@@AdmiralBison I know he was the first Automaker to actually pay workers well & have a standardized work week. He wasn't perfect, but he was better than most at the time.
Understand People if you keep consuming the way you do the WEF will come in because they have too. You are destroying the planet. I think the WEF are too extreme w there cameras in the bathroom & CBDS where you will own Nothing & Be Happy where everything bought is tracked. But because the good people dont do enough to stop the Bad & Stupid people unfortunately will end up getting many Freedoms taken Away. It’s going to be a bumpy road ahead. When people talk a lot instead of ignoring issues things tend to be a lot less bumpy. We will have another Covid eventually if Change doesn’t happen
Temu doesn't own a single factory, they make factories bid against each other to sell on their platform the same way Amazon lets small retailers sell through their site for ever lower margins.
2nd job didn't poll as well. That's why they're called "side hustles" and "gigs". They sound cool until you realize being an Amazon affiliate is an actual job or that being a day trader requires you to compete with institutional investors who are ten steps ahead of you.
Harsh truth for many. Many people who are all "hustle and bustle" are really just miserable people who want more and won't realize it doesn't make you happy until it's too late.
1. Your health is everything. Money means Nothing if your health is bad. 2. Stress destroys your immune system. 3. Want what you have and you'll have what you want. Materialism is not good. 4. The most important things in Life are not Things.
Experiences are more valuable than money or material things... travel, Time with loves ones, delicious food, time in the outdoors, pets you love, etc...
The converse truth also applies in the world we live in...In many hospitals for example, your health means nothing if your credit is bad. Not being able to afford enough food also destroys your immune system. Appreciate all what you have and you will have all that you need. Some things (like art) are unique, inspirational and beautiful, but should we cast all such aside and condemn as worthless trivia, even that which we do not own?
As my neurologist said during the first appt: “Get the toxic people out of your life, they will literally kill you.” Yes, I have multiple autoimmune issues. Trying my best to get out.
I once heard it put this way: If your name is on your shirt, you're working class. If your name is on your desk, You're middle class. If your name is on the building, You're upper class.
Actually, according to the Census Bureau’s Income in the United States: 2022 report, Upper class is family income greater than $153,000 which is a very low bar.
@@hojo70 It's a low bar yes. But as someone that had a household income in that range before I retired let me tell you it's not upper class. It's a very comfortable middle class lifestyle, with the ability to be able to invest for retirement and still do some things before you retire. But it's still a Toyota and box wine lifestyle. Not complaining, believe me we know we're fortunate.
@@hojo70 and that completely depends on where you're living. $153k will go a helluva lot further in Omaha than it will in Los Angeles., Just sayin...$153 in LA is basically minimum wage.
@hojo70 I always thought that if I ever got to that income level I would never have any financial problems. Now that I'm just barely past that, it's crazy that I'm not as well off as that income level makes you think you should be. Granted, I am paying a lot of money to get debt paid off quickly. But that amount of money is not a huge salary.
I have worked for the last 39 years (never been unemployed) and have always made less than 40K per year. The last 3 years i have worked in the food service industry and in the past have worked 17 years in retail, 12 years in hotel hospitality and 7 years in senior care. The hustle culture of working 50-60 hours per week is no longer appealing to me. I'm done chasing money. Life is too short, so i came up with the plan of working until i'm at least 65 years of age by working 2 days a week x 10hrs/day (Thursday & Friday). I'm on year two of this plan and loving it. I no longer let work consume my life. I'm done being a full time corporate/wage slave. I'm enjoying my extra free time while i still have my health and while also keeping a low taxable footprint. Money is not everything!
@@izzytoons Correct! I have not worked 50-60 hours all year round. I have had years that i have had 2-3 jobs on the go for 3-6 months or more but not the entire year. I started working in the 80's at $4.00/hr and currently make $17.00/hr which is the highest i have ever made in my working career.
In high school I knew a kid with rich parents, he was adopted. He had a new car, the best of everything growing up. But it was clear he was unhappy. At a reunion I met up with him again, he sells real estate, drives an old car, didn’t follow in the family business. But he appears much happier now doing his own thing.
@@turdfurgeson2032 It's true that being rich and unhappy seems like a much better deal than being poor and unhappy. You can also be a happy rich person and a happy poor person and everything is dependent on how loved, understood and supported we feel by the people who are closest to us. There is a guy named Neale Donald Walsch who had different financial ups and downs and traveled the world at some point in his life, only to realize that he felt the poorest in his life, when he was invited to a meal by a poor African family. He said that it wasn't because he had pity for them, but because they apparently had a very strong and loving emotional bond that made everyone in the family feel connected and happy despite very few material comforts. Neal says that he never felt or a saw a stronger connection by that time in his life and that he felt very poor in his life experience, because he realized how much love and kindness he was missing out on, even though he was in the position of a privileged American tourist with lots of material comforts. I had a variety of chaotic life experiences myself and I can confirm, that no amount of money is worth sacrificing a loving connection over and also, that no amount of money can make up for tolerating abusive and exploitative relationships, because they rob you of your health and life-force and you can't live without that. I also experienced poverty and a lot of housing insecurity and I know very well how much a small amount of money can help, when you're struggling to get a decent meal. The amount of money that each person really needs, is just the number to secure yourself the stability of a home you can feel safe in, the food that can keep you healthy and the basic necessities you have to buy to participate in society. All of these are dependent on the place and time you live in and some personal variations, it's not a set number. A dollar can buy you different things in America or China for example, and you need different accommodations when you are you have some illness or disability vs when you are able bodied and healthy, and in the majority of the western world, you need to have a personal smartphone and internet access to participate in society at all currently, since you can't even get a job nowadays without that, even basic minimum wage positions require online applications. But once you don't have to worry about the roof over your head, food, basic hygiene and health, for yourself and those dependent on you (children, disabled family members, pets), then the quality of your life is almost entirely dependent on the emotional connections you have with partners, friends and family.
Have an ex-friend who worshiped money. She and her husband makes big, big bucks. But she ignored the real welfare of her child, thinking that the elite private school and golf lessons would be the babysitters and teachers. Now the child is grown and is so helpless that she needs both parents to support her.
I think this is happening a lot even with typical families. All the little random, day to day stuff those of us born in the 90s and earlier learned, kids today are not learning. They are helpless.
I also have a friend like that, I'm starting to question myself about this friendship, we've been friends for a long time, and it's hard to part ways, but our values have taken different paths, he is obsessed with wealth, money and appearance, that's all he talks about, I wonder if I should cut him off completely or just keep him at a distance. The good thing is that he's so full of himself and selfish that he hasn't found the "right" partner yet, at his latest 50s, so, at least no family or child with suffer.
I have a friend who was lazy and didn't worship money. His family was homeless and starving all the time. At least he was with his kids 24/7 while smoking crack
To be honest, one should be able to afford a reasonably comfortable life with just one job, whatever it may be. This is what people used to be able to do in the past. Nobody wants to have to "hustle".
@@charliedallachie3539 I have worked 2 jobs, when I was a student. That left zero time for anything else. Luckily I was young at the time and even thought it was a fun adventure away from home (in the USA). What struck me at the time is that we had teachers (locals) in the grocery store where I worked, trying to make a few dollars over the school holidays. I don't think I realised the significance of this at the time.
Before feminism, one man could support a whole family, pay off a house in 10-20 years (if they even needed a mortgage at all), own two cars, and raise several children on one paycheck.
@@grapesodabanked Believe me, some of us would happily take care of the home and children, and the man on our lives, instead of trying to "climb the corporate ladder"... Rather than do both :/
Yes ,and there was a precious nuclear family,with mom at home cooking a hot meal for children, while the Dad could earn a comfortable living for his family with his progressive job/ career.
Yes, Nicole you are totally right! I worked for the large corporation for 27 years as a general labour. I worked 12 hour shifts but my wife and I lived within our means. We paid our house mortgage bi- weekly and paid it off early. Started saving for retirement at a young age and now at the age of 56 we can live comfortably, happily together without fear having to work. We never went on extravagant vacations or lifestyle. We live within our means and always lived on a monthly budget. 😊
@@FART-REPELLENT Take a look at Nicole herself. It can be done. It’s a lot of blood, sweat, and tears! It also means being accountable and responsible for your actions financially , socially, and emotionally. You don’t have to keep up with the so called “Jones”.
@@danandlesliebulger2775 what does the channel owner do as a living besides being a influencer/content creator, I'm too lazy to dig through all her stuff
I overworked myself for years and started to develop health problems, I told my bosses I don’t work late anymore my health is more important that my job. I work my 8 hours and head home now my blood pressure and bloodwork is perfect.
I was a workaholic. Workrd all overtime i could ( top 20 in Canada wide in OT one year). I lost my family and burned out). I have nothing. Im on a medical pension.
I’m so sorry you had to go through this .. I’m hope you will get better soon . Also I can relate, in a span of 5 years , I had to go through 2 redundancy due to companies cannibalism.. that gave me food for thoughts .. I’m 46 , I decided , since I don’t have a family to remove myself from the rat race and work for myself and keep a sain work /life balance.
