The Culture War - Tim Pool - Gen Z Is COOKED, Listless, Angry, And QUITTING JOBS, US Economy Is IN TROUBLE

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00:01:00.000 Yeah, Gen Z is cooked. Sorry, Gen Z, y'all are cooked. It's not just because we got this crazy

00:01:06.160 story of clavicular shooting an alligator and then getting arrested for assault and also opening fire

00:01:13.800 in the Everglades with no backstop and also shooting at drones. Now, I do think it's entirely

00:01:18.180 possible that all of this is fake staged. They could be using blanks. I doubt it. But I don't

00:01:24.080 know for sure. In the age of social media, everything is fake and gay. And that's partly

00:01:28.220 why I'm saying Gen Z is cooked. It's not because y'all are doing anything wrong, but we've got

00:01:33.920 Gen Z talking about quitting. Gen Z women are doing OnlyFans like crazy. They're not making

00:01:40.380 money. They're not saving for anything. And then you get people like this. This dude is a functional

00:01:45.820 retard, right? And maybe it's all an act. And that would, I mean, potentially could be the case,

00:01:51.280 except he actually was arrested. This is being propped up because shock content is the only way

00:01:57.520 to get attention. So in this video, he's being investigated. They're on, I think they're on like

00:02:02.540 a hovercraft or a pontoon or something in the Everglades shooting an alligator. The rumor is

00:02:08.020 they unloaded on it, killing it. Some people have said, no, no, it was already dead. Either way,

00:02:12.700 you can't do that. And if it is true, they're in trouble. There's also a video of them

00:02:16.620 shooting and they're saying, oh my God, there's people over there, which is probably not true

00:02:20.460 as well. It's all shot content. But either way, they're opening fire into the Everglades with

00:02:25.780 no backstop. Now, after the fact, they might argue that they didn't have real ammo or anything like

00:02:31.440 that, but it doesn't matter. If a jury sees this, they're going to be like, reckless endangerment.

00:02:36.260 Shooting at a drone, whether it's yours or not, is a felony. And this is the point. I'll talk to

00:02:43.380 you about what this guy did and whatever, but the main big picture that I'm bringing up is that

00:02:47.640 young people are so desperate for attention and they can't get it without being psychopaths.

00:02:53.160 This dude is popping up all over the place because he is making content that depicts him as a sociopathic lunatic.

00:03:00.820 He hits himself in the face with a hammer.

00:03:03.220 I'll put it like this.

00:03:04.760 He had this video go viral where he wakes up in the morning and he's like, I bash my face with a hammer to fix his bones or whatever.

00:03:11.720 And he looks like a psychopath.

00:03:13.780 If Gen Z wants to get a degree of attention, this is what they're doing.

00:03:18.180 They're selling sex like crazy.

00:03:19.780 Or if you're a guy like Clavicular, you've got to do the most psychotic thing imaginable,

00:03:24.020 claim to be on a massive drug cocktail, sterilizing yourself and shooting wildly into alligators

00:03:30.380 and things like this.

00:03:31.880 Where is the Gen Z influencer who is basically doing normal things, doing normal things?

00:03:38.360 Now, certainly some of them exist.

00:03:39.760 Don't get me wrong.

00:03:40.680 But Instagram and other platforms are flooded with people trying to be influencers and they

00:03:46.900 don't have the talent to do it. Without the gift of gab or anything just naturally interesting

00:03:52.040 about themselves, this is what you get. Because other than being a functional retard, and again,

00:03:58.080 I'm not saying it to be mean. I'm saying functional retard as in he is a cognitively

00:04:02.640 depressed individual, but he is capable of functioning in day-to-day life. That generates

00:04:08.320 shock content. But what else does he have going for him? He's a look smackser, right? And that's

00:04:15.360 it. He's a, I think the police list them at five foot 11. Oh, not six feet. And that's it. There's

00:04:22.400 nothing particularly interesting other than him doing psychotic things. So what hope is there for

00:04:28.140 a Gen Z that can't afford houses, can't find jobs. And so they're giving up. Indeed. Let's,

00:04:33.340 let's show you the news and we'll play the videos for you again. I want to stress, I do think a lot

00:04:38.040 of this is fake and I think it's intentional shock content. Lord Bebo says streamer clavicular

00:04:44.880 Mag dumped an alligator live on stream and is now in trouble.

