How Gen Z Will Change Politics Forever

You want to know what's funny? We were

told if we just went to college, got

good grades, and worked hard, we'd be

fine. We'd buy a house, start a family,

maybe even retire comfortably one day.

That was the deal, right? Except that

deal is dead, and everybody knows it.

The average age of a first-time home

buyer in America just hit 40 years old.

40. Let that sink in. Our parents were

buying houses in their 20s. We're

supposed to wait until we're middleage

now. Just a few years ago, this number

was as low as 32. Now it's all the way

up to 40. And with that, wages haven't

kept up with inflation in decades. Real

wages adjusted for inflation have barely

budged since the 1970s. While

productivity has increased by 77%.

People are working harder than ever and

making the least amount they have ever

made. Corporate profits are at record

highs while companies are laying off

thousands of workers to boost stock

prices. In October of 2025, we actually

just broke a record, a 22-year record

for the most layoffs in one month or

announced layoffs in one month. So, you

have the stock market at record highs.

You have companies making the most

amount of money they've ever made, but

yet we're cutting employees to make even

more money and boost our bonuses, not

our bonuses, the CEO's bonuses, and pad

their pockets. Insane. The job market's

an absolute nightmare right now.

Companies are asking for 5 years of

experience for just an entry-level

position. if you can even find that

position or a posting that actually is

in your field and industry that isn't

overcrowded with thousands of quick

applies. Oh yeah, and by the way, most

of these positions are paying $45,000 a

year starting. And the rent in the

cities that they're requiring you to

move to, $2,000 to $2,500 a month.

Insane. And the political system we're

currently in, you're not getting spared

in this conversation either. Both

parties are run by people in their 70s

and 80s who own multi-million or billion

dollar companies, multiple real estate

firms, have hundreds of houses,

themselves own multiple homes, and do

you think they've applied to a job?

Yeah. Okay. Majority of their jobs stem

from nepotism and being lobbyed by their

buddies. Do you think they've ever had

to worry about student loan payments or

housing affordability or even being able

to afford food now because SNAP benefits

have been frozen for over a month now?

So, yeah, things are pretty broken and

we all know that. I'm just stating the

obvious. But here's the question

nobody's asking. What is Gen Z's

solution to this? Because let's be real,

complaining about it online isn't going

to fix anything. Waiting for politicians

to save you isn't going to work either.

and pretending everything will magically

get better if we just work harder is

pretty delusional. So today I want to

lay out the actual problems we're facing

with real data backed behind it. Not

just talking about vibes. Let's talk

about the actual solutions. What are

they? How can we achieve them? Not just

individual life hacks, but real

systematic changes that need to happen

and what we can actually do to make them

happen. It's not going to be a

comfortable conversation. All of these

solutions aren't going to be a

onesizefititall thing. Some of you may

even disagree with parts of this and

that's completely fine too. Like I just

said, not every single problem has one

solution. There are multiple ways and

scenarios out of this situation. But I

am going to talk about proposed

solutions and maybe we can have a

discussion in the comment section or in

my Discord server about what will

actually cause change. I just think we

need to have an honest conversation

about where we are and what needs to

change because our generation is getting

smacked around. We are absolutely cooked

right now. So, let's start with the

problems. First of all is the housing

affordability and the housing crisis.

The average age of a first-time home

buyer in the United States now being 40

years old. By the way, in 2021, this age

was just 33. We've added almost a decade

to the timeline in just 4 years. The

average sale of a home price, by the

way, right now is over $512,000.

Meanwhile, the real median household

income in the United States according to

the Federal Reserve Bank is just $83,000

a year. That is household income. So, in

order to get an average house in United

States, your household is paying over

6.1

of their annual earnings just to afford

housing. The down payment on one of

these homes, a 20% just normal down

payment, $102,000.

And that's all assuming you can actually

save that amount of money because rent

has exploded, grocery prices have

exploded, child care costs have

exploded, health care costs have

exploded, insurance premiums are about

to explode even more. College tuition

has exploded. And here's the thing

nobody wants to actually admit. This

isn't just an accident. Home prices are

high because housing has been turned

into an investment vehicle for the

wealthy. So yes, we are literally

allowing America to commodify housing

and profit off of basic human necessity.

And I could go on this conversation for

hours and make a entire in-depth video

talking about housing in America. I

really could because it's not just this.

We have institutional buyers. We have

foreign investors buying records amount

of homes. We have zoning laws preventing

new housing construction in the exact

cities where jobs are located like San

Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and

even just around those metro areas. 75%

of residential land is owned exclusive

for single family homes, making it

illegal to build condos, apartment

buildings, or multifamily housing, which

would actually put less strain on these

major cities. And by the way, by the

time Gen Z even reaches the age of 40,

this number is going to go up even

further. The system is working exactly

as it's designed. It's just not designed

for us. And now we can talk about wages

because everyone loves to say just get a

better job. Like that solves anything.

On one of my last videos, the one you

probably even subscribed to this channel

from, a lot of the comments were just

saying move. Just make more money.

You're overspending. Just move out of

the major city. And yes, I do live in

New York City. But that is where jobs

are located in. We are in one of the

worst job markets in history, especially

for new grads. And I am a newrad. I

graduated within this last year. I moved

to New York just because of this job.

And for now, that is my situation. And

this is a better situation than most

because a lot of new grads aren't

graduating with a job, are living with

their parents, probably working retail

jobs. And that just leads me into the

federal minimum wage. The federal

minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. I'm

sorry, but this being unchanged since

2009 is absolutely ridiculous. to live

comfortably in the United States. The

National Lowincome Housing Coalition

says you need to make about $3363

an hour, which I'm not proposing that we

make that the minimum wage cuz that

would honestly be insane. But even just

increasing the minimum wage to around

$15 to $20 an hour would make that

number much more feasible and actually

obtainable. And I already know some of

the comments in the comment section are

going to be, if we raise the minimum

wage to $15 an hour, everything gets

more expensive. That is not how things

work. It is much more complex than that.

And also if you look at the correlation

between wage hikes and wage inflation to

general cost of living inflation, the

correlation is very weak. In fact,

companies and organizations should be

able to absorb these costs because of

increasing productivity, reducing

turnover rate, slightly lowering their

profit margins, and obviously using

technology and efficiency gains

effectively. So pretty much all in all,

if corporations were less greedy, we

would actually be able to have a livable

housing situation, instead we're stuck

and trapped in survival mode. And if we

actually measured worker productivity

gains compared to minimum wage, and

let's say you were paid based off like

your productivity increase, the minimum

wage today should be around $26 an hour.

