How Capitalism Ruined Work
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If you’re unemployed, it isn’t because there’s no work. There is, and always will be, work to be done. So...what's going on? Why are there so few meaningful jobs, and why are they getting replaced by alienating, meaningless labor?
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"When I was young I was poor. Now, after I've pulled myself by the bootstraps, got good education, worked extra hours, never took sick leave, ate junk food to save money, I am no longer young"
And you have very little time left for life.
The American dream.
The American work ethic
"Ah yes, how could you tell I was deteriorating faster than the next economic crisis?"
@@Yandel21ableify
The American Nightmare.
"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?" - Charles Bukowski.
@@thomasmaughan4798 Good for you man. Some of us ain't that lucky.
@@thomasmaughan4798
And you're employer was probably laughing up a storm at that load of crap behind your back all the way to his offshore accounts.
@@f1r3hunt3rz5 Ah yes, luck, of course...
@@TuEIite kind of lucky bcs in this time is so hard to find a job :/ I hate this sistem so much
@@whutcat682 There are job shortages almost everywhere...
its crazy how all those “ unskilled low-wage” employees were all of a sudden “essential workers”
What's even more crazy is that conditions for low wage workers is even worse now than before covid because low wage employers can't get enough workers to do these shitty jobs for shitty pay, so they are perpetually understaffed, placing even more burden on existing 'essential' workers.
And still they refuse to offer the pay and conditions that would pull these workers in
Amazing comment
Well not all of them, but definitely most of them
Funny how that works.
Nothing makes my blood boil like hearing “we made record profits last year!” And then being told i will not receive a raise or added benefits.
They list that kind of shit in job listings now, under the "why work for us?" section
Like why would I give even a quark of a proton of an atom of a fuck about that? It has literally zero correlation to worker pay in almost every company on Earth (and even in the few exceptions, you have to be very high up for it to matter)
In a meeting, the company I work for announced that they had made an extra 1.2 million dollars, immedietly after that they told us they were no longer providing us with water and we would have to bring our own.
Greed hurts everyone at work someone I know works for US Steel and they treat their employees with respect and pay bonuses when they make profits
@@Guitarplayer22222 plastic water is bad
that's the american way LMFAOOO. heard it many times here in canada from canadians involved in american-run companies. 🥳
Do NOT listen to this at work. Damn near walked off the job 😂
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Your emotional response is correct,now we have FIGHT, with our vote, with our voices, with our feet in the streets!! Please don't just walk out though,I did that once and ended up having a hard time finding another.Be strong,be informed,you got this!
I played it out loud
I bet my old boss would've fired me on the spot if he saw me watching this (on my break of course) and I would've just said "Okay bye"
I have become antiwork this year.
I did everything I was "supposed" to do. I went to university, got into debt (not in the US, so not nearly as much as you guys), studied something that was supposed to be profitable but also cool to do, etc. Then, when I graduated in 2019, I saw that employers didn't want me because I had no experience, so I was forced to work minimum wage to survive while I continued to search in my field. I changed jobs in search of better conditions, but they all suck and made me so depressed.
Then, I started doing some freelance work, and while it wasn't very stable, it was starting to pick up. Then, the pandemic happened and all my contracts stopped. I was working part-time as a dishwasher to complement my freelance work, but the dishwasher job continued and the freelance stopped. I got CERB, but I was forced to keep the dishwasher job or else I would lose everything.
Then, in the fall, I finally got hired by the only company that didn't care about experience (they hired everyone who passed their ridiculous tests). They only wanted the best of the best. What did they pay, tho? 18 CAD per hour. Laughable. I told myself I would collect some experience there and change jobs later, but they ended up firing me after my probation because I wasn't improving as fast as they wanted me to. Their expectations are off the charts and most people leave after two years. I was doing as much as I could.
Since then, I'm on unemployment and I see jobs never showing the salary, asking for a minimum of 5 years experience and just generally being shitty. Fuck this, I just want to live. Why does it have to be so complicated??
This comment should honestly be front and centre. The staunch defenders of the system might pull out arguments for why it's not the fault of the system, but I think many people would see themselves in this.
It's got me thinking about looking to other countries for permanent dwelling in the near future. I don't care what sacrifices I have to make, but it beats sitting around and waiting for things to change in the US.
@@normandy2501 I want to do the same honestly. Canada is not as bad as the US, but by having it as a neighbor, it drags us down with it. "If you offer those conditions, we won't be able to compete with the US" or "Quit complaining, people in the US pay X for this". European working rights sound like a dream to me.
Yeah,same. We can't go on like this
Dude i am the same...
went into aeronautical engineering and when i came out in top 7-8% of my class (studying in a foreign language, not even english but a third language amongst locals) i was actually unable to find work in a field that pre-corona was supposedly lacking workers. Employers were looking for 5+ years of experience with certificates showing specific knowledge on specific aircrafts (certificates that both cost and require 3+ years experience on those aircraft) whilst wanting to pay under 1k-1.5k$ salary. we are talking about highly qualified engineering jobs at a country where middle class is starting from ~3.5k+$ salaries and goes way up...
so my basically "empty meaning" degree meant nothing.
was looking for a job in the field for over 6 months to find a barely ok position with the understanding of salary being raised within 6 months.... corona hit and i was let go for few months and then they got me back. the 6 months probation started over...
but because i requested 2 months of unofficial work "illegal" ( i wanted to participate in a eu program for some basic pilot training that required u being unemploeyd) thsoe 6 months got reset again.
and after the 2 months passed and i realised that the programm was a joke and they werent ever gonna start it, i left it and requested my work becomes official again. they were saving significant money not paying taxes for me and my helthcare costs (almost 1/3 of my salary ontop the money paying me) so it took them 7 more months to get me official again...
and due to corona i wasnt able to leave that job
and when i became an official employee again, the 6 month clock was RESET once again!!!
thats the second best paying place in this country in aviation (after air traffic controllers, which is a goverment job that pays great, but i dont want that stress currently in my early to mid 20s...)
sooo with over 2 years experience at this point, as an aeronautical engineer, whose job includes actually taking engineering decisions and responsibility with my signature on a document, i am being payed under half what would take for me to enter the lowest amount to start be considered a middle class...
i am actually making just above 20$ whats considered the poverty line for the capital city of the country - where i live...
and me managing to survive financially is based on me leaving in a college dorm (that actually costs nothing) due to me doing a double masters... which i am concluding litterally next week and will not affect my pay in any way!!! but that also means i will have to go on rented housing which with current pricing will actually put me in negative budgets by living the same way i do now... (which would be me spending less than 50$ a month for ALL of my hobbies and enjoyments)...
so yeah... maybe the job isnt terrible (though i have to do many things i am uncomfortable with (as to approving things i dont agree with), but this is a routine that must be broken. not for one person (like me or you) but for the entire working class...
but unfortunately the US is a leader in terrible worker rights and too many places are copying them...
When minimum wage workers get stimulus checks, people say they don't need it because they'll waste it on drugs or Starbucks. Yet when CEOs get $10M salaries, I never hear anyone say "they don't need $10M because they'll waste it on a third yacht."
Because they own the company. If you Want more, do more or find a better job. Work. Don't be lazy.
Thefilmboy is a bootlicker.
@@AHess007 Says the guy who has never worked a single day in his life.
@@proudbrogressive315 the video is up now. Bro thinks I don't work.
That's the cancer of capitalism but Goodluck telling that to a brainwashed American
A guy says to me: "I want a job, I want money, and I want a car." That's not true!
You want to do interesting things that you find fulfilling, you want access to resources, and you want to go places and be able to get there fast.
If you think you want "a job"... Boy, they did a real good number on you.
- Jacque Fresco
Wow, I love this
It's not true because we NEED a job to do those things you mentioned. This quote simply says no to capitalism without providing any real reasoning or suggestions to change it.
I get it, you guys don't like capitalism. Might as well throw your computer away or put it to extra good use by allowing everybody on your block to use it.. Hell, send everybody on your block that uses it a portion of the energy bill. They'll sign right up. .. ?
@@WokeAFMillennial you're the one they did a real good number on, aren't you
@@obsoleteoptics I don't know, aren't I?
@@WokeAFMillennial obviously 🙄
Shit like this is why I support the general strike that has been happening globally lately. People are sick of the Bullshit Jobs. People are sick of Long Hours, Bad Wage, and No Benefits. People are sick of having to pick between gas in their car or food on their plate.
The fight for 15 is over: These People fight for a permanently livable wage.
I need to be able to invest so I can escape the dystopian hellscape USA. Slave wage jobs don't even pay for basic needs. Let alone provide for the capacity to save or invest. I won't work for anyone that doesn't pay enough to meet ones needs. As IF I can't escape the USA death is my ONLY path.
