nice

See "Candide" ...YTube it!

aspirezakura What does this mean? Flamboyant and weak types go down and strong types go up?

Nibelheim no the wealthy go down and the meager rise up... silken slippers to wooden shoes

Excellent quote.

How about we learn from this cycle and break it? That way we can stop on step 2. Of course, people will have to evolve away from enabling their own faults and social dysfunction. Nobody's perfect / "who are you to judge?", etc.

Dean Cutler Nice

I don't know who originally said it but I read it somewhere and it's just so true.

Dean Cutler I hear you. It is profound.

Nothing slackens like success.

Agreed

Agreed

yup.

Joe Bauers sad but true. Something clicked in my head when u said that. Classic American tv helped shape informed mentally strong adults at one time. Not anymore

You said it mate. Watching cable TV is like having your family huddled around the radio waiting and listening for the evening broadcast.

Apparently, it isn't if we have an increasing amount of parents turning away from their responsibility to their families. On one hand, we have millions of kids growing up with only a single parent. On the other hand, we have millions of kids being raised by day cares and the school system because both parents are working 40+ hours. How can those children possibly learn personal responsibility when their own parents are not around to teach them?

Chng30FsCenEry i lived in a innercity in NewYork for awhile and the single mother rate was over 75%. This has such a negative impact on the community. Growing up in white suburbia with almost every family was a 2 parent home then moving into community that was almost completely fatherless the difference was like night and day. The social problems that come from a community of broken homes is endless. The lack of morals and values, the lack of respect for the elderly or authority, the lack of positive role models, the lack of promoting the importance of education, the lack of respect for the community, the selfishness, the lack of being able to make responsible life decisions, and disfunction and violence towards people was terrible. Its amazing how 2 parent home communities are so much better.

I would have loved to have had a family IF I COULD HAVE AFFORDED IT. Anyone with a brain will realize that having a family is hellaciously expensive, and most smart people I know have chosen not to have them because they just can't afford it. Perhaps GREEDY CORPORATIONS should actually PAY US well.

I grew up in a "broken" family, didn't go to college, taught myself, and I'm still successful. Don't act like that's the cause of this. Be responsible for yourself. You can pull yourself out of any bad situation if you work hard enough.

Joe Feocco You know what an exception to a rule is? most people I've known who came from broken families mostly failed to achieve as much as those who came from intact families.

To an extent, it's not just baby boomers, but the elite that have been the cause of some of our economic problems with their fake 'stimulus' packages and bailouts. My dad is a retired baby boomer, but he's now almost just as poor as I am.

Stop buying iPhones maybe!?

Gillian Long exactly

Vanessa: the kinds of arguments in this video just make me absolutely sick because they do not consider how different things are today, particularly WAGES. With two Master's Degrees in the 50s (physics and atmospheric science) I would have been able to afford a family and A LOT more, but now I can barely keep a roof over mine and my cats' heads if I want any semblance of savings. And getting a car!?! Ha! Funny joke. WTF kind of life is this that I worked VERY HARD for??? Why on Earth can't we just get PAID WHAT WE'RE WORTH???? Why can't GREEDY COMPANIES and RICH JERKS stop hoarding everything to themselves and actually SUPPORT THE SOCIETY that they BENEFITED from!???

ptanyuh I fully agree

No, most millennials seek authoritarianism. They want a welfare state to take care of them so they never have to grow up.

yeah it is as bad as everyone say it is out there, I doubt I'll be able to live through my 60s because they're going to come after our Social security in the future, here comes Smith & Wesson retirement plan for most people

WHATISUTUBE It's pretty easy if you learn to code

Coding? Really? I've heard so many stories of programmers who work 60 hours a week, only get paid for 40, and work for minimum wage. They consider it slave labor.

That's funny because my husband works 6 hours a day and gets paid in the top 10% income bracket in the state. Really I think he only works 1 hour a day though and plays ping pong all day. Also he gets to work from home whenever he wants and has 4 weeks of vacation a year just as an associate.

Sounds like he's not a programmer, he's someone whose only there to fix code when it doesn't work. Like an on-site network administrator, sort of. That's like security jobs, 7 hours of doing nothing, an hour of work, and a paycheck for all 8 hours. That's a REALLY good job.

Hopefully we won't have a Venezuela event as well.

