Why You'll Never Achieve The American Dream
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Before watching the video:
Yes, because I never lived in America, and don't have it's dreams =]
Have you figured out yet that objective political theory tends to adhere to laws similar to physics?
Please get some real plants, it really hurts me.
Maybe an epiprenum... Its very easy
@@72marshflower15 , точно. Закон Ломоносова-Лавуазье: то, что кого-то убыток, для другого -- прибыль))
"Lobbying: what every other country calls corruption and bribery"
Yep
In my country lobbying is literally illegal
As a young I heard lobby in US and it is okay. But it really looks like corruption. 😂
@@piccalillipit9211Good on you lot. The USA could learn a lot from you all.
@@Abdul-Akeem_Akinloye Well Im British but I live in Bulgaria - which is officially the most corrupt country in the EU. But this is BS. Its just that they are very BAD at corruption here - its small scale obvious stuff like cops taking $20 bribes.
The UK and the US have WAY more corruption - they just legalise it and give it job titles.
Don’t get in the way of my FREE-DUMBS!!!!! ‘Murica baby! /s😂
because you have to be asleep to believe in it
These exact words went through my mind when I saw the title of this video
Should it concern me that I thought of the tiktok conspiracy lady first before Carlin when I read this comment lol
@@chiriko7335the who?
So true
@@chiriko7335yes
People should remember: poverty is not an accident, a coincidence or an inevitability. It is something which is manufactured by the ruling class, that's why investment is the key to sustaining your financial longevity
You're absolutely right, you've remind me of what someone once said "The mind is the man, the poor is in it and the rich is it too". This sentence is the secret of most successful investors. I once attended similar and ever since then been waxing strong financially, and i most tell you the truth..investment is the key that can secure your family future.
Putting our time and effort in activities and investments that will yield a profitable return in the future is what we should be aiming for. Success depends on the actions or steps you take to achieve it. Show me a man without investment and I'll tell you how long it takes to go bankrupt. Investing creates a safe haven for the future. With the right investment choice that has at least a 10% minimum risk and with the advice of an expert, profits and interest is guaranteed.
I agree with you had a senior colleague at work who was doing well but never had an investment. Unfortunately he lost his job and went from living a comfortable life to hardship. There would had been something to fall back on if he had an investment
that's why I always urge everyone to start investing somewhere now no matter how small, this is literally the time for that, forget material things, don't get tempted,i became more better the moment i realized this.
yeah investment is the key to sustaining your financial longevity but venturing into any legitimate Investment without a proper guidance of an expert can lead to a great loss too
In the American ideal of having no kings over us, we eventually just formed a new royal class of oligarchs; we're now all serfs in a technofeudalist world where everything is owned by (land)lords and merchant kings.
The idea that as a species, we have evolved out of a system where a small subset of population controlling the rest 99% has always been a myth. Maybe someday, but biological evolution simply don't move that quickly.
Best and most underrated comment on this video! 💯👏👏
The Robber Barons put themselves in power. The people who cast the votes decide nothing, the people who count the votes decide everything
Underrated
And oligarch/plutocrat scumbags
“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach. Then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.” - Huey P. Newton
Anonymous was supposed to do something about it. What happened to that?
Sounds like what happens before straight up revolution
There are no heroes! Where is the genius hacker exposing all the elites dirty secrets?
@@BlabbermouthRexwhat exactly are you expecting them to do?
@@Rastaferrari829 What they kept boasting they would.
As the boardgame Monopoly tried to teach us: the board doesn't get any bigger, and once one player owns all the properties... the game is over and all but one player loses.
Yup, the game monopoly has an interesting backstory. It was originally invented (by a woman and basically stolen) as a lesson to show just that.
the game is over when the angriest flips the board
and the board we are being played on is the earth. we must defeat the burgeoisie before they destroy our planet completely. there is no planet b.
It's actually a very poor lesson because it presents a world where the capitalists are ruthlessly competing and only taking money from each other. In reality the capitalists would be finding ways to avoid direct competition which each other in order to extract maximum rents from non-players. Then at the end of a fixed number of turns everyone is far wealthier and the player who has extracted the most profits from "the board" (aka society) would be the winner.
@@JimmyJacpotsSo the guillotine it is.
The system isnt broken. Its working exactly as designed.
This is also my reflex response every time I hear that. I add that the current main beneficiaries are trippin’ balls because it looks like the jig is about up…
“Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you with wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”
This. It may not have started this way, but once it crystallized the game was on.
Boy, does TH-cam hate you.
I watch EVERY video you publish as soon as I see it (and as soon as I'm available), I'm subscibed and hit the bell (notifications set to all). And yet, it burries these videos both in my feed and in my notifications.
Since you're not on Nebula anymore (sorry that happened), I guess I better throw you some money on Patreon.
Keep up the good fight!
That's what YT does. Who's controlling it again? Ohh, yeah.
The American Dream = to possess things we don't want, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't even like.
😂💯💯💯💯!!!
"We buy things we don't want with money we don't have to impress people we don't like... all to try to grasp a power that we will never taste"
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
"Working jobs we hate to buy s*** we don't need"
I literally would be happy with just my apartment's rent being NBD. That and affordable food. Dont even care about healthcare. Ive made my peace with the implications.
my new dream is not dieing of microplastic buildup before I'm 45.
More micro plastic in the ocean than fish? Think of the stock market though bro. Won't anybody think about the poor billion dollar corporations and their margins?
