Same. I mean, there is "something" to do, but nothing creative, dynamic that fills the soul. Then it's better to inform and enrich our souls on a Friday afternoon through high quality videos like these.
Eden: Work is an unpleasant punishment. Aristotle: Finding fulfillment and doing spectacular things is impossible when you're poor and have to earn money. Early Christianity: Work is terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible but we gotta do it anyways cuz God said so. Renaissance: Money, ambition, joy and creative genius are best together. Martin Luther: We shall use our talents for good. Even small ones are important and please God. Ordinary jobs are sometimes even better. Enlightenment: The Encyclopedie, explaining things about different everyday jobs. Marks: Boring, uneducational work that doesn't develop one's talents and personality is the worst capitalism does. Veblen: rich people are lazy assholes. 1945: MBTI YAAAY! Also people make a cult out of work, which is not good. Cults aren't good as a whole. But it's great that they choose people by their talent and personality. Now: We have very high expectations and are often unfulfilled by our work. (don't mind me, this is the most convenient way to take notes)
Same feeling here. I'm going to google the shit out of that. Specially with a humanities/art degree under my arm, I had this feeling for the most part of my life.
I'm meant to serve my McDonald's employers as if they were my kings, for the glory of their logo and to feel that sense of community and pride when I work 10 hour shifts feeding the ever-whining maw of the customers outside. My job is to churn out fatty foods and sugary drinks that actively damage my community, but make money for the CEO who doesn't get out of bed. All in pursuit of the necessary number in my pocket that keeps me from being filthy, hungry and ignored.
This video was really interesting. It reminds me of a quote by Mark Cuban. Cuban says something like "Don't bother yourself too much with finding a job you love right away. Just work hard enough that you become great and your job and therefore love to do it from then on."
Don't forget that Mark Cuban is one of the richest men in the world, and would be more than happy if he can convince the peons who work for his companies to simply settle for what they have rather than seek truly gainful employment.
If they have something to say is because they have a work that gives them that posibility. You can't speak for them since you're not in their situation or background.
@@joelhc9703 slaving away for low wages and long hours... and in case you watched the news recently, sometimes not even getting paid in time or full amounts... if you think there's no problem with this and "they have an opinion because they're given this privilege", you're seriously wrong in the head.
This concept of meaningful work is beautiful but very hard to apply in real life for most of the world. While I currently have such a job, I achieved that by lowering expectations on other aspects of my career, like money and prestige. For me it's a very good trade off that I found after years of struggle to identify successful combination. I also remember how ok I was with being a waitress in my teenage years before having ideals of fulfilling work. What I find worrying is that there are a lot of people with a lot harsher jobs which they chose on the basis of making a living and how deeply disturbing it is/will be for them to consider their situation from this "meaning work" point of view. In truth, this criterion is still hard to apply as a general rule. However, we are the closest we've ever been to that possibility due to the prospect of robots taking over the repetitive and mechanical jobs and thus leaving mostly fulfilling options. I'm very keen to see what new kinds of occupations people will take on when the current industrial revolution style 8h work day will (finally) become obsolete.
Another really important point is the spectation and the desire it leaves on us, seen such a possibility, even if hard, possible, have a surprising power of leaving us feeling like we are in a bad situation and wasting our lives; All as a perment background feeling. Even if our jobs are really ok, or even good, the desire this idea can generate, causes it to be experience as much worse than it would be, if we had no desire of achieving a improbable meaningfull job. This for me, went unoticed as one of the biggest causes of my disstisfaction with my current job. when i was able to rid of this desire, i found i could be very happy staying at this job for the rest of my life. Im not saying we all shouldnt persue such jobs, it can be great depending on who you are and your situation, but we should be very aware that our main reason for wanting to do so, isnt our situation, but the sofering this idea can generate
I'm terrified that I won't enjoy my work, that I won't make enough money to live comfortably, that I won't be able to meet the demands placed on me. I don't know if I'm fit for living in this world.
+Jake Whitton Firstly, don't worry about earning "enough". All that means is that you don't spend more than you make, and that doesn't have to be a lot - all depends on how tightly you budget yourself. Secondly, I'm thinking of enrolling on a second degree course when I've only just finished my first - and that's because I think I'll enjoy it more. Don't worry about these things, instead think about what you might like to do most, and see where that leads you.
I made my own work. I love it. I flopped around from job to job for years and I finally realized I would need to make my own work. Best decision I ever made.
Great video! My thoughts: work has become the standard way to become useful to our community. Most of us would find great satisfaction in being useful. The problem is that most of us think of work as a personal struggle to survive, we fail to see how our work benefits others. A probable reason for this might be the "division of labour" and globalization. If I'm in charge of pouring plastic pellets into a machine that makes plastic buttons which in turn will be sold to another company which will assemble it into an electronic component which then will be shipped to a car assembly plant, then, it will be very hard for me to "feel" the value of my effort, and my job might feel useless.
Alice Banaszewski Ok, I'm confused. Was it a rhetoric question or were you genuinely baffled as to why people think this is the greatest channel? Or...something else?
