I'm a 66 year old retired American male....I spent my whole life working as little as possible, and my only regret looking back on it now is that I didn't work even less.
@@wintergreen9949 I just figured out how to live on much less money than the average American (such as by not having a car, etc). Remember - everything you don't buy is one more thing you don't have to earn money to pay for!
@@Mona-gp4qt This is one sign of the many generational gaps which exist today. I think about this stuff a lot. People back in the 1960's could just pick up and go anywhere. Hitchhiking was legal, and cheap housing options like boarding houses still existed. College could be paid for from a part time job. Some colleges were even free. Airfare was regulated by the government. Gas for cars and home heating was cheap. People cooked at home or could pull fish from any body of water. In this new world where food & energy are expensive and everything has a monthly cost, the need now exists for basic income + monthly housing & food subsidies.
My dad retired in January 2020 from the company he worked at for over 40 years. He had a stressful job that required a lot of travel and days and nights away from home. He routinely worked more than 40 hours per week, and in his late 60s kept being told he needed to do more. At 70 he retired and his retirement by comparison has been bliss. He got time for his passions and where we could and when we could, we traveled. But he had a heart attack in December and died. Less than 3 years after retirement. Our society uses up good, hardworking people. If my dad had just one more day off each week, even just for the last 10 years of his job, would I still have a dad?
@@EQRuges I don't think there would be a question because I think he would have surely died on the job/while still working. It was a tough job physically and me tally and he had a lifelong heart condition.
god, imagine a world where you could find your own purpose, instead of trying to motivate yourself to do things you want to do after youve slogged working away the time you werent able to, this video stirred something inside me and i dont know what it is
I think that labor is our purpose that is meaningful labor. Having rights and shit is nice but our purpose is to evolve our species imo to allow life to exist and to ensure its existence
@@ahkosorsomesaykosby9999an endless cycle of mindless stress and suffering is fucking dumb, I’d rather everyone who is currently alive be happy and healthy, doing what they love and living how they want, at the cost of us all being the last humans left , unable to reproduce, over what we currently have, suffering just to “better” the lives of future generations only for them to end up doing the same sounds like some sacrilegious cult shit
Isn't it kind of weird that technology advanced a lot and raised our work productivity a lot, but we still have 40-hour work week (or even more for some) that was won by workers fighting for it a century ago?
Not weird As technology advances things become much more labor intensive not the other way around. The planes of world War 1 were built by carpenters basically chopping up a bunch of wood, slapping it together and dropping in a motor and a machine gun Now compare that to the insane supply chain needed to produce a f-35
All those fighting workers died or were bought off. Now the rich have managed to convince people that they are worthless outside of their utility to the rich.
The answer is pretty obvious and I feel has been for a while now. The issue is that the owners of the world don’t want the population to have more time to themselves. That would mean more freedom, self-autonomy, and more energy to think for ourselves, assess our situation and find solutions to better it.
And the masses having more free time will give them the space and time to educate themselves and realise that they don't NEED the leeches at the top. By keeping people working to the point of exhaustion, no one will question the status quo. They'll be too tired to.
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
@@grandempressvicky6387 Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
@@Anton-cq2ch Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
When I was a child in the 1970s people were wondering what we'd all do with our increased leisure time created by automation. I'm still wondering where that leisure time is...
Think that's bad, consider that Marx wrote the Communist manifesto believing the automation already available then was sufficient to produce sufficient that work could be according to need rather than the coercive reality of then or today.
People are so weird. I mean that was a time when books were around for a long time already, you just could've read the books that you were interested in and probably never would have been able to finish all of them. I don't understand at all why those people thought that
@@Ladymagentabennett 😆 stop, you killed me! But really though: wouldn't it be better if we all had better means of transportation? Like, a really good train network?
The lesson I learned early in life is watching my dad … worked locally until his retirement at 65 … then he suffered a massive stroke at 67 and rendered partially paralyzed and unable to speak. He died 3 1/2 yrs later after much suffering. It changed my attitude about work : doing what I love and where my passions are & making sure I have enough leisure time to explore, travel & try out new things.
Me too. My father was a workaholic and developed severe health issues both mental and physical. I think people should have a choice whether they want to work or not and a Universal Basic Income would help.
See what kind of world is that people think if I work hard then I'll be free at 65! Not knowing they might die right after a whole life wasted working. That's why being rich in this day is amazing. Unless we as a society changed but they want us working.
All I want to do is pursue my hobbies. Cooking, music, hiking, gardening, landscaping, carpentry, biking. All of it is a form of "work," but it's stuff that makes me happy, unlike the soul-sucking, depressing busy-work I do for most of my job.
I decided really really early i want to make money out of my hobby. And now i'm doing really well. Nobody encouraged or discouraged me. I am happy i'm getting paid for having fun. If I made it, you can too. And don't think i had rich parents or anything like that. I was raised by an unemployed single mother in poverty. Some times electrical energy got cut. We didn't eat every day. Second hand shoes and clothes. But i made it. I just stuck to my hobby.
i ve heard a lot a phrase that went (ish) make your hobby your work and it becomes your work but treat your work like your hobby and you wont work a day. my case is a bit odd, as i live in what used to be my grandparents house with my fiancee, and next month my best friend is coming to live with us as he doesn't have anywhere else to go, the cost of maintaining our house is relatively low, and the three of us have been, at different points of our lives, with little to no money, so we now how to live a modest life, sure is cool to own a lot of shit, buy a lot of things, but owning thing and spending won't make our lives any more happy. the key is finding happiness in other things, and just work enough to keep that lifestyle
The company I'm working with didn't go with 4-days' work; however, they reduced the work hours to 6 hours a day. I can't even explain how the work environment changed and made almost everyone happier :)
I have a friend that when I met him I asked him what he does. He started saying woodworking, writing, cooking, spending time with his kids, etc... I said oh I meant for work. And he said oh, do you mean what do I sell myself as labor for? Always stuck with me.
It's good to have hobbies & interests. People who complain about retiring being too boring or who say they always have to work at something are likely to have had work as too big a part of their lives and don't know what to do with their time.
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
If no one in the country worked the it would get real hard real fast. The trash would pile up, the sewage would back up, electricity would stop, no phones or internet, couldn't drive for long bc the gas stations would cease. It's alot of good that would happen but tons of bad that I can't even imagine.
"Busy work" is so hard for me, and my ADHD. I can't focus or have time flow by reasonably fast. When I can't stop thinking the thought "Why am I doing this? Does it even matter if I don't?" I find it difficult to allocate my little energy, time, and put on a smile to get through pointlessness. All that harder to roll out of bed that way.
ADHD is the main reason I haven’t entered the workforce yet, I am 20 btw. I want to enter the workforce when I feel ready, not when society deems that I should, my history with meds is slightly complicated and haven’t had them for a few years and only just started on them again like two months ago and I have to sort all of my life out first. Work is just unnecessary stress for me right now, plus I imagine getting fired doesn’t look good on a resume so I consider this the completely correct thing to do for now. Medication is really a godsend, I used to struggle with getting out of bed and having showers, and it was terrible drain on self esteem, now I feel like I can actually do things, and I am even more productive at procrastinating, since before meds I would just browse 24/7, now in addition to browsing I am getting through my long games catalog, baby steps come first after all. I wish you the best comrade of brain, a nice little phrase I like to call fellow ADHDers.
@@captain-chair I have ADHD and autism, and I forced myself into working at 18, fully aware that I wasn't capable of it, because society told me I had to. I'm 25 now, and years of forcing myself to do something I wasn't capable of meant years of sacrifices and damage. I've developed severe mental illnesses from the extreme stress and trauma that I put myself through trying to meet the unhealthy standards of capitalism that I simply did not have the capacity to meet while still living any semblance of a healthy lifestyle. I've experienced years long depressive episodes, suicidal ideation, intrusive thoughts of extremely violent self harm, periods of time where I was totally numb emotionally and mentally, and stress induced dissociation. I say all this to encourage you to stick to your guns because you're making the right call. Don't fall into the same trap that I did, don't take irreparable damage to your mental health just to make some rich capitalist richer.
@@Amynon1660 I appreciate you sharing this, and I am sorry you had to go through all of that crap, mental health in this day and age is kinda fucked, the lack of affordable services for some, and the lack of services in general for others, I was the latter, when I was diagnosed there was nothing on offer to really support me more then just meds alone which I ended up blaming for my failures when it was really the lack of awareness at the time. I feel validated by your encouragement, because being unemployed often makes me feel insecure about myself that I ain’t doing much, but I am doing the right thing by putting my mental health first. I hope you are doing better now or are working towards better because we all deserve better, and this world won’t do it, so must some how rangle our way there, and I say that although being terminally online might not be considered a virtue in the slightest, if it wasn’t for the internet I would have never have got where I am now, without the information I have learned I would’ve probably been on suicide watch myself, knowledge is mighty powerful, and that isn’t something capitalism can keep us from anymore, which is why I maintain general optimism about the world despite the problems it faces. I must restrain myself from going on a massive tangent, I tend to accidentally do that sometimes, but I again wish you the best.
@Idk__ What do you mean by self sufficient? We need to pay for bills, power, medication, lighting, water, heating, or modern medicine. Saying we should give up such commodities is sort of insane because ADHD isn’t really suited to just leaving civil society, the whole hunter gatherer thing is sort of a myth, ADHD wouldn’t really benefit the hunter gatherer life style, it’s just easier to get dopamine, just with a much higher mortality rate for doing simple tasks, then the modern world. You probably weren’t talking about that but it is just the ADHD response for the whole self sufficiency thing, the your solution to any social problem is return to monke, then you don’t understand why monke was worse.
@@captain-chair There can be some merit to it so don't discard the whole sentiment. One thing, for example, that is self-sufficient-ish would be to form community gardens and tradelines where the food produced and procured can be maximally shared among the community. Things like power can be scaled down through positive encouragement (weekly community get togethers outside instead of 8 more hours bitching on twitter) and more clever management. It won't come close to taking care of all of it but even if a strong local scene can shave off 1 hour of obligatory work to pay for overpriced crap then it's one less hour of stress you can use. There's a little community house close by me that cooks every day and you can join them for free food without any expectations in return. It's not some magical communist eutopia but the comfort of knowing that if anything happens, I can still head there and not starve for a day helps in ways I can't even explain.
There's a good chunk of the US population too obsessed with calling the younger generation lazy to go along with this even if it will help them too and improve quality of life as a whole. Then there are those who are already retired and bitter and don't want anyone to have it better than they did.
There are a bunch of younger people who want to blame older people for the class structure. Blame capitalism. Many of those old folks lost their union jobs and are having to keep working late in life just to pay medical bills.
Im 29, I work full time (40+) hours a week and my generation and the one under mine ARE lazy, taking 4+ hours to do 1 hour tasks, no intrest in learning how to do their job efficiently and constantly complaining about how hard everything is. That said this is just a generalized observation of the majority of co workers i have had in the past 10 years and am aware of the few and far between exceptional individuals who are humble and hard working.
I switched to a 4 day work week a year ago and its been great. Getting 3 days off in a row is the perfect balance. You get 1 day to try to work for your self, 1 day to spend with friends, and a day just to relax and do nothing at all. I feel so refreshed when i go back to work and give it more effort.
I sometimes catch myself hoping to get sick so I can have a few days off. I'm currently stuck in the final year of training with a 50h week (40 hours work + 10 hours commute). Can't wait to switch to 5.5h or 4 days once I'm done with that. Awesome to hear that you made it work.
I work 4 10 hr days with optional overtime. I find that I enjoy my overtime because its my choice and I can go home whenever I want. Also I agree about the 3 days off. Its perfect. I go in 3 hrs on Friday, complete one major task then go do whatever I wish. Then Saturday to socialize, and Sunday to sit around or go do something fun, Mondays are always good because everyone is in a great mood because they got adequate rest and recreation. Thats the perks of having a boss in his 30s. His father ran us ragged and made the job horrible, when he took over it was awesome.
Thats not even talking about compensation, he is already rich so he puts 30% of our profits back into the paychecks. Bonuses every 3 months, and annual raises. I got a 5 dollar/hr raise for inflation, and a 1500 bonus just for doing what I do everyday. Hopefully all jobs can work towards being like mine.
Honestly I think 3 days in a row would be too much, kinda fits with that whole law of diminishing returns thing. But you shift that day off to like Wednesday now you never work more than two days in a row, two weekends sounds pretty appealing to me
That's what I did in my previous job. Having a Wednesday off is a life saver. I went from hating my job to not caring because I'm never there more than 2 days. And even made Tuesday evenings a pleasure as you can actually do things or go somewhere without the pressure of having work next day. It breaks the week up perfectly (for me)
It's amazing how indigenous peoples survived hundreds of years without the concept of money, yet nearly every member of the society contributed to the betterment of their tribe without the pressure of monetary limits.
