Neoliberal Anxiety: Depression, Loneliness, and Suicide under Late Capitalism
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Content Warning: Mental illness, suicide.
Across the developed world, people are becoming more anxious, more depressed, and unfortunately, in some cases more suicidal, even as neoliberalism has nominally delivered on its promise of material prosperity. But this isn't a new phenomenon: our social bonds have been dissolving for decades, so video games, TV, and social media can't be to blame. What's going on?
In this video, we examine anxiety and depression as symptoms not of individual neurological defects, but of the social and economic world around us.
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Robert D. Putnam, "Bowling Alone", 2000.
Karl Polanyi, "The Great Transformation", 1944.
We also have too few community places. If you go to the inner city, you can only sit in cafés and restaurants and these are expensive.
There are no rooms where you can hang out with other citizens without having to consume something.
That means you can hardly go to a public place regularly in order to meet new people.
It also means, that every time a larger amount of people want to meet they will have to rent a room which many cannot afford.
We need more neighbourhood hang-outs!
Yes, I agree, also many activities or hobbies are expensive, and now are very popular hobbies to do alone such as the gym, dance, or roller skating.
The park?
@@Vasileski88 Only good when it's not too hot or cold or raining, plus there are no toilets there. :(
Library!
@@MS-sr6mjunderrated comment public libraries are the most radical thing western countries have left rn
ive worked as a mechanic for about 15 years, it is a passion as well as a hobby. ive also struggled with depression, anxiety as well as many physical pains and aches over the years. march of last year my depression was so bad i quit my job and lived off my savings until january of this year. during my time off i made more money just by working on my side projects and friends cars. my bank account kept growing. also during this time off my anxiety and depression was gone. just absolutely gone. even though i was still working on cars everyday all of my joint pains i had dealt with were gone as well. i woke up and had leisurely mornings. drinking coffee down by the columbia river gorge most days.i hiked regularly and rode my bicycle almost every day. i felt truly happy and fully healthy. randomly i got a job offer that sounded great albeit in a repetitive and very mundane mechanic job. im 2 months in and ive never felt worse. my mental state is fucked, terrible anxiety every night. developing new GI issues,heartburn. all of my joints feel bad. i dont do anything that makes me happy or feel ralaxed at all. i dont know how this became the normal human experience. i want out of this shit.
I'm sorry to hear that man. It sounds like you have a real knack for being an auto mechanic, and that's a really worthwhile trade.
I really hope you find something that makes your life better soon. Best of luck man.
As a mechanic who deals with depression, I needed to hear this. I used to love working on cars and a lot of other things. I had too many hobbies. Now I have no hobbies because I go home and ache during what off time I have. Thanks for sharing your experience and I hope we can both figure it out.
if your bank account kept growing, why did you take the new job? stability i'm guessing?
@@user-tx5vr2lu6e that was a big part. also i was approaching my rent renewal which required a proof of income. i was unsure of how to go about that.
@@ohmanitsrob im glad my story found you! we are not alone, i know so many people that just get eaten up by this industry. im trying to find something else.
All of this occurs, and the system teaches people who live in it to shame anyone who can't survive in it, including themselves.
Because you’re weak. Trump is gone. Joe Biden is present with a democrat congress yet you’re still depressed. Maybe your depression is not on trump but liberalism
neoliberalism and neoconservatism originate either from self-loathing of from narcissism, it sustains itself on the shame we feel for our shortcomings, and uses that to blind us.
@@darrenfleming7901 Maybe, but some people use that “shame” for their shortcomings and two things happen: either they let it “blind” then as you say, or they use their shortcomings to better themselves or focus on their strengths.
@@garyoakham9723 "Maybe your depression is not on trump but liberalism" That's literally what the video is saying, lmao.
@@garyoakham9723 He has only been in office for a couple of months
you make a lot of very good points, but have you considered having "money mindset" and "getting ur grind up"?
He simply does not have that “can’t stop won’t stop” mindset
Don't forget "sacrifice", especially if you have no bootstraps.
I hear boot straps are very easiy to pull oneself up on these days
@@farfetchedfarade3197 I've heard that too funnily enough... although the people I've personally heard say it either don't work anymore (worked back when good paying jobs were more plentiful) or they at some point in their lives received an injection of wealth/job recommendation from a family friend or family member. Very interesting how that works, but what do I know, that's probably purely anecdotal and not at all true for most people who say it! They must just have a strong work ethic
Quite a simpleton. Why don’t they just get a house?
Considering this was made in 2018 when things were “great” is really telling. Now from the pandemic people are looking back at the recent past with rose colored glasses.
A few people have brought up this exact point. Once COVID is over I do hope to make a retrospective about the American reaction to COVID which will build on this video.
2018 was worse than 2020 for me.
@@TheLifeisgood72 Actually similar for me in terms of personal life. 2018 I was stuck in a terrible job, but landed a career job in 2020 of all years. That being said, went on some great vacations and trips in 2018. Basically when this video was released, it described my situation well.
@@EcoGecko Subscribed. Looking forward to that video
One might call that perspective
Sometimes it feels like America is reverting back to the Gilded Age, with entire families living in tenements and barely getting paid to survive while working factory jobs. Except now factory jobs have been replaced by the gig economy
Have some historical perspective. Do you really think millions of Americans were flocking to cities so that they could live in squalor? Relative to their lifetimes, these conditions were a massive improvement and, more importantly, they were a conscious stepping stone to the prosperity that their children would enjoy. The same goes for the latter half of the 19th century. People today talk about the "robber barons" but the reality is that the US experienced the largest influx of immigrants in world history. Those people were not stupid. They came here to take advantage of the benefits of freedom, and they did. Your characterization of the Gilded Age is based on the standards of the 21st century, which are peculiar to say the least. Never forget: poverty is not the exception, it is the rule. Wealth is the exception.
In the Gilded Age the law of the nuclear family came first. Now it fails to crack the top ten. That is why 100-130 years ago, if applied now, will not result in happily prosperous children later on.
@@BlueisNotaWarmColour hayek intensifies. Yeah dude i love working 14 hours a day and having to live near a fucking coal mine and think that it is an investment.
Or is it because there is not much farm job and i have to go to the City to make a living. You libertarians are the stupidiest people on the political spectrum. Literally nazis are smarter than you guys. 'emergent order' my shit. There were no enclosure act by bourgeois state? No?
@@pygmalion8952 your counterargument boils down to "me no like work." A facking coal mine duuuuude!
@@BlueisNotaWarmColour Yeah just because people emigrate to America doesn’t make this video wrong. We have squalor, it’s just slightly better squalor than other places and it’s going to get worse.
we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death
beautifully grim!
@@incognitosecret2377 it's from the album F# A# ∞ btw, worth checking out
You open up the wallet, and it's full of blood.
and we're on so many drugs
with the radio on and the curtains drawn
Don't worry Biden will make it all better
This video puts some grounds on things I only had an intuitive feeling for.
Sounds like something a recruiter for amway would say.
exactly this.
Man, I like this sentence
This comment is way too close to what I was actually thinking.
It's fucking dreadful, this. I've recently gotten into more (post)modern philosophy; the critique of culture as an industry has particularly resonated with me because I am from an impoverished Central American nation. I've seen my culture become secondary in its own cradle - American culture has flooded ours. It has rinsed away all but the most persevering (and perverse) traditions. Now all we have is a sea of plastic, a vapid torrent of hollow media, and an inexplicable estrangement.
Do not doubt it: we have been colonised once again. But this time the banner of Spain has been replaced by one invisible, but ever more palpable.
Well said. My heart goes out to you and your people 💙
The critique of culture is a symptom of the problem, endlessly atomizing and deconstructing and offering nothing in return
@@pygmalion8952 I am an absolute partisan of the CNT anarchist organisations; however I am more enthusiastic of the pan-Iberian tendencies that sought a unified peninsula.
