I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL (My response to the backlash)
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This is a noble hill to die on. Besides, your hate-watchers are just rage grifters who enhance your analytics.
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My man is single handedly fighting against corporatocracy. Massive respect.
Don't forget that corpo pays cronies to get on here and downplay any malcontent as well. More than likely they are on here trying to trash the uploader.
@@VenomKpp Yes.
Corporatocracy, the social elite entitled mindset even some of the have-a-bit, so above the have-nots are plagued with. People that don't get that we live in a corporate media driven society that spent decades painting the same false narrative about what it takes to succeed just exhaust me. I appreciate Josh for fighting the good fight. It should be as hard these days, but I think it makes these people, who are peons themselves (if you aren't in the rich or mega rich class you aren't important), feel better about that so called status to be in a better position than others.
@@ynmonroe Well said.
mad respect, give u a like
A man's greatness is measured by how he treats those who can't defend themselves - Marcus Aurelius
Any other origin for that quote?
@@seriouscat2231 There seem to be many similar quotes, but none of them are from Marcus Aurelius, and most are far more modern.
@@JustMe99999 He'll stab you in the hand for that statement.
not sure he said that. where did you find that? please don't tell me from a TH-cam video, or imagine that has his statue and that quote on Facebook
The fact is if minimum wage jobs were just for high schoolers then this jobs wouldn't be open during school hours.
People just say that because they don't want to face the reality that they just don't care about the well being of others.
For a while, in the past, fast food and minimum wage jobs were basically for high school or college kids. Back then, you could pay off an entire college tuition just by working a summer at one of these jobs too. The issue is globalization, destruction and offshoring of the once-strong American manufacturing economy, fiat currency and inflation, and monopolization by corporations. Between the 1950s to 1990s the average American could support an entire family and own a home on one income. No longer the case today.
@@boxingfan2796 no wonder so many people immigrated to the US
You hit the head on the nail! Yougoboy
While I agree that most of the people that shit on "low-skilled" workers don't care about the well being of others, I tend to think that alot of the hate comes from these people's stock portfolio. They feel that if wage slaves are paid more, that's less money to the shareholders. These people are vile.
By design.
Get 'em, Josh.
No one working 40 hours a week in this country should have to worry about where their next meal is coming from. The fact that this is a controversial idea is beyond troubling.
Pretty much "fuck you, pay me", it's cruelty.
This is like term limits: Republicans, Democrats, and Independents all agree that working full time should allow the employee to eat. Except the politicians.
Tell it to the third world country
And minimum wage changes nothing. In a bad economy the poor suffer most. You can live well for less in a good economy. Minimum wage is and always has been a naive band-aid imposed by people who want to cover up the consequences that come from them sucking a nation dry. Forget minimum wage and start caring after the living process that keeps the country going.
Minimum wage was created for political purposes. Truth is that minimum wage does not fix unemployment. But politicians can just easily implement minimum wage because it doesn't affect their own salary. As long as their policies/promises can make them win the election, they don't care if it's good or bad for the economy.
Daily reminder that even if most people are jobless, politicians will keep being paid.
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” - Plato.
Don't get discouraged, if you are getting a lot of negative feedback, is because your videos are making the impact intended, is creating noise, and these companies and their cultist followers are trying to silence you and discourage you, that's the game they play, don't fall for it, keep up the good work.
Sounds like a bunch of tRumpers & Q's flooded the comments.
That Plato quote has so many counterexamples i cannot even begin to state them all. Like I get your point but that's a terrible quote.
@@toggld7391 oh, I'm sorry, I'll make sure to ask your opinion before I post a quote
@@WOLFSCHRAMM1 looks like he missed the point. He is strawmaning hard. Lmao!!
I call this BS, if Joshua is making as much noise as you say, then he will be banned from YT just like what they did to brother nathanael
I work as a Cyber Security Analyst, but when I was a teenager I worked at McDonald's. McDonald's was the most demanding and awful job I ever did, and anyone who works there deserves a living wage. We need those kind of workers, so we need to pay them.
Same!
I work in public accounting and in busy season with long hours its still not as stressful as lunchtime on Friday at Burger King.
I feel you. More the reason no one wants to work there and so they find a different job. Not to say they don’t deserve it, but what can you do if there’s always someone who willing to take the job for that pay.
I worked at McDonalds and I thought it was one of the easiest jobs. Granted I never worked with customers. But they were paying me like $8.50 and that was a lot of money to me back in the 2000s. Going from $0 to $8.50 is a massive leap. Pretty soon I had my own car and insurance paid on it so I could commute, move and take a "real job" in my industry.
Like everything their is a give and take. Their will never be a living wage that everyone can have. When you have to pay people more, 1 or more of these 4 things happen. 1 budgets cuts happen(jobs get cut or hours), 2 cost of the product goes up(aka things get more expensive), 3 more qualifided people will get the job(meaning good luck highschool kid and or no experience guy getting that job), 4 and or they go out of business. I'm fine with raising everyone's wages but no be shocked when things get more expensive making those raises null and or less and less people can get jobs. It is and will always be a harsh world out here. People fall so others can rise.
@@davidk4860 sure buddy. thats why we should do absolutely nothing and let it rot at $7.25 when it's proven substantive fact that companies will try and pay you the least they can get away with for the maximum amount of work from you. the biggest problem in labor in 2022 is the lack of class consciousness and solidarity. josh says it fine when managers kissass on linkedin when mass layoffs happen- why didn't you do anything then? stand up for each other, walk out together, sabotage trainings for the hire-to-replace pipeline. tell the owner its fvcked that you would fire the people after the project is complete, ask them whatever happened to company loyalty.
without even touching policy that'd help such as price fixing because yea absolutely companies raise prices to gain profit margin. but right now they're raising prices and we aren't getting paid more. so what's your damage?
point by point, 1 neat how CEO pay never gets budget cut. this happens without a minimum wage increase already to make number go up. 2 fix prices. tax the shit out of people who sell above market value. 3 raise taxes and pay for community service hours / infrastructure project jobs, or even implement UBI because fuck a bullshit job anyways. I'm putting a big ol [citation needed] on this one as well because that hemorrhages labor over time (as in eventually you wont be able to hire someone with all the training you need for the position) 4 if a business goes bankrupt because they couldn't afford to pay a living wage that business doesn't deserve to exist.
the idea of "a harsh world" is an individualist capitalist fantasy, especially when the conclusion you've been propagandized is "so GET USED TO IT" which is just cruelty for cruelty's sake. fvck if its so harsh then make it better for people- that's the whole point of progressing as a society. we make everything we need, houses go empty and food FILLS dumpsters while there's tents or even just sleeping bags flooding the streets and people hurting from starvation. the only thing stopping those needs from being fulfilled is the ability to pay for them, draw your own conclusions as to who the harsh one is in that. did you know there's evidence of neolithic humans caring for their injured/disabled? as in evidence of primitive movement aids and tools for aid eating. we MADE these systems, and we made them to help us. we can change them when they aren't working.
Bro. Thank you. This is as human as you can get. As a person with ADHD that pushed through a shitty high school and college experience. I can tell you that even when I wasn’t poor growing up, life just gets you no matter how hard you try. I’ve been fired 17 times in my life for being dumb, slow and inefficient. Career related jobs, and service industry ones. The service industry is ruthless, there’s a lot of people like me that ended up there. I tried to keep my head held high but It was until I hit rock bottom at 29 I was sent to a psychiatric facility and after being diagnosed and medicated, my life changed. Humans are indeed filthy self absorbed rats. If only one person would’ve given me a hand or care about my future I would’ve had an entire different life.
I’m sorry dude. I totally get where you’re coming from as someone who has ADHD as well. Due to the national shortage of Adderall and it’s generic equivalent, I was without my meds for a week. It has confirmed to me that I would not have been able to keep this job without them it’s actually insane. I hope things are going ok for you now.
I have ADHD damn I am sorry you went through all that so college online worked for me I joined the military air force then went to school online so even when I deployed I could focus on school motivating to get my my degree because I hated being in the military. I truly hope you find happiness keep your chin up
Man, same! I lost so many jobs before getting diagnosed with ADHD this year (at the glorious age of 35). Took me fifteen years of a bipolar misdiagnosis, but I finally know what the problem is... just not how to solve it. The massive gaps in my resume and learning how to cope with an entirely different ailment are not helping. How could I possibly explain to an employer that it was my doctors who were fucking up and not me? I'm so lost atm. Hoping to get used to the meds soon (and hopefully won't run out of them in the meantime).