Oh I'm sure I'm full of em. My job had me working with epoxy dust and silica powder for years. It's only a matter of time now.
While I'm sure they are unhealthy for us, the fact remains that in most of the developed world (except the US, as it doesn't have universal health care like 96%+ of the developed world does and has the lowest life expectancy of the developed world), average life expectancy has been constantly increasing over the past 40+ years.. even with the ever increasing microplastic consumption. Modern medicine is still keeping us alive longer than ever before. That said, I'm sure it's increasing our risk of cancer or other illnesses.
Don't worry, you have good odds of an AI apocalypse, bio-weapon pandemic, nuclear armageddon, or just cascading environmental disasters killing you off long before the micro-plastic-induced cancer does!
Look into plasmapheresis, it helps remove microplastics and you are paid for it. Also, don't drink from disposable plastic as much as possible.
"They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
Asleep? Or high AF on some dangerously good stuff?
Another reason you don’t see many mom and pop stores anymore. The big corporations bought them all out. And they’ve made it almost impossible to be able to open up any anymore.
Rent for shops is also huge now
The American Dream: Subjugating your neighbours, and half the globe.
Misrep...the whole globe lol
Hell yeah based.
So true
Yeah, I'd say that's an apt description.
@@WizDomSon Or for 15% of Americans the disc😆
Reform sounds so much easier than revolution, but every time reform was implemented the counterreform pushes back stronger
Revolution is not possible in the belly of the beast. This is the same country that had bombed countries that are an ocean apart from the US, back to stone age, to prevent a Socialist revolution. Good luck to anyone daydreaming a Socialist revolution someday in America.
Don’t forget how they infiltrate any type of movement that resembles uprising like BLM
The ruling class is the counter reform.
That's what happened to the reform movements of the 60s and 70s.
In favour of reforms, against the reformists.
Reforms are always appreciated,what we cannot do is stop at that.
I have heard it explained like this... You order a small pie.... The rich guy takes 5 slices of 6... He then says "that guy wants to take your slice"
Whenever I’m at work and people say they’re “living the dream” I always chuckle a little bit.
I hate that bullshit saying
I’ve only heard it used as sarcasm
I've been pointing this uncomfortable truth out to family, friends, and peers for 40+ years.
Most laughed it off, I was the crazy guy. Most are no longer laughing it off, though.
Thank you for expressing the situation so clearly and perfectly. I do not do Patreon as a rule; today you became the exception. Your work is too important, it needs to be supported.
Thanks so much! I’m glad to be of service
@@SecondThought You have a true gift for conveying information in away that is easily understandable to all. Thank you for your hard work putting these videos together and for sharing them, particularly on TH-cam where I can easily share them.
I've been at it for nearly a decade now. I remember when chatbots were hilariously bad and people were even then very worried about automation. Ten years later and gpt-4o is telling bedtime stories and reffing paper rock scissors games through video. It's incredible how much I hear others worry about economic conditions while still showing anti-socialist sentiment.
@@ChrisGuerra31 Most people I've met stubbornly conflate "democracy" with "capitalism" and cannot be persuaded to see the difference even in the face of facts and definitions.
Our education system and media have done a _wonderful_ job of keeping most people misguided and ignorant. 😞
But God forbid they admit that they treated you like you were crazy.
I'm reminded of a paired saying that seems pretty accurate to these situations:
"The system is broken and needs fixing."
"No, the system is working as intended and must be destroyed."
Yea, a social revolution is needed
Communists 🥶
communism works only in a simple unit of society, in the family, the family can be large but not too large, otherwise the connections between units weaken and the system does not work
This ❤
☝🏾✨ EXACTLY.
European here.
Statistically, by most definitions ,the American dream has never really been achievable to begin with for many americans.(Same here , no judgment)
It's like winning at the lottery but with a touch of unfairness added.
There's a reason both those are a dream for most people.
That’s true, but in the USA it was once relatively easy to defend things like free or affordable education, now, millions of dollars are spent on pundit propaganda and internet trolls who demand that the public should not receive affordable education.
In the past in the USA, even without universal healthcare, both large cities and rural areas had locally funded healthcare which made it affordable.
In the past there were opportunities for potential homeowners to buy government subsidized homes and below market value, often far below.
So although this dream was not achievable by everyone, at least there were real public opportunities.
In the EU it is a bit different. In France, there were riots at the mere thought of raising tuition in Germany too, even the furthest right parties would be considered left in the USA.
People call lottery tickets a stupidity tax. I think of them more as raffle tickets to a better life. For very little money, you can buy the chance to hope for a few days.
@@NWPaul72 Whatever floats your boat.
@@NWPaul72 Hope is free.
@@matthewkopp2391The US is uniquely messed up
It was a dream for white America, the rest of us got the horror version.
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
― Warren Buffett
EVERY worker in the world should know this quote.
Let’s see how old mate thinks when the revolution is knocking on his door
@andrewmackenzie325 nobody's revolting unfortunately. Masculinity is "toxic" now and we're surrounded by snowflakes, ticktock heads and confused social norms like inclusion politics. Our society as it stands would never muster up the courage to revolt the way our forefathers did or the way others do in other countries. The few that are still strong enough, are not enough to get the job done my friend. It's a shitty reality and I fear for my kids.
@@andrewmackenzie325revolution will just lead to the creation of new elites. Always does.
@@zuzanazuscinova5209 but what if it doesn't? What if the old system was renewed with the installation of a few safe guards against corruption were installed? We shouldn't be so defeatist.