My heart goes out to you my man. I'm so sorry. Share your story with the next guy or girl who you see headed in this direction. Much good is yet to be done by you sir!
I am getting to the end of my working career. I strive to be like my cat. Sleep, watch others run around, eat and then curl up next to my wife for some love. You’re right, hustle culture makes someone else wealthy. Stop buying shit you don’t need either. Don’t be a slave to debt.
Both US and China are both dystopian nightmares to me with their overworking culture. Technological revolutions supposed to make our lives better, so we can work less and have more leisure time. But instead only bunch of ultra rich people take all the benefits, while rest of us works more and more for same salary and promises of better life in the future.
- agree 100%! There is only one solution: socialism, but this time it shall be a social-humanitarian kind of socialism with respect for the environment, human rights and for the billions of covid- and climate change victims!
@@peterwulff469 Socialism has a tendency to undermine innovation because it removes competition from the equation. In third world countries it is capitalism through the free market via entrepreneurship that enables the poor to get out of poverty or just survive. We simply aren't hard wired to live in a world where things are hunky dory all the time, we thrive on being challenged. If life was always easy, we'd go insane. It's too easy for pure Socialism to become State Capitalism or, more appropriately, dictatorships like Russia and China.
@@danieldoucet9121 We need to figure out something, and soon. By the end of this century it is quite likely that robotics and AI will take over every job. When humans don't have jobs they will need something to do. Having a handful of people own everything isn't the answer.
I'm retired, live in my minivan, and work as a pet sitter. I stay in beautiful houses taking care of pets, doing mostly nothing, and I get paid for that. With my small retirement money ($1100) and the pet sitter job, I can live comfortably.
After my dogs of 16 years died last year...I no longer work overtime. It has taken away from me time that I'll never get back. That OT time I now spend with my living dogs.
I’m a nurse and got fed up with the mistreatment. I also got frustrated with working a ton for the government to take 40 percent of my hard earned money (New York) I “hustled” to pay off my student loans and now I’m debt free and don’t have a-lot of bills. I now work the minimum to pay my bills and spend my free time how I want to. A rich man is one with no bills.
@@jasonweishaupt1828 "You're only as strong as your weakest link... " in regards to the voting things. This is why the Republicans lose all the time, they can't show empathy or sympathy, and cause this vicious cycle... Do you know the best way to not have competition? It's to be so good NO ONE WANTs competition. Republicans fail to grasp this.
I find it interesting how many youtube posts there are with nurses and RNs that brag about "I'm a nurse". 99% of us have at least a 4 year degree and nobody goes on about it. "I'm an accountant". Well, nurse, why didn't you have your hospital pay for your degree, which they all will do? Yes, you have to work there for a certain amount of time. You could have also joined the military. There are options, other than telling everyone on youtube, "I'm a nurse..."
Hustle culture also encourages people to settle for doing work for the sake of work. It's important for work to be interesting and feel purposeful, which a lot of people do not have. A positive of hustle culture is that it sometimes encourages people to transition to work they care about, but too often people get stuck in just working too much and never cut back their work once they are doing something that aligns more with their values.
People who enjoy their work often tie their identity to their work. To lose work or work less is like losing their identity. To slow down is like feeling one's very self slipping away.. so it's good to be flexible and be able to reinvent oneself to adjust to changing circumstances. Regarding work we are responsible for determining our own happiness. Being rich does not guarantee happiness, being poor gave me perspective on what really matters. We are not slaves when we can cut our own path. And we can get lost to both despair and ambition.
The most essential thing to health and society is trash collection and clean water. It's more important than access to healthcare, antibiotics, etc. BUT, the Trashman is not exactly the most beloved person in society AND who says "My life goal is to wake up at 3AM and lift heavy smell bins full of rotten bananas into the back of a dump truck. It's my life's meaning."
@@ResisterCIO The folks who do that and similar work are often considered outcasts by their respective societies. Anyone who works deserves some respect. It shows a willingness to try and carry their own load and not be a society burden. Not everyone is able to and some lose hope. But if you can and do work regardless of the job you deserve basic human respect and no one has a right to look down on you.
Very astute. Great to see that your generation has been catching on to all you say. I figured it out in the '80s, when no one dared speak up, even though it was all there, staring us in the face every day. For me the way out was to become self-employed. I hope this generation will permanently break out of the capitalistic trap of "work hard to be rewarded," which should read "work hard to make someone else obscenely wealthy, and die of exhaustion and bitterness." That's the trap, and it's got to End Now.
"Exhaustion and bitterness, that pretty well sums it up. People I now who have retired within the last ten years have all said, "I played by the rules, I saved for my retirement, I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got screwed, the government takes it all."
Mental health, self love and being thankful for what you have is better than driving yourself insane, lusting for one relationship for another and not caring about yourself. Being envious and jealous of other people is no way to live.
This is a spiritual battle. We wrestle not with flesh and bloodbut against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Your right, we are getting screwed. time for payback....cancel all contracts, dont buy new cars, reduce all service plans, dont be a slave to buy services or products that make others rich but are not a neccesity.
I work for a company that was bought by another company from another country, they do the same kind of business... then that company got bought by a company on another continent, a humongous multinational with shareholders... Purely game-theory, the harder YOU work, the more stuff THEY can buy, and the fewer things are left for me to buy, which drives the prices up... so actually taking it easy is a win/win... George Carlin has some good advice, if they pay you just enough so you don't quit, work just hard enough so they don't fire you...
I agree. So I became the criminal. What I've never understood is people complaining about other people having more power, money, fun, whatever. I thought is was better to become those people. They showed the way. Yeah working 60-80 hours a week is a lot, but what if it's something you love doing? Ya work 60 hours and on your day off you do more of it? And you make a lot more money doing something you enjoy. If you think there's nothing you'd enjoy and you're doomed then you're are doomed so why not go ahead and drop out. Homeless in the US is not bad at all if you can stay sober. Free medical, free food, free phone, free clothes and you can even get some free housing if you're clever. Not just gov housing. There are 1000's of vacant houses across the US. So move into one. Move on if anyone hassles you. No one goes to jail for that. Or contact house builders and flippers. They would love to have to live in their properties for free just to keep out thieves and vandals. Or guest houses where you trade rent for gardening or dog walking. But sitting around complaining...seems like a waste. And I've done my share too.
I love this. Unfortunately, it took me to get to my 50s before realizing a lot of this perspective. Now I'm retired with a modest income but the house is paid for and we are debt free. Thankfully, we're not much on travel so we should be fine until we shed our mortal coils.
@@TaddDavisA book that I highly recommend is The Richest Man In Babylon by George Clason. The gist of it is about paying yourself first. Another book would be Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Both were very helpful.
The ruling class are your owners. They want only three things: (1) that you consume what their companies produce, mostly things you don't need, (2) that you work for these companies for minimal compensation, usually doing some menial thing, and (3) that you go into hopeless debt, mainly to consume what these companies produce. They condition you to consume with the most inane advertising. To digress, advertising should be restricted to an "advertising channel" which you go to deliberately to watch advertising if you wish to do so. Otherwise you see no advertising.
I am successfully rebelling. My salary comes from taxpayers, my customers do not pay for my services. I'm not in debt. I buy almost everything I own second hand so my money mostly goes to working class people, not international corporations. I work as little as possible and I'm saving towards retirement by investing. I'm playing by their rules as little as I can.
Many workers are simply not smart enough or literate enough to work smarter... the smartest are the "people" people; those who can influence others to align with their way of thinking.
That is hustling, but if your aren’t seeing the results you want, then it’s hustling for nothing. Find the best value for yourself, and enjoy life. That’s the key. Hats off to you, if you’re working that many hours though. 👍🏻
@@justincrediblefantasy8263 Well, I am tempted to increase those hours to make a possible transition. Either way, I'm ready to get off this treadmill lol.
I work 65/hrs on average too! But, I’m looking to pivot from trucking onto another field. In the words of Codie Sanchez: Working hard does not pay. And it’s taking me to reach 32 years of age to understand this. At least I’ve no debt and savings in my bank, so pivoting should be fairly easy. Hopefully.🤞🏽
I've tried the game 2 ways. I've hustled and lived in debt. and I've hustled and lived below my means. The second way has netted me a 6 figure retirement account and a paid for house in 10 years instead of 30. Not to mention a plan to be financially free when I'm 62. Never made more than 70k a year.
But the thing was you were able to live below 70K... Sometimes it matters more that ones expenses don't equal or exceed their incomes.... Just not that simple because at 70K where you live that seems to have at least at times to have been way more than enough for what you were buying.
"The Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves, and is not even a system at all. But rather an international criminal syndicate."- Eustace Mullins.
It also has nothing to do with the US government. Most Americans are so deluded and indoctrinated that they have no idea as to what is going on around them.
It's a random ass private bank that gets to loan money to the government and banks which in turn loan it to you after they simply create it from nothing. - me.