17 times and you still kept trucking? Damn you’re one resilient dude. I’m 22 and can relate to everything you said. I hope I can be half as resilient as you, man! I hope you’re living a good life now!
@@birdjerichoEven after being diagnosed, ADHD can be one tough disorder to cope with. Stigmas and poor understandings of it from bosses and peers are still a thing that happens. But, as someone with it, I promise it gets easier. If you still feel lost by now, find some people who’ve known they had it for a long time, and they’ll help you find your way. All those feelings you feel are shared by us all. We’re all rooting for you, man!
As you get older and you see more and more examples of how life could have gone, some of us realise how lucky we have been, yes it absolutely required skill, hard work, determination and sacrifices but it also required luck and privilage to even get the chance to make the shot in the first place and to be given the time to stay in the game for as long as it took. You watch people who were delt a good hand waste their chance or throw it away and it puts that stigma on everyone who "didn't make it". What I have only really appreciated as I have gotten older is how many people are playing with a crap hand and how fragile it all is, your mental state has this huge amount of inertia to it, if you keep winning you get the confidence needed to keep taking risks, if you keep losing you stop taking the risks that are nessasery and you just get beaten down by life and pinned to the floor. Once there it takes someone of rare and unusual inner strength to recover.
I’m middle age, normally ambitious, have done good things with my life, contributed to my community in great ways, but have been physically disabled for 10 years and I’m beat down. I’m throwing a Hail Mary this weekend - I don’t think I’ll ever lose the desire to play the game.
I normally don't comment, but I know the negativity is the loudest 10 to 1.
Your videos helped me muster the ability to quit my job and find what makes me happy.
You reveal the truth that many can't handle and/or don't want to hear.
Nice! What are doing now?
what are you doing now for work or income?
I left a 9-5 + on-call IT job, currently doing 3D Modeling
_"Good choices should have been practiced for 12 years in grade school... constant pressure in high school and college..."_ Something speculated by one of the South Park guys who grew up and went to school in Littleton was that Columbine happened exactly because of this mindset: You f*ck up some aspect in your schooling, and you're f*cked for life; you'll be a nobody working a nobody job, etc. With that kind of neurotic finality dinned into their brains, it's not a far stretch to see why they went out the way they did and destroying families in the process.
It's like Joshua pointed out awhile back when strict or Tiger parenting was brought up: It doesn't raise anyone to be better or more moral, it just makes them wear masks and become better liars. It's like there's a whole subset of society - whether accidentally or otherwise - that is doing everything to engineer sociopaths.
idk about sociopathy specifically but a lot of the puritanical bull is just propaganda that meshes with making good little capitalism drones. definitely a lot of the reason why prosperity gospel took off as a core tenet to infect all society--not least because they could afford to spread the spores of ideology around.
As someone who lost everything going to college this means a lot to me...
I know how that feels that's about to be me rn 4 years ago a biology degree was good but today it means Jack shit and all this debt is very depressing I might literally have no choice but to work at McDonald's because I don't have the tools to leverage nepotism or cronyism for me to get a better paying job and the worst part of it all is these winners they'll just be like oh well tough luck move on they can eat a dick cuz every celebrity every winner every CEO and even every lottery winner has survivorship bias its inevitably built into their existence
The moment these so called "low-skilled" workers go on strike their real value will show real quick.
Want a burger? Flip it yourself. Want a beer? Tap it yourself. Don't want to live in a street full of trash? Bring your own shit to the landfill.
People performing actual, physical work is what makes society work. We can do without a lot of managers, coaches and what not, but the moment all people performing practical work stop... we're doomed.
Just wait until truckers and farmers go on strike. People want to talk about a collapse, hoooolllyyy shit...
from my experience working retail, service, and now corporate: managers are the only positions less useless than owner/ceo
We know every time a fast food place say's they're low on staff or these people can't get a burger and fries in 2.9 seconds they start shitting themselves and complaining and whining constantly.
there's always someone desperate enough to take their job if they don't turn up to work. And they definitely can't afford to not get paid anyway. The capitalist machine is well oiled nowadays.
@@diegoenriquez9575 - In some places the managers are a jack-of-all-trades worker that also trains new hires. They can fill in for anyone who doesn't show up to work, which can occur for a lot of entirely legitimate reasons - someone might be sick, or have to deal with family matters, or their car might break down.
I am 27. I have worked for Food Service for 11 years and still make the Colorado minimum wage of 12.56.
I am teaching myself coding and programming because I can not afford college or even a bootcamp. ISA doesn’t work for people who haven’t had the opportunity to build credit.
Hearing someone say this is so relieving. People like you and Clément who give honest advice for real people motivate me so much to keep going and work Harder. This earned my subscribe and like 1000%
Don't mind me butting in, but have you heard of the 100Devs bootcamp?
@@solus47 oh please do. I have not but I am very open to any suggestions from anyone.
I wish you all the best, don’t listen to people that think like that, it makes absolutely no sense.
I can’t wait til you get a tech job, there’s a ton of great resources from Clemente to Corey Shafer on TH-cam, so continue to learn and I wish you all the best!
@O I’ve come back from FMLA early, came back from bereavement leave early, I’ve come in on vacations, I’ve worked 12 hour days with one break (30 mins for lunch). Ive clopend 3 consecutive days for myself working those 12 hour days. In Colorado you ask for a raise you can get fired because it’s an at will state. My newest job is $16 because of work credits due to it being a mandatory union store. But then I won’t get full time because I’m the most expensive employee because of exp. and they don’t want to pay that. So either you get paid for exp and only get 20-30 hours a week or you take minimum wage get full time and benefits.
@@kimberlypowell7298 that word “clopen” just sent shivers down my spine 😅😅😅
You're not soft. You have actual human empathy and understand how badly the corporatocracy has fucked us.
You're voice is needed right now. Keep that heart.
Yeah, it's really sad how material possessions, follower metrics etc. have seemingly replaced human decency. This whole mantra that life is about propelling yourself as far up the ladder as you can by stepping on (or occasionally being hoisted by) those below you is sad.
@@yellowblanka6058 So true; is it not a form of brutality?
@@good1day726 Should be. It's sad that longterm emotional abuse in a personal relationship can have legal ramifications in a court of law, yet it's perfectly legal for employers to treat their employees like cattle.
@@yellowblanka6058 agree; the dissolution of families/communities/extended families hasn't helped; people lose their footing - lost a lot of ground in keeping their worth (feeling worthy) and dignity; then are taught that that's normal.
I worked in a fast food restaurant as a cashier, cook, and manager for 4 years between the ages of 17-21. I have never worked harder in my life. And I have never worked with harder working people. One woman would work as a cook from 7 - 3pm at a hotel restaurant and then come to work my 4- midnight shift. 16 hours a day, 5-6 days a week to support her two children. It’s easy to judge from afar. It gets hard for many people to better themselves when they are constantly just trying to survive.
@@ethanswimmer1287 gross.
I like you. 😍 You be mah vyyfe? Borat accent.
@@ethanswimmer1287 This amount of class bigotry dripping in this statement means this has to be satire.
@@ethanswimmer1287 yk you're literally the kind of people this dude in the video is talking about right?
@Ethan Swimmer 2.2million burger flippers and counting probably way more than that so I would say that's a major inconvenience
Josh, I appreciate how you care about others. You are a good human. As a social worker I worked with people who had very little and were trapped in an economic downward spiral. They were some of the best people I ever met and were more generous towards other people than people I know who make 100’s of thousands. I don’t know how people can be so disparaging.
Thank you for what you're doing! Especially in these times. Agencies where I am are stretching their workers thin and the needs are skyrocketing. Some of the things I hear from economists especially make me feel so depressed about cultural attitudes rn. Edit: removed a story of an insult
completely off topic but to me saying "good human" instead of "good person" makes it sound like you're secretly a robot or alien pretending to be a human amogus
(I don't mean anything bad by this, just a funny
Keep doing what you're doing 👌
@@LilacMonarch hahaha I TOTALLY agree 🤣
I think the problem is people have a “more of them means less for me” viewpoint when it comes to human empathy. Instead of “let’s build each other up”.