Capitalism teaches selfishness so even if we went back to working together for the better of everyone unfortunately there will always be someone trying to screw everyone over just for the benefit of their own self
I went from a 50-60 hour work week to a 30-35 hour work week, and I could see the stark difference in productivity throughout the staff. After a certain point, people just wanted to go home, so they would barley do anything. Whereas now, people at my work stay vigilant until those last few minutes
I’m a manager in Japan and after hearing about the 4 day work week, I got all my workers down to 30 hours per week and soon I’ll work with HQ to get them down to 4 days ☺️ If you push hard enough, it can work. They seem much happier than before and things still run smoothly. Good luck, America ✊🏽
I worked a 3 day work week for many years. They were long hours, hard days and I was tired when I was finished but it was rewarding work and I got paid well. The upside was I then had 4 days off during the week to do whatever I wanted. It was great.
I told my engineers "get the amount of work done that I assign for you and I don't give a shit what you do after." They get more work done by Wednesday than the best team i was on before got done in two weeks. Based on the pics I see and the group chat, seems like they spend the other 3/4 of the sprint motorcycling, baking, and playing videogames lol. And we still come in under budget every. Time.
@@komali2 I mean considering if you know you get off as soon as you get the work done properly, you will do it efficiently and fast. One of the most common things I've noticed in "normal" job etiquette or whatever I should call it, is that people tend to try and waste as much time as possible while at work. Kind of like the "Boss makes a dollar I make a dime" meme. I feel like a lot of that comes from just how much time you spend at work. I will admit that I did that myself at times, despite being a "scared" young kid new to the trade. A lot of my, lets call them managers would just tell me to go take a brake, just don't go near the cameras so the higher ups won't see your slacking, again pretty much everyone does it.
The "downtime" part is why I LOVE being in Home Office. Whenever there was no work in the office back then, we still had to pretend, most of the time, that we work. Whenever there is no work to do at the moment in home office, I play games, watch videos, cook, clean the house, hang/fold the laundry, etc. Does it mean that I don't work when there IS work to be done? OF COURSE NOT! But when there ISN'T ANY, I don'Ttjust sit idly in front of my screen, but do things beneficial for me or my private life (see examples above). Did my work ethics, the quality of my work or my morale dip with home ofiice? Not even the least bit. It's just when there isn't any work to do, I do what other things need to be done and not bore myself to death by sitting and pretending there is work to do.
Exactly! In addition, working from your home gives you even more free time as you don't need to go anywhere. This saves money which would be needed for (public) transportation. In the first year of Covid me and my colleagues have constantly worked from home for about 6 months. If anything, home office raised effectivity. We weren't distracted by each other as much.
yup yup. and sometimes we use so much energy pretending there is work to do, that we are less productive when finally there is something meaningful to do. its just stupid. it all comes down to the idea that employers are buying the employee's time. it should NOT be this way. They are buying the results, not the time. What does anyone need someone else's time for? They need results. Get that in your head.
Don't forget the 30-120 minutes of commute per day that are just free now. Which in my case resulted: Hey, why even rent in an expensive city when I can BUY a house for less in a rural area? Apparently many people did the same.
The ease in which most jobs went virtual almost immediately during the pandemic screamed to me that most jobs are completely arbitrary and useless. Someone making excel sheets, graphs and slides that were already sheets graphs and slides of someone else’s sheets graphs and slides
I'm a web developer, mostly coding stuff that even our own people use Adblockers for and websites or software that nobody needs except for marketing people having a budget they must throw out the window every year. I like my job because it's fun and pays well, but the product of my work doesn't contribute to society. If the job wasn't fun, I'd be basically locked in an awful career, because due to mental illness this is the only company where I can effortlessly meet expectations without risking my health.
10 years ago I stopped working overtime, limiting my work hours to an 8 hour day. Originally motivated by a need for less stress. Now, I get a lot more done; and get to go home at a decent time. A 4 day week would be bliss.
I had a 4 hour shift; I would LEAVE not one more minute after it was over; I got fired, but that's really what I wanted. I can't stand being an employee, as much as I can't understand how people put up with it. I guess, sadly, some people were born for it? I know people who can't live without somebody telling them who they are, what to do, how far can they can go, if the moon is made out of cheese and if santa claus is real. Really, some people have to be told and that defines them.
Have you talked to your boss about a 4-day week? Personally, I have almost always gotten exactly what I wanted from my boss, by simply doing my job, doing it well, and then openly talking to him/her about how I want my work week to be. I have had bosses that knew they had to call me in if they needed me on days with great surfing conditions, and they really didn't mind because they knew that I would always deliver, and it would always be high quality and on time. That's really all a boss needs. If you haven't tried it, I suggest you go for it, you might be pleasantly surprised. GL 🤞
Just imagine how much healthier and happier we would all be if we could work 25hours a week and still be able to live comfortably with a fair wage.. too bad it’ll never happen tho
@@foolishmortal9703 honestly I think we’re too far gone for it to happen. I would love to be wrong, but I just can’t see; especially with how our current economy is
I used to work 60h a week on a restaurant and next summer it got increased like 15h a day, 6 days a week. Totally insane. I refused to work on such conditions and went back to the city I was born and after a few years (I studied some other things) I got a job working around 30h a week and the difference is outstanding, I have time to sleep, learn more things, play videogames and much more, I wouldn't change it for nothing! I don't regret leaving a 3 michelin star restaurant to be a delivery guy working for a chinese restaurant and I will never be.
Good for you man. My bf and I started a company and we divided the work shifts so we each only work 2 and a half days a week. It’s been a life changer. I have time to try out new recipes, read books, take walks to the beach, play with my cats, etc.
I think that most people, myself included, are afraid to work for themselves, because there's no initial guarantee that you'll be successful. What we don't realize is that if we stay consistent, we can and will grow over time. It's that over time bit that we get hung up on. A job working for someone else, we know that if we do the bullshit we'll get paid, versus doing work you enjoy for yourself, that doesn't immediately pay.
OK, so boom! Now *everyone* has an LLC. So are your employees just other business owners, who work for each other on the side? Is that what you are saying? Even *you* will go work at another's business. Is that right?🤔
Avoid words like socalism, labour, union, and strike and I think most people are onboard, use phrases like we're being take advantage of etc, but then again the rich are the only class with class solidarity :|
There are more of us out here than you think. 😃😄 Depending on the situation you're born into, and, seeing just how hard the media works to control the narrative, it can be hard to see it though, that's true. ((Have you checked out PLN News as well? There are good-news-stories there from all over the globe that aren't likely to be on TV!))
Ridiculed, marginalized & been told I was “lazy” for over 3 decades while working 80+ hours a week. Now I work around 30 hours a week at a job I like & make the same money in an entirely different industry. Tired of the other sh!t - & I’m hacking the system now. Multi-millionaires & billionaires be damned!
My parents are always working throughout the weekday. Even when they're done with work, they can't sit still and relax. I really don't want to become like that because it seems so sad. Work is necessary, but overwork isn't.
As someone who was never in a union when I was in the field, but am staff at a company with union workers, I seriously see the benefit of unions. Wish they were growing and not shrinking.
I work as an artist, and this societal addiction to working for the sake of working has really messed me up sometimes. Some time ago I changed which hardware and software I used to draw, and it was great! I was getting commissions done significantly faster than my old setup! But I felt this nagging feeling because I wasn't drawing for twelve hours a day anymore. It turns out, a good chunk of those hours were just mundane things like flat colors I have better ways to automate now, or dealing with technical issues from my old setup. Still, somehow I felt guilty because finishing more actual creative work meant I was doing less busywork.
Yep, it's the old adage that a life not spent working like a fucking dog is a life wasted. Notice how that old notion only applies to working for somebody else in exchange for money.
Same here! I used to draw in a way that made it impossible to get nice coloring with just the bucket tool, meaning I had to color in everything manually, now after changing my art-style to where using bucket tool (along side few other stuff) significantly reduced my drawing time, and now I have time to do other stuff. I was so surprised once when I realized I completed a drawing that would usually take me over a day in just a few hours.
Sincerely if you use a computer to do gour digital art vs a tablet can u drop what software you use, i have been feeling impossible trying to make digital art and my commissions have been at a standstill because of it. I spend so much time just adjusting and moving levels around and trying to maneuver software that I'm losing my marbles lol
@darkstrifequeen1458We look forward to seeing what you have to offer! It’s good to be weary of corporations who might want to profit off your creations and give no regards to you, the person making them.
My old work place experimented with 35-38 hour work weeks... by making everyone work 6-7 hour shifts 5 days a week and, since you weren't actually a full time employee because you weren't doing 40 hours, basically no one got health insurance since they were all considered part time (: That's on top of having to do at least two job's worth of labor, of course
That's just it they will find a way to exploit less time as well. Reductions in pay no benefits so on and so forth. The owner class always finds more reasons and methods to exploit the proletariat.
@Masen S serious question, how do you pay for it then? That's what I hate about private insurance, you still have to pay copays, prescriptions, and that's if they even cover your visit. But yea if you're working 28 hours seems like a ton of your check would go to insurance
We really need to decouple work from earning money. Raising a child is work. Cleaning your house is work. Going to get your car registered is work. You just don't get paid for it because those things don't directly make capitalists money. I want to work. I just can't survive without money, so I'm forced to do only certain kinds of work.
@@ConnorisseurYT Interesting. You "know" that someone's incapable of producing a product, good, or service that a buyer is willing to pay for just because they raise a question about society's concept of "work"?
It’s more about wether it can be measured and wether you contribute to society in the short term and long term. People seem to forget where capitalism originated. It didn’t just appear out of nowhere with a few people on the top. It is the closest to evolution we have and it is the closest to the human nature. Take a bigger risk and earn more, do less and earn less. Focus only on yourself and you will earn nothing. A society can’t function if people didn’t do the necessary work. And in our modern globalised society networking, stocks and company management have become just as important to keep up our living standards as brick layers and plumbers. In the end the one who adapts best wins. And some exploit this system and I have a hard time judging them for it. These things are unfair and brutal in some cases but they are just natural. They won’t change if we change the system. Exploitation and all that will always exist in some form. Europe does a good job at setting boundaries without regulating the market too much. People have to understand that although in many cases it seems trivial the human being as a part of a society unfortunately is made to work and nothing else. Evolution has made humans for reproduction and keeping the species alive. Technically we have luxury here. Not being able to afford medicine is on one hand cruel, but can also be seen as natural selection in an advanced society. If you don’t have the traits to make it than your genes are not advantageous for future generations and humanity. Except that intellect has become more and more important as more physical jobs are slowly being pushed away by machines. It is all just natural selection and every individual just plays the part to make his own life better. No one, and I repeat absolutely NO ONE acts fully selfless. Even a parent taking a bullet for their own child is just ensuring the passing on of the own genes. What we are programmed to do. Take the payment part. If we have a corporation that contributes to any sort of logistical thing in society that provides millions of people with an important service. And we have tens of thousands of plumbers that also provide millions of people with an equally important service. That means that that one ceo has equal responsibility and impact on peoples life as the ten thousands of plumbers combined . With such and influence isn’t it only fair to earn the more?
@@musiccer7446 Absolutely, though the problem are the corrupt rules and legislation put around it - CEOs are payed massive wages in the form of "performance bonuses" to avoid taxes, constantly being shortstaffed and not hiring are a way to get loans that basically turn into grants, etc. Any system in existence must be designed with a egoist, greedy human in mind. The problem is those same humans, after designing this system, will alter it to benefit them, or those who pay them.
@@purplegoopguy well, someone will always exploit a system. And we should do our best to not be that person and prevent it from happening. But it will always exist in some form
I'm hard working and not lazy at all. But at 40 now and having worked solid for 25 years I'm no where better off. In fact I was more skint now than 15 years ago. So finally I woke up, I moved into my van. Got a part time job and now I feel much better in myself and no money worries and actually enjoying my life now. My depression has gone and I now know I can live much better with a simple life and my confidence with myself is massive.
I'm 21 year olf male from India, I have noticed that at this age I'm thinking very short term like my default mind jusk can't process that one day I will be 35 or 40 year old and for that I should start working from now not extensively but at the good rate which I'm doing too but I noticed that when I was 17 or 18 year of 21 seems quite far to me and now when I'm 21 it's just feel like flash when I try to remember that memories and that mind state which I has at the age of 18 and as you know world is getting more and more Universal one language one culture so as a elder who lived your life what is your advice, what would you suggest and what would you reccoement I would like to receive any life advice from your experiences.
