I have become antiwork this year. I did everything I was "supposed" to do. I went to university, got into debt (not in the US, so not nearly as much as you guys), studied something that was supposed to be profitable but also cool to do, etc. Then, when I graduated in 2019, I saw that employers didn't want me because I had no experience, so I was forced to work minimum wage to survive while I continued to search in my field. I changed jobs in search of better conditions, but they all suck and made me so depressed. Then, I started doing some freelance work, and while it wasn't very stable, it was starting to pick up. Then, the pandemic happened and all my contracts stopped. I was working part-time as a dishwasher to complement my freelance work, but the dishwasher job continued and the freelance stopped. I got CERB, but I was forced to keep the dishwasher job or else I would lose everything. Then, in the fall, I finally got hired by the only company that didn't care about experience (they hired everyone who passed their ridiculous tests). They only wanted the best of the best. What did they pay, tho? 18 CAD per hour. Laughable. I told myself I would collect some experience there and change jobs later, but they ended up firing me after my probation because I wasn't improving as fast as they wanted me to. Their expectations are off the charts and most people leave after two years. I was doing as much as I could. Since then, I'm on unemployment and I see jobs never showing the salary, asking for a minimum of 5 years experience and just generally being shitty. Fuck this, I just want to live. Why does it have to be so complicated??
This comment should honestly be front and centre. The staunch defenders of the system might pull out arguments for why it's not the fault of the system, but I think many people would see themselves in this.
It's got me thinking about looking to other countries for permanent dwelling in the near future. I don't care what sacrifices I have to make, but it beats sitting around and waiting for things to change in the US.
@@normandy2501 I want to do the same honestly. Canada is not as bad as the US, but by having it as a neighbor, it drags us down with it. "If you offer those conditions, we won't be able to compete with the US" or "Quit complaining, people in the US pay X for this". European working rights sound like a dream to me.
Dude i am the same... went into aeronautical engineering and when i came out in top 7-8% of my class (studying in a foreign language, not even english but a third language amongst locals) i was actually unable to find work in a field that pre-corona was supposedly lacking workers. Employers were looking for 5+ years of experience with certificates showing specific knowledge on specific aircrafts (certificates that both cost and require 3+ years experience on those aircraft) whilst wanting to pay under 1k-1.5k$ salary. we are talking about highly qualified engineering jobs at a country where middle class is starting from ~3.5k+$ salaries and goes way up... so my basically "empty meaning" degree meant nothing. was looking for a job in the field for over 6 months to find a barely ok position with the understanding of salary being raised within 6 months.... corona hit and i was let go for few months and then they got me back. the 6 months probation started over... but because i requested 2 months of unofficial work "illegal" ( i wanted to participate in a eu program for some basic pilot training that required u being unemploeyd) thsoe 6 months got reset again. and after the 2 months passed and i realised that the programm was a joke and they werent ever gonna start it, i left it and requested my work becomes official again. they were saving significant money not paying taxes for me and my helthcare costs (almost 1/3 of my salary ontop the money paying me) so it took them 7 more months to get me official again... and due to corona i wasnt able to leave that job and when i became an official employee again, the 6 month clock was RESET once again!!! thats the second best paying place in this country in aviation (after air traffic controllers, which is a goverment job that pays great, but i dont want that stress currently in my early to mid 20s...) sooo with over 2 years experience at this point, as an aeronautical engineer, whose job includes actually taking engineering decisions and responsibility with my signature on a document, i am being payed under half what would take for me to enter the lowest amount to start be considered a middle class... i am actually making just above 20$ whats considered the poverty line for the capital city of the country - where i live... and me managing to survive financially is based on me leaving in a college dorm (that actually costs nothing) due to me doing a double masters... which i am concluding litterally next week and will not affect my pay in any way!!! but that also means i will have to go on rented housing which with current pricing will actually put me in negative budgets by living the same way i do now... (which would be me spending less than 50$ a month for ALL of my hobbies and enjoyments)... so yeah... maybe the job isnt terrible (though i have to do many things i am uncomfortable with (as to approving things i dont agree with), but this is a routine that must be broken. not for one person (like me or you) but for the entire working class... but unfortunately the US is a leader in terrible worker rights and too many places are copying them...
"When I was young I was poor. Now, after I've pulled myself by the bootstraps, got good education, worked extra hours, never took sick leave, ate junk food to save money, I am no longer young"
"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?" - Charles Bukowski.
What's even more crazy is that conditions for low wage workers is even worse now than before covid because low wage employers can't get enough workers to do these shitty jobs for shitty pay, so they are perpetually understaffed, placing even more burden on existing 'essential' workers.
Your emotional response is correct,now we have FIGHT, with our vote, with our voices, with our feet in the streets!! Please don't just walk out though,I did that once and ended up having a hard time finding another.Be strong,be informed,you got this!
Shit like this is why I support the general strike that has been happening globally lately. People are sick of the Bullshit Jobs. People are sick of Long Hours, Bad Wage, and No Benefits. People are sick of having to pick between gas in their car or food on their plate. The fight for 15 is over: These People fight for a permanently livable wage.
I need to be able to invest so I can escape the dystopian hellscape USA. Slave wage jobs don't even pay for basic needs. Let alone provide for the capacity to save or invest. I won't work for anyone that doesn't pay enough to meet ones needs. As IF I can't escape the USA death is my ONLY path. EVERYONE has a right to a living wage, and a fixed work schedule plus benefits.
Wait, global strike? You mean Marx was right about a global class solidarity emerging after the creation of a global communications tool? Is that what we’re seeing unfold right before our eyes? A global class solidarity?
When minimum wage workers get stimulus checks, people say they don't need it because they'll waste it on drugs or Starbucks. Yet when CEOs get $10M salaries, I never hear anyone say "they don't need $10M because they'll waste it on a third yacht."
They list that kind of shit in job listings now, under the "why work for us?" section Like why would I give even a quark of a proton of an atom of a fuck about that? It has literally zero correlation to worker pay in almost every company on Earth (and even in the few exceptions, you have to be very high up for it to matter)
In a meeting, the company I work for announced that they had made an extra 1.2 million dollars, immedietly after that they told us they were no longer providing us with water and we would have to bring our own.
It’s not a labor shortage. It’s a fair treatment and reasonable pay shortage. It’s up to employers to provide what we want if they want us to work for them. This is the free market they love So much. The economy is made of people. So many forget this fact.
Corporatism is not capitalism. The government helped build many of these giant corporations which take advantage of people. People should support their local/ small businesses.
Dude just make your own company. Why have the people you can't trust fix your problem. TF wrong with you? Make a competitor. They don't have employees to meet demand. Be the change you want to see
I'm an engineer for a prestigious American space agency. 90% of my job is not important and could be accomplished easily with software. 10% of it is important, but none of it is "essential."
If you work hourly, as long as you are doing the job and not screwing up/causing problems, there's no financial advantage to doing more work than you have to unless you just happen to enjoy it.
That is not unique to retail OR fast food. ALL bad employers do that - doesn't matter if you make $10k or $100k. A bad boss is a bad boss. Find a better one.
Amen. I have had to tell people not to overwork or else it will become expected of us and sure enough it did. It wasn’t that we had the extra time, it just so happened they hadn’t worked a busy shift yet and once they did, their overworking added a whole new set of responsibilities for the position.
There is a concept called "lying flat" in china where the younger generation is refusing to work except for 2-3 months out of the year because they are tired of being exploited. They also refuse to get married or have children. The fear of this movement has grown to the point that the term "lying flat" is a censored phrase in China.
That's kind of true.And if the industry lost the social ability of "let people move higher social level"through works ,then more people will be lying flat…and it seems functions of social mobility in US and many other countries are playing the minimum role~so what's the way out ?hmm
Good to hear this out of China. The younger generation is wising up because they are the ones that are going to be given the planet when the old ruling elite are gone. But I'm sure the younger generation don't want to enable the further destruction of their home land for the benefit of a few obscenely wealthy people and corporations. Hopefully they follow that train of thought and are willing to revolutionize the economy itself to end oppression. End the oppression of labor-for-income. Demand a UBI as a human right so everybody's needs are taken care of. Then work for system change away from the unsustainable monetary-market economy and build a better system based on natural law and careful management of available resources.
Don't get me wrong I would love to be a housewife. But work just exploits you and even if I can't work because I'm disabled everyone one that isn't rich is paying for higher prices for goods and that just sucks. It's hard for us as it is without them meddling
Lying flat and letting it rot are definitely the way to go. If the rich don't feel like treating their employees as human beings then they can just do their work by themselves
"There are only two certainties in life - death and taxes." - Except if you're rich, in which case you can legally dodge taxes and thus pay less in tax than your average worker. And even postponing death itself is also becoming a real possibility for the rich with nanotechnology, so that statement is only a half-truth. It's rather ironic how the richer you are, the less taxes you pay. The secret is to move away from income-based salary into capital gains and store away your wealth in trust funds and holding companies.
@@brazghost Through what authority? Oh they have weapons? We do too. They have an army? We do too. Only a truly disgusting army of individuals could use their arms to oppress their fellow citizens, their families, all for a minuscule gain.
No joke: I'm sitting at my "awesome and fulfilling" healthcare "career" on a Saturday morning watching this and it crushes my soul to hear my ENTIRE EXISTENCE and life experience summed up in so few words. I thought in healthcare I would be making a difference. At the end of the day, I am just another factory worker getting as much product in and out per day for my overlords as I possibly can. It just so happens the product is YOU. Did you know, internally, management does not even refer to you as patients? You are a "customer" when you walk into the hospital, i.e. a source of income, not a human being.
Exactly. Makes no sense for healthcare to be a private industry. Pure evil. I've heard Doctors have high levels of narcissism these days and most people going to medical school are just chasing money, not striving to cure the sick and heal the poor.
Super wealthy: There needs to be these jobs to have people under chronic stress and anxiety to keep them sick and dependent on the health (sick) care system, (pharma, insurance, hospitals, etc) to keep us super wealthy
@@jonbob732 If you do not care about helping people in healthcare, you are not doing your job. If you do not treat other human beings like human beings, then you do not act like a human being yourself. You act like you are made of money when money is more important to you than people. Gene Ward, I feel very bad for you if capitalism makes being good at your job pointless.
@@loui2w118 We can live without you, super wealthy! We don't need to take your jobs, and the economy will not collapse when you are not kept super wealthy.
@@haroldinho9930 bro he just recycles all the time the things he already has said before. Im not even on the right-wing but he has to shape his content in another form cause it's getting tiring to hear the same things all the time. I mean I love his videos about patriotism and other related problems. he does a very good job explaining some basic and fundamental ideologies but he needs a change I feel like. Okay we heard that capitalism is bad and this and that and the other, but enough. I don't dislike his videos I just don't even the interest too, when I see there is not change cause I already know from the beginning what he is going to talk about. I'm, not mad or whatever I'm just explaining my point of view since I'm long time fan of his channel since his video with the grandpa paradox.. lol it's been a while.
@@haroldinho9930 One more thing that I saw right now, his video about Findland's homelessness was fucking awesome because It was something interesting and different. This is how you explain the capitalistic problems, comparing them with other ideologies and doings.
College for me was a highway to oblivion.. graduated in 1986, five years later, came to the realization that it was devalued and useless. Been working a boring, unimportant meaningless job making no difference in my life or the life of others. I’m 58..
you should then just get a new job that is entraining and important and does make a difference in your life others as well stop being a slave and charge into your own bright better future NOW.
I find it amazing that during the industrial revolution we fought for an 8hr work day to regulate the length of a working day, preventing excesses and abuses.(I.e. to stop having 10 - 16 hr workdays). Got those 8 hr workdays were people only had to work one job and no longer had to work in excess and be abused. Fast forward to today. We have 4-8hr workdays per job *2-3jobs=back to 10 -16 hr workdays.
America needs a revolution, and i dont mean riots or some protest, i mean setting up Guillotines in front of Wall Street and White house, where lines of politicians, upper class bureaucrats and rich corporates are waiting to be beheaded
I'm so mad and sad at the same time reading of people required to work 80-100 hours per week: with 100 hours of work/week and 7 hours/sleep per day, you are left with like 30 minutes of freetime per day. I removed the time i think you need for hygiene, making and eating food as well. This is literally "living to work" and not "working to live".
@@AxenfonKlatismrek You need to have a positive foundation and invested leaders for such an act, and do everything required to prevent it from becoming a tyranny of the masses like the French Revolution.
Dedicate yourself. Do something with all of your focus for 100hrs/week and do it for 15-20 years, see where that gets you. It gets you in a position where after those 20 years you get to choose if you want to work or not for the rest of your life. But instead it seems most people rather half-ass it, complain, waste time and after 50 years they end up nowhere.
It's because he's in need, those poor, poor, poor, billionaires have too much money, so they need money, and that person down the street living in a shack working 16 hours for like 7.25 hr is a fucking Communist scum because they had the AUDACITY to need something
@@gavinisdie The majority of money in investments. The land and everything built on it is what costs billions. If cash was just sitting in a vault it would go to waste.
@@nicolasinvernizzi6140 No. Most bottom jobs work way harder than upper positions. Bosses just check numbers and attend to meetings (to check more numbers). That's all. They don't do the hard job. They don't package things, flip burgers or take calls from customers. They are more paid for doing less, and pay less to those who do more. Just to avoid doing the hard thing themselves.
@@johnmaco Bosses don't even have to work, just pay others to do it. There is no reason why they should do any work but enjoy their profits. But paying the workers a decent wages and looking after them is something they SHOULD be doing.
I have to tell my parents constantly that getting a minimum wage job today provides you with nothing. You are literally gate kept out of renting apartments, financing a car, getting a loan on a house, etc. The minimum wage needs to be atleast 25 dollars for us to live with decency, and it's never going to be provided to us any time soon.
Higher minimum wage also increase costs of products unless you are able to decrease cost somewhere els. So getting more money will mean paying more. See countries with great wages like Norway or Zwitserland for a foreigner its expensive to buy food or a living place in these countries.
@@GenerationX1984 No he isn't. Liberals believe some stupid shit. Wage was only in that bill for Dems to offer it up on the altar of 'we-kiss-right-wing-wass-for-unity". Sometimes I think Bernie Sanders might be an actual idiot for engaging establishment dems on good faith to begin with.
I hope 100 years from now as a society we will be able to look back on this time in history and realize how awful it was that society used to be structured this way
life is bad now, it's gonna be a lot worse in a hundred years. It isn't possible to have ever-increasing automation, A.I., overpopulation, capitalism, climate change and ecological destruction without resulting in the kind of techno-feudalism envisioned by movies like Elysium and Ready Player One. Don't have kids, kids.
We won’t be able too because we would have worked are selfs into nonexistent and the aliens exploring this planet will only have clues to what has happened
I'm a software engineer. I don't make nearly enough, but I don't want to go try and work for the companies that pay more in silicon valley. not only would I have to work more, but I feel like i'd be actively making the world worse working for companies like Facebook.
Cost of living is just another externality in an economic system that ignores externalities. Working class America - "we literally can't afford to live" Economists - "we measure success by the cost of consumer goods and shareholder profit and by those metrics, you've never had it better"
Please sir, please, higher wages? Higher wages sir? Why must we be slaves to the mercy of Capitalists? Those who own the forces of production and employ wage labor. Dude, if enough of us support the cause and arm ourselves what the hell are the capitalist army going to do against millions of its own citizens when they couldn’t beat impoverished farmers in Vietnam and village men in Afghanistan?? Meet the demands or get fucked.
Working most jobs these days also kills your creativity. I used to be a very creative person in high school/college, but now feel that its a skill that I've almost lost. I'm somewhat terrified of the thought of retirement as I have no idea what I'd want to do with it.
Same, I hate that I can't write anymore. I used to write so much in high school. It sort of faded out in college, and now I just don't have the inspiration or willpower to make the time for it.
@@methos1999 God, no... I'm not even hoping for a retirement anymore. The planet will go to sh!t due to climate change and there are too many people on the planet already for anything to stabilize the environment. Earth can't handle more than 4 billion people with the lifestyle of the civilised western world...
@@kenos911 "amount of funding against climate change": I know. It's been happening since the 60ies.. "Even China knows that they can’t make money if their people are all dead!": I'm not sure what you are trying to tell me here... Is China lookinhg for ways to reduce their emissions? "we aren’t gonna die in 30 years man": Well, most millenials and all gen z won't retire in 30 years either... So we're pretty f'd xD
I come from a native community (In Mexico), and I think many times of how my ancestors used to live. They lived off of the land and spent time with family. They definitely lived happier in their communities. Now I see my life and I see myself as a slave to a biased system. I wish I could live like my ancestors.
>They lived off of the land Dude, you think YOU are going to do what it took to "live off the land" like they did? I d@mn well doubt that the way many of you chafe at working retail jobs.
@@WillmobilePlus it's really not that hard, communities are essentially the original networkers. I'm a water quality specialist and I may not have have the best plumbing knowledge, however if I say find someone that can build and understand a bit of HVAC which has many regulations, then someone that is good in communications and economics, and then possibly someone good at basic farming, then maybe a Baker to bake daily bread as a gift from the lord, someone that's into art history and culture (everyone has a different culture to bring) it would literally be easy as pie to live off a big open land with what everyone can bring to the table tbh.
I hope to God ur ancestors were Mixica tribe. If they belonged to a tribe that got in the way of an Aztec expansion campaign - ub OH. Tenojticlan was built off slave labor of non Mixica tribesmen.