So you were saying that the average

minimum wage employee is earning a

business $26 an hour. and meanwhile

they're getting paid $7.25.

Those aren't even stagnationary wages.

That is generally just going backwards.

Like that doesn't even mathematically

make sense. Let's get off of the topic

of minimum wage because most of us

aren't making that realistically. Let's

talk about entry-level professional

jobs. The kind you kind of need a

college degree for. The average starting

salary for a college graduate in 2025 is

[music] just $68,000. your take-home pay

would be around $51,000 after taxes. And

that's with the average state tax, which

majority of these jobs are actually in

higher tax bracket states. So, this is

overstating it, which at an hourly rate

after tax is around $24 an hour. And of

course, if you were to adjust this for

inflation, adjusting it for productivity

gains, adjusting it for housing costs,

higher tax rates, higher grocery prices,

higher cost of living, increases in car

insurance, increases in healthcare. It's

not a livable wage. You're honestly just

on basic survival mode. And that is why

the average consumer is extremely

strained right now. Wages have been

virtually stagnant for around 25 years.

Meanwhile, the cost of living has

increased exponentially. For example, in

the 1980s, in order to go to college,

the average public university costed

around like $10,000 in today's in

today's dollars. By the way, that's

adjusted for inflation. So, it was a lot

lower back then. And they made around

$17,000. And if you adjusted that into

today's dollars, that's $60,000. So, you

graduated with college debt that was

equal to about 17% of your starting

salary, and you could realistically pay

that off in a few years. Today, the

average cost is over $104,000.

Meanwhile, the average starting salary

was only $68,000. We're not talking

about home prices, food prices, or

increases in anything else. We're just

talking about college. That's

disgusting. You're underwater before you

even started. And some of the comments

in that one video really ticked me off,

man. Because when people just say Gen Z

needs to work harder, I want you to

understand what they're actually saying.

They're saying we should work harder

than our parents did, than our

grandparents did, then at any point in

history, you need to be more productive

than ever before. For lower real wages,

while everything else has exponentially

rose in price, oh, and the house that

you were expected to buy when you like

graduated, got a good job, paid off your

student loans, and everything, yeah,

you're going to be about 40 when you're

actually at that age. Maybe even later

because that's using today's age, not

when we're that age. So, when people say

Gen Z lacks work ethic, it just means

that we're really good at math and we

actually understand that, oh my god,

this is a genuine scam. Now, we could

talk about the job market because even

if you wanted to get a better job, the

job market is actively hostile towards

young people. Here's what applying for a

jobs look like in 2025. You pretty much

need a bachelor's degree for any

entry-level position, or at least most

of them. But then you also need 3 to 5

years of experience for a job that's

labeled entry- level. You have to apply

through some garbage applicant tracking

system that autorejects your resume if

you don't have the exact keywords

they're looking for. But then you also

get screened and have to do either a

quiz or an assessment. And then if you

work in anything technical, you get a

technical interview that's going to

screen your application out even

further. If you don't get an 80% success

rate on these assessments, you're pretty

much cooked. For example, in 2025, for

the average job posting, it receives

over 250 applicants. And out of that

large pool, only a couple get chosen for

an interview. And then obviously, only

one gets chosen for the job. And that's

just for the average posting. We're not

even talking about internships or co-ops

because I've seen job postings get over

250,000

applicants. For example, the internship

program that I went through had over

150,000 applicants. When I applied, it

was only 80,000. Now it's at over

150,000 just a few years later. How are

we supposed to compete in this market?

You're not going to hear back from 99%

of the jobs you apply to. And the fact

that we're even doing three rounds of

interviews now for jobs that used to

only be one round is insane. My friend

was given a take-home project that took

over 10 hours for him to do just to get

ghosted later. Like he built a full out

full stack application and then just

gets ghosted after 10 hours of free

labor. Like insane. Like what is this?

Like I don't even know like what this is

getting into honestly at this point. And

even if you did get hired, let's just

say you got extremely lucky because

that's what it takes. It takes a lot of

luck. It's a lot of strings of luck in a

row. Even if you did get hired, there is

zero loyalty within companies anymore.

Do you think a company like is willing

to invest in you and actually value your

work and your productivity that you're

providing? Absolutely not. Because if

quarterly earning reports come in a

little bit in the red or just not as

high as expectations or the market

wants, boom, layoffs are getting

announced. Even if you beat earnings,

we're announcing layoffs. Corporate

profits are at record highs. Stocks are

at record highs. CEOs and executives are

making more money than they have ever

made in their entire lives. ever in

existence, actually. But yet, we're

still at record high for layoffs,

hitting a 22-year high in layoffs.

Insane. You are not a valued employee

anymore. You're literally just a cog in

the machine. It's always been like this,

yes, but now it's even more prevalent

than ever. And this isn't just something

that's happening right now. This has

been happening for the past few years.

Since 2022, we've been hitting higher

and higher layoffs year-over-year. Like,

for example, these aren't struggling

companies. Like I know people like to

say that oh they laying off for a

reason. They're really not. It's not a

valid reason. It's just to pad their

pockets with more money. For example,

the Meta layoffs, the Google layoffs,

the Amazon layoffs. They're making

record billion dollar multibillion

dollar profits and it's still not enough

for them. Wall Street is literally

rewarding the average person suffering

just to get a little couple extra

dollars on a stock. And when they do do

layoffs, CEOs get massive bonuses for

hitting profit targets. Workers are

literally just a number on a spreadsheet

at this point. And that is why loyalty

within companies are dead. We don't get

pensions anymore. The 401k matches are a

joke. And wealth inequality is at the

widest it's ever been. Do you think a

CEO works harder than the average

person? Absolutely not. Do they deserve

more money than the average person? Of

course, because they it's their idea

most of the time. Sometimes, not all the

time. And I'm not saying that they

should be paid the same as the average

worker, but I think when it's over 400

times the average worker's salary is

crazy because the average person is

closer to being on food stamps and

impoverished than they will ever get to

be than being just comfortable and

wealthy. Or not even just wealthy, just

having any sort of freedom. A lot of

people are just one paycheck away from

poverty. Yet freedom and flexibility is

something that is the farthest thing

from you if you decide to take any sort

of risk in your life. And this risk is

different for everybody, so I can't just

label as a specific one. But let's just

say an average 25-year-old, they want to

have a kid. That could be seen as a risk

for them. You are literally asking to

shoot yourself in the foot, and you're

asking for your basic necessities and

affordability to literally go in the

toilet. Also, by the way, I already know

some comments from this conversation.

