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@@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.
“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
I wish people would realize this from a feminist point of view. How are you supposed to have kids when both of you are just keeping your heads above water in a shitty tiny apartment or your parent's basement? It's not because women have abortion rights or modern women blah blah. We can't afford to start families w/o being extremely irresponsible. Those parents asking for grandkids? Are you going to pay for these enormous bills plus someone needs to watch the baby aka someone will be working less
@@CompComp i can understand.😢 Also, not all companies are ready to sanction maternity leave 😢😢. So u are left with MONEY WITHOUT PAY😮😮 which is a nightmare alongside pregnancy requirements😢😢.
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.
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.
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.
More and more people might face a tough time in retirement. Low-paying jobs, inflation, and high rents make it hard to save. Now, middle-class Americans find it tough to own a home too, leaving them without a place to retire.
The increasing prices have impacted my plan to retire at 62, work part-time, and save for the future. I'm concerned about whether those who navigated the 2008 financial crisis had an easier time than I am currently experiencing. The combination of stock market volatility and a decrease in income is causing anxiety about whether I'll have sufficient funds for retirement.
This is precisely why I like having a portfolio coach guide my day-to-day market decisions: with their extensive knowledge of going long and short at the same time, using risk for its asymmetrical upside and laying it off as a hedge against the inevitable downward turns, their skillset makes it nearly impossible for them to underperform. I've been utilizing a portfolio coach for more than two years, and I've made over $800,000.
‘’Aileen Gertrude Tippy’’ is her name. She is regarded as a genius in her area and works for Empower Financial Services. She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.
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.
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.
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.
@@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. 😞
Things that changed: 1. Bills; phone, cable, internet (some people didn’t have phones in 1940) 2. Cars; not everybody had a car. Many families had only one. Add insurance, tax, inspections, registration, regular maintenance, gas/oil, tires/wipers. One car payment today can be multiple times more than a mortgage payment back in the 1940s. 3. Food; there are millions of products on the market today. Convenience drives people to buy quick and unhealthy foods. In the 40s, there were fewer products and food was whole, basic, needing preparation and cooking. It was cheaper and healthier.
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!”
Yesss BUT, as a right leaning capitalist myself, it seems CRAZY to me how others deny and feign ignorance to the natural shortcomings of the model and refuse to do something about it. They generally answer with some sort of rant about how much worse socialism and comunism is. That is totally beside the point!
@@kenim Can you prove there is any short coming with owning your own property instead of the government doing so? Alternatives being worse is not besides the point at all, you have no viable alternative that preserves any ounce of personal freedom. Prove and explain the shortcomings that are due to private property ownership aka capitalism, and provide a solution that doesn't have the same issues.
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.
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."
@@Walkdplankfrankhave nothing to do with this, typical american mindset, when they find problems within their society, instead of trying to fix it, they distract themselves by trying to find problems in others lol.
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.
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
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
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.
They take advantage of the fact that it takes creativity, cooperation, hard work, and time to build a society or anything else worthwhile, but almost no effort to steal, corrupt, and destroy.
You don't get it? It's not the government... It's the inequality... The rich person grabs everything and then leaves the crumbs for the middle class to squabble over and fight each other.... Soo we blame our neighbor instead of the rich guy taking everything!
@@tr3m0r36 The rich people take the most and convince the poor people, that aren't getting much already, that someone else who's poor is trying to take their slice. Instead of the poor guy saying, why do I only get one out of 6 slices, the poor guy is now much more focused on other poor people trying to take his one piece instead of the rich guy who did nothing and still got 5 of 6 slices.
This reminds me of the shtshow that is inequality between genders men and women. Society is bickering and fighting that women should work pay half and half and women fighting for "high value" men that can provide everything. News flash we wouldn't be in this perdidamente if the pay was higher, if more work was avaliable for both genders, everyone. The birthrate wouldn't be on the decline either because more people would be able to carry the burden if children financially and stability. It all stems from the shty greedy corporation and government not willing to change. Yet majority of society is so blinded like horses to see the bigger picture. Unity is important to fight for equality
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.
@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.
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
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 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.
You hit the nail on its head at 13:40. When I was a kid there used to be lot of American hippies on the beaches of Goa. Even after working round the year, my parents could not afford to take us on a trip to Goa (even though its just 200 miles from my home). But the hippies could just work for 3 months and have fun for rest of the year !! Now the situation is better. There are less hippies and we can afford to go to Goa every year.
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?
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!
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!
I’m from Eastern Europe, grew up in the classic Soviet blocks, it was always my dream to move to the USA, by a muscle car, start a family and live the American dream. Sad to see that in reality, this is unattainable in the modern day.
"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 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.
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.
He sounds like a communist tbh. You gotta be careful with both sides of the spectrum. Both Capitalism and Communism. But Capitalism is obviously many times better
@SoldierOfChrist316 Yeah I have to agree. We cant be so extreme that we go to the other side as that has problems of its own. The only way is to create balance. Easier said than done though
5:12 Well I earn less than that and I have a house, 2 kids, dog, and we do in fact go on vaccinations 1-2 times a year. So I would like to know what is different about my spending that this study tracked to come with its conclusions. Just needed to point this out. Btw single income.. my wife does not work. We live in Connecticut and we had to pay for the house with a loan like everyone else. No inheritance either… my family didn’t have a single home owner either.
