@@kavinsky2 Socialism works in Scandinavia That's not Socialism that's social democracy Ok. Can we do that? No that's Socialism!!! And nothing will ever change
@@totallynotme6720 Capitalism is bad, even with social democracy the 3rd world would still be exploited, Capitalism cannot sustain itself otherwise. The Nordic Countries are a tiny minority compared to all the billions living in poverty due to Capitalism. Changing to Social Democracy is only gonna improve the life of the few.
Growing up in the United States, I did everything that I was told to do. I studied hard throughout all of my schooling. I graduated salutatorian from high school and then ultimately summa cum laude from undergrad. I went on and I got a high level professional degree. I have worked extremely hard, long hours and delivered excellent performance for the past 15 years in my work. I am not paid enough to support a family. I am not paid enough to afford to take vacations. I have no parental leave and very little time off. I am forced to work overtime against my will on an ongoing basis. I am forced to work rotating weekends and almost all holidays. I have been treated with inhuman brutality in the workplace. For performing at the highest possible level, I have received no rewards, almost no raises, no bonuses. No promotions, nothing. The reward for my hard work has been abuse, brutality, low compensation, misery, and gradually acquired chronic diseases from overwork. The American dream is a lie. The reward for doing everything perfectly, just as you're told, just as I have always done is the most unthinkable misery possible. All I have to show for my efforts is a wasted life that's been taken away from me.
You have achieved a lot :D SOmeone became rich because of your work. You have to learn what westers europeans have learned long ago (natural because its older nations) - slack off as much as you can and never owerwork because fruits of your work is only picked by company owners and shareholders and with this attitude somehow they are ok and even better living :D
My dear, we share a very similar story. However, I live with my immediate family - and there is at least 1 family member that takes advantage of me monetarily & physically (refuses to help clean, leaving it all to me). I am still suffering from mental weight, but my physical body started to also give way…. God lead me into prayer. To get back everything that was taken from me (time, energy, etc). I wish you the best, in Jesus’ name. We cannot rely on this “lie” of a nation called U.S.A. They are not even providing the average (or under-privileged homeless & veterans) citizen adequate monetary help, yet housing/feeding thousands of illegal immigrants with full services to feed the money-making, energy-devouring “monster” that runs this country (one such nickname for that monster is capitalism among others).
“If you do not know you are a slave... how do you fight to be free?” -Yeonmi Park The vast majority of Americans still believe that one’s financial status is determined only by effort. If you’re poor it’s your own fault. Can’t get a high paying job? Go to college. Don’t have a spare $50,000 ? Maybe your parents shouldn’t have been so lazy and earned more. Too bad, it’s not my fault you’re lazy, just pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
@@ForgottenT People shouldn't be responsabilized for themselves, most people is deeply irresponsible, you couldn't trust them whit themselves, for that is the goverment.
The middle ground is: some things we are responsible for and some things we aren't. We just need to get better at finding out which is which. Some people think you should be responsible for things completely out of your control, while other people think something isn't their fault even though they totally could have done something about it.
I remember at a presidential town hall when a woman told George W. Bush that she had to work three jobs to make ends meet. Bush looked at her and smiled and said, "You work three jobs? That's great. That's America!"
@@kaimccool6257 Yeah. And we haven't even gotten to the part yet where Bush invaded Iraq on false pretenses and killed thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens.
Funny. In Germany it is de-facto prohibited to have more than one employment. The second will be taxed so heavily it won't worth it. So, I've got a 3rd taxation class and I pay something round about 30% (this includes all insurances, rentals, medicare for everyone in my family, etc). If I would take an another job additionally, it will be taxed by the 6th class and I'll pay about 75% as a tax. And if you're working more than 40 hours per week, your company should better have a very solid excuse for that (together with double payment for extra hours) - otherwise they'll be in trouble. I lead a team of 15 people and in my team it is prohibited to work more than 8 hours a day. In 5 years there was only one emergency accident, when I had to ask my team for extra hour and I still feel badly for it.
Yesssssssss!!!!! He said it was "uniquely American". I suppose he's not wrong but he seemed proud of this. If I recall I think the audience applauded for some reason. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Politicians are so out of touch they thought she was bragging.
We are born into it. It's our reality. We are frogs already born in the pot as it's being heated. Our parents keep us out of the ever rising hot water, slowly getting us used to it as we get older. Next thing we know, we are just used to the ever rising temperature. It's just how things always have been. Any attempts to change or improve things is scary. "How dare you mess with the temperature control nob! How will we survive if the temperature goes down?" If people are not given the chance to question the system, then they will just go about their lives believing that this is normal for everyone. I have had a chance to question the system. I am aware that it is broken. But I don't know how to fix it with my meager resources. There is a lot of resistance to change. Going against the current is hard. Especially since there are people who profit off of the broken system. There are a few that keep things how they are. Spreading fear and propaganda that makes people fear change. That makes them beat down those who want to change things for the better. Honestly, I just want to get away. To go to a country where they already have the systems in place to help people survive. I know that's a selfish thought. I just don't see this country changing or improving significantly any time soon. I'm scared and frustrated. But so many still think it's fine how it is, because that's how it always has been. Sigh!
@@Chris-ts2yc Just FYI, North Korea is definitly not an "everyone is equal" country. There are the ultra poor, and the wealthy that fear ticking off Kim. It's called a dictatorship. Something Trump seems oddly fond of. If I'm moving anywhere. I would go to any number of countries that have democracy, some kind of universal healthcare, and a government not owned by rich people. North Korea isn't anywhere on that list. Canada, and many European countries are.
In addition to the table of paid vacation: In Germany, the mentioned 20 days of vacation is the minimum by law. In reality most people have 25 to 30 days of vacation. The concept of sick days does not exist. If you are sick then you are sick, no matter how often. Though, after 6 weeks of sickness in a row your payment will be stopped and replaced by a reduced payment by the health insurence. But sickness will not ruin anybody.
@@리주민 I read about a guy who worked as a waiter earning about 30 dollars per day. He got sick and had to decide: go to the doctor and pay 70 Dollars just for the visit or earn 30 dollars. Guess what he did? It's hard to believe that Americans take their situation for granted and even call universal health care "socialist" while their system actively kills them because they cannot afford proper treatment.
@@리주민 Yeah that's crazy. I've noticed those instances where corporate greed shoots itself in the foot. Like how many companies micromanage employees and make them feel like crap, but then expect them to want to stay and do a more efficient job.
Also the 10 paid holiday ("Feiertage") are only the national ones (New Years day, 2 days easter, Christmas 2 days, Reunification day and so on). There are multiple others locally, usually on state level. It ranges from 9 (the number I found, most likely there difference comes from counting or not counting holidays on sundays (easter sunday, Pentecost sunday) minimum to 14 in the city of Augsburg in Bavaria. Rest Bavaria has 13 and is highest. This adds to the 20 days minimal payed vacation days. But more is common (20 - 30) as already stated.
51 here and totally burned out. Been working full-time since age 16. Supporting myself from age 21 to current. It’s so hard to motivate myself these days. You wonder, what’s it all for? Work your life away to survive.
I just turned 38 and this is hitting me really hard now. A lot of the time I feel lost and don't know what to do. It makes it even worse when everyone around you is so content to be defined by the work they do instead of living a happy and fulfilling life.
we don’t have to live like this. it’s easy to see that the world sucks and it isn’t fair, but we need to start doing something about it. we need to start rebelling. not just protesting, they don’t listen to protests. i mean strikes and i mean riots. we need to completely hold the economy hostage.
This video tells me everything I already think. I've been telling people for years that they're fools for working too hard and the idea that they will become upper middle class or rich just from working hard is a stupid pipe dream and they look at me like I'm the most cynical person in the world.
I’m American now living in the UK. I had the American work mentality when I moved here and everyone thought I was crazy. I felt so guilty taking any of my 25 paid vacations days a year. I would log into my work email whilst on vacation and got told off for it. I got pregnant and only took 6 months of my 9 months paid maternity leave. I eventually calmed down my workaholic tendencies and honestly I feel more balanced. I enjoy my time with my son and husband. We can plan vacations abroad 2-3 times a year and I’m able to shut off as soon as I leave work. Don’t even get me started on healthcare.
@@Marine5481 at the moment I’m an assistant accountant. I’m studying to get my accounting qualification here. I didn’t move here for work though. I married a British citizen. Before getting married we took a while deciding whether to settle in the US or the UK. To be honest it would have been a lot easier and cheaper getting my husband a green card for the US rather than going though the UK spouse visa process but we ended up deciding on the UK due to overall price of living and quality of life.
It's absolutely soul crushing what this is doing to us and how this affects our kids. Even if we corrected this now the damaging effects would last for generations
You had a good start with the New Deal and up until the seventies, but too bad your country is just so big, that it happened to have the kind of super rich people with enough money and power to bend the political system to their will. And that they did.
Soul crushing is the feature, not the bug. Corporations and the wealthy are not nice, benevolent people. They are exploiteers and cartels that will abuse and take advantage of us as much as we will let them. The more obsessed and consumed with work we are, the less free we are to be happy and pursue a better life.
@@FINNSTIGAT0R It is not fault of the super rich. The American constitution allows certain kinds of corruption, and the rich just made use of these opportunities to further their own interest. Fix the constitution, weed out corruption, and there is again hope for the USA. #represent.us is doing a good job working towards these goals.
It's incredible how It looks like in US you're basically called "lazy" unless you work yourself to death. With no sick days...In Europe "sick days" are infinite, you stay home until you feel better
here we have the insurance when you get hurt on the job and you get paid 100% i think and it goes on for a while but you have to be seen by doctors to keep track on your recovery, then theres also medical leave it can be anything really and it can last as long as you want i think but you only get paid 60% of you salary and you have to be at least 5 days away for it to start conting
@@jaybleu6169 LOL. No European country is an empire like Britain used to be. "Muh free healthcare and education" cult can suck it. We aren't mirroring Europe.
Whenever I visited the states it felt like the country was under some cult influence. Minimal news from outside and everyone celebrating the wrong ideals. Horses don’t get carrots, only sticks.
This comment just reminds me of Animal Farm. I read it in Year 9 and Boxer still breaks my heart to this day... (I'm not American but) to all my fellow working-class brothers and sisters out there, please don't become like Boxer. That's just too sad.
"Everyone in America should be fed foreign news and celebrate the ideals we tell them to - or else they are a cult that gets the stick!" - tolerant, foreign socialists
You know what the most outrageous thing is about all this? That theres Americans out there that would fight against paid leave, paternity leave and working less because they somehow think its socialism/communism.
There's quite a few where I'm currently providing service(employed). Would call you lazy and no real use for wanting more time off. God forbid if you get sick.
I live in Canada, working for mining company with 5 weeks annual vacation. Did not spent a penny when my wife delivered my boy. I am so lucky be a Canadian
People are giving their time, their life for scraps to live off of. When the rich company owners earn their wealth from underpaid workers. If that doesn't sound dystopian then I don't know.
Robert Reich says we are living through the second gilded age, with about the same disparities. Hopefully we will usher in a new age of equity and Egalitarianism! Work to live, not live to work.🌄
@@jackdanila9893 it work perfectly like how health care business we had some might leisurely go through liposuction in prime work hours while others have to sell his health to keep out his house from mortgage which no different from slavery capitalism is works if there's inequality on it, u gain more for every other people losses
Take a look at the kids who pick pieces of scrap metal out of landfills and use landfills and playgrounds. People in some places are suffering a lot more than most in the US are. This video compares us with "wealthy" nations, not with places like Bangladesh. The global financial system involves everyone, not just "wealthy" parasites.
Funny how I came here from Brazil years ago to have a better life, well I do but I have no social life 🤣 we have no vacation in the US it sucks... all we do is work, work and work. Kinda sucks tbh. Brazil its not the best but we do get 30 days paid vacation, sick paid leave and other benefits we dont see it here.
As an older American, I'd say the sooner the better. You will be paddling against the tide, if you stay here. This country is facing some dark days in the not too distant future. Anything to the contrary is pure propaganda. Don't over think it, make the move. You'll be glad you did.
@@TAYLOR8mm America is the only place on Earth where wanting to have universal healthcare, affordable education, and paid vacation makes you entitled lol
@@filippoardizzone8216 _"I would love to subtitle it in spanish and italian so that more people can watch it, I just don't know how"_ You can add subtitles if you a) are working on a computer not a phone, b) you click on the settings "wheel" on the video and then on subtitles, then on "add subtitles/cc" I highly recommend writing the subtitles in an extra file, .txt is already enough. You write them like this (copying from a subtitle file I made once): 1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:05,800 The paradox here is: How can you know all this and still do it? 2 00:00:06,001 --> 00:00:09,600 This is the cynical functioning of ideology. 3 00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:14,500 They’re never what they appear to be: cynical brutal delinquents. 4 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:20,800 They always have a tiny private dream. This dream can be many things. 5 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,100 It can even be something quite ordinary. ... and so on Good luck with that project! You should also check out the videos of Mexie, halim alrah and Viki 1999
I used to work for a company in Montreal (Québec) that had an important partnership with NY and, you guys, you are INTENSE. This American girl spent three weeks at our office, and she proudly said she would stay in the office until 2 a.m. just to get the project/ do a certain transfer on time instead of waiting the next morning like a regular person (or just tell the client that we were humans beings getting good night sleep at 2 a.m., and postpone the thing.). For her it was perfectly normal, and she looked at us as if we were lazy for going out for beers after work and getting a life. All my American contacts were like that, to different levels, but from our perspective they were always "difficult" to work with because they did not have limits or boundaries with work...I was regularly receiving emails at insane hours from people working in the same time zone as I was, and one girl was impressed that we were NOT doing 12-hour days. In a way it was sad.
They're so proud of it, without realising it's a lifestyle of diminishing returns, and a good balance is not only healthier, but also more productive in many areas!
yeah, skipping lunch to get stuff done on the clock when lunch was unpaid 30 minutes is pretty normal shit. sleep schedule was messed up enough that i had to leave work so i wouldn't collapse on the floor like i did one time. (closing at 10 and needing to be back at 5 am to clock in next day, etc) i still didn't see it as overworked, just me mismanaging my life and job. plenty of friends on the job had it a lot worse than me, seeing friends work 2 jobs for 70-80 hours a week with no health benefits and still doing volunteer work. my own grandfather working til he was in his 80s before he passed. idk there is a source of pride in work well done. but yeah, there needs to be something done so people aren't stuck in a rut and being miserable.
its the Hussle culture here work yourself to death know so you can have it better down the road and companies expect you to exist Soley to file their papers or mop there floors, they don't see you as human, they see you as a number on a spread sheet
Let me tell you, I worked a graveyard shift for a year 4 days 10 hours. When I tell you I was losing my sanity, weight, sleep, and got physically sick it sucks in America. They'll penalize you for being sick and leaving early, have unrealistic expectations and horrible working conditions (poor human resources, bare minimum equipment, etc.) I want out of corporate America's hustle culture. I'm only 30 and feel so depressed about my future.
In 1985, a US woman on her honey moon also in Montréal, managed to get a temp position at our branch ( financial institution ). She was there 2 days . When she left, I was joking that it was a good thing she was going home because the entire office was about to get sent home for lack of work to do...
I've spent a lot of time abroad, both volunteering and traveling, and I've noticed fairly consistently that people in developing countries are happier than we are. Kids have a huge amount of freedom. People take afternoon naps because, god forbid they're tired.
It's really just a "humanitarian" video---- and since it's also apparently "anti-capitalist", we probably will reach the conclusion that capitalism is anti-humanitarian.
@@splattercatbambi4965 > This is anti capitalist It is against raw, untempered capitalism. Untempered capitalism tends to move to the exploitation of workers, fueled by the greed of those that have capital (equity). This we saw clearly in the nineteenth century. Read some Dickens to get the picture. To prevent this, we need to temper capitalism with measures that protect the poor from exploitation. How that can best be done was discovered in the early twentieth century. Most of it was born out of Christian compassion with our less fortunate fellow beings. Now the USA is repeating history, in the USA today we recognise some of the excesses we find so cruel and disgusting in Dickens. It is time for the nation to again get a conscience, and take some of the sting out of american capitalism. The two areas most in need of reform are *Education* and *Health Care* .