Your not wrong I have witness this in my own life. worked for a small construction company, put in sometimes 65-80 hrs. a week owners went on vacation would take off for doctors or school events for there kids what ever, but if I needed to take a day off they told me I couldn't they were short men and need me on the job. unfortunately for me its to late I was just a dumb mule walking the wheel in a circle. To bad your word of wisdom wasn't around 65 years ago. keep at it little sister, you are GREAT..... fight the fight. its easy to see you are a winner!
Spot on. I’ve been walking to the beat of my own drum for about 10 years now and all aspects of my life are in a far better place than it would’ve been if I stuck with the con of the hustle culture. If you drop down dead at work they would barely blink while they replaced you with the next one off the rack. I have actually had 4-5 colleagues die at work and seen it happen. We weren’t people; we were no more relevant than the stapler on the desk. 🙄
I'll just say that for people who actually work in any way with their bodies, no matter how hard you really work, BUY THE DISABILITY INSURANCE. If you really need it, it can be the difference between potentially living a portion of the lifestyle you are used to vs. living on the streets.
This advice is only valid with the following caveat: Buy the disability insurance IF you can afford a lawyer for 3+ years. That's how long it can take to fight for your claim (and I've seen cases drag on for more than 7 years).
I lived in Washington DC so the hustle culture was required to financially survive. Now that I am retired and financially free, I no longer time for money. I trade money for time now and I am much happier. Love your channel as you are a young rock star.
Yes! I have even worked for small family owned businesses, and the owners spent money like they owned a Walmart, while telling us that there was no money for raises.
@@charleswhite7035 This is true! I have seen this in 2 companies that I have worked for. They look out for their own, and everyone else hardly makes enough to get by.
Like always, great video! I'm retired now but my secret when I was working was to tell the boss I didn't need the job, I worked because I liked the job. I was a valuable highly skilled employee & they wanted to keep me happy. Never let yourself become a slave at work.
In my life, we got married in 1972. After starting our careers / jobs we worked it like this, husband full time…me, part time. Because I happily took on all the activities of daily living. Equal partners. Lived within our means, saved for retirement and money was always sufficient….stay out of debt. Enjoy your time. No one needs more than we need. Didn’t need car loans and built our house ourselves. You make your choices. You decide what matters in your life. Retired and living well by living within our means. I don’t care what others do.
That's great, similar to my parents, but not applicable to today's 40-somethings and younger. Houses have gone from 3x annual salary to 10x, debt economy has allowed new cars' prices to skyrocket, and "regulation" has pushed older cars off the road. It's harder to live frugally and the savings goals are much higher now.
Im retiring the day I hit 55 and moving somewhere quieter. I wont have a huge pot of money to go on exotic holidays with or go to overpriced venues/restaurants or buy things I dont need to clutter up my (probably quite small) house. Dont need them. I just want peace and tranquility, which is priceless.
@@AMPProf not only was he born a millionaire but his dad also made sure that he and his siblings were named as joint owners in a lot of the buildings he bought and then when he died Donald Trump inherited 450 million in addition to those partnerships . The rich have tax aversion schemes not available to you and me. Had he simply put that the inheritance money in an S & P fund he would be a lot richer than he is now.
Somebody once said to me "what's the point of grinding to have everything, if you never give yourself time to enjoy any of it?" The fundamental problem with hussle and grind culture, is that people never give the hussle or grind and end date. It's not supposed to last forever. You're supposed to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Thank you. Great definition of social classes. Some friends of mine have well paid jobs and they think are closer to Bezos or Zuckerberg, but as you say they are in fact closer to the janitor, just working class, not so far of poverty if they don't work. Brilliant intuition.
So true Nicole, I once worked for Australia's biggest telco company, and you were only 'rewarded if you played their game'. I lasted 18mnths before moving on to a rewarding career working with children.
I've been trying to tell people that we should have free public colleges because our labor generates tons of revenue for employers and associated taxes for gov which would pay of the free college many times over. Also it would strengthen our national security with an educated population
Gotta disagree. Look at the student debt crisis with all the "educated" people who can't find work and pay off their loans. Putting that burden on the taxpayers is not only a bad idea but only masks the true issue.
@@ft9kop I think it's that a college education isn't worth as much as people make it out to be and not wanting to admit it. Unless you are majoring in STEM, college really is a luxury item.
My dad earned more than enough money to feed himself and his family on a single income while being somewhat luxurious at times with my mum being a homemaker... Here I am struggling to pay my rent.
I don't think corporations like Walmart are evil really, because they do have the redeeming qualities. But I do think it is important to keep them in check and for people to give them a mutual "you need us as much as we need you" sentiment.
I'm calling shenanigans on that. Is that even possible to not shop at least at one of them? When you inconvenience yourself to prove a point that will never get proved, that is not wise.
100% true! As a 60-something retired professional who used to work in financial institutions and witnessed the "management" and many finance bros/sis's do little beyond "influencing" (ass-kissing) in the organization, I can confirm it all. I worked myself to death for a few years just to get to retirement ok, so it was conscious and somehow bearable that way. You should also always be conscious if you decide to give a company some time and hard work. They don't care about you.
I like your videos. I think you left out some points here, like supply and demand: There's a smaller supply of people who can do skilled jobs (programmer, dentist, plumber), so those people will cost more than an Amazon driver. Teachers' salaries (even private school) are driven by public schools. There wouldn't be a shortage of teachers if the free market set the price. Also, companies can never give all the money they make to the employee. As a self-employed woman, you know that a company has many other expenses: advertising, website, clerical, customer support, rent, insurance, etc. Lastly, the business owner makes more for bearing all of the risk and not getting a consistent paycheck.
There’s no risk in business, businesses are just an infinite money glitch. On a more serious note, if a company isn’t profitable it’s harder to attract investors unless they’re speculating that you will in the future take over a market like how Amazon was unprofitable for a long time.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is the first to tell people that there is no such thing as a "self-made" person. He then points out the hundreds of people that have helped him along the way.
Research has shown the most important input to financial success is luck, luck to be born to the right parents, luck to be born in a first world country, luck that you have good health, luck that you made the right decisions at the right time.
@@andrewrussack8647 - I totally agree in that everything is accidental. This is also the reason why nobody can be allowed to be richer, more powerful or better looking than the rest of us.
I am "hustling" right now (literally work 18 hours a day, 6 days a week, freelance - which is why I haven't posted a video in over a year - and selling everything i don't use on Marketplace), but it's with a goal: in 3 years max, I'm selling my house and the interest from that plus money earned and saved (I'm also trying to reduce credit card debt to almost zero) will mean all basic expenses (including 2k a month projected rent in great building Downtown with a sauna) will be paid for life while my capital keeps accruing. If i want, i can then NEVER WORK A DAY IN MY LIFE. I plan to still work a bit (for vacations) but a lot less!! Can't wait to have free time again to do what i WANT and also feel secure that if anything happens and i Cant work, I'll be okay🎉
So accurate. I despise the fact that I work for corporate America, and after several years in grad school I'm finally going to be doing what makes me happy in a few months. After working in corporate America, I just don't care about the money anymore. It's not worth my sanity.
There are still many people who prefer the hustle culture. They have no idea what to do with their free time on vacation. Moreover, they expect their colleagues to love being locked up at the workplace and to enjoy doing meaningless work as well.
Ouch. That's my boss. Guy is approaching retirement with payments on a new upscale home and two new luxury vehicles. Expects me to sit pointlessly at work for longer hours than he does. No thanks. Pretty sure I could get by on half (or less) of my current paycheck.
Hello everyone, I understand how this feels too. I got my degree at 35 during the pandemic and after that all I heard is nobody wants to work and I actually regret my degree to be honest. I love a small town where unless you don’t belong to a church you are just SOL and look down upon on society. I feel like I wish I could go back and get a second-degree online and have it be a double major at least I would feel happier about my degree than when and where I went to school because I honestly felt robbed. Very republican went to what was known as a school back in the 70s, but you have a lot of older boomers around this area that tend to think well that school is just a party school even though it hasn’t been that in at least 25 years.
OMG, Nicole! Loved this episode! Very funny! Your 2024 goals list, the Mr. Burns inserts, and the snorting of Espresso were hilarious! All wrapped up in a great message. Be well, and thanks so much for your continued excellent content. BRAVO!!!!! : )
I finally solved my disappearing money in my bank account problem. I got divorced. After paying the lawyers, my bank account recovered in less than a year.