Hey, so these numbers are for right now. When did you buy your place? I lucked out and bought mine during the pandemic when interest rates and prices were low, which made things a lot easier for me. I also bought a house that was way below the average price. Now, I make payments on mortgage for a house that's worth double what I got it for. But there's no way I could afford to do the same thing today with my income. I make more than the median and average incomes for this area. My friends, who make about the same as me, have to save up twice as much as I did just for a down payment, and the rent is 50% higher than what it was for me.
@@turboheadcrab666 bought my house in 2017 and I have a 4.3% (which was very high back then when people could get a 2%)…. Today my home is worth double what I paid so it wouldn’t work out as well. I agree that it is HARD but it would not be IMPOSSIBLE for me to do it again with the same house. I am very frugal with my income.
@@MichaelOrtega thanks for sharing your story. It's awesome that you’ve managed so well, especially with that higher interest rate back in 2017. Being smart and frugal with your money really makes a difference. But honestly, even for someone as on top of things as you, it’d be way tougher today, and that’s not your fault. Corporate greed and lack of regulation have seriously jacked up the cost of living. Companies are all about profits, not fair wages, and stuff like healthcare, childcare, and education have gotten crazy expensive while wages haven't kept up. A lot of people are also stuck with debts like student loans, car payments or credit cards, which makes it super hard to get ahead. Sounds like you dodged some of those financial landmines. I bet not having massive medical bills also made a difference for you. Those can really mess up your finances. Your success is definitely inspiring, but you’ve had some lucky breaks too, like good financial education and not facing some of the same obstacles others do. Not everyone gets those opportunities, and a lot of people are struggling because of bigger systemic issues, not because they’re not trying hard enough. So yeah, being smart with money is super important, but the reality today is that the economic environment makes it way harder for many families to reach the same level of success, even if they’re just as careful and hardworking. It’s like the game got tougher, but nobody updated the rules to give us a fair shot like the previous generations.
@@MichaelOrtegaI don’t understand how at your same income you could afford double the down payment and double the mortgage regardless of interest rates unless your wages have doubled in the last 7 years?
@@BuddyWudzyn Because my mortgage is 1,200 and double would be 2,400 but with 0 student debt, 0 car payment, 0 credit card debt, 0 everything just bills...2,400 is still doable because 77k a year = 6,400 and that mortgage would be around the 30% rule. so you don't need 100k income either...even if you had a 3,000 mortgage, 100k is (difficult but not impossible). If you have student loans, avoid car and credit card payments and you will be able to afford a home (just not the nicer homes). Buy a 2 bed room rather than a 3-4 bedroom. keep it below the typical.
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!
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.
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.
National oppression isn't simply "identity politics," and bringing it up isn't a distraction. The US being a prison house of nations is a key contradiction and a major part of the material conditions. There is no effectively fighting against class oppression in the US without putting the specific issues of the most expoilted front and center. American Communists had the most success when they recognized the Black-Belt and spearheaded labor integration and anti-lynching.
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 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.
@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@tebelshaw9486 yep i know my place. Thrift stores. Gotta love that trickledown. If it wasnt for rich peoples kids clearing out their parents and grandparents houses so they can sell the house, id never have anything nice. Thanks RR!
Lol I picked up a $1200 snowblower someone threw away and all it needed were batteries. Unfortunately, two batteries cost $160, but still....lol #winning
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.
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
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.
@joeme supposedly it was over the nuclear program of Iran, but it wasn't us who broke our deal about it. IRI was complying with every part of the deal, but trump had to break our hard earned deal. We iranians forced IRI to accept the deal, and in the end, we were left in the dust. Our economy ruined and hardliners in the government used the actions of the US to take over the government.
@@Storming360 Sorry about your luck living in hell but those that live there make it what it is, a wasteland unless you are in control, then you have a palace with guard to keep the people out.
@joeme you seem to be absolutely brainwashed. Please watch something other than cnn and / or Fox. Have you been in iran? Of course not. I never said i was poor, i actually have a bigger house now, but the sanctions hurt the ordinary iranians.
@@Storming360 You are using the wrong definition of poor. Your situation not your pocket book. What is a fox & a cnn? Mouthpiece for morons? I'll pass on them and the rest of publicly traded news outlets.
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!
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.
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.
The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes. Aldous Huxley
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.
I’m going to scale back what I do for my work. They just announced they’re cutting my department’s hours (read: pay) even though revenue is up. But somehow cash flow is too tight (but not enough to buy back tens of millions of dollars of company stock).
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.
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.
@@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.
It’s nice to know I’m not alone. Years before I ever saw a ST video I arrived at the conclusion that most of us are just being exploited. Now I see my thoughts being articulated by multiple people. I’m not crazy or at least not about this particular thing. The generational divide is so big because our experience are so different. To our parents it is as easy as being a good person that’s works hard. If you don’t have a house with a family and good life it’s just because you are not working as hard as they did. I really thought this for a long time because that’s what I’m being told. It’s nice to see it all spelled out.
Capitalism is a sociopathic philosophy. That is not hyperbole. It's simply the fact that the core of the philosophy is Social Darwinism. We are not animals and to pretend otherwise is not good. It's also unsustainable for the biosphere.
If for you guys it's hard with your minimum salary $2K dollars, can U imagine for us , our salary is only $255 dollars and the things costs the same price. It's impossible to travel to countries that cost 5 x more expensive. I'm sorry for my bad English. I'm from latin America.
