Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "How the Baby Boomers Ruined Society" video.

  1.  @johnmartin4641  As far as Gen X goes, if that was the generation you raised because it was split with the Silent Generation, then that was the exception. Gen X was the least supervised generation in history. We raised ourselves. Our parents didn't guide us because they were never there. We were latchkey kids for a reason. That's why there was an epidemic of runaways. Our parents ignored us and when they weren't working they were busy partying or dating to find their next spouse. There's a reason marriage rates took a nosedive in my generation.
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  2.  @acbower4468  You don't understand what happened to Generation X. Our parents didn't raise or guide us. They didn't teach us. They had us because they were supposed to and ignored us as soon as possible. My parents were involved in my life. I was lucky, but I wasn't the norm. Even so, I saw my parents maybe 30 minutes a day to eat dinner that we cooked (the children) with them locking themselves in their bedroom until we saw them 5 minutes in the morning as they headed out for work. Again, I was lucky. Most didn't see theirs that much.
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  3.  @Larry_Sycamore  Where did he say his children are moochers and don't contribute? Multigenerational households was the norm until extremely recently. Were the 18 year olds that fought in WWI and II mentally behaving as children? The vast majority came from multigenerational homes. Especially the ones in WWII because they were recovering from the Great Depression.
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  4.  @dangerousdays2052  You threw God into it and that's the opposite of what God says. God doesn't put anyone on Earth to make others suffer. No matter how much you claim it, it doesn't make it the right way to behave.
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  5.  @EekChocolate  Everything you're saying is completely false. Gen X, my generation, created a new economy because we had to to survive. Those jobs being shipped out are why 90% of what you're complaining about happened. Because there were no more good paying manufacturing jobs that don't require a lot of skill disappeared, that resulted in higher skills being needed. That caused the push for college and the government to step in to attempt to guarantee its availability to those no longer earning from the lost manufacturing which drove the price up. College became so common that businesses now use it to gauge employment readiness which drove the demand even higher. If you watched the video, you'd know wages are usually pretty stagnant, but because of when you grew up you're used to them growing rapidly. They have grown extremely rapidly to be clear. When I was a teenager the minimum wage was $3.20. Now it's over $10 to start in most places and $15-$20 in many areas. That's in less than 30 years. That's massive growth. As it increases so do prices to go along with it. I currently live in a fairly small town in a sparsely populated state and it's $13+ to flip a burger. That's a $5+ hour increase in less than 5 years. That's not stagnate. The wage increase combined with the shortages caused by getting too much stuff from overseas has caused prices to rise and products to shrink. That's not Reagan economics, that's just plain supply and demand. So again, not manufacturing here has caused an increase in prices that wouldn't have occurred. The other major issue no longer making things here has caused is a lack of invention and progress technologically. Competition isn't nearly as fierce to create new things so it's become stagnant. That's where the real stagnation has occurred. You went on a tirade about cars. There were always other big car manufacturers around the world. Tariffs added costs to them, making the ones made in the US cheaper and it drove car manufacturers to constantly be improving their cars in looks and quality to appeal to more people. Seeing cars made outside the US was uncommon and limited to the more wealthy before. You can see it across all product markets. It's no longer about improving how well something works or how long it lasts, but just adding little gadgets onto it to increase the cost. Let's look at washing machines. There's been no real big improvements to their functionality in decades. They've simply added some technology into them, but their core functions haven't improved at all. Simply because I can start it with my phone, somehow makes it worth thousands of dollars when the much cheaper one does the exact same core function just as well. Our society now puts massive value on gadgets rather than actual functionality and quality which is a direct result of the Boomers driving the economy into a consumer one. My generation simply responded to what Boomers wanted in order to survive, but it was never what we wanted. That's why the middle class is now collapsing. It was never sustainable, but making things is. If you think it isn't then explain China's massive economic rise since we've shipped most of the manufacturing of our ideas over there.
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  6.  @davidcook680  It's not about labor, it's about family. That you put it in those terms means you view everything as a transaction, which is sad. It's called love and honoring your parents for having provided for you and taken care of you. This father taught his children generations of knowledge of how to provide for themselves off the land. The value of that knowledge is worth more than any expensive college degree.
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  7. I wish we still had my family farm that I grew up working. I would have loved my children to have helped grow the food they ate and understand the work that goes into it. My grandparents sold it to their nephew who still lives there when I was a teenager. Everytime I run into my cousin he has to tell me my grandfather's old 50s tractor is still running and he uses it every year. Most likely it will be split between you and your brother. That's how land is typically handled. Just like that farm was split between my grandfather and his siblings. Each got 2.5 acres and it feed our family of 8. My grandparents grew up in the Great Depression and taught us how to can and preserve food. How to eat well even if you're poor. If we didn't grow it or trade our excess for it, we didn't eat it as far as vegetables went. We'd buy half a cow from a local family and hunt or fish for the rest. Until me and the hubby moved 2 years ago, we were still buying half a cow from the same family.
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  8. A bit of nuance on the house purchasing graph. That was overall home buyers instead of first time which is the usual statistic looked at. That age range would be the largest number that lost their homes in the 2008 crash, so it makes sense they'd be the ones purchasing. It's also because it's in preparation for the incoming crash. You tie up your retirement money or anything you can before inflation gets real high to maintain the value of that money.
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