far.
As a Millennial that works 40 hours and OT when available for a corporate bank and can not afford my own house and afraid to bring a child in this world because of costs !i believe She’s lost her mind
Just know that historically children were brought into the world to populate the world and take care of you when you no longer could. The world is populated, and children today are selfish and if you're lucky, may help you shop for an affordable old folks home. But, WILL NOT care for you.
You may want to work on moving up or finding something else. When I came up most of the workers at the banks were immigrants and the pay was never good. I've worked a lot of different jobs and don't ever remember pursing one at a bank.
That's the problem with people like her. They already think they're informed. They think their personal experiences are the end all be all of the truth, and that's all they think they need. Every generation has faced a vastly different era of problems. To pretend like the landscape of life hasn't changed dramatically in 40 years is absurd. Whoopi saying "well we *worked* for what we have..." And we haven't? Did the cost of a house and the amount of minimum wage stay the same? No. Did the cost of higher education stay the same? No. Did work culture stay the same? No. Can you even find a small starter home that's affordable anymore?? She wouldn't know. Maybe people just forget how hard they worked at that age. Or maybe people forget how much the cost of things were relative to what they worked for back in their day. Idk. Let's not even get to talking about the landscape of Healthcare and how much that costs for young unestablished families!
My thoughts exactly. They got where they are for their ability to entertain us. That doesn't make them smart. They should stick to their gig as court jester, and not try to be something they're not... And they are not the great minds of our time.
Thing is, likely do to her financial position in life, people like Whoopi believe that they are knowledgeable on subject matters for which they know little.
As a boomer, I know its harder now. There are too many part-tume jobs. There were full- time jobs back in the day. Millenials certainly have it harder.
Yes they do have it harder 👍🏾 because today you don’t have the jobs where you can earn a decent living and have insurance too. Nobody can buy a house working two part time jobs 🤯🤦🏾♀️
I’m a boomer. I look around now and have a hard time advising younger people about career choices because things are so different and changing so quickly. I know people in their mid to late 30s who have had to change careers multiple times because of industry changes. It’s hard.
@@jandmvideos9051So true. Technology changes rapidly, hence the pace of upward mobility takes a hit if one does not change with the times. The world changed astronomically during the later half of the 20th century. This is the more difficult time Millennials face because we haven’t seen such rapid progress since the Enlightenment.
As a late Gen X'er (right at the cusp of the Millennials) all of this applies. Gen X'ers lived through the time frame where we saw, in real time, each benefit given to the Baby Boomers snatched away from us right before our very eyes. Then to boot, we were labled as "lost" or "lazy". I definitely understand and feel for the generations that have come after me. Very good take on this!
@@logansquare2212 Omg.....yes! It was literally a smack in the face to be labeled in this way by the same generation that was telling us to pull ourselves up by the proverbial boot straps that they had taken the shoe laces out of.😒
Not a good take on this. Maybe in theory, but even the graphs he posted, zero actual accuracy. Look it the median incomes posted at 7:17, then look them up for yourself. This is skewed to feel sorry for millennials of color.
He has a lot to do with the problems we have right now, even more than what Calvin covers in this video. He's the reason why Christian Fundamentalists have as much political power as they do right now, he enabled the misinformation crisis we're in, and let's not forget the far reaching consequences of the Iran Contra Scandal.
Actually, he didn't. He got Amer out of the debt congress placed it in. Congress then went crazy. You know, the same congresspeople that refuse to leave now. Wake up and follow the money. By the way, Congress controls the money.
She gave, pick yourself up by the boot straps tease. The nerve. America always crying broke when it comes to its own. And these kids cant even get their first apartment these days.
Immigrants always say that they came to America with $20 in their pocket and now own their own businesses and doing much better than native born Americans. It’s a different mind set
With all due respect, they need to realize at least we have the damn sense to stop breeding once we knew it wasn't financially feasible. 💅🏼 great video!
People who can’t afford to have kids are the ones who have kids. We pay for it one way or another. Also the government doesn’t care if Americans have kids as long as there’s an endless supply of cheap foreign labor wanting to immigrate here
Boomers are mad af about falling birth rates. The right winger boomers want forced birth. Push out them grandbabies dammit! Who cares if you can’t feed them! 😖
True but looking how expensive it's getting & has been even having 1 child is ridiculously expensive & we'll eventually have a population collapse if the child birth replacement rate of 2.1 per woman. That basically means when millennials & gen Z gets to retirement age there won't be any social security for the retirement fund as it demands a constant flow of money invested from the working population which will ultimately be a consequence for the current younger generations in having a much higher retirement age 70-75+ I feel. I'm saying this as a 26 year old who's one of the oldest of gen Z.
@@Emperor-Inker I literally don't care I'm not even being rude I just don't care I'm not contributing to more people in society. It's already screwed up. The world will be better off with less of us. We can't even take care of the people we have much less new people.
Having is child is as expensive as you make it. The average cost of giving birth in a hospital is ~$15K. If you are generally healthy and are not high risk....there is no reason to give birth in a hospital. A midwife and doula cost at most $5K and provide the same service minus epidural. School is not expensive for most kids. Public school is free. If you are low income, they get free lunch too. If not, it's not expensive to make a lunchbox. Homeschooling is also an option. College is only as expensive as your choice of school. Junior college for 2 years and then transfer to a 4 year to finish is more cost effective. Attending a public uni vs a private one is also less expensive. Family planning is a thing that no one wants to do. They would rather risk pregnancy and then try to figure things out after the fact. If you want kids and plan to work, tailor your career choice around companies that have good parental leave or discounted affordable childcare costs. @@Emperor-Inker
Considering my father died at 59 still working himself way too hard with little to show for it in the end, I decided that if I had the opportunity, I would set myself up where I would work to live, not live to work.
I can relate. My grandmother smoked and worked in a bar where you could smoke when she was younger. Got emphysema and passed away at 59. My dad was on dialysis and died at 47. I’m really lucky to have a stable upbringing in a house in the middle class suburbs.
When it comes to the whole millennials don’t wanna work narrative. It’s not that we don’t wanna work, it’s just that we don’t wanna work and have nothing to show for it. A lot of boomers were working and were able to afford to buy houses and go on vacations. And while we work hard, it’s just that we have nothing to show for it because of greed in this country. So it’s becomes a thing of why work hard if you’re never gonna be able to afford this so called American dream that we were all told that all you had to do to achieve it was work really hard for it
It's completely different now. You guys make the same money we made and have to pay twenty times more for everything. I'm a boomer and I know I couldn't buy houses and cars now the way I did then. I feel bad for y'all.
@@carolynforge8586The youngest boomers were growing up in the 80’s when the Reagan administration cut financial Aid completely. This group began the generations that could not buy homes and cars or afford education like their parents. We are the generation that had to pay for our children’s education. We are the generation whose parents did not babysit so we had to pay for daycare. We are the generation who went through the collapse of the Auto Industry in the Midwest to the South and a little later to Japan and Korea. Those of us on the tail end of the baby boomers got the raw end of the stick as well. Do your research!!
I resent the idea of millennials being lazy. I work hard af and harder than those that might be calling millennials lazy. At this point we are being conditioned to think along the lines of forever being the working class. Work yourself into a grave while other demographics can be lazy and benefit from the hard work that you are doing and killing yourself with. I always cringe when I hear immigrants come to this country and brag about having 4 or 5 jobs as if that's the norm and something to be proud of. I get it. You do what you have to when you are trying to survive but working 5 jobs to maintain a somewhat comfortable standard of living is not a flex. It's something to be pitied because the people at the top live comfortable off of other people's labor.
@@stephaniehenry5617you work your butt off , while you are young, and either invest it or start a business or even pay off your mortgage so in your later life you can relax more. If you wait around for the government to help you out then you are already lost and will be living a horrible existence
its so strange coming from a Black person. My grandmother was not able to buy her first home until she retired from the post office 8 years ago in her 60s
Black folks like whoopi and Steve Harvey leverage the fact that they grew up poor during their childhood & leave out the fact that their adulthood was spent in wealth. The latter tends to influence their opinions more than the former
@@treeztop They're like the Black bourgeois bell hooks wrote about. Sure, they don't have white or male privilege ... but they forget they also have a hell of a lot of social and economic privilege.
Can we just give these “celebrities/millionaires “ a 55k salary, support their parent(s) who depends on them and have them work there 40hrs with no OT and see how they gonna go bust their behinds to survive. I really want to see it.
@Billyflood2430, not sure if you watched or understood the video. She may have worked laying bricks. But what was her pay? Were benefits included? How much was her pay? Was her income supplemented? Did she receive assistance for childcare? Is it 40 hours a week? What was the cost of childcare? What was her rent, groceries, so on and so forth? They don’t have a problem working the problem is after their 2 jobs can they live, eat and function? Read more and educate yourself. “Pizza party instead of pay increases”. We’re in a sad state of affairs.
@@billyflood2430 and she's forgotten that. She needs to understand she got famous because of her ability to make people laugh, not because we respect her opinions. She's not educated on what she spews opinions about, she should stick to stand up, she was good at that.
On top of that, a huge number of Elder Millennials were born addicted to substances because of their Boomer parents. We had to overcome the crack epidemic.
They tend to forget that part. A lot of us was young in the 80's and saw how they were. I have to remind them at times that their generation was not "upstanding citizens" like their parents were.I try to be respectful to my elders but they can miss me with that "holier than thou" attitude.🙄
Exactly. Not to mention the War on Drugs that coincided with that era, which took a lot of Black fathers out of the home and helped facilitate a rise in single-parent homes that many millennials were raised in. There were other factors, but this was certainly one that aided in these outcomes for millennials.
Finally getting notifications!!! Now... as a black millennial owned business that started DURING the pandemic, I can tell you that Whoopi and the rest are way off base. I don't know one millennial who doesn't work overtime and or have a side hustle or three. We work so hard that we have held off on having children and getting married. We don't but homes bc they are overpriced and interest rates are ridiculous. Many of us came out of college during the financial crisis of 2008 and couldn't obtain decent pay even with our degrees. The shock of nothing going the way we were told it would if we got a degree has caused us to reject the system and adapt in our own way and the system and those who went along with the system resent us for having the gall to do so.
1000%!!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Couldn't have said it better! I'm a college graduate from 2010 and get exactly what you're saying! It's not that we don't want to work, we just don't desire the "traditional" way anymore because it's not working for us like it did for them!
Whoopi know she was wrong for saying that mess smh. Millennial in my early 30s here and I will say the “hard work = massive success” is a scam. I was entering college as things were going to hell in a hand basket in 2007. ESPECIALLY as a black woman. I spent my entire teens & 20s working, going to school, all the things my elder Gen X parents & Boomer elders told me would make me successful and guess what? At 24 I had a nervous breakdown and had to be put on medical leave for 3 months because my employer was overworking me & setting me up to fail on a consistent basis (I was young and in an executive position). The recessions & housing market crisis makes it impossible to be a homeowner (in my city it’s the mid 300s for a 20+ yr old house un renovated so stuck with renting). Now im back in corporate America working an entry level job with a few side hustles renting and I’m waaaay happier than I ever was chasing the “American dream” for 80% of my life up to this point.
If you "don't know one millennial who...." I can introduce you to my son who's currently living on my couch, but was just as happy living in the car I gave him, than ever getting a job.
😂 truuuuuue! I'm a bit older, but due to disability got a way later start in life, took me longer to finish college, etc, compared to my peers. I got to have the misfortune of job hunting before and during the pandemic and holy shit! There are people out there demanding 5 plus years experience for a minimum wage starter level job! One posting I saw (wasn't qualified but my friend who was sent it to me so we could have a laugh) REQUIRED ten years experience in a technology that had only been around for 3 years. Like wtf??
@@frumtheground I’m A Design Major ( Should’ve Graduated Years Ago But Ya Know Life) And The Way Everything Entry Level In My Field Is Like $15-$17 An Hour.. WITH A DEGREE And 5-10+ Years Of Experience… I’m Over It. Like These Corporations And Businesses Are Insane. $17/hr Isn’t Even Remotely A Livable Wage Especially In My State ( MD ) Because Inflation Is HIGH.