I wish that the Iberianist Left had taken centre-stage in a Republican victory. Instead of Franco co-opting a pan-hispanic nationalism, thereby tainting the legitimate struggle of our culture to reintegrate sociopolitically (from Havana to Barcelona, the Chihuahuan Desert to Patagonia); the Left could've rightfully fought for that type of pan-nationalist yet ultimately internationalist position.
I admire the brief period of Revolutionary Catalonia, but also regret its ephemeral quality. Had that successful model, that genuine city on a hill, been translated to the entire country, than entire peninsula, than the entire Spanish-language culture, then, perhaps, the World. That would've been ideal - Catalonia found a Socialist model that adapted to the idiosyncrasies of hispanic culture. We must never forget that.
I know not how this period is taught in contemporary Spain, but I very well know it is not even mentioned in Central America.
The urban planning alone in this country makes me depressed :/
The worst part is it will take future generation forever to redo it as well as the ridiculous amount of roads we have to keep the motor industry relevant in the economy
Oh my god yes. It's incredibly disheartening
It seems like you can't have a laid back lifestyle in US. Even the poor is obliged to have a car to go from A to B.
USA is a fascinating country, but its urban planning really sucks.
"planning"
what planning?
Unemployment in the U.S. is not measured accurately. It doesn't reflect the situation in the U.S. 1/3 of jobs pay less than $12 an hour by design because the whole system can only be sustained with more debt.
Also, zero hour contracts blur the lines between employment and unemployment. Don't matter if you can't get more than 12 hrs per week; you are still employed
Not to mention the numbers only reflect people who are on or applied for unemployment. I don't think it even includes people on assistance who aren't working and it definitely doesn't include people who aren't on assistance and are looking for a job. When your unemployment runs out you're off the list and unaccounted for.. lots of people never even apply for unemployment.
@@moodist1er This. Some states pull out all the stops, to keep you from getting assistance too.
Don't forget less benefits now than in the past.
they don't measure it by the number of people in work but by the number of people receiving benefits which doesn't accurately reflect the reality
Living with a disability can make all of these factors even more strenuous. For example, it may be difficult or impossible to hold down a job, thus removing that social circle while also creating monetary stress. Due to a lack of time, energy (physical, mental, and/or emotional), or the physical ability to take part in many social activities people with disabilities can feel even further isolation. Not to mention the societal stigmas surrounding disabilities, visible and otherwise. All of these factors can worsen medical symptoms or mental health due to the stress, creating a vicious cycle.
And dont forget the massive number of people who go undiagnosed and unassisted for a disability that they dont have the medical insurance or out of pocket capital to afford
I know how that feels.
A lot of victim-blaming and ableism too.
EXACTLY
If disability means the inability to act normally or produce effective results, society is disabled.
Exactly. It stresses me tf out knowing there’s no safety net.
I've been working since I was 14. Have been laid off idk how many times. My doctor aunt says I need to make more money. A lot more.
Really???
That's terrible. We should be able to rely on our older and more experienced family for genuine help and advice, not that sort of nonsense. I hope things soon improve for you.
Honestly, what can we do now? Play the game or run to the hills it seems...
@@EcoGecko I can bet you haven't worked a day in your life?
@@EcoGecko you're probably living in a house telling people here suburbs are bad... Or is it junkie parents in a flat in some poor area and it's all capitalism's fault?
@@EcoGecko Obviously it's flawed but your solution is some Utopia seize the means and stuff? That plays out with famines and stagnation everyone has a car but it's the same car, just like in Cuba you can study and visit those places ask people what they think... The socialist countries depend on debt, free AND forced labour but yeah let's drop everything we have now
Boomers: could buy a house, a car and raise 4 kids from a single salary.
Gen X: could buy a house, raise 2 kids, have 2 cars with 2 educated workers. They needed a loan though and repayed it.
Millennials: can have education, house, cars etc, will never repay the loan.
Gen Z: my currency will be dank memes.
Maybe if the government didn’t gaurentee student loans this wouldn’t be an issue.
Exploited unlivable wage voluntarist libertarian Slaves didn’t get paid $17 dollars an hour with benefits to work hard. Cry baby
@Exploited unlivable wage voluntarist libertarian You forgot working until we're dead because we won't be able to save up the money for retirement on the current minimum wage, never being able to get a raise no matter how hard we work, and the cost of living, housing and college tuition continue to go up. Older gen z's plan for retirement is fucking suicide at this point because we don't see any other way out of this neoliberal capitalist hellscape
This is both tragic and hilarious.
@@bogmanhimself4656 bro in most states they cannot garnish your wages or repossess items for medical bills, so you just don’t pay.
Sometimes I wish I was born 1000 years ago in a village, hunt with the community, have a big family, then die in some accident or battle between the ages of 30-40 years old.
Same
Return to monke
god, a dream
Half the lifespan, without modern comforts or knowledge of such, but a thousand times more content.
Still tribes in South America, East and Central Africa, and Northern Eurasia where you can still do that
Imagine if we could survive without jobs, then employers would have to compete for our labor.
Which, employers do have to compete for labour in extremely skilled markets where there is the demand. This is generally done by having the best worker conditions, high pay etc where you make people want to work for you.
I can already hear the typical Republican voter replying to your comment:
"You don't want to work because you're lazy. Unions are evil because they aren't effective. Derp derp derp!"
And if you point out that most liberals worked harder in school and have a better education than most conservatives they'll just say something about how college is liberal indoctrination. Then they'll go to church and listen to the preacher indoctrinate them. The preacher is more trustworthy because he lives in the same town as them.
Paul Wheaton Permaculture
We'd be too busy competing for water and food..
@@savenetneutralityanti-repu7029 you forgot to mention how they would cite this video and say its all "neoliberalisms fault" but only because the word liberal is in it.
I quit job to get admitted to mental institution, knowing that I had people who would give me free housing and food. I got out month later, gone to my employerer and said "hi I'm now very stable, want me back?". I was lucky. It wasn't clinical depression, just some other illness that broke me when I tried to work full-time and study in the university at the same time.
My friend wasn't so lucky, she went to professionals, but hadn't have a very fast recovering. So we feed her and give her housing, and her mother give her money. And we all pay our taxes so that other people could get free health help.
Personal responsibility my ass, shit happens to everyone, and having a group whose help you can relay on is literally lifesaving sometimes.
I know right silly me I shouldn’t have been born with schizophrenia, what a poor choice I made
I also have mixed feelings on these inspirational i overcame my mental illness stories. It’s like see why can’t you just pull it together too.
No pills gonna cure my ills, I got a bad case of neoliberalism blues.
@Joey Macaroni and then the prozac doesnt even work lol
May I interest you in the revolutionary spirit
What about the society that has us acting “socially acceptable” ways constantly. We’re no longer allowed ever to be angry even when the situation justifies it, so many say they want people to be free but only if they’re free in the way they want them to be free. We’re animals in cages
Just look at the way they treat Black people being frustrated with constantly being oppressed
So... you want more riots? WTF? Being angry is a solution to anything now? Wtf?
Not misbehaving in public has been around forever.
@@TheLifeisgood72 oohh yeah... but it's such a bad thing... we should dare to be "irreverent" and "bold" and "different"... omfg, what have we come to....
@@johnyman13 Yeah... if there’s anything that’s gone up, it’s “bad” behavior. Grocery stores are like MMA rings to middle aged suburban individuals now.
"it's not so bad, the younger generation is moving back in with their parents"
oh yanno, the same parents that for some reason, are notoriously abusive and/or toxic to us? Who constantly say "my parents were fucked up with me and i turned out alright!"? Who gaslight us, living in a completely different reality, mercilessly?
god, i just must be so ungrateful...
exactly!! I’m going through this exact situation right now. It’s refreshing to here this from someone else
@@Firedragon1657 Glad I could help. In solidarity, peace
😂😂😂
Lol I felt this
@@Firedragon1657 Sorry to hear :( I had to move in with my narcissistic mother and enabling father at 34 and it was HELL. I'm now 43 and I no longer speak with my parents. Good luck, selfish boomers.