I beg to differ with one small point. You can also obtain a secondary education by agreeing to risk life, limb, eyesight, and sanity fighting in the ruling elite's imperialist wars.
Awardees all combined had murdered million in Iraq when it invaded for Weapons of Mass Destruction. No WMDs found. Iraq obliterated and US & UK plundered Iraq's oil, killed President Saddam Hussein, and US dismantled duly establish government, gave rise to ISIS which are armed from US surplus weapons.
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.
When I was trying to go to school in the 1990s, tuition at the closest liberal arts school was over $30,000 and the minimum wage was $4.25. Because I could not get financial aid (thanks to my unsupportive father's earnings) I tried to rise socially by changing to increasingly lucrative jobs but it did not work. I went from a minimum wage job to serving jobs. It was impossible to make a profit at the first one (old ladies would come in, drink coffee and smoke, then leave a quarter after an hour). The more I strove the more I was beaten down. In fact a "unionized" corporation, UPS, was the worst of them all. Although I made nothing at the first serving job and had to endure passive smoking each day, the UPS job still was worse because it was in the middle of the night, the managers were constantly abusive, I damaged my lower back with their "optional" extremely heavy packages, and would be sent home early. Dues to a useless union helped to devour the pittance.
Outlaw gig work, re-establish unions, mandatory benefits for all workers. Business love to scare you by saying their business would be doomed if they spend so much. Big lie. Their profits have never been higher. They can afford to treat their employees better. If they don’t want to, then perhaps they should not be allowed to operate their business in America.
There is nothing wrong with gig work under specific circumstances. Not all kinds of employment need to be permanent positions. For instance, a hobbyist singer whose main career is something else could have sporadic gigs simply due to the love of performing - without having to devote their entire career life to music.
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.
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.
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.
So I'm 32, I was raised in rural Georgia and now live in suburban Pa (just outside of pittsburgh) and I can't speak for most, as most wouldn't get it but I can tell you my back ground, along with many people I work with and mentored with over the last 14 years of my working career. To be 32, I consider myself pretty "oldschool" as far as how me, my wife, and my 2 boys live anyway. I work for a large class 1 railroad in the north east, it used to be a hard job to get into, but if you did, at least where I come from, "you made it" or at least that's what people from my small town say. I can go to my local hometown credit union and they'd basically give me anything I want just because I've got the railroad as my employer because they know I make good money and most railroaders are good for their payments, whatever. My home town has 2 very good paying factory jobs still standing, one being a paper mill and the other being a ceiling tile mill that opened after WW2, one of which my great grandfather worked in when he lived through his "American dream" and raise my grandma. Anyway... I make roughly 140k a year as a conductor. I work on call 24/7, nights, weekends, in the rain, in the heat, in the freezing cold, I've missed most of my boys birthdays, I've miss most of my wife's birthdays, I basically watch my kids grow up through FaceTime or hear about it through text messages. However, because I work, my wife is able to stay at home and not work, she's able to be there 100% of the time for our kids. I drive a 2005 tacoma, it's paid for in cash, and my wife drives a 2012 highlander, that is also paid for. Our mortgage is 890 a month, I bought our house for 160k prior to covid so we have a good interest rate on it, and our other bills equate to about 800 a month for utilities/phones/cable, etc. I get a pension through the railroad, and my wife will also get a pension, even being that she'll never work a day on the railroad, but that's what the union set up for us a century ago almost, call me lucky if you want but I did my research prior to hiring and that's why I applied... I didn't know nobody that worked there prior, just knew it was a good job and kept trying. Took a few years to get on but here I am. I now get 3 weeks vacation, my wife works from home, we have paid off vehicles that are reliable, we dont mess with credit cards or anything, I put as much as I can in our 401k, I have good health insurance if they get sick, and we can retire at 60 opposed to 67.5 like the rest of the country. Can I afford a 400k house? Yup. Do I want to? Nope. I'd rather take my kids to Disney or to the beach a couple times a year. We live very simple, because that's the way my great grandpa did it. Some people call me privileged or whatever, but I don't have a college degree or anything, I just paid attention to the old heads in my community and tried to do what they did. They seen it first hand after all so I believe them. I may not be, but I feel like I'm living the american dream. May not be the newest everything, and I ain't keeping up with the joneses, but we're healthy, my kids are happy and fed, and I hope they never know what struggle is because I work a lot. I know people want weekends off and stuff, but this is what we got and we make the best of it. The american dream ain't dead yall, just gotta keep life simple and it'll work out
@@syrinx9196 the idea of the white picket fence the two kids wife and the dog didn't come into after world war II hence the name the nuclear family And what most people consider the American dream. We weren't quite the superpower that we were until after the second war. Because that's when we had the largest expansion of middle-class and of course the baby boom
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.
I’ve known since birth I’ll never achieve the American dream for one simple reason… I’m not American Seriously though the editing, script, the editing, the voice, the EDITING. This video is absolutely incredible
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."
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.
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
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.
We have at least two generations of young men who will never be able to afford a house or a family of their own. Nothing to strive for and nothing to fight for. Not a good situation for the country and culture.
