Howdy, friends! I hope you enjoy this week's video. One thing I wanted to mention is that, while this video focuses on production and manufacturing jobs, these problems apply to every industry. It's just easiest to explain with manufacturing (the boot maker analogy). No matter what kind of job you have, whether it's sales, food service, IT, whatever, you are subjected to alienation under capitalism and will benefit from a union. If you enjoy my work and you'd like to support me, consider checking out my new podcast or becoming a patron! You can find The Deprogram here: open.spotify.com/show/7tk1sTZDeE8p9lnxYLy4Ky?si=d2d147a53e2547fa podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deprogram/id1596666465 @t And my Patreon here: patreon.com/secondthought
Dude you're missing something these people are not just selling their ability to make a product. They are selling moments in their life. Every minute you spend inside a warehouse or corporate office you're selling moments of your life away cheaply to the people who are paying for it and if you don't believe that you're worth more than you won't try to get more. Every moment you sell is priceless and you can't get it back and your boss is trying to pay for those moments as cheap as possible knowing that you can't get it back.
I love unions because they are actually trying to change the lives of workers and they're doing more to help them than their politicians. The politicians are the ones who are supposed to be helping the people but they haven't done their damn job in 80 years.
How do you plan on fixing things because you always rant about the problems that 'only' in United States of America. Also whatever your answer would be how much is the probability that it will turn just as you would expect it to and also don't think people would just stop working of they are just given food and remember American system is fragile and that everyone has to go through some years of hell type revolution because whatever you would be saying wouldn't be possible in the current system of democracy and you can't democratically vote out a 'semi' Democratic system. Now remember there is no way you can ever get 2/3 of population to agree to pass your referedum without some brainwashing campaign and if you do that would 'you' be better than something you are trying to overthrow? Also remember to make a video calcuting probability of success of your solution in making life better for more than 80% population and making the video rather less of the outcome because if you don't would you really be any better than Fox news who trying to do the same thing and without admitting to probability of success of whatever they plan on doing.
@@mrintrovert5068 yeah dude you got a lot of word vomit here to justify a system that is oppressive and deadly to a lot of people. The fact of the matter is we don't have a two party system we have a one-party system and that is the corporate party, no matter what Republican or Democrat you vote for they are part of that party. Your single vote is not as equal as millions of dollars. That's the reason why the politicians never do anything that people want because they're paid not too and they're paid to be idiots.
@@juggaloclownpreacher I wanna ask how is your moments priceless. Because I have made a deal with myself in which I gave up my entire high school fun and my true love with 5-10 years of my life for a successful life and Big buck.
It’s because Poverty charges interest. Paying more upfront usually means you get to save more in the long run. Look up the “boots theory of economic inequality”
Money can fix a cavity before it becomes worse. Money stops overdraft fees. Money means you don't take out loans with interest. Money buys boots that will last 3x as long and doesn't hurt your feet. Money buys you a car that won't break down every 3 months. Money let's you invest and make more money. Money saves you money.
The thing that disgusts me most is that it doesn’t even cost that much more to improve the lives of so many American workers. Their health and quality of life are at the expense of a CEOs bonus, or another tax cut, or a corporations bottom line. Would it even change the lives of a senior level executive pulling over a million dollars a year to not get a ridiculous tax free raise to give workers proper benefits? I wouldn’t be proud as a company owner to know many of my workers are making close to poverty wages
They don't care Isaiah, all the CEOs care about is profits at ALL costs including your life. So what are you going to do about it? I suggest joining the Democratic Socialists of America or unionizing your workplace. Take back your power, it was yours in the first place and should never be given up without compensation.
The governments which enable this are just as much to blame. Taxing the rich could improve the lives of everyone yet the system doesn't favour that outcome. It's so broken
@@Fafnd The DSA capitulated to the DNC... expand your research and stay objective. Regardless of party affiliation, Intersectional Solidarity is the only way forward. Unions can work but worker co ops are better. Average people need to think beyond the construct.
Actually, I get a bit pissed off when I hear American workers use the term "benefits". I'm assuming by using that term you are referring to health insurance. That should not be a responsibility of an employer, your government should be responsible for that, just like in every other country in the developed world. As an example, I'm in Australia and a worker is legally entitled to: A 38-hour working week, overtime paid at time and a half for the first 3 hours of a shift, and double time after that, a minimum wage of about $15.80 US dollars an hour, four weeks of paid annual leave per year, an extra 17% paid leave loading on those four weeks, 10 days of paid sick or personal leave per year, 10 paid public holidays per year, a 10% employer funded superannuation contribution, all those things are mandated by law, with harsh penalties for any employer who fails to comply. If you are only referring to employer funded health care and a moderate wage increase, then I think that's part of the problem. Americans need to educate themselves more about laws in other countries, the conditions workers in other countries work under, and then unionise to demand something akin to parity.
The thing is you being nice to your workers doesn't change the nature of your relationship, you being the owner have the lives of people at your mercy or lack thereof and that's not ok, it is this hierarchical system that what allows and even encourages horrible treatment of human beings. And you being generous with your workers i.e. paying them living wages and providing ample benefits isn't profitable which means in the twisted game of capitalism you'd likely lose out to other owners of other businesses that don't care at all about their workers because they would have more capital, more profits and therefore more powerful than you and they would have a vested interest in seeing you fail, why? Because they don't want their workers to get any ideas about demanding better conditions and pay because of your example with how you treated your employees. As long as we exist within a capitalist framework, the capitalists will NEVER willing let anyone challenge the status quo, humane practices are discouraged and kindness is a liability.
@@tomasmccauley569 No, State capitalism is a transition between Capitalism and Socialism. China is … more complicated, it's a mixed of private capitalism (like Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, etc) and state capitalism (like State Grid, China Petrol, China Telecom, etc). One interpretation of why most of the previous socialist countries have take somewhat capitalism form now is because they were all poor countries and never taken the full advantage of Capitalism stage to fully develop their economy, as reflected in Marx's theory of stages of societies ( primitive communism -> slavery -> feudalism -> capitalism -> socialism -> communism), you can't jump one step ahead without consequences but those countries did, thus why they have to take one step back.
I have had bosses who were EXACTLY like Lumberg on Office Space, at electronics factories I worked in!! Literally coming up to me 3 minutes before I was supposed to clock out, and ask me to stay another four hours!!!! I have also deal with engineers that couldn't read blueprints, wire schematics, and do simple basic math, then topping that off I had other bosses that couldn't solve a single problem but typically added to them most of the time instead!!!! The crazy thing is, I only have a high school education, BUT I am actually over qualified in many of the jobs I have had!! BECAUSE I took two years of auto mechanics, metal shop and wood working, a year of electronics, computer science, drafting and small engine repair classes!! ALSO I spent my summers working for both a contract construction crew, AND an auto body repair shop for 6 years between my junior high school through high school summers when those companies had work for me! PLUS I worked with my dad and grandfather who did landscaping as a side business to their regular 9-5 jobs, MEANING I have learned a lot about a lot of tools, and there isn't much I have "never done" either!! Also as hobbies I built scale models and flying model rockets, which taught me applied advanced mathematics using flight dynamics principals of rockets!!
“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 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.
@Wonka we need someone who actually cares about the people and gets what he promises done and we can’t help climate change if China and India continue to turn out more than everyone else can do
@Wonka corporation made record braking profits during the pandemic while tax payers subsidies their loses, jobs report came out and almost half a million jobs were added to the economy, and the us was once so divided we fought a war amongst our selves, we can fix our country if people are just willing to common good instead of individual prosperity
People can't always get a new job. In America, health care is tied to your employment. Also, if you decide to get married or have kids. Job hopping is great as a teen and young adult, but it is harder to get a job with age. It takes on average 40 days to get hired as a Software Developer.
@@undeadblizzard I would disagree that job hopping as a young adult is "great." Every time you change jobs, its moving, its having to make new friends, having to create a new social support network. over and over again. And we wonder why America is fragmented, lacking a sense of community.
@@jasonyang6630 once I didn’t get hired for a job as a dialysis technician. Even though I had plenty of experience in health care, a college degree which wasn’t required, am self taught bilingual and also taught myself sign language, and came to intern for free for the company, I didn’t get hired. I knew that I was more qualified than the other applicants and that I nailed the interview so I called the manager to ask why I wasn’t chosen. She told me that it was because I changed jobs too often. I was took the advice of changing from a shifty job to a better one and it made me look bad to hiring managers.
@@michelleespino9814 I honestly didn't even think about this one because they're already so many obstacles and problems with just 'getting a better job' but I should have known something like this would eventually happen. When businesses see workers looking out for themselves in that kind of way, they get punished if it doesn't immediately work out.
I remember back when I was a manager at a fast food place during the Pandemic. We were called "Essential Workers" our store did the bare minimum to make sure we were safe. The worst part that I will never forget was when we had a meeting with the District Manager and he literally told us how his stores made over 2 Million more in profit then they normally do due to the pandemic. None of us got a wage increase or even a bonus despite the fact that if it wasn't for us "essential workers" they would be loosing millions... It says it all
Yup same with every job ive had since covid started. We are all understaffed so one or two people do the work of 6, yet we get no extra pay and the companies post record profits
Literally handed out tshirts that said Super Hero, during the first year of the pandemic. No wage increase, a 100$ in-store gift card to make up for the last 2 years. Now it’s like it never happened.
Every time that I try telling people around me how pathetic living conditions are because of capitalism I am mostly seen as a rebel who is not earning. People don't take me seriously because I started rejecting the traditional way to life since teenage, dropped out of college, never got a job and at the age of 27 I'm a small scale tattoo artist. People in my country are blinded by the idea of hard work and hustle culture. I feel like such a miss fit
"Man is being robbed not merely of the products of his labor, but of the power of free initiative, of originality, and the interest in, or desire for, the things he is making." - Emma Goldman
It seems like it's deserved at this point. I think communism would solve many problems but I don't think most people alive today deserve a better world.
This came at the right time. My workplace is really toxic and every single day my manager has a meeting going off on us. My managed also messaged me today questioning why I didn’t meet goal even though she knew I was stuck on the phone all day and it took me longer to work cases. I literally broke down crying a few minutes ago because of the pressure my manager puts on me and no matter what I do it’s not good enough. Plus they are underpaying us and telling us we can’t call out of work. I have an interview on Monday during my lunch break and as soon as I get another job I’m quitting.
Really? This is SLOW. People are SLOW. The vampires sitting on the other side of the table? They're SMART, and FAST. They're so far ahead of us in this game, they have entire think tanks, pulled from our smartest sons and daughters, paid solely to come up with ways to subvert, forestall, and defeat the revolution. And everywhere I look, people are still working, still voting, keeping their heads down and hoping to feed their mediocre kids another day, make enough to pay for insulin, diapers, whatever has you by the balls at the moment. In another generation this one will have failed and our children will be talking the same trash about us.
@@moon-moth1 America is 200 years old. How many years of monarchy was Europe under? Society takes generations to change and America simply hasn't had as many.
I used to always fear my bosses. One day, I had enough. I told my boss off.. and amazingly... he said I was right. He apoligized to me. DON'T FORGET YOUR WORTH. YOU ARE THE BOSS. Not them. BTW helll yeah to all the new unions!! Let's go people!
They were planning to reduce the age of driving a forklift in Australia to 14. I commented how wrong it was that the first solution for to shortages is child labor and someone immediately started defending it saying it's not so bad
The current living wage is like $24/hr. Most jobs don’t even come close. College degree included. The whole system is so fucked by greed there’s no saving it.
@@jkxd9618 it’s for everyone who’s not well connected or well off at birth. My generation is majorly not having kids. Not starting families. This trend is gonna continue as long as the system remains broken.
Closest I've made was $23 per hour and it really does make a world of difference. It is incredibly messed up that anyone in a wealthy country like ours makes anything less that. We could literally reduce poverty over night.
@@christianbernard1619 not sure at all, but I think JKXD is saying that $24/h is the minimum living wage for a single person (1-2 bedrooms apt), but that it's even higher for people with children (fir example, single mom would need 2-3 bedrooms apt instead, pay for childcare, etc). A living wage that covers the vast majority of people would likely need to be even higher than $24/h, making the gap between actual wages and living wages even more horrifying
My grandfather recently died and for 2 days i broke down and i turned off all my phones because thean that raised me died. My boss when he finaly heard back from me told me: "I'm sorry your grandfather died but dont kill my business with him." You can't even grief in peace.
My cousin made the company he worked for for 18 years aware that his sister was waiting for a heart transplant and that when it came through he would have to head to the hospital with no notice. The day it happened his boss asked him to explain why his presence was needed at the hospital by asking him, "Are you the one donating the heart?". Having any sort of life or obligations outside of work is seen as selfish and unprofessional.
The reasons that I personally quit my job last year were 1.) It gave me all the time I needed to finally tackle my opiate addiction that I struggled with for well over a decade (which thankfully I seem to have succeeded), and 2.) It was an absolutely soul-crushing job with an impossible to please boss that probably helped make my addiction problem worse. Just my 2 cents.....
When starting my job at Walmart when I was 17, my manager on orientation day told us not to even mention the word Unions, otherwise we'd be fired. Fuck Walmart.
I was a bartender at a local ski resort in upstate new york. Going into season we were severely understaffed. When I asked my manager why can't he find anyone the answer I got was "no one wants to work". The kitchen staff that works over 60 hours a week between 4 people to server a restuarant that sits over a hundred constantly gets over whelmed and it belittled and yelled at by their chef, every single shift. They get paid 15 dollars and get no benefits because they are seasonal employees. The kitchen could handle it better if the whole restuarant wasn't sat all at once (because everyone has to eat at the same time) given if there was a host/tess to properly seat people and control the flow of the operation. That position a vital position, is usually given to a highschooler because the pay is 12.50 an hour. The host is the first person to get yelled at by unhappy customers who have to wait. A position that is very stressful. My manager still thinks no one wants to work. I told him no one wants to be paid shit pay. I'm a bartender I make my money through tips (Not the restaurant) and that started to bug me a lot. Why doesn't the restaurant want to pay me? I was doing manager activities like inventory and ordering. Yet being paid under minimum wage. It go to the point where I was so over worked i would cry driving in every day (I'm a 33 y/o male) the stress became so abundant i would drink every night to "wind down". I have a very very very small podcast and I use it to talk with friends about mental health. I used one episode to vent my feelings about being told to "check my attitude at the door" and I used the restaurants name. The chef found the episode and shared it with the manager and I was quickly fired for having those opinions. These companies don't care about me, you, us. They can't. SONG MOUNTAIN TULLY NY.
It astounds me that there are people who actually try and defend these kinds of dystopian conditions, why is it so hard for them to treat others like they’re human beings and not expendable machines?
Sorry to hear of your firing. Sorrier still to hear of the stress you had to endure. I believe it's not just the companies who don't care about workers. In fact, it may not be companies mostly to blame. I think it's our economic system that makes it easy (and lawful) for owners to maximize profits by paying poverty-level wages to workers. Restaurant competition can be fierce, so some owners may feel they must do this to remain in business. Believe it or not, government policy includes an unstated policy of maintaining a sizable number of unemployed people. That way, there's a pool of people willing to replace workers who become discontented with unlivable wages. They also allow minimum wage regulations to stagnate as time goes by. What's needed is a widespread labor union movement combined with massive sustained demonstrations of non-violent civil disobedience. Nothing else will get the attention of the billionaire oligarchs who now own the government and call the shots. Our traditional institutions of democratic change, such as open and free elections in the absence of big-money influence, are gone.
