Every superpower falls

Thats capitalism money over pepol

​@Skull211 yes, we want to believe that. As it's an old saying, but many old sayings are outdated and no longer bear any significance in today's society. It is completely possible, that the top 1% has made it to where it's inescapable for us. Something has to happen to them for them to halt this plan, but I don't know what that would be. Until then..I've grown more and more convinced, we're fucked. My tank of optimism has ran dry.

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@@gamerboydk484neoliberal mixed market, not capitalism.

Claude Frédéric Bastiat : Government is a great fiction through which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. Claude Frédéric Bastiat : Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. However, they forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone. Claude Frédéric Bastiat : When looting becomes a way of life, people create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that celebrates it. Claude Frédéric Bastiat : "No greater change and no greater evil can be brought to society than to transform the law into an instrument of robbery." Claude Frédéric Bastiat : "If the law and morality are in opposition to each other, the citizen is faced with a cruel choice - either he loses his sense of morality, or he loses respect for the law; a choice between equally great tragedies, between which it is difficult to choose.' Barry Morris Goldwater : The one essential element upon which all discoveries will depend is human freedom. Barry Morris Goldwater : The income tax has created more criminals than any other act of government. Barry Morris Goldwater : Property and liberty are inseparable, and a man's earnings are his property as much as his land or the house in which he lives. Except the government takes one of them (taxes) and interferes with the others. BRUH !!

that sounds like a meaningful and populist thing. But in reality it is just cynical and singularly unhelpful as you CAN organize and run in democracies. But having an attitude like that makes trusting other people and working with them to organize and make a difference difficult. This distrust is actually a tool that wealthy and powerful use to keep the populace in check. Because only numbers can breakthrough the wealthy and powerful have on institutions. Also, for those looking authoritarian saviours, they don't exist to benefit you, authoritarians only benefit themselves

@@matejkuka797The Goldwater one is just a loon tho.. It's his kind that made the owners of US and their puppets in D.C. Just look at the world outside of the US where taxes benefits the people.

Yah the right wing has adopted all these conspiracies to literally hide that people like Trump have been only building luxury apartments for the last two decades.

​@@auroragb Cynical yes. Unhelpful no. What's unhelpful is to pretend that what's happening isn't happening.

Vote right wing and get rid of the welfare state and no more minimum wages. Problem solved 🤣 ( american logic )

Totally agree with you.

Family makes it and are proud of their achievements even though they got support , a place to sleep to be able to work on themselves, with no evil interference, and then U are the loser even though you were an on the spot babysitter so that they could achieve whatever...doctors start treating you with disrespect and you get sick and more sick and can't even keep up with things and if you are a woman these creepy men are after you all the time and the comfortable laugh at you...

@@marcozegikniet9301 Two of the best economies (wages and working conditions) don't have minimum wages. The first is Singapore the second is in Europe ( I will let you guess).

@@CommanderRiker0 I live in europe in one of these country's. We do have minimum wages. Some country's don't because they have extreme strong unions. Without this you end up with sweatshops again like in the past ! And Singapore is also a rich man country. Also oligarchy on steroids. I never want to live over there if i was a working class person.!

I experienced this through my life as well and it was less for me and I have a feeling it was because I was SMI even programs that were supposed to help us failed us and it is the worse stigmatism to do to mentally ill people already but if I am being honest it is nice to know regular every day people experience the same because I feel less crazy and alone. I have fought SSI 12 years now or I should say on my 12th year now by myself cause my last lawyer gave me the you don't take meds bs even though I applied on meds many times so that is a bs excuse and I once had it too as a child but they took it away from because my guardians at the time failed to provide a change of address for me when they booted me out like every other. I can barely go out anymore because people are so nasty to my kind and I feel like killing myself half the time but am too proud to give them that satisfaction. Jobs don't want me, SSI doesn't want me how the hell are we suppose to cope at all even on meds when the whole system is unfair and disorganized and full of greedy eastwards. Sometimes I think this is why people shoot up places. And you can't decide to live on the land away from these government assholes because they took that away and made it illegal so you will go to jail for this even though there are worse people who belong there.

We are all slaves and disposable.