So, here I am, retired, living the retirement dream. All of my working life, I saved my nuts like a squirrel, always thinking about the coming of winter, and taking good care of my baby squirrels. Now I'm living in my paid-off tree and looking forward to.....nothing I expected. You see nothing you do in working life properly prepares you for leisure unless you are already rich (in which case leisure is what youve always done). So what are some things I wasn't prepared for? One of them is the fact that I took such poor care of my squirrel body that my new full time job is just avoiding pain. Literally EVERYTHING hurts. My paws all hurt, my tail hurts so I just spend most of my day being still trying not to hurt too much. You know what my other full time job is? Going to the doctor. I have anywhere between three and five doctor visits a month. When I'm not seeing them, I'm trying to get an appointment to see them, or getting referrals to see new ones. Oh, and I'm doing this for my Squirrel wife as well, so make that 8 to 10 doctor visits a month. Like a good squirrel, I hoarded my nuts and kept track of them. Know what I hoard now? Pills. Pills, pills, and more pills. I have my daytime pills and my bedtime pills. I have pills for blood pressure, pills for anxiety, pills for cholesterol, pills for my gallbladdar (which will likely need to come out next year), and pills for pain. Truth be told, the pain pills are what I live for. I take four a day, which means I take more than you would if you had major surgery. Each of these gives me one glorious hour during which my pain hurts less. Its not gone mind you, just less painfull. Still, without their influence, I might hang myself from my squirrel tree. As you might have guessed, all of the things this squirrel was planning to in squirrel retirement are now utterly out of the question. Too much pain, too many doctor visits. So most of my squirrel retirement is spent playing around on the internet, and taking all the necessary pills to keep me out of the squirrel afterlife. Moral of the story? Don't be a squirrel, because someday you will just be another old squrrel, and all of the things you did to make it to wherever you find yourself in life won't put an extra nut in your worn out body. Eat a few of your nuts before you're old. Give a few to your squirrel friends, and above all, spend more time with your fellow rodents, whoever they may be.
Loved the content as always Nicole, thanks!. Curious thing, money is like calories, and when I hear people saying "I work hard so I deserve to treat myself" and spending all their hard earned money, going back to zero, is like someone on a diet trying to lose weight, were you need a calorie deficit, it's the same principle with money. It's difficult, yes, so you need to spend more = you need to eat less, and spending = eating more, but it only makes you go backwards in your goals, right? so for some, I mean for the majority of people, sometimes me included, sacrifice is difficult, but we need to put on the work, or else you will always be in that "I deserve it so I get it" in an endless cycle... but at the end, we are the only ones responsible for our actions.
I don't think Nicole passes as a commie for this vid considering that she basically tells people how to use capitalism to their advantage and have personal accountably and autonomy.
I try to invest all I can spare and I recieve dividends every month which are now a significant proportion of my income. I do this also to help my son as it will become more difficult for younger generations to own assets.
There was a time i worked 5 or 6 jobs at once, Hustled the crap out of life. some welder once Shared the 'i crap on company time' rhyme and i asked him 'ok, but how much revenue does the janitor bring in?, where does the wage for the secretary come from?, where do the maturity wages come from? we did the math and figured the boss made about 0.09/hr and the rest was going right back into the company. sure the boss had nice things, but he also had 0.09/hr x like 10,000 employees or whatever. turned out, the boss is slogging it with the rest of us chumps, just got bigger bills.
Some of the arguments and frustrations offered in this video are actually the driving force behind hustle culture, at least as I've seen it presented as the glorification of entrepreneurship. The whole goal is to hustle, build a business, and maneuver yourself into a life where you don't have to hustle anymore and still rake in the cash. It's not just for the uber rich, specifically. But unless you're a solopreneur you are probably going to end up using someone's labor at discounted rates so you, too, can skim off the profits. And that, in a nutshell, is capitalism.
But there really is nothing wrong with that kind of capitalism considering that you own the company and put the time and risk into building it up, along with often dealing with headache of management., whereas the other "someone" did not hence why you would be entitled to the larger share of the profits. But yeah, the big corporations do have a huge disparity in this.
@@Whitetiger187 Umm what you mean how so.... Do you even look at capital requirements, NetWorth requirements, bank request for info..... Dude if you go to any bank you will see at least part of what I mean.... I know from knowing 1 Franchisee and my parents who both had jobs and a solo business and from what I have seen many workers have very little chance of ever running a successful business.
@@donaldlyons17 All of those things are legitimate and real grievances and yes starting a business is hard, but most of what made it so much harder now is because certain laws, government relegations, and taxes have been put into place that actually have raised to risk of entry so high that it ironically gave the huge corporations the advantage. It's not capitalism itself.
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Haa YOU STILL BLIND
it's way way way Worse then you think
the main thing is to stop thinking like most ppl , being different is a mental survival hack
I just got it - great tip! Everyone needs this...
A man who works all day has no time to make money.
-Henry Ford
Didnt that Henry Ford hire goons to fight off union workers?
@@AdmiralBison that's 'cause he had money and people working _for him..._ 😏👌
@@AdmiralBison
Yeah, that's how the "making money" part works.. duhh!
This irony is so damn funny! And true....
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I know he was the first Automaker to actually pay workers well & have a standardized work week.
He wasn't perfect, but he was better than most at the time.
"You're not rewarded for hustling. You're rewarded for playing the game." Summed up very well.
- yes, if we all stop working, the state will have to take care of us.
*Machiavellians entered the chat*
@@peterwulff469 And laying off federal workers, from lack of tax revenue...
Understand People if you keep consuming the way you do the WEF will come in because they have too. You are destroying the planet. I think the WEF are too extreme w there cameras in the bathroom & CBDS where you will own Nothing & Be Happy where everything bought is tracked. But because the good people dont do enough to stop the Bad & Stupid people unfortunately will end up getting many Freedoms taken Away. It’s going to be a bumpy road ahead. When people talk a lot instead of ignoring issues things tend to be a lot less bumpy. We will have another Covid eventually if Change doesn’t happen
@@waynehendrix4806 - then the state must print more money.
"even the preschoolers at the temu factory work longer than that" 😭 you're killing me Nicole.
Temu doesn't own a single factory, they make factories bid against each other to sell on their platform the same way Amazon lets small retailers sell through their site for ever lower margins.
@Ozymandias1 I know, but usually the factories that make the items are sweatshops so not much better
Terms like "side-hustle" and "gig economy" also serve to make the whole sorry deal sound more hip and cool.
Yep side hustles are partly because normal jobs don’t pay enough anymore and people have to do it, and this is being celebrated and normalised
2nd job didn't poll as well. That's why they're called "side hustles" and "gigs". They sound cool until you realize being an Amazon affiliate is an actual job or that being a day trader requires you to compete with institutional investors who are ten steps ahead of you.
Pensions, paid leave of any kind? So 20th century, so square! You're "free" now, get wit da program!
Well said.Those terms soften the reality of a desperate lifestyle.
"Tech start-up" sounds particularly cool.
At the end of the day nobody will remember you and how hard you worked.
So true
Harsh truth for many. Many people who are all "hustle and bustle" are really just miserable people who want more and won't realize it doesn't make you happy until it's too late.
I once said this in a comment for a Dave Ramsey video, and I was eaten alive. They were mean.
Well said!
'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life
Tryna make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die
1. Your health is everything. Money means Nothing if your health is bad.
2. Stress destroys your immune system.
3. Want what you have and you'll have what you want. Materialism is not good.
4. The most important things in Life are not Things.
Experiences are more valuable than money or material things... travel, Time with loves ones, delicious food, time in the outdoors, pets you love, etc...
so the conclusion is to know waht aubrey de grey works on and help him
The converse truth also applies in the world we live in...In many hospitals for example, your health means nothing if your credit is bad.
Not being able to afford enough food also destroys your immune system.
Appreciate all what you have and you will have all that you need.
Some things (like art) are unique, inspirational and beautiful, but should we cast all such aside and condemn as worthless trivia, even that which we do not own?
As my neurologist said during the first appt: “Get the toxic people out of your life, they will literally kill you.” Yes, I have multiple autoimmune issues. Trying my best to get out.
@@nancys5547 I can empathise with you Nancy. I have Asparagus Syndrome...a Rare Neurological Condition on the Brassica Spectrum.
I once heard it put this way:
If your name is on your shirt, you're working class.
If your name is on your desk, You're middle class.
If your name is on the building, You're upper class.
Me too. To quote Wayne’s world movie. “I have a collection of name tags, and hair nets”
Actually, according to the Census Bureau’s Income in the United States: 2022 report, Upper class is family income greater than $153,000 which is a very low bar.
@@hojo70 It's a low bar yes. But as someone that had a household income in that range before I retired let me tell you it's not upper class. It's a very comfortable middle class lifestyle, with the ability to be able to invest for retirement and still do some things before you retire. But it's still a Toyota and box wine lifestyle. Not complaining, believe me we know we're fortunate.
@@hojo70 and that completely depends on where you're living. $153k will go a helluva lot further in Omaha than it will in Los Angeles., Just sayin...$153 in LA is basically minimum wage.
@hojo70 I always thought that if I ever got to that income level I would never have any financial problems. Now that I'm just barely past that, it's crazy that I'm not as well off as that income level makes you think you should be. Granted, I am paying a lot of money to get debt paid off quickly. But that amount of money is not a huge salary.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor. (Voltaire)
Thus explaining U.S. immigration policy.
@@mh0862and most countries sadly
This is also why robots will be needed. new slaves for our sci-fi world.
