Why Gen Z Is So Poor

[@adamjames0710]

Homer Simpson was seen as a looser in the 90’s…. But he has a big house, a wife, three kids and two cars on one income

[@homelesshoodlum]

He's a supervisor at a power plant

[@LilBleachThaGod]

dudes actuallly a chad

[@GenX_in_the_wild]

Damn, that hits hard..

[@ludachris6086]

Same for Al Bundy, Wife House and Kids with the sallery of a shoe salesman

[@johnmaurer3097]

I'm Gen-X and that was actually normal for people back then. Dad didn't even need a college education to support the entire family on his income.

[@RaXXha]

Yes, they absolutely said so about millenials too. Apparently we spent all of our money on avocado toast and that's why we couldn't afford a house.

[@Alwaysttango]

It's always the individual's problem, not like we have housing bubbles that never quite go down or anything.

[@boristheamerican2938]

Im a late Boomer born in 1961 and I didnt work hard enough. Thats why America had 13% unemployment during Reagans first term.

[@chiquita683]

​@boristheamerican2938 L comment , US changed the definition of unemployment since then to remove people not looking for work

[@BERNHARDHT]

avocados are expensive AF tho FR, and they go bad in like 1.5 days. FML

[@GruntoSkunko]

@@Alwaysttango The groups which benefit off of the system do not want people to question the system, so they produce propaganda which blames individuals who are suffering in the system for their circumstances and deemphasize systematic effects.

[@jt_manic]

its not even applying to 100 jobs and not getting a job…its applying to all these places and getting nothing, no callback, no feedback, nothing. they filter you with software/ai and your expected to spend your time crafting each cv specific to each job listing.

[@mikeoxlong4812]

It sounds like you may need help with your cv, not getting any callback from 100 jobs is not normal even now.

[@laughingfella5496]

@@mikeoxlong4812 You also shouldn't apply to 100 jobs, for sure. Not even that many in a week. @jt_manic CRTL+F my user in this video's comments. There's definitely something going wrong with your process.

[@Laughing_Chinaman]

AND they're all only offering minimum wage but all expect a degree and experience

[@flexprofits]

use ai to do every cv

[@JojoJoget]

Just use AI to write your resume and send them 😂

[@kylemclaughlin2184]

My grandfather worked at schnieders making hotdogs, had a home, two vehicles, 6 kids and a little get away cottage, he made 18 an hour. The same job today gets you a rented bedroom with 4 other roommates and scurvy.. that’s why the future generations are doing worse..

[@Umeshukitsune]

Baby boomers and gen X voted for this to keep their house value. By the time millennials and gen Z voted... it's become a uni party.

[@leetjohnson]

Scurvy 😂

[@ivankrushensky]

Scurvy has nothing to do with your roommates.....unless they're eating all of your fruit and vitamins.....

[@defectiveparts8604]

It's insane how the healthiest fruits and vegetables have all become luxury food items.

[@magneric]

Yarrr, matey be neglectin' the vitamin c!

[@AndragonLea]

Gen Z isn't lazy, they're just aware that the system isn't set up to help them succeed. My grandfather worked at the same factory his entire life. He got raises every year, was promoted several times, the foremen and boss knew his name, the owner of the factory personally handed him an engraved Swiss pocket watch for his 40 year work anniversary and his salary allowed him to purchase a house, raise a family and drive a new BMW while my grandmother stayed at home and provided him with food and comfort after work. He wasn't hugely qualified or went to an expensive university. Just a man who was good with his hands and experienced at the job. Now you can hardly find a company that's willing to pay you enough to survive. Raises? Gotta switch jobs and employers, they only offer "competitive" salaries if they have an opening to fill. Promotion? They promote from outside because that way they only need to train one person. Companies are screwing people over and calling them lazy when they're no longer willing to run their hearts out on the treadmill for the plastic carrot they cut for budget reasons 20 years ago.

[@beansdestroyer]

they are lazy. The biggest ideal career for genz is influencer. Like ya no shit youre poor

[@AstralLaVista]

Yeah the modern day doesn't have the same equivalent opportunities as its changed because of tech, there no modern day equivalent to working in a mine, mindless but dangerous so worth paying someone a decent wage to do

[@Darakudemon]

Lol, my factory job gave us company shirts for christmas this year, they gave us each a small bag of popcorn the year before and it was a record profit year too.

[@lennard5393]

Investors screw

[@mattbarker1411]

You keep blaming companies, and not the people that made the dollar worthless..... You're not even looking in the right direction. 😂😂😂😂

[@crobbie1984]

Inflation is a hidden tax that has destroyed our purchasing power. Even if I earned the same amount as my father, my purchasing power is 50% lower than when he retired in 2000.

[@sizzling.pancake]

Reminds me of an interview of a Walmart worker saying she makes as much as her mother did there in the 90s. These giant corps have record profits and record low wages

[@mikesmith542]

No no no, it's good that the government printed more money over Covid than it does in the span of a decade! It's good!

[@Beanskiiii]

It's not just inflation it's wages not adjusting to inflation because then the multi-million & billion-dollar companies don't care and will not lose money because of peasants

[@tezeroth4905]

The last time I was unemployed and looking for a job, I sent over 100 CVs and the only calls I would get would be from scams it was soul crushing to feel that not only are you fighting an automated system that makes it so your CV is most likely never seen by a human, but your info is also leaked to some scammers call lists somewhere along the way.

[@j4m3sii]

somebody please read this and help me. I graduated in May ‘24 and once my lease ended in august ‘24 I moved back home and started looking for jobs. The only job I was almost able to obtain was working with raw meats and I cannot stand touching raw meats like that for hours I would go insane. And I also almost had a sales job, but they said I didn’t have the personality or drive required for sales and turned me down after a week training/testing. And I met with this sales place 3 times since 11/27/24, and didn’t look for other jobs then because I thought I would get the job. Most places either straight up turn me down, but the other turn downs are because i’m overqualified for low paying jobs, and under qualified for medium paying jobs. I’m sorry for venting, I’m just trying to rationalize my time spent looking for a job. It’s been 4 months of me looking for jobs and another month of me trying to get one job. Will somebody please let me know if I should be scared? I don’t know if I should be worried because I don’t know if I’ve been looking for a long time or if my time spent isn’t too bad. Again, I’m living at home. I’m 24, I switched majors twice and went to school for 5 years.

[@j4m3sii]

@@tezeroth4905 somebody please read this and help me. I graduated in May ‘24 and once my lease ended in august ‘24 I moved back home and started looking for jobs. The only job I was almost able to obtain was working with raw meats and I cannot stand touching raw meats like that for hours I would go insane. And I also almost had a sales job, but they said I didn’t have the personality or drive required for sales and turned me down after a week training/testing. And I met with this sales place 3 times since 11/27/24, and didn’t look for other jobs then because I thought I would get the job. Most places either straight up turn me down, but the other turn downs are because i’m overqualified for low paying jobs, and under qualified for medium paying jobs. I’m sorry for venting, I’m just trying to rationalize my time spent looking for a job. It’s been 4 months of me looking for jobs and another month of me trying to get one job. Will somebody please let me know if I should be scared? I don’t know if I should be worried because I don’t know if I’ve been looking for a long time or if my time spent isn’t too bad. Again, I’m living at home. I’m 24, I switched majors twice and went to school for 5 years.

[@stevenyee1055]

And then there's automation reducing our options, its a miserable situation all around..

[@Andy-im3kj]

I swear some employers sell people's information from their CVs for profit. I can't prove it but I swear they're selling some people's information because those employers never hire anyone despite having job postings everywhere and they stay posted online as a job listing.

[@rrael]

Yeah I was unemployed thru all of 2024. Despite over a decade of exp in management, inventory, CS, etc. I barely got any interviews, my exp never seemed to matter and got denied a dozen jobs I'm extremely qualified for. Just this week I finally got a job... At Walmart as a Pharmacy Tech. Not the worst. But far from the best my exp qualified me for.

[@NouhReacts]

im poor because all I do is watch asmongold

[@Sarmathal]

And that's why he's rich.

[@lead_letter]

Sure beats mcdonalds

[@chiquita683]

You should film yourself watching it and post for other people to watch like he does

[@towarzyszmarcin474]

valid

[@LilBleachThaGod]

relatable

[@johnramhos]

Imagine how demoralizing it is for a young man who is getting rejected on dating apps and job sites. All while being in huge student loan debt.

[@josealexi5141]

If you didn't waste time on dating apps, didn't waste time and money in college but instead improved yourself you would see SUCCESS on the job search. It's called adulting and PRIORITIES

[@strigen]

@@josealexi5141 If you put your argument in CAPS THEN IT MEANS YOU'RE RIGHT.

[@Count_bleck_T]

@josealexi5141 ah yes, because employers totally want people who are debt free, vs people who have acquired debt from college, so they can control them better. Ah uh, yup sure.