Not to mention I got certified as a Recovery Support Specialist because I wanted to help fight and advocate for my people but none would take me because of no drivers license and those who said not all require it sent me to bogus places still saying the same thing. So they got my hopes up, put me through all that training and I was the only person who bussed there and it took three busses three times a day to get up there and do this then I get my so called degree I am calling it because it wasn't really a school I went to for it but more of a mental health place that trained us anyways they all turned me down and dicked me around and all I wanted to do was help people! Yeah the money helps pay me bills and food and kitty food and other necessities but I could have stayed at my abusive Dollar Tree job that only gave me one day a week for four hours because I wasn't fast enough working the cash register and cleaning up the floors or isle whatever you want to call it and stocking and all after moving from my night shift that I was doing really well on only to give it to new hirees but instead I seized the opportunity to do something greater than myself with the inside knowledge I already had as someone with mental disabilities and have grown up around alcoholics and drug addicts too but instead of any of that I lost two jobs in two months just to be told I am not good enough.

I have only got a yes from two jobs but I had experienced the loss of a good friend and someone who also got a job in helping to protect people. He was on the news a couple years back, his name was Robert King oh and speaking of which the woman who murdered him only got 17 with priors even instead of the full sentence of 25 because she cried about it after dissing my friend already once before this and the judge.

My life has been filled with torment and abuse and it has not gotten any better and it makes me so angry the main news stations are still covering stupid Biden and Trump after I wrote to like 5-6 of them about my story. Sometimes I even think about becoming a vigilante because I am so sick and tired of the abuse of not just myself but everyone out there and criminals get away with everything now it sickens me!

"Can't do anything about it Jack!"

Yup

There are more homeless nowadays than back then.

@@cynthiaweston767well yea there are more people then back then

@@cynthiaweston767No there are not. We have videos from back then and even the entirety of Central Park were homeless encampments. We are not even close yet.

Succinct and to the point! The other aspect is few people understand the trickle-down affluence enjoyed by 90% of the West has been a deviation from historic norms. "Arrangements" to make the US$ the currency of international trade have broken. Consumer prices for Americans alone have been absurdly low as int'l vendors preferred US$ as payment, offering discounts to get them. With the $ dumped, the trendline will revert to below the norm for a long period.

💯

And the best part is, voters will continue to vote in their worst.

America is turning into a 3rd world country.

@@10speed4nah that's not it at all my friend. The best part is that VOTERS think their votes matter. Electoral college is at the top and rigged local elections are at the bottom. Tell me, who do you vote for? Because I almost 100% guarantee that your vote doesn't matter. Mayor, governor, and president do not take your popular vote. Your senator of your state, every state has two, only takes popular vote. Senators need millions of dollars to run a successful campaign. Tell me again my friend, where do our votes go too in America?

Hahaha. I needed a good laugh. 😂

Right, the american dream doesn't exist because the country is facing economic difficulties?

And we all have to wake up and face this country's grim reality. (I am so fucking stressed out...)

​@@sarkasmt2it only exists to delude people. For every successful person there are thousands who didn't made it

George Carlin was part of the club though. If anything he was mocking the rest of us.

@@johnone_onebro That’s exactly why people refuse to go to college dude. Not to mention the debt you could possibly put yourself in and then you struggle to find work after, it’s a complete joke. This Nation is a Joke.

😢.

I guess depends where you live I got laid off last Thursday and already got a job less than a week and I've had a couple other interview since then maybe try something new and tbh qualifications don't mean shit there still hiring people under qualified because alot of places don't have any workers it's not hard to learn a job your have no clue about

⁠@@anthonydean590Yes, there are many factors. I would presume you have a lot of hard skills vs soft skills. Is this true?

​@@anthonydean590what do you work in so I can apply, because I can't even get a crappy warehouse job. I went to 5 different agencies and they all told me that work has been slow and that they have nothing available.

Exactly!

Are real estate agents even necessary?

Nope. They cause prices to rise.​@kingjoseph5901

Caste system

Problem is that you cannot communicate such things to extreme supporters of either side smfh.

You’re absolutely right. I’ve been trying to tell people this for years. They lie, cheat, and steel because they’re rich and powerful. Not because their Democrats or Republicans. There’s no national pride, it’s all greed.

