The Enslavement of the Middle Class (Documentary)

[@jaketran]

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[@dongshengdi773]

Vietnam is the most free and democratic country in the universe

[@seymorefact4333]

⛔ We''ve been programmed to worry about Russia & China. When its our own govt, corp that use us as rat experiments for profit! Poison us. Keep us in debt. Use religion to scare. Spy on us to control. Remove our liberties.

[@aaad3552]

42:10 Dont tell me what i want mate. I dint need that much ca, sh to stay happy. There's a reason nar, cis, sist trait is the factor of success.

[@aaad3552]

​@@dongshengdi773its nordic countries not vietnam

[@aaad3552]

42:10 Dont tell me what i want mate. I dint need that much mo, ney to stay happy. There's a reason nar, cis, sist trait is the fac, tor of success.

[@ThZuao]

The best prison is the illusion of freedom.

[@thelostgeneration2000]

I'd say the worst, in a some way 😮

[@Imhotephp]

One could say we are in the Matrix

[@hendo19742]

EXACTLY 💯 👍👍 IN ORDER TO BELIEVE IN THE AMERICAN DREAM IS FAST ASLEEP 😴 💤 🇺🇸

[@stevenfranszen1032]

"slavery is but the owning of labour and carries with it the care of the labourers, while the European plan, led on by England, is that capital shall control labour by controlling wages."

[@tobiasandersen6739]

and the only freedom is the ability to not work 🤷‍♂

[@dentonfender6492]

Comedian George Carlin stated in one of his comedy gigs years ago, "the poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class so they will keep going to those "jobs"".

[@royharper2003]

He also said it's called The American Dream because you have to be alssep to belive it yet he lived the American Dream telling jokes and died with a net worth of about $10 million dollars.

[@transhumanisttv1771]

​@@royharper2003 Even Tolstoy waited until the last ten days of his life to walk away from his fortune. Do you expect truth-tellers to also be saints?

[@therooster1339]

There's some good George Carlin soundbites, but listening to him as I got older I realized he's a far left liberal moron that would've LOVED Kamala

[@sdrc92126]

In the olden days, if you didn't work you would just starve to death. I think that's even in the Bible.

[@_John_Tyree_]

yeah, yeah people always mention what Carlin [wisely] said but go right back to their cog position on the wheel.

[@danielpeet9811]

What you’re referring to is the working class. The professional class (or middle class) and the managerial class (upper middle class) are being outright eliminated. A few positions are kept to wave a carrot in front of everyone. How many people have MBAs? How many middle management jobs paying $150k/ year exist? Also, Ford was paying $5/day?!?! That’s 1/4 Oz of gold per day. Thats $660/day or $3300/ week in today’s money.

[@danielpeet9811]

Also, Prussia started in what is now Poland, Lithuania, kaliningrad, and Latvia.

[@Markizas.Karabasas]

big effort video getting basic things like this wrong

[@SatsMate]

Where can one lean now a days to remain resilient to the ever changing job environment?

[@kebabfoto]

​​@@SatsMate Turn off your computer, no more gaming and let your heart decide for you. Mine picked baking, just 2 years in and I can make a couple of really cool looking and well tasting pastries, breads and baguettes etc. Saving money on sweets and bread is kinda cool and I now have a talent I can put on my resume

[@andresmaynez3060]

Ah yeeesss, I see you learned the Republican's way of dividing people by trying to be specific so as to deny the entire argument. Divide and conquer

[@davidweyer79]

And then when we were able to pay off our homes, they created property taxes. No matter what, we are slaves, regardless of whether or not we are in debt.

[@handsomeX]

Yup. As well as increased interest rates.

[@houssamalucad753]

Should've chosen a fixed rate mortgage when interest rates were reasonable. The only way to be safe. ​@@handsomeX

[@reyreyzer4822]

You will own nothing and be happy.

[@real82it]

Gold star comment! We never actually “own” our homes……we lease the land on a yearly basis from our dear government…….

[@tacticalmattfoley]

Gov taxes retirees out of their homes, too. It's the cruelest of ironies that we truly own nothing and find out in the end.

[@avg_k9]

make product, consume product, become product

[@markarca6360]

Huminerals

[@discombob93]

😆

[@cassandraknight8804]

A consumer being.

[@bonvivant567]

This is the problem when you measure the success of an economy on how the top 1% are doing in the stock market rather than how the bottom 30% are doing in the supermarket.

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

Measuring the success of the 1% is the correct way. If it's not then why haven't any of you done anything to change it?

[@bonvivant567]

@@Dave_of_Mordor If everyone isn't eating your economy is shit and doesn't work, simple as. No one gives a fuck about the 1% you bootlicking, well-heeled, jobsworth lapdog.

[@kemeticenergy1617]

@@Dave_of_Mordor How does that leather boot taste?

[@3vanguardofthephoenix335]

​@Dave_of_Mordor you measure the success of a society by how it treats the least among them. The criminals, the poor, the disabled, the elderly, the distressed. If our leaders don't care about helping from the bottom up, and making all of our lives more meaningful, they simply aren't leaders. They are selfish tyrants ⚡️

[@anmolfrost]

@@Dave_of_Mordorlmao, thats the most irrational argument i have ever read. Zero ounce of logic here.

[@paulwilless1916]

We're not even the cogs, we're the grease.

[@daintreetosea]

Worse is they are moving from mechanical to electric and therefore less moving parts needed

[@mrcookies409]

@@daintreetosea We are the data now.