We can live like that again, but we have to amass enough of a movement of people that the ruling elites of the monetary-system cannot ignore our voice. What our ancestors lived like for thousands of years was egalitarian communities without money or markets. We lived successfully like that for over 90% of human history. Then we settled into communities, developed agriculture and that set off the need for trade, and then dominance, resource wars and oppression through labor. But we live in the 21st Century now with advancing technology. We have the technical capacity to meet all human needs locally and sustainably without money or markets. We just don't have an economy that incentivizes or allows for that by its structure. The current market economy is unsustainable. We need a revolution and transition to a resource-based economy (like our ancestors lived). How could we do that? Demand a global Universal Basic Income as a human right for all people to meet their basic needs without labor-for-income. That can start the transition to a moneyless society, because we need to take the boot off the throat of so many people overworked and/or overstressed that can't help a revolution unless they have their basic needs met.
I've been working for Amazon as a packer for almost 3 years. Every once and while, something will happen with the system of conveyers that move shipments around the FC (usually a jam or mechanical fault) that will prevent us from working for hours on end (I work a 10hr shift). When this happens, the managers will literally just have us stand there (sitting is considered a safety hazard) aimlessly until they fix the problem. The last time this happened was hilarious because they called MET (Mandatory Extra Time), meaning we had to stay for an extra hour and half. Right around the time our shift normally would have ended, something happened with the conveyers and we ended up doing absolutely nothing for the extra hour and half we were required to stay. It really baffles me why they do the things they do, it seems contrary to the profit motive that drives capitalism.
It's not about profit. It's about subjegation and domination. Profit is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that you know that they control you, your life, your time and even your toughts and that you know that you can't do nothing about it, because you are alone. Money is merely an instrument of control.
@@aleksapetrovic6519 I had the same thought watching the video. Labor and employment are weapons, used to keep those of us who work too tired, placid and afraid of losing our incomes to fight our abusers, and to ensure those who don't work lack to means to fight anyway.
Me growing up: I will dedicated my life into the betterment of others, through my skills in math and physics, since I can offer solution for common problems we encounter in our lives. Me almost finishing college: I should never deliver a complete product to my client so I can make them pay me at least twice, since this is what my professors told me. Guys no joke those are words coming out of the mouth of engineer professors. And the worse part is you better follow this most of the time otherwise you are offering free labor to your boss.... I don't want to be inefficient, but if I don't I work more for the same payment. This is absurd. And I am in the lucky ones. This utterly stupid
If you deliver a competent product to people, you will literally starve them to death, ever heard of the great depression? A lot of you people, have these great unseen solutions to problems , but you are just ignorant children that think the solution for our problems is as basic as you own will.
@@happypt2929 The fact that a competent, fully functioning product is a bad thing under capitalism is all the more reasoning for us to destroy it, and move on to a new system of allocation.
@@thepsychocyborg9278If america was communist everyone would still be using a blackberry, worse actually, as there would be no incentive to build better technology ,extremely expensive technology, if not everyone could own it. If you think communism would just resolve the problem of supply and demand your very , very wrong, A factory producing a product so good no one would buy it anymore would just eventually close under capitalism or under communism. Communism cant solve these problems.
@@billnyetherussianspy3187 i have a friend with a leg disability (needs a wheelchair), he can do a lot of work just fine but gets tired more easily, so companies dont want him because its extra money they have to spend because of inefficiencies in their eyes, for clerk/secretary like work he doesn't get hired because people are disquieted by looking at him, the dream is having pretty looking people for those jobs, not someone who does things well or is in a wheelchair that has to be accommodated, all those things and even sometimes just the fact he's gay have made jobs harder for him to get and easily gets fired from the jobs he does get, because someone else can do it better for not having a disability, fortunately he lives in England and gets enough welfare that he can live well enough but he struggles with not being able to work like other people.
This is EXACTLY right. I've started using the term eugenics when people want to talk badly about low paying jobs, like food service, and think it's ok because "it's a kid's job". I ask "so it's ok to pay child laborers less than living wages and they don't deserve to have a roof over their heads because they're poor? You know that's eugenics right? Telling someone they don't deserve to live because their poor". Usually shuts them up or makes them get super defensive.
The funny and most sad thing about the whole system is, there are probably are millions who want to do that, but their passions are being replaced with wage robots, and that discredits their whole passion. There is probably some one who wants to start a new fast food chain, one much better and healthier than the big ones, but the rep that the big ones have discredits that idea. Even in more comfortable and equal places like Canada and The Nordic countries this problem continues, although less, because people have to pretend to like someone else’s passion in order to succeed in life, rather than all people doing their own passion and only the few without going to whatever job is open. The only people winning are the billionaires who seemed to get rid of their passions long ago for the shake of their own wealth.
@@darkbrightnorth I find it hard to believe that someone is actually passionate about SEO, PPC or alike. Its an easy way for analytical minds to earn some money, but beyond that, nah. There is no passion there. I worked in this exact field and I have never met a person who is truly passionate about it. They might act as such for various reasons, but thats bout it. Deep down, I always knew that tinkering with online advertising tools brings zero value to society, just took me some time to realize it (sounds kinda funny in hindsight). The main motivator of why people do these types of jobs is "I am pretty smart and good with numbers, I just need to study about this for a few weeks and Im likely to get an entry job in the field, half a year in, I will get a mid position if I work hard enough and a few years down the line, Ill be a senior in a big agency earning decent money." I know this is an anecdotal argument, and thus pretty weak, but from all Ive gathered by talking with numerous people from the field, thats about where I stand.
@@alexbarcovsky4319 You are so correct about this. And some people go so far into the rabbit hole of pursuing passionless work that they probably forget how it feels to be "excited" about anything that's not corporate or career-related.
@@alexbarcovsky4319 I think it's not about being passionate about the task or the day-to-day, but rather the big picture it enables. For example doing analytical work, furthering your knowledge of how the world works through your analysis. You may hate the actual tasks but enjoy being able to solve puzzles. At least that's how it is for me.
As someone without a job, I notice these trends among the employed. It's really sad and frustrating watching people put their job before literally everything else in their life. Like even taking out the trash. "i worked hard today, i can't clean up after myself" Growing up in america, i've come to think everything is just a scheme to take my money or time.
All these places, especially retail, I see with "now hiring" and "we are short-staffed" aren't trying to recruit very hard. Most of them are only offering minimum wage ($10/hr here in FL) or just a little over with an unpredictable schedule.
Someone in lee county fl documented 60 applications sent out in one month last month....and got 1 interview. The employers are putting out fake job listings so they dont have to pay back their ppp money. Fucking ghouls. I want a bloody revolution
@@mikeyorkav4039 Here I thought they were just trying to see how thin they can get away with stretching their staff... I didn't think about PPP. The greedy MFs!
@@mikeyorkav4039 That doesn't happen only in the US, though. In my country fake job listings are the norm. And I even saw "news" about companies that had open positions with no candidates. I went to those companies' websites and couldn't find any information about those positions. "Nobody wants to work in non-existent jobs anymore!"
My company makes wood vents. Literally for rich people. We use over 25 species of wood. Lots of it gets wasted LOTS. You would not wanna know how pointless it feels making these vents sometimes. It’s funny my boss the other day told me if could take less bathroom breaks and less water breaks, I’d have more time to make them more money and they can end up paying me more. Made me sick hearing that.
You'll never see a penny of the money you make them that's more than the absolute minimum they have to pay you no matter how hard you work working hard is a fool's errand when you're a wage slave
@@darthbrandon2149 That is awful! You worked too hard for that carrot. I hate it when people trick you with a reward you never get just because they have that power to torture you. 😭 It is a depressing game you can not win. It is even worse when they can ignore worker's rights and get away with it.
Damn. This really hits me. I have studied philosophy and have been a 'jobhopper' for years. I graduated in 2014 and this has been going on even before that period. I've tried quite some jobs in my life, but every time I am confronted with the utter meaningless of it, or have to deal with annoying managers who pretend to know better. Some people think that I am 'high-demanding', but this is really not the case. I just want to know that my work is really contributing to society. I don't give a shit about your stupid-ass product or service. I don't want to have meetings about meetings. I don't want to pretend to be happy working late.
@@reefman10 I am aware of that, and have done that quite some times. I recently found something that works for me, but the general observation remains.
@@happypt2929 In communism you dont need to "rise" bacause "rise" in the capitalism mean explote someone to gain mony, in comunism the worker state give you a house, a pay, education and a job, and yes, this is soo simplified.
@@joe2k20 Pretty sure Joker's philosophy is at least partially based on Stirner's one, and he inspired plenty of modern philosophers. Besides, you just threw a pathetic insult like some 10-year old without actually refuting his point. Gj.
I had to leave the work force once I had kids and realized corporations always came first and would never give me the pay, flexibility, or time off to be a good parent or live with dignity. I've given up materialism in order to get my time back, which is priceless and the most valuable thing. It's good to see others finally starting to realize the same.
In big corporates, 50% of what they do is pointless (internal stuff or failed projects), and 80% of what IS valuable is being done by 20% that are the lowest-paid workers (many times they are "temp" so they have no problem disposing of them after they are done exploiting them). The only skill you need to know in order to be a middle-management is how to suck up.
so true, the people who actually do work are paid shit and treated badly while people with bs jobs roll in dough and get celebrated by society, cruel world
This is so true. In my former job, we did a lot of "problem solving projects" that took way too much time and implemented no changes to the problems that we were supposedly addressing to solve.
One of the reasons that Uber, a software company that should have almost no expenses, isn't profitable. They make up things to spend money on and don't need.
It's so sad that people are being brainwashed to think that jobs that provide an actual service and meet an actual need are not jobs worth having and that you should find "a better job". It's incredibly twisted af.
@@noahremnek3615 Exploitation and control. Read about the dark triad. White collar workers are the bosses' pets. Stuck in cages. Show pieces. Doing whatever pleases them to get fed. Blue collar are the deer, donkeys and horses who pull the carriage. Everyone wants to be free but under this model of exploitation, only those in power are.
Everyone gets to define what is "worth" it to them. If you get into 300k debt to pursue a medicine degree than yes it's probably not worth it to instead go into the basic services industry...
Yeah, I'm also scared but also a bit hopeful. I think the younger generations are more open to socialism. We just need to get the old people out of government. Also, we need to be supporting any socialist running for local government. Grassroots organizing might be the most effective.
I sit in front of a computer 40h a week, and do needless paperwork, that nobody reads, for 175k a year. I don't think my role should even exist. But I keep quiet because I have to pay the rent.
I work for this huge enormous company and when asked about raise in pay due to inflation during a town hall meeting, one of the top guys said we pay based on cost of labor not cost of living. I was seriously disturbed by that
Market economics is flawed by design. It essentially makes people just commodities and they are paid based on how hard they are to replace not on how hard they work. We need system change, not tweaks to flawed market capitalist system. System change could come from the people of Earth demanding a UBI as a human right and allowing for a transition of energy systems to renewables, giving people more time for their own health and well-being, and creating more efficient, localized production and distribution systems to meet all human needs for essentially zero cost.
My hourly charge-out to clients is more than four times more than my hourly wage. Apparently 350% of my pay goes to 'corporate overhead'. I had no idea the flickering fluorescent light above my cubicle cost so much money. Oh, and the constantly-breaking coffee machine in the break room.
@@thomasmaughan4798 And don't forget to save all the receipts so you can write off all those business expenses from your taxes! Social security match? Insurance? hah, that's only for full time and everyone will be getting 35 hours a week, except for the salaried, who can get it, but they'll be expected to pick up the slack and work 55 hours each week.
@@thomasmaughan4798 see, the soc sec match and ins and income tax are all scams. remove that socialist garbage along with all the other govt-created barriers to entry, and yeah, anyone really could go out on her own and do better than at a corporation while still charging the customer less.
Imagine a world where everyone gets their basic needs covered for free: housing, food, health insurance, internet. In this world people would not go to work because they need to in order to not suffer lack of these very basic needs, but people would go to work because they _want_ to make a difference and fulfill their life.
@@joeanthony7759 All economies are resource based, but what he's talking about is a political system that puts all people first. Making things like food, water and housing a human right.
I am European who lived more than five years in Canada and went back to Europe. This video reminds me once again why this was the best decision on my life. Obviously Europe is not perfect but still going to the doctor will not ruin most of us.
@@Mysot057 Europeans have government owned drug labs so they can manufacture their own generics, not just do bulk buys, Canada had this at one point but the Harper Government sold off all of the government drug labs to private entities and the price of generics nearly doubled. I have severe migraines and I need to take medication for them. In the USA my medication would cost anywhere between 100-120 dollars (CAD) per PILL In Canada it costs 15 dollars (CAD) per pill In Europe it 7.83 dollars (CAD) per pill This medication isn't covered under any private health insurance policy except for ones reaching into thousands of dollars per month. I get seasonal migraines so usually end up taking 10-12 pills during each season change so anywhere between 20-24 pills per year. In the US I would be spending 2000-2880 dollars per year In Canada I spend 300-360 dollars per year In Europe I would spend 157.6 - 187.9 dollars per year prescriptions can get massively expensive, so can dental and eye care.
@@Mysot057 I know, I was meaning US system. Canadian system is better as there is universal healthcare. But still prefer Europe, but Canada is better than the US.
In Junior high, my social studies teacher told us a story. During the great depression, her family was better off than most. When men would come asking to earn a daily paycheck for food for their families, her dad initially tried to simply give them money, but they refused charity. Eventually, he had them move a big mound of dirt from the front yard to the back. I don't think this applies to the complexity of today (nor is any typical worker at fault for the collective choices of the powerful), but when dealing with worshippers of the status quo, sometimes tricks need to be played to get them to help themselves (and each other). Just look at how the trumpists fight unions and healthcare and education and science. Sheesh.
@@MaaveMaave busy work, by definition, is not useful. But yes, the obvious solution right now with infrastructure crumbling everywhere is to pull an FDR new deal and employ the people struggling to find employment. All the companies pretending they're struggling to find workers will have to raise wages or fail
-"There is no money in the 24th century... Humanity finally moved beyond this obsession with the 'endless accumulation of things'. In the future we work to better ourselves. With the aim of improving our lives and the lives of others." -(Captain Jean-Luc Picard.)
We literally have the technology, the resources, and what time we have left to lay the foundations for a society like star trek's federation of planets right now! And it...makes me fucking depressed and angry that we are enslaved to a system of infinite greed.
@@navilluscire2567 who is to blame? The rich and their cronies(politicians) . A nice French Revolution where the rich are guillotined would be much appreciated
Companies are scrambling right now trying to figure out why people are leaving/not applying for jobs. Keep it up. Make them squirm. Assuming you can afford to that is. The company I work for is essentially democratizing parts of our company. They're having us bring issues up and voting on which issues are more important and what we want done about them. Still not a socialist utopia but it's a start.
Your profile picture and username are making me so happy right now =‘3 same here ❤️ also good luck with your company and i hope they keep drifting in the same direction
Left my job months agoand me and my husband ar just budgetting better and cutting silly spending. I've been using my free time volunteering and getting involved in community mutual aid and dual power organizations. I feel much more fulfilled.
"There are only two certainties in life - death and taxes." - Except if you're rich, in which case you can legally dodge taxes and thus pay less in tax than your average worker. And even postponing death itself is also becoming a real possibility for the rich with nanotechnology, so that statement is only a half-truth. It's rather ironic how the richer you are, the less taxes you pay. The secret is to move away from income-based salary into capital gains and store away your wealth in trust funds and holding companies.
What a legend, im suprised theres less triggered Capitalists/Conservatives in the comments. Videos like this give me hope that we as a whole will start to change, if we fight for it.
@@geriott609 no, we still exist. but we have better things to do than reminisce about silly hypothetical systems. we are entitled to the fruit of our labor. it's the basis of capitalism, if you want free things, then idk what to tell you, other than have fun being a parasite.
@@terwerlive5616 Wow that didnt take long. Have fun being taken advantage of and keep defending your overlords. And all you said is just republican bullshit "yoU wAnT fReE tHings". Sad that Im a teenager and more educated about these things you defend/shittalk. Go read a book instead of Fox News
@@danklewis2670 Good for you. Most people can't, so while I'm not specifically a socialist, I openly support public and social programs that make sure that people, uh, DONT DIE if they don't make enough money. I figure that's just human decency lol
Personally, I don't feel like my job is meaningless, but I feel like I don't need to be at my desk for an arbitrary 40 hours a week to get the job done but mostly do so to not get in trouble. There are also times when I need to leave my desk to look at something later with fresh eyes, but that's discouraged.
The really sad part is that the modern employer here in the US is that they would rather fire you than pay you. We are living in the second guilded age as this has been decades in the making.
@@caramelldansen2204 wait no i was agreeing with you lol. what i meant is that such a system that people think is so secure, had fallen apart more than once over such a small timespan
*"I have already seen capitalism fail TWICE. im younger than 25."* The shortest and probably the best explanation on why young Americans increasingly prefer socialism. )
@@ГероїНеВмирають-ГероїЕвакуюють Not only Americans prefer socialism, but they are the last ones of the first world countries to wake up and realize this.
People that worked put enough labor to keep themselves fed and much more, but the problem is that under capitalism, most of your labor goes into making someone else richer. Before the advent of capitalism, people only work just enough to keep themselves and their family fed, and they completely owned whatever they put the effort in. Under capitalism, you're working for some abstract value, and most of the fruits of your labor are stolen and your living condition relative to the abundance of resources are not exactly great.
