Louis tries not to rage reading news, fails miserably
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00:00 - Intro
00:59 - Everyone has been at an office job where people were pretending to work before
02:00 - Can't ask people to suffer so a meme bubble economy can go back to the way it was before
04:15 - Why you're suffering now, a rant
05:00 - The value will be that of other normal cities
08:45 - People want to stay in comfort of their home - obviously
11:29 - Mayor Adams claims you're "running from home"
14:00 - The train system and an L train rant
14:50 - MTA is a mismanaged pile of garbage
15:35 - Declining local business
18:30 - Employees want to have their own lives
19:40 - Change is hard, but necessary
"Destroy peoples freedoms"? That's more than a bit much. Louis, you've done more than your share to elevate "disgruntled" into a viable lifestyle choice. Cheers!
The Mayor literally encouraged people to take photos of people that may be standing too close together to report it to city authorities. mobile.twitter.com/nycmayor/status/1251496378372632577
And then after 2 years of this bullshit they have a surprised Pikachu face when people decide not to take a 1 hour commute into Manhattan and pay $20 for a salad at sweetgreen that takes 18 minutes of waiting to receive. IMAGINE MY SHOCK!
You can't pull that shit on me, I lived there!
@@rossmanngroup we should start snapping pics and send it over to overwhelm their system :)
@@Jacob1986 We did that already, that's why they took the system down
American heroes and Patriots flooded the system with dick pics until they had to take it down. I have never in my life supported sending unsolicited dick pics to anyone until that moment.
@@rossmanngroup Likewise, no bullshit here ... was born in Brooklyn. Did my share of commuting ... just *love* the subway. As for the "standing close" snitching, early on nobody was sure of *anything* ... better safe than sorry. Hand-sanitizer wasn't needed. but we didn't know that, did we?
"Growing impatient with workers", like we're some rebellious children refusing to do what we're told. This is how they see us.
Lmfao!!!
The only thing growing impatiently is my dick when I see the workers getting in a better situation altogether after they had to adapt!
Better standards, that's always good.
Autocrats gonna autocrat.
if you weren't so rebellious you would get into your car and commute 2 hours a day, for little money, and you would act like you enjoy it
You're giving them too much credit, I doubt many of them even see us as human.
"My employees are great. They're great people. They're amazing. If I invited them all out on a Friday night and said, 'Hey, you wanna go out to a bar?' most of them are probably gonna say no. Because they wanna do their work, get done, and live their lives. And enjoy themselves without having to see me. And, that's normal." ----THIS MAN GETS IT.
👏💙👏
If it was a one time event like the city of New York admitting that they Fed up and actually changed then it could be worth a celebration.
I wish jobs in Asia understood this. Everyone wants to be your BFF and spend every waking second with you after work.
@@backlogbuddies I wish the ones in the US understood this too. It's really everywhere, I think.
@@hatchetman3662 I agree. I think trying to be best friends with your employees/colleagues is draining. Even worse is matchmaking/fostering romance! Don't eat where you s**t!
so workers saved 12 billion dollars? nice
Happy to hear that honestly.
Now if only we could start by breaking up all these monopolies while we're at fixing things for your average person.
That quite good, but perhaps they HAD to find ways to save that money (commute and lunch, mostly?) because the economy is SO bad, they struggled financially.
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Exactly. And they didn't even have to pay additional tax due that income!
When I got hired, I thought my job was to do work for the company in exchange for income. Silly me! I should've realized my *actual* purpose was to buy a sandwich for lunch every day and keep the sandwich shop in business. Shame on those of us who pack a lunch, eh?
I just eat a protein bar and some fruit.
@@autohelix disgraceful, you shall not bring your own food. If you want to eat a protein bar, you must buy it from your work at $20 per bar!!!!
but if you cook at home, you can, or at least buy sandwich from stores near your house, you don't have to buy there
@@tek1645 damn, you made me remember about cash-only snack machines at the office, frack I even worked at a place that had a set limit for the amount of cups of coffee each employee could drink (for "free") at work. Seems so dystopian now.
@@electronresonator8882
The point is that companies these days want you to spend "your" money on _their_ things. Which means, at the end of the day, your wages go right back into their pocket. Your money isnt yours anymore. Its one of the reasons why corporations and the government are pushing to abolish paper money. So they can keep an eye on what you buy at all times and turn your card off when you buy the wrong things.
They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work.
Society.
That's how the USSR was. Then it fell apart.
fair enough
Well pretended better because it seems that majority of people who become mangers and those who get paid the most are the laziest and aren’t all that skilled but they are great bullshit artist.
@@giomjava good
1. The fact that they try to pin this crisis on workers is insane. 2. Mad respect for Louis for understanding healthy boundaries with his employees. 3. Mr. Clinton for 2024.
last time a clinton was in office a dick got sucked
The fact that they tried to pin this on workers is ENTIRELY EXPECTED! It's par for the course.
@@Lugh314 Right? It's NEVER their fault.
This Mr. Clinton is the only Clinton I'd ever vote for
@@Lugh314 I hate these boomer f***s
NOOOOOO You can't just work from home. What about all those poor land lords!
the company spent so much money on this building! you have to use it, we still have 8 more years on the contract! your job is entirely on the internet and you dont have a need to show up? cant afford a car because we dont pay you enough? i didnt ask, go to the office or find a job somewhere else!
i love my job, that doesnt lock me behind a desk, and i get to travel for a living. sure i dont travel as far as id like, but shit its paid travel its hard to complain
@@bradhaines3142
Unpaid commute is the most literal waste of lifetime. If everyone who can works from home that will also reduce competition and lower real estate prices (both buying and renting) for those who can't. And the city has reduces infrastructure upkeep costs.
NOOOOOO You can't use a car that's faster and more efficient than riding horseback. What about the poor ranchers who rent out horses?