No one i know is wealthier. All our income goes to landlords *and healthcare
That's a good point--while income overall has been going up, a lot of it is very skewed--the bulk of it has gone to the well-educated and especially older people. In particular, recent years have seen the costs of education, housing, and healthcare go up massively, but if you're part of the older cohort that had cheap education, could buy a cheap house, and have good employer-funded healthcare, then you probably have seen your material conditions improve a lot in the last several decades!
@@EcoGecko median housing prices have been going up faster than median incomes since the mid 80s
Pro tip: buy a house don’t rent
@@dondelchulia3189 Very insightful, why didn't I think of that!
@@dondelchulia3189 Pro-tip: If you are forced to spend all your spare money on student loan interest, healthcare, etc. you usually can't afford a mortgage.
As was mentioned in the video, nearly half of Americans can't afford a surprise $400 expense. Do you really think they can afford a down payment on a house or apartment?
The unemployment numbers are also cooked... Just for the record. People are dropped from the work force which makes the number of jobless people inconsistent with the number of technically "unemployed" people.
Haha yes, I do remember that macro class. You're absolutely correct, though it's worth noting that the methodology for categorizing such "discouraged" workers hasn't changed recently, and so to the extent that the numbers are cooked, they're cooked consistently and so observed trends are still valid.
@@EcoGecko I think that in terms of consistency of the "unemployed" measurement, yes but I think that the people counted as employed means a different thing. The proportion of people working part time jobs when they need and want full time or "self employed" precariat(working for apps or whatever) is, I would guess, much greater than say 20 or 30 years ago when you could expect that most people who were counted as employed were working full time. Plus, a lot of peole were forced onto disability as the only means of subsistence in the absence of jobs and increasing restictions on access to welfare and unemployment benefits, hence a meaningful number of people who would have been counted as unemployed in the 80s or early 90s in the US are today considered "not available for work" (I don't at all have a problem with this, nor am I claiming people are "scamming" nor do I mean this as an attack on disability programs). There is a sense in Britian as well that this happened when communities were deindustrialised in the 80s as a way to pacify people in those communities and hide them from the unemployment stats.
There's also rampant and increasing underemployment thanks to the gig economy and trend toward casualisation of the workforce.
makes 14 mins and 30 seconds of astute well-researched points.
closing remark: "we live in a society"
As one gamer with funny moustache, said, in Britain of 1930s: We live in a period....
This really ties into the crisis of meaning younger generations are going through. Our environment is shifting so rapidly on virtually every dimension that young people have no idea how to prepare to operate in the world. Combine that with the expected sharp decline in the job market over the next few decades with the gradual introduction of automation, and the notion that people are going to have to find their own sense of meaning outside of an occupation, it’s no wonder the rates of mental health disorders are rising to seemingly no end.
I'm a prime example, having waited for my permanent residency for about 23 years my options were limited, i did all kinds of jobs supposedly bettering myself every step of the way, from a carburetor shop working with acids and a leaking sand blaster, to car sales, and finally loan origination in Real Estate. all on commission no salary and long crappy hours. i lost everything in the 2008 crash. i deteriorated so much because when you have nothing even your relatives show disdain and want you to get back into the rat race. after not sleeping for almost a month, i had a mental breakdown. it's taken me almost 10 years to recuperate.thanks to my parents I'm not homeless. the propaganda has no stopping, people get in debt with mortgages and cars mainly. don't own them the default rate is high. yet people get back into it right away because they are so brainwashed, so indoctrinated and peer pressured by everybody around them to pretend they are in good financial status by getting in debt with things they cannot afford even with non job security. it seems to me like revolving vicious cycle.
wow. my heart goes out to you. thank you for sharing your story 💕
Each time a person switches jobs they lose their current healthcare. Many jobs require a several month waiting period before you can apply for health coverage.
It isnt healthcare. Canada has the same suicide issues.
Why do people act like you're instantly going to die if you're off health care? Just don't smoke, drink or be fat. It's literally that easy.
And don’t be born with a medical condition that needs daily consumption of expensive meds it’s that easy
@@DM-wk3gz Nah I think it's healthcare, Canada disguises itself as free healthcare, but in reality it's really "poor basic healthcare" and everything else is "premium healthcare" you only get when you have elite jobs in Canada. Oh look, you have a bump in your eye NOT COVERED because optometrists not covered. Oh look, your vision is bad and you can't work NOT COVERED. Oh look, your wisdom tooth is protruding into your gums and your whole mouth is messed up now NOT COVERED because dentists aren't doctors apparently. My back is destroyed from sitting in a chair all day for work, I want a basic massage NOT COVERED chiropractors aren't like doctors after all.
@@BAIGAMING literally the only two things not covered are optometry and dental...not sure how that makes it second rate? I pay nothing out of pocket for my cardiology appointments
I never thought that I was depressed because I grew up hearing my parents shout at each other, or having undiagnosed autism and being perpetually bullied and ostracized in school. I didn't feel depressed once I finally found friends and started falling in love with boys. It hit me like a truck when I graduated and all my friends moved away and found new ones. I knew it was bad when I tried to kill myself on my birthday. I knew I was in a bad place when my relationship became physically abusive. I can't say don't know how I ended up self medicating... life just put me here.
That feeling of "lack of control" that you mentioned. Yeah, I've felt it my whole life. I've picked myself up from the trash so many times and I'm just tired of it. Every time I try to direct my life in a positive way... It just ends up shit and piss. And maybe, perhaps just once can society not blame it on my fucking hormones.
How are you doing now?
@@Green-rp6br Reading this a year later... I still have all those feelings. I'm still trying to heal. I'm still waiting to see a therapist to get "talk therapy". I've been medicated for a long time and I'm "stabilized" but not getting better. Whatever is wrong with me is chronic, deep-seated and my hormone imbalance can be medicated but my behavioural patterns cannot. I've recently discovered that the term "learned helplessness" may be applicable to me. At this point I'm getting more cognitive therapy from the internet than the psychiatric establishment.
@@MiotaLee same wrt learning cbt online and applying it to myself. at this point i feel like i need a social worker and an adhd diagnosis more than i need a therapist
I mean...yeah. I've been out of grad school for over a year now. I have a Master's in business, and it took me about 6 months of rigorously spamming job applications...to get hired for an unskilled labor job in another state that pays just above minimum wage. So I've moved to another state to work a job that I'm supposedly overqualified for, that baaaaarely pays me enough to make rent when combined with my girlfriend's income... So yeah, it's hard to feel like I have any control of my life. It's hard to feel like the system isn't totally fucked.
Your education doesn’t define your career, start networking & making connections too people who will help you get the job that you want, I want too be a firefighter so I talk to people in fire careers and absorb as much info as I can, I know that a fire career isn’t gonna fall out the sky I gotta chase it
this is so horrible
have you tried "pErSoNal ReSpOnsIBiLiTy"?
Seriously tho I feel you man, and so much of our society has the mindset of complaining=weakness that trying to talk about this to someone who isnt in the same situation feels like talking to a brick wall. No wonder we zoomers can't relate to anyone else, feels like all we get is contempt from older generations.
@lmao this isn't a name Well first of all, my BA is in Game Design & Development, which I do have experience in. I have two games out on steam and a 3rd on the way. But that's not the point.
And yes, obviously I know degrees don't lead to jobs. Now. Like I said, I've been out of school for over a year and I'm still working an unskilled labor job that has nothing to do with degrees. Still constantly spamming job applications and networking.
The problem is, when you grow up constantly hearing that college degree = good job, from all the adults in your life, it's very easy to believe it and waste time, energy, and money on it for no payoff. How are you supposed to know any better? You're just a kid in school. No joke, I have been told "if you have a Master's, your first job shouldn't be less than 70k/year." What a fucking joke. That's just not how it works. Maybe for our parents and grandparents that's how it worked, but nowadays, everybody has a degree. It doesn't mean anything anymore.