[@Beanskiiii]

imagine using dating sites as a grown man

[@christopherwhite8984]

Bro, I work two jobs. 14hrs a day five days a week, both jobs paying more than minimum wage, and I still need a roommate just to afford an apartment.

[@stinkfinga4918]

You should try a different line of work if two 7hr shifts per day aren't making rent.

[@sterlingarcher265]

Move to South Carolina

[@Karsten-h3f]

Oh yeah that’s a great idea

[@CJfromMEXICO]

@@stinkfinga4918dude thats every line of work. my gf is in child care and im in blue collar work, we make an embarrassingly low amount of money

[@CarpalPants]

that sounds like complete bs lol, unless the minimum wage youre making is $1 an hour. if youre truly working 5 days a week for 14 hours everyday

[@elohel3293]

I blame the fact that banks have been allowed to hijack everything related to your future. I also blame public school for failing to prepare us for things that actually matter. The amount of friends that left college with debts they can’t pay off because they were not advised that their career choices were absolutely horrible. Banks love these types of people. They know they can’t make the money back after leaving college leaving them in a forever state of paying interest charges on their loan.

[@Proxy-83]

Usury used to be illegal once upon a time for a reason, if you really want to learn why things are how they are get to reading Henry ford's book...

[@DRealPk3]

whoa there buddy once you mention usury it becomes antisemitic ​@@Proxy-83

[@michaelgarrett139]

100000% this.

[@amos-bobamus]

The federal underwriting of student loans makes it seem like banks are the villain, but it’s the federal loan program

[@soliddrake11]

Unfortunately now even if you pick a great degree there is a serious chance you won’t get a job anyways and still have massive debt. The issue is almost exclusively outsourcing. If we hadn’t sent all of these jobs overseas most Americans could be working at a well paid assembly line and have this life style, but the rich took that away to get richer.

[@St3v3nification]

Isn’t it incredible how HR departments have ruined the world over the past 20 years? From sensitivity training, to committee decision making, to DEI and ESG, to ATS. HR has made the workplace so much more miserable than it previously was.

[@STNDD]

It's because of that damn phone

[@brentbarham3157]

riiiight

[@HDGaminTutorials]

Youd be surprised the amount of parents who never gave there kids any financial advice and also school doesnt really financial advice either

[@longjohnson9214]

Deadass

[@jshreyas1882]

So this gonna be MOST LIKED COMMENT 😅

[@TheElementAce]

Go-to phrase

[@janetrulesable]

My problem with Moon is that he accurately shows how young people get screwed and then attempts to sell them scam supplements

[@elinope4745]

NAD is aimed at middle age and older people who are concerned with longevity and health. Those are the audience members who have enough room to buy the stuff.

[@DrSkeletor]

Sponsor possibly?

[@HansKazan-z1c]

Yeah that is kinda weird.

[@lindgille]

Typical hypocritical youtube shill

[@Pikawarps]

@@DrSkeletoryou can decline a sponsor if you have an ethical disagreement with selling their product

[@optimizedgreek3712]

I’m a mechanic at a luxury dealer making 30 an hour and it is still hard to pay house cars groceries and all the stupid insurances that we have to have that still cost us more money to use… the system is BROKEN.

[@texttwenty-nine1627]

100% agree. Tabs for my pickup truck are $575. 😂 Exactly! Why do we need to pay money for insurance our entire lives and still pay a big deductible? Why are there not any benefits for drivers that had no claims or policies for a length of time? Insurance is basically a fireplace that burns money. 😅

[@mikeoxlong4812]

Assuming you're full time you should be making around 3400 monthly after taxes. Unless you live somewhere like SF or NYC that should easily get you by. Did you buy an unnecessarily expensive car? Say you got a $15k car, that's 300/month, groceries shouldn't be more than 400/month if you buy responsibly, car insurance should be around 100/month. The remaining 2600 should be more than enough for you to afford rent or even mortgage, even if you have to drive 30-40 min to work.

[@silentvanquish]

​@mikeoxlong4812 uh you're forgetting other bills like mortgage, internet, heat, trash removal, sewage bill, electric and other bills a person might have monthly... I'm not knocking you just trying to give some perspective is all

[@dave4148]

@@mikeoxlong4812 he said it’s hard, not impossible. Insane that making QUADRUPLE the federal minimum wage at a skilled job should “get you by” living paycheck to paycheck with no emergency savings or vacations are you kidding me?

[@optimizedgreek3712]

@@mikeoxlong4812my mortgage is just under 2k for a 3 bedroom 2 full bathroom brick ranch i pay both car payments for my Camry and Mazda anfter taxes health insurance for my family and 401k I bring home 2100 every 2 weeks

[@tom-no0k]

05:55, the jobs they are looking for are either a) ghost jobs to show shareholders that company is hiring and growing. b) jobs that are required to be posted for x period of time before you are allowed to hire a H1B for the position. This is more so these reasons than AI. Very few areas where AI is production ready.

[@cardswarzreov2115]

If i remember correctly, Ghost Jobs would also allow them to get Tax Cut.

[@dangerousthoughts.1591]

Or they plan on filling a position with an in house employee but have to post anyway, even though they have no intention of hiring someone new.

[@StillMuggin]

Yeah i work for a massive technology consulting company. The AI I've been exposed to is cool, but makes way too many mistakes to be relied on. I'm sure it will get there, but not yet

[@memereview1337]

@@cardswarzreov2115 Nah, OP means job listings that will never end in any employment. I would argue that most of listings today are fake. Job listings do not get them anything else other than conveyed growth. That only has an effect on taxes if they spend money on the listings and that is a simple expense.

[@samjones9600]

We have to completely redesign the AI from the ground up to get there, and the math isn't there yet. What's worse is thanks to the inbreeding it has made improvement and data collection slow to a crawl. LLMs are like using a O(n^n) algorithm and won't work for the precise work.

[@badazzmuffin5781]

I went to Italy when I was 16 for a school trip. There was this Italian man who chastised Americans their materialistic lifestyles. He specifically mentioned this idea of moving out immediately and isolating from your family and community. A lot of families over their have multiple generations living in the same place, sometimes for 100s of years. He wasn't mean about it, and it always stuck with me.

[@Greez1337]

It's true. I went to visit family in Italy years ago, and they had just finished 1 generational home and were starting foundation on another. Each family had one floor of a massive 3-4 floor home. Had a huge garden and pigs to sustain themselves for a good part of the year.

[@miamithijs3579]

And now all young Italians are leaving the country and the villages are left with old people while businesses are closing.

[@kickflippro3]

Americans adopted this when we were expanding across the continent. Breaking the clan system both strengthened the economy and weakened the culture.

[@IN-hw8it6]

​@@miamithijs3579with starlink they might all move back! 😊

[@unicorntomboy9736]

@@Greez1337 I love that. It sounds better than what Americans came up with, which only benefited for-profit house builders anyway

[@JodyBruchon]

One of the reasons I started my own business fairly young is I hate people and even in the 2000s I couldn't get jobs because I'm autistic and automated systems kicked 98% of my applications out for lacking keywords. If they didn't, managers would think I was a little weird and reject me. I don't interview well but I'm damned good at what I do and I can learn anything faster than any normie. They want socially shiny pebbles, not good workers.

[@fluffypinkpandas]

facts

[@unicorntomboy9736]

@@JodyBruchon Do you have to mention about having autism? You could just not say, that would help

[@xarbinchaoticneutral1785]

Average asmon viewer 😂😂😂

[@JodyBruchon]

@@unicorntomboy9736 I didn't even know I had autism at the time, dude. I was told about it by my mom when I was in my 30s. I didn't know I was diagnosed at all until then.

[@JodyBruchon]

@@xarbinchaoticneutral1785 Poor baby.

[@_UPRC]

It's not just Gen Z. I'm an older millennial, and even I'm having troubles. The last few years have been bad for everyone.

[@PandaBrrr]

Same brother, had to move back in with mom, rent was litterly draining everything I could gain it felt. I thought in 2019 my 775 apartment was extreame(it was) now I can't find a place lower that 1100 unless you get lucky.

[@Bandanko]

Gen X and i am renting...

[@michaelgarrett139]

Covid brought the new normal of society. This is that new normal they wanted

[@jer1776]

I feel that. Im 30, make about $30 an hr and I cant even imagine how hard it must be for people making less than I am. We need livable wages.

[@_UPRC]

@@PandaBrrr It's crazy. I got hit by renovictions last year, everyone in my building got kicked out so that they could redo the building. My rent was $750 for one bedroom, and judging by the rental company's other buildings, the rent there will be $1700+ when they open the building back up again. For the exact same units. Ridiculous.

[@DabDabGoose]

Western lifestyle in general isn't what it used to be, the economy is dead everything is inflated and you need a degree to get a job that will just pay your rent.

[@scottd7222]

Tradesman doing just fine. No college debt needed.