@@thomasmaughan4798 I'm talking about something much older than that, older than feudalism. Of course I'm not talking about farmers and peasants in a kingdom/empire.
i-dude they werent even really offering any real solutions for modern capitalism, they were pointing out what the hell is wrong with modern capitalism but you just gloss over that. if i were to guess, they most likely mean post industrial pre great depression era people, non gilded age as well. where usually farmers would work and sell off their stock so they had just enough left of it to feed their family with. the thing America idolizes, the classical American fantasy of having a cabin in the woods away from civilization rather than the modern nuclear family module that we gained around the 1940's
but also a follow up, ye id wager to say that life for those people in the tribal age, if they grew up during that time would much prefer that life than working most of their life away for pennies on the dollar. our life, is not appealing, sure we may like, you know live longer. but is it truly worth it if that longer living is more torturous and back breaking? if i offered you the chance to live for a billion years but have of those years you'll be in a pain so great that you cant even imagine it, would you take it? no probably not longer lives don't always mean better existences.
@@mickeyg7219 You agreed to work that job when you signed the contract of employment. Nobody is forcing you to work a job to make someone else richer. It's like you people have no ambitions in life. Find something you enjoy doing, it really isn't that hard. The system is put in place to make anybody with enough motivation and smarts to make it big. Socialism is put in place for everyone to be doomed to a life of working class.
Work should be the joyful retiring of one’s gifts for the betterment of the community. How much farther could most of us possibly be from that ideal? Thanks for another video that helps to explain why we need to change to a more humane and logical economic system.
@Hotovo Done could also be fun, under the different circumstances^ -and like 8 hours a week instead daily.. the focus should always be to *automate* work massively ASAP look into cybernetics, it isnt what basically everyone thinks - and tell the others x
@@IpSyCo If you feel that way, then you did something wrong. People who love their jobs succeed in their fields. I think the main problem with society is they over-prioritize money over passion, when really, there needs to be an equal balance of both, through research of career choices and getting to know yourself better.
@@IpSyCo no one should ever be in a position where they’re FORCED to work or otherwise starve on the side of the street. Whether they WANT to work or not is up to them, though most people will want to work at something. It’s just that, for many folks, that “something” would need them to take time off from work to study up on it, and the majority of people can’t take a week off or they’ll be out on the streets or inescapably headed there.
What’s terrible is that most times college only gets you into debt. Debt that’s irreversible and inescapable, even by filing bankruptcy. Modern slavery.
God I love being a political terrorist in the eyes of the US government, makes subjects like this so much more infuriating. Oh, I consider myself a socialist but the US government says socialists are political terrorists so I guess I'm both.
@@themadman5615 they threw ethics out of the window when they committed oh I dunno, NAME an American atrocity. We won’t get change unless those pigs bleed.
I'm absolutely loving the global strike. People are tired, and the pigs at the top better brace themselves; it's probably why they're so obsessed with jet-setting to Mars as of late.
Everyone has this sense of impending doom and dystopia nowadays, but I'm sure this is how people of the past were feeling before revolutions kicked. The world and its politics are a dynamic system, and it will keep changing. I can't wait to see how it turns out in some decades!
On a related note, I'd like to see a video about the job search process. For years, I've talked about how unnecessarily complicated and demoralizing it is, yet people around me claim it's normal and that I should stop complaining.
This is a great point because I’ve seen how nowadays they make you write everything online and renter all your application information because they don’t give a shit to read info about you as a person more so quick bullet points, “oh no experience?, bye” not only that but on average it takes longer to get hired, more and more jobs I sign up for are incredibly slow to respond as they wait for the “best applicant”
No, you're right. It is a needlessly complicated and truly unfair process these days, whereby the ones who need the job least (and are just corrupt or lucky enough to manipulate the system in their favor) are often the only ones who get tapped to interview. Meanwhile, dozens if not hundreds of qualified applicants spend hours filling in a lifetime's worth of employment and background information on forms that apparently get submitted to a black hole somewhere in the galaxy, never to be seen again. And today, with everything done online, you often get the added frustration of not being able to contact the employer to follow up on your application. Actual human communication is impossible. I'm not even that old, but I'm old enough to remember it didn't used to be this hard. It did NOT. Don't let anyone convince you that it did. It's not "whining" or "complaining" to observe when a system becomes almost impossible for an honest, smart, hardworking person to navigate. It should be called out.
@@AGirlofYesterday I totally agree with you. Many people who I know who ended up even landing a spot in good companies had connections/ a family member in the job/sector etc. Even my own friend tried getting me in a social service job on the premises that I could get hired in without previous social service experience because they had an aunt who worked as a case manager worker. That went to crap when they lied about the pay and took it off when it came time for my second interview, why a second interview? After a 40 minute one? I don’t know. Also it is classist the system nowadays. Oh you want a job? Have a smartphone and computer for signing up and contact, even though often times people are trying to get those jobs to afford one? Not to mention how many of those applicants were talking about are thrown out deliberately by companies so that way they can have tax write offs for “providing jobs” by going “see! Look at how many hiring opportunities we provide to the state etc” it’s all bullshit. I grew up in a conservative family who would say my complaints are just being upset with the way things are, that they’re normal, if that’s normal then maybe I’d prefer weird. But yeah thank you, I don’t doubt myself for a second. As vaush as once said on a stream, I’m lucky I have a high self esteem.
@@janetpaskalov2094 Oh if you have high self esteem, that's the problem! They don't WANT self-confident employees. They want groveling, apologetic subservients that they can push around and overwork, and who will never complain, just take orders and be grateful for the crumbs they throw you. Unless it's a high level job, then you have to be so wealthy, elite, and connected you don't really need the job. If you have dignity but no wealth or major connections (like me), you're screwed.
incredibly well-said. it makes me so angry that jobs that are essential and important to basic human care and development are deemed more lowly than bullshit jobs. I just started working at a school and, though our district is better off than some, education as a whole seems to be such an exploitative sub-system for everyone involved. I want this to end, I want to be able to help and care for people without being trapped within the absurd comedy of capitalism
Very good points. I work in education as well, my mom worked in healthcare and my father worked to help conserve nature. All these noble pursuits are relatively under-compensated and often under-supported leading to over-worked and over-stressed people. In these types of fields you might hear a boss or executive say something like "How can we improve the efficiency and quality of our productivity and service WITHOUT spending more money or hiring more people?" Right, so basically, how can we add more stuff to our own plates for no more compensation and be happy about it? That's BS. So I looked into this deeply. Why are we constrained by some made-up concept called money? It isn't connected to the natural world or human health. It's dominating, exploitative and oppressive. So I imagine a world, much like the advanced communities we see today, but I remove ONE factor: Money. And how would that work out? Well, we'd still have the homes we have, we'd still have the electricity, we'd still have the water running, we'd still have the roads there and the schools and the hospitals, etc. But now, if we ask: What can we do to make healthcare or education, for example, better? And the answer is hire more people, then the problem is solved. We hire more people, everybody shares more of the work and each of us have less work and more chance to be effective. But what about maintenance of the things we need for society to function? Well yes, we need people to do that, but wouldn't people pitch in to volunteer their time if they didn't have to work as long? That's what the ethic of volunteering is anyway. I'll help out to make sure the water pumps are working properly for 5 hours a day, 4-days a week if I have support and somebody else will work 6 hours, 3-days a week or whatever is needed. If that would help society run and people would have a decent home to go back to and more time for family, friends and hobbies - then I'm sure many people would be happy to do that.
I stopped going for teaching because I can make double the salary of a starting teacher dealing at a casino. Also the climate around education is scary. Lots of teachers are toxic as hell.
What grinds my gears is how much hard work and dedication a low-level worker can put into a job to have it defenestrated at the whim of some no-nothing mid-level, or high-level, manager / supervisor / executive. I've seen people, myself included, put hours of our blood, sweat, and tears, using their specialized knowledge and education, into a project to make it the impactful and effective. Then have a boss exemplify the Dunning-Kruger effect and trash the work because they are confident they know better. Or they take the most wasteful approach to solving a problem, despite hiring teams of specialists whose job it is to find the most economically viable solution. I'm not against work because I'm lazy or I just want to be in control. I'm against the current condition of work because I don't want my, or others' work, being trashed by arrogant "leaders" or those trying to protect their little workplace fiefdoms through inefficiencies and waste.
I work as an accountant and this hit a little deep. I constantly work 40-65 hour work weeks and I have feel like shit. My gob isn't meaningful, I have barely anytime to do things that I like, and I'm always demanded to work more. I can't wait to do this for the rest of my life 🙂 I wish I could quit but I can't.
Always opt to work for as little time as you can afford. Lie and cheat your way to promotion, and work to educate your coworkers. Yugopnik made an incredible video about it, it’s called a socialist’s guide to surviving capitalism. I believe in you @Voop
It’s hard to see, but capitalism is just the extension of slavery. It’s the weakest form of slavery, with no obvious signs of slaves. Feudalism is a stronger form of slavery, while slavery itself is the worst and inhumane one. All of them just to use people as something can be thrown away.
Slavery didn't end, it evolved and has such an incredibly effective marketing plan that people compete to wear their chains and will fight to the last round, tooth and nail keep them.
It's actually not hard to see at all. We all know that the capitalist core countries rely on actual slavery in the capitalist periphery countries, like some in SW Asia (mostly for textiles), Africa (cocoa) and probably more in other parts of the world.
Man if this doesn't hit the nail on the head. At least in terms of meaningless jobs. I graduated with highest honors with a STEM degree at the beginning of the pandemic (having already done an internship in college) but was unable to find work in my field and so I had to go back to my previous almost minimum wage job until I was able to finally land a part time internship in my field.....which eventually led to a meaningless job in the company. I've applied for probably a hundred jobs since then and have not made it beyond the 3 or 4 interviews I've gotten. The situation is not looking great right now for me; but it was cathartic to be able to watch someone talk about this issue on a more fundamental societal level.
Yup. The amount of work you need to do to get a job at all is pretty much a full-time job in and of itself. Degrees nowadays are prerequisites for getting a decent-paying job, but it isn't the guarantee that it used to be. Not even if you study tech
That’s a super important point he brought up, millions of people in America can only earn a living wage by working for more hours than they see their families, leaving them too exhausted and to make meaningful change to issues like inequality corruption and climate change.
Sits back and waits for someone to shout "hypocrite, you hate Capitalism yet the video has adverts!" Like we don't live in a system in which earning money is essential to live.
ok, then don't tell capitalists that collect soc sec that they are hypocrites either. all they are doing is collecting the money that was once stolen from them. it's already theirs and always has been.
@@GenerationX1984 it's socialism you are forced to embrace. the usa is quite socialist and that is causing our problems. you are right to complain about govt, as their authority is illegitimate. and they can only exist by stealing our resources, because govts don't produce anything or provide any supply to a demand. they're just parasites. that is the nature of socialism. "ohhh when govt does sTuFf??!" YES. EXACTLY THAT, actually. the irony.
@@GenerationX1984 you are incorrect on several counts. please don't just believe nonsense bernie (or ANY party clown) says. i didn't say the usa is like some other country.. i said the usa has a LOT of socialism going on. and btw, sweden rolled back a bunch of socialist govt policy in the 80s because of the damage it did. so that country less socialist now that it was in recent history and doing better for it.
@@GenerationX1984 "Plus our refusal to tax billionaires and large corporations and not regulate them is how we got the biggest wealth gap of any developed nation". this is incorrect. again, _your_ taxes go to *the billionaires & trillionaires that ARE THE GOVT,* and _their_ taxes go back to them as well. they are one in the same. it's a trick. there is no point to demanding they tax themselves because the taxes GO TO THEM. regulation is used to selectively box out businesses that would be competition to the ones who are protected by nepotism. those who make the rules will never be forced to comply with them. who are they to choose who makes the rules? let the consumer decide. and no, regulation doesn't make stuff safer when, again, those big companies with so much power are NOT kept an eye on. that's why you have johnson&johnson and monsanto and diet soda and pharma pharma pharma giving people cancer with only a tiny percentage of victims winning lawsuit. regulation is a false sense of security. a facade. the consumer must learn how to determine good product instead of relying on a bought and paid for govt to do it for them. oh yes, we must. the only other option is disease. a govt will not protect you from yourself or anyone else even if you believe it will with all your heart. they just protect he big guys and make it nigh on impossible for you to defend yourself or get justice in any real sense. all of these CEOs of huge companies are bloodline. they didn't get it by working hard. and being able to tax producer income and KEEP IT has gotten them there. they love taking without consent. they *love socialism*. without it, the ruling class would immediately fall. the free market is your freedom. it's in the name.
@@GenerationX1984 hmm yeah such a mystery about those upvotes... don't comment or post on reddit if that bothers you though.. because they AUTO UPVOTE your comment for you.. ARRrrGGHHhhhh! dear god! sumwun get the defibrillator!
That unfortunately is my parents who are disillusioned and think it benefits them and no matter what I say they still believe our manipulative and evil system
It's the brainwashing of the consumer market. As long as the things we got kept getting cheaper and more convenient the more we believed that system was working. That globalization made things cheaper and easier for us. That mentally has made us blind to the slow destruction of our institutions.
We need a balance between capitalism and socialism - capitalism benefits greed while simultaneously underestimating greed - socialism assumes nobody will be greedy and then along comes a dictator. We need to work together for a fairer - stable future.
I'm in school, and on the way to a full time job. Sometimes, I just remember that capitalism has made the whole process suck, and will continue to make it so. On a worse note, I will most likely become an accountant, helping companies exploit people even further so that they can increase profit. I really hope I don't become that, though.
@@Youbetternowatchthis you can littrely do whatever you want. you could live on social benefits and your quality of live woud be the same as in any communist societies. But ...yeah ,forget about being able to buy all the things capitalism as built.
I think that working should be a choice. Things such as food, water and shelter should either cost very little or be provided by the government and any money earned working can be used for entertainment. I'd like to do things like hike the Appalachian trail in the United States, travel the world in order to admire architecture, nature and to try as many different foods as I can. Those are things I cannot do while working a minimum wage job (Here it's like $13 Canadian, for a little context), being forced to pay $800 in rent, $240 in gas per month so I can get to and from work everyday (my bf drives me) and paying 100-200 for food that is increasingly rising in price. I am one of those people who feels trapped by a system which only works for those at the top. I don't want to 'survive', I want to 'live'!
I always thought everyone should get the bare minimum each month for food gas and shelter you eat though you monthly food Givin by the government you gotta buy it your don't like the bread kind they give fo r free buy it yourself this way no one is hungry or homeless aleast
I just want housing, healthcare, food, to love, and be loved. This makes me the worst example of entitlement. I just want out of this dysphoric dystopic retail hell. I'm so tired.
Boss makes a dollar, while you make a dime. That was a poem from a simpler time. Now boss makes a thousand, while you make a cent. And he's still got employees that can't make rent.
Do you have the same responsibilities and liabilities as the boss? No! You come in, do some unskilled job, and clock out, but think your dislike of the job = "I have it just as hard as the guy running the place".
@@WillmobilePlus Wealthy executives and investors don't lift a finger to rake in billions off the backs of working folks. Risk doesn't mean shit when it's not your money on the line. If a business venture fails, without fail they get a bailout on public money while the workers starve. Your comment is the equivalent of "if you don't like slavery? Just die."
@@HeckaLives They put up the money so you actually had a place to pine your amazing shelf-stocking talents. >Risk doesn't mean shit when it's not your money on the line. What the h3ll? Did you ever take an econ 101 class in your life? You take out a business loan, what do you think is put up for collateral? > If a business venture fails, without fail they get a bailout on public money Oh...you mean if like the local bike shop fails? Or the local bakery? The medium manufacturing plant? the guy running the lawncare service? The house painter company? The lady that grooms dogs? Or do you thin the only companies you know of are Walmart and Amazon?
@@WillmobilePlus It's almost as if already having money is what's necessary to make money in our economic system. Being rich somehow makes you entitled to other people's work, labour, and money I guess.
@@HeckaLives it takes money to make money? Wow, you're 16 and you think you are deep. Like when the h3ll did that heavenly knowledge get revealed to you? And "entitled" to labor? So where was the gun that forced you to work for someone you didnt want to again?
My favorite Graeber quote, "If there was ever a sign that an economy is organized very stupidly its that the prospect of no one having to do manual labor is seen as a bad thing."
holy shit i feel something big coming. the r/antiwork subreddit was blowing up. i see so many millions of people who don't like the way work is happening. Something is coming. we will defintely see huge societal changes in the centuries to come.
@@thomasmaughan4798 Woah sounds just like what happened in China when Mao took over, and there were no farmers growing food. 60 million Chinese starved to death right? I hope we starve these Liberal sub humans just like that. Truly a fate a Communist slave deserves.
@@MrSolus-ls6us And guess what... in a capitalist society dependent upon people spending money on pointless things that have no inherent value... that's an economic death sentence. So, it sounds like a pretty solid plan. Just do nothing. *Literally*. Eta: watch it again because you also missed the part where a disposable workforce is needed. The more people who die, the more power the labour force has through sheer supply and demand principles. Why do you think the decreasing global birth rate has the powers that be so effed up right now?
Most people don't understand why the US is an immigrant country. They'll give you an opportunity to start a new life, but take all your money as fast as possible. Once you're broke, they'll repeat the process with another immigrant or anyone gullible. The same thing happens opening an online trading account for day-trading. Most traders lose money on margin account, like 80% - 90%.