@@darrenfleming7901 well, stop being a little bitch and make it work. You're ancestors had it a lot fucking worse than you did
"Lowest unemployment in history!"
Allow the 2020 COVID crisis to introduce itself
Thanks, Michael.
fully automated luxury gay space communism
@@voidinheritant yes
Where has this username been all my life, I still haven't upgraded to gay premium smh, still on the third and fourth levels
@@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot does everyone get gay space lasers under gay space communism?
I'm worried automation will be here sooner than we expect and our systems won't be setup for it. I honestly think we're in a post career world, where finding a trade or company to retire in will not be reliable anymore. Technology increases exponentially, and while the idea of all self driving cars, solar roads, ai etc. seem like far off sci fi that won't occur for hundreds of years, who knows what new technologies will be discovered that'll speed up the process. In 1900 the idea of landing on the moon also seemed like it would have been hundreds of years away, not 69 years.
The feeling you have, while based on intuition, is completely legitimate. With the way our economy is structured, circumstances will not be charitable to the working class when automation and A.I. become implemented on a larger scale. The next industrial revolution will result in the displacement of millions of workers, way beyond what we've seen with the outsourcing of the manufacturing industry.
Well, industry 4.0 is coming with 5G. My University is already starting to research/learn students for it.
Solar roads? Lmao.
Roran Solar roadways/parking lots are the most retarded ideas people are still holding onto. Why would you put solar panels flat on the ground where they would be criminally inefficient AND have things driving over the top of them making them even more inefficient.
@@SkullCandy5671 I've seen the thunderfoot videos too, I just haven't heard about it in years.
Hope this older vid pops up in more people’s recommends. Shared it with people I think would get value from it.
The incarcerated are also not counted in unemployment rates and we have the largest incarcerated population in the world. If you take them out of the over all population #, unemployment send fine.... add them back in and out employment rates are staggering. And we keep a constantly growing prison population. People that would have committed a misdemeanor in other countries are charged with felonies here in the states. On top of that, employment doesn't mean that one is able to pay their bills. Many people need 2 to 3 jobs in order to survive.
What are these "misdemeanors" that are "felonies in the states"? it depends on the amount of drugs you have as if they wonder after a certain amount if you'll sell then they charge you with a felony.
Other countries probably try harder and to a lesser extent, US nowadays to put them in jail diversion drug treatment program .
However, the important part is do you mean AFTER prison are they not counted in unemployment? sources? Most of them are employed in prisons because they dont want automatic solitary confinement but yes, they should be paid min. wage to have a chance afterwards to afford anything.
@@steamnamebbderinvade__ If it‘s a felony also depends on how much that drug is associated with Black people. Drugs with basically the same effect are less criminalized when they‘re more common with white people. Black people get higher prision sentences for the same crimes and are more likely to get caught in the first place because of racial profiling. All that of course requiring to survive the encounter with the police.
#BlackLivesMatter
Also, aren‘t prisoners often forced to work full hours of hard jobs for mere pocket money? Being forced to live somewhere without being able to go, extreme punishments for trying to escape, facing a ton of violence, being exploited… Yeah, that kind of reminds you of something, doesn‘t it?
@@Alina_Schmidt I actually agree with you and there still is a crack to powder cocaine sentence disparity but it was way less than it used to be. Even going on google scholar, prisons do treat drug offenders, but only with CBT though that may not be guaranteed because of the amount of people placed in solitary confinement that become psychotic (pyschosis or szichofrenia mostly, not conscienceless and flying off the handlebars trying to assault and exploit everybody).
The reason minorities get longer sentences is because there's not enough of a police presence to remove them in a timely manner so it could be half a decade before they get caught. Basically, Police aren't present until there a spike of crime in a certain spot then they flood the area with police which is why you don't see much organized crime anymore (look up compstat).
Also, Most states have recently limited solitary confinement to only being for fighting because sadistic guards could come up with any reason they wanted to put someone in there. www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/states-that-limit-or-prohibit-juvenile-shackling-and-solitary-confinement635572628.aspx
I already agreed with you on prison labor conditions and yes, I'm aware of the 13th amendment exception.
I cannot stress enough how much capitalism feels like being trapped in an abusive romance.
“You’re weak and you deserve nothing! But also, families will will die if you don’t work during this pandemic.”
Weird how u only see this in progressive countries
This notion of individualism is insane
Yet in China were there is a large manufacturing base and forced labor the people are happier. Maybe smoking pot and voting for Bernie isn’t helping. Maybe your adherence to liberalism causes it.
@@garyoakham9723 funny how the last 11 recessions were caused by Republicans. But lets scape goat for their failures got it. Conservative dinasour aged tactics that made things worst. Congrats
The even scarier part is how lots of people suffering from this same system are believing all of the propaganda pushed by the people who created it, and how its "the perfect system". Its how "America was made". Fuck man, I love my country, but that doesn't mean its fucking perfect. Ever. Even 200 years from now I guarantee you there will always be problems with our government and country. Nothing is "perfect". For people to believe that we have exceeded the greatness that America has to offer in just two centuries would sell America short and its citizens. What these people are scared of is change, and that's understandable. Its perfectly fine to be scared or fearful of change because it has uncertainties, but with change comes progress and not just failures. Did I want to go in on my first day of highschool? Nah, that shit was fucking scary as hell. But high school made me a more informed, better rounded person. It progressed me onto college, then hopefully a career. Same idea. Being fearful of change is natural, but when you become so fearful of change that it prevents you from progressing in life, relationships, job improvements, and in this case a better country and government it becomes regressive and you kind of just get stuck. That's where America is right now. Its the highschool dropout, trying to find his way through life while completely terrified of anything other than the average routine.
it sucks so bad. why why why did we have to ruin everything that was worthwhile in favour of fleeting material pursuits? i would much rather live in a small, closely-knit community without modern technology, just doing what is necessary to sustain life and spending the rest of the time socialising.
The average person really didn't have a say in choosing how our societies are structured
i dont see a realistic way to go back to those times. were beyond the point of no return i feel.
You can still do that, though.
Agree! Not too late to buy some land and grow your food.
Why? Capitalism.
Seize the means of socialization.
I've been social isolated since I was born, now I can't act like a normal person, people say I behave like an fictional character or in drugs.
relatable
If you're not on drugs and people think you are, chances are you're living the dream you want. I'm not saying you're happy, but, you're living a life worth "settling for" if that makes sense.
You get just enough enjoyment to not have to pursue self destructive habits, You're on the ball right now. Even if you're struggling or feel trapped, you must understand as someone who watched so many friends implode.
You're doing well, and already you sound like a guy worth being good pals with.
Get some loser friends and help each other
If you can manage to treat them with love and they can manage to reciprocate, it could just work
@@jpm199 i see no lonely loses around, the school isn't back yet.
I live in brazil.
My mother in law is convinced she will get money with Law of Attraction. I don't have the heart to break hers. She'll be poor her whole life.
She’s not wrong looks affect women more than men. Even little brats in kinder give more positive reviews to more attractive teachers regardless of performance
@lianna I’m an atheist
nah it’s a real thing idiot you use it every day
Though she has the right idea, the law of attraction in particular (instead of the better Law of Assumption) has a lot of unnecessary steps to take to manifest...if she doesn't do more research then she's going to be waiting a long long time to get results.
this was a really good video! I'm so glad youtube put it in my recommended videos. Its really getting good at finding me content, seriously so happy about it!
I'm a male high school-well, I was expelled, (because I was falling asleep in all my classes due to the massive prescription of thorazine I was on). Attended two community colleges, but life & debt got in the way; so I have completed essentially my freshman year. I'm not doing well. I've been trying to do Doordash, but it doesn't pay enough for me to keep up with my bare subsistence expenses. The gig economy is a trap.
You've been caught in the jaws of debt
You might need to look into scholarship programs and maybe some type of affordable housing. Sometimes pride and fear of rejection/no hope of getting accepted gets in the way of searching for and finding the help but trust me it's there. Good luck, and stay safe.
