➡ The text discusses various economic issues such as job losses due to AI, foreclosures, and the closure of Coca-Cola bottling plants. It also mentions concerns about food storage and the importance of having an emergency fund. The text advises against hype-driven ventures and emphasizes the importance of privacy. It ends with stories about high property taxes in New Jersey, a man fined for giving out water in Arizona, and power outages in the Netherlands.

➡ Be careful with fraud alerts on your phone. A man lost $20,000 when he called a number from a fake alert, thinking it was Wells Fargo. Always use the number on your ATM card to verify if such alerts are real. Scams are becoming more sophisticated and are happening daily, so stay alert.

Hey, welcome back to I Allegedly. I’m Dan, and I’ve got a good one for you today, because more people are working multiple jobs right now as financial pressures mount just to get by. So, as always, please hit the like button, subscribe to this channel, and today we have a sponsor that just came back, Private Internet Access, and I’ll talk about them in a bit. But I want you to think about this, because a survey was done with thousands of people, and the story is below in the video description, but think about this.

42% of workers right now say that they have to have a side gig just to get by. Now Gen Z, people that are 13 to 28 years old, basically my kids right now, will work multiple jobs just to, you know, make ends meet. And it’s just getting more and more difficult right now, because what we’re seeing right now is, I have people that write me, and friends, I have colleagues that are looking for jobs right now, and they’re offering less and less and less, less benefits, less money, everything. So, let’s go through some of this stuff, because it’s fascinating.

And, you know, everybody thinks, when they have these issues, everybody thinks that they’re alone. You know, a majority of the workers no longer believe in the stability of full-time jobs. Yeah, exactly, because the company’s letting us down. You know, 61% are calling the idea of a full-time job, and a place to retire a myth. 61%. That is wild. 76% are expressing disinterest in leadership, rules, and stress, complete burnout. You know, the toughest thing is to work for somebody that’s a jerk. And I’ve told you guys great stories about this that I find pleasure in, and people have written me over and over and over about stuff that they’re dealing with.

You know, a couple things. You know, my son, he came to town, he’s doing some acting thing, and they’re filming, they’re, you know, cutting shorts, and doing all this stuff. But one thing about this is that, you know, you should take, if you’re gonna, if you’re gonna act, if you’re gonna do anything, you should get skilled in that, you know, profession. Because one thing that people don’t think about is when you’re out filming, you know, what’s it like to film for TV? What’s it like to film for a single camera movie shot? And this class he took, you know, caught him that.

And then they’re filming and showing him the results, and he’s meeting agents, and things like that. Now, my agent was like, don’t, doesn’t you know that you have me and that I could introduce him to people? Well, I’m glad he took this class. But again, took a second job so he could afford the class. Now, dad flew him out here, and dad feeds him, and all that stuff. But things are expensive right now. And there’s no way, he and I talked about this this morning, as I was going to talk about this subject, that there’s no way he could have done it without the extra help from me, and without the side gig, and he just would be dead broke or going into debt, which is the last thing he wants to do, or dip into the savings, which I gave him some credit for.

Adelita runs a dog walking business. And she says, Dan, you know, right now, I’m having such a hard time to get good employees that will help me take care of the dogs. Dog grooming, dog training, she’s licensed and all that in the state of California, but she’d rather do it herself than have to deal with inferior people to work with. So, you know, this is the problem, too, guys. It’s not just your boss is terrible, it’s that people are lazy, too. You get people that, you know, there’s a woman that runs a dog grooming business, and you think somebody that was semi-retired or loved animals would want to work with her.

And now, they just don’t show up on time, they’re late, excuse after excuse, and it’s always a problem. I’m not at that Dutchman’s Park where they do the streamers and stuff to keep the birds with. It’s kind of light today because there’s very few birds out here. So, you know, I spoke about this before, and I recently talked to her, a house-cleaning company where she got rid of all her employees, too, because nobody wants to show up on time. They all want to, you know, work, oh, what day? Thursday? Morning or afternoon? You know, so she just got rid of everybody, cleans the houses herself.

If she has a big clean, she’ll hire subcontractors out and do that, but that’s what people are running into right now. We’re seeing more and more stuff like that, so it’s difficult, guys. You know, younger generations find corporate hierarchies difficult, and you know, they just want to be out of the corporate hierarchy. Despite the desire and meaningful for flexibility, 60% of the respondents said that they would still cut their salary to have better benefits, and almost 75% said if they lost their health care, they would stop working with the company.