@@ijayraj I'm shocked you are asking advice from me, but thanks. I've found life does drag if your not in the moment or your doing nothing productive. But productive for me is being as true to myself as I can and enjoying my hobbies. Productivity for me is t in the mainstream society where everything is geared towards selfishness, money, power and material wealth. All these things aren't actual reality. It's been put their to take away focus on who we actually are. I lost myself in drugs for a long time because I tried to fit in and I knew deep down I didn't want to fit in. It's only a few years ago when I woke up and realised my life will always be the same if I don't wake up. I was depressed, always at home in my spare time. I worked hard just to pay my rent and drug addiction. I took drugs to hide my pain of living in this cruel world. But I realised it's my world and I can make it better. Positivity is key and I know all I can change is myself and nobody else. I love nature and getting out in it going camping bike riding paddle boarding and all that stuff. Being active has helped me mentally and physically. I only hang with a few people who are like minded. I don't like negative people. I'm so much more humble having realised I really don't know anything. As a youth you think u know all but I'm still learning and will be till I die. I'm spiritual so believe in after life although I don't believe in religion. I've experienced things so I know what we experience here on earth isn't our whole story. Life was very scary for me but now I understand fear is a tool they use to keep us down and in their control. Now I don't fear so I can live life fully. We are very strong being with lots more potential and in this modern society our true potential is lost, that's why I feel so much more alive now more than 20 years ago when I was 20 is because I just live now without fear and in control rather than paying into the system. I'm independent and love the simple things in life. I don't own much but I'm humbled and one more thing is the ego. Ego takes control and leads you down a bad path. I'm no better than anyone but I am more aware than most and that's ok. I just wish people followed their own instinct and not follow like sheep. You must question everything and listen to yourself. But that only works if you can take time to be with yourself and understand what's real. Most people can't sit a day by themselves in a pure unagitated state. I don't know if any of this helps u. I'm just a crazy dude living a life most people don't get. But we must all follow our own path. I can tell you are going to do fine because u have asked this question when most people would not.
@@milkyvanlife i have taken screen shot of that and defiantly remember that but my main concern is the career and financial stability is there any advice regarding to that and again thank you very very much for the life lessons.
@@ijayraj no I'm not on any other social media. All I can say about career and money is don't forget we live in a world money obsessed so you will have to work to get by unless you already have the knowledge and land to live freely off but to get to that point you will need money. I suggest u look at life in sections. Whilst your young you must work hard,... Try to find something you like doing so it's not so boring. Then you gotta save your money, be wise and don't spend it all on material things, just necessaties. Then hopefully in this time you have worked out what you want from life and take that to your next step. But all I can really say is work life is hard and for most who make a lot of money you will be asked to giv up most your time and effort. I never liked being forced to giv all my time so I'll never be rich. But that's no my goal in life. I'm trying to live free minded and away from the system. The world we have created is fake and to get along with it you must put on a mask and follow the crowds if you want the money and fame. But apart from money I have everything a rich man has if not more because I have not sold my soul. I love in reality whilst most live in a fake version of reality based on buying stuff you don't need and being addicted to media which stops people looking into what is really going on on our planet. But as long as we survive, have food shelter and loving family then all we can do is protect that and keep working to pay the bills. Just don't rely on the system because it could turn around and spit you out. They don't care for us, they just want our taxes. That's why I live in a van, I'm in control of my life, not the government. And my next goal is to save money so I can buy a bit of land and then live on that in a little bit growing my own food and living at one with nature. This is my end game. Again I hope this helps
Wait until you’re old. The trick is to work hard enough when you’re young to not have to find ways to pay the bills. Otherwise you’ll be bagging groceries when you’re 70.
@funnyandrew lmao sir i just told you I've been working for 10 years and you think i don't have a career better than bagging groceries 🤣 the issue is you think being mentally exhausted is a form of weakness and people shouldn't take time off. I ve worked for 10 years with a week of vacation occasionally. Me taking 4 months off isn't going to lead to me bagging groceries when I'm old please stfu
@@PhotoJeticPoet 10 WHOLE YEARS?!?! Haha! And then you’re butthurt because of a word of advice from someone on the internet who’s worked for 40 years and is just trying to help? Good. You do you. You’re going to be in a perpetual life of blaming the world for your failures. Have at it. My point was that some people “work for 10 years with a week of vacation occasionally” and then find out later in that they were just debt slaves and some people create their lives and end up employing people like you. You will learn that the hard way. Good luck.
@@funnyandrew Exactly! Selling shoes or pumping crypto is not going to help you retire when you're young. Only a strong career and hard work will do that. Make a name for yourself
I was literally playing a game on my phone at the moment he noted that a large chunk of a person's workday is wasted nothing. I am "working" at the moment. I am so completely uninspired lately.
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
At my recent internship, they were trying out a 4-day week for the summer. I was also tracking the time I spent taking breaks so that I didn't feel as guilty for taking them while also making sure not to waste _too_ much time. When summer ended and I got my first 5-day week, my timer on how much time I spent actually working showed that I did about the same amount of work during a 4-day week as I did during a 5-day week, only with the latter coming with extra stress.
Whenever there is a public holiday in the middle of a week, and we end up having the 4 day work week, I noticed how I always got more done than I got done in a 5 day week. Even a break in the middle of the week increases productivity so much
2005 - 2010 I was working at a 130k job. I was extremely stressful, working 50+ hours a week, no life, not happy, and I was going no where! I quit in 2011. I moved to St Thomas and became a part time bartender,. Granted I'm not making much money but IM TOTALLY STRESS FREE A HAPPY. Most importantly, I no longer need meds for my Anxiety is gone. The only regret is I wish I did this when I was 20 instead of 35. 😊
Reminder that you are legally protected to talk about your wages with your co workers in the US if most us can see the scam that's when we see a change
I’m convinced that 50-70% of all jobs have no tangible positive impact on our world…… and a lot of them have negative impacts. A lot of these jobs are just there to get in the way
@@maximilian19931 Fast food. I give you shitty drinks and shitty food that are really not good for you, and I do it for shitty pay. Really, my job could vanish off the face of the earth, and we'd all be better off for it.
This is an absolute masterpiece. You spoke out so many thoughts I've had over the last years. The amount of value created by automatisation and industrialisation should make it possible to live a decent life with decreasing working hours. The fact that so much value is going to the richest 2-3% directly, instead back to the people creating this value is the reason why we still have to work 40hrs/week in order to achieve a decent standard of living. Or even managing to pay rent.
I highly recommend the book "The Overworked American" by Juliet Schor. She runs the numbers on this and concludes the same. It's shameful we've gone the entire computer age, since 1938, with no downward adjustment in the work week. Every time the 1% has pressured toward taking rewards as more money rather than more free time, and then they'll try to share as little of that money as possible. It'll take voting in politicians who'll change the labor laws and reviving unions to change that. They won't do it out of the goodness of their hearts.
There is somewhat of a Darwinian problem to cutting back. Countries that don’t keep up the pace risk falling behind and finding themselves undermined to more advanced, cheaper competitors a few decades later. However, as usual the socialist criticism to capitalism is spot on. There is a lot of BS in work, which we would do well to eliminate. I feel like this would happen naturally if businesses were more democratically governed. It’s still feudalism in the office and the power disparity makes it too open to abusive or even just simply neglectful behaviors, which don’t get fixed because those who suffer under them have little to no voice.
This might be one of my favorite videos now. Perfectly sums up my fears and thoughts about the future and going into the workforce. I’ve always thought a better way to run jobs is to give employees a certain amount of work to complete for the day, and if they finish early they get to leave early. No point in making people sit around and get stuck in that weird not-working-but-not-relaxing-either limbo.
There definitely seems to be an idea that more time “working” means more productivity/ a better outcome in things like education as well. Often times kids just end up sitting around or do meaningless busy work because they have to be there for 7 hours as opposed to using this time for more/better learning. Some areas around the world have shorter school hours yet see an increase in learning outcome, which is definitely something the US could benefit from Many really don’t give respect to how important one’s free time really is and that seems to apply to kids in school as well
Problem is, more often than not schools serve as daycare just as much as education. As long as parents work 40 hours week, children will have to be at school the same, even if it's inefficient.
The concept that time spent working == value produced has resulted in quite a lot of damage. Spending 50 years making a bic pen that sells for $1.05 at Walmart still only results in a pen worth $1.05. So why should 40 hours spent doing something that could be done in 1 result in more pay?
@@_asphobelle6887 in Germany, children below age 10 only have half a day of actual lesson time. After lunch they go to "Hort" which is in the same school building but rather than lessons it is mostly fun activities and also time for homework. It isn't free but very cheap like 100€ per month. (In my opinion it should be free though) Anyway the US could easily do the same thing. Keep the same teachers and buildings, but only do structured learning for half the day and the rest is just play time.
Professional educator here: it actually gets worse. There's a thing called "cognitive load," the tl:dr version of which is basically: the more information you throw at someone, the less they'll learn. Yes. Really. There's an inverse relationship between increasing the amount of educational information, and how much of it they retain. It's almost as if... learning stuff takes effort, and the more effort exuded the worse the work gets. Where have we heard this one before?
There are so many systemic problems with the traditional school system, especially in American, where it was built as a factory for producing people, as Carlin put it, "just smart enough to run the machines and do the paper work, but just dumb enough to passively accept worsening conditions..." Society has needed a revamp for decades, as so has the school system. Many great people go through these systems, but they haven't adapted to the needs of our time because the socio-economic system is so toxic. The idea we grow up as kids with all this wonder and joy, then starting going to school, for generally respectable reasons: to learn to read, write, calculate and think. Then we get older and find out there is this impending system "need" waiting for us when we turn the legal age. We have to labor-for-income, for our livelihood! That's where it has all gone wrong. Capitalism incentivizing profit over people is an unsustainable model. Depression is likely to set in. Instead, we should have a system where our basic needs are met, locally, by design and school is evolving to adapt to our interests and needs. If kids don't want to be in 'this school' or 'that school' we can have small tutor or mentor teacher groups that foster the child's interests and needs. This isn't done because of artificial 'cost'. But the cost ends up on society when we push kids through a system, they miss out on a lot, get hurt and confused a lot and then can fall prey to bad influences, and drain and strain our health care or law enforcement systems. It's avoidable, but only if we change systems.
As an engineer “working the least amount as necessary” is one of the fundamental principles we have in our mind when approaching efficiency. Thats why I systemize my work as I do it to make it more efficient. My work makes the company more efficient. So its a exponential gain.
Regardless of the civilization/system u live in, “work” =food and shelter. How much of it you need to maintain varies. In western world. Find a gig(s) that pays as much as possible with smallest amount of effort. Pro tip. 🥇
I've been saying this for years. I've spent so much useless time at work day dreaming of doing something I actually care about, seeing people killing themselves for just about nothing. I've had jobs that ran me like a dog, and I've had jobs that had me doing nothing. It's ridiculous to me that we can't just...shorten shifts, hire people to take the hours that one person isn't stuck in, and paying people the same wages they'd make for an eight hour shift. Like. It's not that fucking hard.
Well, you just got yourself another subscriber- this video fully articulated a feeling that I have been living with for at least the past 12 years (which, not so coincidentally, was when I stopped working in a more hands-on role in a biology lab, & instead transitioned into working in an office)- which is that even the work we are expected to do on a daily basis in an office setting, seems to be mainly self-perpetuating & ultimately pointless. Fortunately, I was able to escape that system and begin to pursue less lucrative but far more fulfilling work as a homesteader and artist. I am beyond grateful for this change, because I was working over 70hrs a week in a role that felt suffocating & meaningless, for a corporation that valued the financial bottom line over the life satisfaction of their staff, or any kind of integrity in their business practices. That's no way for people to live out their lives.
@@youtubesucks1499 Don't throw everything that's wrong with capitalism into my lap. I'm sorry I said something that triggered you. All these corporations got a 15% tax cut, and largely haven't paid their employees a cent more.
@@youtubesucks1499 would you rather Walmart pay for people's insurance, or continue to keep them poor in hopes to use your tax dollars to insure their workers? It's a complicated issue. Perhaps intentionally so. We have been conditioned to think that the system is perfect. That is a defect of character if you can't seem to get a hang of it all. Since 1970 people have been sliding backwards as far as wages. That includes you. I don't think that anybody should be happy with what they are being paid for. We are all being cheated. That includes the surgeon and McDonald's worker. I have my own business. I don't have to work it constantly. I'm slightly shy of where where I want to be. But I'll get there. But I still can't help but to think of everyone else. I would like everybody to enjoy the security that I have.
@@youtubesucks1499 is a poor person supposed to get rid of their job so they can be poor in the interim? How many of these part-time people have two or three jobs? You're making assumptions from your privilege. You keep comparing people, but I don't see things that way. Everybody deserves a living. Everyone deserves housing. In the last year some people's rents have gone up by 90%. That means yesterday your job was good enough tomorrow it won't be. I'm sorry I will not apologize for being a socialist. You can still take the side of the corporations, but they won't think twice about screwing you over. Take care.
@@youtubesucks1499 You could like Share the business with your employees, y'know Same salary to everybody, decisions made by everybody A lot of factories in my country work that way, they are called cooperatives Even some supermarkets work that way, the clients get some money back They are profitable, one runs an entire mall that sustain the suburbs of Bahia Blanca (Argentina)
@@luispagano I love that! That guy really seems to have nothing but contempt for those financially lesser than he. So many people don't question our system. It starts at worth. How much a job is worth. On whose scale? Because if we let companies decide, they'll always want the most for less. I would love more cooperative business here.