U just got jewd lol xd
Yup
I think you probably have more money if you don't go to college
All those poor people... It wasn't their fault to live under the worst economic system in history. In about 100 years or so, historians will look back at capitalism as a monster that nearly destroyed our planet
at least in slavery, the owner had to care for his slaves. now he will say "there are 10 others wanting to get your place"
I’ve been thinking about this A LOT lately. As an 18 year old currently, I’ve had severe depression in the past and sort of currently. Back in my freshman year I was addicted to social media, UA-cam, and food. I would constantly be on my phone to distract me from everything going on in my life, like my failing grades, family issues and drama at home, etc. Because I was on my phone so much I wouldn’t focus on getting school work done so my grades kept getting worse and the school work kept piling up. Then because of that and the drama at home was going on I turned to food for comfort. I would skip school and go to the Dollar General and Casey’s down the street and buy a bunch of food then hideout in the locker room and binge the whole period. My constant binging and hoarding food became so bad that I gained 60 pounds just that year. Then because of my failing grades, family drama, food addiction and BED, and weight gain, I became super depressed and even suicidal. My phone worsened my depression because I would constantly compare myself to other girls and get sad that my family can’t be happy like my friends’ family pictures on Instagram. Plus I wouldn’t really get out of the house much or get up and move because I constantly was on my phone, so my depression settled in even more. It became a very vicious cycle. I eventually ended up selling my iPhone and used my old flip phone for two years because I was so addicted and my phone just kept making things worse. I wasn’t focusing on bettering my life and mental health and just kept pushing my feelings aside and distracted myself with my phone. During that time of not having a smartphone, I starting doing self-care and worked out. I got out of the house and hung out with friends more. My depression slowly started going away, I started fixing my problems, and my home life got better. Once I started talking to a therapist things definitely started changing and I got rid of the toxic people in my life (including relatives). I realized after not having a smart phone for two years how much it was hurting me and how easily I could push my feelings aside whenever I was constantly being stimulated by pictures and videos of other peoples lives and thoughts. I did eventually have to get another smart phone again though because of my job which sucks. I’m a lot better now and have more control of my life but I am still a bit depressed everyday because I’ve learned and am still learning a lot as an adult about life. The constant thought of how fucked up our world and society is really starting to get to me. I think about how we’re living in a dying world, seeing Climate Change happening before us with the wildfires, hurricane record, ice caps melting, average temperature change going up, and it’s all because of governments not wanting to make changes with technology that have the power to change this destructive path we’re going down. I think about how I may never get to have a family or see my grandchildren because we may not have a world at that point. We have all these chemicals, GMOs and additives to make food taste good, be addicting, and make them bigger and produce more of it. We had a fucking child as a US president and half of the US population follows his cult. There’s riots and protests for changes that should have been a thing from the start of time (I’m referring to the riots and protests in North Korea over the dictatorship, Russia over the dictatorship and false elections, Myanmar over the military coup and false elections, USA over BLM and other human rights, China over the Communist Party, and Nicaragua and the tax raises). I just wish the world was better, because I know we can be if we try hard enough. It’s hard to not be depressed in the world we live in. We have fake food, fake people that pretend everything is fine all the time, we’re forced to work a third of our lives for fake money for fake power. Nobody wants to talk anymore or hang out because they’re all on their phones. It’s just sad :/
if this isn't the best description of modern day life idk what is
I am sure we are at the break of a new stage of society, just as the church lost its power in Europe even with every string in their hands to be taken over by economy. Economy will lose its grip with enough people just not being happy with how the system operates, that's just society evolving, sadly it's always hard living in a society not suited for one until the shift happens, but that's a sacrifice one has to make for progress
We need an end to the idea that by default a person should be employed
at least catholic church advocates for social-democracy
I doubt it. We're brainwashed. We couldn't even elect Bernie.
@@StudioScarecrowyes and that even so he has a almost perfect track record
You are describing The Fourth Turning, a book written thirty years ago that predicted this crisis and the rebirth of society from its ashes.
We have no money and the world is on fire. What did they think was gunna happen
Even if you get an education and you have the skills, so many jobs now are contract. I worked for a major telco for 4 years, but I didn't get to participate in their "amazing" benefits or bonuses because I technically wasn't an employee. They paid a different company to cut my checks just so they wouldn't have to compensate me like a real employee. And I wasn't just doing data entry, I was managing development for the asset management system for the entire Video on Demand platform.
I am in Canada, so I did okay without insurance. But mental health treatment is not covered by universal health care. You have to have health insurance or pay out of pocket for therapy. Which I could not afford. So I went without help for a long time - leading me to some dark dark times that could have gone differently and ended in my death.
Community also means accessible mental health treatment. And accessible mental health treatment is not a mediation app. It is not "just take a break if you feel stressed". It is access to counselling and paid sick days. It should not be a luxury good.
start a farm
grow your own food
filter water
include your neighbors
become self-sufficient
foster local community
easier said than done
Then a fracking company rolls in
Then you get lawsuits from Monsanto for potentially having a cross contaminated patch of tomatoes and they want you to pay 4.6 billion for copyright infringement... for growing their copyrighted crop.
The water gets polluted beyond filtration.
Your neighbors lose interest because their kids are on Heroin from big Pharma
Then comes the taxes to pay for all of that.
and if you make your community too self suficient the chamber of commerce will build a walmart 5 minutes from town to destroy your project.
Much easier said than done. I think I have a better chance of eating a rich man's leg.
You forgot about wearing sandals
@@RS-jh2fz Eating the Rich has just as many obstacles as local self-sufficiency/Mutual Aid networks. And we can do both.
But Mutual Aid can do something important: prove that communities can form and work together outside the market or state. Most Americans believe that humans are 100% selfish, that this forced individualism is natural, that as soon as society breaks down their neighbors would kill them for food (which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy).
If you try to break down the old society without showing people they can build a new one, they'd just recreate the old one.
> buy clay
> declare independence
> join un
> what you said
@Brian Peppers Globalism-bad
Internationalism-good
I truly am scared to grow up. With all of these problems, and all of these horrid disgusting people at the top, it's hard to come to terms with this system. I can't handle all of these statistics, these wretched outdated systems, but if I said a thing about it, I would be considered an emo, or an edgy hormonal leftist teen.
Same. I just don't see the future optimistically. I can only see everything getting worse from here :(
lmao this isn't a name This, we live in the best times literally ever. Don’t let these nerds fool you will this edgy “broken system” crap and go read Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
@@SkullCandy5671 Are you seriously suggesting Atlas Shrugged?!! That book is craaaap
@@theflipphonechannel8198 I doubt you've read it, I doubt you've read any book in a long time.
@@SkullCandy5671 How old are you? 14? Those are the only people I know of who actually like that book
Keeping people divided and isolated benefits the ruling class. It's a pattern you see in human history. An interesting contradiction to this social rule is that the ruling business class also want the depressed, suicidal and corporate-dependent working class to also be popping out babies. They want the old slavery back.
Thanks for a really good video!💜 I’ll be showing it very insistently to all of my friends who can’t read “Capitalist Realism” because they are too busy surviving under capitalism
I’m commenting pretty late, but UA-cam recommended this to me in 2019 so I guess the algorithm did something right for once! Great video, it’s really interesting because some of the stuff u described here has happened to me. I live in Australia and I’m currently on a gap year and in the space of one year, I’ve been fired from 3 of my jobs. Funny thing is, my bosses have always said I’m a great worker but have to lay me (and other workers) off due to money issues. I also just got my fortnightly welfare payments cut randomly by about $35, without much explanation other than “circumstances have changed so you are now on partial payments”. I would literally be homeless and/or starving right now if my dad didn’t let me live with him rent-free. I have friends whose parents have already kicked them out of the home because “I moved out when I was your age”, and they have multiple jobs and we’re barely out of high school. I worked with a girl who had 4 jobs to make ends meet. I am in an extremely lucky situation but it’s painful to see people juggling multiple jobs just to struggle to make ends meet and we’re hardly out of high school. Great video and good use of evidence!
