Eden: Work is an unpleasant punishment. Aristotle: Finding fulfillment and doing spectacular things is impossible when you're poor and have to earn money. Early Christianity: Work is terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible but we gotta do it anyways cuz God said so. Renaissance: Money, ambition, joy and creative genius are best together. Martin Luther: We shall use our talents for good. Even small ones are important and please God. Ordinary jobs are sometimes even better. Enlightenment: The Encyclopedie, explaining things about different everyday jobs. Marks: Boring, uneducational work that doesn't develop one's talents and personality is the worst capitalism does. Veblen: rich people are lazy assholes. 1945: MBTI YAAAY! Also people make a cult out of work, which is not good. Cults aren't good as a whole. But it's great that they choose people by their talent and personality. Now: We have very high expectations and are often unfulfilled by our work. (don't mind me, this is the most convenient way to take notes)
Same. I mean, there is "something" to do, but nothing creative, dynamic that fills the soul. Then it's better to inform and enrich our souls on a Friday afternoon through high quality videos like these.
Same feeling here. I'm going to google the shit out of that. Specially with a humanities/art degree under my arm, I had this feeling for the most part of my life.
I'm meant to serve my McDonald's employers as if they were my kings, for the glory of their logo and to feel that sense of community and pride when I work 10 hour shifts feeding the ever-whining maw of the customers outside. My job is to churn out fatty foods and sugary drinks that actively damage my community, but make money for the CEO who doesn't get out of bed. All in pursuit of the necessary number in my pocket that keeps me from being filthy, hungry and ignored.
This video was really interesting. It reminds me of a quote by Mark Cuban. Cuban says something like "Don't bother yourself too much with finding a job you love right away. Just work hard enough that you become great and your job and therefore love to do it from then on."
Don't forget that Mark Cuban is one of the richest men in the world, and would be more than happy if he can convince the peons who work for his companies to simply settle for what they have rather than seek truly gainful employment.
I'm terrified that I won't enjoy my work, that I won't make enough money to live comfortably, that I won't be able to meet the demands placed on me. I don't know if I'm fit for living in this world.
+Jake Whitton Firstly, don't worry about earning "enough". All that means is that you don't spend more than you make, and that doesn't have to be a lot - all depends on how tightly you budget yourself. Secondly, I'm thinking of enrolling on a second degree course when I've only just finished my first - and that's because I think I'll enjoy it more. Don't worry about these things, instead think about what you might like to do most, and see where that leads you.
If they have something to say is because they have a work that gives them that posibility. You can't speak for them since you're not in their situation or background.
@@joelhc9703 slaving away for low wages and long hours... and in case you watched the news recently, sometimes not even getting paid in time or full amounts... if you think there's no problem with this and "they have an opinion because they're given this privilege", you're seriously wrong in the head.
I made my own work. I love it. I flopped around from job to job for years and I finally realized I would need to make my own work. Best decision I ever made.
Germany 1990s: "Work is stupid."- slogan of the German anarchist party. It's not so much that I mind work, but often it is merely the mindless bidding of idiots. Even the slaves in Egypt could look upon the pyramids and say "I helped build that".
This concept of meaningful work is beautiful but very hard to apply in real life for most of the world. While I currently have such a job, I achieved that by lowering expectations on other aspects of my career, like money and prestige. For me it's a very good trade off that I found after years of struggle to identify successful combination. I also remember how ok I was with being a waitress in my teenage years before having ideals of fulfilling work. What I find worrying is that there are a lot of people with a lot harsher jobs which they chose on the basis of making a living and how deeply disturbing it is/will be for them to consider their situation from this "meaning work" point of view. In truth, this criterion is still hard to apply as a general rule. However, we are the closest we've ever been to that possibility due to the prospect of robots taking over the repetitive and mechanical jobs and thus leaving mostly fulfilling options. I'm very keen to see what new kinds of occupations people will take on when the current industrial revolution style 8h work day will (finally) become obsolete.
Another really important point is the spectation and the desire it leaves on us, seen such a possibility, even if hard, possible, have a surprising power of leaving us feeling like we are in a bad situation and wasting our lives; All as a perment background feeling. Even if our jobs are really ok, or even good, the desire this idea can generate, causes it to be experience as much worse than it would be, if we had no desire of achieving a improbable meaningfull job. This for me, went unoticed as one of the biggest causes of my disstisfaction with my current job. when i was able to rid of this desire, i found i could be very happy staying at this job for the rest of my life. Im not saying we all shouldnt persue such jobs, it can be great depending on who you are and your situation, but we should be very aware that our main reason for wanting to do so, isnt our situation, but the sofering this idea can generate
Alice Banaszewski Ok, I'm confused. Was it a rhetoric question or were you genuinely baffled as to why people think this is the greatest channel? Or...something else?
Alice Banaszewski Thought it was, my bad as well. Thanks for clarifying. I concur, though I have this feel somewhere within the depths of TH-cam there may lie even something greater...
Watching this ,sitting on a overcrowded bus ,on your way home from WORK...... Really transport you to a whole new weird place of introspection and self pity !
It wasn't relating to or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian ( East Slavic ), Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian ( West Slavic ), and Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene ????
I believe some people try to interpret the Bible without actually reading it. Adam was indeed to tend the garden because humans need creative employment just as God is a creative worker. We are created in His image. Sin made work hard.
Christian tradition does not say the punishment was to work, but to work WITH EFFORT. In fact the Bible says "God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and take care of it". So the difference was not Work but suffering: "Painfully will you get your food from it [the soil] as long as you live.".
***** I know right, they sure are. I kind of agree with what you said, even if I prefer not being so agressive about it, since they tend to just get even more stubborn. It's the sad reality. Either way, no worries, take care yourself!
Great video-- with that last thread about technology liberating/complicating contemporary work, I couldn't help but think of the rise of automation, especially *"Humans Need Not Apply"* by CGP Grey. Creative (Renaissance-like) freelance work will likely be the only human jobs in 100 years.
Paul Keefer Not as long as governments and unions keep doing everything to stop automation. Automation is already cheaper but often robots are made artificially expensive or workers artificially cheap, or companies are simply forced to keep their workers that automation can't expand as fast as it could otherwise. Instead of stopping progress we need to change the economic model to allow for this automation.
Jeroen Bollen If we allowed automation to grow, majority wouldn't work, people would live a leisurely, inactive life. The machine owners would send everyone a portion of his profits to pay for their lifestyle. Work is in our DNA so i don't think we'll adapt.
One cause of the unemployment/misemployment problem is britain's abysmal education system. All it does is make children memorise information based on a syllabus, and their "intelligence" is based on how much they can remember. Of course this doesn't work. An A student may not be as intelligent as a D student, because their brains work differently, but the exam boards don't work in way that recognises this. If getting a job only awards people who are able to score As and Bs in their exams, then what are the people who score lower supposed to do? Rot in unemployment, getting by on welfare? This puts a burden on taxpayers. It was reported recently that 75% of school leavers do not have the skills necessary to get a job. Once again, the schools have failed the very basic task to prepare young people for the world of work, let alone life. These same students have been told for years to go to university because they'll get a good job afterwards, but employers demand 3-5 years "work experience". Degrees are now worthless, and all that time and money is wasted for nothing. This is why there are so many out-of-work graduates. The solution is simple: At a young age, children need to be enabled to develop their personalities so that they can be taught according to that test mentioned in this video. There are plenty of ways to educate people with different personalities. That's why so many people are in the wrong jobs and dissasitsfied. I'm so glad it was mentioned in this video. It's not too late to get this implented into schools and job centres, so that it will get people into the right jobs, and content workers. A happy workforce is a productive workforce.