Alice Banaszewski Thought it was, my bad as well. Thanks for clarifying. I concur, though I have this feel somewhere within the depths of UA-cam there may lie even something greater...
Germany 1990s: "Work is stupid."- slogan of the German anarchist party. It's not so much that I mind work, but often it is merely the mindless bidding of idiots. Even the slaves in Egypt could look upon the pyramids and say "I helped build that".
Although certain "Christians" have marked work as a burden, the Bible does not support this reasoning. Before Adam and Eve sinned, they had been assigned duties, as can be seen in Genesis 1:28. However, overly hard work was a curse that was imposed on Adam. This curse was removed from humankind after the Flood, as can be seen in Genesis 5:28,29.
Christian tradition does not say the punishment was to work, but to work WITH EFFORT. In fact the Bible says "God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and take care of it". So the difference was not Work but suffering: "Painfully will you get your food from it [the soil] as long as you live.".
***** I know right, they sure are. I kind of agree with what you said, even if I prefer not being so agressive about it, since they tend to just get even more stubborn. It's the sad reality. Either way, no worries, take care yourself!
Watching this ,sitting on a overcrowded bus ,on your way home from WORK...... Really transport you to a whole new weird place of introspection and self pity !
"The cult of working hard and be very very busy all the time. Soon only the unemployed are idle, everyone else is working away furiously. The richer you are the more you keep working, to show that you are good and serious. Being idle is the new taboo."
Great and thoughtful video, as always. I can't get enough of your style of graphics. Turning the apple logo into the forbidden fruit in the hands of Eve was an incredibly strong, symbolic feature. Mighty clever.
Great video-- with that last thread about technology liberating/complicating contemporary work, I couldn't help but think of the rise of automation, especially *"Humans Need Not Apply"* by CGP Grey. Creative (Renaissance-like) freelance work will likely be the only human jobs in 100 years.
Paul Keefer Not as long as governments and unions keep doing everything to stop automation. Automation is already cheaper but often robots are made artificially expensive or workers artificially cheap, or companies are simply forced to keep their workers that automation can't expand as fast as it could otherwise. Instead of stopping progress we need to change the economic model to allow for this automation.
Jeroen Bollen If we allowed automation to grow, majority wouldn't work, people would live a leisurely, inactive life. The machine owners would send everyone a portion of his profits to pay for their lifestyle. Work is in our DNA so i don't think we'll adapt.
It wasn't relating to or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian ( East Slavic ), Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian ( West Slavic ), and Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene ????
I believe some people try to interpret the Bible without actually reading it. Adam was indeed to tend the garden because humans need creative employment just as God is a creative worker. We are created in His image. Sin made work hard.
Believe it or not the thing that brought you the most pain in life, and the creative alleviation of that type of pain in others is a great place to start for fulfilling work. The money will just be a plus. Dig deep there for the soil is rich!
One cause of the unemployment/misemployment problem is britain's abysmal education system. All it does is make children memorise information based on a syllabus, and their "intelligence" is based on how much they can remember. Of course this doesn't work. An A student may not be as intelligent as a D student, because their brains work differently, but the exam boards don't work in way that recognises this. If getting a job only awards people who are able to score As and Bs in their exams, then what are the people who score lower supposed to do? Rot in unemployment, getting by on welfare? This puts a burden on taxpayers. It was reported recently that 75% of school leavers do not have the skills necessary to get a job. Once again, the schools have failed the very basic task to prepare young people for the world of work, let alone life. These same students have been told for years to go to university because they'll get a good job afterwards, but employers demand 3-5 years "work experience". Degrees are now worthless, and all that time and money is wasted for nothing. This is why there are so many out-of-work graduates. The solution is simple: At a young age, children need to be enabled to develop their personalities so that they can be taught according to that test mentioned in this video. There are plenty of ways to educate people with different personalities. That's why so many people are in the wrong jobs and dissasitsfied. I'm so glad it was mentioned in this video. It's not too late to get this implented into schools and job centres, so that it will get people into the right jobs, and content workers. A happy workforce is a productive workforce.
6:43 HOLY MOLY! No WONDER why I like MBTI so much. It was made to try and figure out what kind of talents a person has through their natural, individual behaviors and traits.
Christian doctrine does not say that work is the punishment for Adam & Eve, but rather that work would become difficult. Christian doctrine says that Adam and Eve were placed in the garden to tend it, which is work.
It is not only the longings for creative work over menial work, but also non-authoritarian workplaces vs authoritarian ones; authentic connection/cooperation with others; and not having the value of one's work exploited.
What I didn’t hear mentioned about the challenge of the future of work was the continued loss of meaningful employment through automation and efficiency.
Certain tasks demand stoic attitude and perseverance in the face of monotonous repetition before you can reap the pride of your labor. Our attitude to work is not constant - learning to play an instrument may feel tedious in the beginning, but then joyful and expressive once you attain some mastery. The lady at 8:32 should use the time to read a book. Or even better - write one.
