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I'll take Bernie "flipping out" over normal politics anytime. The man is a national treasure.
Shows he's an actual person
Yeah, "flipping out" apparently means not answering brain dead questions from FOX reporters 😂
@fantaguyrealThen don't post.
The man is an historic figure
Still feeling the Bern...
Meanwhile Ben Shapiro is advocating for you working until you die on the job.
Part of the reason why they want to end abortion. They need more workers to replace people who die on the job. The workers keep Bezos and Musk rich AF. They cannot build anything without their workers doing all the heavy lifting.
Funny cos these people advocate for it in general, but never seem to want to be a part of it themselves.
my union steward,, A UNION STEWARD, said bernie sanders is a communist for wanting a 32 hr work week. he said everything should be based off of merit
you think i go to him about any issues with my manager?!!!
But have you considered Republicans are the true party of the working class because they’re keeping the brown people out?
Because conservatives hate humanity and they want us all to suffer.
If a company can’t afford to pay workers enough to live, they don’t deserve to be in business.
Exactly. If a company can’t afford to hire workers at a comfortable living wage then that company can remain a mom and pop shop run by a few people. My business is like that. My parents business is similar. And that’s fine. I’d rather do the work myself than pay someone slave wages.
This idea is the most ideally capitalistic yet also the idea capitalists hate the most.
@@GEOMETRICINK Outing yourself as petit bourgeois on a vaush vid... ballsy.
It is just that simple. You don't get to rent a moving truck at a below cost of matainance discount because of poverty, you don't get to rent a human at a below cost of matainance discount either.
@@RHLW if the workers and owners are the same then not
Fox: "The Democrats want YOU to work LESS and get PAID THE SAME!!!"
most working americans, presumably: "holy shit based?"
Indeed. One might think so. But so many in the US working class have memetic nematodes in their lobes.
Conservatives have a weird way of making sensible arguments sound crazy.
Right wing brains just go "That's not the way it worked before, so it can't ever work that way."
@@jaybleu6169 Tell the right wing brains (wait- what brains?) that we actually did work less and make more in the past, and they’ll suddenly hate their fake good old days of the 40s-60s when “men were men, women were in the kitchen,” and we had apartheid. They’ll pivot to those days being communist.😂
They aren't framing it like that though. They're framing it as "Your businesses will make slightly less money and you will have slightly less control of your workers! Where did the good old American protestant work ethic go?!"
My favorite thing was when the lady implied that 40 Hours a week is ALREADY low. "How much less do you want people to work than 40 hours." They truly do want you to just work 16 hour days, 7 days a week until you die.
Meanwhile, she works 26 hours per week...
Bc they cant fathom a world where you dont work work work. They dont want you to have a life. Its insane
You can work 8 hours for 3 days and you wouldbt see a drop in profits 📈
They would make 996 mandatory if they could
Its extremely ghoulish. They should have the balls to just say "Lets all (by all they mean you) work all day and night for us- I mean to build moral character!" Just sounds like slavery, but they know everyone would rightfully maul them for it.
These arguments come from folks who never worked a day in their life or have and for one reason or another made it to the top to say "fuck you I got mine" from the ivory tower.
In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15 hour work week with a life full of leisure and recreation for the majority or workers by 2030.
They also predicted flying cars and aliens on Venus.
Are you opposed to a 4 day work week?@@Turnil321
@@Turnil321 it’s 2024, where are my moon colonies?
@@Turnil321they who?
@@Turnil321 His predictions about productivity were generally correct my dude, his problem wasn't empirical. He failed to comprehend the power dynamics of capitalism where productivity overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy, which is a sociological/political issue rather then anything technical. Comparing it to life on Venus is fucking stupid.
100% work from home was impossible until it wasn’t.
If we're being honest, work from home has been functionally possible for the better part of the last two decades (maybe even longer than that really, depending on the nature of the work), but as we're all well aware at this point, companies will do literally anything but make decisions that benefit their employees, even if those decisions would go on to benefit them in the long run because the lines on the graph have to go higher and raise quicker every quarter and there is no limit on how low they will stoop to achieve this. There is no indicator of this fact more sobering than the necessary reminder that they would pay you nothing if it weren't illegal and you would 100% be living in an Amazon company town or in any number of other corporate fiefdom hellscapes if we didn't have the regulations we do.