[@SiriusSphynx]

No, you need to be willing to work the hard jobs that pay well because no one wants to do them.

[@aaronyaunt9072]

America still has nearly 8 times the purchasing power compared to most of the world, you have no idea how good you have it, being poor or middle class in America affords you a life style that’s in the top 10% of humanity and you complain that your lives aren’t as good as the top 1%

[@basedlibertyprime]

Get into the trades, get a job that is alway going to be needed and you will always have work.

[@InfraggableKrunk]

@@SiriusSphynx Are the hard jobs that pay well in the room with us right now?

[@ジョジョさま]

When you make an application, make a bogus paragraph of all the keywords they use to scan them, shrink it, turn the text White, and put it in the header or footer. The machine will pick it up, but the odds of the actual human noticing are slim to none.

[@jwinthepro]

What are some examples of keywords?

[@AdamantineAxe]

@@jwinthepro black, queer, lesbian

[@cocouffs]

Unless you get that one person who highlights text as they read 😂. I swear asmon just had a video where a lady game developer found the hidden text on an email saying "Karen sucks" in white

[@jackspicer6864]

I never thought about it but In the show george lopez he worked on the line in a shitty factory and owned his own house and had two kids two cars and a wife that didn't work and he was able to support all of that in the early 2000s by himself in LA

[@homelesshoodlum]

Pretty sure he was manager

[@devinanni8117]

I also work in a shitty factory that gives tons of over time... just about everyone that's been there a few years has their own house. If you work 72+ hours a week you too can afford a house

[@beatles42ohgg94]

@@devinanni8117 also what a lot more people did back in the day when they where making good money... my dad worked 60 hour weeks my whole life..... now, the generation today that WAS my parents age....are barely working 30 hours.... they worked literally twice as many hours....the thing nobody takes into consideration....so, IN THEORY... we take out average amazon ware house pay. people also work no skill jobs and expect to live like kings.

[@johnmaurer3097]

In the 80s it was normal to have 1 income that supported the family, own a house, 2 cars, and take vacations. Something is very wrong with our economy where 2 adults can't even afford just the house.

[@TimeFadesMemoryLasts]

@@devinanni8117 In a few years you can say "gotta work 100+ hours and you too can afford a house". This doesn't work indefinitely

[@rivanianx]

I don't spend money on hobbies, I pirate literally all my media, I even grow my own spices and vegetables to save a few extra dimes and I'm barely scraping by. Something needs to change.

[@pabloescobarschanclas]

oh it will change alright, change for the worst.

[@breakupgoogle]

@@pabloescobarschanclas yep they wont stop printing money for corporate socialism

[@friedrichwilhelmvonsteuben7952]

I'm so thankful my great granny lived long enough and was spry enough to teach me how to live hard, she was a child during the Depression

[@ShizGnat]

We have the means to enact change. This is why the 2nd amendment was put in the constitution. The people just need to be willing to demand the change.

[@UncleCsCookyConspiracy]

This is the way. Keep it up buddy. If you grow your own produce at least you know they're not dousing your food with pesticides (minimal due to glyphosate tainted rain).

[@TheBrazilRules]

Asmongold talking about how 6 figures meant you made it in his time while forgetting that 50K meant you made it in boomers time. People just don't want to accept things change.

[@_pugito1659]

Also in 1975 50k adjusted for inflation had the buying power of $293,209.11

[@LeDuck1999]

I work 48 hours every week at a factory and get paid $25 and change. I can't afford rent, groceries, and every other bill that is a necessity without being left with no money. I'm about to turn 26 and I'm tired man. EDIT: Everyone saying I should be able to afford stuff at 55k a year should try living in Upper New England.

[@HunterGatherer10]

If you can't live off of 55-60k maybe it's time to find cheaper rent lol

[@T3HU]

join the club we all do that

[@jtnachos16]

@@HunterGatherer10 You literally can't just 'find cheaper rent' when no such thing exists.

[@solomonadjei758]

Fam, if you can’t live of 60k you need to make changes. Then again it could be your city

[@Fuscao_Preto]

​@@HunterGatherer10And live where there are no jobs? The problem gets worse.

[@vytis47]

The big thing is all big universities lie about job placement. They advertise how they have a whole department for graduates that help with job placement and resumes, etc. I went to Penn State. Once you graduate (if they allow you to walk. I was banned from graduation along with the whole boxing team as boxing was 'offensive' to people so they shutdown our sport. So we started a boxing club instead and that got all participating members banned from graduation) they ghost you upon getting your degree. There is NO job placement help. There is no graduate assistance. They pretend you never went there.

[@Threedogsinatrenchcoat]

Thats all universities, unless ivy league or major target school, most just have a job board that forwards postings from indeed. The whole system is wonky, for profit entity promises kids stable returns, all faculty have only ever worked as faculty thus no practical application or business connections...

[@unicorntomboy9736]

That is not my experience, going to a university in France

[@paulcarmi8130]

​@unicorntomboy9736 you gave us postmodernism. This is your fault. You ancestors loved protesting so much that we're here. Thanks.

[@mbburry4759]

They don't ghost you; they call you asking for aluminum donations

[@freelifematters6193]

if you are stupid enough to believe the person who wants you to pay them then thats your fault.

[@harbringar828]

The issue for looking for a job if you convert it to video game terms is that level1-10 quests require you to be level 50 to even accept the quest...

[@Tokyo393-yv6ql]

Maybe because we added women to the work force, outsourced jobs overseas, dramatically increased immigration, allowed illegal immigration to reach the tens of millions, to the point that we as a society pushed for college for everyone because we knew high education STEM was the only field that didn't have its labor pool flooded... and now we have the H1B1 scandal. It's all about driving down the cost of labor. Regardless of whether you like or don't like one of those issues, for corporate america it is 100% about increasing the labor supply to suppress wages.

[@Phycheeeee]

100%

[@Ahandleofrum]

All of those things are trying to hide hyperinflation caused by out of control money printing

[@stinkfinga4918]

It goes further back than that, buddy, it ain't aill the civil rights mistakes, don't forget we kinda literally seriously actually sold future generations into debt slavery when we established the federal reserve and handed our wealth to foreign interest in exchange for credit and debt based economics. The rest is honestly just a result of that decision. More people working, more debt accumulated.

[@Tokyo393-yv6ql]

@@stinkfinga4918 Well the key here is that we as Americans need to understand the key issue. It's the cost of labor. When people have these discussions about affordability and living standards, we need to remember that it's all about labor supply vs demand. It's the whole reason with H1B1 they tried to argue that Americans weren't educated or hard working, which I find incredulous considering we have a college debt problem that most kids were tricked into, when in reality they are gas lighting us. They just want cheap labor

[@mastacts12]

@@Tokyo393-yv6ql so true bro... Gotta love corrupt capitalism.

[@destro1989]

Registered healthcare professional - make 18% less on average compared to 2008, houses up 5x price since 2008, rent up 37%, food up 18-25% depending on what it is, fuel up 15%, electricity up 50%. But salary is -14-18% since 2008. I literally have to side hustle with selling products to make enough money to live okay.

[@weispresidentnow]

"Registered healthcare professional" -- could be a cashier at Walgreens, could be a Doctor 🤷‍♂️

[@destro1989]

@weispresidentnow registered dietitian working in a cancer Centre if you want me to be specific

[@daveb3910]

This whole video is a hide the ball game. Don't look at the Fed reserve that devalues the money, no it's due to these other things. Root cause remains though, is that we have to pay interest for every dollar and we're just printing them with no end

[@weispresidentnow]

@ I like how you tried to make it sound like you did something other than plan meals.

[@iroekyjHD]

I didnt even make it through all of middleschool, never got my GED and never even considered college - I am 24 years old and have been working as a software engineer for 3 years now currently making around 100k/yr, where i live median income is less than half of that. this next year i will be looking for a house to buy, i currently rent a 3 bed house for around 1k a month.

[@RoganBits]

The older generations complaining that there aren't enough people to sustain the coming future; really mean "We've put the burden of our debt on the future generations, and if they stop reproducing, who will pay the debt?" Why do you think welfare and disability numbers have gone up? People have always qualified for those programs, but they didn't use them because jobs were way better paying than simply admitting you were disabled and eating table scraps. Now people qualify for the programs, and jobs pay less....Let me repeat. And jobs pay less. I won't pretend to have a solution, but it's easy to see why people aren't reproducing and choosing more isolated lifestyles. The benefit of working is no longer. They pushed profits to the point they have to make profits by harming their workforce. We will NEVER replace the work force while actively making them poorer and poorer.

[@AdamantineAxe]

that's why they will just make it harder to qualify for social programs

[@Thalanox]

It's simple enough to see at least some of the sabotages that have been done to our society, so we do have at least several steps we can take towards a general recovery of western civilization. I think that most of the social engineering projects over the last seventy-five-ish years were geared to set up this destruction.