Dogs and cats! People have totally lost their grip and get terribly offended if you point that out

It scares me that my first reaction is to assume you are lying. I also worked when I was young... not when I was 8. But 13-14 through the end of high school. My teacher called the police on me 3 days after my 18th birthday. This began the influence the criminal justice system our country has on my life. I, to, got a job working on a farm and began making my way through college. Shortly there after I was arrested and things fell apart for me. I fell too far behind in school and my employer was forced to let me go. I am now back in school and working for a temp agency bouncing around the city of Phoenix. I am in a probation program designed to test me and motivate me to cultivate sobriety. I am without a driver's license until successful completion of my probation at which point I will get back on track at work. Young people are not different than you. The world they live in is different. Working your way through school is more of a way to get experience so that you can actually get a better job when finished. Something that I had to figure out on my own. Expectations are higher for us. Which is good. But, with all do respect, people would view the choices you made as not ambitious enough by today's standards. Believe me, I have been on the receiving end of these rants. My older brother did not get a higher education. He got an internship at a company called Teralever in Tempe, Arizona. He found people he liked to work with at this company and in their spare time they built a piece of software that would allow anyone to build a website with a simple walkthrough answering various questions. He then left his job and moved to Fremont. While in Fremont him and his partners launched an alpha test of this model and eventually signed a few of the testers on as paying clients. Shortly there after they were acquired by a small but larger company that was eventually acquired by IBM. My brother was given a job managing the software he and his team built for IBM earning an exceptional salaried position. No four year degree. No debt. Knowing that this is possible and witnessing it happen to someone I am emotionally connected to has an impact on me. This is the world we live in. Call us entitled, call us lazy. Call us what ever you want.

Actually, I picked cotton in the Fall when I was even younger but not regularly. I had just turned 8 when we moved to the farm and started to school but in the Summer when school let out I was in the field early until dark and then field chores. I was not unusual. That was a common practice in our farming community. When school was in session for a year or two we walked 2-3 miles each way to school unescorted. No one was afraid and I kind of enjoyed it even when cold and rainy. I don't think expectations are higher for you but this idea of kids living with their parents when they are 25-30 years old is not conducive to maturity. When we were not in the fields or cutting wood for winter or taking care of animals we helped mom clean house, wash clothes-before the days of automatic washers and dryers. Kids were an asset then and if healthy and raised in the country we contributed more than we cost. This was a different time but one does what is required when the need is there. Whether or not my ambitions were high enough is irrelevant. Not many in my family or extended family received higher education. Except for an uncle who became a professor at Fordham University and later Dean at Villanova and a couple of cousins who received college degrees most were content with high school educations. I guess what galls me is that there are so many whiners that want to start where mom and dad and grandparents are at the moment after years of working and struggling and sacrificing. Too many expect government and society in general to take care of all their wants and needs just because they exist.

Jim Buford - it feels like your group is the one that is whining. In terms of societal dependency- it looks like large multinational corporations are the ones failing to bootstrap. All I'm looking for is enough money for rent and food. Forget about day care and health insurance and and the other things I'm in need of. I don't make enough money Jim. The cost of living is up Jim. My productivity is up Jim. My wages are flat Jim. Maybe I am whining but .. shit is all fucked up Jim.

Well, what are YOU going to do about it? Government and social programs have not always been around to help. You may be doing all you can do and if so this doesn't apply to you but look around and think about how many young people are on disability for one thing and another, everything from drug use to emotional problems. I see so many that their number one priority is to get on disability. As a taxpayer I am tired of the dependency of what should be our healthiest segment of our population. It is easy to blame corporations. I have never been management or owned a company but it is they who provide the jobs and we want to make them villians. Sure, I draw social security but I paid in for 58 years not retiring till I was 75. I and my employer were forced to pay into it so I am drawing but according to economic tables I would have been better off financially if I had been allowed to provide for my own retirement. I am a Christian and I blame part of the problem on the churches who rather than take care of their own like they used to do they facilitate this dependency on government for it takes the load off them. Somewhere along the line we all have to grow up and be weaned from expecting others to support us.