Hard to live in DC on a congressional income. Especially traveling back home to your constituents. Give Congress a raise, but demand that investments be in a blind trust!

@interstate80 agreed

They want to pit us against eachother with shit like the culture war to distract us from the fact that we’re all being fucked over by the rich and powerful. It’s not a matter of electing “better” people, how good they sound won’t matter if as soon as they take a seat of power, corporate interests will be jammed in their pockets, fondling their balls and wallets, and jerking them around like the puppet figureheads they are. Make no mistake, we hold no control so long as the system stays as it is, and nobody in power holds interest in changing that system, as they directly benefit from the loopholes that need closing to ensure a government that is actually out for the people. The greed is becoming noticed though, and dissatisfaction with the state of things has never been more widely echoed. This bubble that has been inflating for decades will pop eventually, and when it does, it’s anyone’s guess what’ll happen.

That’s what they voted for. It’s only crazy if they expected something different than what they requested

Not illegal, Aysulm seekers, The government allows it. Change your law to deport rather then slap someone who crosses the border with a misdemeanor, NYC is also legally binded to support them.

@@willdegra317They didnt vote for it,The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) LAW has been in place since 1952. What they need to do is vote for people to change that.

​@@Gamebug19922absurd... We didn't have this issue 3 years ago .. Keep voting Communist, I mean democrat

@@Gamebug1992290% of asylum claims are false.

Underrated comment.

Wow

Wtf

Get ready for this one last week I heard the term “Undocumented Americans”. How do you become an American before you are documented as an American. This is some 1984 double speak.

hell with that, they are bums, get used to it...

Who would allow a family member to become homeless Where is the love.

ok liberal

Deceptive words and language

The US dollar was implemented in 1933 buddy. We've had nearly a hundred years to eliminate it

Absolutely 💯

😂"...was part of the plan,even if the plan is horrifying"

@@locox89Your comment makes no sense. What are you trying to say?

@@VVVVV99611 it's a movie's quote.

How about this: don't pay for inflation. If everyone literally banded together and FORCED inflation to be nonexistant it wouldn't be a problem.

@@Wtf12276 ??? Not sure it works that way, but go on.

@@Wtf12276 not eating isn't an option, or not having insurance. Those are basically captive markets and you are required to carry auto, home, and health insurance.

@@JohnClarkW How about no you aren't. :)

VERY TRUE!

Everything is inflated nowadays, even people. I'm not surprised at all

Tell us the Truth.

How do you know that?

Yep. New York need to recall their mayor and governor.

@@bushwacka5187how do you not know that?

You might be right. Even I am poor as fuck to be honest. Unless if I go with the rich, but I would have to be a nasty spoiled person to the other citizens in order to be a part of the rich. And even then seeing a poor person end up in a rich society, they still exclude you from their side of things....So uh, yeah, if the rich wishes to bail out, so be it. Time to go back to going rural and living in a rural place that doesn't charge you so much.

@@SuperFlashDriver communism has people not realizing what poverty is its not lazy people its people starving from malnutrition.

Lol communism? Where? We face rampant capitalism here.​@@seankingwell3692

@@seankingwell3692 I mean, looking at what the Soviet Union in Russia went through from 1945 up until 1990...Yeah, it's not pretty and just as bad as North Korea. But people don't see it, and they don't realize how bad it'll be until it's too little too late.

It's the Haves and Have Nots.

Facts

The dollar was worth more then. You have to consider what the minimum wageg was back them and what the price of gas was. Also, the size of the house, the amenities, etc...

Thank you for acknowledging the difference. My mother who has had decades of wealth building is so out of touch with salary figures and understanding it is expensive to be poor. We are in an unsustainable situation.

What can be done about it? My former boss threw me under the bus and he is in a higher position and he got rich off me.

@@user-oq5ei4qd8r troll comment - user is always trolls

I remember when I was a kid ( about Cashs' age ) in college history classes they used to joke that the major event in any age after the fall of Rome was the "rise of the middle class". Also, the sure enough hopeful sign in any third world hell hole would be the emergence of a middle class. Yay. One might have thought there was a strong intellectual support for the existence of a middle class. Not so. It has vanished like an Avar.