EVERYONE has a right to a living wage, and a fixed work schedule plus benefits.
What's the alternative?
Wait, global strike?
You mean Marx was right about a global class solidarity emerging after the creation of a global communications tool?
Is that what we’re seeing unfold right before our eyes? A global class solidarity?
WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!!
@@MrKIMBO345 And you think there would be no exploitation then? Naive you...
The harder you work, the quicker your boss can retire. He'll enjoy that boat you've always wanted.
Or you are forced to work and earn nothing because the government forced you.
"There are only two certainties in life - death and taxes."
- Except if you're rich, in which case you can legally dodge taxes and thus pay less in tax than your average worker. And even postponing death itself is also becoming a real possibility for the rich with nanotechnology, so that statement is only a half-truth. It's rather ironic how the richer you are, the less taxes you pay. The secret is to move away from income-based salary into capital gains and store away your wealth in trust funds and holding companies.
@@brazghost what?
@@brazghost yeah, the military sucks as a jobs program right?
@@brazghost Through what authority? Oh they have weapons? We do too. They have an army? We do too. Only a truly disgusting army of individuals could use their arms to oppress their fellow citizens, their families, all for a minuscule gain.
What is most frustrating and confounding is the vast number of people who are not only exploited by this system, but who fight vigorously to keep it all this way.
By voting Republican.
@@lind3237 by voting either side
Very true
@igakoga2481 Exactly!
I hope 100 years from now as a society we will be able to look back on this time in history and realize how awful it was that society used to be structured this way
It is time for paid vacation to be mandatory for all workers and each worker needs to make a living wage
life is bad now, it's gonna be a lot worse in a hundred years. It isn't possible to have ever-increasing automation, A.I., overpopulation, capitalism, climate change and ecological destruction without resulting in the kind of techno-feudalism envisioned by movies like Elysium and Ready Player One. Don't have kids, kids.
Humanity will be long dead after 100 years buddy
We won’t be able too because we would have worked are selfs into nonexistent and the aliens exploring this planet will only have clues to what has happened
You mean like we now see communism and socialism?
It’s not a labor shortage. It’s a fair treatment and reasonable pay shortage. It’s up to employers to provide what we want if they want us to work for them. This is the free market they love So much. The economy is made of people. So many forget this fact.
I'm browsing for the "Suck it up no excuses" type lol
@Sophie troll bot - vuvuzella iPhone - socialism is when capitalism
Corporatism is not capitalism. The government helped build many of these giant corporations which take advantage of people. People should support their local/ small businesses.
Dude just make your own company. Why have the people you can't trust fix your problem. TF wrong with you? Make a competitor. They don't have employees to meet demand. Be the change you want to see
@Sophie These aren’t exclusive to communism you know that right?
What I've found through working retail and fast food is, if you work hard you aren't rewarded, you are just given more work than everybody else
If you work hourly, as long as you are doing the job and not screwing up/causing problems, there's no financial advantage to doing more work than you have to unless you just happen to enjoy it.
That is not unique to retail OR fast food. ALL bad employers do that - doesn't matter if you make $10k or $100k. A bad boss is a bad boss. Find a better one.
I would suggest quit those industries and get into somekind of skilled labor. Or start you own bussiness.
@@juanc10finally someone in these comments that makes sense 💯💯👍☝
Amen. I have had to tell people not to overwork or else it will become expected of us and sure enough it did. It wasn’t that we had the extra time, it just so happened they hadn’t worked a busy shift yet and once they did, their overworking added a whole new set of responsibilities for the position.
College for me was a highway to oblivion.. graduated in 1986, five years later, came to the realization that it was devalued and useless. Been working a boring, unimportant meaningless job making no difference in my life or the life of others. I’m 58..
Well at least you didnt graduate in the 2000s. Small consolation I suppose.
you should then just get a new job that is entraining and important and does make a difference in your life others as well stop being a slave and charge into your own bright better future NOW.
@@Elitesolider1023 lol "if u get new job fings better"
I've been working for Amazon as a packer for almost 3 years. Every once and while, something will happen with the system of conveyers that move shipments around the FC (usually a jam or mechanical fault) that will prevent us from working for hours on end (I work a 10hr shift). When this happens, the managers will literally just have us stand there (sitting is considered a safety hazard) aimlessly until they fix the problem. The last time this happened was hilarious because they called MET (Mandatory Extra Time), meaning we had to stay for an extra hour and half. Right around the time our shift normally would have ended, something happened with the conveyers and we ended up doing absolutely nothing for the extra hour and half we were required to stay. It really baffles me why they do the things they do, it seems contrary to the profit motive that drives capitalism.
I am convinced that you are paid to be miserable, and not paid to actually do a service. Waste your time and do it with a smile.
It's not about profit. It's about subjegation and domination. Profit is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that you know that they control you, your life, your time and even your toughts and that you know that you can't do nothing about it, because you are alone. Money is merely an instrument of control.
@@aleksapetrovic6519 I had the same thought watching the video. Labor and employment are weapons, used to keep those of us who work too tired, placid and afraid of losing our incomes to fight our abusers, and to ensure those who don't work lack to means to fight anyway.
Dude, that is so so abusive.
"Sitting is considered a safety hazard". Bruh.
I'm an engineer for a prestigious American space agency. 90% of my job is not important and could be accomplished easily with software. 10% of it is important, but none of it is "essential."
Nasa
Space X
read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber: you aren’t the only one experiencing thjs
Write the software and sell it to the company, if what you say is true.
@@Soulwrite7 he said he's an engineer, like physical, not software engineer
This released a minute ago people are disliking it without even being physically able to watch it all….
People who are right wing.
Most of the videos in this channel have a 0.04 max disapproval so I wouldn't worry about it. Every village has a madman or 2
@@haroldinho9930 bro he just recycles all the time the things he already has said before. Im not even on the right-wing but he has to shape his content in another form cause it's getting tiring to hear the same things all the time. I mean I love his videos about patriotism and other related problems. he does a very good job explaining some basic and fundamental ideologies but he needs a change I feel like. Okay we heard that capitalism is bad and this and that and the other, but enough. I don't dislike his videos I just don't even the interest too, when I see there is not change cause I already know from the beginning what he is going to talk about. I'm, not mad or whatever I'm just explaining my point of view since I'm long time fan of his channel since his video with the grandpa paradox.. lol it's been a while.
@@theleeda5565 More like every planet has a few million.
@@haroldinho9930 One more thing that I saw right now, his video about Findland's homelessness was fucking awesome because It was something interesting and different. This is how you explain the capitalistic problems, comparing them with other ideologies and doings.
“we put more than half of our waking hours into a job, regardless of its necessity, so that we can simply pay for our miserable existence”
we have to help the people that pay us destroy our environment.
Like I say; we work to live so we can live to work. Work to keep on living so we can keep on working.
As someone without a job, I notice these trends among the employed. It's really sad and frustrating watching people put their job before literally everything else in their life. Like even taking out the trash. "i worked hard today, i can't clean up after myself"
Growing up in america, i've come to think everything is just a scheme to take my money or time.
Exactly I have always put myself first before a job
No joke: I'm sitting at my "awesome and fulfilling" healthcare "career" on a Saturday morning watching this and it crushes my soul to hear my ENTIRE EXISTENCE and life experience summed up in so few words.
I thought in healthcare I would be making a difference. At the end of the day, I am just another factory worker getting as much product in and out per day for my overlords as I possibly can. It just so happens the product is YOU.
Did you know, internally, management does not even refer to you as patients? You are a "customer" when you walk into the hospital, i.e. a source of income, not a human being.
Exactly. Makes no sense for healthcare to be a private industry. Pure evil.
I've heard Doctors have high levels of narcissism these days and most people going to medical school are just chasing money, not striving to cure the sick and heal the poor.
Thanks for sharing your story !
Super wealthy: There needs to be these jobs to have people under chronic stress and anxiety to keep them sick and dependent on the health (sick) care system, (pharma, insurance, hospitals, etc) to keep us super wealthy
@@jonbob732 If you do not care about helping people in healthcare, you are not doing your job. If you do not treat other human beings like human beings, then you do not act like a human being yourself. You act like you are made of money when money is more important to you than people. Gene Ward, I feel very bad for you if capitalism makes being good at your job pointless.
@@loui2w118 We can live without you, super wealthy! We don't need to take your jobs, and the economy will not collapse when you are not kept super wealthy.
