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‘The View’ Host Joy Behar Scoffs at Young People Feeling ‘Left Behind by the Economy’: ‘Oh Please, Get a Job!’

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨aboringdystopia@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/view-host-joy-behar-scoffs-174919649.html

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  • hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • ech@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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    • Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Kalkaline@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s a lot of people in comas that are in those 200 people and mostly because it comes on after Price is Right.

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      • ratcliff@lemmy.wtf ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Waiting rooms

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      • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        coprolite

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    • ArugulaZ@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      "Get out now, Barbara! This show will sink you like a stone!" - SNL

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  • TubeTalkerX@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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!

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  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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”.

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    • GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Blanket statements are usually made by uneducated people.

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      • captainjaneway@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Image

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  • TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am a fucking insurance professional- educated and licensed -and I still can’t make end 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.

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  • Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know a couple homeless men who were programmers and burned out, god depressed and gave up

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      • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That checks out.

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    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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    • ihavenopeopleskills@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have a CS degree and spent a couple months in my backseat.

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      • bostonbananarama@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bow chica bow wow…oh, you meant something else… /s

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    • Drusas@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Medical debt is so underappreciated and it is no joke. It can add up very, very high and very, very quickly.

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      • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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?

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    • vaknin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • wrekone@lemmyf.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Wealthy asshole has no empathy.” I’m shocked. Fuck her. Fuck talking heads in general.

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  • butt_mountain_69420@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not all of us can get a job as a loudmouth caricature from 4chan.

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  • CultHero@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Sharpiemarker@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pretty sure that’s the appeal. It’s a ragebait-circlejerk.

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    • ihavenopeopleskills@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With all due respect, there was Candace Cameron Bure...

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  • Wytch@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nothing says “I’m old, rich, and out of touch” quite like “get a job, you lazy bums”

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • menthol@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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 increasing 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.

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    • Red_October@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now that’s just not accurate. Either way she’s a giant piece of shit, it’s only a question of how ignorant she is and whether or not she’s choosing to be that way.

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      • menthol@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re right. She is trash either way. It’s just that I know some truly out of touch Boomers (mostly extended family members), who really do think the world is the same as it was when they were coming of age. Ignorance is no excuse, and she has no excuse to be ignorant.

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  • paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • dopeshark@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Start from absolute zero like anyone else and you wouldn’t survive a year in today’s economy.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bold of you to assume most people don’t start off with debt.

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  • the_q@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    She’s 81.

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    • Thteven@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      81 years of never shutting the fuck up, she must be exhausted.

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      • THE_ANON@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Somone sould do it for her if she won’t

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    • Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s insane. She’s insane, too. But I would have said mid 60s.

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      • the_q@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Money’ll do that to you.

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      • menthol@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Plastic surgery will do that. But plastic surgery can’t fix your organs. She’ll still be dead in 10 years.

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  • CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What a fucking piece of shit.

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  • PrimarilyPrimate@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shut up and get in your grave.

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    • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Time to get in the forever box!

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m a fucking engineer, what more was I supposed to do? I should be getting ahead instead of treading water.

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    • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Fucking engineer” kind of sounds like slang for male porn actor.

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    • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Engineer yourself some bootstraps /s

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  • lapommedeterre@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

      I’m not sure it’s still online

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      • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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). Guess you 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

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      • menthol@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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    • ZombieTheZombieCat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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      • hydrospanner@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is why it infuriates me so much when people argue that some jobs, “Aren’t meant to pay well and live on.”

        From the social standpoint: then if that’s your argument, anyone looking to support themselves had better be able to find a job that pays better for the skills they have. This not being the case, it suggests that these people are in fact trying to support themselves, they’ve just found themselves on the wrong side of the capitalist meat grinder, and the argument of the job being one that “isn’t supposed to support you” is nothing more than a distraction so you don’t have to say the real reason: because you’d rather have the person that serves your diner breakfast be trapped in an endless cycle of poverty than pay an extra dollar for your meal. You’re complicit in the process and you like it.

        From the individual standpoint: ignoring for a moment the questions of who gets to decide these sorts of things and where the cutoff lies…isn’t it really just creating a convenient circular excuse for greed? These jobs have low pay because they’re not meant to support oneself on…but the reason they’re not meant to support oneself on is because they have low pay? And that’s good enough of an explanation?! People, especially older boomers, like to paint with broad strokes and imply that service industry jobs are “for teenagers in the summer and college kids putting themselves through school”, as a way to somehow justify low pay. Now regardless of the demographics of the employee (and we won’t even touch the idea of working at any job, much less service industry, to pay for college as you attend in this day and age)… regardless of all that…doesn’t it make sense that whoever is doing the work, if the same work is being done the pay should be the same? Granted there’s room for seniority, experience, skill, dependability, etc. but the point I’m getting at here is: isn’t it ridiculous to say that a kid should be paid less for doing a given job just because they’re a kid?

        And regardless of where you stand on the exploitation of child labor, either answer leads you back to the same point: either it’s not okay to exploit kids, so kids should make the same as an adult for the same work, so we can pay these workers fairly…or you think it is okay to exploit child labor, in which case, that only makes it okay to short the kids’ pay…not the adults. Either way, the only explanation left for subsistence pay for adults is: the system is victimizing the working poor like an elephant sized parasite latched onto an ant, and justifying it by suggesting that if the ant doesn’t like it they should just try, you know, making more money.

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    • spirinolas@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Rooter@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Huh, I thought that cackling hen died already.

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    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That was Barbara Walters.

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Boomers gonna boom.

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    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hopefully it’s the type of boom I’m imagining.

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      • ArugulaZ@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The one preceded by "tick tick tick?"

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  • THE_ANON@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like a karan

    Acts like a karan

    Talks like a karan

    Walks like a karan

    And people are suprsed smh

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    • LotrOrc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Poor Karan what did he do

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  • cabron_offsets@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Feck off, cunt.

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  • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My job will be to eat the rich.

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let them eat cake!

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    • Shurimal@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We have a beautiful saying in my country: Dumb head is a burden for the body.

      The french understand this, too, deciding to relieve poor old Marie of that burden.

      We should all be more like french people. Wine, cheese and good medical care system.

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    She should shut the fuck up and let Taylor Swift say the smart and helpful shit.

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  • Anamnesis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have four. Is four enough jobs for you, Joy?

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  • dsco@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You first.

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  • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bye bye, Joy. Enjoy trying to pay for your ozempic out of pocket now.

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If I cared any less about what she thinks I wouldn't have commented about not caring what she thinks. Really I only care because a lot of old ladies will parrot this nonsense.

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  • Drusas@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like a boomer, sounds like a boomer

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