Remember, 60, 70, and 80 year olds are too old and incompetent to work a typical job, but they're what largely constitutes our legislators and executives.
The one thing that keeps me happy when I hear this is that I know when I die there will be people who love me but for the super rich when they die they will die alone and anybody who claimed to love them will just be waiting to collect their will..
Here in Italy the three biggest unions (CGIL, CISL, UIL) recently did a general strike calling for the shortening of working hours without lowering wages (the "work less, so everyone can work" concept) and the introduction of a UBI system. After the strike, even *the Pope* advocated for the same things in a speech in Saint Peter's Square. Well, what can I say? I doubt anything will change, but at least the topic is being discussed.
This is great. We just need to do our part here in the US to fight back against shrinking wages so your gains are not hurt by the fact that the US is holding back the global labor market.
My dad works for an airline in Europe that has the only purpose, which is taking massive amounts of excess (american) billionaire money to taxi people to the Caribbean, so they can make vacation on the property's of previous mentioned billionaires so their real-estate doesn't loose value. Billions of dollars just going in a circle, helping no one, increasing climate change.
What brought us here ? Well, it's the constant f*cking increase in prices on all things, for the last several decades ! Because shit costs so damn much, we need to earn at least $ 22.00 per hour, and the average household needs two incomes. Once upon a time, you could buy a house, have a car and support a family with only one job and you didn't have to be a manager, CEO, engineer doctor, dentist or lawyer !
In 2007 in my last semester in college we had a speaker come in to the practicum class to inform us that our major was only good for a minimum wage job without a realistic chance of advancement. Videos like this help really put the absurdity of that event into perspective for me.
I’ve always been amazed how, respectfully, the average American believes Capitalism = “Freedom”. While Socialism has been demonised as this terrible evil thing. People would rather suffer under a system that doesn’t work, which they keep believing is how they should live, than simply change to a more fairer, healthy and respectful system and adopt a new way of living. Sad 😞
Americans became enslaved With a smile. Scared by the boogyman, Dreaming to become rockstars. i live in CA and trust me capitalisim is eating the life out of americans every day.
I think the issue is capitalism is all about individualism and socialism promotes the whole working together for the benefit of all… therefore if someone does poorly under capitalism it’s that individuals fault… not capitalism being a shot show. On the other hand we so easily blame socialism if anyone doesn’t thrive under a socialist state
What's perfect about your releases is they always come out during my lunch break, which is just barely long enough to fit a single video in. You give me something to think about and question as I return to slaving away
I was talking to this guy and I told him how capitalism would eventually fail and he thought I was a leftist socialist and he was like I dont like socialism or communism and I didnt even mention those words and then he said "but even fascism has some good in it" I was like wtf
Because it does at least Fascism works. Case in point Germany went from being the poorest country in Europe to fight the World’s 3 super powers in 6 years, all because of Fascism. Meanwhile every time a Socialist government takes power, a recession always follows, with the only way to survive to become Communist and then kill millions of its own people that dare disobey. (Soviet Union and China put its own people in death/labor camps and they died in the 10s of millions.) So ya Capitalism and even Fascism are far far better than Socialism/Communism
@@MrSolus-ls6us *"So ya Capitalism and even Fascism are far far better than Socialism/Communism"* All fascist servants continuously repeat the same things (without any piece of proof). So you`re not unique. ))
@@MrSolus-ls6us Are you fucking stupid? The Soviet Union was far poorer than Germany and became one of the world's superpowers. Because of their socialistic attempts (even though they never got further than state capitalism with a few socialist practices). Meanwhile, Nazi Germany employed forced labour, stole the assets of millions of people and then killed those millions of people.
Technical skills keep getting higher and I am still in self-education mode at 43. If you are smart and productive you’re treated the same as low performers. HR protects the exact wrong things like bad hires
This, specifically, is what I've been thinking for so long. I could put my hands to work helping those in need but the only thing that this society will allow me to do is work for some soulless megacorp that expects me to manipulate people into spending far too much money on things they don't need or want. For most of this money to be sent to the top, the top that is practically saturated with money.
I was pretty clear in referring to jobs. There is no supply of jobs regarding actually improving people's lives, or at least not enough of one. Yeah I could go outside and spend the meager amount of money I make on other people, but all I can really do is hand them a little money or give them food. Neither of which will actively improve their lives, just continue sustaining them, maybe allowing them to get drunk for a night. But what else can I do? Build housing for them? In order to build on land, you need to buy that land, in order to get them along to living self-sufficiently, I might have to do a plethora of things regarding applying them for welfare, if they don't already have it, sending them to rehab, as a great deal were crippled by drugs, many many more are practically unable to work, living with any kinds of disorders that disable their ability to communicate, their ability to move, their ability to take in information, more are older, with families long out of contact, or long gone in other means and you might see why it's more than anything a few groups or individuals can do. There are a lot of people who need help. You need people devoting a large amount of time and money on them, which some have done before, in rare organized movements, with limited great cost to themselves, often running on donations, but most donate to other things, water for African areas without easy access, wildfire recovery, nature preservation organizations, etc. All of which would also fall under this category of "would be a whole lot better if we worked for things other than just money". So many would sign up for training and careers in preserving our planet, in helping all those in need, if they didn't have to worry constantly about it being a massive money sink, about it being unprofitable. And when the amount of people needing care declines, then they don't have to worry about it being unprofitable, nor any other job. If profit isnt a motive, or at the very least, isn't the primary motive, our world will rid itself of so much waste and excess, for a simple lack of need for it.
@@BigDogBandit I remember once with dad we were travelling to the mountains and we passed next to a dam. He told me about the expenses for its construction, and how they massively outweight the monetary gains. It is a government project, never meant to be profitable, but still it was done and it improved the lives of people and allowed for local development to flourish. Life is complex, isn't it?
Infrastructure is different. Without infrastructure you can't have economy. And of course, for the sake of the economy, along with not appearing as a massive piece of #%&@, assisting with some necessities is in everyone's best interest. Not to say that people didn't at least try back in the day, long before I was born. And to an extent, local systems like the ones that handle dams and such are less vulnerable to the pure-profit viewpoint that corrupts so many folk, because they are on a level in which their citizens 1: have direct access to local system authorities, increasing both the efficacy of that system in solving community problems, 2: gives reason to authorities to fix the community, because it's their community instead of being a far away state or country, and 3: . Only in recent times has there been a complete disregard for the common man, out of fear of a political system labeled as inherently immoral for reasons never explained, just "look, they failed, so that must be because their system is COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to have succeed" despite evidence otherwise existing (until the CIA came in, again and again and again, and snuffing out so much information on the subjects) and despite capitalism failing in its own right, as a fuckton of capitalist countries cannot provide for themselves, and are constantly being manipulated by larger countries. But allowing those tossed to the side of society to remain that way is a different story. Not caring for people because it's not convenient to, despite apparently having the capability to spend excessive amounts on the military, to fund obliterating other countries for supporting their people in a way they don't agree with. Despite having a massive pool of potential funding completely ignored because of technicalities allowed by the state, all for the sake of those who now hold a large portion of the economy over their head. Despite helping these people likely costing very little in comparison to expenses. Maybe a few million in the heavily populated and needing states, *maybe* a billion in california and florida, but I genuinely doubt that. The US government works on a scale where this is possible. Whether or not it is cheap, it is certainly within their capability and should be more of a priority. These are our citizens, our shunned and neglected, and our veterans, whether or not they contribute to the economy or society, they deserve to live with a decent quality of life all the same.
- Amala Ekpunobi: "I laugh at communists saying that soviet communism wasn't real communism" - Also Amala Ekpunobi: "this is isn't capitalism, it's *crony* capitalism!"
We need to stop legally viewing a company as a person. The actual people making these decisions (profit over safety) might think twice if they were ever liable.
Alright so no more cars, no more planes, no more bicycles, no more trains, no more alcohol, no more pharmaceutical drugs, no more surgeries, no more construction work, no more sports, no more sun. Seriously how dumb are you?
Im drawing correlation of my wants and people just calling me lazy because of this video. "You don't have anything because you are lazy." No, I just don't want much. I have my gaming laptop and my ps5. I have basic foods in my fridge. I don't want anything else. Then people tell me I would be so much more financially secure if you just worked harder! Despite the fact that thousands of jobs are being laid off constantly despite record profits. Count me tf out. The dollar doesn't go as far as it used to and companies are just swooping up the essentials and its gotten so God damn bad, that people are just saying F it now.
I see people sleeping in their cars here in California because they aren't earning enough to afford housing. You have to live in conjunction with others(family) to stay off the street if you are an entry level employee. There's allot of jobs advertised but the majority don't give full time or benefits and don't even pay minimum wage cause they are small businesses that don't have the same requirements.
I mean they could try and pack up and leave the state considering it's one of the highest States to live in and I don't understand why people intentionally want to move to a state where you can barely afford an apartment
Here in Germany, we call jobs "Beruf". "Beruf" comes from "Berufung" which roughly translates back to English as "The Calling", your destiniy. Something that fulfills you and complements you. Your passion which makes you you. That's what a job should be like.
@@jetkirby I'm sorry for you. I hope the on-going struggle and resistance will lead your nation to a time where you can tend to your vocation without needing to consider how much it pays!
Decades ago I heard someone say in an interview about starvation and malnutrition in India, whether a politician or pundit I don't remember, "there is enough food for everyone in India but the poor don't have the money to buy it." It would be rare to hear someone speak that bluntly today.
I remember an old friend was trying to get a job and was struggling. I told him “do you really think there are more jobs than people?” And ever since he knew none of this was his fault and that our country is trash.
I have become antiwork this year.
I did everything I was "supposed" to do. I went to university, got into debt (not in the US, so not nearly as much as you guys), studied something that was supposed to be profitable but also cool to do, etc. Then, when I graduated in 2019, I saw that employers didn't want me because I had no experience, so I was forced to work minimum wage to survive while I continued to search in my field. I changed jobs in search of better conditions, but they all suck and made me so depressed.
Then, I started doing some freelance work, and while it wasn't very stable, it was starting to pick up. Then, the pandemic happened and all my contracts stopped. I was working part-time as a dishwasher to complement my freelance work, but the dishwasher job continued and the freelance stopped. I got CERB, but I was forced to keep the dishwasher job or else I would lose everything.
Then, in the fall, I finally got hired by the only company that didn't care about experience (they hired everyone who passed their ridiculous tests). They only wanted the best of the best. What did they pay, tho? 18 CAD per hour. Laughable. I told myself I would collect some experience there and change jobs later, but they ended up firing me after my probation because I wasn't improving as fast as they wanted me to. Their expectations are off the charts and most people leave after two years. I was doing as much as I could.
Since then, I'm on unemployment and I see jobs never showing the salary, asking for a minimum of 5 years experience and just generally being shitty. Fuck this, I just want to live. Why does it have to be so complicated??
This comment should honestly be front and centre. The staunch defenders of the system might pull out arguments for why it's not the fault of the system, but I think many people would see themselves in this.
It's got me thinking about looking to other countries for permanent dwelling in the near future. I don't care what sacrifices I have to make, but it beats sitting around and waiting for things to change in the US.
@@normandy2501 I want to do the same honestly. Canada is not as bad as the US, but by having it as a neighbor, it drags us down with it. "If you offer those conditions, we won't be able to compete with the US" or "Quit complaining, people in the US pay X for this". European working rights sound like a dream to me.
Yeah,same. We can't go on like this
Dude i am the same...
went into aeronautical engineering and when i came out in top 7-8% of my class (studying in a foreign language, not even english but a third language amongst locals) i was actually unable to find work in a field that pre-corona was supposedly lacking workers. Employers were looking for 5+ years of experience with certificates showing specific knowledge on specific aircrafts (certificates that both cost and require 3+ years experience on those aircraft) whilst wanting to pay under 1k-1.5k$ salary. we are talking about highly qualified engineering jobs at a country where middle class is starting from ~3.5k+$ salaries and goes way up...
so my basically "empty meaning" degree meant nothing.
was looking for a job in the field for over 6 months to find a barely ok position with the understanding of salary being raised within 6 months.... corona hit and i was let go for few months and then they got me back. the 6 months probation started over...
but because i requested 2 months of unofficial work "illegal" ( i wanted to participate in a eu program for some basic pilot training that required u being unemploeyd) thsoe 6 months got reset again.
and after the 2 months passed and i realised that the programm was a joke and they werent ever gonna start it, i left it and requested my work becomes official again. they were saving significant money not paying taxes for me and my helthcare costs (almost 1/3 of my salary ontop the money paying me) so it took them 7 more months to get me official again...
and due to corona i wasnt able to leave that job
and when i became an official employee again, the 6 month clock was RESET once again!!!
thats the second best paying place in this country in aviation (after air traffic controllers, which is a goverment job that pays great, but i dont want that stress currently in my early to mid 20s...)
sooo with over 2 years experience at this point, as an aeronautical engineer, whose job includes actually taking engineering decisions and responsibility with my signature on a document, i am being payed under half what would take for me to enter the lowest amount to start be considered a middle class...
i am actually making just above 20$ whats considered the poverty line for the capital city of the country - where i live...
and me managing to survive financially is based on me leaving in a college dorm (that actually costs nothing) due to me doing a double masters... which i am concluding litterally next week and will not affect my pay in any way!!! but that also means i will have to go on rented housing which with current pricing will actually put me in negative budgets by living the same way i do now... (which would be me spending less than 50$ a month for ALL of my hobbies and enjoyments)...
so yeah... maybe the job isnt terrible (though i have to do many things i am uncomfortable with (as to approving things i dont agree with), but this is a routine that must be broken. not for one person (like me or you) but for the entire working class...
but unfortunately the US is a leader in terrible worker rights and too many places are copying them...
"When I was young I was poor. Now, after I've pulled myself by the bootstraps, got good education, worked extra hours, never took sick leave, ate junk food to save money, I am no longer young"
And you have very little time left for life.
The American dream.
The American work ethic
"Ah yes, how could you tell I was deteriorating faster than the next economic crisis?"
@@Yandel21ableify
The American Nightmare.
"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?" - Charles Bukowski.
@@thomasmaughan4798 Good for you man. Some of us ain't that lucky.
@@thomasmaughan4798
And you're employer was probably laughing up a storm at that load of crap behind your back all the way to his offshore accounts.
@@f1r3hunt3rz5 Ah yes, luck, of course...
@@TuEIite kind of lucky bcs in this time is so hard to find a job :/ I hate this sistem so much
@@whutcat682 There are job shortages almost everywhere...
its crazy how all those “ unskilled low-wage” employees were all of a sudden “essential workers”
What's even more crazy is that conditions for low wage workers is even worse now than before covid because low wage employers can't get enough workers to do these shitty jobs for shitty pay, so they are perpetually understaffed, placing even more burden on existing 'essential' workers.
And still they refuse to offer the pay and conditions that would pull these workers in
Amazing comment
Well not all of them, but definitely most of them
Funny how that works.
Do NOT listen to this at work. Damn near walked off the job 😂
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Your emotional response is correct,now we have FIGHT, with our vote, with our voices, with our feet in the streets!! Please don't just walk out though,I did that once and ended up having a hard time finding another.Be strong,be informed,you got this!
I played it out loud
I bet my old boss would've fired me on the spot if he saw me watching this (on my break of course) and I would've just said "Okay bye"
Shit like this is why I support the general strike that has been happening globally lately. People are sick of the Bullshit Jobs. People are sick of Long Hours, Bad Wage, and No Benefits. People are sick of having to pick between gas in their car or food on their plate.
The fight for 15 is over: These People fight for a permanently livable wage.
I need to be able to invest so I can escape the dystopian hellscape USA. Slave wage jobs don't even pay for basic needs. Let alone provide for the capacity to save or invest. I won't work for anyone that doesn't pay enough to meet ones needs. As IF I can't escape the USA death is my ONLY path.
EVERYONE has a right to a living wage, and a fixed work schedule plus benefits.
What's the alternative?
Wait, global strike?
You mean Marx was right about a global class solidarity emerging after the creation of a global communications tool?
Is that what we’re seeing unfold right before our eyes? A global class solidarity?
WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!!
@@MrKIMBO345 And you think there would be no exploitation then? Naive you...
When minimum wage workers get stimulus checks, people say they don't need it because they'll waste it on drugs or Starbucks. Yet when CEOs get $10M salaries, I never hear anyone say "they don't need $10M because they'll waste it on a third yacht."
Because they own the company. If you Want more, do more or find a better job. Work. Don't be lazy.
Thefilmboy is a bootlicker.
@@AHess007 Says the guy who has never worked a single day in his life.
@@proudbrogressive315 the video is up now. Bro thinks I don't work.
That's the cancer of capitalism but Goodluck telling that to a brainwashed American
Nothing makes my blood boil like hearing “we made record profits last year!” And then being told i will not receive a raise or added benefits.
They list that kind of shit in job listings now, under the "why work for us?" section
Like why would I give even a quark of a proton of an atom of a fuck about that? It has literally zero correlation to worker pay in almost every company on Earth (and even in the few exceptions, you have to be very high up for it to matter)
In a meeting, the company I work for announced that they had made an extra 1.2 million dollars, immedietly after that they told us they were no longer providing us with water and we would have to bring our own.
Greed hurts everyone at work someone I know works for US Steel and they treat their employees with respect and pay bonuses when they make profits
@@Guitarplayer22222 plastic water is bad
that's the american way LMFAOOO. heard it many times here in canada from canadians involved in american-run companies. 🥳
It’s not a labor shortage. It’s a fair treatment and reasonable pay shortage. It’s up to employers to provide what we want if they want us to work for them. This is the free market they love So much. The economy is made of people. So many forget this fact.
