I agree with 100%, the vast majority of employers are heartless and completely sůçk. Most jobs you’ll be miserable, underpaid, under appreciated and the people that will get the promotions are the people that are friends with the higher ups (not the best qualified and usually lazy but are skilled at one thing… at suckíng up). Even most people you work with aren’t who you think, even if you think you get along well, they aren’t your friends. You may feel that way but most of them don’t. Just have something happen to you and see how many call to see how you’re doing. Sure for a very attractive person, especially a wøman, they’ll get a lot of calls and attention. However, for the vast majority of men, we’re nothing more than just “coworkers”. This isn’t just the rambling of a bitter old man. It’s the heartbreaking realization of someone that once believed working hard, taking on extra responsibilities, positive attitude, and excelling at your job… were keys to success.
The real kicker is the inexorable march towards the privatization of our previously publicly owned services such as health and education, especially here in the UK. If you fall ill now you may be forced to consider using a privatized service in order to get treatment given its public equivalent is overrun and underfunded, therefore, our taxes are falling into the hands of the ever rapacious private sector, we're being systematically pauperized.
I only made $16 an hour no benefits at all, not even sick days. Worked 7 months and have nothing at all to show from it all. I was disrespected daily. I quit, posted an ad for vehicle repairs, as I can rebuild most cars.
It makes me really sad how the world works, and how people get treated. Everybody is basically living in survival mode. Just so sad. We act and live like we will be around forever. Funny though, and cynical at the same time. I make sure I treat everyone I encounter with dignity and respect regardless of what social status they have in life. Your job, your status does not define who you are.
@@RuthlessAries_QueenofSwordsgotta make your own way, public schools and universities just hold individuals down. Gotta have all forms of jobs, so it is what it is. Level up and change your own future. Break the cycle
When I hear 60 year olds giddy about 2 weeks vacation or say "do you think they will let us go home early today?" I think ...."Listen to that pitiful defeated slave."
You're spot on. I work at one of those companies. I started out as a machine operator and worked my way up to an engineer responsible for assembly lines accounting for 60% of the business...with no engineering degree. There werre several mass firings to reduce headcount of "indirect" labor, and now everyone basically has 2 jobs for the same pay. Ironically.... I recently accepted a "promotion" to lead scrap reduction and process improvement for the entire facility. I happen to be really good at it. So my job is to save the company money and improve efficiency. Ive tried to quit, to go somewhere else and of all the interviews ive done nobody will offer me anywhere close to what I am paid now....im stuck. I am a true wage slave stuck at a company who doesnt give 2 SH*TS about anyone, who's job is to increase profits, because I need the money. By the time its all said and done, i've lost close to 50% of what I earn at this company from TAXES. So I will work until I am dead to make a company more money. I will lose half of what I make to taxes, for the government to piss away, and use against me in many cases. Slave. The American Revolution was fought over a 1% tax. Chew on that for a moment.
While I don’t disagree that our current way of doing things is absolutely a form of wage slavery I would add a clarifier that the revolution wasn’t necessarily fought over a 1% tax and that’s it.. it was a series of acts that the colonists weren’t included in the conversation or legislation. “No taxation without representation” right?! Yes it’s true that overall the acts resulted in 1-1.5% taxes paid directly to England on things such as sugar and anything related to paper/parchment …which were on top of what most colonists already paid for local taxes that they had agreed upon for the most part. That said, our current system is highly flawed and many people have been programmed to not be able to see it and to also call anyone who does a conspiracy theorist as if that’s actually a bad thing to be. It’s funny that so called conspiracy theorists continue to be proven right over time but nobody ever goes back and apologizes or recognizes them for being correct and wrongly labeled. We live in a world where propaganda is portrayed as news for the purpose of dividing and conquering the many in order for the few to gain more power … it would be nice to come up with a solution but “bread and circuses” has proven to be a very effective strategy and in modern days that’s going to sound more like food stamps and reality tv/football .. they feed us horrible food filled with preservatives, an education system that forces many to start adulthood buried under a mountain of debt and inflation rates (monetary policy) that force us to take on more debt just to pay for basic everyday items for anyone who doesn’t want to live in a cabin without plumbing or electricity… when will enough be enough ? They write in the constitution we have not only the right but the responsibility to oust tyranny but I fear they were unable to foresee things like drone strikes and modern warfare / weapons. I doubt pitchforks will be as effective as they were back then. If anything maybe technology and hacking might be the only way to go about a modern day revolution.
@@pcvideos100 Yes, and No. On paper, they matter. In the real world, they do not matter as much. I may have not been totally clear before, but I CAN get another job and have had several offers. They just low-ball the crap out of me. I've actually spoken to several other engineers with 4 and 6 year degrees that have interviewed at other places who also work at my company that have had the same problem...so not necessarily a "degree" problem. In relation to the skills of engineers I have worked with over the years, I would argue that degrees do NOT matter. I have met people with masters degrees in engineering that couldn't engineer their way out of a plastic bag. Some couldn't even make a 2D drawing from a 3D model, which is literally semester 1 of my mechatronics associates I am working on. I don't know your background, but it's undebatable that experience is much more valuable than education. If you compare a man that has practiced his profession effectively for 15 years to a student fresh out of college, there isn't a comparison.
If you have a modicum of social and business skills, you could easily become a consultant and earn a lot more money. Maybe start by offering 'emergency' services on the weekend, and quit your main job once you have a decent client base and savings.
@@desertshadowspringers you do realize that the American revolution began in people's minds because they gave themselves a great deal of intellectual honesty when analyzing how quality of life can be improved. The more that people point this out, the closer we are as a nation to declaring a new revolution. In essence, the original American revolution began with everyone pointing out disparities and desire of improvements. The same pattern has emerged since 2020. The 1st mistake of the current ruling class was attempting to turn their constituents into planned obsolescence. Constitutional law explicitly states long term stability at all costs is one of the utmost factors for an American Republic. Planned obsolescence built into any concept, whether that's people, production or systems is antithetical to a free Republic.
The 40 hours working week should be a thing of the past. We are working our lives away. Something should be done in this direction. Automation made producing things easier, but people just cannot afford to buy them by working meaningless ,endless jobs
The 40 hours week is not needed as you surely know. The reason is that they doesn’t want you to have time for thinking about what life really is. And also the paycheck is most of the time that people live paycheck by paycheck.
I had to talk my girlfriend out of a “business proposal” from her work the other day. Her top department head wanted her to drive 3 hours to the company headquarters and stay for 3 days for customer service appreciation week, mainly to make the company look good and show off her talent to wow their investors. Only thing was she was to pay for 3 nights of hotel stays, fuel to get to and from, and meals. All just to be compensated her normal hourly pay. When asked if per diem or lodging compensation was possible they claimed to not have that in the budget, and proceeded to guilt trip her when she refused to go. All the while in her years of employment they couldn’t even pony up something that even equates to a cost of living adjustment. Corporations look at people like machines and bar codes and give you the bare minimum just to get by and one paycheck away from financial ruin while the investors and top earners only grow richer. They do it because it’s allowed and people have no choice. Sickening. Definitely modern day slavery
This is how women ruined the workplace. They do all kinds of work for free or even let their private resources be dragged into work and get squandered.
Indeed,They know that working class people fear being evicted and foreclosed upon so they need that income.And the cooperations use that to their advantage.Fear of being homeless.
Absolutely worse part is now its becoming norm everywhere you go. I am from India and here its same. Corporates want talented people to work for mininal wages. Its so sickening. One of my ex offices building glasses had to be sealed cause employees were jumping and commiting sucide. Thats how bad it is and people are to be blamed too. They are stupid and tolerating this shit
Ibstopped working just under a year ago. I had no money. Everyone said i was mad, but i was like, i have worked hard for 35 years and have nothing, so i may as well stop work and still have nothing... except now i would have time and freedom. I now make money in a way that is much more holistic and wholesome. I am building a small channel myself and already earn money talking to a few of my subscribers, i also talk to people outside of youtube. I was suicidal a few years ago and i brought myself back to a fantastic place mentally, and now i share some of my knowledge with the world. Thats it, thats all i do, im nothing special, just a guy who had enough of selling his life to ungrateful people 🤷🏼♂️ i love this video mate, and your content in general is super inspiring. Thanks and much love 🙌🏼
The real reason why people get paid for work is because it serves as an illusion. Slaves in the past were usually provided with housing, food and clothes. Now people are provided with money which primarily will be spent on housing, food and clothes and other necessary utilities. Because people are paying for these things by themselves, they believe they believe they are free. The best slave is a slave who is oblivious about being a slave.
This is why I get angry when people act excited about being able to take a two week holiday. Like, dude, seriously, do you really not see how you are given a blindfold with those two weeks? Really sad...
@TomScryleus I see your point. That's certainly true. I have seen the best employee we have at work get counseled for tardiness. If he leaves, we'll have way less experience & mentorship. Dude was literally late once. If he leaves, it'll be bad. It's like counseling Michael Jordan for being late to one practice, crazy.
I have my own business and I take 1 week off every month 😂I basically just do a little extra work for the other 3 weeks to make up for it and then take a 1 week break with very minimal work. The beauty of being able to design your own schedule.
The employee / corporate relationship is adversarial at its core. The corporation wants the maximum labor from the employee for the minimum cost. People want to get the maximum pay from the corporation for the minimum labor required to get that. They have very different interests.