Great video! I know it has been done on other UA-cam channels, but I would love to see a follow up of this. It would be taking off from the Macintosh portion of this video and would examine the future of work - in relation to the impending automation boom. The video could include the effects of events that are happening right now, such as vehicle automation, would bring up the threat it presents to capitalism in general (how will we make money? UBI? Negative taxable income?) and bring up several options of people returning to more creative and meaningful work. Additionally, you could compare how people reacted to the industrial/analog automation revolution vs how we will handle the upcoming digital/electronic automation revolution. I have a ton of ideas, but even more blanks to fill in. I realize it's not exactly your cup of tea as you mainly examine historical figures in your videos and this is more of a "future unknown". Some figures still apply Herbert Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. has good quotes, Karl Marx again and some futurologists. I don't know, what do you think? FUTURE - Work
Why Do not look at hisory of work throught the only 3 moments sapiens really changed it, agriculture revolution, industrial revolution, and of course the digital one.
One of the biggest things I think makes work so terrible now vs even just a couple hundred years ago (or in some places now) is the disconnection between work and reward. We disassociate our 9-5 from our biweekly paycheck, and the work we do doesn’t directly affect us or anyone we know (particularly when working for large corporations). If you lived in 1750, had a farm, had a small village and community who all know, care for, and love each other, and the food and supplies you were making were directly fueling your community and your family, you would likely feel much more fulfillment watching your hard work mean something because it’s on a smaller scale.
I, as an atheist, enjoy that the garden of Eden was presented as a historical date. I thought it emphasised the importance of Abrahamic values in Western concepts. This channel never ceases to teach new lessons.
Daniel Singh How...depressing is the fact that certain atheists resent any kind of value from religion and disregard it completely...they aren't being any less fanatic than the believers they pity or hate, or both.
Well I pressure wash sometimes it is fulfilling. get tips occasionally. The other day a past customer actually sent a thank you card to our boss. I guess outside work is pretty gratifying sometimes. Def dont want to pressure wash my whole life, hopefully i can keep learning while eventually finding my own work.
Correction for the Adam bit: First, it was some kind of fruit, not specifically an apple. Second, Adam from his creation was told he was to work (Gen 2:15) but his curse was that it would no longer always be fruitful. So the Judeo-Christian idea is that work always existed, even in paradise
I think it's going be very interesting to see how the concept of work develops itself in the near future. The "uncreative" works that can soon be replace by technology, for example farming, driving, manufacturing or even service will surely leaves a lot of people workless for economical reasons. This automation of labour may be beneficial in a sense that it liberates people from doing works that they may find meaningless, but it may easily lead to a existential dilemma - what's next. The concept of work would totally change. If people do not need to do repetitive manual task to survive what should they do instead; create? For example I've read an article on the likely replacement of truck drivers in the United States by automated vehicles. Truck drivers are, in certain states the main mode of employment and they fuels other businesses such as restaurants and motels on their way. Replacing them with computed trucks, replacing call centres with automated replies seem to be the trend - and the theme here is economic. The truck drivers would be left jobless, should they, like many in their position struggle to find a job when there is none for them? Or should or societal structure permit an alternative existence?
This is a western view of work. Don't forget that there are over 4 billion people on this planet that grew up with a completely different view. Still very informative and thank you for uploading.
Some guys in the comments already pointed out that the video is about "our" western view of work and is hence missing a broader perspective. Apart from that I would recommend the book "Brave New World" to anyone who wonders what work looks like in a perfect world. The book really takes things to the next level.
Luther's ideas seem to resonate with those of the Bhakti philosophers of 12th century Indian Subcontinent- It would be a nice idea to present a comparative study of the evolution of concepts all over the world, and not just the christian-dominated West.
Work is the labor that makes the moving of matter or information in one direction in order for money to move around in the other direction and matter to transform from raw material to trash, or to be recycled until it eventually turns into trash.
Off topic:I like the move away from Euro-centrisim in this video; not that there's anything wrong with Europe. Its the emphasis on great minds that's important to me, not where they come from. That doesn't mean you can't recognize they all don't come form one place. I'm an American, and even I am unfamiliar with most of the figures this video mentioned.
Please continue like that, maybe ship your ideas to corporations or national institutions, they need such well-created explanations about life in general
The video was perfectly made. However, there's one point at the beginning of the video that I disagree with. I read the Bible quite thoroughly. From my understanding of the Holy Scripture, I don't think that work only began when God expelled Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden. While the first man and woman still lived within the garden, God already gave them a work of taking control over "the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth" (Genesis 1:26). In Genesis 2, God also let Adam name the animals (2:19). I think work has always been a gift from God for men to achieve fulfilment in life and partake in contributing to the world which He created. I think "hard labor" began when Adam and Eve sinned and were expelled out of the garden, since"work" had existed even before that. May God bless us all!
I love all th School of Life videos. This one though, surprised me as a little simplistic, as it only proposes that the work should be enjoyable. But it does not bother to look into the causes of the alienation in modern work. Mothern work alienates because its conversion into a commodity, its mercantilization.