@@ultimaweapon991So true. A lot of people think it's crazy if you compare our work to feudalism, but it's functionally the same dynamic. We would 100% be slaves if we didn't have regulations.
Yes 🙌🏾 i
Meetings then breaks take more of a managers day than actually doing work. I second that now how bout lunch! 😂
Fox News is cocomelon for anxious suburbanites
My parents have a TV in the kitchen, their bedroom, living room, basement, and backyard in the summer. If you turn any one of them on it’s always Fox News because my dad seriously can’t do anything without having it on.
He used to pace around my living room while watching it for “exercise.”
I used to work 4 days, 10 hours. I loved having that extra day to do all my errands, go to the doc, clean my apartment, just relax. It was good for my mental health.
I miss that shift.
Lucky to have a flexible job and was able to swing a 4 day work week (I do machining and repair work so it's about quota). Did _not_ expect the magnitude to which it would improve my quality of life. I love it.
Yeah you get 1 extra day of being able to run errands and still have 2 days to rest
4 10’s is the best. I actually enjoyed my days off rather than just recovered from work.
I hate they don’t pay lunch lol
4 day work weeks should just become 32 hour work weeks.
"How will businesses survive increased productivity and much better morale from workers? Get back into the wage cage."
when you put it that way, it's interesting to think about how businesses are willing to take a hit in productivity if it means maintaining control of their workers.
@rishabhanand4973 yup, the cruelty is the point.
Their profits will take a slight kick in the groin. Apparently, the end of the world.
Fox News is owned by business interests who want mire than profit. They want control. The end goal for these people is to create the perfect machine of endless production and consumption first the sake of profits while leaving no room for rebellion or protest. If you need to work every hour of the day to scrape by, you won’t have the energy to protest or rebel. That’s the theory anyway.
So many tired arguments. 'Offshoring' of jobs only happens because we let it. Pretty simple fix: You cant do business here if you don't hire citizens. So tired of corporate America.
Couldn't you also argue that the pay difference is so extreme that if a job could be offshored, it already would've by now? Logistical issues/lack of competency are the usual culprits.
better yet, any country we have free trade deals with (which is what allows for job offshoring), we should also have open borders with, so if a company tries to move to another country to hire low wage workers, then the workers from that company can come to america for better wages and working conditions
And the thing is, there are a ton of industries/jobs that literally cannot be offshored. As in they functionally cannot be outsourced because they require someone to be physically present on location in order to exist at all.
@@rishabhanand4973 good luck selling this argument to the average Fox viewer.
Also if a job can be done offshore is that even a problem. Surely a rich, well educated country should be looking to have industries that take advantage of that rather than competing for low skill labour.
Fox & Friends just did a SPONSORED prayer segment recently, the whole network has never been more cooked 💀
Your heavenly father made you to work until you die!
People forget that they used profits from the media arm to cushion them through till 2019. Once the Disney deal went thru they have been flailing ever since.
Oh cool so literal idolatry?
I for one love the adoption of Australian slang into the vaush cinematic universe.
As an Australian I would like to apologise in behalf of my country for the existence of Murdoch.
I was sort of on that "Bernie might be too old" train around 2020, though I still supported him, but damn does he make Biden and Trump both look like senile fools by comparison for being younger than him.
He doesn't make Biden look senile in the least. 😂 Gtfoh
What? Are you dead and / or blind ? Biden is just always saying nonsense, he seems incredibly full and like he's having trouble understanding why he is even there. Bernie is so incredibly more sharp@@sharonharris9782
Cuz Joe does it all by himself?@@sharonharris9782
Bernie has declined a bit mentally. He's not as snappy as he was in 2016.
Still way better than any of the other options, though.
@@sharonharris9782
You're the one who looks senile. He objectively looks better than both of them, and it wouldn't even matter because both of their policy choices also suck compared to him. Come back to earth.
A black woman crowing about how the US was built....on slave labour...Iconically un-self aware. Epic self-own.
All I want is for our politicians to look at corporations and say, "You can afford it. Suck it up buttercup."