00:04:48.260 Kick banned him.

00:04:48.840 He was arrested.

00:04:49.780 He now faces felony charges with a possible five-year state prison sentence.

00:04:53.880 Here's the video, which, again, I suspect is actually fake.

00:04:57.000 They blurred it, probably because it's fake, but who knows?

00:05:00.340 Here's the video.

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00:05:56.200 Now, let's get back to that news.

00:05:59.360 Sure.

00:06:02.180 Let's turn that down.

00:06:07.860 yo yo yo hey i think it's dead oh shit i think it was already dead and uh so you can see right

00:06:18.260 here if there is something there it looks white which looks more like the belly of a gator that

00:06:21.900 was probably dead already but it doesn't matter you can't do this uh it's still illegal and uh

00:06:28.660 they they're going to mention the community notes that he was not arrested for shooting the

00:06:32.460 alligator but he is being investigated for that felony he was arrested on assault charges and

00:06:36.980 then we have aiden ross commenting on it question marks and whatnot guys listen let me just explain

00:06:41.880 something right now me and collab don't have to agree what i do or he does sometimes i still

00:06:47.120 fuck with him okay oh never mind he just got arrested he did get arrested it's true

00:06:54.740 for uh assault i guess so hold up so let's not talk about them all right

00:07:01.460 as of right now it is not because the gator all right so yeah everyone just i'm gonna i'm gonna

00:07:08.940 respect him i'm not here's the uh full video check this out uh i'm not gonna play the full

00:07:15.200 thing it's just four minutes just make sure it's not super loud they were shooting guns yeah here's

00:07:21.060 here's the important the first thing loaded out here they're in the everglades he's got the rifle

00:07:27.600 here. I'm going to say right away, they are shooting guns in the Everglades. There's no

00:07:51.220 backstop. They are shooting straight into open fields. It doesn't matter if, guys, it doesn't

00:07:58.160 matter if it's someone's property, if it's, maybe they're using blanks, but I don't know why you'd

00:08:03.020 make that assumption. You can't do this. This is the retardation and psychosis that we are getting

00:08:09.180 from these younger influencers raised on the social media machine where you have to keep

00:08:13.140 one-upping everything to get any kind of attention and be an influencer. I see these all over

00:08:18.620 Instagram where there are people who are commenting on news and trying to make videos,

00:08:22.860 but there's a million and one of you. So who's going to watch it? See a video and it's like a

00:08:28.180 woman and she's holding the microphone and she's like, check this video out. We're a guy. And I'm

00:08:33.220 like, yep, been there, done that. We've already seen it. I don't even need to watch you do it.

00:08:35.880 I can watch the video. Here's the thing. You need to know what is beyond when you are pointing your

00:08:42.580 gun. There are many rules. Do not ever point something, point your weapon at something unless

00:08:47.320 you intend to destroy it. You're shooting targets. There is an intention to shoot that target,

00:08:52.840 though you don't expect it to get destroyed. They are shooting into open fields. They don't know

00:08:57.400 what they are shooting at. So again, unless this is all staged because they're, you know, that's

00:09:03.080 what people do and they've bought a bunch of blanks, which I kind of doubt, but maybe because

00:09:08.440 you don't actually know. I'll take that back. They're not blanks. You can see this. You can't

00:09:15.340 You can't see the gator, but you can actually see the water splashing.

00:09:21.180 Yeah, those are not blanks.

00:09:24.380 They are committing crimes in this video.

00:09:26.960 Dude is going to go to prison for this.

00:09:29.040 I'm sorry, dude.

00:09:29.900 These people are absolutely nuts.

00:09:31.220 But I'm not going to just leave it to Clav here.

00:09:35.820 We got this viral video.

00:09:37.740 TikToker brought a group of homeless people to Chili's, and this is what happened.

00:09:41.260 You want some food?

00:09:42.100 Yeah!

00:09:43.140 Hi, come with me!

00:09:44.140 So now they're spraying ketchup all over the table.

00:09:53.100 One homeless guy's rubbing it all over.