I find it sad that we humans have the technology that could reduce boring work to a minimum, and yet all you hear on the media is that unemployment is a negative thing, being idle is somehow wrong. Politicians keep playing the same record, growth, jobs, market "forces", (fake) debt, etc...
Work is always a healthy choice for our life. Everyone need a job to become happier and better skilled. the Job can be anything, or, it's kind of constantly movement of your body, mind, or both together, plus a goal to achieve. We all love work as long we have a job suit our own personality and natural talent, also our boss is caring, not being mean or abusive.
The crucial point is that technology missed is promises about work . Work was in many cases harder than nowadays but had meaning for workers . Today work is less hard but workers are treated like machine , in a world day by day more precarious for workers . The sad side is that however people manage to find meaning in work meaningless . Millions of modern slave : paradox of being slave of themselves
There's work and than there's a lifestyle. Work is something you do solely for money and a lot of times you hate it. A lifestyle is something that you love to do so much it's nearly just a party of your daily livelihood and the money is nothing but a bonus.
I feel lucky to be in a creative occupation as an IT developer.I do however have to work very hard to maintain my skills. 12 days are the norm and I do occasionally get ridiculous 'automation' requests coming my way.
I hate how work is the central part of our lives, so much so that it seems to consume our essences. The first thing people say when describing themselves is what they do for work "i am...", our likes, tastes, abilities and feelings become all secondary. It's sad.
Could you do a video on Existential Depression please...I do really love these videos, I put my medicine degree on hold to do a semester in philosophy because watching these videos opened my mind to another side of life and death.as well as existence.
I don't know it's relevant or not but this video just clarifies to me that being lazy and being idle are two completely different things. A lazy person is the one not willing to work or not putting enough effort to his/her work, but an idle is someone who is temporarily unemployed.
The video has some negative outlook on the modern world about it stressing the notion of work but compared to the past, where most would not even get much option to choose which career would be best suited, we're doing a darn good job here. The paradox of choice, it seems like, have taken effect.
Cymonu People always have something to whine about...BUT, just because in the past it was worse doesn't mean now it's completely great. You didn't mean that, I know, just saying. We are making progress, but there is still much to be done.
This video is bang on. I'm at work, in the office now, watching this, because there is nothing else for me to do here.
Theres always the vacuuming to do!
Pornhub??LOL
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Same. I mean, there is "something" to do, but nothing creative, dynamic that fills the soul. Then it's better to inform and enrich our souls on a Friday afternoon through high quality videos like these.
Eden: Work is an unpleasant punishment.
Aristotle: Finding fulfillment and doing spectacular things is impossible when you're poor and have to earn money.
Early Christianity: Work is terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible but we gotta do it anyways cuz God said so.
Renaissance: Money, ambition, joy and creative genius are best together.
Martin Luther: We shall use our talents for good. Even small ones are important and please God. Ordinary jobs are sometimes even better.
Enlightenment: The Encyclopedie, explaining things about different everyday jobs.
Marks: Boring, uneducational work that doesn't develop one's talents and personality is the worst capitalism does.
Veblen: rich people are lazy assholes.
1945: MBTI YAAAY! Also people make a cult out of work, which is not good. Cults aren't good as a whole. But it's great that they choose people by their talent and personality.
Now: We have very high expectations and are often unfulfilled by our work.
(don't mind me, this is the most convenient way to take notes)
Aristotle wasn't too far off
Great! thank you for this. It's Marx btw
@@denverdean2663 what a mistake lmao.... Especially for a person who is now a communist and has read some marx
I love the advert line: "You'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984." It gave me a good chuckle.
W-was it?
"The career crisis." I feel better knowing there is a term for this terrible feeling.
same
same
Same feeling here. I'm going to google the shit out of that. Specially with a humanities/art degree under my arm, I had this feeling for the most part of my life.
History of Education and History of Prison would be really great!
I agree!
I don't it needs to remain history
History of Prison: see History of Work.
I'm meant to serve my McDonald's employers as if they were my kings, for the glory of their logo and to feel that sense of community and pride when I work 10 hour shifts feeding the ever-whining maw of the customers outside. My job is to churn out fatty foods and sugary drinks that actively damage my community, but make money for the CEO who doesn't get out of bed. All in pursuit of the necessary number in my pocket that keeps me from being filthy, hungry and ignored.
It is very sad to read this. It is the modern slavery. Yet, there is no way out.
This video was really interesting. It reminds me of a quote by Mark Cuban. Cuban says something like "Don't bother yourself too much with finding a job you love right away. Just work hard enough that you become great and your job and therefore love to do it from then on."
Don't forget that Mark Cuban is one of the richest men in the world, and would be more than happy if he can convince the peons who work for his companies to simply settle for what they have rather than seek truly gainful employment.
Watching this at work.
Vaibhav Gupta Amusing.
+Vaibhav Gupta That's a job I would like to do.
parasiticjustice well lot of my friends wants do my job.
lol Apple. So much for not becoming like the 1984 commercial.
I'm sure the Chinese factory workers would have something to say.
:-(
If they have something to say is because they have a work that gives them that posibility.
