RANT VIDEO: YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SCREWED

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[@terrorbilly1]

‘If hard work paid off, miners would be millionaires’

[@gotworc]

I like to live by "smart work pays off" because working smarter and more efficiently will get you farther than just being a hard worker

[@BrokenSword1978]

@@sven5069 so hard work doesn't pay off....

[@7fatrats]

@@sven5069 yeah, especially when you live in poverty and can't afford anything outside of a highschool education.

[@denziljoe]

...working single parents would be billionaires

[@christiensebastien2442]

It's all about the right kind of hard work. You have to give the market something of value to get rich.

[@MrWhiskey282]

I am 24. The game was rigged from the start. The boomers have unironically sold my future down the river.

[@jiggajigjones8210]

The boomers forever ruined your right to own property in most places. Wrong.

[@MrWhiskey282]

@@jiggajigjones8210 how am I wrong? The boomers were complacent while we imported over a million people a year into this country since 1969, shipped all our factory jobs to china, and devalued our currency to the point where the only thing holding it up is our military industrial complex.

[@liit_one8800]

Yep I’m 23 and feel like I’m fucked

[@wouldyoulikesomewiessedtea8757]

I'm a few days from 14 and I feel like it's not worth trying anything We'll see just how it ends up in the future Maybe I should get a job in IT or something

[@amibrainwashed]

And my generation, millennials, are working to ensure that trend continues.

[@FlowUrbanFlow]

The worst part is when you're dating and their parents expect you to have everything they had when they were your age

[@mxbvibes]

Exactly!!

[@Reteq]

100%

[@magicash8701]

My parents are still begging me (22f) to give them a grandchild

[@mxbvibes]

@@magicash8701 Right, like I couldn’t imagine taking care of kids during the whole pandemic.. 😬

[@Lunar4]

this af.

[@nathanh.9767]

I work at a buffet and EVERYONE is quitting; we have been begging for more money and we got absolute squat. We’re getting treated like garbage and the tip out system makes me want to commit scooter ankle. We aren’t leaving because we don’t want to work we’re leaving because food service has become actual hell.

[@ChurlzVA]

Lol "commit scooter ankle" Reality nowadays makes me wanna commit Kurt Cobain.

[@mysteryfoult9410]

@@ChurlzVA commit a bob marley

[@Brandino00]

LMFAO!! makes me wanna commit scooter ankle !!!! I feel you man

[@intergalacticspaghetti5213]

Just don’t blame the customer alright

[@lok777]

I have worked as a server, bartender, etc. Pretty much any job in a restaurant, is the worst job you will ever have.

[@randallstanaway7846]

"The world is changing and people don't see it because they are just trying to survive day to day." This right here is on point, uncle Rudy.

[@Darkneo7]

Yeah, working takes a lot of your time and then you come up tired and wanting to do things that don't stress you so much, you gotta have mental resistance to keep your mind safe if you want to keep up with the real news

[@Zawfee]

I'm living that life right now

[@mayusocarina]

All according to plan. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@japan100100]

Definitely 1984 ideology in this quote. The lower class/ new workers will simply be too caught up in surviving instead of worrying about the bigger picture.

[@scroopynooperz9051]

Who are these companies gonna sell their goods and services to if nobody has a job and everyone is poor? They gonna start giving their AI worker bots wages so they can buy their own gear lube and upgrade their own battery packs? xD

[@yugen]

It's rough. My grandpa was a welder, made maybe $20,000 a year in the 80's. Enough to have a nice place (rent was $100 a month or less for a 2 bedroom duplex), multiple cars, boats, motorcycles, guns, all the fishing tackle in the world. I make 40k a year and can't afford a single car, live in a small apartment.

[@brandondavis9016]

How can’t you afford a car? I make less then 20,000 a year and I bought my first car I’m only 19 stop making excuses and manage your money correctly

[@zxvadcsfbh]

@@brandondavis9016 Yeah and are you paying for your own rent, bills, transport, and food or still living at home?

[@yugen]

@@zxvadcsfbh lol here rent and utilities alone would cost about $20k... That's before taxes.

[@teamflyboys]

@@yugen Do you live in a city or something? I'm guessing our rent is the same, but I'm renting a four bed 2 bath house for $1600 a month in Texas. If you live in a city, move and see how much further your paycheck goes.

[@Hatouken]

Dude you must have some type of cartel debt or youre just really bad with your money...

[@RaunienTheFirst]

People like to say "no one wants to work". But the truth, hypothetical business owner, is that no one wants to work *for you*. People are no longer willing to work long, stressful hours for abusive customers and abusive management for poverty wages. People are more than willing to work, they just want to be fairly compensated for their time and treated with a basic level of dignity and respect.

[@3mi3mi]

This is exactly why I quit my job.

[@carmony13]

YEEEESSSS!! This is exactly why I can't go back to my job after having been away from it for so long now. I LOVED my job. I worked at a small gift shop in a hospital. What I didn't love... was the company who managed the chain that owned the store that happened to be in my hospital. It was so miserable. But it was a good place for me to be. I was able to make the most difference in the lives of people who I came into contact with. But I can NEVER go back to work for another greedy, unappreciative, unrealistic goals, and minimum wage college hires that work three days and never return... therefore making management (me and one other) work 7 days a week...And get treated like absolute crap by Corporate. I used to call it Corporate Bullying... NO THANK YOU. I'm learning a vocation where I can again make a difference in people's lives when they come in contact with me. Corporate America doesn't realize it's THEIR FAULT no one "wants to work". I loved the way you put it ... but this guy has a point that we will just all be replaced by technology. And our kids and grandkids... they're totally screwed. Especially since the education system sucks in this country as well. hm... maybe it's best that we actually DO destroy ourselves in the new Roaring 20s... God help us.

[@adamkalb1]

@@carmony13 You tell the Liz Feebles of the world, Amy. Liz Feeble from Stressed Eric is too self-centered to care about the problems and troubles of her ex-husband Eric or their two children. When Eric rightfully calls her out, she thinks _he_ is the selfish one. Narcissistic bosses who do not face their own shortcomings never think or know it is their fault no one wants to work for them.

[@afrivox]

True. Good jobs are still hard to come by.

[@MrReckless1978]

As a small business owner the truth is I cannot afford to hire anyone for a competitive wage anyway. So I work alone.

[@zach_4224]

While listening to this, as an 8th grader in highschool. I feel like I'm doomed.

[@jazzlover10000]

You're not. But the jobs+training required will change.

[@Andrew-on3vc]

Don't listen to much into either of them. Both could happen at the same time. Some will lose, some will win.

[@Schwann_Audio]

Go to a trade school and become a plumber. At least you'll be able to eat.

[@explosivetwist]

Earn money. Don't get into debt. Especially college loan debt. Most adults live beyond their means. They feel entitled to having everything without truly earning it. You don't "deserve" anything. Save, avoid debt, you'll be ok.

[@royabrown8774]

You're not doom brother,just keep your trust in God .

[@tcmccool]

I kinda envy the naivety of my parents who think we are going to have a return to normal where they don’t have to think about the ever creeping reality we find ourselves in

[@poopingfiercely2380]

Yep. Innocent yet clueless as hell. My boomer parents.

[@dauntlessleodragon]

Your parents aren't clueless u just don't respect they're perspective because u think your generation is so much smarter ..and it's that type of arrogance that has fucked up y'alls future.. don't say they didn't try to warn u when what u thought u knew blows up in your face ...we won't care because we'll be dead before it happens but u guys will still be here dealing with the result of your so-called intelligence.

[@dauntlessleodragon]

@Blake Thompson I said your generation!!! ...can u read or do u need a app for that?

[@jackiepie7423]

Your parents should know better. Covids effect upon human history will be no less profound than that of the 1919 flue, which ^created^ your parents Fordist world.

[@dauntlessleodragon]

@Blake Thompson a typical millennials response ... always saying somebody bitter because u the one whose mad u have no future haha

[@caralho5237]

Then we try to be clever and go: "Oh i know what to do, i'll just get a degree" and acquire crippling debt and a shitty job for the next 10 years

[@SpookyTanukiGaming]

The degree pipeline is an absolute scam unless you’re going into a really high level, specialized field (like medicine or law). They trap you with a loan with an interest rate that you’ll most likely never pay off. If you do manage to graduate you still have to find a job which isn’t guaranteed because so many people are getting degrees. You’re more likely agree to a job with shit work conditions because you’ve gotta pay off that loan. And if it’s a government loan they’re making big bucks off your interest while still bleeding you dry from taxes.

[@baronvonbeandip]

@@SpookyTanukiGaming Why not get a degree in something that addresses a market need? The real scam is believing that just getting a degree will propel you. Your competency must address a need. If you get a degree in social studies, you did that to yourself; you should've chose STEM or not chose college at all.

[@djangomarine6658]

@@SpookyTanukiGaming Scratch law off of that list. It's a huge scam and doesn't pay off unless you're already connected or you go to a top school. Many lawyers are doing doc review for $23/hr in between grinding their own cases and are stuck with paying on $100K of student loans for 20-30 years. Work 60hrs/wk and keep less money in your pocket than a fast food manager.

[@BarnabyFWNightingale]

Absolutely the boat I’m in right now. Got educated for a job market that’s long gone. It sucks.

[@lordsiomai]

And it's sad we would keep doing it because it's the only way we know. No getting a degree is just as risky

[@desireew4613]

The sad thing is that back in 2001, I made $10/hr. Fast forward, there are jobs today starting off at $10/hr. The cost of living keeps skyrocketing while wages aren't keeping up. Until that is fixed, there will always be living paycheck to paycheck.

[@filthyshoggoth]

When I was a kid the "American Dream" was framed as being 'anything you want to be', requiring nothing more than work ethic, good choices and intent. I was born in 1986. It's 2021. The same people who told me that, now unironically say that the "American Dream" is you maybe, possibly getting a house and a used car, if only you work harder. Oldest confidence act in the fucking world.

[@adamlynch9153]

You gotta be smarter than the next guy

[@filthyshoggoth]

@@adamlynch9153 We both know intelligence rarely even factors in.

[@adamlynch9153]

@@filthyshoggoth no the smartest will stand out from the group. Absolutely

[@filthyshoggoth]

@@adamlynch9153 in general, but we're talking about morality more than intelligence. My IQ is way too high for me to be working class, but I choose not to use others as rungs on a ladder to satiate my hollow being.

[@adamlynch9153]

@@filthyshoggoth the smartest guy never shows his hand.