Trying to force an outdated and inefficient model on society. OH NO! Not wasting space on a giant concrete building might open up more room for people to HAVE and OWN THEIR OWN HOUSE!!! INSANITY!!!!
@@grayfox6518
You wouldn't even NEED to own a house. If you can choose were you live there'd be actual competition between landlords. And any public or private entitiy suddenly has a lot more choice where to build new development.
let's be poor together
The news is designed to invoke emotions. It happens to the best of us
You're right, but it's totally ridiculous. It seems such a shame to me that the primary focus of news is not to inform the populace, but to outrage them or try to control their emotions in some other way. I wish it could be more... emotionless, somehow.
Emotions are invoked from values being crossed or validated.
Not bad thing Autist, think warning lights or 'the feels' for you brain.
Yeah also tells you what to think about at said time, containment of attention.
@@walterlippmann4361 looks like I caught a fish..
@@walterlippmann4361 my guy you're the fish. I have your attention now don't I? Hook line and sinker. Just move along with your day.
I honestly don’t want the remote workers to go back. Because a lot of people who live in my county work in Manhattan and now there is more money being injected into our local economies. Our local governments are finally realizing that walkability is important.
Not to mention the massive reduction in traffic everywhere. DC traffic is bad but not even 1/2 as bad as before!
@@randomvideosn0where
50 IQ: One person per car
100 IQ: 100 people per train
200 IQ: Most people work from home over highspeed internet
@@Alias_Anybody 400 IQ: Locals decide to bring their jobs to their counties instead.
@@shapshooter7769
Do you really want to develop a search engine or something similar with 10 people total? Otherwise someone's gonna be connected remotely at some point.
@@Alias_Anybody not every job needs to do things like develop search engines.
What's wild is that they want you back into the office 5 days a week, but also expect you to take the work home with you and dedicate nights and weekends to it like you did during the pandemic. They don't actually want to 'go back' to the way things were, they want the worst of both worlds.
Yes, and most employees just want to put in 1-2 hours per day completing the bare minimum from their homes wearing pajamas, be completely unavailable outside business hours, and still get paid the same amount as if they were commuting. When they all commuted there could be a manager looking over their shoulders and seeing how time was spent so they could adjust the work load as needed, but remotely there's no way. So there's a compromise of some kind in there somewhere but if either side of this conflict becomes a dick about it that's when things get worse for everyone.
@@gorkyd7912 the solution seems to me that if the managers could just do a little work themselves, they could figure out pretty quickly how long it takes to do whatever work they are assigning. when I fixed aircraft my manager didn't need to watch us for him to know it takes 10 hours to remove a lavatory. same with paperwork. they should know what 8 hours of work produces and expect that amount of work. If I was a manager of remote workers it would take me less than a week to figure out who's not actually working. then again I am also capable of doing the work I assign to my workers.🤣
@@Born_Stellar Well it's not that hard to figure out who's not working but it's like being a mechanic and having a garage full of 5,000 tools, and then trying to predict which of those tools he can get rid of and which will suddenly be needed tomorrow because someone brings in a Jaguar from 1992 that requires that specialized little forky tool that hasn't been seen for half a decade. Coding work is a little different from conventional production and service jobs because producing less code that does the same job is better. Someone who writes 10,000 lines and makes 2000 revisions to the code might just be screwing it all up for everyone. Someone who sits and does nothing for 36 hours but then jumps in and fixes a problem for 4 hours that no one else could fix might be the most important person on the team.
@@gorkyd7912 that point about how working hard doesn’t always equate to value for the company. A lawyer or contract analyst or salesman all might provide tremendous value without putting in X amount of time.
@@gorkyd7912 With the cost of inflation outpacing salaries, 1-2 hours is all these companies deserve.
As someone who was in the workforce prior to the modern internet, I watched dozens of businesses in my industry in the 90s, go out of business because they couldn't adapt. Imagine writing article about how much the internet was destroying the local economy and THEN asking it for it to be stopped. That's basically what's going on here and it's absurd.
There's also the fact that a lot of that money isn't going where it should. You can bet when New York collapses the investigations will find a lot of questionable things with a lot of people facing possible jail time.
@@ned418 No it won't. That'd require the people doing the investigation to have integrity.
Absurd is the key word here. :D We are living in an absurdly cruel comedy show by the looks of it.
@@ned418 that’s quite the optimism bias you’ve got there!
@@paulcarmi8130 Let us not forget that the bulk of that city is running on blood money and corruption.
Odds are plenty of people in high places got enough stolen to warrant screwing over the mouth breathing f--ks in new yorks political positions...or they'll end up in a hole from "unknown circumstances".
The left has plenty of supporters they don't want the majority to know about after all.
Just past 23 years working from a home office. I figure in that time I saved the cost of our $240,000 waterfront cottage with tax write offs, meals and less wear and tear on everything including most importantly my mental health. Retiring this April about 5 years early with a replete 401K. Deep breaths Louis...
Same here - in Germany - partially remote since 2004, full since 2020, with occasional 20 miles to the Datacenter. Daily commute was about 15 miles but mental health saved is priceless…
@@brauchmernet Well, the daily commute can be quite enjoyable and positive for mental health... if it is a 15 min bike-ride through "nature"
so happy for you!!!
I like how when things get tough for regular people, we’re told to just spend less. (The whole $6 for a cup of coffee thing)
But when we start spending less, they get upset.
They don’t want to pay us more, but they don’t want us to stop spending.
The snake is litterly eating it’s own tail.
its all a scam anyway
I buy a jar of instant coffee and save a bundle.
And I drink it BLACK, too..
"But our company bosses own and lease a lot of real estate. You owe it to your bosses to come into work so their portfolios remain solid."
Lol, how many of these companies do you think own the land those offices are built on?
@@CtrlAltRetreat how many?
Yes dear leader.