You can't speak for them since you're not in their situation or background.
@@joelhc9703 slaving away for low wages and long hours... and in case you watched the news recently, sometimes not even getting paid in time or full amounts... if you think there's no problem with this and "they have an opinion because they're given this privilege", you're seriously wrong in the head.
The amount of research and work that goes into these videos is absolutely amazing.
that's the beautiful irony of this particular video's topic.
Within our communism philosophy is work will be reduces to as choices.. hmmmm..
This concept of meaningful work is beautiful but very hard to apply in real life for most of the world. While I currently have such a job, I achieved that by lowering expectations on other aspects of my career, like money and prestige. For me it's a very good trade off that I found after years of struggle to identify successful combination. I also remember how ok I was with being a waitress in my teenage years before having ideals of fulfilling work. What I find worrying is that there are a lot of people with a lot harsher jobs which they chose on the basis of making a living and how deeply disturbing it is/will be for them to consider their situation from this "meaning work" point of view. In truth, this criterion is still hard to apply as a general rule. However, we are the closest we've ever been to that possibility due to the prospect of robots taking over the repetitive and mechanical jobs and thus leaving mostly fulfilling options. I'm very keen to see what new kinds of occupations people will take on when the current industrial revolution style 8h work day will (finally) become obsolete.
Another really important point is the spectation and the desire it leaves on us, seen such a possibility, even if hard, possible, have a surprising power of leaving us feeling like we are in a bad situation and wasting our lives; All as a perment background feeling.
Even if our jobs are really ok, or even good, the desire this idea can generate, causes it to be experience as much worse than it would be, if we had no desire of achieving a improbable meaningfull job.
This for me, went unoticed as one of the biggest causes of my disstisfaction with my current job. when i was able to rid of this desire, i found i could be very happy staying at this job for the rest of my life.
Im not saying we all shouldnt persue such jobs, it can be great depending on who you are and your situation, but we should be very aware that our main reason for wanting to do so, isnt our situation, but the sofering this idea can generate
I'm terrified that I won't enjoy my work, that I won't make enough money to live comfortably, that I won't be able to meet the demands placed on me.
I don't know if I'm fit for living in this world.
Objects need need to be fit.. Humans adapt, change and create
No worries, you gonna figure it out ;)
+Jake Whiten I'm getting my second bachelors degree right now, just for that reason. I know how you feel.
+Jake Whitton Firstly, don't worry about earning "enough". All that means is that you don't spend more than you make, and that doesn't have to be a lot - all depends on how tightly you budget yourself. Secondly, I'm thinking of enrolling on a second degree course when I've only just finished my first - and that's because I think I'll enjoy it more. Don't worry about these things, instead think about what you might like to do most, and see where that leads you.
I feel you
Sounds like weakness
I recommend reading "In Praise of Idleness" by Bertrand Russell. It's a brilliant, short essay of only a few pages.
Thanks Bernie, I looked that up great read, eye opening.
ou , thanks ! listened to the audio version on here
I made my own work. I love it. I flopped around from job to job for years and I finally realized I would need to make my own work. Best decision I ever made.
What are you doing?
Please don't hire an American narrator. I love your voice!
***** Thank you kindly!
***** Will you at least work with additional narrators? It would be nice to have some variety.
***** Has he ever considered renaming himself to Alan The Button?
I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT ABOUT THIS.
Great video!
My thoughts: work has become the standard way to become useful to our community. Most of us would find great satisfaction in being useful.
The problem is that most of us think of work as a personal struggle to survive, we fail to see how our work benefits others.
A probable reason for this might be the "division of labour" and globalization. If I'm in charge of pouring plastic pellets into a machine that makes plastic buttons which in turn will be sold to another company which will assemble it into an electronic component which then will be shipped to a car assembly plant, then, it will be very hard for me to "feel" the value of my effort, and my job might feel useless.
why is this the best channel on youtube?
Alice Banaszewski Who said that?
K0ragg i did
Alice Banaszewski
Ok, I'm confused. Was it a rhetoric question or were you genuinely baffled as to why people think this is the greatest channel? Or...something else?
K0ragg haha my bad, it was rhetoric
Alice Banaszewski
Thought it was, my bad as well. Thanks for clarifying. I concur, though I have this feel somewhere within the depths of UA-cam there may lie even something greater...
Germany 1990s: "Work is stupid."- slogan of the German anarchist party.
It's not so much that I mind work, but often it is merely the mindless bidding of idiots.
Even the slaves in Egypt could look upon the pyramids and say "I helped build that".
No slaves built the pyramids though !
@@afasia2341 And who did?
@@iseeu-fp9po they weren't slaves. A little bit of research h will confirm this.
@@jiggersotoole7823 I was asking, not being sarcastic.
@@iseeu-fp9po Sorry. I take that comment back.
Although certain "Christians" have marked work as a burden, the Bible does not support this reasoning. Before Adam and Eve sinned, they had been assigned duties, as can be seen in Genesis 1:28. However, overly hard work was a curse that was imposed on Adam. This curse was removed from humankind after the Flood, as can be seen in Genesis 5:28,29.