Keep being "the voice" for "those people," Josh. Your voice is needed.
Anyone who says fast food workers are just lazy have never felt an ounce of hardship in their lives
I feel you, support you, and love your channel - long time lurker ❤️🔥
Thanks Ren!
@@JoshuaFluke1 stop caring or worrying about the idiots who lick the aasss of the managers or the managers on here pretending to be regular workers. Young man stop trying to please everyone or backing down from these Cancelling morons. These are the same fools that love Big Corporations/CEOs because they have a 'Sustainable Development' poster which are run by people polluting more in one private jet flight than 100s of regular folks in all their lifetime of flights.
@@JoshuaFluke1 I'm so glad someone is talking about this illogical and disheartening argument. it came with cable tv (widespread tv overload) and one started hearing mantras and talking points being repeated, nearly verbatim. it was strange to hear unrelated people saying the same things as from a script, whenever a topic arose. one of them was this minimum wage one. as people's jobs were shut down or sent overseas, the apologists on tv (and am radio too) said these things like 'service economy' and 'never meant to be a job from which to earn a living etc.' it distracted people from the real issues as they voted and spoke against their best interests, never asking how this works out. what's really sad is that people are still saying it today?!? after so much evidence to the contrary. back in the 90s people couldn't see the whole picture - but didn't ask enough either - those who steal from the masses on a scale use the strategy of doing things slowly - so the picture can't be seen - unless one is standing by heavy principles and questioning - which no one did then or today (some are today - but generally referencing the service economy apologists and their minions still harping on that tired argument.)
Long time lurker here, but I just wanted to share that when I worked for Walmart I had a coworker doing the same menial job as me who had a masters degree, you gotta do what you gotta do to keep bills paid and life happens to everyone
When I worked for Taco Bueno while I was in high school, I was washing dishes or preparing food alongside a gentleman with a master's degree in mathematics. When I asked him why he was washing dishes here with me, he told me that he couldn't find any other work. He immigrated to the US and became an American, got a masters in mathematics, and was making minimum wage with me, despite his degree and ability to speak several different languages
@@stevenhanaway920 that is just depressing man. I hope he is in a better place now.
@@josephbrennan370 I hope so too. The gentleman with the master's in mathematics ended up leaving Taco Bueno after I had worked there for about 6 months, as it wasn't paying enough, and if I recall he left for a more financially stable job.
Damn. I’ve experienced things like this SOOO many times. And People who got burnt out and just wanted something simple for a while. And People who started living more minimally and only cared to make enough to live, but they need to actually freaking provide enough to live on at these places, fuck.
@@stevenhanaway920 What kind of job can you get with a masters degree in mathematics? Sometimes you have to know the marketability of what you are going to school for.
You notice those who claim that if people are unhappy about their pay should just "get another job" are the same ones complaining/whining that all those same service jobs are short staffed and can't serve them?
Yup. And they want you to starve on your low wages but serve their burgers with a smile.
@@LadyNightsong So they are looking in the wrong place: not in q McDonald's should they go but in fetlife
I think we def need an all workers in US unionize movement. The entitlement is ridiculous.
Not to mention finding a job is completely dependent on the economy no matter how good you are
I’ll never forget working at a movie theatre when I was in my late teens and working alongside grown people with kids to feed. For some it was a second job, but for others it was their main job. Needless to say when we were slow, they didn’t volunteer to go home like the rest of us who couldn’t wait to head out…..until that light paycheck and they realized they didn’t have enough money to pay their pager bills.
I am 60 and 100% agree with you -- a lot of us that are older have always believed this to be true. I also cringe when someone my age is this insensitive. I used to say even if someone is in High School they still need to put the same gas in their car.
The reputation of fast food being an entry level kids job was true...back when there were still plenty of factories to employ non-degreed adults.
Spitting facts right there, and now those same factory workers have been stripped off their retirement because of mergers, buyouts, and shit business practices and work at Walmart and McDonald's. I've seen so many 60+ year old people working at retail as shelf stocker's it's unsettling. The people that got dragged out of retirement because of that crap are thrown in the "shoulda made better choices hur Hur" boat it makes me sick. Just look at the fine print for so many retirement programs today and you'll get sick at how poorly handled they are. Example the peers program for education staff in Missouri, employers match employee pay in to the retirement program and then the money is SPENT in the stock market not saved. 60 PERCENT of the payout is from investment returns. So what happens when the market crashes or poor investments are made. IT IS ALL GONE, the retirement for our TEACHERS is hanging by a thread in the stock market.
Aye, somebody finally said it!
@@13blackg if you recall there was talk of putting social security into the stock market over 20 years ago. Right before a correction.
@@BrotherK-ex2co oh yeah, not the only thing government has screwed up. Several states have their next decades worth of tobacco master settlement agreements tied up in the stock market incentivizing the states to block or stop tobacco use reduction. Heck here in Missouri 2 main things paying for public school are property taxes and the lottery. Talk about gambling
@@13blackg talk about bs. The casinos were supposed to balance the budget. The government had that money spent before the casinos were finished construction.
I just want to say thank you for this. I’ve been in tears multiple times over the last few yet are because of this. I’m going to be 27 this month, got nearly straight A’s through high school, even had a job and started taking classes at the community college my junior year (I had found out classes were free for dual-enrolled high school students & I knew my parents didn’t have the money to send me). Got A’s in those classes, too. Worked throughout college, didn’t take out student loans, got good grades, participated in college sports, volunteer work, etc. Even moved out of state once I completed my 2 years at the community college & supported myself because I couldn’t afford tuition in the state I was raised in (California). Had to move back with my parents in California my last year of college & complete it virtually because I was hit by someone who ran a red light. I finished out my Bachelors degree on Dean’s List. Parents shortly after lost our home & got divorced.
I’ve been struggling ever since.
I’ve *always* saved my money, even when I was a kid I would have my parents put my birthday money in a savings account for me. I have enough money saved for a down payment but yet, even college educated, even with no car payment (paid my used car off a year ahead of time, multiple years ago), no student loans, I *cannot* afford the cost of mortgages. Even getting promoted & raises every 3-6 months since I started my job after college. But the cost of living just keeps going up and up at a rate that none of this matters…
I feel like I did everything right, everything I was told to do! I went to college, got good grades, didn’t take out student loans, was financially responsible, didn’t party, saved my money, hell, I even have a credit score of over 780!!
Yet, here I am. Can’t progress in life. Can’t buy a home at almost 27. I feel defeated by life. I feel like older generations or people who had parents who went to college, or could afford to support them, just don’t understand.
Thank you for seeing us. Thank you for understanding.
Some people are privileged, grow up spoiled, and lack empathy. Keep fighting for yourself. I believe in you. 💓
Thanks capitalism for that
Have you considered that you might be living in an area with an extremely high cost of living?
I lived in the Bay Area from when I was 18 until I was 36. Couldn’t afford a house either. Then I started looking at other parts of the country. My 1st home was on a 3/4 acre lot and 2700 sq. ft house, on the fairway of the 9th hole of a golf course. Cost: $150k…..would’ve cost several million in the Bay Area. It’s a big country, with lots of options if you’re looking for solutions. On the other hand, lots of folks on here would rather be a victim of circumstance. They enjoy feeling sorry for themselves, and from my experience, they prefer to wallow in the depths of despondency rather that find a way out. Stop listening to them. Hope that’s not where your at. Find others that have solved their problems and ask them how they did it. Best wishes.
@xraf32 capitalism cannot exist without the state protecting the capital. And socialism is not "government does everything. You don't be dumb.
More people have problems due to neoliberal policy of deregulating the market, and less influence of the unions rather than due to higher taxes
@@KateeAngel "capitalism cannot exist without the state protecting the capital"
Well in France it does not. Some guy can break in your property, and if you don't report it in 2 days you're SOL. Then you have a 3 years process to evict someone from your place.
Plus we have 75% taxes for the median salaryman.
Socialism sucks.
I love getting triggered for things like this. I love that you feel strongly about this like I do. ❤️ this. How people continue to justify treating people as less than human or under them is crazy to me.
People who look down on others base on their job title has issues.