I worked a night shift 5 years back as a grocery clerk, i had quickly learned that i cannot sleep during no matter what. This went on for 10 months until compounding sleep deprivation and substance abuse caused me to have a psychotic break. This video brought back those sickening feelings of being a wage slave, living only to work, try to sleep on a time frame whilst thinking about work and how i'll feel if i don't sleep to the point where i would hear voices and have terrifying delusions. I've since quit and slowly gotten better over the last five years but any job i get i experience the same feelings all over again to a lesser extent.
Wow, really hope you find a work place someday that makes you feel relaxed and happy. You'd love Canada's rural towns, pace of life is slow here and you can do any menial job without the stress of the city. We lack labor so people even get to choose their employers.
Did you consider or is there any chance that you could leave America permanently? I´m sorry if that´s a stupid thought but I´m german and after all I´ve heard about the american system in Secont Thoughts videos I just can´t imagine a way to live a happy and healthy live in the USA if you don´t have rich parents or shamelessly abuse people. What is the biggest thing that stops americans from leaving the country once they somehow find out how abusive their system really is?
Klotz yes we do. I work night shift at a casino and I like being able to go to the grocery store early in the morning. When they changed their hours to no longer be 24 hours it really fucked up my schedule. I get delivery now because it’s an inconvenience to go in the middle of the day. And I actually enjoy night shift. It’s much more quiet.
The worst part is that, as someone living in the US, I'm so used to seeing that, it doesn't even shock me. Everyone sees that as completely normal and okay.
'Deifying rich people who accumulated their wealth by exploiting others doesn't mean you smart it means you bought into their propaganda ' those words made my day
@@sogekinoshimade wealth accumulation by exploiting others is how things work in socialism as the rule. It happens in capitalism as the exception, and rarely does someone get away with it.
dude I haven't worked my entire life and I'm 29. I always knew the system was rigged. Fuk that. I would get jobs easily and quit on day 2. I got hired so easily in multiple sectors and hated them all. Believe it or not working restaurants is far far better than office jobs..by far the worst jobs are office jobs they suck your soul. I'm sorry but anymore then 2 days of soul sucking for me would destroy me and make me a zombie. I had to leave im glad I have becsuse the working class always seem to call me "boss" or.think I'm some extremely rich wealthy spoiled person. I seem to exude this energy. They simply have no idea that the moment you stop selling yourself to enrich others, your basically free and in control of your own life even if you make no money. Making money is not hard. Selling yourself for wages IS. People think to make money you must sell yourself. This is dumb
My HS literally ingrained in me that college leads to life success so effectively that when I graduated from college, family/friends were crying and congratulating me and all these things and I literally thought to myself "this isn't special, this is what I'm supposed to do."
@@Name-dv4qu Well, not necessarily. Just because humans started out that way doesn't mean that's the only way we can be normal or natural. Species evolve.
Yeah, both my parents work and have college degrees, yet my mom getting a mild form of cancer and having surgery to remove it (even before chemo) was enough to ruin us without insurance .
I broke my ankle joint in America. I had to have two pins put into my ankle, and it cost me $23,000 dollars. I had to go through Swiss industrial insurance, and the most expensive country in Europe refused to pay four times their normal rate for such an operation. Luckily, I was bright enough to take out additional insurance, so all's well that ends well. The question American's have to ask themselves, is why they allow themselves to be so exploited.
How about you improve your own life and stop blaming your failures on everyone else. Get off of UA-cam and start aupporting yourself. That, or move to Venezuela.
It doesn't matter how hard you work, or if you find a way to increase productivity, all benefit goes upwards to people who are already rich. It truly blows my mind that people don't realize this.
Before trickle down economics, money earned or even printed turned over many more times within the country before ending up in a few concentrated hands; in the last 40 years a good chunks of it gets off shored into tax havens at the tax payers expense and most of it will never be reinvested or spent in the country where it came from. This didn’t happen when there was a tax system that had high taxes on the top marginal brackets that coerced corporations and the rich to reinvest in their country and businesses. Also with the incentive of the rich reinvesting in their businesses created an environment for employees to obtain enough tax deductions to decrease their tax burden; now most of the tax burden is on the middle class salaried and hourly workers; not on executive payroll.
If you look at it that way I guess everything goes up. But if you own a farm man, that's the key. Everything you do helps everyone not just one person and society as a whole depends on you to feed them not just the rich. Why do people concern themselves with the rich so much? there gonna die and be the same as the rest of us so what's the point.
People will look at you as if you're stupid if you don't work hard enough. If you work too hard they'll look at you like you're stupid. Anything to rationalize their privilege.
Debt is the expectation by the lender that the debtor will make more tomorrow than they did yesterday. Our economy is propped up by that false promise and the debt bubble will eventually collapse. Capitalism is already on life support. Capitalism has already failed.
"USA is not a nation, it's an Industrial Complex" people work, eat, sleep and repeat. with zero Social, Cultural, family values throughout the country.
@@spacepeing9936 And yet the Us is the largest multicultural society on the planet and thousands of people walk on foot across multiple countries just to enter that "gun culture toxic culture racist culture schools shooting culture warlike culture" Now tell us, what country are you from? i am sure I can list off all the horrible shit that goes on in your country then we can all watch you deflect and make excuses while blaming the US in the same breath.
I only "brag" about working such hours if I am putting away cash for a project - once I have the cash to finance the project, the 60-70 hr work weeks cease.
If there’s 24 hours a day and you work 60% of it and sleep the rest, why the f would your project even be worth it? You’re not even living.. And realistically, who in this country can say, “well once I’m done making the money I can shrink my own work schedule and not work”. Stop.
For a while I worked those hours to make money quickly for a house. The time value of the money made sense. I worked a lot while paying rent then when I had a comfortable amount saved to buy the house and stop paying rent I took a job with less hours. That’s when I worked 13 ten hour days with one day off. Now I work five 8 hour days and have much more time to do the things I enjoy. Most people don’t understand that there is a time value to money. Though I will also admit that in my industry (construction) work comes in waves. Sometimes the going is great and you work more. But you do that to save for the times when work is very slow or non existent so you can keep the lifestyle that you desire.
That depends. When I’m fasting I make sure I’m busy - usually gardening. I can go a day or two without feeling hungry when I’m working in my garden. The same goes for any creative activity, for me. I lost a stone a few years back when I wrote a book. I was insomniac as well, so going without regular food and sleep. I felt physically fit and very happy.
This statement implies that having basic needs= happiness. It does not. It also implies that the playing field is even from which people can derive their basic needs from is even. Which it is not.
Well if hunt or grow food if you don’t have then trade or bargain. It hard to keep happiness or keep in one state of mind when everyone doubts. Bet you doubt your self when thing get tougher no helping ya.
It's not just work but college made me go mentally insane because of its obsession with overwork, exams, unrealistic deadlines. Because of that I'm quitting college for good.
Yeah I was able to mentally power through but almost failed at the end when I ran out of steam Everything is always hyper productivity based in all aspects of life
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." John Steinbeck
It never took root because we don’t want it, although it seems like everyone on UA-cam is far leftist, most of the US population does not agree with socialism.
Thank you for that quote friend. I've had the same thoughts as I grew up around my brain washed friends and family. I felt like an alien unable to understand why everyone was so quick to down the koolaid and suffer in misery. They really do believe they will get to become part of the rich people club, if only they are good little girls and boys and work harder work longer work work work. Jesus.
Yeah, so we get to pay socialist taxes while receiving literally nothing but corruption in return. Yay! Seriously, use worldwide income tax calculators. It’s amazing how high it is here for nothing in return. It should like 10% for what we get!
When i was little my dad told me that work and a job is who you were in life. Fast forward to 20y/o, Got told to drop out by college professors, got fired multiple times, couldnt hold down a job, severe depression, suicidal thoughts. It took me a very long time to realizethat work and my jobs dont define me. Now i paint art in my free time and i feel more liberated just by that.
thankfully a lot of that old propaganda is disappearing with the older generations. The country is completely different than when our grandparents grew up
I am happy to hear that for you. A lot of people go through the same thing, but it takes some time to recognize what it is coming from and connect the dots. It is a shame we have to go to our wits end and to be forced to understand, only then, what is happening. It's good to make the connection, but wish it didn't take that much grief to get there.
When I signed my first work contract as an advisory consultant, back in Belgium, the section on paid holidays, sick leaves, days off due to specific events (wedding, death of a pet, etc.), etc. was over 20 pages long. I had between 6 to 8 weeks paid vacation per year. Hell, I even had 5 paid workdays a year that I could take without even stating a reason. I could take up to 12 weeks of parental leave if I had a child (again, paid parental leave). To find out that in the US you don’t even have mandatory paid vacation days blows my mind. I just can’t believe it.
paid vacation is one thing.... imagine having your employer tell you... you can't be sick you have already used your 7!!!! (that's the US average) sick days and then imagine you're working as a server making a whole $2.13/hour
Wait you get days off for death of a pet?? When my 12 yo heart dog died I had to call in sick then go into work the next days because if you call in more than one day you must have a doctor note. :(
When you've lived in a sane society for all your life you'll learn to take the sanity for granted, to the point that you can't imagine living in an insane one. I get the "I can't believe it" reaction from Europeans all the time when I explain how American health care works. They usually know America has no public health care system and that a lot of people get health insurance, but they always believe health insurance means opting in a European style system, that you pay for your insurance and that covers everything when you need medical care. When I explain that no, it isn't that simple, your insurance doesn't cover everything and even for stuff it does cover you'll probably end up paying through your nose, and that middle-class people with health insurance could go bankrupt because of medical bills if they get unlucky, they literally don't believe what I say, like I'm exaggerating or trying to fool them
Exantius E Yeah, nobody understands this. Nobody understands how you can pay $1k+ mo for health insurance, and it still doesn’t cover jack anything. It’s like a fancy discount card (but only after deductible is met, yadda yadda!) We’re in a mega retarded place that makes no sense! It’s crappy even for a video game!
To me it all comes down to the two most important things in life, time and money. Everyone can choose how much money they wanna accumulate but no one get to choose how much time we get in this life. I too was stuck in this American dream, working 70 hrs a week just to keep a mortgage and every other monthly expenses that came with having a family, I realized I wasn’t physically tired but worse I was emotionally drained . It was if I had no soul in me, I turned to alcohol as an outlet drinking most nights just to fall asleep. Thank god that I now got out of that toxic lifestyle of chasing more and more money, My income has never been this low since I remember (I don’t spend much nowadays) yet I’ve never felt so alive. Don’t let that American Dream suck the life out of you, everyday is a blessing when you realize that time is the most important thing we have to live a truly happy healthy life.
Cost of living compared to actual income is the biggest thing here. People bring up Japan's work culture but they forget that in most households, they live comfortably on ONE working adult. I moved to Japan and I have been more financially flexible in 3 years than the entire time I worked in IT. In just a few years I will be able to buy a house, start a family, set up a college fund. I also have 4 times more vacation days, not counting sick days (By the end of the year I will have received 31 PAID non-weekend days off). Hell, I could work 3rd shift at a convenience store and make 1600-1800 a month. With my rent, internet, and water all totaling 550 a month (I live outside of the expensive urban areas), I could be comfortable with that job until I found something better. The "American Dream" is achievable...in other countries. And you won't be working yourself to death without benefits or health insurance doing it. The biggest problem with that mentality is that it's been taught to us for so long. Our situations, education, experience with what success looks like are all different. If we all started in the same spot and guaranteed equal education and opportunity, that mentality would be justified, but it's not. The lower you start from the harder it is, and effort only takes you so far. It creates exactly the kind of discourse that keeps this system broken.
Now I'm planning what nation I'll move to if America falls apart like Rome. I love a lot of what's come out of the states, but I can't take this shit anymore
@@EYTPS Believe me, No country wants Americans. You may think politics has nothing to do with how citizens of other countries view you, but in legal matters, we've pi55ed off the world. Go visit Europe and go through their customs, you will see what they really think of us. It might be harder for Asia with our Xenophobia against China. Latin America is your best bet, but I doubt Americans will want to live in crime infested neighberhoods. The worst part is that America let's everybody in to avoid being called the R word, but when it's their turn to welcome Americans, they view us as plagues.
@@robroux5059 it's the same for us Brits too. It's because the British Empire fucked everyone up until the 90s, and that perpetuates in the cultures of other nations. And after 11/9, the American Empire began fucking everyone HARD (but you were fucking everyone since the Cold War). Of course we don't want you here (I mean, I don't care personally, I'm an Anarcho Communist so I don't recognise the validity of nations) because Britain is so incredibly racist anyway (to the point where we're racist against Brits from other towns than ours). But yea,. Blame the Empire for the global hatred of America.
Clive Newby As someone who is in high school, I can't look forward to much. My goal is to get scholarships because college is so unnecessarily expensive, and with the ongoing pandemic, it doesn't look possible. I want people to just think about others for a second. I have worked so hard, getting all A's in school, yet I'm still worried, because honestly--it doesn't matter how hard you work. The US economy isn't made for anyone in the middle class and lower. I know this because I am in the middle class.
Be careful with student debt! Its the only type of debt that you CANNOT remove in bankruptcy. Go to community college first to finish general courses, then go get a good ROI degree from a 4 year.
@@hannah1850 if you really want to go to uni and are worried about debt I'd suggest looking at international options. The UK charges double price for international non European students but that's still cheaper than a lot of US unis, even without British loan options (which are pretty forgiving). Some places like Germany, Norway, and Sweden have costs low enough that you can cover them working part time, or even with pocket money, if need be. Consider all your options if you can
Beautifully made. I remember an American woman who once said that the American dream is an excellent ploy to make Americans work hard. The promise of a comfortable life is the lure. It may come to some Americans, and not to others. The mistake Americans make is to assume it will come inevitably, long as they have worked hard. And the wealthy keep laughing.
Learn how to invest, start and run your own business, and real estate. And don't think that you should learn this stuff after you get money. Learn it before. The video leave out that you can invest in yourself and work for yourself instead of just work for someone else's business
@@justSTUMBLEDupon To make money of investment you need a lot of money plus a good understanding of what's going on otherwise its just a casino. Running business needs capital to save said capital you need well paying job to get well paying job you need good education to get good education you need a loan which puts you in the red before you even start saving. When you finally set a goal it keeps getting pushed back by raising inflation and rising rent cost making possibility of saving anything very unlikely. Real estate cost is so high that buying a house in Europe and commuting using air plane is cheaper. Video does not leave out anything working for yourself leaves you even less time until you learn how to lie, trick, and use others.
@@danigimenez7797 True but UA-cam channels are just another form of the "Hussle" or "Gig" economy. You tube creators are just ad revenue for Google. They don't want to pay money to a critic. Creators are also getting less and less of the pie so they have to keep working harder for views to make the same money they did 5 years ago. The same thing was done to Uber drivers and Skip The Dishes. It's all a race to the bottom.
@@geoffmooregm and yet people take these jobs UA-cam was just way for people to have fun but everyone else including UA-camrs turned it into a business and then you complain that business doesn't make a lot money
xtropix People don’t want to become homeless. But going back to work isn’t the solution to our problem. We should really be demanding rent freezes or forgiveness like some other countries have implemented.
loverrlee Exactly! However, when you bring any idea up the argument goes the "my rights, my freedom, taxes" and other things of the sort. It's a shame.
European here - 2 years paid maternity leave per child, monthly dividends per child once they start going to school, 1 month paid vacations per year, up to 6 months of paid sick leaves, 14 days of paid paternity leave. No bragging, but common sense.
Hi, please preemptively explain taxation to the American conservatives that might be pulling their hair out while asking “but who is going to pay for it?!”