I'm browsing for the "Suck it up no excuses" type lol
@Sophie troll bot - vuvuzella iPhone - socialism is when capitalism
Corporatism is not capitalism. The government helped build many of these giant corporations which take advantage of people. People should support their local/ small businesses.
Dude just make your own company. Why have the people you can't trust fix your problem. TF wrong with you? Make a competitor. They don't have employees to meet demand. Be the change you want to see
@Sophie These aren’t exclusive to communism you know that right?
I'm an engineer for a prestigious American space agency. 90% of my job is not important and could be accomplished easily with software. 10% of it is important, but none of it is "essential."
Nasa
Space X
read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber: you aren’t the only one experiencing thjs
Write the software and sell it to the company, if what you say is true.
@@Soulwrite7 he said he's an engineer, like physical, not software engineer
What I've found through working retail and fast food is, if you work hard you aren't rewarded, you are just given more work than everybody else
If you work hourly, as long as you are doing the job and not screwing up/causing problems, there's no financial advantage to doing more work than you have to unless you just happen to enjoy it.
That is not unique to retail OR fast food. ALL bad employers do that - doesn't matter if you make $10k or $100k. A bad boss is a bad boss. Find a better one.
I would suggest quit those industries and get into somekind of skilled labor. Or start you own bussiness.
@@juanc10finally someone in these comments that makes sense 💯💯👍☝
Amen. I have had to tell people not to overwork or else it will become expected of us and sure enough it did. It wasn’t that we had the extra time, it just so happened they hadn’t worked a busy shift yet and once they did, their overworking added a whole new set of responsibilities for the position.
There is a concept called "lying flat" in china where the younger generation is refusing to work except for 2-3 months out of the year because they are tired of being exploited. They also refuse to get married or have children. The fear of this movement has grown to the point that the term "lying flat" is a censored phrase in China.
I’ve been paying flat in the US the most of my adult life. The less I work the happiest I feel.
That's kind of true.And if the industry lost the social ability of "let people move higher social level"through works ,then more people will be lying flat…and it seems functions of social mobility in US and many other countries are playing the minimum role~so what's the way out ?hmm
Good to hear this out of China. The younger generation is wising up because they are the ones that are going to be given the planet when the old ruling elite are gone. But I'm sure the younger generation don't want to enable the further destruction of their home land for the benefit of a few obscenely wealthy people and corporations.
Hopefully they follow that train of thought and are willing to revolutionize the economy itself to end oppression. End the oppression of labor-for-income. Demand a UBI as a human right so everybody's needs are taken care of. Then work for system change away from the unsustainable monetary-market economy and build a better system based on natural law and careful management of available resources.
Don't get me wrong I would love to be a housewife. But work just exploits you and even if I can't work because I'm disabled everyone one that isn't rich is paying for higher prices for goods and that just sucks. It's hard for us as it is without them meddling
Lying flat and letting it rot are definitely the way to go. If the rich don't feel like treating their employees as human beings then they can just do their work by themselves
The harder you work, the quicker your boss can retire. He'll enjoy that boat you've always wanted.
Or you are forced to work and earn nothing because the government forced you.
"There are only two certainties in life - death and taxes."
- Except if you're rich, in which case you can legally dodge taxes and thus pay less in tax than your average worker. And even postponing death itself is also becoming a real possibility for the rich with nanotechnology, so that statement is only a half-truth. It's rather ironic how the richer you are, the less taxes you pay. The secret is to move away from income-based salary into capital gains and store away your wealth in trust funds and holding companies.
@@brazghost what?
@@brazghost yeah, the military sucks as a jobs program right?
@@brazghost Through what authority? Oh they have weapons? We do too. They have an army? We do too. Only a truly disgusting army of individuals could use their arms to oppress their fellow citizens, their families, all for a minuscule gain.
No joke: I'm sitting at my "awesome and fulfilling" healthcare "career" on a Saturday morning watching this and it crushes my soul to hear my ENTIRE EXISTENCE and life experience summed up in so few words.
I thought in healthcare I would be making a difference. At the end of the day, I am just another factory worker getting as much product in and out per day for my overlords as I possibly can. It just so happens the product is YOU.
Did you know, internally, management does not even refer to you as patients? You are a "customer" when you walk into the hospital, i.e. a source of income, not a human being.
Exactly. Makes no sense for healthcare to be a private industry. Pure evil.
I've heard Doctors have high levels of narcissism these days and most people going to medical school are just chasing money, not striving to cure the sick and heal the poor.
Thanks for sharing your story !
Super wealthy: There needs to be these jobs to have people under chronic stress and anxiety to keep them sick and dependent on the health (sick) care system, (pharma, insurance, hospitals, etc) to keep us super wealthy
@@jonbob732 If you do not care about helping people in healthcare, you are not doing your job. If you do not treat other human beings like human beings, then you do not act like a human being yourself. You act like you are made of money when money is more important to you than people. Gene Ward, I feel very bad for you if capitalism makes being good at your job pointless.
@@loui2w118 We can live without you, super wealthy! We don't need to take your jobs, and the economy will not collapse when you are not kept super wealthy.
This released a minute ago people are disliking it without even being physically able to watch it all….
People who are right wing.
Most of the videos in this channel have a 0.04 max disapproval so I wouldn't worry about it. Every village has a madman or 2
@@haroldinho9930 bro he just recycles all the time the things he already has said before. Im not even on the right-wing but he has to shape his content in another form cause it's getting tiring to hear the same things all the time. I mean I love his videos about patriotism and other related problems. he does a very good job explaining some basic and fundamental ideologies but he needs a change I feel like. Okay we heard that capitalism is bad and this and that and the other, but enough. I don't dislike his videos I just don't even the interest too, when I see there is not change cause I already know from the beginning what he is going to talk about. I'm, not mad or whatever I'm just explaining my point of view since I'm long time fan of his channel since his video with the grandpa paradox.. lol it's been a while.
@@theleeda5565 More like every planet has a few million.
@@haroldinho9930 One more thing that I saw right now, his video about Findland's homelessness was fucking awesome because It was something interesting and different. This is how you explain the capitalistic problems, comparing them with other ideologies and doings.
College for me was a highway to oblivion.. graduated in 1986, five years later, came to the realization that it was devalued and useless. Been working a boring, unimportant meaningless job making no difference in my life or the life of others. I’m 58..
Well at least you didnt graduate in the 2000s. Small consolation I suppose.
you should then just get a new job that is entraining and important and does make a difference in your life others as well stop being a slave and charge into your own bright better future NOW.
@@Elitesolider1023 lol "if u get new job fings better"
I find it amazing that during the industrial revolution we fought for an 8hr work day to regulate the length of a working day, preventing excesses and abuses.(I.e. to stop having 10 - 16 hr workdays). Got those 8 hr workdays were people only had to work one job and no longer had to work in excess and be abused. Fast forward to today. We have 4-8hr workdays per job *2-3jobs=back to 10 -16 hr workdays.
America needs a revolution, and i dont mean riots or some protest, i mean setting up Guillotines in front of Wall Street and White house, where lines of politicians, upper class bureaucrats and rich corporates are waiting to be beheaded
I'm so mad and sad at the same time reading of people required to work 80-100 hours per week: with 100 hours of work/week and 7 hours/sleep per day, you are left with like 30 minutes of freetime per day. I removed the time i think you need for hygiene, making and eating food as well.
This is literally "living to work" and not "working to live".
@@AxenfonKlatismrek You need to have a positive foundation and invested leaders for such an act, and do everything required to prevent it from becoming a tyranny of the masses like the French Revolution.
Dedicate yourself. Do something with all of your focus for 100hrs/week and do it for 15-20 years, see where that gets you. It gets you in a position where after those 20 years you get to choose if you want to work or not for the rest of your life.
But instead it seems most people rather half-ass it, complain, waste time and after 50 years they end up nowhere.
I work 11 hours 5 days a week but they take off 2 hours on 1 day like that really matters and I get 7.25$ an hour
We are in a race to the bottom. When the CEO of the company I work for makes more in a day than I make in year, something is wrong.
of course, its because he works 365 times harder than you =P
It's because he's in need, those poor, poor, poor, billionaires have too much money, so they need money, and that person down the street living in a shack working 16 hours for like 7.25 hr is a fucking Communist scum because they had the AUDACITY to need something
@@gavinisdie The majority of money in investments. The land and everything built on it is what costs billions. If cash was just sitting in a vault it would go to waste.
@@nicolasinvernizzi6140 No. Most bottom jobs work way harder than upper positions. Bosses just check numbers and attend to meetings (to check more numbers). That's all. They don't do the hard job. They don't package things, flip burgers or take calls from customers. They are more paid for doing less, and pay less to those who do more. Just to avoid doing the hard thing themselves.
@@johnmaco Bosses don't even have to work, just pay others to do it. There is no reason why they should do any work but enjoy their profits. But paying the workers a decent wages and looking after them is something they SHOULD be doing.
I have to tell my parents constantly that getting a minimum wage job today provides you with nothing. You are literally gate kept out of renting apartments, financing a car, getting a loan on a house, etc. The minimum wage needs to be atleast 25 dollars for us to live with decency, and it's never going to be provided to us any time soon.
@@GenerationX1984 lol no he isn't. By the time we even get 15 it'd be past his terms and that would be just as shitty as 7.25
Higher minimum wage also increase costs of products unless you are able to decrease cost somewhere els. So getting more money will mean paying more. See countries with great wages like Norway or Zwitserland for a foreigner its expensive to buy food or a living place in these countries.
@@GenerationX1984 No he isn't. Liberals believe some stupid shit.
Wage was only in that bill for Dems to offer it up on the altar of 'we-kiss-right-wing-wass-for-unity".
Sometimes I think Bernie Sanders might be an actual idiot for engaging establishment dems on good faith to begin with.
@@remco6816 "for a foreigner" exactly.......how are the Swiss people fairing?
@@kennykenevil57 the rest of the world is cheap 😄. But Americans rarely leave their countries.
I hope 100 years from now as a society we will be able to look back on this time in history and realize how awful it was that society used to be structured this way
It is time for paid vacation to be mandatory for all workers and each worker needs to make a living wage
life is bad now, it's gonna be a lot worse in a hundred years. It isn't possible to have ever-increasing automation, A.I., overpopulation, capitalism, climate change and ecological destruction without resulting in the kind of techno-feudalism envisioned by movies like Elysium and Ready Player One. Don't have kids, kids.
Humanity will be long dead after 100 years buddy
We won’t be able too because we would have worked are selfs into nonexistent and the aliens exploring this planet will only have clues to what has happened
You mean like we now see communism and socialism?
I'm a software engineer. I don't make nearly enough, but I don't want to go try and work for the companies that pay more in silicon valley. not only would I have to work more, but I feel like i'd be actively making the world worse working for companies like Facebook.
I heard softwarw engineers get paid a lot. I know somebody who's a recent graduate that is getting paid over 80 grand a year
I’m a software engineer and I make 150k a year. I don’t live in California or New York either
The greed will always overcome dw
@@danklewis2670 ... Congratulations dude xD
@@danklewis2670 I think you should be sharing your wealth with all the deadbeats in this comment section
Cost of living is just another externality in an economic system that ignores externalities.
Working class America - "we literally can't afford to live"
Economists - "we measure success by the cost of consumer goods and shareholder profit and by those metrics, you've never had it better"
It's long past time we start measuring success by human fulfillment rather than by numbers.
@@justanotherhero398 Absolutely
Yep and everyone I know that works hard for a career is depressed as fuck
As downer as these videos are, they bring me a sense of catharsis and pushed me to start talking about unions to my coworkers
Please sir, please, higher wages? Higher wages sir? Why must we be slaves to the mercy of Capitalists? Those who own the forces of production and employ wage labor. Dude, if enough of us support the cause and arm ourselves what the hell are the capitalist army going to do against millions of its own citizens when they couldn’t beat impoverished farmers in Vietnam and village men in Afghanistan?? Meet the demands or get fucked.
Be careful not to get fired
Good luck!
@@deusola911 He might become part of the reserve army of labor :/
@@Darthdesmond saying that things were worse in the past is no reason we shouldn’t work to make a better future now
@@deusola911 thank you, I'm trying to keep my head down, but the process has to start somewhere.
“we put more than half of our waking hours into a job, regardless of its necessity, so that we can simply pay for our miserable existence”
we have to help the people that pay us destroy our environment.
Like I say; we work to live so we can live to work. Work to keep on living so we can keep on working.
Working most jobs these days also kills your creativity. I used to be a very creative person in high school/college, but now feel that its a skill that I've almost lost. I'm somewhat terrified of the thought of retirement as I have no idea what I'd want to do with it.
Same, I hate that I can't write anymore. I used to write so much in high school. It sort of faded out in college, and now I just don't have the inspiration or willpower to make the time for it.
If capitalism continues destroying humanity and the planet at this rate, you won't have to worry about retirement. :-)
You're actually able to retire!?!
@@methos1999 God, no... I'm not even hoping for a retirement anymore. The planet will go to sh!t due to climate change and there are too many people on the planet already for anything to stabilize the environment. Earth can't handle more than 4 billion people with the lifestyle of the civilised western world...
@@kenos911
"amount of funding against climate change": I know. It's been happening since the 60ies..
"Even China knows that they can’t make money if their people are all dead!": I'm not sure what you are trying to tell me here... Is China lookinhg for ways to reduce their emissions?
"we aren’t gonna die in 30 years man": Well, most millenials and all gen z won't retire in 30 years either... So we're pretty f'd xD
I come from a native community (In Mexico), and I think many times of how my ancestors used to live. They lived off of the land and spent time with family. They definitely lived happier in their communities. Now I see my life and I see myself as a slave to a biased system. I wish I could live like my ancestors.
>They lived off of the land
Dude, you think YOU are going to do what it took to "live off the land" like they did? I d@mn well doubt that the way many of you chafe at working retail jobs.
It's sad that it has been made illegal to live off of the land.
@@WillmobilePlus it's really not that hard, communities are essentially the original networkers. I'm a water quality specialist and I may not have have the best plumbing knowledge, however if I say find someone that can build and understand a bit of HVAC which has many regulations, then someone that is good in communications and economics, and then possibly someone good at basic farming, then maybe a Baker to bake daily bread as a gift from the lord, someone that's into art history and culture (everyone has a different culture to bring) it would literally be easy as pie to live off a big open land with what everyone can bring to the table tbh.
I hope to God ur ancestors were Mixica tribe. If they belonged to a tribe that got in the way of an Aztec expansion campaign - ub OH.
Tenojticlan was built off slave labor of non Mixica tribesmen.
We can live like that again, but we have to amass enough of a movement of people that the ruling elites of the monetary-system cannot ignore our voice. What our ancestors lived like for thousands of years was egalitarian communities without money or markets. We lived successfully like that for over 90% of human history. Then we settled into communities, developed agriculture and that set off the need for trade, and then dominance, resource wars and oppression through labor.
But we live in the 21st Century now with advancing technology. We have the technical capacity to meet all human needs locally and sustainably without money or markets. We just don't have an economy that incentivizes or allows for that by its structure. The current market economy is unsustainable.
We need a revolution and transition to a resource-based economy (like our ancestors lived). How could we do that? Demand a global Universal Basic Income as a human right for all people to meet their basic needs without labor-for-income. That can start the transition to a moneyless society, because we need to take the boot off the throat of so many people overworked and/or overstressed that can't help a revolution unless they have their basic needs met.
"The delusion of infinite growth", there's a phrase I've been saying since I was in high school; over a decade ago.
Yes, in other fields of study, that's called cancer!
You should take the time to look into why growth is such a necessity. It's not rocket science, and it's eye-opening.
They will grow until they become the very parasites they claim to be against
Be A Entrepreneur if you want infinite growth.
I've been working for Amazon as a packer for almost 3 years. Every once and while, something will happen with the system of conveyers that move shipments around the FC (usually a jam or mechanical fault) that will prevent us from working for hours on end (I work a 10hr shift). When this happens, the managers will literally just have us stand there (sitting is considered a safety hazard) aimlessly until they fix the problem. The last time this happened was hilarious because they called MET (Mandatory Extra Time), meaning we had to stay for an extra hour and half. Right around the time our shift normally would have ended, something happened with the conveyers and we ended up doing absolutely nothing for the extra hour and half we were required to stay. It really baffles me why they do the things they do, it seems contrary to the profit motive that drives capitalism.
I am convinced that you are paid to be miserable, and not paid to actually do a service. Waste your time and do it with a smile.
It's not about profit. It's about subjegation and domination. Profit is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that you know that they control you, your life, your time and even your toughts and that you know that you can't do nothing about it, because you are alone. Money is merely an instrument of control.
@@aleksapetrovic6519 I had the same thought watching the video. Labor and employment are weapons, used to keep those of us who work too tired, placid and afraid of losing our incomes to fight our abusers, and to ensure those who don't work lack to means to fight anyway.
Dude, that is so so abusive.
"Sitting is considered a safety hazard". Bruh.
Me growing up: I will dedicated my life into the betterment of others, through my skills in math and physics, since I can offer solution for common problems we encounter in our lives.
Me almost finishing college: I should never deliver a complete product to my client so I can make them pay me at least twice, since this is what my professors told me.
