Comments by "BVargas78" (@BVargas78) on "John Anderson Media" channel.

I'm Gen X so didn't really have it so bad but I think what a lot of these older commentators get wrong, is a false narrative (though they believe it to be true) that younger people are better off than their grandparents yet do worse at life. Maybe it was true for them, that they were better off than their grandparents. It was even true for me, and most of Generation X I think. In my case I certainly grew up with better conditons than my grandparents. But the grandparents of Gen Z, who would have been young adults in the 1970's/1980's and middle age in the 1990's were better off than Gen Z is, it just didn't seem it because they didn't have fancy technology such as iphones, playstation 5's and all that jazz. But they had steadier work, better wages and opportunities for the unskilled and semi skilled. And more affordable housing whether renting or buying and this is what you need in order to start a family which is more difficult right now than it ever has been in the post WW2 period. (i.e. the 1950's to now) though in the immediate years after the war it was tougher. As was the case prior to WW2 of course.
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@fanfeck2844 It's the opposite in that Globalism has actually increased house prices in desirable areas of desirable countries, pricing out the locals/native people. But offshoring has meant the loss of a class of worker that was once a cornerstone or foundation even, of a countries workforce. And without them it's opened up a range of new social problems. As for young people being pro immigration, yes generally they are because when we are young we are more inclined towards what seems to be the 'most good' and closing borders and not helping people in need seems mean spirited. But over time that does have a tendency to change as people start to notice the bad effects certain kinds of immigration can bring. It's why Geert Wilders recently won in Netherlands, a country that 20 years ago with very liberal and still is mostly.
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@fanfeck2844 Globalism is a large factor towards what happened, not saying international trade cannot be a good thing, in fact its vital towards creating prosperous first world conditions. But when you offshore most of your industry and production to poorer or more authoritarian countries it creates a gap that other businesses cannot adequately fill. And you see the emergence of an underclass who live contract to contract and are a lot more unlikely to be able to start a family, hence the falling birth rates. This class of working poor can also be prone towards falling to delinquency and crime as a sadly rational way to make more money.
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@brianburgess3231 Are you sure about that. That 'the opposite is going on'? Why is it that in the past then, a man as sole bread winner, could leave school with no particular good grades but provided they were punctual and a diligent worker, they could sustain a family of four with a good standard of living? Even buy a car, a house and take the family on a holiday abroad once a year. While nowadays, both the average man and the woman in a marriage have to work to achieve that same level of prosperity and with no dedicated home maker/house wife it creates more stress/source of tension in the modern family. I will concede this however, if you are a skilled worker with sought for talents, you do have the potential to earn good money and be better off than in the past, but people like this who tend to fall into the higher strata of IQ (a topic JP has interesting opinions on) are a minority of the overall population. While in the past it was easier for the majority, even those with a middling IQ to better their lives provided they had the gumption and the drive to do so.
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