[@rhysmorris85]

So do something about it

[@rabidrabbitsmokingneonlights]

​@mrcookies409 yes data not even the fiber optical it runs on

[@Spartan135]

We are the crop.

[@denaheffron7483]

Let's protect this information and each other.

[@-_-----]

Amen.

[@tookooogoobloo3522]

Amen

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

Protecting it from who? This information has been out there for years but it took a popular KZbinr to tell you this for you to take it seriously?

[@daviddobarganes9115]

Europe doesn't have a bad economy because people aren't incentivized to work; it struggles because investment capital goes where people are the most exploitable and where the legal system is the most corruptible

[@thatundeadlegacy2985]

US pays its skilled employees double than europe

[@jt1559]

Europe is also being overwhelmed by "refugees" that as a whole drain European economies and don't contribute.

[@oodo2908]

It absoletlery has a bad economy because of high taxes. Governement creaeates money. I creates evil . kS Sorry, no glassess.

[@alanskinner7031]

not to mention Socialism! No Business in the EU will prosper with Socialism!

[@earthdaddy]

​@@alanskinner7031Lol the UK is not socialist nor is their economy in any trouble. They don't have anywhere near the poverty we have. Did you not just read what the informed man above said? The UK doesn't allow the level of rampant, exploitative capitalism, that's why there is more business- and income inequality- here.

[@sylphmoon9657]

Even if you pay off the mortgage you still don't own your home, cause property taxes.

[@bobdebouwer7835]

And if you get sick or unemployed and u need help they'll take your house

[@ZatoichiBattousai]

Exactly, same here in Canada. It just becomes a lease that the government can buyout and use whenever they want, at the lowest price. All just crown land up here. Plus you only own the surface, not that far below ground.

[@Nazunas43]

No wonder why people love luigi now

[@jaywilldoit]

Yes, the people who are poor, lost, bottom of the barrel, with no education or morals, love luigi. Just like they support Palestine.

[@handsomeX]

Exactly

[@510LUV]

slow people

[@artemismoonbow2475]

Luigi showed that even upper income achievement oriented people can and do fail in this society. I wouldn't shed a tear for that CEO or clench my pearls at Luigi's action, but he was wrong. He could have used that big brain of his to uplift consciousness and organize, instead he let narcissistic rage take over. History is gonna history, but I can't wait until (his)story becomes ourstory.

[@CL-hf2fb]

Did you just realize this? Do you not feel the wrongness of it all???

[@stenyethanmathews945]

Peasants/serfdom/indentured servitude/slavery never went away. They only got reinvented each era.

[@phattcat3635]

Yeah they do t just slave black ppl anymore they invited white America

[@adamsnelson4689]

It's done through marketing & consumerism.. I'm glad that shit don't work on me

[@freeestyleobsessed]

Congratulations, in 52 minutes you’ve completely demolished my worldview

[@Revolutionarysocialist]

What were you before?

[@ashesrockstotaldrama]

@@Revolutionarysocialistthat’s the real question

[@Revolutionarysocialist]

@@ashesrockstotaldrama id like to know

[@DNAofDoggie]

​@@Revolutionarysocialist highly likely "everything is a rainbow and sunshine, no way there's a villain/demon king in this world"

[@szewc0svd]

Cogs were willing as they were given upwards social mobility (ability to raise therie socio-economical status in society), theire kids were still willing as they had little upward mobility but saw what was achivable for theire parenrs. Now we are at luigi level, 3rd gen cogs You have even less upward mobility than your parents but saw them plowing themself to the marrow in the work only to gained little to nothing.

[@DreadPirateRobertz]

"We work jobs that we hate to buy shit we don't need to impress people we don't like.". -Tyler Durden

[@witdajuice6763]

That shit does not apply to most people; I work because I’d starve to death in the streets if I didn’t, like most people in the world.

[@Bat_Boy]

Homelessness is the masters whip on the backs of the middle class. DONT SLIP UP!

[@thebadassofthewest6022]

If there are too many there will be an insurgency.

[@LegendFromWoW]

Rent is debt due every month. But instead of going to collections you're thrown out on the streets.

[@misswoman089]

Yeah because then you would have to deal with people like yourselves

[@caiusKeys]

Well said

[@whendarknessfalls6969]

If you're homeless, you're not middle-class

[@errabbitc]

the middle class is nearly collapsed already.

[@soulfireonfire6423]

Well they have been working on it for decades and decades!

[@misswoman089]

I don't understand like there's still working people

[@Tripskull]

Look at the bright side...For at least the next four years, billionaires get to triple their money yearly instead of only doubling it!! Aren't you proud to be an American?

[@errabbitc]

@misswoman089 They're underpaid.

[@blameekatoneikosipente482]

​@@misswoman089and most of the working class tries actively looking for a way out of the rat race.

[@samizstudio]

After I moved to Canada and found a job, I told one of my colleauges that people here are actually living in a modern slavery. He got mad.

[@deadpansanchez2947]

😂 what a child. To never have a proper conversation about this means ya boi is a a failure as an adult.

[@davidhaworth7152]

People in Canada are or the people where you came from?

[@davidhaworth7152]

Or both?

[@samizstudio]

@@davidhaworth7152 I came from Asia.

[@financialeducation4433]

What was that standard work week before vs after?

[@Lastluke]

Medieval peasants had more holidays than we do now…

[@wolfbountygameryt1404]

Bullshit

[@user-pi6cs3ue4s]

They had to work for nearly free for crops half the year. The rest of the time was not a holiday, they still had to then work to make clothes, or do other work for income or trade.