So government love landlord

, I’ll live in a van and go to the gym to wash myself!

United States 🇺🇸 And Canada 🇨🇦

And how so much wealth and knowledge was transferred to China and now they want to control everything!

Prices go up, but never ever come back down to where they started at, yet they call that good smh

💉💉💉💉💉 cancer/ stab/ not working/ fast enough!!!😮😢. They want/ your homes/ land/ for future/ E l I t.e.s!!! Not useless eaters!! They NEVER took the/// stab!!😮. Just a matter of time!! Or do it again!!!😢

The elephant’s mother: People were forced to lose their careers and businesses were forced to close. So they literally had zero income. THEN they were allowed not to pay rent.

​@@elyse443 What is your point? It's not the landlord's fault if someone lost their job. You still have to pay your rent and all your other bills.

20% tax on vacant unused properties.

@@bitbucketcynic Better yet, make it a law that if a building or house is unoccupied for over a year, it automatically get repossessed by the city and auctioned off. And we also need to make AirBnB illegal

@@nerychristian That's just theft. The point of taxing properties being held but not used is to disincentivize speculators and investors with too much money for their own good to buy up everything, and drive them out of the market because in the end they'll just lose money.

That would be socialism, my friend!

Nope, because that is Socialism

Not true

more "news-speak" a la 1984.

Just like they are trying to call illegal aliens newcomers.

Democrats 😂

Next thing you know they’ll call it “house free” just the opposite of free housing.

its because there extremely stupid and they feel if they make up words like unhoused its so it yes does not sound bad.But the media is full of crap.and will never always tell u the truth.Its why trump won he was already being who he really was truthful and says it like it is in his own ways.

Fall 2022 graduate here (B.S. Comp Sci). Unemployed for 5 months after 1000+ applications. It's crazy. It seems to also be even harder because of the layoffs, because now there's a lot more experienced (or even overqualified) people applying for lower-level jobs out of desperation.

@@Fraktahl You need to apply for city jobs, or work at school districts. Those are the only steady jobs.

yep. Same I’m in the same situation as u

You need to wake the fuck up and lie on your resume.

I literally couldn't be a pizza maker because I didn't have 3 years of experience

Really tough market for PMs and managers right now. Companies don’t want to pay for experience. It is sad.

@@Milk-rn5uq experience exposes company secrets.......they want yes people not smart people

Blame the Democrats and Rhino Republicans! Climate crisis laws and mass migration taking jobs because they are working for less! Communism coming to parts of the country as we collapse over the next six months! Move where you need to be along the ideological beliefs/economic system that serves you best!

All corporate jobs are in a downturn.

There are plenty of jobs... for part time bartenders. REAL jobs? Not so much.

New yorkers vote the leaders in who do this. They had a couple chances recently and keep voting in far left people. It's their own fault

They’re paid off! We the people have to make a stand, but that ships already sailed as 64% of our population is overweight and obese. Not to mention distracted with social media. Best bet is for you to prepare yourself and family for what’s coming because it’s full steam ahead!

Because they are in on it

If only we lived in a country with more guns than people per capita 😂

This is the plan. Those in charge want slaves, not citizens.

The dollar is worth .03¢ that's why everything seems outrageous

Dang…..spot on.

Based on

cool it with the antisemitism

@@no.-trip4304😂

@@no.-trip4304The Federal Reserve bank exists to benefit "Them".

will be happy to simply be alive another day, yes, new feodalism

" “You will own nothing and will be happy “. Well, it could be worse; you could own everything and be unhappy....

​@@shyvikingPlease tell me this was a joke reply

​@@shyviking😂😂😂

Everyday that laughably absurd and seemingly unaware statement begins to sound more like an coyly delivered implied threat. Like something a deranged technocrat serving one of the Orwellian dictatorships in 1984 might say.

We did. His name is Bernie Sanders.

@@fracta1001 We need a guy like Bernie sanders to actually win.

Of course the homeless population is extremely increasing. What about all those illegal aliens that are coming into the US and we, the Americans, the taxpayers, have to support them and provide for them with everything they need?

i know someone living in a truck right now who has income and can't find anywhere to rent!

