UBI - Living In Car Crisis Sign The West Is Collapsing?

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This is a sign that the West is quietly collapsing. More and more people are sleeping in.

Okay, let's stop right there. Genuine Insight One on genuine_insightone. You can follow them over on Instagram, right? And they're talking about, um, how so many people being pushed to live in cars. Now, it's nothing new. That's— it's been homelessness has throughout the age, it's always been an issue. Within various sets of economies. However, is there a, a significant rise in that unlike before? And what would be causing that, right? Is it a sign that capitalism is starting to implode on itself? And some people might believe that. So we're going to take a look at the video, get some of the thoughts and ideas about why some people think that is, and brainstorm a little bit about what some solutions might look like for that, and just see where the community is at with that. So I'm gonna play the video and chime in at times to discuss what's happening.

Cars, vans, and tents across wealthy nations, once seen as untouchable, not because they're unemployed, not because they're reckless, but because the price of simply existing has exploded. Single minimum wage.

So I thought that was a very, um, important point she raised, where people typically go, okay, if you're living in a car, you— that means you did something wrong, right? You're not working, you should go out and get a job, and, and so on. But what we're seeing a lot of, and I— and this is the significant part, is that the people who are doing these things are full-time employees at jobs, right? Um, and, uh, it's not that they don't have a job. It's not that they don't get up and go to work every day. It's not that they don't have families they got to support and things like that. It is just the cost of living in relation to their paychecks just aren't matching up, right? They can't keep up with the cost of living. And then some people say, oh, well, you know, they need to live within their means. But there seems to be something that is even far more, uh, uh, uh, much more affecting the entire outcome of the structure that it's rapidly accelerating beyond the point that they can keep up with the cost of living, right? Uh, also, you know, interesting enough, I, I recall that, you know, some years ago, being on YouTube, making YouTube videos and looking at content, there was this popular trend going around. And it's probably even more— it's still popular, um, and that's van living, where you see these cute girls that would go around in these. And of course they had to be cute, because if they weren't going to be cute, you you know, people weren't going to make a big deal about this channel. It's just going to be a channel of a homeless person, right? But it's this idea that it's probably some cute OnlyFans girl and she's cruising around in this van, right? And you're wondering who's holding the camera. And it's kind of edge of your seat because she's at these exotic locations in her van and it's in these remote areas. And you're just wondering, What is this young lady doing out there? Does she have protection? Does she know how dangerous this kind of living is, right? Is it a healthy type of living, right? And so on. And so a lot of people online would begin to feel, oh, this is just some type of trend going on, it's fake, you know. After they do the recording, they go check into a 5-star hotel and so on. And in many respects, that was true, right? That was most of what was happening. But now today, what we're seeing, it seems like it's no longer, uh, uh, content and entertainment. Now the people who are doing this look like the people you see in this video, where people just, just pretty much checked out, right? Uh, they can't, uh, afford housing anymore, right? And, uh, Many of us probably can identify with this because maybe some of you all watching the video is one bill away from living in your car, right? And so this is becoming more real by the day.

Age workers are no longer renting apartments. They're parking behind supermarkets, hiding in industrial zones, and turning back seats into bedrooms. Buying a home has vanished for many. Renting is barely possible. Shelter is becoming optional instead of guaranteed. Full-time workers are being priced out of roofs. Rent now consumes 60 to 70% of paychecks. Food climbs, fuel climbs, utilities climb, but wages barely move. So people adapt the only way they can. In Los Angeles, entire—