I find it amazing that during the industrial revolution we fought for an 8hr work day to regulate the length of a working day, preventing excesses and abuses.(I.e. to stop having 10 - 16 hr workdays). Got those 8 hr workdays were people only had to work one job and no longer had to work in excess and be abused. Fast forward to today. We have 4-8hr workdays per job *2-3jobs=back to 10 -16 hr workdays.
America needs a revolution, and i dont mean riots or some protest, i mean setting up Guillotines in front of Wall Street and White house, where lines of politicians, upper class bureaucrats and rich corporates are waiting to be beheaded
I'm so mad and sad at the same time reading of people required to work 80-100 hours per week: with 100 hours of work/week and 7 hours/sleep per day, you are left with like 30 minutes of freetime per day. I removed the time i think you need for hygiene, making and eating food as well.
This is literally "living to work" and not "working to live".
@@AxenfonKlatismrek You need to have a positive foundation and invested leaders for such an act, and do everything required to prevent it from becoming a tyranny of the masses like the French Revolution.
Dedicate yourself. Do something with all of your focus for 100hrs/week and do it for 15-20 years, see where that gets you. It gets you in a position where after those 20 years you get to choose if you want to work or not for the rest of your life.
But instead it seems most people rather half-ass it, complain, waste time and after 50 years they end up nowhere.
I work 11 hours 5 days a week but they take off 2 hours on 1 day like that really matters and I get 7.25$ an hour
Damn. This really hits me. I have studied philosophy and have been a 'jobhopper' for years. I graduated in 2014 and this has been going on even before that period. I've tried quite some jobs in my life, but every time I am confronted with the utter meaningless of it, or have to deal with annoying managers who pretend to know better. Some people think that I am 'high-demanding', but this is really not the case. I just want to know that my work is really contributing to society. I don't give a shit about your stupid-ass product or service. I don't want to have meetings about meetings. I don't want to pretend to be happy working late.
The world needs more people like you, sir ! 👍
@@quangle-zi2oz We need less people with useless degrees
@@giovanni545 Please know that it is not relevant, at all.
Dude there are a million places you can volunteer and make a difference. People do it every day.
@@reefman10 I am aware of that, and have done that quite some times. I recently found something that works for me, but the general observation remains.
I had to leave the work force once I had kids and realized corporations always came first and would never give me the pay, flexibility, or time off to be a good parent or live with dignity. I've given up materialism in order to get my time back, which is priceless and the most valuable thing. It's good to see others finally starting to realize the same.
As downer as these videos are, they bring me a sense of catharsis and pushed me to start talking about unions to my coworkers
Please sir, please, higher wages? Higher wages sir? Why must we be slaves to the mercy of Capitalists? Those who own the forces of production and employ wage labor. Dude, if enough of us support the cause and arm ourselves what the hell are the capitalist army going to do against millions of its own citizens when they couldn’t beat impoverished farmers in Vietnam and village men in Afghanistan?? Meet the demands or get fucked.
Be careful not to get fired
Good luck!
@@deusola911 He might become part of the reserve army of labor :/
@@Darthdesmond saying that things were worse in the past is no reason we shouldn’t work to make a better future now
@@deusola911 thank you, I'm trying to keep my head down, but the process has to start somewhere.
There is a concept called "lying flat" in china where the younger generation is refusing to work except for 2-3 months out of the year because they are tired of being exploited. They also refuse to get married or have children. The fear of this movement has grown to the point that the term "lying flat" is a censored phrase in China.
I’ve been paying flat in the US the most of my adult life. The less I work the happiest I feel.
That's kind of true.And if the industry lost the social ability of "let people move higher social level"through works ,then more people will be lying flat…and it seems functions of social mobility in US and many other countries are playing the minimum role~so what's the way out ?hmm
Good to hear this out of China. The younger generation is wising up because they are the ones that are going to be given the planet when the old ruling elite are gone. But I'm sure the younger generation don't want to enable the further destruction of their home land for the benefit of a few obscenely wealthy people and corporations.
Hopefully they follow that train of thought and are willing to revolutionize the economy itself to end oppression. End the oppression of labor-for-income. Demand a UBI as a human right so everybody's needs are taken care of. Then work for system change away from the unsustainable monetary-market economy and build a better system based on natural law and careful management of available resources.
Don't get me wrong I would love to be a housewife. But work just exploits you and even if I can't work because I'm disabled everyone one that isn't rich is paying for higher prices for goods and that just sucks. It's hard for us as it is without them meddling
Lying flat and letting it rot are definitely the way to go. If the rich don't feel like treating their employees as human beings then they can just do their work by themselves
It's impossible not to be anti-work when the work conditions are so bad as it is today.
The really sad part is that the modern employer here in the US is that they would rather fire you than pay you. We are living in the second guilded age as this has been decades in the making.
Cost of living is just another externality in an economic system that ignores externalities.
Working class America - "we literally can't afford to live"
Economists - "we measure success by the cost of consumer goods and shareholder profit and by those metrics, you've never had it better"
It's long past time we start measuring success by human fulfillment rather than by numbers.
@@justanotherhero398 Absolutely
Yep and everyone I know that works hard for a career is depressed as fuck
I'm a software engineer. I don't make nearly enough, but I don't want to go try and work for the companies that pay more in silicon valley. not only would I have to work more, but I feel like i'd be actively making the world worse working for companies like Facebook.
I heard softwarw engineers get paid a lot. I know somebody who's a recent graduate that is getting paid over 80 grand a year
I’m a software engineer and I make 150k a year. I don’t live in California or New York either
The greed will always overcome dw
@@danklewis2670 ... Congratulations dude xD
@@danklewis2670 I think you should be sharing your wealth with all the deadbeats in this comment section
I sit in front of a computer 40h a week, and do needless paperwork, that nobody reads, for 175k a year. I don't think my role should even exist. But I keep quiet because I have to pay the rent.
I think that working should be a choice. Things such as food, water and shelter should either cost very little or be provided by the government and any money earned working can be used for entertainment. I'd like to do things like hike the Appalachian trail in the United States, travel the world in order to admire architecture, nature and to try as many different foods as I can. Those are things I cannot do while working a minimum wage job (Here it's like $13 Canadian, for a little context), being forced to pay $800 in rent, $240 in gas per month so I can get to and from work everyday (my bf drives me) and paying 100-200 for food that is increasingly rising in price. I am one of those people who feels trapped by a system which only works for those at the top. I don't want to 'survive', I want to 'live'!
I always thought everyone should get the bare minimum each month for food gas and shelter you eat though you monthly food Givin by the government you gotta buy it your don't like the bread kind they give fo r free buy it yourself this way no one is hungry or homeless aleast
Working most jobs these days also kills your creativity. I used to be a very creative person in high school/college, but now feel that its a skill that I've almost lost. I'm somewhat terrified of the thought of retirement as I have no idea what I'd want to do with it.
Same, I hate that I can't write anymore. I used to write so much in high school. It sort of faded out in college, and now I just don't have the inspiration or willpower to make the time for it.
If capitalism continues destroying humanity and the planet at this rate, you won't have to worry about retirement. :-)
You're actually able to retire!?!
@@methos-ey9nf God, no... I'm not even hoping for a retirement anymore. The planet will go to sh!t due to climate change and there are too many people on the planet already for anything to stabilize the environment. Earth can't handle more than 4 billion people with the lifestyle of the civilised western world...
@@kenos911
"amount of funding against climate change": I know. It's been happening since the 60ies..
"Even China knows that they can’t make money if their people are all dead!": I'm not sure what you are trying to tell me here... Is China lookinhg for ways to reduce their emissions?
"we aren’t gonna die in 30 years man": Well, most millenials and all gen z won't retire in 30 years either... So we're pretty f'd xD
"The delusion of infinite growth", there's a phrase I've been saying since I was in high school; over a decade ago.
Yes, in other fields of study, that's called cancer!
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." - Edward Abbey
You should take the time to look into why growth is such a necessity. It's not rocket science, and it's eye-opening.
They will grow until they become the very parasites they claim to be against
Be A Entrepreneur if you want infinite growth.
What grinds my gears is how much hard work and dedication a low-level worker can put into a job to have it defenestrated at the whim of some no-nothing mid-level, or high-level, manager / supervisor / executive. I've seen people, myself included, put hours of our blood, sweat, and tears, using their specialized knowledge and education, into a project to make it the impactful and effective. Then have a boss exemplify the Dunning-Kruger effect and trash the work because they are confident they know better. Or they take the most wasteful approach to solving a problem, despite hiring teams of specialists whose job it is to find the most economically viable solution. I'm not against work because I'm lazy or I just want to be in control. I'm against the current condition of work because I don't want my, or others' work, being trashed by arrogant "leaders" or those trying to protect their little workplace fiefdoms through inefficiencies and waste.
