[Music] hi everybody before we get into it I want to thank you so much for subscribing we just passed 1100 subscribers it's a really exciting milestone for me and for the channel thank you so much to the longtime
subscribers who have been watching for a while and I want to welcome everyone who is new to the channel hey YouTube Alex here and in today's video I want to answer the question why are so many young men
unhappy in the usest now this is something that I took from nval ramp he says that safe societies devalue young men until the wolves are at the door so what I extrapolate from that is that basically the modern
Western countries have historically been safe I think that's starting to change from what we're seeing now but historically they've been relatively safe by global standards and so the need for domestic security is just not as great and so
what you see in the US is that people are fairly removed from the actual defense or safety of the country and we don't need that many young men in the military Western Society doesn't value that many young men
for those of us who are raised in single mom households like myself we were often raised like defective women I was often told look you just need to sit down and sit still and shut up and that's the
wrong way to raise a young man now rinse repeat I imagine at least half of young men in the west are growing up without a positive male role model and I can certainly attest to that looking for role
models and teachers or instructors TV characters and just not really finding that solid instructor or teacher of masculinity and so I definitely developed some level of skepticism for society and for authority and it's really unfortunate and for young
men that are raised in these scenarios we associate getting love with acting feminine and moving on to my next point a lot of young men are unhappy with life in the west you see this with 2third of young
men in the west being single and I don't know that that number will change in the near future I think a lot of young men are unhappy with their options and they're just tapped out there is of course
the unfortunate reality of adult entertainment that I think is serving as a substitute for a lot of young men for me personally had no dating issues when I was younger but as I got older and began to look
more seriously for a long-term partner I just wasn't happy with what I was running into I found plenty of women who are career-minded and looking for something fun or casual they really wanted to focus on their careers and
with the skyrocketing cost of living in America I can't blame them it is very expensive in the United States to the passport Bros movement and this has been a thing for a long time but it's really picked up
steam into the zeit guys through the popular culture a lot of guys are now looking overseas for significant others or pursuing relationships as an example in rural Sweden 80% of the Thai people are Thai women married to Swedish
men for me personally being an Asian guy I struggle to find people with shared values in the US the United States in particular Asian people are just a small portion of the population you also see a lot of
white male Asian fale combos I'm not offended by this my maternal grandfather was a white male my maternal grandmother was a Japanese female so this has been going on for a while now I don't fall people for their
preferences but I have struggled to find women with shared values for fun sure it's not a problem in the US but for Meaningful relationships it's hard to cultivate these in my experience I think a lot of guys are
frustrated with the unrealistic expectations in the west I'm not going to name any specifics but I've definitely been there as far as dealing with realistic expectations they seem to be more realistic in other parts of the world I
suspect some amount of change will take place to address this in the west I don't know if it will actually work or actually fix things I'm skeptical I think a lot of guys will be happier just going elsewhere
the number three reason young men in the west are unhappy is the astronomical cost of living just look at the rants the Western democracies are in a state of Perpetual growth every year they don't want to have any
down years any sort of regression in terms of economics would be considered extremely serious and they would start printing money to get out of it as you saw in the postco downturn the US government printed something like 40%
of the money supply to get the country back into a state of inflation this is also the reason behind the botched immigration policies I'm not seeing immigration is a bad thing look at the color of my skin what
you see is things done in a halfhazard way in the pursuit of economic growth where things are just not organized things are not done in such a way to promote the well-being of the people who actually have to
live in America and don't have other places to go a lot of young men are effectively priced out of dating they look at spending $12 $300 on somebody that they barely know and they don't want to be taken
advantage of they don't want it to go badly and then they're just out all this money they'd rather just save and invest that money or spend it on themselves couple that with dating baggage as we get older we
have more and more baggage we have bad breakups on our mind some of us have been divorced some of us have a child from a previous relationship and that really can make dating difficult the imian American is like
37 years old so by the time a person man or woman has gotten to 37 many of them have been through a serious breakup many of them have had a relationship not work out and they're carrying stress from
that they're carrying thoughts about that into their new relationships and it makes it challenging for some parts of the country very few young men are going to be able to buy a house house very very few I mean
you look at La or New York and a condo can easily run a million dollars so who's going to be buying those probably older more established people maybe people with generational wealth that want to help out their family
members but most young men are not in that position most young men are having roommates living with other people they're not in a position to own a home you've also seen a lot of people get laid off from
the tech industry myself included and we're concerned about the stability of the economy and our ability to pay mortgage I would probably qualify for a mortgage right now do I believe that I'll be able to maintain employment to
consistantly make those mortgage payments I'm not sure I often ask people in closing do you think the prices in the United States are coming down anytime soon and it's a resounding no from just about everybody the fourth point
is meritocracy seems to be less valued in the west I think they finally undone some of the quab based systems that kept asian-americans out of elite universities but for long time they had these systems in place to try
to make things fair that desperately negatively impacted a lot of people simply based on the color of their skin or the national origin of their parents and I think a lot of people don't feel that Western Society is
as erratic as it was in the past when young men feel that they are not in a meritocratic system it disincentivizes their effort why would you try to get ahead if you know that getting ahead is contingent upon
things that you have no control over this doesn't even get get into some work environments being especially political where it's often not performance but rather your ability to kiss up that can dictate your career progression a common thing
I've seen in the west is that when you can't sort something out you just lower the standard the fifth and final point is to why young men are unhappy in the west is unmet expectations if you were like
me and raised by Boomers greatest Generation individuals you probably heard just go to college and get any degree and it doesn't matter things will work out well in their time a degree was highly valued and rare and now
not so much it went from in the Baby Boomers generation around 1/4 of people having degree to now something like 40 to 45% of Americans having a degree that's a degree in general I got a useless degree myself
I thought I was going to go to law school until I found out what the day-to-day life of a lawyer actually is like I was told constantly by non- lawyers oh being a lawyer is awesome you make so
much money and then I spent time around actual lawyers especially young lawyers who told me about the debt they had the struggle they had to find their first job a lot of these fields that were historically markers of
being able to make money have become saturated because so many people that are in the pursuit of money pick these fields and so you're competing with people who aren't motivated by a love for the law or the legal
system but by people who just want to make lots of money and don't really care about the consequences of a litigious Society these days I'd say you need at least 100K a year to have a middle class class
lifestyle in the United States probably more like 200k on the coasts and I think only one in six Americans makes over 100,000 a year so you're talking about a select group of people it's not the average Joe that's
making 100,000 a year I've made that kind of money but I also I'm going to brag on myself a little bit I don't see myself as average so what is the future hold I think a lot more guys
are going to start leaving the west and checking out the developing World Latin America southeast Asia parts of Eastern Europe I hear Central Asia is up and coming and they're just curious they're bored life is very boring and
frankly kind of feeling at times purposeless the guys that are goal driven that want to do something exciting want a sense of adventure want to see the world and meet interesting people and date beautiful women will want to
check out other countries I've been personally surprised at the response to this channel so many guys are curious about this lifestyle and are interested to to see what it's about I don't think it's for everybody but I think
a lot of guys will find Value in this I think a lot of guys they're intrigued by this they're intrigued by like beautiful tropical Thailand and other parts of the world I'm a fan of Latin America I think
they're intrigued by Latin America as well so thanks so much for watching till the end I really appreciate you taking the time out of your day to watch this content if you enjoy this content and want to see
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