I'm wondering now how that chef found your podcast episode. Of all the podcasts on the vast expanse that is the internet, yours was as you called it "very very very small" and STILL he bumped into it? Yea, that doesn't sound like coincidence to me. "Sounds sus to me" I think kids today would say. 😵💫
Between 2017-19 I asked friends and other people I knew about work and literally everyone my age either outright hated their job or were very unhappy with it. I’m not kidding, not a single person said they liked their jobs.
Bosses then: “$5 an hour for flipping burgers, and I want no complaining or you starve on the streets! 😤” Meanwhile, prices of goods shoot up during the pandemic, and economy failures beforehand Bosses now: “Why does no one want to flip burgers?! 😱”
Yeah that’s the most frustrating part. *Pre-2008 financial crisis:* you better go to college and get a good degree or you’ll be flipping burgers the rest of your life! *Post-financial crisis:* What, you’re too good to flip burgers for a living just because you have a fancy degree? You’ll earn $7ph and you’ll like it. Who cares if you’re drowning in debt? *Current Day:* (CEO wiping away tears with a 90million bonus) why does nobody want to flip burgers for less than poverty wages anymore?? I don’t get it
As for the Military soldiers (active/reserved) im not sure how they live compared to civilians. Sometimes i think they live better than us :/ (not saying they shouldn’t because they play a big part in protecting our country from attacks) i just hear lots of benefits & money they get. Why cant civilians get this treatment? Is it because we arent fighting?
Once you become self-employed, you realize how difficult the system makes it for people to work freely in America. No health insurance, complex taxes are just two ways in which they discourage people from working for themselves. So, it's either wage slavery or having the system designed to work against you.
This is exactly why i'm so afraid for my future. Inflation, impossibly expensive housing prices, terrible pay and healthcare, climate change, expensive education. I'm so angry at the older generation. They're supposed to be the "wise" and "responsible" people, the ones protecting us and making the world a better place for the next generation, and yet, look who're out there fighting for better change and fighting against very present threats like climate change and waste pollution. Young adults, teens, CHILDREN. Over the years i've seen literal 4th graders talk politics and have pretty impressive discussions about climate change. On one hand i think it's amazing that the younger generation is a lot more conscious and smart, but on the other it saddens me so much, because these kids already have such cynical or frustrated emotions about today's problems. They should be kids, doing kid things, instead here they are doing what the older generation failed to do. I understand not all 40+ year olds are terrible, but it's just,, i have such a strong anger for all these people who demand respect and validation simply because they're older but give no wisdom nor help to the younger ones. I've seen so many older people fail the younger generation, even more now since the pandemic. It doesn't help all these people call younger people "lazy" for not going the good ol' american way and workin' hard for a house. Sorry, but houses, cars, and food don't cost 3 dollars anymore, they're a lot more.
Climate change is like the emperors new clothes, a distraction to take away from the real political problems modern western society faces. Health provision and management at affordable cost and housing at affordable cost. These 2 aspects have caused the major problem of over-reliance on long distance commuting and car use by people who should have no need for cars. If you get accessable housing and health provision under control for the masses everything else will fall into place as demand for fossil fuels drops. Also there is a huge need to encourage the recycling and re-use of material resources for other uses. Get rid of "fast fashion" and limited life electronics.
@@davidd4696 yeah and the people who protested then refuse to protest now...in their minds, because a temporary solution was provided 40 years ago, the problem was solved. They believe they shouldn't have to fight anymore, so they don't
I love how Second Thought not only puts a finger on the problem, but he takes it one step futher by explaining what needs to be done to fix the problem. There's a lot of youtubers out there flailing their arms sounding the alarm that there's a problem. Yet they never mention examples of how to fix it.
If my work was “essential” you’d think I’d get paid enough to make rent with one job but so much of this are empty words to make us keep going in terrible conditions. Most of my coworkers want to quit and find something better but they can’t find any job that pays better without destroying their mind or body more in factory jobs, hopefully sometime within our lifetime we’ll see enough people fed up with this system to cause even one significant change so that people are suffering less. While i may be able to eventually get a better job thanks to financial aid getting me through college, my coworkers don’t have that same opportunity which is really sad when i see how hard they have to break their backs from 4am to 4pm at barely above minimum wage
The hard truth is that betterment will never happen unless we make it happen. And how can we do that if all of our traditional democratic institutions of change have been incapacitated? We have elections that are manipulated by big-money campaign propaganda (among a number of other methods). We have a bought-off congress that represent the interests of the donor class, not the electorate. We have a politically appointed judiciary, most notably the Supreme Court. And we have mainstream media owned and controlled by six large corporations who determine the messaging based on the preferences of their billionaire masters. The only power "we the people" have left is the power of superior numbers, standing together and speaking with one voice. We urgently need an active labor union movement. We need massive sustained demonstrations of non-violent civil disobedience. By "massive" we mean hundreds of thousands in the streets standing in solidarity. By "sustained" we mean for as long as necessary, with the ultimate goal of removing power from those who would continue to exploit the working class!
Yeah I love when people talk about how free we are and the whole upwards mobility thing is such a fucking crock we rank lower than england which is TRULY deeply hilarious to me. So much of it reeks of Stockholm syndrome and trying to convince yourself nothings wrong
That's why I roll my eyes at people thanking their military for their "service." And that's aside from the whole destroying other people's countries for no good reason.
When I was hired by Schneider (trucking company), they specifically made us watch 4 hours of video on why we shouldn't unionize. They are also one of the companies risking the public's lives trying to replace the drivers with autonomous vehicles and teenagers. AI can barely drive a Tesla, let alone pilot 80,000lbs down a mountain. And teenagers may not be mature enough, but more over, this is a rough lifestyle, and it's pretty much all consuming. Why not improve industry standards like increased pay and hometime? Why not force the increase of delivery windows so that we have more agency over when we drive and where? No, these companies just want to basically make the money off of our labor. We do almost ALL of the work. Even the management tasks. But we take home 10-15% of the payout.
You always see news articles about the truck driver shortages, but hardly any articles on the all the tricks trucking companies use on their drivers. You hear about bonuses and never the dozens of stipulations before you ever see a cent.
I do have an answer as to why they don't force the increase of delivery windows: Just in Time production has taken over most manufacturing. If a delivery company can't promise a certain delivery time or date, the manufacturer would either end up with downtime or warehousing costs and that eats into their profit margin.
Trucking definitely isn't like it was in the 70's and 80's when there was oodles of money. I'd def try to get on a local hauling operation or on a garbage truck.
um your wrong on "barely able to drive a truck" Let me explain Ai. Ai is grouped into different Categories. Predictive plays in its processor. Like a game of chess, it will play out different scenario with the goal to win the game. That is limited in "what if" this driver rear ends my truck, what evasive maneuvers can I do based on senory input. If the LIDAR see the lane next to the right of te truck is clean and see no other car/truck speeding in that lane, it will move over before that vehicle its the truck. It uses other senors like Computer Vision Ai, which I am learning. It identifies objects on the road and entering the road and with high confidence, will draw boxes around them and label them. dozens of boxes are labeled and it senses its direction and speed. It sees the lines on the road, then superimposes green lines, and using line spacing algorithms, will measure the width, then will align the steering wheel in the center. GPS takes the truck to its designation. So Physics and Geometry are what controls the trucks path and roll risk so it keeps is speed down. Ai might even see the speed sign, then IT the sign, and read the numbers. That will slow the truck down so it does not roll the truck.
One thing that really irritates me is that while it's easier to get a job when you have one, you also have way less time to apply let alone interview for one. I had an interview for a job the other day and told them I'm available Mondays and Fridays and they schedule me for an interview on my lunch break on a Wednesday with the interview going overtime causing me to get back late from "lunch". I was afraid of getting caught and fired but fortunately that didn't happen. Either way, jesus fucking christ.
How companies can "inoculate themselves" against "quitagion": Show your employees you appreciate and care about them. Give them regular days off, sick days, vacation days, maternity leave, medical/dental insurance, and more money in their paychecks so they don't feel financially destroyed just for paying their bills and know they won't be fired if they stay home for a week just to avoid getting their co-workers sick if they come down with something. The employees also need to be protected against violent and racist customers, too. Something certain companies, such as FedEx which had put a delivery driver on unpaid leave after he'd been shot at by two Trump supporters solely for being a black driver in a white neighborhood just doing his job and making deliveries in his work uniform, could learn a lot about.
Sounds good but nah we'll just do a pizza party instead, or better yet, a potluck where you force your own workers to spend their own money to bring in a dish so the company saves money.
Yeah how do you expect them to get protected for one rare incident? I have an idea, put body guards with a machine gun on top of the trucks and spend waay to much money for something they will never need.
@@idrinkgasoline72 I know you've got to be trolling, but I felt it prudent to say that they gave the guy unpaid leave after his life flashing before his eyes. The issue isn't the lack of physical safety, it's the lack of financial security.
As someone who once helped start a union at an old workplace and is a current union member now, I cannot stress enough the importance of getting those who earn a paycheck, that regardless of our political differences, when it comes to economics, this is a CLASS STRUGGLE! The millionaires and billionaires do not give a single damn about you! You are only useful to them as long as you are making them a few more pennies in profit. Otherwise, they'll throw you aside without blinking.
There's an interesting correlation between the social utility of a job and how little it pays. The workers that actually keep things going are paid a pittance while the executives wallow in luxury. But if the workers go on strike, the consequences are felt right away. The executives? All of them could fly off into space tomorrow and we wouldn't even notice.
This is how slavery works, the slaves are actually doing virtually all the work, but the slaver have to paradoxically insist themselves that slaves are lazy and useless. You can't be rich without having a mindset that you're smarter and hard-working than other people, it's a way rich people justify themselves doing something that would be considered morally wrong for less-wealthy people. For example, stealing is considered a crime for poorer people, but add in extra steps, and you call it a "business."
Exactly. Every single job ive ever had, the majority of people who do the real work get paid crap while upper management who dont do jack all day make bank and get free lunches, paid hour long lunches, breaks whenever they want, benefits, rental cars, paid hotel stays, paid flights, paid cell phone plans etc etc Its ridiculous.
The facts that this question keeps being asked over and over again as if workers in this country haven’t been saying why they are quitting for the past year means that no one is listening
Here's food for thought: In capitalism, the production - machines and workers - sends all the money up the pyramid, to the owners. In socialism/communism, the citizens pay tax and sends all the money up the pyramid, to the government. In Catholicism, the believers pay tithe and sends all the money up the pyramid, to their Vicarius Filii Dei, the replacement of the son of God. The three biggest systems on the planet goes in the same direction, and you hope _one_ of them will end? The reason why I bring this up, is that the Book of Revelation, the last one in the Bible, has foretold it since 2000 years back that in the end days - just before Christ returns - EVERY man woman and child will be put into a system either through force or belief. The system will be an economic one, where no one can buy or sell without the "mark" of that system, and this is where Catholicism comes in, because it will also be a political, and a religious one. The pope, or rather the chair he's sitting on, is the antichrist, satans representation on earth. Anti in greek means "instead of", not against. Vicarius (substitute) Filii (son) Dei (God) is one of two titles he carries, and sums up to 666 if you take the numericals of every roman number. The pope - the Beast of the Sea - will soon get power from the US - the Beast from the earth - where it will come as a salvation to people, but is enslavement in covert. Did you hear about the "Georgia Guideingstones" that blew up some weeks ago, where it said mankind should be kept under 500 million? It was signed in the bottom of "RCC" the Roman Catholic Church. People are starting to wake up. If you research Blackrock and Vanguard, you will see that they own the biggest share of the biggest companies on earth. And which individuals are sitting ln those shares? Members of the Knights of Malta. Catholics, who get their orders from the pope. Just the other month the US gave away 100% of their power to the WHO in who's to say anything and everything regarding healthcare. The WEF is on the rise in all governments and local politics. There are more, but backtracing everything, it always goes back to the pope. The globalisation of the world is going in one direction, the enslavement of the entire world. And the system that is being put into place, as the WEF said: "you _will_ own nothing, and you _will_ be happy". The mark of the Catholic church - according to themselves - is the authority to change times and law, which means the Bible, ergo having Sunday as their sabbath day. Sounds far fetched? A day for the climate, a day of rest for the worker, a day for the family, a day for justice, a day for the planet, a day for... well, satan. Changing saturday sabbath to sunday - SUN day - will be the top of the pyramid. And the pope will once again rule, for a short time. Christ will destroy that system. In Europe it's called Agenda 2030. 2030... 8 years left, then Heaven is at the door, maybe even before depending on how fast they ruah this thing.
It makes me ashamed to be American. I've never really that found of America. I've always LOVED europe because of its culture, history and all the other numerous things it has influenced in modern culture. That's why I'm proud to be of European descent.
Answer: People want to be treated as human beings. Humanity and civility would keep everyone happy. Part of that is giving them a living fucking wage while treating them well. But, exploitation and greed is just too powerful in this god damned world.
Narcissists and Sociopaths aren't human beings. They can't empathize with others. Humans, empathize with other humans. That's what allows us to treat each other like human beings. But Narcissists and Sociopaths are in control. Allow them to freely exploit humanity, and they will. Gladly.
Now you see why the market is being manipulated! Starve out the people quitting so they’ll come back. Then ease off the price gouging by a dollar, or two. People want their lives back. Younger generations don’t want to be a slave in a so called “ first world country “. We haven’t been a free society in a long time. I’ve worked my ass off, for literal decades. I have nothing to show, for it. It feels like I’m just running in place. It’s hard to have any hope some days.
I'm sorry that you're going through a rough time. 😔 Don't give up! Hang in there! Take time to take care of yourself. It may take some time, but things will improve!🌈
@@mythicdw7826 self-help woo-woo BS will not solve this. No offense, but people don't need to pretend better days are ahead. That is a delusional utopian mindset. Only a complete dismantling of the exploitative capitalist economic system undergirding modern existence will result in positive changes. Pretending that putting on a smile and "hoping for better days" is an infantile response to an oppressive system intentionally grinding down the masses via psuedo-slavery.
Agreed, but I'd say we were never a free society ever. This country was founded by aristocratic filth who revolted from the crown not because they wanted freedom, but because they wanted to exploit American workers themselves. The US was quite literally founded on genocide and slavery and it shows.
@@dameongeppetto Actually...I totally agree with what you're saying!😔 When I said 'take time to take care of yourself', I simply meant to take care of your physical & mental health. Last year, the anxiety & stress took me to a really bad place mentally. With the help of a friend, I got better & am determined not to go to that dark place ever again... I wasn't talking about 'self help' such as buying a book manual or visiting a website that will teach you how to become a millionaire overnight or just put your head down, work hard and believe in the illusion that if you work hard in America, your dreams will come true. I'm aware of how messed up this country is.😑 You're absolutely right...the American people need to create a revolution in order to get their lives back, cause the 'leaders' in power sure ain't gonna GIVE THEM BACK!😡
I worked in construction for 18 years in a rural community and I saw the sad consequences of competition for capital had on workers, many of whom had known eachother since school. It caused animosity and resentment to the point where people were cursing and yelling at eachother in public places. Community doesn't exist under capitalism.