Guys no joke those are words coming out of the mouth of engineer professors. And the worse part is you better follow this most of the time otherwise you are offering free labor to your boss.... I don't want to be inefficient, but if I don't I work more for the same payment. This is absurd. And I am in the lucky ones. This utterly stupid
If you deliver a competent product to people, you will literally starve them to death, ever heard of the great depression?
A lot of you people, have these great unseen solutions to problems , but you are just ignorant children that think the solution for our problems is as basic as you own will.
@@happypt2929 This just sounds like even more reason to move past capitalism if it's convinced you that delivering a competent product is a bad thing.
@@happypt2929 The fact that a competent, fully functioning product is a bad thing under capitalism is all the more reasoning for us to destroy it, and move on to a new system of allocation.
@@happypt2929 you literally just proved why capitalism is a failure as a system of allocation.
@@thepsychocyborg9278If america was communist everyone would still be using a blackberry, worse actually, as there would be no incentive to build better technology ,extremely expensive technology, if not everyone could own it.
If you think communism would just resolve the problem of supply and demand your very , very wrong,
A factory producing a product so good no one would buy it anymore would just eventually close under capitalism or under communism.
Communism cant solve these problems.
Plus it's even worse if you're disabled/neurodivergent. Capitalism also thrives on eugenics.
How so?
@@billnyetherussianspy3187 if you can't work normally then you have to fight for your right to exist.
@@billnyetherussianspy3187 i have a friend with a leg disability (needs a wheelchair), he can do a lot of work just fine but gets tired more easily, so companies dont want him because its extra money they have to spend because of inefficiencies in their eyes, for clerk/secretary like work he doesn't get hired because people are disquieted by looking at him, the dream is having pretty looking people for those jobs, not someone who does things well or is in a wheelchair that has to be accommodated, all those things and even sometimes just the fact he's gay have made jobs harder for him to get and easily gets fired from the jobs he does get, because someone else can do it better for not having a disability, fortunately he lives in England and gets enough welfare that he can live well enough but he struggles with not being able to work like other people.
This is EXACTLY right. I've started using the term eugenics when people want to talk badly about low paying jobs, like food service, and think it's ok because "it's a kid's job". I ask "so it's ok to pay child laborers less than living wages and they don't deserve to have a roof over their heads because they're poor? You know that's eugenics right? Telling someone they don't deserve to live because their poor". Usually shuts them up or makes them get super defensive.
@@WallaWaller but I'm no one owes you nothing thats just how nature works only the strong survive
BS Jobs Linkedin profiles be like: "I am SO passionate about search engine optimization"
The funny and most sad thing about the whole system is, there are probably are millions who want to do that, but their passions are being replaced with wage robots, and that discredits their whole passion. There is probably some one who wants to start a new fast food chain, one much better and healthier than the big ones, but the rep that the big ones have discredits that idea. Even in more comfortable and equal places like Canada and The Nordic countries this problem continues, although less, because people have to pretend to like someone else’s passion in order to succeed in life, rather than all people doing their own passion and only the few without going to whatever job is open. The only people winning are the billionaires who seemed to get rid of their passions long ago for the shake of their own wealth.
@@darkbrightnorth I find it hard to believe that someone is actually passionate about SEO, PPC or alike. Its an easy way for analytical minds to earn some money, but beyond that, nah. There is no passion there. I worked in this exact field and I have never met a person who is truly passionate about it. They might act as such for various reasons, but thats bout it. Deep down, I always knew that tinkering with online advertising tools brings zero value to society, just took me some time to realize it (sounds kinda funny in hindsight). The main motivator of why people do these types of jobs is "I am pretty smart and good with numbers, I just need to study about this for a few weeks and Im likely to get an entry job in the field, half a year in, I will get a mid position if I work hard enough and a few years down the line, Ill be a senior in a big agency earning decent money." I know this is an anecdotal argument, and thus pretty weak, but from all Ive gathered by talking with numerous people from the field, thats about where I stand.
@@alexbarcovsky4319 You are so correct about this. And some people go so far into the rabbit hole of pursuing passionless work that they probably forget how it feels to be "excited" about anything that's not corporate or career-related.
@@alexbarcovsky4319 I think it's not about being passionate about the task or the day-to-day, but rather the big picture it enables. For example doing analytical work, furthering your knowledge of how the world works through your analysis. You may hate the actual tasks but enjoy being able to solve puzzles. At least that's how it is for me.
But isn't search engine optimization actually useful? Or are you talking about optimizing websites so they show up in more searches?
As someone without a job, I notice these trends among the employed. It's really sad and frustrating watching people put their job before literally everything else in their life. Like even taking out the trash. "i worked hard today, i can't clean up after myself"
Growing up in america, i've come to think everything is just a scheme to take my money or time.
Exactly I have always put myself first before a job
All these places, especially retail, I see with "now hiring" and "we are short-staffed" aren't trying to recruit very hard. Most of them are only offering minimum wage ($10/hr here in FL) or just a little over with an unpredictable schedule.
Someone in lee county fl documented 60 applications sent out in one month last month....and got 1 interview.
The employers are putting out fake job listings so they dont have to pay back their ppp money.
Fucking ghouls. I want a bloody revolution
@@mikeyorkav4039 Here I thought they were just trying to see how thin they can get away with stretching their staff... I didn't think about PPP. The greedy MFs!
@@crash_test_dummy_1 oh that too
@@mikeyorkav4039 That doesn't happen only in the US, though. In my country fake job listings are the norm. And I even saw "news" about companies that had open positions with no candidates. I went to those companies' websites and couldn't find any information about those positions.
"Nobody wants to work in non-existent jobs anymore!"
@@JoaoSantos-ur1gg western capitalist countries
My company makes wood vents.
Literally for rich people.
We use over 25 species of wood.
Lots of it gets wasted LOTS.
You would not wanna know how pointless it feels making these vents sometimes.
It’s funny my boss the other day told me if could take less bathroom breaks and less water breaks, I’d have more time to make them more money and they can end up paying me more.
Made me sick hearing that.
Tell him he could do his job with less brain cells, see if he figures that out.
You'll never see a penny of the money you make them that's more than the absolute minimum they have to pay you no matter how hard you work working hard is a fool's errand when you're a wage slave
@@WhiteFang111 "but then everyone will have one and not buy mines anymore!" these mfs make me sick to the core 🤦🏽
We only come to this world to serve the rich.
Tell him if he takes fewer bonuses and a pay cut, you could do the same thing.
Seeing "The Great Resignation" gives me hope.
Army of samurai
totally agree, though the people on the resignation side face super hardships .. :(
@@darthbrandon2149 That is awful! You worked too hard for that carrot. I hate it when people trick you with a reward you never get just because they have that power to torture you. 😭 It is a depressing game you can not win. It is even worse when they can ignore worker's rights and get away with it.
Damn. This really hits me. I have studied philosophy and have been a 'jobhopper' for years. I graduated in 2014 and this has been going on even before that period. I've tried quite some jobs in my life, but every time I am confronted with the utter meaningless of it, or have to deal with annoying managers who pretend to know better. Some people think that I am 'high-demanding', but this is really not the case. I just want to know that my work is really contributing to society. I don't give a shit about your stupid-ass product or service. I don't want to have meetings about meetings. I don't want to pretend to be happy working late.
The world needs more people like you, sir ! 👍
@@quangle-zi2oz We need less people with useless degrees
@@giovanni545 Please know that it is not relevant, at all.
Dude there are a million places you can volunteer and make a difference. People do it every day.
@@reefman10 I am aware of that, and have done that quite some times. I recently found something that works for me, but the general observation remains.
The question isn't whether this is right or wrong the question is "can you even disagree?"
Survival of the fittest cuz humans is like animals 🤪 derpty derp derr
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 Appeal to nature.
Yes, but then I would have to make a long-winded video. No thanks.
@@thomasmaughan4798 but you would be wrong
@@broundothisrightneow that dude is a known simp to his overlords…
A Mad Dog once said,
"You're only as good as the world allows you to be."
wow you're so edgy quoting the joker. probably the only type of philosophy youve looked into
wouldn't that be communism tho? Capitalism as all the tools for you to rise, can't say the same about communism, both in theory and in practice.
@@happypt2929 In communism you dont need to "rise" bacause "rise" in the capitalism mean explote someone to gain mony, in comunism the worker state give you a house, a pay, education and a job, and yes, this is soo simplified.
@@happypt2929 no, you're just some brainwashed reactionary who doesn't understand communism
@@joe2k20 Pretty sure Joker's philosophy is at least partially based on Stirner's one, and he inspired plenty of modern philosophers. Besides, you just threw a pathetic insult like some 10-year old without actually refuting his point. Gj.
Here's the thing:
With capitalism, you're making a lot.
*It's not your "lot".*
Here's the thing:
With communism or socialism, you're making a little.
It's not your "little". It's ours
@@naveed755 here's a thing:
With anarchism, you'll have nothing. But it'll be fun.
@@naveed755 Good to see other people reasoning here.
@@shefchenko111 We don't sweat there from nerves, bro, we just enjoy the content)
@@user-nw7zj2du9p Fair enough.
I had to leave the work force once I had kids and realized corporations always came first and would never give me the pay, flexibility, or time off to be a good parent or live with dignity. I've given up materialism in order to get my time back, which is priceless and the most valuable thing. It's good to see others finally starting to realize the same.
In big corporates, 50% of what they do is pointless (internal stuff or failed projects), and 80% of what IS valuable is being done by 20% that are the lowest-paid workers (many times they are "temp" so they have no problem disposing of them after they are done exploiting them). The only skill you need to know in order to be a middle-management is how to suck up.
so true, the people who actually do work are paid shit and treated badly while people with bs jobs roll in dough and get celebrated by society, cruel world
This is so true. In my former job, we did a lot of "problem solving projects" that took way too much time and implemented no changes to the problems that we were supposedly addressing to solve.
One of the reasons that Uber, a software company that should have almost no expenses, isn't profitable. They make up things to spend money on and don't need.
It's so sad that people are being brainwashed to think that jobs that provide an actual service and meet an actual need are not jobs worth having and that you should find "a better job". It's incredibly twisted af.
So if jobs don’t provide a service then why do employers hire? They just hire for no reason.
@@noahremnek3615 the video covers that
@@noahremnek3615 Exploitation and control. Read about the dark triad.
White collar workers are the bosses' pets. Stuck in cages. Show pieces. Doing whatever pleases them to get fed.
Blue collar are the deer, donkeys and horses who pull the carriage.
Everyone wants to be free but under this model of exploitation, only those in power are.
Everyone gets to define what is "worth" it to them. If you get into 300k debt to pursue a medicine degree than yes it's probably not worth it to instead go into the basic services industry...
@@jonbob732 If the workers are being exploited why don’t they leave?! Their employer isn’t the only employer out there.
As somebody who fears the future of a having a normal life, this offers a bit of hope with him bringing up this issue.
Yeah, I'm also scared but also a bit hopeful. I think the younger generations are more open to socialism. We just need to get the old people out of government. Also, we need to be supporting any socialist running for local government. Grassroots organizing might be the most effective.
@@EightyFourThousands84000s
I'm young and I'm not open to it and I'm actually a little fearful of how you guys wanna bring it about
@@aceclop don't be afraid. No one wants violence.
@@saphired02
But even if you don't do it violently it still really makes me fear the future
@@aceclop What about it specifically do you fear?
I sit in front of a computer 40h a week, and do needless paperwork, that nobody reads, for 175k a year. I don't think my role should even exist. But I keep quiet because I have to pay the rent.
I work for this huge enormous company and when asked about raise in pay due to inflation during a town hall meeting, one of the top guys said we pay based on cost of labor not cost of living. I was seriously disturbed by that
You should've quit on the spot during the town hall meeting. They told you what I'd imagine was far to obvious anyway.
So basically the government is subsidizing the living costs your employer does not cover?
Market economics is flawed by design. It essentially makes people just commodities and they are paid based on how hard they are to replace not on how hard they work.
We need system change, not tweaks to flawed market capitalist system. System change could come from the people of Earth demanding a UBI as a human right and allowing for a transition of energy systems to renewables, giving people more time for their own health and well-being, and creating more efficient, localized production and distribution systems to meet all human needs for essentially zero cost.
To them your payroll is an expense which reduces their profits. That's why capitalism sucks when you are employee.
They gonna hire dead people?
My hourly charge-out to clients is more than four times more than my hourly wage. Apparently 350% of my pay goes to 'corporate overhead'. I had no idea the flickering fluorescent light above my cubicle cost so much money. Oh, and the constantly-breaking coffee machine in the break room.
Same, three times for me. Jokes on them though as I do virtually nothing of any value anyway 😂
I suggest taking the breaking coffee machine into another room than the break room. Maybe it helps.
@@thomasmaughan4798 And don't forget to save all the receipts so you can write off all those business expenses from your taxes! Social security match? Insurance? hah, that's only for full time and everyone will be getting 35 hours a week, except for the salaried, who can get it, but they'll be expected to pick up the slack and work 55 hours each week.
@@dan44zzt231 how's the joke on them they are getting all the money and leaving you with the scraps?
@@thomasmaughan4798 see, the soc sec match and ins and income tax are all scams. remove that socialist garbage along with all the other govt-created barriers to entry, and yeah, anyone really could go out on her own and do better than at a corporation while still charging the customer less.
Imagine a world where everyone gets their basic needs covered for free: housing, food, health insurance, internet. In this world people would not go to work because they need to in order to not suffer lack of these very basic needs, but people would go to work because they _want_ to make a difference and fulfill their life.
That can happen in a Resource-Based Economy
@@joeanthony7759 All economies are resource based, but what he's talking about is a political system that puts all people first. Making things like food, water and housing a human right.
Imagine a world where we all could fly and shoot laser beams out our eyes 👍 not gonna happen but that would be cool too
@@mikeymo9363 Ok but the world project it’s describing can happen. Let’s fight for it yeah?
Internet is NOT a basic need. Surprised that no one commented on that.
I am European who lived more than five years in Canada and went back to Europe. This video reminds me once again why this was the best decision on my life. Obviously Europe is not perfect but still going to the doctor will not ruin most of us.
We have free healthcare in Canada? The only thing you pay for is prescriptions?
@@Mysot057 Europeans have government owned drug labs so they can manufacture their own generics, not just do bulk buys, Canada had this at one point but the Harper Government sold off all of the government drug labs to private entities and the price of generics nearly doubled. I have severe migraines and I need to take medication for them.
In the USA my medication would cost anywhere between 100-120 dollars (CAD) per PILL
In Canada it costs 15 dollars (CAD) per pill
In Europe it 7.83 dollars (CAD) per pill
This medication isn't covered under any private health insurance policy except for ones reaching into thousands of dollars per month. I get seasonal migraines so usually end up taking 10-12 pills during each season change so anywhere between 20-24 pills per year.
In the US I would be spending 2000-2880 dollars per year
In Canada I spend 300-360 dollars per year
In Europe I would spend 157.6 - 187.9 dollars per year
prescriptions can get massively expensive, so can dental and eye care.
@@Mysot057 I know, I was meaning US system. Canadian system is better as there is universal healthcare. But still prefer Europe, but Canada is better than the US.
@@Erintii Weirdly written comment…
@@Erintiithe system in the US is a joke. No paid vacation by law, no universal health care and crazy cost of housing.
Any kind of work should serve some kind of purpose. If the only purpose of work is a justification to shuffle money around, that is a problem.
In Junior high, my social studies teacher told us a story. During the great depression, her family was better off than most. When men would come asking to earn a daily paycheck for food for their families, her dad initially tried to simply give them money, but they refused charity. Eventually, he had them move a big mound of dirt from the front yard to the back.
I don't think this applies to the complexity of today (nor is any typical worker at fault for the collective choices of the powerful), but when dealing with worshippers of the status quo, sometimes tricks need to be played to get them to help themselves (and each other). Just look at how the trumpists fight unions and healthcare and education and science. Sheesh.
@@firerunner35624 pride is real. The best option is to make useful busy work (infrastructure, building, etc)
@@MaaveMaave busy work, by definition, is not useful. But yes, the obvious solution right now with infrastructure crumbling everywhere is to pull an FDR new deal and employ the people struggling to find employment. All the companies pretending they're struggling to find workers will have to raise wages or fail
The purpuse is yatchs filled with prostitutes and drugs
-"There is no money in the 24th century... Humanity finally moved beyond this obsession with the 'endless accumulation of things'. In the future we work to better ourselves. With the aim of improving our lives and the lives of others." -(Captain Jean-Luc Picard.)
Our planet won't be inhabitable for humans in the 24th century at the rate we're going.
We literally have the technology, the resources, and what time we have left to lay the foundations for a society like star trek's federation of planets right now! And it...makes me fucking depressed and angry that we are enslaved to a system of infinite greed.
@@navilluscire2567 who is to blame? The rich and their cronies(politicians) . A nice French Revolution where the rich are guillotined would be much appreciated
@@suryanarayan2032 Agreed comrade
@@suryanarayan2032 That could work. Removing the filth and slime that is polluting the planet would free the victims(us) from their greed
Companies are scrambling right now trying to figure out why people are leaving/not applying for jobs. Keep it up. Make them squirm. Assuming you can afford to that is. The company I work for is essentially democratizing parts of our company. They're having us bring issues up and voting on which issues are more important and what we want done about them. Still not a socialist utopia but it's a start.