I was a machine designer for over 45 years. I "knew" that this is what I wanted to do since I was about 12 or 13 years old and took courses and jobs that allowed me get the job I wanted. I thoroughly enjoyed it thru the years. I still pick up a few odds and end jobs. But there are limits to everything. There needs to be "me" time to keep your mind sharp and maintain the enthusiasm. It seems like most managers have propensity to kill whatever enjoyment one has for their job and absolutely no understanding how that affects the very productivity that they desire. The last guy I worked for before retiring didn't require any time sheets or hours reports. As long as what needed to get done, got done when required, he didn't care how many or how few hours I worked. One thing that helped me was that after a while, I didn't fear losing my job if I took time off or refused to work OT or take on jobs that completely disrupted my personal life. It's very liberating to have that attitude. I was threatened with termination several times, but it never happened.
“What do you do?” seems to be something only Americans ask. In other countries, it’s generally considered intrusive to ask that of someone you just met. At least in my experience.
Yeah, in my country it only comes up from people who are either Americans who came to live or work here for some reason or another or it's at a business or work related party/event. Our jobs are, well, just that, jobs, they're not our lives and are mostly irrelevant with some exceptions.
I live in America and I also find it rude and never ask ppl that cause first off what I notice is if you don't work in a office or a job that's known to pay well ex: Truck driver, electrican, wielder. You'll get a lack luster "oh" and you can just tell your being judged cause you weren't among the lucky few. But something I also notice ask these same ppl what are their hobbies or what they do for fun and it's often nothing.
I cant express how hard this video hit for me. I have had really serious mental health issues for the last decade, and the demand to work so much has often put me in very real danger.
@palatonian9618 Hang in there! You are important and you matter. Please, take care of yourself. One day, capitalism will stop existing and then we will be able to focus on creating a caring and inclusive society, one that will take care of everyone. Stay strong. ✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️
“I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think." -- George Orwell
Why does anyone need to have babies? It's not a NEED. It's a pathetic desire that u think will make u happy. Find other ways to make yourself happy. There are a few things in this life that we are certain of: 1. The human being born did not ask to be born 2. The human being born will face death 3. We are slaves in a corrupt world 4. Life is full of horrors, diseases and illnesses Why do we need to keep reproducing?!?! Its like a hamster on a wheel that just keeps running, doing the same repetitive crap. A never ending cycle that just needs to stop. Become a PREVENTIONIST!!!! Preventionism isn’t conditional. Never has it been ethically justifiable to impose unnecessary risk, suffering and death without consent. Breeders selfishly want a toy-child to distract them from their mundane, meaningless, purposeless, lonely, coward, low IQ, pathetic, selfish, narcissistic, immoral, unethical lives. An older, also childless couple once said to me that having a child means that you can stop torturing yourself with the question "What is the meaning of life"... Partly because you now have an answer right in front of you, and partly because it won't stop screaming long enough to let your mind wander into philosophical territory anymore! Privacy is dead anyway. Either nobody cares anymore or nobody understands. Everyone has voluntarily wiretapped their own homes with Google/Alexa/etc., as if smartphones weren't already recording everything we did and said, and triangulating precisely where we did and said it, whilst giving us cancer as a bonus!
THANK YOU. It always bugged me when people would ask me “What do you do?” How I get money is only a fraction of who I am as a human being. A tiny, tiny fraction.
Interesting. I'm Canadian, and what people here do to get money is often their ONLY identity. Many, many Canadians will do almost nothing with their entire lives except work.
For real most people who work those long hrs are who have nothing outside of work. It's sad but also their purpose can't judge people for wanting to feel a purpose for their life.
Um, I don’t think they are trying to reduce you to your job, it’s also part of getting to know you and what you studied or your qualities or what you’re trained in.
Unions are likely to make a huge comeback with Gen Z and the next Gen and I sincerely hope it does. After working in the private sector and lucking out and getting a public sector union job I realized just how necessary unions are. Every company should have a union to stop higher ups from having runaway salaries and taking money from below them to pay for it. I saw this in practice when I worked for a large medical testing lab during covid. The company culture told us that we were a family and therefore had to tighten our belts and take a temporary pay cut. Easy to guess that those at the department head level didn't even get the slightest cut. In fact I heard our director got a bonus for our labs work and effort to meet quotas. The Union busting of the 80s was the worst mistake in government. Know your worth and don't think that you'll get to a director's level just by working at a company for 20 years. It's a game of "who do you know" not "work hard get rewarded". Everyone needs to know that a small Union Due in the hands of people who actually care for you is insanely necessary for any job.
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
In short, in America at least, we don't work to live, we live to work. Trust me, I can find WAY much more meaning outside of work, especially with my past few (office) jobs. I still can't even explain what I did there. Also, it's time to normalize actually being lazy sometimes and not feeling guilty about it. I certainly don't 💅
I vaguely remember the 4 day work week Experiment being tried in the United States Watts. I don’t remember where was though. But I do remember the results: it was overwhelmingly positive for the employee. Better rested, better motivated, more productive than ever, less stressed… But the employer did not like it because he could not exert absolute control over his employees. He did not feel like he had their absolute loyalty 24/7, Because employees had a lengthy weekend to look forward to and time to do not-work things. I wish I could remember the exact place where that study took place. It breaks my heart thinking about it, And I know I’m not making this up…
My company did that a few years back. Everyone complained. Then they got used to it and complained when we switched back. The apparent reason for the switch back is that our customers were still on regular weeks, and it infuriated them that we weren't available on Fridays.
@@stevenscott2136 OMGyou have people that works from monday to thursday, orther's want from thuesday to friday, some people want a break in the middle of the week. Every worker has a nother agenda.
I'm a student in your average American public highschool. This video hits on so many things that me and people around me have observed. When we were in online school due to Covid, it really exposed everything wrong with our system: most notably, entire school days worth of work done in under 2 hours, but being left to attend 8 different hour-long Zoom "classes" with nothing to do. Most people ditched or left their computers and still passed.
Personally, reducing every day time was more effective than removing a day. I removed hours due to getting burnt out and was recommended to remove a day a week to get a long weekend. I was completely broken on that day I had off. So it didnt help. When I instead moved those hours over the other days, and had shorter workdays, I had a lot more energy and less stress every day. Which made me feel a lot better
no thanks you're the type of person that can't relax and that is the after effects of working two jobs just to pay rent you stress when you are idle because you could be squeezing out extra money so that you can finally eat a steak once this year no thanks extra work days are bs
Yeah it depends on the person really and it'd be nice if society could accommodate for our most optimal work flow. Long shifts aren't very daunting to me but working everyday is, so that's why I'd much prefer to pile an entire work week into 3-4 consecutive days and then do absolutely nothing for that weekend. Definitely can't do short shifts every day, or long shifts with only 1 day breaks between.
I personally liked having three days off. No matter what, that first day off I'm spending time not doing anything in order to reset my mind and body, so having 2 days to get things done instead of just 1 was great.
When my grandma was working for the government, in her final years there, there was 2 full time employees assigned to do an amount of work that would take up maybe 10 hrs a week. So her and her coworker would just read novels or the paper and chat for most of their time at work every week. But they still both had to go into the office 9-5 every week day. I think I would go crazy.
@@kripticlunar8198fair but I will share that I personally go crazy from having to work a 9-6 (we have a 1 hour lunch break in my country) and not actually doing anything. Maybe it's because I work in the private sector and am afraid I'll become unemployable due to a lack of skills and if/when the company decides I am overpaid? That's another topic of course but I really do have to tell myself to suck it up each day (at least until something else comes along)
To be fair you get paid to read or watch a show. It's a good gig. 120 years ago we would have been working 12 hour shifts in factories 6 days a week so I think we're doing pretty damn good.
People wonder why I stay with my delivery job... I work four days a week, have the same schedule, get no arguments when I want time off, and I do one, and only one, job- drop off packages. Once I'm done with that, I gas up, clean the van a bit, then go home. The days are a bit long, yes, but they fly by in no time. It also helps that I'm one of the favorites. 😂
This video perfectly lays out and validates a lot of the frustrations I’ve had for the past few years. My job is not satisfying whatsoever, and at times it feels downright pointless. However, I’m not against a hard days work. For example, I know how to spin yarn, weave, and sew, which all takes A LOT of work, but to have a piece of clothing you made from start to finish is incredibly gratifying. What makes me even more mad is that 400 years ago these skills would have made me a boon to my community. As well as other skills like, drawing, painting, woodworking, metal casting, and clay sculpting. For such fulfilling work, being an artisan in a automated society is difficult and depressing. Sure I can sell my work but not many people will pay for 100+ hours of human skill and labor, for something that if manufactured would cost 1/10 the price. Lol sometimes I’m like “bring on the apocalypse” so that my hobbies go from dying arts to downright necessary. Full societal collapse is definitely not ideal though 😅
This is why i'm for companies selling DIY products, it's more empowering to have the customer participate in building the product, it creates a sense of ownership and it could make people more responsible about the thing they worked to create.
I agree, I’ve seen electric guitars that were completely built by one person (I mean, the guy even went into the forest to gather the wood) and they looked and sounded incredible!
As a fellow fiber artist, I know exactly how you feel with the "bring on the apocalypse" thought. Plus, people would finally realize the value of handmade products instead of thinking the supplies are cheap, so why should the finished product that took days or weeks to make cost so much.
I had a friend who’s whole life revolves around working as many hours as possible out of choice. They aren’t struggling for money, they aren’t desperate for anything, they’ve just learned to base their idea of success off of how many hours they work in a week. It just seems so sad to me idk
If that gives them fulfillment the rest of us should be grateful. We depend on people like your friend to keep our cars running, water flowing and electricity on.
I was always the hardest worker at every job I worked at because I set that very goal at every job under the belief that hard work will get you up the ladder. But now at 40 I'll say that last year was when all the things came together to make me just do enough not to get fired. Since I started working at 16 I've since realized that a hard worker is rewarded with having more work thrown on you by management who is too weak and incompetent to make lazy workers pull their own weight. They don't appreciate your hard work and if you bring up the crummy way your treated you have an attitude problem and aren't a team player. One main thing will get you up the ladder in the workplace that I'll never partake in........ ASS KISSING. I have something called pride and will never be managements bitch. Granted I'll never get on what is referred to as the top but at least I can fall asleep at night without knowing deep down that I'm somebody's bitch and having to concoct a plan to try and hide the fact from everyone including myself.
@@harrison00xXx the guy in his example didn’t sound burnt out. But if You are that bitter and resentful about working please stop and reevaluate your life 🙏🏻
I think about this often. I'd be most happy with 20 hours of paid meaningful work and the rest of that time would be for me. Bring on universal basic income, universal healthcare to the U.S., and social housing and you'd eliminate a lot of stress and misery.
Unfortunately people from developed countries have so idealist view of life. World wont work with 20 hours of work. You guys are alreasy living the best, come to my country india and you will be glad you dont work 80 hours a week in grueling conditions(where you may die and no one cares) and still have your children go hungry half the time
@@jaikumarbohara7964 I don't think it is idealistic to ask for universal healthcare and the likes. In Europe it is pretty common, either free or inexpensive healthcare that is mostly paid with the money from your taxes, as well as education (even college).
@@zelinair I'm from spain and with government help (which they basically give to anybody who asks and needs) I yearly paid only 50 euros (60-70$ )for my college tuitition (which wasn't that expensive in the first place, around 900 euros (1k - 1.1k$?)). My family has a low income and that's why i came to pay only 50 bucks. Don't let anybody tell you that what you guys are asking for is "idealistic" cause it's not.
One of my biggest gripes when I was working at a factory was the mandatory overtime we had to do. My small group got our stuff done quickly, so we always struggled to find a new job to tackle, yet we were still expected to come in on Saturdays at 5am to noon, as well as work the extra 2 hours 4 days a week. We did nothing except tedious jobs, and of course my boss would get mad when we (well, I) weren't doing what he wanted us to do, even though it wasn't in our job description to do those jobs. Pure busy work. Every single job I've had was like this to some extent, but this was the more extreme. "Look busy" was a phrase I've always hated. I want a job where I'm paid by my production level, not by the amount of hours I clocked in that week.
If you only want to get paid for what you do and not what you pretend to appear to make someone kind of think you might be sort-of looking like you're doing, you might want to try certain kinds of trade work. Welding, machining, heating/air conditioning, electrical, auto mechanics--that kind of stuff. Problem is that trade work is very boring and the pay is low. If you're getting the job done well and doing so consistently and quickly without screwing up the work (quality, productivity, speed) then they'll probably fuck off and let you work without getting up your ass over trivial things and treating you like a kid in Kindergarten--you'll eventually just be left alone to work. You have to WORK, though. No dog fucking or you'll be pounding pavement looking for another job--and you'll be doing it with a black mark on your file. Oh yeah, they also still pay you by the hours you clock in. That's just how it's done.
Paid by productivity would still lead to you getting screwed. They're just going to lower and lower and lower the price per piece finished until you're working yourself to death. It is why streetlayers around here tend to have their knees fail before they're 45.