@@TeodorLojewski that's not how burden of proof works
@@CtrlAltRetreat They don't need to own it, they only need to be locked into a long term lease to lose a lot of money if they don't use the asset, and thus become tempted to justify it. You clearly have no idea how business works. You don't walk into a prime real estate location like Manhattan and ask to pay month to month. They'll demand you commit to 5 years, 10 years, or more for even a modest piece of property.
Love during the L train rant how Blackberry looks over to Louis, as inquiring if he is alright, then when Louis regains his composure she shrugs and returns to taking a nap.
I know! I lost it at that point! lol!!
@@mechanoid5739 and I too lost it at that point😂
The company I work for sold more than half of its buildings. They gave away all the office chairs to their employees. Monitors were all sent back to a warehouse where they're going to be using them for replacements. We are almost 100% remote (except the warehouse folks and those who need to do physical work of course). They're not going back. They're very happy about the millions they're saving on utilities. And we are doing our jobs at 100% efficiency from home. Best job I've ever had.
I have a job where I work from home and I work better at home. I might be making less but at least when I get done with the orders I don't have to sit there on a computer pretending to work for 3 hours. Plus I can work faster on my own computer over the shitty work computers.
Way less distracting remote.
That's why i don't understand why companies would want folks back in the office.
This. Trying to code while some pest from marketing is strolling about the office, shouting into his mobile DECREASES my efficiency. Having to waste time on ad-hoc desk-side meeting so some mid-level manager can justify their existence asking me dumb questions he will instantly for getthe answers I've given DECREASES my efficiency. Being able to use 3x 27" monitors in an ergonomic setup, with a keyboard that sounds like rolling thunder, and not being required to hunch over a 15" laptop single screen INCREASES my efficiency.
Take your MBA and paying 33% of my wages on travel and overpriced sandwiched and shove it where the sun does not shine. I'm not here to prop up overpriced rents in an office block who's owners can just go DIAF as far as I'm concerned.
@Joseph Smith(Dune Fan) A lot of companies don't. Like a majority of them don't. They're saving millions of dollars on utilities and rents/leases and other things. This is creating a huge conflict between capitalists, but we don't see it. The real-estate sector is on fire trying to lobby the government so hard to force other companies to get their workforce back into office. ALL of this fuss is caused by real-estate billionaires. They are losing millions, if not billions with the giant empty expensive buildings they have sitting around. This is honestly so good. If this continues, it could very well lead to an unintentional affordable housing for us. Let's just hope it stays that way without our lovely government phucking it up like they normally do.
Then there's the opposite problem of them not hiring people who WOULD be willing to work jobs like this because they don't have the right 'connections' or there's something else mundane that pushes them out, even if on a merit base they do fit the qualifications.
As they say, that's life. They did this to themselves. (the companies)
Yes. With the companies that say, "we're hiring", and their lack of response to job applications, they might sell data as their side gig.
you also have the horror stories where they advertise work from home and try to pull the rug during the interview if you want big office workers instead of home office ADVERTISE BIG OFFICE
This is why i stopped using social media and avoid online news sites. These companies profit off of your attention and they will do whatever they can to get it. I have been way happier ever since i got rid of social media.
I haven't stopped buuuutt I tend to watch crafting , animal, hauls & other junk on UA-cam.
When I do look at something it's generally only a minute or two before I wander away. The rest of the time I'm either reading or crafting.
just be careful in UA-cam, this is somewhat a video based social media, they use algo to make you click more videos and watch ads,.... except if you use adblocker
UA-cam is a social media site.
So you haven't truly stopped.
@@decoy3418 Its the OK kind, because it never declared that is what it is.
@@electronresonator8882 Yeah, I've personally disabled the algorithm using DF Tube, because I was addicted to it. What really cured my UA-cam addiction though was buying a great video game that I used to fill the void that removing the algo out of my life created. Finding something else to do in your free time (something that actually takes effort to do, so that it isn't as addictive) does seem very effective at fixing addictions.
The only issue is that this left me a little bit clueless as to what's going on in the world, so now I hop onto UA-cam to check out my subs (through the sub list, not through the algo), but I really wish there was a way to make it so that the algorithm only shows a small number of videos and only refreshes them once a day or even once a week, rather than every time I reload the page.
I put my speakers on for this. I had to keep telling my wife that it wasn't my dad complaining about NYC.
I was told Oct 1 I was not going to have a job in the New Year so I started looking. It amazes me the amount of jobs that want full time office workers. I've been remote since 2015. I haven't touched a piece of server equipment since before that. Everything I do, even in the office, is remote. The only difference is where I sat. In the office people complained I wasn't socializing enough to where my manager even brought it up to me. I told him that I was there to work, not socialize. Unless it had bearing on my work, I didn't want any part of it. After a while he let me work from home fully. I was happier. Plus, the more time I saved at home, my employer got marginally more time from me since I didn't have a 60-90 minute train commute each way, making me hate life that much more. But it still wasn't enough. They replaced me with a team in India that could work 24/7.
So tell me if I could be replaced with a team 10,000km away, why I'm needed in a local office?
"Being one of those idiots that points out the problem" has been my problem as well. I wasn't smarter than my peers, I was just unable to be comfortable pretending to do something all day.
I got in trouble for going around the office asking if anyone needed help. "It's not a good look for The Group"
I personally can't stand not working but I've never really had no work. Even if there's no projects there's education, learning skills, maintenance, etc. I never tried to get anyone in trouble though because I understand the 8-5 schedule is something of a compromise; if someone can do a good job and complete all their work in 2 hours they still deserve the full pay same as someone who takes all 8 hours but unfortunately in the wage system that means hanging around doing nothing.
This was me. I worked so hard that I out-qualified my boss's boss because I was the one they called when they had problems. The fired me for being late on a day I was scheduled to cover someone who consistently called off... Both that person and the person who fired me didn't last long after I left. And then I rejoined the company in a different department in spite of unspoken policy to never re-hire former employees, got promoted twice in 4 months, and I'm now out-performing my boss's boss again.