@@davidecatani3426 Oh yeah...give the government all your stuff and hope it redistributes it...Surely that's never gone wrong before...Or how about someone working at mcdonalds making just as much as a doctor, yeah that's fair, makes sense...clearly they're both doing equally as much for society...Supply and demand? nah what's that, fake? Wait...why are we out of stuff? And socialism is just Communism-Lite...
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.
It also hides the people suffering from the chemical industry's machinations. Lead. Asbestos. Et cetera. The films only show people what those in power wanted them to see. They're commercials.
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!!
I used to be pissed off at all of this. But then I realized, we are simply returning to the historical norm. Those 30 years - 1954 to 1984 - what the French call “the golden thirty”, those years of middle class affluence, are actually an historical freak. Throughout most of human history, men and women were poor, they owned nothing. And so what people did was they made their own happiness. For men it’s sports, kicking a ball around the yard or the street, because that’s all they have. For women it was watching her babies. Because that’s all there was for women. We’re going back to that. We’re not buying houses and cars, unless we’re quite talented. We’re renting apartments, and if we’re lucky, buying condos.
US history, with its slavery, child labor, and extreme racist mostly-slavery (e.g. Chinese railroad workers) supports your comment. Kids went on strike for a "humane" 55-hour workweek. 6-year-olds would work 11-hour days picking bugs off of tobacco in the sun. They were more fortunate than the kids in the coal mines. They'd die of skin cancer a bit later than the ones with the black lung.
A very useful way of thinking about it; In order to increase profits, human exploitation has to increase too, so capitalism is incapable of reducing suffering, it can only export it, and eventually it runs out of places to export it to
@@evilds3261ideas don’t suffer, people do. The only thing that can ‘fix’ this is total and complete revolution, which I am frankly amazed hasn’t occurred yet, especially in America! The alternative is complete socioeconomic collapse. You build an economy like any other structure: from the ground up. An upside down pyramid is always destined to fall. What staggers me most about America especially is that it’s not really about evil, it’s merely GREED… when is enough enough for the one percent?
You forgot to mention why people from US had an high standart of living in the 50's and 60's. It was because western europe and a part of east asia became US vassols that eat up US debt, along with the strangulation of Latin America. People lived better and things were cheaper not because of good economic policies or because capitalism worked, it was because the costs were exported elsewhere.
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In capitalism, no lives matter the most 🔥 🌏 🔥
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😂
“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?
@@Blabbermouth-w5wwhat exactly are you expecting them to do?
@@Rastaferrari829 What they kept boasting they would.
Dating is hard -> no spouse
Housing crisis -> no house
Not enough money/time/energy -> no kids
I wish people would realize this from a feminist point of view.
How are you supposed to have kids when both of you are just keeping your heads above water in a shitty tiny apartment or your parent's basement?
It's not because women have abortion rights or modern women blah blah. We can't afford to start families w/o being extremely irresponsible.
Those parents asking for grandkids?
Are you going to pay for these enormous bills plus someone needs to watch the baby aka someone will be working less
@@CompComp i can understand.😢 Also, not all companies are ready to sanction maternity leave 😢😢. So u are left with MONEY WITHOUT PAY😮😮 which is a nightmare alongside pregnancy requirements😢😢.
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.
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
More and more people might face a tough time in retirement. Low-paying jobs, inflation, and high rents make it hard to save. Now, middle-class Americans find it tough to own a home too, leaving them without a place to retire.
The increasing prices have impacted my plan to retire at 62, work part-time, and save for the future. I'm concerned about whether those who navigated the 2008 financial crisis had an easier time than I am currently experiencing. The combination of stock market volatility and a decrease in income is causing anxiety about whether I'll have sufficient funds for retirement.
This is precisely why I like having a portfolio coach guide my day-to-day market decisions: with their extensive knowledge of going long and short at the same time, using risk for its asymmetrical upside and laying it off as a hedge against the inevitable downward turns, their skillset makes it nearly impossible for them to underperform. I've been utilizing a portfolio coach for more than two years, and I've made over $800,000.
How can I reach this person?
‘’Aileen Gertrude Tippy’’ is her name. She is regarded as a genius in her area and works for Empower Financial Services. She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.
I checked Aileen up out of curiosity and i must say i am impressed by her Credentials. i emailed her already, waiting on her response.
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.
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.
Things that changed:
1. Bills; phone, cable, internet (some people didn’t have phones in 1940)
2. Cars; not everybody had a car. Many families had only one. Add insurance, tax, inspections, registration, regular maintenance, gas/oil, tires/wipers. One car payment today can be multiple times more than a mortgage payment back in the 1940s.
3. Food; there are millions of products on the market today. Convenience drives people to buy quick and unhealthy foods. In the 40s, there were fewer products and food was whole, basic, needing preparation and cooking. It was cheaper and healthier.
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!”
No design, just nature.
Yesss BUT, as a right leaning capitalist myself, it seems CRAZY to me how others deny and feign ignorance to the natural shortcomings of the model and refuse to do something about it. They generally answer with some sort of rant about how much worse socialism and comunism is. That is totally beside the point!
@@kenim Can you prove there is any short coming with owning your own property instead of the government doing so? Alternatives being worse is not besides the point at all, you have no viable alternative that preserves any ounce of personal freedom.
Prove and explain the shortcomings that are due to private property ownership aka capitalism, and provide a solution that doesn't have the same issues.
@@LiberatedMind1what’s natural about man made situations ?