Владимир Предоев It isn’t common sense at all. Since the days of robber barons and wealthy, greedy people like our current president’s father, workers are just tools to be used to generate more money. The less workers get, the more these people accumulate. I was told by a boss that no matter what I did, I would never be able to make more money. This was at a company that gave no cost of living increases, raises or bonuses ... ever. My friend’s father passed away. At the time, a lot of family could not come to his funeral so they had a memorial service at a later date. My friend was docked a vacation day for taking off to go to the service - she was told she was only allowed two bereavement days and she had had to take an extra day. How much more heartless could they be? My boss gave us a questionnaire asking, “What can the company do, BESIDES MORE MONEY, to make you happier at work?” My answer was “Nothing. I have a life. I have bills to pay. I have to save for retirement. That all takes money.” Are they really that stupid?!! My boss also asked us to work 4 extra hours a day WITHOUT PAY so we could get projects done. I told her that in essence, that would reduce my salary which was already way under the average for my field. I called the Labor Board in my state and was told that I could be fired if I didn’t work the extra hours. In other words, since my profession does not have a union, I had no protection from my unscrupulous employers who didn’t care if I had less time with my family and to live my life. We all know this is wrong but we also have to pay bills. My actual life has consisted of 104 weekend days plus 10 vacation days for 40 years. Amazing how your life speeds by when you just live for weekends and that paltry amount of vacation time. One company that employed me was headquartered in Finland. The U.S. employees got 2 weeks vacation. The Finns got 1 month. Same company.
I find it hilarious that so many of the videos are from Amazon Warehouses... as an Amazon worker I can attest to how much they work us and how much they expect us to overwork ourselves to the point where I have had 3-4 dozen coworkers have breakdowns at their stations due to the stress of the job, most leave within a month of their first breakdown... I myself have had two seizures at work due to lack of time off options to utilize when having seizure activity, the second seizure I had I banged my head on something either on the way down or while I was seizing, still though Amazon refuses to provide me with something to cover these absences so I will likely have more until I work there a year and can get FMLA... Amazon does pay me 17.90$ an hour however they expect me to work at a rate that burns upwards of 12,000 calories and hour for 12 hours as well as a picker (someone who picks items from shelving units and places them in yellow totes) you are expected to pick an item and place it in a tote every 7 seconds which doesn't seem that hard and they do their best to make it seem very easy by having people who have worked there for 5 or more years show you just how easy it is... What I noticed is that despite teaching you proper body mechanics and how to move safely these people who have worked there for years and years do not follow them they take shortcuts, to cut their time down to perform at the expected rate... Amazon consistently tries to act like it cares but in it's actions it proves that it doesn't it will work you till you have a mental or physical breakdown and then they will drop you and hire someone new to replace you, because there is always someone who is able to replace you.
I did warehousing for a time - their commitment to worker safety is skin-deep at best. And they tell you that the work is simple (and in theory it is), but they don't tell you that even college-level athletes struggle to keep pace with the work load because they expect you to work as fast as the human body can possibly move for upwards of eight hours per day (only stopping for two 20 minute breaks - which start at the buzzer and barely give you enough time to hit the restrooms!). Oh, and the quotas only rise with time: even the more experienced workers eventually reach a point where they can't keep pace anymore and quit. The modern warehousing industry treats the worker like a robot - largely because the corporations that own them intend to replace the workers with robots ASAP (at the warehouse I used to work at the management was already phasing out human jobs for machines - and this was about ten years ago!): you are to work like a robot until they have actual robots to take over for you! I only did this for about a year before moving on...
@@FrankCastle-tq9bz "you are to work like a robot until actual robots take over" that is the perfect way to describe working at an amazon Warehouse... and pretty much everything you said was spot on... except 2 things: that you are expected to go to the bathroom on your break times if you for some reason HAVE to go before or after those times the 4-5 minute walk to the bathroom however long it takes you to go and the 4-5 minute walk back to your station all comes out of the time you are supposed to be working, we call it a takt time and when you are supposed to pack 1.6 boxes a minute unpack 2 boxes a minute, put an item into a shelving unit every 9 seconds or retrieve an item every 5 seconds that minimum of 10 minutes destroys your time completely... and the second is Amazon works you for at least 10 hours a day... I work 3 12s and that extra two hours pushes the body a surprising amount...
@@FrankCastle-tq9bz Thats how it is in Amazons warehouses I have heard from a few people who work at Walmarts warehouses and the work conditions there are about the same, except they get paid less, they get paid minimum wage where as all Amazon employees get paid at least 15$ an hour with the highest paid "entry level" position being 17.90 an hour thats for the 3 12s night shift... so despite the body and mind breaking conditions at least you can make reasonably good money breaking yourself... which is a terribly depressing statement...
I really just want to live a simple life. And more and more I realize that this desire I have isn't going to be possible in the US. One day I'll get out of here.
A simple life? That's possible anywhere in the first world. Save your money, get a high or decent paying degree in a field fairly safe from automation, live in a medium sized town.
Sad that is younger generations are seeing at as it is and our parents have become numb to this. Every time a bring it up it gets political and divisive. They say, “if you don’t like this country, leave,” which is what I plan to do. I can’t even afford healthcare, and if I did, my heart will hyperventilate from the bill I will receive from a simple checkup. We have bunch of warmongerers that believe your child is fit to die in a war but want to increase the voting age because they think we shouldn’t have a voice in the problems we have today. Targeting children is their main objective because they see them as robots to increase their profits, just like us.They like to practice religion, values and morals but peace is something that’s not worth of a conversation. Because we are “anti-capitalists.” Big time businesses profit off not only war but world-wide pandemics and diseases. They basically have us by the nuts at this point, or they’ve always have.
I have always felt this way about America's obsession with overworking, and I have always been looked down upon as either an "idealist" or an someone who is "unrealistic". There are few options to not be working 40+ hours in the professional world, and to work less than 40 is to be viewed as lesser and it comes with fewer opportunities. We are a nation of slaves, and I wonder why I feel like the only person who doesn't agree with spending their entire life devoted to earning a paycheck.
Canada is in the same way. I am viewed with a limited mindset for not wanting the desire to be overworked. But, if I want independence, I must be willing to work 60 hours per week. Give or take, depending on what I wish to do job-wise and purchase home-wise.
Americans are overworked? 😂😂😂. As somebody who has work in Japan & Singapore. I can say for a fact that Americans are LAZY. Europeans are lazier. Stop being lazy. Working 40 hours a week is normal. Life is hard and has always and will always be hard. Work hard, don't be lazy. I am not saying that Americans should not be paid more. They should and literally every country in the world is facing that issue. Including Europeans. Wages should be higher. But working hours in America is already good. People who complains are all lazy. Seriously you have no idea how harsh working conditions are all around the world. Working in America is like heaven compared to over 100++ countries in the world.
Many years ago, when I was learning German, the book I was using included a section on German culture and it talked about how they (and most of Europe) spend a lot less time working than North America. Upon research, I was shocked to learn that North America (including Canada) truly is obsessed with working and wastes their lives making CEOs rich. The "work hard to succeed" and "hard work is good" mentalities were made by rich people who want brainwashed mindless workers. 🤦
@@nikkollaus And the rest of Canada likes to bitch about Québec because we tend to be leaning more toward the European attitude than the American Anglo-Saxon work culture.
@@Niambag i live in alberta..and im very nervous about finding work here. im an artist and i want to work with animals but there is no opportunity to explore those careers here because we're conditioned to "have" to work in business, science, technology, etc. it's all "work a good, downtown job or suffer homelessness". i don't want to work in oil and gas. i don't want to work in construction. although i might HAVE to work in these fields because there is no other option and i will be homeless working as freelance artist or working at a shitty pet store.
@@Niambag As a dual citizen living in New England I frequently visit Quebec, I love the work culture there if I can learn to speak French I would move there in a heart beat I hate the constant work mentality of North America
People who brag about how many hours they clocked for a soulless corporation like it's the only noteworthy thing in their life are kinda pathetic, really.
“My Boss arrived at work in a brand new Ferrari. I told him: “Wow that’s a nice car”. He replied: “If you work hard, put all your hours in, and strive for 'Excellence', I'll get another one next year”.”
@@WindofChange2023 Personal relationships are not comparable in that way to business relationships. Someone making decisions for a business is alienated from the effects those decisions have on the people under them. They will often never personally know the people they lay off or the struggles of the workers they underpay. But people in actual relationships don't generally like to hurt each other and will get joy from others' joy. Just because the part of your brain that feels empathy is broken doesn't mean everyone else is the same. And fuck Ayn Rand, her philosophy is grotesque.
@@WindofChange2023 Mate you define every relationship a human can have as selfish in nature. What would you describe as having no empathy? I mean you could just say you are selfish, never had actual friends or mental problems but this view on life is sad.
@@WindofChange2023 You dont have a point tho. You said you see yourself as a selfish person and all your relationships are fueled by it. I dont and most people probably wouldnt agree to this. Can it be part? Sure but you said its almost the sole driving force or at least thats how I understood it. And if you think me pitting you is insulting then maybe think over your definition that everything is driven by greed and selfishness instead of playing some weird kind of victimcard. And by the way you just saying "what I say is true" doesnt make it the truth especially when youre talking about social constructs and feelings that are subjective af.
As a U.S. citizen, I love videos like these because I’ve always found it weird that we were labeled as “the greatest country in the world” when, even as a kid, I knew that was bull. Ever since I realized that we didn’t have paid maternity leave but other countries did, I knew that something was up.
You don't have paid maternity leave? I'm impressed, I love you country individualism but I think is too far, what about obligatory paid vacations and work healthcare?
I find that hard to believe. I think that's just a myth Europeans keep telling themselves about us. No one is actually taught that we're the best country in the world. There isn't any Soviet-style propaganda being peddled by schools. You haven't taken the time to detach yourself from the media and its narratives and actually do your research, because there's no evidence to suggest that Americans think their country is the best in the world.
Even if birth happens nontraumatic for body and mind, the mum is gonna bleed for some weeks and be really weak in condition. Not even considering what to do with a newborn while at work. How are they expecting you to do it? Are there enough impregnated teenagers without the right to safe abortions or why the US government isn‘t worried about producing new workers?
My Dad was one of the lucky few who got holidays off, and we were able to take vacations. Though he always had to replay to work emails and calls most of the time. I was maybe 13 when I was first told someone couldn’t come over on Christmas or Thanksgiving because they had to work. As a kid I was horrified that they had to work and didn’t get to be with their friends/family and was told, “That’s just the way it is.” And gradually grew so scared about having to work because the more I learned the more miserable it seemed. I was so confused as to why people did jobs that they hated and didn’t spend time with people or doing hobbies. Glad to know that horror was valid...and not just me going crazy.
My current job makes me work upwards of 10 hours per day and only pays me 6 because the main supervisor doesn’t approve those hours. Yet, we have to get done all the things asked of us. When we complain, we get statements like “right now you’re lucky to even have a job.” This is such a gross mentality.
That sounds illegal. It should be reported to the Department of Labor. You could try to get a lawyer who knows labor laws involved and go after lost wages.
@Joseph Howe It's illegal, but workers feel so trapped that they dare not complain. Companies can easily terminate workers and cite another reason for why (e.g. "s/he just isn't productive enough").
You guys really need to get some workers rights. Where i live it's the opposite, and the employers are complaining that the workers have all the rights. It's really hard to fire people and they have to pay huge compensations when they do.
Growing up in poverty, I bought into the propaganda that if I got a college education and worked a lot of hours (65/week), that I would somehow reach the hallowed streets of the middle class. I did, for about 3 years, then collapsed in total burnout, only to rapidly slide back into poverty at age 50, with no retirement savings and a chronic autoimmune disorder that's left me physically and mentally disabled. Thanks, capitalism!
You are so fortunate for being an American, i live in a thirdworld economy on the otherside of the planet, it takes me 5 years of work to buy myself the cheapest iphone, we only get law mandated paid leave of 7 days a year and i find hillarious that some Americans call themeselves poor yet they can eat three times a day,
@@jamesbyrne9312 Cause they're made up of people who want to make more and more money, and they contribute to politicians and judges election campaigns. If you want to get real mad, look into Citizens United.
@@abdullahtshabal9522 oh I see, nobody really enforces dual citizenship laws here, but the job market was terrible pre corona so I mean not a bad decision to leave
Just to be clear overworking doesn't mean more productive automatically. Imho the least productive colleagues I worked were the Americans, and I worked with a lot of different countries. Probably they would be more productive if they had more rest, better social laws and security, more vacation and better financial motivation.
There is an «old wind» blowing now. Take a listen to Aurora, THE SEED. A Norwegian girl is preaching the belief Native americans (and all people) once had. Maybe its time for you to become a preacher ?
I feel like that's unfair to the message of this video. It's about changing the American working culture away from trying to overwork yourself and deifying being rich and stuff like that and try to get to a point where we can all value different things than just how much money we have. It's true that this can only be achieved through getting some actual laws to protect the common workers from predatory practices of companies, but that's a far more sophisticated idea than just seizing the means of production. It's about changing what we all think is important and what we think is right.
Ahh yes. The communist allegation when someone talks about the US in a non-glorifying way. I would tell you to go back to school and learn about actual communism, but I assume that’s where you all learn this sh*t.
I'm from Germany. I just became a patreon - the first patreon sponsorship I ever did. Not because I did not like other creators but I just think your content is that important, that I felt I needed to support you.
As a German going to America I must say I loved your country and your people. It is out of compassion and love that I want the Americans be educated about how other countries actually treat their people. The US is a great country - but not because of the corporates - because of the american people.
@@YasuoPlayer123 The situation here is bleak. Even the most abused and underpaid workers often don't want the system to change because they don't think there's enough money in this country to support it. I lived in Germany for 4 years and know how much better things can be. Anytime I bring that up to people here they sit back with the same thing. "Taxes are so much higher in Europe though." It's miserable trying to explain why that's not entirely a bad thing. I honestly don't think anything will change until even the middle class is starving.
@@gwendolynsnyder463 I guess I didn't consider that. I take back what I said before. We're doomed. There is no hope for us now. I should teach my future children how to craft spears out of stones and sticks so they can hunt wild animals since they will never be able to afford food. My only hope is that a trillionaire will take pity on them and pay them more than starvation wages.
I stopped working over time. My health was suffering from it. 16 hour shifts is too much for me in my 50's. In America we praise working 60 / 70 hours a week. You can't have a life when all you do is work.
The same like you but when you don't do that, they will pressure you and replace you, also either choose overtime and being miserable but barely make it or don't do it and living in debt and poverty with the risky of losing the job
@UA-cam Censors anybody in this world has a right to be rich, as long as they do not harm anyone else in the process of doing so. Your judgement is very I'll informed my friend.
@UA-cam Censors hahahahahah, they're working nonstop for long hours everyday, most of the workers have nervous breakdowns, because they can't handle it, life is supposed to be easier, not a routine of meaningless errands
It's also instructive to notice how the phrase "Hard Work" and its derivatives (Hard-Working, Work Hard) is used in our culture, especially by politicians. Even the most "far Left" (actually, moderate-conservative to centrist outside of the U.S.) politicians will always refer to people as "Hard-Working Americans" or "Hard-Working families" whenever they intend to suggest that the government do anything at all for them. And notice that it's not valuable work, meaningful work, necessary work, helpful work, or any other adjective, it's always Hard Work, because the productive results aren't what matters. E.g. bullshit jobs, automation as a threat to our jobs rather than a way to ease the burdens of labor, those "lazy Europeans" enjoying too much of the productive results instead of Working Hard, etc.. Work has to be Harrrrrd because it trains us to let Capital extract more surplus value from us without protest, and gets us to accept living in a hard, mean society of atomized competitors. And of course there's the implication that if you're not Hard-Working and Working Hard, you deserve to starve and die. But only if you're working class. The people who wring hands over any sort of assistance to the poor with "But they'll lose incentive to work!" never advocate for inheritance taxes at 100% so that the children of the rich can have that much-needed threat of hunger and penury to goad them into Working Hard for a living.
Did nobody ever notice how in almost every single US TV show people are constantly overworking, doing overtime, casually walking in to work on Saturday or working at night because their boss asked them? It's completely normalised, even humorous shows like Brooklyn 99 paint a horrible image of working conditions. I only started noticing a short while ago, and now I can't unsee it.
I see characters somehow able to afford fancy houses or live in big cities on very small incomes, sometimes just one. I get that it's escapism, but come on.
Being a UA-camr is one of the best jobs you can have. The fact that you haven’t forgotten about those of us who have to work our lives away is very appreciated.
