New Rule: Almost InstaFamous | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

and finally new rules someone has to break it to America's travel vloggers that the part of life where you're retired and Joyride around the country uh that's supposed to come after the working for a living part not before [Applause] now in recent weeks the country has been transfixed with the story of a young woman murdered while traveling in a van with her boyfriend and while too much attention has already been paid this case has taught me a few things first that Nancy Grace is still alive all right and second how extensive is this movement of young hipsters rejecting the dreary working life of us normies to instead explore the country in a van which I found very odd this is what retirees do they get an RV and visit our nation's many historic outlet malls it's what Clarence Thomas and His hideous wife do for kicks you want to emulate them what's next taking up shooting birds on the ground like Dick Cheney but but of course the whole point of Van life is to film your travels and put them on YouTube you're not a hobo you're a content provider let other people work stupid jobs like nurse or teacher you figured out a way to monetize off yeah you and everybody else in your generation according to the LA Times content creators are the fastest growing type of small business in the U.S by one estimate over 50 million people worldwide now consider themselves to be online creators or influencers when we used to ask kids what do you want to be when you grow up they'd say firefighter astronaut now most 60 year olds would probably say I want to be Instagram famous [Applause] and I guess why not the supposedly media Savvy Millennials and gen's ears really do buy stuff just because some ding dong holds it up on Instagram they laugh at Boomers buying crap on QVC but you're doing the same thing Grandma's buying Tupperware you're selling mascara to each other the only difference is she's suffering from dementia what's your excuse I mean I get why nobody wants the jobs that Del taco is offering that's exactly where Brian laundry should be working he was never destined to be insta-famous he was destined to forget the fries in my cheeseburger combo I keep hearing that there are no good jobs out there well there certainly are many shitty jobs out there but there are also millions of openings in professional and business services Education Health construction retail manufacturing America right now has more job openings than at any time in its history and more than there are people looking a lot of the time there are no good jobs out there just means I want to be Kim Kardashian it means I want my job to be I'm me and people pay to watch that what's the fallback career marijuana tester [Applause] 72 percent of gen Z's say they'd like to be an online celebrity they don't even want to achieve something that makes them famous that would involve that pesky step of developing some sort of Talent OR skill no getting followers that is the achievement I'd say take a good long look at yourself but plainly that's all you do all day we we spent decades dismantling the patriarchal notion that women should stay home and not work and then the Kardashian phenomenon happened now it seems like Millions want to you know stay home and not work this generation's financial plan is hitting the jackpot getting paid to do nothing is their highest goal so spoiled by parents who told them all you have to do is do you that they think it's fascinating for us to watch them order eggs at a diner but how long can we go on selling each other our life stories as the basis for an economy it doesn't feel sustainable you can't all be the Truman Joe most of the time what these vloggers are reporting on is in their travel is is just themselves this just in we woke up oh it's hard to wrap my head around this level of narcissism of so many people trying to make a living by taking pictures of themselves like that their own paparazzi everyone wants to know what went on in that van between Brian and Gabby I want to know why filming van life is something anyone would find remotely interesting to begin with home movies I've never been interesting that is as true in the YouTube era as it was back when kids had to sit through Uncle Morty's super rate footage of his trip to Cypress Gardens but at least he didn't ask us to hit the like button and subscribe to it I'm sorry but Brian laundry was not an interesting person until he became a person of interest [Applause] when I read about this couple riding around for four months I thought how lovely that would have been when I was 22. I don't remember having the freedom to just drive around the country I had to sell drugs you did I was starting a career I had to pay for it nobody these days seems to be up for enduring those early shitty jobs and shitty Apartments we all had as a matter of course on the way to something better one of the most popular games of the pandemic was Nintendo's Animal Crossing a game where you don't do anything there are no bad guys you can't die you can't win or lose you just kind of around what a perfect game for this generation but what I don't get about them is if you think having a job is so terrible how come you're always trying to get people fired

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

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Length: 7min 39sec (459 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 01 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/danhoeg]

It takes a certain level of self-delusion for Bill Maher to mock young people who want to be celebrities and smoke weed. The guy is so disconnected from the current zeitgeist that he sounds worse than a lot of Republicans. At least they aren't alleging to be liberal or progressive. I've watched this guy talk about legalizing weed for years, but somehow he criticizes van life people and Gen Z youths who do the same thing.

[u/santajawn322]

I love Bill but I disagree here. I don’t blame anyone for wanting live a flexible lifestyle, without an overbearing employer, and to do it all on their own terms. If anything, it’s the newest form of entrepreneurialism.

[u/yuniorsoprano]

Thought this was a really cringy New Rules, for a few reasons. One of them is that I thought it was in really poor taste to make jokes related to the Gabby Petito situation. I know he wasn’t making jokes at her expense, but his joke about her boyfriend not being an interesting person until he became a person of interest seemed to… make light of someone’s recent murder. Anyone else feel that way?

[u/MelvinPotrzebie]

I won't begrudge anyone their dreams. The idea that being a 9-5 wage slave is the only honest way to make a living was dead a long time ago. It doesn't matter if you are a streamer, Youtuber, cam whore, or social media influencer; if you can get paid to do what you love, and not hate yourself in the morning, all power to you.

The problem is too many people want instant gratification but work is work. As a wise man said, if you want to be an expert at something, you need to put 10,000 hours into it. Some people think that most of these are cushy jobs, and they can be better than most, but you still only get out what you put into them. If you are not prepared for the hustle, maybe a 9-to-5 is better suited for your needs.

The world needs ditch-diggers too.

[u/HouseBandBad]

Sorry Bill...

The last thing any of us 9-5 ers need to hear is a nearly billionaire telling us how the in-famous are a problem. I am surprised he even remembers when he used to sell drugs..that was like a millennium ago....

[u/KingKontinuum]

Influencers and content creators are two different things. Once again, I expected Bill to know more about the topic he’s commenting on.

[u/bythemoon1968]

I guess Bill never heard of Jack Kerouac.

[u/o0flatCircle0o]

This asshole supports manchin and senima