[@thekingoflordagames3517]

You are using the term "holiday" very loosely there.

[@knighthawk882]

True

[@silasrossner4861]

@@user-pi6cs3ue4s We are working half a year for taxes. Sounds equivalent.

[@gamester1416]

The trash guy that I know that works for waste management makes $55 an hour But he’s been working for them for many years

[@pawllypocket]

No way?? 55$ an HOUR?!??

[@danygauthier605]

​@pawllypocketyea you would be surprised how much you get paid for smelling job that have a degrading reputation 😅

[@semkjaer3581]

​@@danygauthier605 used to be garbagemen made decent money, now it's barely above minimum wage if you're just starting out

[@handsomeX]

​@pawllypocketMy uncle was making around 40k/yr in the late 80s/90s as a trash man. That was great money back then.

[@MountainWaterPV]

@@TommyM.Pickles do you have any sources for this? seems the average is $17/hour

[@DNAofDoggie]

The more you know The more miserable you become. The curse of knowledge Sometimes ignorance is a bliss.

[@tacticalmattfoley]

My Mother taught multi-handicapped children for over a decade. I helped her as a teacher's assistant for a year in HS as an elective. Those were the happiest people on the planet as long as lunch was on-time.....

[@Luka23567]

@@tacticalmattfoley yea being mentally challenged.. are the happiest people because they are mentally handicapped! 😂😂

[@modernphil1049]

I would be a miserable person who can see rather than a blind happy fool.

[@xsw234100]

without the slaves, the privileged has no services.

[@thewatcherofawesomecontent]

that's why they want to perfect AI and Robots... no need AT ALL for thinking/living slaves.

[@sdrc92126]

Without those slaves, you would be poking at mud with a stick dreaming of the days when you had toilet paper🤣

[@mrcead]

​@thewatcherofawesomecontent Ai and robots are nowhere near replacing people. They will just get slaves to replace the workers, and we won't know they exist - see Dubai

[@RichardCorongiu]

Elon Musk is not there for " efficiency" He's there to back-door his own interests...a sott-of insider trading. ...he knows contacts, inside info, contracts....

[@Yupthereitism]

This is bigger than Elon musk

[@matildamarmaduke1096]

Sure is ​@@Yupthereitism

[@candide6145]

Yeah like every other person in office 😂

[@ProfessorPlease]

lol trump I’ll back your cause with 100 million dollar campaign; definitely don’t want anything in return once your in office. People are so dumb blindly believing the ultra rich care about anything other than money

[@residentjess]

@@candide6145Elon was not elected. Elon has too much wealth and that gives him too much power. Time to tax billionaires out of existence.

[@sandyshoals7565]

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." VanGoethe

[@notyourbusiness7391]

It's the Matrix. "The world they pulled over your eyes so you do not see the truth".

[@ThanhTran-el3eu]

I appreciate your team's time and efforts to put together this video. I hope it reaches a wide audience and sparks meaningful conversations about this!

[@MrChief06]

These gen alpha kids aren’t putting up with the current outdated education system. If it’s not engaging for them they won’t engage simple as that. We need a long overdue educational reform asap

[@-_-----]

Agreed for the most part: Brainrot aside, some of these Gen-Z and Alphas are sassy as hell and have ZERO tolerance for B.S., like they're 60 years beyond their age in that area. I think it's the pinnacle of insecurity for a person to sneer at people younger than them - All three of the youngest generation are in the same bucket, and we need to support one-another.

[@nikyabodigital]

Need more philosophy and self actualization.. but its not just educational reform u need to fix the pillars that Jake Tran was discussing in the video

[@mistyydagoat]

True. Not even going to school regularly as we used to.

[@whendarknessfalls6969]

That's every generation.. there's just more kids in total

[@mohammedjeffali1076]

GenAlpha has a chance to change things for a few reasons 1. The environment is ripe for change, ppl. are fed up. 2. They are a large generation 3. They cut to the bone in their criticisms. For example, my daughter's reaction toward to the author of the novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover." was as follows. "Bro was strait up rage baiting for views"....hilarious and accurate.

[@borisdodgingbullets]

Multiple ways to escape. I left the U.S. in 1999 and have been fortunate enough to build a wonderful life abroad. There are other ways.

[@Whythefeckarethere2usernames]

Why did you leave? Similar problems as today?

[@ashesrockstotaldrama]

I left and I live in Mexico. We are so blessed to be here

[@borisdodgingbullets]

@ Congratulations! It’s always heart-warming to hear of others that have found their place!

[@Luka23567]

Only middle class in USA can afford to leave. Leaving America with nothing to go to other countries will give you a quick wake up call.

[@mrcead]

Tell people without telling people. 1 executive order can turn us into Soviet America where we can't leave

[@davidbouchard2499]

if my work week was 6 hours i would gladily pick up trash for a living. It's all a question of wage at the end of the day.

[@non_gamer9912]

Had almost the same thought. People know it needs to be done they just need enough pay and respect.

[@davidbouchard2499]

@@non_gamer9912 bro im actually paying for gardening lol.

[@deadmeme2403]

I dont think everyone wants to quit being workers and i dont think people are this way because they are brainwashed. Just like you say people just want to live decent life and allowed to be full fledged human being. Being a gardener is good, so is being a nurse, doctor, garbage collector, etc. This idea of personal financial liberation i find very confusing about americans. Jake basically explained that being workers suck in america because of people like rockefeller, and the way out is hopefully being a new rockefeller. Jake is so full of shit that by the end he gave a dichotomy between being the fortune 10% and unfortunate 90%, I mean why are we accepting a situation where 90% of folks (nurses, garbage collector, gardener, etc) know they will be screwed. Can somebody please explain?

