Every now and then, there’s an article about some dumb shit a person on The View says. My reaction is always surprise that The View is still even a thing.
I don’t really understand who their target audience is. They would’ve been conservative 20 years ago, but today I think they just cater to saying whatever middleclass boomers want to hear.
A combination of that and knowing that comments like that will get articles like this, garnering them more attention and views. Ragebait may have become a recent Big Problem in the algorithms of social media, but it’s been around forever. Howard Stern and Jerry Springer built their fortunes on it.
Yeah, it’s the show that tells bitchy old women that they are always right about everything.
It’s a fossilized turd. My guess is, there’s so much fierce competition for eyeballs these days, if the advertisers think 200 people are actually watching it, they get pretty excited.
There’s a lot of people in comas that are in those 200 people and mostly because it comes on after Price is Right.
Waiting rooms
coprolite
“Get out now, Barbara! This show will sink you like a stone!” - SNL
Just get a job? Why don’t I strap on my job helmet and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into Jobland, where jobs grow on jobbies!
Boomer with 30 million dollars earned by having uneducated conversations with uneducated women to entertain uneducated women tells young people to just “get a job”.
Blanket statements are usually made by uneducated people.
I am a fucking insurance professional- educated and licensed -and I still can’t make ends meet and pay off my student loans.
Tax the rich and enhance social programs. It’s not about the job, it’s about luck and generational wealth hoarding.
Not all of us can get a job as a loudmouth caricature from 4chan.
Many people would be surprised how many homeless people have (hard science) degrees or used to be very succesful. Bad luck, medical debt, (mental-)health issues, company goes bankrupt due to circumstances beyond your control, etc.
The world isn’t fair. You can work really hard, and end up in the oven of a concentration camp, despite what the slogan above the gate said.
Of course, if you’re a relatively talentless hack who’s won the equivalent of the lottery despite not really deserving it that much, it’s nicer to think that you deserve it because of your inate talent. Vanity. It’s the Devil’s favourite sin.
I know a couple homeless men who were programmers and burned out, got depressed and gave up
That checks out.
Master’s degree in microbiology with a serious disability here. If not for my wife, I’d have been on the streets since it took 23 doctors to get a diagnosis. This lady can get fucked.
Medical debt is so underappreciated and it is no joke. It can add up very, very high and very, very quickly.
Also without any warning or planning – could be cancer, could be a freak accident. You never know if/when a medical emergency might happen, so you’re always in an odd state of financial limbo even though it may not appear that way. You could be doing just fine squirreling away a few hundred or thousand here and there and one trip to the ER will quickly take back most of that nest egg. Even with insurance, it’s absurd how much you can still be on the hook for. What’s the alternative though, forgo medical treatment?
I have a CS degree and spent a couple months in my backseat.
The world isn’t fair. You can work really hard, and end up in the oven of a concentration camp, despite what the slogan above the gate said.
oof.
“Wealthy asshole has no empathy.” I’m shocked. Fuck her. Fuck talking heads in general.
Fuck the view lol. Everyone that gets a job on that show turns into a jackass, braying their bullshit at top volume. It’s the worst side of television.
Pretty sure that’s the appeal. It’s a ragebait-circlejerk.
With all due respect, there was Candace Cameron Bure…
Nothing says “I’m old, rich, and out of touch” quite like “get a job, you lazy bums”
Oh no man, she’s had a rough life - started at Good Morning America as a receptionist and basically turned that into a comedy career, she’s a working stiff lol. Behar was born Josephine Victoria Occhiuto in 1942. Something tells me she’s a bit out of touch here in the 21st century.
Says the person whose primary job for decades now has been to just sit around with other women and gossip. Oh please, get a real job.
As an almost 50 year old gen x who is on disability I will never bad mouth the younger generations for having a hard time financially. I am right there with you. I’ll never own my own home, the only reason I can afford my rent is because I’ve been in the same apartment for 10 years. I’m paying less for a 2 bedroom apartment than it costs to rent a single room these days. I’m going to have to live here until I die because I’ll never be able to afford to move.