They're going to be like, "Oh, but

nobody wants to work anymore." because

that I heard that in 2022 when the job

market was just starting to get bad and

it was something that was insane to me.

It wasn't that we even had a labor

shortage or that nobody wanted to work

anymore because that is literally

corporate and company propaganda to put

the blame on you and to put the blame

and shift towards automation and AI

because people will say 2022 we had a

shortage of of workers, right? And yes,

some companies actually did some

specific locations did have labor

shortages. I'm not going to take

advantage or like take away of that. But

on a wide scale of a company, we were

not as shortages. Companies will

literally turn around and say, "Nobody

wants to work anymore." And you believe

it. Like you were literally being a

suckup to these big billionaires and

CEOs and corporations. They'll feed you

any sort of propaganda that makes you

target another person, another worker,

another workingclass citizen, but yet

you believe them and literally will just

be a massive suckup for them. Because in

the backgrounds, it's not about finding

a qualified candidate anymore. They're

rejecting thousands, tens of thousands

of applications from qualified people

because they want somebody to work for

less wages for them just so they could

make more money. Some people call this

latestage capitalism. I just call it

pure greed because that's what we are

getting into. We are literally in greed

overdrive. We have never had this level

of corruption and greed before. And yes,

we've had corruption and greed in the

past, but now we're at records high of

both of those things. And Gen Z cannot

be competitive with this. Corporations

know that they can just extract more

profits by hiring less and less people,

paying them less and less, making them

work harder and harder. And if you burn

out or quit, there's 300 plus other

people just waiting in line to take your

spot. So naturally, we'll turn to the

political system to fix these problems,

right? That's how democracy is supposed

to work. You elect representatives who

solve systematic issues. Except the

political system is run by people who

don't experience any of these problems.

The median age for a US Senate is over

64 years old. And the House of

Representatives is just over 57 years

old. Our current president is 79 years

old and he still has another 3 years.

These are people who bought their

original homes for less than $50,000.

They went to college when tuition was

probably only $1 to $2,000 even a year.

They got jobs by walking into an office

and just handing a resume. They have

government level health care and

pensions. They do not understand what

it's like to be an average 25-year-old

in 2025. I'm not saying this to be

agist. I'm saying this because the

incentives in our political system

reward people who've been in power for

decades, not people who understand what

young people are actually going through.

For example, the congressional approval

rating is actually at historic lows. And

this is kind of on us honestly too at

this point because House reelection

rates are at 96.6%. I'm sorry, but who

is reelecting these people? What are we

doing? Oh, wait a minute. It's not

really our fault because the system is

designed to protect incumbents. Our

government is gerrymandering campaign

finance laws that favor wealthy donors

and party structures that punish any

other political opponent. For example,

we haven't passed any meaningful

legislation on housing affordability.

They've honestly never even addressed

the wage stagnation. They haven't fixed

student loans in any substantial way.

They haven't done anything about

corporate consolidation or monopolies.

They haven't made healthcare more

affordable in any way. They haven't

addressed climate change in any serious

way. And I know that's a debatable topic

that some people don't even believe in,

which is insane to me. Both parties are

actually funded by the same corporations

and wealthy donors who benefit from the

current system. There are a bunch of

reports even talking about the influence

of super PACs and dark money in the last

year's campaign. And it's funny because

Democrats talk about helping the middle

class while taking money from Wall

Street, right? Republicans talk about

the free market while giving subsidies

to oil companies and defense

contractors, but yet we can't afford any

form of universal healthcare. We can't

afford free college. We can't afford

paid family leave. We can't afford any

affordable housing programs. The current

system isn't designed to solve our

problems. It's designed to preserve the

wealth and power of the people already

at the top. And I just scratched the

surface on many of these issues. There's

still a ton more. So many things that I

didn't even address. But I'm going to

say you're an informed viewer and you

know about these other issues because

this video will be hours long if I

actually addressed every single issue in

our government. So let's talk about the

actual solutions to these things, right?

What are the paths to actually solve

these issues and actually have

meaningful progress? Everything is

broken. We've established that and

that's completely understandable.

Housing is unaffordable. Wages are

stagnant. The job market is hostile. The

political system just doesn't work. It

doesn't work for us. So, what are the

actual solutions? Let's talk about some

systematic changes that need to happen

if we want society that actually work

for young people. So, the first solution

I want to talk about is housing being a

right, not an investment. The

fundamental problem with housing in

America is that we've turned it into an

investment vehicle instead of treating

it as a basic human necessity. Here's

what's something that needs to happen.

We need to heavily restrict corporate

ownership of single family homes. That

is the first thing that needs to happen.

There is no reason companies like

Blackstone should own over 300,000

homes. These housing should be for

people to live in, not for Wall Street

to extract rent from. Several cities and

countries are already doing this. Like

for example, in 2023, Canada banned

foreign investors from buying

residential property for 2 years. It's

not perfect, but it's a step in the

right direction. Berlin, Germany caps

rents at inflation and is also in the

process of buying back from these

corporate landlords. We could do

something similar. We could do something

even on the same level. For example, if

we just reform zoning laws to allow more

housing construction, this would change

housing affordability entirely. And

that's just one little change. I'm not

talking about the other ones I just

talked about. I'm talking about just the

reforming of zoning laws in major metro

areas and in major cities across the

United States. This is the main reason.

It's because we've made it illegal to

build enough of it. We need to legalize

multifamily housing, eliminate single

family zoning laws, and allow developers

to build more affordable units.

Minneapolis even has a 2040 plan to not

completely eliminate single family

zoning, but to restructure it. It's not

a perfect solution, but it's a step in

the right direction. We can even look at

other major cities around the world and

be like, what are they doing? What can

we extract that's working in their

environments? It's like a little case

study. We have free case studies all

over the world. Why aren't we extracting

that information and turning it into an

American policy? For example, build

social housing. Vienna, Austria has 60%

of its population living in high quality

apartments owned by subsidized housing

and are rented at below market rates.