But expecting entry level job to double its pay is insane. Can you imagine what the mark-up will be for fast food? How will you feel if the entry level job get paid 15/hr and the team lead or seniors who worked there for several years only getting pay a bit above that. You think that because their is a pay bump on the entry level job, everyone’s going to get a bump? How about inflation? Are you willing to deal with everything getting more expensive because people decided that they don’t want to do more to get paid more? No one deserves to live poor and not all can deal with this crappy world but increasing the minimum wage is not going to solve that. People just have to solve their issues their own way.
This video was my life Josh. I was premed had to drop out to support my younger sisters while full time work at a managerial position and full time school. 2008 hit and had to choose. Went back years later and no one wanted to give a fast food and manufacting worker a chance. I am with you Josh. We will push the red button together brother.
Josh, I've been following you for almost 2 years but never commented. Well today I have to tell you that this video literally made me cry. Keep fighting the good fight.
I love how people say these jobs are for high school kids, yet throw a bitch fit when the lobby closes at 9pm or whatever. Like, uh yeah, these kids need to do their homework, assholes! Anyone who works 40 hours a week should make a living wage that pays rent and food. It is ridiculous that people don't understand this.
They understand, Dolores, but they just don't care! There is a saying, until you've walked a mile in my shoes, then don't judge me!
@@rain73ful Love this comment.
I don't agree with this statement. I still believe these are high school/ extremely bare bones ENTRY level jobs. However if the store closes early because kids need to do homework, I personally do not care. I'm very understand if a restaurant closes due to not having enough employees, not having certain items, etc, etc. While I believe that yes, these FULL TIME workers should have enough to afford a roof over their heads, medical insurance, and pay for food, a McDonalds employee should not be getting paid as much as someone who has marketable and really useful skills that are in demand. I've worked fast food. It sucks. Believe me. I've also worked retail. But even as a manager when I was working there did I never think to myself "mmm I should be getting paid as much as someone who has a bachelors in a stem field" or "hey I should be paid as much as a plumber or truck (even) to do this" because honestly retail and fast food work just aren't skills in demand since anyone can run a register or learn to drop something in a fryer, and if it means that the businesses will shut down I'm ok with that because I don't even eat fast food and I'm fine with buying my things online. If people keep insisting that we should (DRAMATICALLY) increase these low level jobs, then all of a sudden your cheese burger will end up costing $20 at mcdonalds and soon enough they won't even be profitable and they'll shut down. Its how a business works.
@@XoloYT Beautifully displaying his point. If it doesn't affect you, you don't care! If you don't use these businesses they can all shut down! And no, a cheeseburger won't cost 20 bucks because people are paid a living wage. Do you even know how much net revenue these businesses take in?
@@XoloYT The real issue is that the average wage in this country is ridiculously low. The average American makes $39,000 a year, that’s about $19 an hour. If they raise the minimum wage to whatever number, they will have to raise the wages of everyone else, and they won’t do it. I mean come on, you don’t deserve money, but there are Yachts to be bought, expensive vacation
homes to purchase, and stock buy backs , that are not going to buy themselves. It’s not about the skill level, it’s the complete and utter greed of the 1%. They have us fighting each other , when we all should be against them.
You have a great level of compassion and understanding. You have actually changed my heart a bit on this issue. I am glad I clicked this video. All the best.
I love the empathy you have in this video! I always feel like we’re living in a world surrounded by narcissists in the workplace! God I wish there were more understanding people like you Josh!
Some people literally just need 1 person to not only believe in them, but also help them get through the hardship without expecting anything in return. No manipulation.
Believe in what? Skill up, get a job and do something, if you don't like your situation make a change. The pity party blaming and complaining solve nothing.
This is so vague as to be meaningless. Some people? Who? OK, does that mean anything in this discussion? What percentage of people? What help? Help from whom? I just don't know what this comment even means...
@@AFuller2020 Pity party? Ever heard of mentorship. When most children are growing up without both parents and in some cases no siblings. Skill isn't the issue, knowledge and resources is. The public schools are teaching nothing but agendas. No real life skills or financial education. I'm in a very fortunate position, which has allowed me to see many others who didn't make it there yet.
@@justinkase1360 not meaningless enough for you to keep scrolling through the comment section. It's a comment not a seminar with cited sources.
@@AFuller2020 than make my burger, that's a skill,someone has to do it .
Electrical Engineer from the Philippines, passed the board exam for electrical engineering in the Philippines. I am currently caught in a perpetual cycle of not being able to find a job because I don't have work experience and I can't get work experience because I don't have a job. Going two years now. Having a long job gap just makes it more difficult. Job gap has valid reasons like we're in the middle of a pandemic that shutdown a lot of companies and job opportunities...and unfortunately had a lot of family and financial problems that just made looking for a job for a certain part of my job gap not feasible. I've almost secured a job a couple of times but a couple of days before I was supposed to start I was contacted that they will be going with another candidate with work experience. Several people with several years work experience were desperate enough to get entry level jobs that just barely pay minimum wage. I don't blame them...I just take it as a sign of the times.... I've got nothing left....got nothing left in the tank to keep going on. I didn't make any poor life choices, dean's lister multiple times, scholarship because we couldn't afford tuition
Sounds like the US. Many job listings aren't really there to find someone, but to satisfy bureaucratic to do lists. They either want to look like they're looking, but only kind of are, have someone internal that's getting the job, or can get some government bennies from having outstanding unfilled positions.
Whatever the reason, either a) your field is saturated, and you need to find something else, for now, or look at valuable specialties, or b) you need to find someone to get to know, to get hired. You'll never get a straightforward answer, that actually may help you, from an interview.
Lugaw and LuckyMe simple life sa pilipinas 💥
EE Grad here. I gave up on it because the only way in is if you know somebody. I have a job that gets me by, and I'm going for a grad degree in stem that's not EE.
EE is saturated.
Just lie and use an friend as a reference that’s what everyone else does.
Kids these days lie to themselves that if they go to college then it’s a ticket to a fancy job title. You’ll only be disappointed if you have a narrow expectation.
Anyways, it takes more than academic and paperwork to get the job. Other than the opportunity being available or in demand, it’s about manipulating, networking, socializing. If you don’t like this, then, sorry, it’ll be harder to get your foot in.
what companies are looking for in experience, is not related in your major most of the time. They want someone who know what they’re doing and has a direction. These type of jobs are not for people who waits to be told what to do. You have to be self-motivated and know how to execute. Sitting I front of your desk and demanding handouts is not fit for high-end jobs. I hope this helps. Go research on how to get a job.
I'm sad that we're not past this yet, after the whole "essential worker" thing. Not enough employees in stores, people got upset, we touted those working at these stores as "essential workers" and made them heroes, then ripped it all away from them as soon as there was a hint of things going back to normal. The world crumbles without these people, yet so many treat them like trash and don't think they deserve a cardboard box to live in. Life choices often have little to do with one's situation as well. Yeah, you can fuck up your life with constant bad decisions, and some do. But most people don't want to repeat those decisions, and don't if they can help it. But sometimes you just get hit again and again by life, what appeared to be a good decision turns out to be bad, or you end up in a situation where all of your decisions are bad. I went to a trade school, government paid for, that was highly recommended to me. Turned out to be a terrible program, the instructor had a complex, and because I didn't lay down and take it, I got held back, and spent 2 years of my life to not get my certification (which I found out no jobs really cared about anyway). So despite doing what seemed like a great idea to save money and get a head start, I got screwed over. Because I needed something immediately after getting out of the program, and jobs were somewhat sparse in my area, I ended up in retail for barely above minimum wage, fighting for full time to maintain benefits. So through no real fault of my own, I got fucked.
More than that, I hate this uneducated vs educated work shit. Uneducated does NOT mean easier. It should not mean less pay, especially when it's necessary. I've heard the argument that small business can't afford a higher minimum wage. Well, too bad, they can die then. That's harsh, and I don't want them to go away by any means, but to me that's basically saying "we can only operate off of slave labor." Because realistically that's what minimum wage is, but without even the benefits of shelter or food being provided. If you can't afford to pay a good, livable wage, you don't need/deserve employees. You're managing you business wrong. You need to cut down expenses. And this goes even more so for big businesses. There's zero excuse to pay a non-livable wage. Most places can eat that little bit of profit margin it would cost them. And happier employees work better anyway.