[@user-pq4by2rq9y]

This is actually worse than you think. This leads to people not having children in a society so accustomed to growth that can't change to save itself from collapse.

[@demodiums7216]

we really dont need more people.....but, unfortunately, its the stupid people having kids

[@raspberrykissable]

@UCAwsU7CvSDeCVVS05nbSmyQ are you serious? We are in a aging society and have less kids to replace the people about to die. We absolutely need kids. Don’t let the elite lie to you about overpopulation. It has been proven that we would hit 9 billion at the most then start to decline from there. We need the smart people to start having kids.

[@YormanGina]

@@raspberrykissable the population is finally going to stabilize after the older generations die out.

[@ballenf]

There are some immigration implications from that...

[@triopsate3]

@@raspberrykissable Personally I'm ok with everyone just deciding to stop having kids and humanity dying out. We've basically already shown that as a species we're more trouble than we're worth for literally every party involved so it's better to just delete the save file and hope the next run is better.

[@ohnree4110]

Finally a video from a sensible, intelligent person who acknowledges that the system is heading downhill, it's making young people's lives miserable, and no, it's not simply about "working harder" and "stop being lazy". These messages are toxic and permeate our "education" instead of the actual things we should be learning about like he describes.

[@sadhu7191]

Yeah u usually learn that at 10 years old when your parents or teacher call u lazy. Or u get traumatized and become a workaholic to ease the guilt if relaxing

[@AcidiFy574]

Hence ,why I don't have sympathy/respect for the older generation

[@ohnree4110]

@@AcidiFy574 Quite a generalization, I would be careful with saying things like that as you can find yourself in an echo chamber of hatred. Yes, many adults from that generation grew up with these sentiments but learning to forgive them is part of building a better future for ourselves

[@gnuemacs1166]

Tech workers r being replaced with imported Hindus not robots

[@ericglenn9984]

I work at a gas station.

[@WorldOfSafari]

“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” ― Warren Buffett

[@Gangst3r4ever]

(Coughs) guillotine (coughs)

[@SirMattomaton]

@@Gangst3r4ever We can turn this around if we actually started to use the Second Amendment for what it was ACTUALLY created for.... For exactly this kind of authoritarian takeover. If patriots banned together, like they did in Virginia (January 20, 2020), and stood outside congress, the supreme court (both federal and state), governor offices, and every other positions of power. They will know fear of US again. Our leaders do what they do because they believe there is no "Sword of Damocles" over their heads. We need to be *that sword* ... The threat of righteous fury and reactionary violence is only thing left... and it's the only thing they was ever going to work! We need to prepare ourselves to become violent agents for the sake of what's good.

[@lucalinadreemur9448]

@@SirMattomaton be careful, calling for that kind of action can land you in trouble. The patriot act, ironically, is a huge speedbump in the road to getting patriotic action started. Be careful how you speak where government employees can see you.

[@SirMattomaton]

@@lucalinadreemur9448 ...and there it is. That's the cowardice that continues to ensure that we will lose more ground in our rights and society.. Stop giving a sh*t! If you don't start replacing your fear with healthy righteous anger. They will only get more emboldened. Let me just leave you with this: And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

[@filthyshoggoth]

@Tak D'Abo Correct. We have Reaper Drones, right? Guys? Guys? Why are you running?!

[@audioaddict420]

It's not just young people that are screwed its MOST people if your not "elite" wich is 99% of us, we're screwed. It's nice to see youngers being able to recognize this now if we all revolt there's more of us than them.

[@johnyguitar258]

dont be so sure about the numbers giv it time see how that gows the vaccines will help alot to thin the numbers to theyr advantage

[@SabbaticusRex]

Capitalism is fantastic - Crony Capitalism is cancer AIDs. How ironic that the real estate market is so fucked up now in large part due to Black Stone / Black Rock global corporations , global banks but at least where I am the biggest ill was Chinese Communist party members buying up everything they could get their hands on in order to keep their money in a market more stable and more honest than Chinese real estate (and they didnt want the CCP to see their true finances obviously) .. So we get to battle with crony capitalists who are already tens of trillionaires screwing us _AND_ communists . I mean there is so few of them and so many of us - you would think the solutions would be fairly obvious . =P

[@akaku9]

@@johnyguitar258 Hahahahahahahahahah Yeah the vaccines are gonna cut the numbers Not the astronomically high number of autonomous military applications It's gonna be the vaccines.

[@davidkerrjr.6395]

True

[@venividivici373]

Actually in USA there is 40% of people who are Elite, By nowadays standards Elite is anyone who lives in good neighbourhood, has a good car, pretty big house, travels around the native country and the world pretty much, can afford good good and a lott of clothing, is at the private parties, has advantage on entering world of Politics and Corporative world ( even just working at the office) and has atention of Media, Well... That's the Elite, YUP my English is bad because im not from an English speaking country!!

[@douglane3962]

Since the year I became an adult, the median salary has increased 2.8% while the cumulative rate of inflation between then and now has reached 27.1%. I'm not mincing words, this is bullshit.

[@Bristecom]

I only get paid a couple dollars more per hour than I did 15 years ago and I have more responsibilities than ever. Owning a house and having a family is completely out of the question for me now. Our generation was robbed. And boomers have the audacity to say it's our fault that we're just lazy or something.

[@buschtrout1499]

Wow I have to go look into that myself. That is insane.

[@JoshDragRace0688]

@@Bristecom Only almost 29 trillion dollars in debt... robbed is an understatement.

[@Limbaugh_]

Capitalism baby 🤑

[@fluffyisyermom7631]

Holy helll

[@DynastyTrickDogs]

It's not that we don't want to work, it's that we're so frustrated with how increasingly expensive anything is becoming. It's like ok I can work for $80/day to afford to eat out once a week & live with my parents at 23 with college debt. I don't have debt and yet I still can't make it without my parents support, love them to death no complaints there. The thought of having my own family is a dream. Our parents monetary & social advice is 20, 30, 40 years outdated sometimes. It's so easy to give up and stop caring.

[@shifu_john808]

His point was not that theses entry level jobs should pay a living wage, they shouldn't as they are unskilled jobs for teens and young adults. The point is that their wages should increase to account for inflation. So making 100 dollars in 2005 should now be making a wage that is not only relative to inflation but also relative to how much that person brings to the company. So if you bring in 3000 dollars in sales that week to the company you should make a wage that properly rewards you for your work. 100 dollars in 2005 should be 300 dollars in 2021 or even more

[@shifu_john808]

And before you get mad about the unskilled comment I would at a restaurant for a year and a half. And yes I busted my ass but I didn't need any skills to work there, all I needed was the ability to sit people down at tables and handle customer questions like "what's today's special"

[@DynastyTrickDogs]

@@shifu_john808 I know what he's saying... wages increasing w inflation is unrealistic with all of the other factors of overhead of running a business. This could've been solved 50 years ago with sound money, instead our parents & grands stood by and watched our dollar crumble year after year.

[@qounqer]

Know exactly how you feel, down to teaching my border collie new tricks.

[@baronvonbeandip]

@@shifu_john808 That's a dumb idea. That's bottom-up inflation. Let the food service, grocery, and retail markets tank. Become lawyer, doctor, or compsci and force their hand.

[@jellyfrosh9102]

I asked my grandpa what he was doing when he was my age and he was making 8 dollars an hour at a gas plant. Adjusted for inflation that 8 dollars an hour 50 years later is 55 dollars. “But we didn’t have it easy” he says

[@MrMoogle]

Man, this made me think back to 2001 when I was working at Menards (midwest hardware store). I was in high school and they paid $12.50 an hour if you worked weekends. I would volunteer to work open - close Sat and Sun. 32 hours at $12.50 and hour means I was taking home $400 a weekend before taxes. I lived at home, drove a used Ford Escort, and all I had to pay was insurance on the car. Little did I know then I was rich.

[@remote44]

I was a 'bench tech' at 'geek squad' making $21/h part time in 2001. Shoot forward 2013 the same job is ~$13/h. Its a cluster fuck, thanks for talking about this Rudy. We are no longer in a meritocracy, hard work does not bring wins.

[@nxbis]

Uhhh slaveowners used forced labor to get rich and make this country what it is. We never had a meritocracy

[@Kryynism]

@@nxbis 😂 every nation on earth has had slaves in the past. Funny thing now is we are all slaves today.

[@Ananda7372]

I was born in 1972 and yes that is exactly what i thought when i was a teenager. Like you said, inflation had never done anything but go up while slowly adding extra expenses too. Now here it's the icing on the cake. In addition to all the extra expenses you also have the most hidden thing of all, the design of all kinds of things have improved so you would think that those things would last longer but they use inferior materials to manufacture these things so they actually break sooner! Now wrap your noodle around that kick in the ball's! The deck has been stacked against us since i was a kid and yes it's only getting worse. The main thing i remember was business used to try to make the best product so your customers would remember them over another business but nowadays we're live in a disposable world that doesn't even try to recycle. The guys at places like JPL must want top scream anytime they go into any store! LOL

[@NetCmurder]

i put steering gears on big rigs for 19 an hour back breaking work

[@quietwind6931]

Was doing wildland fire fighting for 15 an hour in California.

[@thenolifeking1407]

those who grew up in the 80's and 90's lived in a golden age they can only tell to younger generations as stories

[@Icipher353]

Definitely. It’s depressing as hell to look at the state of things now compared to who they were back then. I find these days that I’m glad I don’t have any kids, because the future looks bleak as fuck.

[@stephen8342]

Nah, by the 90s it was already started to stagnate for most people really the 50s-80s, possibly excluding some downturn in the 70s

[@Memememe-is1yn]

Reagan predicted this.

[@Bristecom]

@@Icipher353 Most in our generation couldn't afford kids even if we wanted them.

[@Bristecom]

@@stephen8342 I believe 9/11 was the peak. It really started irreversibly downhill from there and 08 was the first major example of it. But something many don't realize is that the stock markets don't actually correlate with the wellbeing of your people. Yes, some corporations may be doing better than ever but that doesn't mean jack for everyone else who's struggling!

[@3mi3mi]

I don’t even know what the point is to college anymore. My dad is a boomer and he doesn’t believe me when i tell him that it’s impossible to go to college without getting yourself into debt. For him, 9,000 a year at a state university is too expensive 🤦‍♀️ yet I’m supposed to be so exceptional that a good private college is supposed to let me in with a full scholarship and that’s just not realistic. I’m not smart enough or motivated enough. I just want to live on my own with relative comfort; enough money to cover my needs and maybe a little bit to spend shopping. he managed to work and go to school without ever getting into debt, but that was over 30 years ago, and somehow things are supposed to work out like this for me too?

