What If We Just...Stopped Working?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 เม.ย. 2022
- What If We Just...Stopped Working? - Second Thought
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Ever think about how the average person is orders of magnitude more productive than workers of the past, and yet our work week hasn't gotten any shorter? What's the deal? In this week's episode we're looking at the idea of "work," and how it's been so thoroughly polluted by capitalism.
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On work and post-work, generally
books.google.com/books?id=3uY...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/davi...
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jacobinmag.com/2020/11/work-t...
• Kathi Weeks We Work ...
• What is Work?
• Why Do We Work?
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On meaningful work, specifically
books.google.com.au/books?id=...
On bullshit work, very specifically
www.newyorker.com/books/under...
books.google.com/books?id=iHV...
On work and the very concept of energy, as specific as it gets
books.google.com/books?id=Ugi...
Iceland study
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Burnout stats
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Multiple job stats
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1.5 - 3 hours stat & nonwork
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www.theatlantic.com/business/...
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Just a fantastic Forbes article
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I'm a 66 year old retired American male....I spent my whole life working as little as possible, and my only regret looking back on it now is that I didn't work even less.
when you say to "work as little as possible" do u mean u were just very disciplined with money?
@@wintergreen9949 I just figured out how to live on much less money than the average American (such as by not having a car, etc). Remember - everything you don't buy is one more thing you don't have to earn money to pay for!
@@artawhirler sounds like wizardry since most walkable places to live in the US are also the most expensive and unaffordable
@@Mona-gp4qt This is one sign of the many generational gaps which exist today. I think about this stuff a lot. People back in the 1960's could just pick up and go anywhere. Hitchhiking was legal, and cheap housing options like boarding houses still existed. College could be paid for from a part time job. Some colleges were even free. Airfare was regulated by the government. Gas for cars and home heating was cheap. People cooked at home or could pull fish from any body of water. In this new world where food & energy are expensive and everything has a monthly cost, the need now exists for basic income + monthly housing & food subsidies.
@@Mona-gp4qt well, I did it.
"The longer you work, the less productive you are." PLEASE say that louder for all of the companies forcing mandatory overtime on staff.
You can thank all the lazy folks that wanna sit around doing as little as possible. That's why there's an increased load on people who actually work.
“Haha, money machine go brrr” -Those company’s.
Mandatory overtime is illegal unless you signed up for it when you agreed to work for said company
@@samaltum4024 I wish it was illegal but it isn't in the US.
this isnt true though. i work 70 hours a week and every hour is nearly optimized
god, imagine a world where you could find your own purpose, instead of trying to motivate yourself to do things you want to do after youve slogged working away the time you werent able to, this video stirred something inside me and i dont know what it is
I think that labor is our purpose that is meaningful labor. Having rights and shit is nice but our purpose is to evolve our species imo to allow life to exist and to ensure its existence
@@ahkosorsomesaykosby9999rights>labor
@@ahkosorsomesaykosby9999um dude, am sure just fucking and making sure the planet doesn’t die is enough?
@@ahkosorsomesaykosby9999an endless cycle of mindless stress and suffering is fucking dumb, I’d rather everyone who is currently alive be happy and healthy, doing what they love and living how they want, at the cost of us all being the last humans left , unable to reproduce, over what we currently have, suffering just to “better” the lives of future generations only for them to end up doing the same sounds like some sacrilegious cult shit
@@ahkosorsomesaykosby9999 Why do you think that tho?
"Work will set you free!" As a German, I almost spit my coffee.
Spitting coffee isn't the worst thing a German has ever done.
Ya, arbeit macht frei.
@@RubbittTheBruiseyou clearly dont get the joke 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
If no one in the country worked the it would get real hard real fast. The trash would pile up, the sewage would back up, electricity would stop, no phones or internet, couldn't drive for long bc the gas stations would cease. It's alot of good that would happen but tons of bad that I can't even imagine.
Isn't it kind of weird that technology advanced a lot and raised our work productivity a lot, but we still have 40-hour work week (or even more for some) that was won by workers fighting for it a century ago?
Not weird, exploitation
That's because technology makes life more expensive. Just look at car keys in the 80s and today.
corporations nowdays are holding us all hostage!
Not weird
As technology advances things become much more labor intensive not the other way around.
The planes of world War 1 were built by carpenters basically chopping up a bunch of wood, slapping it together and dropping in a motor and a machine gun
Now compare that to the insane supply chain needed to produce a f-35
All those fighting workers died or were bought off. Now the rich have managed to convince people that they are worthless outside of their utility to the rich.
My dad retired in January 2020 from the company he worked at for over 40 years. He had a stressful job that required a lot of travel and days and nights away from home. He routinely worked more than 40 hours per week, and in his late 60s kept being told he needed to do more. At 70 he retired and his retirement by comparison has been bliss. He got time for his passions and where we could and when we could, we traveled. But he had a heart attack in December and died. Less than 3 years after retirement. Our society uses up good, hardworking people. If my dad had just one more day off each week, even just for the last 10 years of his job, would I still have a dad?
"would I still have a dad?" The same question could be asked if your dad continued to work instead of retiring?
@@EQRuges I don't think there would be a question because I think he would have surely died on the job/while still working. It was a tough job physically and me tally and he had a lifelong heart condition.
😢😢
Your comment really made me think. Thank you and sorry for your loss
Maybe not, but you would probably have a more fulfilled late dad
The lesson I learned early in life is watching my dad … worked locally until his retirement at 65 … then he suffered a massive stroke at 67 and rendered partially paralyzed and unable to speak. He died 3 1/2 yrs later after much suffering. It changed my attitude about work : doing what I love and where my passions are & making sure I have enough leisure time to explore, travel & try out new things.
Me too. My father was a workaholic and developed severe health issues both mental and physical. I think people should have a choice whether they want to work or not and a Universal Basic Income would help.
See what kind of world is that people think if I work hard then I'll be free at 65! Not knowing they might die right after a whole life wasted working. That's why being rich in this day is amazing. Unless we as a society changed but they want us working.
Bills still gotta get paid
The ease in which most jobs went virtual almost immediately during the pandemic screamed to me that most jobs are completely arbitrary and useless.
Someone making excel sheets, graphs and slides that were already sheets graphs and slides of someone else’s sheets graphs and slides
Exactly!!
I'm a web developer, mostly coding stuff that even our own people use Adblockers for and websites or software that nobody needs except for marketing people having a budget they must throw out the window every year. I like my job because it's fun and pays well, but the product of my work doesn't contribute to society. If the job wasn't fun, I'd be basically locked in an awful career, because due to mental illness this is the only company where I can effortlessly meet expectations without risking my health.
Just imagine how much healthier and happier we would all be if we could work 25hours a week and still be able to live comfortably with a fair wage.. too bad it’ll never happen tho
if we don’t fight for a future we want then no, it won’t happen. but it can
Modest lifestyle is an option
@@foolishmortal9703 honestly I think we’re too far gone for it to happen. I would love to be wrong, but I just can’t see; especially with how our current economy is
@@natashadickson4819 I think most people are already living that lifestyle, but not bc they want to
@@jodystrickland9150it isn't impossible. It's very possible, considering the fact it's working in countries other than America
I’m a manager in Japan and after hearing about the 4 day work week, I got all my workers down to 30 hours per week and soon I’ll work with HQ to get them down to 4 days ☺️
If you push hard enough, it can work. They seem much happier than before and things still run smoothly. Good luck, America ✊🏽
Can you hire me?
Joking aside, good for you!
I worked a 3 day work week for many years. They were long hours, hard days and I was tired when I was finished but it was rewarding work and I got paid well. The upside was I then had 4 days off during the week to do whatever I wanted. It was great.
I told my engineers "get the amount of work done that I assign for you and I don't give a shit what you do after." They get more work done by Wednesday than the best team i was on before got done in two weeks. Based on the pics I see and the group chat, seems like they spend the other 3/4 of the sprint motorcycling, baking, and playing videogames lol. And we still come in under budget every. Time.
@@komali2 I mean considering if you know you get off as soon as you get the work done properly, you will do it efficiently and fast. One of the most common things I've noticed in "normal" job etiquette or whatever I should call it, is that people tend to try and waste as much time as possible while at work. Kind of like the "Boss makes a dollar I make a dime" meme.
I feel like a lot of that comes from just how much time you spend at work. I will admit that I did that myself at times, despite being a "scared" young kid new to the trade. A lot of my, lets call them managers would just tell me to go take a brake, just don't go near the cameras so the higher ups won't see your slacking, again pretty much everyone does it.
where did you work i want to goooo there 😩. お願い致します
It's amazing how indigenous peoples survived hundreds of years without the concept of money, yet nearly every member of the society contributed to the betterment of their tribe without the pressure of monetary limits.
Capitalism teaches selfishness so even if we went back to working together for the better of everyone unfortunately there will always be someone trying to screw everyone over just for the benefit of their own self
I think that most people, myself included, are afraid to work for themselves, because there's no initial guarantee that you'll be successful. What we don't realize is that if we stay consistent, we can and will grow over time. It's that over time bit that we get hung up on. A job working for someone else, we know that if we do the bullshit we'll get paid, versus doing work you enjoy for yourself, that doesn't immediately pay.
OK, so boom! Now *everyone* has an LLC. So are your employees just other business owners, who work for each other on the side? Is that what you are saying? Even *you* will go work at another's business. Is that right?🤔
Most people are not successful though. Most new businesses, even if the ideas are good, do not survive.
I have a friend that when I met him I asked him what he does. He started saying woodworking, writing, cooking, spending time with his kids, etc... I said oh I meant for work. And he said oh, do you mean what do I sell myself as labor for? Always stuck with me.
It's good to have hobbies & interests. People who complain about retiring being too boring or who say they always have to work at something are likely to have had work as too big a part of their lives and don't know what to do with their time.
Then everybody clapped, right?
Lmao what a douch way to answer that, obviously it's implied what kind of work
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
The answer is pretty obvious and I feel has been for a while now. The issue is that the owners of the world don’t want the population to have more time to themselves. That would mean more freedom, self-autonomy, and more energy to think for ourselves, assess our situation and find solutions to better it.