[@laxattack032]

5:25 "imagine if she didn't become a streamer." And that is the problem, one of the few ways for young people to actually attain wealth is to hope they get popular at streaming. Our society is done for, not enough people working to support the infrastructure of an entire generation of "influencers" because normal jobs don't pay enough to survive.

[@Ahandleofrum]

Also gambling on stock options, gambling on crypto. Crypto scams, only fans.

[@astarothk2273]

there are no "normal" jobs left, only serf labor, fake jobs made to look profitable, jobs for importing serf labor, an army of foreign serfs flooding the country, the lordling corporate caste, the ruling caste of govt, their hitmen, nepotism, and mercantilist monopoly welcome to neo medievalism

[@piotrek7633]

There's plenty to support the infrastructure but it more like slave work now, where you have to take overtime to scrape by

[@dylansmith6078]

​@@Ahandleofrum mass gambling is only a symptom of low buying power. There will always be gambling but when the purchasing power of low income earners they will gamble out of hope which is way worse.

[@SeraphimDragon]

Short term gains for long term detriment. People weren't short sighted, they were *forced* to use an evil they didn't want to use, or starve. We are cooked.

[@neonnoir9692]

It's important to remember that if YOU hadn't gotten lucky with streaming, you'd be on the streets. Stay humble.

[@PoProstu_Ameryka]

Asmon said it himself 100 times. But he would be botting and rmt not on street

[@LiveType]

Nah, asmon would still be streaming even if he was dirt poor. He knows how to live off a very limited income.

[@Deimpjes]

He's a businessman at heart. He would be doing good in whatever.

[@ryzikx]

@@LiveType he would never be poor though he's a shrewd businessman

[@lighttrain5520]

He worked at the IRS, he *knows* how to budget and he lives dirt cheap. He'd be fine even if unsatisfied with working a 9-5

[@filidhdeklend893]

It isn't just Gen Z. Like, the actual Baby Boomer generation was the absolute worst. The fact they constantly tell us how important the Hippy movement was to ending the war in Vietnam, despite the war lasting from 1955 to 1975(20 long years) and how small the Hippy movement actually was just goes to show they've been gaslighting us for generations now as they robbed us blind through debt.

[@AdamantineAxe]

sounds like you just need more bootstraps

[@naperock9]

My dad graduated from high school a year early so he could play more in his band. He realized he needed more beer money on the weekends, so he applied to a position at Ford in Dearborn, MI. He then built his own house, had boats, motorcycles, jetskis, model airplanes, paintball guns, golf carts, and brand new cars by the age of 22. He put 3 of his 5 kids through college and when he retired, had over 800k in retirement and god only knows how much in assets. On accident. To be able to drink more. That is OVER.

[@Andy-im3kj]

@naperock9 And it's over because Americans from his generation did nothing while the government kept sending jobs overseas to cheapen their expenses while exploding in profits. America got greedy and that's where it fucked up.

[@dbz9393]

But muh based trump will fix it 😂

[@nerojay2105]

The juice ain’t worth the squeeze.

[@bradtyson]

Cracked it in a sentence. I'm currently earning 2k less than I was in 2018 and things are 70-80% more expensive. Obviously leading to me unable to pay the bills with the wages let alone food, it has become undoable now. Universal credit are willing to give me 1550 not to work so think I'm going to go for it

[@Threedogsinatrenchcoat]

Even china has the "lay flat" movement, if pay doesnt cover shelter whats the point.

[@busyphilosopher6078]

You're implying there's juice

[@PurposeIsEverything]

Stay poor?

[@neonnoir9692]

Yes it is. Financial freedom is invaluable.

[@Rinzee]

"Most people's rent payment is 2.5 to 3.5". Jesus christ lmao. I live in Scandinavia and pay 500€/month for a nice appartment.

[@real-pyre]

Things are just too expensive now. You have to work twice as hard for twice as less pay than previous generations. But trying to talk about this is impossible because there's so many people who still live in the delusion they're gonna retire millionares one day no problem.

[@mikeoxlong4812]

If you put aside just $200 a month early in your life/career and put it all in an index fund, by the time you retire you'll be a millionaire. This isn't delusional at all and very doable, but people are incredibly bad with their money and buy overly expensive cars, starbucks coffee, uber eats, etc.

[@TristanLane520]

​​@@mikeoxlong4812although by the time you're retired a million dollars will be like $250,000 now... So you still won't be able to buy a house once you retire because they'll all cost $4-5million by then 🤣

[@mikeoxlong4812]

@@TristanLane520 Yes and hopefully you'll find a career where you're able to invest more than just 250/month. If not then you're doing something wrong. Also houses are not going to cost $4-5 million unless you live somewhere like SF or NYC, but that's your own fault for living there 😂😂

[@Habs12517]

@@mikeoxlong4812 House prices tripled in 5 years, what makes you think they wont cost millions in 30 years

[@graye2799]

Your part of the problem. Index funds are killing society. ​@@mikeoxlong4812

[@raymond_sycamore]

They said ALL of this stuff about millennials, endlessly.

[@promethiac2641]

Consumerism is an addiction.

[@janetrulesable]

They still do

[@promethiac2641]

@ Our economic system would be like using the stars as our guide for success. Astrology based...

[@shauns06rubi]

Dude I love your vids

[@Zilharr-eo3oh]

Exactly, and Millennials are worse off than our parents. The cascade will continue.

[@SilverSteinDude01]

I worked retail years ago. Had a very pregnant co worker. One day i took over her job for the 5th time as she needed to pee. Store manager came up to me and straight faced asked me with an annoyed tone why alyssa kept using the bathroom and wasnt working. Give ur life n time to a empty company like this is self harming

[@Wellspring213]

I’m a millennial and we grew up being berated by baby boomers for being “lazy” and “entitled”. Any time somebody older than you says this about your generation, remind them that the damage done to this country to make living a normal middle class life unattainable was done when we were children. Any time a baby boomer calls you lazy for not owning a home, remind them that we were not the generation that felt entitled to own $400,000 homes when they were making $40,000/yr. Baby boomers felt so entitled to own homes that weren’t in their price range that they crashed the entire housing economy, then they bailed out the big banks, then they allowed big banks and corporations to buy up hundreds of thousands of middle class homes. We were not the generation that switched from the gold standard to a speculative funny money economy. We were not the generation that allowed the cost of college to quadruple. All of this we inherited from entitled bratty baby boomers that think they are just the hardest working people in the world. I am in my late 20’s, all of my coworkers in my same job position are in their 50’s. They are the laziest, least productive people I have ever met in my entire life. I do the equivalent of 3 of their jobs and I am nowhere near being able to buy a simple starter home. These people are snot nosed brats.

[@Roger-fs5yo]

That was probably gen X doing that to ya. You know? Just like we do today, cause yall cry too much👎

[@Wellspring213]

@ that’s what who does today because who is crying too much?

[@PandaBrrr]

Based.

[@kyosokutai]

The gold standard was a myth to begin with.

[@Wellspring213]

@ drop this at the next thanksgiving and watch the old people go quiet…. Nothing they can say 😂

[@hungrybadgerr]

Just walk in and give ‘em a firm handshake, sonny boy! Worked for me!

[@PrussianBlu3]

I remember when that was what I was told.

[@Pikawarps]

I fixed this by telling my dad i tried that and was told by a dozen hiring managers that they don’t hire in person; apply online

[@j4m3sii]

somebody please read this and help me. I graduated in May ‘24 and once my lease ended in august ‘24 I moved back home and started looking for jobs. The only job I was almost able to obtain was working with raw meats and I cannot stand touching raw meats like that for hours I would go insane. And I also almost had a sales job, but they said I didn’t have the personality or drive required for sales and turned me down after a week training/testing. And I met with this sales place 3 times since 11/27/24, and didn’t look for other jobs then because I thought I would get the job. Most places either straight up turn me down, but the other turn downs are because i’m overqualified for low paying jobs, and under qualified for medium paying jobs. I’m sorry for venting, I’m just trying to rationalize my time spent looking for a job. It’s been 4 months of me looking for jobs and another month of me trying to get one job. Will somebody please let me know if I should be scared? I don’t know if I should be worried because I’ve been looking for such a long time. Again, I’m living at home. I’m 24, I switched majors twice and went to school for 5 years.

[@Andy-im3kj]

I did that on one of my jobs. Saw them post on Facebook that they were hiring, I googled their address, printed my resume and went up there myself and handed the owner my resume. Got an interview the following week and got hired! Sometimes you really gotta cut the middle man to get what you want.

[@lukasart3951]

It can work, but yeah, mass applying is better

[@OrAngelicBlitz8633]

I think I'm incredibly biased for saying this, but parents and public education are seriously bad at getting us into the loop of things. Everything felt like a foreign concept that was secret from me till I was like 17-18.