@@mh0862 any immigration policy from any county, the poor aren't innocent either
@@jwetzel3141They will take all the jobs and work. We'll all be slaves to them in long run
I have worked for the last 39 years (never been unemployed) and have always made less than 40K per year. The last 3 years i have worked in the food service industry and in the past have worked 17 years in retail, 12 years in hotel hospitality and 7 years in senior care. The hustle culture of working 50-60 hours per week is no longer appealing to me. I'm done chasing money. Life is too short, so i came up with the plan of working until i'm at least 65 years of age by working 2 days a week x 10hrs/day (Thursday & Friday). I'm on year two of this plan and loving it. I no longer let work consume my life. I'm done being a full time corporate/wage slave. I'm enjoying my extra free time while i still have my health and while also keeping a low taxable footprint. Money is not everything!
Amen!
You worked 50-60 hours a week for 39 years and never earned more than $39K per year? If you don't mind my asking, what did you do?
@@izzytoons Correct! I have not worked 50-60 hours all year round. I have had years that i have had 2-3 jobs on the go for 3-6 months or more but not the entire year. I started working in the 80's at $4.00/hr and currently make $17.00/hr which is the highest i have ever made in my working career.
In high school I knew a kid with rich parents, he was adopted. He had a new car, the best of everything growing up. But it was clear he was unhappy. At a reunion I met up with him again, he sells real estate, drives an old car, didn’t follow in the family business. But he appears much happier now doing his own thing.
Adopted kids are often unhappy though
I wish I could be rich unhappy. It's better than poor unhappy
@@turdfurgeson2032 It's true that being rich and unhappy seems like a much better deal than being poor and unhappy. You can also be a happy rich person and a happy poor person and everything is dependent on how loved, understood and supported we feel by the people who are closest to us.
There is a guy named Neale Donald Walsch who had different financial ups and downs and traveled the world at some point in his life, only to realize that he felt the poorest in his life, when he was invited to a meal by a poor African family. He said that it wasn't because he had pity for them, but because they apparently had a very strong and loving emotional bond that made everyone in the family feel connected and happy despite very few material comforts. Neal says that he never felt or a saw a stronger connection by that time in his life and that he felt very poor in his life experience, because he realized how much love and kindness he was missing out on, even though he was in the position of a privileged American tourist with lots of material comforts.
I had a variety of chaotic life experiences myself and I can confirm, that no amount of money is worth sacrificing a loving connection over and also, that no amount of money can make up for tolerating abusive and exploitative relationships, because they rob you of your health and life-force and you can't live without that. I also experienced poverty and a lot of housing insecurity and I know very well how much a small amount of money can help, when you're struggling to get a decent meal. The amount of money that each person really needs, is just the number to secure yourself the stability of a home you can feel safe in, the food that can keep you healthy and the basic necessities you have to buy to participate in society. All of these are dependent on the place and time you live in and some personal variations, it's not a set number. A dollar can buy you different things in America or China for example, and you need different accommodations when you are you have some illness or disability vs when you are able bodied and healthy, and in the majority of the western world, you need to have a personal smartphone and internet access to participate in society at all currently, since you can't even get a job nowadays without that, even basic minimum wage positions require online applications. But once you don't have to worry about the roof over your head, food, basic hygiene and health, for yourself and those dependent on you (children, disabled family members, pets), then the quality of your life is almost entirely dependent on the emotional connections you have with partners, friends and family.
@@turdfurgeson2032 Yeah no lie. Unhappy with good options beats unhappy or happy without them!!!
The kid just didn't know how good he had it and lacks perspective
Have an ex-friend who worshiped money. She and her husband makes big, big bucks. But she ignored the real welfare of her child, thinking that the elite private school and golf lessons would be the babysitters and teachers. Now the child is grown and is so helpless that she needs both parents to support her.
I have seen similar examples many times.
I think this is happening a lot even with typical families. All the little random, day to day stuff those of us born in the 90s and earlier learned, kids today are not learning. They are helpless.
@@seltzermint5I know a lot of people born in the 70’s and 80’s who are helpless too.
I also have a friend like that, I'm starting to question myself about this friendship, we've been friends for a long time, and it's hard to part ways, but our values have taken different paths, he is obsessed with wealth, money and appearance, that's all he talks about, I wonder if I should cut him off completely or just keep him at a distance.
The good thing is that he's so full of himself and selfish that he hasn't found the "right" partner yet, at his latest 50s, so, at least no family or child with suffer.
I have a friend who was lazy and didn't worship money. His family was homeless and starving all the time. At least he was with his kids 24/7 while smoking crack
To be honest, one should be able to afford a reasonably comfortable life with just one job, whatever it may be. This is what people used to be able to do in the past. Nobody wants to have to "hustle".
This exactly….needing 2-3 jobs just to survive is signs we’re going 3rd world
@@charliedallachie3539 I have worked 2 jobs, when I was a student. That left zero time for anything else. Luckily I was young at the time and even thought it was a fun adventure away from home (in the USA). What struck me at the time is that we had teachers (locals) in the grocery store where I worked, trying to make a few dollars over the school holidays. I don't think I realised the significance of this at the time.
Before feminism, one man could support a whole family, pay off a house in 10-20 years (if they even needed a mortgage at all), own two cars, and raise several children on one paycheck.
@@grapesodabanked Believe me, some of us would happily take care of the home and children, and the man on our lives, instead of trying to "climb the corporate ladder"... Rather than do both :/
Yes ,and there was a precious nuclear family,with mom at home cooking a hot meal for children, while the Dad could earn a comfortable living for his family with his progressive job/ career.
Yes, Nicole you are totally right! I worked for the large corporation for 27 years as a general labour. I worked 12 hour shifts but my wife and I lived within our means. We paid our house mortgage bi- weekly and paid it off early. Started saving for retirement at a young age and now at the age of 56 we can live comfortably, happily together without fear having to work. We never went on extravagant vacations or lifestyle. We live within our means and always lived on a monthly budget. 😊
How could you achieve all that on a General Labourer’s wage?; NONSENSE
@@FART-REPELLENT Take a look at Nicole herself. It can be done. It’s a lot of blood, sweat, and tears! It also means being accountable and responsible for your actions financially , socially, and emotionally. You don’t have to keep up with the so called “Jones”.
@@FART-REPELLENT Live within means. Simple to say, hard to actually do and takes lots of discipline.
@@FART-REPELLENTInvest in assets 30 years ago. Bitcoin is the current generation’s last hope.
@@danandlesliebulger2775 what does the channel owner do as a living besides being a influencer/content creator, I'm too lazy to dig through all her stuff
I overworked myself for years and started to develop health problems, I told my bosses I don’t work late anymore my health is more important that my job. I work my 8 hours and head home now my blood pressure and bloodwork is perfect.
I was a workaholic. Workrd all overtime i could ( top 20 in Canada wide in OT one year). I lost my family and burned out).
I have nothing. Im on a medical pension.
I’m so sorry you had to go through this .. I’m hope you will get better soon .
Also I can relate, in a span of 5 years , I had to go through 2 redundancy due to companies cannibalism.. that gave me food for thoughts .. I’m 46 , I decided , since I don’t have a family to remove myself from the rat race and work for myself and keep a sain work /life balance.
My heart goes out to you my man. I'm so sorry. Share your story with the next guy or girl who you see headed in this direction. Much good is yet to be done by you sir!
So sad !
I am getting to the end of my working career. I strive to be like my cat. Sleep, watch others run around, eat and then curl up next to my wife for some love. You’re right, hustle culture makes someone else wealthy. Stop buying shit you don’t need either. Don’t be a slave to debt.
I said the same thing people are just working hard just to make someone else richer while they are struggling
I just bought a phone for 2600 usd. ufkc
on a payment plan
Both US and China are both dystopian nightmares to me with their overworking culture. Technological revolutions supposed to make our lives better, so we can work less and have more leisure time. But instead only bunch of ultra rich people take all the benefits, while rest of us works more and more for same salary and promises of better life in the future.
- agree 100%! There is only one solution: socialism, but this time it shall be a social-humanitarian kind of socialism with respect for the environment, human rights and for the billions of covid- and climate change victims!
@@peterwulff469 Dude... Move to Venezuela and be happy. We don't need anymore worthless degenerates like you plaguing America.
@@peterwulff469 Socialism has a tendency to undermine innovation because it removes competition from the equation. In third world countries it is capitalism through the free market via entrepreneurship that enables the poor to get out of poverty or just survive. We simply aren't hard wired to live in a world where things are hunky dory all the time, we thrive on being challenged. If life was always easy, we'd go insane. It's too easy for pure Socialism to become State Capitalism or, more appropriately, dictatorships like Russia and China.
@@danieldoucet9121 We need to figure out something, and soon. By the end of this century it is quite likely that robotics and AI will take over every job. When humans don't have jobs they will need something to do. Having a handful of people own everything isn't the answer.
@@danieldoucet9121 - do we really need more innovation?