At the end of the day, you have more in common with a homeless person than you ever will with a billionaire. Let me just say that I really enjoy your content. I'm a fellow leftist and I'm learning a lot from these videos.
What if on one of your "creative days off" you come up with something so creative that someone is willing to pay you for your creative idea billions of dollars? would you tell them no thanks keep my creative work for free? or would you take the billions of dollars and invest in a company that can hire thousands of people to come work for you so that they can make a living to feed their families and use that money to pay for gas to travel to different parts of the world on your days off? or like I said would you just say no thanks keep it for free I want to live off the sweat off of someone else's hard work?? Oh and another thing those billionaires weren't all born billionaires they were broke at some point in their lives and were able to pick themselves up and make something of themselves instead of putting their hands out and begging someone to give them something. Don't fall for it trust me I was once a leftist myself until I woke up and smelled the reality. Communism has never ever ever ever worked name one place where communism has flourished and where people decided to stay and say they love communism? I will wait for your answer. Oh even better why not go ask a Venezuelan how much they love communism? LMFAO oh and btw I am from Venezuela so I know a thing or 2 about it, unlike you brats who were born here. Trust me there is no other place in the world like America.
@Anthony Rodriguez Your rebuttal is lame. At least make it funny if your not gonna reply with actual thought. There is no substance to what you said. You have no actual opinion or can actually conjure up an actual reply, you come at me with words that in your mind is some sort of dig at my character. LOL bruh its simple if you don't like it leave. Exactly what me and mine did when we left. In the end you would probably want us to pay for your flight out of here being that you expect everything handed to you.
@@davdiaz24 I agree, there are a few super rich who actually earned it the right way. But more than not, hey are born into the money nowadays. They literally cannot fail, as if one start up fails, daddy just liquidates the venture and they start over. Watch Fahrenheit 911. Not saying that every part of it is true , but he tackles some very interesting points. The research I have done over the last 10 years, shows that the middle class of the US is definitely considered expendable 100%. They couldn't give a shit about the individual workers in a corporation that has over 100 folks working at it. As long as that board member can buy his 17 year old a new Lexus net year , people don't matter at all. Go take a detailed look at what happened with Nortel as they were shut down - the CEO and CFOs got like 80 Million dollar bonus's while 20,000 people were laid off indefinitely. & that's just one Canadian corporation . . . .. it's fucked !!
Capitalism is just the free exchange of your labor for compensation. Capitalism revolves around individual choice and freedom. What's killing us is corporatism. When large companies and their lobbyists collude with government to to keep people trapped in dead end jobs just to make ends meet. If the government would not have caused runaway inflation for years with reckless federal reserve policies, and other government programs we wouldn't even need to discuss minimum wage. And if large corporations didn't use their powers to try and keep startups that may be able to produce better, cheaper and more efficient products out of the marketplace the cost of goods would decline while job opportunities would increase.
@@itsohaya4096 yup, the scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, Swiss and New Zealand have been domitating top 10 spots for years. In rankings like for example the world happiness index. Followed by some small yet rich east Asian countries.
@Saymum Hassan Riad That even those countries might have some isues, no country is perfect... doesn't make me an idiot. Because still however they are by capita the hapiest countries in the world, i have not done that reasearch. Its an annual publication of the UN.
This is why I want to leave the US. I honestly have no hope for this country. I didnt ask for this kind of life. I dont mind working but Ive got to be able to live life and be financially comfortable, damnit!
To all the people in this thread who believe in changing our broken work system I stand with all of you! The only people living the American Dream are ruthless CEOs
@@ellengran6814 He's a wordsmith. He's able to pack unfair, distressing and often times sad concepts into neat, easily understandable and honestly thought provoking packages. That doesn't excuse him from some of his shitty takes though.
It’s the land of the free elite, not the land of the free citizens. If an American thinks he is free, he should try to work abroad and maybe find a bride. Uncle Sam will tax your income, your bride’s and your future children’s. You can leave Uncle Sam, but Uncle Sam will never leave you. If you leave the land of the free, expect to pay a hefty fee.
JP CBT... yet another thing Europeans can’t believe if we mention it to them. There’s literally like 1000 things nobody believes because they have no frame for it. We might as be North Korean.
When my dad was immigrating and trying to travel from West Africa, Ghana, for a better country , I was surprised when he said the U.S is not even fifth option. I was confused at first and he said he would have rather lived in either the Netherlands or Canada. Now I’m like “ Dad, you did your research” Plan on moving to Canada one day.
Your dad was a smart man. The more i learn about the US the more extreme and unbalanced those people seem. I would rather pay more taxes to support others, than to be self centered and money obsessed. Also it always shocks me how hostile people in the US can be to their own countrymen.
I’m glad the younger generations are seeing it. I was laughed at, mocked, and verbally abused when I had pointed this stuff out 20 years ago. I was also told that I “was not an American” or that I “hated America” for pointing this stuff out as well and told to just “leave”.
@@klausd.6285 I love those “ Just leave “ comments. I can guarantee you if you leave America today, they will still want taxes from your income, no matter what country you earn it in-unless you renounce your citizenship (which is also very expensive).
Can I be part of your generation. I unfortunately, belong to the generation that caused all this pain, destruction and work obsession and cowtowing to the rich: the Boomer one. I also felt out of place because I disagreed with the majority of them and their thinking. I have felt the younger generations coming up now are the hope for the sanity and future.
Everyone I work with has at least two jobs and can barely afford to survive. I decided to exit this system and moved into my car. Turned out to be the best decision so far. I was able to save money and buy an rv, I now have three day weekends and can save most of my income. Still bad healthcare and minimum vacation days but at least I can save up enough to leave the country at some point.
It's strange seeing the idolization of van life, or tiny house life. I'm not blaming people for it, as it's a logical reaction to the present circumstances. It's just interesting how the ability to drive away with your home, to perform seasonal jobs and vacation after, is suddenly seen as necessary. To the point that people in suburbia envy that flexibility, and try to live vicariously through these UA-camrs.
Happy for you. I left 25 years ago and never looked back. Pls take extra care of your health. Make the effort to eat well. That makes a huge difference in your health level, and therefore your medical expenses.
The system was designed to keep you from breaking free. But the thing is by breaking free you usually become more successful when you're not afraid to take the risk. Break the cycle
Pride because the situation is so embarrassing bad, that people refuse to admit it is real, people refuse to admit that they have been cheated, that they paid taxes for years and years and got nothing in return.
@@fionafiona1146 A degree in Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology. Wow, that sounds like a pivotal world class education with great prospects of solving the problems of humanity. Me, I always had this ordinary dream of being a dentist and fix peoples annoyances with their dental problems.
I just came back from a trip to the US and I understand now why there are so many homeless people. If that was the system I had to work in just to survive, how much harder could homelessness be? Your either an addition to homelessness statistic or an addition to unhappiness statistic
“You aren’t paid by how hard you work, you’re paid by how hard you are to replace”
Damn..that's...that's a good one.
Capitalism.
cosmo786 eww
@@kavinsky2 Socialism works in Scandinavia
That's not Socialism that's social democracy
Ok. Can we do that?
No that's Socialism!!!
And nothing will ever change
@@totallynotme6720 Capitalism is bad, even with social democracy the 3rd world would still be exploited, Capitalism cannot sustain itself otherwise.
The Nordic Countries are a tiny minority compared to all the billions living in poverty due to Capitalism. Changing to Social Democracy is only gonna improve the life of the few.
Growing up in the United States, I did everything that I was told to do.
I studied hard throughout all of my schooling. I graduated salutatorian from high school and then ultimately summa cum laude from undergrad. I went on and I got a high level professional degree.
I have worked extremely hard, long hours and delivered excellent performance for the past 15 years in my work.
I am not paid enough to support a family. I am not paid enough to afford to take vacations. I have no parental leave and very little time off. I am forced to work overtime against my will on an ongoing basis. I am forced to work rotating weekends and almost all holidays. I have been treated with inhuman brutality in the workplace. For performing at the highest possible level, I have received no rewards, almost no raises, no bonuses. No promotions, nothing.
The reward for my hard work has been abuse, brutality, low compensation, misery, and gradually acquired chronic diseases from overwork.
The American dream is a lie. The reward for doing everything perfectly, just as you're told, just as I have always done is the most unthinkable misery possible. All I have to show for my efforts is a wasted life that's been taken away from me.
💯. I learned this the hard way myself. Now i live overseas
You have achieved a lot :D SOmeone became rich because of your work. You have to learn what westers europeans have learned long ago (natural because its older nations) - slack off as much as you can and never owerwork because fruits of your work is only picked by company owners and shareholders and with this attitude somehow they are ok and even better living :D
Exactly 💯. We work, we were promised and the government failed us.
My dear, we share a very similar story. However, I live with my immediate family - and there is at least 1 family member that takes advantage of me monetarily & physically (refuses to help clean, leaving it all to me). I am still suffering from mental weight, but my physical body started to also give way…. God lead me into prayer. To get back everything that was taken from me (time, energy, etc). I wish you the best, in Jesus’ name. We cannot rely on this “lie” of a nation called U.S.A. They are not even providing the average (or under-privileged homeless & veterans) citizen adequate monetary help, yet housing/feeding thousands of illegal immigrants with full services to feed the money-making, energy-devouring “monster” that runs this country (one such nickname for that monster is capitalism among others).
Should of stayed in the kitchen where you belong.🤣
“If you do not know you are a slave... how do you fight to be free?” -Yeonmi Park
The vast majority of Americans still believe that one’s financial status is determined only by effort. If you’re poor it’s your own fault. Can’t get a high paying job? Go to college. Don’t have a spare $50,000 ? Maybe your parents shouldn’t have been so lazy and earned more. Too bad, it’s not my fault you’re lazy, just pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
Learn to take responsibility for yourself.
@@ForgottenT Our people are alienated from the world
@@ForgottenT People shouldn't be responsabilized for themselves, most people is deeply irresponsible, you couldn't trust them whit themselves, for that is the goverment.
The middle ground is: some things we are responsible for and some things we aren't. We just need to get better at finding out which is which. Some people think you should be responsible for things completely out of your control, while other people think something isn't their fault even though they totally could have done something about it.
@@diablo.the.cheater then call it natural selection.
"Survival porn." Our culture gets off on working ourselves to death. We wear it like a badge of pride. It's pathological.
That's a huge problem in Japan and China as well 😞
Wtf are you talking about? I have been in the work force 40 year have never seen anyone work themselves to death. Lol
Yes, there's almost a BDSM quality about it. Whipping oneself and getting aroused. 😆😂 "Give me more discomfort please!!!!!"
It is sick
@@miketike3246 it's almost like a form of BDSM all this self-hatred. 😆 people whipping themselves almost to death. 🤣
I remember at a presidential town hall when a woman told George W. Bush that she had to work three jobs to make ends meet. Bush looked at her and smiled and said, "You work three jobs? That's great. That's America!"
That makes me wanna puke with anger lol
@@kaimccool6257 Yeah. And we haven't even gotten to the part yet where Bush invaded Iraq on false pretenses and killed thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens.
Funny. In Germany it is de-facto prohibited to have more than one employment. The second will be taxed so heavily it won't worth it. So, I've got a 3rd taxation class and I pay something round about 30% (this includes all insurances, rentals, medicare for everyone in my family, etc). If I would take an another job additionally, it will be taxed by the 6th class and I'll pay about 75% as a tax.
And if you're working more than 40 hours per week, your company should better have a very solid excuse for that (together with double payment for extra hours) - otherwise they'll be in trouble. I lead a team of 15 people and in my team it is prohibited to work more than 8 hours a day. In 5 years there was only one emergency accident, when I had to ask my team for extra hour and I still feel badly for it.
Says it all doesn't it?
Yesssssssss!!!!! He said it was "uniquely American". I suppose he's not wrong but he seemed proud of this. If I recall I think the audience applauded for some reason. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Politicians are so out of touch they thought she was bragging.
the fact that people here in america live this everyday and do not see anything wrong with it boggles my mind.
Work save some money and gamble by opening a business. Nobody is saying that you will become jeff bezos if you only work at mcd, starbucks and subway.
We are born into it. It's our reality. We are frogs already born in the pot as it's being heated. Our parents keep us out of the ever rising hot water, slowly getting us used to it as we get older. Next thing we know, we are just used to the ever rising temperature. It's just how things always have been.
Any attempts to change or improve things is scary. "How dare you mess with the temperature control nob! How will we survive if the temperature goes down?"
If people are not given the chance to question the system, then they will just go about their lives believing that this is normal for everyone. I have had a chance to question the system. I am aware that it is broken. But I don't know how to fix it with my meager resources. There is a lot of resistance to change.
Going against the current is hard. Especially since there are people who profit off of the broken system. There are a few that keep things how they are. Spreading fear and propaganda that makes people fear change. That makes them beat down those who want to change things for the better.
Honestly, I just want to get away. To go to a country where they already have the systems in place to help people survive. I know that's a selfish thought. I just don't see this country changing or improving significantly any time soon. I'm scared and frustrated. But so many still think it's fine how it is, because that's how it always has been. Sigh!
Name Here try north korea. Everyone is equal there. No rich no poor, only kim and his people.
@@Chris-ts2yc Just FYI, North Korea is definitly not an "everyone is equal" country. There are the ultra poor, and the wealthy that fear ticking off Kim. It's called a dictatorship. Something Trump seems oddly fond of.
If I'm moving anywhere. I would go to any number of countries that have democracy, some kind of universal healthcare, and a government not owned by rich people. North Korea isn't anywhere on that list. Canada, and many European countries are.
They're brainwashed by religion
In addition to the table of paid vacation: In Germany, the mentioned 20 days of vacation is the minimum by law. In reality most people have 25 to 30 days of vacation. The concept of sick days does not exist. If you are sick then you are sick, no matter how often. Though, after 6 weeks of sickness in a row your payment will be stopped and replaced by a reduced payment by the health insurence. But sickness will not ruin anybody.
@@리주민 I read about a guy who worked as a waiter earning about 30 dollars per day. He got sick and had to decide: go to the doctor and pay 70 Dollars just for the visit or earn 30 dollars. Guess what he did? It's hard to believe that Americans take their situation for granted and even call universal health care "socialist" while their system actively kills them because they cannot afford proper treatment.
@@klotz__ Yuck! 🦠 I don't want my food served by a sick person. Guees I will keep that in mind before I go to an us-american restaurant next time.
@@리주민 Yeah that's crazy. I've noticed those instances where corporate greed shoots itself in the foot. Like how many companies micromanage employees and make them feel like crap, but then expect them to want to stay and do a more efficient job.
Klotz yp Yeah same where I live, you can earn more holiday time from your overtime so then the 5 week entitled holiday increases
Also the 10 paid holiday ("Feiertage") are only the national ones (New Years day, 2 days easter, Christmas 2 days, Reunification day and so on). There are multiple others locally, usually on state level. It ranges from 9 (the number I found, most likely there difference comes from counting or not counting holidays on sundays (easter sunday, Pentecost sunday) minimum to 14 in the city of Augsburg in Bavaria. Rest Bavaria has 13 and is highest.
This adds to the 20 days minimal payed vacation days. But more is common (20 - 30) as already stated.
51 here and totally burned out. Been working full-time since age 16. Supporting myself from age 21 to current. It’s so hard to motivate myself these days. You wonder, what’s it all for? Work your life away to survive.
I just turned 38 and this is hitting me really hard now. A lot of the time I feel lost and don't know what to do. It makes it even worse when everyone around you is so content to be defined by the work they do instead of living a happy and fulfilling life.
Pathetic
@VNB Slash 🚩🚩🚩
The working class must break the chains that bind them and stand up to the bourgeoisie
💔
we don’t have to live like this. it’s easy to see that the world sucks and it isn’t fair, but we need to start doing something about it. we need to start rebelling. not just protesting, they don’t listen to protests. i mean strikes and i mean riots. we need to completely hold the economy hostage.
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they are being fooled!"
Amen. I see plenty of evidence of this every day. I've talked to many people who don't want to know the truth of reality.
Shania Twain!
This video tells me everything I already think. I've been telling people for years that they're fools for working too hard and the idea that they will become upper middle class or rich just from working hard is a stupid pipe dream and they look at me like I'm the most cynical person in the world.