Thank you for the feedback! And I'm really sorry you went through what you did. One side effect of rising inequality, I suspect, is a growing disconnect of policymakers and the wealthier elderly from the real conditions on the ground for the majority of the population, and young people especially. I can only hope that with time, the situation improves.
Eco Gecko thank u my dude! I agree that there’s a lot of disconnect when it comes to policymakers and the wealthy. I don’t know much about politics but it definitely seems that people are just unable to find stable work: everyone I know is either a casual or part-time, and the instability causes so much anxiety. You walk into work everyday not knowing if you’re allowed to come back tomorrow. My dad tells me about the times when he was younger, you could just walk straight into a place, ask if they were hiring, and they’d hire you on the spot. Can you imagine? 😂 Hopefully things will look better in future though, I hope businesses soon understand that it’s better to just train workers rather than rotate staff so rapidly. Keep it up man, love your videos
That's what they want: people as desperate as possible willing to work whereever, whenever without any of the protections or benefits of a full time job. Plus a lot of jurisdictions essentially subsidise these types of jobs with tax breaks or reductions in employer contributions, so employers can be further incentivised to create 2 or 3 positions to do the work of one full time worker and the government just sees "these heroic companies created jobs". Plus even 20 hours of work a week can drastically reduce someone's access to benefits, and they are no longer counted as unemployed. Everyone wins, except the worker in question.
i used to see this a lot at the american corporation I used to work for (im latin american) at first all of my co workers and I were really excited to work for a multinational, especially since finding “good jobs” have become an impossible task down here.
after a couple months i started to noticf the deterioration of the overall mood and behavior of all my friends. all of ud were getting absolutely squeezed into reaching ridiculously high production levels for a miserable pay and having less time to sleep and to spend with urself really
hits ur mental stability. and even those who weren’t friends of mine looked absolutely crushed by the increasing demands of the company. three days ago i received a text from a friend who still works there and she told me that the company raised the daily production goal out of nowhere. and they have to comply and stay silent about it.
companies rule our lives and we have no other choice but to fall in line and comply with their orders. idk but that in itself is a really draining dynamic that always leaves you powerless snd vulnerable to mental illnesses and stuff.
Oh if only this guy knew what 2020 was going to be like when he uploaded this video
Dude, the economy is shit. Salaries have not increased for most people after adjusting for inflation. Not at all. Even higher educated folks are getting paid shit. Stock market at all time highs but most people can't pay rent/mortgage and can't take care of their health (even with insurance) because of the costs.
Boomers: young ppl have more STUFF and their lives are less hard! They're depressed bc they're smowflakes!
This video: Allow me to introduce myself
Boomers are liberal
Liberal capitalists, yes.
@Joseph Gutierrez they didn't have many of the technological advancements, yes, but they had more stable jobs and could buy a house more easily.
Utterly forgetting that Boomers were hippies
@@theemeraldblonde218 I think the boomers forgot they were hippies too
This hit hard. I'm a student putting myself through school. Pre-Covid, I worked a part time job, as well as 2 other part time gig jobs so I could work around my class schedule. Then Covid hit, I lost my part time job, and my 2 gig jobs became less reliable. I never really thought about how shitty it was that I had to hustle just to be able to go to school and pay my bills, not until I lost my jobs. Then I had more time alone with my thoughts, and realized how burnt out and exhausted I was.
Am teen and I think about this alot.
I think it's because we have no community connection. Read the amazing book "together" by vivek murthy. It explains that when we have no community connection, no family, then we become physically, mentally, and morally ill.
In modern life we are always moving around, scrambling for our jobs, and we never establish what gives us our purpose: the people we love.
When my parents were growing up, they knew all of the people in town, on a personal level. But now, in my day, I have no clue who my next door neighbors are.
In my generation, ask anyone what they want to do after highschool, and career will always be spoken of. But hobbies, friendships, and marrage/social union will never be spoken of. Noone in my highschool dreams of marrage or family. Not in that your meaningless without these thing, rather that your life is more meaningful with these things.
In my generation, everyone, including myself, feel as if we have no belonging, no meaning, noone to turn to. Probably upwards of 50% of people have no freinds. 90% of the males, including myself, have no father in their home. Noone shows any emotion to another, in fear of being weird, because feelings are so foreign to us.
And yet we are all so puzzled as to why suicide rates keep hiking.
tldr: we are sacrificing our humanity for our modern jobs.
In order to build a community you have to first establish a sense of place, and that's hard when whether and how long you can stay is up to landlords instead of you.
It's sad this video got recommended to me after talking with a friend about it on Instagram. And my account are separated
I'm going through a deep depression right now and I'm 100% sure that it is due to capitalism. Capitalism destroys everything, literally
Hi there mr. mnm, i apologize for intruding upon your day but i believe i am recognizing you are in a sensitive.
I'm only here for a suggestion which is to study both sides of thoughts.
if you like books, those will help a lot.
you don't need to do this, but it helps not ending up like others(me included) who got wound up in an echo chamber. it doesn't if you still agree or not, it just matters you don't have a static thought process.
that was all, i appreciate your patience in reading this.
These are many of the observations and concerns I've had about society for many years. Thanks so much for compiling all this great information into one place. I pray we can get our shit together as a society and care for one another.
"I believe we need to encourage personal responsibility, so people are held accountable for their actions"
Ok, can Bush be held accountable for the Iraq War?
He technically is as far as I remember. The Hague wants him for war crimes so he can never leave the US lest risking arrest.
@@gabenguyen1216 no he isn't wanted by the Hague, just some court in Malaysia.
Whether he can or not does not detract from the validity of the statement.
This was made in 2018...? That year feels like paradise compared to now lol I feel legit nostalgia for 2018/2019
"Dissolving the social to free up the individual" - Yup 🤐 like I didn't see that one coming
Good stuff! Love the seamless integration of your sources. Always nice when people do that. Look forward to future vids!
Your videos are so fun to watch because of how you present things. You make things so easy to understand. If all the information you gave was just on a word document, I wouldn't enjoy it as much.
Currently wishing i was a doctor woman in 1700 living in a hut with my 6 cats and herb garden
Im growing lavender and rosemary next one I want is sage
This video being uploaded before COVID hit has really put things into perspective for me
Its so strange seeing from the perspective of these videos. Everything of recent has been so polarizing to the left or right, but most of your discussions tend to go against the messages that either would like to shove down your throats. Definitely a refreshing point of view.
potential morals of the video: get off your computer and get some friends? get rid of your stuff and start a commune?
i don't know what another world would look like, and i don't know how to make it happen. there's a feeling like we're all just trapped here. i guess all we can do is raft onto other lovely people and share valentines and video essays til we all sink into a warm sea
There is a way, comrade, education into theory and Marxism will shine the path
At this point, I'd rather be unaware of this and just think that life is meant to be unfair. KNOWING that there can be something done about this hurts. There's nothing us as individuals can do so we're all just hopelessly forced to be a part of this.
@@adheep399 we must come together, and battle the oppression as one! The worker produces all the value and the capitalist steals most of it, it will take organizing, reading theory, and helping one another with cooperation!
While reading and learning theory is great, Help out in your local communities in anyway possible. Reducing the immense suffering of the broken system we are in even by just a little bit helps. Know your rights as a worker, and don't let them fuck you over. Join local activists groups and try to change things in small ways.
@@ZergothofBarbaria yes I'm very aware, but both can be done at the same time, the theory and history is the compass and the engagement with the working peoples the sail
Are we sure that the internet has no effect on mental health either?
The problems with mental health started before the internet or social media were massive. But they absolutely made the situation even worse
Internet has destroyed overall public mental health as few other things have ever been able to.
It probably does have an effect, but that wasn’t the focus of the video
>your income has increased over the last 50 years adjusted for inflation
Sad that you had to go back so far...