[@dr.philfanfiction6778]

Boomers got to party, but their kids and grandkids got the hangover.

[@JackRMason]

Eh. Luck of the draw. That's just how life works. From what I've seen of Xers, Millenials and Zoomers, they're really no much better, morally or intellectually. I mean, they saw 2008 and decided Crypto was the answer. It's just luck, good or bad.

[@dr.philfanfiction6778]

@@JackRMason I agree. If I was born a boomer, I would have been enjoying the good times right along with them. The issue I personally have is that boomers look down on the younger generations as if they inherited the same hand the boomers did, while expecting the younger generations to pay for their entitlements while the younger ones can't afford to reproduce to keep the system going. Japan is the extreme example of this currently, but most developed economies are right behind them. The Japanese just speed ran the game.

[@pira707]

@@dr.philfanfiction6778 JFK would have continued our economic boom by limiting the fed reserve and returning to the gold standard but nah

[@JackRMason]

@@pira707 What difference does it make how large the money supply is if 99% of it is still owned by 5 families? It's not about the size of the money supply, but the VELOCITY--how often each dollar gets spent.

[@JackRMason]

It's a lot like the circulatory system of a human being. If your cholesterol is too high, your blood pressure gets dangerously high, and blood doesn't circulate efficiently. You get blockages, strokes and heart attacks. If too much wealth is concentrated in too few hands, you don't get enough capital to support vital goods, services and infrastructure. You get urban decay and a radical decline in living standards.

[@Threedogsinatrenchcoat]

Boomers: its like gen z and alpha dont even care about maximizing shareholder value

[@Túrin_Tura]

😂

[@siu8399]

They called us millennials “gen y” and said the same thing about us 0:12

[@bsavagestudios]

I had a coworker at my last job bragging about his college education one day to the point where it was annoying everyone. One day during one of his bragging moments I cut him off with: "And yet here you are working in the same place as the rest of us with me, a high school dropout, as your GM and you still owe $74k in student loans which is almost 3 years pay in your current position... I would be embarrassed to tell anyone I went college if I were you." He never brought it up again 😂

[@Sara-x6t3s]

Bragging or complaining?

[@NTJedi]

The only people who care about a college degree... are other people who were tricked into wasting time on a college degree.

[@iN_O_O_B_Y]

Great comment

[@unicorntomboy9736]

@@bsavagestudios How did you get a job if you dropped out of school

[@dbz9393]

I did the same thing to my old boss when I was a kid she was bragging about having a law degree and shitting on everyone under her. I just said so why are you working here then? They fired me within an hour. Still so worth it lmao

[@joncoutts1671]

This all started at least in the 90's. My parents were told 'send your kids to college, they'll be set for life!" So that was what I was told to do. Took on a huge amount of debt (just finished paying it off about 10 years ago). My degree was pretty much worthless, so I worked jobs like the seafood counter at grocery stores, landscaping, operating a forklift and other 'non-career' jobs. I got extremely lucky and fell into a career that pays well (and has nothing to do with my degree, of course). College is predatory and for-profit and it is bull. I was stupid and went to a private school that was about 30k/year. Ah well. Point being, we can't keep so much of our society for-profit. Education, Healthcare, some housing...we need to provide for people. It isn't like we can't afford it ffs...that's the great part about Capitalism is that there is so much strength at the top to leverage for the middle and bottom. If corporations and 'the rich' would just give up 10-15% of their profits per year, we could have *everything* other developed countries have, but even better! This isn't "Socialism", this is a robust capitalist system that leverages wealth to uplift everyone. More education means more innovation, a smarter population...healthcare means a healthier population...all good things for a society. Less crime, less waste, less suffering. All it takes is ... not even what I'd call a 'sacrifice' from those in power. I would give up 15% of my income for all of that, and I would *feel* that loss. Someone with 10million wouldn't even blink. It is a sad state we're in.

[@TheSamuraiGoomba]

Certain public services simply should not be run for profit. Utilities, schools, hospitals... These places need to be price controlled and operated for the benefit of all citizens, not just the wealthy. Education shouldn't be for-profit either.

[@Sherlock-Eco]

I think you explained it perfectly. We need more people like you. An actual ideals of honest productivity is what humanity needs.

[@driveby73]

Doesn't help that during the 90s Clinton made it possible to send u.s. jobs overseas to save corporations a bit of money

[@sirclarkmarz]

Unless you're gonna be a doctor a lawyer or going to STEM college will be a waste of time and money and burden you with a lifetime of debt .

[@thedevilsadvocate872]

I say we tie the top salary to the lowest salary for companies over a certain size or value. Such as the CEO of Walmart shouldn’t make $27 million when the people running the stores, I.e. the ones that actually keep the company in business and make the money for the CEO, only make $35k. I see a future where the CEO is making $1 million a year and the cashier gets $100k. Obviously that’s just an overly simplistic idea and companies would have to evaluate total compensation packages and then adjust based on what they already pay out but seems a decent way to keep the rich, rich while also making the poor, richer. 2 ways to “force” implement it would be changing the rules for publicly traded companies to adjust or be delisted, or Trump wants to cut taxes…you want to pay less tax? Pay your people fairly or pay the old tax rates, o and your loopholes just dried up.

[@FranciscoSalas33]

Luigi Mangione seems to have some pretty “get after it” ideas that could help this situation.

[@spicyf1sh]

Bro I’m 23 with 2 kids and I have a decent paying job, making $65k a year and my wife has a decent paying job as well, yet we were able to barely afford a small home and just barely making by. I’ve been sacrificing buying anything for myself for years, and still sometimes we have to get help from our parents because everythings so expensive. Hearing that Gen Z is lazy or not knowing how to use money is laughable and insulting.

[@Bashbekersjiw]

What work did you do?

[@seancollins9597]

Flood the work force with women in the 60s, then immigrants in the 00s, and all wages fell accordingly. It's basic economics.

[@ennuiblue4295]

it's not like people can go build a house and *all* labor supported the house,they made it where only jobs that made money was valuable. they call child care 'not work', but when it's a business, suddenly it's worth 1K + a week

[@freelifematters6193]

@@ennuiblue4295 you taking care of your own children doesnt count no, if you want to take care of the neighborhoods kids too then you can have your own business and make good money.... thats simple

[@dorugoramon0518]

the increasing of the workforce didnt just drive down wages, it also made it impossible to find a job without getting undercut or passed over because you dont tick the right boxes.

[@kickflippro3]

The flooding of immigrants started in the 60s. 85 million legal immigrants since 1965

[@dap6386]

Imagine blaming half the population and fighting among each other instead of ultrarich people lmao

[@chambers0071]

I still remember when I was 16 I went job hunting not only because I wanted to have my own money to spend but also because I feared that my parents would kick me out of the house when I turned 18 (which they didnt, God bless em) That being in mind do you have any idea how NERVE RACKING it was to get denied job after job only because I wasn't 18 or 21 years old?

[@aliceberethart]

People are increasingly marrying rich men and women that have inherited businesses from their parents. We're developing backwards to Victorian times with lords and social hierarchies.

[@Carson-w2o2t]

Inheritance is the only system of voluntary wealth distribution, which is why we have been propagandized against "nepotism"-it is outside state control

[@dorugoramon0518]

@@Carson-w2o2t Some forms of nepotism are bad, but generational wealth is necessary for society to be healthy. In the past, even the poorest had generational wealth.

[@IN-hw8it6]

Same with capitalism!

[@Andy-im3kj]

@aliceberethart It's gonna get worse considering the middle class is dying at this point.

[@tedbed1389]

Yup

[@aston4736]

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of okay for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.” ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

[@TheSamuraiGoomba]

Plenty of poor people understand the adage, "I'm too poor to waste money on cheap shit."

[@stevenyee1055]

Older generations fades out as later generations are left in the dark.

[@Thinkingnamesishard]

I don't see dumb people being eliminated. I see alot of smart people losing opportunity. Which is way worse

[@yarnf]

Yup, both losing opportunity and hugely demoralized, to expand.

[@centsant]

1:21 That one chatter said, "Nobody is working more than 12hrs." AhahahahAHAHAHA

[@luismessina2133]

Nurses laughing at a lot

[@ArjunGupta-tz5xo]

Proving that they are lazy and entitled.

[@cyanmage1]

16 hour shifts were kinda normal at my last job thankfully it was only 3-4 days a week my heart goes out to the medical staff that do this all the time

[@jack3493]

The worst part is that things are only going to get worse. Society is too far gone to ever get on the “right track.” Thats why a lot of people appear to be dead inside. It’s incredibly discouraging to work hard for several years and not ever being able to enjoy the fruits of your labor, because there is nothing left after you paid for food, clothing, and shelter.

[@kylespevak6781]

8 years of Obama and 4 years of Biden

[@dorugoramon0518]

@@kylespevak6781 It started before beavis and butthead were selected for the presidency. Weve been ruled by crooks since 1913

[@richardm8807]

​@@kylespevak6781 You will never fix a problem if you ignore half of it.