I'm retired, live in my minivan, and work as a pet sitter. I stay in beautiful houses taking care of pets, doing mostly nothing, and I get paid for that. With my small retirement money ($1100) and the pet sitter job, I can live comfortably.
pet sitting u say? and do you get the stimulation you wish now that you have a stable base? would you like to strive for more?
Never met you but I'm GLAD FOR YOU. 🎉😊🎉. Best wishes!
Minivan life gang B) make sure u adjust ur budget for 3% inflation per year because it can creep up on u ^^
After my dogs of 16 years died last year...I no longer work overtime. It has taken away from me time that I'll never get back. That OT time I now spend with my living dogs.
I’m a nurse and got fed up with the mistreatment. I also got frustrated with working a ton for the government to take 40 percent of my hard earned money (New York) I “hustled” to pay off my student loans and now I’m debt free and don’t have a-lot of bills. I now work the minimum to pay my bills and spend my free time how I want to. A rich man is one with no bills.
New York, you all get what you vote for. 😂
@@jasonweishaupt1828
"You're only as strong as your weakest link... " in regards to the voting things.
This is why the Republicans lose all the time, they can't show empathy or sympathy, and cause this vicious cycle...
Do you know the best way to not have competition? It's to be so good NO ONE WANTs competition. Republicans fail to grasp this.
@@jasonweishaupt1828I don't vote period
I find it interesting how many youtube posts there are with nurses and RNs that brag about "I'm a nurse". 99% of us have at least a 4 year degree and nobody goes on about it. "I'm an accountant". Well, nurse, why didn't you have your hospital pay for your degree, which they all will do? Yes, you have to work there for a certain amount of time. You could have also joined the military. There are options, other than telling everyone on youtube, "I'm a nurse..."
@@SirenaSpades wasn’t bragging, simply sharing my experience to inspire others. My post seemed to have triggered you..
Hustle culture also encourages people to settle for doing work for the sake of work. It's important for work to be interesting and feel purposeful, which a lot of people do not have. A positive of hustle culture is that it sometimes encourages people to transition to work they care about, but too often people get stuck in just working too much and never cut back their work once they are doing something that aligns more with their values.
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People who enjoy their work often tie their identity to their work. To lose work or work less is like losing their identity. To slow down is like feeling one's very self slipping away.. so it's good to be flexible and be able to reinvent oneself to adjust to changing circumstances. Regarding work we are responsible for determining our own happiness. Being rich does not guarantee happiness, being poor gave me perspective on what really matters. We are not slaves when we can cut our own path. And we can get lost to both despair and ambition.
The most essential thing to health and society is trash collection and clean water. It's more important than access to healthcare, antibiotics, etc. BUT, the Trashman is not exactly the most beloved person in society AND who says "My life goal is to wake up at 3AM and lift heavy smell bins full of rotten bananas into the back of a dump truck. It's my life's meaning."
@@ResisterCIO The folks who do that and similar work are often considered outcasts by their respective societies. Anyone who works deserves some respect. It shows a willingness to try and carry their own load and not be a society burden. Not everyone is able to and some lose hope. But if you can and do work regardless of the job you deserve basic human respect and no one has a right to look down on you.
@@AccordingtoNicole youre right. with what you say in the video.
Very astute. Great to see that your generation has been catching on to all you say. I figured it out in the '80s, when no one dared speak up, even though it was all there, staring us in the face every day.
For me the way out was to become self-employed. I hope this generation will permanently break out of the capitalistic trap of "work hard to be rewarded," which should read "work hard to make someone else obscenely wealthy, and die of exhaustion and bitterness." That's the trap, and it's got to End Now.
"Exhaustion and bitterness, that pretty well sums it up. People I now who have retired within the last ten years have all said, "I played by the rules, I saved for my retirement, I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got screwed, the government takes it all."
Mental health, self love and being thankful for what you have is better than driving yourself insane, lusting for one relationship for another and not caring about yourself. Being envious and jealous of other people is no way to live.
Preach! I love how the younger generations are getting it. Don't buy the lie.
im 61 and i promise you I never heard anybody on their death bed sayin they wish theyda worked more.... NEVER
Have you been listening to many people on their deathbeds? Are you a nurse?
This is a spiritual battle. We wrestle not with flesh and bloodbut against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Your right, we are getting screwed. time for payback....cancel all contracts, dont buy new cars, reduce all service plans, dont be a slave to buy services or products that make others rich but are not a neccesity.
SO no more Pizza?? Wtf man Gd it.
@@AMPProf only pepperoni and pineapple .
And buy Bitcoin - opt out of the scam!
Out of the mouth of an older woman, you are one smart cookie!! Wise beyond your years🙌🏽
Who is old? Are you talking about yourself?
@@DonnieChoi yes!! I know the saying is old!! Sorry for the misunderstanding!
I work for a company that was bought by another company from another country, they do the same kind of business... then that company got bought by a company on another continent, a humongous multinational with shareholders...
Purely game-theory, the harder YOU work, the more stuff THEY can buy, and the fewer things are left for me to buy, which drives the prices up... so actually taking it easy is a win/win...
George Carlin has some good advice, if they pay you just enough so you don't quit, work just hard enough so they don't fire you...
The problem is incredibly simple: criminals write the rules.
If you understand this, you understand why the current conditions exist.
The world is run by thieves and murderers...the criminals are outside the prisons
It's so true - like the best joke I've heard all day. Thanks.
judeo-bolshevik wage slavery system
I agree. So I became the criminal. What I've never understood is people complaining about other people having more power, money, fun, whatever. I thought is was better to become those people. They showed the way.
Yeah working 60-80 hours a week is a lot, but what if it's something you love doing? Ya work 60 hours and on your day off you do more of it? And you make a lot more money doing something you enjoy.
If you think there's nothing you'd enjoy and you're doomed then you're are doomed so why not go ahead and drop out. Homeless in the US is not bad at all if you can stay sober. Free medical, free food, free phone, free clothes and you can even get some free housing if you're clever. Not just gov housing. There are 1000's of vacant houses across the US. So move into one. Move on if anyone hassles you. No one goes to jail for that. Or contact house builders and flippers. They would love to have to live in their properties for free just to keep out thieves and vandals. Or guest houses where you trade rent for gardening or dog walking.
But sitting around complaining...seems like a waste. And I've done my share too.
Thanks to the left.
I love this. Unfortunately, it took me to get to my 50s before realizing a lot of this perspective. Now I'm retired with a modest income but the house is paid for and we are debt free. Thankfully, we're not much on travel so we should be fine until we shed our mortal coils.
The other side is bliss looks like u got it figured out tho gj
@@TaddDavisA book that I highly recommend is The Richest Man In Babylon by George Clason. The gist of it is about paying yourself first. Another book would be Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Both were very helpful.
The ruling class are your owners. They want only three things: (1) that you consume what their companies produce, mostly things you don't need, (2) that you work for these companies for minimal compensation, usually doing some menial thing, and (3) that you go into hopeless debt, mainly to consume what these companies produce. They condition you to consume with the most inane advertising. To digress, advertising should be restricted to an "advertising channel" which you go to deliberately to watch advertising if you wish to do so. Otherwise you see no advertising.
I am successfully rebelling. My salary comes from taxpayers, my customers do not pay for my services. I'm not in debt. I buy almost everything I own second hand so my money mostly goes to working class people, not international corporations. I work as little as possible and I'm saving towards retirement by investing. I'm playing by their rules as little as I can.
Hahahah no. What they really want is for you to own nothing, play videogames, have zero children, and go extinct. And they're succeeding!
If you want no advertising you have to actually pay for what you watch. No one else is going to pay it for you
Work smarter, not harder. As true now as it ever was.
work smart, play relaxed?
Programmers live by that rule all the time. The laziest make for the best programmers because they always find a way to make things quicker.
Many workers are simply not smart enough or literate enough to work smarter... the smartest are the "people" people; those who can influence others to align with their way of thinking.
Not
Depends on what you want. Because there are people who work smart AND hard, and they like the results. Who am I to judge?
This is 1000% my favourite TH-cam finance channel. Keep speaking the truth, Nicole!
I appreciate you
Nicole you look exactly like my fantasy Enema-Nurse
45-65 hrs a week for the last 9 years. If that's not hustling, then I give up.
That is hustling, but if your aren’t seeing the results you want, then it’s hustling for nothing. Find the best value for yourself, and enjoy life. That’s the key. Hats off to you, if you’re working that many hours though. 👍🏻
@@justincrediblefantasy8263 Well, I am tempted to increase those hours to make a possible transition. Either way, I'm ready to get off this treadmill lol.
@@justincrediblefantasy8263 if your 9 years in and your not at least part owner then time to bounce
I work 65/hrs on average too! But, I’m looking to pivot from trucking onto another field. In the words of Codie Sanchez: Working hard does not pay. And it’s taking me to reach 32 years of age to understand this. At least I’ve no debt and savings in my bank, so pivoting should be fairly easy. Hopefully.🤞🏽
@@estebanhenriquez3491 Good luck to you. I hope you find what you're looking for.