So, that’s wild, guys, when you think about that. More and more people are having a difficult time right now, and the problem with this is you make less. You’ve got to, look at this thing, these streamers, I’ll walk on this side of it. It keeps the birds out of the lake. Because there’s none today, but as we go through this, more and more people are upset about, you know, the quality of work. You know, it doesn’t matter. It’s not, oh, Dan, you’re talking about service industry. No, these are bankers, too. You know, Jamie Dimon, who’s set up with everybody right now, which is kind of funny, I talked about that in the private channel, but what they’re seeing is bankers right now don’t want to go into the office.

They don’t want to deal with people, and they want to work less, and 90% of people said that they would take a pay cut, a pay cut, to work from home. It has been anticipated that people, they lose, on an average day, you get two and a half hours less from people that work at home, and that infuriates. Whenever I say this, it infuriates people that are at stay-at-home, because there’s the difference. There’s two types of workers. There are people that don’t need to be babysat. Laura from Connecticut, salesperson, always sends me stuff, but independent, okay? Doesn’t need her boss to sit there and have his hand, you know, you know, over her every single day.

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They’re closing. Everybody’s got to find a new place to stay. Sorry about this. What we got to do with our bankruptcy and reorganize our debt. If we don’t do this, we’re definitely going to have to close, so kind of crazy that you have things like this. The last thing anybody wants to do when they get family members in places like that is worry about where they’re going to be. Amazon, great story from Amazon about how thousands and thousands of jobs have been lost due to AI, and you haven’t seen anything yet.

Read that story below. That’s a good one. The other thing is you’re starting to see more foreclosures on properties. Think about this. If you’ve ever been to Las Vegas and you want to get a bottled water at your hotel and it’s $9, there are CVSs and Walgreens on the strip. Well, there’s one of them that just got foreclosed on. What, are you not buying sodas there anymore? Yes, they’re more expensive than at your home, CVS, but it’s much cheaper buying snacks and crap from CVS there than it is at your hotel.

I guarantee it. There’s always a few lines and it blew me away that the one in the north end of the strip closed down. So you’re just going to see more of that. Coca-Cola bottling just closed five bottling plants in the United States. Five, five, five, five. So we’re not drinking Cokes anymore. Coke products, all the sugary waters, all that stuff, five of them. You add up 200 here, 400 people here, 135 there. Guys, it was 900 people lost their job. 900 people lost their jobs with those Coca-Cola bottling plants.

That is staggering, guys. That is a huge amount of people and this is the thing. I don’t think we’ve seen the end of this yet. I just don’t. The layoffs, I think, are coming. Bigger, bigger, bigger. And here’s the kick that you gotta, hey, this week, are they gonna lower interest rates? Are they gonna fire Jerome Powell? Do you care? Seriously, right now, if they lowered interest rates. Now, if you’re a mortgage broker, you’re gonna raise your hand to the ceiling. But again, what do you think about that? There’s these big turtles sitting there by the edge of the water, sunning the ducks in the shade right there.

But do you care? I mean, are you gonna go out and buy a house? You know, you’re gonna go out and buy a $400,000 house with, you know, praying that interest rates are gonna go down. It’s gonna make your house cheaper, refinance your house. I’m telling you, I don’t think that this is gonna make a bit of difference. We need the economy to get moving again to where people have better jobs, people have better paying jobs. You know, the other thing is, I am really, really concerned about, right now, turtles, one floating out there.

I am really, really concerned about the food and food storage and prepping. You’ve got to have things on hand, guys. You really do. And every now and then, I look at my stuff and I’m thinking, do I have enough? You know, make sure you have bottled water, make sure you have purifiers in case something goes wrong. Now, again, you know, my son, you know, as a, you know, he can’t say he’s a college student anymore, but just as a young man, he’s sitting there trying to get by and as he’s working this stuff out, I’m just telling him, for him, you need to have the emergency fund.

He’s got to have that. So, if something happens, he’s protected. So, you know, there’s a great study that I found about the top seven traits of wealthy people and the thing I get a kick out of this is that they’re not what you think they are, you know. These are great. They avoid outward status symbols, they drive modest practical cars, structure finances for tax efficiency, which, again, this time of year, guys, taxes are done. Mid-year, you should have a tax appointment right now. You should talk to your accountant and see what you can do to make sure you’re maximizing your tax savings and I’m not giving you financial advice, I’m just giving you advice to see your accountant.

I have never had anybody have that appointment and write me back and say, Dan, what a waste of time and money. That cost me $200. You know, I’ve always had people write me back and say, oh my gosh, it saved me so much money and I had the rest of the year to implement this. So, track and allocate every dollar. Again, do you know how you spend money? That’s what I had to sit down with this boy this morning and talk about how you need to save your money and you need to be, you know, respectful of the money that you earn because I’ll just earn more next week.