I kind of disagree about the blaming social atomisation exclusively on neo-liberalism.
Even the video admits that suburbanisation and the invention of TV account for 'only' 35%.
I'd guess a huge amount of it is that it's simply not necessary to be very socially connected now so people don't bother. Wealth is a double edged sword, we complain that we don't have enough, yet when we get what we want, we end up socially isolated because we don't need to rely on each other in day to day life, and social isolation is the main risk factor for suicide. It's worse for your health than smoking.
The state has also taken over a lot of the informal social functions like caring for children, regulating behaviour etc. Social coordination has become ever less necessary as interaction becomes more mediated by institutions, until all we HAVE to do with other people in our community is make small talk. And when there's literally nothing that you really have to do together, you just don't.
And now we've got these junk food versions of social interaction that stimulate all the neurotransmitter responses that we would get from actually doing something positive in our community and getting recognised for it. But instead of it integrating us into a network of people around us in reciprocal, trusting and supportive relationships, we just get digital upvotes that give us a dopamine hit and nothing else.
To me that's the main point of personal responsibility, not the 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' stuff. That may or may not be useful given your situation, but really it's about resisting the short term exploitation of the reward pathways that evolution has used to trick your ancestors into surviving long enough to produce you. It means taking responsibility for overcoming your basic urges that will trap you into a low-level existence in a world where they're all going to be used against you. It means consciously going out and creating an IRL social network, because it's not going to happen out of necessity anymore. It means consciously deciding what kind of food you're going to eat and where you are going to seek meaning and affirmation.
It means prioritising long term well-being over short term satiation.
You can find a million excuses not to do that if you want to, a million reasons why the economy or the government or the patriarchy or the corporations or the politicians or your friends or your parents are stopping you from doing it, but in the end it comes down to you making small decisions, one at a time, over the things you do have control over.
That's what personal responsibility is. It doesn't mean you have control over everything, it means you don't allow yourself to half-ass the things you can control.
Well said
honestly i identify with this so much that it's scary. sometimes i really wonder what i'll do with my life, i have no voice in my racist family, no money to escape, and more debts to incur the minute i try to step foot into society. :)))))
Natsoc is the only way, zoomer
Don't listen to the idiot above. The fascists want nothing more than to distract you from the real issue so that their capitalist overlords can keep sucking the life from you. Join the Reds, join your comrades.
Don't listen to the Chinese communist state spy above me. He is trying to distract you from the fact Winnie the pooh is massacring thousands of Chinese muslims and forcibly taking over Hong Kong. Also the famines, gulags, starvation and 20M killed over all, as well as rampant corruption and authoritarianism, as well as the fact every red country failed, except China and North Korea, which are the 2 worst countries to live in, lol.
@@Anno888 this man so dumb he think that anyone with kanji in their name comes from shanghhai or some shit. I'm North Carolina born bred and raised you northern bastard. You wanna talk death toll? How about all the people that died under national socialism already under Hitler, you Hun?
@@namaenamae1 scratch a top tier commie, find a banker. Investigate the money behind mao, marx etc. Ask yourself- why? Communism is a failure. Or maybe it really is a success. It does what its designed to do. Destroy. Communism and neoliberal capitalism is a false dialectic. Go deeper.
Every big corporation has jumped on the 'Mindfulness' trend and promoting that stuff to their employees. But when it comes to the things that actually decrease stress as a result of financial insecurity; Permanent Employment, Paid Leave and a Living Wage, it's nowhere to be seen. Having a 'Mindfulness' program is just cheaper and it individualises the responsibility for their employees stress and anxiety.
the most bold and fitting way to use the term "we live in a society." Well fucken done.
3.5 years ago, I moved to a new state. Despite starting college and a new job in that time, I've befriended two acquaintances, and have only done some sort of social activity twice. My continuous excuse was "I don't have time for that" cuz with school and work, it was kinda true. I think everyone I've talked about this to reports similar stories. COVID is like the final nail in the coffin, especially for those that do have friends to hang out with. I wonder if American society will be able to change It's mindset about social relationship and work ethic.
The problem of "external locus of control" is one that has come up over and over again in the United States since the Civil War, albeit more at the community level than an individualistic one. Concern with distant and indifferent concentrations of power motivated the populist movement of the late nineteenth century. Farmers in the West and South felt that monopoly power (international bankers, railroad capitalists, DC politicians) took autonomy away from local communities. So part of the goal of the people's party was to create institutions of self-actualization, such as cooperatives, marketing associations, exchanges, and so forth. They also sought to nationalize (i.e. democratize) things that everybody depended on, but could easily be centralized, such as railroads and telegraphs, so that monopolies could not dictate winners and losers in the economy. During the Progressive Era, Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom was predicated on restoring conditions under which smaller competitors could flourish. That is why the original Federal Reserve was designed as a system of regional banks. The feeling was that having this kind of regional banking system would redistribute money away from the Northeast towards the more credit and cash starved parts of the country, allowing for smaller farmers and businessmen in the West and South to survive. During the Great Depression the followers of people like Huey Long (whose share the wealth program proposed to put a max cap on wealth and guarantee every family a 5k estate) and Father Coughlin (who believed banking should be nationalized) felt that limiting max wealth or taking the power of money out of the hands of bankers would help shift power away from those with concentrated wealth.
It gets harder and harder every year and those in charge only care less and less. My only solace is that it will hopefully fall apart completely in our lifetimes, and that if things get bad enough the people can rally together
This was a great critic video, and I’m more of a right wing person. I really liked how you bring up numbers and statistics to explain your point.
I agree. This isn't just a right or left fight. Both sides are realizing that capitalism is on its deathbed
@@wyattwilbourne530 I strongly reccomend you to read the kangaroo chronicles by Marc-Uwe Kling. One wisdom of the kangaroo: „Pretty much every criticism of capitalism from the right summed up to ‚as a german it is my right to be exploited by another german.‘ “
@@Alina_Schmidt The left want equality for all. The right wants capitalism to go away so they can more efficiently exterminate all the "bad people" because that'll magically make all our problems go away.
Dude, I'm in mid twenties and had more jobs than fingers on both hands. Living abroad for years cut away from everyone I knew my whole life, people who I grew up with. I learnt that the number one reason for people not having money and having to resort to more jobs is compulsive overconsumption. A lot of pressure can be lifted from your back when you learn to manage finances. Commercials make us believe that by buying whatever is advertised we also acquire the community of friends and general happiness. Not literally, of course, it's a subtle implication to trigger emotional response. And it works, that's why they all do it. The brand / product is associated with an emotion or an ideal. Just remember that whatever you buy can provide a temporary, surface level happiness but the real satisfaction comes from binding with people. It's corny but your well-being is dependent on sincere and deep relations with others. Whether it's a friendship or romantic in nature doesn't really matter as much.
Good video, thanks for making it.
Another important point is that your bonds with other people are critical to providing economic safety nets that often prevent people from being driven into debt. The rich still have these safety nets among each other, as do (in my experience) immigrant communities, where you can rely on family, community organization, friends, or church to provide you with cheap short term credit, help you secure work, watch your kids while you're at your job, and so on. Knowing that you can always borrow a few hundred dollars at no interest, or, in the worst case, couch surf for a few weeks, not only alleviates a huge amount of stress but often saves people from the very real threat of bankruptcy of homelessness, both of which can quickly cause things to spiral out of control. These networks are so important for social and economic well-being, and yet we've seen them largely disappear in mainstream society.
See, that's what I disagree with. One should be able to simply live with the money one makes and not borrow unless absolutely necessary. To be able to say how much of the income is spent on bills, food, commute etc and how much is left. Most of my working life I was earning minimal wage or very close to it. Taking no benefits even when unemployed. And never had to resort to asking somebody for money. I'm not saying it out of pride or anything. Only highlighting a different approach to the issue. One way is to earn more, one way is to spend less. All of my friends who were struggling with finances were spending excessive amounts on things they bought on a whim. If I knew my budget is tight, I would restrain from buying new clothes and gadgets, cooking from basic ingredients, walking/cycling to work... Sacrifice comfort for sake of limiting expenses. If that isn't enough, a short term solution would be selling some of my possessions before the situation changes. When the earnings are reasonable, one should always put a little aside for emergency cases.