I am no longer motivated to work under $25/Hour. Even if I get that, I will still do bare minimum because its still not a livable wage of what should be $33/Hour and up.
Cooperatives are an alternative to both employing people and working by ourselves. Also, we don't need corporations, we could organize all of society with cooperatives.
when you are paid for 40 hours per week but are working 100 hours per week, you are being taken advantage of. period end of sentence. things have definitely gotten out of control in corporate.
My employer paid me 40 hours per week, but I worked just 15 hours per week, Just 3 hours from Monday to Friday. The hours left I worked on myself or just rested in front my computer, faking that I was working. The day I quit, he sent me a message by whatssapp and told me: I know that you were quite quitting. I ghosted him
"soulless entity" is the right term to describe a boss and their dog with a name tag of a "manager", well this is the sad truth of the world we live in...
I work 5 nights per week in a restaurant as a cook. I don't think I'd be able to have a phone, a working car, and rent a bedroom in a house all at the same time without getting a second job and even then I would be barely scraping by. Is this how things always were? What is going on?
we are all just barely making it. wage slave society. thats what I call it. Like, keep the car and the house, I just hate the fact that we live paycheck to paycheck.
@@TomScryleusbest way to liberate ourselves is to go full stoic, start practicing part-time homelessness, or less nice things until you don't need most things and can live with very very little
This is NOT how things always were. My great grandpa worked a factory job and was able to be the only income for his family with 6 kids. He was able to buy a house and retire comfortably.
You need x2 incomes and very good spending habits to rent successfully. But if you can rent successfully, then you're screwing yourself by not getting a mortgage and earning the helpful thing called equity.
This isn't just corporate. All billionaires talk about how children are our future but then they pay teachers literally nothing. Teachers should be paid the same amount as lawyers considering we are responsible for future generations. I would love to just quit but I can't. -burnt out preschool teacher
Public school teachers are not helping create a better future. They teach propaganda, glorifying "government " corporate control of our bodies, businesses and earnings.
I am a very hard worker and I regularly quit my job because of burnout. It’s not that I give a crap about the company it’s just I do take pride in hard work. It’s a no win situation. If I try to be lazy at work it drives me crazy because the days go by so slow. My employer loves me and I can’t move when I get home. Currently quitting the job I have currently. Three more weeks and I am out. Thankfully I can survive for a while because I am very frugal.
Agreed and there's lots of them out there. I would hate to be in their heads it must be a nightmare to see the world only through a lense of power and control.
To them, it is paradise and is what makes life worth living. The thrill of the hunt.. apex predator. Ever read "Might is Right" by Ragnar Redbeard? It pretty much shows their perspective@@jonathanclayton9107
Today I was told by a building maintenance professional that "the bosses" don´t want the employees, who work on the same floor as the bosses, to use the toilet rooms on said floor anymore. They are considered "boss toilets only" from now on. Reason being that there were occupational issues where "the bosses" had to go 1 floor down to piss and ship turds. Imagine that! I say, nothing lifts motivation better as such a lordly edict against the filthy peasants.
Dang isn't that like what the Africa Americans had to deal with After America ended slavery? What was it called?? Oh yeah Segregation! Wanna know the funny thing about that corporate world? The higher up the food chain you go, the far greater pay, with FAR LESS Actual Work, and less hours.... unless your like me and a workaholic
Im older. Did the corp thing for 20 years. Done with that. Now i do in home health care for elderly people and i love every minute of it. The freedom no bosses no clock you actually can see your helping people. Pay is low but you cant put on enough value on a job you enjoy and getting all your time back. Me and my client go to the store and we do my shopping. Getting paid to run your own errands. I love it. I made my money when i was younger now im on cruise control. Its beautiful.
I agree with almost everything. I’m currently working for a company that clams to care about the environment, but I’ve seen and heard so many things coming from the head of the company. Like: stop doing this, we are not making money out of it. I was so naive at the start, thinking that there were actually companies that work for the environment, something I hold close to my heart, but it is all lies. I don’t know what is even motivating me anymore, when it comes to working for companies.
I'm an entrepreneur. I built my life where the work that I do feels like hobby. Kinda always having fun. I don't always feel like working but it is way more enjoyable than having a normal wage slavery job.
@@lebam4650 NEET which is an acronym for "Not in Education, Employment, or Training" is being used in place of what we otherwise say unemployment. In this case he's exaggerating/joking about adopting a hikikomori lifestyle. Hikikomori being a the Japanese word for 'severe social withdrawal' which is classified as a mental illness in which they seek extreme degrees of social isolation. Theres documentaries on this of course but a good show covering this type of thing is called "Welcome to the NHK" (it goes over other societally focused mental illnesses as well and is overall a dark comedy). Excellent show, hard to watch.
A sales manager at one company I worked for told me: "I like for my salesmen to be in debt. It makes them hustle." I was a tech and just fixed the stuff. To me the salesmen were mostly jerks trying to sell stuff on the basis of psychological BS. They just seemed not yo care when I tried explaining anything.
Selling makes me feel slimey. Only had one sales job. It was minimum wage + commission. Bonuses for high sales. Without the high sales bonuses, budget wouldn't work. It was a lot of pressure to sell
@@krystalmarie5637 Got you. I emigrated, started teaching English for a language school, quickly grew my own client base, started publishing specialist educational books, and starting to commercialise the intellectual property I create in other markets. Good luck!
I remember back in the pandemic, everyone loved the stimulus checks from 1,200 to 600 each week for the unemployment benefits. Also it stimulated the economy because of all the money that was put into it. It’s almost like people want a certain amount of money to be given to them each week or month
Not to get political but i personally know democrats that stayed and worked and trump republicans who took off from their job for the unemployment they didnt believe in. Its funny how people abandon their beliefs for the easy money i think thats worse than those that do support it.
😂 I loved it! I made excellent use of that money. I paid off my debts and bought a new car. I returned to work BEFORE they stopped the free money 💰...so I lost out but kept my job and got a raise. My car loan was 72 months...I paid it completely off in 18 months 🙃. Why the car? It helps me safely get to work. Yes for me it's a TOOL to keep going to work.
A new boss has only 3 choices to improve profits and cashflow . Be entrepreneurial and find new opportunities to increase revenue streams AND cut costs. Be entrepreneurial and find new opportunities. Cut costs. 99% are devoid of risk taking ( keep job) and are clueless about business. So the default is fire and cut costs. Because it’s easier.
The problem is, when you are making comfortable money by talking in front of a camera and living a decent life, it is actually made possible by the cheap labor in third world countries who might be working their asses off. I know words may sound harsh, but truth is human is always greedy. So until we reach that Utopia, the world needs certain rules and we are going to live in some kind of equilibrium where the supply side is okay with what they are giving and the demand side is okay with what they are receiving. And people are still going to work so hard to improve their lives no matter what world they live in.
@@dizralph.c so you think his viewers are paying for his job? are you hearing what you said? and did I mention third world workers paying for his job? dude you need to get your logic together
@@KD-sj7iv I laid out why this whole issue is not an issue. Also am not gatekeeping, he replied to my 9 months old comment and I feel like he/she needs to be educated
Well my latest 10 ish videos have been about this. And It seems I have found my audience so to speak. So more video like this one is coming in 2024. (Im currently taking a bit of a break from youtube, my father recently passed away).
The biggest issue is that we have BILLS to pay, which constantly drains our income every month or week. I personally don't think anyone should have to pay for food or rent, or at least there should be a cap on how much rent can be for a certain type of abode, and everyone should have a stipend to buy food monthly (like ebt for all).
@IIWII I often think the same thing, but a lot of people have brainwashed and support the system because it worked out well for them. Others are scared of repercussions of potential failure and can't imagine life any other way since capitalism and industrialization has dominated the majority of our lives over the past few centuries.
@@jonetgames the problem with that is someone has to pay for those things. We pay taxes for welfare and food stamps. We don't even get to take in the opportunity of those things unless we're in poverty level. The best option on the table is to grow your own food. Find the best deal on rent or buy a house. You can even try out a camper or build your own house. Free stuff comes at a huge price and it will never be equally distributed. Better off building a substanable life that will work for you in the long run. Try to find the best deals on products that will last a decent time or you can fix when it breaks. Keep looking for better deals on bills also.
Free rent? Who gets the big flat instead of the small flat? Should they all be the same size? What happens when people stop building places to live because there's no incentive to build one (aka profit)? Do you build your own? If you do, should suppliers give you free materials because you're building a place to live? Think critically.
Your should only be an employee for two reasons. To get cash or to gain skills. Once your goal is achieved, leave it start your own business. Companies are scum but can be a revenue source.
I see the truth. I am a wage slave. Can’t do anything about it at the moment. Keep telling myself to Suck it Up. Hoping for a Next Life someday. There’s a line in the movie Gladiator: “Not Yet. Not Yet.”
Brave man. As a young man. I admire your bravery. I don't even know what your content is about but since you've done that move it's imperative that I would listen to what you have to say and take notes.
Most corporations wouldn't even exist without fiat currency. That's the root problem. Ever increasing plunder to provide for ever increasing taxpayers to pay upon ever increasing unpayable debt.
Most people are willing slaves, because they value safety over freedom. Freedom has a steep price. Also fortune and luck play their part in how free a person is.