On a related note, I'd like to see a video about the job search process. For years, I've talked about how unnecessarily complicated and demoralizing it is, yet people around me claim it's normal and that I should stop complaining.
This is a great point because I’ve seen how nowadays they make you write everything online and renter all your application information because they don’t give a shit to read info about you as a person more so quick bullet points, “oh no experience?, bye” not only that but on average it takes longer to get hired, more and more jobs I sign up for are incredibly slow to respond as they wait for the “best applicant”
No, you're right. It is a needlessly complicated and truly unfair process these days, whereby the ones who need the job least (and are just corrupt or lucky enough to manipulate the system in their favor) are often the only ones who get tapped to interview. Meanwhile, dozens if not hundreds of qualified applicants spend hours filling in a lifetime's worth of employment and background information on forms that apparently get submitted to a black hole somewhere in the galaxy, never to be seen again. And today, with everything done online, you often get the added frustration of not being able to contact the employer to follow up on your application. Actual human communication is impossible. I'm not even that old, but I'm old enough to remember it didn't used to be this hard. It did NOT. Don't let anyone convince you that it did. It's not "whining" or "complaining" to observe when a system becomes almost impossible for an honest, smart, hardworking person to navigate. It should be called out.
@@francismarion6400 what’s normal ?
@@AGirlofYesterday I totally agree with you. Many people who I know who ended up even landing a spot in good companies had connections/ a family member in the job/sector etc. Even my own friend tried getting me in a social service job on the premises that I could get hired in without previous social service experience because they had an aunt who worked as a case manager worker. That went to crap when they lied about the pay and took it off when it came time for my second interview, why a second interview? After a 40 minute one? I don’t know. Also it is classist the system nowadays. Oh you want a job? Have a smartphone and computer for signing up and contact, even though often times people are trying to get those jobs to afford one? Not to mention how many of those applicants were talking about are thrown out deliberately by companies so that way they can have tax write offs for “providing jobs” by going “see! Look at how many hiring opportunities we provide to the state etc” it’s all bullshit. I grew up in a conservative family who would say my complaints are just being upset with the way things are, that they’re normal, if that’s normal then maybe I’d prefer weird. But yeah thank you, I don’t doubt myself for a second. As vaush as once said on a stream, I’m lucky I have a high self esteem.
@@janetpaskalov2094 Oh if you have high self esteem, that's the problem! They don't WANT self-confident employees. They want groveling, apologetic subservients that they can push around and overwork, and who will never complain, just take orders and be grateful for the crumbs they throw you. Unless it's a high level job, then you have to be so wealthy, elite, and connected you don't really need the job. If you have dignity but no wealth or major connections (like me), you're screwed.
We are in a race to the bottom. When the CEO of the company I work for makes more in a day than I make in year, something is wrong.
of course, its because he works 365 times harder than you =P
It's because he's in need, those poor, poor, poor, billionaires have too much money, so they need money, and that person down the street living in a shack working 16 hours for like 7.25 hr is a fucking Communist scum because they had the AUDACITY to need something
@@gavinisdie The majority of money in investments. The land and everything built on it is what costs billions. If cash was just sitting in a vault it would go to waste.
@@nicolasinvernizzi6140 No. Most bottom jobs work way harder than upper positions. Bosses just check numbers and attend to meetings (to check more numbers). That's all. They don't do the hard job. They don't package things, flip burgers or take calls from customers. They are more paid for doing less, and pay less to those who do more. Just to avoid doing the hard thing themselves.
@@johnmaco Bosses don't even have to work, just pay others to do it. There is no reason why they should do any work but enjoy their profits. But paying the workers a decent wages and looking after them is something they SHOULD be doing.
I come from a native community (In Mexico), and I think many times of how my ancestors used to live. They lived off of the land and spent time with family. They definitely lived happier in their communities. Now I see my life and I see myself as a slave to a biased system. I wish I could live like my ancestors.
>They lived off of the land
Dude, you think YOU are going to do what it took to "live off the land" like they did? I d@mn well doubt that the way many of you chafe at working retail jobs.
It's sad that it has been made illegal to live off of the land.
@@WillmobilePlus it's really not that hard, communities are essentially the original networkers. I'm a water quality specialist and I may not have have the best plumbing knowledge, however if I say find someone that can build and understand a bit of HVAC which has many regulations, then someone that is good in communications and economics, and then possibly someone good at basic farming, then maybe a Baker to bake daily bread as a gift from the lord, someone that's into art history and culture (everyone has a different culture to bring) it would literally be easy as pie to live off a big open land with what everyone can bring to the table tbh.
I hope to God ur ancestors were Mixica tribe. If they belonged to a tribe that got in the way of an Aztec expansion campaign - ub OH.
Tenojticlan was built off slave labor of non Mixica tribesmen.
We can live like that again, but we have to amass enough of a movement of people that the ruling elites of the monetary-system cannot ignore our voice. What our ancestors lived like for thousands of years was egalitarian communities without money or markets. We lived successfully like that for over 90% of human history. Then we settled into communities, developed agriculture and that set off the need for trade, and then dominance, resource wars and oppression through labor.
But we live in the 21st Century now with advancing technology. We have the technical capacity to meet all human needs locally and sustainably without money or markets. We just don't have an economy that incentivizes or allows for that by its structure. The current market economy is unsustainable.
We need a revolution and transition to a resource-based economy (like our ancestors lived). How could we do that? Demand a global Universal Basic Income as a human right for all people to meet their basic needs without labor-for-income. That can start the transition to a moneyless society, because we need to take the boot off the throat of so many people overworked and/or overstressed that can't help a revolution unless they have their basic needs met.
working at a bank is a terrible experience the wages are about the same as fast food for Frontline personnel and the risk of robbery and lack of security makes my experience in banking a horrifying and disheartening experience
The one thing that keeps me happy when I hear this is that I know when I die there will be people who love me but for the super rich when they die they will die alone and anybody who claimed to love them will just be waiting to collect their will..
Bruh, that may be true for some, but you want to be free of resentment
@@adsffdaaf4170 I don’t resent this people but I think if anyone is going to hell it’s them
Seeing "The Great Resignation" gives me hope.
Army of samurai
totally agree, though the people on the resignation side face super hardships .. :(
@CIVIL WARRIOR That is awful! You worked too hard for that carrot. I hate it when people trick you with a reward you never get just because they have that power to torture you. 😭 It is a depressing game you can not win. It is even worse when they can ignore worker's rights and get away with it.
I have to tell my parents constantly that getting a minimum wage job today provides you with nothing. You are literally gate kept out of renting apartments, financing a car, getting a loan on a house, etc. The minimum wage needs to be atleast 25 dollars for us to live with decency, and it's never going to be provided to us any time soon.
@@GenerationX1984 lol no he isn't. By the time we even get 15 it'd be past his terms and that would be just as shitty as 7.25
Higher minimum wage also increase costs of products unless you are able to decrease cost somewhere els. So getting more money will mean paying more. See countries with great wages like Norway or Zwitserland for a foreigner its expensive to buy food or a living place in these countries.
@@GenerationX1984 No he isn't. Liberals believe some stupid shit.
Wage was only in that bill for Dems to offer it up on the altar of 'we-kiss-right-wing-wass-for-unity".
Sometimes I think Bernie Sanders might be an actual idiot for engaging establishment dems on good faith to begin with.
@@remco6816 "for a foreigner" exactly.......how are the Swiss people fairing?
@@kennykenevil57 the rest of the world is cheap 😄. But Americans rarely leave their countries.
I am European who lived more than five years in Canada and went back to Europe. This video reminds me once again why this was the best decision on my life. Obviously Europe is not perfect but still going to the doctor will not ruin most of us.
We have free healthcare in Canada? The only thing you pay for is prescriptions?
@@Mysot057 Europeans have government owned drug labs so they can manufacture their own generics, not just do bulk buys, Canada had this at one point but the Harper Government sold off all of the government drug labs to private entities and the price of generics nearly doubled. I have severe migraines and I need to take medication for them.
In the USA my medication would cost anywhere between 100-120 dollars (CAD) per PILL
In Canada it costs 15 dollars (CAD) per pill
In Europe it 7.83 dollars (CAD) per pill
This medication isn't covered under any private health insurance policy except for ones reaching into thousands of dollars per month. I get seasonal migraines so usually end up taking 10-12 pills during each season change so anywhere between 20-24 pills per year.
In the US I would be spending 2000-2880 dollars per year
In Canada I spend 300-360 dollars per year
In Europe I would spend 157.6 - 187.9 dollars per year
prescriptions can get massively expensive, so can dental and eye care.