[@bigaltz6403]

This is honestly scary as shit, as a higher middle class Brazilian, our salaries are lower than the average US citizen and our money is less valuable (one dollar is like 5,50 "reais" currently, and even if it were the same, our taxes are way higher and products cost more). Since I was a kid I had high expectations to living and working in US (I'm 17 and still plan to do college in another country), so listening to someone complaining about their current way of living compared to the 80's with the knowledge that working in US is still WAAYYY better than here in Brazil is kinda surreal. I just can't really get this reality still, and don't know If I want to. This is fucked up...

[@christianblocker1782]

Don't worry, the food prices are skyrocketing rn too

[@lordblazer]

prices are increasing in the US for everything right now too. It's a similar situation. you make more than in Brazil, but the costs of living is much higher, and you can easily find yourself in the red and you didn't borrow money, you budgeted correctly, and you realize you just aren't making enough to make ends meet. This is a pretty universal experience worldwide.

[@yall_girl_eve]

Tamo é fodido kkkkkkkkkk

[@fulana_de_tal]

decidi q vou morar em Portugal pq pelo menos lá o sistema de saúde público é bom

[@waitosnanke6457]

Por mais que eles ganhem mais no total o custo de viver nos estados unidos é MUITO mais alto que no Brasil.

[@leesanction2068]

The great reset. "You will own nothing and be happy" World economic forum . Over the last two years, we have seen the greatest transfer of wealth from middle class to rich in human history.

[@koma7778]

Dont forget the wealth transfer to the government and wealth destruction caused by governments

[@RolyTheHolyPaladin]

If they’re out sourcing everybody… just what will happen to them? 🤔 will the likes of precious metals save their skin? 🤔

[@kevinl4687]

you mean the past 50 years?

[@void5239]

100% correct.

[@kebman]

Listen very carefully. In 1789 the French invented a special tool for people like that.

[@hurtchain5844]

My big wake up happened when I was 18. My mom had just sold her house and I had been paying attention to her talking about all the costs. She managed to sell for 1.4 million. The same year I went through all my earnings from my job for taxes and decided to calculate how long it would take me to afford this house if I didn't spend a single dollar of my money. I would be well into my 80s to afford that house off my wage that year. Had a small bit of existential dread realizing just how expensive everything is, but I reassured myself that my wage would increase and I could afford something that works. After 2020 I'm not sure my own self reassurance was well founded.

[@BillyT886]

Yea, but do you really need a 1.4 million dollar house to be happy?! I understand you grew up a certain way, but that’s far above average. Shit, by a house for HALF that and you’re still doing good!

[@bsapavel6880]

@@BillyT886 depends where you live. In the Bay Area 1.4 million will barely get you an apartment

[@PM-xu2nq]

Tbf Housing prices are a *MASSIVE* bubble right now, speculation especially has pumped up the market to grotesque levels, that shit's gotta crash at some point.

[@BillyT886]

@@PM-xu2nq Yup! And that’s when I am planning on buying

[@nevreiha]

@@PM-xu2nq I hope it bursts, if the way the cookie crumbles keeps being to crumble the cookie the best you can do without having to organise and revolt is wait for a new cookie

[@Ninjapig123bacon]

I swear to you. I got my first job as a busser this summer. I worked 9-11.5 hours a day for 5 days a week. My first paycheck (without tips) was around $680 for about 85+ hours in two weeks. Tell me slavery is abolished and I will say it’s simply changed. Scrubbing toilets, doing anything a manager asked me to do, whatever. Not only that but I worked 11-9 or later every night. Literally the only thing to do is sleep and work. Fuck that

[@Furyswipes]

I really believe this is the root of "the great resignation." But what I want answered is...so they quit...now what do they do? How do they pay their bills? Is everyone resigning going back home to their parents? I really want to know.

[@firefly9838]

@@Furyswipesclass warfare

[@bellagarzia9653]

I’m 19 and have been out of the service industry for a year and a half now. I thank God every day, and pray I never have to go back to it. The service industry, especially food, is absolute hell. Also, the younger you are the more they overwork you. I haven’t had a day off in over 4 weeks. I wish I was kidding. Working your way through pharmacy school calls for two jobs though, and I’d rather die than go into debt. So what choice do I have?

[@LifeLongBruhGamer]

I'm in my senior year and I can't even enjoy school because of how much I dread what comes after, even though I've always dreaded school. I had one restaurant job and I had to quit after 3 months because I wouldn't get home till midnight on a school night, I don't understand how society is supposed to function like this.

[@dustinwilkins9084]

Im 20 and this is the reason I left fastfood. I had people scream in my face calling me all sorts of awful things and I couldn't take it anymore so I left. It wasn't worth the panic attacks and teary eyed drives home. I also got a job at a hospital working in the cafeteria and I also delivered patient treys, I had NURSES scream at me. The one thing the job taught me was that I had no interest in ever becoming a doctor now because of how truly awful some of the medical staff was to the other workers who weren't a nurse or doctor. The damn hospital didn't even offer me any type of health insurance in a PANDEMIC, while I DAILY delivered to the COVID floor. I now work for a global shipping company, and while the job isn't amazing, it was the best decision I ever made in my life.

[@sttran3460]

Strongly consider doing something other than pharmacy. Have you ever read sdn forums or reddit r/pharmacy? Growth outlook is terrible. Thousands of pharmacists graduating year after year with only a few hundred jobs available.

[@hal7741]

Freshly in college debt at 21. My life is a living nightmare of constant dread. My job now barely covers what I need to live and I’m ashamed to say I’m living with my mother to save on living expenses. She’s only charging me $300 to live there rn. Everything I worked for in college means nothing because the pandemic wrecked the industry I had planned to go into.

[@FinalManaTrigger]

Consider going into (manageable) debt. They can't take it from you when you're dead.

[@TheDenofNerds]

Rudy is right about that restaurant shit... Brutal industry where billion-dollar companies pass on wages to their customers instead of paying their employees... Wild bruh!

[@HolocronicalBlogspot]

That's where I worked for a decade. I have friends that have stuck it out and I hate how in order to just survive they have to romanticize working brutal and awful conditions that no one should deal with.

[@latentpotential4520]

@Valkria But hey, I won't have to tip, right?

[@daftwulli6145]

IN EVERY industry the customer pays the wages, just in most industries i is included in the price to guarantee a stable income to the employee. That is the real problem, not that customers pay the wages, how unstable the income is.

[@latentpotential4520]

@@daftwulli6145 I'll agree that is a part of it. It is the reason I hated sales and I would not work in a restaurant as a server when I was younger.

[@johncedwardsiv]

@TromboneGuy360 that is brutal dude think about what your saying people with "real jobs" get to work 40 and pay their bills your literally working your life away

[@leafaroni3222]

My history professor in college told us "History doesn't repeat, it's just that human nature is constant." That's why it's important to look to the past to predict and prepare for the future. We've been hearing all my life that robots will take our jobs in the future. Where do you think those people got that idea from?

[@blindedjourneyman]

My highschool history teacher Mr.Perry used to try to drill that into us. Only handful of us realized how messed up it was, what he was claiming. Alot of what he claimed has happened and its very scary

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

The fall of rome. It’s coming and it”s coming down hard

[@Serilkiller]

History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes ~ Mark Twain

[@427skies]

History is the story of humans, so history does, in fact, repeat.

[@fatcat5817]

All it gets is a fresh coat of paint, imagine if people removed the layers to see the swatsitka underneath.

[@princeekeson12]

This is why I laughed at the $15 an hour minimum wage. People didn't take into account inflation and cost of living. They have no idea. "Winter is coming." 🥶

[@ishitrealbad3039]

Not to mention that the increase of a minimum wage is going to increase the price of goods and services, so that doesn't help at all.

[@golfwang8084]

Since I was 5 I’ve wanted to work in the animation industry. Every day I can feel my chances of living out my dreams getting farther and farther, art is one of the only things that I can truly do for hours on end and have never gotten sick of. My goal in life is to make art and die. Literally that’s what I want to do. But I really don’t think that’s gonna happen so I’m just gonna suck it up and do something else I guess.

[@yumi21195]

i wanted to be atraveling artist to go see the beauties of the world get inspired and paint florious things but my art seems to not capture eyes cause everyone has the attention of a nat

[@yumi21195]

don't give up being an artist you can still show the world something beautiful

[@kalinomia]

I have the same dream but with music, My hope is that it brings joy to humans long after my death. Just like I have enjoyed music created by others before me who have since passed on.

[@Meleeman011]

i know the feeling dude. and i risked my health for it, decided it was a bad idea, and became a programmer because that was the next best thing. and honestly i don't regret it. but i do regret the types of people i have to work with so i can continue to exist. i'm still paying for my poor health decisions to this day. people tell me programming is killing my soul, and they're right and wrong. i like to create things, art, music, programming. structures. doesn't matter to me. they're all just different mediums. i've been allowed to see and experience much because of programming, that i never would have the opportunity to had i not. i miss webcomics, and music sometimes. and animation. but i'm compelled to live on.

[@drmattbarnes1371]

Learn a trade and keep doing the art on the side. If you get discovered great, but trades will ALWAYS be in demand.

[@TCP2k10]

I've worked as a bellman for 4 years at 3 different hotels and I can say confidently there is an absolute war being waged against service employees. We make less and less while the owners make more and more. Pay stays stagnant, tips go lower, cost of living goes up, it's a disaster.

[@frankvonfrauner]

The owners aren't making more though. All their costs are higher.

[@gwills9337]

@@frankvonfrauner yes, they are. Maybe not for small businesses, but corporate profits have never been higher

[@remy333]

You guys are the best. I can’t speak for the mgmt of my building, but I make sure to hook the concierge and door men up big time. Some of us highly respect you and appreciate your classiness. It’s a regal job and you’re right. It should be treated as such.

[@u13erfitz]

@@gwills9337 So basically the globalists have been trying to kill small business and turn everyone into slave labor.

[@cosmicllama6910]

Yes it's a deliberate destruction of the middle class enacted by the 1%. This is why we say Eat The Rich!