[@Ovokor]

I worked as a trash man and its not nearly as bad as people imagine it to be. The smell is far less harsh then the chemicals in manufacturing. Getting trash juice sprayed on is not super common. Most the time its driving truck with a joystick that controls the arms picking up carts or dumpsters. Pretty sweet job besides starting work at 3am with a double sleep time (get home around noon shower nap for 3-4 hrs get up, go to bed around 10 get up at 2am and repeat).

[@stupedcraig]

Trash man is a solid job. Trade jobs are great now too.

[@thelostgeneration2000]

"The blindest man is the one who chooses not to see".©

[@ixiahj]

This is creepy. I remember back in the 80's and 90's, in elementary school, we had problem solving sessions in math. Remember those word problems like "a train is going this fast and what time does it meet this other train" or something. We always had those. And we learned computer coding in high school. Q Basic and C++ on Dos. Our instructors pretty much just gave us a problem and we were allowed to approach it in any way. "Write me a program that lets me enter 5 integers and then it prints it back arranged from lowest to highest." They taught us to be creative. If this shit is happening in the United States, I am so glad I was not born there.

[@Pils10]

Currently also happening in Europe, but to a lesser extent. Also, this is school-based and often times subjective. For example, I got regular called out for doing a math equation my way instead of the way the teacher told us, even though I was more efficient with my way of solving the problem and the result was the same. Another example would be AI some of my teachers told us that from now on, all presentations and work that gets evaluated should be done in school so that we can't "cheat" using these tools, resulting in us having less time to think about and solve the exercises and everyone (even tough only a few of us used AI) got worse grades as a result.

[@justins3810]

Yes this video is exactly what America is currently and previously. They just got more creative ways to control us while they tell us how free we are.

[@427skies]

​@Pils10 Europe is just as indoctrinated if not more so...did you not see where he said the Prussian education system was started on Europe...?

[@justins3810]

Everything in the US is a lie

[@aircityryan]

Schools are a reflection of workplaces. Some of them are decent (and expensive) some of them are trash (we call these: public schools in non-suburban areas), and it all depends on one of the single biggest predictors of a person's success in life, a quality that rivals even IQ in its ability to consistently predict a person's future ability to join the upper class: the ZIP code. If you have the right one of those, perhaps paired with a proper last name, the world is yours. If you don't, guess it's time to make some friends and marry strategically. Or become a Buddhist and reject material wealth or whatever, that's probably the best call tbh

[@mikeritter2979]

If a man has a friendly wife and kids that actually like him , that man will gladly work to support them .

[@sheridansherr8974]

If there are well paid jobs available. Now husband and wife have to work full time.

[@blazingfuryoffire1]

Thing is, that's been destroyed now.

[@TheCommentEvangelist]

@sheridansherr8974Wonder why? Look up “Wtf happened in 1971?”

[@hermitcard4494]

His wife can be friendly with friends. PS: what you meant was a loving loyal wife.

[@justins3810]

You're missing the point with your positive attitude.

[@MrRealeyesrealize]

Two of the most stupid things to change within a century that have ruined us 1) got off the gold standard, and because we no longer needed tangible assets to back up an IOU we can make the debt number go as big as we want which is insane. 2) when student loans went federal (can’t default or get out of a federal loan) it became predatory and another mechanism to keep people working to pay that off too.

[@notorioustori]

Other countries were calling in debts that would've ruined the US. I agree that getting off the gold standard was a horrible long term , but unfortunately it was the right decision at the time for the US to maintain its trajectory of global power.

[@semkjaer3581]

Nationalized student loans are not really a bad thing, it's just that in the US they made it unbankruptable but still allowed private banks to do the lending and to set the rates. In the Netherlands where I live, the government loans directly to students soemwhere around the 5 year government bond rate (the government passes on the rate they loan at).

[@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi]

3) Feminism

[@TheKarlslok]

The gold standard meant that the rich could hoard all the gold. And since there is very little gold, they would own the world. By removing the dependency on gold, governments could use inflation, and inflation (if reasonable, around 2%) benefits the poor, because it eats up debt and poor people are in debt. Now today the wealthy has found new ways to own the world, by owning assets: Bill Gates buys farm land, others buy energy companies, other buys real estate, so that we the working class must pay the wealthy for everything we use to keep on living. What is the solution once the super wealthy owns everything (like in south Korea)??? The people need to take it back. How?

[@heroofhyrule9778]

by stupid I think you mean diabolically genius. Still need more global awakening and then we will do something about it

[@hisoverlorduponhigh90]

In America we are experiencing a redistribution of wealth. We see a concentration of wealth, in fewer and fewer hands.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

And financial assets is just one of the ways to extract profit from the aspirational "middle class" 😂

[@tacticalmattfoley]

The greatest re-distribution of wealth in history is happening right now in the US and very few people seem to notice. The consequences of the LA fires will be a concentrated example of this.........

[@davideyt1242]

in Europe as well, not as bad as in the US.. but since most of our governments are now penetrated by US foreign interests so most politicians are corrupt foreign agents, shit starts to look more and more like in America

[@denisl2760]

@@haruhisuzumiya6650 What's the alternative? not have financial assets? on average investments are positive for the average person. You'd lose money by not having investments.