Too many people think getting screwed is the norm. Hopefully this thinking will change. How many of us remember the days when we were told, "You are lucky to have a job." Or, "If you don't like it, you can quit." ?? They never gave a shit about the worker and it's about time the tables were turned, now to the point where Bank of America wrote that they hoped workers would "lose leverage." Screw them.
they are getting screwed in canada too. Trudeau's 'socialism' isn't working for anyone but the immigrants and refugees. everyone else has nothing to look forward to but more debt and more taxes.
@@Fafnd I pick the developing countries over developed. In the right neighborhood, everything is new. Plus you can benefit from currency arbitrage unlike in developed countries.
@@Fafnd What is happening in the USA now will probably happen in Europe a few decades from now. We are headed in a similar direction, albeit at a slower pace than the USA. If you want to move to the future, go to Asia.
In germany 50% of the board of directors of any company MUST be workers, even if the other 50% is the owner. It's something along those lines. In switzerland crime is extremely low, and although there are 50-70 guns per 100 people in switzerland, there hasnt been a mass shooting in 20 years, and even then it was an abnomally. In america its like 120 guns per 100 people and we have mass shootings daily. Also everyone in switzerland has all their needs provided for from health care and highly liveable wages. Good policies make a difference.
Switzerland has his own problems, but most importantly not everyone as you say has a good wage or live in dignified conditions. This problem is faced by a great number of Swiss citizens, including me. The reality is, stop comparing countries to each other and actually strive for equality and wellbeing because it's the natural right of the human being always and forever.
Switzerland is also ethnically and philosophically unified. Their countrymen share (mostly) similar moral standards, and they (actual swiss people) share 1 national language and are all ethnically identical. There's bound to be less conflict when your nation has a sense of Philia, which America is too damn big and too damn diverse to host. If you are confused about what I've just said, read Aristotle's lectures on democracy and Philia; really eye-opening stuff.
The customers are why I left my job. Unfortunately NJ the process of getting unemployment makes it so difficult their idea is to get you so frustrated that you give up trying
8:48 It's even worse than that. I worked in a Kroger grocery store for a minute. It was a brand new store in a new construction gated community outside Denver. They expected to lose money for first 2 years before people moved in, but dominate market loyalty. It was also an experimental store, built like a Super Walmart or Target with half the store dedicated to clothing, electronics, furniture, etc. The experimental part was kind of a flop. But housing being crazy as it is in Denver metro, the grocery side was instantly profitable. So the Store Manager briefed us 2 months in, bragging about how they were turning over $1 million a week. That's silly money for a grocery store in a community that's only 50% moved in. The store manager also bragged about how 80% of us were brand new Kroger employees = we were all min wage w/o no upgrades. And just knowing people, about half the store was on food stamps. We were in a filthy rich highly successful grocery store doing a bang up job... and half the employees couldn't even afford to buy food.
I used to work for one of the oligarch space companies, and it was made pretty clear to me that anyone who wasn't management was basically livestock. If we all think things are bad now, just wait until there's a permanent corporate presence in space, and some MBA has decided that profit is more important than oxygen.
Also a sad truth in "creative" industries, is that you can make SIGNIFICANTLY more money jumping ship every few years than you ever would staying at one company
I left the U.S. with no intention of ever going back, taking a risk and making a very scary jump towards my dreams and trying to create a life that I want to live, full of creativity, working for myself, etc. Trying to build up my TH-cam channel as a way to make a small bit of income. Even though I'm still quite far from getting to the place where I'm stable, my life, stress, and overall well being and happiness have drastically improved since leaving. It's very interesting to watch what is happening, and I'm glad to see people finally putting their foot down and saying "no more". There's got to be more to life than this. I look forward to seeing what the future holds. ❤️
@@eyyy2271 I first moved to Mexico and was living there for about a year, but now I'm living in Tbilisi, Georgia 🇬🇪. Since I barely have any income at the moment (living off of $500-$600 USD per month), I am of course limited to which countries I can afford to live in, but my quality of life has been so much better. I can finally spend all my time involved in my creative projects while I build up my business and income, while enjoying a slower pace of life and enjoying the things that really matter. 😊
@@Ellary_Rosewood If you're american don't move to Mexico please, you guys drive the price of rent up so high that the regular people can't pay their own houses
@Smash 123 but those realisations --are-- _should be?_ one and the same 'are /should be' really ought be the other way around but that's the joke / sad truth
Small thing: Older generations applying for jobs online won't make them realise anything. Older generations understand perfectly well that the job market and living situation has changed dramatically from when they were young. The issue isn't that they don't understand. It's that they don't care. They know perfectly well that they had it easy and have been handed basically they've got for minimal effort and they know that young people don't enjoy the same benefits they did. The rants about lazy, entitled young people aren't born out of ignorance. They're born out of frustration around young people not being quiet about how much worse they have it.
I’ll have to counter that with my dad telling me it’s the easiest it’s ever been for kids my age to get a job... -,- Also saying how very lazy and very stupid many of the lower generations are and constantly complaining about them not knowing how to get off their butts and do work. I think he’s talking mostly about me because I’m his source of that rant... but I have my issues sadly. And well he has many friends he talks to on phone on the daily about how terrible the new generations are and just how the world looks so stupid and grim that it’s not like it used to be and why kids are suddenly not working now is because they are cry babies that wahhh all day. Sighs.. I cry a lot too.. lol
Yeah no, do you know any boomers? They are oblivious and think you can just walk in to a business ask to see the manager, give them a firm handshake and voila, you got the job. I was talking to my girlfriends grandmother the other week and she was telling me about how her job (typical working class job) paid for her and her coworkers to go to Hawaii on vacation one year. I told her nowadays youre lucky if you even get a pizza party, and she told me I should just find a better job. 😵
It should be "people don't want to be slaves anymore! " Instead of "people don't want to work anymore" Many people, particularly the younger generation, use a range of unconventional methods of earning a living these days. I worked in the retail for over 10 years, so l'm quite happy that this is taking place. For too long, retail bullied me and a lot of my employees/colleagues saying things like "if you don't like it,go; another like you is waiting to get into your position " since the COVID, I found a job that helps me grow, pays me more and Values Me Social media cleared the way for a rapidly expanding market, and it taught us a lot. 2020 was my turning point, and investment helped alot!
Yeah the 2020 pandemic gave everyone a big rethink! I tried a lot of things; I realised I shouldn't just let my savings sit around in the bank, tried side hustles. It paid off! Right now I’ve got less work time, time for my family and stick making the 6 figures
There's various profitable ways to invest. Starting out you need to work with experienced hands to walk you through. As a rookie I dabbled in and made mistakes till I got a mentor to put me on the right track. You can search one too, read books and do your own research
This is becoming a regular thing. Me waiting for the new episode of The Deprogram to appear and then seeing the new Second Thought video pop up. Then I know it´s time to check again and that after i´m done watching JT´s new video I will immediatly click play on the Deprogramme. Thank you for your great content! Love it and love The Deprogram!
This.....this right here, this video made me cry man. I used to be a flex security guard, and I was pulling 80 hours, 88, 92, and the most hours I ever pulled 128 hours in one week for allied security services. Bouncing site to site covering 20 hour shifts 18, 16, and 12. Working everyday for 1 year and 5 months until one morning I fell and lost all feeling in my left leg. I was sent to the hospital for a couple weeks to recover due to malnutrition and dehydration and other health problems. Allied was not having it and let me go, and man I was fucking pissed and I cried like a bitch. I gave them my entire life for that year, missed my grandmothers funeral, my cousin had kids, my nieces 1st birthday, and my mothers divorce with an ass hole I loath 😂😂. Even though I was making $1,780 a week that company decided to toss me aside like used toilet paper while was recovering. My body hasn't been the same since then, but I never go over 40. The money is not worth it, and hell I was 22 at the time, my body just had enough and couldn't keep up and shut down. Take it slow and it's OK to sit down to relax. It's ok to be lazy and that is the sign your body is telling you to slow the fuck down before it shuts YOU down.💀💀💀💀
They ran the numbers and flat out realized the single payer healthcare system would actually cost them less money than the current system, and still said "No, we want things expensive so we don't have to work that hard to get richer while keeping the rest of you poor". If you're the sort of person who sees that statement as a good thing or the right thing, then you are about as anti-American as you can get. You can't claim to love freedom while fighting to propagate things which strip others of the ability to exercise freedom. Not having the time to exercise freedom is the same as not having freedom. If companies want workers to stay, all they have to do is pay us more. It DOES NOT MATTER how unskilled you believe the labor is; if you expect 120% effort, we expect a living wage. Period.
Amid this "worker shortage" I was just let go from a temp to hire position for medical cannabis use that is legal in my state and was told wouldn't be drug tested. I was told yesterday that I would need to pee to get hired on full time. No window to prepare even though they knew my situation.
I know it is easy to say, but you do not need those jobs. You are better off eventually finding your better job that respects you, rather than accepting treatment like that.
I think the best part of the labor shortage is that people looking for jobs have a lot of leverage. "I'm applying for this position, but if you want ME, I require *this.*" I did this recently with my new job. They were talking of changing store hours, now that I'm there, to hours that interfere with my personal interests. I voiced my concerns and stated that if they charge hours to something that doesn't work for me, I'll go somewhere else.. that I wanted this job BECAUSE of the current hours. And it worked. If people have the courage to stand up for themselves, they can really with the system right now to get the pay, benefits, or hours they desire simply because employers NEED people to stay.
It's not just that "our leaders" have chosen the economy over the health and lives of our friends and family. Many of our fellow citizens (in my experience, those that are largely already retired or out of the work force) have also chosen the economy over the wellbeing of the rest of us, because a lack of waitstaff, cashiers, and even teachers is an inconvenience.
Much like big businesses, they have chosen the economy over the well-being of others because their pocketbooks are being threatened. Those who have the money and invested in the stock market are worried about their stock values declining and effecting their wealth. Whoever has the most money wins. The end justifies the means.
Burt's Bees uses subcontractors so they can say "We pay OUR workers well", while I worked below poverty wages dumping thousands of pounds of product that the only problem with it is the label is misaligned. I dumped loads of chapstick that retail would buy me a new car, while making so little I couldn't afford to maintain my actual car.
Good to know Burt's Bees is yet another filthy scumbag corp. patting themselves on the back while doing the exact opposite of what they claim. At this point, whenever I see/hear a business ad claiming they treat their employees well I assume they're somehow even worse than WalShart. Especially the ones that try to extort undeserved warm-feelies from their ridiculous "Small" and/or "Family" Business b.s.
@@thienthien7765 He made a video about the CIA and pretty much called them a terrorist organization. In the link below, he mentions being visited by two agents from the Department of Homeland Security a few days after posting that video. th-cam.com/video/F936GppjkcM/w-d-xo.html
It's absolutely true. when I left my last job I thought the market was in my favor but everyone is paying crap. Honestly there is not a shortage of labor there are shortages of "good" paying jobs with meh benefits
Up next: the "inspiring story" of how a 5 child minimum enabled a small town to replace its aging zoomer workforce with a bunch of 6 year olds getting paid a dime a day
@@alw2839 "you've had 7 whole years of being pampered enjoying childhood, it's time for you to get your shit together and start contributing around here".
I've only been fired once, but I have quit every other job I have ever had. Nothing more satisfying than telling your mean boss to "get f*cked" and walking away dropping tools as you go.
hell yeah...i once called in work to call out sick....the way the boss asked "oh yeah?...why wont u be showing up?" made me snap and i replied "cause i fucking quit!"!!! ...if he had actually asked me the same thing without his attitude i would have replied "having one of my migraines"
I did this to my first boss. She was an absolute bitch so I quit on the spot and I told her so. She paid me the absolute minimum wage (£4.37 for a 16 year old) and it wasnt worth my time, my energy, my mental health, anything. So I told her so.
@@idrinkgasoline72 No, we don't have to be friends with bosses and colleagues but when they don't treat you with respect, over work and underpay you (they paid me so little that I couldn't pay my bus fare to get to and from my school, never mind anything I actually wanted to spend money on as a teenager), when they stress you out so much they give you anxiety issues, then they can fuck off.
Can we also acknowledge that there are some union jobs where the union is completely controlled by the company itself and the workers still have no say in anything? I worked for one 2 years ago
Also that handing out pro union materials can get you fired because your coworkers, who are convinced collective action of any kind is bad, will not hesitate to throw you under the bus.
You posted this more than two months ago. May I ask how it's going for you, where you went, and what steps you took to get there? I desperately want out of the U.S.
@@crisis-cor I finally completed selling my house and car, then moved to the North Coast of Colombia in mid-November (gosh it's been a month already!).... There are definitely logistical, infrastructure, and cultural system challenges for North Americans like me... But I am slowly but surely adapting. The healthcare access, as well as the social/community/dating improvements in my life, far overshadow the challenges. Full Disclosure: It helps that I have lived here before (2 weeks in 2021, then 3 months earlier this year), and have made a few good friends - not dUSA-style phoney "friends" who are just drinking or f-k buddies, but actual close, trusted individuals who believe in mutual vulnerability, support, assistance, and encouragement along with the usual Social Fun). It also helps that I have been learning Spanish since July 1 of last year so I am at A2 level now and can communicate with most locals at the basic level.
@@crisis-cor What's your situation? You working? Have you visited any country before? Is your passport current? Maybe you can contact me privately somehow, and I can share my travel journal with you
He's getting soft shadowbanned by youtube, so unless you are already interested in his type of content or are actively looking for it, you are unlikely to be recommended his videos. Of course, it could just be that the almighty algorithm does not prefer his type of content
this is an amazing video. like, i'm-sharing-this-on-facebook-so-my-extended-family-can-see-this amazing. the way so many people have been talking about this "great resignation" is so biased in a way that just.. man it needs to change. thanks for making this!!!
I always heard when I was young that "It's a free market, you need to look appealling and sell yourself". Now that there's a labor shortage, I discover it is no longer a free market, and when we say "Pay us more and be less toxic! ", the companies are like "Uh, no, but, it doesn't work like that! "
I will never cease to be mad that my job voted to DE-Unionize the WEEK before I started. It was under the logic that “well it’s a not-for-profit so we don’t need a union and they pay well anyway” (it’s a large non-profit hospital system that has a minimum hiring wage that they always keep above minimum wage; currently $16 an hour) but NOW four years later and two years into a global pandemic people are quitting in droves (myself included I’m trying to AT LEAST transfer to a less awful department if I can’t find something better elsewhere) because the longer this has been going on the clearer it’s been that the organization doesn’t even a little bit actually care about their housekeeping staff and we’re all burned out.
I have a real trust issue when it comes to employers and I think this channel is the reason for it. It's hard to turn up to work everyday knowing that you're being exploited.
Actually you dont need to know about any of those to know you are being exploited. I think more people support socialism because they’re fucking working to death to not be starving and homeless.