"The cult of working hard and be very very busy all the time. Soon only the unemployed are idle, everyone else is working away furiously. The richer you are the more you keep working, to show that you are good and serious. Being idle is the new taboo."
Great video! My thoughts: work has become the standard way to become useful to our community. Most of us would find great satisfaction in being useful. The problem is that most of us think of work as a personal struggle to survive, we fail to see how our work benefits others. A probable reason for this might be the "division of labour" and globalization. If I'm in charge of pouring plastic pellets into a machine that makes plastic buttons which in turn will be sold to another company which will assemble it into an electronic component which then will be shipped to a car assembly plant, then, it will be very hard for me to "feel" the value of my effort, and my job might feel useless.
Believe it or not the thing that brought you the most pain in life, and the creative alleviation of that type of pain in others is a great place to start for fulfilling work. The money will just be a plus. Dig deep there for the soil is rich!
It is not only the longings for creative work over menial work, but also non-authoritarian workplaces vs authoritarian ones; authentic connection/cooperation with others; and not having the value of one's work exploited.
I, as an atheist, enjoy that the garden of Eden was presented as a historical date. I thought it emphasised the importance of Abrahamic values in Western concepts. This channel never ceases to teach new lessons.
Daniel Singh How...depressing is the fact that certain atheists resent any kind of value from religion and disregard it completely...they aren't being any less fanatic than the believers they pity or hate, or both.
One of the biggest things I think makes work so terrible now vs even just a couple hundred years ago (or in some places now) is the disconnection between work and reward. We disassociate our 9-5 from our biweekly paycheck, and the work we do doesn’t directly affect us or anyone we know (particularly when working for large corporations). If you lived in 1750, had a farm, had a small village and community who all know, care for, and love each other, and the food and supplies you were making were directly fueling your community and your family, you would likely feel much more fulfillment watching your hard work mean something because it’s on a smaller scale.
What I didn’t hear mentioned about the challenge of the future of work was the continued loss of meaningful employment through automation and efficiency.
6:43 HOLY MOLY! No WONDER why I like MBTI so much. It was made to try and figure out what kind of talents a person has through their natural, individual behaviors and traits.
Although certain "Christians" have marked work as a burden, the Bible does not support this reasoning. Before Adam and Eve sinned, they had been assigned duties, as can be seen in Genesis 1:28. However, overly hard work was a curse that was imposed on Adam. This curse was removed from humankind after the Flood, as can be seen in Genesis 5:28,29.
Work is the labor that makes the moving of matter or information in one direction in order for money to move around in the other direction and matter to transform from raw material to trash, or to be recycled until it eventually turns into trash.
Christian doctrine does not say that work is the punishment for Adam & Eve, but rather that work would become difficult. Christian doctrine says that Adam and Eve were placed in the garden to tend it, which is work.
Question: I am a Married Man with three children and with all the Problems of a married man's life. My wife is constantly at my Throat. We are together only for the sake of the children; Otherwise, each moment is a nightmare. Is there any chance of my Escaping hellfire? Osho : I will tell you one story: A man was arraigned before an Arkansas justice on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. The judge looked at him thoughtfully. "Your name is Jim Moore?" "Yes, sir." "You are charged with a crime that merits a long term in the penitentiary?" "Yes, sir." "You are guilty of that crime?" The man squared his shoulders doggedly. "I am." "You ask me for mercy?" "No, sir." The judge smiled grimly. "You have had a great deal of trouble within the last two years?" "I have." "You have often wished you were dead?" "I have, please Your Honor." "You wanted to steal enough money to take you far away from Arkansas?" "You are right, Judge." "If a man had stepped up and shot you as you entered the store, you would have said,'Thank you, sir'?" "Why, yes, I would. But, Judge, how in the world did you find out so much about me?" "Some time ago," said the Judge, with a solemn air, "I divorced my wife. Shortly afterwards you married her. The result is conclusive. I discharge you. Here, take this fifty dollar bill. You have suffered enough." You need not be worried about hell. You have suffered enough. You are already in it. You can only go to heaven, because nothing else is left. Celibates may go to hell, but you cannot. You have suffered enough. Celibates may need a little taste of suffering, but not you. In fact, there is no hell somewhere else and no heaven either. Hell is here, heaven is here. Hell and heaven are your ways of being. They are your ways of living. You can live in such a way that the whole life is a benediction. But don't go on throwing the responsibility only on your wife. In the first place it is you who have chosen her. Why have you chosen such a wife who is constantly at your neck? And do you think, if you are divorced, you will not again choose another woman of the same type? If you ask psychologists they will say you will again choose the same type of woman. You needed it; it is your own choice. You cannot live without misery. You think your wife is creating misery? It is because you wanted to live in misery -- that's why you have chosen this woman. You will again choose the same type of woman. You will only become attracted to the same type of woman, unless you drop your old mind completely. Except our own minds, there is no other way to change or transform. You must be thinking that if you divorce this woman things will be good. You are wrong, you are utterly wrong. You don't know a thing about human psychology. You will get trapped again. You will search for a woman again; you will miss this woman very much. She will miss you, you will miss her. You will again find the same type of person; you will be attracted only to that kind of person. Watch your mind. And then, she cannot only be at fault. You must be doing something to her too. It is your statement; I don't know her statement. It will be unfair to the poor woman if I accept your statement about her totally. You may be fifty percent right, but what about the other fifty percent? You must be supplying fuel to the fire. And if life was so ugly, why have you given birth to three children? Who is responsible for that? Why have you brought three souls into the ugly world of your family, into the nightmare that you are living? Why? Can't you have any love for your children? People go on reproducing without thinking at all of what they are doing. If your life is such a hell, at least you could have prevented your children from falling into the trap of your misery. You would have saved them! Now, those three children are being brought up by two persons like you and your wife. They will learn ways and means from you, and they will perpetuate you in the world. When you are gone, you will still be here in the world creating hell. Those children will perpetuate, they will keep the continuity of your stupid ways of living, miserable ways of living. Now your boy will find a woman just like your wife -- who else? -- because he will know only this woman. He will love his mother, and whenever he falls in love with a woman, it simply means that woman reminds him of his mother. Now again the same game will be played. Maybe you have chosen your wife according to your mother; your father and your mother were playing the same game that you are playing, and your children will perpetuate the same structure and the same gestalt. That's how miseries persist. At least you could have saved these three children's lives, and you could have saved the future of humanity, because the ripple that you have created will go on and on. Even when you are gone it will be there. Whatsoever you do abides. Whatsoever ripples you create in the ocean of life remain; you disappear. It is like throwing a stone in a silent lake: the stone falls deep into the lake, disappears, goes to the bottom and rests there, but the ripples that have been created, they go on spreading towards the shores. And the ocean of life knows no shores, so those waves go on and on, forever and forever. At least you could have been a little more alert not to produce children. And it is never late. Still life can be changed -- but don' t hope that your wife should change. That is the wrong approach. You change. Change radically. Stop doing things that you have