@@savenetneutralityanti-repu7029 lol yep. Everyone is instilled with the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" mentality.
I’m American now living in the UK. I had the American work mentality when I moved here and everyone thought I was crazy. I felt so guilty taking any of my 25 paid vacations days a year. I would log into my work email whilst on vacation and got told off for it. I got pregnant and only took 6 months of my 9 months paid maternity leave. I eventually calmed down my workaholic tendencies and honestly I feel more balanced. I enjoy my time with my son and husband. We can plan vacations abroad 2-3 times a year and I’m able to shut off as soon as I leave work.
Don’t even get me started on healthcare.
Mind if I ask what your profession is? I’m looking at maybe moving over there in a few years. :)
Glad you landed on your feet. You show that there is an alternative.
@@Marine5481 at the moment I’m an assistant accountant. I’m studying to get my accounting qualification here. I didn’t move here for work though. I married a British citizen. Before getting married we took a while deciding whether to settle in the US or the UK. To be honest it would have been a lot easier and cheaper getting my husband a green card for the US rather than going though the UK spouse visa process but we ended up deciding on the UK due to overall price of living and quality of life.
@@ronalynharris686 sounds like it was a good choice !!
@@ronalynharris686 And consider that the ratio price of living : quality of life of the UK is considered awful in Western Continental Europe. :)
It's absolutely soul crushing what this is doing to us and how this affects our kids. Even if we corrected this now the damaging effects would last for generations
You had a good start with the New Deal and up until the seventies, but too bad your country is just so big, that it happened to have the kind of super rich people with enough money and power to bend the political system to their will. And that they did.
Socialism is the way forward
Like krogan had the genophage
Soul crushing is the feature, not the bug. Corporations and the wealthy are not nice, benevolent people. They are exploiteers and cartels that will abuse and take advantage of us as much as we will let them.
The more obsessed and consumed with work we are, the less free we are to be happy and pursue a better life.
@@FINNSTIGAT0R It is not fault of the super rich. The American constitution allows certain kinds of corruption, and the rich just made use of these opportunities to further their own interest.
Fix the constitution, weed out corruption, and there is again hope for the USA.
#represent.us is doing a good job working towards these goals.
It's incredible how It looks like in US you're basically called "lazy" unless you work yourself to death.
With no sick days...In Europe "sick days" are infinite, you stay home until you feel better
Lol youre called lazy even if you work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year but want a better life.
In Europe, you are called "crazy" if your goal is to work yourself to death
here we have the insurance when you get hurt on the job and you get paid 100% i think and it goes on for a while but you have to be seen by doctors to keep track on your recovery, then theres also medical leave it can be anything really and it can last as long as you want i think but you only get paid 60% of you salary and you have to be at least 5 days away for it to start conting
This obsession with Europe has to stop! There's a reason 1776 happened.
@@jaybleu6169 LOL. No European country is an empire like Britain used to be. "Muh free healthcare and education" cult can suck it. We aren't mirroring Europe.
Whenever I visited the states it felt like the country was under some cult influence.
Minimal news from outside and everyone celebrating the wrong ideals.
Horses don’t get carrots, only sticks.
capitalism is 100% a cult yeah.
This comment just reminds me of Animal Farm. I read it in Year 9 and Boxer still breaks my heart to this day... (I'm not American but) to all my fellow working-class brothers and sisters out there, please don't become like Boxer. That's just too sad.
"Everyone in America should be fed foreign news and celebrate the ideals we tell them to - or else they are a cult that gets the stick!" - tolerant, foreign socialists
@@chownful You're pretty good at strawmanning my dude
@@chownful if you've ever been in America you know that the people here are not educated in the truth
You know what the most outrageous thing is about all this? That theres Americans out there that would fight against paid leave, paternity leave and working less because they somehow think its socialism/communism.
There's quite a few where I'm currently providing service(employed). Would call you lazy and no real use for wanting more time off. God forbid if you get sick.
I live in Canada, working for mining company with 5 weeks annual vacation. Did not spent a penny when my wife delivered my boy. I am so lucky be a Canadian
@@jefferywang2493 I've talked to my wife about moving to Canada. Had a great experience when I visited last year.
That's what their overlords tell them.
Yes! It is so hard to believe!
People are giving their time, their life for scraps to live off of. When the rich company owners earn their wealth from underpaid workers.
If that doesn't sound dystopian then I don't know.
Robert Reich says we are living through the second gilded age, with about the same disparities. Hopefully we will usher in a new age of equity and Egalitarianism! Work to live, not live to work.🌄
@@chuckkottke believe me interventionism doesn't work, capitalism may not be perfect, but it's the best we have
@@jackdanila9893 it work perfectly like how health care business we had
some might leisurely go through liposuction in prime work hours
while others have to sell his health to keep out his house from mortgage
which no different from slavery
capitalism is works if there's inequality on it, u gain more for every other people losses
Take a look at the kids who pick pieces of scrap metal out of landfills and use landfills and playgrounds. People in some places are suffering a lot more than most in the US are. This video compares us with "wealthy" nations, not with places like Bangladesh. The global financial system involves everyone, not just "wealthy" parasites.
This is why, as a young American, I've seriously been considering emigrating to somewhere like Norway, Ireland, or the Netherlands.
Those places would be great, Germany would be too, UK, honestly almost anywhere in Europe, as well as Canada, and Australia is better than US.
Funny how I came here from Brazil years ago to have a better life, well I do but I have no social life 🤣 we have no vacation in the US it sucks... all we do is work, work and work. Kinda sucks tbh. Brazil its not the best but we do get 30 days paid vacation, sick paid leave and other benefits we dont see it here.
As an older American, I'd say the sooner the better. You will be paddling against the tide, if you stay here. This country is facing some dark days in the not too distant future. Anything to the contrary is pure propaganda. Don't over think it, make the move. You'll be glad you did.
@@TAYLOR8mm America is the only place on Earth where wanting to have universal healthcare, affordable education, and paid vacation makes you entitled lol
Oh no! You are just gonna take your American ideology with you.
This type of video is just the best content someone could make right now
I would love to subtitle it in spanish and italian so that more people can watch it, I just don't know how
@@filippoardizzone8216 _"I would love to subtitle it in spanish and italian so that more people can watch it, I just don't know how"_ You can add subtitles if you a) are working on a computer not a phone, b) you click on the settings "wheel" on the video and then on subtitles, then on "add subtitles/cc"
I highly recommend writing the subtitles in an extra file, .txt is already enough. You write them like this (copying from a subtitle file I made once):
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The paradox here is: How can you know all this and still do it?
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00:00:06,001 --> 00:00:09,600
This is the cynical functioning of ideology.
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00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:14,500
They’re never what they appear to be: cynical brutal delinquents.
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They always have a tiny private dream. This dream can be many things.
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It can even be something quite ordinary.
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and so on
Good luck with that project!
You should also check out the videos of Mexie, halim alrah and Viki 1999
@@LibertarianLeninistRants Thank you very much for your help, I'll try it as fast as I get home
That and Minecraft lets playa
Like George Carlin once said: “That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
Damn, this hit different
I miss George!!!
Just a dream
@@funveeable back in 1980, dreams were possible. But this is 2020, we've woken up by now.
antargaming in no communist country could you get this because it’s enough wealth for several families like the fuck
I used to work for a company in Montreal (Québec) that had an important partnership with NY and, you guys, you are INTENSE. This American girl spent three weeks at our office, and she proudly said she would stay in the office until 2 a.m. just to get the project/ do a certain transfer on time instead of waiting the next morning like a regular person (or just tell the client that we were humans beings getting good night sleep at 2 a.m., and postpone the thing.). For her it was perfectly normal, and she looked at us as if we were lazy for going out for beers after work and getting a life. All my American contacts were like that, to different levels, but from our perspective they were always "difficult" to work with because they did not have limits or boundaries with work...I was regularly receiving emails at insane hours from people working in the same time zone as I was, and one girl was impressed that we were NOT doing 12-hour days. In a way it was sad.
They're so proud of it, without realising it's a lifestyle of diminishing returns, and a good balance is not only healthier, but also more productive in many areas!
yeah, skipping lunch to get stuff done on the clock when lunch was unpaid 30 minutes is pretty normal shit. sleep schedule was messed up enough that i had to leave work so i wouldn't collapse on the floor like i did one time. (closing at 10 and needing to be back at 5 am to clock in next day, etc) i still didn't see it as overworked, just me mismanaging my life and job. plenty of friends on the job had it a lot worse than me, seeing friends work 2 jobs for 70-80 hours a week with no health benefits and still doing volunteer work. my own grandfather working til he was in his 80s before he passed.
idk there is a source of pride in work well done. but yeah, there needs to be something done so people aren't stuck in a rut and being miserable.
its the Hussle culture here
work yourself to death know so you can have it better down the road
and companies expect you to exist Soley to file their papers or mop there floors, they don't see you as human, they see you as a number on a spread sheet
Let me tell you, I worked a graveyard shift for a year 4 days 10 hours. When I tell you I was losing my sanity, weight, sleep, and got physically sick it sucks in America. They'll penalize you for being sick and leaving early, have unrealistic expectations and horrible working conditions (poor human resources, bare minimum equipment, etc.) I want out of corporate America's hustle culture. I'm only 30 and feel so depressed about my future.
In 1985, a US woman on her honey moon also in Montréal, managed to get a temp position at our branch ( financial institution ). She was there 2 days .
When she left, I was joking that it was a good thing she was going home because the entire office was about to get sent home for lack of work to do...
I've spent a lot of time abroad, both volunteering and traveling, and I've noticed fairly consistently that people in developing countries are happier than we are. Kids have a huge amount of freedom. People take afternoon naps because, god forbid they're tired.
leave wimp
thus need to bring war and same capitalism and whatnot to force them to be unhappy... thats the way it is.... happy person wont work without reason.
@@peartfaldo gladly will and not wanting to be constantly running on a hamster wheel doesn’t make you a whimp
the day after I get my trust fund, I'm outta here.
The fact that this video would be considered “anti-capitalist” goes to show just how broken our system is.
Judging by how skewed American politics is, yes.
This is anti capitalist. I am happy for it... one cannot expect otherwise with the cancerous eternal growth of capital
It's really just a "humanitarian" video---- and since it's also apparently "anti-capitalist", we probably will reach the conclusion that capitalism is anti-humanitarian.
@@splattercatbambi4965 > This is anti capitalist
It is against raw, untempered capitalism.
Untempered capitalism tends to move to the exploitation of workers, fueled by the greed of those that have capital (equity). This we saw clearly in the nineteenth century. Read some Dickens to get the picture.
To prevent this, we need to temper capitalism with measures that protect the poor from exploitation. How that can best be done was discovered in the early twentieth century. Most of it was born out of Christian compassion with our less fortunate fellow beings.
Now the USA is repeating history, in the USA today we recognise some of the excesses we find so cruel and disgusting in Dickens. It is time for the nation to again get a conscience, and take some of the sting out of american capitalism.
The two areas most in need of reform are *Education* and *Health Care* .
@@TheEvertw untempered capitalism is a tautology
I worked a night shift 5 years back as a grocery clerk, i had quickly learned that i cannot sleep during no matter what. This went on for 10 months until compounding sleep deprivation and substance abuse caused me to have a psychotic break. This video brought back those sickening feelings of being a wage slave, living only to work, try to sleep on a time frame whilst thinking about work and how i'll feel if i don't sleep to the point where i would hear voices and have terrifying delusions. I've since quit and slowly gotten better over the last five years but any job i get i experience the same feelings all over again to a lesser extent.
Wow, really hope you find a work place someday that makes you feel relaxed and happy. You'd love Canada's rural towns, pace of life is slow here and you can do any menial job without the stress of the city. We lack labor so people even get to choose their employers.
Talk about American life expectancy and happiness levels going down
Did you consider or is there any chance that you could leave America permanently? I´m sorry if that´s a stupid thought but I´m german and after all I´ve heard about the american system in Secont Thoughts videos I just can´t imagine a way to live a happy and healthy live in the USA if you don´t have rich parents or shamelessly abuse people. What is the biggest thing that stops americans from leaving the country once they somehow find out how abusive their system really is?
The fact that grocery stores are open at night is sick by itself. No one really needs to shop groceries at 2am.
Klotz yes we do. I work night shift at a casino and I like being able to go to the grocery store early in the morning. When they changed their hours to no longer be 24 hours it really fucked up my schedule. I get delivery now because it’s an inconvenience to go in the middle of the day.
And I actually enjoy night shift. It’s much more quiet.
When living in the US, I had friends who gave birth on a Wednesday evening and went back to class teaching Monday in the AM.
The worst part is that, as someone living in the US, I'm so used to seeing that, it doesn't even shock me. Everyone sees that as completely normal and okay.
Nothing wrong with that.
@ Chuka Nweze - Yeah there is! 😂
if u dont work, u lose your job lol
Even as an American it fuck up
'Deifying rich people who accumulated their wealth by exploiting others doesn't mean you smart it means you bought into their propaganda ' those words made my day
Interesting. You accurately described socialism
@@NoRegertsHere socialism deifies rich people now?
@@sogekinoshimade wealth accumulation by exploiting others is how things work in socialism as the rule. It happens in capitalism as the exception, and rarely does someone get away with it.
@@NoRegertsHere Riiiight. So what exactly is the Gilded Age and the Great Divergence to you?
dude I haven't worked my entire life and I'm 29. I always knew the system was rigged. Fuk that. I would get jobs easily and quit on day 2. I got hired so easily in multiple sectors and hated them all. Believe it or not working restaurants is far far better than office jobs..by far the worst jobs are office jobs they suck your soul. I'm sorry but anymore then 2 days of soul sucking for me would destroy me and make me a zombie. I had to leave im glad I have becsuse the working class always seem to call me "boss" or.think I'm some extremely rich wealthy spoiled person. I seem to exude this energy. They simply have no idea that the moment you stop selling yourself to enrich others, your basically free and in control of your own life even if you make no money. Making money is not hard. Selling yourself for wages IS. People think to make money you must sell yourself. This is dumb
It's terrifying to see how much of society has been trained to view this as a natural state of being.
My HS literally ingrained in me that college leads to life success so effectively that when I graduated from college, family/friends were crying and congratulating me and all these things and I literally thought to myself "this isn't special, this is what I'm supposed to do."
I began to see this attitude in the early '80's and it was scary even then.
@@vincegonzalez2171 when I got my BA and my family was all excited, the only thought that’s going through my head is “I’m going to die”.
@Dex Dextor South Africa even worse
@@Name-dv4qu Well, not necessarily. Just because humans started out that way doesn't mean that's the only way we can be normal or natural. Species evolve.
No amount of money is enough when a hospital bills come.
Yeah, both my parents work and have college degrees, yet my mom getting a mild form of cancer and having surgery to remove it (even before chemo) was enough to ruin us without insurance .
Litterly almost every country: wait so u pay for hospital bills????
Don't be ridiculous, everyone in every country pays medical bills, just with a few 0 less🤷♂️
I broke my ankle joint in America. I had to have two pins put into my ankle, and it cost me $23,000 dollars. I had to go through Swiss industrial insurance, and the most expensive country in Europe refused to pay four times their normal rate for such an operation. Luckily, I was bright enough to take out additional insurance, so all's well that ends well. The question American's have to ask themselves, is why they allow themselves to be so exploited.
Can thank Medicare and free healthcare for that
Imagine a government working to improve people’s lives.
I can't....no matter how hard I try...the concept is literally unimaginable
How about you improve your own life and stop blaming your failures on everyone else. Get off of UA-cam and start aupporting yourself. That, or move to Venezuela.
"Filthy Communism" in the eyes of the American's
@@lightyagami1058 bruh. You missed the point lol
Did you just mention CCP? 800mil lifted from poverty.
It doesn't matter how hard you work, or if you find a way to increase productivity, all benefit goes upwards to people who are already rich.
It truly blows my mind that people don't realize this.