[@i_like_beer-o2f]

​@@kylespevak6781 this is your brain on politics. Laughable

[@Dukenukem]

HR joke: "When I look at the pile of CVs on my desk I knock about a half to trash directly, nobody wants to work with people that have bad luck."

[@richardm8807]

That hits like an Jeselnik joke but it's probably real.

[@midwaykrazy]

This is not just a Gen Z problem. My best friend is a Mechanical engineer and we live in a research area and he is struggling to find a job. I myself had a horrible time trying to find a job. The only reason why I work the job I do now is because it operates with less then 10 people and the owner is the one who hires people. The worst part is if my buddy doesn't find a job soon he wont have a source for his medication and health care that he needs to have in order to function. The government has deemed him fit for work while businesses has deemed him too much of a health liability.

[@Dezzo0721]

Mechanical Engineer here who is also in a similar position if he wants to find a job. Tell him to look up companies in areas that the government just dumped a fuck ton of money in (manufacturing chips, or other government sectors) Also can try looking for smaller companies that have outdated applications. You know those won’t have 1000’s of applicants competing for it cause people are lazy if it’s not automated application

[@j4m3sii]

how long have you been job hunting? I graduated in May ‘24 and once my lease ended in august ‘24 I moved back home and started looking for jobs. The only job I was almost able to obtain was working with raw meats and I cannot stand touching raw meats like that for hours I would go insane. And I also almost had a sales job, but they said I didn’t have the personality or drive required for sales and turned me down after a week training/testing. And I met with this sales place 3 times since 11/27/24, and didn’t look for other jobs then because I thought I would get the job. Most places either straight up turn me down, but the other turn downs are because i’m overqualified for low paying jobs, and under qualified for medium paying jobs. I’m sorry for venting, I’m just trying to rationalize my time spent looking for a job. It’s been 4 months of me looking for jobs and another month of me trying to get one job. Will somebody please let me know if I should be scared? I don’t know if I should be worried because I’ve been looking for such a long time. Again, I’m living at home. I’m 24, I switched majors twice and went to school for 5 years.

[@billybob3563]

Wouldnt say that they're stupid. It's the parents pushing the dumb mentality of just go into debt, go get a loan, go get a credit card. Typical outdated 80s-90s financial advice that is terrible now.

[@TTDEATHTT]

Its grandparents giving bad advice to children because they missed out on stuff and dont want the children to miss out on stuff. Then those children teach bad financial advice to there children and the cycle continues.

[@kyosokutai]

It was terrible back then too. It just finally caught up.

[@magneric]

At 18, most people aren't ready for the real world because school is useless. Our caretakers failed us at every step

[@breakupgoogle]

or parents let the gov print fiat currency making the dollar worth .02 cents

[@schizo_fox]

things are just changing very rapidly. you will teach your children 'once you have some money go invest in AI stock' and your kid will yell at your outdated opinion and say 'come on , nobody does that anymore, now you invest in soy so you dont have to eat dirt, just make sure you have enough v-bucks'. this is nowhere comparable to how things were hundreds of years ago when you could have several generations of having the same profession.

[@jesschavez1028]

As a teacher, you're completely right about it being the schools fault. But I'm going to add on that its higher than that though. It's the districts/states. They want more $ per kid, the kids are pushed along because no kid gets left behind and it looks bad right? So, when the kids do poorly on the tests, they lower the rigor of the test. Now the kid is doing 4th grade math in the 8th grade and "passing" his exams, but learning absolutely nothing. But the districts and states get that $$$, so who cares? Teachers by and large see this problem, but hold no power to fix it. It's beyond frustrating.

[@jesschavez1028]

Completely an aside, but I'd highly suggest anyone interested in this read Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano. It's shockingly apropos.

[@502Vetch]

My grandpa (Boomer) bought his first house in 1970 making $19,000 working at a manufacturing job out of high school, he bought a house that year for $20,000, he was 20. In 1976 he was 26 & he made $32,000 & bought his 2nd home a 3 bed, 1 bath house for $30,000. Fast forward to me at 25 (gen z) making $62,000 & a basic 3 bedroom homes are going for $300K in my area, low cost of living states are getting out of hand as well for housing. Many cannot afford to live in the neighborhood they grew up in. Its not that we are lazy, we just have destroyed purchasing power on top of hyper inflation. The older generation never experienced this combo, our decreased purchasing power is what really hurts Gen z the most. I don’t understand how this is sustainable..

[@sickofwashington]

The fact that the houses we built in 2010 which sold for 100,000$ are today selling for 240,000$ is a HUGE part of the problem. The same floorplan in the same town. The only thing that changed was the price.

[@TheWTFMatt]

Not to mention 15 years of degradation and depreciation. You pay more for an older more worn out property

[@sickofwashington]

@ Yeah, but I'm talking about brand new houses we build. The exact same floor plan we used in 2010 sold for 100k is today 240k. 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, no garage. That's what I meant, but I probably didn't word it well.

[@alexl.4362]

In my humble opinion, I would actually put the blame on the prior generation. We were just as bad if not worse than these kids in their 20s. We partied just as hard and had little worries growing up in the 90s. It all starts with parenting.

[@JackRMason]

I think it goes deeper. I'd say it all starts with self pity. The sad fact of the matter is that 99.9% of people are morons. Yeah, the Boomers made some really horrible choices that led to the corruption we have today, but remember that Gen Z's response to 2008 was Crypto. No generation has a monopoly on stupidity, and I don't think there are enough smart people alive for us to 'parent our way' out of this mess. Boomers hate Gen Zers because they can only think of themselves and can't empathize with the struggles somebody else is going through. Boomers want everyone to feel sorry for them, like over Vietnam and shit. But to be fair, that's kind of the same playbook Gen Z are working from.

[@disgruntleddude]

we're poor because we have been betrayed by previous generations that had it easy

[@Henk717]

If your gen Z you mean the generation that raised you not the generation above you. By the time I had voting rights as a millenial all the damage was already done. As a year 30 old theres nothing I could have done to stop this.

[@ceed.r.3446]

Gen x and boomers are absolutely responsible. Millennials were the first to the slaughter. Gen z are second in line, and now it's way worse.

[@ennuiblue4295]

they climbed the ladder and pulled it up behind them 🪜

[@DigitalPand3mic]

@@Henk717 Exact same here, exact same age. There was literally nothing we could do, its such bs.

[@jatabo1574]

Apparently, we should have bought our future houses while they were cheap. When we were 9 years old, that is.

[@jcb006]

Technology has improved, but quality has tanked. So everything is more expensive, and it has to be replaced more often. That includes houses and cars.

[@Apple_Apporu]

There's probably an intention with product quality being worse, so that people replace them more often and company can sell more and make more money. At some point we'll probably see higher quality products that last a while, but requires a subscription to access it

[@breakupgoogle]

INFLATION CAUSED BY MONEY PRINTING

[@goncalotr]

the state increased to price on cars with environmental and safety regulations, housing with zoning and bureaucracy added to the money printing and record taxes (here in Europe)

[@awkwardanglehiphop]

Al Bundy worked at a shoe store and had enough money to hand some out to each member of his family including the dog in every intro 😂

[@billy-bg9rx]

A lot of women I know wish they could just be stay at home Mom's, but most can't afford to even with their husbands or they're single Moms. Not to mention the years of propaganda telling women to just go to college, fight the patriarchy, and put off having families. The average age to have your first kid is 30. That's insane.

[@Yltimate_]

This.

[@civicboi96]

Are they brainwashed or do they really just believe in it? Whatever is easier to stomach I guess.

[@NexGenRogue]

On top of that men are less likely to seek relationships let alone get married. And what woman with sense would have kids or commit to someone who won't make that long term commitment? What man wants to make that commitment when it could end in a divorce that'll cost him half of all he'll make after Uncle Sam already takes a big cut? Im 25 and in a year I'll be the same age my dad had me. I'm not even getting any dates and I'm the most financially secure of my friendgroup. I don't want to feel hopeless but I'm having trouble finding a silver lining when modern community feels so disintegrated and I was already having trouble socializing and finding a community.

[@andresbogado7133]

Having kids when you are poor ain't a good idea.

[@yorrrrorrrssarratras]

@@andresbogado7133 it is the worst idea

[@herfrey4809]

my dad tryna say he understand my situation by comparing it to his life is the most infuriating idk how to work past it, it's purely delusional to say a young persons situation now has any similarities to 30 years ago.

[@PandaBrrr]

I'm 30, been going g through financial problems, my mom uncle ect. Will rant and rave how THEY saved all this money and if I do the same I'll have 40,000 when I'm 45...i asked both of them... Wtf am I going g to do with 40,000 l. They both looked at me and said "I don't know" lol I think they had a glimpse of "holy sht 40.000 won't buy anything" However that thought quickly faded and it went back to " well your saving! " yes I'm saving, so I can afford a Prius I 15 years... This kills my moral....

