Boomer: "All You Kids Do Is Complain!" | The HARSH Reality For Millennials and Gen Z In 2024

[@CharityDiary]

My mother was a single small-town hairdresser all her life. She owns an $800,000 house in the midwest along with several cars. Recently someone totaled my car and I'm having to get a new one, and she said, "Can't you just buy a new one with cash? They're only like $40,000." Same woman goes on multiple international cruises per year. The lady CUT HAIR for less than 40 hours per week and can afford a quality of life that younger generations will literally never get to experience.

[@tinymission7821]

Good on her! Go mom!

[@DeenanTheKemon1]

​@@tinymission7821Misses the point entirely.

[@tinymission7821]

I’m not missing any point. A single mother amassed a small fortune by going into business for herself. Obviously you have zero idea how hard being a single mother was back then.

[@occultstainedglass1752]

Thanx for making my stomach hurt... lulz... we are screwed

[@jvan927]

I live in the Midwest and this was not our reality. Something is missing from this story.

[@TravisPluss]

Finally reached 60k 2 years ago (the most I have ever made) and lost my affordable apartment 9 months after starting the job. Did not have enough time to save any money. I now have to pay $1,000 more per month. My income to expense ratio has literally defaulted back to my cost of living when I was 25 years old (10 years ago)! So ya, literally no motivation to go for the next promotion if my whole life is just gonna be a rat race until I die.

[@pioneer7777777]

I feel like "affordable housing" should be for all people up to like $180k household income and should only scale down, not be a hard cutoff. You should be able to build a life with low expenses and get ahead, not just use it when you're in poverty. It's a dumb system meant to keep people down.

[@schuylergeery-zink1923]

Vore Chase Oliver for President! 🇺🇸 🗽 Invest in Liberal Party USA 🦬 for opportunity and prosperity for all! 💸

[@dwainetyncompany]

I’m raising a family of five children with my beautiful wife and I’ve never made a dime over 46k….. I make ends meet and my needs are met…. The fuck are you complaining about?

[@GigaChad_169]

We’re getting poorer as a nation. That’s the reality. No amount of smartphones and Internet connectivity will change the fact that our standards of living are on the decline, work harder for less.

[@Attmay]

And pay more to get less because our money is worth less.

[@kiltedsasquatch3693]

Thanks to Biden-Harris.

[@talisikid1618]

That’s the reality of it. Has nothing to do with generations or birthdates. It’s the wealth disparity between the top and everyone else of all ages.

[@knottheory79220]

@@kiltedsasquatch3693 Not just them, this has been going on for decades. Plenty of Republicans contributed to it.

[@erickolb8581]

​@kiltedsasquatch3693 it's mostly older people. I remember when the boomers were my age and the older people, back then, called the boomers the "gimme gimme generation." They have not changed. We can all give the boomers more and they will still want more.

[@olemanshavadoo7893]

My mom bought a 5 bedroom 3000 sq ft house in 1994 for $120k...she could afford the mortgage as a single mom of 3 kids as a paralegal who never graduated high school. That same house is estimated to be worth $1million

[@timmy-dubs]

Really depends on location and if the house was maintained well

[@olemanshavadoo7893]

@@timmy-dubs true. It was built in the 1910s. There were some additions over the years before we bought it. It's also in an area with a lot of tech companies that blew up in the past 20 years so real estate in that area has gone nuts

[@cycologist7069]

Good for her. Be happy for her, even if your future will not be the same.

[@olemanshavadoo7893]

@@cycologist7069 oh no. She sold it like 20 years ago because the bank she got the loan from (variable interest rate) kept upping the interest rate until we couldn't afford to live there so she had to sell or foreclose.

[@b.j.7837]

@olemansaveado Hmm, was she getting child support from your father? Where was said house located? There are unknown details in this story.

[@theresemalmberg955]

I'm a Boomer and I don't think that the younger generations are complaining for no real reason. No, I think that they have very good reason to complain. They've been lied to. They are continuing to be lied to. I know exactly how they feel because I was told the same kind of lies in the 1970's about how if I went to college and followed a certain life path, success would be mine. Now I can't speak for all Boomers, of course, there are some of us who have done very well. But for myself, I definitely did not achieve even my parents' standard of living. I know what it is like to see dreams die, to see dreams fall out of reach. I know what it was like for me as a young adult struggling and it breaks my heart to see the reality that many younger people will not even be able to achieve the little that I have achieved. I don't own a nice home, I have a 30-year-old single-wide mobile home in a mobile home park; I own the home, it's paid for, but I do not and cannot afford the land it sits on, nor can I afford to move elsewhere, so I am stuck. My parents had two cars, a couple of RV's, their own house, vacation/retirement property, they were able to be snowbirds, and all I heard from them was how broke they were and how they had to be careful with money. I wish I had such money woes. They had assets, they could downsize if necessary. I cannot. So I really feel for these Millennials and Gen Zs. All I can say is that this started before many of them were born. I saw it coming in the 1980's. What is new is that this is so widespread that it cannot possibly be ignored. I wish I had some words of hope to give these young people but I don't. They DO have it harder. A LOT harder. And I do not see it getting better any time soon. I think it is going to get much worse for all of us. Our society has become like that mythical snake that eats itself, ouroboros, I think it's called. I'm not up on my mythology so I do not know how the ouroboros' story ends but I'm pretty sure it's not indefinitely sustainable. You mention the stock market and the effect that it has on jobs. Well, the stock market is what funds the majority of retirement plans these days. Yes, there are people making big money at the top of the game but there are also a lot of little people who depend on that market doing well because that's where their 401(k) and IRA money comes from. Everyone knows social security is in trouble, but not many have stopped to think about what happens when there are not enough workers to fund IRA's and 401(k)s to keep those schemes going. I'm lucky, I'm retired. But I know people in their 70's and 80's who are working, some in factories (yes!) because they have no other choice. Millennials and Gen Z, I have bad news for you. Most of you will not be able to retire. And you will spend your senior years working, not in the nice corporate American office job that you went into massive college debt to acquire, but in factories, in fast-food, as big box store greeters, because what they don't tell you before you go into all that debt is that the clock is ticking. You have a sell-by date, which will come before you are eligible for social security/medicare (provided that still exists) but after you can now withdraw from your retirement accounts without penalty (provided you have any money in those). This money can and will be held against you if you apply for assistance. You will have no choice--either spend it all, or go back to work, or maybe even both. When I was laid off in 2017 the only kind of assistance I could get was $16/month food assistance, later cut back to $15/month and I was told "be grateful, some people get even less." What, pray, does one do with only $15 a month for food? Buy a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter and a gallon of milk. Yes, I was actually told that! I hate to think what people seeking help are being told today. I was told go to school so you won't have to work in a factory, I went to school (thank God no student debt, they didn't have it back then, I worked my way through) and ended up working in a factory anyway once the company I worked for decided I was no longer needed. I learned that there are jobs that can afford to practice age discrimination and other jobs that will take just about anyone who walks in the door who is alive and breathing regardless of age because they are that desperate. Yes, Gen Z and Millenials, that could be your future. I am very glad that I am a senior and that I do not have children.