[@CyclonicTuna023]

Whenever I have an argument with my parents or any other boomers about "how easy" kids have it nowadays. I always bring up the fact that they payed off their student loans by working half shift jobs on the weekends for 5 years, and bought a 4 bedroom house for the same price as a second hand Toyota. After which they always come back with something like "well yeah we had other struggles", without ever being able to mention exactly what. So many people have no idea how much their wealth has grown simply by being born at the right time. Anyone who was born in the post war years really has no excuse for not being a millionaire if they hadn't spend their youth sucking acid and "fighting the establishment man..." And the worst thing is whenever you bring up how much you earn people like that always respond with "that's even more than what I earned!". Yeah by about 2% grandpa, meanwhile to cost of living has risen like 600%.

[@poopingfiercely2380]

Boomers gotta boom.

[@AroundElvesWatchUrselves96]

Boomer moment

[@mattjackz3141]

To relatable

[@Mario-su1jz]

The entire anti establishment movement of the 60s to 70s was such a CIA psy-op.

[@finkamain1621]

We just have better technology and clothing. Other than than, everything else is against us. Those Boomers all complain on Facebook about how all the young people are spreading the virus because they think all the young people are at bars, yet when I go anywhere, it's always 85% old Boomers out putting around. Generation tire kicker is what I call them. They show up to my mom's work for hours and don't buy anything, and they're even on the road at 6am even during snowstorms even though they're retired, but they all have to get up early to make it to the store openings. When I had a job, they'd always be the first group of people to talk down to any employees who are younger than them just because they think they can and they've been getting away with it for decades

[@vant3a]

My mum used to always remind me how she would get 20c of lunch money and that would suffice (ofc along with the marathon she took to get to school). But seriously it’s scary how the cost of living has increased so much. Some countries more than others, where people aren’t even able to afford a fully functioning home. Younger couples don’t even want to start families. I truly worry for the future generations.

[@finkamain1621]

I watch Bald and Bankrupt on here, and he's a dude that goes to different parts of the world, mostly Eastern Europe and Russia. He can get cheap liquor and meals when he's at those places, and hotels cost him around $15 a night. Every hotel I've been to in Canada or the US are all $160+ per night, even if it's a low star hotel. With these western countries as well there's too much consumerism, so if someone sells something for an outrageous price for what it costs to make and to ship, as long as there's a bunch of people who pay for it, they price will not go down and other competitors will match those prices. It's the same reason why sales exist. Sometimes it's a promotion by whoever manufactures the goods, and other times it's the seller who needs to sell the products because they aren't selling. I see this in grocery store all the time, an example being ravioli that you just boil. It's like $8 for a package that can feed 3 people. When the best before date is in about a month or 2, the store ends up dropping the price to $5 to get it off the shelves before the BB date. The ravioli probably costs $1 to make and $0.25 each to ship, but they can get away with selling it for $8 if some people can buy it for that price instead of waiting for a sale

[@jacesenger8295]

I work for my dad doing landscaping during the summers, he pays me 15$/h, 15 x 40 = 600 a week = 2400 a month, I go grocery shopping for myself (with a card my mom gave me to buy food with) and I can probably guess I spend about 300-400 a month just for food. Can't even imagine living off of 2400 a month, food, gas, car, phone, rent, utilities, you would probably put away a fraction of that 2400 to actually save that can be easily wiped out by one surprise thing that happens like an emergency.

[@parkerrieke5700]

Don't forget taxes. I make $19/hr now and after taxes I probably net about $2400 a month, and I feel like I can barely keep my head above water. I dont know how other people do it, honestly. They are stronger than me I guess.

[@remixisthis]

I liked Louis Rossman’s video on this. People realized they couldn’t rely on these jobs for job security when they fired them during the pandemic so they decided to go their own way

[@andresk4694]

Title of the video you mentioned?

[@commandershepard9601]

Louis Rossman is now being audited by NY. Must not have liked his videos pointing out the decay of NY business

[@krunchyapples]

Dude, the city keeps fukcing around with him because of its bs bureaucracy and stupid policies. I like Louis, and it's not fair the way they have been treating him lately

[@joeloweryourexpectationsbiden]

Nurses are getting fired because they won’t get an experimental vaccine. Let that sink in

[@commandershepard9601]

@@joeloweryourexpectationsbiden 83,000 medical staff will be fired in NY alone. They have maternity wards that can't deliver babies till they replace staff. Noone will give those 83,000 a platform to allow them to explain why it is they are willing to ruin their careers over this.

[@littlezero6399]

I am an engineering degree graduate and have been making about 70kish a year and my wife and I don’t think we will ever be able to afford a home. All the homes around us are 480-600k. My parents own two homes and were able to buy a home on less than what I make. The older generations sold us out in my opinion. If I feel like I am struggling, I can’t imagine what a person without a STEM degree is doing. No retirement, work until you are dead?

[@LC-wv7tz]

Same here. I have a degree in physics and work as an analyst, basically doing engineering and a little science work in aerospace. I've been working a little over a year as I finished my degree 2020 and make $76K. I was able to get a home near me for $270K, but it's small, old, definitely rough around the edges and needs work. I do have a house, though, but as a single person, between all expenses I'm just doing "okay". I'm able to live and even save a little, but not much. I can't complain compared to a lot of people, but when my father was my age someone in my position could have had a house twice the size, two cars, and raised a family of 3 kids on the one income. I'll never be able to have a family.

[@seewaldsja]

Wtf I'm a busdriver and make 90k a year lol. Fk college.

[@LC-wv7tz]

@@seewaldsja Bus driver or Truck Driver, how much do you work? Here, you make $70k as a 22 y/o plus bonuses and not including over time. Pension, 401K, separate pools of personal leave and sick leave, tons of extra time off, etc and once you finish your developmental period you make $85k -$90k, another few years and people will have $115k - $125k and that's with no promotions. If you ladder climb, you will knock down mid 100s in 10-ish years on the job. And set for life. College degrees can be expensive (mine was cheap), but studies prove college graduates out earn nongrads by a good margin.

[@seewaldsja]

@@LC-wv7tz I have all the same benefits anf 2 years of busdriver but around 5 years experience start making 100k a year. I didn't have to go to college and this is likely the best pay in America for a bus driver including the cost of living. I'm pretty lucky to be here.

[@LC-wv7tz]

@@seewaldsja Sounds like it.

[@michaelmay9059]

To your point, the Restaurant industry realized that they can take advantage of their employees because the majority of servers/bartenders are young and working to pay for school or as a transition to their next career. They know that can rely on the patrons to pay the servers and then force the server to pay all other FOH staff. Service industry workers are the most underrepresented labor force in the US. There are no senators fighting for servers labor rights.

[@vegettoblack7852]

The biggest thing i realized upon becoming an "adult" is how impossible it is to live the same way my parents did. My father working and mother staying home, living in MA and having their mortgage paid off while raising the little shit bag i was. This video is so on point and its sad that it will get less views than some of the more mtg related stuff (i still love mtg and ccgs but this is such solid advice)

[@ManDuderGuy]

What makes me sad is thinking about parents now who both work fulltime, are still barely getting by, AND they dont have much real human time to spend with their kids. And they're probably taking happy pills to warp their brains enough to endure it. It's like...what's the point of life if that's how you're living? I'd rather just cook a deer at a campfire and tell stories about the lights in the night sky and die at 40.

[@killroycantkill]

Just to put that $50,000 into perspective for people. According to the Bank of Canada that $50,000 a year job in 1980 would be equivalent of $160,972.85 a year today.

[@butdoesitscrub3457]

Damn

[@dr.jambonius7479]

True. One my father's employee (My employee is a technician) was working in a grocery's home office warehouse. Near his retirement, his salary was 48$/h. For a job asking next to no education, normal physical strenght and average working hours (Maybe only drawbakc, was a day and night job), paycheck was incredible. If we compare to today's standard, 30 years later, no employee in our entire store (Including me, store director) makes this salary, this video makes perfect sense. We all have a living wage... but not even close to what it was like in the '80 for low education level job.

[@kevinh2345]

That's more a condemnation of today rather than how much it used to be back in the day. Today's money is worthless, not the labor.

[@Kalron9]

Inflation has ruined us as working class people because the employer pretends inflation isn't real.

[@PutYourQuarterUpGaming]

Ok, now take that $160k and convert to USD. Like know not massive drop but so atypical of Rudy’s taco stuffers to inflate crap like that

[@cloudyskiesnow]

The most shocking revelation from this video is that Rudy is actually Rudy JR.

[@amicuscuriae]

Turns out he is Rudy of the second dynasty, not the third.

[@juanp7021]

For me it is when he said he actually played magic. While it seemed forced, if you ask me.

[@FilnetMgnigon]

Rumor has it he's the 58th interation of rudy 😭

[@girtrambleington7860]

Not that he starts off with boom and smells his finger? Ok fair enough

[@MagicMetalMoney]

Lol same dude

[@ericthomason3315]

I remember when I wanted to buy a black lotus as a teenager but I felt like 400 dollars was way too expensive for a magic card. Those were the days.

[@TheCSJones]

It still is too expensive for a Magic card. Just because it's 1000x that now doesn't make it any less silly. (Would've been a good investment, though.)

[@peepeepoopoovdbhxvbcc6683]

Whenever I talk about my first place to my parents, I always think about something small, like a condo or apartment, and my dad always says “why don’t you just get a place to live on your own?” I never understood how he thought I could make “place of my own” money on a blue collar job until now.

[@Cacodominus6969]

Why couldn't I just have been born in the 50's 😭 I just can't imagine being able to buy a home/car and raise a family properly on a 40 hour a week paycheck lmao these guys who run shit really have it figured out, they legitimately brought slavery into modern times with such eloquence that people are actually begging for it most of the time just to be able to eat and not sleep in the cold

[@sanctuaryism]

and a housewife.

[@brandonwombacher2559]

They are quite the social engineers aren't they.

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

Why did i even have to be born on earth at all i’m done with hoomaning

[@ayejay4028]

Bing bing bing

[@jak2396]

@@brandonwombacher2559 social engineering 100

[@CEA9234]

And my parents wonder why I'm depressed. The world is going to shit and it's clear. Too much greed and control from those in power. The dollar is dying. Prices are sky high. And jobs trying to pay like we live in 1980s

[@jazzlover10000]

That's what everyone told me in the 1980s. I resisted that message, found a middle ground and have done pretty ok.