@@bigelowkaryn I think she's going off of that viral video from last week. A 21 year old was crying bc she said 9-5s don't make sense. She was saying how there wasn't enough time in the day to get anything done & it's dark by the time you get off. It's her 1st full time job out of college. That doesn't make us all lazy lol. I think the girl is just realizing how hard life is gonna be after college & had a little break down.
@@jbuggin8811The thing is...the girl has a point. Who wants to spend most of their awake hours at a job AND THEN not be able to afford a house? All that after going through a recession, a worldwide pandemic, and soaring inflation? Not everyone wants to live only for evenings and 2-day weekends. It's crazy to me that Whoopi scoffs at kids wanting to do better and live better, more fulfilling lives than their parents as if that's a bad thing. Not everyone gets their dream job of being an actor. I bet Whoopi doesn't leave that table to go sit in an office behind a computer until 5:00 p.m. M-F.
Whoopi is so out of touch. Does she have a clue how much child care costs? Rent & home prices? Vs. salaries. Most millennials don’t live near family support and most grandparents are still working because they can’t retire. Student loan debt holds people back. It can cost 30k to have a baby in the hospital. Your out of pocket costs can be in the thousands. School weeks are only about 1/2 the weeks in a year. My son had to be out of school 17 weeks last year. That doesn’t count the random days off. Schools get out at 2-2:45 but most jobs go to 5. Someone has to pick that child up because not every school has aftercare spots for every kid. I spent 24k on child care last year.
All of what you said was either an excuse or bad decision making. Why would a person have a kid and not be prepared or have both parents involved. Rent and be solved by downsizing, stop living above your means or get a roommate or live with your parents until you’re comfortable to live on your on. You can pay off your student loans easily within 3-5 years if you lower your lifestyle. Most people go to college and get shit degrees then complain about the salary, bad decision making. Yes she is correct because if millennials and GenZ wasn’t lazy they wouldn’t be wanting 4day work weeks and 40hr pay
She trriiieeeddddd it! I'm a millennial, an older one born n the 80s and we r the result of regannomics and the Clinton crime bill. We didn't ask for none of that ish! And the list goes on and on.....yall messed it up for us to where it is more difficult. It's damn near impossible to do better than our parents. It is not about laziness! The nerve!
Who is only working 4 hours day outside of congress? Not just Whoopi, who we all love for her talent, but it’s this over exaggerating many older people do to try and make a point. No one wants to work 4 hours but working over 40-50 a week just to get by? Who would want to do it? Many do but who wants to do it?
I think she’s misinformed tbh. The 4 hr workweek is an attention grabber. To my understanding the idea is to work 4 days on and get 3 off. The aim is for a better work life balance. Doing the minimum necessary for maximum effect and doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal value.
I was born in 78. I work close to 70 hours a week, attend classes full-time and can’t afford to pay utilities or buy food after paying my portion of rent, insurance, car, phone, two personal loans for school, travel to help my ailing parents, and small expenses for ailing parents. Every day, I think of giving up everything and doing nothing just to get some peace in life and see if I can find some happiness in it, instead of running myself into the ground to only be left with nothing.
In my case, I can't find a full time job. I'd love to work 40 hrs at 1 job but in order to get that I have to work 2 with one job or the other messing up my schedule each week and never having a full day off.
And in order to rebuild the system you young people have to vote out these old butt holes in congress that don’t want the system changed 🤯 if people were getting raises on a regular basis from 1970 until now our country would not be in this mess today 🫢
I'm in my 50s and am envious how brave you young people are. I wish I was raised with your mindset of self care and move on when it doesn't work for you. Bravo for you.
Sometimes she says stuff with no critical analysis. Just shows that they people put people like her in white spaces to tell us what the media want us to know with no critical thinking.
I literally just read a post on Tumblr that said: post WW2 housing crisis, President Truman signed a law capping new home prices at $10,000 (equivalent of $133,500 today). Rent was capped at $80/month (equivalent to $1000/month). All generations pre-millennials have had all assistance in the time of economic crisis. Something that is absolutely not happening for us now.
It wasn’t a year out of the military in 2008. I couldn’t get a job for the job I did for six years and I ended up losing my home everything this man speaks is the truth here.
I have a master's degree, I work full time as a clinician, and I can't afford to move out of my parents' house because apartments in my state are too expensive. I have a dozen friends who are in the same boat. This whole "lol you just want to work 4 hours" argument is either shamefully ignorant or dishonest. Google is free, Whoopi
I'm Gen-X. I call boomers 'The Failed Generation'. They took perhaps the greatest prosperity in history and turned it into this nightmare. They don't even have the decency to take any responsibility for any of it. All they do is throw shade at everyone else. First they blamed their parents for everything. Then they blamed their children for everything. Now they're blaming their grandchildren for everything. There's a reason they were called 'The ME Generation' at one point. They don't even have the humility to get out of the way and let the rest of us fix their mess. They broke the chain of passing the torch and that is why I say they are 'The Failed Generation'. Passing the torch is your job as a generation. I'm so sorry to you later generations that we didn't have the strength to stop them and have little to pass to you.
I am a boomer and have to say I agree with this young man. Our government has been stripping away at all the things that allowed us the boomers to have a better life than they have now. Businesses do not want to pay living wages to keep up with the economy even before inflation. Whoopi saying that the younger folks only want to work 4 hrs a day is a joke. Some are working multiple jobs just to keep their heads above water. In the riches (once riches) country people should not have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Working multiple jobs should be to make extra money for a vacation or something special you want. Now granted not every millennial is out here busting their behinds but for those who are, I feel bad because they are not seeing the fruits of their labor. Hell, at the rate things are going will they even be able to retire? So, Whoppi I beg to differ with you on this topic.
For y'all hating on the evils of Boomers.....several million of us are helping raise the grandkids. Providing free childcare for little ones, and before/after school care for older ones, so our kids don't have to fork over their whole paycheck for that. In many families this works great. In some families it's a case of raising an ungrateful lot, and then raising Their ungrateful lot as well. And meanwhile being accused of ruining the world by people carrying a $1000 phone in their pocket. Life does not actually run by "generations" every family is its own unique situation. Don't let the media persuade you to see a victim or an innocent bystander as a villian.....look to where the actual power is.
@@shmataboro8634 first off, boomers actually *did* ruin the world. They are the ones who set things up for the next generation. They are the ones who voted for the people who didn’t care to worry about future generations. Second, Providing healthcare and childcare for your children is just basic parental responsibility. There’s nothing to praise, it’s your responsibility to care for the children you decided to have. Third, nobody is carrying around a 1000$ phone. And even if they were, it’s because cheaper ones are no longer sold. You know how much 1000$ in 1980 was? More than 3000$ today. The benefits you had in your day no longer exist for us. Pensions? Nope. 401k? You better stay at a company for at least 10 years. Housing at the minimum wage? (which was designed SPECIFICALLY for people to be able to live off of) well I hope you’re working 8 hours at least 5 days a week if you also want food. Taking care of the current generation of your family after the way YOU set things up, and being perfectly fine off? That is just basic decency, because without help, we wouldn’t be having kids at all. Which your generation seems to be very critical of.
And you know what? It seems like a lot of the older generation got something to say but, won't help you! You want to come over to MY house? Help pay the rent or mortgage. You want grand kids? Help pay the daycare and college fee. But guess what? THEY WON'T DO IT.
Pressure to come back into the office was extraordinary. Finally one of the managers let it slip that they were getting a discount on our newly built office building based on the number of "warm tushes" in the seat!!😮 then it all made sense🙄🙄🙄
What people don't talk about is how millennials oftentimes have to take care of their parents, while they're trying to make a way for themselves , and often times their siblings too 👀 Now, let's clock that.
As a millennial who recently turned twenty nine years old and is a senior in college and who is going to grad school next to become a therapist. I feel like the elders need to do the math and do the homework to fully understand why we are putting milestone’s on pause until we can afford it.
It really is so insane to know that they could just actually read the statistics and understand that they're objectively wrong. Like they could read why they are wrong they just don't care to. I swear anytime we say how things are more difficult in this economy they take is SO PERSONALLY and then say we are the crybabies. Like bruh 😒
Thank you Professor Michaels!! As a millennial I worked more than 40 hours a week from the time that i was 18 until I got pregnant with my first child at 29. I had 2 jobs most of the time. I did not go to college because i just could not afford it. I did not have the luxury of extended family to help pay for my college. My parents did not save for me to go to college. I also did not have a parent that was willing to help pay for college even if they could afford it (But thats a story for a different podcast). I was only able to go down to 1 job when I got pregnant for 2 reasons... 1) I had to cut back on work for the safety and health of my baby. 2) Because my daughters father and I were together.. he was able to help support us. 8 years after my daughter was born I was finally able to get my college degree but that was because of tuition assistance with my job. Last year I was able to buy a home (barely) right before the rates went up. I believe that was only possible because I work for the bank that financed the loan. 😅 So trust me when I say I've been working hard. This journey has NOT been easy. I was so stressed last year because if we didnt get this house.... we were going to see our rent go up $400/500 dollars. Such an increase in rent and the 8% rate would have knocked us out of qualifying for a home. I can't even imagine what out mortgage would be if we had to get the loan now.
What you have accomplished is amazing Queen goddess and I applaud you for sharing your truth! I think the way voices like Calvin, Shansphere, Tee Noir, Fiq, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land-etc are deconstructing our society, generations from now, we will be rebranded l as the “Against All Odds” generation. Cause shit, the trauma I and all of us millennials went through to still be alive is more compounded than the interest on my student loans and my mortgage, lol 😂
Im a "xennial", definitively living that paycheck to paycheck life. And yes those federal benefits are evaporating. In 2010, we were facing a loss of income. I applied for TANF... only to be told, we qualify but the very next month, it would no longer be offered to two parent households.
My 60 year old parents still argue with me about rent. Oh you can find something for $600 here. In New York City…. I still have, I can get a house for 150k knowing damn well that’s gonna be a downpayment smh
One more... when you said people pack up to go to Anaheim for Disneyland, and your tone changes to say "Disney World is not here yet" it's smooth how you drop those tidbits. Bravo!!! (from a former Disney World employee)
❤️🖤💚Black Younger Generations Need To Get Involved In Politics..... And Get These Old "Baby Boomers" Out Of Politics .....And Get Them Out Of The Decision Making Process In America... Enough Said.♥️
In addition, Baby Boomers were the first generation that benefited from a lot of the affirmative action programs that have been steadily chipped away at over the last four decades (and long before the Supreme Court finally gutted it in 2023). That's why Boomers were the first generation of Blacks to become lawyers, dentists, physicians, pharmacists, engineers, etc. in higher numbers. Both of my parents were Boomer lawyers, and one was is also a judge. They were in a profession that wasn't open to their parents a generation earlier in our confederate state. Even my college-educated maternal grandma wouldn't have had access to those professions.
Actually, baby boomers were also the first generation to organize mass protests and demonstrations in support of civil, women's, LGBTQ and environmental rights. In fact a lot of the laws that have been passed in the last 50+ years like Roe vs. Wade, Title #9, The Declassification of homosexuality as a mental Illness, as well as several enviormental protection laws were the result of boomers activism……..Boomers were probably the most politically and socially conscious generation ever.
I am not American but mu God you done your homework and you articulate your argument so well . I am right on the edge of boomer still working and I see young families struggling financially with the cost of living in Australia. Thankyou for the education ❤ 23:09
I guess they think because we want to work shorter work weeks, we want to get paid more for less. No! I'd rather work 10 hr shifts 4 days a week, than 8hr shifts 5 days a week.
@@BonitaGardner millennials where the first generation that had to take care of themselves. We had to tie up our boot straps and actual do for ourselves and it’s sad that they can’t understand that. They were mentally, emotionally, and physically abusing us and we still took that SHT on the chin and kept it moving. Millennials were the generation with the highest number of foster children. 1998 was the year the the most children were in foster care, millennials especially in nyc were the first to watch 3000 people die in their faces that didn’t have to do with war, baby boomers and gen x have mentally and emotionally tortured us that they don’t realize their children are committing suicide. The highest suicide rate in the USA was 2018. Make it make sense. These clowns syphoned real estate, businesses, farmland, etc that none was left for us. It makes no sense that 60% of our monthly check goes to rent. Not including that food and other things. They are delusional and don’t know accountability. Not to mention how they stole everyone’s pension and syphoned it into Wall Street so it is not clear if we will even have social security or pensions when we get older. To take it further they created a $33trillion debt that we and our children are going to have to pay for in the future. With all due respect to whoopty F baby boomers and gen x. They were horrible parents. I can go on forever.