[@MG-ek4uf]

Glad to see you back doing the work that made you what you are today. Keep it up.

[@abdullahsakib1125]

In all my 24 year lifespan, this is the best content I've seen on KZbin!!!!!

[@Megatonaxe]

I'm 13 minutes in and this video is full of a bunch of disinformation and shit representation of the working class what do you mean?

[@NoScriptSippin]

​@@Megatonaxeexpand on that, what is the disinformation you've found in this video?

[@demiurgebartlett750]

​@@Megatonaxe then what are the real facts?

[@HeadStronger-HS]

Corporations found a way around educating people for skills, they now import talent from other countries.

[@joshn2342323]

Trump is getting ready to lift the H1B cap on 2025 lol, bye bye good paying skilled jobs.

[@TjJd-f8m]

​​@@joshn2342323 bro if he does that the midterms will be shoved so far up his A$$ it'll make mr slave blush

[@premiertrainingFL]

@@joshn2342323him saying the immigrants the immigrants! Thats because the greedy tyrants who own this country want to be able to hire slaves from other countries so they can CONTINUE THE RECORD PROFITS

[@StarGrimm-vo3os]

Train workers import thinkers.

[@SisyphusJP]

@@joshn2342323not yet! Trump was totally against H1B in 2016 and MAGA right is totally against it. Only Elon and Vivek want that. Trump will make the right choice.

[@_John_Tyree_]

Some people are always saying they "love this country", well, it doesn't love you.

[@royharper2003]

they are free to move to another country if they think they can find love there

[@newjerseydevil6115]

​@@royharper2003Not necessarily.

[@Learn_Daily]

Ford didn't invent the 40 hour week the phrase "Eight hours' labour, Eight hours' recreation, Eight hours' rest". Was around before he was even born. He just made a Hugh impact in rolling it out.

[@gamerville2728]

🤓

[@daahorse1652]

This is redundant

[@Megatonaxe]

Not only that but Unions did heavy lifting long before Ford bent to their will.

[@CalvinR90]

Plus debt from citizens was one of the reasons for the Great Depression

[@Cyberpunk_Radio_PBS]

Yeah because that was the maximum he could require of his employees at the time

[@aaroncapps5922]

In Europe you don't have free Healthcare you pay for it out of your taxes. & it still sucks because it takes forever to get the care you need.

[@CBT5777]

I have to wait 2-4 months for a specialty care appointment in Washington St. There's long waiting times everywhere, depends what it is.

[@aaroncapps5922]

@CBT5777 what insurance do you use?

[@CBT5777]

@@aaroncapps5922 Kaiser Permanente

[@viniciusbueno2160]

Just like Brazil, but it sucks so bad that it's preferable to pay expensive for health insurance

[@funmilayoaina2658]

But at least you wont be denied your claim​@@viniciusbueno2160

[@federico4239]

Man this one is a masterpiece. I'm grateful. Thank you so so much.

[@earthdaddy]

@@federico4239 sorry guy but this is still a delusion repackaged. As long as the billionaires are in control, 'escaping the middle class' is the same lie as the American dream.

[@woodsmand]

Okay little history lesson for you but the average lifespan in the middle ages was drastically reduced by child mortality, not by over work. If you didn't die of the plague or something you still had a pretty good chance of making your three score and ten years.

[@geoffstockton]

Wow, 70 years of overworked misery. Delightful.

[@joshuawilliams7164]

This won't be a "Golden Age". Its shaping up to turn into another dark ages period that could last for centuries.

[@tylernol1566]

My belief is that yes, but it will be a "soothing" dark age where we are lost in the sauce due to AI fake-taken-as-real and because humans have a dopamine hack that is being exploited (maybe the wrong word, but it's gotten past the blood brain barrier) we as creatures will/are succumb to the womb of pleasure and fantasy. The Matrix if you will.

[@farinshore8900]

I first realized this 20 years ago. I'm happy that others are now starting to recognize it as well.

[@ThatBoi1995]

There's always been some Jake Tran hate online and hes a complex character but man these are good and everyone needs to watch them. Taking a month of work between jobs and it is such a breathe of fresh air. Keep on investing yall!

[@warlock479]

Education helps... That's all I know.... I'm an engineer.... My parents were bankers and govt servants... The grand parents were lower middle class(army and teacher) and great grand parents were farmers (lower class,no money, sometimes not even food to eat)... Great grandparents were stubborn about the next generation being educated and 4 generations later, our lives have improved....

[@thelostgeneration2000]

If you are from money family - it doesn't matter. And nowadays, when education became just another business - it's not as helpful as it was few decades ago.

[@ricksturdevant2901]

Ahh yes @warlock479 the United States of Capitalism is #1 in this world

[@resource5371]

education helps but that doesn't make the crazy loan thing and tuition good/.

[@webnplay]

Educate yourself the best way you can. If not through university do it by creating stuff yourself, build stuff, try and fail and try again. Its not bad to work for an employer if the employer is good for you, pays decent wage but rely on your skills not on your employer so you can alway choose to work somewhere else or start your own business. Either way learn skills and be free to choose how to live your life.

[@MsTwilightSpeaks]

What an evil wicked world

[@Spartan135]

and the top 1% and their simps are responsible for this.