They are repeatedly in the top

percentage for quality of life. And this

isn't a program that's just housing for

the poorest because that's what a lot of

people in America or a lot of

politicians try to aim at or try to go

towards. They're like, "Let's try to get

housing for the poorest 10% or the

poorest 5% or whatever that percentage

is." Right? This is a program that's

called housing for all rather than only

the poorest. This is making housing

affordability leveled on all scales of

income instead of just only for the

bottom percent. And Vienna's program

isn't perfect, but it allows up to 75%

of the population to qualify. That is

better than zero because that is what

we're currently at right now. We don't

even have a program like this. Yes, we

have section 8, but it's not highquality

living. The quality of life of a section

8 recipient is bare bottom, dude. It is

like bottom of the barrel. It is

terrible. I'm not saying it's like this

across the board for every section A

voucher because some of you guys may

disprove me in the comments, but for

your average person, the wait lists are

years long. Finding a landlord to accept

these vouchers is extremely difficult,

and some voucher recipients even end up

in lower quality housing or high crime

rate neighborhoods due to the limited

options. And even if you do find a

quality place, chances are you're in a

low opportunity neighborhood where there

aren't many jobs available. So you have

to commute or travel really far to find

anything of quality to just make a

living wage. And it's crazy because we

actually had this before in America.

Public housing in America in the 1940s

and 50s was actually highquality

standard of living. We effectively just

underfunded it and stigmatized it

because that's what they want you to do.

They want you to attack each other

instead of attacking the greed and upper

class. We could even strengthen tenant

protections or cap rent increases.

Although these policies aren't perfect,

they prevent the kind of rent spikes

that push people into homelessness.

Housing should be treated as a right,

not a commodity. We need massive public

investment into affordable housing,

restrictions on corporations, and tenant

protections that prevent exploitation.

This isn't some radical point of view.

This is how most developed countries

handle the housing. And another solution

that we could even propose is tying

wages to productivity and inflation.

Wages have been stagnant for just about

50 years while productivity has

increased over 77% and corporate profits

have exploded. That's something that's

not sustainable. Here's what needs to

happen. Raise the federal minimum wage.

That's the first thing. Index it to

inflation. The federal minimum wage

should be at least 15, honestly

realistically closer to $20 an hour when

you account for cost of living in most

cities. But more importantly, it needs

to be automatically adjusted for

inflation every single year. So we don't

have to have the same argument and same

discussion every decade. Over 63% of

Americans support raising the minimum

wage to $15 an hour. By the way, and

just half of Republicans agree to raise

the minimum wage. This isn't some crazy

position. It's just common sense. We

also need to strengthen unions and

collective bargaining rights. Union

membership has declined by 35% of

workers in the 1950s to just 10% today.

As union memberships declined, wage

stagnation increased. That's not a weird

coincidence. Why do you think Amazon,

big banks, even massive widescale

corporations are trying to demonize or

put hush on these unions? Because

workers in unions earn 10 to 20% more

than non-UN workers in the same exact

industry and job. They have better

benefits, better working conditions, and

stronger job security. We need to pass

some sort of act which would make it

easier for workers to form unions and

bargain collectively. In 2021, we almost

had something similar, but it just died

in the Senate. We could even implement a

profit sharing and a worker ownership

model, which I think most companies

should honestly cater towards. If

productivity has increased by 77% since

the 1970s, workers should share in those

gains. Some companies already do this,

and their worker retirement accounts

have a higher median than the average.

We could incentivize this model through

tax policy and make it easier for

workers to buy ownership stake in their

own companies. Because if you are a

loyal worker to a company, you do

deserve a share in the wealth they

create. If companies are making record

profits while workers struggle just to

afford rent and food, the system is

systematically broken. We need to hold

corporations accountable. Corporations

are laying off workers while making

record profit. CEOs are getting richer

while workers get poorer. Monopolies

control entire industries and crush

competition. For example, in 2024, we

spent over 1.34 trillion just on stock

buybacks. That money went to

shareholders instead of the workers. And

stock buybacks were illegal until the

1982 because they were considered market

manipulation. But now we were spending

records amount of money on stock

buybacks and we wonder why wealth

inequality is the way it is. We should

either ban them altogether or just tax

them heavily just so the government and

the people can profit off of these

things too. If we just even tax them 10,

20, 30%, we could generate hundreds of

billions of dollars in revenue that

could fund housing, healthcare,

education, we need to break up

monopolies and enforce antitrust laws.

For example, four companies, just four

companies control 70% of all beef in

America. Three companies control 63% of

the chicken market and two companies

control 90% of the beer market in

America. Amazon controls 40% of all

e-commerce. Google controls 92% of

search. And we really only have a few

companies control all major social media

companies. This isn't competition. This

is consolidation. And it hurts workers

and consumers. We have these big massive

corporations buy out and acquire other

corporations and then we just turn into

a big monopoly. If we just break up some

monopolies, block anti-competitive

mergers, and enforce antitrust laws that

have been in the books for over a

hundred years, but haven't actually been

meaningfully enforced in decades, the

quality of life for a worker and an

average citizen would actually increase.

Another thing is requiring corporate

transparency and accountability for

layoffs. If a company lay off workers

while making record profits, there

should be consequences to that. Some

European countries require companies to

justify layoffs and provide generous

severance packages. For example, in

France, companies must prove economic

necessity before conducting a mass

layoff. If we just implemented similar

protection rights that would require

companies to give workers advanced

notice, severance pay, and retraining

assistance, then I would honestly have

no issue with it. If they actually prove

economic uncertainty or economic

necessity, if they actually try to find

other positions for the workers that

they are laying off within their company

or try and retrain them into an industry

that is more in demand and even just

provide substantial severance pay and

give advanced notice instead of just

being like, "Oh, you woke up the next

day. Yeah, you don't have access to your

laptop or key card and you're actually

fired.

Yikes." But they actually don't even

care about you. That's the thing. They

they just genuinely don't care. They

care about what's in their pockets, how

much profit are they making, and how big

that bonus is going to be. Oh my god,

they love it. They see that the mouth

for it. The bottom line is corporations

have way too much power and not any

honestly accountability. You need

policies that prioritize workers over

shareholders. Right now, it's just the

opposite. Now, solution four. I know a

lot of you guys are going to attack in

the comments over it, which is kind of

crazy because it is honestly a basic

human necessity and a human right also,

but we'll talk about that another day.