Christian tradition does not say the punishment was to work, but to work WITH EFFORT. In fact the Bible says "God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and take care of it". So the difference was not Work but suffering: "Painfully will you get your food from it [the soil] as long as you live.".
You beat me to it, and said it more eloquently than I would have.
***** Fine chap! We must be grateful he allows us to live!
*****
I was being ironic?
*****
I know right, they sure are. I kind of agree with what you said, even if I prefer not being so agressive about it, since they tend to just get even more stubborn. It's the sad reality. Either way, no worries, take care yourself!
tonyfalca
I guess in the given contenxt, I was rather sarcastic, true.
Watching this ,sitting on a overcrowded bus ,on your way home from WORK...... Really transport you to a whole new weird place of introspection and self pity !
Thanks a lot ADAM "lOOK WHAT YOU MADE US DO"
"The cult of working hard and be very very busy all the time. Soon only the unemployed are idle, everyone else is working away furiously. The richer you are the more you keep working, to show that you are good and serious. Being idle is the new taboo."
Great and thoughtful video, as always. I can't get enough of your style of graphics. Turning the apple logo into the forbidden fruit in the hands of Eve was an incredibly strong, symbolic feature. Mighty clever.
Great video-- with that last thread about technology liberating/complicating contemporary work, I couldn't help but think of the rise of automation, especially *"Humans Need Not Apply"* by CGP Grey. Creative (Renaissance-like) freelance work will likely be the only human jobs in 100 years.
Paul Keefer Haha! I took too long writing my comment. We are like minded.
Paul Keefer Not as long as governments and unions keep doing everything to stop automation. Automation is already cheaper but often robots are made artificially expensive or workers artificially cheap, or companies are simply forced to keep their workers that automation can't expand as fast as it could otherwise. Instead of stopping progress we need to change the economic model to allow for this automation.
Jeroen Bollen If we allowed automation to grow, majority wouldn't work, people would live a leisurely, inactive life. The machine owners would send everyone a portion of his profits to pay for their lifestyle. Work is in our DNA so i don't think we'll adapt.
jim adams DNA changes, evolution. Anyway, we don't have to stop working, we can just do more enjoyable work.
Paul Keefer The same thought came to my mind. I was searching through comments if anyone else also thought the same. Glad to see your comment.
According to the Bible, Adam had to work even in the garden, however, the work was enjoyable, and not slavic
It wasn't relating to or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian ( East Slavic ), Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian ( West Slavic ), and Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene ????
@@HawkK what are you on about?
You mean slavish? 😉
Im sure Slavic is not the word maybe u should sayok im very sorry
I believe some people try to interpret the Bible without actually reading it. Adam was indeed to tend the garden because humans need creative employment just as God is a creative worker. We are created in His image. Sin made work hard.
In pre-agricultural times there was no difference between work and leisure. The distinction only came about after trade and money was developed
I only work to earn money, for one day I can work on something I really like and love
I suppose that is why the Sabbath is soo helpful. Amen and Shalom :)
Believe it or not the thing that brought you the most pain in life, and the creative alleviation of that type of pain in others is a great place to start for fulfilling work. The money will just be a plus. Dig deep there for the soil is rich!
1984: "You'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984."
2018: "You'll see why 2019 will be like 1984."
One of the most important episode that touches our very livelihood.
One cause of the unemployment/misemployment problem is britain's abysmal education system. All it does is make children memorise information based on a syllabus, and their "intelligence" is based on how much they can remember. Of course this doesn't work. An A student may not be as intelligent as a D student, because their brains work differently, but the exam boards don't work in way that recognises this. If getting a job only awards people who are able to score As and Bs in their exams, then what are the people who score lower supposed to do? Rot in unemployment, getting by on welfare? This puts a burden on taxpayers.
It was reported recently that 75% of school leavers do not have the skills necessary to get a job. Once again, the schools have failed the very basic task to prepare young people for the world of work, let alone life.
These same students have been told for years to go to university because they'll get a good job afterwards, but employers demand 3-5 years "work experience". Degrees are now worthless, and all that time and money is wasted for nothing. This is why there are so many out-of-work graduates.
The solution is simple:
At a young age, children need to be enabled to develop their personalities so that they can be taught according to that test mentioned in this video. There are plenty of ways to educate people with different personalities. That's why so many people are in the wrong jobs and dissasitsfied. I'm so glad it was mentioned in this video. It's not too late to get this implented into schools and job centres, so that it will get people into the right jobs, and content workers. A happy workforce is a productive workforce.
6:43 HOLY MOLY! No WONDER why I like MBTI so much. It was made to try and figure out what kind of talents a person has through their natural, individual behaviors and traits.
Christian doctrine does not say that work is the punishment for Adam & Eve, but rather that work would become difficult. Christian doctrine says that Adam and Eve were placed in the garden to tend it, which is work.
It is not only the longings for creative work over menial work, but also non-authoritarian workplaces vs authoritarian ones; authentic connection/cooperation with others; and not having the value of one's work exploited.