And the masses having more free time will give them the space and time to educate themselves and realise that they don't NEED the leeches at the top. By keeping people working to the point of exhaustion, no one will question the status quo. They'll be too tired to.
That's how capitalism works. On the one hand we have exploiter with another just slaves. And it's obvious that bourgeoisie don't want to share...
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
@@grandempressvicky6387 Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
@@Anton-cq2ch Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
I got a neck injury in the US Army and got $2,197 a month for compensation. That's a monthly thing I get for the rest of my life. I currently work in a funeral home. That job has been INFINITELY more fun and rewarding. Yes, you read that right. I help remove the deceased from their homes, hospitals, or wherever, dress them up, park cars in the parking lot, and sometimes I'm a Paul Barer for when families need me. That job, a job where I work with dead people and their grieving families, is more fun and rewarding than working as a Waiter, Bartender, Warehouse, Cook, or Soldier. While the Funeral Home stuff is whenever we got work and isn't a consistent paycheck thus I live off my Army Compensation, it's still the best gig I've ever had.
Did that job take you time to get used to? As in getting over the morbid nature of it
@@CodingAbroad nope, it's an easy job to get into. I've been to a number of funerals prior. So dead doesn't bother me. If I actually did stuff like I'm embalming or stuffing cotton in the anus of the cadaver to prevent leaking fluids, maybe.
Woohoo!
You make more in disability than I made working for the government PLUS my 10% disability for over 15 years, until just two years ago.
I should’ve complained more while I was in. I’ve had a poor quality of life unable to work for much of my 20s and 30s, but the VA says no connection because I didn’t go on sick call at every opportunity.
As someone who was never in a union when I was in the field, but am staff at a company with union workers, I seriously see the benefit of unions. Wish they were growing and not shrinking.
Some are growing again, but we need more Wobblies and less AFLs, they're part of why labour unions did decline in the USA.
When I was a child in the 1970s people were wondering what we'd all do with our increased leisure time created by automation. I'm still wondering where that leisure time is...
Think that's bad, consider that Marx wrote the Communist manifesto believing the automation already available then was sufficient to produce sufficient that work could be according to need rather than the coercive reality of then or today.
Same
People are so weird. I mean that was a time when books were around for a long time already, you just could've read the books that you were interested in and probably never would have been able to finish all of them. I don't understand at all why those people thought that
It went to the time spent in the car, driving 🤷
@@Ladymagentabennett 😆 stop, you killed me! But really though: wouldn't it be better if we all had better means of transportation? Like, a really good train network?
There's a good chunk of the US population too obsessed with calling the younger generation lazy to go along with this even if it will help them too and improve quality of life as a whole. Then there are those who are already retired and bitter and don't want anyone to have it better than they did.
Not true.
Well there's that eloquently and cleverly debunked, I admire your razor sharp wit as well as your robust arguments.
So just let them die and then use the younger generations with the fresh mindsets to enact change. Old people with old mindsets are such a burden.
There are a bunch of younger people who want to blame older people for the class structure. Blame capitalism. Many of those old folks lost their union jobs and are having to keep working late in life just to pay medical bills.
Im 29, I work full time (40+) hours a week and my generation and the one under mine ARE lazy, taking 4+ hours to do 1 hour tasks, no intrest in learning how to do their job efficiently and constantly complaining about how hard everything is. That said this is just a generalized observation of the majority of co workers i have had in the past 10 years and am aware of the few and far between exceptional individuals who are humble and hard working.
This might be one of my favorite videos now. Perfectly sums up my fears and thoughts about the future and going into the workforce. I’ve always thought a better way to run jobs is to give employees a certain amount of work to complete for the day, and if they finish early they get to leave early. No point in making people sit around and get stuck in that weird not-working-but-not-relaxing-either limbo.
Socialism will rise✊
2005 - 2010 I was working at a 130k job. I was extremely stressful, working 50+ hours a week, no life, not happy, and I was going no where!
I quit in 2011.
I moved to St Thomas and became a part time bartender,. Granted I'm not making much money but IM TOTALLY STRESS FREE A HAPPY. Most importantly, I no longer need meds for my Anxiety is gone.
The only regret is I wish I did this when I was 20 instead of 35. 😊
Great… until retirement.
What a way to end a 12 hour day. Thanks, Second Thought!
Glad to be of service 😁
@@SecondThought Thank you for your time and effort in making these videos possible. Keep up the good work.
How topical.
The irony…I feel you.
Where do you live ? In germany it's not allowed to work for more then 10 hours a day :O
I switched to a 4 day work week a year ago and its been great. Getting 3 days off in a row is the perfect balance. You get 1 day to try to work for your self, 1 day to spend with friends, and a day just to relax and do nothing at all. I feel so refreshed when i go back to work and give it more effort.
I sometimes catch myself hoping to get sick so I can have a few days off. I'm currently stuck in the final year of training with a 50h week (40 hours work + 10 hours commute).
Can't wait to switch to 5.5h or 4 days once I'm done with that. Awesome to hear that you made it work.
I work 4 10 hr days with optional overtime. I find that I enjoy my overtime because its my choice and I can go home whenever I want. Also I agree about the 3 days off. Its perfect. I go in 3 hrs on Friday, complete one major task then go do whatever I wish. Then Saturday to socialize, and Sunday to sit around or go do something fun, Mondays are always good because everyone is in a great mood because they got adequate rest and recreation. Thats the perks of having a boss in his 30s. His father ran us ragged and made the job horrible, when he took over it was awesome.
Thats not even talking about compensation, he is already rich so he puts 30% of our profits back into the paychecks. Bonuses every 3 months, and annual raises. I got a 5 dollar/hr raise for inflation, and a 1500 bonus just for doing what I do everyday. Hopefully all jobs can work towards being like mine.
Honestly I think 3 days in a row would be too much, kinda fits with that whole law of diminishing returns thing. But you shift that day off to like Wednesday now you never work more than two days in a row, two weekends sounds pretty appealing to me
That's what I did in my previous job. Having a Wednesday off is a life saver. I went from hating my job to not caring because I'm never there more than 2 days. And even made Tuesday evenings a pleasure as you can actually do things or go somewhere without the pressure of having work next day. It breaks the week up perfectly (for me)
I cant express how hard this video hit for me. I have had really serious mental health issues for the last decade, and the demand to work so much has often put me in very real danger.
@palatonian9618 Hang in there! You are important and you matter. Please, take care of yourself. One day, capitalism will stop existing and then we will be able to focus on creating a caring and inclusive society, one that will take care of everyone. Stay strong. ✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️
I'm hard working and not lazy at all. But at 40 now and having worked solid for 25 years I'm no where better off. In fact I was more skint now than 15 years ago. So finally I woke up, I moved into my van. Got a part time job and now I feel much better in myself and no money worries and actually enjoying my life now. My depression has gone and I now know I can live much better with a simple life and my confidence with myself is massive.
I'm 21 year olf male from India, I have noticed that at this age I'm thinking very short term like my default mind jusk can't process that one day I will be 35 or 40 year old and for that I should start working from now not extensively but at the good rate which I'm doing too but I noticed that when I was 17 or 18 year of 21 seems quite far to me and now when I'm 21 it's just feel like flash when I try to remember that memories and that mind state which I has at the age of 18 and as you know world is getting more and more Universal one language one culture so as a elder who lived your life what is your advice, what would you suggest and what would you reccoement I would like to receive any life advice from your experiences.
@@ijayraj I'm shocked you are asking advice from me, but thanks. I've found life does drag if your not in the moment or your doing nothing productive. But productive for me is being as true to myself as I can and enjoying my hobbies. Productivity for me is t in the mainstream society where everything is geared towards selfishness, money, power and material wealth. All these things aren't actual reality. It's been put their to take away focus on who we actually are. I lost myself in drugs for a long time because I tried to fit in and I knew deep down I didn't want to fit in. It's only a few years ago when I woke up and realised my life will always be the same if I don't wake up. I was depressed, always at home in my spare time. I worked hard just to pay my rent and drug addiction. I took drugs to hide my pain of living in this cruel world. But I realised it's my world and I can make it better. Positivity is key and I know all I can change is myself and nobody else. I love nature and getting out in it going camping bike riding paddle boarding and all that stuff. Being active has helped me mentally and physically. I only hang with a few people who are like minded. I don't like negative people. I'm so much more humble having realised I really don't know anything. As a youth you think u know all but I'm still learning and will be till I die. I'm spiritual so believe in after life although I don't believe in religion. I've experienced things so I know what we experience here on earth isn't our whole story. Life was very scary for me but now I understand fear is a tool they use to keep us down and in their control. Now I don't fear so I can live life fully. We are very strong being with lots more potential and in this modern society our true potential is lost, that's why I feel so much more alive now more than 20 years ago when I was 20 is because I just live now without fear and in control rather than paying into the system. I'm independent and love the simple things in life. I don't own much but I'm humbled and one more thing is the ego. Ego takes control and leads you down a bad path. I'm no better than anyone but I am more aware than most and that's ok. I just wish people followed their own instinct and not follow like sheep. You must question everything and listen to yourself. But that only works if you can take time to be with yourself and understand what's real. Most people can't sit a day by themselves in a pure unagitated state. I don't know if any of this helps u. I'm just a crazy dude living a life most people don't get. But we must all follow our own path. I can tell you are going to do fine because u have asked this question when most people would not.
@@milkyvanlife i have taken screen shot of that and defiantly remember that but my main concern is the career and financial stability is there any advice regarding to that and again thank you very very much for the life lessons.
@@milkyvanlife is there any way i can get to touch with you social media, facebook or anyther way I would like to discuss with you if you are too.