I worked fast food in 2004ish and distinctly remember always hearing management complain about how teenagers are always applying and wanted more adult workers. That same restaurant now has a huge sign outside saying they will hire 14 and 15 year olds with work permits. They hand out flyers how they will gain valuable experience that will help them later in life. To top it off the kids can get permission to work 40 plus hours a week and nights for extra money.
That's terrifying, a turn back toward early industrial revolution era child labour. It seems to be a trend across the so called developed world. In my country its becoming more common for high school kids to drop out and get work to help pay the family's rent and food bills, because the cost of living is so high and still climbing. Call me a pinko commie lunatic but I think what would be much better for their futures is a stable affordable society where they can enjoy being young, get educated and not have to worry about helping to keep the lights on or if there will be anything to eat next week.
I'm honestly really curious what would happen if factory workers were rotated around the factory so they have the knowledge of every part of the manufacturing process or if the workers could choose what they did throughout the day. It'd require a complex system that has to be reliable to do so but it'd give back the sense of autonomy to the workers.
Actually, that is pretty common practice within Australian manufacturing. I personally don't really think it achieves much other than relieving the boredom of only doing a singular task. One thing about employers is that they are careful to skill you up just enough for their own benefit, just not enough to justify paying you more.
Hey, that's what Kropotkin proposed in The Conquest of Bread! Really good book with a part exploring how labor can be transformed, and it was written in the 1800s too, when tech wasn't as advanced as it is today
We here in Europe are flabbergasted that you still get treated this way. We’re not perfect over here either, but things really improved after union busting was made illegal, at least in Germany where I grew up. It’s against the law to even whisper against a union forming. It’s bizarre to see what for example Amazon is doing to prevent unionisation in the US. Other countries don’t let corporations do that, anything anyone from Amazon has ever done to manipulate or prevent a vote for unionisation in the US is considered a crime and punishable by law in other countries. Your current situation looks like slavery.
It basically is slavery for some people. There were people at my fast food job who had to have their kids in the lobby while they worked because they couldn't afford childcare. This isn't even getting into the fact that we have prison labor...
What baffles me is how many perfectly fine goods(foods, electronics, clothing) get dumped for little reason. People barely get by and still their company prefers to throw out returned objects instead of giving it to their employees.
@@voodoodummie because of the regulations passed by the government, that prevent the store from handing out the food to others. There's been many cases now, where a grocery store hands out some food that it was going to throw away, they make that point clear, and the person who takes the food gets sick. Said person then proceeds to sue the store, and win.
@@sebastianlucas704 oh that is an interesting myth, but also legally impossible due to the Emerson act of 1996 which explicitly protects companies from exactly those liability cases, making that case legally impossible. Those many cases you were talking about, did they happen in the 80's or something? nah, you comment reeks of intentional bovine-based fertilizer. You also miss the point that the largest reason that stores throw away food instead of giving it to charity purposes is that the latter is way more expensive to do. Storage, cooling, transport; and for what? Grocery stores are businesses, they exist for profit, not charity.
It's amazing they choose the economy over people's lives, how do they expect the economy to flourish if half our people are dead? That's taking the short term profit mentality to a nauseating level...
Just numbers on a spreadsheet. Going through high-school economics myself, it's really scary how desensitized the lessons make you to real life matters. Humans get reduced to a column labeled L. The state's intervention to the economy is projected as cause for concern to the otherwise self-balancing free market.
We're having similar issues in Australia. When my store manager told the regional manager that if we're running the store each day with only one person then we don't have time to do a lot of the smaller jobs and the regional manager told her to 'make time'. We used to have at least three people in the store at once, now there is one. We're just magically supposed to do the work of three people by ourselves while also 'prioritising' the customer. The customers who are getting shitty with us because we can't help all of them at once.
it's always "find a better job if you want higher pay" until the bosses are the ones losing money. just goes to show what this whole clusterfuck of a society is really about
I quit my job, because the pay literally wasn't even enough to cover rent. That was the best paying job I've ever had, and I have zero expectation of getting something better. Now I'm just living with my parents, donating plasma for money, and trying to get into writing. I basically consider myself to be on general strike, and I'm making my demands known on Twitter and Facebook. Really wish our biggest voices on the left would coordinate to organize a real general strike, with real, simple, straightforward, concrete demands. Something like: UBI + Living Minimum Wage, M4A, and STAR Voting. The three main areas we need significant change, as soon as possible, to give us the power and freedom we need to fix the rest.
Why would the supposed left help you at all? The capitalists have paid them off like the fascist right wing. They own both sides of the debate. You should consider going back to school or finding a business you can get into.
Older generations are high key mad that younger generations aren’t sticking around to be bullied, harassed, retaliated against (should you decide to assert yourself, ask me how I know 🙄), they truly believe we should do what they did which was take it and not try to rock the boat. I always said, that Millennials were the last generation that would be willing to *try* and compromise with their ‘out of order’ arse ways, because early on I could see that Gen Z didn’t GAF. And, quite frankly I don’t blame them. We take the heat from the Boomers so that Gen Z can fly. Look where we are, now. They were warned. 🤷🏾♀️
I agree. It's interesting too because they themselves told us that they went through x,y & z to make sure we didn't suffer some of the same problems they did.
@@genericpinesol It takes money & connections to make money.. Jeff Bezos got a timely 'donation' of $50k from the bank of mum & dad if he hadn't Amazon would not exist!
This government will not do that. The US government was never founded for that purpose. The reason why the founding fathers founded the United States was simply because they needed a centralised state to crack down on worker's uprisings, slave rebellions and strikes that were bothering the emerging capitalist class and the slave owning class. Many founding fathers hated democracy and many of them even preffered a monarchy as a type of government. They ended up choosing a liberal 'democratic' system, that would grant some very limited influence that a limited number of people could exert on the government really only by means of electing individuals to positions of power. This would give workers the impression that they were actually able to change the system without having to rebel. This kept workers in check for the capitalist class. Unfortunately for the workers though, they never really had an influence on anything materially useful. All major decisions are determined by the capitalist class who donates to whatever politician occupies the White House. The saying "if elections changed anything, they wouldn't allow it", really is true for capitalist countries.
Solutions: Force Congress to pass a $24 Basic Minimum Wage, Stop the pointless Inflation, create a UBI & Child Tax Credit that would lift people out of poverty, & slightly shrink the Weath Gap, & Make Billionaires pay higher taxes that could reinvigorate the economy.
That also doesn’t do anything to fix the root cause. One guy profits off of everyone’s labor in a company. We need to change that. People should profit off of their labor.
@@thethatthisguy1110 Nobody can make more than 20 times the minimum wage. Anything more than that gets taxed at 100%. No exceptions. Any attempt to remove it gets the death penalty. There is no other way.
You forgot the most important aspect: RENT CONTROL. The minute landlords know people are making more money, without a doubt, landlords will steal those wage gains with rent increases. Landlords provide NOTHING of value and are just leeches feeding on the working-class. The next step is to demand the government to implement what they have in Singapore and Austria for public housing/ownership.
"This is the stuff our parents and grandparents took for granted...." and do not understand that is gone. No upperward mobility, no sick time, no pension, no vacation time. ANn the older generation think we are lazy. When in reality, we just do not want to be treated like serfs.
The frustration and despair resonates with me ....but for those without any great entrepreneurial talents....and not independently wealthy...how do you afford to "live" without a job?
I work in a retail store and I’m 1000% interested in trying to unionize (there are a couple departments that are already unionized because it was a carryover from the store we bought out), but I’m afraid of getting fired for even bringing the idea to light. Any advice or recommendations?! Edit: Also just wanted to add I absolutely love your videos. You’re one of a few channels I have notifications turned on for. It’s because of this channel and folks like Hasan Piker that have really helped me shift my views from liberal Democratic to Democratic Socialism/Communism and I’ve been reading more and more into it. Thank you for always educating people like me!!!
It can, American companies routinely break these laws. You'll need to know them, and document everything you can legally document. For example in Colorado you can record any conversation you are participating in. Basically you'll need to gather the evidence that proves they broke the law. Document everything in writing, or on whatever recording method is legal, so if they do illegally retaliate, you have the evidence needed by a lawyer who handles cases for employment law violations. ❤
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Dude you're missing something these people are not just selling their ability to make a product. They are selling moments in their life. Every minute you spend inside a warehouse or corporate office you're selling moments of your life away cheaply to the people who are paying for it and if you don't believe that you're worth more than you won't try to get more. Every moment you sell is priceless and you can't get it back and your boss is trying to pay for those moments as cheap as possible knowing that you can't get it back.
I love unions because they are actually trying to change the lives of workers and they're doing more to help them than their politicians. The politicians are the ones who are supposed to be helping the people but they haven't done their damn job in 80 years.
How do you plan on fixing things because you always rant about the problems that 'only' in United States of America. Also whatever your answer would be how much is the probability that it will turn just as you would expect it to and also don't think people would just stop working of they are just given food and remember American system is fragile and that everyone has to go through some years of hell type revolution because whatever you would be saying wouldn't be possible in the current system of democracy and you can't democratically vote out a 'semi' Democratic system. Now remember there is no way you can ever get 2/3 of population to agree to pass your referedum without some brainwashing campaign and if you do that would 'you' be better than something you are trying to overthrow? Also remember to make a video calcuting probability of success of your solution in making life better for more than 80% population and making the video rather less of the outcome because if you don't would you really be any better than Fox news who trying to do the same thing and without admitting to probability of success of whatever they plan on doing.
@@mrintrovert5068 yeah dude you got a lot of word vomit here to justify a system that is oppressive and deadly to a lot of people. The fact of the matter is we don't have a two party system we have a one-party system and that is the corporate party, no matter what Republican or Democrat you vote for they are part of that party. Your single vote is not as equal as millions of dollars. That's the reason why the politicians never do anything that people want because they're paid not too and they're paid to be idiots.
@@juggaloclownpreacher I wanna ask how is your moments priceless. Because I have made a deal with myself in which I gave up my entire high school fun and my true love with 5-10 years of my life for a successful life and Big buck.
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor"
--James Baldwin
I don't know why, but this is so true
It’s because Poverty charges interest. Paying more upfront usually means you get to save more in the long run. Look up the “boots theory of economic inequality”
Money can fix a cavity before it becomes worse. Money stops overdraft fees. Money means you don't take out loans with interest. Money buys boots that will last 3x as long and doesn't hurt your feet. Money buys you a car that won't break down every 3 months. Money let's you invest and make more money. Money saves you money.
“We’ve yet to understand that if I am starving, you are in danger.” -James Baldwin
@@stevensalazar6296
So totally true. 👍🏻
The thing that disgusts me most is that it doesn’t even cost that much more to improve the lives of so many American workers. Their health and quality of life are at the expense of a CEOs bonus, or another tax cut, or a corporations bottom line. Would it even change the lives of a senior level executive pulling over a million dollars a year to not get a ridiculous tax free raise to give workers proper benefits? I wouldn’t be proud as a company owner to know many of my workers are making close to poverty wages
They don't care Isaiah, all the CEOs care about is profits at ALL costs including your life. So what are you going to do about it? I suggest joining the Democratic Socialists of America or unionizing your workplace. Take back your power, it was yours in the first place and should never be given up without compensation.
The governments which enable this are just as much to blame. Taxing the rich could improve the lives of everyone yet the system doesn't favour that outcome. It's so broken
@@Fafnd The DSA capitulated to the DNC... expand your research and stay objective. Regardless of party affiliation, Intersectional Solidarity is the only way forward. Unions can work but worker co ops are better. Average people need to think beyond the construct.
Actually, I get a bit pissed off when I hear American workers use the term "benefits". I'm assuming by using that term you are referring to health insurance. That should not be a responsibility of an employer, your government should be responsible for that, just like in every other country in the developed world. As an example, I'm in Australia and a worker is legally entitled to:
A 38-hour working week, overtime paid at time and a half for the first 3 hours of a shift, and double time after that, a minimum wage of about $15.80 US dollars an hour, four weeks of paid annual leave per year, an extra 17% paid leave loading on those four weeks, 10 days of paid sick or personal leave per year, 10 paid public holidays per year, a 10% employer funded superannuation contribution, all those things are mandated by law, with harsh penalties for any employer who fails to comply.
If you are only referring to employer funded health care and a moderate wage increase, then I think that's part of the problem. Americans need to educate themselves more about laws in other countries, the conditions workers in other countries work under, and then unionise to demand something akin to parity.
The thing is you being nice to your workers doesn't change the nature of your relationship, you being the owner have the lives of people at your mercy or lack thereof and that's not ok, it is this hierarchical system that what allows and even encourages horrible treatment of human beings.
And you being generous with your workers i.e. paying them living wages and providing ample benefits isn't profitable which means in the twisted game of capitalism you'd likely lose out to other owners of other businesses that don't care at all about their workers because they would have more capital, more profits and therefore more powerful than you and they would have a vested interest in seeing you fail, why? Because they don't want their workers to get any ideas about demanding better conditions and pay because of your example with how you treated your employees.
As long as we exist within a capitalist framework, the capitalists will NEVER willing let anyone challenge the status quo, humane practices are discouraged and kindness is a liability.
“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor”- Victor Hugo
@ In a capitalist system
@@tomasmccauley569 Yes
State capitalism
@@tomasmccauley569 No, State capitalism is a transition between Capitalism and Socialism. China is … more complicated, it's a mixed of private capitalism (like Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, etc) and state capitalism (like State Grid, China Petrol, China Telecom, etc). One interpretation of why most of the previous socialist countries have take somewhat capitalism form now is because they were all poor countries and never taken the full advantage of Capitalism stage to fully develop their economy, as reflected in Marx's theory of stages of societies ( primitive communism -> slavery -> feudalism -> capitalism -> socialism -> communism), you can't jump one step ahead without consequences but those countries did, thus why they have to take one step back.
Hit hard
@ True. If everyone is equal, there would be no such thing as rich and poor.
After decades of watching movie villains want to burn the system down and start anew, these last couple years made me realize… they had a point.
tony stark is the true villain!
League of Shadows
I’ve always been on the dark side. Always.
I have had bosses who were EXACTLY like Lumberg on Office Space, at electronics factories I worked in!! Literally coming up to me 3 minutes before I was supposed to clock out, and ask me to stay another four hours!!!! I have also deal with engineers that couldn't read blueprints, wire schematics, and do simple basic math, then topping that off I had other bosses that couldn't solve a single problem but typically added to them most of the time instead!!!! The crazy thing is, I only have a high school education, BUT I am actually over qualified in many of the jobs I have had!! BECAUSE I took two years of auto mechanics, metal shop and wood working, a year of electronics, computer science, drafting and small engine repair classes!! ALSO I spent my summers working for both a contract construction crew, AND an auto body repair shop for 6 years between my junior high school through high school summers when those companies had work for me! PLUS I worked with my dad and grandfather who did landscaping as a side business to their regular 9-5 jobs, MEANING I have learned a lot about a lot of tools, and there isn't much I have "never done" either!! Also as hobbies I built scale models and flying model rockets, which taught me applied advanced mathematics using flight dynamics principals of rockets!!
“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 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.
Lol more like 6:30 am
Late but I agree except it’s 4:30😢
Was about to join the pity party in the comments because yeah, 8:30 sounds like a dream! Who was this Charles guy lmfao
In germany nearly every industry is already working 3 hours by 8:30
I started work at 3:20AM for Amazon 🥲
"Poor poor" corporations losing money because workers want to be treated properly... How joyful.