Your profile picture and username are making me so happy right now =‘3 same here ❤️ also good luck with your company and i hope they keep drifting in the same direction
@@spectacularsceptile3879 Glad I could make someone happy today.🙂 Thanks for the wishes of luck. Hope you have a wonderful day.
Left my job months agoand me and my husband ar just budgetting better and cutting silly spending. I've been using my free time volunteering and getting involved in community mutual aid and dual power organizations. I feel much more fulfilled.
@@snazzydrew That's awesome!
Where do u work, Lyla?
It's impossible not to be anti-work when the work conditions are so bad as it is today.
"There are only two certainties in life - death and taxes."
- Except if you're rich, in which case you can legally dodge taxes and thus pay less in tax than your average worker. And even postponing death itself is also becoming a real possibility for the rich with nanotechnology, so that statement is only a half-truth. It's rather ironic how the richer you are, the less taxes you pay. The secret is to move away from income-based salary into capital gains and store away your wealth in trust funds and holding companies.
"Whether you're socialist *yet* or not,"
I love Second Thought lmao
What a legend, im suprised theres less triggered Capitalists/Conservatives in the comments. Videos like this give me hope that we as a whole will start to change, if we fight for it.
@@geriott609 no, we still exist. but we have better things to do than reminisce about silly hypothetical systems. we are entitled to the fruit of our labor. it's the basis of capitalism, if you want free things, then idk what to tell you, other than have fun being a parasite.
@@terwerlive5616 Wow that didnt take long. Have fun being taken advantage of and keep defending your overlords. And all you said is just republican bullshit "yoU wAnT fReE tHings". Sad that Im a teenager and more educated about these things you defend/shittalk. Go read a book instead of Fox News
I’m never going to be a socialist, as I’m able to make a lot of money with my skills under capitalism
@@danklewis2670 Good for you. Most people can't, so while I'm not specifically a socialist, I openly support public and social programs that make sure that people, uh, DONT DIE if they don't make enough money. I figure that's just human decency lol
Personally, I don't feel like my job is meaningless, but I feel like I don't need to be at my desk for an arbitrary 40 hours a week to get the job done but mostly do so to not get in trouble. There are also times when I need to leave my desk to look at something later with fresh eyes, but that's discouraged.
Thanks for sharing your story !
The really sad part is that the modern employer here in the US is that they would rather fire you than pay you. We are living in the second guilded age as this has been decades in the making.
in my lifetime, i have already seen capitalism fail TWICE. im younger than 25.
Capitalism fails millions of times per day, every day. Please read Marx and Lenin.
@@caramelldansen2204 wait no i was agreeing with you lol. what i meant is that such a system that people think is so secure, had fallen apart more than once over such a small timespan
If you're barely older than 20, then you also experienced the dot-com crisis in 2001.
*"I have already seen capitalism fail TWICE. im younger than 25."*
The shortest and probably the best explanation on why young Americans increasingly prefer socialism. )
@@ГероїНеВмирають-ГероїЕвакуюють Not only Americans prefer socialism, but they are the last ones of the first world countries to wake up and realize this.
People that worked put enough labor to keep themselves fed and much more, but the problem is that under capitalism, most of your labor goes into making someone else richer. Before the advent of capitalism, people only work just enough to keep themselves and their family fed, and they completely owned whatever they put the effort in. Under capitalism, you're working for some abstract value, and most of the fruits of your labor are stolen and your living condition relative to the abundance of resources are not exactly great.
@@thomasmaughan4798 You're the stupid one. He's clearly talking about the post-industrial working class.
@@thomasmaughan4798
I'm talking about something much older than that, older than feudalism. Of course I'm not talking about farmers and peasants in a kingdom/empire.
i-dude they werent even really offering any real solutions for modern capitalism, they were pointing out what the hell is wrong with modern capitalism but you just gloss over that.
if i were to guess, they most likely mean post industrial pre great depression era people, non gilded age as well. where usually farmers would work and sell off their stock so they had just enough left of it to feed their family with. the thing America idolizes, the classical American fantasy of having a cabin in the woods away from civilization rather than the modern nuclear family module that we gained around the 1940's
but also a follow up, ye id wager to say that life for those people in the tribal age, if they grew up during that time would much prefer that life than working most of their life away for pennies on the dollar. our life, is not appealing, sure we may like, you know live longer. but is it truly worth it if that longer living is more torturous and back breaking?
if i offered you the chance to live for a billion years but have of those years you'll be in a pain so great that you cant even imagine it, would you take it? no probably not
longer lives don't always mean better existences.
@@mickeyg7219 You agreed to work that job when you signed the contract of employment. Nobody is forcing you to work a job to make someone else richer. It's like you people have no ambitions in life. Find something you enjoy doing, it really isn't that hard. The system is put in place to make anybody with enough motivation and smarts to make it big. Socialism is put in place for everyone to be doomed to a life of working class.
Work should be the joyful retiring of one’s gifts for the betterment of the community. How much farther could most of us possibly be from that ideal? Thanks for another video that helps to explain why we need to change to a more humane and logical economic system.
@Hotovo Done
could also be fun, under the different circumstances^ -and like 8 hours a week instead daily..
the focus should always be to *automate* work massively ASAP
look into cybernetics, it isnt what basically everyone thinks - and tell the others
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@@post-leftluddite Nobody should ever want to work?
@@IpSyCo If you feel that way, then you did something wrong. People who love their jobs succeed in their fields. I think the main problem with society is they over-prioritize money over passion, when really, there needs to be an equal balance of both, through research of career choices and getting to know yourself better.
@@zackfrito7877 Are you blind or do you not understand what a “?” Means?
@@IpSyCo no one should ever be in a position where they’re FORCED to work or otherwise starve on the side of the street. Whether they WANT to work or not is up to them, though most people will want to work at something. It’s just that, for many folks, that “something” would need them to take time off from work to study up on it, and the majority of people can’t take a week off or they’ll be out on the streets or inescapably headed there.
What’s terrible is that most times college only gets you into debt. Debt that’s irreversible and inescapable, even by filing bankruptcy. Modern slavery.
God I love being a political terrorist in the eyes of the US government, makes subjects like this so much more infuriating. Oh, I consider myself a socialist but the US government says socialists are political terrorists so I guess I'm both.
Freedom Fighter
Indeed
Maybe it’s time to give the US government (NOT THE PEOPLE) a new wave of terror.
Fastest way to get a job done, but perhaps not the most ethical...
@@themadman5615 they threw ethics out of the window when they committed oh I dunno, NAME an American atrocity. We won’t get change unless those pigs bleed.
I'm absolutely loving the global strike. People are tired, and the pigs at the top better brace themselves; it's probably why they're so obsessed with jet-setting to Mars as of late.
the revolution is slowly building
"eat the rich" probably lives in their heads rent free as much as the socialists
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
@@LoganDX1990 i hope so
that's why some countries hold their billionaires accountable, while being economical successful. Hint: not in America+Europe
We're living in a historic point in history and we don't even realize it
We always are
Everyone has this sense of impending doom and dystopia nowadays, but I'm sure this is how people of the past were feeling before revolutions kicked. The world and its politics are a dynamic system, and it will keep changing. I can't wait to see how it turns out in some decades!
On a related note, I'd like to see a video about the job search process. For years, I've talked about how unnecessarily complicated and demoralizing it is, yet people around me claim it's normal and that I should stop complaining.
This is a great point because I’ve seen how nowadays they make you write everything online and renter all your application information because they don’t give a shit to read info about you as a person more so quick bullet points, “oh no experience?, bye” not only that but on average it takes longer to get hired, more and more jobs I sign up for are incredibly slow to respond as they wait for the “best applicant”
No, you're right. It is a needlessly complicated and truly unfair process these days, whereby the ones who need the job least (and are just corrupt or lucky enough to manipulate the system in their favor) are often the only ones who get tapped to interview. Meanwhile, dozens if not hundreds of qualified applicants spend hours filling in a lifetime's worth of employment and background information on forms that apparently get submitted to a black hole somewhere in the galaxy, never to be seen again. And today, with everything done online, you often get the added frustration of not being able to contact the employer to follow up on your application. Actual human communication is impossible. I'm not even that old, but I'm old enough to remember it didn't used to be this hard. It did NOT. Don't let anyone convince you that it did. It's not "whining" or "complaining" to observe when a system becomes almost impossible for an honest, smart, hardworking person to navigate. It should be called out.
@@francismarion6400 what’s normal ?
@@AGirlofYesterday I totally agree with you. Many people who I know who ended up even landing a spot in good companies had connections/ a family member in the job/sector etc. Even my own friend tried getting me in a social service job on the premises that I could get hired in without previous social service experience because they had an aunt who worked as a case manager worker. That went to crap when they lied about the pay and took it off when it came time for my second interview, why a second interview? After a 40 minute one? I don’t know. Also it is classist the system nowadays. Oh you want a job? Have a smartphone and computer for signing up and contact, even though often times people are trying to get those jobs to afford one? Not to mention how many of those applicants were talking about are thrown out deliberately by companies so that way they can have tax write offs for “providing jobs” by going “see! Look at how many hiring opportunities we provide to the state etc” it’s all bullshit. I grew up in a conservative family who would say my complaints are just being upset with the way things are, that they’re normal, if that’s normal then maybe I’d prefer weird. But yeah thank you, I don’t doubt myself for a second. As vaush as once said on a stream, I’m lucky I have a high self esteem.
@@janetpaskalov2094 Oh if you have high self esteem, that's the problem! They don't WANT self-confident employees. They want groveling, apologetic subservients that they can push around and overwork, and who will never complain, just take orders and be grateful for the crumbs they throw you. Unless it's a high level job, then you have to be so wealthy, elite, and connected you don't really need the job. If you have dignity but no wealth or major connections (like me), you're screwed.
*Waves hand*
You will feed the algorithm
The algorithm shall feast.
Canapés, Master Algorithm?
I will feed the algorithm
For the Rebellion!!! Uhhm...I mean....algorithm
All hail the algorithm
incredibly well-said. it makes me so angry that jobs that are essential and important to basic human care and development are deemed more lowly than bullshit jobs. I just started working at a school and, though our district is better off than some, education as a whole seems to be such an exploitative sub-system for everyone involved. I want this to end, I want to be able to help and care for people without being trapped within the absurd comedy of capitalism
Very good points. I work in education as well, my mom worked in healthcare and my father worked to help conserve nature. All these noble pursuits are relatively under-compensated and often under-supported leading to over-worked and over-stressed people.
In these types of fields you might hear a boss or executive say something like "How can we improve the efficiency and quality of our productivity and service WITHOUT spending more money or hiring more people?" Right, so basically, how can we add more stuff to our own plates for no more compensation and be happy about it? That's BS.
So I looked into this deeply. Why are we constrained by some made-up concept called money? It isn't connected to the natural world or human health. It's dominating, exploitative and oppressive.
So I imagine a world, much like the advanced communities we see today, but I remove ONE factor: Money. And how would that work out? Well, we'd still have the homes we have, we'd still have the electricity, we'd still have the water running, we'd still have the roads there and the schools and the hospitals, etc. But now, if we ask: What can we do to make healthcare or education, for example, better? And the answer is hire more people, then the problem is solved. We hire more people, everybody shares more of the work and each of us have less work and more chance to be effective.
But what about maintenance of the things we need for society to function? Well yes, we need people to do that, but wouldn't people pitch in to volunteer their time if they didn't have to work as long? That's what the ethic of volunteering is anyway. I'll help out to make sure the water pumps are working properly for 5 hours a day, 4-days a week if I have support and somebody else will work 6 hours, 3-days a week or whatever is needed. If that would help society run and people would have a decent home to go back to and more time for family, friends and hobbies - then I'm sure many people would be happy to do that.
I stopped going for teaching because I can make double the salary of a starting teacher dealing at a casino. Also the climate around education is scary. Lots of teachers are toxic as hell.
When you have 10 years experience and the hiring manager asks for your college transcripts and/or a physical copy of your high school diploma...
they dont do that in my country.
Weird.... I had never heard of an employer asking for a high school transcript. Most of them just assume you have one.
What grinds my gears is how much hard work and dedication a low-level worker can put into a job to have it defenestrated at the whim of some no-nothing mid-level, or high-level, manager / supervisor / executive. I've seen people, myself included, put hours of our blood, sweat, and tears, using their specialized knowledge and education, into a project to make it the impactful and effective. Then have a boss exemplify the Dunning-Kruger effect and trash the work because they are confident they know better. Or they take the most wasteful approach to solving a problem, despite hiring teams of specialists whose job it is to find the most economically viable solution. I'm not against work because I'm lazy or I just want to be in control. I'm against the current condition of work because I don't want my, or others' work, being trashed by arrogant "leaders" or those trying to protect their little workplace fiefdoms through inefficiencies and waste.
I work as an accountant and this hit a little deep. I constantly work 40-65 hour work weeks and I have feel like shit. My gob isn't meaningful, I have barely anytime to do things that I like, and I'm always demanded to work more. I can't wait to do this for the rest of my life 🙂
I wish I could quit but I can't.
Buy Crypto, Dogecoin and Etherum
*"I wish I could quit but I can't."*
Quitting capitalism is the only way that makes you able to quit.
Always opt to work for as little time as you can afford. Lie and cheat your way to promotion, and work to educate your coworkers. Yugopnik made an incredible video about it, it’s called a socialist’s guide to surviving capitalism. I believe in you @Voop
It’s hard to see, but capitalism is just the extension of slavery. It’s the weakest form of slavery, with no obvious signs of slaves. Feudalism is a stronger form of slavery, while slavery itself is the worst and inhumane one. All of them just to use people as something can be thrown away.
Slavery didn't end, it evolved and has such an incredibly effective marketing plan that people compete to wear their chains and will fight to the last round, tooth and nail keep them.
@@tonyjones1560 didn’t I say capitalism is the weakest form of slavery?
It's actually not hard to see at all.
We all know that the capitalist core countries rely on actual slavery in the capitalist periphery countries, like some in SW Asia (mostly for textiles), Africa (cocoa) and probably more in other parts of the world.
@@johannageisel5390 Right, exactly. Except you need some exposure to the true evil of capitalism before you can see that.
@@LittleRadicalThinker Yes, you did👍👍
Man if this doesn't hit the nail on the head. At least in terms of meaningless jobs. I graduated with highest honors with a STEM degree at the beginning of the pandemic (having already done an internship in college) but was unable to find work in my field and so I had to go back to my previous almost minimum wage job until I was able to finally land a part time internship in my field.....which eventually led to a meaningless job in the company. I've applied for probably a hundred jobs since then and have not made it beyond the 3 or 4 interviews I've gotten. The situation is not looking great right now for me; but it was cathartic to be able to watch someone talk about this issue on a more fundamental societal level.
Yup. The amount of work you need to do to get a job at all is pretty much a full-time job in and of itself. Degrees nowadays are prerequisites for getting a decent-paying job, but it isn't the guarantee that it used to be. Not even if you study tech
Going to College and getting a full time job is like trying to become an NFL player, crazy competition.
What STEM degree just curious. Some stem degrees like bio and chem are very saturated.
“The begging for of the pandemic” pretty much explains most of it.
Sp you want high paying job
That’s a super important point he brought up, millions of people in America can only earn a living wage by working for more hours than they see their families, leaving them too exhausted and to make meaningful change to issues like inequality corruption and climate change.
Sits back and waits for someone to shout "hypocrite, you hate Capitalism yet the video has adverts!" Like we don't live in a system in which earning money is essential to live.
ok, then don't tell capitalists that collect soc sec that they are hypocrites either. all they are doing is collecting the money that was once stolen from them. it's already theirs and always has been.
@@GenerationX1984 it's socialism you are forced to embrace. the usa is quite socialist and that is causing our problems. you are right to complain about govt, as their authority is illegitimate. and they can only exist by stealing our resources, because govts don't produce anything or provide any supply to a demand. they're just parasites. that is the nature of socialism. "ohhh when govt does sTuFf??!"
YES. EXACTLY THAT, actually. the irony.
@@GenerationX1984 you are incorrect on several counts. please don't just believe nonsense bernie (or ANY party clown) says. i didn't say the usa is like some other country.. i said the usa has a LOT of socialism going on. and btw, sweden rolled back a bunch of socialist govt policy in the 80s because of the damage it did. so that country less socialist now that it was in recent history and doing better for it.
@@GenerationX1984 "Plus our refusal to tax billionaires and large corporations and not regulate them is how we got the biggest wealth gap of any developed nation". this is incorrect. again, _your_ taxes go to *the billionaires & trillionaires that ARE THE GOVT,* and _their_ taxes go back to them as well. they are one in the same. it's a trick. there is no point to demanding they tax themselves because the taxes GO TO THEM.
regulation is used to selectively box out businesses that would be competition to the ones who are protected by nepotism. those who make the rules will never be forced to comply with them. who are they to choose who makes the rules? let the consumer decide. and no, regulation doesn't make stuff safer when, again, those big companies with so much power are NOT kept an eye on. that's why you have johnson&johnson and monsanto and diet soda and pharma pharma pharma giving people cancer with only a tiny percentage of victims winning lawsuit.
regulation is a false sense of security. a facade. the consumer must learn how to determine good product instead of relying on a bought and paid for govt to do it for them. oh yes, we must. the only other option is disease. a govt will not protect you from yourself or anyone else even if you believe it will with all your heart. they just protect he big guys and make it nigh on impossible for you to defend yourself or get justice in any real sense.
all of these CEOs of huge companies are bloodline. they didn't get it by working hard. and being able to tax producer income and KEEP IT has gotten them there. they love taking without consent. they *love socialism*. without it, the ruling class would immediately fall.
the free market is your freedom. it's in the name.