This. This is late-stage capitalism. We did it. Congratulations everyone. The shareholders have never been richer. We did it. The Ouroboros has almost eaten itself up to the neck.
Reagan’s neoliberalism has benefited America. Just the upper 15%. This is bipartisan now. Democrats and Republicans are essentially the same on economic issues!
Now's the time to learn to hunt, farm and fight!
Its not late stage capitalism, its just the decadence of USA, the American dream has become the nordic dream 🤩
So what do you suggest? Socialism? Any system, can be corrupted.
@jljl5449 Huh, I thought they deleted my comment I can't see it lol
I was just talking to a boomer co-worker about unionizing and he was talking about how terrible it is. 🙄Its so depressing seeing how brainwashed the older generation is.
I am 69 years old. Relatively recently, I would have stated that your observations and statements are gross simplifications and exaggerations. Now, however, I think there is much validity in your ideas, and I am seeing things differently. Our youth ARE having a rough time!!
The American Dream is to leave.
No healthcare, s@#$ education, s@#$ roads, shit retirement, etc.
The US is ranked:
47th in life expectancy
31st in education
26th in economic freedom
48th in safety
24th in corruption
You want taxes to go towards helping the citizens of the country instead of blowing up the middle east? It sounds to me like you are a lazy socialist who just hates to work... If you worked harder the 6 figure medical debt wouldn't look so bad /sarcasm
If only! Yet moving takes money, during a time where most people can barely survive. Passports can be difficult or expensive to get. And those most vulnerable/marginalized tend to be outright banned from taking on other citizenships by the host country.
Its a,ways wild how there are still ppl who do not see this or think this, especially from the working class, i want to wake up my family but i dont know how
Yeah and even that is just a dream. Unless you already have a good job and good health, you won't be allowed to move anywhere else. And if you have other marginalized attributes, it only further limits where you can even consider going.
Only the US accepts immigrants in large number. Nobody will take you
This hits too hard, my wife and I are making what our parents think is a lot of money yet we can't afford a house and starting our family.
This is why I just don't feel like having kids in this country. It's pushing families closer to more poor conditions compared to not having a family. If i find someone outside the country, then I'll gladly move out, but until then, im just minding my own business and try to survive as long as I can.
@@Perseus5 Lets not act like capitalism hasn't worked its magic outside the US
@Kingzzxepic I know, but just the thought of moving to a different 1st world country and starting a family there sounds better that starting one here with the toxic culture we have and the politicians pinning society against each other.
@@Perseus5 I understand, thats fair, we are extra bad. I have thought about moving somewhere else too.
Same, every minor challenge fucks us and we are already paycheck to paycheck plus credit. We have degrees and work history! My chronic health is at the point like, I can’t afford to live on disability nor can I afford to work cuz the benefits don’t cover the costs of my conditions
THANK YOU - For highlighting what the black panther party actually stood for. The work you're doing is so important. Signing up for the Patreon ❤
You know I don't think you ever thought that someone from Egypt out of all places would watch your videos, it's a strange world we live don't you think.
I just wanted to tell you that I believed that I would be more right wing/conservative leaning until I watched your videos. I came to the realization that right wing/conservative people have a problem with my existence as someone from Africa and as a Muslim. what I'm trying to say is what you do matter, please keep doing it.
The new American dream is to leech off some stocks, hit the lotto, or suffer a traumatic injury and receive a settlement.
Yeah I think if we remove some people from the government and banking (from the census) we need to make sure the stock market goes away forever. Make guidelines for a ratio of population to gdp to currency to make sure the dollar value only goes up to yearly, cap loan apr to 1% and we could hand something to our children that will stand for a few generations
💀💀
Or get rich with crypto
Over the last few years, my world view has really crystallized, and you summed up the reason very well when you said something like (paraphrasing) "once you stop seeing these problems as independent, but rather symptoms of the greater threat, this all becomes much easier to understand." Understanding how capitalism leads to all these various problems, from school shootings to our abysmal healthcare system to climate change, really is eye opening.
Same 🤝
Humanity, as a whole, is embarrassing. There's almost nothing redeeming about it whatsoever. Especially when one considers just how much self-predatory behaviors it exhibits. It's pathetic. Thousands of years of "evolution", and THIS is what mankind is all about?! That's LUDICROUS. But it is also the reality.
Trickledown worked. I was just at goodwill paying 15$ for a 200$ golfclub that some rich guy had sitting in his garage until he died. Feels awesome!
Workers of the world unite; you have _nothing_ to lose but your chains
For real, even most of our lifetimes is already being sacrificed to make some rich assholes even richer, while we struggle with rent, food, and medical expenses.
@@leobustos740 Exactly that mate, you've got it.
Anyone who says we aren't slaves by other means than purely the burden of physical chains, only needs to be asked "what happens if I don't work for whatever pay I'm being offered by a bunch of rich, greedy snobs? I starve, go thirsty, end up homeless". What the rich are saying is "work or starve, work or die of thirst, work of be homeless" whilst they hoard all the wealth that *we* create for them. That's not a choice, that's a threat.
The chains might not be visible these days, but they're there alright. It's slavery by other means.
Always shocks me as well that so many will advocate for their own slavery because they believe that they'll be the ones sitting in the big leather chair, in the big conference room one day, overseeing their mutli-billion pound or dollar corporation whilst an army of slaves works to make them richer. They're deluded.
If you think this works check out the countries where they tried it.
We are just peasants, peasants have always toiled for the elite.