00:09:55.260 The guy's licking his hands.

00:09:58.940 Drinking Tabasco sauce.

00:10:05.560 Now he's spraying Tabasco sauce all over the windows.

00:10:08.160 Yes, you won't notice.

00:10:09.920 Yeah, it smells so bad.

00:10:12.600 Throwing trash.

00:10:13.740 And the poor waitress is like, what's going on?

00:10:16.360 What the fuck are y'all doing?

00:10:19.600 Yup.

00:10:21.100 But guys.

00:10:22.720 Wow.

00:10:23.880 They're homeless, so I mean, I was just trying to help them out.

00:10:26.820 I want some food.

00:10:27.800 Yup.

00:10:29.020 They go in.

00:10:29.780 They trash the joint.

00:10:30.940 Welcome to Gen Z.

00:10:32.860 46% of Gen Z employees plan to quit and how to stop them.

00:10:37.200 Stop them.

00:10:38.160 why would you do that? Hey, we're cooked, ladies and gentlemen. I know a lot of people are going

00:10:43.940 to say, you know, it's going to get better, but I want to say a few things and we'll read through

00:10:49.640 this stuff. My friends, there's no Gen Alpha. Gen Alpha is half the size of Gen Z. Gen Z are

00:10:57.380 listless. And I'm not saying every single Gen Z person, we got some, we got a bunch of Gen Z

00:11:01.340 people working here. They do a great job, but too many of them, man, what I will say is if you find

00:11:07.180 yourself in Gen Z as an individual of sound, rational mind. Oh, boy. Well, that's going to

00:11:13.880 suck for you. But you may actually pull ahead because you'll be one of the only people capable

00:11:18.100 of making real money, I guess. 46% of Gen Z employees plan to quit. They say, if you feel

00:11:25.020 like you're on a hamster wheel right now trying to do everything in power to retain Gen Z,

00:11:28.260 getting nowhere, you're not alone. Maybe you're at the point where you don't even want to try

00:11:32.540 anymore. I get it. After all, even now, while you're planning your company holiday party and

00:11:36.660 getting ready to ring in the new year, 46% of your Gen Z employees are ready to quit their jobs.

00:11:41.560 The majority of managers are truly trying everything, but here's a piece of advice.

00:11:46.440 Working hard is not the same thing as working smart. You can spend millions on new products,

00:11:50.200 motivational gurus, and company-wide retreats, but it won't always lead to solutions. Gen Z isn't

00:11:55.200 leaving your company or job hopping because they're bored or lacking for entertainment.

00:11:59.060 They don't need the Quidditch tournaments or the coffee bar. I'm sorry, Harry Potter is a

00:12:02.740 millennial thing, not a Gen Z thing. Gen Z is looking for the nearest exit because they're

00:12:06.440 exhausted. After serving 1,000 full-time U.S. professionals, Youngstown State University found

00:12:12.120 that nearly half of Gen Z workers are already planning their exodus. But surprisingly, this is

00:12:17.800 not inherently due to a lack of compensation. If anything, the main reason for their exit was the

00:12:22.540 lack of growth opportunities. Around one-third of those surveyed felt stalled in their careers,

00:12:27.940 including 34% of millennials, 32% of Gen Z, and 20% of Gen X. And when they were asked why they

00:12:34.260 felt this way, 71% pointed to a lack of employer support for further education or training. In

00:12:39.800 short, the research revealed a compounding crisis, one that showed a broken system problem,

00:12:45.040 not a Gen Z problem. No, no, no. I reject this. I reject it outright. I think there are a

00:12:52.740 combination of factors of which this is correct, but there's more to the more to the picture.

00:12:57.880 Unfortunately, I think a large portion of Gen Z are functional retards. Don't get me wrong.

00:13:04.340 Millennials are worse. Gen Z, I'm not singling you out saying millennials are way worse.

00:13:11.460 Too many millennials are woke lunatics who don't know how to do work at all,

00:13:15.460 communists or otherwise. And so there is a portion of Gen Z that don't have the capabilities.

00:13:20.200 Let me tell you a story, and we'll get sexist while we're at it, right?

00:13:24.800 So I remember I worked at, oh, I better be careful about this.