I'm an elder millenial and In my opinion whoopie and the view are all wealthy out of touch rich ladies who have no clue on what's going on in the real world. Very great breakdown Calvin and these are hard times indeed and not just hard times for us millenials but it's also a tough time for boomers, gen xers and gen zers. I blame it all on this capitalist system and the politicians and the wealthy who are only helping thier bosses and corporations in the process. The capitalist system and wealthy oligarchs are to blame and reganomics and trickle down econ, the crime bill, 96 tellecommunications act, citizens United and patriot act all have destroyed the working class and the poor in general and that's all in the last 40-50 years or so. Take care Calvin and great breakdown of it all.
Calvin's ability to explain a concept, tell a story, and give an analogy will forever be unmatched!! 😂 I really need the live stream of Whoopi watching this and responding. Her commentary was so daft smh. It's sad that people with such a low level of understanding of the world are the ones who get cameras and mics to go on national television loud and proud like that.
Im one of the youngest of the millennials I just turned 29 on January 4th I’ve been working 2 jobs working 52 to 56 hours a week since I was 21 my sister is one of the oldest of Gen Z she turns 26 next month she just started working 2 jobs a back last year because we bought a condo together in June of 2023 it’s 285,000 dollars for 1380 square feet with a damn interest rate of 7% and a $325 HOA fee that’s not included in the mortgage back when Whoopi Goldberg had eyebrows houses used to cost a nickel also she’s been in the industry longer than she hasn’t she has no idea what it feels to live like a regular person anymore
In L.A., jr./community college was free until the 80's. I showed up and a semester tuition was capped at $50.00 . As a teenager, working part time, I was easily able to pay for my own tuition. It is currently, $1,510.00. The teachers had good careers there. Now, professors are hired as part-part time, and it is not a career.
I met Whoopi at the Harrah’s Casino in Atlantic City in 98. She hit the 10K slot machine jackpot within a few minutes of sitting down… she didn’t even have to work for 4hrs
Don't forget the effects of NAFTA in the economic discussion. America is the only country that pushes you to work harder for a worse quality of life. Increasingly, the easiest way to live the American dream is to get your education and emigrate to a country with a social safety network. Also, I would include the rise of social media as a barrier to establishing and maintaining quality relationships.
Late X'er here, can confirm. I was raised for and promised a job and financial security that was already long gone by the time I entered the workforce. The desperate clinging to that worldview had already taken over my dad's life by then and took until about now for my mom to start to recognize.
My grandfather was a sign painter back in the day. He didn't make a lot of money, but it was enough to support a wife and three kids,pay for a home,food, clothes, utilities, and extracurricular activities like dance lessons for my mom and karate lessons for my uncles. Also my grandmother was a stay at home mom too. My other grandparents were different for their time since both of them worked. My grandfather was a teacher who eventually became a middle school principal, and my grandmother worked in insurance. They had a good financial adviser so they benefited a lot during the 80s. Both my dad and aunt were supported during their times in college. However, my grandfather worked so hard that he had a lot of health problems all from the stress that came with his job as a principal, and he didn't really get to enjoy his retirement. He passed away from a heart attack in his mid sixties.
Enjoyed your video, you did your homework. I lived through Reganomics, I lost everything, job, house and more. I had to start all over and never really regained what I had. I'm 68yrs young now. God Bless you 🙏🏾
I am almost 40 and that type of gaslighting companies use to work us into the ground. Never again will I allow a job to be center of my life or income.
I'm 32 and graduated high school in 2009. 'Back in my day' growing up included hearing the formula for the 'American dream' which consisted of the following: -Get good grades in school so you can graduate and get into college -Pick a decent major, get good grades and graduate with a degree -Get a well paying job and save money to afford a home -Get married and have kids The cycle is then supposed to repeat itself from there... Here's the thing though, at some point during my college career; the formula shifted. Jobs became HARDER to get because seemingly out of nowhere the bar for employment was raised. No longer could you just hop into a position post-college. You had to have EXPERIENCE and I mean YEARS of experience! So, my generation would get out of college with 5-6 figure debt and be forced to work jobs that honestly could've been obtained without a degree! I don't know about anyone else, but in my hometown it was kind of looked down upon if you didn't go to college right after high school. It was drilled into our heads that we HAD to go to school after 12th grade. A lot of my graduating class would be either the first or one of the few people in their families to go to college. So, if you crossed the stage at graduation it was expected to have a college mentioned as your plan post-graduation rather than for the announcer to say your name and then mention 'workforce' (as in this graduate is going straight into the job market). It's a darn shame because it really set up a lot of people to fail. My parents could quit a job one day and literally be on a new job the following day or week! I'm not joking, I had an aunt who quit one factory job and worked at a new one in town in less than 48 hours! The job market IS NOT what it was when we were kids or still in high school! Parents wanna pressure their kids to succeed when we have so many more hurdles to overcome than they did! Praise God, I FINALLY closed on a home a few days ago. It was a 3-year process because as a self-employed individual (TH-cam/eBay) it's been an uphill battle in this housing market. My mom had her first house at age 19 and there was a lot less red tape for her to deal with. This older generation needs to stop being so hard on us because the blueprint of 'success' and 'hard work' are NOT the same! In just a few months, I make more money than both of my parents combined in a year and I'm doing 'less work' (hard labor) than they do just by creating videos or selling Pokemon cards/collectables on eBay. I'm in NO RUSH to get married at all because despite making good money, it really doesn't amount to much in this economy where you have to drop $250 in Food Lion or Wal-Mart just to have groceries for a couple of weeks! Do you think I wanna consider things like money for a wedding, baby diapers, etc. in the world we're living in right now?! It's hard enough making it out here for myself! Great video as always Calvin! Sorry for my rant...
You and I are the same age, I pay rent with my mom in an apartment, I could barely live on my own and I have two jobs, I work in behavioral health full-time and part time at a church and it sucks that I may have to pick up third job just to stay afloat.
what's sad about college was after I finished, I would run into students I knew back on campus. One guy I know was computer science and he was a Wal-Mart greeter & gathering shopping carts...it's ROUGH out here @@PoliticalAbstract
Look I am late gen X. I’m not a millennial but here is what I’ve experienced. I could not get a job in high school in 1991-1993. Things were tough in 1994-1996. But I did got a job at McDonalds that lasted. I got 2 years of community college for nothing out of pocket and joined the Army. After 8 years in the military and delivering pizza and 5 more years of college which cost around $50,000 in loans, I got a pretty good entry level job. But that career should have actually made affluent after 18 years. But it didn’t. Inflation ate up most of it. So I went from not making as much as my daycare costs at this good entry-level job to 18 years later worrying about how am I going by to pay my bills without daycare. I had one period in 2007 or 2008 where I felt slightly like I had enough money. I bought my first house even. I feel poorer now and have for 10 or 15 years. I went back to community college to take some classes a few years back to try to change careers because of the non cutting it nature of my supposedly prestigious career. 12 credits at community college cost me almost much as I’d spent on 4-year college credits 15 years ago. You can’t just ignore the fact that they want people to spend $100,000 and 4-6 years for an education that gets you a pay bump that gets you to barely surviving on your own. We hire people now from law schools I could not get into to do my job and they leave in 1-2 years because the pay is unlivable. I bought a house and it doubled in value in 10 years and after some global remodeling that cost close to $50,000. That’s great but that means it is going to costs my kids twice as much to buy their first home than it wold have if they were born 10 years earlier. And previous generations in my family sent most of their kids to college. My generation mostly went to college only one on my kid da generation went to college and none finished by age 30. My kids work harder from a younger age for much less than most people I know. This is my experience of having it decidedly better than millennials. This “why didn’t you pick yourself up by the bootstraps?” “well not by working 4 hours a day 4 days a week you certainly won’t” nonsense needs to stop. Nobody does that and expects to be independent and financially successful. Not ever. These boomers with these “I walked right up to the hiring manager at Goldman Sachs and got a job with not experience and no education” success stories either are lying or they are complete outliers.
My company actually hired an outside company to prove that our pay was at market value, instead of using the money that they used to hire that company to pay us more, smh.🤨😳😒
I’m 72 years old woman and I love Whoopi, but she couldn’t be more wrong. I love the view and I have to say I think Whoopi is the cohost who at times says the silliest things about important issues.
You always have excellent points and break it all down. I appreciate your work!! You said it all. Millennials know what's up, we've been through a lot already at 30 lol. Gen X and the baby boomers sold us out with Reaganomics and giving all the power to corporations in the 70s/80s. They set up the chess board so they'd benefit meanwhile the ones that are after them are suffering. We should know the older generation doesn't care about their lineage. Look at how they're treating the planet. Folks really have no true concern for the world that their grandchildren and great grandchildren are going to inherit and that's the biggest issue. We as millennials and even Gen Z see that the American dream of our parents is just an illusion and we are choosing to go against the grain. Just because our parents chose to play it safe and not do anything outside the box isn't our fault. We've had to adapt to all the mess they've left for us. Whoopi like many old heads are living with her head in the sand. Who do you think are the ones who don't support forgiving student loan debt? 👵👵👴🏻👴🏻
Math much? Reagan was voted into office before GenX was old enough to vote. And GenX helped "set up the chess board" for corporations in the 70s? Really? Try played checkers and hadn't yet reached puberty in the 70s.😉
@@traceymills4393 Even if the years are off some Gen X didn't stand up against the shenanigans when they could vote 🤷🤷🤷. Millennials and Gen Z still inherited a bunch of mess that we didn't need to.
@@rockstarswag91dude? I'm 46. I was born in 1977. I was THREE when Reagan entered office. Please tell me what the fuck I was supposed to do at THREE years old, to keep that POS out of office? I didn't turn 18 until 1995. There wasn't a presidential election until 1996 that I was able to vote in. Clinton was the incumbent and despite me voting for Bob Dole, Clinton won because he played the popularity game. The housing/mortgage crisis that George Dubya was blamed for in 2007 was caused by the Democrats in the late 90s, based on policies that they supported and Clinton signed into law. I tried to do my part to stop the bullshit trajectory that Reagan started is on, but it was too late. You'll also notice that Clinto is a Democrat, and Reagan was a Republican. Neither party works for the American people anymore. They work for the corporations that keep them in power. Furthermore, just so you're clear, Gen X has never even labeled as starting before 1965 from any data that I've seen. That means that when Reagan was elected into office in 1980, the entirety of Gen X would have been approximately 15. So tell me again what Gen X did to fuck up what was clearly an all Boomer problem?
As a Gen X'er it is hard out for me as well and I have a job that pays pretty well. I am the mom of a millennial and a Gen Z'er and i am first hand witnesses to how hard it has been for them . I caution them and anyone against start a family right now ,if you don't have it all together right now,because if you can barely supply yourself, why bring a child into the equation 🤷🏾♀️
I graduated highschool in 2009. My parents were considered middle class but I knew they couldn't afford to pay for me to go to college. I went to the Navy in 2010. My parents opposed it but I didn't see any type of future for myself cuz they didn't have any money. Especially since my older brother had already gone to college and had to drop out because the school got caught up in scamming students. I work as a pipefitter now, I'm a contractor working for the Navy now. While We're doing ok, the money isn't going nearly as far as it should. I'm fortunate to not have to pay for medical insurance because I have the VA insurance. But imagining me making what I make, just under 100K a year and having to support a family, housing, and medical insurance. Add children to that I see why people make six figures and are still barely making it. It's just me and my husband but like you said, one emergency or unplanned lay off could wipe out a good portion of our savings.
Michael!!! Can't believe I'm so late to your channel!! It's Dominique (Spanaway) btw. So proud of all you've accomplished 🎉 and THANK YOU for this video! I'm going to share this EVERYWHERE & will be watching from here on out😊
Whoopi missed it but you’re on point! Many millennials in particular are overworked, overeducated, underemployed, and underpaid. I don’t know anyone over 30 trying to make it off of 4 hours/day. Heck, I would argue that even a Zoomer knows better. Considering that Gen Y has had to navigate two economic crises during the stages in life that adults are supposed to be upwardly mobile, you’re spot-on about the cards dealt to them. Gen Z is going through it too. Great job breaking down the history and data.