Wether it's in a communal farm or in an office in a capitalist country. You can't escape it, crafty people will always find a way to suck your work.
This might be your strongest "duck capitalism" video. There was a fire inside while writing this, and I'm so about this.
People will call you extreme for being passionate but spreading ideas to help everyone will be worthwhile
Enjoy your 69th like 😉
@@briangruenewald7536nice
I'm a photojournalist/videographer, but before that, I was a network engineer. I trained for years, got several certifications, and finally landed a job as a network engineer with a major company I won't name. I was making more than twice the salary I made before starting that job. Yet despite the "great" salary and having no children and no debt, I still had to live with a roommate if I wanted to live comfortably. I'm from Fairfield County, Connecticut, 30 miles from New York City. EXPENSIVE. It's just crazy......
Yea is nuts in NYC. I have a 3500sqft house where the mortgage in western Mass is about what it was for a 1000sqft apartment and that was in Queens, so Manhattan is even crazier
If there's one good thing that covid did, it was normalize remote work. I live in the PA countryside but work for a tech firm in NYC, and doing that I was able to afford a home
@@d.w.stratton4078 In this day, and age, why would you want ... or need, a 3,500 sqft house? *CRAZY!*
Did you go to Uconn?
Born and raised in NYC, went to college, got a degree and was appalled at how little electronics engineering jobs were paying. And it was extremely competitive. Now im in a tiny city upstate and things are still unaffordable. With little to no real job security. I have to live under a slum lord to afford to stay up here or pay $2000/mo (more than 30% my income)
Its this or move back home and work odd jobs around queens and scrape by without building a family of my own. The imperial core is a nightmare
Thanks! I've followed you for years now and am a Patreon supporter. I'm so proud of how far you've come. Please keep up the good work. You break down our political reality in a way most of us could never articulate, so Thank you.
This is generalisable to the entire imperial core.
I live in Australia, and myself and my partner and our three year old are living in a repurposed shed with no insulation, or amenities because we have no other option.
Capitalism is on its way out the door.
We have to ensure that what replaces it is something truly better, and not something worse.
What do you have in mind 😂
I am a part of the last generation that could pull off the American Dream... and just barely so. My kids have no chance. Their kids have no chance. That's why we're moving. Not for my benefit, but for my kids and their kids. Will it be difficult? Yep. My parents, who are still alive, refuse to move with us and think I'm over-exaggerating the problem. As Boomers, they don't understand. They had part-time jobs that were enough to pay for college. This is a very emotional topic for me, as I was raised that the American Dream was possible for anyone. I believed it and, against all odds, I achieved it. I don't have a college degree. It's virtually impossible now even with a college degree. Socialism is such a boogieman in the US that the things government should be doing here aren't being done.
America exists to serve Israel. This is the reality that some refuse to accept. America is just a base for them lol
Moving out of country? Which one?
@@bigbud8182 Izrr rael.. oh wait they don't accept immigrants
Civil rights act and "nation of immigrations" the boomer delusion, you are welcome
i'm also curious where you can go, cause i've had the same thought
Just a disabled autistic lady trying to survive even though yet another job has encouraged me to leave because I'm too difficult to work with. I just want to eat and help support my family, feels like i'm stuck in a perpetual loop of never being good enough
Sorry to hear that. I know a couple people in similar situations. Hang in there. With community, people can make it.
You are good enough. And nobody is better than you ❤
Sorry to hear about that. Two books that I believe can really help you are the power of now and the detox miracle sourcebook. They’ve helped people heal spiritually and physically (including mental health) and have helped me a bunch. Also remember that the word autism (I believe an anxiety disorder like adhd) is a word someone came up with to describe what you’ve been struggling with but that doesn’t mean you can’t eventually heal.
Its good advice to build local connections for when, not if, things get worse. It is inevitable. This is what happens when you prey upon others. Other nations. Other peoples. Your own people. Instead of investing in the people they invested in capitalism. It is going to require more and more resources to sustain itself. We spent decades usung fantastic amounts of resources fighting communists when we should have been working together to remove the worst of all forms of government. And we are still doing it.
Great video.
"A generation lost in space, with no time left to start again"
Student debt is the modern equivalent to indentured servitude, but without the job.
I can't believe I've never seen that so clearly till now. Nice one. My line has always been: America is a plantation, morphing into a madhouse.
stealing that with your kind permission, to put on the wall at the college I teach at. Thank you. ;P
These videos always make me cry cuz I left the states over ten years ago, thinking I’d eventually go back, but it just gets worse and worse. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, they taught us that with modern technology and progress, humanity was just getting better and better. This isn’t the future they mythologized for us, not at all.
where did you go? can i come too? do you know anyone there who needs a husband??? 😪
Girl take me with you cause I'm gen z and trapped here until I die, can't even afford to leave
Technology helping was a lie. The machines replaced you. What happened to the horse when the car and truck were invented? Straight to the glue factory.
@@sean32038 Ecuador, Mexico, China, Germany, Thailand, Belize… and yes 😆👍
@@MoondustManwise get a bachelors degree in the easiest thing you can find, it doesn’t matter what the degree is in. Then, take a TEFL course. Then get your passport and you can go work almost anywhere you want teaching English
***I was on SSDI totally disabled and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation helped me get my degree online. When I’m not in the states, I don’t have anxiety anymore. Haven’t been on any medication for over ten years. Don’t even have chronic pain issues anymore. I’ve defied all the doctors’ ominous predictions about my bleak future.
You can make your life what you want it to be. It’s a process but you can do it.