always been doing. Start doing things that you have never done. Change radically, become a new person, and you will be surprised. When you become a new person, your wife becomes a new person. She will have to, to respond to you. In the beginning she will find it hard because it will be almost like living with another husband, but slowly, slowly she will see that if you can change, why can't she? Never hope that the other should change. In every relationship start the change from your side. Life can still become a paradise; it is never too late. But great courage is needed to change. All that is really needed is a little more awareness. De-automatize your behavior; just watch What you have been doing up to now. You do the same thing, and the wife reacts in the same way. It has become a settled pattern. Watch any husband and wife -- they are almost predictable. In the morning the husband will spread his newspaper and start reading, and the wife will say the same thing that she has been saying for years, and the husband will react in the same way. It has become almost structured, programmed. Just small changes, and you will be surprised. Tomorrow, don't sit in your chair early in the morning and start reading your paper. Just start cleaning the house, and see what happens. Your wife will be wide-eyed, and she will not be able to believe what has happened to you. Smile when you see your wife, hug, and see how she is taken aback. You have never hugged her. Years have passed, and you have never looked into the poor woman's eyes. Tonight, just sit in front of her, look into her eyes. She will think in the beginning that you have gone crazy, you have become a Rajneesh freak or something, but don't be worried. Just hold her hand and be ecstatic. If you cannot be, at least pretend. Be ecstatic. Sometimes it happens that if you start pretending, it starts happening! Just start smiling, for no reason at all, and watch. Your poor woman may have a heart attack! You have not been holding her hand -- do you remember since how long? Have you ever taken her for a morning walk? Or when the moon is full, have you taken her for a walk in the night under the stars? She is also human, she also needs love. But particularly people in India go on using women as if they are just servants. Their whole work consists of taking care of the children and the kitchen and the house, as if that's their whole life. Have you respected your wife as a human being? Then, if anger arises, it is natural. If she feels frustrated -- because her life is running out and she has not known any joy, she has not known any bliss, she has not known anything that can give meaning and significance to her life.... Have you just sat by her side sometimes, silently, just holding her hand, not saying a word, just feeling her, and letting her feel you? Wives and husbands have only one kind of communication: quarreling. Using each other, exploiting each other, reducing each other to things, but never respecting each other's divinity -- then this hell is created. Don't think that only your wife is responsible. She may be, but that is not the point, because she has not asked the question. Caress her body, because bodies start shrinking when nobody caresses them. Bodies start becoming ugly when nobody looks with appreciation. And then you think, "Why is my wife not beautiful?" You are not creating the climate in which beauty flowers, blooms. If you love a person, the person immediately becomes beautiful! Love is such an alchemical process. Look at a person with loving eyes, and suddenly you will see his, her aura changing, the face becoming radiant, more blood coming to the face, eyes becoming more shiny, radiance, intelligence -- and like a miracle. Love is a miracle, love is magical. It is not yet too late.
I don't know it's relevant or not but this video just clarifies to me that being lazy and being idle are two completely different things. A lazy person is the one not willing to work or not putting enough effort to his/her work, but an idle is someone who is temporarily unemployed.
Some guys in the comments already pointed out that the video is about "our" western view of work and is hence missing a broader perspective. Apart from that I would recommend the book "Brave New World" to anyone who wonders what work looks like in a perfect world. The book really takes things to the next level.
Doc Eon I get what you're saying, but it seems backwards to me. Hunting is a lot of work. (especially persistence hunting)...and arguably, agriculture requires far less work for reward than gathering.
Why Do not look at hisory of work throught the only 3 moments sapiens really changed it, agriculture revolution, industrial revolution, and of course the digital one.
Well I pressure wash sometimes it is fulfilling. get tips occasionally. The other day a past customer actually sent a thank you card to our boss. I guess outside work is pretty gratifying sometimes. Def dont want to pressure wash my whole life, hopefully i can keep learning while eventually finding my own work.
This is a western view of work. Don't forget that there are over 4 billion people on this planet that grew up with a completely different view. Still very informative and thank you for uploading.
I find it sad that we humans have the technology that could reduce boring work to a minimum, and yet all you hear on the media is that unemployment is a negative thing, being idle is somehow wrong. Politicians keep playing the same record, growth, jobs, market "forces", (fake) debt, etc...
Great and thoughtful video, as always. I can't get enough of your style of graphics. Turning the apple logo into the forbidden fruit in the hands of Eve was an incredibly strong, symbolic feature. Mighty clever.
The video has some negative outlook on the modern world about it stressing the notion of work but compared to the past, where most would not even get much option to choose which career would be best suited, we're doing a darn good job here. The paradox of choice, it seems like, have taken effect.
Cymonu People always have something to whine about...BUT, just because in the past it was worse doesn't mean now it's completely great. You didn't mean that, I know, just saying. We are making progress, but there is still much to be done.
Off topic:I like the move away from Euro-centrisim in this video; not that there's anything wrong with Europe. Its the emphasis on great minds that's important to me, not where they come from. That doesn't mean you can't recognize they all don't come form one place. I'm an American, and even I am unfamiliar with most of the figures this video mentioned.
Please continue like that, maybe ship your ideas to corporations or national institutions, they need such well-created explanations about life in general
Yes. It came from a westerner. So it comes as no surprise. Now Chris, you have a very western first name. May I also point out that you have the ability and free will to make another video on the Eastern Philosophical perspective of work.
@@SetTrippin82 Yes, it's what happens when two countries fight an ideological war on your home soil, decimate it, and then your parents immigrate out to actually have a chance at a decent life.
@@SetTrippin82 no, it does come as a surprise, as the title did not specifically say it was meant to be the history of work as thought by Western society; instead, it implies all of history, which includes Eastern. Whether it is possible for this person to make his own video titled "Eastern History of Work" is an irrelevant argument, completely meaningless, as he has the right to contest the lack of another perspective, and the somewhat misleading title.
I hate how work is the central part of our lives, so much so that it seems to consume our essences. The first thing people say when describing themselves is what they do for work "i am...", our likes, tastes, abilities and feelings become all secondary. It's sad.
The crucial point is that technology missed is promises about work . Work was in many cases harder than nowadays but had meaning for workers . Today work is less hard but workers are treated like machine , in a world day by day more precarious for workers . The sad side is that however people manage to find meaning in work meaningless . Millions of modern slave : paradox of being slave of themselves
Correction for the Adam bit: First, it was some kind of fruit, not specifically an apple. Second, Adam from his creation was told he was to work (Gen 2:15) but his curse was that it would no longer always be fruitful. So the Judeo-Christian idea is that work always existed, even in paradise
There's work and than there's a lifestyle. Work is something you do solely for money and a lot of times you hate it. A lifestyle is something that you love to do so much it's nearly just a party of your daily livelihood and the money is nothing but a bonus.
Luther's ideas seem to resonate with those of the Bhakti philosophers of 12th century Indian Subcontinent- It would be a nice idea to present a comparative study of the evolution of concepts all over the world, and not just the christian-dominated West.