[@mrfox4689]

its just business

[@deondrex18k]

​@@mrfox4689humanity doesn't need business

[@tylernol1566]

I mean, idk. You have to live since you're alive, and so therefore you have to spend your time doing things. This guy talks like everyone is just stuck but you can take jobs that interest you or get skilled and have some class mobility. I've met people because of jobs, done a ton of different things, moved to different cities, explored, all because of jobs. Then I decided to get skilled and got paid more (take on more responsibility), but yes at some point people give up (this is individualized; diff people give up at diff points). Don't give up! There's most of the external world which you cannot control, but you can control your own actions and drive for the destiny which you dream.

[@heroofhyrule9778]

the Rothchild family having 500 TRILLION net worth is not just business. It is a calculated gradual enslavement on a global scale.

[@stevenfranszen1032]

"slavery is but the owning of labour and carries with it the care of the labourers, while the European plan, led on by England, is that capital shall control labour by controlling wages" - 1872

[@Wild_boys10]

It's not capitalism. Its corporatism

[@sdrc92126]

@@Wild_boys10 Who controls the money van control the world. Kissinger Every dollar is owned by a private bank and at some time must be returned. With interest. It is only on loan to you

[@LegendFromWoW]

If I had the money I'd tweet your video and pay thousands of dollars to boost it's exposure. More people need to be made aware of this. Thanks for making this video.

[@katieandnick4113]

People who want to know already know, and people who don’t avoid videos like this intentionally.

[@cringeyidiotterry]

To be fair, this started before industrialization, and during the feudal era. No, it started during antiquity (the classical period, during slave times). No, it actually started with agriculture. And what was before that? Hunter-gatherer, pre-agricultural. Work kinda started long before civilization. Do you think premodern people were free adventurers like in your fantasy RPG? No, most worked the fields, some had a trade or craft like building, making certain tools, or being artisanal. There were also those sanitation workers back then. Very few were itinerant, and they had work to do: they traveled solely for work. The nobles & yeomen, they weren't free adventurers either, they fought the dumb wars, with orders & commands from their King. The King wasn't free either, he had to look after the Kingdom. No one is really free, not even animals in nature are: their lives are quite shiite Look at the lives of bees, etc.

[@hightierplayers2454]

Story of a lot of our lives right here.

[@GFCProductionsx]

Now what to do about it.

[@EMMmaximino]

@@GFCProductionsx we ALL QUIT for one day, imagine we we all had the balls as a nation to collectively pull it off.

[@carcolhdev]

@@GFCProductionsx unionize

[@sheilal.7284]

If the people are suffering too much, you will get overthrown? What about the poor people in North Korea? Are we still waiting? This is an even stronger argument for why we need the second amendment‼️ the people of North Korea have literally nothing Some people can’t fight back. Under the threat of your entire family being slaughtered or imprisoned for the next five generations.

[@GoldLBS]

The people need to rise. Only thing we know about NK is what we are told. American media is filtered and engineered so who knows whats really going in in north korea.

[@jussayinnit]

What do you actually KNOW about North Korea? Other than what you've been TOLD by the western media propaganda system? The fact is that you dont actually KNOW anything about thay place. ...but here you are speaking as if you do without any hint of self-awareness.

[@SinaSadri-sm7iz]

kim is completely heartless and cold. he would probably kill everyone trying to overthrow him, even if its half his people

[@sir.richardpound]

A majority North Koreans genuinely worship, idolize, and cry for their leader that they are willing to suffer working hard for their country. Only privileged NK citizens know enough about their country and leader to feel resentment and access the means to resist or escape

[@manonYm1]

well.. for north korea, you rise, your family and friends are dead, maybe your village. But since you're starving to death every day, where to even get the strenght to rise. Is also simple psychology, as long as there is a glimps of hope, people will stick to it and when there is nothing, you have no power anymore.

[@jasonbourne1985]

Real freedom is knowing how to do all these things for yourself and not relying on some "system" to meet your every need.

[@Bolocomcafe]

Even people in low class make hate against another workers, it is mental problems.

[@davidoustifine2285]

The literal meaning of the word "mortgage" is death pledge. Let that sink in for a minute...

[@royharper2003]

Mortgage dates back to the late 14th century, with the roots “mort” meaning death in French and “gage” meaning pledge. While that literally makes a mortgage a death pledge, it’s not as eerie as it sounds. It is believed that the concept of a mortgage began in early civilizations: an exchange of property with a pledge to repay over time. The pledge would be considered “dead,” or null, once the loan was repaid or if the borrower could not fulfill the terms of the deal.

[@Horus845]

Words carry energy

[@JohnDoe-ks6jh]

These 1 % predators are around every corner , don’t let them prey on you .

[@matheenarif8645]

Joo?

[@jasontjapkes]

I guess, its been a bad economy for me for 48 years. Everytime i even get close to middle class they raise what the middle class makes per year. Id say some thing in life or almost everything in life is more important than money. Family, faith, health, doing the right thing....

[@MANS4ON-Ce137]

10 years mortgages in the 1940s? Seems crazy. In "socialist" Bulgaria during the 70s you could build a 3 story brick house with a less than 5 year mortgage from the central bank. Now with "democracy" it's up to 30 years obviously :D

[@royharper2003]

Crazy you don't understand inflation

[@davideyt1242]

currency de-valuation is an intentional government induced policy to make sure that no matter how much money you have saved, you will never be able to become financially free.. it's real and kept hidden from the general population which is being told "inflation is naturally occurring" which is a huge lie. easiest way to understand it, if you work really hard and have managed to save up 500-600K EUR until you are 45, you could technically buy a house for 150K (real price for a small house when adjusting from inflation to real currency value) and semi-retire with the rest.. because there is no inflation, your money can buy you each year the almost the same amount of goods and services, it is predictable, it is stable - predictable and stable is what the government DO NOT want for the middle class.. inflation / currency de-valuation enters the room..

