Nobody Wants To Admit They’re Struggling

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]What's up, YouTube? It's your boy Josh Jenkins, man. We back with another video. Hey, if you're new to the channel, do me a favor. Hit that subscribe button, like this video, comment down below, man. Hey, real quick. We about to go run some errands real quick, man. I don't want to come in and talk to y'all right quick.

[00:00:19]People are broke and they're scared to admit it right now. Listen what I'm saying.

[00:00:26]right now is the biggest wealth exchange in in recent memory.

[00:00:33]But somehow, like I said the other day, people still out here going to music concerts. They doing this and doing that. But on the flip side, people are not going to music concerts. People are not spending money. People are struggling. They just came out with a report how a lot of the biggest performing acts in music outside of Taylor Swift and Usher and Chris Brown and Drake, they cannot sell any tickets and venues are being cancelled. Furthermore, I just seen a report that uh more than a third of Americans have maxed out at least one or two credit cards.

[00:01:10]When I see stuff like that, it lets me know that people have not come to terms with they're not making the same amount of money that they used to or their money is not going as f as further as as far as it did in the past. And they haven't downsized their lifestyle yet.

[00:01:27]Now granted, I'm no different than everybody else. stuff is double the price and I'm and I'm still trying like hell to maintain the little belief the means lifestyle that I have. So if somebody like me feels it, I know the average American is feeling it. That's not to say I make more than the average person, but the average American doesn't make over 100,000 a year. And for somebody like that who who is who is being financially conscious and not saying scared but they're weary. It lets me know that everybody beneath me is struggling. And you get on here, you get on this YouTube, you get on this Instagram and everybody be in the comments talking crazy.

[00:02:14]That means more than 60 70% of y'all in my comments ain't got it like that, you know. But, and I only say that to say people are broke and they're they're acting like they're not broke. They're talking They're they're they're projecting their insecurities on the next person. People don't realize how hard it is to get right here on this camera and talk in front of the whole world on this YouTube platform, right?

[00:02:42]But when you see people constantly bashing at you in the comments and getting mad at me for my opinion, they got their own life struggles going on.

[00:02:50]So when I see all this going on, I take it as that people are in denial. And now I'm seeing the reports that, you know, more than half of America is broke right now. This this is insane, man. Like I don't know what's going to take for it to to crack a a break. Like people got to get start getting exposed or people really got to hit rock bottom. But I don't know, man. And then with these credit cards, man, everybody's car is maxed out, man. Like I've never seen it just bad, man. Like, like just paying my minimum payments.

[00:03:28]Like I I try my best to pay all my credit cards off every month. I don't never just, you know, I got one that I maybe float cuz I got like six or 12 months no interest on the big purchase, but I've never missed I've never have a a late payment or a mispayment on none of my credit cards, man. Like, but to see people really going through that and to see people still out here buying cars when they shouldn't be buying these cars when they could go buy a cash car, it's like, why are you still trying to act like you got it? Like, everybody's struggling. There's no need for you to incur more bills on yourself. There's no need for you to keep buying them kids designer clothes and all that. I don't listen, you go find one video on my page when my kids got on designer clothes. I don't wear none of that go find one page, one episode. My girl got a Louis Vuitton Louis Vuitton purse with a checkerboard. My girl, I listen, man. I buy nice stuff here and there, but we stay beneath our means, dude. Like, we not on here being flashy. My kids wear stuff from Target and and and the outlet. Ain't no shame in my game.

[00:04:29]That's how I never go broke. But a lot of y'all can't come to terms with that.

[00:04:35]And it's cool. But for me, I'm at a point where I know what's going on. I see what's going on. And I don't want to be part of what's going on. You know, I got I got to use my brain for my situation. I can't be caught up in the limelight like a lot of people is on this social media and mess around and end up and go broke. Cuz at the end of the day, if I ain't got it, my kids ain't got it. So, I can't never be like that, you know? But to see that people are really struggling and to see that people are faking like they got it when they don't.

[00:05:07]I mean, damn, dude. Like, it's crazy out here. And then to see uh um we we we talked about a story last week about uh teachers and public education. They wanted a raise so bad, right? So like where I'm from, the teachers got a raise, but now they going to lay off a thousand people because they got to pay uh a 3% raise. Like so when you see stuff like that happen, where all our taxpayer dollars going? Like what's going on with the with the with the economy where people are just asking for fair wages and then when they get a fair wage, they may get fired. Like that's that's that's a real deal eye opener.

[00:05:48]like for a whole county not to pay teachers, then you going to lay off people. It's just like, you know, and then I see these hourly jobs. They're not even hiring full-time no more.

[00:05:59]They're hiring part-time on an as needed basis. No longer guaranteed 35, 40 hours a week. And I I and and you know, I just got me a little part-time job in this little in this re in grocery retail. They they look at 35 hours a week as fulltime. What happened to 40 hours a week being full-time?

[00:06:18]Like, I'm That's weird to me. Like, it don't affect me because I don't work part-time anyway. I work less than part-time. I work 15, 20 hours a week on a good week. And this is like I'm looking at these people that actually work here every day and they try to provide for their family with this job outside from the women that work there cuz they probably got a husband that gets money. I don't know how somebody surviving off them wages, man. Like, I couldn't do it, you know? And thankfully, I got other stuff going on.

[00:06:44]But man, that's crazy.

[00:06:48]So, you know, I don't know, man. Y'all, you guys, you know, wherever you guys live at, do you see a a a a trend of people, you know, that you know ain't got it acting like they still got it, or do they really got it and they trying to act like they don't have it? Like, I know a lot of people, they got a lot of money, but they won't spend a dime. They try to hold on to every dollar like they trying to go do something five years from now. They like, "Bro, what you what you doing hold on to all that money, man?" Like, "Spend some of that money."

[00:07:18]But everybody can't live like that. You know what I'm saying? Like, a lot of my friends ask me all the time like, "John, why you don't go out and do this? I'm just I'm trying to get one kid through college and then I breathe a little bit." When you got kids coming back to back and your girl talking about having another kid, you can't just be out here just splurging, man. You got to be conscious, you know, cuz you not trying to work your ass off for the rest of your life.

[00:07:42]So when I see stuff like that, it's just like, man, I wish everybody thought like that, man. But some people don't, man.

[00:07:49]You know, I rather I rather really have it than fake like I have it, you know?

[00:07:55]So when you see stuff like that, it's scary. It's scary, man. Like cuz when they go broke, they going to come ask you for money. I ain't got it. That's the first thing I'm going to tell you.

[00:08:04]Don't ask me for nothing. You see me get on here and grind out a video damn near every day on YouTube. I got I got property management going on. I got retirement coming in. We got a beauty salon. My girl work every day. Like we we get up and work, man. From sun up to sun down. We ain't just sitting on our ass, man. So you come ask me for something, man. I'mma look at you crazy.

[00:08:24]I ain't got nothing for you, man. But that's all, man. Drop a comment below if people acting like they got it, but they broke where you from or somebody you know in your direct circle that's going broke and they won't admit it, man. I want to hear from y'all, man. Peace.