Young people telling older people what they should be doing?

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Last night was watching these podcasts done by Brett cooper reacting to different videos. One of which was a guy asking different members of different ages about the pros and cons of having kids and why many people in the states are having less kids.

I remember one woman who was 39 saying she still needed life sorted to think about that and Brett who is 21 said "What? You're 39 and you haven't yet sorted your life out!" Another was a guy who said I'll wait until 35 when I'm mature enough and Brett said "What 35? There were people fighting wars and having kids in their early 20s and you don't feel mature enough." I can't help but feel that people younger than me think they have got their lives all sorted already and berate others older than them because they maybe are struggling to sort their lives out later on in life. I can't stand the surprise sometimes that some people feel about other people because they didn't achieve goals or get their life together at the same time and age as them.

This is why I feel inadequate sometimes because I feel like I should be a parent by now which probably thought I would be when was 18 and didn't envisage that I would be here today still unmarried and no kids.

When are you going to stop comparing yourself to others and start living your life in a way that is authentic for you?

Don't listen to these podcast idiots, a lot of women do not want kids or a relationship anymore and that isn't anyone's fault. Our culture in the UK has changed drastically. This is why the interracial marriages are becoming a thing and British men marrying in other cultures because having kids just doesn't seem to be a popular thing anymore with how it is here now.

It's the government's fault making it absolutely horrendous for people to make a living and support themselves these days. They literally tax everything into the ground and give us awful service for everything, you can't even get a doctors appointment without kicking off and dentists here are thieves. People simply don't have the money/energy or resources for it.

You have to be in a 2 income relationship to make ends meet usually these days and a woman won't want to be working and raising children at the same time it's mega stressful as it is so they choose to just not have any and go sip margaritas on a beach in Spain with their pals instead. It's usually always finance related.

Some people will then say "Oh yeah blame the government rather than your own responsibility."

Nobody really knows what the previous generation had to endure.
In the States you had guys that were shell shocked from the Vietnam war and weren't interested in relationships when they got back. A tour of duty was just one year but for many, war is the closest thing to hell they will have to endure.

It is the governments fault though, personal responsibility doesn't come into it if there's no resources available for people to get by normally in the first place. They want people to struggle so you stay as a wage slave.

They have people working 0 hour contracts for peanuts then tax the s**t out of them, you can't do everything on that kind of wage that's common sense. Back before they used to heavily tax everything and looked after people properly people were constantly having kids and not worrying about money and their bellies were full, you could even go abroad for next to nothing, now majority of people are lucky if they can put £200 away for a trip to wales.

You can be the most responsible person ever and just live off bags of rice but it still won't be enough when it comes to bills and rent unfortunately. Until the UK government stop with their overpopulation agenda nothing will be easy.

Even Rishi Rich is trying to pay people to leave, so as a nation it's not looking good unfortunately.

In my generation folks that were on the LGBTQ spectrum did far worse economically if they lived authentic lives.
Lesbians and gays were just starting to do well even if they were open about it and lived in a very accepting community. But, they often had to work for less lucrative jobs than if they were straight white males with the exact same qualifications.

There are many who hid their gender for decades and have now come up because society is far more accepting.
Part of hiding was being successful in their jobs so they can now afford expensive surgeries late in life that may not be available to anyone else.

This guy Brett, is rude and extremely disrespectful. He needs someone to slap him.

She is a woman.

I still feel the same way about her

I wouldn't take anything Brett Cooper says seriously.

Personal responsibility is a crock of @$%%. The government is to blame for this problem.

That's Socialism for you!

You're wrong. Depending on one's definition of Socialism, one could argue with this list of European countries that are Socialist, however I'll go with it for now:

I am not intimately familiar with all of these. I am quite familiar with Spain, having been there many times and having family friends there. I can tell you Spain has its share of problems but compared to the UK it's heaven on Earth.

I have never been to Finland but I know a couple of people who have either lived there or have friends there and consider themselves well-informed on social conditions in Finland, who characterize it as an outright utopia compared, in particular, to the US. I can assure you that, given a choice of where to be born, they'd have chosen Finland over the US any day of the week. I am surprised France isn't on this list. It had a Socialist government through much of its recent history and to my understanding, many public institutions there today carry on that tradition. To me, France seems one of the most well-off countries in Europe, when people there complain it's usually about annoyances a resident of the UK would probably not even notice.

The problems of which Lunella speaks are due to the current situation in the UK, not Socialism.

Maybe because of high taxes in France.

High taxes are generally perceived as symptomatic of Socialism. In fact it's what most people think of, because they believe that in a Socialist country they'd be taxed into poverty, no matter how hard they work, but will be denied access to the entitlements promised by Socialism when they need them.