Yes, having the safety net of somebody willing to help in the time of need is very good but one should never rely on that.
This isn't the issue of rich/poor as much as it is an issue of financial literacy. I'm sorry if this offends anyone but making more money won't automagically solve your problems.
Of course one should never rely on it, and certainly never use those networks to finance non-essential spending. However, a network is the superior option to, say, a payday lender, which so many millions of people rely on today.
That's right but we should address how the people got to the place where they need help. Of course unfortunate situations happen but not nearly all of those who struggle had their house robbed or burned down or anything. It's just that they're spending more than they're earning.
Loans are becoming the norm, not out of necessity but of convenience. And people get trapped in the cycle of signing way too many contracts without checking their capabilities first. Buying the new phone on contract because it's new and shiny and so cool.. And then this and that and suddenly I don't have enough to pay the rent. So I get another loan just to cover the rent and then I'll pay it off when I get my wage... And that's a death spiral. An extremely common one. You're right there should be ways to get help in need but people need to learn how money work, that's where 99% of these issues come from. I see it all the time, loans for holidays, for christmas, for anything.
@@hrnekbezucha The problem goes beyond personal responsibility and financial literacy. as humans we over estimate our rationality and under estimate the power of propaganda. the boom and bust economy creates a chain of events were many jobs are lost and hard to get back. anything that you haven't paid in full is basically a liability not an asset. having worked in car sales and finance and real estate loans, i know how revolving credit works the longer the term of the loan the higher default risk. l suggest if you haven't, watch The Big Short it will give you a very good idea how it is systematic. how the boom and bust economy works. Banks and Finance Companies make money on interest on insurance on the loan or by selling the contract to another Company it's a vicious cycle where the consumer always ends up on the short end of the stick. all the propaganda is for you to get in debt. we use to joke in the office the Banks and Finance Corporations would rather you have bad credit than no credit because if you buy cash they can't squeeze you just how they like it.
Hey I’m related to Mike Konczal!! Good job on the pronunciation, we’ve been butchering it for years lmao.
Thanks haha, it helps that Polish is my native language!
It becomes clearer and clearer that nothing can save us, and that nothing we ever change in this world will fulfil us
Really grateful for this video.
RIP Mark Fisher
I can only imagine much worse this is now that people are facing massive inflation and out of control housing costs.
It’s like the song goes: “what force is weaker than the feeble strength of one?”
Fantastic video, thanks a ton for making it, it helped me think about these issues better, especially coming out of the pandemic.
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
The weird thing is that we do not need all this stuff, junk, gadgets, gizmos and products for fast temporary relief of boredom and loneliness that requires no vulnerability.
I don't like being a robot automaton making other peoples life better for no reward, feel depressed, can't concentrate, then I am considered defective and offered amphetamine and antidepressants to motivate me, call me crazy, but the default reaction to exploitation is apathy and misery, but no worries these medications will make it just bearable enough for them to extract more from me. If you gave them all psychedelics instead, not only would it actually help the depression, it would let them see just what a shit show consumerism is and that their true desire is to laugh and sing and dance and play, form relationships and help people and to see that money and love and happiness are not the same things, wouldn't want that, besides we can't patent them, they are non-addictive and you don't need to take them everyday to see results, so that would be counter-productive in most cases, unless we can carefully supervise their use to make sure people don't have any revolutionary ideas, must maintain the status quo for our benefit after all, to hell with other people, they are just lay, it wasn't my rich parents and the resources I already had that made me rich, I just work harder on my yacht consuming cocaine, eating foie gras, fucking high class escorts and drinking champagne (a valuable service) than they do toiling in dusty factories and lifeless offices, work harder, I want to go to space (a goal beyond your loftiest ambitions)... Uh, it will make you wealthy, yeah, that's it.
I really like how you described feeling like a robot in this society. Even though I've never had a job yet, I felt like a robot throughout highschool because of the amount of homework I had and the importance of getting good grades. Sometimes I still feel like a robot in college. It makes me wonder if there is a correlation between increased homework and younger people feeling more isolated.
There is so much pressure from society to get good grades, be productive all the time, and make the most money. All of these pressures make us feel like robots because we are expected to do all of these tasks for the benefit or comfort of others. Even though having a lot of money can benefit ourselves, it is unlikely that most people can just work until their rich, atleast not without luck.
There is hardly any autonomy left for what you want to do if it goes against the status quo of capitalism. When you break down from trying to achieve these pressures you are seen as a defective tool that needs to be fixed.
Then, instead of receiving sympathy and effective emotional support, you are given pharmaceutical drugs as a quick fix to your natural reactions. The system doesn't change to fit your needs, instead you change to fit the systems' needs.
Although medication can be helpful, it should not be advertised as the only way to help people. Over prioritizing medication puts the onus on the individual to change themselves whether it's beneficial or not because it makes pharmaceutical companies more money. In addition, some drugs can do more harm than good due to the side effects.
I honestly don't know much about psychedelics, but I never thought of them as a way to help with mental health problems. It reminds me of the argument of legalizing marijuana or legalizing illegal drugs to help drug addicts. Although it may seem counterproductive at first, it actually benefits more people than the current systems in place.
Came here from /r/breadtube. Love your stuff! Keep it up!
same
I'm glad I found this video. I'm still looking for more Breadtube to enjoy and learn from.
this is good. you did good.
This was a really accurate breakdown of the entirety of my lived experience as a working class or I should say, a working poor adult. Thank you for your work Mr. Gecko
Covid's like "Loneliness in 2018? That's cute."
really well made essay, thank you and keep it up!
Just got this in my recommended, keep going!
Thanks for your thoughts! Sadly my real-life jobs means I don't have much time to work on these videos, but you can expect a sequel to this in the next several months, I hope.
This is such an incredibly important topic.
Thank you for making this video.
Great content. Well researched and produced
Since I was 14 , I have had only 10 jobs. I am 32 and I honestly not willing to quit anymore and start another job. It’s just too much to do
That title sounds like what happens when you put all of political reddit in a blender and have it vomit out a result
PATRIARCHAL INSTUTITUIONS OF SUBVERSION REFLECTED IN THE POST COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD.
This video just reeks of circle jerk
@@811see I like how I only see white women bitch about that Colonial nonsense while we brown people just mind our own business
@@gregh5061 what?? What the fuck do you even mean? How dumb can you be dude. Read a book ffs
@@mr.fearingtoon3549 To be fair, he links to like 20 studies and shows direct quotes in context. This is really far from "Capitalism bad, eat rich"
I'm really impressed by the evidence you brought up here. Just Subscribed.
Japan is a great example, economic insecurity leads to declining fertility which leads to increasing power for labour and increased wages and economic security. It just takes time, also, as long as robots don't replace workers. Also, people physical social networks are declining but online social networks are replacing them. Watching this video and reading my comment is a social network, I am a stranger far from you yet here you are sharing the contents of my mind about a subject we both find interesting than talking to your neighbor.
Online social networks definitely have their place, but nothing beats face to face interaction
@@NewBlueTrue yes, same goes for nice horse ride in the country or a hand written letter.
Yet we all are socializing online with other strangers. I’d like to reiterate and rephrase that “We live in a society.” Pretty much indecent and disgusting.
I’d love to show my knowledge on how capitalism creates more wealth disparities through neoliberalism of worrying and trying to supply the demand of the country’s GDP through production boost.
We need more job hirings and job training so we can hire these beehive workers for our projects, so we can increase the wealth in our little pockets due to economic exploitation and exploitative practices of refusal to pay these workers the minimum wage they deserved.
Great video! Using this for my project!
Down with the bourgeoise!