I remember when my manager wrote I was not at my desk in my appraisal because I believed in getting the job done first and being free to do something I loved. Turns out I wasn't supposed to do that. Like how dare I finish my work before 9 hours a day. I then learned managers look for how long you sit at the desk rather than how effective you are working. So now I just finish 90% of the tasks like I always did and the 10% task I drag it till the end. Giving them what they like.
I really hope change is coming soon. I don't think I've ever done a job I feel was useful, even when the profession itself has a use. We're just forced to work useless jobs to live, even tho we could be doing much more useful things with that time (and actually spend less time doing it).
I've only ever been subjected to slave labor for slave wages to date in my life. Despite it was back breaking grueling work and what I do earns corporations 10s of millions a day. Yet you get paid barely $10-16/hr for it. All while having no life and even IF you could you'd have no money for rent if you so much as wanted to eat everyday. Reality is the majority of us are nothing but numbers or cattle/tools for the elites. Human lives and everything else have been completely commodified.
All we really need to do is keep our living spaces warm and healthy and grow food and educate our families, I think. We need to work less for sure. I'm for the 4-hour work day.
I've said it before and I'll say it again-- lying flat is the single most effective means of bringing down capitalism and there's a good reason why wealthy people are so especially hostile towards the lying flat movement.
@@meepy546 Weird thing to say. Thankfully I don't work for Amazon and if you knew what lying flat meant, you'd realize how dumb your comment makes you look. But A+ for the effort to sound edgy, it was a good try.
@@themageofspace5516 It would certainly damage any society built on rampant consumerism and infinite growth. If everyone lied flat less would get done, but less would need to get done
@@callowaymotorcompany I can kind of see what you're getting at but also if everyone did nothing then society's over all wealth will go down if we laid flat would you have your phone you do now? would you have the same living standards? So answer me this what would happen if our society became less productive? It would also damage communism someone doing nothing is a burden onto society they consume but never give back.
I can’t really get anything done unless it’s a long weekend. I need that day that’s not adjacent to work to allow my brain to just really switching off from work, and be focused on me and my own priorities. On a normal weekend, my Saturdays are focused on recovery and Sundays tend to have the focus of trying to get things in order to survive another week
Can totally relate to that. I'm sure many others can too. I have a job that I generally like, but I have many of the same issues. If I need a new pair of shoes or socks, I just put it off. I'm too drained after work to go search for a pair, even worse if I don't find what I'm looking for! Wasted time! But I try to do things I enjoy in the evenings and weekends, but I still have to miss out sometimes because of work demanding more of my time outside regular hours. It's a problem we shouldn't have as a society and we should NOT accept. We should not accept being tied to labor-for-income. A sane society would guarantee our basic needs by technical design, collaboration and community and reduce the number of hours we need to work as fast as possible. I don't want to hear a damn politician say "we created x number more jobs", I want to live in a society where we hear "X number of jobs were automated and thus no human has to do them anymore, and we all can have more free time to enjoy life." That should be the important news we start hearing.
@@coolioso808 I agree, but I’d like to add that *politicians do not create jobs. Ever.* That’s just something they _say_ in the hopes that it will get them re-elected so they don’t have to work an actual job and can continue to garner unlimited benefits on the public’s dime. regular people create jobs, complete jobs, automate jobs, and make life easy for others through working both smart and hard. A politician just takes credit for it by signing pages that say that he/she “approved” of the work that was going to be done regardless of who was in office. But yes, we no longer live in a world where every single person should HAVE to work. A lot of this can be automated, we _COULD_ receive the fruits of the automated stuff for free (eliminating the need to waste your entire life on something that isn’t what you want) The free time would >decrease social disruption/hostility, >increase productivity and kind acts for others (it’s much easier to do nice things for others when you don’t feel like your survival depends on it) >allow people time to enjoy life and appreciate OTHER people’s lives more (decreasing crime against others) >allow people to do high-quality work; there’s no longer a pressing “deadline” or “required time that you should have been working on it.” You can do things at your own pace and make sure they’re done right, and with love and care rather than haste.
A _few_ people will have to work to keep automated things running smoothly. However, there’s enough nice people in the world right now that would happily volunteer their time to do those jobs if it meant maintaining that quality-of-life for the rest of civilization; you could take pride in knowing that the work you do is entirely voluntary, meaningful and helps thousands of people. I would gladly be one of them.
@@hobomike6935 I agree with that. Good additional points. A sensible society would be one where we are guided by science for efficient resource management and meeting all human basic needs are first priority, in a sustainable manner. Done so efficiently, locally and automated that the goods can be essentially free. Therefore, no politician, who doesn't create anything useful anyway, needs to be around at all. The job of politician should be eliminated in the future. Work is something that we can do for many motivations other than money. Exploration, creative pursuits, social support and more. If we had a system where we weren't dependent on labor-for-income then we could choose how and when we use our time. We'd be more energized to do such things because we'd be inspired and motivated to do them. We'd also have more recreational and leisure time, which is good. We don't want to be over-stressed because that causes more health problems. That better society model can't come from our current monetary-market system, however. We can transition out of this towards a sustainable model, like a Natural Law Resource Based Economy. Imagine self-sufficient, localized production of essential goods, automated-where-possible, regions all over the world that have decentralized control. The only 'central control' is a global inventory of resources that is open to public and scientifically calculated for distributing essential resources to places that need them, in a sustainable way. Any and all resources that can be used that are local, are used. But some resources that are more concentrated to certain areas like Africa or South America, those ideally, would be shared. However, in many areas of the world, using the scientific method of: What can we actually DO, not what can we 'pay for', I believe there is a LOT more we can do from local sources than we even realize today.
Same here. And when I have holidays, I need 4-5 days just to calm down and be an almost normal human being. Only after that the relaxation and recharging starts. But then the holidays are almost over. Also, I can only get things done on the weekends, not after work. But it's too much. So I can only get some things done on holidays. But then I can't recharge AND it's still not enough time to get everything done! I have an evergrowing todo list, that's crushing me. And it destroys my health. Which leaves me with less energy. So in my "spare " time I can get even less done. And taking care of health (read chronic, still undiagnosed problems)requires a lot of time for research and going to all sorts of doctors. I need a big break to fix my life, and then go on with my life.
This video came at the perfect time because I’m already planning my exit plan from my toxic job. I have been so stressed at my toxic job that I experienced chest pains, headaches, anxiety, and depression. Management doesn’t care and only metrics matter not the employees. I already planned my PTO this summer.
I just want to tell you that I find what you’re doing to be highly valuable and have been putting your videos on while I’m going about my day so I can listen to what you’re saying. I subscribed to your patreon because I hope you keep making content. I knew something was wrong with this system when I was a nurse aide caring for human beings and making barely above minimum wage my job was valuable and important and I truly enjoyed it but I could barely afford life!! It is unacceptable for any human being to give time of their only life to barely survive while others who do less essential work are paid exorbitant wages. My heart breaks seeing homeless destitute humans and animals knowing there are others who have more means than they can even use.
This whole conversation always reminds me of ancient Rome and its leisure society. During that time, having free time was considered a right in itself, just like citizenship. Kinda funny, then, that in the US where freedom is regarded as the highest right, you're discouraged and even looked down upon when taking days off :v
A good analogy for modern work would be what happened during the invention of the vacuum cleaner. During that time people thought the vacuum would free up extra time for homemakers and give them time to relax. However, the homemakers started to work more harder then before because the exception for a cleaner home had risen due to the vacuum cleaner.
This was true with most domestic work as outlined in a lot of feminist literature. The more we innovated, the more time and effort we saved, the more homemakers filled their days with "busywork" because they were bored and unfulfilled with wasting their lives. In addition to "mommy's little helper" (aka pills/alcohol) to cope with their conditioned shame and drudgery, they added bs work like scrubbing the tile grout in the bathroom with a toothbrush, ironing the bed sheets, laying out their husbands clothes, or washing the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher etc...
@@avamasquerade plus lets be honest historically the kitchen was the cozy safe place to be, it not like women were forced into the kitchen, the kitchen was the cool place to be back then
What are you taking about? Yes women were forced to be there. It was legal to fire a woman for getting married or pregnant or to pay them less than men. Women who worked were looked down upon.
@@Andy-pr5be Women who did much of anything else tended to try their best to present as a man to make sure they didn't get much flak, unless they were of a high enough status that most people wouldn't give them any shit, and most still would.
Thanks! Being someone who holds multiple jobs (2.25) this was really hard for me to watch, but very much appreciated as an "essential" employee of the pandemic. We do need to work smarter instead of harder.
I worked a job with mandatory overtime for 5 years. 12-16hour shifts were normal. It swapped from day shifts to night shifts month to month. I never knew if I was going to leave on time or have to work the weekend until the last minute everyday and the stress of not being able to have a decent work/life balance made everyone in the workplace absolutely miserable. It was the most toxic work environment I’ve ever experienced. Our union was a corrupt and an absolute joke. The money was great, but once my first kid was born last year I ended quitting to start my own business. It’s been a though start (I knew it wouldn’t be easy getting established) but I’m so much happier being able to help raise my family and show my kids to work towards a life that you love instead of just a paycheck that will make you miserable.
It makes me furious when people say, "Everybody has to work." because not everyone can, under the current definition. Some people are disabled physically or mentally (by society's current definition) and cannot work within the system we have, which is ableist. Accommodations in the work environment are rare, and 84% of neurodivergent adults are unemployed. People are fired for having ADHD, Autism, and other forms of neurodiversity. People are fired for being late--because the handicap door doesn't work or their start time is the same early hour, without ANY thought that it takes them hours longer to get ready than an able-bodied person. So, even if someone with any disability tries to work--they are often pushed out and prevented from doing so. Capitalist society has proven time and time again, that unless you are able-bodied and neurotypical, they don't care about you, will make it so much harder for you to work, and could care less if you die because of their exclusion from the ONLY source of money you can find. I want to tear capitalism down because disabled lives MATTER. And, so SO many other reasons.
Socialism is worse for disabled people. USSR couldn't even provide proper wheelchairs. A country with enourmous industry for war much like USA. Even now, if you have epilepsy you are not allowed to drive in Russia or China even if your seizures are controlled with medication. On the other hand, in a REAL capitalist free market economy, if you are disabled and have some money you could start your own small bussiness. Not big enough to get rich maybe, but enough to live. And then some socialists come and tax even your little gains and make you poor. And the money from taxes goes to a useless government. See how it works?
@@Gangst3r4ever you say that like I could afford a wheelchair, let alone a car also, even your demonstration requires that, in your own words, you have to have some initial amount of money if you want to make enough money to live where are you getting that initial money from that you need to live?
@@j.c.2240 1.There is always charity. Or family or friends. And unless they are completely disabled there is always something they can do. The mimimum wage issue comes here. Because someone might be willing to hire a disabled person but can't or won't pay them the state mandatory minimum wage. So the poor disabled person stays unemployed. 2. Even right wingers know that there must be some programs for those extremely unlucky to have nothing. Only nazis would have them left for dead. I am yet to see a right winger asking for complete dissolution of any kind of social program to help disabled people.
@@YVoiceY there are really two definitions of political, one of which refers to alliances and clout and essentially a battle, and the other which refers to actual policy and its effects/the state of the society we all live in i think people who call things apolitical are often referring to the former, and people who say everything is political are more referring to the latter unfortunately they do affect each other too so they still aren't completely separable obviously but situationally it can be important to distinguish between them for the sake of communication and prioritising correctly
Sounds like what Andrew Ryan envisioned for his underwater city without the whole "entitled to the sweat of his brows" part. And it will end up with very similar aspects: how do we address the necessary yet unfulfilling job allocations ? For all the leisure available, how much of our standards of living are we willing to give up on ? Those need to be addressed in a very real manner that is more transparent than "lol the government will figure it out".
Mark Twain on the French revolution: "There were two “Reigns of Terror,” the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror-that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves."
Are you aware of the principles of a Natural Law Resource Based Economy? And some of the logical transitions that could get us there? Namely: Localization, automation, access, open source and digital network feedback. Some countries and cities in the world have enough of a social safety net, even in this crazy economy, for their people to build these systems up to the point where money and markets have little affect on people obtaining their basic needs. If some place can achieve that, the word can spread, and once that happens, it could snowball into people all over the world standing up to demand that the system change happens for them too!
I came across this video and I have to say thank you for saying what I have been thinking for years. This tie to money, work etc. Really dampens the human experience. We are here for such a short time and most it, for most people is spent doing something they'd rather not be doing until a time when they are old and can less easily experience everything that this world has to offer. It really makes me sad because life could truly be so much better for everyone if we were able spend more time doing the things we enjoy. Thanks for the upload!
