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Young men are turning their backs on jobs in the U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpdUubAU-uQ&t=533s

Why do you think this is happening? I think that things are less affordable than in the past and less people are getting married/having kids. Also, people would rather be streamers/youtubers or start their own businesses.
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replika Jun 7, 2024 @ 6:37am 
Originally posted by Not Big Surprise:
Originally posted by elektraa1:
and im STILL correct.
how so
im just saying, most gig/studio musicians, get more money than fast food employees.
Chaosolous Jun 7, 2024 @ 6:41am 
Unfortunate that some incel talking points permeates the conversation.

If you believe that you can’t have a good work ethic without a woman beneath you financially, that’s a bit telling. Also that’s a much different conversation than the rich eating the poor and middle class.

If you’re in a relationship with a woman and she makes more money than you, that’s not a slight against you. If you don’t see how a successful partner is a boon for both of you, that’s just not a healthy mindset IMO.

Anyway, Boomers and GenX destroyed any financial prospects their children could have had and blatantly refuse to accept that.
Originally posted by Chaosolous:
Unfortunate that some incel talking points permeates the conversation.

If you believe that you can’t have a good work ethic without a woman beneath you financially, that’s a bit telling. Also that’s a much different conversation than the rich eating the poor and middle class.

If you’re in a relationship with a woman and she makes more money than you, that’s not a slight against you. If you don’t see how a successful partner is a boon for both of you, that’s just not a healthy mindset IMO.

Anyway, Boomers and GenX destroyed any financial prospects their children could have had and blatantly refuse to accept that.
It's not every woman, but a lot of women who are more successful (in terms of wealth) won't settle for a man below them. They want someone as ambitious as them. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just the way of the world.
Not Big Surprise Jun 7, 2024 @ 6:54am 
Originally posted by elektraa1:
Originally posted by Not Big Surprise:
how so
im just saying, most gig/studio musicians, get more money than fast food employees.
ohhhh
i thought you meant like "they're right that making music isn't a real job" lol
xDDD Jun 7, 2024 @ 6:56am 
Originally posted by Chaosolous:
Unfortunate that some incel talking points permeates the conversation.

If you believe that you can’t have a good work ethic without a woman beneath you financially, that’s a bit telling. Also that’s a much different conversation than the rich eating the poor and middle class.

If you’re in a relationship with a woman and she makes more money than you, that’s not a slight against you. If you don’t see how a successful partner is a boon for both of you, that’s just not a healthy mindset IMO.

Anyway, Boomers and GenX destroyed any financial prospects their children could have had and blatantly refuse to accept that.
You dispel stuff as "incel talking points" but many guys are not having luck with romance and that is a serious issue on a society-wide level.

Hell, a lot of guys/women don't even have friends. That is a whole other (similar) issue.
Pierce Dalton Jun 7, 2024 @ 6:59am 
People are realizing that they're just slaves. Evidently, they don't wanna be slaves.
Underpaid workers don't have much incentive to work, low wages do to capital inflation doesn't pay your monthly rent any more. It's almost foolish to suggest young people should even have to work.

They are young and should be learning and enjoying life and having families, the extremely rich and wealthy should be paying for young people to enjoy life, as the accumulated greed has ruined there own existence.

There are plenty of billionaire that die with billions, and billions of poor people who live with nothing.

It's easy to make money when you lose 100 of millions and write it off onto the government with bailout debt. Fleecing one owns pocket at the cost to the country has been going on for 100 years.

It's time those who stole. Return it back and in return help to benefit the future generations of this world.
MinionJoe Jun 7, 2024 @ 7:00am 
Hard times yadda yadda weak men.

And when weak men create "14 million new jobs", the vast majority of those jobs are low-paying government jobs, part-time jobs with no benefits, or green card jobs.

Under Assembly Bill 2586, California will soon be hiring illegal immigrants for those low-paying government jobs that Americans don't want.
Last edited by MinionJoe; Jun 7, 2024 @ 7:02am
Kamiyama Jun 7, 2024 @ 7:02am 
USA wages are stagnant and are far, far below inflation. The last time the minimum wage was increased was back in 2009. When 0bama was in office he wanted to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, which made sense back in 2012 or so, but doesn't make sense today.

By all rights minimum wage should be around $30 an hour today. That's how much inflation we've had over the past 15 years since it was last raised.

Our business owners are greedy and don't want to pay workers that much. So wages stay stagnant.

I wouldn't work for $15 an hour today. ♥♥♥♥ that. Anyone asking that should get up off their fat lazy ass and do all their work themselves. Don't insult people by offering a wage that damn low.

You can't live on $15 an hour today. Not with rent, groceries, utilities, housing costs, and automobile costs these days. Everything is sky high, and wages are piss poor. Of course young people are just going to give up. It doesn't make any sense to work for such a low amount of money.

The federal government is corrupt and does not represent the citizens. It represents big business, which is why they haven't tried to raise wages for a whopping 15 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ years. WTF man. There's no excuse for that, especially not after thy sky high inflation during COVID.