@@Mysot057 I know, I was meaning US system. Canadian system is better as there is universal healthcare. But still prefer Europe, but Canada is better than the US.
@@Erintii Weirdly written comment…
@@Erintiithe system in the US is a joke. No paid vacation by law, no universal health care and crazy cost of housing.
If we do not all strike and regulate this mistreatment now, capitalism can turn any regular job into a dead career when only the people at the top can make all of that money and screw every other worker out of what they deserve to be paid. Even essential work like doctors and nurses and police officers can be dead careers if they can not make enough money to afford their homes. Just now, I started worrying about how both streaming services and Artificial Intelligence scans can turn writing and acting jobs into dead careers. August 9, 2023, 11:29am
The question isn't whether this is right or wrong the question is "can you even disagree?"
@Michael Baggett Appeal to nature.
Yes, but then I would have to make a long-winded video. No thanks.
@@thomasmaughan4798 but you would be wrong
@@broundothisrightneow that dude is a known simp to his overlords…
Well, it is normal for marxists to not accept disagreement and sending people who disagree to gulags or straight up murdering them.
Here's the thing:
With capitalism, you're making a lot.
*It's not your "lot".*
Here's the thing:
With communism or socialism, you're making a little.
It's not your "little". It's ours
@@naveed755 here's a thing:
With anarchism, you'll have nothing. But it'll be fun.
@@naveed755 Good to see other people reasoning here.
@@shefchenko111 We don't sweat there from nerves, bro, we just enjoy the content)
@@user-nw7zj2du9p Fair enough.
In 2007 in my last semester in college we had a speaker come in to the practicum class to inform us that our major was only good for a minimum wage job without a realistic chance of advancement. Videos like this help really put the absurdity of that event into perspective for me.
I work for a state-level agency in the US (not going into details about where and which in case this is seen by the agency). My job is "essential" enough that we had to continue working in the office for the first part of the pandemic, until several office infection scares forced the state's hand in creating a WFH program. Since then, for the nearly two years we've had it, productivity is up, churn was down, and overall satisfaction with the work was such that people stuck it out through the pandemic's hardest part. Now, the state leaders of our agency want to force a return to office, during the gas price gouging, with no indication of a pay increase to take effect with the new fiscal year. Several older members of the office, who have the bulk of experience and are relied on to do certain high-sensitivity tasks, are now looking to see if they qualify for retirement before the end of year, and several more members of other divisions are jumping ship in order to find opportunities closer to home and/or that pay substantially more. This agency is crucial for the state's poorest members, and losing workers means longer wait times, less robust services, and even endangered lives for critical cases. And our leadership treats the work like a business instead of the government service it should be, meaning they underpay workers, push for overtime, and generally cut back on "unnecessary" expenses wherever possible.
All these places, especially retail, I see with "now hiring" and "we are short-staffed" aren't trying to recruit very hard. Most of them are only offering minimum wage ($10/hr here in FL) or just a little over with an unpredictable schedule.
Someone in lee county fl documented 60 applications sent out in one month last month....and got 1 interview.
The employers are putting out fake job listings so they dont have to pay back their ppp money.
Fucking ghouls. I want a bloody revolution
@@mikeyorkav4039 Here I thought they were just trying to see how thin they can get away with stretching their staff... I didn't think about PPP. The greedy MFs!
@@the_rubbish_bin oh that too
@@mikeyorkav4039 That doesn't happen only in the US, though. In my country fake job listings are the norm. And I even saw "news" about companies that had open positions with no candidates. I went to those companies' websites and couldn't find any information about those positions.
"Nobody wants to work in non-existent jobs anymore!"
@@JoaoSantos-ur1gg western capitalist countries
In big corporates, 50% of what they do is pointless (internal stuff or failed projects), and 80% of what IS valuable is being done by 20% that are the lowest-paid workers (many times they are "temp" so they have no problem disposing of them after they are done exploiting them). The only skill you need to know in order to be a middle-management is how to suck up.
so true, the people who actually do work are paid shit and treated badly while people with bs jobs roll in dough and get celebrated by society, cruel world
This is so true. In my former job, we did a lot of "problem solving projects" that took way too much time and implemented no changes to the problems that we were supposedly addressing to solve.
One of the reasons that Uber, a software company that should have almost no expenses, isn't profitable. They make up things to spend money on and don't need.
There’s just a lot of propaganda and deprogramming that needs to be done. The working class are what makes our economy go. When they thrive, we all do. I work in an auto plant. These people bust their asses actually making the cars and then get told they’re the least important. It’s insane.
Over the course of the pandemic I’ve become both antiwork and post-secondary education (just for myself not for everyone else).
I was attending college and working in grocery retail at the start of everything. My job required employees to work 10-14 hour days and only offered hazard pay for two months before revoking it for everyone because the company “couldn’t afford it”. At first we had a lot of people worked for the company I was at, but overtime the numbers decreased when everything opened back up. Due to a decrease in workers the workload increased to accommodate for this, but again workers weren’t compensated for it even though many were still working those long hours due to high shopping demands from customers. With the combination of low wages, impossible to meet expectations, rude customers, and bad management it made working for that company terrible (even though I worked their for 6 years and had no issues before hand). I ended up leaving that job because of poor work conditions and mentally abusive management.
While that was all going on my college professors moved to online teaching. Either many of them weren’t trained on online teaching or they refused to learn how to (had plenty of old fashioned professors). Because everyone was at home (or so they thought) they tripled the work load for everyone. Many had lost their jobs, and others I had classes with didn’t work at all (nothing wrong with that). It was assumed that everyone wasn’t working at the time, but luckily I was able to talk to professors privately and had some accommodations because of the situation. Eventually when the new semester came I noticed that my professors got even lazier than they were before. Essentially they (the ones I had at least) didn’t have any lesson plans and instead told us to read from the textbook and we’d take a test on it or write papers instead of teaching it themselves. I got fed up that I was paying tuition to be taught in a way by professors in a manner that I could teach myself, so I decided to drop out. I may eventually go back to college, but for now I’d rather work on my personal development and acquiring new skills on my own that’ll actually help me pursue the kind of work that I want to do.
A Mad Dog once said,
"You're only as good as the world allows you to be."
wow you're so edgy quoting the joker. probably the only type of philosophy youve looked into
wouldn't that be communism tho? Capitalism as all the tools for you to rise, can't say the same about communism, both in theory and in practice.
@@happypt2929 In communism you dont need to "rise" bacause "rise" in the capitalism mean explote someone to gain mony, in comunism the worker state give you a house, a pay, education and a job, and yes, this is soo simplified.
@@happypt2929 no, you're just some brainwashed reactionary who doesn't understand communism
@@joe2k20 Pretty sure Joker's philosophy is at least partially based on Stirner's one, and he inspired plenty of modern philosophers. Besides, you just threw a pathetic insult like some 10-year old without actually refuting his point. Gj.
Plus it's even worse if you're disabled/neurodivergent. Capitalism also thrives on eugenics.
How so?
@@billnyetherussianspy3187 if you can't work normally then you have to fight for your right to exist.
@@billnyetherussianspy3187 i have a friend with a leg disability (needs a wheelchair), he can do a lot of work just fine but gets tired more easily, so companies dont want him because its extra money they have to spend because of inefficiencies in their eyes, for clerk/secretary like work he doesn't get hired because people are disquieted by looking at him, the dream is having pretty looking people for those jobs, not someone who does things well or is in a wheelchair that has to be accommodated, all those things and even sometimes just the fact he's gay have made jobs harder for him to get and easily gets fired from the jobs he does get, because someone else can do it better for not having a disability, fortunately he lives in England and gets enough welfare that he can live well enough but he struggles with not being able to work like other people.
This is EXACTLY right. I've started using the term eugenics when people want to talk badly about low paying jobs, like food service, and think it's ok because "it's a kid's job". I ask "so it's ok to pay child laborers less than living wages and they don't deserve to have a roof over their heads because they're poor? You know that's eugenics right? Telling someone they don't deserve to live because their poor". Usually shuts them up or makes them get super defensive.
yep. this is pretty much my whole life right here. they can literally legally pay us less than even min wage. their logic: we're 'less productive' because we are 'less whole'
I used to work at a company like this and suddenly got lots of great offers when I said I was leaving. Thankfully the company I work for now treats its employees with respect and provides good salaries. And I get to do work that makes the world a little bit better instead of worse.
My favorite Graeber quote, "If there was ever a sign that an economy is organized very stupidly its that the prospect of no one having to do manual labor is seen as a bad thing."
What…
As somebody who fears the future of a having a normal life, this offers a bit of hope with him bringing up this issue.