I've tried the game 2 ways. I've hustled and lived in debt. and I've hustled and lived below my means. The second way has netted me a 6 figure retirement account and a paid for house in 10 years instead of 30. Not to mention a plan to be financially free when I'm 62. Never made more than 70k a year.
But the thing was you were able to live below 70K... Sometimes it matters more that ones expenses don't equal or exceed their incomes.... Just not that simple because at 70K where you live that seems to have at least at times to have been way more than enough for what you were buying.
"The Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves, and is not even a system at all. But rather an international criminal syndicate."- Eustace Mullins.
The FR is public enemy No 1.
It also has nothing to do with the US government. Most Americans are so deluded and indoctrinated that they have no idea as to what is going on around them.
It's a random ass private bank that gets to loan money to the government and banks which in turn loan it to you after they simply create it from nothing. - me.
Yup, it’s a scam, buy some Bitcoin!
If you really wanna rebel against the Leisure Class, start by not fucking consuming so much.
Your not wrong I have witness this in my own life.
worked for a small construction company, put in sometimes 65-80 hrs. a week owners went on vacation would take off for doctors or school events for there kids what ever, but if I needed to take a day off they told me I couldn't they were short men and need me on the job.
unfortunately for me its to late I was just a dumb mule walking the wheel in a circle. To bad your word of wisdom wasn't around 65 years ago.
keep at it little sister, you are GREAT..... fight the fight. its easy to see you are a winner!
@jack… Just curious. What would you have done with this advice 65 years ago? Cheers.😊
Spot on. I’ve been walking to the beat of my own drum for about 10 years now and all aspects of my life are in a far better place than it would’ve been if I stuck with the con of the hustle culture.
If you drop down dead at work they would barely blink while they replaced you with the next one off the rack. I have actually had 4-5 colleagues die at work and seen it happen. We weren’t people; we were no more relevant than the stapler on the desk. 🙄
I'll just say that for people who actually work in any way with their bodies, no matter how hard you really work, BUY THE DISABILITY INSURANCE. If you really need it, it can be the difference between potentially living a portion of the lifestyle you are used to vs. living on the streets.
This advice is only valid with the following caveat: Buy the disability insurance IF you can afford a lawyer for 3+ years. That's how long it can take to fight for your claim (and I've seen cases drag on for more than 7 years).
@@noseboop4354 Valid, but not always the case. Some insurers are better than others for sure.
None of us get paid what we’re worth! So we need to save and start our own!
That’s my goal!!
I lived in Washington DC so the hustle culture was required to financially survive. Now that I am retired and financially free, I no longer time for money. I trade money for time now and I am much happier. Love your channel as you are a young rock star.
You are really cool. You express determination and will like no one else. A female Goggins! Love it! From Sweden
Yes! I have even worked for small family owned businesses, and the owners spent money like they owned a Walmart, while telling us that there was no money for raises.
Never work for a small family business unless you are one of the family members. You will always end up getting screwed.
@@charleswhite7035 This is true! I have seen this in 2 companies that I have worked for. They look out for their own, and everyone else hardly makes enough to get by.
Like always, great video! I'm retired now but my secret when I was working was to tell the boss I didn't need the job, I worked because I liked the job. I was a valuable highly skilled employee & they wanted to keep me happy. Never let yourself become a slave at work.
In my life, we got married in 1972. After starting our careers / jobs we worked it like this, husband full time…me, part time. Because I happily took on all the activities of daily living. Equal partners. Lived within our means, saved for retirement and money was always sufficient….stay out of debt. Enjoy your time. No one needs more than we need. Didn’t need car loans and built our house ourselves. You make your choices. You decide what matters in your life. Retired and living well by living within our means. I don’t care what others do.
That's great, similar to my parents, but not applicable to today's 40-somethings and younger. Houses have gone from 3x annual salary to 10x, debt economy has allowed new cars' prices to skyrocket, and "regulation" has pushed older cars off the road. It's harder to live frugally and the savings goals are much higher now.
These boomers are so out of touch lol @@stevecarter8810
Im retiring the day I hit 55 and moving somewhere quieter. I wont have a huge pot of money to go on exotic holidays with or go to overpriced venues/restaurants or buy things I dont need to clutter up my (probably quite small) house. Dont need them. I just want peace and tranquility, which is priceless.
The greater part of the owning class got it through inheritance; not hard work.
Naww Trump was only born a millionaire
@@AMPProf not only was he born a millionaire but his dad also made sure that he and his siblings were named as joint owners in a lot of the buildings he bought and then when he died Donald Trump inherited 450 million in addition to those partnerships . The rich have tax aversion schemes not available to you and me. Had he simply put that the inheritance money in an S & P fund he would be a lot richer than he is now.
@@AMPProf pretty sure trumps dad gave him his first million. After that, it's all trump.
Generational wealth
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?
Hustle culture is blind obedience to capitalism. I didn't make that up, I saw it written once. I 100% agree.
Preschoolers at the Temu factory 😂😂😂
Unfortunately it's actually true.
Well the
@@SK-ut6tw MAY I ASKED HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS?
@@Joyce-id3dr Child labor /slaves are very common in Asia and other parts of the world. Yes, they use child slaves to create products.
@@SK-ut6twi know that, but thanks anyway
Somebody once said to me "what's the point of grinding to have everything, if you never give yourself time to enjoy any of it?" The fundamental problem with hussle and grind culture, is that people never give the hussle or grind and end date. It's not supposed to last forever. You're supposed to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Thank you. Great definition of social classes. Some friends of mine have well paid jobs and they think are closer to Bezos or Zuckerberg, but as you say they are in fact closer to the janitor, just working class, not so far of poverty if they don't work. Brilliant intuition.
I've been knowing this for a while, but glad that you've refreshed my mind with your message.Thanks.
Hi Nicole! Thank you for another great video!
Work smarter not harder
100% agree. People have been led astray !! Live below your means and invest to create passive income.
Invest in ? Poops?
0:33 killer goals 🤣
So true Nicole, I once worked for Australia's biggest telco company, and you were only 'rewarded if you played their game'. I lasted 18mnths before moving on to a rewarding career working with children.
Needed to hear this so badly. Thank you.
I've been trying to tell people that we should have free public colleges because our labor generates tons of revenue for employers and associated taxes for gov which would pay of the free college many times over. Also it would strengthen our national security with an educated population
Agreed. A decent education to tertiary level is a right, not a privilege!
Gotta disagree. Look at the student debt crisis with all the "educated" people who can't find work and pay off their loans. Putting that burden on the taxpayers is not only a bad idea but only masks the true issue.
@@Whitetiger187 that's the cost of sifting through the population to find and cultivate talent. Not everyone develops as expected.
@@ft9kop I think it's that a college education isn't worth as much as people make it out to be and not wanting to admit it. Unless you are majoring in STEM, college really is a luxury item.
It used to be free, but right now they can charge a lot because a lot more people exist that want to be doctors than positions available.
7:30 -- don't worry, if it wasn't them, it would be someone else exploiting our labor because we're suckers for shiny things 🤣
My dad earned more than enough money to feed himself and his family on a single income while being somewhat luxurious at times with my mum being a homemaker... Here I am struggling to pay my rent.
1:00 Even the pre-skoolers at the Temu factory work longer days than that..... 🤣🤣🤣
For what little it's worth. Never been to Walmart and never gave Amazon a cent. No desire to shop at Costco either.
Then where do you shop? Louis Vitton? Gucci? Lol
Must live in the Artic.
I don't think corporations like Walmart are evil really, because they do have the redeeming qualities. But I do think it is important to keep them in check and for people to give them a mutual "you need us as much as we need you" sentiment.
Costco actually pays it employees decently and they have OK benefits
I'm calling shenanigans on that. Is that even possible to not shop at least at one of them? When you inconvenience yourself to prove a point that will never get proved, that is not wise.
Love this channel, you’re practical and not afraid to get savage when it’s relevant 😆
100% true! As a 60-something retired professional who used to work in financial institutions and witnessed the "management" and many finance bros/sis's do little beyond "influencing" (ass-kissing) in the organization, I can confirm it all. I worked myself to death for a few years just to get to retirement ok, so it was conscious and somehow bearable that way. You should also always be conscious if you decide to give a company some time and hard work. They don't care about you.
Man facts! This was a hell of a video. Bravo my friend. 👏🏿✊🏿
I like your videos. I think you left out some points here, like supply and demand: There's a smaller supply of people who can do skilled jobs (programmer, dentist, plumber), so those people will cost more than an Amazon driver. Teachers' salaries (even private school) are driven by public schools. There wouldn't be a shortage of teachers if the free market set the price. Also, companies can never give all the money they make to the employee. As a self-employed woman, you know that a company has many other expenses: advertising, website, clerical, customer support, rent, insurance, etc. Lastly, the business owner makes more for bearing all of the risk and not getting a consistent paycheck.
- we socialists think otherwise...
There’s no risk in business, businesses are just an infinite money glitch.