This is the reason why I started to become more inclined towards Cooperatives or Employee owned companies and try to purchase from them. For anyone interested, this is called Distributism, G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc talked about this if you want to dig deeper.
As a human it's possible to create a self sufficient lifestyle for everyone, however you need to be a human for it. People are only able to follow their animal instincts and create the same animal hierarchy and society around this animal instinct.
Of course they do not! Hell, many deny it if they come close, because admitting it would ruin their lives, because frankly (almost) nobody likes working 40 or more hours for some boss who makes all the money...hell, a few days ago I saw an invoice the company I work for put together for a customer! Nearly 100K Euros, even if we only get 10% of that in the end (after paying expenses like taxes, shipping and what we pay to get the goods in the first place!) that's 10K and while that isn't the norm for us it's downright chilling to see this, especially seeing as we employees make peanuts compared to that and work 43.75 hours a week (sure: The bosses work that long, too but they make what? 5 times that? 10?)
It's not an illusion that we work harder for less. In 1980 they had 80% more purchasing power than today. A single parent working, 2 kids, 2 cars, and 2 vacations a year. Dollar devaluation is about to collapse this economy.
I feel you Tom. I use to question the same issues all the time and I even got depressed hating my job. Then I bought a motorcycle and taking long rides or even commuting to work worked like therapy and pills. I just love to ride and the time between checks passes without even noticing it.
So you are still a slave but now you have a coping mechanism? You feel better about your enslavement because you can relax on the way to and from it? I’m just wondering if that is what you’re saying.
@@richardswink-embodiedsouls Slaves did not get paid, days off, 7 weeks of holidays per year pension, universal health care, retirement fond, and so on, so no, that is not what I was saying.
Call it what you want. I work at a highly visible company and sometimes I look around and feel as though I’m the only one paying attention and looking at the bigger picture. People are zipping from here to there. People look busy, but I feel 95% aren’t doing anything immediately impactful to the business. People look extremely ambitious and a lot like each other. I really can’t distinguish the faces. I see a single archetype: one asian archetype, a white archetype, mix in females archetypes and it just becomes a blur. People express a liking to the same thing, dogs, hiking, or gamification. People are rushing to collect meaningless artifacts posted under their names because the more meaningless artifacts they collect, the more complete they feel. Call it what you want, but the large majority of people are activate and willing participants to this slavery. Very smart people willingly participate, people smart enough and rich enough to stop working and pick yoga as a hobby. Which makes me wonder, outside of paying bills there’s something else to this willing participation in “wage slavery”. Maybe, they know that the only end game is to take that slave wage, save it and dump it somewhere else that creates passive income. Maybe they genuinely enjoy the work they do. Could be a number of reasons. But what’s the alternative to wage slavery. That’s the more interesting question. Why alternative do you suggest, what’s that look like and what are you trying to tell us? Possibly, greed is a factor. Has it ever occurred to you that many people live well and make good money? So, it’s not a probably of wage slavery. It’s an issue of haves and have nots. How to make more people haves without reducing the already limited freedoms we have?
Don't buy the bigger house, don't buy the more expensive car, always eat the luxury food... but basically live below your means and you will have more freedom. This is advice for the Haves who don't need to have more.
It' not all coperate. they're countries in Europe that claim to have a more work life balance,which is actually sanctioned by the governments of those said countries this needs to be mandated all over world,or better yet,no slavery at all.
I live in europe, sweden. Ive worked both in the private and the public. Its all the same. 8h work, 30min lunch, get Paid for time worked, nothing passive.
Who could have predicted this??? Who, probably of German descent, could have possibly seen this problem coming? Which visionary, probably named Karl, could have written a treatise or two warning us this might happen??? Anyways, I highly recommended Second Thought's video about capitalism and innovation. Spoiler alert, capitalist competition does not lead to innovation. It leads to monopolies.
You're pretty much spot on in everything you say. It's strange because I didn't feel this way when I was 30-40 years old. It's something that changed for me as my mind and my body kept getting older. The more issues I had, the less motivated I felt to work. Then there are the times we live in. Things feel horrible now. Everything is off. All you do now is work and try and survive. I feel no happiness, nothing to look forward to. It's important to mention that this is not depression. I'm just not happy anymore. So the 9 to 5 routine make things even worse. I keep hoping that AI or other technology would evolve faster so it can help everyone feeling trapped in situations where there are no obvious ways out. In the mean time I hold on to the few sparks that are left in me. Things will get better.... they have to.
Why don’t you use your skills for good and instead of starting a company you start a worker-owned cooperative after the Mondragon model where all of the new workers have to buy-in and become owners? Mondragon has a great system and the world needs more cooperative enterprises like them.
I watched and listened to your perspective on corporations and modern-day work slavery, and I agree with you completely. The core issue, as I see it, is humanity itself. Among all the species inhabiting our small blue planet, humans are by far the most exploitative, driven by greed and the perpetuation of paid servitude.
One thing you need to recognise is when your manager is pushing you hard for results, it's not for the companies good, it's for their own job performance review. They will never tell you that though.
You speak of your personal choices, and your wife's personal choices. I too am a millionaire, but I see so many around me, with no property at all, zero capital, celebrating a capitalist system in which they don't participate at all, other than their servitude. I'm convinced 1917 was the manifestation of circumstances similar to today's. The leverage this system has over those with no capital at all, is stunning, frightening. People must work. They have no choices. That is the problem.
I really enjoyed this conversation. I agree with your view on wage slavery, but I'm also someone who puts 60+ hours/week in to get the job done, chasing a promotion. Although I want to retire early and work for myself. 9:43 As for hiring other people - I think that's ok. I think that is always a viable route for apprenticeship. People have different dreams. One person's dream may be to be a talented engineer, and another person's dream may require hiring a talented engineer. I think even in a post-money society, that symbiosis will still exist.
I’m an ancient history student. The skeletons of the workers who built the pyramids were often found to have major stress fractures on their spines from carrying heavy loads, among other signs of hard living. The line between workers & slaves was often so blurry as to not exist. I think we have an idea that slavery means “being forced on threat of torture or death to perform gruelling manual labour” when the reality was that slavery, even in the ancient world, was usually a combination of cultural programming (self-sacrifice in service of king & gods) and lack of any other option. You need food & shelter, and at your social level, you have no other choice but to accept demeaning & difficult work from a boss/master who doesn’t treat you very well. This goes double if you’re a captive from a culture your masters have recently conquered (ie. an immigrant). The Romans would grant provincial men citizenship, but only if they managed to survive 20 years in the army. There was certainly terrible cruelty in slavery, and there were many revolts, but on the whole, people would not have tolerated slavery if being a slave was more difficult, materially, than being a free person. Take it from someone who had to go no contact with an abusive family and has been living without a safety net for years-freedom can be HARD. The temptation to sign up with sex work or a sugar daddy is real. Stupid people will be led to believe slavery is a good thing for society, that is, a way for the less fortunate to navigate their way to wealth & freedom. Arbeit macht frei, right? But the elite of society would deliberately make free life hard in order to deprive the less fortunate of any other choice but to enter slavery, and once they signed up, they were owned, in most cases, for life, as were their children. In that respect, slavery has changed very little from that day to this. Workers get trapped in inescapable shitty jobs and pass on all their bitterness & trauma to their kids, who in turn grow up to be wage slaves, unable to imagine society being any other way. It’s easier, perhaps, to move up in the world today by getting an education, something usually only available to the very rich in antiquity. But capitalism fails if everyone quits their minimum-wage jobs and goes back to school, so there are still forces at work (such as narratives of honest service & “duty to society”, religions which preach against ambition & the accumulation of wealth, and scornful views of welfare programs & the people on them) to beguile people into accepting this bum deal. Don’t fall for it. It’s an unfair world, and we all have to navigate those power relationships with bosses & leaders to survive, but never let them fool you into thinking they’re anything other than the modern versions of slave masters. In some ways, they’re even worse, because they’re cleverer. My plan is to get a master’s degree and start investing. Knowledge & money are freedom. PS. Read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. That shows the consequences of people thinking religiously about their job or the company they work for. Such thinking is, in fact, a product of religion, specifically the Protestant work ethic.
People are wage slaves because of debt, not jobs. You don't have to be rich to be free. You just have to be debt free. The less amount of bills you have, the less you have to work/the more you can save. The problem is people feel entitled to a particular lifestyle. And we are training to be debt slaves instead of trained to be debt free. If we really want to have power over employers, we need to be free to give ultimatum of increased wage or loss of employees and then follow through when they refuse. It requires sacrifice to really make a change. The sad reality is that we aren't willing to sacrifice our life so that our children and children's children can reap the benefit. So in twenty years, this will still be relevant.
Well, the problem is that we're trained to chase after debt. It's not about any particular lifestyle, sure many people opt for that, but to get a reliable means of transportation requires getting into debt. A house? Debt. Land? Debt. School? Debt. The system was rigged from the start, and is only successful by creating debt-slaves. Without debt, the average person wouldn't even be able to live comfortably.
Welding? My cousins and half brothers do mechanical work and earn a sh tonne... maybe you should take a look at similar services that pay tripple, or more 😂
@@taylorman40x9 Oh, well, one does welding for industries of all kinds, so does his father. Two are truck mechanics, maybe even 3, we haven't spoken in some time. One of them has his own company, makes money like 3 people 😂
@@broadbandtogod You basically have to know someone to get into these skilled trades jobs. I'm 29 I can't afford to be paid shit anymore. Times are tougher than ever before. Every man like me needs to be getting paid more than the average women. Otherwise we just become terrible citizens and a liability and leach to society instead of a productive asset. All men need to be placed economically above women!!! Thats the unfortunate biological truth because of hypergamy.
