Great! The sitter/stander division deals with how (and how much) people GET money. Then there is another argument on the other side which explains where people PUT their money. This other division runs along the line of housing: do you have own house (paid by someone else in the past, eg ancestors), or do you have to pay it monthly (rent, mortgage)? I feel a combination of these two axes could explain even more what's going on in people's lives.
I mean, a sitter in an inherited own house is living in an economically totally different world than a stander in a rented/mortgaged flat. And then there is a wild dynamics between renting sitters and owning standers, in high-cost areas.
Great graphical representation of the American workforce. The work needs to be done, but that doesn't mean we have the right to treat them poorly. Obviously there are layers of nuance that need to be pulled apart to really get the full picture. I would consider this video to be the start of a conversation not the end. Such as, 'sitters' often start their careers by going into debt in order to earn a college degree. It was a bit manipulative to say that they don't use their degrees much in their field, people with college degrees can't not use their degree everyday. I might not be punching numbers into the quadratic equation every day (although it has come in handy a few times) but I am using the problem solving skills I learned from my math classes nearly every day. How do I disentangle that? could I have solved the problem on my desk today if I hadn't taken that calculus class? what about my history or philosophy classes, are those skills helping me at all? my current state of mind is the cumulative sum of everything I've learned and everything plays a part in my ability to solve problems. The fact is, there are many people who don't have college degrees who could thrive in a 'sitting' job. There are many people with college degrees who are actually very bad at their 'sitting' jobs. But if you are an employer, you are taking a risk on each hire, does it make sense to take a risk on somebody who has no achievements in 'sitting' fields? a degree is an indicator that this person can handle this kind of work. that they have the mental aptitude to learn the skills necessary for this kind of work. Another thing worth pointing out is that, due to the high risks and lower pay, we often view 'standing' jobs as lesser. There is a class system, despite our founding fathers attempt to dismantle it, and 'sitting' jobs are higher than 'standing' jobs. This doesn't have to be the case. Mike Rowe has dedicated his professional life to dismantling the notion that 'standing' jobs are bad (check out his stuff). There are some 'standing' jobs that actually do pay better than people realize - if you are willing to go to a trade/technical school to really become proficient in it. There is some degree of choice in the matter, but maybe not enough, or maybe the people don't realize when they have made a choice. and certainly, we should respect those who make choices that are different from the ones we make. I think this video is a net good for humanity - if it starts a meaningful conversation. Thanks for making it.
Many of the animations were screencapped from the interactive, then stitched together using After Effects and Premiere Pro. pudding.cool/2024/11/sitters-standers/
with this quality i was expecting thousands of views atleast, my mouth dropped when i saw the actual amount. great work!
thank you! tell your friends!
Fantastic graphics and very informative
Glad you enjoyed it!
I lay on the ground 24/7
Added to favourites even though TH-cam turned favouriting a video into just another playlist years ago
Amazing! Great content
Really high quality, well done video. I'm surprised it has relatively low number of views as of now.
Much appreciated!
Great! The sitter/stander division deals with how (and how much) people GET money. Then there is another argument on the other side which explains where people PUT their money. This other division runs along the line of housing: do you have own house (paid by someone else in the past, eg ancestors), or do you have to pay it monthly (rent, mortgage)? I feel a combination of these two axes could explain even more what's going on in people's lives.
I mean, a sitter in an inherited own house is living in an economically totally different world than a stander in a rented/mortgaged flat. And then there is a wild dynamics between renting sitters and owning standers, in high-cost areas.
I would love to see numerical axes on at least the interactive graphs!
Super interesting!
this video is so important and it makes me sad that it'll probably go unnoticed by most of america
Thank you!
Great graphical representation of the American workforce. The work needs to be done, but that doesn't mean we have the right to treat them poorly.
Obviously there are layers of nuance that need to be pulled apart to really get the full picture. I would consider this video to be the start of a conversation not the end.
Such as, 'sitters' often start their careers by going into debt in order to earn a college degree. It was a bit manipulative to say that they don't use their degrees much in their field, people with college degrees can't not use their degree everyday. I might not be punching numbers into the quadratic equation every day (although it has come in handy a few times) but I am using the problem solving skills I learned from my math classes nearly every day. How do I disentangle that? could I have solved the problem on my desk today if I hadn't taken that calculus class? what about my history or philosophy classes, are those skills helping me at all? my current state of mind is the cumulative sum of everything I've learned and everything plays a part in my ability to solve problems.
The fact is, there are many people who don't have college degrees who could thrive in a 'sitting' job. There are many people with college degrees who are actually very bad at their 'sitting' jobs. But if you are an employer, you are taking a risk on each hire, does it make sense to take a risk on somebody who has no achievements in 'sitting' fields? a degree is an indicator that this person can handle this kind of work. that they have the mental aptitude to learn the skills necessary for this kind of work.
Another thing worth pointing out is that, due to the high risks and lower pay, we often view 'standing' jobs as lesser. There is a class system, despite our founding fathers attempt to dismantle it, and 'sitting' jobs are higher than 'standing' jobs. This doesn't have to be the case. Mike Rowe has dedicated his professional life to dismantling the notion that 'standing' jobs are bad (check out his stuff). There are some 'standing' jobs that actually do pay better than people realize - if you are willing to go to a trade/technical school to really become proficient in it.
There is some degree of choice in the matter, but maybe not enough, or maybe the people don't realize when they have made a choice. and certainly, we should respect those who make choices that are different from the ones we make.
I think this video is a net good for humanity - if it starts a meaningful conversation. Thanks for making it.
Awesome work! What did you use for the animation?
Many of the animations were screencapped from the interactive, then stitched together using After Effects and Premiere Pro. pudding.cool/2024/11/sitters-standers/
Data source?
www.bls.gov/ors/
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i feel like government suppression is the only way a video this well made doesn’t get hundreds of thousands of views