[@eddie788]

Welcome to the very beginning of the NWO

[@theeternalslayer]

Stagnant wages and crippling debt is a sign of a failing system. When the biggest millionares and top business owners are saying "don't go to college don't buy a house don't take out loans" their's a reason. But hey you earned that pizza party for meeting the companies quota

[@why7189]

@@theeternalslayer not even pizza from the good pizza place, its always pizza from the cheapest place

[@theeternalslayer]

@@why7189 lmao it's always dominoes I've noticed that they want boost employee moral I get it when the companies not meeting the quota they can't give out bonuses or raises I mean that's just business for you but really? Pizza??

[@polarartifact9863]

I've been saying for a few years now with the improvements in robotics and AI, we are headed towards another industrial revolution where we screw ourselves into an age of automation. If it weren't for human greed it would be a paradise.

[@brandonwombacher2559]

I hope so, I would rather have automation than a collapse.

[@SwaggestNico]

We're at a fork in the road, either we are gonna let this keep happening. More poor people going into homelessness, rich people living in space hotels. Or were gonna go into something else, if I know anything about humans is that they can do anything when fed up. I think the only option is worker unions, they give workers the power to say no in the workplace.

[@nicholasn.2883]

They also can bankrupt a business. Unions are not the solution

[@Gangst3r4ever]

@@nicholasn.2883 Yes they are

[@trillmixin6999]

@@nicholasn.2883 right wing propaganda. i work for a union and without it my company would go bankrupt in a few months. unions make sure my company is compensated much higher than without it

[@nicholasn.2883]

@@trillmixin6999 Tell me how a company forced to pay a living wage to all of its employees can compete with one that automates all of its employees away. Which do you think is delaying the inevitable? Which business do you think is more likely to go under? Unions are too localized to be a real solution and will kill almost all business that adopt them. This isn’t “right-wing propaganda”, this is how it is. There needs to be another solution I think we should take a page out of human centered capitalism. We can also look towards UBI, the 4th frontier, and outright banning certain kinds of automation. When you’re an ideologue, everything looks like a ham fisted and poorly thought out solution

[@nathanielhanlon6444]

@@nicholasn.2883 Here's a few questions for you. Why are you putting the life of a company over the lives of people? Who will decide to do those things when the common people have no say? Who will adapt when companies adapt to abuse their workers in a different way? We shouldn't put companies over people. Because if production does not make people happy, there is no point in production other than wealth. Without Unions, there will be none to speak on the workers' behalf. And there will be no way to adapt. You are actively strangling the chances we have for change by opposing unions.

[@SteelfurSpeaks]

"Why does nobody want a job?" He says offering a job that you will need to get a second one to live on.

[@cosmicllama6910]

There's nothing worse than being stressed out at work all day, AND in the back of your mind have to worry that your roommates are going thru your stuff or eating your food? Why even adult anymore? The whole benefit of working is gone, we can't have our own homes anyway

[@krunchyapples]

Yea, it's all just kinda falling apart, isn't it? Those of us in the younger generations will never get to enjoy the same kind of independence that previous generations had, and it's honestly kind of disenfranchising. This will lead to alot of people who just don't or cannot care anymore, and things are going to get very bad when that happens. We won't get to actually own anything to our name but by god will we still have to pay for the privilege in blood, sweat, and tears

[@Erik-qp5hg]

@@krunchyapples I feel you. I grew up hearing on the TV how the rich get richer and poor stay poor, I just assumed you had to inherit to succeed and that's a soul crushing thing for a kid. I changed my mindset when I found out how much money there's to be made after trade school, and even though I didn't go that route I'm still buying a house at 19 because I work overtime and almost never go out with friends or spend on anything. Is it fun? F no. But it's worth it to me, and I encourage you not to give up. Uphill and downhill both have negative connotations, because the journey is always hard no matter what road you're on. But if it was easy, it wouldn't be worth achieving it.

[@Flavor190]

I know right I am an engineer that just graduated college and got a job with a good company. I talked to one of my co workers and they have a second job despite having the same title and working there for 2 years.

[@blastermaster7261]

@@Erik-qp5hg when the property taxes come, they'll get you there. Not trying to discourage but damn, we either take this world through blood or be taken.

[@sgw8707]

The best part about it...people are still so ignorant as to believe POLITICIANS AND THE GOVERNMENT will solve this issue 😭😭😭😭😭

[@nweeezy]

its the most upsetting aspect of the entire situation

[@jasonfuller2734]

Well the companies are doing a bang up job of solving it.

[@uncleted9362]

@@jasonfuller2734 you misunderstand that the government is causing this.

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

Only thing the government will do is fall.. and hard too

[@HairEEck]

@@uncleted9362 well... no. The companies are the most active participant in this process. The government is just a tool and the companies use it (through lobby, coercion, propaganda, etc.) to make themselves richer. All of it is just basic capitalism dealing with it's inherent contradictions. Many economists predicted similar endings to all of it hundreds of years ago, and Adam Smith was one of them.

[@Jacob-jg6cd]

Times are getting tough, and there doesn’t seem to be any signs of it getting easier. I hope that something comes of this “Great Resignation.”

[@andthensome512]

I'm a child of the 70s and 80s. When I was in my preteens, we lived in a lower middle class neighborhood in Inkster, Michigan. The house cost was $22,000. Safe, great neighborhood...for a while. Sold for $42,000. Then, in 1980, we moved to a newly built neighborhood in Canton, Michigan. Bigger, nicer, modern home. $65,000. One huge problem is that first time young home buyers can't afford homes in safe neighborhoods. Cars cost as much as houses used to, also.

[@Timbosliceintheflesh]

When I talk about this sort of thing with friends or family they all look at me like im a crazy conspiracy theorist, and then they get let go from the job and they're suddenly able to relate to what I have been saying for the last 10 years. The point is... by the time people care enough to learn how to prepare for the future the future has become the past. "edit" -- thanks for sharing Rudy I hope a lot of people listened.

[@Epck]

alot of people think they know the world but their world doesn't exist anymore

[@XDarksoulX1129]

thats what ive been saying. no one will listen til its to late. the left is even more lost. and the right will stay in their homes and wait for their death.

[@lochrowley9997]

@@XDarksoulX1129 It really sucks man, there's so many people who can look at the world objectively but they just don't care, they could face what's happening but they'd rather feel safe in a lie

[@XDarksoulX1129]

@@lochrowley9997 those who give up freedom for safety deserve netiher.

[@dime4026]

So you've been telling people the world has been ending for 10 years? Yea I would have stopped talking to you as well

[@michaelburns3360]

I'm gonna make it worse for you: when most people can't make money legitimately, they will turn to criminality.

[@bluesight_]

yup

[@KellyUnekis]

Or Fascism

[@Bryan_Kay]

@@KellyUnekis How does that make anyone any money?

[@ryanadams0922]

more like we start rioting and rich peoples heads start to roll.

[@AstralApophis]

@@Bryan_Kay overthrowing or mass violence.. perhaps shitting on the structure SO hard it turns into communism because people think that the fix is the government to step in. If only they knew lol

[@hmmmtastey]

If you're reading this, find what you can do better than anyone else, and do it. Find what people don't know they want that you can do that they can't. Stop renting your time for mere survival.

[@Grumpollion]

I'm almost 50 years old. I have two sons who are about 20. I'm financially secure, but I have no idea how my sons are going to make it in this world. They have given up hope. If not for my support, they would be completely lost. I expect that they will live with me until I die, and then they will inherit what I have obtained in life.

[@hithere5553]

“Tipout” is also away to create animosity between employees so they don’t organize.

[@jakecollin5499]

Super good point

[@wynngwynn]

TBH it's how politicians keep poor people mad at each other so they don't get mad at the rich.

[@oscarreyes4881]

Some of the fights I've seen between employees over tipout have been brutal. Crazy man

[@yudhok]

So american waiters live on tip. That's kinda bizarre imo. Waiters are also part of the restaurant. They should live on salary.

[@hithere5553]

@@yudhok servers get paid $2.15/hour. We’re a first world country by the way but we can only pay waiters $2.15 an hour.

[@LushhN]

I'm so so so glad I've learned about the state of this world at this young age, so many others my age are just stuck in their own minds overthinking the smallest issues, it's baffling to me how they don't see what's actually happening

[@zenmasterjack3873]

Show them. If we dont wake people up to this the scam continues. Everyone was ignorant of it at some point.

[@alexiaabramov2544]

we're going back to feudalism, but with electronics and loitering munitions. inform yourself and figure out how to find your place in this kind of society without ending up a serf like most ;)

[@Cacodominus6969]

Learn to grow food and how to use tools to build/fix things.. might come in handy thr next few years

[@ilovebutterstuff]

Only leaders can see the forest for the trees.

[@nocollarcrypto8851]

You are one of the ones who was born to illuminate the path for those who cant see it. But dont ever let it hold your own success back.

[@kodiekulp]

This video is so on the money. I grew up working in the hospitality field and you are totally right. If you've ever been to any type of establishment that serves you food or drink.... And you go up and there's a little iPad for you to type in the order (QuikTrip gas station for example has a little push pad for you to order the food from their little deli. A lot of things in restaurants have already been automated and it's going to keep going in that direction for sure. And you pose the most interesting question of all is what is going to happen when no one has these jobs growing up?

[@kylejf2108]

Thanks for this video! It all rings so true. Im a cook in restaurant and constantly see the servers stressed from waiting hand over foot for people that may or may not pay their worth, and most of the time they don't or can't. My pay has been stagnant @ $9hr for a year and at the same time, we have been steadily busy.

[@ErickOberholtzer]

I honestly think if the economy was allowed to fail in 2008 (when I was a high school freshman) my adolescence and early adulthood periods would have been happier.

[@chrisfamos]

Our generation is in for a wild ride

[@gunit4379]

the rich always bail out the rich. the 99% are just slaves with extra steps... time to strike.

[@jiggajigjones8210]

@@chrisfamos the coming collapse will be insane

[@Ravishrex1]

@@gunit4379 if we shut down the internet we win.

[@Heavygusto]

100% agree

[@Joe.Rogan.]

My simple way of showing how inflation has occured over the past 45 years. My old man told me a good saturday night for him would consist of getting a case of beer, a couple packs of smokes, and a tank of gas to drive around and hang out with your friends, that would cost him $20. When I was 19 me and my friends did the exact same thing for fun.. case of beer, a pack of smokes, a tank of gas to drive around... but that would cost me $60... now I'm not old but I can do the math and those same things today would be around $100. Young people can't even afford to have fun on a saturday night anymore.