As far as I can say , it’s a big struggle , we can’t blame inflation on Millennials and Gen Z . Food has gone up tremendously , gas prices are horrible . I am a Gen x . I remember when homes were affordable Back in the 80’s early 90’s this is getting ridiculous, you have to have two jobs just to make ends meet and not enough time in the day . She makes a descent amount of money but still does not understand work ethics . Us working class get paid hourly wages not millions in on month .
You do need to work hard for a period of time, but there needs to be a cut off. This is where baby boomers got it wrong and most of us will be working hard until we die. We are relearning what it takes to survive and create generational wealth. Many are leaving it up to millennials to do it on their own. It’s almost impossible . I like the millennials attitude toward working hard vs enjoying life.
Which is why I'm about to quit my 9-5 full time office job and find something more related to the field I want to work in and that has better pay and remote work options. I look at the people at my job who've worked there for 10+ years and most of them all look high, overly caffinated, way older than their real age, and stressed out. I'm in my 30s (with no dependents yet). I'm stressed out and feel like I've lost myseld after 1 year of being there. Ain't no damn way.
I'm on my second career, so have a pension and a paycheck. I'm single but will work until I die, because everything I did for 25 yrs was for my children. I can't depend on them to be there for me, they are too selfish, yet I'm currently helping my elderly parents. Every millennial I've ever known is selfish, entitled, and looking for the easy way out. I would have NEVER asked for government assistance, but they think they're entitled to it
@@memoir02 we look older because we work harder than we should. We'll never have the luxury of "finding ourselves" because we gave all of ourselves to our children who don't appreciate it. So go "find yourself" but don't forget who enabled you that luxury.
@@JohnaFactsDontCare... "Finding yourself" is not a bad thing. And besides, I've already "found myself". I just was trying to fit myself into a career/weekly workstyle that I knew would not fulfill me or be best for my health. Just because I needed the money. Yeah it's paying me but I'm miserable and am more jaded than I used to be. Doesn't mean I don't want to work, just need a different path. Most of us Millenials are not selfish. You should listen to Calvin's breakdown in the video of why we're not as selfish as you think. But trust me I always recognize and appreciate what my mother and grandparents did for me growing up.
I was born in 1979 and identify with both gen x and older millennials. I’ve been working a minimum of 40 hours a week since I graduated and I still don’t own a home. I don’t even think I’ll be able to retire and I’ve been screaming it to anyone who would listen that this would only get worse not better. I don’t understand how people older than me don’t see the problem. I think they are being willfully ignorant on this topic. It’s infuriating. Thank you for talking about this! ❤
Old people have selective amnesia about the lucky breaks they had in life and the terrible decisions they made in their youth that they have lived through. The statistics are also faulty. Millennials are catching up to their parents at the same age for the same reason. They are inheriting their family members, getting insurance payout from passed loved ones and their children are getting older and need less support from them.
I'm a boomer at 73 and 5 years older than Whoopi, I stuns me that she is so clueless about her own generation's benefits and opportunities. Your social security comments are right on, young man. Raising the age is an insult but sadly most people just do not know how things work. And politicians aren't interested in educating you, that's why people often vote against their own best interest. My neighbor was excited after working a physically difficult job his entire life, that he was about to receive his first social security check. He died of a heart attack two days before it came in the mail. Millions of people have worn out bodies from the hard work they have done for decades, while others have never worked physically difficult jobs. So raising the age is an insult, period. I won't go on, this video pretty much says it all. Good job.
I just hate the fact that I probably will die before I'm able to buy a home. And to make matters worse. I live in NC where in this state ALL LANDLORDS ARE ABLE TO CHARGE ANY PRICE THEY WANT.
My great-aunt, God rest her soul, was born either in the 30s or early 40s. She graduated 5th grade. As her rural town, like a lot of them at the time, had one primitive elementary school.. after grade school you were expected to go to work.. At 16 she moved off the farm to a large city. Paid somebody to take her GED test for her. With a rual background, fifth grade education, and fake GED, she raised two boys on her own and retired in a nice (nothing lavish) home in the suburbs. Back when fruit was considered a good gift to gift someone.
They so damn pressed we won't waste the best years of our youth stuck in a damn office from 9-5 Monday thru Friday doing something we don't love or that is draining for 30+ years just to appease society. Hell to the f no! Thanks for the boomers sacrifice but we thankfully have other options and different avenues now.
It’s not going to change unless ppl VOTE 🗳️. Stop leaving out of touch politicians in place. Rep Maxwell Frost from Florida is the first millennial. We need MORE.
Here's the thing that some boomers seem to forget: We shouldn't have to sacrifice and struggle in the same ways that prior generations have had to do. I thought the whole point of living in a "civilized and democratic" society was to steadily improve it not just to keep struggling. These people aren't taking into account the increasing cost of living and barriers to getting a higher education for younger generations.
I mean you’re technically right but the boomers didn’t struggle. They were gifted everything by the economy. The average American now lives a life as difficult as we did in 1890. All those boomers whining about walking to school up hill. bitch, we live like coal miners in 1890
I'm a Gen X and I always respect your content as for your age and generation young man, you are very wise which is different from being smart!!!!! Also, if you can't make enough on your own for the basic needs of life as humans such as shelter/utilities, clothing, food, medical (including dental, vision, etc.), transportation (heaven forbid if you live in the suburbs where mass govt transit doesn't exist), then don't bring life into existing only to place them right into poverty!!! I'm a firm believer that in the US (at the least a Bachelor's level and especially at a Master's level - even if you are an entrepreneur, artsy, creative, IT guru or good at some type of trade) EDUCATION is key and what you do in life from the ages of 18-30 is a predictor of what the quality of the rest of your life will be good or bad!!!
Speak it brother preach that 🙌 👏 🙏 I'm tired of working I am 30 plus I been working for years and I am tired 😫 😩 it's hard out here for single people shit too keep a roof over my head car payment and car insurance shit life insurance cell phone the list goes on I work 12 hours 😑 shifts 3 days out of the week and pick up 2 extra ot shifts so that's another two 12 hours shift I be tired it's getting hard out here but God is still good y'all prayers for y'all we gonna get through this y'all in Jesus name hang on in there better days are coming🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️.
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Also for those pressed to argue my video down I’d rather you address the numbers I presented in the video as opposed to your opinion on how hard you think people “don’t work”. Your subjective opinion sits on a different spectrum than the numbers and economic outcomes presented. Make sure the arguments correlate.
Also when it’s all said and done, if Gen Z and Millennials did exactly the same amount of work Baby Boomers did back then they’d still be economically behind based on the way the country is currently set up.
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Thank you for this video. Very interesting. Informative.
PRECISELY!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
💯%!!!!! The young people today are the VERY BEST people yet! I'm gen x & can see that they care about humanism far more than anyone else has historically. Also whoopi's words are reminiscent of white supremacist talking points.
Love you & I'm soooo subbed!
Truth.
If she was a teacher, security or bus driver she wouldn’t be saying that.
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Older millennial teacher here (37), who owns a home, owns a car, a single parent, student loans up the wazoo! And I CANNOT afford my bills from month to month. No assistance. And I cannot get a second job because who’s going to watch my toddler?! Oh and I only have $50 in my child’s savings account because I can’t afford to keep putting money in it.
@@jessinthecomments Same age as you and agree with you completely. Child care is more than 50 % of our salary. We can’t afford children.
@@jessinthecommentsyou not old don’t say that lol cause I’m right behind you 😂
Thank you!
As a millennial, I'm almost 40. Why do they keep talking about me like I'm a teenager? I've worked for 22 years, what are they even talking about? I work 70 hours a week, man.
Yes I agree . I know we look younger than we did at 20 and ageining beautifully but damn LOL
A bit late, but yes it is crap to keep treating us like that. Especially since a decent amount of those veterans people like to say they care about and then ignore? Millennials. Most of the people who fought in and now have lifelong issues due to those damn conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq are millennials.
So not only did millennials pay for the stupid decisions made back then after 9/11, but we will (and are) paying the cost of their stupid choices here in the US.
The damn gall it takes to say to an entire generation (a bunch of them former soldiers who have all the fun that comes with, now back in the US and struggling with how those issues combined with the others of our generation) are all lazy or entitled is a load of bullshit.
I believe you and I am Generation X. I agree with you.
As a Senior, I'm EMBARRASSED that SO MANY Elders have the mindset like Whoopi 🤦🏾 How in Hell can't they see the difference with society now verses back then 👀 We didn't secure ANY safeguards or protections for future generations... we let the rules buckle & change under our watch 😒
it seems like we're jealous & in competition with the youth, instead of being inspired to learn from them.
So what, that our kids have more advantages then we did 🙄 we had more than our parents & we selfishly started acting like - I got mine - forget the rest of you
The older generation completely disregards that a lot of us make money online and remotely now. It’s not 1960 we don’t have to be in an office building 40 hours we can literally make TH-cam videos.
@@easiersaidwithmegexactly. We don't consider shaking your butt on only fans or videoing yourself playing video games a job.
Anything other than those "niches" requires education to be competitive in the field.
BTW, showing your butt on OF isn't a real job, just part of the oldest profession in the world, prostituting yourself. And it'll bring in money, but at a cost. No good man sees those women as wifey material, just trash. And using your looks to make a living only lasts a few years, but the stigma is forever.
@@JohnaFactsDontCare... I literally said TH-cam. Calvin is a millennial who makes money on TH-cam… we are on his page lol
@@JohnaFactsDontCare... I said nothing about only fans at all.. weirdo. lol I’m talking about selling products online like art… etc, podcast, remote work, working from home jobs.. you can work at a call center from home
Millennial here, I wonder if working 12-hour days manufacturing work would be too lazy for Whoopi
We got high school dropouts telling professional school graduates to work harder, boy I tell you...🤣🤣🤣
Just don’t give any attention to the system and it will cease to exist.
So many people have bachelor's degrees but no professional job because there weren't any offers! There are people with college degrees working for minimum wage out of necessity.
cmon now!
I dropped out of high school to get a job and I work beside college graduates everyday making less than me and owe more. Seems like nobody is truly valued regardless of the route they take IMO
I'm Gen X working poor ,with a Gen Z child and yes, these kids are not lazy , they are broke from bad policies. Great job Calvin!!! Whoopie needs to shut up, she's rich and detached from real life.
Yes!!! I’m older Gen Z. I graduated with a degree in biology with research projects I was involved in all 4 years and it took me 3 months to get a job. Every job that rejected me in those three months not because I was lazy but because I did not graduate with a year of working experience in a laboratory setting. Keep in mind I worked part time in a hospital and was involved in several extra circulars and graduated with honors. The job I finally got once I actually started to land interviews only paid me $18/hr. The cheapest apartment I could find in a decent area in my city was $900. We are not lazy we just cannot make a living under these conditions. How am I supposed to want to take care of kids and take out a loan for hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a house when I’m nervous about paying off the few student loans I have? Or I know I’ll have to go into more debt to receive a masters to make a livable wage?
@kaymitchell6143 blessings to you and yes, it's no joke put here. Rich people are really detached from real life. Stay lifted and blessed in all you do 💜
I'm a late millennial(graduated high school in 2013), I went straight into working because I couldn't afford college, but my friend got a business degree and every job wanted multiple years of experience for entry level positions. He's now going back for his masters while working at a comic book store because it's the only job he could find.
I mean no offence to your friend, but what kind of business degree, and from what school? Not all degrees are created equal, and sometimes higher wages come with higher level degrees and field of study. Just having a degree these days doesn't get you very far.
I'm a gen Xer, too, with a gen Z boy. He's not lazy. He can see that EVERYTHING is stacked against him. 😢
As a Millennial that works 40 hours and OT when available for a corporate bank and can not afford my own house and afraid to bring a child in this world because of costs !i believe She’s lost her mind
Just know that historically children were brought into the world to populate the world and take care of you when you no longer could.
The world is populated, and children today are selfish and if you're lucky, may help you shop for an affordable old folks home. But, WILL NOT care for you.
agree, i am a teacher and have been experiencing food insecurity; she is probably eating good speaking this nonsense
You may want to work on moving up or finding something else. When I came up most of the workers at the banks were immigrants and the pay was never good. I've worked a lot of different jobs and don't ever remember pursing one at a bank.