[@MysticHeather]

Sending love your way from this scared millennial ❤ my boomer mom and two boomer aunts are in very similar situations as well. My grandparents and oddly my gen x cousins are the folks in my family who have done (or did) ok or well for themselves. I have one aunt that lives in a very tiny, single wide trailer and my other aunt lives right next-door to her in a very tiny little house that is maybe 400 or 500 ft.² They are all still working in some capacity to the best of their abilities, despite some of them having debilitating health conditions. My husband and I have no idea how we are going to afford housing or where we will go because seven years ago I was forced to retire way early due to a mystery illness that I am just now starting to get a handle on and starting to improve my health, but after a seven year work gap And being limited on what I can do physically… The future is unclear and it makes me anxious. When we were kids, I just never dreamed that this is what the 2020s would look like, that we would be facing this housing crisis, this economic crisis. I’m so sorry things have been so hard for you too ❤ I don’t know what comes next, but I hope we all end up OK

[@theresemalmberg955]

@@MysticHeather All we can do is take it one day at a time. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

[@b.j.7837]

@theresmalmberg9… I am there with you. I have never been able to achieve the financial success that my parents had, even having a B.S.! They dropped out of high school, yet still got good paying jobs and pensions! Corporate America has become greedier and greedier, sucking the life from its workers, while reaping billions in profits.

[@mattdaddy_888]

It’s a globalist agenda made by the globalists in the world economic forum called agenda 2030. “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy”.

[@theguybehindyou4762]

As a millennial that is days away from turning 35, it's sink-or-swim time for me, and in the event that the current trajectory remains unchanged, the most sustainable option I can think of is a farm in another country with lower cost of living, and starting a family with a woman unsullied by western feminism who won't abandon me and take everything I own the second she gets bored.

[@Sardonicstoner420]

They don’t care enough to because they’ll be six feet under when this all comes crashing down. They lived in the moment and now we gotta pay the bills.

[@Adelina-293]

To quote a 60s song, let's live for today and don't worry about tomorrow.

[@bluefungi]

​@Adelina-293 The future is now tho. They didn't care.

[@danamarie8718]

Yeah, well it all came crashing down on Boomers in the 70s. They recovered. Years later, when they had all their equity in their homes it came crashing down in 2008. And many lost most of their retirement funds, too. The majority recovered from that too. It’s cyclical. Happens to every generation. Most people recover, some do not. Happened to the Boomers, to generations before them and after them and will keep happening.

[@michaelhoudecki3657]

@@danamarie8718 The stock market recovered in like 5 years, same with house prices... And even with what happened in the 70s, wages kept up

[@Attmay]

@@Adelina-293 all part of the CIA psyop.

[@falsificationism]

If Einstein were alive today he'd be spending 60% of his mental energy worrying about student loans and the other 40% of it stressed out while he circles the block for parking and fighting with insurance companies over the phone.

[@Romogi]

That is not an exaggeration sadly.

[@3beltwesty]

He would say most useless degrees folks have is stupid. Lol

[@badboybs98]

Yeah instead he spent time worrying about the nazis

[@falsificationism]

@@3beltwesty You know he identified as a moral philosopher and wrote lengthy liberal arts papers on things like socialism, yeah?

[@falsificationism]

@@badboybs98 During his time at Princeton? No. He was more interested in nuclear oblivion, black holes, and socialism.

[@43mightbe]

At what point do we start digitally rioting? I have to work my tail off for 10 to 12 hours a day and I can barely afford a car. An apartment is out of the question. Yet, we "have nothing to complain about" or "your life is so much easier nowadays"

[@rattlehead999]

I'm at that point where I wonder why I'm working and putting in great effort when I can't afford anything...

[@3beltwesty]

Many folks work since have actual bills to pay..

[@tommysalami420]

@@3beltwesty What happens when no one can even pay bills mass euthanasia?

[@3beltwesty]

@@tommysalami420 find something you like to do and provide a great service ..that is what folks did forever. A direct ancestor went west for the 2nd gold rush in 1859. His letter said there were few homes in Virginia City and they were all expensive. He and 2 others went from Michigan to Nevada and California pre Civil War. They had a few horses and at the end walked. Ie sold the horses for food None of the letter has any whining. Lol

[@tommysalami420]

@@3beltwesty Dude I discovered a brand new technology and it was widely implemented into the field of AI. I already had my legacy on this earth. I want to go into that passion full time. I'm having a stream today actually. I am a poor person that is tired of being overworked and taken advantage of. In any other time in history discovering something as revolutionary as I did would have instantly set me for life and all my future generations. I just want to be an entertainer at this point. I'm not being given a stable enough environment for the chance I need. I'm sick and tired I can change the very face of this earth yet I'm still feeling hopeless and destitute. I just wanted enough time to actually make something of myself after my discovery. Yet life has kicked me endlessly. I haven't completely given up but you can't imagine how heartbreaking it is for even that illusion to break down in front of someone. Imagine you invent something that's never been done before just for it to immediately be used for others while you're still stuck in the same helpless position you started in.