[@druidactual]

@Nicholas C Marshall The person you replied to is not Joe Rogan

[@stevearnold8265]

I thought you didn’t smoke cigarettes mr Joe hogan?

[@matthewflowers4688]

30 pack of beast, 2 backs of smokes and a full tank of gas. $50. Get a job in the trades. Work your ass off and become the best(show up and do what you say you are going to do and do the work right) move to a state that you can get a business license thru the state and a LLC for less than 350$, be your own boss and charge whatever you want. Market yourself and your business. Make 150k ever year and more I. The future because no one can fix anything anymore. The easy money is going away America.

[@firefly9838]

I think this contributes to a phenomenon I’ve noticed. So I’m 23 years old. I never see young people my age out and about to talk with or hang out with anymore. Partly due to technology... and also pure cost. It’s sad. It’s affecting my generation, many of us lack the social skills my parents had. It’s not healthy. I’m just old enough to know that. The next generation won’t even know what they are missing.

[@matthewflowers4688]

@@firefly9838 I think that's the plan. To not know what they are missing

[@VaalsCoffeeHouse]

As a restaurant manager this is 100 percent true. Part of what you left out is all the new ordering systems aka, door dash, Uber eats, mobile ordering. The volume of orders coming in is becoming to much for people just to handle. I was literally thinking the other day I need robots to get this done reasonably.

[@mikesteelheart]

"Pre-2020 is never coming back..." That line makes me feel like I just sent out a Thorn Elemental and they killed it with a Counter Spell 😭.

[@krunchyapples]

Rudy hit the nail on the head with this. "Young People Are Screwed". Yes, as a millenial, I can certainly confirm that we have been thoroughly reamed, so to speak. Everything is just sort of crumbling in real time right before our eyes, and make no mistake it *will* get worse before it gets better.

[@Bristecom]

Most millennials and zoomers are completely screwed. They'll never be able to afford families or houses. Boomers are only 20% of the population but still own 50% of the houses (and want to make as much $ from them as possible). Gen X'ers were the last ones to kind of make the system work for them. Now the government owns about 30% of the land, and large multi-national corporations own the rest of the land and houses. Plus they've put tons of regulations to prevent people from finding other ways to get by. They've completely rigged the game in their favor and it's only going to get worse if we don't do anything about it.

[@6packproductions710]

@@Bristecom yep. And most people are so worried about random bs these politicians feed them that they don’t realize it. Pick your “social issue” of choice, they are all just smokescreens now to hide how badly we are being set up.

[@armandoferreira2844]

@@Bristecom We'll just have to chop their heads off

[@lordcthulhu1609]

The Right is willing to kill people if you disagree with their opinions of why homosexuality is bad, other races are bad, and you should be a christian. also supporting facist regimes like north korea and china. The Left has made us live in fear of losing our jobs or careers over the smallest mistake we have barely made progress solving the climate crisis and instead chosen to make it worse Our justice system has created a problematic system where a large majority of the US has or is in prison over misdemeanors. College has gotten so expensive that some students are unable to pay for their bachelor degree with student loans alone. The requirements to get a entry level job or a similar job to your previous one have gone up so insanely that it is almost impossible to move up, but it is very easy to find yourself like me going from event cordinator, to house manager, to cashier. you find yourself moving down in the world. Automation is taking over not only service industry jobs. but they are using machines to replace editors, and clerks. and are trying to find ways to replace bosses and writers. The cost of living keeps increasing despite wage not and in some cases like with higher wage jobs decreasing. sure restraunt jobs have barely increased, but a game developer/doctor/nurse/programmer gets paid less now than 20 years ago. companies are banning people instead of solving fraud if it happens customer service jobs are being removed even automated ones The homeless are met with deadly force Some companies like 3M have clauses in their contracts that anything you invent or run as a business on your own time can be taken by 3M as their property. People get arrested over collecting rainwater or growing their own food. Leading to a world worse than the middle ages where the surfs aren't even allowed to live off the land. and countries like china/russia are willing to start a world war over not being able to spy on other countries. will our corperations bow down to these countries and force their probangda and censorship on their customers who don't live there.

[@Kryynism]

Can barely afford my kids and wife. And that's with foodstamps and assistance programs. 31yo with no real hope of moving up in the world. But whatever I guess. Own all the tools and things I need for my trades. Got a beat up truck from my grandpa and wifey owns a car. Own a trailerhouse. But damn wish I could have land. I can't even save enough for an emergency.

[@dustybikes86]

My dad delivered pizzas for dominoes while going to college and my mom waited tables at Dennys, they were able to build a brand new house in 86 in a very nice suburb, years later when my dad was an entry level accountant and my mom worked part time at the Disney store they managed to build an even larger house in an even nicer neighborhood in 95. And I'm over here in the ghetto in a 100 year old home half the size paying twice as much like wtf...

[@bradberkely7448]

@@enterchannelnamehere2922 And flooding the job market by doubling the supply of workers through second wave feminism only served to make everyone poorer, and no one any more free in the end.

[@andymilinakus7004]

@@bradberkely7448 "doubling the supply of workers through second wave feminism" lol jinx

[@jackluedtke6432]

It's called "mass importation of undesirable third world trash" - and here's the funniest part - they actually give them free loans (for houses) with no down payment and no credit check while giving them welfare - this is what caused the 2008 mortgage backed security meltdown, and it's still going on.

[@jackluedtke6432]

@Activism, Athletics ,Identity nonono its pure coincidence that every single senior position in the Treasury Dept. has been jewish for years

[@psoarchive]

Yep, my parents never had a great job and yet in the 70's they were still able to get a first-time home buyer's mortgage with a combined household income of under $20k, and in the early 90's they were able to pay off and own this hundred year old mill village house. Now mind, when I had a job and was making around $17k a year on my own, I couldn't even qualify to get a firt-time home buyer's mortgage, and the cheapest houses in this old mill village development are now commanding absurd prices when they go on the market, and they're really not nice houses. Would you want to pay $130k for a average 1,000 square foot, single bathroom, tiny yard, mill house in a bad neighborhood? Just as well I never could get qualified for a mortgage to buy a home since I wound up laid off that job I had at the time and have never had a job that paid as much since then.

[@speedzero7478]

I have a degree in computer science and make 65,000 per year. I remember thinking we would all be rich one day if we just studied hard, learned extra skills on the side, got loads of work experience.

[@justvibin1087]

I'll be happy just to have a job when im done with highschool at this point

[@ExclusiveExcellence]

Yea it does suck but unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it Computer science is the only sustainable and guaranteed field in the foreseeable future as we will be the ones coding the robots taking jobs and protecting wealthy’s cyber security form attackers. Even architecture which was the other one that I thought couldn’t be replaced can now be done with an AI

[@jazzlover10000]

You're doing ok. If you can work remote, maybe get a place that's cheap and oscillate toward what you want. I was telling everyone a few years back to move out here to the lake, where houses were $69k just before covid... but everyone so wanted to be in the big city. Prices are $300k post-pandemic so y'know... it's a matter of figuring things out. Live beneath your means and you'll be fine.

[@mikei6605]

good thing I'm studying to be an artist! Art thrives when everyone is miserable lol

[@LetThereBeLightxx]

College?

[@miguelgonzalez6495]

Sell drugs and report your income as selling your art. 🤷‍♂️

[@ishitrealbad3039]

art does not pay well lol

[@sultanofswag8901]

Art has never thrived literally ever, it's always been a broke bumass job that only gets your great great great grandchildren money after you've been dead for a 100 years

[@ishitrealbad3039]

@@sultanofswag8901 exactly, art only goes up in value after the artist has already died.

[@blitzkrogg2589]

I'm 36, I've worked since I was 14. After 22 years of slinging pizzas and restaurant work, I'm opening my own pizzaria in 5 months. I live in NY and have worked at atleast 10 pizzarias in NY. I have my own recipes and I'm about to make some of the best pizza on the planet. Wish me luck. Thank you Rudy for the investment information, it's made all my dreams possible.

[@MJ-yx2fk]

Good luck!

[@rayxr]

God speed. My guy. With people fleeing NY in droves, maybe property taxes can stabilize again.

[@Luemm3l]

oh wow, good luck! If I should ever come by I will test that pizza! You got a name yet? Blitz Pizz'?

[@LifeOfMasson]

Everybody knows the rules....

[@Alex-rw9bd]

Maybe next time I’m in New York I’ll check your place out lol. Good luck with your business

[@whatishappening8851]

I love Rudy Rants. After you retire from the Magic grind - you need to still post these. I would love that. Once you leave, I will truly feel like I'm losing a friend.

[@blakechagnon8837]

Well said fellow timmy

[@DrizztFan23]

It will be a hybrid of "Get Off My Lawn" and "Back in My Day!"

[@theetiologist9539]

Same

[@nirtheart]

I second this. Rudy is my older brother I never had

[@brianleake9915]

Alpha retirement videos

[@NotApplicable555]

My dad worked as a senior archeologist back in the 80s. He'd get paid in large chunks rather than weekly, and would usually get big checks of 20k or so every 6 months. He retired from working in that field before I was born, and I asked him what happened to all the money he saved. His response was "Money I saved? I spent all of that on hookers and cards living on top of the world!" When he was in his early 20s, his father cosigned him for a Dodge Super B. That car effectively is a sports car. I never got anywhere near those opportunities.

[@rondecaro]

Great video Rudy. I worked running kitchens until my body gave out. Chefs and kitchen managers are drastically under paid and less appreciated. You inspire me dude. I got out. I work for a large Ebayer doing product photos and listings. I have my own store that is growing. There is no other alternative than hard work. Chef'n and working on a line is brutal and typically understaffed.

[@stephenadams2397]

The only way to be happy is to own nothing. That's what my Davos overlords tell me.

[@ikaros4203]

i will not live in the pod or eat the bugs

[@frog6054]

@@ikaros4203 As a frog, living in the pod and eating bugs is not that bad.

[@TotalNigelFargothDeath]

@@frog6054 I hear frog meat is pretty tasty.

[@haku22222]

Any kind of meat sounds good....cannibalism is coming.

[@dylanroemmele906]

Sorry I hate communism as much as I hate capitalism

[@ignacius8466]

We are close to being in another feudal age. We're probably mired in one already and don't even notice.

[@LoveStrangeDr]

100% or the Gilded Age 2.0

[@wildtwindad]

Ahh Neo-Feudalism, that be its name.