Tough times, when full blown AGI becomes reality get ready for even tougher times if you are middle-class and below. All that AGI is concentrated in the hands of very few individuals.

The rise of the gypsy class 🕶️

they are also dependent on bottled water, this is why I think they are upping the price we are cash cows and corporations like to think of themselves as "farmers" like Bill Gates. .

Middle class were always the traitor class that bootlicked for the elite class and now that their power or eroding they have no one to blame but themselves while they didn't give a shit about the poor class.

That sounds like america.

people are making less and less money everyday. people are going backward and backward from having a house, car, and money to no house, car, and money to the point struggling to have food on the table. crazy.

Sounds like none of this is a coincidence since it’s also happening in a completely different country.

​@@StillYHWHs50% of your income to pay rent is a great deal in some canadian cities. To live alone in an apartment is like 75% of the average incomes for 30 year olds.

How were you forced out?

Нет. Причина не в этом. Есть сценарий. Вас уничтожают. Мне очень жаль это говорить, но все американцы будут гореть в Аду.

Bc renters are squatting so its safer in some states to do air bnbs

I sell insurance and financial products and a guy I was writing a policy for was telling me about how walmart has their employees 401ks completely wrapped up in Blackrock. Most of these people are renters, they think they're getting a 6% match but in reality their own money is being used to price them out of the market and pay 25%+ od their income in rent.

​@@danielmorris7648this is corrupt as f!

RFK Jr is the only candidate talking about this AND has a plan to help♥️

Its worse. Your money had some actual value then. My grandparents paid 5,000 for her house on a nice lot in the city. Paid it off in 3 years. Grandma stayed home, raised 4 kids. They had a nice car too.

@@Anne2uIf you had told me 5 years ago that I would be paying $2,280/month rent (no utilities included) for a very basic 1980s home in a so so neighborhood, I would have told you to put down the crack pipe. 😒

​HOME!!??!!? They're charging $2500 without utilities for a studio apartment! You get the bedroom and kitchen located in a 300sq ft living room with 1 full bathroom in the space of a half bathroom. On top of that, you have to pay a sperate Bill for parking. ❤

Good luck to you and I hope you can do what you need to do (i.e.: keep or sell your home). All the best to you and us all 🌅.

Yep

The rich predator elite are done with US. They looking for the best way to sunset it in the best way possible.

Renounce your citizenship. Go to Mexico. Cross into the US and request asylum. Ask to go to NYC. Your trip and food will be paid for. Arrive in NYC and you will receive free housing, healthcare, EBT and a cash card stipend. Most importantly keep voting Democrat.

They dont need you until they do and when they do you will have to make them pay the price, no forgiveness for those who think its ok to mess up others people life.

Yup they don't need us

I'll just leave this here ✡️

This !

Bill Maher belongs to the same tribe as those who control the economy and cause this problem

Bill is getting old there are a lot of problems he doesn't see anymore.

Bill Maher is the biggest deranged idiot that ever made it on TV

Of course he doesn’t from his Ivory Tower. Democrats keep gaslighting us on these issues as if they magically got better in the past 4 years

Yes, all billionaires control our lives. They are selfish & care for themselves.

ok

Really? Everything you see is made by people, common people. Also bands, gangs, gov, nasa, police, army, etc are also made of people who need water to wash and drink, oxygen and food. Didn't come gates or klaus to install 5g,to check if you wear a mask or if you took the '' vaccines '' to ban car repair, heating, travel and all other modern stupidity. In all our history humans had a house. Now we become a great civilisation ppl sleep under bridge, they can lose their home and can't build one for poor made of sticks or mud cause is not allowed. There is nothing called power. Just some traitors taking blood money from rich to complete the plan. All others, about 8 billion living and complaining in virtual for what is happening in real life but also doing nothing to stop this. Good luck.

Too much power in the wrong hands. We the people for the people of the people and by the people. What we have is big government not of the people or for the people but is against the people.

@@raymondshaffer1984and that is why i support national populism.

They do, just not till the purse holders expire

Yep.