@Wonka we need someone who actually cares about the people and gets what he promises done and we can’t help climate change if China and India continue to turn out more than everyone else can do
They will just hire illegals to replace the ones who quit 🤗
@Zach Yeah but make sure they speak English. Also, trust me if you work Retail and can't speak or understand English you will get destroyed.
@Wonka corporation made record braking profits during the pandemic while tax payers subsidies their loses, jobs report came out and almost half a million jobs were added to the economy, and the us was once so divided we fought a war amongst our selves, we can fix our country if people are just willing to common good instead of individual prosperity
@Wonka I’m not saying trump was perfect but he is now what you describe and how can we out produce two countries with over 2 billion people combined
“If you hate your job’s pay, find a new one!”
“No, we didn’t mean that literally.”
People can't always get a new job. In America, health care is tied to your employment. Also, if you decide to get married or have kids. Job hopping is great as a teen and young adult, but it is harder to get a job with age. It takes on average 40 days to get hired as a Software Developer.
@@undeadblizzard I would disagree that job hopping as a young adult is "great." Every time you change jobs, its moving, its having to make new friends, having to create a new social support network. over and over again. And we wonder why America is fragmented, lacking a sense of community.
@@jasonyang6630 once I didn’t get hired for a job as a dialysis technician. Even though I had plenty of experience in health care, a college degree which wasn’t required, am self taught bilingual and also taught myself sign language, and came to intern for free for the company, I didn’t get hired. I knew that I was more qualified than the other applicants and that I nailed the interview so I called the manager to ask why I wasn’t chosen. She told me that it was because I changed jobs too often. I was took the advice of changing from a shifty job to a better one and it made me look bad to hiring managers.
@@jasonyang6630 The Internet allows you to be friends with People who live far away.
@@michelleespino9814 I honestly didn't even think about this one because they're already so many obstacles and problems with just 'getting a better job' but I should have known something like this would eventually happen. When businesses see workers looking out for themselves in that kind of way, they get punished if it doesn't immediately work out.
I remember back when I was a manager at a fast food place during the Pandemic. We were called "Essential Workers" our store did the bare minimum to make sure we were safe. The worst part that I will never forget was when we had a meeting with the District Manager and he literally told us how his stores made over 2 Million more in profit then they normally do due to the pandemic. None of us got a wage increase or even a bonus despite the fact that if it wasn't for us "essential workers" they would be loosing millions... It says it all
My old job was like this is the biggest profits we ever had! Congrats, now yall have to work mandatory overtime. Lol
Hopefully you’re in a better place now.
Yup same with every job ive had since covid started. We are all understaffed so one or two people do the work of 6, yet we get no extra pay and the companies post record profits
@@zachhoward9099 oh I am. I work for the gov now. Best benefits ever and I make more than I ever did. Got a new car and about to buy a house soon
Literally handed out tshirts that said Super Hero, during the first year of the pandemic. No wage increase, a 100$ in-store gift card to make up for the last 2 years. Now it’s like it never happened.
Every time that I try telling people around me how pathetic living conditions are because of capitalism I am mostly seen as a rebel who is not earning. People don't take me seriously because I started rejecting the traditional way to life since teenage, dropped out of college, never got a job and at the age of 27 I'm a small scale tattoo artist. People in my country are blinded by the idea of hard work and hustle culture. I feel like such a miss fit
I'm not looking for a career, I'm looking for the least stressful, exhausting and invasive way to keep affording food
Weak
@@nephiraeina5470 Right lol I'm such a beta for thinking it's fucked up that I have to prove I'm worth being alive in civilization
@@nephiraeina5470 🤡
@Zephyranthes there's nothing weak about wanting to be smart with your labor. We only got 1 life to live ✌🏾
Amen. Me too!
"Man is being robbed not merely of the products of his labor, but of the power of free initiative, of originality, and the interest in, or desire for, the things he is making." - Emma Goldman
true that
I’ll smoke to that
It seems like it's deserved at this point. I think communism would solve many problems but I don't think most people alive today deserve a better world.
I have uploaded a video about cruelty against christians in India
@@mahatmadutcheastcompany6726 they should be persecuted to extinction (something your namesake would know well about, literal fascist)
This came at the right time. My workplace is really toxic and every single day my manager has a meeting going off on us. My managed also messaged me today questioning why I didn’t meet goal even though she knew I was stuck on the phone all day and it took me longer to work cases. I literally broke down crying a few minutes ago because of the pressure my manager puts on me and no matter what I do it’s not good enough. Plus they are underpaying us and telling us we can’t call out of work. I have an interview on Monday during my lunch break and as soon as I get another job I’m quitting.
Power to you. Good luck. Stay groovy.
Wish you all the best
Stay strong
@you know Hail Satan.
Quit with style......Take a Dump on the Boss's Desk....in a lady like and dignified manner of course . Good luck to you!
The idea that people are finally waking up, even just a little bit, to the value of their labor makes me so hopeful.
Wake me up. Wake me up inside. Welcome to the waking up podcast, this is Sam Harris. Okay some housekeeping…
@@Dontdoit_ they did not settle for less. They got more by default.
Really? This is SLOW. People are SLOW. The vampires sitting on the other side of the table? They're SMART, and FAST. They're so far ahead of us in this game, they have entire think tanks, pulled from our smartest sons and daughters, paid solely to come up with ways to subvert, forestall, and defeat the revolution.
And everywhere I look, people are still working, still voting, keeping their heads down and hoping to feed their mediocre kids another day, make enough to pay for insulin, diapers, whatever has you by the balls at the moment. In another generation this one will have failed and our children will be talking the same trash about us.
@@moon-moth1 America is 200 years old. How many years of monarchy was Europe under? Society takes generations to change and America simply hasn't had as many.
@@alanjefferson1127 so would no progress be better then?
I used to always fear my bosses. One day, I had enough. I told my boss off.. and amazingly... he said I was right. He apoligized to me. DON'T FORGET YOUR WORTH. YOU ARE THE BOSS. Not them. BTW helll yeah to all the new unions!! Let's go people!
They were planning to reduce the age of driving a forklift in Australia to 14. I commented how wrong it was that the first solution for to shortages is child labor and someone immediately started defending it saying it's not so bad
i mean yeah its not so bad
you can run over your employer with the forklift now
@@mewdoesstuff you have a good point there NGL
We're basically regressing back to child labor exploitation of the previous "Gilded Age". Nothing has fundamentally changed.
along with the law change, they are ready with counter arguments and narratives dismissing and ridiculing all real concerns using media power.
The current living wage is like $24/hr. Most jobs don’t even come close. College degree included. The whole system is so fucked by greed there’s no saving it.
I’m assuming that’s for an individual not a family I’m talking about the current living wage you mentioned btw
@@jkxd9618 it’s for everyone who’s not well connected or well off at birth. My generation is majorly not having kids. Not starting families. This trend is gonna continue as long as the system remains broken.
Closest I've made was $23 per hour and it really does make a world of difference. It is incredibly messed up that anyone in a wealthy country like ours makes anything less that. We could literally reduce poverty over night.
@@christianbernard1619 not sure at all, but I think JKXD is saying that $24/h is the minimum living wage for a single person (1-2 bedrooms apt), but that it's even higher for people with children (fir example, single mom would need 2-3 bedrooms apt instead, pay for childcare, etc). A living wage that covers the vast majority of people would likely need to be even higher than $24/h, making the gap between actual wages and living wages even more horrifying
@@jkxd9618 bold of you to assume most of us can afford to have a family
My grandfather recently died and for 2 days i broke down and i turned off all my phones because thean that raised me died. My boss when he finaly heard back from me told me: "I'm sorry your grandfather died but dont kill my business with him." You can't even grief in peace.
If you can kill your boss's business, then you're criminally underpaid.
My cousin made the company he worked for for 18 years aware that his sister was waiting for a heart transplant and that when it came through he would have to head to the hospital with no notice. The day it happened his boss asked him to explain why his presence was needed at the hospital by asking him, "Are you the one donating the heart?". Having any sort of life or obligations outside of work is seen as selfish and unprofessional.
wtf
@@mariawesley7583 🤮 what a disgusting comment the boss said
Fuck them, your should have bereavement leave at any job.
“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.”
― Confucius
confucius lowkey the first chinese communist
Original texts: “邦有道，贫且贱焉，耻也；邦无道，富且贵焉，耻也。”
@@tewekdenahom485 He’s pre communist. Countries ran off Confucianism as a moral base to be reminded of why we have a society. Very family oriented.
@@tewekdenahom485 He would be considered a proto-communist, advocating for an egalitarian and just society.
How?
The reasons that I personally quit my job last year were 1.) It gave me all the time I needed to finally tackle my opiate addiction that I struggled with for well over a decade (which thankfully I seem to have succeeded), and 2.) It was an absolutely soul-crushing job with an impossible to please boss that probably helped make my addiction problem worse.
Just my 2 cents.....
Congrats man. Strength is a good thing.
This reporter is a liberal cuk
Proud of youu, Tom!!!! Take care of yourself, and always remember to be kind to yourself. Good luck.
Similar to me, except with booze, and my boss was my father, and i ran the business, fuckin sucked. 16 god damn years gone.
@@barnabasszabolcs8708 congrats man
When starting my job at Walmart when I was 17, my manager on orientation day told us not to even mention the word Unions, otherwise we'd be fired. Fuck Walmart.
Hahahahahahahaha
Sounds alot like working for Amazon.
@@nickcox1408 It's everywhere, worked at Fedex and they fired an employee who was talking about unions.
@@mjohnson1741 Tough to keel the slaves in line when they start to form unions.
@@nickcox1408 they're taking notes and raising the bar
I was a bartender at a local ski resort in upstate new york. Going into season we were severely understaffed. When I asked my manager why can't he find anyone the answer I got was "no one wants to work". The kitchen staff that works over 60 hours a week between 4 people to server a restuarant that sits over a hundred constantly gets over whelmed and it belittled and yelled at by their chef, every single shift. They get paid 15 dollars and get no benefits because they are seasonal employees. The kitchen could handle it better if the whole restuarant wasn't sat all at once (because everyone has to eat at the same time) given if there was a host/tess to properly seat people and control the flow of the operation. That position a vital position, is usually given to a highschooler because the pay is 12.50 an hour. The host is the first person to get yelled at by unhappy customers who have to wait. A position that is very stressful. My manager still thinks no one wants to work. I told him no one wants to be paid shit pay. I'm a bartender I make my money through tips (Not the restaurant) and that started to bug me a lot. Why doesn't the restaurant want to pay me? I was doing manager activities like inventory and ordering. Yet being paid under minimum wage. It go to the point where I was so over worked i would cry driving in every day (I'm a 33 y/o male) the stress became so abundant i would drink every night to "wind down". I have a very very very small podcast and I use it to talk with friends about mental health. I used one episode to vent my feelings about being told to "check my attitude at the door" and I used the restaurants name. The chef found the episode and shared it with the manager and I was quickly fired for having those opinions. These companies don't care about me, you, us. They can't. SONG MOUNTAIN TULLY NY.
It astounds me that there are people who actually try and defend these kinds of dystopian conditions, why is it so hard for them to treat others like they’re human beings and not expendable machines?
Nice advisement of your podcast bud
Sorry to hear of your firing. Sorrier still to hear of the stress you had to endure. I believe it's not just the companies who don't care about workers. In fact, it may not be companies mostly to blame. I think it's our economic system that makes it easy (and lawful) for owners to maximize profits by paying poverty-level wages to workers. Restaurant competition can be fierce, so some owners may feel they must do this to remain in business.
Believe it or not, government policy includes an unstated policy of maintaining a sizable number of unemployed people. That way, there's a pool of people willing to replace workers who become discontented with unlivable wages. They also allow minimum wage regulations to stagnate as time goes by. What's needed is a widespread labor union movement combined with massive sustained demonstrations of non-violent civil disobedience. Nothing else will get the attention of the billionaire oligarchs who now own the government and call the shots. Our traditional institutions of democratic change, such as open and free elections in the absence of big-money influence, are gone.
@@RussCR5187
Right on the money. You nailed it. 👍🏻
I'm wondering now how that chef found your podcast episode. Of all the podcasts on the vast expanse that is the internet, yours was as you called it "very very very small" and STILL he bumped into it? Yea, that doesn't sound like coincidence to me. "Sounds sus to me" I think kids today would say. 😵💫
Between 2017-19 I asked friends and other people I knew about work and literally everyone my age either outright hated their job or were very unhappy with it. I’m not kidding, not a single person said they liked their jobs.
It's very difficult to like something you're FORCED to do, in order to avoid starvation and homelessness.
And it’s not even like those jobs were treating them well.
Bosses then: “$5 an hour for flipping burgers, and I want no complaining or you starve on the streets! 😤”
Meanwhile, prices of goods shoot up during the pandemic, and economy failures beforehand
Bosses now: “Why does no one want to flip burgers?! 😱”
Bruh
Yeah that’s the most frustrating part.
*Pre-2008 financial crisis:* you better go to college and get a good degree or you’ll be flipping burgers the rest of your life!
*Post-financial crisis:* What, you’re too good to flip burgers for a living just because you have a fancy degree? You’ll earn $7ph and you’ll like it. Who cares if you’re drowning in debt?
*Current Day:* (CEO wiping away tears with a 90million bonus) why does nobody want to flip burgers for less than poverty wages anymore?? I don’t get it
Bosses are scum and delusional people.
@@thunderpooch "People"
As for the Military soldiers (active/reserved) im not sure how they live compared to civilians. Sometimes i think they live better than us :/ (not saying they shouldn’t because they play a big part in protecting our country from attacks) i just hear lots of benefits & money they get. Why cant civilians get this treatment? Is it because we arent fighting?
Once you become self-employed, you realize how difficult the system makes it for people to work freely in America. No health insurance, complex taxes are just two ways in which they discourage people from working for themselves. So, it's either wage slavery or having the system designed to work against you.
This is exactly why i'm so afraid for my future. Inflation, impossibly expensive housing prices, terrible pay and healthcare, climate change, expensive education.
I'm so angry at the older generation. They're supposed to be the "wise" and "responsible" people, the ones protecting us and making the world a better place for the next generation, and yet, look who're out there fighting for better change and fighting against very present threats like climate change and waste pollution. Young adults, teens, CHILDREN.
Over the years i've seen literal 4th graders talk politics and have pretty impressive discussions about climate change.
On one hand i think it's amazing that the younger generation is a lot more conscious and smart, but on the other it saddens me so much, because these kids already have such cynical or frustrated emotions about today's problems.
They should be kids, doing kid things, instead here they are doing what the older generation failed to do.
I understand not all 40+ year olds are terrible, but it's just,, i have such a strong anger for all these people who demand respect and validation simply because they're older but give no wisdom nor help to the younger ones. I've seen so many older people fail the younger generation, even more now since the pandemic.
It doesn't help all these people call younger people "lazy" for not going the good ol' american way and workin' hard for a house. Sorry, but houses, cars, and food don't cost 3 dollars anymore, they're a lot more.
how you forgotten about protest in the 60s & 70s.