[@bradleycooper5436]

​@@royharper2003inflation started 100 years ago... The eastern bloc didnt use the same bank as we do

[@vadepierce4542]

Well, I just got my own vehicle. I’m working 14 hours a day six days a week and DoorDash trying to save money but I think the difference is is that I’m living in my car. I’m actually saving and I do have an idea for a small business I would like to start that could in theory grow to a large business. I really hope I make it out of this out of the middle class out of poverty and into freedom cause it’s all I’ve ever wanted in this world real freedom. I had to sacrifice all my friends all my family everything just for a chance at this….

[@jt1559]

All the best.

[@Whats_Goody]

I did this 2 years ago.. but didn’t settle for bullshit companies and working for people. Still haven’t done school. Almost 30… I always wanted to be an engineer and work only for myself. I think I might try again. Keep going. Know your worth and what to spend the time on

[@MountainWaterPV]

how do you live in your car? bathroom? power? heat?

[@toniejones425]

Welcome to slavery!! Everyone is a slave only different levels . Most of us are field slaves or factory slaves..There the ones that make 150 grands or more are house slaves..serfs,indentured slaves..no difference.

[@User-CT-55555]

It’s not gonna make you satisfied Being near and at peace with the ones close to you is the best way to be satisfied in life To have enough is enough at the end of the day Humans have always lived in families The luxury of living in your own house is fairly new unless you constructed it yourself

[@pdbouie]

Jake Nice returns to form. This felt like a blast from the past from you, even though it is so relevant for today. Thank you for the overview and the warning!

[@mithush6221]

Yeah I stopped watching the channel years ago after he started offloading the narration and using cringey ai thumbnails

[@robinabernathy2829]

14:45 to 15:30 An entire video can be done on this alone. It is truly the answer which is why so much of society is geared towards doing everything possible to prevent you from doing this. Mindless entertainment and distractions. Social media, p*rn, alcochol and drugs, etc.

[@jmav2229]

Medicated America is what we live in. They say 1/4 are on anti depressants which quite literally their only job is to make you complacent with your life. I think it’s much higher and closer to 50%. Our ancestors did not fight for this future.

[@nadias6435]

Bread and circus

[@arjuntyagi5860]

Materialism and consumerism is responsible for drainage of wealth Fulfilling dreams on debts is also responsible And branded products that gives you fake sense of achievement

[@sdrc92126]

You don't have an alternative

[@palapentz6471]

The fact that i dont have mortgage and student loans, yet im here working 40+ hours a week

[@deadpansanchez2947]

same. those two pillars be crazy.

[@royharper2003]

so why are you complaining? do you live somewhere for free? Do you expect to be able to live for free?

[@sdrc92126]

@@royharper2003 My parents gave me everything for free growing up. This must continue

[@Jaime-eg4eb]

They don't care about power, they care about making ppl suffer. Power is just a means to an end

[@MadBroStudio]

Only the blind can live in darkness

[@LandonMorrow-g1w]

my question: what middle class?

[@SpeezyFBaby93]

You said it. They just move the parameters. If you work at McDonald’s part time and you don’t even qualify for any gov assistance so in their eyes your middle class. I made a lot of dumb financial decisions when I was 18 bc a lot of kids are very immature when they are “adults” bc we were Babied compared to older generations, and it’s just getting worse.society isn’t going to need our class anymore soon and the gates foundation has a plan for all of us deplorables

[@135john135]

Or the president of what? ( Escape from NY)

[@davideyt1242]

if you work for a living (e.g. trade your time for a salary) you are working class (what they re-branded as "middle class" to make people think they have progressed)

[@Wherethewildthingsareone]

I feel my daughter all the time. Everything around you started with an idea! Period❤ thank God 🙏🏾 seek clarity, creativity, and confidence. We got this.

[@tyler_du]

The thing is you only present the problem without any solution, and has to be realistic solution. Like yeah thank you. most people already know this

[@lesliehunt4078]

interesting! I'm always telling people that mortgage interest is frontloaded because the banks know that most people move or refinance after 10 (ish) years. It's disturbing that so few people are aware of this!

[@YTFUNN6]

Editing is next level

[@Zacian2.0]

This dude is totally gonna make part 2 and part 3 members only -_-

[@1x93cm]

not everybody can make it. Someone needs to pick up the trash.

[@jaketran]

Nope! Free for all 😊

[@ryanMaistry-vu2yd]

Ok. Do on how religion and marriage relate to the economy

[@Zacian2.0]

😊

[@Zacian2.0]

@@1x93cm Reminder that electritians, plumbers, trashmen, ect make some serious bank depending on where ya live for a good lifestyle. In some more country like areas an electritian's starting wage can be close to or above 100k, and in those areas that is plenty to live an enjoyable humble life while enjoying hobbies. Sure it wont make you a hyper rich elite, but that corrupts the shit out of people anyway so ppl shouldnt really want that.

[@carcolhdev]

10:55 Quick note, you need to have enough money to eat if you're not employed. Industrialists can wait it out until your individual quit tantrum wavers. Can you? They have enough enough disposable income, you dont. You can only hurt them with a unionized work stoppage.

[@arthurcainii]

They're also mortal.