They don’t ever come down

Maybe not during our lifetimes but study the great depression of the 1930’s.

It’s not that cut and dry, most of these issues are due to choice. Trillion dollar corporations are preying on our dopamine imbalances but you can cook your own food, exercise outside for free, etc.

@@tomwaitsmencsea lot of things are out of control like the cost of things but you’re right about those areas. Exercise is free. There’s no need for a gym membership. You don’t need lavish expensive hobbies to keep yourself calm. Drawing dancing singing writing or cheap diy kits are good enough. People wanna act like healthy food is so unaffordable meanwhile two pizzas cost almost forty bucks, a trip to McDonald’s is insane, a bag of family size Doritos are basically the cost of a meal and it’s expensive AF to use DoorDash.

They got cheap houses where we don’t

​@@aaabbb-ve9po So, what's the solution?

why do we care about what older generations think? They are not important to us, their opinion are not important. Rather think about the situation than someone's option on internet.

The dog and the man are working together 🤓

Would that have anything to do with home insurance. My insurance went up 125 per quarter. Twice as much as the previous 25 years.

This is starting to sound a lot like an old anti-Semitic trope. I'd stop right there if I were you. I have Jonathan Greenblatt on seed dial.

So you think Robert Reich had something to do with it? I think he’d have a hard time synchronizing two watches, but whatever.

They have a monopoly

really, it is no longer a left right problem or a red blue problem. It is an upper down issue, if you get it. it isn't. they want us to think it is tho

Yep, the rental society they all believe is such a generous program. I assume it stems from the billionaires following the WEF via Danish politician Ida Auken's "You'll own nothing and be happy." Yeah, if we all had the existence and experience of Denmark's homogeneous population. She should have excluded America in her "essay" for her utopian vision.

They own 4.4% of the housing in the metro Atlanta area. Less than 1% of the entire us market.

@@MrMrabaunza Maybe "Wall Street". There are hundreds or possibly thousands of investment companies which own thousands or millions of SFHs. This is one of the factors in causation of this mess.

Who are the big Wall Street owners of Atlanta's homes?

I agree! My grocery bill goes up by $ 5 to $ 10 every time I go shopping. Some items have doubled since dementia Joe has been president.

I hope that you will not spread those "values" across the world, as we there have enough our own problems. Greetings from Siury in southern Europe

Yeah that's bidens fault smfh remember the previous administrations choices are what we are living in currently

@@wolves1fan830 You need to take a history lesson and learn that Biden (Mr. Magoo) is the one responsible for the massive inflation.

Quite simple. Everything needs gas to be delivered. Joe decided to stop drilling. Gas price goes up. Everything goes up. And that's only one of hundreds of their idiotic ideas.

Well it actually kinda has, multiple times. We've had multiple recessions and collapses the past decades, since the 80s. The government has bailed them out every time, to prevent exactly that. So the system just becomes more and more top-heavy, and the government has to spend more and more money to keep the giant whales that are the ultra-wealthy afloat. That includes giving them tax cuts, as well as bailouts, just to clarify.

the Plunge Protection Team helps

They steal our money with tax loopholes then when they collect so much they collapse, they’re given what they finally failed to steal from us with bailouts funded with the same tax dollars they were intending to steal in the first place.

​@TheNN this keeps going and the dollar will be worth nothing, they keep printing the problems away

​@@caingamin2 everything fades away huh

You got what you voted for.

​@@Shyhalu I'm convinced you must be a Democrat trying to turn people away from voting for Trump. Because I can't imagine anyone being so ignorant as to think that would win people over to your side. Especially spamming comments like you are. But, if you are on our side, we don't want you!

Stop voting for Democrats this is their vision and they literally told you

Move and look for remote.

@@EconomicWarfare Its like you didn't watch the video. There was a burst of hiring after Covid but you can't just move to escape this. As you move to areas you drive up prices which triggers the same upward spiral of rent that drives people in the new place out of their homes. Moving won't change it it will just impact the place you moved to. Many of the jobs that are needed can't be done remotely. So you get a cycle: Losing your rental and having to move or become homeless causes you to lose your job. The job can't pay more because a slowing economy means everything from retail to health care is making less money so wages freeze. Now jobs can't hire people at the frozen wage because they can't afford to live near the job thanks to rent. Now the company can't hire and you have lots of jobs advertised but no one can afford to take the low pay. Additionally moving requires money and when you are already skirting the edge of being homeless where will that come from?