Remember when they promised essential workers a check or whatever and gave us nothing but the people who got unemployment checks got like 800-1200 a week sitting on their ass at home I was working at McDonald's and got so mad watching everyone get these checks while I worked my ass off for nothing this really shows the world isn't a fair place and that's messed up
As one educated in economics (U.C. Berkeley) I can attest firstly that all economists are paid liars per the parallel of the lawyer-liar rhyme scheme.
And secondly that the problem in our economy is not the low wages but rather instead the high costs for necessities due to rigged markets, all of which
are programmed by paid economist-technocrats hired by the usual cadre of binge-drinking frat boys assocciated with the managerial caste.
Mininum wage in the US if spent in most other nations would provide a standard of living akin to royalty, yet here it's a recipe for death by way
of criminaliation with vast hoards of white-collar professionals engaging in stalking behaviors under the color of law and corrupt medical science.
Nobody is framing this discussion correctly as all of the relevant technocratic elites are programmed and corrupted, hence we are a nation of
sadistic, blood-thirsty zombies on top who make it their purpose to drive the rest of the population unto trauma, criminal insanity, into a vast
array of entrapment algortihms and death. Joshua is a lone voice in this regard, his own generation just as much as mine--"boomers"--corrupted
and coopted, devoid of either heart or mind and eager to self slaughtetr for a paycheck and a salary.
Well said. Your a very observant and kind person Josh; you have adapted your intelligence used your life experiences and all with compassion. Life has taught you well you have learnt more than many ever will.
Some people get off from the idea that they have a "good" job and shit on "low skill" jobs to drown out the reality they are lower middle class dead end cubicle or similar, is what I've experienced.
So they basically just want to feel better about themselves then.
So true! My friend was a shift manager at a restaurant and made $20/hr, yet office ladies from the nearby hospital , barely making $13 would constantly complain and be very rude and demeaning to her and the staff because they had to wait in line during their half hour lunch. If you're behind a counter or you wear a nametag people feel that they can treat you like garbage
@@LadyNightsong Man you should see how they treat a security guard just trying to do his job.
"I work here I don't need to show my ID or scan it to get through the door."
Literally its there to update a list incase of a fire so we know who is in the building. there are over 200 people in this building and we arent friends so im not going to try to remember your name barely pay me enough as it is.
Not to mention if we just let every employee we recognize through the door bypassing every system in place. Eventually someone gets fired and comes by with a firearm in his pocket and is let by and then a mass shooting occurs. Everyone assumes it'd never be they're coworker until it happens and then they suddenly forget how they trained they're security personnel to let employees bypass security. They think they are too good to ever be at fault and instead blame anyone and everyone other than themselves
I don't work that specific site anymore. It was a headache dealing with the constant disregard for other peoples safety because they're convenience was threatened.
That same job tried to charge me over 400 dollars for failing to turn my uniforms in even though I turned it in.
You’re a legend for making this video. After over a decade in the workforce my minimum wage paying hospitality job when i was a teenager was significant more stressful than all of my white collar roles.
100%. I've worked at a fast food place, dollar store, department store, bank, teacher, and writer and while my responsibilities increased in that order, my stress, for the most part, decreased bc I received more respect from those whom I served. Now I always tip and always put my shit away. These ppl just want to so the job and go home and so many customers make their life hell.
@@caoinlean5211 trickle-down economics might not work, but trickle-down misery sure does
I concur. Before becoming a systems engineer I spent a lot of time working in fast food, retail, etc. and I remember how badly I was treated by customers (and sometimes management) despite how hard I worked. The people working in service jobs are usually very hard working and productive and yet they are not compensated in proportion to their productivity and work. They deserve a living wage, not derision.
I just found your channel the other day and I want to say..... I really loved this video so much. I have a lot of respect for you. You have a great perspective and you communicate very effectively. I wish more humans were like you.
You are so right about attitude towards people in service industry… it’s true indicator of someone’s nature.
Awesome video. And i’m glad to see that you’ve picked up a subject which may be seen like controversial by some people!
It’s crazy to me that this is a controversial take. I can’t wrap my head around people thinking that someone working shouldn’t be able to afford the things we all need to survive. Like, even if you don’t think those people don’t deserve some luxury (which, as an aside I do), it’s wild that there are real living human beings that think a job shouldn’t pay enough to allow you to afford food and shelter.
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i hate to say it, but it's the boomers. Boomers who worked the same type of menial jobs as these "lazy" service workers during their time, could afford houses, insurance, etc without any debt during their era, but being old like they are, they forgotten how easy it was for them. This is typical spoiled behavior, they don't appreciate/understand the good that has happened for them.
Minimum wage was created for political purposes. Truth is that minimum wage does not fix unemployment. But politicians can just easily implement minimum wage because it doesn't affect their own salary. As long as their policies/promises can make them win the election, they don't care if it's good or bad for the economy.
Daily reminder that even if most people are jobless, politicians will keep being paid. I'm more surprised that people are more concerned about the employed than the unemployed.
Thank you Josh!!! I had such a hard time when I became a single mom. My ex made poor choices and cps said leave or you lose your kids. They didn’t care ai had nowhere to go so I left and we were homeless. I lost my job, lost my marriage, lost my mom to suicide, two of my grandparents, had a stroke, and lost my best friend. All in one year. One incredibly hard year. So when I was able to go back to work I worked at McDonald’s and luckily it was close so I walked. Everyday rain or shine I walked to work. These circumstances were beyond my control, life just really kicked my rear that year. So I started out at McDonald’s and worked my way up from there. I am now a licensed insurance agent. Things can get better but we should never shame someone who is working a job we find “less than”.
I haven't watched your videos for a while but it's good to see that you're doing good and you're still telling the truth and very direct and I like that very much about you.
I wish you the best Joshua.
I can’t stress enough how much a lot of what you say is exactly how I have felt for years & people look at me like I’m insane….. You’re not soft…. You’re a genuinely good person. Thank you for everything you say & do.
I met a lady with a doctorate who was just laid off from Jet Propulsion Labritories (a literal rocket scientist). She couldn't find a job in her field and was serving burgers at a hole in the wall fast food joint in Houston. We had a brief discussion about the possibilities of quantum entangled remote operated submarines on Ganymede. She deserves better.
I have a physics degree and used to be a $14.50/hr cable man for a heartless, large cable corporation. Was treated like dirt from corporate ass-kissers and customers alike.
Wow. I wish her all the luck
I worked at a cafe with a guy who had an astronomy degree. He couldn’t find work so his friend got him the job.
Dude in Melbourne Australia over half the people with PhDs are working out of Academia. . . Most as high school teachers. I know its miles better than fast food but there is a trend of the society having no place for smart people unless they sell stuff or work in a popular tech sector
My neighbor who is doctorate has the same story , she has take 2 minimum paying jobs she was scholarship student and hasn't been paid by her company in 7 months, she struck around hoping they will amid the work load but the company took zero seconds to lay her off .
I think the best counter argument for "these types of jobs are for kids in college" is "Do you know anyone who was able to pay for
college with this type of job?"
Not even 35 years ago.
Right!! My brother was a straight A student in high school with a full scholarship and worked at spencers and still needed a lot of financial support from my parents to make it through college. Wtf are they talking about??!
COLLEGE😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆WHAT A JOKE------WE NEED RE-THINK HOW WE DO ALL THIS SHIT FROM TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO🌟STOP SLAVE SCHOOL
Able to fail all their classes cuz they have no energy to study after being beaten down by work is more like it. A kid in college shouldn’t have to work at all studying is what is important his parents need to pay his expenses for those 4 years
@@ThingsILikke that's why I joined the Army. I tried for too many years to work and go to school. It was too hard to make it. Joined the Army and got the college fund so I could finish and not have to work at the same time. It worked out. Not everyone is able to do that though. Not all parents can afford to send their kids to college. It's gotten too expensive.
I genuinely appreciate this video and your thoughts on this. And you are absolutely correct
Wow! Thank you so much Josh! It's so rare to see people empathise with others while not demonizing or paternalizing them. You're truly one of the good guys!
For the people that argue teens should make minimum wage. When was the last time you visited a mcdonalds or chiptole m-f 8am-4pm and saw a verifiable teen under 18 working when it’s not summer/xmas/winter/spring break?