@@GenerationX1984 hmm yeah such a mystery about those upvotes... don't comment or post on reddit if that bothers you though.. because they AUTO UPVOTE your comment for you.. ARRrrGGHHhhhh! dear god! sumwun get the defibrillator!
Unfettered Capitalism & Trickle Down Economics. All concepts some people actually believe benefit them, & not the already Wealthy.
That unfortunately is my parents who are disillusioned and think it benefits them and no matter what I say they still believe our manipulative and evil system
It's the brainwashing of the consumer market. As long as the things we got kept getting cheaper and more convenient the more we believed that system was working. That globalization made things cheaper and easier for us. That mentally has made us blind to the slow destruction of our institutions.
We need a balance between capitalism and socialism - capitalism benefits greed while simultaneously underestimating greed - socialism assumes nobody will be greedy and then along comes a dictator. We need to work together for a fairer - stable future.
It only benefits the people that perpetuate it
unfettered Capitalism is just capitalism
I'm in school, and on the way to a full time job. Sometimes, I just remember that capitalism has made the whole process suck, and will continue to make it so. On a worse note, I will most likely become an accountant, helping companies exploit people even further so that they can increase profit. I really hope I don't become that, though.
You can become whatever you want, as long as you put all your effort into it.
muaha muahahAHAHAHAAHAH no you can't..
@@Youbetternowatchthis well you can name one other economic system where you can do whatever you want
Hey don’t worry it really isn’t all that bad as an accountant - you can always work for individuals and small businesses across most job markets!
@@Youbetternowatchthis you can littrely do whatever you want. you could live on social benefits and your quality of live woud be the same as in any communist societies. But ...yeah ,forget about being able to buy all the things capitalism as built.
@@happypt2929 so are you going to stop driving because the roads were built by the government 🤨
I think that working should be a choice. Things such as food, water and shelter should either cost very little or be provided by the government and any money earned working can be used for entertainment. I'd like to do things like hike the Appalachian trail in the United States, travel the world in order to admire architecture, nature and to try as many different foods as I can. Those are things I cannot do while working a minimum wage job (Here it's like $13 Canadian, for a little context), being forced to pay $800 in rent, $240 in gas per month so I can get to and from work everyday (my bf drives me) and paying 100-200 for food that is increasingly rising in price. I am one of those people who feels trapped by a system which only works for those at the top. I don't want to 'survive', I want to 'live'!
I always thought everyone should get the bare minimum each month for food gas and shelter you eat though you monthly food Givin by the government you gotta buy it your don't like the bread kind they give fo r free buy it yourself this way no one is hungry or homeless aleast
Boss makes a dollar, we make dime. So we watch second thought on company time
I just want housing, healthcare, food, to love, and be loved. This makes me the worst example of entitlement. I just want out of this dysphoric dystopic retail hell. I'm so tired.
I feel your pain. Living in a capitalistic society leads to mental illness. I cannot imagine having children, just to bring them into this hell.
Boss makes a dollar, while you make a dime. That was a poem from a simpler time.
Now boss makes a thousand, while you make a cent. And he's still got employees that can't make rent.
Do you have the same responsibilities and liabilities as the boss?
No! You come in, do some unskilled job, and clock out, but think your dislike of the job = "I have it just as hard as the guy running the place".
@@WillmobilePlus Wealthy executives and investors don't lift a finger to rake in billions off the backs of working folks. Risk doesn't mean shit when it's not your money on the line. If a business venture fails, without fail they get a bailout on public money while the workers starve.
Your comment is the equivalent of "if you don't like slavery? Just die."
@@HeckaLives They put up the money so you actually had a place to pine your amazing shelf-stocking talents.
>Risk doesn't mean shit when it's not your money on the line.
What the h3ll? Did you ever take an econ 101 class in your life? You take out a business loan, what do you think is put up for collateral?
> If a business venture fails, without fail they get a bailout on public money
Oh...you mean if like the local bike shop fails? Or the local bakery? The medium manufacturing plant? the guy running the lawncare service? The house painter company? The lady that grooms dogs?
Or do you thin the only companies you know of are Walmart and Amazon?
@@WillmobilePlus It's almost as if already having money is what's necessary to make money in our economic system. Being rich somehow makes you entitled to other people's work, labour, and money I guess.
@@HeckaLives it takes money to make money?
Wow, you're 16 and you think you are deep. Like when the h3ll did that heavenly knowledge get revealed to you?
And "entitled" to labor? So where was the gun that forced you to work for someone you didnt want to again?
My favorite Graeber quote, "If there was ever a sign that an economy is organized very stupidly its that the prospect of no one having to do manual labor is seen as a bad thing."
What…
holy shit i feel something big coming. the r/antiwork subreddit was blowing up. i see so many millions of people who don't like the way work is happening. Something is coming. we will defintely see huge societal changes in the centuries to come.
Only centuries? Why not decades?
@@aliceh5289 we ain't that blessed.
Nah you guys are just gonna stay home and do nothing, and if you ever actually threaten the ones in power, you will be executed.
@@thomasmaughan4798 Woah sounds just like what happened in China when Mao took over, and there were no farmers growing food.
60 million Chinese starved to death right?
I hope we starve these Liberal sub humans just like that.
Truly a fate a Communist slave deserves.
@@MrSolus-ls6us
And guess what... in a capitalist society dependent upon people spending money on pointless things that have no inherent value... that's an economic death sentence. So, it sounds like a pretty solid plan. Just do nothing. *Literally*.
Eta: watch it again because you also missed the part where a disposable workforce is needed. The more people who die, the more power the labour force has through sheer supply and demand principles. Why do you think the decreasing global birth rate has the powers that be so effed up right now?
Most people don't understand why the US is an immigrant country. They'll give you an opportunity to start a new life, but take all your money as fast as possible. Once you're broke, they'll repeat the process with another immigrant or anyone gullible. The same thing happens opening an online trading account for day-trading. Most traders lose money on margin account, like 80% - 90%.
Remember, 60, 70, and 80 year olds are too old and incompetent to work a typical job, but they're what largely constitutes our legislators and executives.
@@thomasmaughan4798 Correction, our elders voted for them, we're the ones experiencing the aftermath.
@@thomasmaughan4798 Like hell I did. You have no idea who I voted for.
We didnt vote for them they have made deals backstage to have a seat at the table.
The one thing that keeps me happy when I hear this is that I know when I die there will be people who love me but for the super rich when they die they will die alone and anybody who claimed to love them will just be waiting to collect their will..
Bruh, that may be true for some, but you want to be free of resentment
@@adsffdaaf4170 I don’t resent this people but I think if anyone is going to hell it’s them
Here in Italy the three biggest unions (CGIL, CISL, UIL) recently did a general strike calling for the shortening of working hours without lowering wages (the "work less, so everyone can work" concept) and the introduction of a UBI system.
After the strike, even *the Pope* advocated for the same things in a speech in Saint Peter's Square.
Well, what can I say? I doubt anything will change, but at least the topic is being discussed.
This is great. We just need to do our part here in the US to fight back against shrinking wages so your gains are not hurt by the fact that the US is holding back the global labor market.
Wish we could have stuff like that happen here in the US
It will , eventually!
My dad works for an airline in Europe that has the only purpose, which is taking massive amounts of excess (american) billionaire money to taxi people to the Caribbean, so they can make vacation on the property's of previous mentioned billionaires so their real-estate doesn't loose value.
Billions of dollars just going in a circle, helping no one, increasing climate change.
What brought us here ? Well, it's the constant f*cking increase in prices on all things, for the last several decades ! Because shit costs so damn much, we need to earn at least $ 22.00 per hour, and the average household needs two incomes. Once upon a time, you could buy a house, have a car and support a family with only one job and you didn't have to be a manager, CEO, engineer doctor, dentist or lawyer !
In 2007 in my last semester in college we had a speaker come in to the practicum class to inform us that our major was only good for a minimum wage job without a realistic chance of advancement. Videos like this help really put the absurdity of that event into perspective for me.
I’ve always been amazed how, respectfully, the average American believes Capitalism = “Freedom”. While Socialism has been demonised as this terrible evil thing. People would rather suffer under a system that doesn’t work, which they keep believing is how they should live, than simply change to a more fairer, healthy and respectful system and adopt a new way of living. Sad 😞
Americans became enslaved With a smile. Scared by the boogyman, Dreaming to become rockstars. i live in CA and trust me capitalisim is eating the life out of americans every day.
Capitalist sell the dream. The possibilities of becoming one of them. So Americans hold on and deny reality
I think the issue is capitalism is all about individualism and socialism promotes the whole working together for the benefit of all… therefore if someone does poorly under capitalism it’s that individuals fault… not capitalism being a shot show. On the other hand we so easily blame socialism if anyone doesn’t thrive under a socialist state
Neoliberalism sucks! 😖💩👎👎👎
Old habits, propaganda and generations of social conditioning have that effect
What's perfect about your releases is they always come out during my lunch break, which is just barely long enough to fit a single video in. You give me something to think about and question as I return to slaving away
I was talking to this guy and I told him how capitalism would eventually fail and he thought I was a leftist socialist and he was like I dont like socialism or communism and I didnt even mention those words and then he said "but even fascism has some good in it" I was like wtf
Because it does at least Fascism works. Case in point Germany went from being the poorest country in Europe to fight the World’s 3 super powers in 6 years, all because of Fascism.
Meanwhile every time a Socialist government takes power, a recession always follows, with the only way to survive to become Communist and then kill millions of its own people that dare disobey. (Soviet Union and China put its own people in death/labor camps and they died in the 10s of millions.)
So ya Capitalism and even Fascism are far far better than Socialism/Communism
@@MrSolus-ls6us *"So ya Capitalism and even Fascism are far far better than Socialism/Communism"* All fascist servants continuously repeat the same things (without any piece of proof). So you`re not unique. ))
@@MrSolus-ls6us Are you fucking stupid?
The Soviet Union was far poorer than Germany and became one of the world's superpowers. Because of their socialistic attempts (even though they never got further than state capitalism with a few socialist practices).
Meanwhile, Nazi Germany employed forced labour, stole the assets of millions of people and then killed those millions of people.
@@thomasmaughan4798 trade =/= capitalism
Trade has existed since the stone age (flint trading network).
Capitalism is far younger.
@@johannageisel5390 Capitalism apologists are totally unaware that capitalism has only been around for less than 300 years.
Technical skills keep getting higher and I am still in self-education mode at 43. If you are smart and productive you’re treated the same as low performers. HR protects the exact wrong things like bad hires
This, specifically, is what I've been thinking for so long. I could put my hands to work helping those in need but the only thing that this society will allow me to do is work for some soulless megacorp that expects me to manipulate people into spending far too much money on things they don't need or want. For most of this money to be sent to the top, the top that is practically saturated with money.
I was pretty clear in referring to jobs. There is no supply of jobs regarding actually improving people's lives, or at least not enough of one. Yeah I could go outside and spend the meager amount of money I make on other people, but all I can really do is hand them a little money or give them food. Neither of which will actively improve their lives, just continue sustaining them, maybe allowing them to get drunk for a night. But what else can I do? Build housing for them? In order to build on land, you need to buy that land, in order to get them along to living self-sufficiently, I might have to do a plethora of things regarding applying them for welfare, if they don't already have it, sending them to rehab, as a great deal were crippled by drugs, many many more are practically unable to work, living with any kinds of disorders that disable their ability to communicate, their ability to move, their ability to take in information, more are older, with families long out of contact, or long gone in other means and you might see why it's more than anything a few groups or individuals can do. There are a lot of people who need help. You need people devoting a large amount of time and money on them, which some have done before, in rare organized movements, with limited great cost to themselves, often running on donations, but most donate to other things, water for African areas without easy access, wildfire recovery, nature preservation organizations, etc. All of which would also fall under this category of "would be a whole lot better if we worked for things other than just money". So many would sign up for training and careers in preserving our planet, in helping all those in need, if they didn't have to worry constantly about it being a massive money sink, about it being unprofitable. And when the amount of people needing care declines, then they don't have to worry about it being unprofitable, nor any other job. If profit isnt a motive, or at the very least, isn't the primary motive, our world will rid itself of so much waste and excess, for a simple lack of need for it.
@@BigDogBandit I remember once with dad we were travelling to the mountains and we passed next to a dam. He told me about the expenses for its construction, and how they massively outweight the monetary gains. It is a government project, never meant to be profitable, but still it was done and it improved the lives of people and allowed for local development to flourish. Life is complex, isn't it?
Infrastructure is different. Without infrastructure you can't have economy. And of course, for the sake of the economy, along with not appearing as a massive piece of #%&@, assisting with some necessities is in everyone's best interest. Not to say that people didn't at least try back in the day, long before I was born. And to an extent, local systems like the ones that handle dams and such are less vulnerable to the pure-profit viewpoint that corrupts so many folk, because they are on a level in which their citizens 1: have direct access to local system authorities, increasing both the efficacy of that system in solving community problems, 2: gives reason to authorities to fix the community, because it's their community instead of being a far away state or country, and 3: . Only in recent times has there been a complete disregard for the common man, out of fear of a political system labeled as inherently immoral for reasons never explained, just "look, they failed, so that must be because their system is COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to have succeed" despite evidence otherwise existing (until the CIA came in, again and again and again, and snuffing out so much information on the subjects) and despite capitalism failing in its own right, as a fuckton of capitalist countries cannot provide for themselves, and are constantly being manipulated by larger countries. But allowing those tossed to the side of society to remain that way is a different story. Not caring for people because it's not convenient to, despite apparently having the capability to spend excessive amounts on the military, to fund obliterating other countries for supporting their people in a way they don't agree with. Despite having a massive pool of potential funding completely ignored because of technicalities allowed by the state, all for the sake of those who now hold a large portion of the economy over their head. Despite helping these people likely costing very little in comparison to expenses. Maybe a few million in the heavily populated and needing states, *maybe* a billion in california and florida, but I genuinely doubt that. The US government works on a scale where this is possible. Whether or not it is cheap, it is certainly within their capability and should be more of a priority. These are our citizens, our shunned and neglected, and our veterans, whether or not they contribute to the economy or society, they deserve to live with a decent quality of life all the same.
Tim Pool: uh, you just described communism.
A willful idiot that one
State Capitalism is when communism, state bad, billionaires good, not same thing, silly dumb you
My take away from watching this video is uh, "communism bad."
- Amala Ekpunobi: "I laugh at communists saying that soviet communism wasn't real communism"
- Also Amala Ekpunobi: "this is isn't capitalism, it's *crony* capitalism!"
@@reaperluke3518 Wow, just wow. Does she at least have theoretical basis to say that? You know, from like Adam Smith or sum shit
Its amazing to me that a company can cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and suffer no conciquences for it all because of profit.
We need to stop legally viewing a company as a person. The actual people making these decisions (profit over safety) might think twice if they were ever liable.
@@PokeMultiverse which is why they will never allow that to happen.
Alright so no more cars, no more planes, no more bicycles, no more trains, no more alcohol, no more pharmaceutical drugs, no more surgeries, no more construction work, no more sports, no more sun. Seriously how dumb are you?
@@TuEIite I miss having a child like view of the world.
@@forloveofthepage2361 If you're watching that channel, you definitely still do.
Im drawing correlation of my wants and people just calling me lazy because of this video. "You don't have anything because you are lazy." No, I just don't want much. I have my gaming laptop and my ps5. I have basic foods in my fridge. I don't want anything else. Then people tell me I would be so much more financially secure if you just worked harder! Despite the fact that thousands of jobs are being laid off constantly despite record profits. Count me tf out. The dollar doesn't go as far as it used to and companies are just swooping up the essentials and its gotten so God damn bad, that people are just saying F it now.
Oh my god you’re such a loser 😂😂
I see people sleeping in their cars here in California because they aren't earning enough to afford housing. You have to live in conjunction with others(family) to stay off the street if you are an entry level employee. There's allot of jobs advertised but the majority don't give full time or benefits and don't even pay minimum wage cause they are small businesses that don't have the same requirements.
And at the same time, cities all across California are enforcing bans on people sleeping in their cars... as if they had a choice!
I mean they could try and pack up and leave the state considering it's one of the highest States to live in and I don't understand why people intentionally want to move to a state where you can barely afford an apartment
Min wage in California and New York should be 30 dolars an hour
Basically I'm suprised we haven't seen stories of Americans illegally crossing the border over to Canada yet lol
My question is why are people even trying to live in California when they can live somewhere else for a fraction of the cost.
Here in Germany, we call jobs "Beruf".
"Beruf" comes from "Berufung" which roughly translates back to English as "The Calling", your destiniy.
Something that fulfills you and complements you. Your passion which makes you you.
That's what a job should be like.
In English we call that vocation and it doesn't pay in most cases
@@jetkirby I'm sorry for you.
I hope the on-going struggle and resistance will lead your nation to a time where you can tend to your vocation without needing to consider how much it pays!
In America, we have jobs, to work. And make money. But sadly most Americans are lazy as hell.
Decades ago I heard someone say in an interview about starvation and malnutrition in India, whether a politician or pundit I don't remember, "there is enough food for everyone in India but the poor don't have the money to buy it." It would be rare to hear someone speak that bluntly today.
I remember an old friend was trying to get a job and was struggling.
I told him “do you really think there are more jobs than people?”
And ever since he knew none of this was his fault and that our country is trash.