Healthcare in America is a disaster. We

spend more on healthcare than any other

country, over $4 trillion per year, by

the way, over $13,000 a person. But we

actually get worse outcomes. Our life

expectancy is worse. And the average

family health insurance premiums are

over $24,000 per year. Medical debt is

the number one cause of bankruptcy in

America. That might sound familiar to

some of you guys who watched my previous

video because it is responsible for over

66% of all bankruptcies. This is insane.

Every other developed country has

figured out universal healthcare.

Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Japan,

South Korea, they all provide healthcare

to their citizens without bankrupting

them. And it's cheaper there. The UK

spends about 5.3K per person on

healthcare. Germany spends only 7.3K. We

spend over $13,000 per citizen with,

again, like I said, worse quality, worse

outcomes, and a lower life expectancy.

We could even implement a Medicare for

all system or cut healthcare costs in

half while providing better coverage to

everyone if we just followed their

models. This is nothing that's new to

the world. These are things that are

already done. I'm not even thinking

outside the box. I'm just taking what

one country is doing and applying it to

our own country because we have the

data. We see the systems that work. We

see the systems that don't. We see the

corruption involved in those systems.

Okay, let's take the next step,

implement it, and solve those

corruptions or solve those loopholes.

This is what our representatives, our

senators, the president, Congress in

general, this is what they should be

solving. This is the things that they

should be looking at. Instead, they're

insider trading. Instead, they're making

millions, hundreds of millions of

dollars on only a $200,000 salary. Like,

how does that work? you make the same

amount of money as like the upper class

in America, right? Like let's say they

make $200,000. How are you retiring with

over 200 million? That's that's weird. I

I Am I Am I the only one pointing that

out or are we just going to put that on

the down low and just not talk about

that? Because if we had healthc care for

all in America, by the way, it would

actually save us over $450 billion in

tax revenue and also could even prevent

up to over 60 to 70,000 deaths per year

because population collapse is a thing

in America. We're not having enough

children. So why don't we protect the

citizens and the people that are

currently alive? Or maybe if we had

better health care, we would actually

want to have kids. Or, you know, if

healthcare was affordable, we would be

able to afford to have kids and be

incentivized to have kids. It's weird

because Congress and the president and

senators, they talk about these issues,

but they don't actually care to solve

them. They do this because they're

populist. They do it to get votes and to

sway the audience into their favor until

they just get reelected and then just

throw it out the door because the bottom

line for this is that the healthc care

is a human right. tying it to employment

is a disaster and we need universal

healthcare like every other developed

country because obviously it's shown

that our system is not working. It's

fundamentally broken. It's bankrupting

our own people. And it's really weird

because again we attack each other and

we are attacking ourselves over these

issues because that's what they want us

to do and nobody is seeing that. When

you say Republicans versus Democrats,

that is not the agenda that should be

taught or taken away from a two-party

system. You should be working

collectively together and actually

implement valid solutions for both

sides. That's why I think there is a

massive fault in a two-party system. I

think we should honestly have a

multi-party system, one where they're

all represented in the government.

Because what's the difference between

two massive corporations owning 70% of

the market share or two parties

controlling 100% of the market share w

within our government? Like, does that

does that ring a bell? Does that sound

weird? Doesn't that sound monopolistic

in some way? We need political reform.

The political system is broken because

it's captured by wealthy interests.

Here's what needs to change. We need to

get the money out of the politics. We

need to overturn Citizens United and

implement public campaign financing. You

may be curious what's Citizens United,

by the way. It's a Supreme Court case

that ruled political spending by

corporations, unions, and other groups

as a form of protected free speech under

the First Amendment. This decision

allows these organizations to spend

unlimited amounts of money on

independent political expenditures.

Like, this case had a massive impact on

campaign financing and it led to a surge

in spending by these outside

corporations and groups. Isn't that

weird? for example, this had massive

impacts in our past few elections. These

super PACs and corporations spent

billions and billions of dollars. Like,

we need a constitutional amendment to

overturn Citizens United and implement

public financing of these elections so

candidates don't have to be millionaires

or sell out to wealthy donors to run for

office. We also need to implement term

limits and age limits for Congress. The

average age of someone in Congress is

over 59 years old. It's the oldest it's

ever been in US history. So, we had an

entire generation vote themselves in,

and now they're just holding on to power

and keeping our and other generations

out of it. That doesn't that sound

weird? It sounds like they had a ladder,

they climbed it, then pushed the ladder

down just so nobody else can climb it.

That sounds a little weird. Or they had

an open door, they took the open door

and closed it and locked it behind them

so nobody else is allowed in. If we had

term limits to prevent career

politicians from staying in office for

40 plus years and losing touch with the

people they once represented, wouldn't

that be helpful in any sort of way? And

honestly, instead of just term limits,

we probably need an age limit, too. We

have minimum ages to serve. For example,

25 for the House, 30 for the Senate, 35

to be president. There should be a

maximum, too. Maybe even putting it at

65 or 70, like retirement age, because

wouldn't they just vote for things that

benefit themselves even more? It's not

some sort of agism. It's just ensuring

that the people making decisions about

the future actually have to live in that

said future. And it's kind of weird

because we also don't really have many

voter rights and also we don't really

make voting accessible. The US actually

has a very low turnout rate compared to

other developed nations. Ours is

somewhere in the 60s. Meanwhile, Belgium

is 87, Sweden's 87, and Australia's 91.

Voting is easy and accessible to all. We

need the restoration of voting rights

for formerly incarcerated people. We

need a universal either vote by mail or

some sort of actual verifiable system

because I know there's a lot of problems

with that too. Election day should be a

national holiday. Everybody should be

able to have off of work or the freedom

to leave work to vote. And maybe we

should have some automatic voter

registration list so everybody is

registered and everybody is accessible

and has access to vote. We need to re

redo the entire voter registration thing

itself too because there is a lot of

privacy concerns and there's a lot of

things that is publicly available that

maybe shouldn't be publicly available

like for example your political party

that is something that is publicly

available. You can search up anybody's

online that's a problem that's not

that's not okay. I I think we need some

protections in that form. I really do

think that voting in general should be

completely redone because there

obviously is some sort of fraud and a

lot of that is done at a state level and

even on a federal level actually it's

done on both levels let's be real and

even when you do vote for people we have

the electoral college and senate which

disproportionately give less power to

lower populated states like for example

Wyoming has one electoral college vote

for just 193,000 people when California

has one per 73 32,000 people. That means

a vote in Wyoming nearly has four times

the amount of power in California.