If the tax burden were "fair", the top 1% should be paying for something like 80% of the rax burden
"how will these businesses survive?" yes. won't somebody PLEASE think of the poor, downtrodden **RECORD PROFITS** massive corporations.
As a German, i wanna throw in an explanation on why we are so low on the hours worked list. It's mostly because, if nothing else, we germans are beaurocrats and strictly law abiding. More than in any other country i know, we have very strict labour laws, and doing overtime is one of the things we have a keen eye on. Your "9 to 5" in germany is "starting at 8, break from 12 to 13, go home at 5", the end. No questions asked. If you don't have a contractual arrangement with your employer regarding overtime, them keeping you there for longer makes them vulnerable to lawsuits. There are even stricter laws and rules regarding underage workers: An absolute maximum of work hours, no overtime - period, no night shifts, no work on weekend, you need special permission for any sort of exception. You had an oncall emergency at 2 am? Cool. That's between 125% and 150% hourly salary for the time worked, and also you now will start work at 13 o'clock and clock out at 5. And still we're one of the most productive and wealthiest countries in the world. And fully insured.
It's never been about productivity, it's about control and extraction
@@verager2493Exactly, if you're barely scraping by and constantly worn down from working ridiculous hours, you have no time to educate yourself or form any effective movement against the ruling class.
Almost like having a working class that can actually afford to consume the products they make is good for the economy...
Strong labor laws are great for everyone.
He read the statistis wrong - and you, too. Just read the explanation on the right - at 3:40. This statistics includes self-employed AAAAANNNDDD part-time workers. We have many people who only have one part-time job. Many single mums (and the few single dads) have only a part-time job. Many wifes of good earning husbands only have one part-time job.
Those numbers lower the average on a huge scale.
In fact - throwing ALL people in the statistics means that this average number gives very litlle information.
From someone like Vaush I would have expected that he at least reads the explanation. He as sociologist KNOWS how much simple statistics can deviate from reality.
Your explanation probably has also an effect - but probably on a small scale. Cause only this explanation will not end in 60% less working hours OVERALL ON AVERAGE. This just doesnt fit.
@@BoothTheGreyIt was just a quick look up on stream, he clearly wasnt looking that hard into it so you have to trust that information accordingly
It's even more dumb than that, because more time off is more days to spend your money on activities that boost the economy. The original reason we went to a 5 day work week was so that families had time to spend their middle class income on all those goods they were making.
Yeah, the irony of this age is that the people espousing capitalism aren't very good at it. See also: if the middle class doesn't have any disposable income, they can't buy shit, and the economy collapses.
@fantaguyreal Do translate, आशा है कि यह मुझे जल्दी मिल जाएगा.
Just leave it up to the land lord to get all your money without you having free time
Lol@@thewhitedragon4184
@fantaguyreal तब अंततः मुझे विश्राम मिलेगा।
Even Richard Nixon was advocating for a four day work week. Quote from an article from 1956:
"President Richard M. Nixon foresaw tonight for the "not too distant future" a four-day work week and a fuller family life for every American. He said this would come about through continuation of the Administration's economic policies."
Modern day right wingers have just lost the plot so hard.
I'm leftist and don't like Richard Nixon but agree with his statement, also this is proof that the GOP is out of touch from the working class & a Extremist political faction nowadays.
@@joseayala2940 I think it's worth noting that Nixon wasn't ever out of touch with the common man, and in fact his entire strategy of screwing everyone over was only possible because of that. He knew exactly what the man on the street wanted, and thus what to promise them, and what parts to deliver on for maximum support as he trampled on the rest.
And people argue that US politics has shifted too far left 🙄
People still don’t get that it is a 32 hour week. Same pay less time. Everyone seems to forget that.
A whole lot of people, like me, work an hourly wage job, so I can see the concerns people would have. I have a 4 day work week myself but I average about 36 hours a week anyways.
The wording confuses me. Would we be paid the same as a 40-hour week? Meaning the pay per hour dramatically increases? I think that's what the stupid fox ladies were worried about, less hours of work done for the same amount of money paid out from the company.