I love how this video about work in real history opens with the Bible story
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Great short overview of something that we have completely lost sight of as modern material consumerists
What I didn’t hear mentioned about the challenge of the future of work was the continued loss of meaningful employment through automation and efficiency.
Another wonderful video from TSoL. Especially when I'm currently struggling to find employment in the creative/design industry in London.
Certain tasks demand stoic attitude and perseverance in the face of monotonous repetition before you can reap the pride of your labor. Our attitude to work is not constant - learning to play an instrument may feel tedious in the beginning, but then joyful and expressive once you attain some mastery. The lady at 8:32 should use the time to read a book. Or even better - write one.
Great video!
I know it has been done on other UA-cam channels, but I would love to see a follow up of this. It would be taking off from the Macintosh portion of this video and would examine the future of work - in relation to the impending automation boom. The video could include the effects of events that are happening right now, such as vehicle automation, would bring up the threat it presents to capitalism in general (how will we make money? UBI? Negative taxable income?) and bring up several options of people returning to more creative and meaningful work. Additionally, you could compare how people reacted to the industrial/analog automation revolution vs how we will handle the upcoming digital/electronic automation revolution. I have a ton of ideas, but even more blanks to fill in. I realize it's not exactly your cup of tea as you mainly examine historical figures in your videos and this is more of a "future unknown". Some figures still apply Herbert Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. has good quotes, Karl Marx again and some futurologists. I don't know, what do you think?
FUTURE - Work
Love your guy's videos. Keep them coming!
Why Do not look at hisory of work throught the only 3 moments sapiens really changed it, agriculture revolution, industrial revolution, and of course the digital one.
good idea! This video presents a nice view point on how work is highly cultural, but that's a really neat idea.
and the one around the corner, automation, ubi, working for pleasure or for extra cash, 4 hours a day. the future is bright for humanity
One of the biggest things I think makes work so terrible now vs even just a couple hundred years ago (or in some places now) is the disconnection between work and reward. We disassociate our 9-5 from our biweekly paycheck, and the work we do doesn’t directly affect us or anyone we know (particularly when working for large corporations). If you lived in 1750, had a farm, had a small village and community who all know, care for, and love each other, and the food and supplies you were making were directly fueling your community and your family, you would likely feel much more fulfillment watching your hard work mean something because it’s on a smaller scale.
I, as an atheist, enjoy that the garden of Eden was presented as a historical date. I thought it emphasised the importance of Abrahamic values in Western concepts. This channel never ceases to teach new lessons.
Daniel Singh How...depressing is the fact that certain atheists resent any kind of value from religion and disregard it completely...they aren't being any less fanatic than the believers they pity or hate, or both.
Well I pressure wash sometimes it is fulfilling. get tips occasionally.
The other day a past customer actually sent a thank you card to our boss. I guess outside work is pretty gratifying sometimes. Def dont want to pressure wash my whole life, hopefully i can keep learning while eventually finding my own work.
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This channel is extraordinary - you bring complexity to concepts I often took for granted. Thank you
Ok here it is then. I want to watch these videos for a living. I found my passion. SOMEBODY HIRE ME!
I bloody love 'the school of life'
Correction for the Adam bit: First, it was some kind of fruit, not specifically an apple. Second, Adam from his creation was told he was to work (Gen 2:15) but his curse was that it would no longer always be fruitful. So the Judeo-Christian idea is that work always existed, even in paradise
I think it's going be very interesting to see how the concept of work develops itself in the near future. The "uncreative" works that can soon be replace by technology, for example farming, driving, manufacturing or even service will surely leaves a lot of people workless for economical reasons. This automation of labour may be beneficial in a sense that it liberates people from doing works that they may find meaningless, but it may easily lead to a existential dilemma - what's next. The concept of work would totally change. If people do not need to do repetitive manual task to survive what should they do instead; create? For example I've read an article on the likely replacement of truck drivers in the United States by automated vehicles. Truck drivers are, in certain states the main mode of employment and they fuels other businesses such as restaurants and motels on their way. Replacing them with computed trucks, replacing call centres with automated replies seem to be the trend - and the theme here is economic. The truck drivers would be left jobless, should they, like many in their position struggle to find a job when there is none for them? Or should or societal structure permit an alternative existence?
Workers of the World Unite!
I read all your books with the narrative style of your videos
This is a western view of work. Don't forget that there are over 4 billion people on this planet that grew up with a completely different view.
Still very informative and thank you for uploading.
Some guys in the comments already pointed out that the video is about "our" western view of work and is hence missing a broader perspective.
Apart from that I would recommend the book "Brave New World" to anyone who wonders what work looks like in a perfect world. The book really takes things to the next level.
These videos are great. I really do enjoy this channel. This is so true. Work is a challenge in so many ways.
A lot of work went into that VIDEO..Well done
Luther's ideas seem to resonate with those of the Bhakti philosophers of 12th century Indian Subcontinent- It would be a nice idea to present a comparative study of the evolution of concepts all over the world, and not just the christian-dominated West.
I absolutely love this channel
Got it! Working on this.