[@qugo8158]

Show him the numbers. If he doesn't understand then just ignore him.

[@iroekyjHD]

I didnt even make it through all of middleschool, never got my GED and never even considered college - I am 24 years old and have been working as a software engineer for 3 years now currently making around 100k/yr, where i live median income is less than half of that.

[@iroekyjHD]

@@PandaBrrr dont buy new cars they are a massive scam, i only get used cars over 120k miles for at most 7k -i do all of my maintenance because i used to be an auto-tech

[@iroekyjHD]

@@PandaBrrr 40k in some parts of the country is enough to put down on a decent house which you can later sell, make doubled up payments to the mortgage and put yourself on a 20 year or as low of a term as possible if you think you can actually pay it off. -you're also definitely going to want to look at different options for income since your savings rate is so low.

[@so_qp]

This is not thing only in the USA. I'm from Czech republic and i finished school last year since then i'm struggling to find job even thou i have required education, i was rejected so many times because simply i dont have decades of experience at similiar job. The entry level is soo high, that these companies spend months to find top 1% candidate, and when they find him, he will usually leave, because its a not well paid startup job and repeat the cycle. Another thing is If i'm trying to find a job without any experience or education required, they will reject me and say "You seem like you want to stay here for a few months until you find something better and we don't want that, thank you goodbye" I'm always asking myself if i really need to base my entire life on being convience store clerk.

[@PrairieWolff]

"Money for nothing and chicks for free".

[@towarzyszmarcin474]

dang you watched the whole video in 4 minutes too?

[@ZIPPENHAFT]

i want my, i want my.. house and groceryyyyyyy

[@knightbro19]

This ain't working. How are you supposed to do it?

[@jesserobinson749]

@@ZIPPENHAFT The rich: God, soo needy. Here have this tarp and sharp stick. You should count yourself as lucky.

[@PrairieWolff]

​@@knightbro19" See the little ( bundle of sticks) with the ear ring and make up, yea buddy, that's his own hair. that little (bundle of sticks) got his own jet airplane, that bundle of sticks is a millionaire .....

[@Moonsglows]

I mean I’m 26 and a lawyer, I make good money. But shit, after I pay for my house I barely save any money w the interest rate the way it is. I eat out maybe 3-4 times a month and have minimal spending aside from financing a few appliances for my house. They can say what they want about us getting poorer, but my mom saved more money than me back when she was my age even tho I make 3x more than her. Meanwhile, people like Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg have 3x their wealth in the past 3 years - but yea it our generation is the problem - not corporate greed.

[@Slipp0000]

Most people your age didn’t or doesn’t have the same opportunity you had. You’re actually lucky.

[@GruntoSkunko]

All major religions condemn charging interest on loans, except for Judaism which allows charging interest on loans for non-Jews.

[@magneric]

It doesn't help that the government that is supposed to protect the commoner from the ultra wealthy from abuse is assisting said ultra wealthy in that abuse.

[@sir_quirkus7206]

Maybe don’t eat out 3-4 times a month. Thats once a week. Thats too much

[@minhhapham7549]

@@sir_quirkus7206lol

[@david_a_sanchez]

"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets, inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?". - Plato, quoted as being overheard making these remarks. Point being people always talk about the other 'younger' generation. Being Gen X we did the same and heard the same of us. Give it a few years and it will just repeat.

[@dave4148]

Sure just ignore the objective facts about how the cost of living has drastically outpaced inflation adjusted wages.

[@yarnf]

Extremely sophmoric take

[@idaofficial1173]

These companies are barely playing a living wage while also constantly looking for ways to cut corners. For the life of me, I don't understand the thought process of the individual CEO personally needing tens of millions while paying the employees crumbs. Eventually this will cause the company to collapse, no?

[@Katreat4000]

The bigger the value of the company, I.E the more assets the company has, the more the company is "worth" to investors and potentiel buyers. Most companies today get sold off to rich people, maybe a rival to "conquer" the branch, so business aren't run for the long run today unfortunately So the reason most companies are shit run and cut corners, is that they can make their "income" look bigger which will attract buyers

[@neonnoir9692]

Pay is based on skill.

[@PegasusMerc]

​@@neonnoir9692If only that wasn't a joke.

[@ashd.6989]

Dude thinks we live in a meritocracy 😭​@neonnoir9692

[@Skibidi_esq]

He doesn't care, in public companies CEO is just another employee of the board. The fate of the company is irrelevant to him when he knows he can get a golden parachute into a new company to repeat the cycle of hollowing out.

[@Codemasterv]

I'm a software engineer and I can't get a job because everybody that's being hired is H1B visa right now

[@Entropy67]

Work with high clearance It's all you've got left if your a citizen

[@ezlife9656]

They are invading texas

[@mikeoxlong4812]

Which software engineering field? As a software engineer myself it's been very easy to look for jobs, I recently had 3 job offers and I took the one that sounded most interesting and remote.

[@dave4148]

@@mikeoxlong4812 dude there’s been well over 500k SWEs laid off in recent years

[@yarnf]

@@mikeoxlong4812 What field are you in/what tech is your experience in?

[@Nickdafox01]

My dad told me when he was in school he paid his friend's school fees and currently i know people around that can't afford school fees so i try to be like my dad, but KZbin isn't easy as it seems

[@redcarcinogenic4941]

When I worked at an Arby's a few years ago, even though I was their only maintenance and food storage guy. They weren't willing to give me a raise I needed for medication and only offered it when I quit. After my coworkers found out, 8 out of the 11 also quit because they would have to take over my shift's work. The manager got fired and it just shows that most companies are willing to **** you over before being helpful.

[@clintoneastwood9998]

In my area, it is $3,000.00 per month for rent, $1,000.00 per month if you want to rent just a room, and $800.00 per month if you want to rent a couch to sleep on.

[@Henk717]

What do the salaries pay in that area? If jobs there pay 4-5k a month thats doable. I just dont assume they pay that high in which case they should move area if they dont want to pay that much.

[@Kibbs_n_Bits]

@@Henk717my areas about 500$ cheaper than that. Average salary in my area is like 18-19$ an hour. Its impossible to live and save, even living with a roommate

[@iroekyjHD]

im renting a 3 bed 1 bath house with a fenced back yard for 1k a month - I didnt even make it through all of middleschool, never got my GED and never even considered college - I am 24 years old and have been working as a software engineer for 3 years now currently making around 100k/yr, where i live median income is less than half of that.

[@iroekyjHD]

also working remotely

[@christopherenders4280]

@@Henk717 I make around $150k/year and the thought of spending 3k/month on a rented apartment terrifies me

[@RandomDude19868]

It's because the size of government has exploded and the growth in government is fueled by taxes. The money which should have gone towards wages and low prices is instead going towards bigger government. The solution is cutting the size of government and letting businesses keep more money so they can pay their employees and lower the prices of their products.

[@richardm8807]

The growth of government pales in comparison to the growth of the ruling class.

[@HighPointReviews]

Entire generations and videos like this, are made when people don't understand what printing 25% more of the money supply in 2 years does to purchasing power.

[@thedivorceenforcer2863]

Now a large pizza is worth more then most peoples hourly. The currency of the U.S dollar in the USA is so weak.

[@PrussianBlu3]

It was 40%. They did the same in 2008-9

[@HighPointReviews]

Combine this with how group think has exploded in popularity while IQ/common sense significantly drops off a cliff since covid. Our journey to idiocracy continues to ramp up. Ai agents will just strengthen these echo chambers. Only see this continuing to spiral out of control. 2025 woo!

[@TimeFadesMemoryLasts]

Boomers are so oblivious of the fact that it's not the 70's and 80's anymore when one single salary could feed a whole family and buy a house + leftovers for savings

[@cursed5359]

They just don't care "Good luck kid I got mine"

[@TimeFadesMemoryLasts]

@@cursed5359 Not just that, they are gaslighting Gen-Z by telling them "you are just lazy and bad with money". And I'm sure they don't do it on purpose but are really just that oblivious and naive of todays economic struggles.

[@mikeoxlong4812]

I'm 32, own my house and car, my girlfriend doesn't work. I have enough left over to comfortably invest $1-2k monthly for retirement. I've never gotten a handout and earned every dollar I've gotten or spent, including a part time job while I went to a cheap college for a practical degree. You're obviously doing something wrong. Even if I was making half of my salary I'd still be able to afford my current life.

[@TheAndale555]

@@mikeoxlong4812a 20-40 year old that missed a pre-Covid house that you bought would be in a bad situation. Go on Zillow look at your house, look at the interest rate and the difference in house payment per month.