@@ijayraj no I'm not on any other social media. All I can say about career and money is don't forget we live in a world money obsessed so you will have to work to get by unless you already have the knowledge and land to live freely off but to get to that point you will need money. I suggest u look at life in sections. Whilst your young you must work hard,... Try to find something you like doing so it's not so boring. Then you gotta save your money, be wise and don't spend it all on material things, just necessaties. Then hopefully in this time you have worked out what you want from life and take that to your next step. But all I can really say is work life is hard and for most who make a lot of money you will be asked to giv up most your time and effort. I never liked being forced to giv all my time so I'll never be rich. But that's no my goal in life. I'm trying to live free minded and away from the system. The world we have created is fake and to get along with it you must put on a mask and follow the crowds if you want the money and fame. But apart from money I have everything a rich man has if not more because I have not sold my soul. I love in reality whilst most live in a fake version of reality based on buying stuff you don't need and being addicted to media which stops people looking into what is really going on on our planet. But as long as we survive, have food shelter and loving family then all we can do is protect that and keep working to pay the bills. Just don't rely on the system because it could turn around and spit you out. They don't care for us, they just want our taxes. That's why I live in a van, I'm in control of my life, not the government. And my next goal is to save money so I can buy a bit of land and then live on that in a little bit growing my own food and living at one with nature. This is my end game. Again I hope this helps
I've been unemployed for 4 months and the stress of finding ways to pay bills is way less stressful than the last 10 years of me working endlessly.
riiiiight
Wait until you’re old. The trick is to work hard enough when you’re young to not have to find ways to pay the bills. Otherwise you’ll be bagging groceries when you’re 70.
@funnyandrew lmao sir i just told you I've been working for 10 years and you think i don't have a career better than bagging groceries 🤣 the issue is you think being mentally exhausted is a form of weakness and people shouldn't take time off.
I ve worked for 10 years with a week of vacation occasionally. Me taking 4 months off isn't going to lead to me bagging groceries when I'm old please stfu
@@PhotoJeticPoet 10 WHOLE YEARS?!?! Haha! And then you’re butthurt because of a word of advice from someone on the internet who’s worked for 40 years and is just trying to help? Good. You do you. You’re going to be in a perpetual life of blaming the world for your failures. Have at it. My point was that some people “work for 10 years with a week of vacation occasionally” and then find out later in that they were just debt slaves and some people create their lives and end up employing people like you. You will learn that the hard way. Good luck.
@@funnyandrew Exactly! Selling shoes or pumping crypto is not going to help you retire when you're young. Only a strong career and hard work will do that. Make a name for yourself
All I want to do is pursue my hobbies. Cooking, music, hiking, gardening, landscaping, carpentry, biking. All of it is a form of "work," but it's stuff that makes me happy, unlike the soul-sucking, depressing busy-work I do for most of my job.
I decided really really early i want to make money out of my hobby. And now i'm doing really well. Nobody encouraged or discouraged me. I am happy i'm getting paid for having fun. If I made it, you can too. And don't think i had rich parents or anything like that. I was raised by an unemployed single mother in poverty. Some times electrical energy got cut. We didn't eat every day. Second hand shoes and clothes. But i made it. I just stuck to my hobby.
i ve heard a lot a phrase that went (ish) make your hobby your work and it becomes your work but treat your work like your hobby and you wont work a day.
my case is a bit odd, as i live in what used to be my grandparents house with my fiancee, and next month my best friend is coming to live with us as he doesn't have anywhere else to go, the cost of maintaining our house is relatively low, and the three of us have been, at different points of our lives, with little to no money, so we now how to live a modest life, sure is cool to own a lot of shit, buy a lot of things, but owning thing and spending won't make our lives any more happy. the key is finding happiness in other things, and just work enough to keep that lifestyle
One of my biggest gripes when I was working at a factory was the mandatory overtime we had to do. My small group got our stuff done quickly, so we always struggled to find a new job to tackle, yet we were still expected to come in on Saturdays at 5am to noon, as well as work the extra 2 hours 4 days a week. We did nothing except tedious jobs, and of course my boss would get mad when we (well, I) weren't doing what he wanted us to do, even though it wasn't in our job description to do those jobs. Pure busy work.
Every single job I've had was like this to some extent, but this was the more extreme. "Look busy" was a phrase I've always hated. I want a job where I'm paid by my production level, not by the amount of hours I clocked in that week.
If you only want to get paid for what you do and not what you pretend to appear to make someone kind of think you might be sort-of looking like you're doing, you might want to try certain kinds of trade work. Welding, machining, heating/air conditioning, electrical, auto mechanics--that kind of stuff. Problem is that trade work is very boring and the pay is low. If you're getting the job done well and doing so consistently and quickly without screwing up the work (quality, productivity, speed) then they'll probably fuck off and let you work without getting up your ass over trivial things and treating you like a kid in Kindergarten--you'll eventually just be left alone to work.
You have to WORK, though. No dog fucking or you'll be pounding pavement looking for another job--and you'll be doing it with a black mark on your file. Oh yeah, they also still pay you by the hours you clock in. That's just how it's done.
Yup the first company who pays by productivity would have workers lined up to apply and stay to get their fair cut hopefully.😅
Paid by productivity would still lead to you getting screwed. They're just going to lower and lower and lower the price per piece finished until you're working yourself to death. It is why streetlayers around here tend to have their knees fail before they're 45.
That's called piece work and it blows
@@jtoilet3144commission jobs like sales
Well, you just got yourself another subscriber- this video fully articulated a feeling that I have been living with for at least the past 12 years (which, not so coincidentally, was when I stopped working in a more hands-on role in a biology lab, & instead transitioned into working in an office)- which is that even the work we are expected to do on a daily basis in an office setting, seems to be mainly self-perpetuating & ultimately pointless. Fortunately, I was able to escape that system and begin to pursue less lucrative but far more fulfilling work as a homesteader and artist. I am beyond grateful for this change, because I was working over 70hrs a week in a role that felt suffocating & meaningless, for a corporation that valued the financial bottom line over the life satisfaction of their staff, or any kind of integrity in their business practices. That's no way for people to live out their lives.
We really need to decouple work from earning money. Raising a child is work. Cleaning your house is work. Going to get your car registered is work. You just don't get paid for it because those things don't directly make capitalists money. I want to work. I just can't survive without money, so I'm forced to do only certain kinds of work.
Spot on! I've been saying that for some time, so thank you.
@@ConnorisseurYT Interesting. You "know" that someone's incapable of producing a product, good, or service that a buyer is willing to pay for just because they raise a question about society's concept of "work"?
It’s more about wether it can be measured and wether you contribute to society in the short term and long term. People seem to forget where capitalism originated. It didn’t just appear out of nowhere with a few people on the top.
It is the closest to evolution we have and it is the closest to the human nature. Take a bigger risk and earn more, do less and earn less. Focus only on yourself and you will earn nothing. A society can’t function if people didn’t do the necessary work. And in our modern globalised society networking, stocks and company management have become just as important to keep up our living standards as brick layers and plumbers. In the end the one who adapts best wins. And some exploit this system and I have a hard time judging them for it. These things are unfair and brutal in some cases but they are just natural. They won’t change if we change the system. Exploitation and all that will always exist in some form. Europe does a good job at setting boundaries without regulating the market too much. People have to understand that although in many cases it seems trivial the human being as a part of a society unfortunately is made to work and nothing else. Evolution has made humans for reproduction and keeping the species alive. Technically we have luxury here. Not being able to afford medicine is on one hand cruel, but can also be seen as natural selection in an advanced society. If you don’t have the traits to make it than your genes are not advantageous for future generations and humanity. Except that intellect has become more and more important as more physical jobs are slowly being pushed away by machines.
It is all just natural selection and every individual just plays the part to make his own life better. No one, and I repeat absolutely NO ONE acts fully selfless. Even a parent taking a bullet for their own child is just ensuring the passing on of the own genes. What we are programmed to do.
Take the payment part. If we have a corporation that contributes to any sort of logistical thing in society that provides millions of people with an important service. And we have tens of thousands of plumbers that also provide millions of people with an equally important service. That means that that one ceo has equal responsibility and impact on peoples life as the ten thousands of plumbers combined . With such and influence isn’t it only fair to earn the more?
@@musiccer7446 Absolutely, though the problem are the corrupt rules and legislation put around it - CEOs are payed massive wages in the form of "performance bonuses" to avoid taxes, constantly being shortstaffed and not hiring are a way to get loans that basically turn into grants, etc. Any system in existence must be designed with a egoist, greedy human in mind. The problem is those same humans, after designing this system, will alter it to benefit them, or those who pay them.
@@purplegoopguy well, someone will always exploit a system. And we should do our best to not be that person and prevent it from happening. But it will always exist in some form
"My generation suffered, therefore you should!"
I'm sick of killing myself for Capitalism. The "loyalty" doesn't go both ways.
@@youtubesucks1499 Don't throw everything that's wrong with capitalism into my lap. I'm sorry I said something that triggered you. All these corporations got a 15% tax cut, and largely haven't paid their employees a cent more.
@@youtubesucks1499 would you rather Walmart pay for people's insurance, or continue to keep them poor in hopes to use your tax dollars to insure their workers? It's a complicated issue. Perhaps intentionally so.
We have been conditioned to think that the system is perfect. That is a defect of character if you can't seem to get a hang of it all.
Since 1970 people have been sliding backwards as far as wages. That includes you. I don't think that anybody should be happy with what they are being paid for. We are all being cheated. That includes the surgeon and McDonald's worker.
I have my own business. I don't have to work it constantly. I'm slightly shy of where where I want to be. But I'll get there.
But I still can't help but to think of everyone else. I would like everybody to enjoy the security that I have.
@@youtubesucks1499 is a poor person supposed to get rid of their job so they can be poor in the interim? How many of these part-time people have two or three jobs? You're making assumptions from your privilege.
You keep comparing people, but I don't see things that way. Everybody deserves a living. Everyone deserves housing. In the last year some people's rents have gone up by 90%. That means yesterday your job was good enough tomorrow it won't be. I'm sorry I will not apologize for being a socialist. You can still take the side of the corporations, but they won't think twice about screwing you over.
Take care.
@@youtubesucks1499 You could like
Share the business with your employees, y'know
Same salary to everybody, decisions made by everybody
A lot of factories in my country work that way, they are called cooperatives
Even some supermarkets work that way, the clients get some money back
They are profitable, one runs an entire mall that sustain the suburbs of Bahia Blanca (Argentina)
@@luispagano I love that! That guy really seems to have nothing but contempt for those financially lesser than he.