Work is the labor that makes the moving of matter or information in one direction in order for money to move around in the other direction and matter to transform from raw material to trash, or to be recycled until it eventually turns into trash.
Off topic:I like the move away from Euro-centrisim in this video; not that there's anything wrong with Europe. Its the emphasis on great minds that's important to me, not where they come from. That doesn't mean you can't recognize they all don't come form one place. I'm an American, and even I am unfamiliar with most of the figures this video mentioned.
You guys are awesome!!!!!!!
Please continue like that, maybe ship your ideas to corporations or national institutions, they need such well-created explanations about life in general
It's impressive how Alain De Botton has a perfect diction. I just love to learn while I'm hearing him.
The video was perfectly made. However, there's one point at the beginning of the video that I disagree with. I read the Bible quite thoroughly. From my understanding of the Holy Scripture, I don't think that work only began when God expelled Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden.
While the first man and woman still lived within the garden, God already gave them a work of taking control over "the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth" (Genesis 1:26). In Genesis 2, God also let Adam name the animals (2:19). I think work has always been a gift from God for men to achieve fulfilment in life and partake in contributing to the world which He created. I think "hard labor" began when Adam and Eve sinned and were expelled out of the garden, since"work" had existed even before that.
May God bless us all!
The 40 hour work week was established and standardized in 1870's or about...
I loved this one, you've outdone yourself ! Lots to think about...
For another perspective, see Thoreau's chapter on Economy in "Walden."
Amazing job you're doing.
I love all th School of Life videos. This one though, surprised me as a little simplistic, as it only proposes that the work should be enjoyable. But it does not bother to look into the causes of the alienation in modern work. Mothern work alienates because its conversion into a commodity, its mercantilization.
I find it sad that we humans have the technology that could reduce boring work to a minimum, and yet all you hear on the media is that unemployment is a negative thing, being idle is somehow wrong. Politicians keep playing the same record, growth, jobs, market "forces", (fake) debt, etc...
Work is always a healthy choice for our life. Everyone need a job to become happier and better skilled. the Job can be anything, or, it's kind of constantly movement of your body, mind, or both together, plus a goal to achieve. We all love work as long we have a job suit our own personality and natural talent, also our boss is caring, not being mean or abusive.
2017 - Sweden makes job day to 6 hr a day.
G Man Way to go :)
Breaking news, Sweden's GDP gets fucked
Excellent presentation.
Great video, I am exited for the rest of this series!!
The crucial point is that technology missed is promises about work . Work was in many cases harder than nowadays but had meaning for workers . Today work is less hard but workers are treated like machine , in a world day by day more precarious for workers . The sad side is that however people manage to find meaning in work meaningless . Millions of modern slave :
paradox of being slave of themselves
Thank you. Great video!
There's work and than there's a lifestyle. Work is something you do solely for money and a lot of times you hate it. A lifestyle is something that you love to do so much it's nearly just a party of your daily livelihood and the money is nothing but a bonus.
Could somebody tell me, how's the 4:53 statue called?
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Keep up the good work (Y) Loving these videos!
Thank you for making this, great job
these are really good! well done!
“Anyone has to earn money to live is a slave. The pursuit of money and good intellectual work is impossible.” - Aristotle
I don’t think this quote was copied accurately, I feel like I’m having a stroke reading it
I hope one day i find a job that is both fulfilling and well-paying.
You might have to create it yourself
I really enjoy watching all of these videos, you should consider to put subtitles in spanish, it'll be wonderful ♡
I used to work in a vacuum cleaner factory, but I gave it up because it really sucked.
Basically, since the beginning, those in higher positions do everything they can to stay rich and have those under do all of the work to stay that way
I feel lucky to be in a creative occupation as an IT developer.I do however have to work very hard to maintain my skills. 12 days are the norm and I do occasionally get ridiculous 'automation' requests coming my way.
can anyone tell me who that image is of at 7:13?
please and thank you :)
I hate how work is the central part of our lives, so much so that it seems to consume our essences. The first thing people say when describing themselves is what they do for work "i am...", our likes, tastes, abilities and feelings become all secondary. It's sad.
I would love to see a video on the History of Human Rights!!!
Well done. And a nice inclusion of Veblen.
Could you do a video on Existential Depression please...I do really love these videos, I put my medicine degree on hold to do a semester in philosophy because watching these videos opened my mind to another side of life and death.as well as existence.
I don't know it's relevant or not but this video just clarifies to me that being lazy and being idle are two completely different things. A lazy person is the one not willing to work or not putting enough effort to his/her work, but an idle is someone who is temporarily unemployed.
The video has some negative outlook on the modern world about it stressing the notion of work but compared to the past, where most would not even get much option to choose which career would be best suited, we're doing a darn good job here. The paradox of choice, it seems like, have taken effect.
Cymonu People always have something to whine about...BUT, just because in the past it was worse doesn't mean now it's completely great. You didn't mean that, I know, just saying. We are making progress, but there is still much to be done.
K0ragg thats right! As Hegel believed, there's an achievement for each era.
Cymonu
Exactly!