Comments by "Im Caj" (@KratostheThird) on "VICE News" channel.

  1. It USED to be for the people, but that stopped being a thing around 20 years ago or so.
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  2.  @ciarajeanr  Especially if you’re a Millennial who lived paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet.
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  3.  @susanhunter6037  That’s how the corporations and ruling elite want it. I’m in my mid 30s and I still cannot get the benefits and leeway my parents did back in the 80s - 2000s. We’re working two jobs with no guarantee of retirement 30 years down the line. It’s the sad reality we live in today.
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  4.  @scarlettsunz2099  Seattle is also the place where Microsoft (headquarters in Redmond but close enough to Seattle), Starbucks, Amazon (Bellevue), Boeing and other huge multi national corporations set up base. There’s a good reason why average people like you and I live paycheck to paycheck, because the corporations want it this way. These corporations don’t care about us. All the revenue they make could easily help the poor people get a better chance at life. But here at 36 years old I’ve been forced to move back in with parents after I broke up with my ex-girlfriend while we lived in a suburb. It’s not a pretty sight and I practically see tent encampments everywhere. Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett. This was all systematically planned by the corporate and ruling elite. It breaks my heart knowing that I’ll never have the freedoms and good life my 70 year old Baby Boomer parents had.
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  5. From one Millennial to another, we’re all in this same boat together. We’re never getting the benefits our Boomer parents had 20 - 30 years ago.
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  6.  @melanierosalez6989  I’m 36 and while it was nice that I was able to live with my girlfriend for a while, we both knew it wouldn’t last. What’s sad for me is I was living a better life a decade ago in 2012 than I am now. I want things to change.
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  7.  @gr8macaw1  It’s all about satisfying the rich and giving the poor the middle finger.
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  8.  @susanplunkett5193  I advise not listening to some of these trolls because they’ll just use your story of tragedy and grief against you. As someone who is two generations behind you (Millennial), we’re still hustling to meet basic demands. My 38, soon to be 39 year old cousin went homeless because he could not afford his rent. This isn’t just affecting just young people aged 18 to 35. It’s affecting everybody who is not part of the rich. The remnants of the middle class and the poor who live under the poverty line are all suffering right now.
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  9.  @susanplunkett5193  The same to you, hope things get better on your end.
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  10.  @txcaco1  You have to be financially well off to even live in a decent place in NYC… The average person cannot afford a decent place there, so they often have to share an apartment with roommates, or find some way to make ends meet.
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  11.  @lisapalmeno7434  Meanwhile the Millennial generation is still scrambling to make ends meet. I will never have the benefits my 70 year old dad had 50 years ago. In my late 30s, and we’re just now working towards an average home, or at least something that isn’t a dump where drugs and crime are prevalent. It’s very sad to see the youth of today and how desperate they are in wanting care and love.
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  12.  @txcaco1  NYC also has some of the highest electric bills you have to pay. I thought Seattle Washington (where I’m at) was expensive, but NYC takes the cake. I like it here though, so I don’t see a reason to move to NYC.
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  13.  @michaeltedesco8626  Try saying this to young people living together nowadays barely able to afford their rent and food.
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  14. Despite being in my late 30s and working since 2003 - 2004, I’m no better off than the 90 - 95 percent of Americans struggling to make ends meet.
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  15. Pfft, I was making $8.75 a hour at McDonalds back in 2007. It wasn’t livable wages back then. I now make a little over $20 a hour and I’m forced to live with friends and family. It’s just too expensive for the average person to afford much of anything.
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  16.  @JJLewis-so1iq  I don’t live in California. $20 a hour is not enough.
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  17. The question is not how, but when.
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  18.  @edl6398  Seems the 1980s marked a real shift in corporate culture for America.
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  19. You look pretty young to be a teacher.
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  20.  @BigJyeTV  I know plenty of Millennials pushing 40 years old who had to change careers because their college degrees in business gave them nothing. So what is the solution? My peers are getting into cryptocurrency, but that isn’t a tried and true solution since it only exists online. That money can be gone from your coffers with the tip of a hat.
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  21.  @JJLewis-so1iq  Yeah, the rich people.
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  22.  @JJLewis-so1iq  The middle class is shrinking. The rich of course are able to afford the best and the brightest. Someone told me there’s new developments in Orange, California, but they’re places that the average person probably can’t afford.
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  23.  @yosquidd242  The truth.
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  24.  @denver-gi7ot  Who are you referring to here?
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  25.  @fistnamelastname2283  Because it is. I’m just stating where these corporations came from.
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  26.  @sherrybeckley4740  You have a good following on YouTube.
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  27. @Rene Media It benefits the top 1 percent and leaves everybody else scrambling to meet basic demands.
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  28. Just look at how people idolize Kim Kardashian and Michael Jordan. The answer you’re looking forward is right in front of you in plain sight.
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  29.  @emmetrobert4425  A high rise that only the rich could afford.
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  30. I’m thinking of this too. Move as you go.
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  31. @Luna Because you just decompose into the ground after people die. That’s just a fact of reality.
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  32.  @swanbaby62  It’s bad, but if that means avoiding being homeless in a tent, people will take that opportunity.
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  33.  @darrelldawson4823  He is full of himself. I worked 60 hour weeks at Dollar Tree until I was let go for being tardy by 10 minutes three times in one work. Hard work does not equate to real progress. Not in this messed up society and economy today.
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  34.  @andyhwell8419  This is nothing new. Plenty of people were stuck with those jobs back in the 80s and 90s. Do you blame stupidity on these people? I don’t think you understand the issue a lot of commentators are getting at regarding todays economy.
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  35.  @Alohiaella  That is such garbage. Nobody deserves this treatment.
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  36.  @katiepg6168  It’s already too late.
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  37.  @diannaMV  I remember houses back in 2007 in the SF city limits being around $750,000 to $1 million dollars. I shudder to think what the prices are now with those same houses.
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  38.  @elderberryjamz3654  America will fold in due time.
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  39.  @youneedacoldpop  I’m just looking at your avatar. You look pretty young.
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  40.  @littlesongbird1  That’s her problem. She gets to lie in the bed she made a mess in.
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  41.  @blunt92  Millennials are the people born in the years 1981 to 1996. After them are the Zoomers. Generation X predates the Millennials. Get your facts straight.
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  42. This is why suicide rates amongst the 18 to 34 age demographic have skyrocketed over the past few years.
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  43. Corporations have just as much guilt as the government does.
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  44. More people need to say this. I appreciate you speaking the truth.
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  45.  @nofeelx3008  I didn’t, and we’re still suffering.
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  46.  @theharshtruth8563  I voted against him.
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  47.  @randomguy4781  America won’t exist by 2050.
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  48. @Rene Media Pfft. Try telling this to the homeless people in Portland, Oregon or San Francisco, California. As someone who has talked to some of them in person and have seen the homeless camps, they are desperately in need of help. Instead, the Joe Biden administration makes up excuses and uses most of the money either on the rich or to help the Ukraine war effort, to the detriment of poor people in America living under the poverty line.
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  49. @Rene Media You heartless person. You’re no better than the super rich and guys like our former president (who shall remain nameless) who just made normal people like the farmers suffer more. When you eat the bugs and go homeless, then you’ll know what it feels like. But no, send these young people to Africa or the Middle East, where disease and crime are rampant, instead of trying to help them.
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  50.  @khabobmma8039  Eat the bugs, live in the pods.
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