That's not really democracy. And this

gets even worse when you talk about the

Senate because the proportions for a

Senate seat in California representing

120th or even I think it's even less

than 120th at this point. It might even

be 140th or even worse than 140th than a

person in Wyoming. You need to either

abolish or reform these institutions to

actually create representation. And this

isn't some vote blue narrative. I'm just

using California as an example because

they're one of the highest populated

states. I think everybody should have

equal representation no matter where

they originate from. And for the people

that are protecting the political system

that was designed in the 1700s, we are

in a completely different world. It

needs major reform to function in an

actual democracy and in the actual state

of the world today. Just because we were

the world superpower for over a 100 plus

years doesn't mean that we will continue

to be just because of America. Now I

think we're on solution six or

something. But we need to make education

affordable and accessible for all. The

student debt crisis is crushing an

entire generation. Specifically my

generation and honestly Gen Alpha might

even have it worse than us because total

student loan debt in America is over

$1.8 trillion and over 43 million

borrowers. And the average borrower owes

over $37,000.

This is something that's unsustainable.

And this is something that needs to

happen to fix this. We need to make

public college tuition free. Germany did

it, Finland did it, Norway, Sweden,

Denmark, all free or nearly free. And

even in the 1960s when we talked about

the boomers, by the way, many US state

universities were actually tuition free

or extremely affordable and accessible.

Isn't that weird that that got pulled

back? Isn't it weird that an entire

generation benefited from these things?

and then now we're struggling from those

same issues that they actually had once

resolved. The cost of making all public

colleges and universities tuition free,

by the way, would only be about $79

billion. That is a drop in the hat when

when we were talking about tax revenue,

when we're talking about how much money

we send to other countries, when we are

talking about any form of foreign aid or

military spending, like maybe we don't

need another aircraft carrier and

instead we just spend that money on

making all public universities free. I

think that sounds pretty fair, right? It

sounds like a lot until you realize that

over 10 times the amount is spent on

defense every year. So just a 10%

efficiency in the defense budget or just

a 10% reduction if you want to go

hardcore with it would fund free college

for everybody. But it's honestly a

choice that we don't. Now, I know the

Biden administration really went for a

push of cancelling student loan debt.

And I think he actually did cancel

around 10% of the debt. But we need

broader cancellations or broader reform

to make debt payment easier. Even if you

don't support completely cancelling that

amount of debt, let's reform how that

debt is structured. Some people say debt

cancellation is unfair to people who've

already paid off their loans. And for

example, I paid off school while going

through it. I worked the entire four

years of college. I even commuted to

school to make it cheaper and make it

more accessible to me. And to be honest,

I wouldn't want to wish that on anybody

else because it was actually miserable.

is pretty much selling four years of my

entire life 24/7, spending it on school,

spending it on work, going back to

school because I had to commute over an

hour to school, too, cuz I was the

closest university that was actually

affordable. But if we also use that

logic and turn it on its head, we could

even say, why would we cure a disease

because someone already died from it?

So, this person died from cancer. Why

should we cure cancer? Like, that's like

the argument kind of, you know, there's

a lot of nuance to it. Progress isn't

unfair. It's called progress. Instead, I

really want to hit the court issues

instead of just wide cancellations. I

propose, why don't we just fix the

for-profit college industry. For

example, for-profit colleges enroll 9%

of students but account for 35% of the

loan defaults. Sounds like a broken

system. And again, like I said, public

universities were once free. Why don't

we just make them free? Kids would have

more options. Kids wouldn't want to go

to these for-profit colleges if it cost

money. Meanwhile, public and state

universities would be completely for

free. This would cause a core issue.

This isn't just a patch on a massive

issue. This isn't just a band-aid on a

wound. This is actually solving

predatory institutional lurs for

low-income students because they are

giving them false promises but saddling

them with debt in the background and

providing near worthless degrees. Like I

think these colleges and these

institutions need heavy regulation or we

either just shut down the entire

for-profit colleges entirely because why

are we gatekeeping and profiting off

education again making the wealth

inequality and gap even wider for people

that aren't accessible to these things

compared to people that of course have

unlimited accessibility because they are

born with so much more money. Like one

take that I'm just going to interject

here. I think one person born in middle

of nowhere versus one person born in the

middle of the city like obviously their

lives are going to be completely

unproportional and it's not going to be

fair or balanced. But these kids should

have the same opportunity to thrive in

an educational environment because they

can't choose where they were born. They

can't choose the household they lived

in. But one thing they can choose on if

we actually made it accessible is their

career paths and education and how much

they want to learn and how much effort

they actually want to put in. And I'm

not saying everybody has to be a doctor.

I'm saying everybody should thrive to

learn more and actually pursue

education. And if we give you the

resources and you don't take it

seriously, well, obviously you're

probably going to be a low-inccome

earner. But if you take advantage of

those free paths, you take advantage of

the accessibility and you are actually

again putting full amount of effort and

putting the actual resources to the

test, you do deserve to be compensated

and rewarded for that. But instead, it's

not an even playing field. It's not

accessessible. It's not free. It's not

even affordable. And not everyone needs

a 4-year degree. We can invest in trade

schools, apprenticeships, vocational

training programs that lead directly to

good paying jobs. Like Germany has an

insane program where almost 60% of

German students go through an

apprenticeship. They graduate with near

no debt, actually no debt at all, and

immediately have job placement or have

the tools and resources to work a job

and qualify for one. We could implement

a similar system here. Education should

be an investment in our future, not a

debt entrapment. Every other country has

figured this out. We can too. Again,

there are working systems in the world

today. Why don't we literally just

cherrypick what works, fix what doesn't,

and actually apply it to our own

citizens and country. And I'm saying

that question because I want you to

question it, not because I don't know

the answer to it, cuz I do know the

answer to it. It's greed and corruption.