I live in a country where the tax rate is through the roof. It is crazy but when the tax man takes close to half of your earnings, it starts to feel like slavery. It is useless to try to improve your earnings.
Government jobs are the best. It pays really well for the amount of work you have to do and the stability is insane. They don't even need to make money because they can just tax you more and make your private companies struggle
Uk - if you got a degree in cooperate your considered for a salary over £33.500. If you don't have a degree then expect anywhere between £21.500 to the £32.999 This is mainly due to tax reasons but wow doesn't it just put a blow to everybody in the u.k.
I only make $11 an hour as a driver for my uncle's farm and I work 6 days a week somewhere around 60 to 70 hours a week with no overtime. No benefits, no nothing and he's always wanting me to go faster and faster and do better and better and it gets very upset when I make a mistake
Your Egyptian analogy is wrong, our economy is much more like the feudalism system of Mid evil Europe. We have the business owners (lords) and the workers (serfs). The serfs would work the land for their lords, the lords would take a majority of the bounty and the serfs would be left with barely anything for themselves. If the serf didn’t work, they were thrown off the land and end up as a beggar. This is exactly how our economy works. We work to be able to pay our mortgage, the business owners take all of the fruits of our labor and we are left with scraps. If you aren’t on that wheel working constantly, you are thrown out of your house and you starve.
Im 25 yo avionics tech. After getting experience at bigger companies started doing contract work that pays more at the expense of not having “benefits”. I work 2-3 contracts a year in different states. Keeps things fresh. Save well over 50% of income and get to take off 3-4 off a year. Having cheap hobbies if key. Why do more guys not do this is something i often ask myself.
Yes, we all know our work makes more than we will ever see. But by the time we see just how bad it is we are already trapped with costs both in money and time that change is improbable if not impossible
Ive been away from full time work since 2011 with the exception of 6 months in 2014. Which was horrible. My mental health is immeasurably better. Ive had to get a perm wage slave recently as i now have two children but its only 2 days a week and working from home so manageable
Infinite scalability, infinite efficiency approvement. That is the hard sell in corporate. Stupidity in a nutshell. Show me anything we have ever in the history of humanity improved infinitely. Yeah, that's what I thought. When country's were thriving companies reached a certain size and stopped, because they couldn't support their employees beyond that. Then greed became a virtue.
I'm working at 67, part time. I like my job, but worry what will happen when I'm too infirm to work at all. Until 2019 I worked more than 40 hours a week for 30 years at my small shop, and I can't work full time any more.
I think it’s both for a well balanced person - I love playing music, but it’s a labor of love and the money I receive are thank you notes for entertaining the venue which draws people there, too. That’s ok - money isn’t evil. Profit also isn’t evil. It’s excessive greed to the point of destruction that is the problem. I strive for financial freedom. We have it so good with money bc without it we would have to work nearly every day to build shelter, hunt and fish, till the land for food or forage, cut wood for fire. That’s WORK. It’s directly rewarding and impactful but it’s not easy. Now I can write novels (Crescent Crown Saga) which I love and have a good life when I make sales (ie: thank you for entertaining me with this story!). Maybe I’d hire an assistant one day if I need one yet I know how I would treat that person helping me, with respect and dignity! I don’t think that’s too much to ask for and when companies treat people like numbers instead of human beings, that’s the issue. Individuals can be compassionate but soulless entities cannot.
They do it for the profit - you do it for the profit too, but you only make a profit if people like and perhaps even love your product or services. This is why this stuff actually works. It doesn't matter what the seller says or how he presents himself - certainly not in the very long run. The distinctions here are subtle and fogged by the way corps try to present themselves - when their presentation is or should be irrelevant.
I like how someone is finally saying it out loud. And by "IT" I mean how you're either get squeezed or you have a job that pays you well doing the squeezing. This system we have in place doesn't work unless someone at the bottom is being taken advantage of, or unless the millionaires decide that earning more than a million dollars a year is excessive and give it back to the people. As a form of hiring more people(so everyone can work less hard for the same pay), or pay more for the same job.
I left worker market a long time ago,after that i concentrated to master myself in one subject and now im offering my expierience on that matter and im charging good money for my work,i left system completly ,thats mean no more slavery.
You know what? I work day and night, and I am happy and fulfilled. Whole my life I had to work doing things I hated, but at a certain moment I decided to quit, and start earning money my way, doing things I love. Just before "the sixth cross on my back" I became a junior developer. In a while it will be ten years, but guess what, I do coding at work and after that I do coding as well as my hobby. So as a conclusion, way too much people got a ride on hype of IT easy money, and now are just being filtered by harsh reality. Good for those who have healthy reasons. Just as a last word, do not take the same measure for everybody, especially for those who work for themselves, and any company is around just by an accident.
in most of history people either lived of the land or where serving someone (royal family, government) as worker or slave. both was hard manual labour. An alternative was riking your life as a soldier/warrior and gain wealth this way(thats how the owners got theirs most of the time) the mistake people make is thinking things changed
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I agree with 100%, the vast majority of employers are heartless and completely sůçk. Most jobs you’ll be miserable, underpaid, under appreciated and the people that will get the promotions are the people that are friends with the higher ups (not the best qualified and usually lazy but are skilled at one thing… at suckíng up).
Even most people you work with aren’t who you think, even if you think you get along well, they aren’t your friends. You may feel that way but most of them don’t. Just have something happen to you and see how many call to see how you’re doing. Sure for a very attractive person, especially a wøman, they’ll get a lot of calls and attention. However, for the vast majority of men, we’re nothing more than just “coworkers”.
This isn’t just the rambling of a bitter old man. It’s the heartbreaking realization of someone that once believed working hard, taking on extra responsibilities, positive attitude, and excelling at your job… were keys to success.
The real kicker is the inexorable march towards the privatization of our previously publicly owned services such as health and education, especially here in the UK. If you fall ill now you may be forced to consider using a privatized service in order to get treatment given its public equivalent is overrun and underfunded, therefore, our taxes are falling into the hands of the ever rapacious private sector, we're being systematically pauperized.
The difference between a slave and an employee is that the the slave knows he’s slave.
😂
Similar like the difference between modern women and sex workers?
I am literally gonna write that in my skin,my first tatoo
If you doubt you are a slave, as employee. Just dont show off at work for a day and see what happens. 😄
I only made $16 an hour no benefits at all, not even sick days. Worked 7 months and have nothing at all to show from it all. I was disrespected daily. I quit, posted an ad for vehicle repairs, as I can rebuild most cars.
I’m an auto mechanic (apprentice) that’s what I make with no benefits. And it’s so fast paced.
@@danielclipper931😮 charge at least $40/hour.
It makes me really sad how the world works, and how people get treated. Everybody is basically living in survival mode. Just so sad. We act and live like we will be around forever. Funny though, and cynical at the same time. I make sure I treat everyone I encounter with dignity and respect regardless of what social status they have in life. Your job, your status does not define who you are.
@@RuthlessAries_QueenofSwordsgotta make your own way, public schools and universities just hold individuals down. Gotta have all forms of jobs, so it is what it is.
Level up and change your own future. Break the cycle
The powers are still building the pryamids
When I hear 60 year olds giddy about 2 weeks vacation or say "do you think they will let us go home early today?" I think ...."Listen to that pitiful defeated slave."
You're spot on. I work at one of those companies. I started out as a machine operator and worked my way up to an engineer responsible for assembly lines accounting for 60% of the business...with no engineering degree.
There werre several mass firings to reduce headcount of "indirect" labor, and now everyone basically has 2 jobs for the same pay.
Ironically.... I recently accepted a "promotion" to lead scrap reduction and process improvement for the entire facility. I happen to be really good at it. So my job is to save the company money and improve efficiency.
Ive tried to quit, to go somewhere else and of all the interviews ive done nobody will offer me anywhere close to what I am paid now....im stuck. I am a true wage slave stuck at a company who doesnt give 2 SH*TS about anyone, who's job is to increase profits, because I need the money. By the time its all said and done, i've lost close to 50% of what I earn at this company from TAXES.
So I will work until I am dead to make a company more money. I will lose half of what I make to taxes, for the government to piss away, and use against me in many cases. Slave.
The American Revolution was fought over a 1% tax. Chew on that for a moment.
While I don’t disagree that our current way of doing things is absolutely a form of wage slavery I would add a clarifier that the revolution wasn’t necessarily fought over a 1% tax and that’s it.. it was a series of acts that the colonists weren’t included in the conversation or legislation. “No taxation without representation” right?! Yes it’s true that overall the acts resulted in 1-1.5% taxes paid directly to England on things such as sugar and anything related to paper/parchment …which were on top of what most colonists already paid for local taxes that they had agreed upon for the most part.