Rarely if ever.
Responsible, driven, intelligent people do NOT make a career out of the service industry.
Those jobs will be gone if you expect them to be paid a livable wage. Just watch it play out.
@@minutemanfl ok then never visit a restaurant or grocery store during school hours if you think only teens should be working those jobs.
@@minutemanfl So if people aren't intelligent and not as driven as you are...but are willing to put in a full shift, they don't deserve to make a living wage? Stupid people should live off of jobs subsidized with your tax money so that the CEOs can make seven or eight figures? Great argument, bro.
Listening to boomers on career advice is career suicide. Their advice is 30-40 years old and outdated.
You are amazing Josh, keep up the great work. Don't listen to the boomer haters. I've been applying your advice on resume, interviews, etc. and now I'm interviewing for my first six figure job. This channel is amazing I love it
Dave Ramsey lol
yeah college, if you have to borrow for it, is no longer the way out. the only people getting rich that way work at a college. I'm a edge boomer, and I know thats a fools errand these days. people who make, fix, or build stuff have a skill to make money these days.
hope you get that job
30 to 40 years ago was not boomers. But I get your point. As a 50 year old (20 years removed from baby boomer generation) and they are the ones using this mindset. It’s weird because it didn’t work 30 years ago either. But people my age and older are just repeating what we were told by the actual boomers. I get your point though.
Damn dude this was one of the best rants I’ve heard on any topic, subscribed and binging
You're a very high quality person Josh! Cheers!!
After watching most episodes of Spongebob Squarepants, I can definitely say flipping burgers is skilled work.
Fuck. Great comment.
I was literally scrolling looking for this comment 😃
Thought about making this comment.
Especially when the human equivalent of anchovies arrive on a bus.
The one thing about what Josh says that many people overlook... there's more luck than there is skill that goes into having a great career. You increase your luck by doing various things, but it's always down to luck. No matter what or who you know, the opportunity has to be there. Opportunity is heavily driven by luck.
Luck is really just statistics. From "you miss all of the balls you don't swing at" to "someone wins the lottery." With enough attempts, low probability events occur.
@@kg4lod If that would be the case, then many more lottery winners would be winning the lottery due to a statistic alone. Statistics can be wrong. Again, statistics are a "Probable Chance" that something will happen within all those attempts.
@@kg4lod the problem is that it won't necessarily occur to you. In statistics if there is random probability involved, that means every new "flip of a coin" is not dependent on the previous outcomes at all. If you flipped the coin 50 times and got 50 tails, the chance of getting a tail next time is still ~50% (it actually isn't true randomness, so not exact 50%, it depends on which side it was when you threw it, so analogy is not absolute, don't forget that).
In the case when decent jobs in a society are scarce and not enough for all people, all people "flipping the coin" adds up to one statistic. Next time someone gets lucky and gets that right side of the coin, but it won't necessarily be you. Needless to say it is artificial scarcity. All scarcity left nowadays is artificial. We could totally eliminate poverty and scarcity in the whole world, if we eliminated such drastic economic inequality, but that is not something corporations will want: otherwise who will work for almost nothing and create all wealth which they then appropriate and distribute among their wealthy share-holders, who often don't work, but live on passive income?
Remember: all wealth is created by workers, company just appropriates most of it and gives most of it to share-holders and CEOs, who don't do 1/1000 as much real work as employees. That is why we still have very low wages.
I once heard, “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Over the short-term, luck plays a massive role.
Over the medium-term, luck players a significant role.
Over the long-term, luck plays very little role.
Well stated josh. keep on keeping on.
Spot in assessment. Sometimes life just happens and those people are not less worthy of some of the benefits of our society.
I’m so glad that you made this video. Especially the part about being demotivated by pain. That’s exactly what happens to me; my clinical depression gets much worse with shitty circumstances. People expect me to just push harder and I’m just not wired that way. I have to fight against soul-crushing apathy just to keep a job. Sometimes I lose. So thank you for saying something - it means a lot.
Yeah, it seems like society at large is built to fit extroverts who get motivation in that kind of way, while introverts and people that deal with depression, etc just get completely shafted. And it makes sense; if exploiting people that can't deal with it widens profit margins, that's what happens
I've walked out of my fair share of jobs because management devices that they are going to pick on me because I'm an introvert =/.
I also get demotivated by pain.
Avoiding pain is a motivator- living in pain with no tangible way of getting out of pain is motivation to die
@@LilacMonarch they were convinced one day they can be CEO too
Joshua, I really appreciated this. My story: from a good family, decided to get a phd and be a prof, got it with huge debt, but no job for me for very long. I taught a few low paying courses here and there. then spent years working minimum wage, trying to support my family. now im burnt out and cant do it anymore. on disability because i cant do it anymore. depression. im just done. I dont blame anyone, but i worked hard and did what the boomers told me to do.
Good god you really did everything you could. That alone sounds honorable.
Thanks for sharing this. People like to pretend these experiences don't exist, but they do.
I also got my PhD recently (in engineering), but still get asked to explain "job gaps" and other irrelevant things from well before that qualification for some bizarre reason. There's no escaping these nonsensical and unfair attitudes towards people who haven't had the best of luck in their work lives.
Boomers are the worst.
How did you get debt during your Ph.D- isn’t that paid off? Was it from your bachelors? Also, what did you get your Ph.D in. I’m not asking as an attack, I am considering pursuing graduate school in a year or two in either chemistry or chemical engineering. What’s your opinion?
What’s your degree in
You are such a strong and admirable person Josh. I really appreciate what you do and the way that you do it. Your voice is important and I wish that more people were listening to you.
Keep it up. ❤❤❤❤❤
Too bad more us won't die on this hill, since it concerns almost everyone--even those who think it doesn't. You right, my man.
I can’t believe this is even a hill to die on, like I thought that this was all common sense? Look at inflation and how wages have not followed or how about how much freaking money we pay in taxes. I am very blessed to have mentors and a great education. How do people not know that luck is just a huge element in life. I don’t like to play the privilege card but I’m extremely privileged to have parents let me live for free for years while I figured life out.
There are those who enjoy seeing others suffering in grinding poverty. That's the reality of it.
@@eitkoml that's pretty evil
About 5 years ago I was the guy who would tell the minimum wage worker to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and to power through. I did it my whole life, and made it out on the other side relatively unscathed.
As I've gotten older, I've realized not everyone will make it out on the other side unscathed. I realize how lucky I was. And sure, I worked really hard and wouldn't have gotten to where I am without the hard work, but I know it's not a strategy that works for everyone.
I have deep empathy for the person who is stuck and made poor choices or just ended up in a shitty situation because of LIFE. Times are tough for a lot of people right now. We need to deploy empathy. If you're strong, share some strength and enouragement with those around you. Not everybody got dealt pocket Aces in the game of life.
You hit the nail on the head. Of you have extra strength and love, share some. The people of the world have been beaten and abused and a lot of them are just barely getting by, trying to get to the weekend so they can have a beer or a joint and lessen the pain of being In a cruel world that doesn't care about them.
@@CoryPchajek I hadn't realized that, but it's so obvious! I wonder if the people I have heard it from actually meant it sarcastically now lol
You da man Josh! Keep this shit going baby! A movement is building and you are certainly part of the fuel.
I love your commentary, and I have watched many of your videos and agree with you 100%. You are not soft, you're smart. Too many "lucky" people have a chip on their shoulder and no empathy for others. I can still hear my Mom's voice, when I was a kid....she would say "You treat everyone with the same respect you would like to receive. It doesn't matter if they are the President or the pauper". Too many people have not been humbled in their life, or they have been raised by selfish unaware people. I find your videos to be spot on. You're young, but you really get it.
Oh, I have a correction for you. Those corporations getting kickbacks and tax cuts give money to both major political parties. Most don't ever pick a side. Keep the $ flowing to both and keep all the politicians in their pockets.
SPOT ON!
it’s the same here in Malaysia.
Considering how much food is wasted by most of the big fast food joints, I see zero reason as to why employees of those joints shouldn't be allowed to at least eat their meals for free there. You're going to toss out the food anyway. Let your employees have it instead.
Their counter argument is that if you let people eat wasted food, then they will purposely waste it so they get more. I used to work in that industry and that's what I was told by the higher ups. It's such a disgusting mentality.
