Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Why Millennials u0026 Gen Z Are The Poorest Generations" video.

@andreaslind6338 I knew that generation (they were my parents etc) and in fact they did not. The baby boom success of the US was due to geography and being on the winning side of WWII (enormously aided by geography). The other Allies were bled to exhaustion by 1945 with gutted economies and millions of working-age males dead and many more wounded. Europe was in ruins and the UK economy drained so badly the empire it exploited was able to break free, finishing it off. WWII was the best thing to ever happen to the US economy (besides geography!). US society was however drastically smaller and it wasn't the average boomer who wanted unlimited immigration to permanently undercut the low end of the job market. Those choices were made by Wall Street and the governments banksters owned and still do So is the transfer of wealth to corporations by methods beyond comprehension of the average moron. The banker class and rich elites did it all and towards those oppressors your attention should focus because they'll rob us all blind while they draw breath.
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I suggest if it's popular you question and usually reject it. Intelligence is neuro-divergent. I grew up in relative luxury, saw it was pointless and chose freedom instead. Consumer goods own their owners too.
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@MrJack1992 How about VOTING TO EXCLUDE YOUR COMPETITION? Economics is war, you only have YOUR country and if you vote for people who give it away (under false ideological pretenses) because big business wants more serfs, you get screwed. That in no way makes your competition bad people, but if you don't act with utter ruthlessness you will lose as in the rest of human history.
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@MrJack1992 Then leave Austin or the Bay. It's a big world. When everyone who lacks imagination mobs those locations their individual odds of success tank. As for mass immigration you can vote to halt it completely and to take your birthright back by force. You owe no one but your own a damn thing.
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@ColdBaltBlue That they exist however IS a problem. No people, no problem. The only reason to have a country or property of any sort is CONTROL. Choose, control or poverty.
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The Midwest has some great deals but don't brag on it or it will get invaded. My relatives love it.
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Option for some that worked for me, buy a very small home and renovate it yourself slowly over time (when you have shelter esthetics are irrelevant) but buy the largest rural or semi-rural lot you can score and they are still out there. A rough looking home exterior weeds out the competition.
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Person 3: Enlists at 21 because partying got boring. ETS 26 years later, paid off everything thanks to choosing low COL area and became job-optional immediately then fully retired at fifty. Only net about 60K but half that is disposable thanks to a life of effective thrift. I have many Person 1s as friends and they're loving life too.
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@Mamba-Kush Ignorance is a choice. Every resource for a classical education (the kind that makes one able to navigate the world) is basically free. Choosing popular entertainment over self-improvement is a choice. I almost never read or watch fiction and consider it a waste of time because reality has far more useful info.
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NEGATIVE. Community college trades education pays off especially because most students got dumped there so the motivated ones crush it! Take HVAC. It cannot be outsourced, required equipment fits in a truck or van (which need not be new) and there is constant demand in a warming world. My ex-conbro (got popped for weed and did a dime) makes enough to have paid off his home and collect motorcycles but only does commercial accounts (stores can't afford to lose stock). My fellow machining students are doing nicely working for companies like Becton-Dickenson (I took the class for fun else I'd join them). Mechatronics students have it easy because math and minimal programming filters the stupid. I've never met a decent auto mechanic who didn't have more side work than they could do in a lifetime (though I prefer aviation). Trades can be awesome and the stuff you learn can make you a DIY beast. Community college is basically free via financial aid, Pell grants etc.
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Many boomers grew up dirt poor in rural areas and stayed that way for decades. The US isn't all NYC and Frisco.
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@obi-juantacobi8552 Relatively few were in GWOT though it seems otherwise, and those who came back intact had the edge of military self-discipline and personal accomplishment (I retired from the AF in 2007) plus the educational bennies. I saw the same dry dives (we immediately stood down from exercise then loaded lives awaiting orders which turned into 12-hr shifts watching TV with nothing to launch) and frankly I didn't waste time emoting over it because that is not productive. It's just history except for the people actually on-scene. No lessons will be learned from that either because most of the public are morons who elect morons like themselves. (That's also why military reform is glacially slow...) Having lived through other temporary national emotional displays (nothing was learnt from Viet Nam which is why the strategic mistake of nation-building was tried twice) now forgotten except by participants I did approach 9/11 with some perspective though. Everyone who DIDN'T serve in any era pretty much did have a normal childhood and their Youtube comments on contemporary songs so demonstrate. It's like the hippies nostalgic for the Sixties because they spent them partying instead of humping through triple canopy. I expect fellow veterans to be MUCH more capable than those who never served and most I've met are, just like the generations of WWII, Korea and Nam vets who were still in the work force when I was young. Childhood is overrated and too long breeds weakness.
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Similar here. People hear about Michigan and think of Detroit but my wise relatives bolted and leave on their farm near Harrieta (and love it). I chose the southeast because I'm a motorcyclist and hate snow but similar game plan.
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@zackeryhardy9504 Don't live in Cali and avoid Cali problems. I don't need to live there and neither does anyone else because money is freedom not location (I escaped the NY metro area instead). Expensive area destroy disposable income. The US is a mobile society so do the necessary and be ruthless to yourself in getting ahead. Learn to wrench and it doesn't take long to drown in cars if you have the space. If you're a trucker you can locate anywhere or even hang OTR for years and stack money (my truckerbros do, I'm a lifelong mechanic with no interest in driving). If you have a CDL and become a mechanic or heavy equipment operator that opens many doors.
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Entertainment expenses are PURELY DISCRETIONARY. Reading is extremely cheap or free. Cheap cell phones work fine as do used flagships as does buying a flagship then keeping it many years. No one needs a new fast PC unless they actually make money with it, while adequate PCs today are often dumpster bait or found at yard sales for next to nothing. No one needs more than the internet for entertainment and sufficient internet access can be cheap including hotspotting to avoid separate internet. Techies know we don't need to pay for content and there is zero excuse for anyone under 50 not being tech literate except utter sloth.
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Solution, don't have kids. ALL that is, is just hormones talking. Self and wife preferred prosperity to inflicting the hideous misery of life (most of life is pain or drudgery) on an innocent being. No regrets
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Married life without snot monsters is even more awesome. Dual income, no kids here and wouldn't change a thing. The only reason to have crotch fruit is sadistic vanity because inflicting life is utterly cruel. Humans breed thanks to hormones, that is all.
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