Excellent take, Second Thought. Often times these types of videos can devolve into hyperbole and 'eat-the-rich' sentiment. What you outlined is exactly the case. This isn't a system gone wrong. Rather, one that has gone exactly as it is designed to go. Subbed!
It’s called a dream because when you wake up you understand it’s not real
This is why I stopped going above and beyond for my company. Its stable, for now. But all it takes is a tiny group of people to decide "Eh. We don't really need you." Then I don't have an income anymore. The only friends I have that actually own houses have Doctorate degrees or Masters degrees. Everyone else is renting because a 4 year degree wasn't enough originally and then their fields got flooded.
And having a graduate degree doesn't guarantee anything either. I've got a MS and many colleagues of mine have MS or PhDs. Many still renting. Some still have roommates.
@@Flamebard I saw a clip some time ago about a Gen Z guy who got his MBA. Still couldn't find a job.
It feels like the only time you really see any kind of jump in pay is through promotion or hopping to different positions to negotiate.
"What? The "Land of the free"?
Whoever told you that is your enemy"
United States of Izzrael 😂
Well, it was the land of the free, before the colonizers came.
@blakehelgoth5247 Well, yeah, but this is a Rage Against the Machine lyric from the song "Know Your Enemy."
In the land of the FEE and the home of the slave.
In the land of the FEE and the home of the slave.
The US was never open - it was stolen from Native Americans.
The American dream was biggest after WW2.
What was the the US like after WW2? it was a factory country.
During WW2 most of the industrial world was destroyed by war, but the US was untouched.
The US made almost everything for the world. Every dollar spent every cent stayed in the US.
In the 50s public transportation started being eliminated, forcing people to purchase motor vehicles, causing the cost of living to increase.
Then in 1970 US oil extraction peaked and other resources were also being depleted.
With resource depletion and the high cost of living, factories started shutting down and moving to other countries. This would continue till around 2000.
In the late 70s college educated jobs, around a million, were moved to other countries for cheaper wages.This too continued till around 2000.
Those jobs were replaced with low wage / no benefit jobs.
Now out of every dollar most goes to other countries.
Today the cost of living is even higher. Almost every person has their own motor vehicle, cell phone and are wasting oil as fast as they can.
People in the 60s drove much less and walked or hitched rides as they did not want to wear their motor vehicle out.
And on top many people vote for politicians who care about the richest people and not the common working people.
And even today, with many jobs when wages get high, it is cheaper to move the job to another country.
What does George Carlin say about the American Dream?
"The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.
a thousand tycoons owning everything and ending up with all the world's money is capitalism working exactly as designed
Like fascism, capitalism ends up with one monopoly standing on a pile of skulls screaming " I won! " into the void
"No, there's nothing wrong with me;
This is how I'm s'posed to be
In the land of make-believe
That don't believe in me."
It took until this past year for me to realize how profound this Green Day lyric is.
You know the older I get the more this just makes sense
@Kingoftheironfist656 And the longer that the working class stays inactive, the more the capitalists will continue to scam us. We need some serious organizing!
Exact same in UK if not worse. My parents generation had the best healthcare in the world, it was free and worked. Now its half privatised and hardly even functions. University education was free, and guaranteed a good career, today im paying £9500 a year for tuition alone. It will be a meaningless piece of paper when i graduate next year, the average grad salary is £25,000. My parents bought their house when they were 24. Im 21 now and dont know if i will ever be able to buy one, since the average house where i live now is 14x that salary.
Ill admit that i come from a pretty comfortable household, ive personally never suffered, but i have felt pinches, i just do not know how the average person can physically survive here.
I was just talking to a buddy of mine about this yesterday. UK has been stripped of everything. The free school and health care gone. It wasn't all that long ago that those things were the envy of the world.
I hear you !
Same here in France.
I left before it killed me. Since then I have had an extra 22 years of life, sunshine, and health. My present country looks after its old.
UK got the American virus, sadly. All it took for everything to turn to shit is to make government bribery legal, which is an easy way to turn a government "for the people" into a government "for the donors".
What is amazing is that as services are cut to the people, the share of the economy propped by the government keeps increasing, so the money keeps pouring but not for the people...
Marketing is always best when people forget that it was Marketing.
What you called "Gig-ification", here in Brazil we call it "Uberization" (or 'Uberização', in portuguese). Its basically the same process.
The American dream, a rat running being promised by his overlords that if he runs a little faster and works a little harder, he may actually get somewhere all the while he never realises he’s on a fucking treadmill. But it’s okay, because it’s the other rats who are actually his main problem. Especially the different colour rats that speak a different kind of rat language who he already sometimes felt a little uneasy around. They apparently the source of all of his problems.
Get ready for most comments to be like "nah huh you're just envious of rich people" by people who will get back to pounding natty light while making 8 MPG in a new truck only to hit the front of a Domino's Pizza.
You called it 😂 People are really like "if you just invest in crypto and be homeless for 10 years, you can afford a house"
@@mrping2603shhh careful the weird bot chain comments could hear you lol
That's the main problem of our system, not even the capitalists - but the brainwashed simps who think they're capitalists and have "made it" at 100k/year.
Don't forget the broken air conditioner
They act as if anything a billionaire does could justify their massive bank accounts while they scrape by making median wage doing blue collar labor. One day they might get to be the boot though.
Your editing has gotten so good
yeah, holy smokes. I was slightly shocked at how high the quality jumped.
Yup at this point I can show these videos to any normie in the world and it would grab their attention all the way through
Not easy for any leftist content!