00:13:28.600 Some high-profile people might be involved.

00:13:30.340 I worked for a company, and I was in a meeting where we were going over pitch ideas.

00:13:35.060 And, oh, boy, there were like eight guys and two women.

00:13:40.680 And they were like, what's the plan for our upcoming major sales event?

00:13:45.540 And the guys were like, I've been planning X.

00:13:48.760 Manage is like, interesting.

00:13:50.200 go over more. It's like, well, you know, I was talking with Tim and he was, he brought the

00:13:56.280 subject up to me and then we kind of bounce ideas around. So I put together this plan for it. And

00:13:59.940 he was like, that could be really good. And then the women go, we were planning why? And everyone

00:14:05.380 goes, what? That's a terrible idea. I'm avoiding specifics, mind you. It was a genuinely bad idea.

00:14:13.780 And they were like, I don't know if that's going to be effective or if people want to buy a product

00:14:17.940 like that. And the women were like, OK. And then afterwards, the women complained the men won't

00:14:23.120 listen to them. And I was like, here's the problem. At least in this capacity, the company hired women

00:14:31.280 because they were supposed to because of DEI. At the time, it wasn't called DEI. It was just

00:14:36.760 we don't have enough women here. Where's the diversity? It's all white guys. So they bring

00:14:40.900 in the women that they think are the best they could find. And the women were bad at their jobs

00:14:45.240 and then said, how come the men won't listen to me? And it's like, listen, listen, lady. It's not

00:14:50.400 because they're men. It's because you're dumb. There are plenty of smart women with this company

00:14:55.000 who are very successful and the guys listen to everything they say. But therein lies the problem

00:14:59.640 of hiring women for the sake of being women. There were smart women at the company. They

00:15:04.260 succeeded. They were executives. But these women that they hired because they needed more women

00:15:08.320 on the team, we're dumb. So anyway, my point is this. Now that that, you know, tie right over,

00:15:15.840 you have, in my experience, a Gen Z that was raised on tablets and TV shows who don't have

00:15:24.180 the high level capacity. Elon Musk talked about wanting to hire Indians because you can't find

00:15:28.900 American talent and everybody got really mad. And he's completely correct. No, no, no, don't get me

00:15:35.120 wrong. He's not correct about H-1B. He's correct about there being a lack of talent among young

00:15:39.280 people. Why do Gen Z, many of them, feel like there's no growth opportunities? Because they're

00:15:44.400 not good at what they do. And so they say, there's no chance for me to get ahead. Well, I'm sorry.

00:15:50.580 Many Gen Z, hold on, hold on. Millennials are worse. We've already established that baseline.

00:15:57.240 There are many Gen Z, because we're focusing on just Gen Z, who are just not worthy of advancement.

00:16:02.880 And so they're going to quit. And the companies are like, but I need someone to wash the dishes.

00:16:07.980 Here's the point. Some people are going to be garbage men. Some people are going to be plumbers.

00:16:13.420 There's nothing wrong with doing those jobs. But you've got a large portion of millennials and

00:16:18.040 Gen Z, and I'm not going to call millennials young people, I'm 40, that feel entitled despite not

00:16:23.740 having the capabilities worthy of those salaries. And so what do you do? Someone comes to you and

00:16:31.280 they says, I have ambition. And I say, but you don't have merit. And they're like, well, I'll

00:16:37.900 prove you wrong. And I'm like, please do so. And then they don't. Where are they now? I would say

00:16:44.720 the people that we've kept here at Timcast are all of the best and the brightest and the most

00:16:47.720 talented. And with all due respect, not everybody who's left this company was because they weren't

00:16:53.120 good or smart. We've just budget changes and things like this. And of course, we're a small

00:16:58.600 company. So we only really hire the best as it is. Everyone here, they're pretty good at what

00:17:02.000 they do. But for a big company, you got Gen Z coming in. And this is just true no matter what

00:17:07.980 you raise a generation being told that they're smart and capable and entitled and all of these

00:17:12.960 things. And then they're not like they're not capable of maintaining that. What do you think

00:17:17.820 is going to happen? Truth be told, you can't replace managers with Honduran farmers. So