@@katyungodly yes. You would be making what you currently make for a 40hr week, but only work 32hrs/week
“BuT hOw WiLl ThE cOmPaNiEs SuRvIvE?”
@@WASDLeftClickthe only thing I’m afraid is that companies will move towards more contract work and even move to pay per unit produced. There needs to be some considerations in that section
Imagine talking about a 4 day work week like that in front of studio operators and technical crew who bust their ass so you can make 4 or 5 times as much for 1/4th the time actually working. I'd be pissing in the producer's coffee at news corp if I were in that situation.
You're right. How do people stand to be part of this propaganda machine?
Holy shit is this Fox News rhetoric even effective? Like do people listen to this and go “oh I thought I wanted a 4 day work week but turns out I don’t want that actually!”??
They think you'll go:
"Oh no, all those poor companies! I'll hqve to sacrifice myself to save them!"
They’re appealing to the people that still think “if I just vote right and work till my bones hurt then maybe the American dream which died out in the 80s will come true for me”
There's a reason most studies show that low IQ correlates more with conservative thinking.
I mean most of the people that watch it are old enough to retire or already did
@@ernestoacosta7918they're appealing to the people who genuinely believe that the companies are struggling ri get by. They aren't, as evidenced by the fact that their profits just keep going up and up
Four day workweek is not a radical solution and it's easy to implement, but it would be a major improvement in workers' lives. At least I would be happy about it and it would also probably make me a more motivated worker.
I wish we talked about this topic more.
And if productivity is increased, even the 1 percent would benefit, but they're so ghoulish that the workers' suffering outweighs them benefiting.
Correct. And it’s just pure cowardice at this point.
My former boss hated the idea of higher productivity which lead to decrease in work time, i.e., he'd rather I worked 8h instead of 4h for the same amount of work done cause he saw this as us "stealing" from him. Mind you this was an office job but he wanted us to work all the time and would scold us when there was no work for us to do. I wrote many programs which made me tens of times more productive and he wouldn't even entertain the idea of promotions/raises or even WFH, so i left.
edit: top 1% pay 47% of all taxes? Ok, and how much of the total wealth do they posses again? Let me help you answer that question, sweety, top 1% have 16 times the wealth of bottom 50%.
Conservatives just want a per capita tax where everyone pays the same amount each year. Then they would immediately argue that taking money from the poor is fine since they waste it all on drugs anyway, but put noble captains of industry invest in the economy better than any bureaucrat can so we should drop taxes on the wealthy so they can invest more.
So you had a standard American boss
You know that boss treats his family like shit and has the worst vacations, if he even has any
If you are so productive, how would he justify his existence? His whole life-purpose depends on the fact that employees are an unruly bunch that need a person with people skills to coordinate. If you are not even there half the time, why would his boss, or shareholders need him.
@fantaguyreal i would rather die big boy
"How could businesses survive 🥺"
Well, when you control the means of production, wealth simply flows up to you
I love the news anchor who almost says "I wish" and has to stop herself.
I noticed that!
"Yeah I wish- I mean, HE wishes we were off work right now! Hahaha! I love being a corporate slave! Please don't fire me, I didn't mean it. 😢"
Conservatives are THIS close to just openly aligning with “work sets you free”.
They crossed that line years ago. They just know it's got poor optics.
They already proclaimed men will just die without a job, 😅.
It's been 2 presidential terms since his run for president was denied by the DNC and HRC. Imagine what great things he would have done by now with a 2 term presidency. It makes me sick.
I think about this all the time. How much better we could have had it. Now I’m strongly considering moving elsewhere in hopes of a better life. The American Dream is now getting the fuck out of here.
I still imagine Gore instead of Bush…
Everyone always likes to point out that he would be stymied at every turn -- they aren't even wrong.
What they do fail to understand is that Sanders as POTUS would have stood on his soapbox (which is the largest possible because of that whole leader of the free world thing) and absolutely explained who in congress was blocking him and what the citizens stood to gain if his plans were implemented. Imagine if any of our worthless presidents told the truth and called out congressional scum?
It says a lot that they aren't going: "So this will increase productivity? Tell me more!"
If all the bullshit tasks many of us have to do just to fill out the time we have to spend at work isn't enough of a clue, this has nothing to do with actual productivity, it's about control.