Indeed. I loved the "nickel and three strawberries" line lol.
I couldn’t disagree more! The retention editing style is so distracting!
@@Saintofsnacks that's easy to solve if you want, you can listen to the video without watching
When i was a kid, growing up in Leningrad ( st.peterburg) i kept asking mom and pop when was the utopia going to happen? Why hasn't it come yet? I was naive to believe in the communist dream. Naive to believe that everyone would be able to live in peace without greed. But humanity is greedy, and because of greed it created capitalism and fascism. In school they taught us that is was humanity goal to one day reach enlightenment and become communist paradise around the world were everyone shares the world and all the good thing that earth provided.They always saidit was possible, but looking back I'm sure that deep down they knew the propaganda was all a fairy tale just as much as this American dream. It majes me sad because back then at least we believed in a dream and we was working for it. Now nobody believes in anything. Because everything changed in 1991 when USSR dissolved and the economy collapse. Peoples life saving turned worthless overnight, the next morning people wake up to learn that they now penniless. Everything happened yet nothing happened too. Everyone just stayed put in our apartments. Everyone was instantly poor. Everyone had to go do a side job that was often illegal, but nobody care because everyone still has to eat. It came to be my opinion that we had already lived in the utopia and that it slipped away and it was lost. There will be a time in America when everyone will be poor like it was in Russia in the 90s. There will be lots of crime and everything will be broken and dirty and nobidy will come fix it for 20 years, lot of people will drink/ do drugs themselves to the grave. Many, many old people will have heart attacks and drop the moment they see their accounts are worthless. It will be a hard time. I know because I grow up in Russia in the 90s.
Sad to say, but it's already happening here. Karma's a bitch !
"Look to the Black Panthers for inspiration." Wow. The paradigm has indeed shifted.
You clearly never understood the Black Panther Party then. Do your research. 🙏
@@interviewboss8782 I was referring to someone who presents as an establishment White guy now embracing the Panthers.
@@lokijordan My bad 🙏
@@interviewboss8782 No prob
@@lokijordanhe's not establishment though
This is why I can’t even buy a used car after sleeping on peoples couches and working full time and yet all my money goes to expenses and what little savings I have!
don't worry, the grocers will pay a bonus to their CEO of about 5 billion while they are acquiring for free all government services to make you pay even more
@@SantasGAINdeer it's expensive to be poor fyi
@@Sinaebdid you seriously have someone try to argue about "poor people getting free shit"? By your reply, it seems like it. 🙄
Just get your parents to buy you a car thats what i did simple
@@Dustin_Bins more like "how can you not have money!"
"What happened to the american dream?! People woke up!" The Comedian! The Watchmen!
this channel is one channel everyone needs to listen to
Ive been binge watching this channel for hours now
Thank you so much for making such educational videos ❤
The American Dream really was only alive from 1945 to 1973.
True
Cheap real estate. Now the landlords are kings.
Keep in mind that this dream was “for whites only”. It’s another reason why white middle class thrived - cheap colored labor that did not compete for skilled high pay jobs.
and only for yt people.
And not to everyone.
I'm a Boomer, and the American dream was gone by the time I was in high school, if not before.
My parents lived through the Great Depression. What I learned from them is to save every scrap of everything.... because, "you never know."
What I did learn was frugality, how to fix almost everything, make what I didn't have. I know electrical and plumbing, and never went to school for it. My dad taught me...
I became am artist, musician... I'm different. It's no way to make a living. I know, I tried, and tried, and tried.
I got jobs, where I used the skills my dad taught me, got.my hands dirty, often got paid shit, and my superiors treated me like I was an idiot to be humiliated, and controlled. I'd challenge them, eventually, got fired... their egos can't handle a grease monkey to out-maneuver them intellectually...
Work... the curse of the drinking class.
I'm now retired, living on a pittance of Social Security, struggling.
I have no idea how the generations after me are going to do it.
Reagan fucked up so much for the working class while setting things up for the owning class to have it all. We're there... they do.
Sorry to hear you are struggling. I hope things get easier for you.
Hi, boomer, from a (just) pre-boomer. I hope you live in a warm climate. Moving to a warm climate (and a kinder country) has so far given me 23 years more than my poor father. 😎
@@tonyduncan9852
Good for you!
My hobby is my health and sanity.
I've no TV (25 years). The idiocy, drama, everything an ad of some kind, endless pretty faces, perfect sets and scripts... the superficiality, is nausiating. Just the sound alone is enough to make me cringe.
I've a mute button for ads here on YT.
Where did you move to? What do you do for fun? Hobbies?
I do dislike winter... but thanks to climate change, they're nothing like when I was a kid. This year, there was one snow storm where I could use a snow blower. Even that melted in a couple days. I could've shoveled it.
I'm staying put. I cannot afford to move anyway. Plus, I really love my abode.
The urban areas an hour to my South are culturally vibrant, an intellectual oasis. I wouldn't live there because of the noise, but I go for the music, art, and intellect that I cannot get in the gun infested, redneck area I live...
Last night I played with the trio I'm in... a new situation, the gig in one of these cities above. The bar, not a TV in sight... patrons, all briliant, appreciative of whatever we threw at them... Blues, old Jazz, Country, bastardized old rock, crazy comedy. Rave reviews, compliments, kept coming all night. A trumpet player sat in, blew me away, he was so good. The bassist/leader is a trans-female, and a riot to work with. This is why I'm happy staying. The hour drive, well worth it.