At least this time I know what's ahead and I can plan for it.
My neighbor and I are political opposites.
One of the things that we share is that we can barely read the news without wanting to strangle someone.
True. It's about different things, but I wonder what the future is going to bring with this kind of mutual loathing.
Most people can agree on problems, but not on solutions.
If I suggested that the government step in and start lowering house prices on ridiculously priced homes that have been vacant for 5 years, some people would freak out about government regulation and it wouldn't happen.
You basically have to find case studies where doing a particular thing actually worked for them to believe you. And even then they may not.
People like one-size-fits-all solutions to complicated problems. That way they don't actually have to know as much about the problem itself.
Fingers crossed, towards balkanization.
Yeah, it's bad. The world has become much more polarized over the last 10 years. Fewer people have moderate views, more have extreme views (on both sides) and the extreme ones hate each other so much and are willing to do anything to spite the other ....I don't see this ending well, and I don't know how we can fix it.
@@EricLeafericson energy is the most annoying to me. a lot of people think everywhere needs to go pure wind solar and batteries, but thats SO insanely wasteful its hard to explain just how stupid that is. now, solar roofs on buildings that already exist, thats great. thatd be free power basically, but miles of clearcut fields is just disgusting on so many levels. wind is the same way, the places where wind blows a lot and nothing is built there, sure go for it, but you cant just slap them all over and think they'll make a usable amount of power. it seems to be mostly agreed on that the most effecient stable power source is nukes, but the elderly in office are scared of it and the power companies dont want to spend the paperwork and decades in the hole before its profitable.
to your point, most people agree on the problems (except 'climate change' , thats still severely up for debate) but the solutions just lead to arguements these days
@@bradhaines3142 Agreed on solar and nuclear. Solar energy has gotten so much better over the last 20 years. By installing the panel directly on the roof, you don't have to change existing power infrastructure to accommodate more power flow.
Nuclear is also fantastic. We could be running everything on it. One problem though is we don't dispose of the nuclear waste ethically. America dumps it on indigenous areas like Navajo Nation, which are technically their own nation, and say "well they disposed of it wrong so it's their fault". The cancer rate among indigenous people is rising really fast because of this, and it's a huge problem.
And we can actually take that waste and get even more energy out of it through microreactors or recycling. We don't even need to be killing people, but we just refuse to regulate the nuclear industry.
I'm a power engineer. Without regulation my whole industry would be a disaster. Thank god for the NEC and NFPA. But pure free market values would mean those government safety codes wouldn't exist. Because designing things to a code is more expensive than just making sh*t up.
Hey Louis. What you said about change is true. My father opened up a business here in NYC back in 1988, he started in Manhattan, eventually moved to Queens and finally now we're sitting in Brooklyn the past decade. The past 6 or so years I've been heavily involved in the business and it has been tough. We went from almost 200 employees to barely sustaining 40. The small measures just aren't working anymore. After almost 4 decades in this city we are most likely going to close down and move to another state. As you know well the hardest part of moving a company is the skilled people who will either have to move or be left behind. Most of our skilled people are getting up there in age and would not be moving with us, so most likely this year will be the last year we stay in business. Hopefully we find success in another business entirely away from this godforsaken city. What a shame, this city used to be a haven for small businesses and now it's the most hostile city in the country. Best of luck with your business in Texas, i really understand what you're going through.
What's your business? I'd love to learn more. Kudos to you for sticking it out for over thirty years :)
@@rossmanngroup Long time follower of the channel, I'm happy to elaborate. My dad's story reads a lot like the classic American Dream. In 1983 he moved here from wartorn Syria with less than 500 dollars to his name. He had known nothing but war and tough times. Forget owning anything luxury, he was lucky to get bread a few times a week. After only a few years in nyc he opened up a jewelry manufacturing company. We contracted mainly with Tiffany&Co for 30 years before they dropped us in favor of overseas manufacturing. He went from being penniless, to making close to half a million a year in salary, to now barely paying himself minimum wage to keep the company afloat. Currently we do manufacturing work for a few dozen small and medium sized designers, but it won't last for long. Not only are businesses dying in Nyc, but manufacturing as a whole has been largely on the decline in the US. It simply isn't meant to be anymore. Part of the reason we've been in business this long is that we got lucky when moving back in 2013. We managed to rent out a large space in Brooklyn for close to 7[yearly] dollars the square foot, insane.
I know it's kind of silly, but back when you were dating "she who shall not be named", I thought it would be fun to run into you (not in the creepy way, I mean purely by chance, I also live in Brooklyn) and offer our heavily discounted services if you ever decided to pop the big question. Like I said I'm a huge fan of the RTR work you've always been a part off. But with you moving to Texas and us closing down, that'll never happen.
@@WhitmanEntertainment nice story.
One would expect to be on easy street after all the years of hard work and dang, back to square one.
@@zaijian4377 I'm not going to try to make it sound worse than it is. We're not stuck in the poor house just yet. Although these last few years have drained pretty much all of our savings, we could still live comfortably IF we leave NYC. The saddest part is a small business that has been part of NYC since the 80s shuttering its doors.
@@WhitmanEntertainment There is a high probability of manufacturing seeping back into the US because the global supply chains are under so much stress at the same time that foreign country wages have risen quite high compared to the 70s and automation is replacing much of the workers anyway. So I think the future in NYC may be over but if you can find a suitable place elsewhere in the US and perhaps diversity from only luxury goods there might be a bright future on the horizon. Regulations and property values are becoming bigger drivers of company migration, as opposed to taxes and wages.
My job as a field engineer requires me to be out in the field. I'm still in favor of remote work, because it gets all these people off the roads, radically cutting down my drive time. Seriously, it makes a HUGE difference in places like the Washington DC area where traffic on "normal" (in-person) days is beyond terrible.
I drive 🚛 otr. Never been to DC (aka fort bullshit) till early summer 2013. After 2 hrs stop and go I pulled into a rest area and called it a day. Sat at a picnic table for 3 more hrs and watched it continue with the same pace.