[@TheEnigmaProductions]

That’s why I put in the least amount of effort at work

[@royalbiscuits8442]

Every boomer I know: "kids want too much now days. A 3 bedhouse, a smartphone, a car". You mean like what you had, less the smartphone.

[@KoarTCN]

Don't forget that smartphones are a necessity. You need the internet to even get a job these days. You also have to have a way for employers to contact you. Sometimes that requires a video call. Boomers don't realize what we HAVE to go through just to survive and be a part of the work force. They are only capable of thinking about how things WERE and can't comprehend how things ARE.

[@MarthaTorres-gu7vd]

I'd trade 5 of you for 1 boomer. I lived with the boomers a while. You guys are the worst. Likely do the same dumb shit over and over.

[@RosesaurusRex]

They had like two or more cars and could afford two whole children though, your smartphone ain't nothing...

[@jvan927]

Our first house was 950 sq ft. After seven years we “moved up” to 1200 sq ft. Most people today wouldn’t settle for something that small.

[@RosesaurusRex]

@@jvan927 we're renting motel rooms for anywhere between $600 and $850 a month and we make 11/hr but truth be told, i have to nearly sell my soul to have a job that pays more because according to landlords and banks in my area I need to make well above minimum wage to afford to live under a roof. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@adinak88]

Im 32 and passed my exam to be a registered dietitian. We are living paycheck to paycheck and i have a job in a hospital. We are renting and i feel like im throwing money in the garbage because i cant afford the cheapest townhouse where i am living😢

[@jaweel6205]

Almost 100k earned first year out of college, a lot more than most. My boss told me 200k a year ain’t even shit. Unfortunately he was right that even the higher wage earners of the middle class are broke.

[@kiltedsasquatch3693]

As a New Registered Dietitian, I'd be interested in your opinion of the Keto-style (Caveman) diet.

[@limehuzki]

2:24 id like to add that off grid living has become illegal in most US states. You are forced to rent there is no choice. It at least used to be you could buy land rent-to-own a shed , some solar panels and a mini fridge. But now you are forced to rent by the elderly generation that does not represent the current United States

[@schuylergeery-zink1923]

Exactly! That’s BS they’re trying to regulate us out of options. Vore Chase Oliver for President! 🇺🇸 🗽 Invest in Liberal Party USA 🦬 for opportunity and prosperity for all! 💸

[@amandalarizza2223]

Gen x is in really bad shape too.

[@simonson7653]

If you have no house yes

[@IsaiahMiguel]

😂 how? You guys grew up in the best economic times and were able to afford houses. If you’re in bad shape that’s on you, sorry

[@asiblingproduction]

Not that simple, there are struggling people across all generations if you didnt own a home starting off.​@@IsaiahMiguel

[@BarbaraBaker-c2x]

@@IsaiahMiguel Maybe if millennials (and gen z) stopped blaming other generations for their financial struggles and knew how to manage their money more wisely instead of spending it on expensive tech gadgets, streaming & subscription services, Ubereats and Doordash every week and online shopping, etc. they would be able to afford a house. But that would mean taking personal responsibility for their own lives instead of blaming past generations which isn't likely to happen, so........that's on them.

[@treymapimp]

@@TwisterTornadolol some older people get all their news from other older people that like to complain about younger generations. She didn’t even bother watching the video it seems and doesn’t seem to know of the many other failures of her generation. Nope it’s that $10-$15 monthly subscription fee that’s dooming so many people 😂

[@Sr68720]

We went from 5 families in one shared house to owning our own home back to 5 families in one house again.

[@Isjustmeh]

I’m 32 and got laid off a few months ago from a job I was with since 2015, I had to move back home and have been looking for work since the end of April. Yet my boomer parents say the economy is doing great. 🙄

[@amoruffo]

You’re not alone. My husband got laid off last year and it took him from April until September to find a job. Luckily it was near his parents and they have a big four bedroom house so there we are having 3 generations under one roof. It has now been a year and there is no option of finding our own place insight.

[@jonguyen4411]

I will buy a piece of land and camping their for a while 😅.

[@theguybehindyou4762]

They were catered to so hard in their youth that they are now incapable of seeing anything outside of themselves.

[@karenbrest187]

I worry for my grandchildren's future & our country 🥺

[@bighornhd]

Do you worry enough to make a change that will help your grandchildren or are you waiting for someone else to come up with a solution without you making any changes?

[@MrHDProd]

@@bighornhdI’m pretty sure she is waiting for someone else to fix the situation

[@tommysalami420]

You're worry is no longer enough thanks for plunging us into hell

[@fairywingsonroses]

I quit working last year when I realized I could not work and have the same quality of life. My husband's job pays most of the bills, and my income wasn't enough for an upgrade of anything. It's made it virtually impossible to be motivated to go back to work, even though I loved my job (which also required a degree). Now I just focus on taking care of our kid and keeping up with things around the house. It's just not worth it to invest my entire life into a career that isn't going to have a substantial payoff.

[@amazinglats6020]

From my point of view the biggest payoff of working is to have enough wealth to not work anymore, so you’re living the dream. Sure you’re still taking care of kids but I’d like to do that too.

[@fairywingsonroses]

@@amazinglats6020 I crunched the numbers, and my salary on its own was NEVER going to result in enough money to quit working. Mine and my husband's salaries together.... maybe. I'm still weighing the option of going back to work at some point, but I'm just not motivated. I really hate American work culture, and it's hard to want to go back when the payoff is so small, even if it's above and beyond what we need to make ends meet.

[@jfree2737]

Until you're divorced in 10 years and a huge dent is missing out of the already insufficient amount of social security you'll get at retirement because you didn't work for a decade. Remember: our government places no value on childrearing unless you're doing for a paycheck and a stranger's kid. Protect your future.