So many people don't question our system. It starts at worth. How much a job is worth. On whose scale? Because if we let companies decide, they'll always want the most for less.
I would love more cooperative business here.
This is why I started my own business. Being my own boss, making my own hours and getting the full cost of my labor is amazing.
I could probably never be my own boss, I'd fire myself for being a dogfucker
@@MericaMomentahaahahhaha
@thedancinglumberjack6471 You would be earning more under socialism.
First job was being a courtesy clerk at Kroger when i was 18.... Immediately i noticed that my shirt although was my proper size, it still looked big on me. psychologically i noticed a difference everytime my break started and i always took my shirt off and instantly felt better. Crazy shit how things like that are overlooked
I went from a 50-60 hour work week to a 30-35 hour work week, and I could see the stark difference in productivity throughout the staff. After a certain point, people just wanted to go home, so they would barley do anything. Whereas now, people at my work stay vigilant until those last few minutes
It makes sense
Bingo
Just wait until they get acclimated to the 30-35 hour week and they stop working hard, hours before their shift is over again.
@@MrTaylork1 You can always find new more grateful workers fresh from 60hour weeks.
If only they would pay them the money they would have got had they worked 50 to 60hrs
“The laborers have the most enormous power in their hands, and, if they once became thoroughly conscious of it and used it, nothing would withstand them; they would only have to stop labor, regard the product of labor as theirs, and enjoy it. This is the sense of the labor disturbances which show themselves here and there. The State rests on the - slavery of labor. If labor becomes free. the State is lost.”
-Max Stirner
Yes, this video doesn't explicitly say it but the entire economy and the profits of the rich depend on the rest of us. We as a collective entity have the power to take the wealth away from the ruling class. We just have to organize and coordinate in order to exercise our collective power and bring the ruling class to heel. Unfortunately, we are so divided by the ruling class through their rhetoric and politics that were are conquered piecemeal. We need a labor and solidarity movement in this country!
@@etep878 Yes, it's depressing. The ruling class has done a brilliant job of dividing and conquering the rest of us through the use of corporate media, corporate authoritarianism, organized religion, and corporate political parties. They have deluded the people into believing that the US is a real democracy with two political parties, but it is actually a one-party plutocracy -- the Corporate Party -- with two right wings, Corporate Republicans and Corporate Democrats. The solution is for the workers and the people to unite, but we are divided into Trumpers vs. anti-Trumpers, conservatives vs. progressives, anti-abortion vs. pro-choice, etc.
That doesn't make sense though, as with everything I've ever read from stirner he's just an edgy contrarian centuries before reddit
@Nathair Fingers crossed it metasizes into something huge.
@Nathair Yes! I was very happy to see that. I really hope it continues to grow.
All we really need to do is keep our living spaces warm and healthy and grow food and educate our families, I think. We need to work less for sure. I'm for the 4-hour work day.
I just want to tell you that I find what you’re doing to be highly valuable and have been putting your videos on while I’m going about my day so I can listen to what you’re saying. I subscribed to your patreon because I hope you keep making content. I knew something was wrong with this system when I was a nurse aide caring for human beings and making barely above minimum wage my job was valuable and important and I truly enjoyed it but I could barely afford life!! It is unacceptable for any human being to give time of their only life to barely survive while others who do less essential work are paid exorbitant wages. My heart breaks seeing homeless destitute humans and animals knowing there are others who have more means than they can even use.
I love when people say “Work is Healthy!”, ignoring the fact that most people either work physical jobs that are very demanding, break down the body, and can lead to injury, or desk jobs where they’re sitting on their ass meeting deadlines all day leading to health problems caused by inactivity and high stress levels. Work can be healthy, but only if it’s balanced and isn’t being done for long hours.
@Sam Prowse Proof to show that there’s a difference between physical stress vs. mental stress
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
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Why does anyone need to have babies? It's not a NEED. It's a pathetic desire that u think will make u happy. Find other ways to make yourself happy. There are a few things in this life that we are certain of:
1. The human being born did not ask to be born
2. The human being born will face death
3. We are slaves in a corrupt world
4. Life is full of horrors, diseases and illnesses Why do we need to keep reproducing?!?! Its like a hamster on a wheel that just keeps running, doing the same repetitive crap. A never ending cycle that just needs to stop. Become a PREVENTIONIST!!!!
Preventionism isn’t conditional. Never has it been ethically justifiable to impose unnecessary risk, suffering and death without consent. Breeders selfishly want a toy-child to distract them from their mundane, meaningless, purposeless, lonely, coward, low IQ, pathetic, selfish, narcissistic, immoral, unethical lives.
An older, also childless couple once said to me that having a child means that you can stop torturing yourself with the question "What is the meaning of life"... Partly because you now have an answer right in front of you, and partly because it won't stop screaming long enough to let your mind wander into philosophical territory anymore!
Privacy is dead anyway. Either nobody cares anymore or nobody understands. Everyone has voluntarily wiretapped their own homes with Google/Alexa/etc., as if smartphones weren't already recording everything we did and said, and triangulating precisely where we did and said it, whilst giving us cancer as a bonus!
@@incorectulpolitic interesting
but my wife had two miscarriages which ruined the marriage. Guess what. Should either of us die alone in bed or have no kids to look after us? Being childless isn't as amazing as you think especially when your older and die alone.
The company I'm working with didn't go with 4-days' work; however, they reduced the work hours to 6 hours a day.
I can't even explain how the work environment changed and made almost everyone happier :)
I put myself in your shoes for the moment and I smiled enough said
The video isn't about working less. It's about nobody working at all.
Our school had a day that started 1 hour later and it made people happy too
@@christopher48778 People don't want to starve!! That's why they work.
What hours do u work? Like 6-12???
I worked a job with mandatory overtime for 5 years. 12-16hour shifts were normal. It swapped from day shifts to night shifts month to month. I never knew if I was going to leave on time or have to work the weekend until the last minute everyday and the stress of not being able to have a decent work/life balance made everyone in the workplace absolutely miserable. It was the most toxic work environment I’ve ever experienced. Our union was a corrupt and an absolute joke. The money was great, but once my first kid was born last year I ended quitting to start my own business. It’s been a though start (I knew it wouldn’t be easy getting established) but I’m so much happier being able to help raise my family and show my kids to work towards a life that you love instead of just a paycheck that will make you miserable.
I came across this video and I have to say thank you for saying what I have been thinking for years. This tie to money, work etc. Really dampens the human experience. We are here for such a short time and most it, for most people is spent doing something they'd rather not be doing until a time when they are old and can less easily experience everything that this world has to offer. It really makes me sad because life could truly be so much better for everyone if we were able spend more time doing the things we enjoy. Thanks for the upload!
The "downtime" part is why I LOVE being in Home Office. Whenever there was no work in the office back then, we still had to pretend, most of the time, that we work. Whenever there is no work to do at the moment in home office, I play games, watch videos, cook, clean the house, hang/fold the laundry, etc. Does it mean that I don't work when there IS work to be done? OF COURSE NOT! But when there ISN'T ANY, I don'Ttjust sit idly in front of my screen, but do things beneficial for me or my private life (see examples above). Did my work ethics, the quality of my work or my morale dip with home ofiice? Not even the least bit. It's just when there isn't any work to do, I do what other things need to be done and not bore myself to death by sitting and pretending there is work to do.
Exactly! In addition, working from your home gives you even more free time as you don't need to go anywhere. This saves money which would be needed for (public) transportation.
In the first year of Covid me and my colleagues have constantly worked from home for about 6 months. If anything, home office raised effectivity. We weren't distracted by each other as much.
“See examples above” how bout I show you my example and let’s see how good a team we make 😏
yup yup. and sometimes we use so much energy pretending there is work to do, that we are less productive when finally there is something meaningful to do. its just stupid. it all comes down to the idea that employers are buying the employee's time. it should NOT be this way. They are buying the results, not the time. What does anyone need someone else's time for? They need results. Get that in your head.
You are right, it would even be better if you could actually do everything you wanted and don’t need to stay available for others…
Don't forget the 30-120 minutes of commute per day that are just free now. Which in my case resulted:
Hey, why even rent in an expensive city when I can BUY a house for less in a rural area? Apparently many people did the same.
I used to work 60h a week on a restaurant and next summer it got increased like 15h a day, 6 days a week. Totally insane. I refused to work on such conditions and went back to the city I was born and after a few years (I studied some other things) I got a job working around 30h a week and the difference is outstanding, I have time to sleep, learn more things, play videogames and much more, I wouldn't change it for nothing! I don't regret leaving a 3 michelin star restaurant to be a delivery guy working for a chinese restaurant and I will never be.
Good for you man. My bf and I started a company and we divided the work shifts so we each only work 2 and a half days a week. It’s been a life changer. I have time to try out new recipes, read books, take walks to the beach, play with my cats, etc.
@@TheUnitAce Spain. The restaurant was located in Ibiza.
@@Fotofobico9 "Went back to the city I was born" did you live with your parents? Who did you live with why you got training?
I think more people need to hear this. It's well outside the accepted set of subjects to talk about though. I hope that your video here makes at least some people somewhere have a second thought about this.
Good video 👍
Graphically intense, I enjoyed the visual story telling elements.
Were I not currently in the process of slipping through the cracks of Late Capitalism (and thus unable to), I would gladly support you on Patreon. Please keep up your excellent work.
"Busy work" is so hard for me, and my ADHD. I can't focus or have time flow by reasonably fast. When I can't stop thinking the thought "Why am I doing this? Does it even matter if I don't?" I find it difficult to allocate my little energy, time, and put on a smile to get through pointlessness. All that harder to roll out of bed that way.
ADHD is the main reason I haven’t entered the workforce yet, I am 20 btw.
I want to enter the workforce when I feel ready, not when society deems that I should, my history with meds is slightly complicated and haven’t had them for a few years and only just started on them again like two months ago and I have to sort all of my life out first.
Work is just unnecessary stress for me right now, plus I imagine getting fired doesn’t look good on a resume so I consider this the completely correct thing to do for now.