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My struggles are real, but as long as the saving last, I'll be good.
The simple answer is that later generations won't retire. We'll work until our bodies wind up in a gutter. And the entire, miserable time, we'll be reminded of how privileged we are to be able to work.
Before watching this, I always said, _"a labouring class person in the United States is a slave to municipalities, banks, and insurance companies."_ After watching this, I have a better understanding of why I say it.
Wow, huge support for your work! Amazing there are people like you, opening eyes to the real problems!!
I just love how the American dream really consists of a time. Right after world war II until about 1969
It was right after WWII until about the early 1990s. The dream has collapsed. You're right, it was for a time.
Thank u. I enjoyed this overall. It's important to note black and brown people where largely excluded from New Deal programs, especially in the South and Southwest, respectively.
Screwed out of the GI Bill benefits too IIRC
And the G.I. bill
Yep. Critiques of our system and new alternatives to it *must* be completely inclusive. To get the entire picture of just how bad things are and the work needed to remedy them, intersectional education is essential.
And many of those Black families who DID manage to own an intergenerational home, lost it to the 2008 crisis.
Its not important to note, everybody knows that now. And as a brown person myself I'm such of hearing I should be treated differently when plenty of white people are suffering these days too. Identity politics are a distraction.
Long time fan of your channel, I just wanted to comment on how well made your video is! the amount of animations, transitions and content from just the first minute alone hints at the amount of work you must put into it for it to be such an enjoyable and easy to understand video, eternal gratitude for doing the hard work comrade.
Your presentations are top drawer. This is a thorough and accurate discussion of how screwed up the US has become and the US influence on the world. Both the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Gaza war are symptoms of US hegemony across the globe. Not to steal the thunder: I write at Howie’s Substack and discuss many of the same topics from my own perch.
The question should not be how far the ruling class will go, but instead, how quickly they will implement.
United States of Israel 🇮🇱🤣
A lot of businesses are taking advantage of consumers by price gouging. I paid over $380.00 on regular car maintenance, like oil change, fuel injection cleaning, brake fluid flush. I got an estimate for 4 new tires which was $1500.00. My new shingle roof will cost me over $48,000 financed over 30 years. I refused to get certain healthcare issues taken care of because of the cost. This isn't sustainable, society will collapse in my opinion.
Eventually, all the wealthy families will "win". They'll have algorithms, bots, and other machines to do everything. There will be no need for the other 90%. 💪😎✌️
I was doing roofing about 15 years ago in charge of people 5 grand to scrape off the three layers of shingles and put a whole new layer up there I am shocked at that price but I'm not surprised.
Owning a house and getting a new roof are luxuries in most of the world. Human condition is by default poverty. Don't breed.
You're doing some really good work with this channel, man.
Thanks! I love how you thoughtfully assemble and decipher information in a nice to understand long vs short form essay!!
That Americana of the 40s and 50s seems to conspicuously have some people missing from the smiling faces...
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The American dream used to exist post ww2: restart your life in NA because it was destroyed in Europe. Now all of your life is owned by mega corporations
Ukraine is going to be the next big move then ? Bettt
To a large percentage of Americans, particularly one that are not white, straight men, American Dream has never been achieved. The 50s seem great to some because the government invested trillions in new infrastructure, give housings and education to WW2 veterans, and the fact that the rest of the world is in ruins - if you're looking away from the fact that it's also the decade of Korean War. But it doesn't matter, because even if the US is still stuck in the 50s mindset (in some ways, it still is), the US would be comparatively terrible now because countries ravaged by World War 2 obviously didn't stay in ruins forever.
@@mickeyg7219 Absolutely. The average American has a much better life today than they did in 1960. Even if you argue than the average white male in 1960 had a better life in 1960 than today, they weren't the average American. White women and all minorities have in much better now than they did 60 years ago.
@@D4llastnah. If they join the EU they’ll be bound by the Euro which restricts growth.
The American dream never existed. It was a massive lie. There's no going back to anything
Reagan was paid WELL to say the crap he said! AND, his chopping the top income tax rate saved him more $$ from his presidential salary alone than my husband & I were earning w/ both our full-time jobs at the time.
Quite possibly your best video yet! And funnily enough, everything you said here are the EXACT points I was arguing with my pro-Capitalist friend this morning who kept citing the "median income" for individual workers being $60K to $80K while completely ignoring the fact that MILLIONS of Americans are still making just $10K to $30K and can't even survive! I will share this with him now. Keep up the good work! 💯
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Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains
Uh huh
Gig work is just a branding of involuntarily servitude - whoch ia basically slavery with extra steps.
Indeed
Really like the production in this video. I see some new elements and I like them. You continue to raise the bar. Excellent work!
only about a minute into the video but I just want to comment, for the algorithm and just to say so, the editing on this video is so high quality. great work as usual my man 👍
Also american ruling class was motivated to give the working class a larger part of the surplus value because they had to make capitalism look good for the workers to compete with the soviet union and to make the working class less class conscious
This is a very good point!
This comment would also be an excellent point under @knutthompson7879's comment about how capitalists during the Cold War had motivations to pay their workers better (compared to Soviet workers), at least until communism "failed". Once capitalism "won" capitalists had ZERO motivation to keep up the good pay as the only competition (after the fall of the USSR) was other capitalists.
Before McCarthyism organized labor and socialism were fundamental parts of American culture. Every right we have as workers today was fought for by unions. Most industrial labor has been moved to exploited third world nations so capitalists can get around paying living wages. This proves Marx right about the labor theory. Labor creates value but that fact is ignored by liberal economists.