[@fairywingsonroses]

@@jfree2737 My child is special needs. Part of the reason why I quit was because I couldn't keep up with her needs and a full-time job too.... because our government and our society place no value on childrearing (even when you're doing it for a paycheck to watch someone else's kids). It's kind of hard to protect your future when there is no space for you or your child to have one in the first place. 🙄 She's getting older now, so maybe I can go back in the next year or two IF the situation allows it.

[@jfree2737]

@@fairywingsonroses Hopefully so! Still find a way to put something aside for yourself, because unfortunately this society doesn't value anyone not making a rich person richer.

[@RealHomeRecording]

Imagine a literal war starting between land/home owners and renters/the homeless population.

[@sixstringcity3931]

Thatd be horrific- but the bankers would be thrilled……

[@Horace1993]

That's what is meant by eat the rich

[@KingdomKillaz117]

Ay man, I bought my house to live in fair and square. Ain't no one taking it from me. (Millennial btw)

[@RealHomeRecording]

@@KingdomKillaz117 I was not referring to you, to be clear...I'm referring to the ones who own a lot of single family home properties and are greedy. The ones buying up houses to rent on Airbnb, etc. The corporate landlords

[@KingdomKillaz117]

@@RealHomeRecording I get you, man. The landlord lifestyle is out of control.

[@rmart0510]

Just want my own place, be able to travel since I never been able to, have enough money to not worry if I am able to afford simple things. Currently saving and investing pretty much everything with what I can at the moment but still seems much more difficult. Still keep going to work and doing what I need to do. I've dealt with a bunch of bs early on in life as it is. All of us who've been struggling deserve better.

[@ToddMcDonald-zh4ym]

You lost me with "deserve"

[@jeffherringa4709]

You need at least a $75,000 to $150,000 single income to just get by in many major American cities now. Life was more affordable as little as 25 to 50 years ago. However, it wasn't perfect since corporal punishment was still widely acceptable until the mid-1980's. Yes, I think Millennials and Gen-Z are getting screwed. A brief viewpoint from a Gen-Xer here.

[@theresataylor1565]

Gen-Xer here. We're not great either. We do ok but don't want to see the kids homeless, so they get help. The older folks planned for retirement but not for the nursing home, so we keep them with us, too. Gen-Xers are sandwiched and the middle.

[@timmy-dubs]

So bring back corporal punishment and all is better, right? That's what I'm hearing?

[@paulscott6998]

There’s your problem right there. You call it corporate punishment. I call it good old fashioned discipline.

[@titolovely8237]

The empire is in terminal decline. There is no stopping it. The best we can do is downsize our lives, accept that we will have a lower standard of living and adopt a desire for personal growth instead of material wealth. I stopped working really hard a few years ago and my quality of life is much higher. A good book and a cup of coffee in a rainy day can be as joyous as buying a yacht

[@willlive6845]

So let’s math this real quick. 20 dollars an hour is 41000 a year. I pay 9000 dollars a year for health insurance before taxes. 32000 before taxes Taxes leave me with 64 percent of gross Leaving me with 21000 dollars. If I find a lower end apartment for 1000 dollars a month that leaves me with 9000 dollars. That’s leaves me with 750 dollars a month to pay for car, car insurance, cell phone, food, gas, saving for retirement. Sooooo yeah, I’m gonna fucking complain. I build blow molding machines and have to read and interpret complex blueprints. Like this working economy is a joke on both ends.

[@Dudeguy36]

There needs to be limits on the amount of rental homes a person can have.

[@soup3ygnome173]

35 yr old vet with 1 kid (special needs) pulling in 50k a year, still can't afford to live in a 960sqft house. What is savings?? My parents were able to live on 40 ish K per year with 3 kids new cars and a mortgage.. not comfortably but we did it. We're loosing money faster than we can earn it with only the mortgage, car payment, and groceries.. with only 1 subscription service LMFAO

[@WeatherHappens]

Thank you for your service!!

[@1Kent]

Corporate misers are the ones you should be blaming, not Boomers. They need you to believe $20 an hour is more than enough!

[@void5239]

Hi, millennial here. Early 30s. Spouse and I have a doctorate and bachelors respectively. Living nearly paycheck to paycheck. Can’t afford vacations. Rent and groceries take up 60-70% of our income… the rest go to bills an other expenses. Our luxury is going out to dinner a couple times a month. Anyone with equity is living like a king and the have nots are living in near poverty forced to be a renter class. My only hope is regulation on housing as an “investment” and the boomer generation dying off. Have a great day!

[@Eirikr430428]

Thank you for including the fertility rate in your videos. Such a great indicator of “things are generally not good.”

[@jfree2737]

Boomers where also known as the "Me Generation." It looks like they never quite outgrew that. They changed the U.S. motto from "e pluribus unum" to "hooray for me and to Hell with you."

[@OneAndDone5150]

Known as they just get it done Gen. don't cry just put in the effort NOTHING is easy or given to anyone. Man up.

[@sirkylanthered]

​@@OneAndDone5150Get what done, they got handed everything, then the older boomers told their Gen X kids to shut up and do as we say, and the younger boomers told their melinial kids to quite being babies and suck it up. And now all we hear is shut up and quit whining while doing nothing but living off the economy they didn't build, but sure as f%$k ruined for everyone else.

[@theguybehindyou4762]

@@OneAndDone5150 Get what done? All of the historical accomplishments from the 20th century were done by the war generation. All the boomers did was soak up the benefits and left nothing but outdated advice to those who came after them. And the first boomer president, Bill Clinton, passed up the chance to eliminate Bin Laden, making him indirectly responsible for 9/11. Really impressive track record, boom-booms.

[@Adelina-293]

Individual boomers vary wildly but as a generation they brought hard into a certain 60s song, let's live for today and don't worry about tomorrow.

[@Attmay]

And oldies radio kept that song, and by proxy that mentality, alive while ignoring everything from that era that wasn't rock 'n' roll.

[@benzzc3626]

So Boomers are faulted for investing wisely long-term while simultaneously being accused of "living for today". Got it.