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
One word: Walmart
That was 20 years ago. Another word i. 2024 is Amazon@@sd-xk7qr
@@sd-xk7qr Don't forget Amazon.
@@sd-xk7qr Amazon
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Government should be afraid of the people...
V for Vendetta??
@@bryschwagger9256 Indeed!
@@crash_test_dummy_1 Love that. *Heavily* underrated movie. I'm glad my partner shared it with me.
@@bryschwagger9256 One of my favourite films
Yeah they can only take so much.
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
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 🥶
This ❤
☝🏾✨ EXACTLY.
@@Walkdplankfrankhave nothing to do with this, typical american mindset, when they find problems within their society, instead of trying to fix it, they distract themselves by trying to find problems in others lol.
It’s to late, most people don’t change until they hit rock bottom, which is a common mistake of all humanity.
Most people don't even change then.
Go watch George Carlin last comedy special.
We're way past rock bottom. Not only are governments in debt, even people have to go into debt just to pay bills
@@peterpaul176 we might be past rock bottom but we're still in denial about it!! hence they haven't declared a recession.
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.
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
The new American Dream is saving up a few hundred grand and leaving the country.
Grass is always greener my friend
Not once countries adopted brics as the world reserve dollars will be useless.
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
Reform sounds so much easier than revolution, but every time reform was implemented the counterreform pushes back stronger
Don’t forget how they infiltrate any type of movement that resembles uprising like BLM
In favour of reforms, against the reformists.
Reforms are always appreciated,what we cannot do is stop at that.
They take advantage of the fact that it takes creativity, cooperation, hard work, and time to build a society or anything else worthwhile, but almost no effort to steal, corrupt, and destroy.
But also one thing to keep in mind reforms are merely concessions and they can be taken back when ever the ruling class wants to
definitely recommend what is to be done by Lenin
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"
I dont get it
@@tr3m0r36government taxes your pie
You don't get it? It's not the government... It's the inequality... The rich person grabs everything and then leaves the crumbs for the middle class to squabble over and fight each other.... Soo we blame our neighbor instead of the rich guy taking everything!
@@tr3m0r36 The rich people take the most and convince the poor people, that aren't getting much already, that someone else who's poor is trying to take their slice. Instead of the poor guy saying, why do I only get one out of 6 slices, the poor guy is now much more focused on other poor people trying to take his one piece instead of the rich guy who did nothing and still got 5 of 6 slices.
This reminds me of the shtshow that is inequality between genders men and women. Society is bickering and fighting that women should work pay half and half and women fighting for "high value" men that can provide everything. News flash we wouldn't be in this perdidamente if the pay was higher, if more work was avaliable for both genders, everyone. The birthrate wouldn't be on the decline either because more people would be able to carry the burden if children financially and stability. It all stems from the shty greedy corporation and government not willing to change. Yet majority of society is so blinded like horses to see the bigger picture. Unity is important to fight for equality
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
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.
Same. Can't afford to live. Absurd saying it but true.
You hit the nail on its head at 13:40. When I was a kid there used to be lot of American hippies on the beaches of Goa. Even after working round the year, my parents could not afford to take us on a trip to Goa (even though its just 200 miles from my home). But the hippies could just work for 3 months and have fun for rest of the year !! Now the situation is better. There are less hippies and we can afford to go to Goa every year.
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.
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.
Google or MS Assist dose not even publish search results, it's controversial
I’m from Eastern Europe, grew up in the classic Soviet blocks, it was always my dream to move to the USA, by a muscle car, start a family and live the American dream. Sad to see that in reality, this is unattainable in the modern day.
"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 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 elephant in the room: Corporations not paying their fair share of taxes and a fair wage.
Corporations should not exist in the first place.
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 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
He sounds like a communist tbh. You gotta be careful with both sides of the spectrum. Both Capitalism and Communism. But Capitalism is obviously many times better
@SoldierOfChrist316 Yeah I have to agree. We cant be so extreme that we go to the other side as that has problems of its own. The only way is to create balance. Easier said than done though
5:12 Well I earn less than that and I have a house, 2 kids, dog, and we do in fact go on vaccinations 1-2 times a year. So I would like to know what is different about my spending that this study tracked to come with its conclusions. Just needed to point this out. Btw single income.. my wife does not work. We live in Connecticut and we had to pay for the house with a loan like everyone else. No inheritance either… my family didn’t have a single home owner either.
Hey, so these numbers are for right now. When did you buy your place?
I lucked out and bought mine during the pandemic when interest rates and prices were low, which made things a lot easier for me. I also bought a house that was way below the average price. Now, I make payments on mortgage for a house that's worth double what I got it for. But there's no way I could afford to do the same thing today with my income. I make more than the median and average incomes for this area. My friends, who make about the same as me, have to save up twice as much as I did just for a down payment, and the rent is 50% higher than what it was for me.
@@turboheadcrab666 bought my house in 2017 and I have a 4.3% (which was very high back then when people could get a 2%)…. Today my home is worth double what I paid so it wouldn’t work out as well. I agree that it is HARD but it would not be IMPOSSIBLE for me to do it again with the same house. I am very frugal with my income.
@@MichaelOrtega thanks for sharing your story. It's awesome that you’ve managed so well, especially with that higher interest rate back in 2017. Being smart and frugal with your money really makes a difference.