@@davidd4696 And look where all that protesting got us. Here we are, dozens of years later, still protesting the same grievances.
@@tgr3423 different times, different measures.
Climate change is like the emperors new clothes, a distraction to take away from the real political problems modern western society faces. Health provision and management at affordable cost and housing at affordable cost. These 2 aspects have caused the major problem of over-reliance on long distance commuting and car use by people who should have no need for cars. If you get accessable housing and health provision under control for the masses everything else will fall into place as demand for fossil fuels drops.
Also there is a huge need to encourage the recycling and re-use of material resources for other uses. Get rid of "fast fashion" and limited life electronics.
@@davidd4696 yeah and the people who protested then refuse to protest now...in their minds, because a temporary solution was provided 40 years ago, the problem was solved. They believe they shouldn't have to fight anymore, so they don't
I love how Second Thought not only puts a finger on the problem, but he takes it one step futher by explaining what needs to be done to fix the problem. There's a lot of youtubers out there flailing their arms sounding the alarm that there's a problem. Yet they never mention examples of how to fix it.
Thank you so much! I try my best
Thats because many many americans are scared to use the s-word, or the c-word, or even think about it.
@@Omega0850 which words? I’m pretty sure I know what you’re talking about but I wanted to make sure.
@@idkwuzgoinon socialist and communist?
I like that also. When you address a problem always offer a solution
If my work was “essential” you’d think I’d get paid enough to make rent with one job but so much of this are empty words to make us keep going in terrible conditions. Most of my coworkers want to quit and find something better but they can’t find any job that pays better without destroying their mind or body more in factory jobs, hopefully sometime within our lifetime we’ll see enough people fed up with this system to cause even one significant change so that people are suffering less. While i may be able to eventually get a better job thanks to financial aid getting me through college, my coworkers don’t have that same opportunity which is really sad when i see how hard they have to break their backs from 4am to 4pm at barely above minimum wage
The hard truth is that betterment will never happen unless we make it happen. And how can we do that if all of our traditional democratic institutions of change have been incapacitated? We have elections that are manipulated by big-money campaign propaganda (among a number of other methods). We have a bought-off congress that represent the interests of the donor class, not the electorate. We have a politically appointed judiciary, most notably the Supreme Court. And we have mainstream media owned and controlled by six large corporations who determine the messaging based on the preferences of their billionaire masters.
The only power "we the people" have left is the power of superior numbers, standing together and speaking with one voice. We urgently need an active labor union movement. We need massive sustained demonstrations of non-violent civil disobedience. By "massive" we mean hundreds of thousands in the streets standing in solidarity. By "sustained" we mean for as long as necessary, with the ultimate goal of removing power from those who would continue to exploit the working class!
@@RussCR5187 I totally agree but that will hurt us plebs too much to be sustained
Yeah I love when people talk about how free we are and the whole upwards mobility thing is such a fucking crock we rank lower than england which is TRULY deeply hilarious to me. So much of it reeks of Stockholm syndrome and trying to convince yourself nothings wrong
@@swayback7375
That's why building mutual aid groups is really important-we have to be able to feed communities.
That's why I roll my eyes at people thanking their military for their "service." And that's aside from the whole destroying other people's countries for no good reason.
When I was hired by Schneider (trucking company), they specifically made us watch 4 hours of video on why we shouldn't unionize. They are also one of the companies risking the public's lives trying to replace the drivers with autonomous vehicles and teenagers. AI can barely drive a Tesla, let alone pilot 80,000lbs down a mountain. And teenagers may not be mature enough, but more over, this is a rough lifestyle, and it's pretty much all consuming. Why not improve industry standards like increased pay and hometime? Why not force the increase of delivery windows so that we have more agency over when we drive and where? No, these companies just want to basically make the money off of our labor. We do almost ALL of the work. Even the management tasks. But we take home 10-15% of the payout.
You always see news articles about the truck driver shortages, but hardly any articles on the all the tricks trucking companies use on their drivers. You hear about bonuses and never the dozens of stipulations before you ever see a cent.
I do have an answer as to why they don't force the increase of delivery windows:
Just in Time production has taken over most manufacturing.
If a delivery company can't promise a certain delivery time or date, the manufacturer would either end up with downtime or warehousing costs and that eats into their profit margin.
I kinda laughed at that part of the video because I was driving a truck at 16, it was local hauling our own farm products not otr but still.
Trucking definitely isn't like it was in the 70's and 80's when there was oodles of money. I'd def try to get on a local hauling operation or on a garbage truck.
um your wrong on "barely able to drive a truck" Let me explain Ai. Ai is grouped into different Categories. Predictive plays in its processor. Like a game of chess, it will play out different scenario with the goal to win the game. That is limited in "what if" this driver rear ends my truck, what evasive maneuvers can I do based on senory input. If the LIDAR see the lane next to the right of te truck is clean and see no other car/truck speeding in that lane, it will move over before that vehicle its the truck. It uses other senors like Computer Vision Ai, which I am learning. It identifies objects on the road and entering the road and with high confidence, will draw boxes around them and label them. dozens of boxes are labeled and it senses its direction and speed. It sees the lines on the road, then superimposes green lines, and using line spacing algorithms, will measure the width, then will align the steering wheel in the center. GPS takes the truck to its designation. So Physics and Geometry are what controls the trucks path and roll risk so it keeps is speed down. Ai might even see the speed sign, then IT the sign, and read the numbers. That will slow the truck down so it does not roll the truck.
One thing that really irritates me is that while it's easier to get a job when you have one, you also have way less time to apply let alone interview for one. I had an interview for a job the other day and told them I'm available Mondays and Fridays and they schedule me for an interview on my lunch break on a Wednesday with the interview going overtime causing me to get back late from "lunch". I was afraid of getting caught and fired but fortunately that didn't happen. Either way, jesus fucking christ.
How companies can "inoculate themselves" against "quitagion": Show your employees you appreciate and care about them. Give them regular days off, sick days, vacation days, maternity leave, medical/dental insurance, and more money in their paychecks so they don't feel financially destroyed just for paying their bills and know they won't be fired if they stay home for a week just to avoid getting their co-workers sick if they come down with something. The employees also need to be protected against violent and racist customers, too. Something certain companies, such as FedEx which had put a delivery driver on unpaid leave after he'd been shot at by two Trump supporters solely for being a black driver in a white neighborhood just doing his job and making deliveries in his work uniform, could learn a lot about.
Sounds good but nah we'll just do a pizza party instead, or better yet, a potluck where you force your own workers to spend their own money to bring in a dish so the company saves money.
Yeah how do you expect them to get protected for one rare incident? I have an idea, put body guards with a machine gun on top of the trucks and spend waay to much money for something they will never need.
@@idrinkgasoline72 I know you've got to be trolling, but I felt it prudent to say that they gave the guy unpaid leave after his life flashing before his eyes. The issue isn't the lack of physical safety, it's the lack of financial security.
Attacking someone just because of the immutable trait of race. 😠
I'm sure everyone in this leftist bubble believe this story of a guy getting shot at without blinking an eye.
As someone who once helped start a union at an old workplace and is a current union member now, I cannot stress enough the importance of getting those who earn a paycheck, that regardless of our political differences, when it comes to economics, this is a CLASS STRUGGLE! The millionaires and billionaires do not give a single damn about you! You are only useful to them as long as you are making them a few more pennies in profit. Otherwise, they'll throw you aside without blinking.
There's an interesting correlation between the social utility of a job and how little it pays. The workers that actually keep things going are paid a pittance while the executives wallow in luxury. But if the workers go on strike, the consequences are felt right away. The executives? All of them could fly off into space tomorrow and we wouldn't even notice.
no, we would notice. we would notice the extra $1,444 a month in our bank accounts.
This is how slavery works, the slaves are actually doing virtually all the work, but the slaver have to paradoxically insist themselves that slaves are lazy and useless. You can't be rich without having a mindset that you're smarter and hard-working than other people, it's a way rich people justify themselves doing something that would be considered morally wrong for less-wealthy people. For example, stealing is considered a crime for poorer people, but add in extra steps, and you call it a "business."
@@moon-moth1 except there is no red flag, and that's sort of the problem. lunga vita alla bandiera rossa. 🚩
Exactly. Every single job ive ever had, the majority of people who do the real work get paid crap while upper management who dont do jack all day make bank and get free lunches, paid hour long lunches, breaks whenever they want, benefits, rental cars, paid hotel stays, paid flights, paid cell phone plans etc etc
Its ridiculous.
@@mickeyg7219 I've heard that a lot of very rich people do do a lot of work, just not millions of times the layman.
Lack of respect along with benefits. The way managers and owners talk to their labor force is wildly disrespectful.
Not to mention restaurant workers getting abused by customers
It’s way more dignifying to get benifits at this point
The facts that this question keeps being asked over and over again as if workers in this country haven’t been saying why they are quitting for the past year means that no one is listening
And they will never listen until they are effectively dead.
It's all about controlling the narrative
As an European everything that I've heard about life in America absolutely terrifies me . I genuinely hope that the fall of Capitalism will start soon
The fall of capitalism will be awful if there's no socialism to replace it think Rome but worse.
As an American I agree completely. This evil system here is tyrany
Here's food for thought:
In capitalism, the production - machines and workers - sends all the money up the pyramid, to the owners.
In socialism/communism, the citizens pay tax and sends all the money up the pyramid, to the government.
In Catholicism, the believers pay tithe and sends all the money up the pyramid, to their Vicarius Filii Dei, the replacement of the son of God.
The three biggest systems on the planet goes in the same direction, and you hope _one_ of them will end?
The reason why I bring this up, is that the Book of Revelation, the last one in the Bible, has foretold it since 2000 years back that in the end days - just before Christ returns - EVERY man woman and child will be put into a system either through force or belief.
The system will be an economic one, where no one can buy or sell without the "mark" of that system, and this is where Catholicism comes in, because it will also be a political, and a religious one.
The pope, or rather the chair he's sitting on, is the antichrist, satans representation on earth. Anti in greek means "instead of", not against. Vicarius (substitute) Filii (son) Dei (God) is one of two titles he carries, and sums up to 666 if you take the numericals of every roman number.
The pope - the Beast of the Sea - will soon get power from the US - the Beast from the earth - where it will come as a salvation to people, but is enslavement in covert. Did you hear about the "Georgia Guideingstones" that blew up some weeks ago, where it said mankind should be kept under 500 million? It was signed in the bottom of "RCC" the Roman Catholic Church. People are starting to wake up.
If you research Blackrock and Vanguard, you will see that they own the biggest share of the biggest companies on earth. And which individuals are sitting ln those shares? Members of the Knights of Malta. Catholics, who get their orders from the pope.
Just the other month the US gave away 100% of their power to the WHO in who's to say anything and everything regarding healthcare. The WEF is on the rise in all governments and local politics. There are more, but backtracing everything, it always goes back to the pope.
The globalisation of the world is going in one direction, the enslavement of the entire world. And the system that is being put into place, as the WEF said: "you _will_ own nothing, and you _will_ be happy".
The mark of the Catholic church - according to themselves - is the authority to change times and law, which means the Bible, ergo having Sunday as their sabbath day.
Sounds far fetched? A day for the climate, a day of rest for the worker, a day for the family, a day for justice, a day for the planet, a day for... well, satan. Changing saturday sabbath to sunday - SUN day - will be the top of the pyramid.
And the pope will once again rule, for a short time. Christ will destroy that system. In Europe it's called Agenda 2030. 2030... 8 years left, then Heaven is at the door, maybe even before depending on how fast they ruah this thing.
It makes me ashamed to be American. I've never really that found of America. I've always LOVED europe because of its culture, history and all the other numerous things it has influenced in modern culture. That's why I'm proud to be of European descent.
@@user-ze1ej5zb6z the second amendment will come in handy
Answer: People want to be treated as human beings. Humanity and civility would keep everyone happy. Part of that is giving them a living fucking wage while treating them well. But, exploitation and greed is just too powerful in this god damned world.
Narcissists and Sociopaths aren't human beings. They can't empathize with others.
Humans, empathize with other humans. That's what allows us to treat each other like human beings. But Narcissists and Sociopaths are in control.
Allow them to freely exploit humanity, and they will. Gladly.
Now you see why the market is being manipulated! Starve out the people quitting so they’ll come back. Then ease off the price gouging by a dollar, or two.
People want their lives back. Younger generations don’t want to be a slave in a so called “ first world country “. We haven’t been a free society in a long time. I’ve worked my ass off, for literal decades. I have nothing to show, for it. It feels like I’m just running in place. It’s hard to have any hope some days.
I'm sorry that you're going through a rough time. 😔
Don't give up! Hang in there! Take time to take care of yourself. It may take some time, but things will improve!🌈
@@mythicdw7826 self-help woo-woo BS will not solve this. No offense, but people don't need to pretend better days are ahead. That is a delusional utopian mindset.
Only a complete dismantling of the exploitative capitalist economic system undergirding modern existence will result in positive changes. Pretending that putting on a smile and "hoping for better days" is an infantile response to an oppressive system intentionally grinding down the masses via psuedo-slavery.
Agreed, but I'd say we were never a free society ever. This country was founded by aristocratic filth who revolted from the crown not because they wanted freedom, but because they wanted to exploit American workers themselves. The US was quite literally founded on genocide and slavery and it shows.
@@dameongeppetto Actually...I totally agree with what you're saying!😔
When I said 'take time to take care of yourself', I simply meant to take care of your physical & mental health. Last year, the anxiety & stress took me to a really bad place mentally. With the help of a friend, I got better & am determined not to go to that dark place ever again...
I wasn't talking about 'self help' such as buying a book manual or visiting a website that will teach you how to become a millionaire overnight or just put your head down, work hard and believe in the illusion that if you work hard in America, your dreams will come true.
I'm aware of how messed up this country is.😑 You're absolutely right...the American people need to create a revolution in order to get their lives back, cause the 'leaders' in power sure ain't gonna GIVE THEM BACK!😡
@@guy-sl3kr Which is why there's still a shred of both now.
I literally just quit my job just now due to being treated terrible in a toxic workplace and this was the first video on my suggested list lol
I worked in construction for 18 years in a rural community and I saw the sad consequences of competition for capital had on workers, many of whom had known eachother since school. It caused animosity and resentment to the point where people were cursing and yelling at eachother in public places. Community doesn't exist under capitalism.
Community can exist under capitalism . It just doesn't for you.
@@sebastianlucas704 The only sense of community is how we can commoditize or utilize one another to profit. That isn't community
@@chrism8180 Your talking out of your ass. 99% of capitalists are normal people. Sad that you aren't one of them.
@@sebastianlucas704 Your damn right right it doesn't exist for me and it doesn't exist for most people that I know for that matter.
@@wallaceahtone6149 if we are to only go by anecdotes, this is pointless.
I live in Canada, and the disparity in working rights between our countries seems crazy! American workers are getting screwed!
Same in Canada
It's about the same in Canada.. there's a few things better and a few things worse but it's about the same as the states
@@Bowiiihowdy at least Canada has maturity leave. And you can smoke weed and shoot guns while getting paid.