Most veteran truckers told me with the I 95 wait till earliest 7 pm then move. No point trying to drive daytime unless you're local.
Reducing that traffic is also much better tor the environment
I'm fine with less laptop liberals on the road driving into the office. They should be busing anyways. Keep the roads clear for the rest of us
Don't understand how Manhattan is losing that money? They act like it is owed to them and the city/state government showed they didn't need to be there for companies to work.
Well they're trying to collect because they already promised that money to someone else. The sandwich shop was told "you have to pay ridiculous taxes AND extreme rents, but it's worth it because you'll get endless customers from all these local employees." And now the city is still collecting that taxes, and the landlord still collects that rent, but those employees aren't coming back.
People: "we want a living wage"
Them: "you may need to live within your means. Maybe you can't afford to live in a big city?"
People: *move away*
Them: pikachu face
Problem is they bring all the big city problems with them. I already saw in the comments someone complaining about “walkability”
Wouldn’t wanna get your loafers dirty.
This is why Ive been steadily cutting back on my "news" intake. Its all garbage and all it does is make me angry, so Ive been doing my best to ignore it. The number of UA-cam channels Ive had to block after following them nearly every day for years is...sad. I just cant do it anymore. The constant barrage of "something fucked up is happening today" is just too much. My mental health is already unstable as it is. I dont need to also worry about shit I cant do anything about anyway.
The only reasonable option. Most "news" is horseshit designed to piss you off anyway because they have to generate outrage to keep people clicking. It's truly a liberating feeling when you stop consuming "news" and realize that the world out there and not in your TV or mobile device.
You should recite this prayer every day. It goes like this "Lord, give me the strength to change the things I can change and let go of the things I can not change, and to have the wisdom to know the difference."
half the articles are just generated by AI at this point. I'm convinced
This is why I don't really follow the news much. I'll watch a few things that catch my eye. But after the first 1-2 minutes I generally know what I want & leave. If I didn't get all I want from just reading the title.
When I do want the news more often than not I'm watching late night comedy shows on it. Or another UA-cam channel. Like Louis's. I get my R2R news from him because he's so entertaining. Plus he has kitties. It's hilarious watching Oreo try to get into his lap no matter what.
Louis never stop being yourself. I've loved your content for the last 4 years. Keep it up
love his vids et al but if i had to curl up and cuddle-wuddle it would be with mr. clinton. what a super Cat louis has! all he wants to do on the videos is curl up on louis' keyboard... 😉😉
I used to come here and watch your vids just for the right to repair stuff, but I've found you have a lot of insights about many things that find myself agreeing with.
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That look on blackberry's face after Louis woke up blackberry with that scream 🤣
When other industries change, such as farming or the overseas jump of tech companies, the government's approach is well time to change jobs, progress is progress. Now it is affecting the government's income, they say we have to go back to the old system...
The scary thing is that govt. won’t be able to adapt. They’ll keep spending until they go bankrupt like Detroit. Then they get bailed out and learn nothing.
True.
Next, coal miners.
There is no 'economic cost' to remote work; in fact, there is a net economic benefit. The worker gets to keep more of their time & money, the employer gets to pay less in rent, which leads to a better outcome for both. There's an economic cost *to NYC*, but they are in no way entitled to any of that money.
There is actually an "economic cost", the times when economy is the best is when people spend approximately the same amount as they earn.
Keeping more money is harmful to the economy, because what keeps economies going is spending.
@@SioxerNikita So we'd live in a credit card world, nobody would retire, and the only thing preventing permanent class readjustment DOWN is the fact your descendants dont take on your debts when you die.
Sounds like a really bad place to be, ngl.
@@nickstone1167 Living by spending what you earn does not imply credit cards. And the retirement funds when you actually save them up are reinvested by the banks to keep the money flowing, and for that matter many countries have paid out social benefits for retirements, so that doesn't mean you can't retire.
Like you can read what ever you want into it, but stationary money is worth nothing. Money is only worth something when it is in circulation.
this is because the great enlightenment intellectuals like politicians were thinking they can flip a switch to shut down the economy, have everyone lock down, and the flip the switch back up and return things to normal again.
Turns out, just like my side was saying all along: economy is more important than grandma. And if you shut it down, there will be severe long term consequences
@@SioxerNikita You live in a fiction if you believe spending what you earn doesnt screw over the individual. You cannot rely upon promised growth to repay present debts forever, that's the point of saving, less you're willing to liquidate assets and become poorer a different way.
The economy and government arent entitled to my earnings by default, they can earn them or, more correctly, cut unnecessary spending.
But why do that when you can try to guilt trip the working citizens to cover your business or government poor financial decisions coming home to roost?
Lockdown was so poorly handled in NY it's unbelievable. My brother who works at a gymnastics place and they weren't even given a date they could return to work. His boss had to tap into her retirement fund and possibly put off retirement for another 7+ years.
They gave NOTHING to the gymnastic places here nor gyms.
Our small business was so borked because we need alcohol for 3D prints that we couldn't get and we couldn't get any mold material for our other products. So business was super unsteady because of that.
So my brother was really having to lean on our small business because there wasn't anything they could do. The state would not let them open. BARS, were opened but a gymnastics facility? NOPE. Restaurants, bars, you name it where people had to sit 1 seat away was fine, but a giant gymnasium? NOPE
They started doing some classes outside but you can't do a lot on grass vs mats. But even this was technically against the rules. But most parents were ASKING for this, something, anything because kids were getting depressed and antsy from being home all day.
So it doesn't surprise me that no one wants to go back. They had us locked down for so damned long we made our homes more comfortable and people don't have to commute and waste all that money there.
It's not like there aren't problems with working at home, the wear and tear is on your equipment now, you're having to use your gas/electric etc. But to turn around and start blaming the employees when they are the ones that dragged this whole thing out?