[@TimeFadesMemoryLasts]

@ Yeah, the world revolves only around you. Makes everyone else's struggle moot, lol. Plus you are a millennial, not Gen Z. You had enough time to buy a house in the last period of them still being just affordable enough. And on top, I'm not Gen Z and I'm not struggling but that doesn't mean I cannot speak up about someone else's struggles.

[@kobi399]

My grandparrents: Opa was the ony one working, made 20k/year and with that salary they had 3 children and built 2 houses. My parrents: Both were working made 35k/year and it was enough to rent a flat and have me. GenZ: 2 adults combined working full time make ~ 50k/year and are considerred empoverished by the goverment. P.s: These numbers are from europe.

[@JackRMason]

It's because markets aren't priced to produce social stability. The basic range of products and services you use is radically different from what your parents and grandparents did. Your grandparents probably didn't need a phone in their house, and by the time you became an adult land lines were already obsolete. You needed a hand held computer just in order to participate in the job market. Etc., etc., etc. Working at home to public transport to living in suburbs where you absolutely NEED a car. Add failure to enforce anti-monopoly legislation, deceptive tweaks to economic statistics like hedonic pricing models, and forcing workers to abandoned guaranteed pensions for risky market-based approaches like 401(k) plans, etc., etc. You've been impoverished by innovation. Smart people would have priced these additional factors into product launches, but our society doesn't. Because they're stupid.

[@adamw4338]

I make just under $100k a year driving a garbage truck. No debt and no college education.

[@mikelizard3730]

Chad!

[@adamw4338]

@@mikelizard3730 Telling women my job they pretty much always ghost though. A lot of people don't realize how well it pays.

[@Liebestod0001]

@@adamw4338 maybe you can say... they belong in your truck... jokes aside, you are doing great!

[@tranquil14738]

W

[@perfect-death4284]

@@adamw4338 Union?

[@LegoSwordViedos]

My cousin went and got a degree in video game design, couldn't get a job in the field for over 2 years of actively applying, has all this student debt, and works now as a part time bank teller which doesn't even need a college degree.

[@AdamantineAxe]

bank teller on a resume is gold though

[@cks2020693]

my father-in-law, 74y/o, in his 20s, was able to afford a rental apartment in new york city, night school, paying everything else for himself, as a part-time taxi driver

[@jimcroft21]

Your father-in-law was also not spending 10’s of thousands on useless devices and products they never needed to begin with. The temptation to make life easier is too high with all that’s available, so people spend spend spend..

[@danboyd6180]

I am so tired of this my Uncle who passed away at 50 paid for his own college, housing and food by getting two friends and painting houses in his college town That shit is impossible today, it was his generations fault. They all thought they were real estate geniuses because their houses tripled in value. But never stopped to think “wait if my kid has the same job as me, he will only be able to buy a house 1/3 of the value of the one they grew up in Fah Keen Brilliant Boomers!! Tell us how we’re lazy

[@magneric]

Line must go up no matter what

[@WolfQueenLydia]

Rich People: "You're poor? Just don't eat breakfast. Don't pay for Netflix to unwind after two jobs a day. Don't be a human being."

[@TheHungarygamer]

Honestly anyone paying for netflix is a lost cause. If you do that then you are already broken in. It was never worth it. Normal people just pirate like we always did.

[@beastfromtheabyss]

@@TheHungarygamernobody asked.

[@AdamantineAxe]

@@beastfromtheabyss stay poor

[@DesertFarmer22]

I lived under a corportate landlord (greystar) for 2 years while working as a independent contractor. I made rent on time every month. One month i had one slow week of work and told managment i wouldnt be able to have full rent until the 5th. The eviction note was on my door on the 3rd. Now that landlord is trying to sue me for 10k i dont have.

[@usrIO30581l]

So many angles to attack our savings.

[@samguy9934]

The reality when businesses say they struggle to hire enough people, what they actually mean is that they would like to hire someone's friend or family member but can't and have to actually look for actual talents.

[@Tomas9970_1]

Or they don't even recieve any decent applications (I've seen and heard about some really weird people) so they actually have to hire kids of existing employees or kids of their friends just to keep places staffed. For example I got my job on the railway because my dad (who is in a completely different department) asked about it and one of my newer colleagues got hired because my boss met him in a pub and directly offered the job (that one is particularly hillarious). Another guy got in because of a flyer he got at the end of high-school (he just called the number). If you are talking about 7-3 office work then, let's be honest, everyone wants to be working that so it's always going to be competetive. So you have to look elsewhere (as per the rules of capitalism that say that everyone can't be doing the same thing). Not to mention that working jobs that most people don't want to do should also give you higher pay.

[@h13n12]

we will reach a point where there will be a generation to fully quit, no job, no family, no asperation. why work when working barely give you enough to live, right now some need to do 2-3 jobs in order to live and it's getting worse. unless something is going to be changed, i predict that it won't last another 50 year maybe even less.

[@richardm8807]

We are there now

[@invaderjoshua6280]

When people say GenZ is lazy they mean basically everyone under 40. That includes the younger half of the millennials.

[@kevinclause4p55p5]

I work 70 hours a week and I think people on welfare live more fulfilling lives.

[@CGH5i]

Is just me or is there a massive difference in Generation Z like gen z start s from 1997 to 2012 but i feel like the people born from before 2002 are massively different than people who were born after 2002. As someone who was born in 06 i really dont experience the same stigmas or see the same stigmas in people my age that are commonly associated with our generation

[@MorgorDre]

Alpha Kevin

[@PandaBrrr]

Oh yeah, three are genz people that are on that cusp in between generations.

[@NexGenRogue]

I wonder if the timing of the pandemic had anything to do with that? Most of my major college programs happened during the height of COVID. I missed out on a lot of what people considered developmental years for finding your own identity and socializing. But after the lockdowns, I at least got less ridicule for not pulling ahead enough or feeling lost. For reference, I was born in 1999.

[@ravazoid469]

2001 big bro here, we are different. We just clutched into the last era before the smartphones dominated us all. I feel sorry for you lot.

[@CGH5i]

@@ravazoid469 i guess your partially right, close to most people either under or above my age has had/has ig/snap/twitter which could be reasons for tge stereotypes we have as a generation

[@jellin3607]

Don't stuff me into one bag and call me out like that, we're all different here.

[@ai.yeehaw]

We all getting poorer

[@pabloescobarschanclas]

monthly at this point.

[@laugh_n_share_life]

not the mega rich, we need to punish the entertainment industry they should have salary transfers or 200% tax rate increase

[@awad7391]

everything is over regulated, over taxed, and gamed against the average person.

[@outofstockfish2073]

everything in the economy is controlled. considering the data in previous generations they've realised that it's "better" for us to have less resources when we're younger to funnel us into the workforce and develop the skills that they want us to have

[@hellothere3609]

*IT'S BECAUSE OF THOSE DAMN OLD GUYS!*

[@lingricen8077]

This would be funny if not for them double-triple downing on it. Zoomers are quite literally incapable of taking any accountability for their own failures. Heck, they are even trying to blame gen-alpha now!

[@genericusername3029]

It literally is though. (I can't tell if you were being sarcastic btw.)

[@basse9914]

We need to leave it to conervicuckold "just work hard!" 1950s philosophy of success

[@whyareyoustillnotstoned]

@@basse9914 Work smarter not harder, as I started working my carrier was "do less work, get more"

[@elinope4745]

It's the old ladies. Those old guys fought against it and lost.

[@mamonzote]

Its hard for us adults to make it in the US right now, we cant expect younger people to make it. Its hard as fuck, u got to make 40$ hr to live a decent life

[@ivermektin6874]

I've noticed the ipad generation now starting to appear in workplaces. They give up at the slightest inconvenience or blocker, when you have a touchpad that does everything for you and is simple to use and never have to figure things out for yourself it shows. Not many of them are progressing well in their capabilities which has led to a lot of offshore hiring instead for their roles.

[@Madjichen]

That's more of the very young Gen Z/Gen Alpha.

[@Sphoonx]

I dislike the ipad generation as much as the next, but... Counterpoint: if all around you you only ever see these companies taking the easy road, like offshore hiring instead of putting in more effort to train their own employees, not rewarding people who put in effort through raises or promotion (unless through network corruption or DEI practices), then why on god's green earth *would* you put in more effort?

[@drokhalis3338]

I’m Gen z and have ran the gauntlet elementary to associates degrees. My generation is either those that constantly prepare and plan for the future or it’s the exact opposite and they only live for the present moment.

[@garrettmccullough2249]

I'm a millennial, and even for me, preparing and planning for the future feels like chasing the end of the rainbow. The more I go after it, the farther away it gets from me; always staying out of reach.

[@FacePunchSammich]

lol none of us will ever get to retire anyway…may as well enjoy life before you fall apart 🤷‍♂️

[@drokhalis3338]

@ I haven’t worked in 4 years (27) and I’ve never had a higher net worth from just accumulating BTC over the years.