00:17:22.980 opening the border is not going to fix anything. Here's what they say. You may be thinking to

00:17:28.600 yourself, I heavily invested in my Gen Z employees. Perhaps you even offered them online memberships

00:17:32.280 on LinkedIn or whatever. Shouldn't this be enough? Youngstown State Study, Youngstown State Study,

00:17:38.240 that's a word, also found that 76% of Gen Z site costs is one of the most significant barriers to

00:17:43.400 growth. In fact, for many, it's the primary barrier. Even when they have access to educational

00:17:47.540 resources, they still can't afford the $2,000 industry certification. They need to prove their

00:17:52.720 expertise. So in essence, the online learning tools that your company offers aren't aiding

00:17:57.900 your employees. So what can you do that works? How can you rethink Gen Z career development

00:18:03.380 to help your employees go from burnout to productivity? Well, I'll give you two strategies

00:18:08.180 you can use. They say, close the certification gap, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. For your

00:18:12.540 employees to progress, even within your company, they need tangible proof that their knowledge

00:18:16.060 has credibility. And many companies are realizing this and making changes to reflect this reality.

00:18:21.140 Companies that are funding the journey, Amazon, Chase, Boeing, etc.

00:18:25.360 According to Gout, the cost of replacing an individual employee can range from one half to two times the employee's annual salary.

00:18:32.220 And that's a conservative estimate.

00:18:33.300 That's true.

00:18:34.880 Build career letters they can actually see.

00:18:37.980 Blah-biddy-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah.

00:18:39.700 We get it.

00:18:40.640 We get it, my friends.

00:18:42.240 I think the challenge is we have social degradation.

00:18:46.300 That's the only way I can really put it.

00:18:48.400 About 2% of young women are selling themselves on OnlyFans.

00:18:51.620 Way more men are buying.

00:18:53.160 It's from 2023.

00:18:54.660 Indeed.

00:18:56.120 So here's what I think.

00:18:58.660 I think we have had a managerial crisis for a long time now.

00:19:03.480 I look at tons.

00:19:05.500 You know what?

00:19:05.840 Let's do this.

00:19:07.300 2015 Fusion.

00:19:09.700 ABC Univision's $300 million project.

00:19:13.160 I don't know that they actually spent $300 million.

00:19:15.680 That was just the rumors in the office.

00:19:17.660 So Univision has this idea for nice Vice.

00:19:21.100 Everybody wanted to do it, right?

00:19:23.220 Vice was the coolest kid in the room, despite not being nearly as big as people thought it was.

00:19:29.680 But it was big.

00:19:30.380 It was big.

00:19:31.460 So every company said, this is how we need to adapt to attract young people.

00:19:34.700 We want to be like Vice, but we want to be nice.

00:19:36.640 So we don't want to be gross.

00:19:37.640 We don't want to be offensive, but we want to be edgy.

00:19:39.860 Everybody had this pitch.

00:19:41.680 Well, Fusion wanted to do a, I'm sorry, Univision wanted to do a youth Spanish language channel.

00:19:48.220 They said, we need to make Vice, but for Spanish speakers.

00:19:52.300 And it didn't really work.

00:19:54.260 So they went to ABC.

00:19:55.640 And again, it's been a long time.

00:19:56.840 It's been a decade.

00:19:57.320 And they were like, hey, let's do this youth thing for Spanish language.

00:20:01.720 And they were like, well, we don't really want to do Spanish language.

00:20:03.580 And they're like, why don't we do a little bit of both?

00:20:05.480 It will be a principally English speaking.

00:20:07.600 What they found was they were like, hey, you know what the thing is?

00:20:10.140 Young Spanish people, they speak English.

00:20:13.160 Like young Spanish speakers actually speak English.

00:20:15.660 We can kind of do a one-off and just make one company.

00:20:18.640 And so that's why they reached out to me.

00:20:20.240 I worked at Vice.

00:20:20.880 I was the founding member of Vice News, the principal reason why they launched it, according to Shane Smith.

00:20:25.440 I went to them and negotiated and pitched this news program, and then they said, we're going to build this.

00:20:29.420 And so they came to me and said, we want to take you and bring it here.

00:20:33.140 Here's the problem.