[@RoosterNutz12]

Feudal peasants worked less, ate healthier, socialized more, had larger families, had more culture, more freedom. The list goes on and on.

[@Jkid4]

@@RoosterNutz12 only difference is that we have corporations that will rule over us

[@Bristecom]

​@@RoosterNutz12 Exactly, I'm just mind-blown that most of our generation likely won't even be able to have a family or house and will have to work nearly every day, year after year for some massive corporation, just to barely afford living (albeit probably with the help of others or some program) and we have so many restrictions/regulations now that we can't even get creative and find another way, and yet most people don't see too much of a problem with it and are instead arguing about gay and trans rights or some shit. Very few civilizations were ever robbed of such basic pursuits such as a family and home during their prime years. People have started wars for FAR less than this. And it's only going to get far worse unless we all actually do something!

[@catherineharber6514]

Love this coverage. I’ve been warning about this for over 15 years. I started working in the restaurant industry in my teens. I graduated high school when the 2008 recession happened, and saw how the job security changed drastically. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any more precarious, the absurd CV rules totally as you say “inverted the fair playing field for people who make an honest & modest living to be able to achieve financial independence.”

[@ivinolove3960]

I am 38, being bartender for over 15 years, lived in the USA, now in Europe.. still bartender- everything he says is right!!

[@Bearddis]

“Everything you remember is done” Something I’ve known from the very first lockdown and something I think a lot of people subconsciously know.

[@keyboardwarrior6296]

Just a blackpill. Get a lever long enough and find a place to stand.

[@subfuscous987]

@@keyboardwarrior6296 Won't bring shit back, but yeah, this is always the case

[@keyboardwarrior6296]

@@subfuscous987 k have fun

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

Rome is going down.. and it is going down hard.. society won’t hold on for long and people will scatter..

[@liamokeeffe3406]

Everyone is entitled to the fruits of their labor. The 1% is killing the working class and it is very obvious. We need drastic change now.

[@kevinbermudez738]

People need to stand on this, but on mass, this is condemning our future and possibilities

[@RaunienTheFirst]

🏴🚩

[@ishitrealbad3039]

it's not the "1%", it's the government.

[@RaunienTheFirst]

@@ishitrealbad3039 it's both

[@ishitrealbad3039]

@@RaunienTheFirst No it's really not.

[@Shadefinder1]

Great video. Something wicked this way comes for the retail business as well. There are already stores that are fully automated.

[@mrpoopoohead7668]

I work for a company and the owner had like 8 grocery stores. He just sold 3 of them, the rumor is that now after Jan 1 he is going to sell a few more or all the rest to a larger grocery chain. He had 2 full service restaurants located in a small mall attached to the grocery store, and after covid hit, they were only open like 3 days per week, instead of 6. Then 6 months ago they closed one of them, but still want to open it back up, now I'm wondering if that is a good idea? I would like to just work for myself by just washing windows, or whatever? tired of working for companies that continue to squeeze their employees.

[@gamefreaks101]

As a 22 year old this sadly has been always my reality, hearing about how people use to good money without a college degree blows my mind sometimes. There is huge problem with my generations mental health, we value too much the status we get from social media so much so to some it there source of genuine human connection. Uncle Rudy you do god's work out here... Thank you!

[@lastmanstanding7155]

Fr and my parents have been stuck in the 80s and pre covid mentality when they don't recognize that the economics of the country are gonna shift. Everything they've done to help their only son will go to shit all because they literally would not let me create a money buffer by getting a trade certification and then a vocation. Like my position compared to most people is different in that I'm actually supposed to maintain and improve. Not achieve the "dream." I had it when I was born and I'm aware that I'm very blessed for that. But my parents are, without any understanding, driving that down the drain everytime I'm denied going for a career. Thinking that I won't get hired when literally that's the point of certs and vocations. They want me to be manager making lots of money right out the gate but I don't. I want the loweest level entry position possible so that I'm saving most of my money and spending little. In pure mathematical terms I would actually be making more than my bosses because expenses are minimal. But no my parents are completely unwilling to acknowledge the changing economic landscape and it's my young 21 year old life that'll be screwed. And to add they are fine with me getting some menial job. Being a busser or whatever. But when I try to explain I mean something that pays more than $10 an hour they flip their shit. They want the best for me yea but completely fail to recognize that I, more than anyone, want it to. But my input gets hand waved away as "you're too young you don't understand."

[@roxasparks]

Been saying that since 17 , 26 now. Nothing gets better.

[@DBLRxyz]

@@lastmanstanding7155 Best way to win an argument is with results. How far you go for what you see that they don’t is up to you. Good luck.

[@lastmanstanding7155]

@@DBLRxyz Yup I agree 100%. I've been working on this but the current state of the job market everywhere makes things a lot harder. Plus then there's my parents forcing school on me which makes things more complicated plus my normal life outside of serious business. Leaves little time to really put my ideas into action. But I know that when I get the chance I'll jump. Thanks for the advice and I hope you have a great day.

[@ragebait988]

Get a trade or join the military... its still out there. This is simply nihilism coming from the the top down. You have to find the industries that pay big without a degree. Brick laying, concreting, plumbing, electrical, air conditioning mechanic...in most countries they dont tip servers at restaurants its a stupid comparison, at that point you are unskilled.

[@CheeerriOH]

I think we are going to see a rise in inter-generational households. Where moving out is just literally never going to happen. In some ways, I think that it makes a lot of sense and our consumerist individualism has pushed us away from how things would have been for centuries. Its going to suck though because personally moving out was the best possible thing for my relationship with my family. Those without family, shit make some really good friends I guess.

[@invadercivic2774]

I would appreciate your advice. My relationship with my Dad has progressively worsened over the years. I've worked with him since I was 6 and I turned 18 March 2021. I though all these years that living with my family was the best financial decision. But having a dad for a boss and being treated like a second class citizen is really getting to me. They are expecting me to act like a servant and to drop everything I'm doing at a drop of a hat for them. He acts like I should do all this work for free because I don't pay rent. But because I'm working for him I don't get paid regularly so it's not like paying rent would work out well. Especially since we're all living at my Grandparents house. Every time I considered getting a different job everyone started saying I was being stupid and that it's a great job, and I'm being to sensitive. Nevermind then even his other employees agree he is an a**hole. It's just worse for me because I live with him and he treats me like sh*t at home AND at work. It's a big mess. I just think it would be better if I moved out. But know their saying I'm abandoning them and that I'm not ready to move out. They say that but then on top of it all their kicking me out. And today they completely took away the car. I get it, I should have been better at saving money but how am I supposed to get too my new job to get money without a car? I'm walking to Walmart to buy a bicycle and convert it to motorized. I'm trying to move in with some people I think are my friends. But I'm just not sure. I texted them on IG but they haven't messaged back yet and it's been several weeks. I just wish I made more friends that are slightly older then me. I just feel really alone. I love my family so much but I'm in so much stress and they act like I'm ungrateful and I'm just a big screw up that has done this to myself. I thought I could relay on them but apparently that was all conditional. It's 3am. I have to get up at 6 and walk to Walmart. Maybe stop buy at my friends(?) house. I just wish I had stability in my life. Literally everything is falling apart. I guess the right thing to say is "work harder", "pull yourself up by your bootstraps". And yeah that's correct but God help me. Any advice/words of wisdom?

[@CheeerriOH]

@@invadercivic2774 I am not sure mate. I haven't ever experienced working with my direct family but it sounds like a rough situation with a considerable power imbalance. I was lucky when I initially moved out as I had a long time partner and close friend for the first push. Then as we both found full time jobs (for a while) we could live on our own. Even then, I moved out at 22/23. 18 is super fresh and you might not have the appropriate qualifications to afford even a sharehouse depending on when you live. Middle class privilege gave me the time and access to university to make the decision to leave. Having your income and rent tied up and held over you in what you is hard. I'm not going to say work harder. All jobs suck and revolve around making your boss more money while you settle for the least they can pay you. Try forming stronger connections with friends new or old to give yourself a relief valve for when it gets really tough. I have no solutions and there are no easy answers. Just make sure you think things through and try your absolute hardest not to be rash (I know how hard this can be). Good luck mate.

[@MrVariant]

Of course, let alone aging parents need to be monitored. Just need to have appropriate boundaries with people, and not reproduce solely because you like someone. Employers wanna roll people back in when they should choose remote work and camera free calls if they prefer. Anything else is control and should be left as it will only get more totalitarian just to own you with their wage. More time is needed too for my earlier mention of family/dependents who may get disabled. I know I can't work a 40 hour week any more for that, and to demand people to always be available and on premises when it can be avoided, is wage slavery. But business wants suckers, not someone who balances work with their parents/kids that may have needs like doctors and other stuff.

[@lachlanmclennan2188]

Nah man I moved out of home when I was 16 and I just live with 3 other flatmates in poor neighbourhoods 🤙

[@Bristecom]

That's basically my conclusion as well. Due to the government and massive international corporations owning all the land, and boomers wanting massive profits on their land/houses, and tons of regulations making it impossible to affordably do something yourself, we're basically left with just waiting until the boomers die off and hoping we'll be able to either inherit it or buy it directly for cheaper (before the corporations do). But the thing is, that doesn't bode well for people who want families since we'll probably already be too old ourselves before the boomers die. It's all just so screwed up on so many levels that people don't even realize!

[@NoThanksX]

Thank you for verbalizing that muted, muffled noise in my head that is rapidly getting closer and clearing out and revealing itself to be a shrill screaming warning. I'm not interested in magic and not a big finance driven person, so I don't know how this video showed up on my main page, so maybe you're getting some algorithm love here, but I'm glad I saw this. I don't know anything about you, but I'm really interested in some of your other videos I peeped on your page! I'm just a little bit older than you, graduated in 1998, and I won't pretend to be some sort of prophet, I had a ton of personal reasons to become childfree, but I think its an option people should seriously consider if its viable. Many will balk at that, and for others whats done is done, and I'm not suggesting that people go against their desires or feel any guilt or regret if they have brought children into this realm. I just think its one thing we can still exert some sort of command in all of this (uh, for now...) and if anyone finds themselves on the fence or not having much of an opinion either way, maybe mull it over, zoom out your perspective to see the big picture that the scenario mentioned in this video paints.

[@dawnemile4974]

The young people have to push back encouraged by people like you. Thank you for sharing your experiences.