Yeah, I'm also scared but also a bit hopeful. I think the younger generations are more open to socialism. We just need to get the old people out of government. Also, we need to be supporting any socialist running for local government. Grassroots organizing might be the most effective.
@@EightyFourThousands84000s
I'm young and I'm not open to it and I'm actually a little fearful of how you guys wanna bring it about
@@aceclop don't be afraid. No one wants violence.
@@saphired02
But even if you don't do it violently it still really makes me fear the future
@@aceclop What about it specifically do you fear?
Me growing up: I will dedicated my life into the betterment of others, through my skills in math and physics, since I can offer solution for common problems we encounter in our lives.
Me almost finishing college: I should never deliver a complete product to my client so I can make them pay me at least twice, since this is what my professors told me.
Guys no joke those are words coming out of the mouth of engineer professors. And the worse part is you better follow this most of the time otherwise you are offering free labor to your boss.... I don't want to be inefficient, but if I don't I work more for the same payment. This is absurd. And I am in the lucky ones. This utterly stupid
If you deliver a competent product to people, you will literally starve them to death, ever heard of the great depression?
A lot of you people, have these great unseen solutions to problems , but you are just ignorant children that think the solution for our problems is as basic as you own will.
@@happypt2929 This just sounds like even more reason to move past capitalism if it's convinced you that delivering a competent product is a bad thing.
@@happypt2929 The fact that a competent, fully functioning product is a bad thing under capitalism is all the more reasoning for us to destroy it, and move on to a new system of allocation.
@@happypt2929 you literally just proved why capitalism is a failure as a system of allocation.
@@thepsychocyborg9278If america was communist everyone would still be using a blackberry, worse actually, as there would be no incentive to build better technology ,extremely expensive technology, if not everyone could own it.
If you think communism would just resolve the problem of supply and demand your very , very wrong,
A factory producing a product so good no one would buy it anymore would just eventually close under capitalism or under communism.
Communism cant solve these problems.
I gave up working a couple years ago when the pandemic hit cuz I kept getting jobs that benefitted the owners, and the owners were brutal to their employees. Been focusing more on what makes me happy as opposed to selling my soul to a soulless system.
I'm lucky enough to be able to work 7 hours a day, 4 days a week. And I'm assertive enough to say "no" to extra shifts if I don't feel like doing them. But that's at my current job, I have definitely suffered through plenty of soul-crushing drudgery through the years. Never again.
BS Jobs Linkedin profiles be like: "I am SO passionate about search engine optimization"
The funny and most sad thing about the whole system is, there are probably are millions who want to do that, but their passions are being replaced with wage robots, and that discredits their whole passion. There is probably some one who wants to start a new fast food chain, one much better and healthier than the big ones, but the rep that the big ones have discredits that idea. Even in more comfortable and equal places like Canada and The Nordic countries this problem continues, although less, because people have to pretend to like someone else’s passion in order to succeed in life, rather than all people doing their own passion and only the few without going to whatever job is open. The only people winning are the billionaires who seemed to get rid of their passions long ago for the shake of their own wealth.
@@darkbrightnorth I find it hard to believe that someone is actually passionate about SEO, PPC or alike. Its an easy way for analytical minds to earn some money, but beyond that, nah. There is no passion there. I worked in this exact field and I have never met a person who is truly passionate about it. They might act as such for various reasons, but thats bout it. Deep down, I always knew that tinkering with online advertising tools brings zero value to society, just took me some time to realize it (sounds kinda funny in hindsight). The main motivator of why people do these types of jobs is "I am pretty smart and good with numbers, I just need to study about this for a few weeks and Im likely to get an entry job in the field, half a year in, I will get a mid position if I work hard enough and a few years down the line, Ill be a senior in a big agency earning decent money." I know this is an anecdotal argument, and thus pretty weak, but from all Ive gathered by talking with numerous people from the field, thats about where I stand.
@@alexbarcovsky4319 You are so correct about this. And some people go so far into the rabbit hole of pursuing passionless work that they probably forget how it feels to be "excited" about anything that's not corporate or career-related.
@@alexbarcovsky4319 I think it's not about being passionate about the task or the day-to-day, but rather the big picture it enables. For example doing analytical work, furthering your knowledge of how the world works through your analysis. You may hate the actual tasks but enjoy being able to solve puzzles. At least that's how it is for me.
But isn't search engine optimization actually useful? Or are you talking about optimizing websites so they show up in more searches?
My hourly charge-out to clients is more than four times more than my hourly wage. Apparently 350% of my pay goes to 'corporate overhead'. I had no idea the flickering fluorescent light above my cubicle cost so much money. Oh, and the constantly-breaking coffee machine in the break room.
Same, three times for me. Jokes on them though as I do virtually nothing of any value anyway 😂
I suggest taking the breaking coffee machine into another room than the break room. Maybe it helps.
@@thomasmaughan4798 And don't forget to save all the receipts so you can write off all those business expenses from your taxes! Social security match? Insurance? hah, that's only for full time and everyone will be getting 35 hours a week, except for the salaried, who can get it, but they'll be expected to pick up the slack and work 55 hours each week.
@@dan44zzt231 how's the joke on them they are getting all the money and leaving you with the scraps?
@@thomasmaughan4798 see, the soc sec match and ins and income tax are all scams. remove that socialist garbage along with all the other govt-created barriers to entry, and yeah, anyone really could go out on her own and do better than at a corporation while still charging the customer less.
I agree with you 110%
The only criticism one could levy here, however, is that we spent
18 minutes discussing a problem without floating a single solution.
Of course, us lefties KNOW what the solution may entail, but to anyone new
this is, at best, radicalizing. Where should we put this newfound energy?
I say revolution!
@@quangle-zi2oz say when
Encouraging everyone to become more self sufficient
God I am sitting here with a racing heartbeat and a feeling of pure catharsis... Thank you so much for this channel, you every single word exactly as I want to say it. You speak truth, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
It's so sad that people are being brainwashed to think that jobs that provide an actual service and meet an actual need are not jobs worth having and that you should find "a better job". It's incredibly twisted af.
So if jobs don’t provide a service then why do employers hire? They just hire for no reason.
@@noahremnek3615 the video covers that
@@noahremnek3615 Exploitation and control. Read about the dark triad.
White collar workers are the bosses' pets. Stuck in cages. Show pieces. Doing whatever pleases them to get fed.
Blue collar are the deer, donkeys and horses who pull the carriage.
Everyone wants to be free but under this model of exploitation, only those in power are.
Everyone gets to define what is "worth" it to them. If you get into 300k debt to pursue a medicine degree than yes it's probably not worth it to instead go into the basic services industry...
@@jonbob732 If the workers are being exploited why don’t they leave?! Their employer isn’t the only employer out there.
My company makes wood vents.
Literally for rich people.
We use over 25 species of wood.
Lots of it gets wasted LOTS.
You would not wanna know how pointless it feels making these vents sometimes.
It’s funny my boss the other day told me if could take less bathroom breaks and less water breaks, I’d have more time to make them more money and they can end up paying me more.
Made me sick hearing that.
Tell him he could do his job with less brain cells, see if he figures that out.
You'll never see a penny of the money you make them that's more than the absolute minimum they have to pay you no matter how hard you work working hard is a fool's errand when you're a wage slave
@@WhiteFang111 "but then everyone will have one and not buy mines anymore!" these mfs make me sick to the core 🤦🏽
We only come to this world to serve the rich.
Tell him if he takes fewer bonuses and a pay cut, you could do the same thing.
Up until a few years ago, I had a government job doing auditing and investigations. It was valuable and worthwhile even though it didn’t pay particularly well. However, it could have easily been done in 20 hours per week for someone working efficiently (as I did). Yet, I still had to show up for all prescribed 40 hours. Eventually, I started taking online classes which I would preload into my iPad. Even then, I got bored. I asked for more work. I figured that if I had to be somewhere for 40 hours, I should at least be occupied, but they had nothing else for me. It became maddening and eventually I left.
I remember an old friend was trying to get a job and was struggling.
I told him “do you really think there are more jobs than people?”
And ever since he knew none of this was his fault and that our country is trash.
I work for this huge enormous company and when asked about raise in pay due to inflation during a town hall meeting, one of the top guys said we pay based on cost of labor not cost of living. I was seriously disturbed by that
You should've quit on the spot during the town hall meeting. They told you what I'd imagine was far to obvious anyway.
So basically the government is subsidizing the living costs your employer does not cover?
Market economics is flawed by design. It essentially makes people just commodities and they are paid based on how hard they are to replace not on how hard they work.
