Speaker 1: The government sends me two thousand dollars a month, and
Speaker 1: I work a full time job at twenty four hours
Speaker 1: at twenty four dollars an hour, and I still can't
Speaker 1: afford a house.
Speaker 2: You're lazy, You're not crazy.
Speaker 1: This entire shit is fucked up and is killing our generation.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: That is that is a whole, whole like manifesto right there.
Speaker 2: A statement s just a preface.
Speaker 1: I was in the military and got fucked up pretty
Speaker 1: good in the old brain case. So good, Uncle Sam
Speaker 1: cuts me a check for about two thousand dollars every
Speaker 1: month for my veterans disability. I live in California in
Speaker 1: a two bedroom apartment for twenty two hundred dollars a month,
Speaker 1: not including utilities by myself. Excuse me, sir, why do
Speaker 1: you have a second bedroom? Not to uh, you know,
Speaker 1: be that guy, but uh by TheInk. I work full
Speaker 1: time in CNC.
Speaker 3: CNC is like a machine.
Speaker 1: I work in machines and make fair still seven dollars
Speaker 1: below the state average in my area. I am doing
Speaker 1: amazing compared to my p and friends, but only because
Speaker 1: I had to sacrifice my young adult years blowing up
Speaker 1: other adults the military. I was confused for a second.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, blowing up other adults.
Speaker 3: That's one way to talk about the military.
Speaker 1: That two thousand dollars is the only reason I'm able
Speaker 1: to live comfortably in the Bay Area. And by comfortably
Speaker 1: I mean I can afford a car payment, feed myself,
Speaker 1: afford small subscriptions utilities, and save about a fifth.
Speaker 2: Of my paycheck every month. Think about it.
Speaker 1: I know people my age twenty eight that would actually
Speaker 1: kill for that shit, just for the barest imagining of
Speaker 1: a minuscule American dream.
Speaker 2: That's not even good.
Speaker 1: It's just average to compared to how previous generations had it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, Like you think about all the other generations.
Speaker 4: They all had their own houses, Like like the Simpsons
Speaker 4: was meant to view a working class family and they
Speaker 4: have like a full house at the backyard. But you know,
Speaker 4: catch us, we were not. That's fucking that's freaking hard.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were not getting a house until something crazy happens.
Speaker 1: Something crazy will probably happen, but you know, we're you know,
Speaker 1: if we're if we're doing something else, No surre bop.
Speaker 2: That's not even good.
Speaker 1: It's just average compared to how previous generations have it.
Speaker 1: I'm doing okay only because I sell my fucking soul
Speaker 1: to feed a warm machine. I don't even believe it anymore.
Speaker 3: Soul.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's a metal song.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh god, that's hard. How do they do it?
Speaker 2: They're professionals.
Speaker 1: I think about how my friends can even survive in
Speaker 1: this hostile situation. But that's all they can fucking do
Speaker 1: for adults. One of their moms lives in a three
Speaker 1: bedroom by themselves, and even with their combined total income
Speaker 1: in that place, they can barely scrap by.
Speaker 2: It is freaking insane.
Speaker 1: I essentially make two full incomes with my situation, and
Speaker 1: I can't even afford a mortgage with a VA loan,
Speaker 1: which is six hundred thousand in the Bay Area at
Speaker 1: the time of this writing, that's definitely gone up. Does
Speaker 1: anyone grasp that I represent two full income streams that
Speaker 1: can't even become a homeowner. I am literally losing my
Speaker 1: effing mind in this state. How much longer can this
Speaker 1: shit last? Is this just gonna be the future workers
Speaker 1: indebted to all the old fucks who bought all the
Speaker 1: houses while working for the same generation. I mean, at
Speaker 1: this point, I'm so disillusioned by my whole life of fighting, working,
Speaker 1: and voting for this effing country.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. Damn.
Speaker 1: I know it'll be fine, I know that, But what
Speaker 1: about my friends and family stuck in this effing place?
Speaker 1: What is the effing point if they all just end
Speaker 1: up as slaves and everything?
Speaker 2: But name edit? Wow, this blew up overnight. I did
Speaker 2: my best respond to everyone.
Speaker 1: Thanks for everyone's kind words of advice and answer a
Speaker 1: common reply that I should just move. That's not the
Speaker 1: point of the post. The point is the state that
Speaker 1: it's becoming hostile for almost every normal worker. We should
Speaker 1: be expected to move everywhere, can everywhere should be sustainable
Speaker 1: to live.
Speaker 3: I mean true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like America, Like John and I were talking about this,
Speaker 4: Like America is the place where you swing big, like
Speaker 4: you try to build a business, become like an actor actress,
Speaker 4: or like a like a creator. Like America is the
Speaker 4: place to like skip the line to a millionaire, billions, the.
Speaker 1: Biggest opportunities, like movie star, big ceo, like all that stuff.
Speaker 2: America makes sense.
Speaker 1: Canada has a better American dream than I probably America does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude's so true.
Speaker 4: It's really hard to have like a very normal like
Speaker 4: like just have like regular aspirations in America. If you
Speaker 4: don't have massive ones, I think it's actually harder to achieve.
Speaker 4: America is not friendly to to like the middle class basically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think I think there's a anyone below
Speaker 1: the rich, anyone.
Speaker 2: Below the rich.
Speaker 1: I do think there's a diconomy of like that Canada
Speaker 1: is literally better at at America probably than like economic mobility.
Speaker 1: But also at the same time, like that attitude probably
Speaker 1: isn't helpful.
Speaker 2: And I hear what he's saying, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hear what he's saying too, but it's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's also like you can recognize the flaws in the
Speaker 4: system exact like at a certain point you have to
Speaker 4: like work with the system you're given or leave. Yeah, right, sure,
Speaker 4: try to change the system as as well as much
Speaker 4: as you can, but really like the only way to
Speaker 4: change the system is to be the system at its
Speaker 4: own game.
Speaker 1: If I can, If I can drop one aspirational quote
Speaker 1: on our listeners, I feel like there's this conversation of
Speaker 1: like do we are we like patriots or is patriotism
Speaker 1: like you know, like not the thing we should do,
Speaker 1: Like is America terrible? My opinion is, like, I'm very
Speaker 1: very grateful for being in America because I have many
Speaker 1: people close to me that are immigrants that fought to
Speaker 1: get their way in here, but also like I love
Speaker 1: it so much that I have to hold it to
Speaker 1: the highest standard, and most of the things that it's
Speaker 1: doing today are unacceptable. So to me, it's the love
Speaker 1: creates the standard that I hold it to, not like
Speaker 1: this is this all sucks.
Speaker 3: I love that