Can always go back to Office Space:
Peter Gibbons: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?
Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?
Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses.
Bob Slydell: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
The more I think about it, office space should be required to watch for high schoolers
Nothing like hearing arguments against a 32-hour work week from people on tv who work 10.
They didn’t even make an argument. They’re like “ha, he’s upset about the current situation.”
I have worked blue collar jobs in the past SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE they were "Four Tens," or four ten-hour days.
For me, as Vaush said, the extra DAY makes all the difference, not a couple hours each night. Work tires me out, so I don't feel like doing too much beyond needed chores and school work afterwards. Further, I always felt like Saturdays were a "recovery day" from the work week (and/or Friday out with friends) and Saturday-Sunday was for weekly chores, meal prep for work or school, and little time left to do what I WANTED to do.
That extra day, for me, was all the difference for if I got to do landscaping, hobbies, volunteering, etc, and I ABSOLUTELY support people moving to a four-eights, or even three-tens workweek. Power to us all.
Yes! This! Another thing in my area, utilities cost more weekday evenings 4pm - 9pm. Means I'm not using the "extra" couple hours at night anyway because it's actually more expensive compared to waiting for the weekend or being able to do it in the middle of a week day. So the 4 day work week helps me save money too!
@trippingthelight This is something interesting I ran into when reading about "managed work periods" or semi-planned economic models such as those proposed by "Technocracy Inc" (interesting, but strange group). If we were to spread out peoples' work hours across the day (some people work mornings, some mid-day, some late, etc), businesses would be more viable and profitable due to near 24-7 operation (and increased night-life), and transit/energy use would even out, reducing rush-hour peaks and the afternoon energy spike. If 1/3 of people work afternoons, they wouldn't commute in morning traffic, but may shop mid-day, and vice-versa. The transit and energy use curves flatten into more and shorter spikes/waves. Very cool stuff!
This is who we could've had as president in 2016 and 2020. He shut down a Fox reporter trying to ask gotchya questions and turned it around to make his case to Fox viewers uninterrupted. Biden would've just repeatedly said "Come on, now." Except because it was Biden it wouldn't be about a 4 day work week, it'd be about banning tik tok or some shit.
Instead, we got a devil and a potato.
The sheer irony of a black woman saying "that's how this country was built" in that context.
Straight-up Onion moment, but said earnestly on Fox News
Bernie owes his cognizance to battling bears and chugging maple syrup in the forests of Vermont.
Sanders is the reason why complaining that Biden is "old" is missing the point. The problem is that his POLITICS are out of date.
Mad Props to Vaush for watching Fox News Clips for these videos, I can't watch Fox News without feeling sick to my stomach.
It’s legitimately painful listening to Fox News anchors’ voices. It hurts so much
The 32 hour work week means paying people "more" for their time because of the increase of productivity.
Fox "News"
Faux News
Faux "News"
It's actually pronounced "Faux"
@@xataruWhich is actually pronounced "Foe."
Remember when they won a lawsuit by saying “no reasonable viewer” takes them seriously? Can’t believe they got away with it
Won't someone think of the corpos?!
Corporate profits are at record highs. Working people can’t afford the basics. These are, of course, two completely unrelated phenomena
20:43 Indeed. I remember some winger on the comment section for The Majority Report insisting that inflation was 8% a month. I pointed out that would mean prices have doubled in a year. He continued to insist that it was monthly because the last report came out a month earlier. I even found the monthly inflation, which was 0.5% or 0.6% at the time. No one ever went broke by underestimating intelligence of the average wingnut.
I work in healthcare. 3, 12 hour shifts is considered full time for us. Haven't worked a "normal" 8/40 week in probably 2 decades. These are long shifts for sure but you get used to it and having 4 days off is absolutely amazing. Plus, if you really need to work more, we can pick up shifts at a substantial increase. I got a job a few years back that was a normal 8 hour, 40 hour work week and could only manage a few months before moving on.
Which section of healthcare do you work in? Healthcare has always been a consideration for me, but I've always heard horror stories about the hours and schedules.
I can handle a 10-12 hr shift as long as get 1hr breaks and 4 days off a week.