Before trickle down economics, money earned or even printed turned over many more times within the country before ending up in a few concentrated hands; in the last 40 years a good chunks of it gets off shored into tax havens at the tax payers expense and most of it will never be reinvested or spent in the country where it came from. This didn’t happen when there was a tax system that had high taxes on the top marginal brackets that coerced corporations and the rich to reinvest in their country and businesses. Also with the incentive of the rich reinvesting in their businesses created an environment for employees to obtain enough tax deductions to decrease their tax burden; now most of the tax burden is on the middle class salaried and hourly workers; not on executive payroll.
If you look at it that way I guess everything goes up. But if you own a farm man, that's the key. Everything you do helps everyone not just one person and society as a whole depends on you to feed them not just the rich. Why do people concern themselves with the rich so much? there gonna die and be the same as the rest of us so what's the point.
@@robwhite3241 I find farmers are undervalued in society.
Use money to buy the stock...That makes you to become shareholder and you will have more money because you earn the income of the company....
People will look at you as if you're stupid if you don't work hard enough. If you work too hard they'll look at you like you're stupid. Anything to rationalize their privilege.
The American ethos can be summarized like this "Everybody believes that they are a millionaire down on his luck."
Even millionaires believe this when they lose a little.
"temporarily embarrassed millionaires"
A millionaire who lost all their wealth paying for an ambulance ride
a wholesale delusion.
Literally no american believes this
Last time I was this early, my boss made me stay late.
Gold
up you go
Nice
Also, if the average American isn't working constantly, their debts would cause them to lose everything almost overnight.
Debt is the expectation by the lender that the debtor will make more tomorrow than they did yesterday. Our economy is propped up by that false promise and the debt bubble will eventually collapse. Capitalism is already on life support. Capitalism has already failed.
The only way to not work as much is to not have any debt
The debt of the many is the wealth of the few. No debt no wealth.
@@brandonwombacher2559 Which is why housing and cars keep increasing. Keep the mice scurrying in the wheel.
My father was a workaholic, he was financially comfortable, but his workaholicism destroyed him and our family.
"USA is not a nation, it's an Industrial Complex"
people work, eat, sleep and repeat. with zero Social, Cultural, family values throughout the country.
YES INDEED. It's a toxic cycle that Americans love. If it involves standing up it's out the comfort zone
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What do you mean, they have a bunch of cultural such as gun culture toxic culture racist culture schools shooting culture warlike culture... silly boy
yall obviusly have never been to asia, the average work hours there are almost 12 hours a day, with less than 2 weeks of leave
@@spacepeing9936 And yet the Us is the largest multicultural society on the planet and thousands of people walk on foot across multiple countries just to enter that "gun culture toxic culture racist culture schools shooting culture warlike culture"
Now tell us, what country are you from? i am sure I can list off all the horrible shit that goes on in your country then we can all watch you deflect and make excuses while blaming the US in the same breath.
People are taught to brag about working 70 hours a week. You shouldn't be working that much, let alone to make ends meet...
I only "brag" about working such hours if I am putting away cash for a project - once I have the cash to finance the project, the 60-70 hr work weeks cease.
meowpower I don’t enjoy working the hours, but I need to money to buy assets to leave the working class behind.
If there’s 24 hours a day and you work 60% of it and sleep the rest, why the f would your project even be worth it? You’re not even living.. And realistically, who in this country can say, “well once I’m done making the money I can shrink my own work schedule and not work”. Stop.
@@onefortrees Actually, that is my plan - once I achieved the necessary investment capital I will dial back my hours and then stop working altogether.
For a while I worked those hours to make money quickly for a house. The time value of the money made sense. I worked a lot while paying rent then when I had a comfortable amount saved to buy the house and stop paying rent I took a job with less hours. That’s when I worked 13 ten hour days with one day off. Now I work five 8 hour days and have much more time to do the things I enjoy. Most people don’t understand that there is a time value to money. Though I will also admit that in my industry (construction) work comes in waves. Sometimes the going is great and you work more. But you do that to save for the times when work is very slow or non existent so you can keep the lifestyle that you desire.
Happiness is a state of mind, but is hard to be happy on an empty stomach
Message! 💯
I agree
That depends. When I’m fasting I make sure I’m busy - usually gardening. I can go a day or two without feeling hungry when I’m working in my garden. The same goes for any creative activity, for me. I lost a stone a few years back when I wrote a book. I was insomniac as well, so going without regular food and sleep. I felt physically fit and very happy.
This statement implies that having basic needs= happiness. It does not.
It also implies that the playing field is even from which people can derive their basic needs from is even. Which it is not.
Well if hunt or grow food if you don’t have then trade or bargain. It hard to keep happiness or keep in one state of mind when everyone doubts. Bet you doubt your self when thing get tougher no helping ya.
It's not just work but college made me go mentally insane because of its obsession with overwork, exams, unrealistic deadlines. Because of that I'm quitting college for good.
Agreed. More people need to talk about this. I’ve learned so much more at my own pace after I graduated college. Multi-tasking isn’t effective
bro just got to college. 😵💫😵💫
College is a scam
Yeah I was able to mentally power through but almost failed at the end when I ran out of steam
Everything is always hyper productivity based in all aspects of life
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
John Steinbeck
It never took root because we don’t want it, although it seems like everyone on UA-cam is far leftist, most of the US population does not agree with socialism.
@@visorij3374 maybe because your goverment spent the last 100 years demonizing it, even before the cold war.
@@visorij3374 you would be surprised what the youth wants. They want Europe to come to America because they want to be free
Thank you for that quote friend. I've had the same thoughts as I grew up around my brain washed friends and family. I felt like an alien unable to understand why everyone was so quick to down the koolaid and suffer in misery. They really do believe they will get to become part of the rich people club, if only they are good little girls and boys and work harder work longer work work work. Jesus.
Yeah, so we get to pay socialist taxes while receiving literally nothing but corruption in return. Yay!
Seriously, use worldwide income tax calculators. It’s amazing how high it is here for nothing in return. It should like 10% for what we get!
When i was little my dad told me that work and a job is who you were in life. Fast forward to 20y/o, Got told to drop out by college professors, got fired multiple times, couldnt hold down a job, severe depression, suicidal thoughts. It took me a very long time to realizethat work and my jobs dont define me. Now i paint art in my free time and i feel more liberated just by that.
thankfully a lot of that old propaganda is disappearing with the older generations. The country is completely different than when our grandparents grew up
I am happy to hear that for you. A lot of people go through the same thing, but it takes some time to recognize what it is coming from and connect the dots. It is a shame we have to go to our wits end and to be forced to understand, only then, what is happening. It's good to make the connection, but wish it didn't take that much grief to get there.
Thank God you did friend.😎🤘
When I signed my first work contract as an advisory consultant, back in Belgium, the section on paid holidays, sick leaves, days off due to specific events (wedding, death of a pet, etc.), etc. was over 20 pages long.
I had between 6 to 8 weeks paid vacation per year. Hell, I even had 5 paid workdays a year that I could take without even stating a reason. I could take up to 12 weeks of parental leave if I had a child (again, paid parental leave).
To find out that in the US you don’t even have mandatory paid vacation days blows my mind. I just can’t believe it.
paid vacation is one thing.... imagine having your employer tell you... you can't be sick you have already used your 7!!!! (that's the US average) sick days
and then imagine you're working as a server making a whole $2.13/hour
Wait you get days off for death of a pet?? When my 12 yo heart dog died I had to call in sick then go into work the next days because if you call in more than one day you must have a doctor note. :(
When you've lived in a sane society for all your life you'll learn to take the sanity for granted, to the point that you can't imagine living in an insane one.
I get the "I can't believe it" reaction from Europeans all the time when I explain how American health care works. They usually know America has no public health care system and that a lot of people get health insurance, but they always believe health insurance means opting in a European style system, that you pay for your insurance and that covers everything when you need medical care.
When I explain that no, it isn't that simple, your insurance doesn't cover everything and even for stuff it does cover you'll probably end up paying through your nose, and that middle-class people with health insurance could go bankrupt because of medical bills if they get unlucky, they literally don't believe what I say, like I'm exaggerating or trying to fool them
Exantius E Yeah, nobody understands this. Nobody understands how you can pay $1k+ mo for health insurance, and it still doesn’t cover jack anything. It’s like a fancy discount card (but only after deductible is met, yadda yadda!) We’re in a mega retarded place that makes no sense! It’s crappy even for a video game!
To be fair, the majority of Americans that have paid vacation don't even use it. Many people go years without taking a day off.
To me it all comes down to the two most important things in life, time and money. Everyone can choose how much money they wanna accumulate but no one get to choose how much time we get in this life. I too was stuck in this American dream, working 70 hrs a week just to keep a mortgage and every other monthly expenses that came with having a family, I realized I wasn’t physically tired but worse I was emotionally drained . It was if I had no soul in me, I turned to alcohol as an outlet drinking most nights just to fall asleep. Thank god that I now got out of that toxic lifestyle of chasing more and more money, My income has never been this low since I remember (I don’t spend much nowadays) yet I’ve never felt so alive. Don’t let that American Dream suck the life out of you, everyday is a blessing when you realize that time is the most important thing we have to live a truly happy healthy life.
I choose to have a life balance and not overwork myself to death for anybody or anything I work part time and proud of it fuck full time
I think you are a very smart person (no sarcasm) 👍
Usa IS pos
Cost of living compared to actual income is the biggest thing here. People bring up Japan's work culture but they forget that in most households, they live comfortably on ONE working adult. I moved to Japan and I have been more financially flexible in 3 years than the entire time I worked in IT. In just a few years I will be able to buy a house, start a family, set up a college fund. I also have 4 times more vacation days, not counting sick days (By the end of the year I will have received 31 PAID non-weekend days off). Hell, I could work 3rd shift at a convenience store and make 1600-1800 a month. With my rent, internet, and water all totaling 550 a month (I live outside of the expensive urban areas), I could be comfortable with that job until I found something better. The "American Dream" is achievable...in other countries. And you won't be working yourself to death without benefits or health insurance doing it.
The biggest problem with that mentality is that it's been taught to us for so long. Our situations, education, experience with what success looks like are all different. If we all started in the same spot and guaranteed equal education and opportunity, that mentality would be justified, but it's not. The lower you start from the harder it is, and effort only takes you so far. It creates exactly the kind of discourse that keeps this system broken.
@ Zenrei03 - It’s also caused plenty of people to throw up their hands and say “fuck it” and refuse to participate in it anymore. So there’s that.
How do you work towards getting a job somewhere such as Japan?
Now I'm planning what nation I'll move to if America falls apart like Rome. I love a lot of what's come out of the states, but I can't take this shit anymore
@@EYTPS Believe me, No country wants Americans. You may think politics has nothing to do with how citizens of other countries view you, but in legal matters, we've pi55ed off the world. Go visit Europe and go through their customs, you will see what they really think of us. It might be harder for Asia with our Xenophobia against China. Latin America is your best bet, but I doubt Americans will want to live in crime infested neighberhoods. The worst part is that America let's everybody in to avoid being called the R word, but when it's their turn to welcome Americans, they view us as plagues.
@@robroux5059 it's the same for us Brits too. It's because the British Empire fucked everyone up until the 90s, and that perpetuates in the cultures of other nations. And after 11/9, the American Empire began fucking everyone HARD (but you were fucking everyone since the Cold War). Of course we don't want you here (I mean, I don't care personally, I'm an Anarcho Communist so I don't recognise the validity of nations) because Britain is so incredibly racist anyway (to the point where we're racist against Brits from other towns than ours).
But yea,. Blame the Empire for the global hatred of America.
As a young American, the one thing I look forward to the most is when I can finish college and save up enough money to leave this country.
Clive Newby As someone who is in high school, I can't look forward to much. My goal is to get scholarships because college is so unnecessarily expensive, and with the ongoing pandemic, it doesn't look possible. I want people to just think about others for a second. I have worked so hard, getting all A's in school, yet I'm still worried, because honestly--it doesn't matter how hard you work. The US economy isn't made for anyone in the middle class and lower. I know this because I am in the middle class.
Be careful with student debt! Its the only type of debt that you CANNOT remove in bankruptcy.
Go to community college first to finish general courses, then go get a good ROI degree from a 4 year.
R Quan that's my plan! thank you for telling me what the education system didn't 😂💗
@@hannah1850 That the beauty of the internet! Teach yourself what the education failed to teach you for free!
@@hannah1850 if you really want to go to uni and are worried about debt I'd suggest looking at international options. The UK charges double price for international non European students but that's still cheaper than a lot of US unis, even without British loan options (which are pretty forgiving). Some places like Germany, Norway, and Sweden have costs low enough that you can cover them working part time, or even with pocket money, if need be. Consider all your options if you can
"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
-George Carlin
True statement but i literally see this everywhere on yt lol
When you think about it. This quote hits like a platinum brick from a railgun.
Not true, for people from poverty (like my family) the american dream is a reality. Y’all are just to privileged to see it
RIP, Mr. Carlin
George isn't dead, he just knew shit will get even worse and left
Beautifully made. I remember an American woman who once said that the American dream is an excellent ploy to make Americans work hard. The promise of a comfortable life is the lure. It may come to some Americans, and not to others. The mistake Americans make is to assume it will come inevitably, long as they have worked hard.
And the wealthy keep laughing.
I just quit my job two days ago because it was making me absolutely miserable. I needed this video late at night.
Hope you are doing ok
feels bad man, hope you're okay.
Learn how to invest, start and run your own business, and real estate. And don't think that you should learn this stuff after you get money. Learn it before.
The video leave out that you can invest in yourself and work for yourself instead of just work for someone else's business
I hope you find a better job.
@@justSTUMBLEDupon To make money of investment you need a lot of money plus a good understanding of what's going on otherwise its just a casino. Running business needs capital to save said capital you need well paying job to get well paying job you need good education to get good education you need a loan which puts you in the red before you even start saving. When you finally set a goal it keeps getting pushed back by raising inflation and rising rent cost making possibility of saving anything very unlikely. Real estate cost is so high that buying a house in Europe and commuting using air plane is cheaper. Video does not leave out anything working for yourself leaves you even less time until you learn how to lie, trick, and use others.
No wonder you've been demonetized, you're exposing the truth about our corporatist dystopia... keep it up.
The big wigs at UA-cam don't like it. Every corporation is run by the most thin-skinned narcissists alive. We really need to stop respecting them.
How has he been demonetized?!? He insults nobody at all
@@danigimenez7797 True but UA-cam channels are just another form of the "Hussle" or "Gig" economy. You tube creators are just ad revenue for Google. They don't want to pay money to a critic. Creators are also getting less and less of the pie so they have to keep working harder for views to make the same money they did 5 years ago. The same thing was done to Uber drivers and Skip The Dishes. It's all a race to the bottom.
@@geoffmooregm and yet people take these jobs UA-cam was just way for people to have fun but everyone else including UA-camrs turned it into a business and then you complain that business doesn't make a lot money
@@Slacker28 I never said they don't make a lot of money. Read my comment again. I said they don't make the same money as easily as they did years ago.
I didn’t even think about how this related to the pandemic and why people want to get back to work so bad🤦🏾♂️
xtropix People don’t want to become homeless. But going back to work isn’t the solution to our problem. We should really be demanding rent freezes or forgiveness like some other countries have implemented.
CONDITIONING
and affordable housing
loverrlee Exactly! However, when you bring any idea up the argument goes the "my rights, my freedom, taxes" and other things of the sort. It's a shame.
maybe because not everyone finds sitting on their asses mentally stimulating?
You're amazing man thank you so much for your hard work. Your videos are amazing and this one in particular really resonates with me. thank you
European here - 2 years paid maternity leave per child, monthly dividends per child once they start going to school, 1 month paid vacations per year, up to 6 months of paid sick leaves, 14 days of paid paternity leave. No bragging, but common sense.
Hi, please preemptively explain taxation to the American conservatives that might be pulling their hair out while asking “but who is going to pay for it?!”