Whoopi should just not talk at this point. All she ever manages to do is put her foot in her mouth these days.
@@walterparrish2792stfu, let that be your next job, working for me.
I wish Whoopi and celebrities like her would just not speak on subject matters they're ignorant on, because their misinformed rhetoric is harmful.
AS A BABY BOOMER, I TOTALLY AGREE!
exactly this.
That's the problem with people like her. They already think they're informed. They think their personal experiences are the end all be all of the truth, and that's all they think they need.
Every generation has faced a vastly different era of problems. To pretend like the landscape of life hasn't changed dramatically in 40 years is absurd. Whoopi saying "well we *worked* for what we have..." And we haven't? Did the cost of a house and the amount of minimum wage stay the same? No. Did the cost of higher education stay the same? No. Did work culture stay the same? No. Can you even find a small starter home that's affordable anymore?? She wouldn't know. Maybe people just forget how hard they worked at that age. Or maybe people forget how much the cost of things were relative to what they worked for back in their day. Idk. Let's not even get to talking about the landscape of Healthcare and how much that costs for young unestablished families!
My thoughts exactly. They got where they are for their ability to entertain us. That doesn't make them smart. They should stick to their gig as court jester, and not try to be something they're not... And they are not the great minds of our time.
Thing is, likely do to her financial position in life, people like Whoopi believe that they are knowledgeable on subject matters for which they know little.
As a boomer, I know its harder now. There are too many part-tume jobs. There were full- time jobs back in the day. Millenials certainly have it harder.
Yes they do have it harder 👍🏾 because today you don’t have the jobs where you can earn a decent living and have insurance too. Nobody can buy a house working two part time jobs 🤯🤦🏾♀️
@@BonitaGardnereven the jobs that are full time are paying more and not giving insurance or you can get paid less and have benefits
That right, it's harder now. Millennial don't believe the corporate spill, that we're all family working total good of everyone.
I’m a boomer. I look around now and have a hard time advising younger people about career choices because things are so different and changing so quickly. I know people in their mid to late 30s who have had to change careers multiple times because of industry changes. It’s hard.
@@jandmvideos9051So true. Technology changes rapidly, hence the pace of upward mobility takes a hit if one does not change with the times. The world changed astronomically during the later half of the 20th century. This is the more difficult time Millennials face because we haven’t seen such rapid progress since the Enlightenment.
As a late Gen X'er (right at the cusp of the Millennials) all of this applies. Gen X'ers lived through the time frame where we saw, in real time, each benefit given to the Baby Boomers snatched away from us right before our very eyes. Then to boot, we were labled as "lost" or "lazy". I definitely understand and feel for the generations that have come after me. Very good take on this!
Mind you they snatched that benefit from all of us so elder boomers could get elder benefits because they are the only Gen that matters
Don't forget they called us slackers. I still hate that term.
@@logansquare2212 Omg.....yes! It was literally a smack in the face to be labeled in this way by the same generation that was telling us to pull ourselves up by the proverbial boot straps that they had taken the shoe laces out of.😒
Not a good take on this. Maybe in theory, but even the graphs he posted, zero actual accuracy. Look it the median incomes posted at 7:17, then look them up for yourself. This is skewed to feel sorry for millennials of color.
Whoopi’s takes are getting more out of touch
Wow! It’s crazy how Reagan is still being praised for what he did for the US. But he basically crushed the American dream. 🙁
Had a guy say that Reagan was the last good president just the other day. I just shook my head and walked away
He has a lot to do with the problems we have right now, even more than what Calvin covers in this video. He's the reason why Christian Fundamentalists have as much political power as they do right now, he enabled the misinformation crisis we're in, and let's not forget the far reaching consequences of the Iran Contra Scandal.
Actually, he didn't. He got Amer out of the debt congress placed it in. Congress then went crazy. You know, the same congresspeople that refuse to leave now. Wake up and follow the money. By the way, Congress controls the money.
The only thing he’s good for is that family guy cutaway
The craziest thing was Reagan got started in New Deal Democratic politics and was the head of the SAG union.
She gave, pick yourself up by the boot straps tease.
The nerve.
America always crying broke when it comes to its own.
And these kids cant even get their first apartment these days.
I've often wondered what are boot straps, and where can I purchase them?
Immigrants always say that they came to America with $20 in their pocket and now own their own businesses and doing much better than native born Americans. It’s a different mind set
With all due respect, they need to realize at least we have the damn sense to stop breeding once we knew it wasn't financially feasible. 💅🏼 great video!
People who can’t afford to have kids are the ones who have kids. We pay for it one way or another. Also the government doesn’t care if Americans have kids as long as there’s an endless supply of cheap foreign labor wanting to immigrate here
Boomers are mad af about falling birth rates. The right winger boomers want forced birth. Push out them grandbabies dammit! Who cares if you can’t feed them! 😖
True but looking how expensive it's getting & has been even having 1 child is ridiculously expensive & we'll eventually have a population collapse if the child birth replacement rate of 2.1 per woman. That basically means when millennials & gen Z gets to retirement age there won't be any social security for the retirement fund as it demands a constant flow of money invested from the working population which will ultimately be a consequence for the current younger generations in having a much higher retirement age 70-75+ I feel.
I'm saying this as a 26 year old who's one of the oldest of gen Z.
@@Emperor-Inker I literally don't care I'm not even being rude I just don't care I'm not contributing to more people in society. It's already screwed up. The world will be better off with less of us. We can't even take care of the people we have much less new people.
Having is child is as expensive as you make it. The average cost of giving birth in a hospital is ~$15K. If you are generally healthy and are not high risk....there is no reason to give birth in a hospital. A midwife and doula cost at most $5K and provide the same service minus epidural.
School is not expensive for most kids. Public school is free. If you are low income, they get free lunch too. If not, it's not expensive to make a lunchbox. Homeschooling is also an option.
College is only as expensive as your choice of school. Junior college for 2 years and then transfer to a 4 year to finish is more cost effective. Attending a public uni vs a private one is also less expensive.
Family planning is a thing that no one wants to do. They would rather risk pregnancy and then try to figure things out after the fact.
If you want kids and plan to work, tailor your career choice around companies that have good parental leave or discounted affordable childcare costs.
@@Emperor-Inker
Considering my father died at 59 still working himself way too hard with little to show for it in the end, I decided that if I had the opportunity, I would set myself up where I would work to live, not live to work.
We have similar experiences. My father also passed at 59.
@@CalvinMichaels My condolences, Calvin!
I can relate. My grandmother smoked and worked in a bar where you could smoke when she was younger. Got emphysema and passed away at 59. My dad was on dialysis and died at 47. I’m really lucky to have a stable upbringing in a house in the middle class suburbs.
Facts!!! Im 53 and Im not working myself to death to stay on this hamster wheel!!! Nope I work 4 days per week, 5 at the most
@@lgee9027I’m glad for you.
When it comes to the whole millennials don’t wanna work narrative. It’s not that we don’t wanna work, it’s just that we don’t wanna work and have nothing to show for it. A lot of boomers were working and were able to afford to buy houses and go on vacations. And while we work hard, it’s just that we have nothing to show for it because of greed in this country. So it’s becomes a thing of why work hard if you’re never gonna be able to afford this so called American dream that we were all told that all you had to do to achieve it was work really hard for it
It's completely different now. You guys make the same money we made and have to pay twenty times more for everything. I'm a boomer and I know I couldn't buy houses and cars now the way I did then. I feel bad for y'all.
I’ve never met a millennial that didn’t want to work…
@@carolynforge8586I am a boomer & never owned a home because of various reasons & never drove.
@@raineyj560 You missed out on a great time of opportunity. It will never come back.
@@carolynforge8586The youngest boomers were growing up in the 80’s when the Reagan administration cut financial Aid completely. This group began the generations that could not buy homes and cars or afford education like their parents. We are the generation that had to pay for our children’s education. We are the generation whose parents did not babysit so we had to pay for daycare. We are the generation who went through the collapse of the Auto Industry in the Midwest to the South and a little later to Japan and Korea. Those of us on the tail end of the baby boomers got the raw end of the stick as well. Do your research!!
I resent the idea of millennials being lazy. I work hard af and harder than those that might be calling millennials lazy. At this point we are being conditioned to think along the lines of forever being the working class. Work yourself into a grave while other demographics can be lazy and benefit from the hard work that you are doing and killing yourself with. I always cringe when I hear immigrants come to this country and brag about having 4 or 5 jobs as if that's the norm and something to be proud of. I get it. You do what you have to when you are trying to survive but working 5 jobs to maintain a somewhat comfortable standard of living is not a flex. It's something to be pitied because the people at the top live comfortable off of other people's labor.
exactly who wants to work there lives away
And what that sound like……..slavery
Facts, the truth in nothing but the truth!
@@stephaniehenry5617you work your butt off , while you are young, and either invest it or start a business or even pay off your mortgage so in your later life you can relax more. If you wait around for the government to help you out then you are already lost and will be living a horrible existence
its so strange coming from a Black person. My grandmother was not able to buy her first home until she retired from the post office 8 years ago in her 60s
What I'm seeing among people of color is most have their priorities backwards. More interested in materialism and living that life today.
Black folks like whoopi and Steve Harvey leverage the fact that they grew up poor during their childhood & leave out the fact that their adulthood was spent in wealth. The latter tends to influence their opinions more than the former
@@treeztop They're like the Black bourgeois bell hooks wrote about. Sure, they don't have white or male privilege ... but they forget they also have a hell of a lot of social and economic privilege.
@@lordfreerealestate8302there is no white or male privilege
@@treeztop
Whoopi had to work and struggle for years to get where she's at. It didn't just happen overnight.
Can we just give these “celebrities/millionaires “ a 55k salary, support their parent(s) who depends on them and have them work there 40hrs with no OT and see how they gonna go bust their behinds to survive. I really want to see it.
WHoopi did that. She was a single mother who literally layed bricks to take care of her kids before her comedy career took off.
@Billyflood2430, not sure if you watched or understood the video. She may have worked laying bricks. But what was her pay? Were benefits included? How much was her pay? Was her income supplemented? Did she receive assistance for childcare? Is it 40 hours a week? What was the cost of childcare? What was her rent, groceries, so on and so forth? They don’t have a problem working the problem is after their 2 jobs can they live, eat and function? Read more and educate yourself.
“Pizza party instead of pay increases”. We’re in a sad state of affairs.
@@billyflood2430 30 years ago
@@deannarogers2555 and how much did healthcare cost back then?
@@billyflood2430 and she's forgotten that. She needs to understand she got famous because of her ability to make people laugh, not because we respect her opinions. She's not educated on what she spews opinions about, she should stick to stand up, she was good at that.
On top of that, a huge number of Elder Millennials were born addicted to substances because of their Boomer parents. We had to overcome the crack epidemic.
Speak on it!
🙋🏾♀️ jus saying this!!!
They tend to forget that part. A lot of us was young in the 80's and saw how they were. I have to remind them at times that their generation was not "upstanding citizens" like their parents were.I try to be respectful to my elders but they can miss me with that "holier than thou" attitude.🙄
Dont forget gen X
Exactly. Not to mention the War on Drugs that coincided with that era, which took a lot of Black fathers out of the home and helped facilitate a rise in single-parent homes that many millennials were raised in. There were other factors, but this was certainly one that aided in these outcomes for millennials.
Finally getting notifications!!!
Now... as a black millennial owned business that started DURING the pandemic, I can tell you that Whoopi and the rest are way off base. I don't know one millennial who doesn't work overtime and or have a side hustle or three. We work so hard that we have held off on having children and getting married. We don't but homes bc they are overpriced and interest rates are ridiculous. Many of us came out of college during the financial crisis of 2008 and couldn't obtain decent pay even with our degrees. The shock of nothing going the way we were told it would if we got a degree has caused us to reject the system and adapt in our own way and the system and those who went along with the system resent us for having the gall to do so.
Excellent point!!! The 2007-2016 financial crisis really messed us up and then 2020 pandemic, then inflation, and now war in Ukrai and Israe
Also I plan to support your business as a fellow black millenial.
1000%!!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Couldn't have said it better! I'm a college graduate from 2010 and get exactly what you're saying! It's not that we don't want to work, we just don't desire the "traditional" way anymore because it's not working for us like it did for them!