Since high school, every 3 to 5 years, i'd quit my job, move somewhere else, and relax until my money ran out and i had to work again. The first 23 years i took whatever kind of work i could get (janitor, soldier, drafting, factory worker, chicken packing, proof reader, streetside flower seller, whatever), and the second 24 years i worked in computers. The jobs weren't "bad", i just didn't like working. Now, after all those mini-retirements, i've been fully retired for 15 years and i'm loving it; being paid to do nothing (or whatever i want, anyway). I don't get a lot, but it's enough, and i don't need to live under someone's stairs. I'm happy. Not for everyone, i guess, but it sure beat feeling i had no control. Of course, i've never been much of a consumer, and normally didn't own a car, which saves a ton of money. Married now, and we're still not real consumerish, though we do have a used car. Both getting Social Security and Medicare, which makes it even easier.
I've sort of done this once, though I don't foresee me being able to afford to do it again anytime soon. Did you not have trouble getting hired at new jobs after large gaps of "unemployment"? That's something I always hear people say, that employers are suspicious of that.
@@emilyb.8219 I don't remember anyone ever asking about gaps. I always did my best work whatever the job, so if i was asked for referrals, i had good ones. Most of the lower-paying jobs didn't really ask, normally; just look bright, friendly, and alert when you talk to any interviewer. For jobs that wanted a resume, just list year(s) on each job. Even better, do a skills resume, where you list the types of skills you used on each job, emphasizing those you think might be especially useful to the position. I once helped a friend who'd worked as a salesman get a job as a systems analyst, by writing a skills resume for him. Also, when i was ready (or needed) to go back to work, i'd take any job to get money flowing in, then look for something better. Keep moving up, maybe within the same outfit. I once went from draftsman to learning computer programming on the job. A friend went from lab tech to being a computer systems manager by steps at the NIH. Take the risk. In the story of the ant and grasshopper, i was the grasshopper. Remember, your mileage may vary, but don't get discouraged. Life is short and uncertain - if there's something you really want to do, don't wait. Good luck.
@@emilyb.8219 I just remembered - i did once get asked about my work gap; i said i'd taken personal time off. Another time, in Las Vegas, i was asked how long i thought i would stay; i was thinking "six months", but said "indefinitely" (or something like that). I was there two and a half years. None of us can tell the future. Be honest and kind, work hard, keep moving. Live cheap - save all you can on necessities so you can have money for what you really want to do. My times off lasted from a month to two years. I lived in Frisco, CO, two snow seasons drinking coffee, reading books, skiing, and snowboarding. I ran marathons. I traveled to Europe with my brother. I took a four month meditation course. I did things for my health and happiness. I made lots of friends. I traveled a lot to visit friends and family. Lots to do in life. As someone said, this isn't a dress rehearsal - live YOUR best life. Stay away from discouraging people (even if they might be right).
I assume that shortening working hours is not wanted by the elites. If the masses had more free time, they would probably have more capacity to think, to discuss and to synergize. I could imagine that this would scare certain groups a lot. They have to make sure to keep people busy, exhausted and - most importantly - divided.
I work a 3 day work week at distribution center for really good pay. I volunteer in my off time by donating my voice to the public domain and helping create public domain audio books of public domain works for fair use. This "work" has more meaning to me than pretty much any job i've worked.
I left a corporate job four years ago to start my own business. I also rejected entrepreneurial hustle culture. Now, I make much less than I did at that ‘fancy’ job, but I have much more time freedom, which I’ve found to be incredible y valuable. I wrote my first book, working on my second one, moved to a different country, learning about their language and culture, have taken up baking as a hobby, even take a nap when I feel like it. Most people have no idea how much healthier they can be, if they have more free time and less pressure!
Second Thought, keep up the good work, the goal is to make these proto-socialist/socialist ideas reach the mainstream and you are already at 1.2 million, last time I checked I swore it was 1 million, your work is meaningful and societally valuable. :)
Burn the socialism with fire and bury the ashes deep below so nobody would ever find even a fraction what that ideology brings with itself. It all sounds nice and dandy on paper, but people have proven in the past that it's not going to work in a long run.
@@AndrewManook Is that true? When did he reach 1 million, either way, I hope second thought only continues to grow, his channels prosperity is just one piece of the proletarian puzzle, and education is key to the victory of the people.
@@herisuryadi6885 Really? Damn, either way increasing your sub count by a quarter in a years is still impressive considering the size, openly socialist creators struggle to grow.
This brings to mind for me a portion of a book called “ The Great Transformation”. It’s pretty insightful, and is basically an economist examining the history of industrialized economics. He also uses it to provide proof that we have to control expansion to some degree due to three limiting factors that modern capitalism doesn’t acknowledge : money, land/ environmental resources and people/ Labour. He seems to be afraid of socialism without knowing exactly what it is, so he tries to give an example from the industrial revolution of why full socialism wouldn’t work. He gives an instance of where England basically established a basic universal income for a short period. However what was given would be decreased based on salary if that person was working. So most people were getting the same income over all, unless their salary was much higher than average. The amount of workers at the time rapidly decreased. He uses this example to argue that people should have to work in order to survive in the system, but misses a big point. There were still a good amount of people working, just not enough for system growth, he explains just enough to maintain a certain social status. Lastly, he forgets to mention that the work conditions around this time were GOD AWFUL. Unions and safety regulations were just emerging, and some people were working 12 hours a day every day. However, the culture around work being a show of one’s responsibility and good character was so strong there was still many people working. That enough is good evidence that if it doesn’t become mandatory that people are not just going to stop working altogether and let the economy crash.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:03 🤝 *Introduction and Patreon Support* - Introduction to the video's topic and Patreon support request. 00:17 🤔 *Hypothetical Scenario of Stopping Work* - Exploring what would happen if everyone stopped working, - The importance of work in society. 01:13 😂 *Work and Social Perception* - The social significance of work, - The joke about RUclipsrs having no friends. 01:43 🔄 *Work's Role in Life* - Work as a central part of life, - Introduction to the concept of shorter workweeks. 02:11 🕒 *Four-Day Workweek Experiments* - Experiments in countries like Iceland on reduced work hours, - Positive outcomes of shorter workweeks. 03:20 📈 *Work and Productivity Discussion* - Discussion on productivity and diminishing returns of longer work hours, - The idea of working less while maintaining productivity. 03:34 🚀 *Exploring the Nature of Work* - Overview of the video's focus on work, - Political theory and questioning the necessity and structure of work. 04:01 🏛️ *Politics and Work* - Political perspectives on work in the U.S., - The lack of efforts to reduce work hours. 04:58 📚 *Definitions and Necessity of Work* - Defining work and its necessity for society, - The goal of minimizing work to maximize leisure. 06:08 💼 *Capitalism and Work Coercion* - The coercive nature of work under capitalism, - The impact of work conditions on individuals. 07:03 🤷♂️ *Work's Ideological and Psychological Aspects* - The ideological discourse surrounding work, - Society's collective fantasy about not working. 07:44 🌟 *Meaningful Work* - Factors that make work meaningful, - The desire to work on meaningful tasks. 08:26 🤖 *The Reality of Meaningless Jobs* - The prevalence of perceived meaningless jobs, - The distinction between meaningless and pointless work. 09:07 ⏳ *Wasted Time at Work* - The significant amount of time wasted on non-work activities during work hours, - The concept of "time theft" as worker resistance. 10:05 🏗️ *The Cost of Productivity and Luxury* - The societal cost of maintaining the appearance of productivity, - The impact of meaningless work on individuals and society. 11:01 🔄 *Economic and Political Responses to Work Issues* - Liberal and conservative responses to the problem of overwork and job dissatisfaction, - Critique of current work-centric policies. 12:10 🚀 *Hustle Culture and Work Identity* - The rise of hustle culture and its effects on perceptions of work, - The critique of attaching identity to work. 13:05 🛠️ *Progress in Productivity and Work Hours* - The historical increase in productivity without a corresponding decrease in work hours, - The argument for reducing work hours based on efficiency. 14:13 🔍 *Reevaluating Work Hours* - The potential for reducing work hours by acknowledging meaningless jobs and wasted time, - The absurdity of the current method of determining work hours. 15:37 🌍 *Vision for a Different Work-Life Balance* - Advocacy for a society with more leisure time and less work, - The benefits of reevaluating the structure and amount of work. 16:59 🌟 *Conclusion and Call to Action* - Summarizing the arguments for reducing work and increasing leisure, - A call to action for societal change regarding work. 19:02 📢 *Patreon Support Reminder* - Reminder for Patreon support due to RUclips revenue issues, - Invitation to join the creator's community for further engagement. Made with HARPA AI
This topic makes me hopeful for change but as a child care worker, I know my field will be the last the gain access to a shorter work week, if ever. Even if most families are able to work 4 day weeks, we would be expected to offer childcare throughout the entire duration of the work week as parents' schedules would vary.
I think the hope that as your labor would be better compensated and more people would have the choice to do that kind of work, as I think a lot of people would.
Yep. There are many job types that back other job types so it becomes difficult. For example, I'm a nurse and the hospital can't host close. This also means that everyone that supports nursing and medical staff - lab techs, IT support, housekeeping, etc also has to be available around the clock. Some industries just are what they are. Where you're seeing the shift to productivity focus is in creative jobs like software developers.
I've been saying this for years! It's unhealthy, it's unnecessary, it feels morally wrong for people to have to work so much more than we have to! Work can have really great benefits, but balance is so important!
I do strongly agree that the 40 hour work week is a thing of the past and as automation increases and improves we SHOULD see a reduction in work hours (and effort). However, I am worried about reducing work time without taking proper precautions first. People who work hourly will likely see their hours cut further (either to keep them part time, or to prevent them from working over time), and without an increase in minimum wage this will likely push them further into poverty. This is definitely a problem, but there are other problems we need to handle first or else we would likely see this backfire on us.
Increasing minimum wage isn't going to make many severely restricted hours livable. That is not a minimum wage problem that is a general wage problem. Wages in general need to be renegotiated between the government, the workforce, and the employers.
Or we just do away with hourly wages 🤷🏻♀️ I never understood that, anyways. Are you paying me for my time to be here or are you paying me for my WORK?
Were I not currently in the process of slipping through the cracks of Late Capitalism (and thus unable to), I would gladly support you on Patreon. Please keep up your excellent work.
I wish that we, who consume this content, weren't in a bubble. It would be awesome if 80% of the population subscribed to this thinking. But as much as they complain, they remain complicit, and we all have remain in this exploitative paradigm.
People need to establish a communist alternative, free from censorship and data collection, to our current social media platforms. We need to stop trying to "Reform" or "take over" these mouthpieces of the elite. We need to have a Working Class-operated Social Media to challenge and crush the Old, Elitist Social Media. People must of course work to obtain significant capital, even starting businesses and such, to operate these projects and forever expand them until it penetrates every inch of American society, along with a organized mass party that is capable of seizing power. All successful revolutions after all involved taking control of the information space.
I can totally vouch for the 35 hour work week. I can say from a personal standpoint, that for 8 hours im "at work" but in reality Im only able to do 5 to 6 hours of "real" work on any given day.
Exactly this would be the perfect amount of work each day 5-6hrs or 3days 10-11hrs not 12hrs that last hr is just daunting to claim half your day working.
Yes, that’s the thing I don’t understand about a 4 day work week. The onerous thing is being trapped outside your house for 9 hours of the day. I would rather just have shorter days. 24 work week sounds great, 4 days 6 hours 😁
I’m on full disability. I truly cannot work. I still feel badly about not working. The information and opinions expressed in the video help me a little.
Don't feel bad. you are a human being and you are valued, when you work you are disempowered and often taken advantage of, it is ultimately coercion and its not a nice feeling. if i had a choice to not participate in the capitalist workforce i would choose not to, but sadly it not a choice, you work or fall through the cracks and die. so yeah, just do whatever you can to enjoy your life
I am also disabled, some days I can work and other days I have too much pain and fatigue. We are not lazy, we have a chronic health condition. Those who criticize will also experience this at some point in their life, not one gets out of here without suffering from something at some age. You are worthy, no matter what!
But don't worry I also constantly worry or get pressured from family or society to "do more" and not be on the disability benefit, like i have a choice in the matter 🙃🤷
I have a lot of issues healthwise, the most prominent being autism, adhd and depression. I do work, as I always felt that I have to because I got my diagnosis three years ago. I am 25 and was already 3 times not able to work for a month because of Burnout. I'm glad my team understands that some days I can do awesome work, and some days I struggle checking my emails. My disability is rated 50% impairment by my country. Yet I work 35 hours, 5 days a week. I wish I could work less, as this would make me more productive when I work, because I would be able to rest more in between. Don't feel bad about not working. I know it's not easy, I beat myself up for having "lazy" days. Just keep trying to be okay with yourself. It helped me already
I'm also disabled, by my issue isn't obvious. I want to work. I'd love to go back to my old career, but I can't. It would literally destroy everything I have left in me. Then to add more salt to the wound, I get criticized for not working.