That said, our current system is highly flawed and many people have been programmed to not be able to see it and to also call anyone who does a conspiracy theorist as if that’s actually a bad thing to be. It’s funny that so called conspiracy theorists continue to be proven right over time but nobody ever goes back and apologizes or recognizes them for being correct and wrongly labeled. We live in a world where propaganda is portrayed as news for the purpose of dividing and conquering the many in order for the few to gain more power … it would be nice to come up with a solution but “bread and circuses” has proven to be a very effective strategy and in modern days that’s going to sound more like food stamps and reality tv/football .. they feed us horrible food filled with preservatives, an education system that forces many to start adulthood buried under a mountain of debt and inflation rates (monetary policy) that force us to take on more debt just to pay for basic everyday items for anyone who doesn’t want to live in a cabin without plumbing or electricity… when will enough be enough ?
They write in the constitution we have not only the right but the responsibility to oust tyranny but I fear they were unable to foresee things like drone strikes and modern warfare / weapons. I doubt pitchforks will be as effective as they were back then. If anything maybe technology and hacking might be the only way to go about a modern day revolution.
You dont have a degree, thats why no one will hire you outside current company. Degrees matter, especially in engineering.
@@pcvideos100 Yes, and No. On paper, they matter. In the real world, they do not matter as much. I may have not been totally clear before, but I CAN get another job and have had several offers. They just low-ball the crap out of me. I've actually spoken to several other engineers with 4 and 6 year degrees that have interviewed at other places who also work at my company that have had the same problem...so not necessarily a "degree" problem.
In relation to the skills of engineers I have worked with over the years, I would argue that degrees do NOT matter. I have met people with masters degrees in engineering that couldn't engineer their way out of a plastic bag. Some couldn't even make a 2D drawing from a 3D model, which is literally semester 1 of my mechatronics associates I am working on.
I don't know your background, but it's undebatable that experience is much more valuable than education. If you compare a man that has practiced his profession effectively for 15 years to a student fresh out of college, there isn't a comparison.
If you have a modicum of social and business skills, you could easily become a consultant and earn a lot more money. Maybe start by offering 'emergency' services on the weekend, and quit your main job once you have a decent client base and savings.
@@desertshadowspringers you do realize that the American revolution began in people's minds because they gave themselves a great deal of intellectual honesty when analyzing how quality of life can be improved. The more that people point this out, the closer we are as a nation to declaring a new revolution. In essence, the original American revolution began with everyone pointing out disparities and desire of improvements. The same pattern has emerged since 2020. The 1st mistake of the current ruling class was attempting to turn their constituents into planned obsolescence. Constitutional law explicitly states long term stability at all costs is one of the utmost factors for an American Republic. Planned obsolescence built into any concept, whether that's people, production or systems is antithetical to a free Republic.
The 40 hours working week should be a thing of the past. We are working our lives away. Something should be done in this direction. Automation made producing things easier, but people just cannot afford to buy them by working meaningless ,endless jobs
100% agree.
Have a nice weekend
Remember when movies in the 60s promised us robots that would do all the work for us? And give us more leisure time? Yeah, still waiting for them...
They won't stop it, but it takes all of us to stop the show, we have more power than what we think, look what happened at UPS recently!
The 40 hours week is not needed as you surely know. The reason is that they doesn’t want you to have time for thinking about what life really is. And also the paycheck is most of the time that people live paycheck by paycheck.
What would you do with all that leisure time?
I had to talk my girlfriend out of a “business proposal” from her work the other day. Her top department head wanted her to drive 3 hours to the company headquarters and stay for 3 days for customer service appreciation week, mainly to make the company look good and show off her talent to wow their investors. Only thing was she was to pay for 3 nights of hotel stays, fuel to get to and from, and meals. All just to be compensated her normal hourly pay. When asked if per diem or lodging compensation was possible they claimed to not have that in the budget, and proceeded to guilt trip her when she refused to go. All the while in her years of employment they couldn’t even pony up something that even equates to a cost of living adjustment. Corporations look at people like machines and bar codes and give you the bare minimum just to get by and one paycheck away from financial ruin while the investors and top earners only grow richer. They do it because it’s allowed and people have no choice. Sickening. Definitely modern day slavery
Gees…
Sounds like you were a good boyfriend there.
This also happens to be a Fortune 500 company. I think it was an appropriate call to tell them to go and kick rocks
This is how women ruined the workplace. They do all kinds of work for free or even let their private resources be dragged into work and get squandered.
Indeed,They know that working class people fear being evicted and foreclosed upon so they need that income.And the cooperations use that to their advantage.Fear of being homeless.
Absolutely worse part is now its becoming norm everywhere you go. I am from India and here its same. Corporates want talented people to work for mininal wages. Its so sickening. One of my ex offices building glasses had to be sealed cause employees were jumping and commiting sucide. Thats how bad it is and people are to be blamed too. They are stupid and tolerating this shit
Ibstopped working just under a year ago. I had no money. Everyone said i was mad, but i was like, i have worked hard for 35 years and have nothing, so i may as well stop work and still have nothing... except now i would have time and freedom. I now make money in a way that is much more holistic and wholesome. I am building a small channel myself and already earn money talking to a few of my subscribers, i also talk to people outside of youtube. I was suicidal a few years ago and i brought myself back to a fantastic place mentally, and now i share some of my knowledge with the world. Thats it, thats all i do, im nothing special, just a guy who had enough of selling his life to ungrateful people 🤷🏼♂️ i love this video mate, and your content in general is super inspiring. Thanks and much love 🙌🏼
You are like the black pill for economics, just the straight harsh truth without suggercoating anything. I like it. All the best.
so kind of you.
So truee love this channel
There's a reason they have to pay us. It's because work sucks so much that no one would do it without being paid. It's the only incentive.
True
The real reason why people get paid for work is because it serves as an illusion. Slaves in the past were usually provided with housing, food and clothes. Now people are provided with money which primarily will be spent on housing, food and clothes and other necessary utilities. Because people are paying for these things by themselves, they believe they believe they are free. The best slave is a slave who is oblivious about being a slave.
But most jobs dont pay enough
Imagine a world were your job sets your rent. Where do you think your 401k goes?
@@Pennychaser1 they pay enough for you to go to work.
This is why I get angry when people act excited about being able to take a two week holiday. Like, dude, seriously, do you really not see how you are given a blindfold with those two weeks? Really sad...
Yepp
2 weeks off from work means more time to sharpen up the side hustle(s), why not be excited about it?
@@williammason352 oh I agree 100%. but the idea that you only get 25 days of vacation (at least thats what we get here) is bs in my humble opinion.
@TomScryleus I see your point. That's certainly true. I have seen the best employee we have at work get counseled for tardiness. If he leaves, we'll have way less experience & mentorship. Dude was literally late once. If he leaves, it'll be bad. It's like counseling Michael Jordan for being late to one practice, crazy.
I have my own business and I take 1 week off every month 😂I basically just do a little extra work for the other 3 weeks to make up for it and then take a 1 week break with very minimal work. The beauty of being able to design your own schedule.
Just think for a moment how many people take their lives every years bc they simply can't take "normal life" anymore.
Its very sad. And imagine how many contemplate it…
Add that to abortions. Yet they call crazy people crazy and people who work all the time and hate life normal.
I see a pregnant lady and just think the baby will just end up another wage slave.
Either that or become NEET (not in education, employment or training).
The employee / corporate relationship is adversarial at its core. The corporation wants the maximum labor from the employee for the minimum cost. People want to get the maximum pay from the corporation for the minimum labor required to get that. They have very different interests.
I think this is just the employee-employer relationship you are talking about, but I agree.
@@paulhamrick3943 Yep.
You brought up one of my favorite sayings through life: "I work to live, not live to work."
I am no longer motivated to work under $25/Hour. Even if I get that, I will still do bare minimum because its still not a livable wage of what should be $33/Hour and up.
Cooperatives are an alternative to both employing people and working by ourselves. Also, we don't need corporations, we could organize all of society with cooperatives.
when you are paid for 40 hours per week but are working 100 hours per week, you are being taken advantage of.
period end of sentence.
things have definitely gotten out of control in corporate.
100% agree
definitely!!!!!!!!
My employer paid me 40 hours per week, but I worked just 15 hours per week, Just 3 hours from Monday to Friday. The hours left I worked on myself or just rested in front my computer, faking that I was working.
The day I quit, he sent me a message by whatssapp and told me: I know that you were quite quitting.
I ghosted him
People are not only poor but also at permanent risk because nobody is going to support them if they loose the job.
"soulless entity" is the right term to describe a boss and their dog with a name tag of a "manager", well this is the sad truth of the world we live in...
I work 5 nights per week in a restaurant as a cook. I don't think I'd be able to have a phone, a working car, and rent a bedroom in a house all at the same time without getting a second job and even then I would be barely scraping by. Is this how things always were? What is going on?
we are all just barely making it. wage slave society. thats what I call it. Like, keep the car and the house, I just hate the fact that we live paycheck to paycheck.
@@TomScryleusbest way to liberate ourselves is to go full stoic, start practicing part-time homelessness, or less nice things until you don't need most things and can live with very very little
@@realfreedom8932I consider part time homelessness going on strike. I will live a normal life, when normal life improves.
This is NOT how things always were. My great grandpa worked a factory job and was able to be the only income for his family with 6 kids. He was able to buy a house and retire comfortably.
You need x2 incomes and very good spending habits to rent successfully. But if you can rent successfully, then you're screwing yourself by not getting a mortgage and earning the helpful thing called equity.