Whoopi know she was wrong for saying that mess smh. Millennial in my early 30s here and I will say the “hard work = massive success” is a scam. I was entering college as things were going to hell in a hand basket in 2007. ESPECIALLY as a black woman. I spent my entire teens & 20s working, going to school, all the things my elder Gen X parents & Boomer elders told me would make me successful and guess what? At 24 I had a nervous breakdown and had to be put on medical leave for 3 months because my employer was overworking me & setting me up to fail on a consistent basis (I was young and in an executive position). The recessions & housing market crisis makes it impossible to be a homeowner (in my city it’s the mid 300s for a 20+ yr old house un renovated so stuck with renting). Now im back in corporate America working an entry level job with a few side hustles renting and I’m waaaay happier than I ever was chasing the “American dream” for 80% of my life up to this point.
If you "don't know one millennial who...." I can introduce you to my son who's currently living on my couch, but was just as happy living in the car I gave him, than ever getting a job.
As A “Younger Millennial” THEY AINT PAYING US SHIT! Like Wtf
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😂 truuuuuue! I'm a bit older, but due to disability got a way later start in life, took me longer to finish college, etc, compared to my peers. I got to have the misfortune of job hunting before and during the pandemic and holy shit! There are people out there demanding 5 plus years experience for a minimum wage starter level job! One posting I saw (wasn't qualified but my friend who was sent it to me so we could have a laugh) REQUIRED ten years experience in a technology that had only been around for 3 years. Like wtf??
@@frumtheground I’m A Design Major ( Should’ve Graduated Years Ago But Ya Know Life) And The Way Everything Entry Level In My Field Is Like $15-$17 An Hour.. WITH A DEGREE And 5-10+ Years Of Experience… I’m Over It. Like These Corporations And Businesses Are Insane. $17/hr Isn’t Even Remotely A Livable Wage Especially In My State ( MD ) Because Inflation Is HIGH.
As an Elder Millennial (born in 1980), I resent this! I am a registered nurse and I can work up to 70 hours a week!! Wtf is she talking about???!!!!
She’s talking about the younger ones
@@beyourself2444No she's saying genz & millennial only want to work part time & still except to buy a house.
Yeah, I don’t know who these millennials are that Whoopi knows who only work 4 hours. Most of us are full time or more and many still struggle
@@bigelowkaryn I think she's going off of that viral video from last week. A 21 year old was crying bc she said 9-5s don't make sense. She was saying how there wasn't enough time in the day to get anything done & it's dark by the time you get off. It's her 1st full time job out of college. That doesn't make us all lazy lol. I think the girl is just realizing how hard life is gonna be after college & had a little break down.
@@jbuggin8811The thing is...the girl has a point. Who wants to spend most of their awake hours at a job AND THEN not be able to afford a house? All that after going through a recession, a worldwide pandemic, and soaring inflation? Not everyone wants to live only for evenings and 2-day weekends. It's crazy to me that Whoopi scoffs at kids wanting to do better and live better, more fulfilling lives than their parents as if that's a bad thing. Not everyone gets their dream job of being an actor. I bet Whoopi doesn't leave that table to go sit in an office behind a computer until 5:00 p.m. M-F.
Whoopi is so out of touch. Does she have a clue how much child care costs? Rent & home prices? Vs. salaries. Most millennials don’t live near family support and most grandparents are still working because they can’t retire. Student loan debt holds people back. It can cost 30k to have a baby in the hospital. Your out of pocket costs can be in the thousands. School weeks are only about 1/2 the weeks in a year. My son had to be out of school 17 weeks last year. That doesn’t count the random days off. Schools get out at 2-2:45 but most jobs go to 5. Someone has to pick that child up because not every school has aftercare spots for every kid. I spent 24k on child care last year.
All of what you said was either an excuse or bad decision making. Why would a person have a kid and not be prepared or have both parents involved. Rent and be solved by downsizing, stop living above your means or get a roommate or live with your parents until you’re comfortable to live on your on. You can pay off your student loans easily within 3-5 years if you lower your lifestyle. Most people go to college and get shit degrees then complain about the salary, bad decision making. Yes she is correct because if millennials and GenZ wasn’t lazy they wouldn’t be wanting 4day work weeks and 40hr pay
What Whoopi said sounded a lot like “pull yourselves up by your bootstraps”
She trriiieeeddddd it! I'm a millennial, an older one born n the 80s and we r the result of regannomics and the Clinton crime bill. We didn't ask for none of that ish! And the list goes on and on.....yall messed it up for us to where it is more difficult. It's damn near impossible to do better than our parents. It is not about laziness! The nerve!
Who is only working 4 hours day outside of congress?
Not just Whoopi, who we all love for her talent, but it’s this over exaggerating many older people do to try and make a point.
No one wants to work 4 hours but working over 40-50 a week just to get by? Who would want to do it? Many do but who wants to do it?
Warehouse is on a 4 hour structure but it feel like a full 8 or more.
I think she’s misinformed tbh. The 4 hr workweek is an attention grabber. To my understanding the idea is to work 4 days on and get 3 off. The aim is for a better work life balance. Doing the minimum necessary for maximum effect and doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal value.
I was born in 78. I work close to 70 hours a week, attend classes full-time and can’t afford to pay utilities or buy food after paying my portion of rent, insurance, car, phone, two personal loans for school, travel to help my ailing parents, and small expenses for ailing parents. Every day, I think of giving up everything and doing nothing just to get some peace in life and see if I can find some happiness in it, instead of running myself into the ground to only be left with nothing.
In my case, I can't find a full time job. I'd love to work 40 hrs at 1 job but in order to get that I have to work 2 with one job or the other messing up my schedule each week and never having a full day off.
@@aaliyahjackson9734even the four day work week is still working 40 hours. It’s just 10 hours a day instead of 8 hours….
If you don't have a regular job or you have not worked a regular job in years you cannot comment on someone's experience in the current workforce.
You read Whoopi in an educational way and I love it! The world was so different when she was coming up and our age.
You are absolutely right. As the parent of a Gen Xer and a Millennial, I see the struggle. You guys will have to dismantle and rebuild the system.
And in order to rebuild the system you young people have to vote out these old butt holes in congress that don’t want the system changed 🤯 if people were getting raises on a regular basis from 1970 until now our country would not be in this mess today 🫢
@@BonitaGardner If you really think we can vote our way out of this dystopian Hellscape, you haven't been paying attention.
I'm in my 50s and am envious how brave you young people are. I wish I was raised with your mindset of self care and move on when it doesn't work for you. Bravo for you.
Today having a SIX FIGURE ($100k) salary is considered middle class in a lot of urban zones. It’s tough out here FrFr.
They're just jealous because we can work from home and make money from the internet. She hasn't worked a 9 to 5 in decades soooo
Sometimes she says stuff with no critical analysis. Just shows that they people put people like her in white spaces to tell us what the media want us to know with no critical thinking.
Sometimes?
And the way nobody called her out on it...
Like... lady you're rich. Hush up
@@starcherry6814but she is trying to say she worked her ass off to become rich
She's rich.
Whoopi Goldberg haven't worked a regular job since the early 80s.....😏
I literally just read a post on Tumblr that said:
post WW2 housing crisis, President Truman signed a law capping new home prices at $10,000 (equivalent of $133,500 today). Rent was capped at $80/month (equivalent to $1000/month).
All generations pre-millennials have had all assistance in the time of economic crisis. Something that is absolutely not happening for us now.
Go look at the rent cap problems in New York City that is having the opposite effect and is now making it more expensive. Government is not the answer
@@jonnyfendi2003 Then whats the answer? We just gonna sit idly by and do nothing like we 've been doing?
It wasn’t a year out of the military in 2008. I couldn’t get a job for the job I did for six years and I ended up losing my home everything this man speaks is the truth here.
I have a master's degree, I work full time as a clinician, and I can't afford to move out of my parents' house because apartments in my state are too expensive. I have a dozen friends who are in the same boat. This whole "lol you just want to work 4 hours" argument is either shamefully ignorant or dishonest. Google is free, Whoopi
I'm a Gen-xer & I'm SICK of the mess that boomers made but then wanna turn around & blame every generation that followed....🙄
This! Boomers were given EVERYTHING, climbed the ladder of success, then pulled it up behind them.
@@hippychikforever that's exactly what they did!
I'm Gen-X. I call boomers 'The Failed Generation'. They took perhaps the greatest prosperity in history and turned it into this nightmare. They don't even have the decency to take any responsibility for any of it. All they do is throw shade at everyone else. First they blamed their parents for everything. Then they blamed their children for everything. Now they're blaming their grandchildren for everything. There's a reason they were called 'The ME Generation' at one point. They don't even have the humility to get out of the way and let the rest of us fix their mess. They broke the chain of passing the torch and that is why I say they are 'The Failed Generation'. Passing the torch is your job as a generation. I'm so sorry to you later generations that we didn't have the strength to stop them and have little to pass to you.
I am a boomer and have to say I agree with this young man. Our government has been stripping away at all the things that allowed us the boomers to have a better life than they have now. Businesses do not want to pay living wages to keep up with the economy even before inflation. Whoopi saying that the younger folks only want to work 4 hrs a day is a joke. Some are working multiple jobs just to keep their heads above water. In the riches (once riches) country people should not have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Working multiple jobs should be to make extra money for a vacation or something special you want. Now granted not every millennial is out here busting their behinds but for those who are, I feel bad because they are not seeing the fruits of their labor. Hell, at the rate things are going will they even be able to retire? So, Whoppi I beg to differ with you on this topic.
For y'all hating on the evils of Boomers.....several million of us are helping raise the grandkids. Providing free childcare for little ones, and before/after school care for older ones, so our kids don't have to fork over their whole paycheck for that. In many families this works great. In some families it's a case of raising an ungrateful lot, and then raising Their ungrateful lot as well. And meanwhile being accused of ruining the world by people carrying a $1000 phone in their pocket. Life does not actually run by "generations" every family is its own unique situation. Don't let the media persuade you to see a victim or an innocent bystander as a villian.....look to where the actual power is.
@@shmataboro8634 first off, boomers actually *did* ruin the world. They are the ones who set things up for the next generation. They are the ones who voted for the people who didn’t care to worry about future generations.
Second, Providing healthcare and childcare for your children is just basic parental responsibility. There’s nothing to praise, it’s your responsibility to care for the children you decided to have.
Third, nobody is carrying around a 1000$ phone. And even if they were, it’s because cheaper ones are no longer sold. You know how much 1000$ in 1980 was? More than 3000$ today. The benefits you had in your day no longer exist for us.
Pensions? Nope. 401k? You better stay at a company for at least 10 years. Housing at the minimum wage? (which was designed SPECIFICALLY for people to be able to live off of) well I hope you’re working 8 hours at least 5 days a week if you also want food.
Taking care of the current generation of your family after the way YOU set things up, and being perfectly fine off? That is just basic decency, because without help, we wouldn’t be having kids at all. Which your generation seems to be very critical of.
Baby boomer here, and this was so good, I had to watch it twice. You did a fine job young man
And you know what? It seems like a lot of the older generation got something to say but, won't help you! You want to come over to MY house? Help pay the rent or mortgage. You want grand kids? Help pay the daycare and college fee. But guess what? THEY WON'T DO IT.
Pressure to come back into the office was extraordinary. Finally one of the managers let it slip that they were getting a discount on our newly built office building based on the number of "warm tushes" in the seat!!😮 then it all made sense🙄🙄🙄
What people don't talk about is how millennials oftentimes have to take care of their parents, while they're trying to make a way for themselves , and often times their siblings too 👀
Now, let's clock that.
This 👆
As a millennial who recently turned twenty nine years old and is a senior in college and who is going to grad school next to become a therapist. I feel like the elders need to do the math and do the homework to fully understand why we are putting milestone’s on pause until we can afford it.
It really is so insane to know that they could just actually read the statistics and understand that they're objectively wrong. Like they could read why they are wrong they just don't care to. I swear anytime we say how things are more difficult in this economy they take is SO PERSONALLY and then say we are the crybabies. Like bruh 😒
Thank you Professor Michaels!! As a millennial I worked more than 40 hours a week from the time that i was 18 until I got pregnant with my first child at 29. I had 2 jobs most of the time. I did not go to college because i just could not afford it. I did not have the luxury of extended family to help pay for my college. My parents did not save for me to go to college. I also did not have a parent that was willing to help pay for college even if they could afford it (But thats a story for a different podcast).