00:20:34.320 All of these young people, millennials in their late 20s, were dumb as a box of rocks.

00:20:39.860 They were just so dumb.

00:20:41.860 Holy crap, were they dumb.

00:20:44.300 And this is just young people in general.

00:20:46.280 And I'm sitting here looking around being like, nobody here has a functional brain.

00:20:51.180 Are they just hiring retards?

00:20:54.460 I was the only one of the company that got views on content.

00:20:58.600 The president actually tells me this.

00:21:00.380 I go in and I'm like, I get like 50,000 views on my YouTube videos.

00:21:03.340 And he was like, yeah, you're the only one getting traffic.

00:21:05.600 And I'm like, why won't you listen to me?

00:21:08.660 Well, because the people who are running it were also functional retards.

00:21:12.480 So now for Vice, I can understand this.

00:21:15.840 The people who ran it were Gen Xers and their worldview was built on accomplishing the Gen

00:21:20.580 X mountaintop.

00:21:22.100 So for Shane and his cohort, they said, we want to be on TV.

00:21:25.200 We want TV.

00:21:25.840 We want movies.

00:21:26.960 And for me, as a millennial, I was like, the Internet is everything.

00:21:29.800 So they hired me and other people who did a great job.

00:21:33.380 But their view was always one day we'll get TV.

00:21:36.320 They used the internet as a stepping stone, and oh boy, ultimately, in the end, it just—the internet wasn't the stepping stone.

00:21:45.260 The internet was the future.

00:21:46.480 So for that reason, man, did they burn down.

00:21:49.360 But also they went woke.

00:21:50.920 Here's what I see, right?

00:21:53.440 Man, 30% of teenagers surveyed said they had ever had relations, down from 54% two decades prior.

00:22:01.000 We have a snowplow parenthood problem.

00:22:04.020 when I was a kid, go outside, ride the bike, come home when the streetlights turn on. So I'm like

00:22:10.680 seven years old riding my bike around my neighborhood. That was it. Came home and my

00:22:15.920 parents were like, oh, you're back. Now you go outside and there was a kid who I think was like

00:22:21.960 10 and he was walking one mile to go to a Dollar General and they called the police.

00:22:26.800 10 years old. They called the police and they had the mom arrested over it. So what do you

00:22:32.420 think that turns into? Millennials are split. Gen Z getting worse. And I think Gen Alpha is

00:22:39.760 going to be cooked. But maybe the system breaks, life gets hard, and then you get this bifurcation.

00:22:44.840 Here's what I see. Companies are failing. There's not enough workers. Many young people in Gen Z

00:22:52.000 feel entitled to better jobs. And I will tell you this. It's not all because they are entitled.

00:23:00.220 Some Gen Z are entitled and completely incapable.

00:23:02.380 I think there's a large portion of this.

00:23:04.200 And you can also take a look, as we mentioned, like the opening of the segment with the clavicular stuff.

00:23:09.220 I think that's patently obvious that they're desperate.

00:23:12.840 We're willing to do anything to make money because the normal means don't seem to make it.

00:23:16.180 But the issue is, how do you buy a house?

00:23:18.720 How do you have a family?

00:23:20.220 How do you accomplish life things?

00:23:21.920 The other thing I think is affecting Gen Z, which did affect millennials, is value misalignment.

00:23:27.980 meaning we were raised to value bad things. So you're getting a Gen Z that's being told to value

00:23:35.140 attention and being looked at instead of building something substantive and making money. Some Gen Z

00:23:40.080 have gotten there and already got rich. Some have gotten rich for weird reasons. Some are trying to

00:23:44.680 get rich and build fame through the stupidest and craziest of reasons. But where does it come down

00:23:49.760 to where it really matters is in the workplace. So I see two big things happening. For these young

00:23:55.520 people. You have genuine, talented, and intelligent Gen Z, but they can't find good jobs because

00:24:01.980 there are very few. Competition is insane. And so when you have, let me tell you from an

00:24:10.860 employer's perspective, here's a challenge. We want to, oh man, we want to find a film producer

00:24:17.640 right now. Someone who understands how to use AI and can film with the camera and do video editing.