[@AzariusChrome]

Here's my advice to the Boomers if you're having to go back to work because you can no longer afford things on your Social Security ask yourself where Social Security comes from it comes from the working class if the working class is unsatisfied with the way things are running in our country and you're no longer getting the benefits for the hours and years and decades you put in ask yourself why isn't the Next Generation also seeking that Social Security because it's not going to exist

[@WeatherHappens]

They've been saying that for decades. It'll be true when I'm of age, though.

[@Christopher-iv9yy]

If youre a millennial or gen z I recommend getting on SSI however you can to keep that money out of the pockets of greedy boomers.

[@MysticHeather]

Punctuation my dude. Punctuation would make what you wrote more understandable and we need to be good at communicating our struggles so that others can understand

[@phoenixrising5338]

Boomers are the working class. Hello. Getting pretty tired of being told boomers didn't work. I worked my tail off, starting when I was 13. I've had a job in some form ever since. I've been listing "exhaustion" on my report forms at doctor's checkups for some time. No one has ever asked me what I mean by that. Things happen in life that blow even the most hard-working, careful planning out of the water. Medical bills, death, children with long-term or permanent diagnoses health insurance doesn't cover treatment for, divorce, sudden catastrophic or chronic illness, natural disasters, economic collapses, things individuals cannot prevent and did not cause. I think we'd probably all do a lot better if we extended some empathy and helped each other, instead of hunting around for someone to lynch like a mob.

[@cptsquish]

Boomers have always compared their experiences and tried to minimize younger generations. I went to Army basic training in the 90’s and all I heard from older guys was “you have stress cards and they don’t hit you”.

[@knottheory79220]

I am doing things right now to make my situation better, but I'm 43 with two college degrees and certifications in a senior supervisory white collar job. I don't earn a ton of money but I earn a lot more than most 30 year olds. *I* can't afford a house, and I live in a flyover state.

[@victor_beltran]

Millennial here. Wife graduated college debt free. I graduated with some debt. We both believed in love and there’s still lots of good in life. Positive approach & teamwork to life helped us. We were young and learning as we went. She is a high school math teacher & im an engineer in the oilfield. We got super lucky we bought our home in Covid June 2020. Locked in rate at 2.8. Moral of my story, if we began our story again day one in today’s time, ufff. It would take us waayyy longer to be where we are now. So I get the whole work harder move up stay positive don’t let your circumstances dictate your future blaze blaze, but this economy is not in our younger gen’s favor.

[@treymapimp]

Buckling down and working your butt wasn’t too far fetched as far as the younger generation goes (years and years ago) but the steeper that hill gets the more people lose the will to fight. I went back to an old job that used to have is working 3 weeks in a row with 2 day breaks in the hopes of getting more money only to learn that overtime has basically been halved and they’re only paying $2 more than FIVE years ago. I have a wife with chronic to pain to take care of and it took the wind out of my sails when they said no overtime today (Saturday). I’ve never felt so depressed to have a free weekend. Something’s gotta change

[@victor_beltran]

@@treymapimp I agree well hopefully those freed up Saturdays allows you to care for your wife & hoping things get better for you man. But as much time we wanna spend w the wife/kids we also gotta work to provide it’s a vicious cycle.

[@jennifer3551]

So thankful to own my home at 52 with no debt of any kind because this allows me to help out my 2 daughters and little grandson

[@mjo9000]

Please testify to congress

[@DeenanTheKemon1]

Most Boomers buying themselves brand new $80k side-by-sides to use at their summer Camp, but then become furious if their grandkids need help with a light or grocery bill. 😉

[@backcountyrpilot]

Please consider that until you give up your entitlement, you’ll be stuck coveting what your grandparents and others conserved.

[@ommconsult8351]

@@backcountyrpilotso the me me me generation of boomers who paid for school with a summer job don’t want to help their grandkids pay for books while it would take them years to pay for one semester. Just wanna make sure I understand that entitlement argument.

[@Perth369]

​@@ommconsult8351yep, how dare you be entitled to food, shelter, water and clothes, get on with pulling up those boot straps. Nevermind if you can't afford boots, we can just duct tape those straps to your ankles for you. Go on, pull, pull.

[@JessG_20]

​@backcountyrpilot I bet if you actually showed us a live replay of your entire life and the job(s) you worked and how you were just so much better at conserving, we'd see where the real entitlement comes from. Just another out of touch boomer.

[@ThePimpedOutPlatypus]

​@backcountyrpilot I moved out 8 days after graduating high school. I haven't asked my parents for a dollar since, because I know they wouldn't give it, they say things like you. My grandmother died. My parents paid off their downtown Southern California house, and I got a couple photos. I wasn't surprised, just disappointed. I left California shortly after that. Then they ask me when I am going to come out to visit and bring the grandkids. Sorry, I gotta pull myself up by the bootstraps and keep working, so I don't have the luxury of taking vacations, let alone any hope of ever retiring like them. I am contributing to Social Security and my 401K, but the way the cost of living is skyrocketing those will likely be rendered irrelevant and I will have to work until I die 🤷🏽‍♂️ It just is what it is. That's the reality for Gen X and younger

[@working-for-solace]

its important noting that even just the financial stress alone can negetively affect birthing rates, even if these couples were willing to get pregnant that stress can make it quite abit harder just to even accomplish pregnancy. now throw into the mix poor food quality in the US, poor healthcare structure, and absolutely no actual represensation in the GOV because they all only care about lining that stock portfolio with inside trading and legislation that benefits them and only them, as well as sending money off to god really knows what to secure or broker hush hush deals with our tax money while also throwing out random false hearings and court showings of them "holding CEO's accountable" yet nothing truly gets done to solve any of the atrocities done by said corporations because these corporate lobbyists have our gov officials on an adjustable leash. the younger generations are done with this system, its only a matter of time before we boil over and hold these criminals accountable in my opinion. the only question is how it will be done, and for everyones sake i truly hope its as peaceful as possible.

[@mrmiagi6052]

You either work your life away to be able to afford some things you don’t have time to use. Or you don’t work enough and you can’t afford anything.