We need system change, not tweaks to flawed market capitalist system. System change could come from the people of Earth demanding a UBI as a human right and allowing for a transition of energy systems to renewables, giving people more time for their own health and well-being, and creating more efficient, localized production and distribution systems to meet all human needs for essentially zero cost.
To them your payroll is an expense which reduces their profits. That's why capitalism sucks when you are employee.
They gonna hire dead people?
Any kind of work should serve some kind of purpose. If the only purpose of work is a justification to shuffle money around, that is a problem.
In Junior high, my social studies teacher told us a story. During the great depression, her family was better off than most. When men would come asking to earn a daily paycheck for food for their families, her dad initially tried to simply give them money, but they refused charity. Eventually, he had them move a big mound of dirt from the front yard to the back.
I don't think this applies to the complexity of today (nor is any typical worker at fault for the collective choices of the powerful), but when dealing with worshippers of the status quo, sometimes tricks need to be played to get them to help themselves (and each other). Just look at how the trumpists fight unions and healthcare and education and science. Sheesh.
@@firerunner35624 pride is real. The best option is to make useful busy work (infrastructure, building, etc)
@@MaaveMaave busy work, by definition, is not useful. But yes, the obvious solution right now with infrastructure crumbling everywhere is to pull an FDR new deal and employ the people struggling to find employment. All the companies pretending they're struggling to find workers will have to raise wages or fail
The purpuse is yatchs filled with prostitutes and drugs
That’s a super important point he brought up, millions of people in America can only earn a living wage by working for more hours than they see their families, leaving them too exhausted and to make meaningful change to issues like inequality corruption and climate change.
I don't usually comment on any videos I watch, but now I felt the need to do so. I've been binging your videos for about 1 or 2 weeks, and I've enjoyed every second of it. I know that for many people these are topics that one might find depressing or something like that, but for some reason I feel better. Maybe that reason has to do with the fact that I've recognized and acknowledged the things that upset me about the current economic system or job market, things that I didn't think much about before. I'm 21 now, and starting to join the so-called 'adult world', and even though I might experience a less stable reality than my grandparents and/or my parents, I'm really glad I'm able to build my sense of self outside of my worklife and my career, even. This journey has been rough, but with every bit of information I've gathered I've come to feel more free.
Thanks for your content, keep it up :-)
"There are only two certainties in life - death and taxes."
- Except if you're rich, in which case you can legally dodge taxes and thus pay less in tax than your average worker. And even postponing death itself is also becoming a real possibility for the rich with nanotechnology, so that statement is only a half-truth. It's rather ironic how the richer you are, the less taxes you pay. The secret is to move away from income-based salary into capital gains and store away your wealth in trust funds and holding companies.
We're living in a historic point in history and we don't even realize it
We always are
Everyone has this sense of impending doom and dystopia nowadays, but I'm sure this is how people of the past were feeling before revolutions kicked. The world and its politics are a dynamic system, and it will keep changing. I can't wait to see how it turns out in some decades!
That’s why I don’t work. I used to do 12 hours 6-7days for a few months and the experience was absolutely miserable. I got injured then they canceled my insurance so I had to pay everything out of my wallet. I lost $10k because of that. I also sued them and lost even more money.
I spent more money paying for my lawyer, court and hospital bills than I made working for the company.
Now I’m on disability and haven’t worked in over a year. I’m back in school to become a software engineer and my mom’s company made it big so I am lucky I now have her financial support.
Dang Second Thought, that was a hell of a good script. You summarized those main points really well and got them across in a understandable and concise manner.
Personally, I don't feel like my job is meaningless, but I feel like I don't need to be at my desk for an arbitrary 40 hours a week to get the job done but mostly do so to not get in trouble. There are also times when I need to leave my desk to look at something later with fresh eyes, but that's discouraged.
Thanks for sharing your story !
-"There is no money in the 24th century... Humanity finally moved beyond this obsession with the 'endless accumulation of things'. In the future we work to better ourselves. With the aim of improving our lives and the lives of others." -(Captain Jean-Luc Picard.)
Our planet won't be inhabitable for humans in the 24th century at the rate we're going.
We literally have the technology, the resources, and what time we have left to lay the foundations for a society like star trek's federation of planets right now! And it...makes me fucking depressed and angry that we are enslaved to a system of infinite greed.
@@navilluscire2567 who is to blame? The rich and their cronies(politicians) . A nice French Revolution where the rich are guillotined would be much appreciated
@@suryanarayan2032 Agreed comrade
@@suryanarayan2032 That could work. Removing the filth and slime that is polluting the planet would free the victims(us) from their greed
This is something our parents don't seem to understand and while im glad they've had a good influx of income I am bound to being dependent based on the price inflations.
Basically everybody in the comments covered the thoughts I had, one thing I wanted to add:
Throwing away perfectly good food makes me rage inside. Right now the price food went up 15-50% and I've seen big supermarkets throw away food that's in great condition, either the fruit was barely bruised, or the artificial expiration date on a grain product is over, or they just need to restock. And the worst part is they would often rather throw it away behind special containers where the public cant access, because they know people would rather take that food. It makes me so deeply sad to see food get thrown away, and this is one of the biggest examples of overproduction and waste.
Economics says "supply and demand" but that's surface level economics that doesn't take into account our disgusting profit driven masters, if it did many things would be very much affordable.
*Waves hand*
You will feed the algorithm
The algorithm shall feast.
Canapés, Master Algorithm?
I will feed the algorithm
For the Rebellion!!! Uhhm...I mean....algorithm
All hail the algorithm
I work as an accountant and this hit a little deep. I constantly work 40-65 hour work weeks and I have feel like shit. My gob isn't meaningful, I have barely anytime to do things that I like, and I'm always demanded to work more. I can't wait to do this for the rest of my life 🙂
I wish I could quit but I can't.
Buy Crypto, Dogecoin and Etherum
*"I wish I could quit but I can't."*
Quitting capitalism is the only way that makes you able to quit.
Always opt to work for as little time as you can afford. Lie and cheat your way to promotion, and work to educate your coworkers. Yugopnik made an incredible video about it, it’s called a socialist’s guide to surviving capitalism. I believe in you @Voop
@3:30 its also worth mentioning that most people don't need very much. most of the work we do, for most of the companies we work for, are for customer convenience and are not essential at all.
Most bosses are dictators without a country.My first job was as a theater usher one of the lowest jobs out there, theater owners back then were notorious penny pinchers, and we got paid not per hour but per 15 minutes, so if it took us 44 minutes to do clean up after the movie we got paid for 3/4 of an hours worth of work ,not that we were making much to begin with. his favorite thing to do was ask if we wanted to do some extra work helping him around his house, he would pay us in a free lunch.and trust it was hard physical labor.
He also hated heating the theater, it was very cold in the winter time and not surprisingly ticket sales dropped to just about zero when the very cold winter months came,sadly he never understood that, the amount he lost in ticket sale was probably more than what it would cost to heat the place.
Companies are scrambling right now trying to figure out why people are leaving/not applying for jobs. Keep it up. Make them squirm. Assuming you can afford to that is. The company I work for is essentially democratizing parts of our company. They're having us bring issues up and voting on which issues are more important and what we want done about them. Still not a socialist utopia but it's a start.
Your profile picture and username are making me so happy right now =‘3 same here ❤️ also good luck with your company and i hope they keep drifting in the same direction
@@spectacularsceptile3879 Glad I could make someone happy today.🙂 Thanks for the wishes of luck. Hope you have a wonderful day.
Left my job months agoand me and my husband ar just budgetting better and cutting silly spending. I've been using my free time volunteering and getting involved in community mutual aid and dual power organizations. I feel much more fulfilled.
@@snazzydrew That's awesome!
Where do u work, Lyla?
Work should be the joyful retiring of one’s gifts for the betterment of the community. How much farther could most of us possibly be from that ideal? Thanks for another video that helps to explain why we need to change to a more humane and logical economic system.
@Hotovo Done
could also be fun, under the different circumstances^ -and like 8 hours a week instead daily..
the focus should always be to *automate* work massively ASAP
look into cybernetics, it isnt what basically everyone thinks - and tell the others
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@@post-leftluddite Nobody should ever want to work?
@@IpSyCo If you feel that way, then you did something wrong. People who love their jobs succeed in their fields. I think the main problem with society is they over-prioritize money over passion, when really, there needs to be an equal balance of both, through research of career choices and getting to know yourself better.
@@zackfrito7877 Are you blind or do you not understand what a “?” Means?
@@IpSyCo no one should ever be in a position where they’re FORCED to work or otherwise starve on the side of the street. Whether they WANT to work or not is up to them, though most people will want to work at something. It’s just that, for many folks, that “something” would need them to take time off from work to study up on it, and the majority of people can’t take a week off or they’ll be out on the streets or inescapably headed there.