[@ivan_says_hi]

I've been saying for over a decade now that instead of McCancer having 5 employees making 50k; one employee will make 70k to do maintenance and upkeep on the 5 McRobots that replaced all the staff. Maybe they will keep the one employee on site to sign off on deliveries and answer phone calls as well. It's going to be slightly better to be the one guy who still has a job, but over all the only winner will be the corporation.

[@samuela6271]

Just wait till labor goes to near 0 cost... Robots are closer than most think.

[@marcustaylor670]

The one employee will get 50k or less as there will be people lining up to take their place.

[@PoeMcGoodwin]

Hopefully they will have McCustomers that have a McJob so they can afford the food

[@walking_introvert]

@@PoeMcGoodwin and when they don't, then we will know that capitalism can indeed "eat itself"

[@davidsilverfield835]

Yup agreed

[@KevZen2000]

Not only do jobs require far more than they used to, they pay nowhere near what they did for the cost of living. Their exceptions to the rule but very few jobs pass it. Nowadays in order to get a salary that meets the cost of living, you are typically working years before that point, and by time you get the salary, it's no longer meets the cost of living. Many jobs require a bachelor's degree or higher for a position that pays $15-$20/hour, or multiple years of experience for "entry" level. Even if you are a qualified for a position, a lot of companies still won't hire you. Many don't even know what's necessary for the position much less do they want to do any training, which is necessary.

[@devonwilliams5738]

Don't you mean don't want to hire you?

[@lyah_lilac25]

Couldn't have said it better 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@blendergaming1579]

@@devonwilliams5738 A lot of companies won't train people or think entry level is 3 yrs experience with education. It's not about them not hiring them, it's an issue across the board for various industries. There are rare exceptions where companies do train people but again, rare. Even for the people who go for internships to surpass the entry level barrier, if they can find one, the companies that do that use the interns to do the normal work and have a recycling door of people they take advantage of. We have a lot of problems in society right now.

[@joarroyo6737]

I'm getting paid $24/hr just to put a cup on a tray in a conveyor belt with no high school degree

[@jesuswept8522]

@@joarroyo6737 Which could help you pay for a family mortgage car etc. a while back, like you'd be set for life.

[@Tennesseemomtho]

I'm 52. In 2005 I was a restaurant manager for $35,000 a year plus bonuses. I might have made $40,000 to $45,000. Now that same manager's job pays $30,000. It's corporate greed. Companies no longer care about their employees, they want slaves not workers. If they wanted workers the corporate CEOs would give up their private jets, $500,000,000 homes and pay their employees a livable wage with benefits like health insurance and vacation time. I heard you say that you are a landlord, if you're charging your tenants more than $1,000 per month you are ripping them off. On a $200,000 house- mortgage, taxes, insurance, and upkeep is about $918 a month. If not then you should refinance at a lower interest rate. Not steal from your tenants.

[@chriswatters1049]

I'm likely about the same age as you. I made $8.50/hr in the early 2000's, had a truck with two 20-gallon tanks that I could fill all the way up for less than $50 and didn't have a care in the world. Even in college soon after, I could sustain myself for an entire year just from working a summer/fall job and saving up. I loved my job so much that I thought to myself "Wow! If I got paid $40,000/yr to do this for the rest of my life I'd be in heaven!" Well, now I get paid $50,000 to be a manager over employees that do the same work I used to do. And my wife and I pay through the nose to survive.

[@giln4689]

im 24, i literally seen houses go from 100,000 to 500,000 in my short time on Earth.

[@jazzlover10000]

Democrat leaders all over the US are limiting housing as an eco-move. Las Vegas excepted... tho' I think LV is the one place they should stop building due to lack of water! Population in the US is going to continue to grow so housing will be a bit dicey into the near future. Prices do go down and up again tho' so best to be prepared for that.

[@jazzlover10000]

Same 40 years ago. My dad paid $12,000 for his second house, where I grew up, in southern california. We grew up wondering how on earth we'd ever afford a house!

[@DGTelevsionNetwork]

Hell, I've watched houses in my state go from 150k to the average being over 400k within 5 years.

[@giln4689]

@@DGTelevsionNetwork are you in nevada? lol

[@goremall4330]

I've watched this video a lot in these last two weeks. You know the saddest part? It's not that the future generations will not have the same level playing field we had, it's heartbreaking they will never even know such a thing existed in the first place. Chaos is normal for them.

[@XyphileousLF]

Oh hell yeah man! I haven't stopped considering how I'll deal with living on the street. The foxes own the henhouse and we just have to hope our number isn't called when dinnertime comes around.

[@rejectionistmanifesto8836]

After about 20 years working, I'll tell young people you should not have any loyalty to any organization, they will turn on you in a second when its convenient and fire/replace you. Also to ensure no slavery, young people dont get married and dont get a girl pregnant, make sure she takes the birth control pill daily in front of you and both wear protection. You will just condemn your new child to increasing poverty and freedomless slavery and these control/money/job trends worsen. Promote this idea in videos and social media to help prevent more young people into this new slavery.

[@FaintAura]

Yup, that's why I have no plans of bringing a child into this world unless I accumulate generational wealth first.

[@EmoDKTsuchiya]

Strong men Good times Weak men Bad times Repeat

[@rejectionistmanifesto8836]

@@FaintAura generational wealth wont save them from Technocratic predatory slavery in which their huge wealth can be easily confiscated as it's too tempting to the parasite elites with a click of a button.

[@christophersutterlin6945]

I'm surprised this is happening in the USA, here in my country Guatemala living costs has mostly stayed the same since the 40, not getting better but also not getting that worse

[@triggerme6144]

Inflation at 5% at an average, while wage growth has dropped below 2.3%, which was too the average before the pandemic. Raising minimum wage won't help because the services provided would just grow to meet the expenditure the hire wages. The main thing is. You could never support a family on a minimum wage job. Ever.

[@ishitrealbad3039]

Which is kind of funny, because society was reliant on the lower classes to produce children (workers) which aren't being made anymore (low and declining birth-rates). So it's going to be interesting to see what's going to happen when all burden of labour is going to be in the hands of only a few young people. It's a tragedy waiting to happen, and retirement is going to be hell for people who get retirement pensions from the government.

[@candlewaxicing]

It's one big monopoly game and every generation starts 4 turns later than the previous one.

[@firefly9838]

Imagine playing monopoly without starting with any money. That’s the Reality many people face trying to get into the system. We need UBI.

[@justvibin5315]

@@firefly9838 UBI is a temporary solution to the real problem. UBI is inevitable since a class war will likely start if it wasn't implemented. The real problem is late stage capitalism.

[@thekingoffailure9967]

@@justvibin5315 so much capitalist realism in this comment section I'm gonna tear my eyes out. There is a solution. And it's not a culling of the poors. Ffs

[@Walamonga1313]

@@firefly9838 what's UBI

[@firefly9838]

@@Walamonga1313 economic plan to give those 18 and older who make under a certain amount $1,000 a month free and clear. To replace most other social income programs that have ridiculous requirements and a 100 hoops you have to jump through and even then it’s only like $200 a month if your selected.

[@swmtothemoon6660]

I'm literally listening to this video while I'm delivering pizza for Domino's. Instant like and subscribe because you are 100% correct.

[@fatcat5817]

Once the supply chain collapses people will starve and panic. Panic enough to loot, rape, and cannibalize the unarmed. 😳 The toilet paper fiasco was a taste to how unprepared people are.

[@jaredmartin7040]

@Tweed Penguin Easier said than done

[@Walamonga1313]

@Tweed Penguin lol, spoken like a true boomer

[@f1r3hunt3rz5]

@Tweed Penguin Maybe we DO hustle, grandpa, but all that hustle doesn't make things as easy as you once got in your oh so good old days.

[@finkamain1621]

@Tweed Penguin As if only Gen Z is screwed. Go back and do some LSD at Woodstock

[@LMBOatU]

It’s getting impossible in nearly every profession to make a living and many of us are working as hard as we were told to but settling for way less than the American dream

[@levo5552]

I’m a busser for a mid range restaurant. I’ve had a job in food service for 2 years. (I’m turning 18 shortly) the bussers are treated like waste at my restaurant. Our $/hr is the lowest of anyone in the building. Servers hate tip money being taken from them for us. And the managers just treat us as expendable. It becomes a toxic environment. And stuff is broken around the restaurant and the managers don’t want to fix it because they get bonuses for having low maintenance expenses. Restaurants aren’t worth it to work. I hope these large restaurant companies fall

[@Chickenbutt436105]

Rudy is never gonna see this but the plan has always been for the young to own nothing since you can't miss what you never had

[@chaddy2409]

In 2030 it will be eventually finished

[@renaultklio2401]

@@chaddy2409 why do you think so?

[@kevinbermudez738]

@@renaultklio2401 Agenda 2030

[@ZekeMan62]

We're living through a slow, steady, communist revolution.

[@realbanger]

You will have nothing you will own nothing and you will like it

[@MimikyuFiend]

Thanks for talking about the restaurant industry workers, I'm one of them. The restaurant I work at DEDUCTS CREDIT CARD PROCESSING FEES FROM OUR TIPS. FYI: If any of you get great service at a restaurant the number you write on the tip line is not what the server gets. And as always, cash is King. Ultimately, I'd want to see reform in the 3rd LARGEST EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRY in the US.

[@elias502]

100%, just knowing the sorts of things that employers do with tips, I always opt to tip cash

[@MimikyuFiend]

@@elias502 That helps servers a ton, thanks for going cash!

[@Flavor190]

@@elias502 didn’t know that thanks. As a thanks I want to give you some knowledge I learned cash isn’t king in general. Liquid cash is important but cash should go towards buying assets that pay you, dividend earning stocks, rentals properties, and (in my opinion this will be the future) crypto currency and NTFs. I think everyone should learn about how our money system isn’t working and how to get around it.

[@MrVariant]

Damn that's evil. 20:15 good idea as a spender with credit but employees shouldn't be paying merchant fees. Lose job and 401k gets jacked with paychex $75 fee, taxes and 10% early withdrawal fee because waiting 20+ years to be 59 1/2 isn't an option.

[@jeffshackleford3152]

Yes I always tipped cash, so the servers did not have to pay taxes on it, because fuck paying taxes.

[@user-livetoknow]

The average person sees only one live person checkout line at Walmart, everything else is either a closed lane or a self service kiosk. I'm surprised the empty lanes haven't already been converted to better use of floor space.

[@Ash2theB]

This hit my recommendation this week. It’s going to go viral especially with 1984 on the thumbnail will help. Also I just finished watching Metropolis.