I was only able to go down to 1 job when I got pregnant for 2 reasons... 1) I had to cut back on work for the safety and health of my baby. 2) Because my daughters father and I were together.. he was able to help support us.
8 years after my daughter was born I was finally able to get my college degree but that was because of tuition assistance with my job. Last year I was able to buy a home (barely) right before the rates went up. I believe that was only possible because I work for the bank that financed the loan. 😅
So trust me when I say I've been working hard. This journey has NOT been easy. I was so stressed last year because if we didnt get this house.... we were going to see our rent go up $400/500 dollars. Such an increase in rent and the 8% rate would have knocked us out of qualifying for a home. I can't even imagine what out mortgage would be if we had to get the loan now.
What you have accomplished is amazing Queen goddess and I applaud you for sharing your truth!
I think the way voices like Calvin, Shansphere, Tee Noir, Fiq, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land-etc are deconstructing our society, generations from now, we will be rebranded l as the “Against All Odds” generation. Cause shit, the trauma I and all of us millennials went through to still be alive is more compounded than the interest on my student loans and my mortgage, lol 😂
Congratulations. It sounds like you made all the right moves at the right time.
Im a "xennial", definitively living that paycheck to paycheck life. And yes those federal benefits are evaporating. In 2010, we were facing a loss of income. I applied for TANF... only to be told, we qualify but the very next month, it would no longer be offered to two parent households.
Since she feels that way tell her to give me a job as co-host cus I have a lot to say 😂
My 60 year old parents still argue with me about rent. Oh you can find something for $600 here. In New York City…. I still have, I can get a house for 150k knowing damn well that’s gonna be a downpayment smh
One more... when you said people pack up to go to Anaheim for Disneyland, and your tone changes to say "Disney World is not here yet" it's smooth how you drop those tidbits. Bravo!!! (from a former Disney World employee)
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❤️🖤💚Black Younger Generations Need To Get Involved In Politics..... And Get These Old "Baby Boomers" Out Of Politics .....And Get Them Out Of The Decision Making Process In America... Enough Said.♥️
I am 60 yrs and I try to explain this to folks, but they just can't see it. You are spot on!
Young brother gets it...He really broke it down to the "T!"
In addition, Baby Boomers were the first generation that benefited from a lot of the affirmative action programs that have been steadily chipped away at over the last four decades (and long before the Supreme Court finally gutted it in 2023). That's why Boomers were the first generation of Blacks to become lawyers, dentists, physicians, pharmacists, engineers, etc. in higher numbers. Both of my parents were Boomer lawyers, and one was is also a judge. They were in a profession that wasn't open to their parents a generation earlier in our confederate state. Even my college-educated maternal grandma wouldn't have had access to those professions.
Actually, baby boomers were also the first generation to organize mass protests and demonstrations in support of civil, women's, LGBTQ and environmental rights. In fact a lot of the laws that have been passed in the last 50+ years like Roe vs. Wade, Title #9, The Declassification of homosexuality as a mental Illness, as well as several enviormental protection laws were the result of boomers activism……..Boomers were probably the most politically and socially conscious generation ever.
I am not American but mu God you done your homework and you articulate your argument so well . I am right on the edge of boomer still working and I see young families struggling financially with the cost of living in Australia. Thankyou for the education ❤ 23:09
I guess they think because we want to work shorter work weeks, we want to get paid more for less. No! I'd rather work 10 hr shifts 4 days a week, than 8hr shifts 5 days a week.
Children of Reaganomics - you NAILED this!
I'm a millennial & this video is brilliant! Thanks for breaking it down!
I agree with you 100% and these boomers think they know what they are talking about because they had something to look forward to.
And the sad part about it, the new generations have nothing to look forward too but poverty 😢
@@BonitaGardner millennials where the first generation that had to take care of themselves. We had to tie up our boot straps and actual do for ourselves and it’s sad that they can’t understand that. They were mentally, emotionally, and physically abusing us and we still took that SHT on the chin and kept it moving. Millennials were the generation with the highest number of foster children. 1998 was the year the the most children were in foster care, millennials especially in nyc were the first to watch 3000 people die in their faces that didn’t have to do with war, baby boomers and gen x have mentally and emotionally tortured us that they don’t realize their children are committing suicide. The highest suicide rate in the USA was 2018. Make it make sense. These clowns syphoned real estate, businesses, farmland, etc that none was left for us. It makes no sense that 60% of our monthly check goes to rent. Not including that food and other things. They are delusional and don’t know accountability. Not to mention how they stole everyone’s pension and syphoned it into Wall Street so it is not clear if we will even have social security or pensions when we get older. To take it further they created a $33trillion debt that we and our children are going to have to pay for in the future. With all due respect to whoopty F baby boomers and gen x. They were horrible parents. I can go on forever.
I'm an elder millenial and In my opinion whoopie and the view are all wealthy out of touch rich ladies who have no clue on what's going on in the real world. Very great breakdown Calvin and these are hard times indeed and not just hard times for us millenials but it's also a tough time for boomers, gen xers and gen zers. I blame it all on this capitalist system and the politicians and the wealthy who are only helping thier bosses and corporations in the process. The capitalist system and wealthy oligarchs are to blame and reganomics and trickle down econ, the crime bill, 96 tellecommunications act, citizens United and patriot act all have destroyed the working class and the poor in general and that's all in the last 40-50 years or so. Take care Calvin and great breakdown of it all.
Calvin's ability to explain a concept, tell a story, and give an analogy will forever be unmatched!! 😂
I really need the live stream of Whoopi watching this and responding. Her commentary was so daft smh. It's sad that people with such a low level of understanding of the world are the ones who get cameras and mics to go on national television loud and proud like that.
As a millennial who works 3 jobs, Whoopi go away!
Im one of the youngest of the millennials I just turned 29 on January 4th I’ve been working 2 jobs working 52 to 56 hours a week since I was 21 my sister is one of the oldest of Gen Z she turns 26 next month she just started working 2 jobs a back last year because we bought a condo together in June of 2023 it’s 285,000 dollars for 1380 square feet with a damn interest rate of 7% and a $325 HOA fee that’s not included in the mortgage back when Whoopi Goldberg had eyebrows houses used to cost a nickel also she’s been in the industry longer than she hasn’t she has no idea what it feels to live like a regular person anymore
In L.A., jr./community college was free until the 80's. I showed up and a semester tuition was capped at $50.00 . As a teenager, working part time, I was easily able to pay for my own tuition. It is currently, $1,510.00. The teachers had good careers there. Now, professors are hired as part-part time, and it is not a career.
I met Whoopi at the Harrah’s Casino in Atlantic City in 98. She hit the 10K slot machine jackpot within a few minutes of sitting down… she didn’t even have to work for 4hrs
Gen Xer here and since childhood, we been latchkeyed and ignored LOL and we still getting ignored
Don't forget the effects of NAFTA in the economic discussion. America is the only country that pushes you to work harder for a worse quality of life. Increasingly, the easiest way to live the American dream is to get your education and emigrate to a country with a social safety network. Also, I would include the rise of social media as a barrier to establishing and maintaining quality relationships.
Late X'er here, can confirm.
I was raised for and promised a job and financial security that was already long gone by the time I entered the workforce.
The desperate clinging to that worldview had already taken over my dad's life by then and took until about now for my mom to start to recognize.
I clicked on this so fast. Indeed, Whoopi tried it.
My grandfather was a sign painter back in the day. He didn't make a lot of money, but it was enough to support a wife and three kids,pay for a home,food, clothes, utilities, and extracurricular activities like dance lessons for my mom and karate lessons for my uncles. Also my grandmother was a stay at home mom too.
My other grandparents were different for their time since both of them worked. My grandfather was a teacher who eventually became a middle school principal, and my grandmother worked in insurance. They had a good financial adviser so they benefited a lot during the 80s. Both my dad and aunt were supported during their times in college. However, my grandfather worked so hard that he had a lot of health problems all from the stress that came with his job as a principal, and he didn't really get to enjoy his retirement. He passed away from a heart attack in his mid sixties.
Enjoyed your video, you did your homework. I lived through Reganomics, I lost everything, job, house and more. I had to start all over and never really regained what I had. I'm 68yrs young now. God Bless you 🙏🏾
A great wealth of knowledge. Wish I could explain this to my dad that keeps reminding me I have a bachelors
I am almost 40 and that type of gaslighting companies use to work us into the ground. Never again will I allow a job to be center of my life or income.
I wish you went viral. Boomers need to see these facts.
I’m a baby boomer! 4 hours is enough to work for someone else. If the world raise the minimum wage that’s been the same since 1999
Exactly! Working your ass off for someone else 8+ hours a day with no real time to build your own life/dreams? NO THANK YOU
Right it’s still $7.25 in NC which screws you if you get evicted bc rent is so high
I'm an mid 80s baby and you delivered this psa very well. Now say it louder for the ppl in the back
I'm 32 and graduated high school in 2009. 'Back in my day' growing up included hearing the formula for the 'American dream' which consisted of the following:
-Get good grades in school so you can graduate and get into college
-Pick a decent major, get good grades and graduate with a degree
-Get a well paying job and save money to afford a home
-Get married and have kids
The cycle is then supposed to repeat itself from there...
Here's the thing though, at some point during my college career; the formula shifted. Jobs became HARDER to get because seemingly out of nowhere the bar for employment was raised. No longer could you just hop into a position post-college. You had to have EXPERIENCE and I mean YEARS of experience! So, my generation would get out of college with 5-6 figure debt and be forced to work jobs that honestly could've been obtained without a degree!
I don't know about anyone else, but in my hometown it was kind of looked down upon if you didn't go to college right after high school. It was drilled into our heads that we HAD to go to school after 12th grade. A lot of my graduating class would be either the first or one of the few people in their families to go to college. So, if you crossed the stage at graduation it was expected to have a college mentioned as your plan post-graduation rather than for the announcer to say your name and then mention 'workforce' (as in this graduate is going straight into the job market).
It's a darn shame because it really set up a lot of people to fail. My parents could quit a job one day and literally be on a new job the following day or week! I'm not joking, I had an aunt who quit one factory job and worked at a new one in town in less than 48 hours! The job market IS NOT what it was when we were kids or still in high school! Parents wanna pressure their kids to succeed when we have so many more hurdles to overcome than they did!
Praise God, I FINALLY closed on a home a few days ago. It was a 3-year process because as a self-employed individual (TH-cam/eBay) it's been an uphill battle in this housing market. My mom had her first house at age 19 and there was a lot less red tape for her to deal with.
This older generation needs to stop being so hard on us because the blueprint of 'success' and 'hard work' are NOT the same! In just a few months, I make more money than both of my parents combined in a year and I'm doing 'less work' (hard labor) than they do just by creating videos or selling Pokemon cards/collectables on eBay.
I'm in NO RUSH to get married at all because despite making good money, it really doesn't amount to much in this economy where you have to drop $250 in Food Lion or Wal-Mart just to have groceries for a couple of weeks! Do you think I wanna consider things like money for a wedding, baby diapers, etc. in the world we're living in right now?! It's hard enough making it out here for myself!
Great video as always Calvin! Sorry for my rant...
You and I are the same age, I pay rent with my mom in an apartment, I could barely live on my own and I have two jobs, I work in behavioral health full-time and part time at a church and it sucks that I may have to pick up third job just to stay afloat.
what's sad about college was after I finished, I would run into students I knew back on campus. One guy I know was computer science and he was a Wal-Mart greeter & gathering shopping carts...it's ROUGH out here @@PoliticalAbstract
Look I am late gen X. I’m not a millennial but here is what I’ve experienced.
I could not get a job in high school in 1991-1993. Things were tough in 1994-1996. But I did got a job at McDonalds that lasted. I got 2 years of community college for nothing out of pocket and joined the Army. After 8 years in the military and delivering pizza and 5 more years of college which cost around $50,000 in loans, I got a pretty good entry level job. But that career should have actually made affluent after 18 years. But it didn’t. Inflation ate up most of it. So I went from not making as much as my daycare costs at this good entry-level job to 18 years later worrying about how am I going by to pay my bills without daycare. I had one period in 2007 or 2008 where I felt slightly like I had enough money. I bought my first house even. I feel poorer now and have for 10 or 15 years.