Medication is really a godsend, I used to struggle with getting out of bed and having showers, and it was terrible drain on self esteem, now I feel like I can actually do things, and I am even more productive at procrastinating, since before meds I would just browse 24/7, now in addition to browsing I am getting through my long games catalog, baby steps come first after all.
I wish you the best comrade of brain, a nice little phrase I like to call fellow ADHDers.
@@captain-chair I have ADHD and autism, and I forced myself into working at 18, fully aware that I wasn't capable of it, because society told me I had to. I'm 25 now, and years of forcing myself to do something I wasn't capable of meant years of sacrifices and damage. I've developed severe mental illnesses from the extreme stress and trauma that I put myself through trying to meet the unhealthy standards of capitalism that I simply did not have the capacity to meet while still living any semblance of a healthy lifestyle. I've experienced years long depressive episodes, suicidal ideation, intrusive thoughts of extremely violent self harm, periods of time where I was totally numb emotionally and mentally, and stress induced dissociation.
I say all this to encourage you to stick to your guns because you're making the right call. Don't fall into the same trap that I did, don't take irreparable damage to your mental health just to make some rich capitalist richer.
@@imnon1660 I appreciate you sharing this, and I am sorry you had to go through all of that crap, mental health in this day and age is kinda fucked, the lack of affordable services for some, and the lack of services in general for others, I was the latter, when I was diagnosed there was nothing on offer to really support me more then just meds alone which I ended up blaming for my failures when it was really the lack of awareness at the time.
I feel validated by your encouragement, because being unemployed often makes me feel insecure about myself that I ain’t doing much, but I am doing the right thing by putting my mental health first.
I hope you are doing better now or are working towards better because we all deserve better, and this world won’t do it, so must some how rangle our way there, and I say that although being terminally online might not be considered a virtue in the slightest, if it wasn’t for the internet I would have never have got where I am now, without the information I have learned I would’ve probably been on suicide watch myself, knowledge is mighty powerful, and that isn’t something capitalism can keep us from anymore, which is why I maintain general optimism about the world despite the problems it faces.
I must restrain myself from going on a massive tangent, I tend to accidentally do that sometimes, but I again wish you the best.
@Idk__ What do you mean by self sufficient?
We need to pay for bills, power, medication, lighting, water, heating, or modern medicine.
Saying we should give up such commodities is sort of insane because ADHD isn’t really suited to just leaving civil society, the whole hunter gatherer thing is sort of a myth, ADHD wouldn’t really benefit the hunter gatherer life style, it’s just easier to get dopamine, just with a much higher mortality rate for doing simple tasks, then the modern world.
You probably weren’t talking about that but it is just the ADHD response for the whole self sufficiency thing, the your solution to any social problem is return to monke, then you don’t understand why monke was worse.
@@captain-chair There can be some merit to it so don't discard the whole sentiment. One thing, for example, that is self-sufficient-ish would be to form community gardens and tradelines where the food produced and procured can be maximally shared among the community.
Things like power can be scaled down through positive encouragement (weekly community get togethers outside instead of 8 more hours bitching on twitter) and more clever management.
It won't come close to taking care of all of it but even if a strong local scene can shave off 1 hour of obligatory work to pay for overpriced crap then it's one less hour of stress you can use.
There's a little community house close by me that cooks every day and you can join them for free food without any expectations in return. It's not some magical communist eutopia but the comfort of knowing that if anything happens, I can still head there and not starve for a day helps in ways I can't even explain.
My standard response when someone asks; "What do you do?" has always been "As little as possible."
That's hilarious 😂
Haha same. Bare minimum here
I love that. My awkward autistic ass is going to borrow that LOL
Minimum wage Minimum effort as they say
Thats in europe normal thing we dont rush american dream like you 🤣
People wonder why I stay with my delivery job... I work four days a week, have the same schedule, get no arguments when I want time off, and I do one, and only one, job- drop off packages. Once I'm done with that, I gas up, clean the van a bit, then go home. The days are a bit long, yes, but they fly by in no time.
It also helps that I'm one of the favorites. 😂
I work in residential construction, it’s impossible for me to work a bit less, everyone seems to be expecting us to build everything faster and faster and faster.
I've been pushing this message for thirty years now. It got me marginalised as a lazy loser. It's heartening to see this very important set of realisations being promulgated and amplified by voices more respected than mine.
Subbed.
This channel is a beacon for important messages and ideas, for sure. Also lots of great work from Peter Joseph and guys like Lee Camp and Jimmy Dore for some moments of sanity, forward thinking and a little humor at the absurdity of our current system.
@@coolioso808 Jimmy Dore is a complete [curseword redacted] who literally works for the fascist Kremlin. But whatever.
Because you are. A leech from society. But thats how socialism works.
Sorry to hear that Tom! Hopefully you can join our community and fight back against the status quo hyper-work narrative like you have been for so long
The world is changing fast Tom ! Keep your head up and spreading the msg of thinking for yourself more and more ppl will start to see
10 years ago I stopped working overtime, limiting my work hours to an 8 hour day. Originally motivated by a need for less stress.
Now, I get a lot more done; and get to go home at a decent time.
A 4 day week would be bliss.
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Maybe less than 150 years from now we will work even less, let's hope for the future (I mean in the western world, unfortunately)
I had a 4 hour shift; I would LEAVE not one more minute after it was over; I got fired, but that's really what I wanted. I can't stand being an employee, as much as I can't understand how people put up with it. I guess, sadly, some people were born for it? I know people who can't live without somebody telling them who they are, what to do, how far can they can go, if the moon is made out of cheese and if santa claus is real. Really, some people have to be told and that defines them.
Have you talked to your boss about a 4-day week? Personally, I have almost always gotten exactly what I wanted from my boss, by simply doing my job, doing it well, and then openly talking to him/her about how I want my work week to be. I have had bosses that knew they had to call me in if they needed me on days with great surfing conditions, and they really didn't mind because they knew that I would always deliver, and it would always be high quality and on time. That's really all a boss needs. If you haven't tried it, I suggest you go for it, you might be pleasantly surprised. GL 🤞
Me too
@@ViaConDias If I may, can I know what field you're working in?
This is why it is so important to figure out what your interests are when young and do everything you can to work in those fields so that the work is more enjoyable. My Dad always told me I could be anything, but never helped me figure out what I wanted to do for a career, so I, of course, floundered and worked crap jobs for a long time. I was completely miserable and felt stuck. Luckily, I was able to go back to school and figure out my passion, and now my career is so much better.
In a similar situation- what was the passion that you found?
I have been saying this for decades. All grade school does is teach us how to be obedient little 9 to 5ers, not how to problem solve by thinking 'outside the box'. Meanwhile the House of representatives (?) just passed legislation to allow corporations to vote ?? Aren't we going backwards. Thanx 'Second Thought'. Now subscribed !
I work as an artist, and this societal addiction to working for the sake of working has really messed me up sometimes.
Some time ago I changed which hardware and software I used to draw, and it was great! I was getting commissions done significantly faster than my old setup! But I felt this nagging feeling because I wasn't drawing for twelve hours a day anymore. It turns out, a good chunk of those hours were just mundane things like flat colors I have better ways to automate now, or dealing with technical issues from my old setup. Still, somehow I felt guilty because finishing more actual creative work meant I was doing less busywork.
Yep, it's the old adage that a life not spent working like a fucking dog is a life wasted.
Notice how that old notion only applies to working for somebody else in exchange for money.
The actual truth is that the majority of humans feel an innate need to be useful and productive in their own lives and in society. It's ingrained into us due to our evolved traits. People who are incapable of working in some way due to handicaps or disability often suffer with crippling depression that is caused by the feeling of being a useless drain on their families and on society.
Same here! I used to draw in a way that made it impossible to get nice coloring with just the bucket tool, meaning I had to color in everything manually, now after changing my art-style to where using bucket tool (along side few other stuff) significantly reduced my drawing time, and now I have time to do other stuff. I was so surprised once when I realized I completed a drawing that would usually take me over a day in just a few hours.
Sincerely if you use a computer to do gour digital art vs a tablet can u drop what software you use, i have been feeling impossible trying to make digital art and my commissions have been at a standstill because of it. I spend so much time just adjusting and moving levels around and trying to maneuver software that I'm losing my marbles lol
Do u have any advice for becoming an artist that can love off their work?
I’m convinced that 50-70% of all jobs have no tangible positive impact on our world…… and a lot of them have negative impacts. A lot of these jobs are just there to get in the way
Have you read "Bullsh!t Jobs" by David Graeber? This is a well studied fact.
@@07Flash11MRC yes i have, it was an excellent book!
@@z-bird9548 Same. David was a great guy. May he rest in peace.
Marketing/Callcenters/Management, etc?
@@maximilian19931 Fast food. I give you shitty drinks and shitty food that are really not good for you, and I do it for shitty pay. Really, my job could vanish off the face of the earth, and we'd all be better off for it.
I work full-time for a bank, but I also have a side job as an auxiliary police officer. I don't need the side job, but I enjoy it very much and I get a good feeling out of it. It doesn't always pay (we have to do 8 hours of volunteer time a month before we can be eligible for city paid hours at $17 an hour), and side jobs for $50 an hour (like construction site traffic or private events) are few in number, but it's moreso the service to the community that I get out of it. In fact, some of our auxiliary officers only do volunteer hours and take no pay; it's the pride of being of service to the community that motivates them to do it.
Thank you for the video! You are so right on so many levels!
We proved during the pandemic what "Work" really is. The jobs we designated as essential should become the highest paying jobs in the world. We should be rewarding people who are brave enough and dedicated enough to do the "Work" that is needed even if its life threatening. Because these are by definition the jobs we need to do to LIVE and SURVIVE as a society.
Everything else is just busy work. Just luxuries we created to make ourselves more comfortable. But in doing so we created a backwards value system.
A Quaterback on a sports team is worth more than an Educator? A Fire Fighter? A Police Officer?!? Someone who is filmed play acting is worth more than a nurse?!? Someone who sings a nice song is worth more than the people who truck your food to a building and the people who stock it and sell it to you?!? Yeah...sure. Yet that Sports Star, Actor or Musician get to have a fulfilled life, work however many hours they do or dont want to and do it all off the backs of the people discussed in this video. Think not? Stop watching sports, Stop watching movies and tv and stop listening to music and see what happens.