This isn't just corporate. All billionaires talk about how children are our future but then they pay teachers literally nothing. Teachers should be paid the same amount as lawyers considering we are responsible for future generations. I would love to just quit but I can't. -burnt out preschool teacher
not until they get back to common sense and not total left wing cesspits
The billionaires kids go to expensive private schools
@@BillyBasd: Children are the future slaves.
The future is robots. That's why they don't care if kids learn anything.
Public school teachers are not helping create a better future. They teach propaganda, glorifying "government " corporate control of our bodies, businesses and earnings.
I am a very hard worker and I regularly quit my job because of burnout. It’s not that I give a crap about the company it’s just I do take pride in hard work. It’s a no win situation. If I try to be lazy at work it drives me crazy because the days go by so slow. My employer loves me and I can’t move when I get home. Currently quitting the job I have currently. Three more weeks and I am out. Thankfully I can survive for a while because I am very frugal.
Psychopaths have gone off the rails. We are going to have to band together on principles in the future.
Agreed and there's lots of them out there. I would hate to be in their heads it must be a nightmare to see the world only through a lense of power and control.
To them, it is paradise and is what makes life worth living. The thrill of the hunt.. apex predator. Ever read "Might is Right" by Ragnar Redbeard? It pretty much shows their perspective@@jonathanclayton9107
Today I was told by a building maintenance professional that "the bosses" don´t want the employees, who work on the same floor as the bosses, to use the toilet rooms on said floor anymore.
They are considered "boss toilets only" from now on. Reason being that there were occupational issues where "the bosses" had to go 1 floor down to piss and ship turds. Imagine that!
I say, nothing lifts motivation better as such a lordly edict against the filthy peasants.
They can't stop people though so it doesn't matter.
Dang isn't that like what the Africa Americans had to deal with After America ended slavery? What was it called?? Oh yeah Segregation!
Wanna know the funny thing about that corporate world? The higher up the food chain you go, the far greater pay, with FAR LESS Actual Work, and less hours.... unless your like me and a workaholic
Im older. Did the corp thing for 20 years. Done with that. Now i do in home health care for elderly people and i love every minute of it. The freedom no bosses no clock you actually can see your helping people. Pay is low but you cant put on enough value on a job you enjoy and getting all your time back. Me and my client go to the store and we do my shopping. Getting paid to run your own errands. I love it. I made my money when i was younger now im on cruise control. Its beautiful.
I wish I would of done that! And I could of if I didn't have a child and a wife by the time I was 18.😂😢
I agree with almost everything. I’m currently working for a company that clams to care about the environment, but I’ve seen and heard so many things coming from the head of the company. Like: stop doing this, we are not making money out of it. I was so naive at the start, thinking that there were actually companies that work for the environment, something I hold close to my heart, but it is all lies. I don’t know what is even motivating me anymore, when it comes to working for companies.
Do some research and find a job at a co-op, they are far more likely to care about the environment.
Companies don’t get that big by “caring” and being honest. When you’re inside, you see just how nasty it is
Just remember all the insane COVID mandates in the workplace, that revealed so much about how inhuman the corporate/ administrative state actually is.
Oh i will never forget. I will make a video some day about it
It's been that way for a long time. Thanks for covering this topic!
Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts.
I like the coral reef metafor.
I'm an entrepreneur. I built my life where the work that I do feels like hobby. Kinda always having fun.
I don't always feel like working but it is way more enjoyable than having a normal wage slavery job.
I one thing I learned from getting a college degree is that there is no better life then the Neet life.
Explain?
@@jale9619Well sitting around on your ass all day isn’t good either. We need balance.
@@lebam4650 NEET which is an acronym for "Not in Education, Employment, or Training" is being used in place of what we otherwise say unemployment. In this case he's exaggerating/joking about adopting a hikikomori lifestyle. Hikikomori being a the Japanese word for 'severe social withdrawal' which is classified as a mental illness in which they seek extreme degrees of social isolation.
Theres documentaries on this of course but a good show covering this type of thing is called "Welcome to the NHK" (it goes over other societally focused mental illnesses as well and is overall a dark comedy). Excellent show, hard to watch.
@@jale9619I’m going to assume that the commenter knew that and meant explain how (considering they’re so poor)
One thing I learned from counting degrees is.. . 😢
A sales manager at one company I worked for told me:
"I like for my salesmen to be in debt. It makes them hustle."
I was a tech and just fixed the stuff. To me the salesmen were mostly jerks trying to sell stuff on the basis of psychological BS. They just seemed not yo care when I tried explaining anything.
Yeah I've noticed that about sales people too.
@@reasonwarrior
I have met salesmen who seem to enjoy lying, as far as I can tell.
Selling makes me feel slimey. Only had one sales job. It was minimum wage + commission. Bonuses for high sales. Without the high sales bonuses, budget wouldn't work. It was a lot of pressure to sell
If your in sales it does help to be a pathological liar .
Sell the sizzle not the steak
Escaped rat-race at 39. Self-employed at 45.
nice!
What did you do?
@@krystalmarie5637 Global head of communications for business development division of a major pharmaceutical company.
@@threethrushes Hey, is that what you do now or what you used to do? My question was asking what you did to escape the rat race. Thanks
@@krystalmarie5637 Got you. I emigrated, started teaching English for a language school, quickly grew my own client base, started publishing specialist educational books, and starting to commercialise the intellectual property I create in other markets. Good luck!
It's not that people don't see it, they just don't know what to do about it.
Fair point
We are too tired to do much outside of the work. We have time but not the energy.
I hate it
I remember back in the pandemic, everyone loved the stimulus checks from 1,200 to 600 each week for the unemployment benefits. Also it stimulated the economy because of all the money that was put into it. It’s almost like people want a certain amount of money to be given to them each week or month
I want partial or full ownership over products or services I was involved in creating not a stupid wage.
I took advantage of it but I lost time doing nothing while i could’ve got valuable experience at a job
Not to get political but i personally know democrats that stayed and worked and trump republicans who took off from their job for the unemployment they didnt believe in. Its funny how people abandon their beliefs for the easy money i think thats worse than those that do support it.
😂
I loved it!
I made excellent use of that money.
I paid off my debts and bought a new car. I returned to work BEFORE they stopped the free money 💰...so I lost out but kept my job and got a raise.
My car loan was 72 months...I paid it completely off in 18 months 🙃.
Why the car? It helps me safely get to work. Yes for me it's a TOOL to keep going to work.
A new boss has only 3 choices to improve profits and cashflow . Be entrepreneurial and find new opportunities to increase revenue streams AND cut costs. Be entrepreneurial and find new opportunities. Cut costs. 99% are devoid of risk taking ( keep job) and are clueless about business. So the default is fire and cut costs. Because it’s easier.
Well spoken! I long for the days I don't have to be a wage slave worker... :/
ever heard of "the secret"? ;)
@@TomScryleus ohhhh, "build up your retirement and work forever, then before you die, relax a little?"
Times are changing, people are waking up and pushing back.
Well said, 1 year into that corporate life, and having the same experience / insights as the ones you talked about
Most people dont see it. Frustrating sometimes.
It’s like the old company store scam. You owe so much you can never quit. You’re a Slave.
The problem is, when you are making comfortable money by talking in front of a camera and living a decent life, it is actually made possible by the cheap labor in third world countries who might be working their asses off. I know words may sound harsh, but truth is human is always greedy. So until we reach that Utopia, the world needs certain rules and we are going to live in some kind of equilibrium where the supply side is okay with what they are giving and the demand side is okay with what they are receiving. And people are still going to work so hard to improve their lives no matter what world they live in.
As humanity,we claim that we have evolved
envolved into what exactly
all we ever do,is go around in circles.
his viewers are what make him money on youtube not third world workers
@@dizralph.c so you think his viewers are paying for his job? are you hearing what you said? and did I mention third world workers paying for his job? dude you need to get your logic together
Why are you gatekeeping? Are you doing anything to solve the issue?
@@KD-sj7iv I laid out why this whole issue is not an issue. Also am not gatekeeping, he replied to my 9 months old comment and I feel like he/she needs to be educated
These are the type of videos Ive been waiting to see start flooding social media and the internet!!!
Well my latest 10 ish videos have been about this. And It seems I have found my audience so to speak. So more video like this one is coming in 2024. (Im currently taking a bit of a break from youtube, my father recently passed away).
The biggest issue is that we have BILLS to pay, which constantly drains our income every month or week. I personally don't think anyone should have to pay for food or rent, or at least there should be a cap on how much rent can be for a certain type of abode, and everyone should have a stipend to buy food monthly (like ebt for all).
those damn bills... What do you think of universal basic salary? Wouldn't that be something?
@@TomScryleus it sure would we have food stamps for food doe
@IIWII I often think the same thing, but a lot of people have brainwashed and support the system because it worked out well for them. Others are scared of repercussions of potential failure and can't imagine life any other way since capitalism and industrialization has dominated the majority of our lives over the past few centuries.
@@jonetgames the problem with that is someone has to pay for those things.
We pay taxes for welfare and food stamps.
We don't even get to take in the opportunity of those things unless we're in poverty level.
The best option on the table is to grow your own food.
Find the best deal on rent or buy a house.
You can even try out a camper or build your own house.
Free stuff comes at a huge price and it will never be equally distributed.
Better off building a substanable life that will work for you in the long run.
Try to find the best deals on products that will last a decent time or you can fix when it breaks.
Keep looking for better deals on bills also.