Man it isn’t even the amount of time that we work that’s the problem. It’s the amount of time we work while only making enough to get gas, do groceries while picking and choosing whether to go with Mott’s Apple juice or great value, living in sub optimal conditions because you can’t afford something that is at the very least comfortable, and not having any money for activities like vacation or hobbies. The amount of money we are paid just doesn’t cut it and finding that balance mentioned in the video between working and leisure is very much impossible for most people, especially for those in the working class or below. I honestly just feel like giving up sometimes. Not to mention we all have a leach of an uncle named Sam that takes all our money every chance he gets to fund his own motives that have nothing to do with us.
They probably just have nothing better to do with their time. Why some older people keep working. Our generation can be content with basic distractions like just watching Netflix for long periods of time. The older generations struggle to do that little.
Idk. I remember how the fax machine was supposed to revolutionize office productivity. What a joke. It simply turned into more paper, which meant more paperwork, which also meant more work for the same people doing the work before. Something similar happened with email; more e-work. I also remember how businesses streamlined their staff through attrition year after year, decade after decade, expecting more from fewer people. It was untenable then and, with more recent changes, has become worse. People between your age and mine who do not see this, may have forgotten how bad it was, or they try to believe it wasn't that bad.
@@altyrrell3088 Well don't forget that a lot of these jobs are just there to give employees something to do. Which is ridiculous btw. We should have shorter hrs and get paid way more by the hr. As the newer generations start taking over, it's like things are finally getter better. Not enough for my standards but it at least seems to be going good.
I think the reasons why people aren't going on a mass strike right now are 1. Because people are afraid of losing their only job(s) that just barely support their family, and 2. At least half of the US population is ingrained with conservative ideals, making convincing people really hard.
Yet if your unable to live at least modest albeit comfortable life on your earnings what does one have to lose? Unless people are willing to sacrifice and take risks this perpetual cycle will just persist onward. At least until societal collapse which fortunately at this rate is right around the corner regardless.
Yes, I think you are correct. I think the answer is both, if I had to guess, I'd say more of #1 than 2, because I personally know a bunch of people in the #1 scenario. Let's say we DO want change, we want out of this ridiculous capitalist system, but we know our current way to survive is our job and the money it provides for us buying our basic needs. If we want to buck this system, general strike, what are we demanding? And are we prepared for supporting each other through it? Those are important questions to ask and answer before we attempt another strike or protest. Because we've seen many protests and movements, but they didn't change the system. I believe, because they weren't clear on demands and clear on the fact that we DO need system change, not just tweaks. I'd offer the option of demanding a UBI to allow people to get their basic needs met without taking specific labor roles and then the transition after a UBI implementation would be to build self-sustaining, localized, resource-based economies that make capitalism and even the UBI fund obsolete and unnecessary eventually.
I can actually relate to this. When I was working at Mcdonald's, while the first four years may have been fine I did have a hard time finding the time to do the things that I wanted to do. At the end of 2018 when my mom went in for surgery things started to get rough. After that, I went through hell with my job and suffered some severe burnout from working from 5 to 5 for six days a week. I eventually went to work for a small hotel, and while I was only worked for like 2 to 4 days a week and got paid less, I was certainly more happier there than I was at McD's (the only stressful part was my dad telling me that I should find a better job).
There’s more to it than just working less hours. Look up Bungalow Courts. Our homes are designed to make us feel helpless, and there are better ways to design and arrange them that will bring a sense of community, and self-worth that will increase the actual value of working less hours at a “job”.
I don’t hate work, I hate being forced to do it. I wanna paint all day, read, grow my own food etc. the pain of knowing what my dream life is (and it’s not something ridiculous) and still not being able to live it cause I have to spend 50% of my time doing a job I don’t care about is so bad. I waste my precious time on earth and I can never get it back.
So true... I guess it's about finding some way to make money out of stuff you actually enjoy doing. Easier said than done of course... This system doesn't work anymore.
The sad part is that laws are needed to make people do things even half way right. We all have let it get to this point. As long as there is one person out there who says, "I'll do it" instead of sticking up for themselves, things wont change. People shouldn't be allowed to get so big and powerful and money should be regulated. It's the biggest, worst, and most dangerous drug out there and yet, it's also the most legal. Even if it causes some issues, I don't let people run me like this. It's my life - not yours. I wont be doing this shit my whole life, I'd rather die than be a slave to some rich man whom for some reason doesn't understand that he is as big a piece of shit as the amount of money he has. Money is the root of all evil, is a 95% accurate statement. If I dont get treated properly, I'll sit down more than I should, do less, and will do what I can to do as little as possible.
"money is the root of all evil" I used to say this all the time. During a conversation with my brother, I started to look at it a bit differently... Money isn't the root of all evil, Greed, and the thirst for power are.... It's just a thought
@@fallbrkgrl Money is a stand in for all the things we are greedy for, since money can be exchanged for coveted goods, and services, and there is no limit to what you can get with enough money, but some people need ALL of it, not just enough for them.
Guess why the fuckers get so big? One word. Government. Without government intervention, many giants would have collapsed long ago. But governments keep bailing them out. With taxpayers money. Even Trump got a lot money by declaring bankrupcy. Government is ineficient and creates inequality while solving very little issues
I'm a 66 year old retired American male....I spent my whole life working as little as possible, and my only regret looking back on it now is that I didn't work even less.
when you say to "work as little as possible" do u mean u were just very disciplined with money?
@@wintergreen9949 I just figured out how to live on much less money than the average American (such as by not having a car, etc). Remember - everything you don't buy is one more thing you don't have to earn money to pay for!
@@artawhirler sounds like wizardry since most walkable places to live in the US are also the most expensive and unaffordable
@@Mona-gp4qt This is one sign of the many generational gaps which exist today. I think about this stuff a lot. People back in the 1960's could just pick up and go anywhere. Hitchhiking was legal, and cheap housing options like boarding houses still existed. College could be paid for from a part time job. Some colleges were even free. Airfare was regulated by the government. Gas for cars and home heating was cheap. People cooked at home or could pull fish from any body of water. In this new world where food & energy are expensive and everything has a monthly cost, the need now exists for basic income + monthly housing & food subsidies.
@@Mona-gp4qt well, I did it.
My dad retired in January 2020 from the company he worked at for over 40 years. He had a stressful job that required a lot of travel and days and nights away from home. He routinely worked more than 40 hours per week, and in his late 60s kept being told he needed to do more. At 70 he retired and his retirement by comparison has been bliss. He got time for his passions and where we could and when we could, we traveled. But he had a heart attack in December and died. Less than 3 years after retirement. Our society uses up good, hardworking people. If my dad had just one more day off each week, even just for the last 10 years of his job, would I still have a dad?
"would I still have a dad?" The same question could be asked if your dad continued to work instead of retiring?
@@EQRuges I don't think there would be a question because I think he would have surely died on the job/while still working. It was a tough job physically and me tally and he had a lifelong heart condition.
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Your comment really made me think. Thank you and sorry for your loss
Maybe not, but you would probably have a more fulfilled late dad
"The longer you work, the less productive you are." PLEASE say that louder for all of the companies forcing mandatory overtime on staff.
You can thank all the lazy folks that wanna sit around doing as little as possible. That's why there's an increased load on people who actually work.
“Haha, money machine go brrr” -Those company’s.
Mandatory overtime is illegal unless you signed up for it when you agreed to work for said company
@@samaltum4024 I wish it was illegal but it isn't in the US.
this isnt true though. i work 70 hours a week and every hour is nearly optimized
god, imagine a world where you could find your own purpose, instead of trying to motivate yourself to do things you want to do after youve slogged working away the time you werent able to, this video stirred something inside me and i dont know what it is
I think that labor is our purpose that is meaningful labor. Having rights and shit is nice but our purpose is to evolve our species imo to allow life to exist and to ensure its existence
@@ahkosorsomesaykosby9999rights>labor
@@ahkosorsomesaykosby9999um dude, am sure just fucking and making sure the planet doesn’t die is enough?
@@ahkosorsomesaykosby9999an endless cycle of mindless stress and suffering is fucking dumb, I’d rather everyone who is currently alive be happy and healthy, doing what they love and living how they want, at the cost of us all being the last humans left , unable to reproduce, over what we currently have, suffering just to “better” the lives of future generations only for them to end up doing the same sounds like some sacrilegious cult shit
@@ahkosorsomesaykosby9999 Why do you think that tho?
Isn't it kind of weird that technology advanced a lot and raised our work productivity a lot, but we still have 40-hour work week (or even more for some) that was won by workers fighting for it a century ago?
Not weird, exploitation
That's because technology makes life more expensive. Just look at car keys in the 80s and today.
corporations nowdays are holding us all hostage!
Not weird
As technology advances things become much more labor intensive not the other way around.
The planes of world War 1 were built by carpenters basically chopping up a bunch of wood, slapping it together and dropping in a motor and a machine gun
Now compare that to the insane supply chain needed to produce a f-35
All those fighting workers died or were bought off. Now the rich have managed to convince people that they are worthless outside of their utility to the rich.
The answer is pretty obvious and I feel has been for a while now. The issue is that the owners of the world don’t want the population to have more time to themselves. That would mean more freedom, self-autonomy, and more energy to think for ourselves, assess our situation and find solutions to better it.
And the masses having more free time will give them the space and time to educate themselves and realise that they don't NEED the leeches at the top. By keeping people working to the point of exhaustion, no one will question the status quo. They'll be too tired to.
That's how capitalism works. On the one hand we have exploiter with another just slaves. And it's obvious that bourgeoisie don't want to share...
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
@@grandempressvicky6387 Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
@@Anton-cq2ch Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
When I was a child in the 1970s people were wondering what we'd all do with our increased leisure time created by automation. I'm still wondering where that leisure time is...
Think that's bad, consider that Marx wrote the Communist manifesto believing the automation already available then was sufficient to produce sufficient that work could be according to need rather than the coercive reality of then or today.
Same
People are so weird. I mean that was a time when books were around for a long time already, you just could've read the books that you were interested in and probably never would have been able to finish all of them. I don't understand at all why those people thought that
It went to the time spent in the car, driving 🤷
@@Ladymagentabennett 😆 stop, you killed me! But really though: wouldn't it be better if we all had better means of transportation? Like, a really good train network?
The lesson I learned early in life is watching my dad … worked locally until his retirement at 65 … then he suffered a massive stroke at 67 and rendered partially paralyzed and unable to speak. He died 3 1/2 yrs later after much suffering. It changed my attitude about work : doing what I love and where my passions are & making sure I have enough leisure time to explore, travel & try out new things.
Me too. My father was a workaholic and developed severe health issues both mental and physical. I think people should have a choice whether they want to work or not and a Universal Basic Income would help.
See what kind of world is that people think if I work hard then I'll be free at 65! Not knowing they might die right after a whole life wasted working. That's why being rich in this day is amazing. Unless we as a society changed but they want us working.
Bills still gotta get paid
All I want to do is pursue my hobbies. Cooking, music, hiking, gardening, landscaping, carpentry, biking. All of it is a form of "work," but it's stuff that makes me happy, unlike the soul-sucking, depressing busy-work I do for most of my job.
I decided really really early i want to make money out of my hobby. And now i'm doing really well. Nobody encouraged or discouraged me. I am happy i'm getting paid for having fun. If I made it, you can too. And don't think i had rich parents or anything like that. I was raised by an unemployed single mother in poverty. Some times electrical energy got cut. We didn't eat every day. Second hand shoes and clothes. But i made it. I just stuck to my hobby.
i ve heard a lot a phrase that went (ish) make your hobby your work and it becomes your work but treat your work like your hobby and you wont work a day.
my case is a bit odd, as i live in what used to be my grandparents house with my fiancee, and next month my best friend is coming to live with us as he doesn't have anywhere else to go, the cost of maintaining our house is relatively low, and the three of us have been, at different points of our lives, with little to no money, so we now how to live a modest life, sure is cool to own a lot of shit, buy a lot of things, but owning thing and spending won't make our lives any more happy. the key is finding happiness in other things, and just work enough to keep that lifestyle
The company I'm working with didn't go with 4-days' work; however, they reduced the work hours to 6 hours a day.
I can't even explain how the work environment changed and made almost everyone happier :)
I put myself in your shoes for the moment and I smiled enough said
The video isn't about working less. It's about nobody working at all.
Our school had a day that started 1 hour later and it made people happy too
@@christopher48778 People don't want to starve!! That's why they work.
What hours do u work? Like 6-12???
I have a friend that when I met him I asked him what he does. He started saying woodworking, writing, cooking, spending time with his kids, etc... I said oh I meant for work. And he said oh, do you mean what do I sell myself as labor for? Always stuck with me.
It's good to have hobbies & interests. People who complain about retiring being too boring or who say they always have to work at something are likely to have had work as too big a part of their lives and don't know what to do with their time.
Then everybody clapped, right?
Lmao what a douch way to answer that, obviously it's implied what kind of work
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
"Work will set you free!" As a German, I almost spit my coffee.
Spitting coffee isn't the worst thing a German has ever done.
Ya, arbeit macht frei.
@@RubbittTheBruiseyou clearly dont get the joke 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
If no one in the country worked the it would get real hard real fast. The trash would pile up, the sewage would back up, electricity would stop, no phones or internet, couldn't drive for long bc the gas stations would cease. It's alot of good that would happen but tons of bad that I can't even imagine.