I've only ever had essential jobs. First in a grocery store, then a utility company, and now a hospital. One thing I've noticed is the people who work all hours and keep things running make barely any money (usually; doctors and nurses are exceptions), and the people who have set hours, get every holiday off, and spend their day doing some vaguely defined "work" behind a desk make a lot more than most other people.
Too true, all those office workers get labor day off as well.
Thank you. I really needed this video, because it helps me to not attribute systemic, societal problems to myself, misidentifying my current job situation and vulnerable mental health as a moral failing on my part. - but rather as a symptom of a deeply flawed and corrupt system where well-being and progression isn't prioritized.
in my lifetime, i have already seen capitalism fail TWICE. im younger than 25.
Capitalism fails millions of times per day, every day. Please read Marx and Lenin.
@@caramelldansen2204 wait no i was agreeing with you lol. what i meant is that such a system that people think is so secure, had fallen apart more than once over such a small timespan
If you're barely older than 20, then you also experienced the dot-com crisis in 2001.
*"I have already seen capitalism fail TWICE. im younger than 25."*
The shortest and probably the best explanation on why young Americans increasingly prefer socialism. )
@@user-uc3ey8uj1c Not only Americans prefer socialism, but they are the last ones of the first world countries to wake up and realize this.
Here in Italy the three biggest unions (CGIL, CISL, UIL) recently did a general strike calling for the shortening of working hours without lowering wages (the "work less, so everyone can work" concept) and the introduction of a UBI system.
After the strike, even *the Pope* advocated for the same things in a speech in Saint Peter's Square.
Well, what can I say? I doubt anything will change, but at least the topic is being discussed.
This is great. We just need to do our part here in the US to fight back against shrinking wages so your gains are not hurt by the fact that the US is holding back the global labor market.
Wish we could have stuff like that happen here in the US
It will , eventually!
you are the best explained channel on THE subject compared to others I've seen. Please collaborate with those, I haven't seen anyone collaborate with you yet, hope to see it in the near future.
The thing is the description about how it would help people is accurate but as far as the outside world views it the workers don't provide it but the company does the ceo does.
Man if this doesn't hit the nail on the head. At least in terms of meaningless jobs. I graduated with highest honors with a STEM degree at the beginning of the pandemic (having already done an internship in college) but was unable to find work in my field and so I had to go back to my previous almost minimum wage job until I was able to finally land a part time internship in my field.....which eventually led to a meaningless job in the company. I've applied for probably a hundred jobs since then and have not made it beyond the 3 or 4 interviews I've gotten. The situation is not looking great right now for me; but it was cathartic to be able to watch someone talk about this issue on a more fundamental societal level.
Yup. The amount of work you need to do to get a job at all is pretty much a full-time job in and of itself. Degrees nowadays are prerequisites for getting a decent-paying job, but it isn't the guarantee that it used to be. Not even if you study tech
Going to College and getting a full time job is like trying to become an NFL player, crazy competition.
What STEM degree just curious. Some stem degrees like bio and chem are very saturated.
“The begging for of the pandemic” pretty much explains most of it.
Sp you want high paying job
incredibly well-said. it makes me so angry that jobs that are essential and important to basic human care and development are deemed more lowly than bullshit jobs. I just started working at a school and, though our district is better off than some, education as a whole seems to be such an exploitative sub-system for everyone involved. I want this to end, I want to be able to help and care for people without being trapped within the absurd comedy of capitalism
Very good points. I work in education as well, my mom worked in healthcare and my father worked to help conserve nature. All these noble pursuits are relatively under-compensated and often under-supported leading to over-worked and over-stressed people.
In these types of fields you might hear a boss or executive say something like "How can we improve the efficiency and quality of our productivity and service WITHOUT spending more money or hiring more people?" Right, so basically, how can we add more stuff to our own plates for no more compensation and be happy about it? That's BS.
So I looked into this deeply. Why are we constrained by some made-up concept called money? It isn't connected to the natural world or human health. It's dominating, exploitative and oppressive.
So I imagine a world, much like the advanced communities we see today, but I remove ONE factor: Money. And how would that work out? Well, we'd still have the homes we have, we'd still have the electricity, we'd still have the water running, we'd still have the roads there and the schools and the hospitals, etc. But now, if we ask: What can we do to make healthcare or education, for example, better? And the answer is hire more people, then the problem is solved. We hire more people, everybody shares more of the work and each of us have less work and more chance to be effective.
But what about maintenance of the things we need for society to function? Well yes, we need people to do that, but wouldn't people pitch in to volunteer their time if they didn't have to work as long? That's what the ethic of volunteering is anyway. I'll help out to make sure the water pumps are working properly for 5 hours a day, 4-days a week if I have support and somebody else will work 6 hours, 3-days a week or whatever is needed. If that would help society run and people would have a decent home to go back to and more time for family, friends and hobbies - then I'm sure many people would be happy to do that.
@@thomasmaughan4798 not once did that paragraph make any sense
@@thomasmaughan4798 Bro. You automatically assume that a computer is not essential to society, as if it is a luxury. When there are 330 million people in a country that need to be fed, a computer is ABSOLUTELY needed!
She said she worked in education, which is also essential for human development.
Also, I don’t think she ever said she wasn’t gonna work, and make other people take care of her. She’s saying essential jobs deserve more respect and pay.
But man, we sure allow rich people to sit in their yacht and watch the companies they invest in go up, while we work and make them rich
@@thomasmaughan4798 1.) bro…. Have you noticed how the life expectancy has increased exponentially over the past 2 million years? You don’t know the yolk from the egg if that’s your take
I stopped going for teaching because I can make double the salary of a starting teacher dealing at a casino. Also the climate around education is scary. Lots of teachers are toxic as hell.
My job is definitely not hard but I don’t like what I do as a Benefits Specialist at CVS because often times patients don’t receive their prescription due to them no longer having insurance or the doctor not responding to a Prior Authorization. It makes me feel guilty when I sent them an email and text letting them know their PA was delayed or it was denied. Yet my manager sees us as nothing but numbers. As long as we meet the quota, it doesn’t matter if the patient didn’t receive their medication. I only enjoy making jewelry. I really hope my online business one day makes more than my job so I can quit a job that doesn’t care about anyone and just wants to make money. 😞
I worked in business development for one year and I never felt so useless that one year of my life.
"Whether you're socialist *yet* or not,"
I love Second Thought lmao
What a legend, im suprised theres less triggered Capitalists/Conservatives in the comments. Videos like this give me hope that we as a whole will start to change, if we fight for it.
@@geriott609 no, we still exist. but we have better things to do than reminisce about silly hypothetical systems. we are entitled to the fruit of our labor. it's the basis of capitalism, if you want free things, then idk what to tell you, other than have fun being a parasite.
@@terwerlive5616 Wow that didnt take long. Have fun being taken advantage of and keep defending your overlords. And all you said is just republican bullshit "yoU wAnT fReE tHings". Sad that Im a teenager and more educated about these things you defend/shittalk. Go read a book instead of Fox News
I’m never going to be a socialist, as I’m able to make a lot of money with my skills under capitalism
@@danklewis2670 Good for you. Most people can't, so while I'm not specifically a socialist, I openly support public and social programs that make sure that people, uh, DONT DIE if they don't make enough money. I figure that's just human decency lol
Imagine a world where everyone gets their basic needs covered for free: housing, food, health insurance, internet. In this world people would not go to work because they need to in order to not suffer lack of these very basic needs, but people would go to work because they _want_ to make a difference and fulfill their life.
That can happen in a Resource-Based Economy
@@joeanthony7759 All economies are resource based, but what he's talking about is a political system that puts all people first. Making things like food, water and housing a human right.
Imagine a world where we all could fly and shoot laser beams out our eyes 👍 not gonna happen but that would be cool too
@@mikeymo9363 Ok but the world project it’s describing can happen. Let’s fight for it yeah?
Internet is NOT a basic need. Surprised that no one commented on that.
Should do a video on how finding a job is complex, convoluted and extremely time consuming by design. Designed to prevent a worker at a full time job to have enough time to search for another
Sounds quite relatable. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in finance. Got hired by a mortgage company that paid me 12 US bucks/hour for doing transactions. 12 bucks/hour in the state of Florida. They fired me after approximately 6 months and ended up being pushed out of market and closed. Got into a grocery store that pays me $17/hour for refilling shelves. Now I don’t see any reason to work based on major since I can’t process in my mind why the hell a mortgage company paid me less than a grocery store