There was apparently a whole thing where the cleaning supplies being sold were somehow tied to a government official's family? Oh yeah sure, it's the people's fault and not the people who locked us down so hard and long.
If the NY gov wants to blame someone? Then they need to look no further than a mirror. They did this to themselves and their shaming of their people is unacceptable.
Their spending has been stupid and then they gave themselves a raise, that they voted for.
Unearned, unethical unbelievable.
V for Vendetta was so disturbingly accurate about alot of issues aside politics: If you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
The $ I save on travel and car wear & tear outweighs any added wear and tear + utilities on my house. I sat down to figure it out at one point, after having months of bills to compare the costs and the amount saved was actually pretty shocking.
My company saves money on utilities and internet (and rent after this lease is up) and I save money on the above mentioned things. I assume this is similar for many businesses. So regardless of how the lock down was handled, it just doesn't make sense for a lot of businesses to force their employees to come back or for employees to want to go back.
and will keep their jobs after the next election...
NYC is like the ex-wife who still demands child support when the kids are in their 20's, because what is she supposed to do without it?
I ran a consulting firm 2013 - 2019. One of our biggest "perks" was the ability to work from home. We spent 1 week a year working together in-person, plus traveling to customer sites. But otherwise it was all remote. It was a HUGE incentive to employees.
The part of capitalism I like is the free market. That means you have to be competitive, or you lose out.
As it should be. True capitalism stabilizing both the job and consumer markets.
I'm not sure we've had a true capitalist system for the last 150 years. It's not about being able to provide a service or product at the best price, it's more a question of who you know at the local masonic lodge.
@@MattyEngland that's just what being competitive is, what isn't capitalism is forcing a law in place/out that would benefit your company as it is now beyond the scope of an economy.
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The main issue with capitalism is the fact that it is unstable because everyone who rises high enough wants to saveguard and monopolize their success. It doesn't just "regulate itself", and those who claim that are either very stupid or are currently on top and profit from the inequality.
@Alias Anybody there's nothing wrong with capitalism. There's everything wrong with greedy people. Honestly even socialism wouldn't be that terrible if everyome was actually cool. But that ain't happening.
Pre-covid I'd literally be driving my laptop to work, spending 2 hours in commute, wasting money and time when I didn't need to. My job could be 100% done at home but management was too stuck in their ways. Surprise, surprise, when we went home from lockdowns, our team had zero problems transitioning into a a WFH model. Not only have we been profitable EVERY SINGLE YEAR since 2020, our team has grown, and we're more productive than ever. But do the higher ups care? No, all they see is the huge commercial real estate sitting unused and are forcing people back because of "culture" and "collaboration" when we've proven over the last 3 years that we didn't need to be in the office to succeed. It's so damn frustrating when logic doesn't run in the minds of decision makers.
As a permanent work from home worker prepandemic I know exactly what they're trying to do with forced work from office returns because I've seen it for my coworkers.
1 - Building is empty and dead : Rent heat etc. The way forward would have been to downsize but for some reason companies don't seem to want that all around.
2 - They think people are lazy and not working properly. Solution : Remotely check for productivity. This would entail managers to actually do their jobs, I haven't had 1 manager actually check what I was doing.
3 - Jealousy. Having full work from home positions disincentivizes people from going on site.
4 - Control. Workers that are on site are easily abused and asked to do more than they should be doing.
Ironically, all workers from Uruguay are immune to (at the time) vaccine mandates from my employer and the work from home/office policies (They never come to work). They were treated better than all permanent employees for 3 years.
alternate title: Try not to rage while reading the news challenge (impossible)
its easier and just better to not even look at the news. propaganda is soul crushing
@@bradhaines3142 b-but if we dont keep up with the news how will we know which corrupt officials to elect to ensure the maximum possible influence by lobbyist efforts??
@@Randomness662 elect? they seem to elect themselves just fine. as long as ive been alive it seems like pretty much every major election is decided before it even starts. sometimes they make sense, sometimes it doesnt.
(gone wrong) (clinton the cat is here)
FINALLY! A cat in the video!
I "retired" and work from home (quilting) and I LOVE IT! Of course the economy sucks and ppl aren't buying, but IF and WHEN the economy improves, I'll have lots of stock to sell (of which I purchased fabric over the last 10 yrs. at much lower prices). Currently, I'm using my "scraps" and donating quilts to Ukraine. A very fulfilling lifestyle!
'Nobody wants to work anymore' - a newspaper article from 1937
History has taught us over and over, when times are hard , we blame the employees.
Could it be that an economy that's based on the idea of ripping people off as much as possible has lead to a nation filled with people who can't afford to live? Nah.. that's crazy talk, must be the employees fault.
NY: _Maybe I'm wrong for having so high of a budget..._
NY: _Hmm... No. It's the taxpayers who are wrong. We need to bend the law to tax people who don't even live here!_
MTA's solution is cutting service. Brilliant way to encourage people to use mass transit more.
Commercial real estate is completely insane. In Spokane Washington it's more expensive than in Los Angeles to rent a commercial space and they want a slice of Your Action too.
in addition to rent the slumlord also wants a percentage of your business profits, too is how i read your comment. is that true?
So sad. people are actually spending money in their OWN DAMN communities! this is is horrible and must be stopped!!!!!!!
I blame the Governor and mayor of NYC who closed down the city during covid.
This man is my spirit animal
I'd settle for his cat being my spirit animal 🤣
@@lizicadumitru9683 Meow Meow Meow...
not human ?
It's great, as someone who commutes from LI. I went from a 1.5 - 2 hour commute on Friday afternoon pre pandemic to 45-50 minutes present day. Woohoo!
What I always loved about office work was that everyone was busy watching their 401k or portfolio. Hoping that the other company didn't have an office full of employees looking at their 401k and instead making profits for someones 401k...