Great video! I know it has been done on other TH-cam channels, but I would love to see a follow up of this. It would be taking off from the Macintosh portion of this video and would examine the future of work - in relation to the impending automation boom. The video could include the effects of events that are happening right now, such as vehicle automation, would bring up the threat it presents to capitalism in general (how will we make money? UBI? Negative taxable income?) and bring up several options of people returning to more creative and meaningful work. Additionally, you could compare how people reacted to the industrial/analog automation revolution vs how we will handle the upcoming digital/electronic automation revolution. I have a ton of ideas, but even more blanks to fill in. I realize it's not exactly your cup of tea as you mainly examine historical figures in your videos and this is more of a "future unknown". Some figures still apply Herbert Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. has good quotes, Karl Marx again and some futurologists. I don't know, what do you think? FUTURE - Work
Certain tasks demand stoic attitude and perseverance in the face of monotonous repetition before you can reap the pride of your labor. Our attitude to work is not constant - learning to play an instrument may feel tedious in the beginning, but then joyful and expressive once you attain some mastery. The lady at 8:32 should use the time to read a book. Or even better - write one.
Work, where very few humans figured out that the human race is merely another domesticated livestock to be trained in obedience for treats and adoration from our masters. When we don't perform well for our masters our treats and adoration are cut and we are abused livestock living in misery and it's our own fault for not performing to the pleasures of the giving masters.
M X not true, I've been a carpenter for 10 years now and love it just as much or more. Run my own business, do the work I love. And it still doesn't feel like work, even on the hard days.
It wasn't just Marx who pointed out the pitfalls of factory labor. So did Adam Smith. He said that when a person spends his working life doing one thing and one thing only, they will become as stupid as it is possible for a human being to be.
Morty: That's slavery!Rick: "Its society! They work for each other *burp* . They pay each other money, they buy houses, have little families, then have kids to generate more power when they get too old, and they get replaced and--"Morty: "That just sounds like slavery with extra steps."
Work is always a healthy choice for our life. Everyone need a job to become happier and better skilled. the Job can be anything, or, it's kind of constantly movement of your body, mind, or both together, plus a goal to achieve. We all love work as long we have a job suit our own personality and natural talent, also our boss is caring, not being mean or abusive.
I feel lucky to be in a creative occupation as an IT developer.I do however have to work very hard to maintain my skills. 12 days are the norm and I do occasionally get ridiculous 'automation' requests coming my way.
INTJ represent! Pretty sure I was the only INTJ in my graduating class. What's kind of funny is that INTJ's are cut out to be scientists and accountants but I'm studying music composition and graphic design.
I love all th School of Life videos. This one though, surprised me as a little simplistic, as it only proposes that the work should be enjoyable. But it does not bother to look into the causes of the alienation in modern work. Mothern work alienates because its conversion into a commodity, its mercantilization.
I think it's going be very interesting to see how the concept of work develops itself in the near future. The "uncreative" works that can soon be replace by technology, for example farming, driving, manufacturing or even service will surely leaves a lot of people workless for economical reasons. This automation of labour may be beneficial in a sense that it liberates people from doing works that they may find meaningless, but it may easily lead to a existential dilemma - what's next. The concept of work would totally change. If people do not need to do repetitive manual task to survive what should they do instead; create? For example I've read an article on the likely replacement of truck drivers in the United States by automated vehicles. Truck drivers are, in certain states the main mode of employment and they fuels other businesses such as restaurants and motels on their way. Replacing them with computed trucks, replacing call centres with automated replies seem to be the trend - and the theme here is economic. The truck drivers would be left jobless, should they, like many in their position struggle to find a job when there is none for them? Or should or societal structure permit an alternative existence?
No other creatures pay to live besides us. Also animals pay with their own lives for our own greed. We're cruel and pretty damn dumb, not all of us are but a whole lot us are.
Eden: Work is an unpleasant punishment.
Aristotle: Finding fulfillment and doing spectacular things is impossible when you're poor and have to earn money.
Early Christianity: Work is terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible but we gotta do it anyways cuz God said so.
Renaissance: Money, ambition, joy and creative genius are best together.
Martin Luther: We shall use our talents for good. Even small ones are important and please God. Ordinary jobs are sometimes even better.
Enlightenment: The Encyclopedie, explaining things about different everyday jobs.
Marks: Boring, uneducational work that doesn't develop one's talents and personality is the worst capitalism does.
Veblen: rich people are lazy assholes.
1945: MBTI YAAAY! Also people make a cult out of work, which is not good. Cults aren't good as a whole. But it's great that they choose people by their talent and personality.
Now: We have very high expectations and are often unfulfilled by our work.
(don't mind me, this is the most convenient way to take notes)
Aristotle wasn't too far off
Great! thank you for this. It's Marx btw
@@denverdean2663 what a mistake lmao.... Especially for a person who is now a communist and has read some marx
This video is bang on. I'm at work, in the office now, watching this, because there is nothing else for me to do here.
Theres always the vacuuming to do!
Pornhub??LOL
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Same. I mean, there is "something" to do, but nothing creative, dynamic that fills the soul. Then it's better to inform and enrich our souls on a Friday afternoon through high quality videos like these.
"The career crisis." I feel better knowing there is a term for this terrible feeling.
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Same feeling here. I'm going to google the shit out of that. Specially with a humanities/art degree under my arm, I had this feeling for the most part of my life.
I love the advert line: "You'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984." It gave me a good chuckle.
W-was it?
I'm meant to serve my McDonald's employers as if they were my kings, for the glory of their logo and to feel that sense of community and pride when I work 10 hour shifts feeding the ever-whining maw of the customers outside. My job is to churn out fatty foods and sugary drinks that actively damage my community, but make money for the CEO who doesn't get out of bed. All in pursuit of the necessary number in my pocket that keeps me from being filthy, hungry and ignored.
It is very sad to read this. It is the modern slavery. Yet, there is no way out.
History of Education and History of Prison would be really great!
I agree!
I don't it needs to remain history
History of Prison: see History of Work.
Please don't hire an American narrator. I love your voice!
***** Thank you kindly!
***** Will you at least work with additional narrators? It would be nice to have some variety.
***** Has he ever considered renaming himself to Alan The Button?
I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT ABOUT THIS.
This video was really interesting. It reminds me of a quote by Mark Cuban. Cuban says something like "Don't bother yourself too much with finding a job you love right away. Just work hard enough that you become great and your job and therefore love to do it from then on."
Don't forget that Mark Cuban is one of the richest men in the world, and would be more than happy if he can convince the peons who work for his companies to simply settle for what they have rather than seek truly gainful employment.
I'm terrified that I won't enjoy my work, that I won't make enough money to live comfortably, that I won't be able to meet the demands placed on me.
I don't know if I'm fit for living in this world.
Objects need need to be fit.. Humans adapt, change and create
No worries, you gonna figure it out ;)
+Jake Whiten I'm getting my second bachelors degree right now, just for that reason. I know how you feel.
+Jake Whitton Firstly, don't worry about earning "enough". All that means is that you don't spend more than you make, and that doesn't have to be a lot - all depends on how tightly you budget yourself. Secondly, I'm thinking of enrolling on a second degree course when I've only just finished my first - and that's because I think I'll enjoy it more. Don't worry about these things, instead think about what you might like to do most, and see where that leads you.