00:24:22.840 damn near impossible to find. It's a sea of noise. There's one big thing, and that is

00:24:29.860 you don't need to hire anybody. Or I'm sorry, you don't need to be hired by anybody.

00:24:35.180 A young person who has all these skills says, I'll do it myself. And so they make their own

00:24:38.700 channels, and they'll try and figure out how to make revenue. And good for them. That's fine.

00:24:42.600 So when we go to talented people and say, we need people who will work, they say,

00:24:45.580 I don't need this anymore. So the ability to actually grow a larger company is getting harder

00:24:50.080 because a young person would rather make slightly less money

00:24:52.740 knowing that they're their own boss.

00:24:54.640 I respect it.

00:24:55.760 So then you end up with people who have substantially less talent

00:24:58.340 because they can't do it on their own.

00:25:00.840 But you don't want to hire those people

00:25:02.140 because they can't do the job.

00:25:04.040 The problem for many young people is that

00:25:06.340 they might have middling talent.

00:25:08.980 And I don't mean middling insulting.

00:25:10.000 I'm saying like they're an average talent.

00:25:11.780 And they're like, listen,

00:25:13.060 but I need to make six figures so I can have my own place.

00:25:15.820 How am I supposed to buy insurance and get a car

00:25:17.800 if I'm not making enough money?

00:25:19.060 And I'm like, that's true.

00:25:19.920 but what you produce doesn't make that much money. That's why I think AI is a nuclear bomb.

00:25:24.000 It's going to wipe everything out. It's making it increasingly difficult to generate revenue

00:25:30.320 in a variety of fields. So now a young person says, what does this job pay? And I say, listen,

00:25:36.540 we're losing money on that job. The money has to come from somewhere. And so when you come here,

00:25:42.960 you do this work, we apply it to our machine to try and generate revenue so that we can pay you.

00:25:47.380 Well, here's the issue.

00:25:49.660 You have to invest, right?

00:25:51.000 And then it turns out the maximum amount that you can generate off an individual's labor

00:25:55.440 is less than what they would need to survive.

00:25:57.400 That is a crisis for the United States.

00:26:00.040 And I'm not just talking about content because media is getting blown out.

00:26:03.500 But many jobs are not going to pay as much as the individual needs.

00:26:08.500 So I saw this video where it said, good luck hiring Gen Z females.

00:26:12.220 And it's probably fake, but she's doing an interview.

00:26:15.420 And the guy says, the job pays, the salaries are between $70,000 and $90,000 a year.

00:26:20.660 And because you're experienced on the lower end, we'd open you up to around the mid-70s,

00:26:24.400 maybe $75,000 per year, I think would be appropriate.

00:26:26.320 And she says, I think I'm worth $180,000.

00:26:29.000 He's like, excuse me?

00:26:30.600 I'm sorry, but we don't pay that much.

00:26:32.140 And she goes, well, I'm worth it.

00:26:33.800 And he's like, okay, thanks for your time.

00:26:36.460 Here's the reality.

00:26:38.240 $70,000, $80,000 per year is not enough money for a Gen Z person, for anybody,

00:26:42.560 to get married, buy a house, and have kids.

00:26:44.420 and it needs to be. So if the company can't pay it and the young person can't work for it,

00:26:50.140 what are you doing? Indeed, this is the breaking of the system. So that ultimately brings me back

00:26:57.520 to the whole clavicular thing. I'm not saying he is the most influential guy ever. Actually,

00:27:02.480 I don't think he is. I think Aiden Ross has substantially more followers and notoriety.

00:27:05.960 but this is a man with no talent, no charisma. What can you do to succeed? And I think he

00:27:16.720 epitomizes everything. Again, I'm stressing this. He gets more and more famous from videos like

00:27:22.280 this. People learn his name. They say, who is this guy? My point is, if you are not talented

00:27:27.980 or capable, you don't know how to run a business and you're a young man, well, you're not going to

00:27:33.140 be able to be an online hooker on OnlyFans like many young women are doing, and most of them not

00:27:38.420 even making money. You have to be the male version, which is a shock lunatic shooting up an alligator,

00:27:45.060 fighting people, causing scenes and clip farming. And eventually you will spiral out burnout and