They're doing this on purpose

Commies in Taxachusetts

You will own nothing and be happy

Only God can help you now my man so get saved by Jesus if you aint.

Massachusetts actually held my money hostage. I'm disabled and saved my money in retirement plans. I bought my home in 2003. I was forced to sell it in 2017. I had 3 times the money to pay for it and live my life without any government assistance. I was dragged under, and Massachusetts made life impossible! I was forced to sell my home to an illegal immigrant. It all looks like freedom of choice. I don't get any disability because it was given to illegal immigrants. It was in my local newspaper.

Looking from the other side of the Atlantic, it seems that in America, it is difficult to become a politician if not already rich.

Did you know Trump was the only president who lost net worth? And he didn't accept his paycheck cept a penny

@@RonTodd-gb1eoIt’s true that you need money, but a lot of it comes from donations from supporters or the party. Many seem to make a lot of money in office, when their salaries are about $174,000. Something’s not right!

@@RonTodd-gb1eo Not necessarily, if your a minority in a blue district you can get picked to ensure minority votes, and get a free prop up in life. I.E. AOC.

I dont think you can nane one presidential canidate that wasnt already a member of the millionaires club lol even mr proggresive ​bernie sanders is a very affluant man from real estate lol 😂 american politics or capitalism government has always been about the rich holding power while also getting richer offg it@suew4609

Already started

This wage gap grew in the early 90's but it wasn't as dramatic and they were able to hide it pretty well. Today, we know a lot more since all the info is at our fingertips. The Gov is doing it forcefully, and shoving it in everyone's faces because they just don't care.

Nothing new then.

I'm in my 40s now, but my (material) standard of living was better when I was in my 20s, even though I'm earning much more now. There are a lot of people worse off than I am, but when people who always considered themselves lucky (like me) start to find things difficult, there has to be a problem - and one that's going to unimaginably worse for people who *aren't* lucky.

If we wanna fix it, we gotta fight for what we want. Peace is no longer an option

Then maybe I need to leave this world.

@@zuzanazuscinova5209Incorrect, what we’re experiencing is a new phenomena

They're charging to..try get a job? Damn.

Bingo

Ya but the more people are spread out, the harder it is to distribute resources like food or medicine or energy… it is more efficient to distribute resources to people who live close to each other

@@attatawil People who live far from population centers learn to be self-reliant. Delivery trucks often have to travel through rural areas to get to the cities, as do rail lines that already exist.

I recall President Trump telling us how many empty factories were located throughout the country. It was thousands upon thousands of them. He talked about where they were located and what type of business they used to have there. He talked about what conditions they were in and what it would take to get them up and running again. He really knows what's available to us and I believe he wants to bring many of those factories back online. I can only imagine the differences it would make for our country if he were to make that happen. He can help our country if we give him a chance. He couldn't do any worse than what we've got now.

I've thought something like this too, why don't Millenial/ Gen Z work together to make exclusive starter homes, most likely smaller than the houses people could afford in the 40s-80s, but coming with land would be worth it. I think these two Generations can do a lot of good together, if they banded together that way.

He was able mentally and patiently to do the math

MIT did a report in the 70's that said the same thing, it also said we'd see a complete collapse of American society by 2050

But these two are not prestigious schools to begin with?

Wtf, lol. For some fking water.

@@erikdekker1and most of the price is for the bottle, not the water.

@@regishwadum It's pathetic and that sh*it also gives you cancer.

Setting up for world war 3 , setting up the same conditions as world war 1 and 2 , world war 1 Germany the inflation was so bad a wheelbarrow full of cash couldn’t buy a loaf of bread

Water is free, so…

Amazing. The comment that speaks the most truth and happens to be the least popular according to likes. A perfect example of posters point in action. Shameful

Capitalism at its finest.

I wouldn't say just coming from the middle class - some of them failures, too. It's people with virtue and integrity with decent intelligence and who believe in the American Way.