I feel you
Sounds like weakness
lol Apple. So much for not becoming like the 1984 commercial.
I'm sure the Chinese factory workers would have something to say.
:-(
If they have something to say is because they have a work that gives them that posibility.
You can't speak for them since you're not in their situation or background.
@@joelhc9703 slaving away for low wages and long hours... and in case you watched the news recently, sometimes not even getting paid in time or full amounts... if you think there's no problem with this and "they have an opinion because they're given this privilege", you're seriously wrong in the head.
I made my own work. I love it. I flopped around from job to job for years and I finally realized I would need to make my own work. Best decision I ever made.
What are you doing?
Watching this at work.
Vaibhav Gupta Amusing.
+Vaibhav Gupta That's a job I would like to do.
parasiticjustice well lot of my friends wants do my job.
I recommend reading "In Praise of Idleness" by Bertrand Russell. It's a brilliant, short essay of only a few pages.
Thanks Bernie, I looked that up great read, eye opening.
ou , thanks ! listened to the audio version on here
Germany 1990s: "Work is stupid."- slogan of the German anarchist party.
It's not so much that I mind work, but often it is merely the mindless bidding of idiots.
Even the slaves in Egypt could look upon the pyramids and say "I helped build that".
No slaves built the pyramids though !
@@afasia2341 And who did?
@@iseeu-fp9po they weren't slaves. A little bit of research h will confirm this.
@@jiggersotoole7823 I was asking, not being sarcastic.
@@iseeu-fp9po Sorry. I take that comment back.
The amount of research and work that goes into these videos is absolutely amazing.
that's the beautiful irony of this particular video's topic.
Within our communism philosophy is work will be reduces to as choices.. hmmmm..
This concept of meaningful work is beautiful but very hard to apply in real life for most of the world. While I currently have such a job, I achieved that by lowering expectations on other aspects of my career, like money and prestige. For me it's a very good trade off that I found after years of struggle to identify successful combination. I also remember how ok I was with being a waitress in my teenage years before having ideals of fulfilling work. What I find worrying is that there are a lot of people with a lot harsher jobs which they chose on the basis of making a living and how deeply disturbing it is/will be for them to consider their situation from this "meaning work" point of view. In truth, this criterion is still hard to apply as a general rule. However, we are the closest we've ever been to that possibility due to the prospect of robots taking over the repetitive and mechanical jobs and thus leaving mostly fulfilling options. I'm very keen to see what new kinds of occupations people will take on when the current industrial revolution style 8h work day will (finally) become obsolete.
Another really important point is the spectation and the desire it leaves on us, seen such a possibility, even if hard, possible, have a surprising power of leaving us feeling like we are in a bad situation and wasting our lives; All as a perment background feeling.
Even if our jobs are really ok, or even good, the desire this idea can generate, causes it to be experience as much worse than it would be, if we had no desire of achieving a improbable meaningfull job.
This for me, went unoticed as one of the biggest causes of my disstisfaction with my current job. when i was able to rid of this desire, i found i could be very happy staying at this job for the rest of my life.
Im not saying we all shouldnt persue such jobs, it can be great depending on who you are and your situation, but we should be very aware that our main reason for wanting to do so, isnt our situation, but the sofering this idea can generate
why is this the best channel on youtube?
Alice Banaszewski Who said that?
K0ragg i did
Alice Banaszewski
Ok, I'm confused. Was it a rhetoric question or were you genuinely baffled as to why people think this is the greatest channel? Or...something else?
K0ragg haha my bad, it was rhetoric
Alice Banaszewski
Thought it was, my bad as well. Thanks for clarifying. I concur, though I have this feel somewhere within the depths of TH-cam there may lie even something greater...
Watching this ,sitting on a overcrowded bus ,on your way home from WORK...... Really transport you to a whole new weird place of introspection and self pity !
According to the Bible, Adam had to work even in the garden, however, the work was enjoyable, and not slavic
It wasn't relating to or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian ( East Slavic ), Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian ( West Slavic ), and Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene ????
@@HawkK what are you on about?
You mean slavish? 😉
Im sure Slavic is not the word maybe u should sayok im very sorry
I believe some people try to interpret the Bible without actually reading it. Adam was indeed to tend the garden because humans need creative employment just as God is a creative worker. We are created in His image. Sin made work hard.
Christian tradition does not say the punishment was to work, but to work WITH EFFORT. In fact the Bible says "God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and take care of it". So the difference was not Work but suffering: "Painfully will you get your food from it [the soil] as long as you live.".
You beat me to it, and said it more eloquently than I would have.
***** Fine chap! We must be grateful he allows us to live!
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I was being ironic?
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I know right, they sure are. I kind of agree with what you said, even if I prefer not being so agressive about it, since they tend to just get even more stubborn. It's the sad reality. Either way, no worries, take care yourself!
tonyfalca
I guess in the given contenxt, I was rather sarcastic, true.
Great video-- with that last thread about technology liberating/complicating contemporary work, I couldn't help but think of the rise of automation, especially *"Humans Need Not Apply"* by CGP Grey. Creative (Renaissance-like) freelance work will likely be the only human jobs in 100 years.
Paul Keefer Haha! I took too long writing my comment. We are like minded.
Paul Keefer Not as long as governments and unions keep doing everything to stop automation. Automation is already cheaper but often robots are made artificially expensive or workers artificially cheap, or companies are simply forced to keep their workers that automation can't expand as fast as it could otherwise. Instead of stopping progress we need to change the economic model to allow for this automation.
Jeroen Bollen If we allowed automation to grow, majority wouldn't work, people would live a leisurely, inactive life. The machine owners would send everyone a portion of his profits to pay for their lifestyle. Work is in our DNA so i don't think we'll adapt.
jim adams DNA changes, evolution. Anyway, we don't have to stop working, we can just do more enjoyable work.
Paul Keefer The same thought came to my mind. I was searching through comments if anyone else also thought the same. Glad to see your comment.
One cause of the unemployment/misemployment problem is britain's abysmal education system. All it does is make children memorise information based on a syllabus, and their "intelligence" is based on how much they can remember. Of course this doesn't work. An A student may not be as intelligent as a D student, because their brains work differently, but the exam boards don't work in way that recognises this. If getting a job only awards people who are able to score As and Bs in their exams, then what are the people who score lower supposed to do? Rot in unemployment, getting by on welfare? This puts a burden on taxpayers.
It was reported recently that 75% of school leavers do not have the skills necessary to get a job. Once again, the schools have failed the very basic task to prepare young people for the world of work, let alone life.
These same students have been told for years to go to university because they'll get a good job afterwards, but employers demand 3-5 years "work experience". Degrees are now worthless, and all that time and money is wasted for nothing. This is why there are so many out-of-work graduates.
The solution is simple:
At a young age, children need to be enabled to develop their personalities so that they can be taught according to that test mentioned in this video. There are plenty of ways to educate people with different personalities. That's why so many people are in the wrong jobs and dissasitsfied. I'm so glad it was mentioned in this video. It's not too late to get this implented into schools and job centres, so that it will get people into the right jobs, and content workers. A happy workforce is a productive workforce.