[@Sub0Kate]

Digital protest! I'm here for it!

[@msb8197]

I really enjoy your content!!!! ❤❤❤❤

[@WestQuinte]

We were never entitled enough

[@CarbonTaxLOL]

They told us it was a meritocracy but it is an inheritocracy

[@CarbonTaxLOL]

Housing prices are making us stupider aswell, nobody can concentrate at work and we are stressed out focusing on things that should have been fixed along time ago, but that were deliberatly not fixed to make old people richer, and to enable child labour in essence.

[@jondstewart]

Please don’t forget there was also a generation of people in this country at one time that were children in the 1970s and 1980s and teenagers in the 1980s and 1990s. They were called Generation X. The youngest ones today are in their mid 40s and the oldest ones around 60.

[@sagedrakarian3103]

Sad but true.

[@C2C19]

Fix the problem not the blame

[@robcab3725]

They were called the "me generation" before being called boomers

[@benzzc3626]

I looked up "me generation". One source said Boomers, another said those born 1970-2000. A third said "Generation Me" was born in the 1980s & 90s.

[@lesliethurston2151]

Not to mention how difficult it is to find a safe and sane living arrangement. Rent aside, this comes with its own set of issues. Living in one's vehicle brings the only sense of peace and hint of freedom, so it seems.

[@rustym.shackelford5546]

Boomer: "Why are you complaining?" Me: "Says the person who dodged the 'Nam draft, the person who burned his draft card, the person who protested for unions, and ultimately heralded 'The Civil Rights Movement.' I dunno, man; you sure complained and changed things."

[@Attmay]

The movers and the shakers of the black civil rights movement were born before 1946.

[@Nahbuddy237]

It's going to be a lot less affordable once Trump puts 10% to 20% tariffs on all imported products and 60% to 100% on all Chinese imported products.

[@jonguyen4411]

And he said he would like to cut tax lol. Tariff is a kind of tax 😅.

[@Nahbuddy237]

@jonguyen4411 when he said "I'm going to cut your taxes" he wasn't talking to you, me, or any of the average Americans. He was talking to his billionaire donors.

[@jonguyen4411]

@@Nahbuddy237 exactly that is what I mean but many MAGA boys thought the other way. But again, many millionaire businesses will be hurt by the tariff lol. Billionaires will swallow them up lol, those sharks advocate for free trade theory from Milton Friedman but they themselves dont like competition. Tariff will help them, lower quality down and raise the price. Monopolistic market viva viva.

[@Nahbuddy237]

@@jonguyen4411 Sadly, history has continued to repeat itself. They can't say they weren't warned. And I won't hear any complaining from any of the MAGA members in my own family.

[@goldensus7778]

This video is 100% based. Modern gens are mostly screwed if their parents are not high earners 😢

[@backcountyrpilot]

The most important change young people should push for is that the US go back on The Gold Standard (or adopt a Bitcoin Standard). This would stop inflation and the pointless wars that inflation allows overnight. The next thing you should do is force the government to phase out Social Security. It has been a PONZI Scheme since it began in 1935, and Gen Z will be the last level and left holding the bag.

[@michaelhoudecki3657]

Gen Z? Gen X won't even get it, that sh!t's gone in 10 years!

[@Attmay]

We need what they are doing in Argentina now.

[@WeatherHappens]

Socialism only matters when you need it.

[@kiltedsasquatch3693]

A silver dime in 1940 would buy a Loaf of Bread. That same silver dime today still buys a Loaf of Bread, just due to the silver melt value. Once people get that simple concept then moving back to the Gold/Silver standard would be easy.

[@jaynoir8937]

My parents bought a 4bd 2 bth 1922 sqft house for 90k in the early 90s, Id Kill to be able to find a house that size for double the prize these days. When I first started checking Zillow a few years ago for homes in my price range, there were dozens of homes. Now, there's barely a handful, and the ones there, are basically asking for mansion amounts for a shoebox. After all the saving Ive done in the last 5 years its like is there even a point anymore?

[@michaelhoudecki3657]

Look at the inflation calculator from the early 90s til now, it should only be double, buuuuut......

[@WeatherHappens]

You should be investing, not saving. You'll get more interest, and your money will actually grow as opposed to losing value in savings.

[@chrisj5443]

Complaining/protesting generates income on social media, so it will continue. Steadily increasing government spending and interference in the economy is the main source of these problems. Don't blame me (a boomer) for that. I've opposed it and voted against it my entire adult life.

[@coopsnz1]

Problem is gen z & millinnal idiots vote for it ! Im a millennial i hate big government ill never communist or socialist parties

[@danamarie8718]

Yep. It generates income but produces nothing tangible. But heck, let’s all be “influencers” so we can work from home as little or as much as we want whenever we want. Let’s make money by creating hate and fear without offering solutions. Let’s complain about work life balance while simultaneously saying they are being unfairly criticized for not wanting to work hard enough to get ahead.

[@tommysalami420]

@@danamarie8718 You have lead poisoning and brain damage your opinion is invalid. You left nothing of value behind in society rot and never speak again

[@tenishathathaway4894]

I know a boomer, a retired teacher that has returned back to work. Luckily there's a need for teachers, because the young teachers are resorting to only fans. They were grateful for her return at 70.

[@immortallegend648]

I'm a gen xer and i apologize for the country we left you.

[@ZERO_O7X]

43 year old elder millenial here. It wasn't your gens fault. Yall were lucky enough to get in before the job and housing market crapped the bed.

[@immortallegend648]

@@ZERO_O7X we're equally to blame. We didn't take the reigns when we should have. We let the boomers hold onto political, and cultural power much longer than we should have.