So along with the question of "What would happen if we stopped working" I propose the question "What if we stopped valuing things that dont benefit us directly?!" What would happen if we paid these essential workers more?! Would those jobs become more sought after?! Would someone who has worked decades in an industry be more apt to become an educator rather than a CEO of some pointless company if the EDUCATOR made more money than that CEO job?!? Would the education system change? What would we as a society want to see students learn if we simply stopped valuing the ideals of "BUY! Work more! Climb that ladder?!?"
The phrase "Work Smarter not Harder" is getting lost because working SMARTER means doing something more efficiently...not figuring out how to make it last for millions of hours to pad a paycheck! Because thats all it is. The fear of non 40 hour work weeks is less money. The fear of everyone working from home to get RID of the massive traffic jams and wasted resources is lack of CONTROL and lack of SOCIALIZATION. None of it has to do with productivity or benefits to the masses.
Some of us dont even know what a fulfilling job even looks like because we're never given the room to breathe to come to understand WHAT kind of work would be fulfilling for us. We go through school because its expected and never understand WHY we had to learn what we did or what value it holds, then we're demanded to go to college, not because there may be something of value or interest to us, but because that Bachelors will get us WORK, or that Masters will get us BETTER WORK, or that doctorate will get us BETTER WORK STILL. Will that work we get be something we value outside of money? Probably not.
Some people are lucky. They learn what their calling is and they're allowed to have a job that makes them happy. I salute those people, wish them the best and hope their lives are stellar. But there are a LOT of us getting ground up by a massively broken system that puts all of us in the ledger line of "Liability". Seriously, businesses see the COST of our PAYCHECKS as a LOSS. We're not "assets" because we dont bring in MONEY! THIS is why we have "Mandatory Overtime" and "40 hour work weeks" and "No paid time off". Because these people firmly believe we are items they PURCHASED and should be able to "Use" as they see fit. Quit? They will just go out and buy a replacement. Oh and if they do it right they may be able to get it CHEAPER. Because all the workforce is to these businesses is another expense they have to negotiate down. That President got his new BMW for a deal. Why not his new Customer Service Rep!!
This is the mentality that needs to change. We need to stop perceiving our OWN value as it equates to our work. Maybe if we all start valuing OURSELVES this idiotic "Workforce" mentality will fade. We're not a WORKFORCE. We're all individuals who simply want to work to contribute something meaningful and get a wage to be able to live as our societal structure has mandated.
The speaker is correct. If we all quit tomorrow there would be chaos. Unfortunately I dont think the people EMPLOYING us...quite register that fact.
My parents are always working throughout the weekday. Even when they're done with work, they can't sit still and relax. I really don't want to become like that because it seems so sad. Work is necessary, but overwork isn't.
Maybe they're working that much so you can have a better life than they did. You should talk to them about it.
@itrashcant7947
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Nah they are on the edge of losing their income/house/transportation/status/healthcare 24/7.
I was literally playing a game on my phone at the moment he noted that a large chunk of a person's workday is wasted nothing. I am "working" at the moment. I am so completely uninspired lately.
That’s because not only do most shifts not need to be that long, but most jobs are bs. And not really needed.
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
Join the club buddy
Great job on this video! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and insights 😊
You deserve so much more than TH-cam gives you, thank you for making this fantastic content!!
man i was ridiculed when i spoke things as these with my family and friends. im glad we resonate with each other
Avoid words like socalism, labour, union, and strike and I think most people are onboard, use phrases like we're being take advantage of etc, but then again the rich are the only class with class solidarity :|
There are more of us out here than you think. 😃😄
Depending on the situation you're born into, and, seeing just how hard the media works to control the narrative, it can be hard to see it though, that's true.
((Have you checked out PLN News as well? There are good-news-stories there from all over the globe that aren't likely to be on TV!))
Yeah idk why people have a knee-jerk response that always ends with "youre just lazy" regardless of how hardworking you are
Ridiculed, marginalized & been told I was “lazy” for over 3 decades while working 80+ hours a week. Now I work around 30 hours a week at a job I like & make the same money in an entirely different industry. Tired of the other sh!t - & I’m hacking the system now. Multi-millionaires & billionaires be damned!
@@VvpandoravV Typical gaslighting from the indoctrinated mindless masses of late stage capitalism.
My old work place experimented with 35-38 hour work weeks... by making everyone work 6-7 hour shifts 5 days a week and, since you weren't actually a full time employee because you weren't doing 40 hours, basically no one got health insurance since they were all considered part time (:
That's on top of having to do at least two job's worth of labor, of course
That's fucking slimy
Doesnt seem right most places over 32 hrs is considered full time
That's just it they will find a way to exploit less time as well. Reductions in pay no benefits so on and so forth. The owner class always finds more reasons and methods to exploit the proletariat.
@Masen S serious question, how do you pay for it then? That's what I hate about private insurance, you still have to pay copays, prescriptions, and that's if they even cover your visit. But yea if you're working 28 hours seems like a ton of your check would go to insurance
Shame.. imagine they did that but you had the luxury of full time status too.. capitalism ruins and limits how good we can have it
I work for my self and take two months of for winter n spend time w family n travel. I am happy everyone tells me im crazy and could be making more money. I wasnt always that way. I learned to appreciate my life after my brothers life was taken at 36yo. Prior to that I owned a restaurant n worked 60h work weeks.
I've been self employed about almost 30 years. 2 different small businesses. Find something you love/enjoy and figure out a way to make money doing it. I realized very early on in life I couldn't do a corporate job although I did restaurant work until I was around 22 and couldn't stand being couped up 8 to 10 hours a day.
This video perfectly lays out and validates a lot of the frustrations I’ve had for the past few years. My job is not satisfying whatsoever, and at times it feels downright pointless. However, I’m not against a hard days work. For example, I know how to spin yarn, weave, and sew, which all takes A LOT of work, but to have a piece of clothing you made from start to finish is incredibly gratifying. What makes me even more mad is that 400 years ago these skills would have made me a boon to my community. As well as other skills like, drawing, painting, woodworking, metal casting, and clay sculpting. For such fulfilling work, being an artisan in a automated society is difficult and depressing. Sure I can sell my work but not many people will pay for 100+ hours of human skill and labor, for something that if manufactured would cost 1/10 the price. Lol sometimes I’m like “bring on the apocalypse” so that my hobbies go from dying arts to downright necessary. Full societal collapse is definitely not ideal though 😅
This is why i'm for companies selling DIY products, it's more empowering to have the customer participate in building the product, it creates a sense of ownership and it could make people more responsible about the thing they worked to create.
I agree, I’ve seen electric guitars that were completely built by one person (I mean, the guy even went into the forest to gather the wood) and they looked and sounded incredible!
If you lived in a pre-or post automated society, most people wouldn't be able to afford to buy your craft anyways.
As a fellow fiber artist, I know exactly how you feel with the "bring on the apocalypse" thought. Plus, people would finally realize the value of handmade products instead of thinking the supplies are cheap, so why should the finished product that took days or weeks to make cost so much.
You need to learn how to market and sell... you can have what you want (without the apocolypse)
As an engineer “working the least amount as necessary” is one of the fundamental principles we have in our mind when approaching efficiency. Thats why I systemize my work as I do it to make it more efficient. My work makes the company more efficient. So its a exponential gain.
I've just found that out recently
@@richardl8241 I’m trying to be like you when I’m in my 20s.
Thank god doctors and surgeons don't have this ideology.
Regardless of the civilization/system u live in, “work” =food and shelter. How much of it you need to maintain varies. In western world. Find a gig(s) that pays as much as possible with smallest amount of effort. Pro tip. 🥇
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00:03 🤝 *Introduction and Patreon Support*
- Introduction to the video's topic and Patreon support request.
00:17 🤔 *Hypothetical Scenario of Stopping Work*
- Exploring what would happen if everyone stopped working,
- The importance of work in society.
01:13 😂 *Work and Social Perception*
- The social significance of work,
- The joke about TH-camrs having no friends.
01:43 🔄 *Work's Role in Life*
- Work as a central part of life,
- Introduction to the concept of shorter workweeks.
02:11 🕒 *Four-Day Workweek Experiments*
- Experiments in countries like Iceland on reduced work hours,
- Positive outcomes of shorter workweeks.
03:20 📈 *Work and Productivity Discussion*
- Discussion on productivity and diminishing returns of longer work hours,
- The idea of working less while maintaining productivity.
03:34 🚀 *Exploring the Nature of Work*
- Overview of the video's focus on work,
- Political theory and questioning the necessity and structure of work.
04:01 🏛️ *Politics and Work*
- Political perspectives on work in the U.S.,
- The lack of efforts to reduce work hours.
04:58 📚 *Definitions and Necessity of Work*
- Defining work and its necessity for society,
- The goal of minimizing work to maximize leisure.
06:08 💼 *Capitalism and Work Coercion*
- The coercive nature of work under capitalism,
- The impact of work conditions on individuals.
07:03 🤷♂️ *Work's Ideological and Psychological Aspects*
- The ideological discourse surrounding work,
- Society's collective fantasy about not working.
07:44 🌟 *Meaningful Work*
- Factors that make work meaningful,
- The desire to work on meaningful tasks.
08:26 🤖 *The Reality of Meaningless Jobs*
- The prevalence of perceived meaningless jobs,
- The distinction between meaningless and pointless work.
09:07 ⏳ *Wasted Time at Work*
- The significant amount of time wasted on non-work activities during work hours,
- The concept of "time theft" as worker resistance.
10:05 🏗️ *The Cost of Productivity and Luxury*
- The societal cost of maintaining the appearance of productivity,
- The impact of meaningless work on individuals and society.
11:01 🔄 *Economic and Political Responses to Work Issues*
- Liberal and conservative responses to the problem of overwork and job dissatisfaction,
- Critique of current work-centric policies.
12:10 🚀 *Hustle Culture and Work Identity*
- The rise of hustle culture and its effects on perceptions of work,
- The critique of attaching identity to work.