Respectfully, you did all of that when a dollar was worth a dollar, and a man's home was his castle. This is no longer true. What you accomplished, you accomplished because you had HOPE. And you HAD that hope, because you knew that if you worked hard, you would get ahead, be able to have a family, and have a decent retirement. The world has changed under your feet, sir. I followed your script, but I am a few decades behind you. I followed it to the tee. And that script no longer works. I know, because I tried it. I had to change tactics in mid life on order to get ahead and make a stable life for myself. And my wife became useless as a partner, as she tried to assume the traditional wife role, without doing the traditional wife things. So we parted, and I have not gotten another. And never will, because of the laws and the way they disenfranchise men. It's over man. The world is different now. You cannot succeed the same way anymore. You have to be a cutthroat asshole now to truly get ahead, and your life has to be about money. You can't work your way ahead anymore reliably, and even if you do, your wife will likely either transform into a useless burden, or will divorce you and leave you penniless. Divorce rates in christian communities are as high or higher than the national average by the way. Mormons are lower, but not by much. It is a disaster out there. Women are leeching all the value out of the system as they grow older, then spending it on maintenance and investing nothing for the future. The economy is wrecked, the job market is wrecked. What on earth does any capable man have to fight for, to strive for anymore? Christian communities are no help, as they refuse to recognize the problem. Only the Amish are still doing ok, but that is because they have a 1% divorce rate. This is not a coincidence, as they willingly remove themselves from our welfare system, so their women have no recourse but to rely on their men for support. Believe it. This is what is the problem.

Yep that would be interesting, but at the same time, it would be nice if they knew something.

We live in a box! Descended from people who wanted frontiers and opportunities they could create with their own hands! We've lost that! Capitalism is a cancer that demands to be fed! To expand or it will simply kill its host and move on to another

Were they forced out by property taxes ?

We need more people like this in congress.

Hopefully helping to make a difference.

bastidface His colleagues in Congress will ignore him.

He uses words to impart information, rather than to obfuscate. I have no idea how he got elected, but i'm thinking about moving to Nebraska.

Sun bro he is doing exactly nothing just like all of his constituents, so be careful when you put him on a pedestal

Students WOULD work hard if they could get a summer job and pay their tuition like they used to be able to. Now you can barely afford to keep a roof over your head with a summer job, let alone SAVE something. It is ALL ABOUT WAGES. The GREED in our culture is RAMPANT and the rich are hoarding it all to themselves instead of supporting the society that allowed them all their success.

@Ptanyuh Check out what happened in Seattle when wages were raised... overall pay went down significantly. Yes, there are some big cats who take more than they probably ought to, but many companies can't afford to just raise wages.

Lovely Marxist, victim vs victor, oppressed vs oppressor, have vs have-nots rant. None of it authentic and none particularly accurate, but a lovely effort, and I'm sure very self-satisfying. It's not about wages. It is about adding value. It's not about greed (as you claim). It's about providing something (a product or service) that someone values enough to pay you for. Greed is no more "rampant" now than it ever was. How many times in your school career did you earn an A and give it or some portion of the contributory elements of that A to a fellow student who'd struggled and only managed a C? Why were you so greedy?... All those years? It's a nonsensical question (that I posed) and a nonsensical proposal (that you would or even could give some of your work product - your value - to another student). It's just as nonsensical pseudo-Marxist rant, that it's all the fault of "the rich." You and Bernie, right - the poor slob's advocate with the three multi-million dollar homes. Sure. No one ever elevated themselves, their friends, their community, or their generation by fostering a culture war with the prior generations. "Students would work hard if..." When, exactly, were students able to work a summer job sufficient to pay their tuition, as you assert "like they used to be able to?" Nonsense. Unless you're writing about a part-timer at a community college, no summer job for two months would pay the tuition for the other 10. You're making up your own strawman and then using it to throw darts at. Net-net, you're constructing elaborate self-pity excuses. How is that supposed to work out in your favor?

What plan? The opportunities are so scant! Getting worse all the time! Life doesn't give participation trophies! And the actual prizes are held out for someone else's kids

The deceptive concept of "adolescence" is the sorry invention of one guy. It obscures the passage of child to adult...verrrry corrupting.

Maybe a thoughtful, critical thinker would have chopped the tree into pieces and started a fire: Because it's cold and financial problems, hey free fuel!

Yes but if we are to blame millennials, what about the generation that developed the consumer systems we are growing up in. I think blaming the millennials is like blaming the kid for the Xmas gift s/he receives from his parents. What, so the parents did nothing to create the shitty system we are inheriting? This is generational scapegoating.

My point is that we need to recognize our own failings. Each side holds some responsibility in creating the problems. My generation will pass on a lot of good and bad ideas that will shape the next their unique way.

Medio A Roger scruton?