[@ZERO_O7X]

@@immortallegend648 I don't know if they would have ever handed over the reigns. They didn't trust you or us and that's why they're still in power. My parents are first wave boomers, born in 47 and 50 and still refuse to see or treat me like an adult and I see it happen to my cousins who are gen x as well. I'm just glad there are some people in your generation like you who care about what millennials and gen z are facing. I grew up with a lot of gen x kids since I was literally on the cusp of x and millennial, and have met a lot of good gen x people over the years. My suggestion to you is to convince the stubborn ones who have fallen into the belief that "we're just lazy" that it's not our fault. It's getting easier to do since gen x has so many kids who are now working age, hard working and still struggling. We have to unite together to fight this thing if we want to win. ✌

[@Ferelmakina]

You're gen xer too dude ​@@ZERO_O7X

[@Adelina-293]

Gen X didn't do this, you got passed over and put on ignore.

[@drewflanagan4296]

Race, gender, sexuality ... age is just the latest metric they're using to divide us.

[@GaspataGhast]

Men and women are different, there are many different unique and distinct racial groups with their own experiences and nations and that isn’t happening because of the government, this mindset is literally so frustrating and ignores very real issues that boomers have also ignored, Also multiculturalism, diversity and integration is literally THE status quo, and is what has led to this dysfunction and atomization

[@drewflanagan4296]

@@GaspataGhast I'll be the first to admit that I'm not vry smrt. So you'll have to forgive me if I have no idea what you're trying to say here. Great writing though, you managed to string all the buzzwords together.

[@jer1776]

Yep. Im sick of culture war stuff from both the left and the right. I just want to be able to own a home and afford a family.

[@slivernoob1939]

I only worked two hours today. I made enough money to buy lunch……

[@3beltwesty]

Did that in grade school in Indiana..pocketed the 30 cent lunch.money.. so got paid 15 cents an hour for 2 hours in cafeteria..got paid with a free lunch 😊

[@michaelhoudecki3657]

@@3beltwesty This guy's not a kid in the single digits helping the lunch lady though

[@robertmichelin7352]

Newsflash, life isn't easy nor fair. Figure things out.

[@toothinm9paste]

The birth rate isn't effected by the economy that much, there are different dynamics at work that compile together to effect the birth rate.

[@CallingOutBsHere]

Most of us are on average salaries of 25/28k a year and cant even afford apartments at $12/1500 a month. Jobs dont give descent raises pensions or bonuses today where fucked!!!

[@MrsLilD76]

Something’s has to give and it feels like it’s going to happen sooner rather than later

[@vatefairefoutre0]

I'm a 33 year old woman now. I have found my husband that I love dearly and know we will be great parents. all I want is to have one or two kids... but how can we when we struggle and fall into debt just to take care of ourselves??? it's NOT FAIR. I WANT BABIES!!!! goddammit. we don't have grandparents around to help out much either. so don't even put that crap in our face. I'm wondering if my biological clock will be able to have babies once we finally get on our feet... IF we get on our feet... I want to adopt if that is the case but that costs a ton of money too...

[@kickturncurtis606]

Hell yeah brother!

[@garrettleatham7138]

I make 63k, have no subscriptions and have my car paid off. No student loans. The sad reality is that I'm better off than a lot of college graduates, and I can still afford less than what a cashier could in thr 70s.

[@mindsablaze221]

My folks have a gigantic house out in the country, garage, land, multiple cars, married, only dad works. Me I am single, live alone in a small apartment in an alleyway in the city, drive an old car with the check engine light on. lol things could be worse I guess

[@erich84502a]

Silent generation did this too though.

[@CuhS-q7v]

Its not complaining at all

[@robcab3725]

Get Boomers (the "me generation) out of office

[@ChristinaWillever]

I agree! $$$😢

[@patsylee9709]

Please stop lumping people together. I am a boomer but I am a bleeding heart liberal. I voted straight democrat. I also am aware of other generation problems. I help my son and his family all I can.

[@fighterpimp]

God tells us to be salty. Because if we lose are saltiness. Then what good are so.

[@994pt4]

Boomer is like NIGHTMARE for GenZ 🤣

[@techman3420]

Anyone younger than a boomer is fucked. Plain and simple. I’ll work until I die and still have nothing.

[@tompriceusmc]

Marry rich. Thats your best hope.

[@kiltedsasquatch3693]

Hey, at least the Boomers left you some of the best music ever... Thank you very much.

[@tommysalami420]

@@kiltedsasquatch3693 The music doesn't fit the feelings of hopelessness they created. Its like playing Christmas music at the gates of hell no one can relate to it anymore

[@kiltedsasquatch3693]

Do you know what a Boomer is in Appalachia?

[@kiltedsasquatch3693]

@tommysalami420 Too many of the younger generations have lost their way from religion. Hedonistic behavior is all they know. But there is always hope.

[@ValdestotsVoice]

There is a generation between the Boomers and Millennials you know. Or are you lumping in Boomers and Gen X together? Gen Xers hate the boomers. We are literally the latch key generation and we had to fend for ourselves and NOBODY helped us out!

[@danamarie8718]

I’m a younger Boomer. And my parents were very young when they had me. I have much more in common with GenX than Boomers. It’s the Gen Jones subset of Boomers. And the oldest Boomers probably have more in common with the Silent Generation.

[@JakoWako]

A lot of Gen X are a bunch of suck ups to Baby Boomers. Even now they keep submitting to those Baby Boomers despite nearly all of them being eligible to collect Social Security.

[@rodseller9936]

❤

[@bobbray9666]

The problem is that everyone wants a better life and people always vote that way. Deficit spending reaps positive results to the economy. Deficits are always predicted to decrease as the economy is expected to continually grow. Then it doesn't. Economic stimulus is then provided by the government (more deficits) because mass long term unemployment creates unrest. Rinse and repeat over decades and presto; we have a deficit crisis with inflation.

[@gjm2669]

So what’s the solution after “digitally protesting?”

[@marymorgan-q2p]

A boomer here. We were brought up to not complain.I didn't have it good either. Wasn't able to buy a house until. I was forty yrs. old No vacations. no wasting money. Just tried to survive . It has never been that easy to get by.

[@TrevorGray4758]

I just wanna say that taxes are to me the biggest problem. Unregulated, forced, and most likely pocketed. But hey, they are doing what’s right👍

[@Malley04]

You guys are and you do!!