Groceries have skyrocketed just since covid and they weren’t cheap to begin with either. Even before covid I was paying more for a week’s worth of groceries than I was for a months worth of groceries in the 90s.
Times aren’t just tough, they’re fucking impossible.
She’s 81.
81 years of never shutting the fuck up, she must be exhausted.
Somone sould do it for her if she won’t
That’s insane. She’s insane, too. But I would have said mid 60s.
Money’ll do that to you.
Plastic surgery will do that. But plastic surgery can’t fix your organs. She’ll still be dead within 10 years.
I’m a fucking engineer, what more was I supposed to do? I should be getting ahead instead of treading water.
Engineer yourself some bootstraps /s
“Fucking engineer” kind of sounds like slang for a porn actor/actress.
She thinks everyone under 40 is jobless, collecting welfare (???) while eating avocado toast and partying all night. If she hasn’t seen the real numbers proving that housing is increasingly out of reach for younger people then her show is to blame, if she has seen the numbers but chooses to sneer “Get a Job!” because it plays to the boomer assholes then she is just a giant piece of shit.
I haven’t seen it in ages, and I can’t critique the approach, but the maker of SuperSize Me tried to spend 30 days doing a minimum wage job. Iirc, it wasn’t great and they had so much debt by the end of it.
I wish these people could get a similar perspective.
McDonald’s made an article about how to live on a McDonald’s wage with average costs. They couldn’t make it work so the first line in their budget was to get a second job.
Love how the breakdown of monthly expenses that McDonald’s provided includes “Heating: $0”
Warmth really is a luxury when you think about it though…right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They were basically saying it’s perfectly normal to work 70-hour weeks and still hardly be able to cover their made-up costs of living (actual costs are much higher in my area, and presumably in most others as well). Oh, and I’m using heat–so I’m pretty much gonna be in debt for life. Guess we should have gone to college/less avocado toast/whatever. But that’s just business! Don’t hate the player, hate the game! Blah blah blah (งツ)ว
$600 for rent? I haven’t paid less than $700 in over a decade. For an apartment.
When I first moved out on my own in the mid 90s I was paying $525/month + utilities for a 3 bedroom semi detached house.
Are they eating 3 meals at McDonald’s? I don’t see the food line item.
$20 health insurance my sides
That is because McDonald’s offers employee health insurance for only $10/pay period… They do offer that insurance, right?
If it is not clear, I very much doubt that they offer such cheap health insurance (and that is assuming that they don’t have a policy in place that forbids workers from being scheduled for more than 29 hours per week per franchise so they can be classified as “part time” at each location and not offered health benefits).
The heating thing is easily explainable by it being included in the electric bill in this scenario. I don’t know why people go after something like that when the actual egregious thing is them telling people to get a 2nd job instead of paying them more.
My gas furnace would like to argue otherwise
And why itemize it if it’s included in another bill?
I remember seeing that a few years ago and it was woefully out of touch then. But rent has spiked, nearly doubled here, since Covid. I guess I just need a third job and to never sleep again.
Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a great book about this called Nickel and Dimed. She was a full time journalist and set out to get a job at a diner and find a place to live on the salary. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed
Matthew Desmond’s books Evicted and Poverty, By America are amazing, well researched, easily readable books about poverty in the US. I can’t recommend them enough. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/17/1158230630/poverty-by-america-book-review-matthew-desmond-evicted
I remember a young journalist in my country that tried to do that a long time ago. He was a rich spoiled kid who got into the newspaper by nepotism and wanted to make a name for himself. He had no clue what it was like to live on minimum wage (which is earned by the majority here). On the first few days he was already way beyond the budget. He actually went to the restaurant “just once”. Readers were laughing how clueless he was and he’d be starving before the 3rd week. It didn’t happen because the column mysteriously vanished after week 2.