I went back to community college to take some classes a few years back to try to change careers because of the non cutting it nature of my supposedly prestigious career. 12 credits at community college cost me almost much as I’d spent on 4-year college credits 15 years ago.
You can’t just ignore the fact that they want people to spend $100,000 and 4-6 years for an education that gets you a pay bump that gets you to barely surviving on your own. We hire people now from law schools I could not get into to do my job and they leave in 1-2 years because the pay is unlivable.
I bought a house and it doubled in value in 10 years and after some global remodeling that cost close to $50,000. That’s great but that means it is going to costs my kids twice as much to buy their first home than it wold have if they were born 10 years earlier.
And previous generations in my family sent most of their kids to college. My generation mostly went to college only one on my kid da generation went to college and none finished by age 30. My kids work harder from a younger age for much less than most people I know.
This is my experience of having it decidedly better than millennials. This “why didn’t you pick yourself up by the bootstraps?” “well not by working 4 hours a day 4 days a week you certainly won’t” nonsense needs to stop. Nobody does that and expects to be independent and financially successful. Not ever. These boomers with these “I walked right up to the hiring manager at Goldman Sachs and got a job with not experience and no education” success stories either are lying or they are complete outliers.
My company actually hired an outside company to prove that our pay was at market value, instead of using the money that they used to hire that company to pay us more, smh.🤨😳😒
Wow
I’m 72 years old woman and I love Whoopi, but she couldn’t be more wrong. I love the view and I have to say I think Whoopi is the cohost who at times says the silliest things about important issues.
You always have excellent points and break it all down. I appreciate your work!! You said it all. Millennials know what's up, we've been through a lot already at 30 lol. Gen X and the baby boomers sold us out with Reaganomics and giving all the power to corporations in the 70s/80s. They set up the chess board so they'd benefit meanwhile the ones that are after them are suffering. We should know the older generation doesn't care about their lineage. Look at how they're treating the planet. Folks really have no true concern for the world that their grandchildren and great grandchildren are going to inherit and that's the biggest issue. We as millennials and even Gen Z see that the American dream of our parents is just an illusion and we are choosing to go against the grain. Just because our parents chose to play it safe and not do anything outside the box isn't our fault. We've had to adapt to all the mess they've left for us. Whoopi like many old heads are living with her head in the sand. Who do you think are the ones who don't support forgiving student loan debt? 👵👵👴🏻👴🏻
I second this comment 🙌🏾🙌🏾
Math much? Reagan was voted into office before GenX was old enough to vote.
And GenX helped "set up the chess board" for corporations in the 70s? Really? Try played checkers and hadn't yet reached puberty in the 70s.😉
@@traceymills4393 Even if the years are off some Gen X didn't stand up against the shenanigans when they could vote 🤷🤷🤷. Millennials and Gen Z still inherited a bunch of mess that we didn't need to.
GenX had nothing to do with this. We are outnumbered by Boomers & Millenials. Leave us alone!
@@rockstarswag91dude? I'm 46. I was born in 1977. I was THREE when Reagan entered office. Please tell me what the fuck I was supposed to do at THREE years old, to keep that POS out of office?
I didn't turn 18 until 1995. There wasn't a presidential election until 1996 that I was able to vote in. Clinton was the incumbent and despite me voting for Bob Dole, Clinton won because he played the popularity game. The housing/mortgage crisis that George Dubya was blamed for in 2007 was caused by the Democrats in the late 90s, based on policies that they supported and Clinton signed into law. I tried to do my part to stop the bullshit trajectory that Reagan started is on, but it was too late.
You'll also notice that Clinto is a Democrat, and Reagan was a Republican. Neither party works for the American people anymore. They work for the corporations that keep them in power.
Furthermore, just so you're clear, Gen X has never even labeled as starting before 1965 from any data that I've seen. That means that when Reagan was elected into office in 1980, the entirety of Gen X would have been approximately 15. So tell me again what Gen X did to fuck up what was clearly an all Boomer problem?
As a Gen X'er it is hard out for me as well and I have a job that pays pretty well. I am the mom of a millennial and a Gen Z'er and i am first hand witnesses to how hard it has been for them . I caution them and anyone against start a family right now ,if you don't have it all together right now,because if you can barely supply yourself, why bring a child into the equation 🤷🏾♀️
Thanks for bringing up Reaganomics! I told my kids this and refused to let my kids go to a school named after him!
I graduated highschool in 2009. My parents were considered middle class but I knew they couldn't afford to pay for me to go to college. I went to the Navy in 2010. My parents opposed it but I didn't see any type of future for myself cuz they didn't have any money. Especially since my older brother had already gone to college and had to drop out because the school got caught up in scamming students. I work as a pipefitter now, I'm a contractor working for the Navy now. While We're doing ok, the money isn't going nearly as far as it should. I'm fortunate to not have to pay for medical insurance because I have the VA insurance. But imagining me making what I make, just under 100K a year and having to support a family, housing, and medical insurance. Add children to that I see why people make six figures and are still barely making it. It's just me and my husband but like you said, one emergency or unplanned lay off could wipe out a good portion of our savings.
Michael!!! Can't believe I'm so late to your channel!! It's Dominique (Spanaway) btw. So proud of all you've accomplished 🎉 and THANK YOU for this video! I'm going to share this EVERYWHERE & will be watching from here on out😊
Whoopi missed it but you’re on point! Many millennials in particular are overworked, overeducated, underemployed, and underpaid. I don’t know anyone over 30 trying to make it off of 4 hours/day. Heck, I would argue that even a Zoomer knows better. Considering that Gen Y has had to navigate two economic crises during the stages in life that adults are supposed to be upwardly mobile, you’re spot-on about the cards dealt to them. Gen Z is going through it too. Great job breaking down the history and data.
As far as I can say , it’s a big struggle , we can’t blame inflation on Millennials and Gen Z . Food has gone up tremendously , gas prices are horrible . I am a Gen x . I remember when homes were affordable Back in the 80’s early 90’s this is getting ridiculous, you have to have two jobs just to make ends meet and not enough time in the day . She makes a descent amount of money but still does not understand work ethics . Us working class get paid hourly wages not millions in on month .
You do need to work hard for a period of time, but there needs to be a cut off. This is where baby boomers got it wrong and most of us will be working hard until we die. We are relearning what it takes to survive and create generational wealth. Many are leaving it up to millennials to do it on their own. It’s almost impossible . I like the millennials attitude toward working hard vs enjoying life.
You can’t enjoy life without money, see go they do
Which is why I'm about to quit my 9-5 full time office job and find something more related to the field I want to work in and that has better pay and remote work options. I look at the people at my job who've worked there for 10+ years and most of them all look high, overly caffinated, way older than their real age, and stressed out. I'm in my 30s (with no dependents yet). I'm stressed out and feel like I've lost myseld after 1 year of being there. Ain't no damn way.
I'm on my second career, so have a pension and a paycheck. I'm single but will work until I die, because everything I did for 25 yrs was for my children. I can't depend on them to be there for me, they are too selfish, yet I'm currently helping my elderly parents.
Every millennial I've ever known is selfish, entitled, and looking for the easy way out.
I would have NEVER asked for government assistance, but they think they're entitled to it
@@memoir02 we look older because we work harder than we should. We'll never have the luxury of "finding ourselves" because we gave all of ourselves to our children who don't appreciate it.
So go "find yourself" but don't forget who enabled you that luxury.
@@JohnaFactsDontCare... "Finding yourself" is not a bad thing. And besides, I've already "found myself". I just was trying to fit myself into a career/weekly workstyle that I knew would not fulfill me or be best for my health. Just because I needed the money. Yeah it's paying me but I'm miserable and am more jaded than I used to be. Doesn't mean I don't want to work, just need a different path. Most of us Millenials are not selfish. You should listen to Calvin's breakdown in the video of why we're not as selfish as you think. But trust me I always recognize and appreciate what my mother and grandparents did for me growing up.
I was born in 1979 and identify with both gen x and older millennials. I’ve been working a minimum of 40 hours a week since I graduated and I still don’t own a home. I don’t even think I’ll be able to retire and I’ve been screaming it to anyone who would listen that this would only get worse not better. I don’t understand how people older than me don’t see the problem. I think they are being willfully ignorant on this topic. It’s infuriating. Thank you for talking about this! ❤
Old people have selective amnesia about the lucky breaks they had in life and the terrible decisions they made in their youth that they have lived through. The statistics are also faulty. Millennials are catching up to their parents at the same age for the same reason. They are inheriting their family members, getting insurance payout from passed loved ones and their children are getting older and need less support from them.
I'm a boomer at 73 and 5 years older than Whoopi, I stuns me that she is so clueless about her own generation's benefits and opportunities. Your social security comments are right on, young man. Raising the age is an insult but sadly most people just do not know how things work. And politicians aren't interested in educating you, that's why people often vote against their own best interest. My neighbor was excited after working a physically difficult job his entire life, that he was about to receive his first social security check. He died of a heart attack two days before it came in the mail. Millions of people have worn out bodies from the hard work they have done for decades, while others have never worked physically difficult jobs. So raising the age is an insult, period.
I won't go on, this video pretty much says it all. Good job.
I just hate the fact that I probably will die before I'm able to buy a home. And to make matters worse. I live in NC where in this state ALL LANDLORDS ARE ABLE TO CHARGE ANY PRICE THEY WANT.
As a gen Xer I'm glad no one ever talks about us. 😂
Whoopi is far removed from how regular people live. Not trying to hear from her on this one.
My great-aunt, God rest her soul, was born either in the 30s or early 40s. She graduated 5th grade. As her rural town, like a lot of them at the time, had one primitive elementary school.. after grade school you were expected to go to work..
At 16 she moved off the farm to a large city. Paid somebody to take her GED test for her. With a rual background, fifth grade education, and fake GED, she raised two boys on her own and retired in a nice (nothing lavish) home in the suburbs.
Back when fruit was considered a good gift to gift someone.
They so damn pressed we won't waste the best years of our youth stuck in a damn office from 9-5 Monday thru Friday doing something we don't love or that is draining for 30+ years just to appease society. Hell to the f no! Thanks for the boomers sacrifice but we thankfully have other options and different avenues now.
It’s not going to change unless ppl VOTE 🗳️. Stop leaving out of touch politicians in place. Rep Maxwell Frost from Florida is the first millennial. We need MORE.
Here's the thing that some boomers seem to forget: We shouldn't have to sacrifice and struggle in the same ways that prior generations have had to do. I thought the whole point of living in a "civilized and democratic" society was to steadily improve it not just to keep struggling. These people aren't taking into account the increasing cost of living and barriers to getting a higher education for younger generations.
I mean you’re technically right but the boomers didn’t struggle. They were gifted everything by the economy. The average American now lives a life as difficult as we did in 1890. All those boomers whining about walking to school up hill. bitch, we live like coal miners in 1890
Calvin you are always so on point! I truly appreciate your resourcefulness and the way you dissect things. You are simply amazing.
I'm Gen X and I don't see the lie. It's hard out here for a lot of us, too.
I'm a Gen X and I always respect your content as for your age and generation young man, you are very wise which is different from being smart!!!!! Also, if you can't make enough on your own for the basic needs of life as humans such as shelter/utilities, clothing, food, medical (including dental, vision, etc.), transportation (heaven forbid if you live in the suburbs where mass govt transit doesn't exist), then don't bring life into existing only to place them right into poverty!!!
I'm a firm believer that in the US (at the least a Bachelor's level and especially at a Master's level - even if you are an entrepreneur, artsy, creative, IT guru or good at some type of trade) EDUCATION is key and what you do in life from the ages of 18-30 is a predictor of what the quality of the rest of your life will be good or bad!!!
Speak it brother preach that 🙌 👏 🙏 I'm tired of working I am 30 plus I been working for years and I am tired 😫 😩 it's hard out here for single people shit too keep a roof over my head car payment and car insurance shit life insurance cell phone the list goes on I work 12 hours 😑 shifts 3 days out of the week and pick up 2 extra ot shifts so that's another two 12 hours shift I be tired it's getting hard out here but God is still good y'all prayers for y'all we gonna get through this y'all in Jesus name hang on in there better days are coming🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️.
Thank you for clarifying RACE.. I am Gen X..
Same here.