I'm based out of Chicago, so my story is similar:
1. Having obcessively high rents kills neighborhoods. The artsy fun neighborhoods can't afford to live there and produce what they do.
2. Having businesses and infrastructure that requires high density to financially survive is a ticking time bomb. When it goes off everyone just surprised pikachu.
I'm not sure what the phrase for it, but there is one for what happens when you pressure people too much and close them in. Its a bad situation.
High density isn't bad, what's bad is that office space in urban environments in the US is overvalued and over-inflated because of how concentrated it is.
The problem in the US isn't density, it's the strict concentration and segregation of density. The US is either sprawling unwalkable concrete hellscape or high rise bullshit hellscape with no in between. So if you want office space, you are forced to have to go to specifically zoned land for that instead of say allowing for small office spaces to be built in the middle of residential areas. So instead of low cost small offices in low cost neighborhoods, we have high cost neighborhoods and high cost office spaces, helping no one but landlords.
Learned a new word today. Vampiric. Thanks Louis.
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I'm still battling that beast known as the F-Train. So glad you got out of Dodge, Louis. This place has only gotten worse.
Gravesend? My friend still lives there. I can't stand that abomination!
After almost 3 years of work from home and closing multiple offices in the suburbs (near their actual revenue-generating physical presence) my employer leased a swanky new space downtown and has been slow-rolling a return to the office policy. I ventured forth just to see it and discovered that it was an open office hot-seating hellscape. Senior management naturally loves it since they spend most of their working hours in meeting and reading emails. Everyone else that has to actually focus on their work (so senior management has something to talk about in meetings and emails to read and respond to) for any period of time hates it since it's all hard surfaces with no audio/visual dampening. Headphones are mandatory just so you can tune out the distractions and look busy - and put on a show of looking busy I did for the two days I was there.
And since it's downtown away from all the other offices that used to be in the suburbs (again near the physical presence we have that makes the revenue) it's a pain to get to since DFW transit is kinda trrbl thus you're driving on the region's most congested roads and highways. Outside of a big team meeting or a mandate to report there I plan on continuing to work from home.
I wonder if NYC. SFO, etc are seeing similar reorganizations of office space - worker-hostile open office work areas with hot seating that extract additional time and money from worker's pockets while adding misery.
The fuk is "hotseating"?
Nevermind, forgot google exists.
Yeh that looks dumb.
I hate open office floorplans. I do technical work and that type of distraction and disruption are death to concentration. The place I used to work dropped down the office space they lease and went to an open floorplan as part of their covid recovery plan. I'd left for other reasons and have a nice quiet office - when I go in. Which isn't often in the winter but more frequent in the summer - let them pay for the AC.
15:36 Louis lets his inner new yorker slip out.
They maintain subways & invest in schools?
I thought they just stole as much as they could.
Are they "losing" money or do they need to update their business models
Do you think the reason why states don't have elderly care for all is because they want to maintain an incentive to stay in their deteriorating state 🤔
I have been claiming for over 2 decades that most in person work and business travel are complete B.S. I think one of the key reasons is that bosses and business owners like having their minions within their line of sight so that they can have a sense of power and control.
Government: "If young people want to buy houses, they should stop spending money on coffee and lunches!"
Also Government: "OH MY GOD! GET BACK TO THE OFFICE AND BUY COFEE!!!!"
Started WFH in 2009 when I became self employed. At this point I don't think I could ever go somewhere else to do exactly the same thing I do from my home office.
We aren't going back to the office. Not only did employees discover how good working from home is, even employers are realising it's better for buisiness.
Violent crime is a part of this too. I don't want to get pushed in front of the train thanks
I love how if it's about a Personal budget everyone has their 2 cents on how you need to do better and spend less earn more grind but when it's corporate or gov't it's omg why don't you wanna just give them your moneys
Double my salary and I'll come back five times a week. Funny how more money isn't the enticement they are trying.
It's a perfect comparison of when they went from "Personnel" to "Human Resources." We're literally just a resource to large corporations, no longer individual people.
I am one of those workers that does nothing 80% of the time. Before I can in, my work was done mostly manually, but I ended up making a lot of macros and scripts to automate stuff and now I just spend most of the time watching UA-cam and browsing Reddit. I'm only allowed to work 1 day in the week from home because or manager is an old school person who wants to see everyone in the office.
When I saw this story earlier, I thought: “Wonder if Louis saw this?” 🤔
Oh, he saw it, folks! 😅
I kept hoping that people would push back against getting dragged back into the office. I have a great home office, no distractions other than a dog during the workday, even my boss admits I’m extremely productive at home, yet the whole “but everyone HAS to come back!” narrative from “leadership”, the governor in my state, and the box-checking overlords who need to justify THEIR jobs by having people to micromanage all day is a steady drumbeat.
We all just got told on Monday: “Yeah, so sorry…no raises again. But, you know we have your back!” Yeah, to stab us in it.
Profits are up, but so are costs . . . gotta build a cushion for further inflation!
Points to your cat, for staying so chill in the face of madness.
The average employee should know just how criminal these large corporations are so they can gtfo without any guilt on their jobs. If only you kneww what unethical and outright evil stuff they do to become so gigantic.
Don't forget that the subway has become much more dangerous. I know some Manhattan businesses bans employees from wearing business formal clothing, or watches if they are commuting on the subway, and requiring them to take black car service if leaving after dark.
Ironic that I'm listening to this whilst exercising on a local park, close to home, on a work day during a break.
This is why I never accepted a single mandatory office day. I'm my job, office days make no sense and I'm good enough that my employer isn't going to risk losing me. That's not even all, I'm now looking to buy a rural property to move intestate, away from the suburbs and work from there. I know my employer will be going along with that. Talented people can make a difference here and companies will have to offer full remote work to get them.
Yes, I know I'm privileged. Nothing wrong with a privilege I worked hard to get.