Dude I’ve been saying this for years. I’ve thought about starting some kind of awareness or campaign.

I have absolutely no issue with any other point you make but the first. If you had swapped the order of points, I could almost guarantee that you’d have a lot more upvotes, simply because of the “RAAAR YOU ATTACK GUY I LIKE” factor-sad but true.

and this is just for like serving and cook jobs

This is definilty a practice some restaurants make as a policy. I had a floor management job about a year ago where 2 hrs of my week was blocked out to hold interviews for tipped hourly FOH team members. Even though we were fully staffed at the time and not hiring. The managing partner was ruthless and felt like he should always be interviewing incase someone better comes along than the people that had been working for him, or if someone needed to be suddenly fired or quits he'd have an immediate replacement. As a result he felt there was less of a need to make the workplace a fun relaxed culture as well. As long as he had people to instantly fill in any sudden vacancy who cares if someone is unhappy?

Yup! I got laid off because someone got my job for $4 less per hour and my job didn't pay all my bills and I can't find one that pays a living wage.

This is also to keep employees in line for fear of replacement

YEP. I would like to tap into the Amber Alert System or whatever to cell phones TO SEND AN ALERT....SO PEOPLE CAN STOP BELITTLING THOSE WHO ARE LAID OFF, WANT TO WORK, ARE SPENDING ALL HOURS ASKING IN PERSON, APPLYING ONLINE, TAKING TESTS, ETC.

To be fair, if we all died tomorrow the funeral services would get at least 7k per person

And, despite the high cost of living, it still remains surprisingly popular!

@@mothmaru lol wouldn't that be funny if Big Funeral were behind all of this (obviously a joke, funeral companies are not like big pharma or big oil, there's no major, multinational funeral corporations...my best guess is they're mostly local companies and have little influence on the macroeconomy and people's deaths)

​@mothmaru What are you talking about, the funeral services would be dead too because of the people running them in the first place. We are all practically dead before we can die because we are wasting lives working all the time and have little enjoyment to care and have fun about our own lives.

Oh but, the rich somehow live and now they win! At what cost?

I mean no insult but I’m surprised tbh, thought nurses made good $$

They do. Inflation makes their good pay pointless@@Allen667sjja

They do, that's why it's surprising. No longer are higher income jobs making ends meet for some people ​@@Allen667sjja

​@Allen667sjja Nurses can make really good money. Salaries vary a lot even from hospital to hospital within the same city. A bigger determinant of how much purchasing power a nurse has is where they live. Major cities generally are more difficult to afford for anyone making a middle class income since cities generally don't increase wages proportionally to living cost for most industries. i.e. a nurse making 70k in Birmingham, Alabama can make their money go further than a nurse making 125k in NYC.

Well yeah but you missed the single mom part, only having one income raising a child bears substantially great impact on the cash flow you can have @@Allen667sjja

I lived in Costa Rica for a year. You will be amazed how much less stress you feel. The US is a big echo chamber and other countries are not. Figure out what you want and act on it! Best of luck bro

Same. I am looking at Spain or Italy for retirement because the cost of living in the US is too high for me to consider retiring. Our standard of living has collapsed.

The best part is you probably voted for Biden😂 Nah, every registered democrat should be forced to stay in America and fix the problems they caused

I just moved to Canada while it isn’t the cheapest when compared to the US it’s very hospitable

@@juliansegall8861 No freedom there and Trudeau is working hard to collapse Canada.

I'm starting to understand why the bible mentions that this life is temporary and to focus on God/Jesus because heaven is eternal.... You won't be stuck for long just keep the faith

lots of older 90s cars are pretty affordable and you can get some with low miles even, check cargurus

You got what you voted for.

@@Shyhalu I didn't mention who I voted for or if I even voted at all.

Guess you’ll die alone 😢

@@ice319 Good reply. I'm tired of keyboard warriors making snarky insults like that. Note: I grew up in Queens and it was an affordable, working-class place to live. What's happening in New York is already spreading across most of the states, and this problem was not caused by the voting habits of people in NYC.

Half of em don't care about us, they forget who they're supposed to be helping.

this is happening everywhere in the world*