But honestly, even for someone as on top of things as you, it’d be way tougher today, and that’s not your fault. Corporate greed and lack of regulation have seriously jacked up the cost of living. Companies are all about profits, not fair wages, and stuff like healthcare, childcare, and education have gotten crazy expensive while wages haven't kept up.
A lot of people are also stuck with debts like student loans, car payments or credit cards, which makes it super hard to get ahead. Sounds like you dodged some of those financial landmines. I bet not having massive medical bills also made a difference for you. Those can really mess up your finances.
Your success is definitely inspiring, but you’ve had some lucky breaks too, like good financial education and not facing some of the same obstacles others do. Not everyone gets those opportunities, and a lot of people are struggling because of bigger systemic issues, not because they’re not trying hard enough. So yeah, being smart with money is super important, but the reality today is that the economic environment makes it way harder for many families to reach the same level of success, even if they’re just as careful and hardworking. It’s like the game got tougher, but nobody updated the rules to give us a fair shot like the previous generations.
@@MichaelOrtegaI don’t understand how at your same income you could afford double the down payment and double the mortgage regardless of interest rates unless your wages have doubled in the last 7 years?
@@BuddyWudzyn Because my mortgage is 1,200 and double would be 2,400 but with 0 student debt, 0 car payment, 0 credit card debt, 0 everything just bills...2,400 is still doable because 77k a year = 6,400 and that mortgage would be around the 30% rule. so you don't need 100k income either...even if you had a 3,000 mortgage, 100k is (difficult but not impossible). If you have student loans, avoid car and credit card payments and you will be able to afford a home (just not the nicer homes). Buy a 2 bed room rather than a 3-4 bedroom. keep it below the typical.
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
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.
National oppression isn't simply "identity politics," and bringing it up isn't a distraction. The US being a prison house of nations is a key contradiction and a major part of the material conditions. There is no effectively fighting against class oppression in the US without putting the specific issues of the most expoilted front and center. American Communists had the most success when they recognized the Black-Belt and spearheaded labor integration and anti-lynching.
Hello, comrade, from Ukrainian worker in Germany.
Your video is super! Thank you very much!
Love the work you're doing.
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.
“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.
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
His statement about the Black Panthers at 14:45 into the video is priceless.
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
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.
@@dVector13
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.
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!
@@tebelshaw9486 yep i know my place. Thrift stores. Gotta love that trickledown. If it wasnt for rich peoples kids clearing out their parents and grandparents houses so they can sell the house, id never have anything nice. Thanks RR!
Hilarious!
😂
Lol I picked up a $1200 snowblower someone threw away and all it needed were batteries. Unfortunately, two batteries cost $160, but still....lol
#winning
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
Second thought is like therapy for me. This also counts for Hakim, Yugopnik, and other communist TH-camrs. Y’all are awesome!
haven’t heard of yugopnik but if he is like the rest I will check him out.
@@Wandkater he’s pretty cool. He’s one of the hosts of their podcast
@@Wandkater Yugopnik has a great video regarding LinkedIn, and also, his family is from ex-Yugoslavia, so he has a very unique perspective to things.
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!"
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!
As a guy who lost his childhood home because of unfair and unjustified US sanctions, i feel like this is karma.
What country are you from that did something to a neighbor or the world to get your country into trouble?
@joeme supposedly it was over the nuclear program of Iran, but it wasn't us who broke our deal about it. IRI was complying with every part of the deal, but trump had to break our hard earned deal.
We iranians forced IRI to accept the deal, and in the end, we were left in the dust. Our economy ruined and hardliners in the government used the actions of the US to take over the government.
@@Storming360 Sorry about your luck living in hell but those that live there make it what it is, a wasteland unless you are in control, then you have a palace with guard to keep the people out.
@joeme you seem to be absolutely brainwashed. Please watch something other than cnn and / or Fox.
Have you been in iran? Of course not. I never said i was poor, i actually have a bigger house now, but the sanctions hurt the ordinary iranians.
@@Storming360 You are using the wrong definition of poor.
Your situation not your pocket book.
What is a fox & a cnn? Mouthpiece for morons? I'll pass on them and the rest of publicly traded news outlets.
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
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.
The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes.
Aldous Huxley
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.
I’m going to scale back what I do for my work. They just announced they’re cutting my department’s hours (read: pay) even though revenue is up. But somehow cash flow is too tight (but not enough to buy back tens of millions of dollars of company stock).
@@imitationpitaya "Increments" are given that are actually pay cuts without the honesty of calling them that.
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.
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.
Same, but from UK.
Thanks!
The question should not be how far the ruling class will go, but instead, how quickly they will implement.
United States of Israel 🇮🇱🤣
It’s nice to know I’m not alone. Years before I ever saw a ST video I arrived at the conclusion that most of us are just being exploited.
Now I see my thoughts being articulated by multiple people.
I’m not crazy or at least not about this particular thing.
The generational divide is so big because our experience are so different.
To our parents it is as easy as being a good person that’s works hard. If you don’t have a house with a family and good life it’s just because you are not working as hard as they did.
I really thought this for a long time because that’s what I’m being told.
It’s nice to see it all spelled out.
Capitalism is a sociopathic philosophy. That is not hyperbole. It's simply the fact that the core of the philosophy is Social Darwinism. We are not animals and to pretend otherwise is not good. It's also unsustainable for the biosphere.