Maybe not, maybe not. One thing that blew me away was one of the restaurants he worked for. Hey, got some news for you guys. We’re gonna give you guys a few days off from 4th of July. Really, why? Yeah, we’re closing for 4th of July, which to me was a horrible sign for this restaurant. Why would you close on a holiday weekend? A little tugboat and the sailboat. Guys are electric boats in the lake, but you know what I mean? So, it’s like, it’s awful, you know. They have multiple income streams, you know.

They guard their privacy, you know, fiercely, like the VPN and things like that. You know, guys, we’ve talked about stuff like this. The bad guys are getting better and better and better and I’m gonna end this video with a horrific story that you have to protect yourself, you know. Hype-driven ventures, stay away from hype-driven ventures. So, I love stuff like that, guys. I love the advice and, you know, I’m constantly learning, constantly taking the time instead of just sitting there watching cat videos on YouTube. I go out, hate cats, by the way, not a cat fan at all.

Rosie doesn’t like them either. Anyways, I don’t watch stuff like that. I don’t waste my time with stuff like that. I try to research and get myself some knowledge all the time. So, with that, do the same thing. Who has the highest property taxes in the country? And this blew me away. I’m thinking, oh, it’s got to be California. Nope, New Jersey. New Jersey, the average property tax bill is $9,400. Okay, that’s crazy, guys. That is absolutely horrific when you think about that. So, people just have it difficult right now, you know. Coffee has been proven to be helpful as far as chronic liver disease and helping that and you should drink black coffee, they say, which I always love to start reading the story below.

I always get a kick out of people that make money with side hustles. And there’s a man that became friends for people and makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. He made, you know, almost a hundred grand to do nothing and just be somebody’s friend. Hang out with them. People will pay for that. It’s not a beautiful day. Again, Veterans Park, a nice spot. I’m gonna finish this video with these last few stories and David Martin. David Martin is a good Samaritan in Arizona and what he’s done is he gives out bottled water to people that are hot, people that are walking their dogs in the Arizona heat.

Okay, isn’t that, doesn’t that sound great? Only problem is, is that in Goodyear, Arizona, his HOA, the Canyon Trails HOA, finds him $100 an incident for doing this. He’s like, I don’t care. What, by being a good guy and giving people water? We have the cooler out in front of your house and people can see it. Imagine the insanity of that. Imagine this. So this guy is fine, then find thousands of dollars for seeing people walk their dogs. By the way, you know, it’s 80 degrees right here. It’s 105 in Arizona right now where that guy’s passing out water.

Okay, come on, it’s just terrible, absolutely terrible. Three women were arrested here from going to an Alta store and ripping it off. You know how they caught them? License plate readers in the area gave a description of the vehicle and oh, wait a second, let’s check the readers. So again, your privacy is totally not there, but the license plate readers caught the license plate. They tracked the car down and turned on their license plate and tracked them down and found, you know, $20,000 worth of makeup in their car. Imagine that, stealing 20 grand worth of makeup.

Oh my God, it’s just, it’s horrible. Final, final, final, final story is two things. Let me do this first. The Netherlands is having a problem with power. We’ve talked about power outages, you guys. Over the course of the last, you know, few weeks, couple months ago, where they’re coming back, where the Netherlands is telling 21,000 businesses, hey, don’t turn, you know, don’t, don’t try to turn your power on. You don’t have power right now. How do you sell anything? How do you keep food cold? How do you keep, how do you keep ice, ice? You know, you can’t.

So this is awful. And then the final, final story was from good old Wells Fargo, where a man got a, got a fraud alert on his phone. Hey, you need to contact us. So they gave a phone number in the fraud alert. He calls them and it was not a Wells Fargo agent. It was the bad guys who took $20,000 from him. 20 grand. Oh my God, you guys, I’m telling you guys, don’t call the number from the phone. Call the number on your ATM card and ask them if this stuff is real because it’s not.

These, they’re getting more and more and more sophisticated. The guy with the toll road scam that we talked about earlier in the week, they got $3,300 taken out of his account. This guy’s got 20 grand. It is happening on a, on a daily basis if someone’s getting scammed out of big money right now. So be leery of this stuff. They don’t call, they don’t, you know, text. You’ve got, they’ve got to, they send you emails, they send you the alert, call your branch when you get that. Don’t hesitate. Hit the like button, subscribe to the channel.

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