And now, let's get to the seventh

solution. We need to strengthen worker

protections and labor rights. American

workers have fewer protections than

workers in almost any other developed

country. Here's something that needs to

change. We need to mandate paid family

leave. The United States is one of only

six developed countries in the world

with no national paid family leave. Out

of Canada, the UK, France, Germany,

Japan, South Korea, they get paid

parental leave for new parents. And the

average is 18 weeks among those

countries, right? We get zero. At a

federal level, it is zero. I say we need

at least 12 weeks. That should be the

bare minimum. Even if we choose the

lower end of the average of developed

countries, if we just hit 12, I think

that is a progress. Realistically, I

think it should be like 16 to 24. And

this is we're just talking about paid

family leave here. I'm not even talking

about mandating paid sick leave and

vacation time because this is something

that needs to be refixed and rebuilt.

Also, the US is the only developed

country with no federal requirement for

paid vacation or sick leave. European

countries mandate 20 to 30 days of paid

vacation per year. We mandate zero.

Honestly, I think 30 is even low because

that's only like less than 10% of days

in a year. And by the way, even if you

do get wronged by your employer,

actually over 60 million people can't

even sue their employers for wage theft,

discrimination, or harassment because of

arbitration, and non-compete agreements.

Like 18% of workers can't actually even

take better jobs in their own industry

because of things that they signed once

they first get hired. And I'm not going

to lie, half you guys probably don't

even read that. Both of these practices

should be completely illegal. Workers

should have the right to sue employers

and the right to take a better job.

Like, don't you think it's weird that

even gig workers want don't want to

classify employees as employees like

Uber, Lift, Door Dash, and other gig

economy companies. They spent over $200

million fighting legislation that would

classify their workers as employees.

Why, you may ask? Because they would get

a minimum wage, overtime pay,

unemployment insurance, workers

compensation, and independent

contractors get none of that. For

example, California almost passed

something to reclassify gig workers as

actual paid employees, but then they

overturned it because $200 million flew

in and it went hush. We need federal

legislation that protects gig workers

and ensures they actually have the same

right and benefit as other employees.

Workers have been stripped of their

protections over the past 50 years. We

need to restore them, expand upon them

to match workers in other developed

countries because they already have it

and we aren't even there yet. We aren't

even close to competing. If we were a

business, if we were a company, we would

honestly be failing. So, what can you

actually do about it? Those are the

actual solutions. Real systematic change

that would actually fix the problems Gen

Z is facing. Like, what can you as an

individual actually do about it? Because

these aren't things that will happen

automatically. They require political

pressure, organizing, and collective

action. Here's what you can start off

doing. Vote in every election,

especially local elections. National

elections get all the attention, but

local elections matter just as much,

maybe even more. Your city councils

control zoning laws that determine

housing cost. Your state legislation

controls minimum wage, tenant

protection, workers rights. Your school

board controls education funding.

Turnout in local elections is as low as

10 to 20%. That means your vote has 5 to

10 times more power in a local election

than in national ones. heavily

researched candidates. Find out who

supports housing reform, higher wages,

universal health care, worker

protections. Vote for them. Don't just

vote for a president every four years.

Vote in every election, primaries,

midterms, local elections. That's how

change actually happens. Support

proworker, pro- housing, and pro

healthcare candidates. Not all

politicians are the same. Some are

bought and paid for by corporate donors.

Others are actually fighting for

workers. The ones being backed by

corporate donors obviously heavily get

more voted for because of the propaganda

that they spread and the ones that are

actually fighting barely get any

attention. We need to flip the script on

that. Look at candidates funding sources

too. Do they take corporate pack money?

Who are their biggest donors? There are

websites out there that research

candidate funding and if a top donor is

like a pharmaceutical company, they're

probably not going to fight for your

best interest. We need to support

candidates who refuse corporate pack

money. Support Medicare for all or

universal health care or some form of

healthcare reform. Support housing

reform and tenant protections. Support

raising the minimum wage and

strengthening unions. Support making

college more affordable. And support

getting money out of politics. Don't

just vote for them. You can even

volunteer for their campaigns. Talk to

your friends and family about them.

Also, join or support unions. If your

workplace has a union, join it. If it

doesn't, try to organize one. Union

workers earn 10 to 20% more than non-UN

workers. They have a better benefits,

better working conditions, and stronger

job security. Just statistically, it is

better to be in a union than not.

Organizing a union is hard. Yes, I'm not

going to try and fight you on that one

because companies will already be

fighting you on that. It's legal and

there are resources to help you out

there on the internet. Reach out to

established unions in your industry and

they will even help you and get guidance

on organizing one for your own. Even if

you're not ready to organize one in your

own workplace, you can support unions by

supporting strikes and worker actions,

talking positively about unions to

counter the anti-UN propaganda that's

been spread all over the country. This

is something so small, but can be so

impactful in the future and down the

line. You can also even get involved in

local organizing efforts. Real change

happens through organized groups, not

individual acting alone. You join or

support local organizations that support

housing reform, labor rights, healthcare

advocacy, political reform. You find

these organizations in your area and you

get involved. You show up to meetings.

You can even volunteer. You don't have

to agree with everything these groups

do. But getting involved in organized

movements is how you create actual

change. And number five, you can even

talk to people, especially people who

disagree with you. A lot of these

solutions have broad public support.

raising the minimum wage, lowering drug

prices, making college more affordable.

Some of these approval odds are over

60%. Even Republicans agree with these

views. It's not just the Democratic

party that agrees with some of these

issues. And I'm not saying you have to

vote one way or another because to be

honest, the current political candidates

that we have are corrupt on both sides.

I personally don't like them. I think

both parties are struggling. I think

both parties have fundamental issues and

there's massive collusion and corruption

on both sides. That's something we need

to fix and have candidates that are not

run by these two parties actually be

voted for and advocated for. We need to

tear down that stigma. I don't think

it's going to be an immediate thing.

It's not going to be like an independent

winning the next election or another

party winning the next election, but if

we slowly make progress towards it,

eventually it will happen. It's crazy

because the problem isn't even that

people disagree on certain policies.