Next thing you know they'll be defending lead pipes.
That would be crazy right?
13:00 I love how, even in their joke about how ridiculous Bernie's proposal is, the point of their joke is that *they'd LOVE to have that day off*
This is such a frustrating topic because you would think the entire working class could unify behind the idea of "working less" but.... not even close.
The low numbers in Europe are caused by mandatory 20-30 days of paid leave per year. Companies often provide more.
And also most people either don't work overtime or they take additional time off to compensate.
Last year I accumulated 40h of overtime so I took an additional week of vacation. Meanwhile in the USA it's the default that people work overtime with no compensation.
Their jobs could be done by robots. They just say what they're told to. No thoughts behind their eyes whatsoever.
"if this came into effect we would be at home right now haha wouldn't that be terrible? I love working long hours and cutting down on my personal life"
I love the pretence they are worried about this causing companies to offshore jobs. As if big companies aren't constantly offshoring as many jobs as they possibly can, and as if we can't, y'know, make regulations to limit how much they do that.
Which I'm SURE they would be so supportive of if only a bill was put forward /s
Also as if a lot of those jobs don't absolutely suck to do and pay extremely badly. "The fact that all the sweatshop Labor happens overseas is so bad for the US".
Being reminded of what Bernie sounds like makes it unbelievable to me that people went for Sleepy Joe over him.
Lies about electability are the only reason Biden won.
He was fucked earlier by HRC. His second run was DOA because of his compromised run the first time.
The Fox brain damage is so real, holy.
Idk how anyone can watch this on fox news and not agree with Sanders, its like..."Why are you booing me, im right"
Let's be clear, happier and more productive workers are good for corporations!
My old job was 40 hours, 5 days a week. I now work in a new role which is 32 hours, 4 days a week, for higher pay. I feel infinitely better and happier.
Shapiro seems to think everyone can work from a comfy studio, like himself.
I bet he would change his mind real quick, if he had to work in construction a few years.
Vaush should also talk about companies pushing return to office mandates against workers, in contrast to workers wanting flexibility hybrid or remote arrangements (even when a job can be done remotely)
My mother fell for the workers "are more lazy @ home" rhetoric sometime last year and I internally lost it and she NEVER watches Fox News. Shows how the TV News Framing makes everything anti-working class. YAYYYY!!!!! AMERICA!!! USA!! USA!!!
This kind of shit should be illegal. Actively trying to miss lead people.
In large part, this is why Fox "News" is not legally considered "news" across the globe.
Who's Miss Lead?
A few years ago Jeff Bezos had a yacht built that was so ridiculously enormous that the Dutch gov't had to dismantle a bridge just so this thing could make to the open seas.
A Bond villain would be embarrassed by this.
TAX HIM!!!
Not only are people more productive, but an extra fucking day off just means people will go out and spend money on that day off…..
In turn stimulating the economy even more. It’s a no brainer.
But it gives us time to educate ourselves, get involved in local politics, organize, and protest. They want us too tired to meddle in anything they're doing. Not to mention, it would probably give people more time to vote if elections are on people's days off.
Seriously. Consumption is the bottle neck in many western economies
When I switched back to a 5 day work week from a 6 day the difference was biblical. Working 6 days a week made me a monster. A literal monster.
No, not literal. The opposite. You were right the first time.
My favorite thing about Fox is they're so out of touch that they don't understand how good Bernie is at articulating his goals in a way that is pretty much impossible to disagree with if you're not a retired person, they don't even get how to properly clip him out of context
Is it a shocking revelation that most of Fox News' audience is retired old people?
The happiest ive ever been in my whole working life was when i did a couple months at a place that had a 4-day work week. I didnt even like the work all that well but i was much more motivated to keep going cuz the great work/life balance
People who barely work love to talk about actual workers "work ethic"
The real value of the 4 day workweek is less about working fewer hours, and more about reducing the ability for employers to scam people out of their full time work benefits by having them work 39 hours with 1 hour of unpaid overtime off the books.