Владимир Предоев It isn’t common sense at all. Since the days of robber barons and wealthy, greedy people like our current president’s father, workers are just tools to be used to generate more money. The less workers get, the more these people accumulate. I was told by a boss that no matter what I did, I would never be able to make more money. This was at a company that gave no cost of living increases, raises or bonuses ... ever. My friend’s father passed away. At the time, a lot of family could not come to his funeral so they had a memorial service at a later date. My friend was docked a vacation day for taking off to go to the service - she was told she was only allowed two bereavement days and she had had to take an extra day. How much more heartless could they be? My boss gave us a questionnaire asking, “What can the company do, BESIDES MORE MONEY, to make you happier at work?” My answer was “Nothing. I have a life. I have bills to pay. I have to save for retirement. That all takes money.” Are they really that stupid?!! My boss also asked us to work 4 extra hours a day WITHOUT PAY so we could get projects done. I told her that in essence, that would reduce my salary which was already way under the average for my field. I called the Labor Board in my state and was told that I could be fired if I didn’t work the extra hours. In other words, since my profession does not have a union, I had no protection from my unscrupulous employers who didn’t care if I had less time with my family and to live my life. We all know this is wrong but we also have to pay bills. My actual life has consisted of 104 weekend days plus 10 vacation days for 40 years. Amazing how your life speeds by when you just live for weekends and that paltry amount of vacation time. One company that employed me was headquartered in Finland. The U.S. employees got 2 weeks vacation. The Finns got 1 month. Same company.
@@alexcereuceta5907 "Conservatives" pay for things by increasing the national debt, cutting life quality, and destroying ecosystems.
I find it hilarious that so many of the videos are from Amazon Warehouses... as an Amazon worker I can attest to how much they work us and how much they expect us to overwork ourselves to the point where I have had 3-4 dozen coworkers have breakdowns at their stations due to the stress of the job, most leave within a month of their first breakdown... I myself have had two seizures at work due to lack of time off options to utilize when having seizure activity, the second seizure I had I banged my head on something either on the way down or while I was seizing, still though Amazon refuses to provide me with something to cover these absences so I will likely have more until I work there a year and can get FMLA... Amazon does pay me 17.90$ an hour however they expect me to work at a rate that burns upwards of 12,000 calories and hour for 12 hours as well as a picker (someone who picks items from shelving units and places them in yellow totes) you are expected to pick an item and place it in a tote every 7 seconds which doesn't seem that hard and they do their best to make it seem very easy by having people who have worked there for 5 or more years show you just how easy it is... What I noticed is that despite teaching you proper body mechanics and how to move safely these people who have worked there for years and years do not follow them they take shortcuts, to cut their time down to perform at the expected rate... Amazon consistently tries to act like it cares but in it's actions it proves that it doesn't it will work you till you have a mental or physical breakdown and then they will drop you and hire someone new to replace you, because there is always someone who is able to replace you.
I did warehousing for a time - their commitment to worker safety is skin-deep at best. And they tell you that the work is simple (and in theory it is), but they don't tell you that even college-level athletes struggle to keep pace with the work load because they expect you to work as fast as the human body can possibly move for upwards of eight hours per day (only stopping for two 20 minute breaks - which start at the buzzer and barely give you enough time to hit the restrooms!). Oh, and the quotas only rise with time: even the more experienced workers eventually reach a point where they can't keep pace anymore and quit.
The modern warehousing industry treats the worker like a robot - largely because the corporations that own them intend to replace the workers with robots ASAP (at the warehouse I used to work at the management was already phasing out human jobs for machines - and this was about ten years ago!): you are to work like a robot until they have actual robots to take over for you! I only did this for about a year before moving on...
@@FrankCastle-tq9bz "you are to work like a robot until actual robots take over" that is the perfect way to describe working at an amazon Warehouse... and pretty much everything you said was spot on... except 2 things: that you are expected to go to the bathroom on your break times if you for some reason HAVE to go before or after those times the 4-5 minute walk to the bathroom however long it takes you to go and the 4-5 minute walk back to your station all comes out of the time you are supposed to be working, we call it a takt time and when you are supposed to pack 1.6 boxes a minute unpack 2 boxes a minute, put an item into a shelving unit every 9 seconds or retrieve an item every 5 seconds that minimum of 10 minutes destroys your time completely... and the second is Amazon works you for at least 10 hours a day... I work 3 12s and that extra two hours pushes the body a surprising amount...
tiny99990 Sounds like things have gotten worse since I left warehousing behind over a decade ago...
@@FrankCastle-tq9bz Thats how it is in Amazons warehouses I have heard from a few people who work at Walmarts warehouses and the work conditions there are about the same, except they get paid less, they get paid minimum wage where as all Amazon employees get paid at least 15$ an hour with the highest paid "entry level" position being 17.90 an hour thats for the 3 12s night shift... so despite the body and mind breaking conditions at least you can make reasonably good money breaking yourself... which is a terribly depressing statement...
there's just so much Amazon worship, it disgusts me. Amazon really exemplifies those dystopian corporations you see in those movies.
I really just want to live a simple life. And more and more I realize that this desire I have isn't going to be possible in the US. One day I'll get out of here.
A simple life? That's possible anywhere in the first world. Save your money, get a high or decent paying degree in a field fairly safe from automation, live in a medium sized town.
@@liammcclish4291 Yeah and get no vacation time or maternity leave, and then go to work when you're sick too.
welcome in Canada...
@@liammcclish4291 This is just so anecdotal and ignores the million variables that can happen in someones life.
@@BLTspace So is the video.
Sad that is younger generations are seeing at as it is and our parents have become numb to this. Every time a bring it up it gets political and divisive. They say, “if you don’t like this country, leave,” which is what I plan to do. I can’t even afford healthcare, and if I did, my heart will hyperventilate from the bill I will receive from a simple checkup. We have bunch of warmongerers that believe your child is fit to die in a war but want to increase the voting age because they think we shouldn’t have a voice in the problems we have today. Targeting children is their main objective because they see them as robots to increase their profits, just like us.They like to practice religion, values and morals but peace is something that’s not worth of a conversation. Because we are “anti-capitalists.” Big time businesses profit off not only war but world-wide pandemics and diseases. They basically have us by the nuts at this point, or they’ve always have.
I have always felt this way about America's obsession with overworking, and I have always been looked down upon as either an "idealist" or an someone who is "unrealistic". There are few options to not be working 40+ hours in the professional world, and to work less than 40 is to be viewed as lesser and it comes with fewer opportunities. We are a nation of slaves, and I wonder why I feel like the only person who doesn't agree with spending their entire life devoted to earning a paycheck.
If your overworked your not working smart
You are not the only one, my friend, I promise. Stay strong, I know the fight is not easy.
same in China. the difference is we have some house free got in Mao zedong era in old socialist good time
Canada is in the same way. I am viewed with a limited mindset for not wanting the desire to be overworked. But, if I want independence, I must be willing to work 60 hours per week. Give or take, depending on what I wish to do job-wise and purchase home-wise.
Americans are overworked? 😂😂😂. As somebody who has work in Japan & Singapore. I can say for a fact that Americans are LAZY. Europeans are lazier. Stop being lazy. Working 40 hours a week is normal. Life is hard and has always and will always be hard. Work hard, don't be lazy.
I am not saying that Americans should not be paid more. They should and literally every country in the world is facing that issue. Including Europeans. Wages should be higher. But working hours in America is already good. People who complains are all lazy. Seriously you have no idea how harsh working conditions are all around the world. Working in America is like heaven compared to over 100++ countries in the world.
"It's the pursuit that's guaranteed, not happiness."
-Dr. Melfi, Tony Soprano's therapist.
Many years ago, when I was learning German, the book I was using included a section on German culture and it talked about how they (and most of Europe) spend a lot less time working than North America. Upon research, I was shocked to learn that North America (including Canada) truly is obsessed with working and wastes their lives making CEOs rich. The "work hard to succeed" and "hard work is good" mentalities were made by rich people who want brainwashed mindless workers. 🤦
You're definitely better off in Canada but the money, proximity and influence of the U.S. has very clearly infected our country.
@@nikkollaus And the rest of Canada likes to bitch about Québec because we tend to be leaning more toward the European attitude than the American Anglo-Saxon work culture.
@@Niambag i live in alberta..and im very nervous about finding work here. im an artist and i want to work with animals but there is no opportunity to explore those careers here because we're conditioned to "have" to work in business, science, technology, etc. it's all "work a good, downtown job or suffer homelessness". i don't want to work in oil and gas. i don't want to work in construction. although i might HAVE to work in these fields because there is no other option and i will be homeless working as freelance artist or working at a shitty pet store.
Niambag Quebec probably has the best food in North America. I feel MUCH better there!
@@Niambag As a dual citizen living in New England I frequently visit Quebec, I love the work culture there if I can learn to speak French I would move there in a heart beat I hate the constant work mentality of North America
People who brag about how many hours they clocked for a soulless corporation like it's the only noteworthy thing in their life are kinda pathetic, really.
Some economic slaves are oblivious to the fact they are and get crumbs in the big picture.
Walmart is definitely a soulless corporation and so is Amazon.
Middle finger to corporations corporate America and shareholders
“My Boss arrived at work in a brand new Ferrari.
I told him: “Wow that’s a nice car”.
He replied: “If you work hard, put all your hours in, and strive for 'Excellence', I'll get another one next year”.”
At least he he has humour. I hope he was joking..
@@farkaslukrecia he was joking but at the same time it's the truth
Sad but true
The Best joke are those who uncapsulate the truth.
There’s another punchline:
“If you work hard, put all your hours in, and save all your money, you still couldn’t afford the tires on this car.”
"You're a piece of equipment to them"
That hurt my soul
@@WindofChange2023 Personal relationships are not comparable in that way to business relationships. Someone making decisions for a business is alienated from the effects those decisions have on the people under them. They will often never personally know the people they lay off or the struggles of the workers they underpay. But people in actual relationships don't generally like to hurt each other and will get joy from others' joy. Just because the part of your brain that feels empathy is broken doesn't mean everyone else is the same. And fuck Ayn Rand, her philosophy is grotesque.
reflect on the term “human resources”
@@WindofChange2023 Mate you define every relationship a human can have as selfish in nature. What would you describe as having no empathy? I mean you could just say you are selfish, never had actual friends or mental problems but this view on life is sad.
@@WindofChange2023 No it is a sad view and doesnt speak for you as a person. Hope you get better mate
@@WindofChange2023 You dont have a point tho. You said you see yourself as a selfish person and all your relationships are fueled by it. I dont and most people probably wouldnt agree to this. Can it be part? Sure but you said its almost the sole driving force or at least thats how I understood it. And if you think me pitting you is insulting then maybe think over your definition that everything is driven by greed and selfishness instead of playing some weird kind of victimcard. And by the way you just saying "what I say is true" doesnt make it the truth especially when youre talking about social constructs and feelings that are subjective af.
As a U.S. citizen, I love videos like these because I’ve always found it weird that we were labeled as “the greatest country in the world” when, even as a kid, I knew that was bull. Ever since I realized that we didn’t have paid maternity leave but other countries did, I knew that something was up.
You don't have paid maternity leave? I'm impressed, I love you country individualism but I think is too far, what about obligatory paid vacations and work healthcare?
I find that hard to believe. I think that's just a myth Europeans keep telling themselves about us. No one is actually taught that we're the best country in the world. There isn't any Soviet-style propaganda being peddled by schools. You haven't taken the time to detach yourself from the media and its narratives and actually do your research, because there's no evidence to suggest that Americans think their country is the best in the world.
leave then you wimp. please...leave......
I have no shame that we arent the best country. Doesnt mean you cant like/love America.
Even if birth happens nontraumatic for body and mind, the mum is gonna bleed for some weeks and be really weak in condition. Not even considering what to do with a newborn while at work. How are they expecting you to do it? Are there enough impregnated teenagers without the right to safe abortions or why the US government isn‘t worried about producing new workers?
My Dad was one of the lucky few who got holidays off, and we were able to take vacations. Though he always had to replay to work emails and calls most of the time. I was maybe 13 when I was first told someone couldn’t come over on Christmas or Thanksgiving because they had to work. As a kid I was horrified that they had to work and didn’t get to be with their friends/family and was told, “That’s just the way it is.” And gradually grew so scared about having to work because the more I learned the more miserable it seemed. I was so confused as to why people did jobs that they hated and didn’t spend time with people or doing hobbies.
Glad to know that horror was valid...and not just me going crazy.
It's time for the slave system to go I hate this country time to make paid vacations mandatory bonuses less hours being worked
@@Nick84525 Yup
"What is my purpose?"
"You pass butter"
"...Oh my god."
Hahahahaha love this
I get this reference, and I feel it.
thank you Ricky and Morty
Just saw this episode yesterday lmao
"Yeah, welcome to the club, pal"
My current job makes me work upwards of 10 hours per day and only pays me 6 because the main supervisor doesn’t approve those hours. Yet, we have to get done all the things asked of us. When we complain, we get statements like “right now you’re lucky to even have a job.”
This is such a gross mentality.
Everyone should just quit at once and leave them screwed. But its probably not realistic. Just feels like these people need to be held accountable
That sounds illegal. It should be reported to the Department of Labor. You could try to get a lawyer who knows labor laws involved and go after lost wages.
@Joseph Howe It's illegal, but workers feel so trapped that they dare not complain. Companies can easily terminate workers and cite another reason for why (e.g. "s/he just isn't productive enough").
You guys really need to get some workers rights. Where i live it's the opposite, and the employers are complaining that the workers have all the rights. It's really hard to fire people and they have to pay huge compensations when they do.
Bro leave...
I'm from Costa Rica. We have a 40 hour work week and universal healthcare. It baffles me that so many people still want to migrate to the USA.
Don't you guys have awful wages though? I was in Costa Rica recently and I talked with a sailor there, saying that he only gets $20 USD a day. :/
@@utisti4976 if the prices are low to probably doesnt matter. btw i dont live there so idk
@@utisti4976 20$ a day doesn’t matter when your food only costs a nickel.
@@utisti4976 20 usd a day is considered mid class in Mexico
who tf would want to move to costa rica lmao
Growing up in poverty, I bought into the propaganda that if I got a college education and worked a lot of hours (65/week), that I would somehow reach the hallowed streets of the middle class. I did, for about 3 years, then collapsed in total burnout, only to rapidly slide back into poverty at age 50, with no retirement savings and a chronic autoimmune disorder that's left me physically and mentally disabled. Thanks, capitalism!
I’m an American. And I’m just so tired.
Me too but im not american!
You have my sympathy. Sincerely.
You are so fortunate for being an American, i live in a thirdworld economy on the otherside of the planet, it takes me 5 years of work to buy myself the cheapest iphone, we only get law mandated paid leave of 7 days a year and i find hillarious that some Americans call themeselves poor yet they can eat three times a day,
@@vancelouiegarcia9472 America is supposedly a "first world country" yet has living standards as bad as a third world country.
Texan here: same bro, same
Why do we treat companies more respectfully than actual human beings?
Because the humans who ran the first ones were insane
Cause Humans aren't designed to make money. Companies are
@@MyOwnLittleRepublic2 so if humans aren't designed like that why do we give companies human status
@@jamesbyrne9312 Cause they're made up of people who want to make more and more money, and they contribute to politicians and judges election campaigns.
If you want to get real mad, look into Citizens United.
@@MyOwnLittleRepublic2 yeah it's all true. Terrible
My parents living in the US: "Why did you move out of the US back to South Africa and now to Europe??"
Me:
You moved out of South Africa for Europe because of political instability I assume?
@@webwizes5620 No because dual citizenship and losing job due to Covid. Plus better oppurtunities
@@abdullahtshabal9522 oh I see, nobody really enforces dual citizenship laws here, but the job market was terrible pre corona so I mean not a bad decision to leave
Did the right thing
Abdullah Tshabal I have been looking to get dual citizenship. What do I need to get started if you don’t mind me asking.
Just to be clear overworking doesn't mean more productive automatically. Imho the least productive colleagues I worked were the Americans, and I worked with a lot of different countries. Probably they would be more productive if they had more rest, better social laws and security, more vacation and better financial motivation.
The dilemma of being a Native American and not wanting to leave the land of your ancestors but also wanting a better life for yourself and children
Trust me you’ll be found the right thing. Look at Europe, Canada, all of Australia and some Africa.
That's bullshit.
You shouldn't have to make that decision at all.
Gods i hope you and your family are gonna be okay. Im ashamed of how native people are treated, especially with the subject at hand being true.