Free rent? Who gets the big flat instead of the small flat? Should they all be the same size? What happens when people stop building places to live because there's no incentive to build one (aka profit)? Do you build your own? If you do, should suppliers give you free materials because you're building a place to live? Think critically.
Your should only be an employee for two reasons. To get cash or to gain skills. Once your goal is achieved, leave it start your own business. Companies are scum but can be a revenue source.
I see the truth. I am a wage slave. Can’t do anything about it at the moment. Keep telling myself to Suck it Up. Hoping for a Next Life someday. There’s a line in the movie Gladiator: “Not Yet. Not Yet.”
Brave man. As a young man. I admire your bravery. I don't even know what your content is about but since you've done that move it's imperative that I would listen to what you have to say and take notes.
hehe, its funny, but when you put it like that, I feel old :)
my last 5 videos are very much in line to this one.
Well spoken. It’s good to see honest people.
Thank you Victor. Appreciate it.
Have a nice weekend. 🤟🤓
Most corporations wouldn't even exist without fiat currency. That's the root problem. Ever increasing plunder to provide for ever increasing taxpayers to pay upon ever increasing unpayable debt.
Most people are willing slaves, because they value safety over freedom. Freedom has a steep price. Also fortune and luck play their part in how free a person is.
It’s not slavery is serfdom.
Yes, there’s a possibility you can become a wealthy nobleman, but the chances are becoming slim or in slimmer by the day
This is the reason why I started to become more inclined towards Cooperatives or Employee owned companies and try to purchase from them.
For anyone interested, this is called Distributism, G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc talked about this if you want to dig deeper.
As a human it's possible to create a self sufficient lifestyle for everyone, however you need to be a human for it. People are only able to follow their animal instincts and create the same animal hierarchy and society around this animal instinct.
Capitalists hierarchy = Food chain hierarchy
Keep it up bro, we need more people like you explaining what things really are behind the facade of corporate bull*hit!
Of course they do not! Hell, many deny it if they come close, because admitting it would ruin their lives, because frankly (almost) nobody likes working 40 or more hours for some boss who makes all the money...hell, a few days ago I saw an invoice the company I work for put together for a customer! Nearly 100K Euros, even if we only get 10% of that in the end (after paying expenses like taxes, shipping and what we pay to get the goods in the first place!) that's 10K and while that isn't the norm for us it's downright chilling to see this, especially seeing as we employees make peanuts compared to that and work 43.75 hours a week (sure: The bosses work that long, too but they make what? 5 times that? 10?)
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The system will end as long as we keep up the pressure and create our own fair companies that reward people properly for hard ass work.
The owners of the company I work for, make 2 years salary in one month if you compare it to my salary
So... they make a lot
I think people see it but they don’t see a way out. We need money to live. And people don’t speak up because they’re terrified of losing that money.
It's not an illusion that we work harder for less. In 1980 they had 80% more purchasing power than today. A single parent working, 2 kids, 2 cars, and 2 vacations a year. Dollar devaluation is about to collapse this economy.
20$ is the new 5$
I feel you Tom.
I use to question the same issues all the time and I even got depressed hating my job. Then I bought a motorcycle and taking long rides or even commuting to work worked like therapy and pills. I just love to ride and the time between checks passes without even noticing it.
That sounds nice. I just wish there was a better way to deal with the work situation.
@@TomScryleus well, there is just a few middle age Motorcycle TH-camrs, so that might be an opportunity for n extra income., who knows.
So you are still a slave but now you have a coping mechanism?
You feel better about your enslavement because you can relax on the way to and from it?
I’m just wondering if that is what you’re saying.
@@richardswink-embodiedsouls Slaves did not get paid, days off, 7 weeks of holidays per year pension, universal health care, retirement fond, and so on, so no, that is not what I was saying.
@@finnbellFCB a slave with benefits?
Call it what you want. I work at a highly visible company and sometimes I look around and feel as though I’m the only one paying attention and looking at the bigger picture. People are zipping from here to there. People look busy, but I feel 95% aren’t doing anything immediately impactful to the business. People look extremely ambitious and a lot like each other. I really can’t distinguish the faces. I see a single archetype: one asian archetype, a white archetype, mix in females archetypes and it just becomes a blur. People express a liking to the same thing, dogs, hiking, or gamification. People are rushing to collect meaningless artifacts posted under their names because the more meaningless artifacts they collect, the more complete they feel. Call it what you want, but the large majority of people are activate and willing participants to this slavery. Very smart people willingly participate, people smart enough and rich enough to stop working and pick yoga as a hobby. Which makes me wonder, outside of paying bills there’s something else to this willing participation in “wage slavery”. Maybe, they know that the only end game is to take that slave wage, save it and dump it somewhere else that creates passive income. Maybe they genuinely enjoy the work they do. Could be a number of reasons. But what’s the alternative to wage slavery. That’s the more interesting question. Why alternative do you suggest, what’s that look like and what are you trying to tell us? Possibly, greed is a factor. Has it ever occurred to you that many people live well and make good money? So, it’s not a probably of wage slavery. It’s an issue of haves and have nots. How to make more people haves without reducing the already limited freedoms we have?
Don't buy the bigger house, don't buy the more expensive car, always eat the luxury food... but basically live below your means and you will have more freedom. This is advice for the Haves who don't need to have more.
Why didn’t I find this channel earlier. Thanks for being a voice if reason in a world of MADNESS!
Not everyone can make passive income. Think about it. There has to be people doing the labor to allow others to habe passive income.
It' not all coperate.
they're countries in Europe
that claim to have a more work life balance,which is actually sanctioned by the governments of those said countries
this needs to be mandated all over world,or better yet,no slavery at all.
I live in europe, sweden. Ive worked both in the private and the public. Its all the same. 8h work, 30min lunch, get
Paid for time worked, nothing passive.
There is a fun quote, capitalism is when people rule over other people, socialism is the other way around. We get used either way.
And this is why a career/job/hobby doesn't define your identity....it is what is in you that does.
This is very true. I wish that society could come up with a way of rewarding people for their authentic artwork.
@@allinredriskstrategies Amen. The good news is our Heavenly Father
Who could have predicted this??? Who, probably of German descent, could have possibly seen this problem coming? Which visionary, probably named Karl, could have written a treatise or two warning us this might happen???
Anyways, I highly recommended Second Thought's video about capitalism and innovation. Spoiler alert, capitalist competition does not lead to innovation. It leads to monopolies.
Lol go to Venezuela!
You're pretty much spot on in everything you say. It's strange because I didn't feel this way when I was 30-40 years old. It's something that changed for me as my mind and my body kept getting older. The more issues I had, the less motivated I felt to work.
Then there are the times we live in. Things feel horrible now. Everything is off. All you do now is work and try and survive. I feel no happiness, nothing to look forward to. It's important to mention that this is not depression. I'm just not happy anymore. So the 9 to 5 routine make things even worse.
I keep hoping that AI or other technology would evolve faster so it can help everyone feeling trapped in situations where there are no obvious ways out. In the mean time I hold on to the few sparks that are left in me. Things will get better.... they have to.
Why don’t you use your skills for good and instead of starting a company you start a worker-owned cooperative after the Mondragon model where all of the new workers have to buy-in and become owners?
Mondragon has a great system and the world needs more cooperative enterprises like them.
So funny to me how a "crypto millionaire" is speaking on wage slavery. What's even funnier are the ads playing throughout the video. 🤣
I watched and listened to your perspective on corporations and modern-day work slavery, and I agree with you completely. The core issue, as I see it, is humanity itself. Among all the species inhabiting our small blue planet, humans are by far the most exploitative, driven by greed and the perpetuation of paid servitude.
I couldn't agree with you more. It's sad to see some of the wage slaves in the comments defending their chains. Not everyone wants freedom.
Nobody wants to be called a slave I guess….
@@TomScryleus I do, since by accurately recognizing my condition I might one escape it. But yes, it's not a popular view sadly.
One thing you need to recognise is when your manager is pushing you hard for results, it's not for the companies good, it's for their own job performance review. They will never tell you that though.
Wageslave is ok if you have an ok normal salary and a fairly ok/nice boss but many people has neither at their work.
And that's exactly why it's so hard to leave the jobs for freedom. Nice pay and a nice boss is still wage slavery. Call it "comfortable bondage"...
good point slave
Exactly this combined with endless consumerism is a rat race
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This is true
This is basically everything I believe about working for corporations.
You can be the cog your own machine or the cog in someone else's machine.
You speak of your personal choices, and your wife's personal choices. I too am a millionaire, but I see so many around me, with no property at all, zero capital, celebrating a capitalist system in which they don't participate at all, other than their servitude. I'm convinced 1917 was the manifestation of circumstances similar to today's. The leverage this system has over those with no capital at all, is stunning, frightening. People must work. They have no choices. That is the problem.
100% agree. Its scary that people don't understand the reality of their situation.
Why 1917?
I really enjoyed this conversation. I agree with your view on wage slavery, but I'm also someone who puts 60+ hours/week in to get the job done, chasing a promotion. Although I want to retire early and work for myself.
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As for hiring other people - I think that's ok. I think that is always a viable route for apprenticeship. People have different dreams. One person's dream may be to be a talented engineer, and another person's dream may require hiring a talented engineer. I think even in a post-money society, that symbiosis will still exist.