00:27:51.980 get fried or go to jail like this guy. What is a Gen Z person supposed to do if moderate talent

00:28:01.100 is not going to make you enough money to succeed. Check out. Check out. So the United States is

00:28:09.260 cooked. Gen Z is largely checking out, as Forbes already explained. And this is an old article,

00:28:14.740 by the way. Let me get the date on it. It's not from it's from December of 2025. It's from

00:28:19.180 several months ago. We know it's happening. And they're saying you need to you need to give them

00:28:24.000 a light at the end of the tunnel. It's like, OK, well, they're not going to be able to have a

00:28:27.880 family. Like, what do you expect is going to happen? And then the truth is for the business,

00:28:32.120 if you're not making money, what can you do? So it's an economic thing. This goes to Trump

00:28:38.640 and the Iran war to a certain degree. Trump's strategy for fixing the economy is taking control

00:28:43.180 of the global energy infrastructure so that we get more for less. And then all of a sudden,

00:28:47.280 the economy is roaring because we're flooding our own market with free oil. Indeed. But what

00:28:52.640 I think we are going to end up seeing is just a listless Gen Z followed by a desperate and

00:28:59.160 microscopic Gen Alpha. Generation Alpha, now 15, actually 14, 15 years old. Yeah. In the next few

00:29:06.740 years, they should be entering the skilled labor market. Actually, it's supposed to be happening

00:29:10.640 right now. But they're not because they don't exist. In 2008, I was 22 years old. That's when

00:29:19.480 on a historical average, I should have had my first child, who would now be, crazy, right?

00:29:25.740 Turning 18 years old, already having entered the low-skill labor market, and then inheriting the

00:29:32.260 entry-level positions of this country. Going to school, maybe, but probably not, but getting a

00:29:36.520 job and working at a cafe or, you know, low-skill labor. If I had a son, he'd be doing labor jobs,

00:29:43.380 a daughter, she'd be doing service jobs. But I didn't have kids, and I didn't know it at the time.

00:29:48.160 But the issue is that when the market collapsed, I just said, what does it matter to me? I've been poor the whole time. I've been broke the whole time. Now everyone else is broke. What does that matter? What matters is that had I known I was supposed to be entering the mid skill level in my in my 20s. I mean, look, professional athletes, like 1920 years old. Yes. This is when young people are supposed to be entering this this low to mid level where they're making a salary and they say, I'm going to buy my first time. I'm going to find a place to live.

00:30:16.640 I'm going to establish myself, have a family, have kids. And it did not happen. So now there's

00:30:21.440 no young people. There's no Gen Alpha. We are not going to be able to replace the entry-level

00:30:26.340 workers because Honduran farmers can't be mid-level managers. The response they give is,

00:30:31.420 no, no, don't worry. AI will replace the white-collar jobs we've lost. But then I'm going

00:30:34.960 to stress, AI is not going to be buying Taco Bell on the weekends. It's not going to be going for

00:30:39.860 lunch at your restaurants. Gen Alpha being half the size of Gen Z means no customers.

00:30:46.640 meaning businesses will start collapsing and no civilization has ever been able to recover from

00:30:53.200 this. So it's pessimistic, I guess. Trump's strategy, we're going to get the oil and make

00:31:00.560 America great again. Simply put, I don't know for sure, my friends, but what a silly way to

00:31:06.840 explain that we face a generational talent crisis, managerial crisis and population collapse.

00:31:12.020 No better example than a crackpot dude who whacks himself in the face in the morning with a hammer.

00:31:16.860 So he claims, takes a variety of drugs, sterilized himself, and then is on camera shooting wildly into open air and into the air illegally.

00:31:25.360 And now has been arrested for assault and may get arrested for a variety of other crimes because he's desperate for attention and they prop it up.

00:31:33.320 Holy crap.

00:31:34.800 We are so cooked.

00:31:37.160 I'm going to wrap it there, my friend.

00:31:38.440 Smash the like button.

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00:31:42.020 Thanks for hanging out, and we will see you all in the next segment.

The Culture War - Tim Pool - March 27, 2026

Gen Z Is COOKED, Listless, Angry, And QUITTING JOBS, US Economy Is IN TROUBLE

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