"The cult of working hard and be very very busy all the time. Soon only the unemployed are idle, everyone else is working away furiously. The richer you are the more you keep working, to show that you are good and serious. Being idle is the new taboo."
Great video!
My thoughts: work has become the standard way to become useful to our community. Most of us would find great satisfaction in being useful.
The problem is that most of us think of work as a personal struggle to survive, we fail to see how our work benefits others.
A probable reason for this might be the "division of labour" and globalization. If I'm in charge of pouring plastic pellets into a machine that makes plastic buttons which in turn will be sold to another company which will assemble it into an electronic component which then will be shipped to a car assembly plant, then, it will be very hard for me to "feel" the value of my effort, and my job might feel useless.
I only work to earn money, for one day I can work on something I really like and love
Believe it or not the thing that brought you the most pain in life, and the creative alleviation of that type of pain in others is a great place to start for fulfilling work. The money will just be a plus. Dig deep there for the soil is rich!
One of the most important episode that touches our very livelihood.
In pre-agricultural times there was no difference between work and leisure. The distinction only came about after trade and money was developed
I love how this video about work in real history opens with the Bible story
It is not only the longings for creative work over menial work, but also non-authoritarian workplaces vs authoritarian ones; authentic connection/cooperation with others; and not having the value of one's work exploited.
1984: "You'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984."
2018: "You'll see why 2019 will be like 1984."
I, as an atheist, enjoy that the garden of Eden was presented as a historical date. I thought it emphasised the importance of Abrahamic values in Western concepts. This channel never ceases to teach new lessons.
Daniel Singh How...depressing is the fact that certain atheists resent any kind of value from religion and disregard it completely...they aren't being any less fanatic than the believers they pity or hate, or both.
One of the biggest things I think makes work so terrible now vs even just a couple hundred years ago (or in some places now) is the disconnection between work and reward. We disassociate our 9-5 from our biweekly paycheck, and the work we do doesn’t directly affect us or anyone we know (particularly when working for large corporations). If you lived in 1750, had a farm, had a small village and community who all know, care for, and love each other, and the food and supplies you were making were directly fueling your community and your family, you would likely feel much more fulfillment watching your hard work mean something because it’s on a smaller scale.
What I didn’t hear mentioned about the challenge of the future of work was the continued loss of meaningful employment through automation and efficiency.
6:43 HOLY MOLY! No WONDER why I like MBTI so much. It was made to try and figure out what kind of talents a person has through their natural, individual behaviors and traits.
I suppose that is why the Sabbath is soo helpful. Amen and Shalom :)
Although certain "Christians" have marked work as a burden, the Bible does not support this reasoning. Before Adam and Eve sinned, they had been assigned duties, as can be seen in Genesis 1:28. However, overly hard work was a curse that was imposed on Adam. This curse was removed from humankind after the Flood, as can be seen in Genesis 5:28,29.
Thanks a lot ADAM "lOOK WHAT YOU MADE US DO"
Work is the labor that makes the moving of matter or information in one direction in order for money to move around in the other direction and matter to transform from raw material to trash, or to be recycled until it eventually turns into trash.
Christian doctrine does not say that work is the punishment for Adam & Eve, but rather that work would become difficult. Christian doctrine says that Adam and Eve were placed in the garden to tend it, which is work.
Great short overview of something that we have completely lost sight of as modern material consumerists
work work work work work work work- rihanna
“Anyone has to earn money to live is a slave. The pursuit of money and good intellectual work is impossible.” - Aristotle
I don’t think this quote was copied accurately, I feel like I’m having a stroke reading it
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Question: I am a Married Man with three children and with all the Problems of a married man's life. My wife is constantly at my Throat. We are together only for the sake of the children; Otherwise, each moment is a nightmare. Is there any chance of my Escaping hellfire?
Osho : I will tell you one story:
A man was arraigned before an Arkansas justice on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. The judge looked at him thoughtfully. "Your name is Jim Moore?"
"Yes, sir."
"You are charged with a crime that merits a long term in the penitentiary?"
"Yes, sir."
"You are guilty of that crime?"
The man squared his shoulders doggedly. "I am."
"You ask me for mercy?"
"No, sir."
The judge smiled grimly. "You have had a great deal of trouble within the last two years?"
"I have."
"You have often wished you were dead?"
"I have, please Your Honor."
"You wanted to steal enough money to take you far away from Arkansas?"
"You are right, Judge."
"If a man had stepped up and shot you as you entered the store, you would have said,'Thank
you, sir'?"
"Why, yes, I would. But, Judge, how in the world did you find out so much about me?"
"Some time ago," said the Judge, with a solemn air, "I divorced my wife. Shortly afterwards you married her. The result is conclusive. I discharge you. Here, take this fifty dollar bill. You have suffered enough."
You need not be worried about hell. You have suffered enough. You are already in it. You can only go to heaven, because nothing else is left. Celibates may go to hell, but you cannot. You have suffered enough. Celibates may need a little taste of suffering, but not you. In fact, there is no hell somewhere else and no heaven either. Hell is here, heaven is here. Hell and heaven are your ways of being. They are your ways of living. You can live in such a way that the whole life is a benediction. But don't go on throwing the responsibility only on your wife.
In the first place it is you who have chosen her. Why have you chosen such a wife who is constantly at your neck? And do you think, if you are divorced, you will not again choose another woman of the same type? If you ask psychologists they will say you will again choose the same type of woman. You needed it; it is your own choice. You cannot live without misery. You think your wife is creating misery? It is because you wanted to live in misery -- that's why you have chosen this woman. You will again choose the same type of woman.
You will only become attracted to the same type of woman, unless you drop your old mind completely. Except our own minds, there is no other way to change or transform. You must be thinking that if you divorce this woman things will be good. You are wrong, you are utterly wrong. You don't know a thing about human psychology. You will get trapped again. You will search for a woman again; you will miss this woman very much. She will miss you, you will miss her. You will again find the same type of person; you will be attracted only to that kind of person.
Watch your mind. And then, she cannot only be at fault. You must be doing something to her too. It is your statement; I don't know her statement. It will be unfair to the poor woman if I accept your statement about her totally. You may be fifty percent right, but what about the other fifty percent? You must be supplying fuel to the fire. And if life was so ugly, why have you given birth to three children? Who is responsible for that? Why have you brought three souls into the ugly world of your family, into the nightmare that you are living?
Why? Can't you have any love for your children? People go on reproducing without thinking at all of what they are doing. If your life is such a hell, at least you could have prevented your children from falling into the trap of your misery. You would have saved them! Now, those three children are being brought up by two persons like you and your wife. They will learn ways and means from you, and they will perpetuate you in the world. When you are gone, you will still be here in the world creating hell.
Those children will perpetuate, they will keep the continuity of your stupid ways of living, miserable ways of living. Now your boy will find a woman just like your wife -- who else? -- because he will know only this woman. He will love his mother, and whenever he falls in love with a woman, it simply means that woman reminds him of his mother. Now again the same game will be played. Maybe you have chosen your wife according to your mother; your father and your mother were playing the same game that you are playing, and your children will perpetuate the same structure and the same gestalt. That's how miseries persist.