Too many people think getting screwed is the norm. Hopefully this thinking will change. How many of us remember the days when we were told, "You are lucky to have a job." Or, "If you don't like it, you can quit." ?? They never gave a shit about the worker and it's about time the tables were turned, now to the point where Bank of America wrote that they hoped workers would "lose leverage." Screw them.
they are getting screwed in canada too. Trudeau's 'socialism' isn't working for anyone but the immigrants and refugees. everyone else has nothing to look forward to but more debt and more taxes.
If you want to find the "American Dream", you'll probably have to leave America.
But where does one go
@@coletrain546 Germany
@@coletrain546 pick anywhere in the developed world, except Japan, and you'll be fine.
@@Fafnd I pick the developing countries over developed. In the right neighborhood, everything is new. Plus you can benefit from currency arbitrage unlike in developed countries.
@@Fafnd What is happening in the USA now will probably happen in Europe a few decades from now. We are headed in a similar direction, albeit at a slower pace than the USA. If you want to move to the future, go to Asia.
In germany 50% of the board of directors of any company MUST be workers, even if the other 50% is the owner. It's something along those lines. In switzerland crime is extremely low, and although there are 50-70 guns per 100 people in switzerland, there hasnt been a mass shooting in 20 years, and even then it was an abnomally. In america its like 120 guns per 100 people and we have mass shootings daily. Also everyone in switzerland has all their needs provided for from health care and highly liveable wages.
Good policies make a difference.
To be fair, America is bigger.
@@GeorgeDCowley Do you understand what "per 100 people" means?
@@realdragon Yes, my brain just didn't register it.
Switzerland has his own problems, but most importantly not everyone as you say has a good wage or live in dignified conditions. This problem is faced by a great number of Swiss citizens, including me. The reality is, stop comparing countries to each other and actually strive for equality and wellbeing because it's the natural right of the human being always and forever.
Switzerland is also ethnically and philosophically unified. Their countrymen share (mostly) similar moral standards, and they (actual swiss people) share 1 national language and are all ethnically identical. There's bound to be less conflict when your nation has a sense of Philia, which America is too damn big and too damn diverse to host. If you are confused about what I've just said, read Aristotle's lectures on democracy and Philia; really eye-opening stuff.
The customers are why I left my job. Unfortunately NJ the process of getting unemployment makes it so difficult their idea is to get you so frustrated that you give up trying
That's the point tho, give up hope (mission accomplished)
NJ has a Karen outbreak too?
Florida is even worse.
@@elkay18 you have no idea.
Same with NY
8:48 It's even worse than that. I worked in a Kroger grocery store for a minute. It was a brand new store in a new construction gated community outside Denver. They expected to lose money for first 2 years before people moved in, but dominate market loyalty. It was also an experimental store, built like a Super Walmart or Target with half the store dedicated to clothing, electronics, furniture, etc.
The experimental part was kind of a flop. But housing being crazy as it is in Denver metro, the grocery side was instantly profitable.
So the Store Manager briefed us 2 months in, bragging about how they were turning over $1 million a week.
That's silly money for a grocery store in a community that's only 50% moved in.
The store manager also bragged about how 80% of us were brand new Kroger employees = we were all min wage w/o no upgrades.
And just knowing people, about half the store was on food stamps.
We were in a filthy rich highly successful grocery store doing a bang up job... and half the employees couldn't even afford to buy food.
I work at Kroger and have to say it's just like you say, especially with us making 1.8 mil a week, but we haven't gotten raises in over a year.
I mean if the government didn't take so much of your money to pay for bullshit you would may be able to buy food.
I used to work for one of the oligarch space companies, and it was made pretty clear to me that anyone who wasn't management was basically livestock. If we all think things are bad now, just wait until there's a permanent corporate presence in space, and some MBA has decided that profit is more important than oxygen.
That's when you'll start seeing ISIS style beheadings of these "enlightened" elites by the angry masses. It's coming.
Also a sad truth in "creative" industries, is that you can make SIGNIFICANTLY more money jumping ship every few years than you ever would staying at one company
It's the same here in the healthcare field. If you don't do that, you will continue to get shit wages
That’s true everywhere these days - company loyalty isn’t valued anymore…
Same in engineering. For every dollar given in retention, two is allotted for employee acquisition.
I left the U.S. with no intention of ever going back, taking a risk and making a very scary jump towards my dreams and trying to create a life that I want to live, full of creativity, working for myself, etc. Trying to build up my TH-cam channel as a way to make a small bit of income. Even though I'm still quite far from getting to the place where I'm stable, my life, stress, and overall well being and happiness have drastically improved since leaving. It's very interesting to watch what is happening, and I'm glad to see people finally putting their foot down and saying "no more". There's got to be more to life than this. I look forward to seeing what the future holds. ❤️
Where did you move to? Asking for a fri- screw I'm asking for myself
@@eyyy2271 I first moved to Mexico and was living there for about a year, but now I'm living in Tbilisi, Georgia 🇬🇪. Since I barely have any income at the moment (living off of $500-$600 USD per month), I am of course limited to which countries I can afford to live in, but my quality of life has been so much better. I can finally spend all my time involved in my creative projects while I build up my business and income, while enjoying a slower pace of life and enjoying the things that really matter. 😊
@@Ellary_Rosewood very interesting! Georgia is a lovely country! I moved as well but to Ukraine, since it’s my homeland
@@Ellary_Rosewood If you're american don't move to Mexico please, you guys drive the price of rent up so high that the regular people can't pay their own houses
@@igorlukyan206 Yes, Georgia is an amazing country. I'm very much enjoying my time here. ☺️❤️
My heart is telling me that they all realized there is no ethical cosumption under Capitalism but I don't think that's it
@Smash 123 but those realisations --are-- _should be?_ one and the same
'are /should be' really ought be the other way around
but that's the joke / sad truth
Small thing: Older generations applying for jobs online won't make them realise anything.
Older generations understand perfectly well that the job market and living situation has changed dramatically from when they were young. The issue isn't that they don't understand. It's that they don't care. They know perfectly well that they had it easy and have been handed basically they've got for minimal effort and they know that young people don't enjoy the same benefits they did. The rants about lazy, entitled young people aren't born out of ignorance. They're born out of frustration around young people not being quiet about how much worse they have it.
I need some very strong evidence.
@eric Spencer He has no evidence.
@@sebastianlucas704 it's a TH-cam comment, not homework. Shill somewhere else.
I’ll have to counter that with my dad telling me it’s the easiest it’s ever been for kids my age to get a job... -,- Also saying how very lazy and very stupid many of the lower generations are and constantly complaining about them not knowing how to get off their butts and do work.
I think he’s talking mostly about me because I’m his source of that rant... but I have my issues sadly.
And well he has many friends he talks to on phone on the daily about how terrible the new generations are and just how the world looks so stupid and grim that it’s not like it used to be and why kids are suddenly not working now is because they are cry babies that wahhh all day. Sighs..
I cry a lot too.. lol
Yeah no, do you know any boomers? They are oblivious and think you can just walk in to a business ask to see the manager, give them a firm handshake and voila, you got the job. I was talking to my girlfriends grandmother the other week and she was telling me about how her job (typical working class job) paid for her and her coworkers to go to Hawaii on vacation one year. I told her nowadays youre lucky if you even get a pizza party, and she told me I should just find a better job. 😵
It should be "people don't want to be slaves anymore! " Instead of "people don't want to work anymore" Many people, particularly the younger generation, use a range of unconventional methods of earning a living these days. I worked in the retail for over 10 years, so l'm quite happy that this is taking place. For too long, retail bullied me and a lot of my employees/colleagues saying things like "if you don't like it,go; another like you is waiting to get into your position " since the COVID, I found a job that helps me grow, pays me more and Values Me Social media cleared the way for a rapidly expanding market, and it taught us a lot. 2020 was my turning point, and investment helped alot!
The majority of this new generation loves working remotely and prefers to be their own boss!
Yeah the 2020 pandemic gave everyone a big rethink! I tried a lot of things; I realised I shouldn't just let my savings sit around in the bank, tried side hustles. It paid off! Right now I’ve got less work time, time for my family and stick making the 6 figures
Speaking about investing, what worthwhile Investments are you making? And how do you do it ? I can learn and put my savings into good use
There's various profitable ways to invest. Starting out you need to work with experienced hands to walk you through. As a rookie I dabbled in and made mistakes till I got a mentor to put me on the right track. You can search one too, read books and do your own research
I appreciate your reply. Please suggest a financial expert so I may start my search from there.
"The only way I can advocate on TH-cam"; showing freedom in action....
Great video.
This is becoming a regular thing. Me waiting for the new episode of The Deprogram to appear and then seeing the new Second Thought video pop up. Then I know it´s time to check again and that after i´m done watching JT´s new video I will immediatly click play on the Deprogramme.
Thank you for your great content! Love it and love The Deprogram!
“What’s your dream job?”
If I’m working in my sleep, it’s a nightmare.
That happened to me one time when I was work at UPS.
obligatory, "that's why it's called the American dream, because you have to be asleep, to believe it" george carlin.
If I'm dreaming about a job, I'm turning myself in when I wake up.
This.....this right here, this video made me cry man. I used to be a flex security guard, and I was pulling 80 hours, 88, 92, and the most hours I ever pulled 128 hours in one week for allied security services. Bouncing site to site covering 20 hour shifts 18, 16, and 12. Working everyday for 1 year and 5 months until one morning I fell and lost all feeling in my left leg. I was sent to the hospital for a couple weeks to recover due to malnutrition and dehydration and other health problems. Allied was not having it and let me go, and man I was fucking pissed and I cried like a bitch. I gave them my entire life for that year, missed my grandmothers funeral, my cousin had kids, my nieces 1st birthday, and my mothers divorce with an ass hole I loath 😂😂. Even though I was making $1,780 a week that company decided to toss me aside like used toilet paper while was recovering. My body hasn't been the same since then, but I never go over 40. The money is not worth it, and hell I was 22 at the time, my body just had enough and couldn't keep up and shut down.
Take it slow and it's OK to sit down to relax. It's ok to be lazy and that is the sign your body is telling you to slow the fuck down before it shuts YOU down.💀💀💀💀
They ran the numbers and flat out realized the single payer healthcare system would actually cost them less money than the current system, and still said "No, we want things expensive so we don't have to work that hard to get richer while keeping the rest of you poor".
If you're the sort of person who sees that statement as a good thing or the right thing, then you are about as anti-American as you can get. You can't claim to love freedom while fighting to propagate things which strip others of the ability to exercise freedom. Not having the time to exercise freedom is the same as not having freedom.
If companies want workers to stay, all they have to do is pay us more. It DOES NOT MATTER how unskilled you believe the labor is; if you expect 120% effort, we expect a living wage. Period.
"Not the only method, but the only one I can mention on youtube"
Nice save ST
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Endorse.
My heart bleeds for the coroprations, why should they have to pay a fair wage and unfairly dent their record profits?
Amid this "worker shortage" I was just let go from a temp to hire position for medical cannabis use that is legal in my state and was told wouldn't be drug tested. I was told yesterday that I would need to pee to get hired on full time. No window to prepare even though they knew my situation.
That’s just... horrible.
thus the slaughter against people who have drugs continues...
That makes no sense whatsoever. You work in medical cannabis but they expect you to be clean?! 🤦🏻♂️
I know it is easy to say, but you do not need those jobs. You are better off eventually finding your better job that respects you, rather than accepting treatment like that.
@@keirfarnum6811 no, I use medical cannabis. I was doing groundskeeping
I think the best part of the labor shortage is that people looking for jobs have a lot of leverage. "I'm applying for this position, but if you want ME, I require *this.*"
I did this recently with my new job. They were talking of changing store hours, now that I'm there, to hours that interfere with my personal interests. I voiced my concerns and stated that if they charge hours to something that doesn't work for me, I'll go somewhere else.. that I wanted this job BECAUSE of the current hours. And it worked.
If people have the courage to stand up for themselves, they can really with the system right now to get the pay, benefits, or hours they desire simply because employers NEED people to stay.
Congratulations 👏🏿
Yes. Workers must have the guts to cut their own deal. If not, you'll be stuck with whatever the manager offers.
Exactly get control your career you are the company earner get treated like one
So you admit you have no leverage at all as an individual except in very specific situations and world events... nice
Fellow non-americans, let us take a moment to remember that no matter how bad our country is doing, at least we're not american.
Way to rub it in huh?
@@danashine1137 Yeahhhhhhh
It’s really not as bad as this channel makes it seem. It’s shocking how misguided they are.
America is bad but has good foundation but it’s super corrupt with companies and lobbyist.
@@LA98x no man this channel is spot on right!
When humans get pushed to far, humans will find, that together, they're strong. If we only weren't such a collective narcissists.
*Egotists.
United States of depression and mental health anxiety.
It's not just that "our leaders" have chosen the economy over the health and lives of our friends and family. Many of our fellow citizens (in my experience, those that are largely already retired or out of the work force) have also chosen the economy over the wellbeing of the rest of us, because a lack of waitstaff, cashiers, and even teachers is an inconvenience.
Much like big businesses, they have chosen the economy over the well-being of others because their pocketbooks are being threatened. Those who have the money and invested in the stock market are worried about their stock values declining and effecting their wealth. Whoever has the most money wins. The end justifies the means.
In the end the us lost both its economy and its people.
@@AndrewManook Exactly, these dunces are so wrapped up in their spreadsheets and portfolios they can't seem to think how the 2 go hand in hand
Burt's Bees uses subcontractors so they can say "We pay OUR workers well", while I worked below poverty wages dumping thousands of pounds of product that the only problem with it is the label is misaligned.
I dumped loads of chapstick that retail would buy me a new car, while making so little I couldn't afford to maintain my actual car.
@@moon-moth1 that's what I did with the stuff I stole when they refused to do it themselves. Probably stole $50k by smuggling it out under my clothes
Good to know Burt's Bees is yet another filthy scumbag corp. patting themselves on the back while doing the exact opposite of what they claim.
At this point, whenever I see/hear a business ad claiming they treat their employees well I assume they're somehow even worse than WalShart.
Especially the ones that try to extort undeserved warm-feelies from their ridiculous "Small" and/or "Family" Business b.s.
@@titankorellc2937 Ultra based.
United we demand the bag , isolated we beg for crumbs
I remember this man mentioned the CIA visiting him some time ago, yet he keeps going. Man, you have balls of steel. Thank you for your effort.
Wow, really. Omg I cant believe it, This is how free american is =))) btw admire this guy so much
Can you tell me what video pls
@@thienthien7765 He made a video about the CIA and pretty much called them a terrorist organization. In the link below, he mentions being visited by two agents from the Department of Homeland Security a few days after posting that video.
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It's absolutely true. when I left my last job I thought the market was in my favor but everyone is paying crap. Honestly there is not a shortage of labor there are shortages of "good" paying jobs with meh benefits
Up next: the "inspiring story" of how a 5 child minimum enabled a small town to replace its aging zoomer workforce with a bunch of 6 year olds getting paid a dime a day
You joke but that's literally what the capitalist overlords and their bootlickers want; a return of child labor.
@@plainText384 They will bring it home.
@@AndrewManook Once conditions get bad enough, the parents will be pushing their 7 year olds to get a job.
@@chrism8180 Imperial capitlitsts rub there hands: YES!!!
