Young people today face crushing financial pressure from rising living costs and parents who never taught them money skills. The speaker argues that while previous generations had to work entry-level jobs like McDonald's, today's youth have turned to online hustles and scams instead, creating a dangerous disconnect between what society expects and what actually keeps them afloat.
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And I just feel like because everything is so expensive and we're not showing them as parents how to maneuver, how to, you know, move something over here to make room for this, this is why they unhappy. And then they got, you know, the government telling them that they grown, that we, we don't have no rights. Okay, okay. I always, I always thought that was crazy that, you know, the government would try to tell the kids, that they got rights, but they ain't got no money. But I just want to tell them, really, I don't think they have anything to worry about. To me, I feel like they have more options to make money than as opposed to back in the day, because back in the day we used to have to go and apply for jobs. We used to have to go beg, you know, the junior store owner, please hire me. The, the McDonald's, please. Everybody, your whole family don't work at McDonald's. That was their first job in your small town, and now they could just sit at home and scam.