Like how streaming services were cheaper and now we're back to cable
You're right. That's why it has gone to shit. Now Israel is doing to the US what the US did to the rest of the world.
I’m a student, having a part time job along with going to school full time only pays for housing/an apartment. Not food, not the tuition, no gas, nothing else.
part time jobs where I'm at give about 1400 a month with a decent one, and a 1 bed apartment is 1500. I couldn't even afford a place to stay, much less anything else, with a good part time job
Don't feel bad: There are 23,000 students in the California State University system living out of their cars. It's not your fault, buddy, it's the system.
And it's evil.
You forgot, the most important part of the American dream is a virgin bride.
Hey, BANNING CHILD BRIDES IS UNCONSTITEWSHUNAL!!!!!! -literally the GOP in every god-forsaken state they run (am in one of those states lol)
Wow the editing style is fantastic this episode! Love the different chapter introduction bits, and the way the video clips are slapped onto screen is so impactful. Best editing job yet!
I always enjoy your content! My budget is limited but I need to find a way to become a patron. I am in about 100% agreement with your thesis. One salient point is that capitalism
is extractive. Extractive of the environment. Extractive of people's free time. Extractive of civic participation. Increasingly, many things are fine tuned for this extraction. As your talk proceeded, I remembered something on one of Werner Herzog's films, Grizzly Man. In it, it portrays a late to hibernate grizzly that is attempting to fetch dead salmon at the bottom of a river. As the director points out, what looks like play is actually an act of desperation. This grizzly is basically feeding at the bottom of a dumpster, fetching half decayed fish. And some Americans, and many worldwide, are fetching from their local dumpsters. Things have reached a point where many acts across the US are acts of desperation. The appeal of a single leader who can 'fix everything' is an act of desperation.
Thanks so much! Grizzly Man is a fantastic film
Hence the French Revolution.
Homelessness and debt but moreso hopelessness, apathy and greed are at an all time high!
I am so happy this channel exists.
I graduated in Dec. '23 at the top of my class. I work 3 gig jobs.
I'm so glad you often end videos on a very hopeful note. The repeated calls to action really help reaffirm my convictions to build a better community around me. When I watch your videos, I am at once acutely aware of the dysfunction around me as well as hopeful for the future. Keep making amazing videos
The thing that really bothers me is that as a single man in my 40s, had I made 5-6 years ago what I'm making now, I could've had a really nice home. Unfortunately, the goal posts have moved considerably. Many homes in my area have doubled in price since the 2010's and rents are through the roof. Homeless have started to appear where there weren't any before.. Groceries have become just as bad as any critical utility bill. I'm simply saying that our collective situation is untenable.
Your in in your 40's and still don't have house? What?
@@barhat961 I somehow detect a hint of reproach?
@@JULYXXIV what you saying bro i don't get it?
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One of my favorite parts of Watchmen, in a flash back of Nite Owl and The Comedian dealing with rioters.
Nite Owl: But the country's disintegrating! What's happened to America, what's happened to the American dream?"
The Comedian: "It came true. You're lookin' at it."
Love that bit
"Never compromise, not even in the face of Armageddon"
-Rorschach
Wages are the same since 1960 but the cost of everything has gone up 60 to 90 times.
I love your editing! you're so good at making your points easy to understand and motivating. Thank you!
The corporate ownership of single family homes is the biggest problem.
The housing lobby says "We just need to build more homes!"
Except a significant percentage of those homes get bought by corporations and investment groups too. And the problem is that once a corporation owns a home, it's gone. A corporation never needs to move, never has kids and needs a bigger home, never dies and leaves the home to its kids.
We will never be able to make homes affordable to working class families again unless we institute progressive land/property taxes and/or ban corporate ownership of single family homes entirety. It will be painful, and almost certainly require a taxpayer bailout. But this time, we should bail out the single homeowners and not the banks and investors.
EXACTLY
Obama failed to do that and gave us trump. Yes we can became no you won't thanks to fascist Moscow Mitch. And rethuglicans and demorats in our corporate Congress cheered him on. Mission accomplished.
Completely wrong. Zoning makes it illegal to build housing of various sizes for people in different stages of their life. So all we have left are large single family homes which are always going to be expensive. It's easy to blame evil bankers. But your town is at fault for the high price of housing.
Building more homes is the answer to both the housing shortage and to corporations buying up homes. Residential real estate has been historically a very bad investment. And it makes sense; investing in a business that actually produces something should be more lucrative than buying a house that just sits there. But we have went from building an average of 12 million homes per decade from 1950-2009 to 7 million homes the last decade.
It is not a coincidence that investors started buying up homes at a much greater rate over that time. Homes only become a good investment if we make the scarce. If we double the number of new home builds over the next decade investors will run away from buying up houses.
@@kyleolson9636build more is not the answer in finite space.
Revolution must be built. Great video!
hi there!
about five months ago, i had identified as a soc-dem (although really i was just a liberal), and at the time i was really hating socialists, so i watched your videos to see how “annoying” i thought socialists were, and through watching them, and some other things as well, i’ve actually become into a socialist myself, so thank you so much for having really good content, and helping radicalise me :)
That’s great to hear! So glad I was able to help
Absolutely AMAZING channel! LOVE everything about it and its HIGHLY poignant message!
I think I was the 1/2 kid ... : (
Don't worry, you are whole.
Those “half kids” are always big trouble. 😈