"Society Is A Ponzi Scheme" - Warning On Population Collapse & Hopeless Generation | Eric Weinstein

The housing market is shit The dating market is shit The buying power of my dollar is shit The people running the country are shit

People are scared to bring babies into this nightmare

The American dream only exists if you can turn 99 other people's lives into a nightmare

Houses are being used as investment vehicles, not for families.

As an employee, the more work you do, the more work you get, without more pay. I say this from repeated personal experience.

I am a millennial. I have BS/MS engineering degrees from a reputable engineering university. Graduated with no student debt. I have a 6-figure salary at a large biotech company. I get glowing reviews from my managers, annual raises, promotions, and I am well-liked by my co-workers. And I cannot afford a new home anywhere in the DFW metroplex. Houses used to cost 1-2x an annual income. Now they cost 4-10x someone's annual income. And since property tax is indefinite, you actually never get to own your property. You just get to lease it from the government. And paying off the mortgage benefits the bank much more than it benefits the homeowner. And new houses are built cheaply, so you don't even feel like you're getting a good deal. How are the 80th percentile earners being squeezed this hard? I am seriously considering trying to build a small stone cottage in the woods. It is not economically possible for everyone to just go be a 7-figure entrepreneur.

Pushing both parents into the workforce was the beginning of the end

does anyone else feel like theyre constantly being beaten over the head by people who are setting them up to fail?

I'm 31 and earn way above average salary and cannot even afford a decent place to rent. Saving to purchase a house is not even an option. I've done all the right things society said I should do to be successful and I am not seeing any rewards for it... Modern society is a scam.

When you destroy the morale, optimism, and hopefulness of a society, you’re left with apathy.

I was an employee. As an ER RN, the more I did, the less I was appreciated.Hard work did NOT translate to better pay or job security. I understand.

"Oh, so you don't want to work for $2.95 an hour and piss in a bottle just so you can barely survive? Don't worry, there's 1000 other desperate people who would love your job!"

My father had a GED, worked in a paper mill and provided our family with an incredible middle class lifestyle. In 1978 he told ten year old me, “the goal is not to raise the standard of living in all these other countries, it’s to lower ours.” I never forgot that.

The host: "Why won't my employees work overtime for free to help me get rich? We have such different work ethics." 🤡

Eric nails it. Our neighborhood is an upper-middle class neighborhood, but has had a lot of younger kids. But due to the significant increase in housing costs over the last several years, there is no way a couple in their early 30s with a five year old and a two year old can afford to move in. A new construction subdivision a few miles away advertises "Starting at $1.1 million." $1.1 million at 7.4%, you can't afford a 20% down payment, so you need PMI, so you are looking at about $9,000 per month in housing costs (mortgage, PMI, insurance, and HOA fees). You need a $340,000 household income to afford that. It takes two upper-middle class incomes. Two sales reps, two lawyers, etc. A lawyer cannot afford to have a stay at home spouse. A general practitioner doctor can't.

The host doesn't seem to understand that he's an outlier. Yes, you've owned companies, employed thousands of people, made excellent money, etc. but the world can only have so many "you's". People like him often have a hard time understanding that 99% of people out there are having totally different/opposite life experiences from him.

If you knew a game was rigged against you and you were powerless to change it would you still try to play the game?

When a guy who caught a wave thinks hes the wave

It's so infuriating to listen to the man with the red short, a Gen X 1% who pretends to be blindly unaware that most people are struggling.

The lack of consequences for the elites has consequences for everybody else