Like I think we can collectively find

things that both parties agree on. It's

that we're divided by like this cultural

war while the wealthy is just robbing us

blindly. Like talk to your friends, your

family members, your co-workers about

these issues. Don't be preachy or like

condescending. Just have real

conversations about these problems. This

is like a slow spread of awareness. Like

when parents complain that young people

can't afford homes and are living with

them forever, talk about corporate

investors buying up housing and zoning

laws preventing construction. When

co-workers complain about health

insurance costs, talk about how every

other country provides healthcare for

half the cost. When your friend

complains about student loans, talk

about how college was affordable for

previous generations and it could be

again. And that's why I'm such a big

advocacy of uh community college and

public universities because that's the

route that I chose and I was able to

graduate debtree. Yes, I had to work

through college, but community college

was super affordable. I was able to pay

for college, nearly get it for free, and

still come out with a valuable degree at

the same level as another student at a

state university. These issues are not

partisan. Don't make them that way

either. Make it about class because

that's what it is. It's the rich versus

the poor, the workers versus the owners,

people who want fair a fair system

versus people who benefit from an unfair

system. You frame it that way, you'll

find a lot more agreement than you

actually expect. We need to build

alternative institutions. While fighting

for systematic change, we can also build

alternatives to the system that are

failing us. For example, like starting

worker cooperatives where employees own

the business and share in the profits.

This may not be the most profitable

business idea. But if you actually

create a fair system where workers are

happy, you will be more productive. You

will have higher work workplace

happiness and in the end you actually

will probably make more money. Your

business will be more successful if

employees actually want to show up every

single day to work. Just because your

pockets aren't going to be padded

doesn't mean that collectively all of

your pockets can't be padded. These

aren't just substitutes for policy

change, but they are ways to build power

and improve lives. right now while we're

fighting for the bigger change. Another

massive step that you could do even on a

small scale. That's so much easier than

all these things. It just support

independent media and content creators.

Corporate media doesn't cover these

issues. Honestly, they're funded by the

same corporations that benefit from the

current broken system. You support

independent journalists, YouTubers,

podcasters, writers who are covering

these issues honestly. Subscribe, share

their work. That's how we build

alternative information ecosystems that

aren't controlled by billionaires. And

another one is just don't give up. This

is the most important one because change

is going to be slow. It's frustrating.

You'll lose more than you win,

especially at first. But it's not

impossible. We've won before. Reform has

been happening in other countries. We

can do the same here. Workers once

fought for an 8-hour workday and we

eventually won. They fought for weekends

and won. They fought for child labor

laws and eventually won. They fought for

the minimum wage and they won. They

fought for social security and they won.

Every right workers have today have won

through organizing strikes and political

pressure. None of it was just given to

them freely. We can win again, but only

if we fight for it. Gen Z is the largest

generation in American history that's

educated, more diverse, and more

politically engaged than other previous

generations. If we organize, we can

change everything. We need to work as a

collective, vote, show up, organize,

talk to others, build a movement. It's

not easy, but it is possible. For me

personally, I am trying to do these

things while I am here in America. But

my plan overall is to not just stay in

America altogether. Fundamentally, this

country is broken. I'm honestly just

don't want to be a part of the culture

anymore. And even though this is the

land of opportunity, this is the best

country to make money in. I do think

there is a better life out there in

other countries. And that is what I'm

aiming towards. I don't care about

making the most amount of money in my

entire life. I don't care about some of

the certain qualities of life that we

have here and the capitalist society

that we built ourselves around and the

consumerism. I don't care about stuff. I

just want to live a life that's

fulfilling, worth living, that's filled

with happiness, joy, that's filled with

time, freedom, financial freedom, less

stress than the every day that we have

to currently go through. And that is

what I'm building on this channel. That

is why we are called early exit plan

because I'm actively building an early

exit plan to leave the country to break

free from this system, to break free

from the curse that we were all indebted

and born into. And if that sounds

interesting to you, you can check out

the links in the description down below.

We have the Discord link which is a

massive active community of over,200

members talking about these issues,

actually advocating for change, talking

about investing and how we can actually

build a financially freedom future for

ourselves, our financial independence.

For those that are interested, how we

can leave the country and actually build

independence for our own futures. Even

though I do talk about a lot of

individual life hacks on this channel,

this video was a very different one

because it's actually talking about

being a collective instead of broken

apart in a broken system. And I know we

hate hearing the advice, just work

harder or just sitting there hoping

things will get better. This video was

about something different. It's about

what's Gen Z's solution to these issues

because I know majority of you guys plan

to stay in this country. Personally,

just because I won't be doesn't mean

that I won't hope for a better future

for it. I would love one day to be able

to come back after fighting for change,

after voicing my opinion, and seeing

these things actually become a reality.

These aren't radical ideas. And for

those that think so, you are obviously

not the target audience for my channel.

And I genuinely hope you do not join our

community because you are not the target

audience here. This is just somebody

speaking common sense through what every

other developed country has and has

already done. They're working out what

works and taking it and extracting it

and using it for our own solution. The

reason we don't have them isn't because

they're impossible. It's because the

people in power benefit from not having

it. They benefit from the current

system. But we outnumber them by a lot.

If Gen Z organizes, if we vote, if we

join unions, if we support pro-worker

like candidates, if we support and build

movements, we can change everything.

This isn't. This isn't just having naive

optimism. This is history. Every major

social change in America has happened

because ordinary people organized and

demanded it. We can do the same. And

just because I don't plan on being here

in the long term, doesn't mean I won't

be doing these things while I am here.

doesn't mean that I can't be doing this

from a remote location. But if you are

tired of being told to work harder while

everything else gets more expensive,

then join us. I hope you click that

subscribe button, click the like button

to support this video, leave a comment,

join our Discord, and there is a buy me

a coffee link in the description down

below. If you would like to donate and

support the channel even further, if

you're tired of watching corporations

get richer while workers get poor, join

us. If you're tired of political systems

that don't represent you, join us.

Comment below with what you're doing to

fight for change. Share organizations

you're involved with. Let's build this

movement together. And if you want to

keep having these conversations, like I

said, join the Discord community. The

links in the description, watch other

videos, subscribe to the channel. It's

crazy that we've even grown to a

community of over,200 people in the

Discord and over 10,000 on this channel

alone, which I am extremely grateful for

and I thank all of you for it. I started

this channel just in August and the fact

that we've grown so massively so fast is

insane to me. This is a community of

people talking about organizing and

bettering our future together. These are

the conversations Gen Z needs to be

having. Not just complaining about

problems, but building real solutions

and fighting for systematic change. I

know some of you guys want to hear my

opinion on this, and I know it's

something that I haven't really talked

about a lot on this channel. I only have

12 other videos, in fact, and a lot of

those other videos are really talking

about my individual plan to escape this

current system and this rat race. But

this is also a conversation just equally

as worth having and I think is equally

as important. And that is going to be

all for today. We will talk again soon.

And again, thank you for 10,000

subscribers. I appreciate all of you.

Peace.