13:05 🛠️ *Progress in Productivity and Work Hours*
- The historical increase in productivity without a corresponding decrease in work hours,
- The argument for reducing work hours based on efficiency.
14:13 🔍 *Reevaluating Work Hours*
- The potential for reducing work hours by acknowledging meaningless jobs and wasted time,
- The absurdity of the current method of determining work hours.
15:37 🌍 *Vision for a Different Work-Life Balance*
- Advocacy for a society with more leisure time and less work,
- The benefits of reevaluating the structure and amount of work.
16:59 🌟 *Conclusion and Call to Action*
- Summarizing the arguments for reducing work and increasing leisure,
- A call to action for societal change regarding work.
19:02 📢 *Patreon Support Reminder*
- Reminder for Patreon support due to TH-cam revenue issues,
- Invitation to join the creator's community for further engagement.
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I work as an IT the US military, I have more qualifications and certifications than most IT companies would ever need anyone to have minus a college degree yet, and so do the other 2 people I'm in charge of. Our entire job is sitting in a cubicle farm waiting for someone else to call us to tell us something needs us to go to this terminal and check. This entire job can be done by a bash script, and yet there are 3 people here. and we get paid less than what we would get paid if we worked for federal minimum wage. I think the worst part is that I know about 30 people in my small sphere of 100 that can all be replaced by one person and a couple bash scripts. This system is broken and I got in trouble for trying to fix it.
THANK YOU. It always bugged me when people would ask me “What do you do?” How I get money is only a fraction of who I am as a human being. A tiny, tiny fraction.
Interesting. I'm Canadian, and what people here do to get money is often their ONLY identity. Many, many Canadians will do almost nothing with their entire lives except work.
“What do you do?” “When I’m not at work I ____”
For real most people who work those long hrs are who have nothing outside of work. It's sad but also their purpose can't judge people for wanting to feel a purpose for their life.
Exactly bro agh
Um, I don’t think they are trying to reduce you to your job, it’s also part of getting to know you and what you studied or your qualities or what you’re trained in.
“What do you do?” seems to be something only Americans ask. In other countries, it’s generally considered intrusive to ask that of someone you just met. At least in my experience.
Yeah, in my country it only comes up from people who are either Americans who came to live or work here for some reason or another or it's at a business or work related party/event. Our jobs are, well, just that, jobs, they're not our lives and are mostly irrelevant with some exceptions.
I live in America and I also find it rude and never ask ppl that cause first off what I notice is if you don't work in a office or a job that's known to pay well ex: Truck driver, electrican, wielder.
You'll get a lack luster "oh" and you can just tell your being judged cause you weren't among the lucky few. But something I also notice ask these same ppl what are their hobbies or what they do for fun and it's often nothing.
@@jadibdraws I don't think it's rude for Gen Z. We don't really judge anymore. It's still interesting to see what people find for work. If anything, I'm looking for ideas. lol
I could relate. Family members asked this question a lot and I HATE it
I'm American and I think it's intrusive. I feel like the person is sizing me up.
Thank you! It's like ... being heard. 😌🙏🏻
There's a difference between the basic measurement of work and the economic counterpart where we go and trade our energy for time and resources. Work in itself is just the natural process of change. The biggest difference between a unit of work and working a job is the job poses itself as something necessary while work by itself doesn't need to be recognized.
I've been saying this for years. I've spent so much useless time at work day dreaming of doing something I actually care about, seeing people killing themselves for just about nothing. I've had jobs that ran me like a dog, and I've had jobs that had me doing nothing. It's ridiculous to me that we can't just...shorten shifts, hire people to take the hours that one person isn't stuck in, and paying people the same wages they'd make for an eight hour shift. Like. It's not that fucking hard.
and this is how you get inflation and homeless people because your just lazy
And they can totally afford it!
Start ypmour own Company and do exactly that!
Unions are likely to make a huge comeback with Gen Z and the next Gen and I sincerely hope it does. After working in the private sector and lucking out and getting a public sector union job I realized just how necessary unions are. Every company should have a union to stop higher ups from having runaway salaries and taking money from below them to pay for it. I saw this in practice when I worked for a large medical testing lab during covid. The company culture told us that we were a family and therefore had to tighten our belts and take a temporary pay cut. Easy to guess that those at the department head level didn't even get the slightest cut. In fact I heard our director got a bonus for our labs work and effort to meet quotas. The Union busting of the 80s was the worst mistake in government. Know your worth and don't think that you'll get to a director's level just by working at a company for 20 years. It's a game of "who do you know" not "work hard get rewarded". Everyone needs to know that a small Union Due in the hands of people who actually care for you is insanely necessary for any job.
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
Amen to the union aspect
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Unions had a comeback recently in Poland. They concentrate on supporting some politics. No shit said about working problems in their company.
@@mariapiekutowska2570 Yeah well Poland went to war in septic tanks, I heard.
as a single mother, i only worked part-time..when my son grew up i tried to work 5 days which was so tiring i had a stroke now i am sixty i work 3 days a week after taking 7 years to recover....decreased callouts and lower medical cost should support 4 day work week.a
My grandfather was a middle school principal for twenty years. He only had a few years of retirement before dying of a massive heart attack in his early sixties in 1998.
My own father worked extremely hard to provide for our family. He had two failed businesses one of them having to be sold because of the recession. When he got a job that payed more money than he had ever made he too died of a massive heart attack at the age of 52 in 2016. His job was extremely stressful.
At my recent internship, they were trying out a 4-day week for the summer. I was also tracking the time I spent taking breaks so that I didn't feel as guilty for taking them while also making sure not to waste _too_ much time. When summer ended and I got my first 5-day week, my timer on how much time I spent actually working showed that I did about the same amount of work during a 4-day week as I did during a 5-day week, only with the latter coming with extra stress.
They do this at Clorox.
Whenever there is a public holiday in the middle of a week, and we end up having the 4 day work week, I noticed how I always got more done than I got done in a 5 day week. Even a break in the middle of the week increases productivity so much
I had a friend who’s whole life revolves around working as many hours as possible out of choice. They aren’t struggling for money, they aren’t desperate for anything, they’ve just learned to base their idea of success off of how many hours they work in a week. It just seems so sad to me idk
If that gives them fulfillment the rest of us should be grateful. We depend on people like your friend to keep our cars running, water flowing and electricity on.
I was always the hardest worker at every job I worked at because I set that very goal at every job under the belief that hard work will get you up the ladder. But now at 40 I'll say that last year was when all the things came together to make me just do enough not to get fired. Since I started working at 16 I've since realized that a hard worker is rewarded with having more work thrown on you by management who is too weak and incompetent to make lazy workers pull their own weight. They don't appreciate your hard work and if you bring up the crummy way your treated you have an attitude problem and aren't a team player. One main thing will get you up the ladder in the workplace that I'll never partake in........ ASS KISSING. I have something called pride and will never be managements bitch. Granted I'll never get on what is referred to as the top but at least I can fall asleep at night without knowing deep down that I'm somebody's bitch and having to concoct a plan to try and hide the fact from everyone including myself.
@@harrison00xXx the guy in his example didn’t sound burnt out. But if You are that bitter and resentful about working please stop and reevaluate your life 🙏🏻
@@harrison00xXx The richest person I personally know is very happy with his life...beautiful house, healthy kid, eats in nice restaurants.
@@kayligo that doesn’t constitute a happy life but okay-
At around the 6:30 mark, the narrator says "work will set you free," which was the slogan in the Nazi labor camps "Arbeit macht frei" (literally "work makes free").
I work for a company that had normally 12 to 16 hour workdays. When I went on vacation, I went over 1 day and had my pay docked.
A good analogy for modern work would be what happened during the invention of the vacuum cleaner. During that time people thought the vacuum would free up extra time for homemakers and give them time to relax. However, the homemakers started to work more harder then before because the exception for a cleaner home had risen due to the vacuum cleaner.
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This was true with most domestic work as outlined in a lot of feminist literature. The more we innovated, the more time and effort we saved, the more homemakers filled their days with "busywork" because they were bored and unfulfilled with wasting their lives. In addition to "mommy's little helper" (aka pills/alcohol) to cope with their conditioned shame and drudgery, they added bs work like scrubbing the tile grout in the bathroom with a toothbrush, ironing the bed sheets, laying out their husbands clothes, or washing the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher etc...
@@avamasquerade plus lets be honest historically the kitchen was the cozy safe place to be, it not like women were forced into the kitchen, the kitchen was the cool place to be back then
What are you taking about? Yes women were forced to be there. It was legal to fire a woman for getting married or pregnant or to pay them less than men. Women who worked were looked down upon.
@@Andy-pr5be Women who did much of anything else tended to try their best to present as a man to make sure they didn't get much flak, unless they were of a high enough status that most people wouldn't give them any shit, and most still would.
I can say I'm not getting notifications for your uploads. I realised today I haven't watched one of your vids in a while. This was great.
@will1316 JT doesn't miss. Plus, his videos are very good to send to friends and family, just to stir things up and take them out of their comfort zone.
That's what I did,our place is paid for. I don't have to buy tires every year, no huge fuel bill and no break downs, and the money we spend on food has dropped dramatically, we grow a garden, raise cows, chickens and sheep, and get alot more work done everyone should try it.
I've said it before and I'll say it again-- lying flat is the single most effective means of bringing down capitalism and there's a good reason why wealthy people are so especially hostile towards the lying flat movement.
you are going to be lying flat on the ground after the amazon security team beats you to death for not showing up to your 18 hour shift
@@meepy546 Weird thing to say. Thankfully I don't work for Amazon and if you knew what lying flat meant, you'd realize how dumb your comment makes you look. But A+ for the effort to sound edgy, it was a good try.
i have a question if EVERYONE did that wouldn't that also damage any society capitalists or not?
@@themageofspace5516 It would certainly damage any society built on rampant consumerism and infinite growth. If everyone lied flat less would get done, but less would need to get done
@@callowaymotorcompany I can kind of see what you're getting at but also if everyone did nothing then society's over all wealth will go down if we laid flat would you have your phone you do now? would you have the same living standards? So answer me this what would happen if our society became less productive? It would also damage communism someone doing nothing is a burden onto society they consume but never give back.