[@carcolhdev]

@arthurcainii true, but in their own greed they take from their soldiers too. And eventually they want more for themselves, so their soldiers get cut. Less and less soldiers so they don't revolt. And the people? They have their own forces. Political forces, labor forces, and militant forces. Parties, unions, and armies. The workers are always occupied by the ownist elite forces. To be trigger happy and to be unorganized just invites organized reaction and suppression, by the corporate owned police state. And that, makes it harder to resist. We saw this when unions were defanged during the red scare

[@deondrex18k]

​@@carcolhdevsounds like revolution on the horizons all these people in power at risk

[@LaponBeneksBorralho]

Amazing documentary. It needs to go viral!

[@TiPitSgtBuddy]

To escape the middle class, you can become a digital nomad. I did it without any resources and its easier then expected in some ways and harder in others. Cancun is nice this year

[@kishorgartaula1446]

what is the work you do as a digital nomad?

[@THEZONQUAKE]

Code ai to replace everything simple as that

[@TiPitSgtBuddy]

@@kishorgartaula1446 I am a salesperson for virtual assistants. But there are a few jobs out there requesting high quality native english speakers for customer support or easy jobs that pay about 10$/h. When you live off 600$/m like me, 10$/h is phenomenal and is enough for me to stack for a car, land and even a house in the future. I studied finance and left the West about 3 years ago. It's going to get worse and I can either wait till its impossible to leave and act the victime or act the fool and humiliate myself to shortsighted people until they realize my life will improve as theirs tanks. I am not selling anything honestly, but I can help if you need assistance

[@TiPitSgtBuddy]

@@THEZONQUAKE ?

[@davidweyer79]

You are high and lying.. I did that too when I was 22;)

[@pikadrew_]

this is such a detailed video, and a reality check for them. Please dont stop what you are doing

[@AmericanJobsFactory]

This is all why you want to join the movement to change the nature of work!

[@ericmoore6769]

UNIONS invented the 40 hour work week. Not Henry Ford.

[@EcoFarmFL]

Yes once the first humans made their first mistake that transferred all real wealth to the ruler of this world.

[@ItsT4ti]

Literally masterpiece

[@rachaelgraham8963]

I’m disturbed by the lack of recognition of the socialist movements that have driven forces forward. You insinuate the men in power made change and no

[@sdrc92126]

Fabians...masters of subversion

[@mpaso111]

What's up Jake, I hope you are well. Thank you for the great content as usual. I would love to see content pertaining to people that are escaping this system such as Yourself. You know Young People who are using their skills and knowledge to live the standard of life that they desire.

[@galihpa]

This is eye opening

[@DENDEAURA]

Jake you and your team, have your own style. Thw writing is amazing, the editing is top notch. You guys deserve your KZbin placks. Thanks mate

[@StarDust_2077]

I think placing your bets on Trump and Elon is very risky

[@yorsan2240]

Both of them are part of the rig

[@antilaw9911]

Dumbocrats had 4 years to fix things. Instead they dug deeper hole. Uum yeah nice

[@UNCPDE1]

Love the new animation style 🎉❤

[@bertpowers7064]

Trade school or an apprenticeship is the key for young people.

[@brandonsingleton1605]

I love when I go to watch a video and I immediately notice the removal of union efforts from the history and even credit a billionaire with the creation of the 40 hr work week

[@austinhawkins8201]

This was really good. Nice work 👍🏾

[@ricardocastro-ks5ri]

The 40 hours shift is something that in Mexico are trying to get that shift but many companies doesn't want to decrease the working hours

[@MountainWaterPV]

from my understanding, it's longer than 8 hours/5 days a week in Mexico - yes?

[@ricardocastro-ks5ri]

@MountainWaterPV 7 am to 5 pm the regular, legally they need to work 48 hours every week

[@overstandself9954]

This has got to be one of your best work❤ Big ups Jake. I dont even get why some YT creators hate on you 😢 I really just dont get it. Coz hour docs are always well researched and well presented ❤

[@mukaniwatkins2598]

That's why I say people have fight back instead of complaining.

[@majorian4897]

What are you fascist or something? Only fascists are serious about changing the status quo lol.

[@sdrc92126]

You first

[@tturner0077]

Thank you! Excellent and informative video, as always!

[@jarrettosburn8879]

My first time seeing this content creator but he hit it on the head using past facts and psychology. I've noticed how the government locks people in using these tools that were discussed. After coming back to the states, I started to realize how much worse off people are after Covid. I'm glad this creator sees the circus the way it is and is trying to help others open their eyes also.

[@DarkestMagic]

There is no war but class war

[@star_duck]

It was a War without a reason

[@Rising_Breezy]

​@@star_duckGreed was the reason

[@cavejohnson4054]

poor people shouldnt have families

[@sheridansherr8974]

No. It is always about money. Everyone loves money, communists and socialist too.

[@donHooligan]

the only war i see is money spenders waging war on the life of the planet.

[@FehuTv69]

the best content ive seen from you, waiting for rest of the parts

[@Assistint]

oh well. Back to work Monday

[@rodrickngonyoku5042]

This channel is a blessing

[@JAYHARRIS85]

This guy said, after listing a BUNCH of jobs that are absolutely vital t the functioning of this country - "jobs that are not very vital"??? What ah piece of work

[@bigk786]

I'm glad my HS teachers encouraged us to be free thinkers!

[@hiraeth3751]

People are starting to learn and understand, the future is gonna be bumpy and interesting

[@neowatson3567]

What a great video