At least you could have saved these three children's lives, and you could have saved the future of humanity, because the ripple that you have created will go on and on. Even when you are gone it will be there. Whatsoever you do abides. Whatsoever ripples you create in the ocean of life remain; you disappear. It is like throwing a stone in a silent lake: the stone falls deep into the lake, disappears, goes to the bottom and rests there, but the ripples that have been created, they go on spreading towards the shores.
And the ocean of life knows no shores, so those waves go on and on, forever and forever. At least you could have been a little more alert not to produce children. And it is never late. Still life can be changed -- but don' t hope that your wife should change. That is the wrong approach. You change. Change radically. Stop doing things that you have always been doing. Start doing things that you have never done. Change radically, become a new person, and you will be surprised. When you become a new person, your wife becomes a new person.
She will have to, to respond to you. In the beginning she will find it hard because it will be almost like living with another husband, but slowly, slowly she will see that if you can change, why can't she? Never hope that the other should change. In every relationship start the change from your side. Life can still become a paradise; it is never too late. But great courage is needed to change. All that is really needed is a little more awareness. De-automatize your behavior; just watch What you have been doing up to now.
You do the same thing, and the wife reacts in the same way. It has become a settled pattern. Watch any husband and wife -- they are almost predictable. In the morning the husband will spread his newspaper and start reading, and the wife will say the same thing that she has been saying for years, and the husband will react in the same way. It has become almost structured, programmed. Just small changes, and you will be surprised. Tomorrow, don't sit in your chair early in the morning and start reading your paper.
Just start cleaning the house, and see what happens. Your wife will be wide-eyed, and she will not be able to believe what has happened to you. Smile when you see your wife, hug, and see how she is taken aback. You have never hugged her. Years have passed, and you have never looked into the poor woman's eyes. Tonight, just sit in front of her, look into her eyes. She will think in the beginning that you have gone crazy, you have become a Rajneesh freak or something, but don't be worried. Just hold her hand and be ecstatic.
If you cannot be, at least pretend. Be ecstatic. Sometimes it happens that if you start pretending, it starts happening! Just start smiling, for no reason at all, and watch. Your poor woman may have a heart attack! You have not been holding her hand -- do you remember since how long? Have you ever taken her for a morning walk? Or when the moon is full, have you taken her for a walk in the night under the stars? She is also human, she also needs love. But particularly people in India go on using women as if they are just servants.
Their whole work consists of taking care of the children and the kitchen and the house, as if that's their whole life. Have you respected your wife as a human being? Then, if anger arises, it is natural. If she feels frustrated -- because her life is running out and she has not known any joy, she has not known any bliss, she has not known anything that can give meaning and significance to her life.... Have you just sat by her side sometimes, silently, just holding her hand, not saying a word, just feeling her, and letting her feel you?
Wives and husbands have only one kind of communication: quarreling. Using each other, exploiting each other, reducing each other to things, but never respecting each other's divinity -- then this hell is created.
Don't think that only your wife is responsible. She may be, but that is not the point, because she has not asked the question.
Caress her body, because bodies start shrinking when nobody caresses them. Bodies start becoming ugly when nobody looks with appreciation. And then you think, "Why is my wife not beautiful?" You are not creating the climate in which beauty flowers, blooms. If you love a person, the person immediately becomes beautiful! Love is such an alchemical process. Look at a person with loving eyes, and suddenly you will see his, her aura changing, the face becoming radiant, more blood coming to the face, eyes becoming more shiny, radiance, intelligence -- and like a miracle. Love is a miracle, love is magical. It is not yet too late.
jesus christ. TL;DR
Thank you.
I don't know it's relevant or not but this video just clarifies to me that being lazy and being idle are two completely different things. A lazy person is the one not willing to work or not putting enough effort to his/her work, but an idle is someone who is temporarily unemployed.
2017 - Sweden makes job day to 6 hr a day.
G Man Way to go :)
Breaking news, Sweden's GDP gets fucked
Some guys in the comments already pointed out that the video is about "our" western view of work and is hence missing a broader perspective.
Apart from that I would recommend the book "Brave New World" to anyone who wonders what work looks like in a perfect world. The book really takes things to the next level.
So...work is the result of an angry sky daddy?
WisdomFall A metaphor? Of what?
TheHigherVoltage I think you missed the point.
NVaizard I got the point just fine. I'm asking a simple question. If referencing Christian mythology is a metaphor....what's it a metaphor for?
TheHigherVoltage Well, in one interpretation, the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was an Eden, so agriculture was the Fall... :P
Doc Eon I get what you're saying, but it seems backwards to me. Hunting is a lot of work. (especially persistence hunting)...and arguably, agriculture requires far less work for reward than gathering.
Why Do not look at hisory of work throught the only 3 moments sapiens really changed it, agriculture revolution, industrial revolution, and of course the digital one.
good idea! This video presents a nice view point on how work is highly cultural, but that's a really neat idea.
and the one around the corner, automation, ubi, working for pleasure or for extra cash, 4 hours a day. the future is bright for humanity
I used to work in a vacuum cleaner factory, but I gave it up because it really sucked.
Well I pressure wash sometimes it is fulfilling. get tips occasionally.
The other day a past customer actually sent a thank you card to our boss. I guess outside work is pretty gratifying sometimes. Def dont want to pressure wash my whole life, hopefully i can keep learning while eventually finding my own work.
This is a western view of work. Don't forget that there are over 4 billion people on this planet that grew up with a completely different view.
Still very informative and thank you for uploading.
I find it sad that we humans have the technology that could reduce boring work to a minimum, and yet all you hear on the media is that unemployment is a negative thing, being idle is somehow wrong. Politicians keep playing the same record, growth, jobs, market "forces", (fake) debt, etc...
Great and thoughtful video, as always. I can't get enough of your style of graphics. Turning the apple logo into the forbidden fruit in the hands of Eve was an incredibly strong, symbolic feature. Mighty clever.
The video has some negative outlook on the modern world about it stressing the notion of work but compared to the past, where most would not even get much option to choose which career would be best suited, we're doing a darn good job here. The paradox of choice, it seems like, have taken effect.
Cymonu People always have something to whine about...BUT, just because in the past it was worse doesn't mean now it's completely great. You didn't mean that, I know, just saying. We are making progress, but there is still much to be done.
K0ragg thats right! As Hegel believed, there's an achievement for each era.
Cymonu
Exactly!
I bloody love 'the school of life'
Off topic:I like the move away from Euro-centrisim in this video; not that there's anything wrong with Europe. Its the emphasis on great minds that's important to me, not where they come from. That doesn't mean you can't recognize they all don't come form one place. I'm an American, and even I am unfamiliar with most of the figures this video mentioned.
I hope one day i find a job that is both fulfilling and well-paying.
You might have to create it yourself
Workers of the World Unite!
Please continue like that, maybe ship your ideas to corporations or national institutions, they need such well-created explanations about life in general
It's impressive how Alain De Botton has a perfect diction. I just love to learn while I'm hearing him.
This is all western history. Should be retitled "HISTORY OF WESTERN IDEAS - Work"
Yes. It came from a westerner. So it comes as no surprise.