This is an absolute masterpiece. You spoke out so many thoughts I've had over the last years. The amount of value created by automatisation and industrialisation should make it possible to live a decent life with decreasing working hours. The fact that so much value is going to the richest 2-3% directly, instead back to the people creating this value is the reason why we still have to work 40hrs/week in order to achieve a decent standard of living. Or even managing to pay rent.
you don't feel valued so may as well just call out sick
I highly recommend the book "The Overworked American" by Juliet Schor. She runs the numbers on this and concludes the same. It's shameful we've gone the entire computer age, since 1938, with no downward adjustment in the work week. Every time the 1% has pressured toward taking rewards as more money rather than more free time, and then they'll try to share as little of that money as possible. It'll take voting in politicians who'll change the labor laws and reviving unions to change that. They won't do it out of the goodness of their hearts.
There is somewhat of a Darwinian problem to cutting back. Countries that don’t keep up the pace risk falling behind and finding themselves undermined to more advanced, cheaper competitors a few decades later. However, as usual the socialist criticism to capitalism is spot on. There is a lot of BS in work, which we would do well to eliminate. I feel like this would happen naturally if businesses were more democratically governed. It’s still feudalism in the office and the power disparity makes it too open to abusive or even just simply neglectful behaviors, which don’t get fixed because those who suffer under them have little to no voice.
@@ianollmann9393 thanks for your accurate and thoughtfull input!
@@youtubesucks1499 Call those people shareholders and you will see that is what already occurs, give or take a bit of automation.
9:00 I'm at work as an EMT watching waiting for a call lol.
And I just got one, brb
As someone who’s a 24/7 caregiver I very much look forward to retirement soon, I’ve done this job for 11 years.
"We can build a world where work is rewarding meaningful and fair."
I fully agree, however, I no longer believe it will happen without bloodshed.
Sounds like what Andrew Ryan envisioned for his underwater city without the whole "entitled to the sweat of his brows" part.
And it will end up with very similar aspects: how do we address the necessary yet unfulfilling job allocations ? For all the leisure available, how much of our standards of living are we willing to give up on ?
Those need to be addressed in a very real manner that is more transparent than "lol the government will figure it out".
Mark Twain on the French revolution:
"There were two “Reigns of Terror,” the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror-that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves."
Are you aware of the principles of a Natural Law Resource Based Economy? And some of the logical transitions that could get us there? Namely: Localization, automation, access, open source and digital network feedback. Some countries and cities in the world have enough of a social safety net, even in this crazy economy, for their people to build these systems up to the point where money and markets have little affect on people obtaining their basic needs. If some place can achieve that, the word can spread, and once that happens, it could snowball into people all over the world standing up to demand that the system change happens for them too!
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As long as the working class is not killing itself, I'm ok with gutting the top billionaires.
Reminder that you are legally protected to talk about your wages with your co workers in the US
if most us can see the scam that's when we see a change
most of us already see the scam, nothing is changing
@@fortytwo244 if so pass them the news of the Haitian national strike to pass them new ideas
@@davidparker7216 nobody cares about Haiti bro
In my old job everyone knew what we made, but one coworker was stubborn to share their wage giving a bs reason why they don't share it.
And employers have plenty of excuses to fire you if you do, so...
I drove a cab in a city where the meter was split w the company (no bullshit lease for me) and was a standby driver. I woke up every day with the free choice of whether or not to drive. I f I had better things to do, I did not. But interestingly, the no pressure to work reality causes me to do it fairly often.and even though it’s seen as low status job, when I got done each night, I felt I had done something w meaning, moving people around safely and cheaply, having nice conversations. As long as I drove once a month, I was kept as an active driver. This was paradise to me. Sorry it’s all gone with horrible companies like Uber.
i’m an electrician and i work m-f 6-2 and it’s not bad i only pick up overtime if i need extra money. but let me tell you a 32 hour work week would absolutely make me more productive. i feel like when i get to thursdays my productivity drops drastically because im just tired and the weekend only gives me just enough time to recoup
This video came at the perfect time because I’m already planning my exit plan from my toxic job. I have been so stressed at my toxic job that I experienced chest pains, headaches, anxiety, and depression. Management doesn’t care and only metrics matter not the employees. I already planned my PTO this summer.
The book 'When the Body Says No' by Gabor Mate opened my eyes to just how damaging this kind of stress can be.
There definitely seems to be an idea that more time “working” means more productivity/ a better outcome in things like education as well. Often times kids just end up sitting around or do meaningless busy work because they have to be there for 7 hours as opposed to using this time for more/better learning. Some areas around the world have shorter school hours yet see an increase in learning outcome, which is definitely something the US could benefit from
Many really don’t give respect to how important one’s free time really is and that seems to apply to kids in school as well
Problem is, more often than not schools serve as daycare just as much as education. As long as parents work 40 hours week, children will have to be at school the same, even if it's inefficient.
The concept that time spent working == value produced has resulted in quite a lot of damage. Spending 50 years making a bic pen that sells for $1.05 at Walmart still only results in a pen worth $1.05. So why should 40 hours spent doing something that could be done in 1 result in more pay?
@@_asphobelle6887 in Germany, children below age 10 only have half a day of actual lesson time. After lunch they go to "Hort" which is in the same school building but rather than lessons it is mostly fun activities and also time for homework. It isn't free but very cheap like 100€ per month. (In my opinion it should be free though) Anyway the US could easily do the same thing. Keep the same teachers and buildings, but only do structured learning for half the day and the rest is just play time.
Professional educator here: it actually gets worse.
There's a thing called "cognitive load," the tl:dr version of which is basically: the more information you throw at someone, the less they'll learn.
Yes. Really. There's an inverse relationship between increasing the amount of educational information, and how much of it they retain. It's almost as if... learning stuff takes effort, and the more effort exuded the worse the work gets. Where have we heard this one before?
There are so many systemic problems with the traditional school system, especially in American, where it was built as a factory for producing people, as Carlin put it, "just smart enough to run the machines and do the paper work, but just dumb enough to passively accept worsening conditions..."
Society has needed a revamp for decades, as so has the school system. Many great people go through these systems, but they haven't adapted to the needs of our time because the socio-economic system is so toxic.
The idea we grow up as kids with all this wonder and joy, then starting going to school, for generally respectable reasons: to learn to read, write, calculate and think. Then we get older and find out there is this impending system "need" waiting for us when we turn the legal age. We have to labor-for-income, for our livelihood! That's where it has all gone wrong. Capitalism incentivizing profit over people is an unsustainable model. Depression is likely to set in.
Instead, we should have a system where our basic needs are met, locally, by design and school is evolving to adapt to our interests and needs. If kids don't want to be in 'this school' or 'that school' we can have small tutor or mentor teacher groups that foster the child's interests and needs. This isn't done because of artificial 'cost'. But the cost ends up on society when we push kids through a system, they miss out on a lot, get hurt and confused a lot and then can fall prey to bad influences, and drain and strain our health care or law enforcement systems.
It's avoidable, but only if we change systems.
In the Netherlands it’s pretty common/the norm not to work a full week. My mom only works 4 days and the fourth day she stays at home where she has less tasks and is done earlier. Also she’s able to leave her work when she’s done all her tasks, so it happens quite often that she’s home earlier.
I'm only 30 and my back, knees, and elbows are essentially ruined from my jobs. I can't do activities that I've wanted to do all my life because i dont think my body could handle it. It now hurts when i stand for more than an hour or two. I can't sit down or lay down and ever feel comfortable because of pain or the discomfort of feeling like my joints are compressed. I had to move back with my parents because i just cant afford to stay out on my own. Im going nowhere, and im exhausted.
In short, in America at least, we don't work to live, we live to work. Trust me, I can find WAY much more meaning outside of work, especially with my past few (office) jobs. I still can't even explain what I did there. Also, it's time to normalize actually being lazy sometimes and not feeling guilty about it. I certainly don't 💅
Your PHSYCIAL, MENTAL, and SPIRITUAL HEALTH is BY FAR more MEANINGFUL than any type of career!!!
When my grandma was working for the government, in her final years there, there was 2 full time employees assigned to do an amount of work that would take up maybe 10 hrs a week. So her and her coworker would just read novels or the paper and chat for most of their time at work every week. But they still both had to go into the office 9-5 every week day. I think I would go crazy.
that sounds like a blessing from the other side of the spectrum, much better than being overworked so hard just to barley afford living
@@kripticlunar8198fair but I will share that I personally go crazy from having to work a 9-6 (we have a 1 hour lunch break in my country) and not actually doing anything. Maybe it's because I work in the private sector and am afraid I'll become unemployable due to a lack of skills and if/when the company decides I am overpaid? That's another topic of course but I really do have to tell myself to suck it up each day (at least until something else comes along)
@@kripticlunar8198Yeah that’s why I’m gonna personally put in for time change at my job hopefully they granted
My buddy works for city parking. He is expected to sleep or waste 3 hours a day!
To be fair you get paid to read or watch a show. It's a good gig. 120 years ago we would have been working 12 hour shifts in factories 6 days a week so I think we're doing pretty damn good.
I love thought experiments like this, especially on such an important topic.
I'm glad you said "if you go to parties," instead of assuming everybody goes to parties or has the opportunity to.
I was a machine designer for over 45 years. I "knew" that this is what I wanted to do since I was about 12 or 13 years old and took courses and jobs that allowed me get the job I wanted. I thoroughly enjoyed it thru the years. I still pick up a few odds and end jobs. But there are limits to everything. There needs to be "me" time to keep your mind sharp and maintain the enthusiasm. It seems like most managers have propensity to kill whatever enjoyment one has for their job and absolutely no understanding how that affects the very productivity that they desire. The last guy I worked for before retiring didn't require any time sheets or hours reports. As long as what needed to get done, got done when required, he didn't care how many or how few hours I worked.
One thing that helped me was that after a while, I didn't fear losing my job if I took time off or refused to work OT or take on jobs that completely disrupted my personal life. It's very liberating to have that attitude. I was threatened with termination several times, but it never happened.