@@alw2839 "you've had 7 whole years of being pampered enjoying childhood, it's time for you to get your shit together and start contributing around here".
I've only been fired once, but I have quit every other job I have ever had. Nothing more satisfying than telling your mean boss to "get f*cked" and walking away dropping tools as you go.
100% agree!
hell yeah...i once called in work to call out sick....the way the boss asked "oh yeah?...why wont u be showing up?" made me snap and i replied "cause i fucking quit!"!!! ...if he had actually asked me the same thing without his attitude i would have replied "having one of my migraines"
I did this to my first boss. She was an absolute bitch so I quit on the spot and I told her so. She paid me the absolute minimum wage (£4.37 for a 16 year old) and it wasnt worth my time, my energy, my mental health, anything. So I told her so.
It's called work and we all have to deal with it, work FOR money not be friends and have a few giggles laughs and beers and then get money.
@@idrinkgasoline72 No, we don't have to be friends with bosses and colleagues but when they don't treat you with respect, over work and underpay you (they paid me so little that I couldn't pay my bus fare to get to and from my school, never mind anything I actually wanted to spend money on as a teenager), when they stress you out so much they give you anxiety issues, then they can fuck off.
Can we also acknowledge that there are some union jobs where the union is completely controlled by the company itself and the workers still have no say in anything? I worked for one 2 years ago
Also that handing out pro union materials can get you fired because your coworkers, who are convinced collective action of any kind is bad, will not hesitate to throw you under the bus.
This channel never fails to make me even more *deeply depressed* . Thank goodness I am leaving this country in less than 2 months
You posted this more than two months ago. May I ask how it's going for you, where you went, and what steps you took to get there? I desperately want out of the U.S.
@@crisis-cor I finally completed selling my house and car, then moved to the North Coast of Colombia in mid-November (gosh it's been a month already!).... There are definitely logistical, infrastructure, and cultural system challenges for North Americans like me... But I am slowly but surely adapting. The healthcare access, as well as the social/community/dating improvements in my life, far overshadow the challenges.
Full Disclosure: It helps that I have lived here before (2 weeks in 2021, then 3 months earlier this year), and have made a few good friends - not dUSA-style phoney "friends" who are just drinking or f-k buddies, but actual close, trusted individuals who believe in mutual vulnerability, support, assistance, and encouragement along with the usual Social Fun).
It also helps that I have been learning Spanish since July 1 of last year so I am at A2 level now and can communicate with most locals at the basic level.
@@crisis-cor What's your situation? You working? Have you visited any country before? Is your passport current? Maybe you can contact me privately somehow, and I can share my travel journal with you
USA is dying
Its a shame that Second Thought doesn't get more attention, every video is a banger!
He's getting soft shadowbanned by youtube, so unless you are already interested in his type of content or are actively looking for it, you are unlikely to be recommended his videos.
Of course, it could just be that the almighty algorithm does not prefer his type of content
Hasan was exposing second thought to his audience recently
It might help if everyone here subbed to Yugopnik and Hakim, as well. Probably would give the algorithm a nudge
this is an amazing video. like, i'm-sharing-this-on-facebook-so-my-extended-family-can-see-this amazing. the way so many people have been talking about this "great resignation" is so biased in a way that just.. man it needs to change. thanks for making this!!!
I always heard when I was young that "It's a free market, you need to look appealling and sell yourself".
Now that there's a labor shortage, I discover it is no longer a free market, and when we say "Pay us more and be less toxic! ", the companies are like "Uh, no, but, it doesn't work like that! "
I will never cease to be mad that my job voted to DE-Unionize the WEEK before I started. It was under the logic that “well it’s a not-for-profit so we don’t need a union and they pay well anyway” (it’s a large non-profit hospital system that has a minimum hiring wage that they always keep above minimum wage; currently $16 an hour) but NOW four years later and two years into a global pandemic people are quitting in droves (myself included I’m trying to AT LEAST transfer to a less awful department if I can’t find something better elsewhere) because the longer this has been going on the clearer it’s been that the organization doesn’t even a little bit actually care about their housekeeping staff and we’re all burned out.
I was snuggling my kitten when i found your channel ☺️ She’s five weeks old and we both love your channel now. You’re now my favorite sociologist 😎✨
I have a real trust issue when it comes to employers and I think this channel is the reason for it. It's hard to turn up to work everyday knowing that you're being exploited.
It is hard, but i think it's better than joyfully running like an idiot
It’s hard but it’s better than being ignorant to the facts.
@@Oatmilk345 yeah I'd rather be aware I'm being exploited than serve the man for all eternity.
Yep I just got a coozy job in an office but Im just waiting for the BS to start
Actually you dont need to know about any of those to know you are being exploited. I think more people support socialism because they’re fucking working to death to not be starving and homeless.
I worked fast food in 2004ish and distinctly remember always hearing management complain about how teenagers are always applying and wanted more adult workers. That same restaurant now has a huge sign outside saying they will hire 14 and 15 year olds with work permits. They hand out flyers how they will gain valuable experience that will help them later in life. To top it off the kids can get permission to work 40 plus hours a week and nights for extra money.
That's terrifying, a turn back toward early industrial revolution era child labour. It seems to be a trend across the so called developed world. In my country its becoming more common for high school kids to drop out and get work to help pay the family's rent and food bills, because the cost of living is so high and still climbing. Call me a pinko commie lunatic but I think what would be much better for their futures is a stable affordable society where they can enjoy being young, get educated and not have to worry about helping to keep the lights on or if there will be anything to eat next week.
@@nzdoom827 Revolution is long overdue.
Unless something has changed, they aren't all to work 40 hrs on a work permit
I'm honestly really curious what would happen if factory workers were rotated around the factory so they have the knowledge of every part of the manufacturing process or if the workers could choose what they did throughout the day. It'd require a complex system that has to be reliable to do so but it'd give back the sense of autonomy to the workers.
Literally what Ford Motors used to do.
Even that anti-Semite weirdo was better at running a floor than the pricks today
Actually, that is pretty common practice within Australian manufacturing. I personally don't really think it achieves much other than relieving the boredom of only doing a singular task. One thing about employers is that they are careful to skill you up just enough for their own benefit, just not enough to justify paying you more.
It could also help with preventing repetitive strain injuries.
@@amandaclairmont4259
Holy shit that would be nice. My right thumb is fucked up from twisting wire for hours at a time.
Hey, that's what Kropotkin proposed in The Conquest of Bread! Really good book with a part exploring how labor can be transformed, and it was written in the 1800s too, when tech wasn't as advanced as it is today
We here in Europe are flabbergasted that you still get treated this way. We’re not perfect over here either, but things really improved after union busting was made illegal, at least in Germany where I grew up. It’s against the law to even whisper against a union forming. It’s bizarre to see what for example Amazon is doing to prevent unionisation in the US. Other countries don’t let corporations do that, anything anyone from Amazon has ever done to manipulate or prevent a vote for unionisation in the US is considered a crime and punishable by law in other countries. Your current situation looks like slavery.
It basically is slavery for some people. There were people at my fast food job who had to have their kids in the lobby while they worked because they couldn't afford childcare. This isn't even getting into the fact that we have prison labor...
What baffles me is how many perfectly fine goods(foods, electronics, clothing) get dumped for little reason. People barely get by and still their company prefers to throw out returned objects instead of giving it to their employees.
Thank the government for that.
Uh-huh. My job used to do that, until they got sued over a defective item they'd given an employee for *free.*
@@sebastianlucas704 when a grocery store throws out its food, how is the government involved?
@@voodoodummie because of the regulations passed by the government, that prevent the store from handing out the food to others. There's been many cases now, where a grocery store hands out some food that it was going to throw away, they make that point clear, and the person who takes the food gets sick. Said person then proceeds to sue the store, and win.
@@sebastianlucas704 oh that is an interesting myth, but also legally impossible due to the Emerson act of 1996 which explicitly protects companies from exactly those liability cases, making that case legally impossible. Those many cases you were talking about, did they happen in the 80's or something? nah, you comment reeks of intentional bovine-based fertilizer.
You also miss the point that the largest reason that stores throw away food instead of giving it to charity purposes is that the latter is way more expensive to do. Storage, cooling, transport; and for what? Grocery stores are businesses, they exist for profit, not charity.
It's amazing they choose the economy over people's lives, how do they expect the economy to flourish if half our people are dead? That's taking the short term profit mentality to a nauseating level...
The poor corporations 😔
Just numbers on a spreadsheet. Going through high-school economics myself, it's really scary how desensitized the lessons make you to real life matters. Humans get reduced to a column labeled L. The state's intervention to the economy is projected as cause for concern to the otherwise self-balancing free market.
That's neoliberal nonsense.
@@AndrewManook Yet another "win" for the Greek schooling system.
The economy: L + laid off + learn coding + stocks and bonds + take on debt + low-wage workers + fired or laid off + merger
L for labour?
dude, your podcast ALSO is amazing. keeeeep it up!!!
We're having similar issues in Australia. When my store manager told the regional manager that if we're running the store each day with only one person then we don't have time to do a lot of the smaller jobs and the regional manager told her to 'make time'. We used to have at least three people in the store at once, now there is one. We're just magically supposed to do the work of three people by ourselves while also 'prioritising' the customer. The customers who are getting shitty with us because we can't help all of them at once.
“Nobody wants to work no more”
My family and I didn’t want to die. Sorry boss.
it's always "find a better job if you want higher pay" until the bosses are the ones losing money. just goes to show what this whole clusterfuck of a society is really about
I quit my job, because the pay literally wasn't even enough to cover rent. That was the best paying job I've ever had, and I have zero expectation of getting something better.
Now I'm just living with my parents, donating plasma for money, and trying to get into writing. I basically consider myself to be on general strike, and I'm making my demands known on Twitter and Facebook.
Really wish our biggest voices on the left would coordinate to organize a real general strike, with real, simple, straightforward, concrete demands. Something like: UBI + Living Minimum Wage, M4A, and STAR Voting. The three main areas we need significant change, as soon as possible, to give us the power and freedom we need to fix the rest.
Addenum: Couple the minimum wage to productivity and make it subject to a board of economists, not politicians.
If you want the government to take care of you, you already lost the battle for a better quality of life
Why would the supposed left help you at all? The capitalists have paid them off like the fascist right wing. They own both sides of the debate. You should consider going back to school or finding a business you can get into.
@@genericpinesol oh yes because the government has literally no obligation to its citizens
@@hojosconsal9913 they will just raise taxes, how is that beneficial?
Older generations are high key mad that younger generations aren’t sticking around to be bullied, harassed, retaliated against (should you decide to assert yourself, ask me how I know 🙄), they truly believe we should do what they did which was take it and not try to rock the boat. I always said, that Millennials were the last generation that would be willing to *try* and compromise with their ‘out of order’ arse ways, because early on I could see that Gen Z didn’t GAF. And, quite frankly I don’t blame them. We take the heat from the Boomers so that Gen Z can fly. Look where we are, now. They were warned. 🤷🏾♀️
I agree. It's interesting too because they themselves told us that they went through x,y & z to make sure we didn't suffer some of the same problems they did.
Thanks 🙏🏼 for this Great Report! 💯
Thank you for not putting a lot of forced humor into this video. A lot better this time around.
Not gonna lie, I don’t really value your opinion when you present it like that
I really hope this country could reinvest itself on citizens instead of the 1%.
The citizens don't want to reinvest in themselves most of the time.
@@genericpinesol How can we anyways if we can’t afford it or know what to do?
@@kyle4563 military, the internet, figure it out
@@genericpinesol It takes money & connections to make money.. Jeff Bezos got a timely 'donation' of $50k from the bank of mum & dad if he hadn't Amazon would not exist!
This government will not do that. The US government was never founded for that purpose. The reason why the founding fathers founded the United States was simply because they needed a centralised state to crack down on worker's uprisings, slave rebellions and strikes that were bothering the emerging capitalist class and the slave owning class. Many founding fathers hated democracy and many of them even preffered a monarchy as a type of government.
They ended up choosing a liberal 'democratic' system, that would grant some very limited influence that a limited number of people could exert on the government really only by means of electing individuals to positions of power. This would give workers the impression that they were actually able to change the system without having to rebel. This kept workers in check for the capitalist class. Unfortunately for the workers though, they never really had an influence on anything materially useful. All major decisions are determined by the capitalist class who donates to whatever politician occupies the White House. The saying "if elections changed anything, they wouldn't allow it", really is true for capitalist countries.
love this channel! much love from Morocco
Thank you!
Solutions: Force Congress to pass a $24 Basic Minimum Wage, Stop the pointless Inflation, create a UBI & Child Tax Credit that would lift people out of poverty, & slightly shrink the Weath Gap, & Make Billionaires pay higher taxes that could reinvigorate the economy.
The only way to force them is a mass Unionization movement. Because we’ve been asking for this for years
That also doesn’t do anything to fix the root cause. One guy profits off of everyone’s labor in a company. We need to change that. People should profit off of their labor.
@@thethatthisguy1110 Nobody can make more than 20 times the minimum wage. Anything more than that gets taxed at 100%. No exceptions. Any attempt to remove it gets the death penalty. There is no other way.
@@defies4626 what are u talking about.
You forgot the most important aspect: RENT CONTROL. The minute landlords know people are making more money, without a doubt, landlords will steal those wage gains with rent increases. Landlords provide NOTHING of value and are just leeches feeding on the working-class. The next step is to demand the government to implement what they have in Singapore and Austria for public housing/ownership.
"This is the stuff our parents and grandparents took for granted...." and do not understand that is gone. No upperward mobility, no sick time, no pension, no vacation time. ANn the older generation think we are lazy. When in reality, we just do not want to be treated like serfs.
One thing that makes me sick is the phrase "the dignity of work" that's used by politicians.
Shaming tactics
That's just cR@pítãlīsts gaslighting us workers.
The union truly makes us strong. I'm going to be helping my friend in their efforts to unionize their store, and I'm fucking ecstatic.
The frustration and despair resonates with me ....but for those without any great entrepreneurial talents....and not independently wealthy...how do you afford to "live" without a job?
I work in a retail store and I’m 1000% interested in trying to unionize (there are a couple departments that are already unionized because it was a carryover from the store we bought out), but I’m afraid of getting fired for even bringing the idea to light. Any advice or recommendations?!
Edit: Also just wanted to add I absolutely love your videos. You’re one of a few channels I have notifications turned on for. It’s because of this channel and folks like Hasan Piker that have really helped me shift my views from liberal Democratic to Democratic Socialism/Communism and I’ve been reading more and more into it. Thank you for always educating people like me!!!
Reach out to local unions, DSA, and especially IWW, Industrial Workers of the World.
Thank you both! I was under the impression that it could lead to me getting terminated for even bringing up the thought of it.
It can, American companies routinely break these laws. You'll need to know them, and document everything you can legally document.
For example in Colorado you can record any conversation you are participating in.
Basically you'll need to gather the evidence that proves they broke the law. Document everything in writing, or on whatever recording method is legal, so if they do illegally retaliate, you have the evidence needed by a lawyer who handles cases for employment law violations. ❤
We can't openly advocate for it but when we say, "pitchforks and torches" people know what we mean.
Farmer class revolution 😉