Now Chris, you have a very western first name.
May I also point out that you have the ability and free will to make another video on the Eastern Philosophical perspective of work.
@@SetTrippin82 Yes, it's what happens when two countries fight an ideological war on your home soil, decimate it, and then your parents immigrate out to actually have a chance at a decent life.
@@SetTrippin82 no, it does come as a surprise, as the title did not specifically say it was meant to be the history of work as thought by Western society; instead, it implies all of history, which includes Eastern. Whether it is possible for this person to make his own video titled "Eastern History of Work" is an irrelevant argument, completely meaningless, as he has the right to contest the lack of another perspective, and the somewhat misleading title.
Another wonderful video from TSoL. Especially when I'm currently struggling to find employment in the creative/design industry in London.
The Bible doesn't say work is a condemnation. Actually, it's says that God himself worked by creating the world
I hate how work is the central part of our lives, so much so that it seems to consume our essences. The first thing people say when describing themselves is what they do for work "i am...", our likes, tastes, abilities and feelings become all secondary. It's sad.
Got it! Working on this.
The crucial point is that technology missed is promises about work . Work was in many cases harder than nowadays but had meaning for workers . Today work is less hard but workers are treated like machine , in a world day by day more precarious for workers . The sad side is that however people manage to find meaning in work meaningless . Millions of modern slave :
paradox of being slave of themselves
Correction for the Adam bit: First, it was some kind of fruit, not specifically an apple. Second, Adam from his creation was told he was to work (Gen 2:15) but his curse was that it would no longer always be fruitful. So the Judeo-Christian idea is that work always existed, even in paradise
Ok here it is then. I want to watch these videos for a living. I found my passion. SOMEBODY HIRE ME!
Basically, since the beginning, those in higher positions do everything they can to stay rich and have those under do all of the work to stay that way
There's work and than there's a lifestyle. Work is something you do solely for money and a lot of times you hate it. A lifestyle is something that you love to do so much it's nearly just a party of your daily livelihood and the money is nothing but a bonus.
Luther's ideas seem to resonate with those of the Bhakti philosophers of 12th century Indian Subcontinent- It would be a nice idea to present a comparative study of the evolution of concepts all over the world, and not just the christian-dominated West.
A lot of work went into that VIDEO..Well done
Great video!
I know it has been done on other TH-cam channels, but I would love to see a follow up of this. It would be taking off from the Macintosh portion of this video and would examine the future of work - in relation to the impending automation boom. The video could include the effects of events that are happening right now, such as vehicle automation, would bring up the threat it presents to capitalism in general (how will we make money? UBI? Negative taxable income?) and bring up several options of people returning to more creative and meaningful work. Additionally, you could compare how people reacted to the industrial/analog automation revolution vs how we will handle the upcoming digital/electronic automation revolution. I have a ton of ideas, but even more blanks to fill in. I realize it's not exactly your cup of tea as you mainly examine historical figures in your videos and this is more of a "future unknown". Some figures still apply Herbert Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. has good quotes, Karl Marx again and some futurologists. I don't know, what do you think?
FUTURE - Work
For another perspective, see Thoreau's chapter on Economy in "Walden."
Most of us in truth are simply not creative enough to earn a living at it. That is why we have a hobby.
Marx never hated capitalism just realized its flaws. He recognized it's benefits particularly fast economic growth.
If you are not passionate about your work, you are a slave.
+Saskiequelle No, if you don't get paid for work, you're a slave. Nice try, though.
I read all your books with the narrative style of your videos
Certain tasks demand stoic attitude and perseverance in the face of monotonous repetition before you can reap the pride of your labor. Our attitude to work is not constant - learning to play an instrument may feel tedious in the beginning, but then joyful and expressive once you attain some mastery. The lady at 8:32 should use the time to read a book. Or even better - write one.
Work, where very few humans figured out that the human race is merely another domesticated livestock to be trained in obedience for treats and adoration from our masters. When we don't perform well for our masters our treats and adoration are cut and we are abused livestock living in misery and it's our own fault for not performing to the pleasures of the giving masters.
I don’t like to work. I just want to be free, help people and bring creative
The Dream: Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Follow you're dreams and you'll never work a day in your life.......because your industry would be hiring.
Yes, and we call it a dream for a reason
and after a couple of years, you will hate your love because you have to do it every day.
M X not true, I've been a carpenter for 10 years now and love it just as much or more. Run my own business, do the work I love. And it still doesn't feel like work, even on the hard days.
I love how it ended where it started....with the apple
It wasn't just Marx who pointed out the pitfalls of factory labor. So did Adam Smith. He said that when a person spends his working life doing one thing and one thing only, they will become as stupid as it is possible for a human being to be.
This channel is extraordinary - you bring complexity to concepts I often took for granted. Thank you
Morty: That's slavery!Rick: "Its society! They work for each other *burp* . They pay each other money, they buy houses, have little families, then have kids to generate more power when they get too old, and they get replaced and--"Morty: "That just sounds like slavery with extra steps."
Work is always a healthy choice for our life. Everyone need a job to become happier and better skilled. the Job can be anything, or, it's kind of constantly movement of your body, mind, or both together, plus a goal to achieve. We all love work as long we have a job suit our own personality and natural talent, also our boss is caring, not being mean or abusive.
Love your guy's videos. Keep them coming!
I recommend you all go and watch the film Office Space after this, for comic relief.
The 40 hour work week was established and standardized in 1870's or about...
I feel lucky to be in a creative occupation as an IT developer.I do however have to work very hard to maintain my skills. 12 days are the norm and I do occasionally get ridiculous 'automation' requests coming my way.
INTJ represent! Pretty sure I was the only INTJ in my graduating class. What's kind of funny is that INTJ's are cut out to be scientists and accountants but I'm studying music composition and graphic design.
I love all th School of Life videos. This one though, surprised me as a little simplistic, as it only proposes that the work should be enjoyable. But it does not bother to look into the causes of the alienation in modern work. Mothern work alienates because its conversion into a commodity, its mercantilization.
These videos are great. I really do enjoy this channel. This is so true. Work is a challenge in so many ways.
I think it's going be very interesting to see how the concept of work develops itself in the near future. The "uncreative" works that can soon be replace by technology, for example farming, driving, manufacturing or even service will surely leaves a lot of people workless for economical reasons. This automation of labour may be beneficial in a sense that it liberates people from doing works that they may find meaningless, but it may easily lead to a existential dilemma - what's next. The concept of work would totally change. If people do not need to do repetitive manual task to survive what should they do instead; create? For example I've read an article on the likely replacement of truck drivers in the United States by automated vehicles. Truck drivers are, in certain states the main mode of employment and they fuels other businesses such as restaurants and motels on their way. Replacing them with computed trucks, replacing call centres with automated replies seem to be the trend - and the theme here is economic. The truck drivers would be left jobless, should they, like many in their position struggle to find a job when there is none for them? Or should or societal structure permit an alternative existence?
I teach privately. It’s not easy. It’s very fulfilling but nonetheless incredibly hard at times.
No other creatures pay to live besides us. Also animals pay with their own lives for our own greed. We're cruel and pretty damn dumb, not all of us are but a whole lot us are.
I would love to see a video on the History of Human Rights!!!