Turns out letting in millions of third worlders willing to accept a lower standard of living while subsidized by welfare makes competing on the job market difficult for native workers. Who woulda thunk...

That is precisely the point that he is making. he agrees with you!!! That is what the conversation is about. Listen to it again

Kurt Gödel your clueless. Get a job. A job is a job if its meaningful, a bonus Not a must. Go to trade school or go to junior college. Pay as you go ! Be responsible!! don't be an irresponsible ass who overspends than bitchs when reality finially comes oo wait rep & dem presidents alike "forgive" your debt !!! What bs !!! Man up & paid your way as you go!! Irresponsible people are killing this nation yet crying the victim card ! Spare us all ! Of your 2 year old baby fit & debt. Grow up ! Welcome to life, take care of yourself. you & your actions are no ones responsibility other than your own.

Often intelligence leads you the right way. That's an interesting quote, especially if you take into account that Hitler was very high in conscientiousness. The idea of toughening oneself is very related to hard work ethic and goal focus.

There's a shortage of good people who can do a good job. Always has been. The decline you see is due in part to fiat currency which brings never-ending inflation, so that staying at the same or slightly higher pay grade means you're actually losing ground. But then there's the unchecked growth of red tape, bureaucracy, and arrogance at the highest levels. Doctors spend an inordinate amount of time just filling out insurance and medicare/medicaid forms, instead of just doctoring. Teachers have more and more reporting forms to fill out, every year, with fewer and fewer people up the chain paying any attention, let alone drawing any really meaningful conclusions, because the teachers know how the game is played and they can cook their numbers without ANYbody being the wiser, just like police departments reporting a "drop in crime" by not filing reports on a growing number of crimes. In my teaching profession, I see the administration adding new layers of bureaucracy every year, more staff, bigger, swankier offices, and less and less connection to the actual teaching. They'll ask me to spend a half hour to an hour on top of every day's work filling out forms, in order to improve instruction, when really all they're doing is taking that half-hour to an hour out of every day that COULD be spend grading papers, helping students, learning new technologies, or doing course preparations. Anyway, as things get more and more bureaucratized, the money for all that red tape (and new construction and remodeling of muckety-mucks' office palaces) has to come from somewhere, and it comes from stagnating wages for the Actual People Providing the Actual Service. They don't want to pay you, more and they want you to DO more, ESPECIALLY if you're on salary. That's how "smart" administrators do things. They point to all the additional things "they" are getting done, at zero cost, and they can get away with it, because it's just another task they heap on top of the actual workers, without having to compensate them for it. The end result is unhappy and overworked "grunts" in the trenches and a product or service whose quality is kept in constant decline. That's why "Atlas Shrugged" seems to gain new fans every year. The people who actually grow the crops, keep the lights on, and pave the roads are taking it in the rear end from all the higher-ups who do nothing but boss people around and all the people at the bottom who just take, leaving less and less for the people who actually make the whole thing WORK. Automation is not the problem. It SEEMS like a problem when things like Minimum Wage price entry-level workers out of the market, so that young people and out-of-work people have a hard time getting on the ladder to prosperity. Liberals want to throw everybody a rope and just hang on while hero-liberals LIFT them to prosperity, but once you're on that rope, you see that the "hero" is actually just a sad-sack bureaucrat, who has no interest in lifting and every incentive for keeping you on that rope, rather than see you get on the ladder and CLIMB. Your helplessness is their job security, their re-election campaign. Anyway, automation DOES hurt people at the bottom, but only when artificially high prices on their labor are set by well-meaning but economically illiterate libtards. Other than a number of service jobs like waitressing or taxi driving, where good tips can give you a more-than-decent living, if you're good, the idea that you should be able to make a career out of an entry-level job is RIDICULOUS! Living Wage for washing cars? For setting pins in the bowling alley? Really? You're gonna do that all your life and you expect a nice place and a comfortable retirement? Nonsense! There's always a shortage of people with real skills and wages for skilled work are far above any minimum wage. A lot of poor and in-between-jobs people used to work at full-service car washes, but the minimum wage changed the cost-benefit equation to where it was more efficient to use machines. All those jobs GONE. Nobody able to use those jobs to grab that bottom rung on the ladder to prosperity. My Dad, born during the depression, used to be a pin-setter at a bowling alley, until some libtard came up with the minimum-wage idea, at which point, that teenager job was lost to history, as all the bowling alleys installed the automatic pin-setters seen in ALL bowling alleys in the country.