♥♥♥♥ business owners and ♥♥♥♥ the government. I pray to god we start another French revolution style uprising and just mount all their heads on pikes in front of the white house.
D. Flame Jun 7, 2024 @ 7:03am 
Originally posted by AdahnGorion:
Originally posted by Delle Belphine:
What happens when A.I. replaces jobs? The U.S. needs a universal income system.

The same thing as when machine replaced jobs.
It makes a huge new batch of jobs, that are related to maintainence, programming, etc etc.. basically AI will create more jobs, than it will replace.
No, it won't. And not only will it reduce jobs, the jobs that it does create will be much lower pay.

Why pay an artist $30 an hour for 10 hours, when you can have an AI ♥♥♥♥ something out in 10 seconds then pay than same artist minimum wage to edit and fix the AI slop?
Pierce Dalton Jun 7, 2024 @ 7:04am 
Originally posted by xDDD:
Originally posted by Chaosolous:
Unfortunate that some incel talking points permeates the conversation.

If you believe that you can’t have a good work ethic without a woman beneath you financially, that’s a bit telling. Also that’s a much different conversation than the rich eating the poor and middle class.

If you’re in a relationship with a woman and she makes more money than you, that’s not a slight against you. If you don’t see how a successful partner is a boon for both of you, that’s just not a healthy mindset IMO.

Anyway, Boomers and GenX destroyed any financial prospects their children could have had and blatantly refuse to accept that.
You dispel stuff as "incel talking points" but many guys are not having luck with romance and that is a serious issue on a society-wide level.

Hell, a lot of guys/women don't even have friends. That is a whole other (similar) issue.

Honestly, they're not trying hard enough. Even bums have girlfriends, so anyone can.
Tito Shivan Jun 7, 2024 @ 7:05am 
Originally posted by Delle Belphine:
There's not much of a point of working hard either when a lot of young men are single.
This has very little to do with little Johnny Mc CheetoStainedFingers not being able to find a girlfriend. As much as you're twisting it to be.

Originally posted by Delle Belphine:
There's less of a work ethic
Because companies have shown themselves to not have any either. People no longer bend backwards working for a company that will toss them like a used napkin at the first inconvenience.

You're talking of the people that saw their parents being thrown under the bus during the financial crisis by the companies they broke their backs working for, becoming work outcasts nobody wanted.

Originally posted by Dragonzord:
so why not just implement UBI
But that would be... COMMUNISM!!!
Originally posted by xDDD:
Originally posted by Chaosolous:
Unfortunate that some incel talking points permeates the conversation.

If you believe that you can’t have a good work ethic without a woman beneath you financially, that’s a bit telling. Also that’s a much different conversation than the rich eating the poor and middle class.

If you’re in a relationship with a woman and she makes more money than you, that’s not a slight against you. If you don’t see how a successful partner is a boon for both of you, that’s just not a healthy mindset IMO.

Anyway, Boomers and GenX destroyed any financial prospects their children could have had and blatantly refuse to accept that.
You dispel stuff as "incel talking points" but many guys are not having luck with romance and that is a serious issue on a society-wide level.

Hell, a lot of guys/women don't even have friends. That is a whole other (similar) issue.
Technology as a whole has made the younger generations less social. It's harming more than helping them in the dating world I believe.
D. Flame Jun 7, 2024 @ 7:08am 
Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:
Originally posted by xDDD:
You dispel stuff as "incel talking points" but many guys are not having luck with romance and that is a serious issue on a society-wide level.

Hell, a lot of guys/women don't even have friends. That is a whole other (similar) issue.

Honestly, they're not trying hard enough. Even bums have girlfriends, so anyone can.
Not when you spend all your time working just to get by. Even Japan has a declining birth rate.

I watched a youtube video of a guy in japan who's house is on old school. There aren't enough students to keep it open anymore, so they closed it down, and he has like a drumset or something just set up in the middle of what used to be the old gymnasium.
Originally posted by Hairy Hands Harry:
Originally posted by Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

That's just what they want you to think... The funny part is the higher up you go with the R's and the D's the more similar they are to each other.

They BOTH like profiting off war, they BOTH like controlling people, they BOTH like giving themselves pay raises, they BOTH like medical profiteering and lobby groups making it hard to get cures instead of treatments, and they BOTH like trying to convince their side that the other side is the "enemy" instead of the ELITE 1% at the top. :MMForFun:

The Rs are way worse. If you actually pay attention. No matter how much you believe in those "conspiracy theories".

Quotes me without even comprehending what I wrote. lol :steamfacepalm:

Sounds like the Ds propaganda is working on you then to not notice all the bad Ds that do a lot of the same crap the bad Rs do...You know, the ELITES and 1% I literally mention in the quote.

The lesser of two "perceived" evils is still evil. Doesn't matter what "tribe" or "team" it is when they are BOTH guilty of the same crap at the end of the day. :steamfacepalm:
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Date Posted: Jun 7, 2024 @ 12:39am
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