@@williamflynn7527 It's stupid, because if they gave their employees the ability to feed themselves included as a bonus of their employment, I bet they'd increase productivity and reduce the revolving door of employees.
for them it's not a moral thing, it's a profit thing. Because they can get sued for people getting sick off food that is leftover, it's cheaper for them to throw it away. Yeah the system is broken. While I blame big companies for wasting that, I blame the system more so in this case, and i say this as someone who detests large corporations with a passion.
@@edwardroh89 If they wanted to, I'm sure they could work out a legal agreement that taking the food is completely at their own risk.
I worked Starbucks and while they aren’t supposed to they let people take home food that was going to be thrown out. But that is not all
I gotta be honest, you opened my eyes today. Introduced me to some perspectives I hadn't thought about, the sum total of which actually is getting me to reconsider my position on minimum wage. I was on the side that said it should only be enough to survive and subsist, but not thrive, and I see now I was thinking about it as something far to simply. Bravo.
Bro, this was so damn inspiring and wholesome.. I've watched a few of your videos but wasn't sure about subbing yet, but after this one I'm a forever sub.
wages havent budged since 1971. The dollar had an average inflation rate between 1970 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 616.36%. This means that today's prices are 7.16 times higher than average prices since 1970, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index.
I unironically can't wait to see what the Millenials and Zoomers do once they get into power.
They'll just make it even worse because they figure "we're in power, let's gaslight the youngins" and the cycle will continue for infinity...
Why wait tho?
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Josh I totally agree with your viewpoint where service workers are concerned. Not everyone can be doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc. Service workers are a vital part of our economy and deserve to earn a living wage. A living wage meaning the ability to buy food, pay rent, own a used car, etc. Middle and upper class earners take for granted the counter help at their coffee shops, fast food places, waiters/waitresses at restaurants, garbage collectors, car mechanics, etc. There are many jobs in this country that very few want to do. College degrees today are like high school diplomas were in the 50’s. It’s not a guarantee of more money. Service work is not easy, either. It’s hard work. Keep up the good work Josh!!!
I work in a hospital and was arguing with a nurse about this. She felt that housekeeping shouldn’t be making 20$ an hour “just to clean rooms”. I had to remind her that it was in her best interest to have housekeeping well paid because if they weren’t there then the hospital would be making her do the cleaning and they wouldn’t be paying her any extra for it. They would just add cleaning to her job description.
Thank you for your empathy and kindness. I'm listening on my lunch hour and I am in tears, I am so moved by the passion that you exude in this video for those who are suffering. I listen to you often and today I became a subscriber. Thank you for giving a damn!!
I am currently in that situation of trying to move up, despite having no money or resources to do so. I was stuck for 7 years in jobs I hated, just to get by. I couldn't stand the day to day, the exhaustion, the constant bitching from customers and higher ups. I had no motivation. I took the risk to go to school, I poured my all into this so that I'd never have to go back to my previous life. I consider myself lucky, breaking out of living paycheck to paycheck feels almost impossible. And this is in Ontario, where minimum wage is $15 an hour (11.85USD). I can't imagine what living must be like at only $7.25, let alone trying to get out of that rut. My heart truly goes out to anyone in that situation. Even now my future is uncertain, and I can only hope that I made the right choice.
Same. I try not to get discouraged by the loss in value in a college degree but I was able to get a paid internship before my first semester that saved me from the service industry for a while. Its sad but I felt like I mattered again. I hope that this decision pays off for the both of us and wish you the best of success!
Keep trying, you can do it!
You made the right choice. I was in your position about ten years ago. Went back to school, worked in pizza to survive while I did so. Absolutely worth it.
Of course I did it in Australia, where our minimum wage is tolerable and our student loans don't start to be repaid until you earn at least $45k a year. The American experience may be different
Too bad , dont spend all of your money on ghacha next time
As a hairdresser I appreciate this video and you. The amount of people that talk down to my industry is insane. Thank you 🙏🏻
People don't realize the years that go into becoming good in a trade or craft. Yet everyone wants their hair cut to perfection.
@@VenturiLife What's crazy is, the average person will more often need someone from the service industry than an average person needing someone in a specialized field. Which means, if you constantly need someone's skill, shouldn't you value their role as much if not more as you value a person that is specialized? I never get the logic. The way people are treated because of the money differential is baffling.
@@VenturiLife this mann this...spot on 🔥
ignore people and live happily . the hell to whatever they have to say.
@@ynmonroe the thing is there’s less competition in specialized industries hence why they can charge so much money
I’m lovin it! Keep on keeping on!
I watched the whole thing, thank you for the insight Josh, I'm glad you reminded everyone to be human once in a while.
I graduated from college in 2018 and I've been looking for employment ever since. But after so many rejections and ghosting from companies, I felt extremely discourage and had to get a minimum wage job. My family thinks I'm not trying hard enough and that I'm lazy for working a minimum wage job, but people forget that not everything in life is at your control. They act like I chose to work a minimum wage job over a 70k+ paying job. Btw I live in ontario so the minimum wage is $15 and its expensive to live here. The feeling of viewing yourself as a failure/loser took so much life out of me. It almost took me literally. Thank you josh for sharing this, its important for people to learn to see things from more than one perspective.
You just described my experience to the perfect T, living in Ontario. I graduated with a diploma in office administration and by the time I got out of college my diploma was worthless and I had no choice but to take minimum wage jobs as well.
You are not a loser. Hang in there, bro.
as someone who also struggled with depression, is also now jobless a second time and always tries to broaden his horizon in terms of "what else is there I could do"? know just this: You are enough, whether you are jobless, have a low wage job or make 100K a year. some people might not view you that way, but view it from an end point perspective: no matter if you are the pope, bill gates or john doe, we all have to shit, we all will end up in the grave and can not take our yachts or money with us to pay the ferryman over styx. so life will judge you very differently than society will. Is it really important on your death bed how much money you made, what your job was? I think it is the relationships you build, the people who influenced you or you influenced, the memories you made. and that all essentially does not necessarily have to come with a price tag. Some people ask themselves when looking for a job: How much money does that make me? How much status will I have? How will I have access to people, influence, power, wealth? I simply ask: Does this job benefit people somehow, can I serve the community with this? And Id argue a garbage man answers this question better than say a young start up developing a app no one needs after 2 years anymore. Although the required skill level is different obviously and also say a young IT guy or gal would deserve obviously to get decent pay at that job. Everyone deserves decent pay. Today, some guy was here to read the water mill and stuff. I am maybe more skilled in cranial tasks, analyse some data, grasp abstract concepts, but am not exactly a handyman. Now if I would put myself in his shoes, would I enjoy the job? probably not, monotone, repetitive tasks, going around from home to home, low pay presumably. But there is a need for people like him, someone has to do the work, maybe he even enjoys it. But he deserves as much as I do to be able to live from his job, have the opportunity to give his kids a good education as well and so on. and what we both can do, no matter our background or paygrade, is treat each other decently. that requires no diplomas or knowledge. I also tend to notice that people who have not much themselves are much more generous. Was at a barbier earlier the month and he would just accept cash, I just had my card. So I asked him for the next ATM and he described the way. I walked out and could have just left, but obviously went, got money and paid him. He had a lot of trust obviously in me. Same thing happend when I lend my neighbour a driller, no questions asked. He asked me why I did that, he could have just gone and stolen it from me, so I answered him: I trusted you as my fellow man. And that is missing more and more in society, which is quite sad.
What was the degree in?
@@I_Lemaire Thank you Idrissa. This means a lot.
Considering the FDR quote $15 isnt even enough for a decent quality of life. It's very sad how much money anyone needs to make to just retire. Like it's crazy that $100k isnt even that much money anymore especially depending on where you live.
$15 was a compromise. And politicians and the rich fought against it.
It needs to be more.
$15 is just what they're using to 'compromise' and they know it's also basically nothing, but if they give people hope that they can get $15, then they will suffice the masses, but they can't let them have it willy nilly, that would be too easy, predictable, they have to make you fight for it, so workers can really feel like they 'won'. It's all BS.
@@JoshuaFluke1 yeah it's just insane to me how workers can't even win getting raises to match inflation.