Worked for a company that briefly moved to working 4 10 hour days a week. Everyone in the company loved it, including the boss. In the end, he moved back to 5 8s because homeowners (the customers) complained because they missed the optics of seeing people working on their house 5 days a week. This in spite of the fact that my boss had data to show that we were way more efficient working 4 10s.
People with more free time will spend more money
I actually had a conversation about this with someone the other day and their big argument against it was "well why do you want an extra day off? What would you do on it? Play video games or something? Times wasted if its not making money"
Imagine having that little of a personality that you don't think fun us time well spent? I'd honestly end it if I had that attitude. Enjoying myself? No thanks
I have a 4 day work week already. Unfortunately I work 10 hour shifts, in addition to an hour commute each way, so I'm still overworked, but having the extra day off is nice.
An ideal workday would only be 5 or 6 hours. Because after that, your productivity declines.
the 4 day work week being proposed is 8 hours a day so you would still work less
I'm about to go back to that situation too unfortunately. My commute also tripled from the last job.
I can occasionally leave early, so that helps. It's mostly the damned drive that is gonna be breaking my heart though.
@@gabrielsatter Yeah, the 2 hours of driving each day is terrible, but the pay increase was so much that I'd be insane to say no. $85k in student loans won't pay themselves.
My brother was doing an over 80 hour / 7 day work week and became depressed and an alcoholic. So yeah, it's better if workers are happier.
One thing I noticed about Fox News in comparison to other news channels is that the colors are all really bright. It hurts my eyes.
Their viewer base has a high incidence of cataracts
I've never been closer to offing myself than when I've worked 5 day weeks. There's something wrong with the neurotypicals for being psychologically able to just put up with that
“Your boss watches this”
just summed up why my stress level is through the roof anymore
Most can only do 4 hours of mental work in a day anyway.
4, add another hour for breaks and another hour for little inefficiencies... you really only need 6 hours to get the most out of an employee.
I’ll never understand this- productivity goes up on a 4 day work week and everyone is happier- why do they think they’re acting in the interest of the businesses class by keeping it at 5 if productivity is lower than it would be at 4? More time does not inherently mean more productivity, but maybe they can only think in the most simple and rigid framework that it simply must.
1) control over the poors
2) change is scary
@@trippingthelight1) for corporation 2) for normal peoole
To be fair, not every job is an office job where people already aren't working half the time. And even in those jobs, many of them require somebody to be there whether they are actively engaging in work for a full 8 hours or not (like a receptionist for example).
This isn't to say a 4 day workweek shouldn't be done, but in many cases business would have to hire someone to work that extra day you have off. That is what the fox news anchors are talking about. For example, imagine a small diner with 2 full time employees. They now have Friday's off. That business now has to hire someone to work 8 hours on Friday's and has now had an increase in labor costs of 20%.
Should business pay their workers at least 20% more? Of course, but to pretend it won't cost business more in most cases is silly.
@@matt66146 I didn’t consider a waiting staff who may not necessarily be active until needed. I did consider physical labor which is to say that (in my case I worked as gaffer in LA) and from my experience (the days are often standard 12hrs though I believe during the pandemic they were made to be 10, but 18hrs are not unheard of and once I went 30hrs) if there is too much time at work my body literally tires itself out- the extra rest day really helps whenever I’ve been lucky enough to have them- and as a result having smoother days being on schedule.
In the event of something like what you’re describing- yes businesses would have to pay more, but they absolutely should anyway as they are often not paying workers enough. I feel like there needs to be a (I said in my head like a consumer price index and then remembered that’s a thing but idk how it works) system that measures the various costs of goods and services but also wages, salaries, bonuses, and income in an arbitrary region and determines which costs are inflated beyond real utility/value and dial those ones back when that happens (housing being an example where they have become investments of speculative future value regardless of whether or not someone is securely living in them and that’s not really consumption as it ought to be as it creates the housing crisis and stifles the rest of the economy by cutting into savings/discretionary spending)
@@matt66146 I mean do those 2 workers work on the same days? Most small diners are open about 6-7 days a week not 5 so unless employees are only working a couple hours a day or are already doing frequent OT then they have a staffing issue even without the 32 hour work week.