There is an «old wind» blowing now. Take a listen to Aurora, THE SEED. A Norwegian girl is preaching the belief Native americans (and all people) once had. Maybe its time for you to become a preacher ?
@earth ocean not everyone who has children has wealth. Go ask a single parent how much wealth they have, working two jobs just to make ends meet.
Second thought 2017: "Is time travel possible?"
Second thought 2020: *hey how about we seize the means of production*
Second thought 2022: time to travel back to stop boomers from ruining everything 😎
Honestly i get why tho, u cant sit still with the shit thats going on
Second thought 2022 Good ending: What would have happened if the proletariat didnt rise?
I feel like that's unfair to the message of this video. It's about changing the American working culture away from trying to overwork yourself and deifying being rich and stuff like that and try to get to a point where we can all value different things than just how much money we have. It's true that this can only be achieved through getting some actual laws to protect the common workers from predatory practices of companies, but that's a far more sophisticated idea than just seizing the means of production. It's about changing what we all think is important and what we think is right.
Ahh yes. The communist allegation when someone talks about the US in a non-glorifying way. I would tell you to go back to school and learn about actual communism, but I assume that’s where you all learn this sh*t.
I'm from Germany. I just became a patreon - the first patreon sponsorship I ever did. Not because I did not like other creators but I just think your content is that important, that I felt I needed to support you.
As a German going to America I must say I loved your country and your people. It is out of compassion and love that I want the Americans be educated about how other countries actually treat their people. The US is a great country - but not because of the corporates - because of the american people.
@@YasuoPlayer123 The situation here is bleak. Even the most abused and underpaid workers often don't want the system to change because they don't think there's enough money in this country to support it. I lived in Germany for 4 years and know how much better things can be. Anytime I bring that up to people here they sit back with the same thing. "Taxes are so much higher in Europe though." It's miserable trying to explain why that's not entirely a bad thing. I honestly don't think anything will change until even the middle class is starving.
@@DL-xv9dm there's still a middle class in the US?!
@@gwendolynsnyder463 I guess I didn't consider that. I take back what I said before. We're doomed. There is no hope for us now. I should teach my future children how to craft spears out of stones and sticks so they can hunt wild animals since they will never be able to afford food. My only hope is that a trillionaire will take pity on them and pay them more than starvation wages.
Even when I take a day off, I still feel guilty about it. You hit the nail on the head.
People in this country has a right to have a life balance and have a life outside of work nobody needs to be guilty I don't
ahhh poor thing.
"American dream". Nightmares are dreams too
The American nightmare
It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. George Carlin
Word!
I stopped working over time. My health was suffering from it. 16 hour shifts is too much for me in my 50's. In America we praise working 60 / 70 hours a week. You can't have a life when all you do is work.
The same like you but when you don't do that, they will pressure you and replace you, also either choose overtime and being miserable but barely make it or don't do it and living in debt and poverty with the risky of losing the job
"I can’t do it alone, but we shall be free someday" - ramsheckle glory
@@syahromzakaria9898 I misspelled the lyrics 😅
@@syahromzakaria9898 but check ramshackle glory out, great folk punk band
I don't know how to live, but I'm sick of learning how to die
It isn't capitalism, it's corporatism.
"it´s called the american dream,
because you have to be asleep to believe it"
-George Carlin
All hail the master Carlin!🙇
Figured I would see that quote somewhere in here.
@@RickJW-OSM Yes, I also scrolled down w/ the intention of finding the Carlin quote as well. LOL
@UA-cam Censors anybody in this world has a right to be rich, as long as they do not harm anyone else in the process of doing so.
Your judgement is very I'll informed my friend.
@UA-cam Censors hahahahahah, they're working nonstop for long hours everyday, most of the workers have nervous breakdowns, because they can't handle it, life is supposed to be easier, not a routine of meaningless errands
It's also instructive to notice how the phrase "Hard Work" and its derivatives (Hard-Working, Work Hard) is used in our culture, especially by politicians. Even the most "far Left" (actually, moderate-conservative to centrist outside of the U.S.) politicians will always refer to people as "Hard-Working Americans" or "Hard-Working families" whenever they intend to suggest that the government do anything at all for them. And notice that it's not valuable work, meaningful work, necessary work, helpful work, or any other adjective, it's always Hard Work, because the productive results aren't what matters. E.g. bullshit jobs, automation as a threat to our jobs rather than a way to ease the burdens of labor, those "lazy Europeans" enjoying too much of the productive results instead of Working Hard, etc.. Work has to be Harrrrrd because it trains us to let Capital extract more surplus value from us without protest, and gets us to accept living in a hard, mean society of atomized competitors. And of course there's the implication that if you're not Hard-Working and Working Hard, you deserve to starve and die.
But only if you're working class. The people who wring hands over any sort of assistance to the poor with "But they'll lose incentive to work!" never advocate for inheritance taxes at 100% so that the children of the rich can have that much-needed threat of hunger and penury to goad them into Working Hard for a living.
Did nobody ever notice how in almost every single US TV show people are constantly overworking, doing overtime, casually walking in to work on Saturday or working at night because their boss asked them?
It's completely normalised, even humorous shows like Brooklyn 99 paint a horrible image of working conditions. I only started noticing a short while ago, and now I can't unsee it.
Hmm.....no, I see TV characters doing pretty much nothing except handing around the coffee shop, cracking jokes.
I see characters somehow able to afford fancy houses or live in big cities on very small incomes, sometimes just one. I get that it's escapism, but come on.
@@williamlehan4079 I think that was more of a thing in nineties sitcoms. I don’t know if I’ve seen that as much nowadays.
Stop watching TV shows like that, you're brainwashing yourself.
@@Macabresque 😂😂😂
Being a UA-camr is one of the best jobs you can have. The fact that you haven’t forgotten about those of us who have to work our lives away is very appreciated.
This is something I've come to realize over the last year or so and I'm actively working towards living life rather than working so much.
They preach self reliance for the working class but the rich are basically subsidized by the government. You can't set two different standards.
No one is stopping you from becoming wealthy
Socialism for the rich, Capitalism for the poor.
@@jncn1490 That's like saying no one is stopping him from buying a yacht too. It's a club only a lucky few can afford.
@@jncn1490 lmao
You plebians wanted leftism. Enjoy the horror show!
At the end of the day, you have more in common with a homeless person than you ever will with a billionaire.
Let me just say that I really enjoy your content. I'm a fellow leftist and I'm learning a lot from these videos.
What if on one of your "creative days off" you come up with something so creative that someone is willing to pay you for your creative idea billions of dollars? would you tell them no thanks keep my creative work for free? or would you take the billions of dollars and invest in a company that can hire thousands of people to come work for you so that they can make a living to feed their families and use that money to pay for gas to travel to different parts of the world on your days off? or like I said would you just say no thanks keep it for free I want to live off the sweat off of someone else's hard work??
Oh and another thing those billionaires weren't all born billionaires they were broke at some point in their lives and were able to pick themselves up and make something of themselves instead of putting their hands out and begging someone to give them something.
Don't fall for it trust me I was once a leftist myself until I woke up and smelled the reality. Communism has never ever ever ever worked name one place where communism has flourished and where people decided to stay and say they love communism? I will wait for your answer.
Oh even better why not go ask a Venezuelan how much they love communism? LMFAO oh and btw I am from Venezuela so I know a thing or 2 about it, unlike you brats who were born here. Trust me there is no other place in the world like America.
@Anthony Rodriguez Your rebuttal is lame. At least make it funny if your not gonna reply with actual thought. There is no substance to what you said. You have no actual opinion or can actually conjure up an actual reply, you come at me with words that in your mind is some sort of dig at my character. LOL bruh its simple if you don't like it leave. Exactly what me and mine did when we left. In the end you would probably want us to pay for your flight out of here being that you expect everything handed to you.
The majority of poor Venezuelan are happy with the current system, only the rich Venezuelan tried to represent the entirety of the voices.
@@davdiaz24 I agree, there are a few super rich who actually earned it the right way. But more than not, hey are born into the money nowadays. They literally cannot fail, as if one start up fails, daddy just liquidates the venture and they start over. Watch Fahrenheit 911. Not saying that every part of it is true , but he tackles some very interesting points. The research I have done over the last 10 years, shows that the middle class of the US is definitely considered expendable 100%. They couldn't give a shit about the individual workers in a corporation that has over 100 folks working at it. As long as that board member can buy his 17 year old a new Lexus net year , people don't matter at all. Go take a detailed look at what happened with Nortel as they were shut down - the CEO and CFOs got like 80 Million dollar bonus's while 20,000 people were laid off indefinitely. & that's just one Canadian corporation . . . .. it's fucked !!
@@mickeyg7219bruh what they are starving
Capitalism is just the free exchange of your labor for compensation. Capitalism revolves around individual choice and freedom. What's killing us is corporatism. When large companies and their lobbyists collude with government to to keep people trapped in dead end jobs just to make ends meet. If the government would not have caused runaway inflation for years with reckless federal reserve policies, and other government programs we wouldn't even need to discuss minimum wage. And if large corporations didn't use their powers to try and keep startups that may be able to produce better, cheaper and more efficient products out of the marketplace the cost of goods would decline while job opportunities would increase.
Boomers: millennials and gen z are so lazy! Stop asking for handouts!
Millennials and Gen Z: please I just want to see my children
@James Rocket the oldest gen z are 25. Some are beginning to have families.
@@kenkad224735 I'm 25 and I'm a millennial. Don't want to be labelled as the mockery gen z has become lol
@Romulo Perez Tomas if it didn't matter, you wouldn't have commented bud haha
@@zephyr2792 cope
@@boxingfrog lemme be a millennial plis
That moment when you realize that there are countries who are living the American dream but America is not one of them.
Denmark is supposedly the country that's highest in this. Don't quote me on that though haha
@@itsohaya4096 yup, the scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, Swiss and New Zealand have been domitating top 10 spots for years. In rankings like for example the world happiness index. Followed by some small yet rich east Asian countries.
Yes , Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland. Most Scandinavian countries enjoy a good work life balance.
@Saymum Hassan Riad That even those countries might have some isues, no country is perfect... doesn't make me an idiot. Because still however they are by capita the hapiest countries in the world, i have not done that reasearch. Its an annual publication of the UN.
This is why I want to leave the US. I honestly have no hope for this country. I didnt ask for this kind of life. I dont mind working but Ive got to be able to live life and be financially comfortable, damnit!
Most people feel this way but brush it off with the saying “it is what it is” most American people have no fight in them.
5 months later, are you still here?
@@siriusinkheart COVID-19 and no money to get a flight towards freedom, perhaps?
Do some research about China. There are many expats putting out video about their life in China. Good luck with everything!
I agree, I've been seriously considering moving out of the country.
To all the people in this thread who believe in changing our broken work system I stand with all of you! The only people living the American Dream are ruthless CEOs
Also, don't let the motivational speakers off the hook. They're modern day plantation preachers.
The joke at one factory where I worked was, "Keep your nose to the grindstone. That's a sure way to grind your nose off (for the boss!)".
Preach!!!
To me, Jordan Peterson is preacher for capitalism. I can understand why everyone buys into his words. Greetings from Norway.
@@ellengran6814 He's a wordsmith. He's able to pack unfair, distressing and often times sad concepts into neat, easily understandable and honestly thought provoking packages. That doesn't excuse him from some of his shitty takes though.
Chris Hooten t is a great point. Never thought of it like that but it’s facts.
*Land of the free* seems only to be a marketing slogan, how American.
It’s the land of the free elite, not the land of the free citizens. If an American thinks he is free, he should try to work abroad and maybe find a bride. Uncle Sam will tax your income, your bride’s and your future children’s. You can leave Uncle Sam, but Uncle Sam will never leave you.
If you leave the land of the free, expect to pay a hefty fee.
And they believe their own marketing!
JP CBT... yet another thing Europeans can’t believe if we mention it to them.
There’s literally like 1000 things nobody believes because they have no frame for it. We might as be North Korean.
land of the fee should be the saying
it's true. everything is a slogan. "Land of the free", "Democracy", "Free world", etc.
it's to boost the morale of citizens and those abroad
Ever since I lost my job to the COVID outbreak I have been happiest I’ve ever been in my entire adult life
Great video! You just got a new subscriber. I've never thought about how destructive the ideology of working to accumulate more and more wealth is.
When my dad was immigrating and trying to travel from West Africa, Ghana, for a better country , I was surprised when he said the U.S is not even fifth option. I was confused at first and he said he would have rather lived in either the Netherlands or Canada.
Now I’m like “ Dad, you did your research” Plan on moving to Canada one day.
Late comment, but my parents immigrated to the Netherlands. I like it here. It’s pretty good compared to the US.
Smart Man
Canada is a great place, I love it here
I'm thinking either Canada or Germany.
Your dad was a smart man. The more i learn about the US the more extreme and unbalanced those people seem. I would rather pay more taxes to support others, than to be self centered and money obsessed. Also it always shocks me how hostile people in the US can be to their own countrymen.
I couldnt be happier that my generation is finally waking up and seeing this hustle culture crap for what it is
I’m glad the younger generations are seeing it. I was laughed at, mocked, and verbally abused when I had pointed this stuff out 20 years ago. I was also told that I “was not an American” or that I “hated America” for pointing this stuff out as well and told to just “leave”.
Yeah. Hustle culture is mentally damaging. I’m glad Younger generations like mine (Gen Z) are understanding how degrading it actually is.
@@klausd.6285 I love those “ Just leave “ comments. I can guarantee you if you leave America today, they will still want taxes from your income, no matter what country you earn it in-unless you renounce your citizenship (which is also very expensive).
Same here! #millenial
Can I be part of your generation. I unfortunately, belong to the generation that caused all this pain, destruction and work obsession and cowtowing to the rich: the Boomer one.
I also felt out of place because I disagreed with the majority of them and their thinking. I have felt the younger generations coming up now are the hope for the sanity and future.
Everyone I work with has at least two jobs and can barely afford to survive. I decided to exit this system and moved into my car. Turned out to be the best decision so far. I was able to save money and buy an rv, I now have three day weekends and can save most of my income. Still bad healthcare and minimum vacation days but at least I can save up enough to leave the country at some point.
It's strange seeing the idolization of van life, or tiny house life. I'm not blaming people for it, as it's a logical reaction to the present circumstances. It's just interesting how the ability to drive away with your home, to perform seasonal jobs and vacation after, is suddenly seen as necessary. To the point that people in suburbia envy that flexibility, and try to live vicariously through these UA-camrs.
Out of curiosity, how does that work? Like, where do you park your rv at night?
Happy for you. I left 25 years ago and never looked back. Pls take extra care of your health. Make the effort to eat well. That makes a huge difference in your health level, and therefore your medical expenses.
@@FOX12-y2e I guess camping parking
Honestly, sounds like something i've been fantasizing about doing.
The system was designed to keep you from breaking free. But the thing is by breaking free you usually become more successful when you're not afraid to take the risk.
Break the cycle
Yes it needs to be destroyed
This is why American pride confuses me.
Pride of being a slave to the workforce i guess, what an irony
Pride because the situation is so embarrassing bad, that people refuse to admit it is real, people refuse to admit that they have been cheated, that they paid taxes for years and years and got nothing in return.
@@fionafiona1146 sounds great! What education are you enrolled in?
Because schools teach way too much bullshit.
@@fionafiona1146 A degree in Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology. Wow, that sounds like a pivotal world class education with great prospects of solving the problems of humanity. Me, I always had this ordinary dream of being a dentist and fix peoples annoyances with their dental problems.
"They call it the american dream because you have to be asleep to see it"
RIP George Carlin
AxxL simp.
"asleep to *believe* it"
"UA-cam has demonitzed my videos" god damn, you must be doing the right thing. subbed+liked+donating next paycheck.
Laughs in every right wing youtuber ever
Ironically, I can't contribute cause we're still trying to get to the point where we can even live paycheck to paycheck
Amen!
He's not exaggerating either.YT HATES this type of content. If you can afford to donate to him please do so.
I just came back from a trip to the US and I understand now why there are so many homeless people. If that was the system I had to work in just to survive, how much harder could homelessness be?
Your either an addition to homelessness statistic or an addition to unhappiness statistic