A few weeks ago, some wise "representative for the chamber of such and such" was making this argument for Sydney. He actually said (and I"m chuckling as I repeat his words) that we should return for equity. Think of the emergency worker and the McDonald employee who has to physically be at his place of work. I commented on his article, I said "b*tch do I look like I care". He chose not to publish my comment.
It's not surprising that the workers are being blamed for the continuing downturn.
The government and corporations should have their noses dubbed in this mess that they created.
What are the chances that legislatures see this article... and then ban working from home?
Looks like the cat was raging on the left corner of the chair
In the first short story that Robert Heinlein ever sold in the 1930s, Life-Line, he wrote this bit that has always stuck with me:
"Before we leave this matter I wish to comment on the theory implied by you, Mr. Weems, when you claimed damage to your client. There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
These corporations are asking for the clock of history to be turned back. Nobody has the right to ask that, and nobody has the ability to grant it.
This! Heinlein was brilliant, even if it was pointing out the obvious.
I have been working from home since the pandemic... and... I cannot go back to the office. I am working with military Chain of Command and they were pushing for having us back in office 2 days a week, but the directive from the Department was ONE day a week. I had to highlight this in bright yellow and notified my Chain of Command so they can back off.
Wait a minute, NYC is collecting 100 BILLION tax per year and the subway looks like this? Wth are they doing with all that money?
NYC had a $1 Trillion property tax valuation in 2014.
There was a time when everyone lived in small towns. Everyone moved to cities, and now the pressures for that have faded and they are upset because life happens. Small/Medium towns make America tick and it's just better living there.
what we are witnessing is wider society slowly realizing that a clear majority of 'jobs' are makework positions
I read a comment by someone I follow who basically went "Oh boo hoo people have to go back into the office. Maybe you shouldn't have been announcing your netflixing and chilling." yeah because a few people who does it means everyone is guilty. I just rolled my eyes and kept scrolling. It reminds me of the whole bad apple spoils the bunch thing where everyone is bad because one person does something bad and don't get me started on the hypocrisy of that phrase.
lol. these people didn't see the video from the twitter chick when she showed us what her day actually attending her workplace was like.
It’s like they are foreshadowing a work from home tax
Someone will get shot over that.
a little tip: UA-cam nerfs your reach when you mention the word "news" either in the video or title. just keep doing what your doing, just avoid that word.
Really? Why? Because he isn’t considered a reliable source for news?
@@TheBooban You're not allowed to talk about the news in 2023 unless you're a verified journalist™
Your show is great. America has to hear it over and over again.
I live in NYC, and I work in lower Manhattan I have not been on any public transportation since March of 2020. (Lockdowns) I work from home four days out of the week on the one day that I go in I take car service. I enjoy your videos. 👏
Thank you!
"News" is _supposed_ to be information and raw data to help the audience make decisions. The *biggest* problem is that our sources of "news" have switched to performing a bait-and-switch of luring readers and viewers and listeners with a promise of information, then spinning that encounter in to manipulating _emotions,_ trying to tell people _how they should feel about _*_other people's thinking._*
Office work suck don't do it
It's like that "Gru's Plan" meme:
1. Force people into isolation!
2. Close down businesses!
3. Chase away businesses that are still profitable!
4. City is earning less from taxes!
?4.City is earning less from taxes?
The entire state budget of North Carolina is less than a quarter of the size of the budget of New York City and North Carolina has 25% more people than New York City does!
$20 for a sandwich GFY! When you charge $5 for 50 cent water GFY! When you need a PIN code as a customer to take a leak in their customer bathroom GFY! When the police watch a person get stabbed on the subway and they did not help GFY! Both Adams and Hoochie can GTFOH!!!
It comes down to supply & demand. Landlords could charge ridiculous amounts for rent because businesses were willing to pay that. Now, some businesses realize they have other options, and Landlords are very slow to lower their rents, so yes, there will be many offices empty, which will affect other businesses in that area, (cafe's etc), who will then not be able to make their extreme rent amount, and so on and so forth...
As you said at the beginning, yes, we wanted to hear this. So logical and pragmatic. No wonder you had to leave NYC.
I am so glad you are telling people these truths ! Sadly it took me 50 years to discover these truths when truly i dont think anyone is supposed to figure out these truths at all in their lifetimes
Louis, you have convicted me to avoid living in big cities like the plague and to get back into electronic self repair.
I work from home in the pacific northwest, living in a downtown community where rent is only 1/3rd of what most people would pay for half as much space in NYC and I regularly go to small-biz restaurants and delis on my breaks. It's great. everyone wins. Maybe if NY regulates their apartments to be more affordable and came with basic amenities like laundry units that are standard in many $900 units elsewhere in the country, maybe Manhattan's local restaurants would suffer less. We also need to regulate commercial rents as well, but we all know that NY will do neither.
Regulation is not the answer...
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It is, actually, including deregulation. Currently most of the US heavily regulates land usage even more than other countries do with the exception of countries like China. Unnecessarily restrictive regulation artificially constricts supply and inflates prices. Inflated prices and restrictive land use creates both economic inflationary bubbles and inflexible economic development.
Yes, this applies to outside of urban areas as well. In fact, if more suburban areas allowed for more flexible economical development this would decrease demand for urban real estate, making both suburbs and cities more livable, workable and overall economically viable. But that requires work and overcoming the irrational fears boomers have against a bakery opening up next door to their suburban home, for fear it might bring foot traffic of people hungry for croissants and bagels early in the morning, the horror!
Louis you're rants are absolutely legendary. We want more.
Right on! Well said.
3:49 good cat!
Lol, they spent 2 years telling people to fear being in enclosed areas or being with in 6 ft of others and they wonder why no one wants to ride the subway.
I had a job where we could work remote occasionally. I chose to come in on Monday/Friday because my goal was to beat traffic and EVERYONE worked remote on Mon/Fri. The bonus was also less people in the office walking up and distracting me from working.
See how corporations cry when you hit their wallet, the power is in the people , don’t buy shit till they make it fair