Bro, I’ve always respected your outlook on employers/employees and I think this is a valid hill to choose to die on. Big employers and corporate America have people honestly thinking that it is ok for employees to be treated any kind of way, whether they’re entry level, or even for jobs that are seen as ‘careers’. It’s bogus. People who look down on people working entry level jobs need a very serious reality check. Not only have I met people who have been dealt a crappy hand at life, I’ve been that person. That’s why I respect your outlook on this. Thanks for being you!
Super respect my guy. Looking up that FDR quote and storing it for later.
I'm right with you on that, Josh! There are people out there who complain that teenagers are too amateur to handle food in restaurants who also say the food service jobs belongs to teenagers because it's not meant to be a living wage for adults. It's a Karen mentality of hypocrisy. It's infuriating! To be served food is a NECESSITY in our society where many if not most of us don't have the time to cook food for ourselves so it makes no sense to give these workers the short end of the stick. It's not about a lack of skill, it's about DOING the job itself.
You don't even need to justify it that hard; they work and make money for the company and that's why they should get paid. It doesn't matter how old or young they are.
@@ZodiacEntertainment2 It has nothing to do with age and everything to do with people looking for reasons on why everyone shouldn't have a livable wage.
@@FrankLeeYoung Same with qualifications to a point. A graduate with no experience a waste of time but oh if you want to progress get a qualification and we'll give you a pay rise or promotion. It's a piece of paper either way all that matters are your skills , experience and aptitude for the job.
And the reason nobody has time is because they're working multiple jobs to make ends meet!
A "livable" wage is just a nice thing to say. The economy isn't a vacuum. The people selling you things will then know you have more money, and increase their prices because supply and demand applies to both the money that people have and for what they exchange it.
It's important to remember that people have their own shit going on that we have no knowledge of. They may have limitations that prevent them from either picking up a new skill or from managing a new job. I don't understand why people are so cruel and why those people harp on minimum wage as some kind of punishment if you aren't a student. No one has the right to talk down to others, especially when they don't even know the vast majority of the people in the group being stigmatized.
@@scotte8629 but that does not mean those people should be making under a living wage. Excuses are made for businesses raises their prices, which forces the cost of living to go up, but wages never keep pace with those increases. No one is saying minimum wage should afford someone a lavish lifestyle, but they should be able to afford a decent life. The point was made in this very video that 60-70 years ago, the same "unskilled workers" could afford a home and a car on minimum wage. There are zero excuses for why we can't improve the standard of living for the lowest earners.
@@scotte8629 No shit sherlock the vast majority of people, whether they work an office job, bust rocks, or flip burgers, don't do the job because they like the job. They do it to survive. Do you seriously think the majority of people are out here working their dream job? No, of course you don't, because that's fucking ludicrous. You're just taking the opportunity to enjoy the tiniest shred of 'superiority' you have over strangers to shit on them, because your life has no real meaning or substance and the only way you can feel good about it is punching down.
@@scotte8629 so the solution is to underpay people so they have health problems and struggle to keep a roof over their head? That makes no sense, keeping people poor doesn't solve the problem. Keeping them poor makes it more likely that they will never be able to go to college because they don't have the money nor do they have the time.
Thank you for acknowledging there are people struggling trying their best within their limited circumstances and resources. I wish I had more understanding people like you around me.
I was in customer service as a cashier and other things for the majority of my total job experience. I did it during and after college because most degrees are useless. So, now, I have student loans to pay back. I'm working as an office temp to avoid returning ever again to minimum wage abuse from customers aka "customer service." In all my years as a cashier, most of my coworkers were fellow adults. The stereotype that teens do these jobs is total bullshit. When the majority of corporate positions demand "experience" you can't get without first getting a job, what options are left?
If someone cuts my hair, serves me a coffee or fast food I always thank them and treat them with respect. We are all human just trying to get by.
This hill is why I started watching you in the first place, and what made you stand out from others.
The empathy you exhibit in this video is exactly what I needed in my life after having a "friend" of 14 years talk down to me for taking a hiatus in my software career due to circumstances I couldn't control (hint: it's because of a plague that youtube hates content creators mentioning by name in video for some reason).
Never change man.
Dropping hard facts man. Thank you brother.
I agree with you 💯! Thanks Josh!
I used to have this stigma tbh. Now that I’m out of college and lived more life, I’ve changed my few point. I agree with you Josh. Well said man.
The fact about these gaslighters is, the only taste of success they’re likely to get is from taking a bite out of you.
If someone works full-time, at an absolute bare minimum they should be able to keep a rood over their head, keep their pantry stocked, and keep the heat on. It's appalling to me that people believe otherwise. Keep up the good work.
Its saddening that these people so against a livable wage think a car and other unneeded items are what we are after. We just want the bare minimum needed for survival. Im sure they'd just love it if a McDonalds employee living on the streets who hasn't taken a shower or did laundry in a month made that hamburger for them.
I think this bare minimum you talk about is way too low.
Then they'd be complaining about homeless people on the streets and low income housing existing.
@@Kehwanna Yeah the thing is once there is no more low income housing available the street is the only option. But of course they wont realize this to them they believe there is an infinite supply. We already deal with overcapacity homeless shelters as is.
@@exemida They live in the clouds. They don't know what really goes on out there
I love your videos and content, stay true to your message! I dont 100 agree with every take but I resonated with your personal story and with your corporate takes. Being a tech worker for over 10 years I have seen the gaslighting and the corporate simps, its all real. Keep on doing your thing!
You just got a new subscriber! Keep fighting for the little guy!
Thanks so much for this video. People do not understand how easy it is to get stuck in the service industry. When you try to get out, even with a degree, employers don't take you seriously because of your job history. Like all your good for is working customer service. Thank you for this.
Every single time you take lunch break from work during a week day, the person serving you is all but guaranteed to NOT be some random high school/college kid. More often than not they're well over 30- it's literally right in front of you. They literally take your order, give you your food, and *talk to you*
At this point I wouldn't even care if high-school/college kids got a livable wage from working these jobs- are we trying to actively shit on the younger generations just because we can? Does "the company must maximize profits" literally outrank treating our children with basic social decency? What's the actual downside to kids making more money from working? And...how many high-school/full time college kids are you actually thinking have the time/energy/resources to find and hold down a regular job?
This might be your best video.
How you treat people you consider "below" you on the career or social scale is a high measure of your true character.
YES!!! Oh my God I can't even begin to say how much I love that.
I love your channel. I actually subscribed through your personal life videos and then I stumbled upon this. You should interview people in the fast food service industry.
Josh, thank you.
I ran away from the projects at 17. Joined the military back when the pay was garbage did that for 4-years and I got tired of risking my life for peanuts. Then spent 6-years working in service industry full-time making crap while I went to school. It was a decade of working my ass off for barely anything. The most money I ever made in any one year was $20K
That’s truly shit. Sad how corporations treat people.
Yeah but than the self righteous "success" bias people will call you worthless because how to choose to deal with your circumstances.
@@kawaiiavril1658 hahaha I was called that once. I even felt that what at times. It all eventually paid off. My point is I was on a 10-year grind before I made anything that anyone would consider was a living wage. Driving to work and school praying my car doesn't breakdown cause I couldn't afford to repair it, etc...
And none of this was my fault it was luck of birth and complete lack of support from family.
@@eq2092 lol yeah the true worthless person is the person casting judgment on a situation they dont fully understand. A person constantly working isn't valueless, but let some of these apathic people tell it your worthless for working at mcdonalds until something comes through. Glad you are in a better place now and hope you gain more success.
"I recognize this job is necessary and must be done by someone, I just believe that person should live in poverty." -Boomers
that is 100% the attitude. it is disgusting. and then they won't why their burger isn't being served with a smile. Sorry Karen, these workers can barely afford to live and stand on their feet up to 10 hours a day. just eat your food and be quiet.
Point! Winner!
@@Malignus68 Yes, everyone should be able to afford to live. We all work hard!
@@Malignus68 all jobs should support a livable wage
@@Malignus68 so you want people to turn to sex work or only fans 🤦♂️
This video and all your videos has completely opened my eyes and changed my thinking in 2021. I just want to thank you.
Really appreciate this Josh. I have always felt like service workers make more impact to this world than my job sitting in front of a computer all day… I really appreciate these kinds of workers and fully agree with everything you said.