There is an interview somewhere with former German chancelor Helmut Schmidt from the mid/late 1970s. And he is being asked "if the automatisation of work continues like this, how will we continue as a society?" and he responds "then we will move to a 20 hour work week" ... and back then people were working less hours for better pay than now in Germany. I sure would love to have some of that 20 hour work week for being as productive as 20 people from Schmidt's era!
lol the way she ask “why should companies pay someone to not work?” Was either a question for another story, her not understanding how hourly works or her believing people will clock in for 4 days and get paid for 5. It doesn’t even take a full minute of thinking to see the propaganda.
I can't wait to not have a 32-hour work week, but somehow, you know the right will blame layoffs on all this 32-hour work week talk
All this stuff just hammers into me that we can't let Media and News keep getting away with having these uneducated and “normal” reporters handling these sorts of political and economical discussions.
They're literally just spouting off baseless bullshit because they don't understand anything about economics, business or how any of this shit works. (And that's not even touching the blatant and utter misinformation and deceit)
Oh... They definitely get it.
Hearing a bunch of millionaires who sit on their ass for about 2 hours a day for "work" talk about shortening the work week harming "work ethic" would be funny if it weren't for the fact that people eat that shit up uncritically...
bosses can afford their own space programs, the workers can barely afford rent
As someone with Crohn's, 8 hour work days are a nightmare, because it means I MUST EAT in the middle of my shift, which means there's a 50% chance I get sent home 4 hours early. While I support the 4 day work week, 8 hour shifts terrify me. I haven't been able to work them since before getting sick.
It really sucks how the work life is basically made for the fully healthy. Others just often have to struggle along.
@@bumblebeeatbreadloaf1286 Yeah and God knows the US doesn't give out disability payments that are enough to survive, even if you can get them to begin with. Like I really want to spend what little time I have left working all the time lol.
For RWNJs, "lazy" means "unwilling to work 90 hours a week for bad room and board and an ever-growing debt to the company store.
90 hrs isn't nearly enough to load 16 tons of No. 9 coal
The variation in human intelligence is so massive that it stretches the boundaries of what can be considered a single species.
Presenting that 18.5% inflation statistic is equivalent to claiming to be a physicist as you conflate velocity with acceleration
What I will always find VERY weird is how Americans act like Fox News is so big, because when I look at European, NON ENGLISH main news sources I see ones that have like 3 times as many viewers as fox during their main show
Their cult viewership is extremely active on social media and even politics in meat space. They work as a team to put out the signs, go to rallies, attempt to intimidate, and try the occasional coup.
Nobody else even come close to that dedication unfortunately.
@@gabrielsatter oh that’s 100% true
They a cult for sure
But I just always thought it would be much bigger
"The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us."
This is basically just all upsides across the board, which means it will never happen here.
13:14 Even her little mocking right there makes Bernie’s proposal sound awesome. I could imagine someone watching this and thinking, “Boy, it WOULD be nice to be off work today, actually.”
It's completely insane that people can't see right through this rhetoric about the plight of the poor businesses.
Its also ridiculous because if you listen to actual small business owners there main issue right now is people aren't having the time or money to buy from them.
"Life is to be suffered for the betterment of The Company ... now watch this putt" - The Typical American CEO
I gotta be honest, it ain't even like Bernie is necessarily reducing overall work time, you'd HAVE to work harder. But the price is worth the extra free time, the only reason they don't support it is because they are genuine ghouls who feed from suffering. We need a very big change in our government.
I’m an EMT at a hospital in NYC. Our department is unionized and OT starts after 37 hours. It’s beautiful 🥰🥰
That part where they said 4 by 10 would be acceptable is only because it would be one step closer to owners asking you to work 50 hours a week.
Won’t someone think of the poor, impoverished businesses?! 😐🙄
What's interesting in Korea is that the 4 day work week has a lot of support due to declining birth rates, suicidality, and other negative social factors to being overworked. It was supported as a main policy plank by the progressive presidential candidate who lost the election by less than 1%. POSCO, a major Korean conglomerate, recently instituted a 4 day work week voluntarily.
I used to teach at the Ohio State University, which ran on a four-day week. This was back in the 80s. Not very radical.
They said all of this about the 5 day work week, people are always advancing and republicans are always trying to drag them back