I’m an ancient history student. The skeletons of the workers who built the pyramids were often found to have major stress fractures on their spines from carrying heavy loads, among other signs of hard living. The line between workers & slaves was often so blurry as to not exist. I think we have an idea that slavery means “being forced on threat of torture or death to perform gruelling manual labour” when the reality was that slavery, even in the ancient world, was usually a combination of cultural programming (self-sacrifice in service of king & gods) and lack of any other option. You need food & shelter, and at your social level, you have no other choice but to accept demeaning & difficult work from a boss/master who doesn’t treat you very well. This goes double if you’re a captive from a culture your masters have recently conquered (ie. an immigrant). The Romans would grant provincial men citizenship, but only if they managed to survive 20 years in the army.
There was certainly terrible cruelty in slavery, and there were many revolts, but on the whole, people would not have tolerated slavery if being a slave was more difficult, materially, than being a free person. Take it from someone who had to go no contact with an abusive family and has been living without a safety net for years-freedom can be HARD. The temptation to sign up with sex work or a sugar daddy is real. Stupid people will be led to believe slavery is a good thing for society, that is, a way for the less fortunate to navigate their way to wealth & freedom. Arbeit macht frei, right? But the elite of society would deliberately make free life hard in order to deprive the less fortunate of any other choice but to enter slavery, and once they signed up, they were owned, in most cases, for life, as were their children. In that respect, slavery has changed very little from that day to this. Workers get trapped in inescapable shitty jobs and pass on all their bitterness & trauma to their kids, who in turn grow up to be wage slaves, unable to imagine society being any other way.
It’s easier, perhaps, to move up in the world today by getting an education, something usually only available to the very rich in antiquity. But capitalism fails if everyone quits their minimum-wage jobs and goes back to school, so there are still forces at work (such as narratives of honest service & “duty to society”, religions which preach against ambition & the accumulation of wealth, and scornful views of welfare programs & the people on them) to beguile people into accepting this bum deal. Don’t fall for it. It’s an unfair world, and we all have to navigate those power relationships with bosses & leaders to survive, but never let them fool you into thinking they’re anything other than the modern versions of slave masters. In some ways, they’re even worse, because they’re cleverer. My plan is to get a master’s degree and start investing. Knowledge & money are freedom.
PS. Read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. That shows the consequences of people thinking religiously about their job or the company they work for. Such thinking is, in fact, a product of religion, specifically the Protestant work ethic.
People are wage slaves because of debt, not jobs. You don't have to be rich to be free. You just have to be debt free. The less amount of bills you have, the less you have to work/the more you can save. The problem is people feel entitled to a particular lifestyle. And we are training to be debt slaves instead of trained to be debt free. If we really want to have power over employers, we need to be free to give ultimatum of increased wage or loss of employees and then follow through when they refuse. It requires sacrifice to really make a change. The sad reality is that we aren't willing to sacrifice our life so that our children and children's children can reap the benefit. So in twenty years, this will still be relevant.
Well, the problem is that we're trained to chase after debt. It's not about any particular lifestyle, sure many people opt for that, but to get a reliable means of transportation requires getting into debt. A house? Debt. Land? Debt. School? Debt. The system was rigged from the start, and is only successful by creating debt-slaves. Without debt, the average person wouldn't even be able to live comfortably.
I'm TIG welding tanks and leak testing them for $17.50 an hour. It's ridiculous that I am making the same as a McDonald's worker.
Welding? My cousins and half brothers do mechanical work and earn a sh tonne... maybe you should take a look at similar services that pay tripple, or more 😂
@@broadbandtogod Mechanical what??? Car mechanic? Be more specific.
@@taylorman40x9 Oh, well, one does welding for industries of all kinds, so does his father. Two are truck mechanics, maybe even 3, we haven't spoken in some time. One of them has his own company, makes money like 3 people 😂
@@broadbandtogod You basically have to know someone to get into these skilled trades jobs. I'm 29 I can't afford to be paid shit anymore. Times are tougher than ever before. Every man like me needs to be getting paid more than the average women. Otherwise we just become terrible citizens and a liability and leach to society instead of a productive asset. All men need to be placed economically above women!!! Thats the unfortunate biological truth because of hypergamy.
I live in a country where the tax rate is through the roof. It is crazy but when the tax man takes close to half of your earnings, it starts to feel like slavery. It is useless to try to improve your earnings.
Government jobs are the best. It pays really well for the amount of work you have to do and the stability is insane. They don't even need to make money because they can just tax you more and make your private companies struggle
Uk - if you got a degree in cooperate your considered for a salary over £33.500. If you don't have a degree then expect anywhere between £21.500 to the £32.999
This is mainly due to tax reasons but wow doesn't it just put a blow to everybody in the u.k.
I only make $11 an hour as a driver for my uncle's farm and I work 6 days a week somewhere around 60 to 70 hours a week with no overtime. No benefits, no nothing and he's always wanting me to go faster and faster and do better and better and it gets very upset when I make a mistake
Your Egyptian analogy is wrong, our economy is much more like the feudalism system of Mid evil Europe. We have the business owners (lords) and the workers (serfs). The serfs would work the land for their lords, the lords would take a majority of the bounty and the serfs would be left with barely anything for themselves. If the serf didn’t work, they were thrown off the land and end up as a beggar.
This is exactly how our economy works. We work to be able to pay our mortgage, the business owners take all of the fruits of our labor and we are left with scraps. If you aren’t on that wheel working constantly, you are thrown out of your house and you starve.
if you dont like working for a boss or company, just start your own business.
The Greed of the Owner class crushing the rest of society: 😈
And for what? just to eat at a fancier restaurant.
Im 25 yo avionics tech. After getting experience at bigger companies started doing contract work that pays more at the expense of not having “benefits”. I work 2-3 contracts a year in different states. Keeps things fresh. Save well over 50% of income and get to take off 3-4 off a year. Having cheap hobbies if key. Why do more guys not do this is something i often ask myself.
Yes, we all know our work makes more than we will ever see.
But by the time we see just how bad it is we are already trapped with costs both in money and time that change is improbable if not impossible
Ive been away from full time work since 2011 with the exception of 6 months in 2014. Which was horrible. My mental health is immeasurably better. Ive had to get a perm wage slave recently as i now have two children but its only 2 days a week and working from home so manageable
Infinite scalability, infinite efficiency approvement. That is the hard sell in corporate. Stupidity in a nutshell. Show me anything we have ever in the history of humanity improved infinitely. Yeah, that's what I thought. When country's were thriving companies reached a certain size and stopped, because they couldn't support their employees beyond that. Then greed became a virtue.
I'm working at 67, part time. I like my job, but worry what will happen when I'm too infirm to work at all. Until 2019 I worked more than 40 hours a week for 30 years at my small shop, and I can't work full time any more.
I think it’s both for a well balanced person - I love playing music, but it’s a labor of love and the money I receive are thank you notes for entertaining the venue which draws people there, too. That’s ok - money isn’t evil. Profit also isn’t evil. It’s excessive greed to the point of destruction that is the problem. I strive for financial freedom. We have it so good with money bc without it we would have to work nearly every day to build shelter, hunt and fish, till the land for food or forage, cut wood for fire. That’s WORK. It’s directly rewarding and impactful but it’s not easy. Now I can write novels (Crescent Crown Saga) which I love and have a good life when I make sales (ie: thank you for entertaining me with this story!). Maybe I’d hire an assistant one day if I need one yet I know how I would treat that person helping me, with respect and dignity! I don’t think that’s too much to ask for and when companies treat people like numbers instead of human beings, that’s the issue. Individuals can be compassionate but soulless entities cannot.
If you don't feel you chains you're not moving.
They do it for the profit - you do it for the profit too, but you only make a profit if people like and perhaps even love your product or services. This is why this stuff actually works. It doesn't matter what the seller says or how he presents himself - certainly not in the very long run. The distinctions here are subtle and fogged by the way corps try to present themselves - when their presentation is or should be irrelevant.
I like how someone is finally saying it out loud. And by "IT" I mean how you're either get squeezed or you have a job that pays you well doing the squeezing.
This system we have in place doesn't work unless someone at the bottom is being taken advantage of, or unless the millionaires decide that earning more than a million dollars a year is excessive and give it back to the people. As a form of hiring more people(so everyone can work less hard for the same pay), or pay more for the same job.
I left worker market a long time ago,after that i concentrated to master myself in one subject and now im offering my expierience on that matter and im charging good money for my work,i left system completly ,thats mean no more slavery.
cool
Which subject? What do you do now
Great video man
You know what? I work day and night, and I am happy and fulfilled. Whole my life I had to work doing things I hated, but at a certain moment I decided to quit, and start earning money my way, doing things I love. Just before "the sixth cross on my back" I became a junior developer. In a while it will be ten years, but guess what, I do coding at work and after that I do coding as well as my hobby.
So as a conclusion, way too much people got a ride on hype of IT easy money, and now are just being filtered by harsh reality. Good for those who have healthy reasons.
Just as a last word, do not take the same measure for everybody, especially for those who work for themselves, and any company is around just by an accident.
At least I realized this before 30
in most of history people either lived of the land or where serving someone (royal family, government) as worker or slave. both was hard manual labour. An alternative was riking your life as a soldier/warrior and gain wealth this way(thats how the owners got theirs most of the time) the mistake people make is thinking things changed
Hiring people is just for efficiency,i don't think it's bad. it depends on the purpose.