yes, also very important points, right? You, you still have to adapt no matter what the outside environment does is forcing you into a point of uncomfortableness, right? Um, and so you, you have to move to be more comfortable. What's going to be the most comfortable solution in a scenario like this, turning your car seats into a bed, right? You don't have to pay any, you know, as many bills right now. You're just putting gas in the car, turn on the heater and parking behind Walmart, as she said. And it's very much unfortunate because to go to our, you know, our question we start the video with, and that is, is this a sign that capitalism's on its way out and imploding? And most, Certainly it does indicate that the system isn't working for a lot of people, and it's been that way for a while. So what would be some of the solutions, right? If a person who is unable to afford housing— it used to be that a young professional, you know, getting into the workforce, been in there several years, they're ready to buy their first home, maybe they're around 30 years old or something like that. And they go into the housing market, right, to secure a place to live, right? Now they try to do that, and these starter homes, uh, that aren't much starter at all, right? They're, they're more like, uh, they've become more like, uh, condemned shacks, are starting at like $400,000, right? And so these people are being priced out of the market, and they're, you know, in the case they have parents they can live with, A lot of them just have to do that. In the case they don't have anybody to live with, they might be on the verge of becoming homeless. And in some cases they are homeless, living in cars or living in these tents, right? In these tent cities, entire families of people with full-time jobs, right? And I did a video some time back about these tent cities And the people who were fortunate enough not to have to live in these tent cities were actually living in these like rundown, dangerous, drug-infested motels, right? And these motels, you would see children in a motel, right? Something that's supposed to be a temporary dwelling on a trip or something like that. You would see them setting up basketball goals and you see all these, children's toys outside motel, motel units. And you're looking at this going like, is this a business or a motel? It looks like, uh, some weird community, uh, where everybody lives in a motel. And that's exactly what it is. And, um, they would do that because sometimes the motels would give them these very, uh, you know, they don't have to pay their utilities, you know, uh, concluded with the, uh, the daily motel rent. So if they could just you know, get $50 a day or something like that. Uh, they go out and work and, and they're able to, uh, now secure at least a bed, a room, a bed, lights, uh, water, and basic necessities, right? Um, and so they do that. Uh, and it's just a, a testament to how capitalism isn't working for a lot of people, right? And that's what's the rise of this. It was already happening before, but whether you want to, uh, uh, put it, uh, put the cause of it on, or whether automation's involved, or key issues in the economy that have, you know, come back to create the issue, whatever you want to blame it on. The trajectory seems to be going up, and it seemingly, where it once was an entertainment trend on social media, now is being taken as a serious epidemic crisis in the richest countries in the world.

Streets glow with van windows at night. In Australia, families sleep near beaches because leases are unreachable. In the UK, van dwellers hide from council fines just to rest without being moved along. The promise used to be simple: work hard and you'll own a home. But housing stopped being shelter and became an asset. Investors outbid residents, and ownership shifted from a life goal to a financial privilege. When people with jobs can't afford a place to sleep in the richest nations on Earth, the problem isn't effort or discipline. It's this: what future does the West have when working no longer guarantees a home? This—

so when working no longer guarantees a home, imagine that working hard every day and just having a place to stay is a privilege, right? Because when housing goes out the window, when, when housing costs become a privilege and owning a house Because if you don't own a home, right, number one, you're not— you're a step away from being homeless because remember, you're renting from someone, typically a landowner who owns the property, which means they can make conditions to change the conditions of your lease every year or however long the term of the lease is. But it could be every— which basically translates to every several months or years, right? You're homeless again until their lease is resigned, right? So that's not stability. You can't really say that you're not homeless, right? You're temporarily not homeless, right? And so you don't have the stability there. But when you live in an economy, right, that has promoted itself on working hard and improving your lot in life, and being able to provide for yourself basic necessities, food, shelter, and clothing and such, and you can't do those things, right? That means the system doesn't work for you. And when the system doesn't work for you, right? When the umbrella of capitalism no longer works for you, then it's no longer a workable system that you need to promote. right? It just is not working, right? And if it's imploding, it is as a result of it was not meant to work, right? And so all those things I think have to be taken into consideration, right? You know, of course we talk about universal basic income as being a good possible solution pretty much for the part that it can stabilize many of these issues, right? Without totally taking apart the structure. You know, sometimes when you try to take apart a structure and rebuild it, there is so much chaos in that process, right? But if you can gradually sustain the system while you fix the system, right, be kind of like holding up the hull of a ship while you repair a damaged ship. Uh, as opposed to just going in and destroy the whole ship, and there's people still sitting on the ship, and they fall into the ocean, gotta rescue them out of the ocean, some of them die, and rebuild the ship. So there's many ways you can look at this, but I, I find this all very interesting. I'd like to hear you guys' thoughts and comments about this. Are these signs of the changing times, of systems that no longer work? Is this just a temporary, um, uh, situation based on, uh, parts of the economy that can be improved, right? Or is this just more internet, uh, uh, content, uh, entertainment, right, of the van life, of the car life, of people who just wish to live in their cars and, uh, go on the adventure of a lifetime? Anyway, give me you your thoughts, opinions, and such. Uh, again, if these subjects you are passionate about, you want to talk about them, you want to write about them, post about them, feel free to join our social network and come over and, uh, give over some real contributions that can really have a great change on solving this problem in many ways than you know. You can do that by joining our site. We'll leave a link in the description. And that way, instead of feeling hopeless or helpless, you can be a contributor to, to the solution. And so we hope you join us and check that out. That's all we want to say in this particular video, guys. If you like content like this, don't forget to like, subscribe. Until next time, as always, take care of yourselves and each other.