[@angelaleithner]

House: Boomers: the first 5 years we had not flat of our own, we lived at the grandparents house/flat. Then we three children shared one room, i got a room of my own with 22 years for the first time.... Today they want eith 16 years what we have reached with 40, 50, 60 years. Well, stop to complain and start to work (cleaning, doing household for others, work as garbageworkers... until a better job is free....)

[@jondstewart]

Not positive, but in places like Los Angeles, San Diego, and even theSan Francisco Bay Area, until the 1990s, anybody could make a decent living there and afford to buy a house. I remember a few years ago on Mission Beach in San Diego. I talked to a man that was a local probably in his 70s. He said he and his family moved there from Mississippi when he was 10 years old and he bought his house in 1973 for 25,000 and now worth close to 1 million.

[@debrabaker6021]

What solutions do you suggest?

[@garynapoli6244]

They’re in Facebook so this message won’t reach them.

[@benzzc3626]

And you're so cutting edge, you're on KZbin.

[@garynapoli6244]

@@benzzc3626 just stating a fact. No need to be emotional.

[@benzzc3626]

@@garynapoli6244 Reading "emotional" into my fact seems "emotional" on your part.

[@patriciamk]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@valeriefromoregon]

I’m Gen X . Why are you thinking we are boomers ? I treat millennials or Gen Z very well . They are my children’s age .

[@bobyoung6446]

Not sure what your solution is. What is it?

[@icecrusher19]

Boomers I have a lot of respect for you guys, but y'all need to chill right now and stop gaslighting the millennials/gen x we need to come together more than ever.

[@RyanWithersAway]

they are to busy trying to make america great again....

[@sagesofsound298]

Pay $1500 a month in rent and my neighbor is a meth dealer. No more conversations. I expect at this point to just have it fixed. Sick of 10 year plans, by 2029 it’ll be better, this that and the other thing. We’re burnt, all of us. Been to school three times, every field destroyed by AI bidenomics and the like. I’m done.

[@elmi17]

Feels awesome to see the starting year for that national debt graph be the year I was born. Never had a chance in hell...

[@kiltedsasquatch3693]

Gold Standard is the last chance.

[@nathangill8404]

Occupy Wall Street

[@fighterpimp]

You want to fix the economy. It is simple. Remove taxes off the youth and single people at the highest scales. Tax the corps that are national at monopoly like levels. If you move out of state to national level. You basically monopolies at this point. This means your businesses are so powerful they will effect the entire nation. At that point. The government should stop in and allow the people to vote on raises and incomes of those businesses. Because they aren't locally own capitalist business at this point. They are national multiple public owned businesses. This means it isn't private business anymore. So it needs to have non private laws. It is a monopoly at this point. This is why so many people invest in it and only push for stock price increases.

[@TheBoomerMill]

I'm a Boomer married to a Millennial and the stats don't lie. What is happening to the younger gens was criminal back in the day. I finally came to my senses and started a channel addressing this with my wife. Thank you for sharing your insights!

[@benjaminwallace457]

Damn Boomers

[@grgj1951]

WHAT IS IT YOU WANT US TO DO??🇨🇦❤🎄🧑‍🎄

[@InsightsAbroad]

Read 'globalists' by Slobodian

[@InsightsAbroad]

Do NOT listen to the audiobook. Worst reader ever

[@ShaneConQueso]

Boomers gonna Boom, Yo! 💥 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@mitchellpepper9751]

Hey Freddie Smith, I am a somewhat politically active boomer and have been watching some of your videos with admiration and understanding for your words and cause. Please correct me if there are other methods to make the changes you suggest a reality, but voting in your interests is the only clear cut way I am comprehending. However, your posts and the comments on your posts are mostly anecdotal and aren't offering any political direction that you feel would benefit Millennials and Gen Z. Sooo, who or what do you want politically, e.g. in our upcoming election? Or, if there are other, non-political, ways of moving the country to give you the opportunities I had, what are they?

[@pjschmid2251]

You might be misinterpreting the stop complaining comment. It’s not simply stop complaining. It’s that complaining doesn’t change anything. First of all the base minimum is vote. Younger voters turn out in far fewer numbers than older voters, so they aren’t even doing the bare minimum. But if you really want to see change, you have to get involved not just moan about what you don’t like. Although protesting, whether it be public protesting, or online protesting might highlight issues, it doesn’t make meaningful steps to making changes in those issues. All the concerns you raised in this video are 100% legitimate, but simply complaining about them will not make them change.

[@KateBuesgens]

In light of the ongoing global economic crisis, it is crucial for everyone to prioritize investing in diverse sources of income that are not reliant on the government. This includes exploring opportunities in stocks, gold, silver, and digital currencies. Despite the challenging economic situation, it remains a favorable time to consider these investments.

[@ericgrantl]

The pathway to substantial returns doesn't solely rely on stocks with significant movements. Instead, it revolves around effectively managing risk relative to reward. By appropriately sizing your positions and capitalizing on your advantage repeatedly, you can progressively work towards achieving your financial goals. This principle applies across various investment approaches, whether it be long-term investing or day trading.

[@EdwinaLis]

@@ericgrantl I agree, that's the more reason I prefer my day to day investment decisions being guided by an advisor seeing that their entire skillset is built around going long and short at the same time both employing risk for its asymmetrical upside and laying off risk as a hedge against the inevitable downward turns, coupled with the exclusive information/analysis they have, it's near impossible to not out-perform, been using my advisor for over 2years+ and I've netted over 1.2million. I actually subscribed for a few trading courses but it didn't help much, been getting suggestions to use a proper financial advisor, how did you go about touching base with your coach?

[@ericgrantl]

@@EdwinaLis Claire Robert’s Durand is the licensed coach I use. Just research the name. You'd find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.

[@EdwinaLis]

@@ericgrantl She appears to be a true authority in her profession with over two decades of experience. I looked her up on the internet and skimmed through her site, very professional. already sent her an inquiry hoping for a response soon.