On a more serious note, if a company isn’t profitable it’s harder to attract investors unless they’re speculating that you will in the future take over a market like how Amazon was unprofitable for a long time.
Love your videos, intelligent and based on hard earned experience - keep up the good work 👍🏻
The "self-made" person is kind of a fallacy. You get help somewhere along the way & often get lucky as well.
- totally agree. With help and luck each one of us could have become a Musk, A Walton, a Gates or an Einstein.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is the first to tell people that there is no such thing as a "self-made" person. He then points out the hundreds of people that have helped him along the way.
Most super rich people were simply born into money
Research has shown the most important input to financial success is luck, luck to be born to the right parents, luck to be born in a first world country, luck that you have good health, luck that you made the right decisions at the right time.
@@andrewrussack8647 - I totally agree in that everything is accidental. This is also the reason why nobody can be allowed to be richer, more powerful or better looking than the rest of us.
It's nice to hear someone that's honest about this. Thank you!
I am "hustling" right now (literally work 18 hours a day, 6 days a week, freelance - which is why I haven't posted a video in over a year - and selling everything i don't use on Marketplace), but it's with a goal: in 3 years max, I'm selling my house and the interest from that plus money earned and saved (I'm also trying to reduce credit card debt to almost zero) will mean all basic expenses (including 2k a month projected rent in great building Downtown with a sauna) will be paid for life while my capital keeps accruing.
If i want, i can then NEVER WORK A DAY IN MY LIFE.
I plan to still work a bit (for vacations) but a lot less!! Can't wait to have free time again to do what i WANT and also feel secure that if anything happens and i Cant work, I'll be okay🎉
So accurate. I despise the fact that I work for corporate America, and after several years in grad school I'm finally going to be doing what makes me happy in a few months. After working in corporate America, I just don't care about the money anymore. It's not worth my sanity.
You go, Girl! You are speaking Truth to Power! The vast income inequality we are seeing now is a huge problem that needs to be addressed.
- agree, and only socialism can save us now.
Thank you for speaking the truth with so much intelligence and understanding. 💯🔥🙏
'It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it' ~ George Carlin
Only a moron believes that quote.
Beautifully conveyed - a pleasure to listen to and a message that taps the pulse of how we live. Thanks.
There are still many people who prefer the hustle culture. They have no idea what to do with their free time on vacation. Moreover, they expect their colleagues to love being locked up at the workplace and to enjoy doing meaningless work as well.
Ouch. That's my boss. Guy is approaching retirement with payments on a new upscale home and two new luxury vehicles. Expects me to sit pointlessly at work for longer hours than he does. No thanks. Pretty sure I could get by on half (or less) of my current paycheck.
Hello everyone, I understand how this feels too. I got my degree at 35 during the pandemic and after that all I heard is nobody wants to work and I actually regret my degree to be honest. I love a small town where unless you don’t belong to a church you are just SOL and look down upon on society. I feel like I wish I could go back and get a second-degree online and have it be a double major at least I would feel happier about my degree than when and where I went to school because I honestly felt robbed. Very republican went to what was known as a school back in the 70s, but you have a lot of older boomers around this area that tend to think well that school is just a party school even though it hasn’t been that in at least 25 years.
You're hilarious (as well as making an apt point about there only being working and ruling classes)--"get a BBL" sent me--so 2019
OMG, Nicole! Loved this episode! Very funny! Your 2024 goals list, the Mr. Burns inserts, and the snorting of Espresso were hilarious! All wrapped up in a great message. Be well, and thanks so much for your continued excellent content. BRAVO!!!!! : )
I finally solved my disappearing money in my bank account problem. I got divorced. After paying the lawyers, my bank account recovered in less than a year.
So, here I am, retired, living the retirement dream. All of my working life, I saved my nuts like a squirrel, always thinking about the coming of winter, and taking good care of my baby squirrels. Now I'm living in my paid-off tree and looking forward to.....nothing I expected. You see nothing you do in working life properly prepares you for leisure unless you are already rich (in which case leisure is what youve always done). So what are some things I wasn't prepared for? One of them is the fact that I took such poor care of my squirrel body that my new full time job is just avoiding pain. Literally EVERYTHING hurts. My paws all hurt, my tail hurts so I just spend most of my day being still trying not to hurt too much. You know what my other full time job is? Going to the doctor. I have anywhere between three and five doctor visits a month. When I'm not seeing them, I'm trying to get an appointment to see them, or getting referrals to see new ones. Oh, and I'm doing this for my Squirrel wife as well, so make that 8 to 10 doctor visits a month. Like a good squirrel, I hoarded my nuts and kept track of them. Know what I hoard now? Pills. Pills, pills, and more pills. I have my daytime pills and my bedtime pills. I have pills for blood pressure, pills for anxiety, pills for cholesterol, pills for my gallbladdar (which will likely need to come out next year), and pills for pain. Truth be told, the pain pills are what I live for. I take four a day, which means I take more than you would if you had major surgery. Each of these gives me one glorious hour during which my pain hurts less. Its not gone mind you, just less painfull. Still, without their influence, I might hang myself from my squirrel tree. As you might have guessed, all of the things this squirrel was planning to in squirrel retirement are now utterly out of the question. Too much pain, too many doctor visits. So most of my squirrel retirement is spent playing around on the internet, and taking all the necessary pills to keep me out of the squirrel afterlife. Moral of the story? Don't be a squirrel, because someday you will just be another old squrrel, and all of the things you did to make it to wherever you find yourself in life won't put an extra nut in your worn out body. Eat a few of your nuts before you're old. Give a few to your squirrel friends, and above all, spend more time with your fellow rodents, whoever they may be.
Loved the content as always Nicole, thanks!. Curious thing, money is like calories, and when I hear people saying "I work hard so I deserve to treat myself" and spending all their hard earned money, going back to zero, is like someone on a diet trying to lose weight, were you need a calorie deficit, it's the same principle with money. It's difficult, yes, so you need to spend more = you need to eat less, and spending = eating more, but it only makes you go backwards in your goals, right? so for some, I mean for the majority of people, sometimes me included, sacrifice is difficult, but we need to put on the work, or else you will always be in that "I deserve it so I get it" in an endless cycle... but at the end, we are the only ones responsible for our actions.
Interesting analogy. You’re bang on.
This is spot on
Thanks so much for your wisdom. Your posts are essential!!! ✨️
Comrade Nicole telling nothing but the truth
I don't think Nicole passes as a commie for this vid considering that she basically tells people how to use capitalism to their advantage and have personal accountably and autonomy.
I really appreciate your opinions and take on things. That's why I subscribed.
I worked 2 jobs all my life. Now that I am retired I am so greatful to have learned to live on fixed income from the experience.
Wait till the crash
Your absolutely right, It is just one big game! Never worked a day in my life. Figured it out before I was suppose to.
Love your work 👌👍
Everyone needs to see this truth. Thanks for creating it.
I try to invest all I can spare and I recieve dividends every month which are now a significant proportion of my income. I do this also to help my son as it will become more difficult for younger generations to own assets.
Great video. Would love to see more like this. Thanks!
There was a time i worked 5 or 6 jobs at once, Hustled the crap out of life. some welder once Shared the 'i crap on company time' rhyme and i asked him 'ok, but how much revenue does the janitor bring in?, where does the wage for the secretary come from?, where do the maturity wages come from? we did the math and figured the boss made about 0.09/hr and the rest was going right back into the company. sure the boss had nice things, but he also had 0.09/hr x like 10,000 employees or whatever. turned out, the boss is slogging it with the rest of us chumps, just got bigger bills.
Its good to see people are figuring out the construct👍🏼
Some of the arguments and frustrations offered in this video are actually the driving force behind hustle culture, at least as I've seen it presented as the glorification of entrepreneurship. The whole goal is to hustle, build a business, and maneuver yourself into a life where you don't have to hustle anymore and still rake in the cash. It's not just for the uber rich, specifically. But unless you're a solopreneur you are probably going to end up using someone's labor at discounted rates so you, too, can skim off the profits. And that, in a nutshell, is capitalism.
But there really is nothing wrong with that kind of capitalism considering that you own the company and put the time and risk into building it up, along with often dealing with headache of management., whereas the other "someone" did not hence why you would be entitled to the larger share of the profits. But yeah, the big corporations do have a huge disparity in this.
@@Whitetiger187 The problem is that the workers don't have those options!!!!
@@donaldlyons17 how so?
@@Whitetiger187 Umm what you mean how so.... Do you even look at capital requirements, NetWorth requirements, bank request for info..... Dude if you go to any bank you will see at least part of what I mean.... I know from knowing 1 Franchisee and my parents who both had jobs and a solo business and from what I have seen many workers have very little chance of ever running a successful business.
@@donaldlyons17 All of those things are legitimate and real grievances and yes starting a business is hard, but most of what made it so much harder now is because certain laws, government relegations, and taxes have been put into place that actually have raised to risk of entry so high that it ironically gave the huge corporations the advantage. It's not capitalism itself.
Totally enjoying your content. Thank you.
Thankyou Nicole