If for you guys it's hard with your minimum salary $2K dollars, can U imagine for us , our salary is only $255 dollars and the things costs the same price. It's impossible to travel to countries that cost 5 x more expensive.
I'm sorry for my bad English. I'm from latin America.
I'm about to pull up on you in Latin America
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.
@@NiazRaki Or for 15% of Americans the disc😆
I beg to differ with one small point. You can also obtain a secondary education by agreeing to risk life, limb, eyesight, and sanity fighting in the ruling elite's imperialist wars.
Awardees all combined had murdered million in Iraq when it invaded for Weapons of Mass Destruction. No WMDs found. Iraq obliterated and US & UK plundered Iraq's oil, killed President Saddam Hussein, and US dismantled duly establish government, gave rise to ISIS which are armed from US surplus weapons.
You already doing that by working a back breaking job at the oil rigs what’s the problem
Wait wait wait, you distrust the government, which I also do to be fair....but you're pro communism...how do you think the wealth gets redistributed?
True
The American dream has turned into a nightmare
The American dream only applies to non-Americans. America is a Mammothrept nation.
Thanks! I love how you thoughtfully assemble and decipher information in a nice to understand long vs short form essay!!
"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.
Thank you for all your hard work. Sorry I can't afford any more!
I am so happy this channel exists.
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.
When I was trying to go to school in the 1990s, tuition at the closest liberal arts school was over $30,000 and the minimum wage was $4.25. Because I could not get financial aid (thanks to my unsupportive father's earnings) I tried to rise socially by changing to increasingly lucrative jobs but it did not work. I went from a minimum wage job to serving jobs. It was impossible to make a profit at the first one (old ladies would come in, drink coffee and smoke, then leave a quarter after an hour). The more I strove the more I was beaten down. In fact a "unionized" corporation, UPS, was the worst of them all. Although I made nothing at the first serving job and had to endure passive smoking each day, the UPS job still was worse because it was in the middle of the night, the managers were constantly abusive, I damaged my lower back with their "optional" extremely heavy packages, and would be sent home early. Dues to a useless union helped to devour the pittance.
Outlaw gig work, re-establish unions, mandatory benefits for all workers. Business love to scare you by saying their business would be doomed if they spend so much. Big lie. Their profits have never been higher. They can afford to treat their employees better. If they don’t want to, then perhaps they should not be allowed to operate their business in America.
There is nothing wrong with gig work under specific circumstances. Not all kinds of employment need to be permanent positions. For instance, a hobbyist singer whose main career is something else could have sporadic gigs simply due to the love of performing - without having to devote their entire career life to music.
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.
Marketing is always best when people forget that it was Marketing.
Imagine owning things instead of everything being a subscription
Hell yeah! I was just looking at my subscriptions and thought, “huh it’s been a minute since Second Thought dropped…” and here we are! Morning made!
«Of course it's called The American Dream. Because you need to be asleep to believe it.» George Carlin
Carlin was always platformed for a reason, and his only daughter predictably ended his line.
"It's a big club and you ain't in it" - George Carlin
So I'm 32, I was raised in rural Georgia and now live in suburban Pa (just outside of pittsburgh) and I can't speak for most, as most wouldn't get it but I can tell you my back ground, along with many people I work with and mentored with over the last 14 years of my working career. To be 32, I consider myself pretty "oldschool" as far as how me, my wife, and my 2 boys live anyway. I work for a large class 1 railroad in the north east, it used to be a hard job to get into, but if you did, at least where I come from, "you made it" or at least that's what people from my small town say. I can go to my local hometown credit union and they'd basically give me anything I want just because I've got the railroad as my employer because they know I make good money and most railroaders are good for their payments, whatever. My home town has 2 very good paying factory jobs still standing, one being a paper mill and the other being a ceiling tile mill that opened after WW2, one of which my great grandfather worked in when he lived through his "American dream" and raise my grandma.
Anyway... I make roughly 140k a year as a conductor. I work on call 24/7, nights, weekends, in the rain, in the heat, in the freezing cold, I've missed most of my boys birthdays, I've miss most of my wife's birthdays, I basically watch my kids grow up through FaceTime or hear about it through text messages. However, because I work, my wife is able to stay at home and not work, she's able to be there 100% of the time for our kids. I drive a 2005 tacoma, it's paid for in cash, and my wife drives a 2012 highlander, that is also paid for. Our mortgage is 890 a month, I bought our house for 160k prior to covid so we have a good interest rate on it, and our other bills equate to about 800 a month for utilities/phones/cable, etc.
I get a pension through the railroad, and my wife will also get a pension, even being that she'll never work a day on the railroad, but that's what the union set up for us a century ago almost, call me lucky if you want but I did my research prior to hiring and that's why I applied... I didn't know nobody that worked there prior, just knew it was a good job and kept trying. Took a few years to get on but here I am.
I now get 3 weeks vacation, my wife works from home, we have paid off vehicles that are reliable, we dont mess with credit cards or anything, I put as much as I can in our 401k, I have good health insurance if they get sick, and we can retire at 60 opposed to 67.5 like the rest of the country. Can I afford a 400k house? Yup. Do I want to? Nope. I'd rather take my kids to Disney or to the beach a couple times a year. We live very simple, because that's the way my great grandpa did it.
Some people call me privileged or whatever, but I don't have a college degree or anything, I just paid attention to the old heads in my community and tried to do what they did. They seen it first hand after all so I believe them.
I may not be, but I feel like I'm living the american dream. May not be the newest everything, and I ain't keeping up with the joneses, but we're healthy, my kids are happy and fed, and I hope they never know what struggle is because I work a lot.
I know people want weekends off and stuff, but this is what we got and we make the best of it. The american dream ain't dead yall, just gotta keep life simple and it'll work out
Gig work is just a branding of involuntarily servitude - whoch ia basically slavery with extra steps.
Indeed
Only if it's one's primary and/or necessary source of income. Gig work is harmless if it's just being paid for fully voluntary hobby work.
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 ❤
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.
The real American dream was the roaring 20s. That house of cards fell, of course.
@@syrinx9196 the idea of the white picket fence the two kids wife and the dog didn't come into after world war II hence the name the nuclear family And what most people consider the American dream. We weren't quite the superpower that we were until after the second war. Because that's when we had the largest expansion of middle-class and of course the baby boom
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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@JULYXXIV That is why renters unions are necessary; the rent prices (and the AirBnB) have pushed - all around the world - the house prices to the sky.
I’ve known since birth I’ll never achieve the American dream for one simple reason… I’m not American
Seriously though the editing, script, the editing, the voice, the EDITING. This video is absolutely incredible
Thanks so much! I’m glad you liked it
"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?
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
Call it what it really is: the American NIGHTMARE! And the only way to come out of it is to wake up, not make a new dream but a new conscious Reality!
"A generation lost in space, with no time left to start again"
I hope you become the biggest channel in the world you and the thejuicemedia
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
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.
$200 an hour just to have someone come out and mark existing property corners, in Indiana.
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
Revolution must be built. Great video!
We have at least two generations of young men who will never be able to afford a house or a family of their own. Nothing to strive for and nothing to fight for. Not a good situation for the country and culture.
It’s called a dream because when you wake up you understand it’s not real
@austinpowers1999 The question is: What should we do, after we wake up, after we gain our consciousness?
UNITE@@RoughDetails
Socialist Revolution @@RoughDetails
@@davidecatani3426 Oh yeah...give the government all your stuff and hope it redistributes it...Surely that's never gone wrong before...Or how about someone working at mcdonalds making just as much as a doctor, yeah that's fair, makes sense...clearly they're both doing equally as much for society...Supply and demand? nah what's that, fake? Wait...why are we out of stuff?
And socialism is just Communism-Lite...
@@RoughDetailsI've been searching for the exit since I woke up
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.
Our grandparents enjoyed a society that they then destroyed before we could get a piece of it.
That Americana of the 40s and 50s seems to conspicuously have some people missing from the smiling faces...
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It also hides the people suffering from the chemical industry's machinations. Lead. Asbestos. Et cetera. The films only show people what those in power wanted them to see. They're commercials.
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!!
I am 72 yrs old and am kooking for man to please my wife . Pls send me phone nuimber
I used to be pissed off at all of this. But then I realized, we are simply returning to the historical norm. Those 30 years - 1954 to 1984 - what the French call “the golden thirty”, those years of middle class affluence, are actually an historical freak. Throughout most of human history, men and women were poor, they owned nothing. And so what people did was they made their own happiness. For men it’s sports, kicking a ball around the yard or the street, because that’s all they have. For women it was watching her babies. Because that’s all there was for women. We’re going back to that. We’re not buying houses and cars, unless we’re quite talented. We’re renting apartments, and if we’re lucky, buying condos.
Great comment.
Agreed
US history, with its slavery, child labor, and extreme racist mostly-slavery (e.g. Chinese railroad workers) supports your comment. Kids went on strike for a "humane" 55-hour workweek. 6-year-olds would work 11-hour days picking bugs off of tobacco in the sun. They were more fortunate than the kids in the coal mines. They'd die of skin cancer a bit later than the ones with the black lung.
A very useful way of thinking about it;
In order to increase profits, human exploitation has to increase too,
so capitalism is incapable of reducing suffering, it can only export it,
and eventually it runs out of places to export it to
Then we can make capitalism suffer??
@@evilds3261ideas don’t suffer, people do. The only thing that can ‘fix’ this is total and complete revolution, which I am frankly amazed hasn’t occurred yet, especially in America! The alternative is complete socioeconomic collapse.
You build an economy like any other structure: from the ground up. An upside down pyramid is always destined to fall.
What staggers me most about America especially is that it’s not really about evil, it’s merely GREED… when is enough enough for the one percent?
And then the fall of Rome happens
And migrants are basically slaves to them
I’ve felt for a long time that once the environment starts to collapse, the elite will set their sights on us, to be exploited and left to rot
I think I was the 1/2 kid ... : (
Don't worry, you are whole.
Those “half kids” are always big trouble. 😈
Whats crazy is that people dont believe me when I tell them I also work for usps, and still don't make enough. 😂
Vote no on the TA
You forgot to mention why people from US had an high standart of living in the 50's and 60's. It was because western europe and a part of east asia became US vassols that eat up US debt, along with the strangulation of Latin America. People lived better and things were cheaper not because of good economic policies or because capitalism worked, it was because the costs were exported elsewhere.
He didn't forget, he mentioned super-exploitation of the imperial periphery.
Made in china….