"Busy work" is so hard for me, and my ADHD. I can't focus or have time flow by reasonably fast. When I can't stop thinking the thought "Why am I doing this? Does it even matter if I don't?" I find it difficult to allocate my little energy, time, and put on a smile to get through pointlessness. All that harder to roll out of bed that way.
ADHD is the main reason I haven’t entered the workforce yet, I am 20 btw.
I want to enter the workforce when I feel ready, not when society deems that I should, my history with meds is slightly complicated and haven’t had them for a few years and only just started on them again like two months ago and I have to sort all of my life out first.
Work is just unnecessary stress for me right now, plus I imagine getting fired doesn’t look good on a resume so I consider this the completely correct thing to do for now.
Medication is really a godsend, I used to struggle with getting out of bed and having showers, and it was terrible drain on self esteem, now I feel like I can actually do things, and I am even more productive at procrastinating, since before meds I would just browse 24/7, now in addition to browsing I am getting through my long games catalog, baby steps come first after all.
I wish you the best comrade of brain, a nice little phrase I like to call fellow ADHDers.
@@captain-chair I have ADHD and autism, and I forced myself into working at 18, fully aware that I wasn't capable of it, because society told me I had to. I'm 25 now, and years of forcing myself to do something I wasn't capable of meant years of sacrifices and damage. I've developed severe mental illnesses from the extreme stress and trauma that I put myself through trying to meet the unhealthy standards of capitalism that I simply did not have the capacity to meet while still living any semblance of a healthy lifestyle. I've experienced years long depressive episodes, suicidal ideation, intrusive thoughts of extremely violent self harm, periods of time where I was totally numb emotionally and mentally, and stress induced dissociation.
I say all this to encourage you to stick to your guns because you're making the right call. Don't fall into the same trap that I did, don't take irreparable damage to your mental health just to make some rich capitalist richer.
@@Amynon1660 I appreciate you sharing this, and I am sorry you had to go through all of that crap, mental health in this day and age is kinda fucked, the lack of affordable services for some, and the lack of services in general for others, I was the latter, when I was diagnosed there was nothing on offer to really support me more then just meds alone which I ended up blaming for my failures when it was really the lack of awareness at the time.
I feel validated by your encouragement, because being unemployed often makes me feel insecure about myself that I ain’t doing much, but I am doing the right thing by putting my mental health first.
I hope you are doing better now or are working towards better because we all deserve better, and this world won’t do it, so must some how rangle our way there, and I say that although being terminally online might not be considered a virtue in the slightest, if it wasn’t for the internet I would have never have got where I am now, without the information I have learned I would’ve probably been on suicide watch myself, knowledge is mighty powerful, and that isn’t something capitalism can keep us from anymore, which is why I maintain general optimism about the world despite the problems it faces.
I must restrain myself from going on a massive tangent, I tend to accidentally do that sometimes, but I again wish you the best.
@Idk__ What do you mean by self sufficient?
We need to pay for bills, power, medication, lighting, water, heating, or modern medicine.
Saying we should give up such commodities is sort of insane because ADHD isn’t really suited to just leaving civil society, the whole hunter gatherer thing is sort of a myth, ADHD wouldn’t really benefit the hunter gatherer life style, it’s just easier to get dopamine, just with a much higher mortality rate for doing simple tasks, then the modern world.
You probably weren’t talking about that but it is just the ADHD response for the whole self sufficiency thing, the your solution to any social problem is return to monke, then you don’t understand why monke was worse.
@@captain-chair There can be some merit to it so don't discard the whole sentiment. One thing, for example, that is self-sufficient-ish would be to form community gardens and tradelines where the food produced and procured can be maximally shared among the community.
Things like power can be scaled down through positive encouragement (weekly community get togethers outside instead of 8 more hours bitching on twitter) and more clever management.
It won't come close to taking care of all of it but even if a strong local scene can shave off 1 hour of obligatory work to pay for overpriced crap then it's one less hour of stress you can use.
There's a little community house close by me that cooks every day and you can join them for free food without any expectations in return. It's not some magical communist eutopia but the comfort of knowing that if anything happens, I can still head there and not starve for a day helps in ways I can't even explain.
There's a good chunk of the US population too obsessed with calling the younger generation lazy to go along with this even if it will help them too and improve quality of life as a whole. Then there are those who are already retired and bitter and don't want anyone to have it better than they did.
Not true.
Well there's that eloquently and cleverly debunked, I admire your razor sharp wit as well as your robust arguments.
So just let them die and then use the younger generations with the fresh mindsets to enact change. Old people with old mindsets are such a burden.
There are a bunch of younger people who want to blame older people for the class structure. Blame capitalism. Many of those old folks lost their union jobs and are having to keep working late in life just to pay medical bills.
Im 29, I work full time (40+) hours a week and my generation and the one under mine ARE lazy, taking 4+ hours to do 1 hour tasks, no intrest in learning how to do their job efficiently and constantly complaining about how hard everything is. That said this is just a generalized observation of the majority of co workers i have had in the past 10 years and am aware of the few and far between exceptional individuals who are humble and hard working.
I switched to a 4 day work week a year ago and its been great. Getting 3 days off in a row is the perfect balance. You get 1 day to try to work for your self, 1 day to spend with friends, and a day just to relax and do nothing at all. I feel so refreshed when i go back to work and give it more effort.
I sometimes catch myself hoping to get sick so I can have a few days off. I'm currently stuck in the final year of training with a 50h week (40 hours work + 10 hours commute).
Can't wait to switch to 5.5h or 4 days once I'm done with that. Awesome to hear that you made it work.
I work 4 10 hr days with optional overtime. I find that I enjoy my overtime because its my choice and I can go home whenever I want. Also I agree about the 3 days off. Its perfect. I go in 3 hrs on Friday, complete one major task then go do whatever I wish. Then Saturday to socialize, and Sunday to sit around or go do something fun, Mondays are always good because everyone is in a great mood because they got adequate rest and recreation. Thats the perks of having a boss in his 30s. His father ran us ragged and made the job horrible, when he took over it was awesome.
Thats not even talking about compensation, he is already rich so he puts 30% of our profits back into the paychecks. Bonuses every 3 months, and annual raises. I got a 5 dollar/hr raise for inflation, and a 1500 bonus just for doing what I do everyday. Hopefully all jobs can work towards being like mine.
Honestly I think 3 days in a row would be too much, kinda fits with that whole law of diminishing returns thing. But you shift that day off to like Wednesday now you never work more than two days in a row, two weekends sounds pretty appealing to me
That's what I did in my previous job. Having a Wednesday off is a life saver. I went from hating my job to not caring because I'm never there more than 2 days. And even made Tuesday evenings a pleasure as you can actually do things or go somewhere without the pressure of having work next day. It breaks the week up perfectly (for me)
It's amazing how indigenous peoples survived hundreds of years without the concept of money, yet nearly every member of the society contributed to the betterment of their tribe without the pressure of monetary limits.
Capitalism teaches selfishness so even if we went back to working together for the better of everyone unfortunately there will always be someone trying to screw everyone over just for the benefit of their own self
That’s what I’m thinking!! Nobody now doesn’t give knowledge for free, it’s ridiculous 😢
I went from a 50-60 hour work week to a 30-35 hour work week, and I could see the stark difference in productivity throughout the staff. After a certain point, people just wanted to go home, so they would barley do anything. Whereas now, people at my work stay vigilant until those last few minutes
It makes sense
Bingo
Just wait until they get acclimated to the 30-35 hour week and they stop working hard, hours before their shift is over again.
@@MrTaylork1 You can always find new more grateful workers fresh from 60hour weeks.
If only they would pay them the money they would have got had they worked 50 to 60hrs
I’m a manager in Japan and after hearing about the 4 day work week, I got all my workers down to 30 hours per week and soon I’ll work with HQ to get them down to 4 days ☺️
If you push hard enough, it can work. They seem much happier than before and things still run smoothly. Good luck, America ✊🏽
Can you hire me?
Joking aside, good for you!
I worked a 3 day work week for many years. They were long hours, hard days and I was tired when I was finished but it was rewarding work and I got paid well. The upside was I then had 4 days off during the week to do whatever I wanted. It was great.
I told my engineers "get the amount of work done that I assign for you and I don't give a shit what you do after." They get more work done by Wednesday than the best team i was on before got done in two weeks. Based on the pics I see and the group chat, seems like they spend the other 3/4 of the sprint motorcycling, baking, and playing videogames lol. And we still come in under budget every. Time.
@@komali2 I mean considering if you know you get off as soon as you get the work done properly, you will do it efficiently and fast. One of the most common things I've noticed in "normal" job etiquette or whatever I should call it, is that people tend to try and waste as much time as possible while at work. Kind of like the "Boss makes a dollar I make a dime" meme.
I feel like a lot of that comes from just how much time you spend at work. I will admit that I did that myself at times, despite being a "scared" young kid new to the trade. A lot of my, lets call them managers would just tell me to go take a brake, just don't go near the cameras so the higher ups won't see your slacking, again pretty much everyone does it.
where did you work i want to goooo there 😩. お願い致します
The "downtime" part is why I LOVE being in Home Office. Whenever there was no work in the office back then, we still had to pretend, most of the time, that we work. Whenever there is no work to do at the moment in home office, I play games, watch videos, cook, clean the house, hang/fold the laundry, etc. Does it mean that I don't work when there IS work to be done? OF COURSE NOT! But when there ISN'T ANY, I don'Ttjust sit idly in front of my screen, but do things beneficial for me or my private life (see examples above). Did my work ethics, the quality of my work or my morale dip with home ofiice? Not even the least bit. It's just when there isn't any work to do, I do what other things need to be done and not bore myself to death by sitting and pretending there is work to do.
Exactly! In addition, working from your home gives you even more free time as you don't need to go anywhere. This saves money which would be needed for (public) transportation.
In the first year of Covid me and my colleagues have constantly worked from home for about 6 months. If anything, home office raised effectivity. We weren't distracted by each other as much.
“See examples above” how bout I show you my example and let’s see how good a team we make 😏
yup yup. and sometimes we use so much energy pretending there is work to do, that we are less productive when finally there is something meaningful to do. its just stupid. it all comes down to the idea that employers are buying the employee's time. it should NOT be this way. They are buying the results, not the time. What does anyone need someone else's time for? They need results. Get that in your head.
You are right, it would even be better if you could actually do everything you wanted and don’t need to stay available for others…
Don't forget the 30-120 minutes of commute per day that are just free now. Which in my case resulted:
Hey, why even rent in an expensive city when I can BUY a house for less in a rural area? Apparently many people did the same.
The ease in which most jobs went virtual almost immediately during the pandemic screamed to me that most jobs are completely arbitrary and useless.
Someone making excel sheets, graphs and slides that were already sheets graphs and slides of someone else’s sheets graphs and slides
Exactly!!
I'm a web developer, mostly coding stuff that even our own people use Adblockers for and websites or software that nobody needs except for marketing people having a budget they must throw out the window every year. I like my job because it's fun and pays well, but the product of my work doesn't contribute to society. If the job wasn't fun, I'd be basically locked in an awful career, because due to mental illness this is the only company where I can effortlessly meet expectations without risking my health.
10 years ago I stopped working overtime, limiting my work hours to an 8 hour day. Originally motivated by a need for less stress.
Now, I get a lot more done; and get to go home at a decent time.
A 4 day week would be bliss.
😊
Maybe less than 150 years from now we will work even less, let's hope for the future (I mean in the western world, unfortunately)
I had a 4 hour shift; I would LEAVE not one more minute after it was over; I got fired, but that's really what I wanted. I can't stand being an employee, as much as I can't understand how people put up with it. I guess, sadly, some people were born for it? I know people who can't live without somebody telling them who they are, what to do, how far can they can go, if the moon is made out of cheese and if santa claus is real. Really, some people have to be told and that defines them.
Have you talked to your boss about a 4-day week? Personally, I have almost always gotten exactly what I wanted from my boss, by simply doing my job, doing it well, and then openly talking to him/her about how I want my work week to be. I have had bosses that knew they had to call me in if they needed me on days with great surfing conditions, and they really didn't mind because they knew that I would always deliver, and it would always be high quality and on time. That's really all a boss needs. If you haven't tried it, I suggest you go for it, you might be pleasantly surprised. GL 🤞
Me too
@@ViaConDias If I may, can I know what field you're working in?
Just imagine how much healthier and happier we would all be if we could work 25hours a week and still be able to live comfortably with a fair wage.. too bad it’ll never happen tho
if we don’t fight for a future we want then no, it won’t happen. but it can
Modest lifestyle is an option
@@foolishmortal9703 honestly I think we’re too far gone for it to happen. I would love to be wrong, but I just can’t see; especially with how our current economy is
@@natashadickson4819 I think most people are already living that lifestyle, but not bc they want to
@@jodystrickland9150it isn't impossible. It's very possible, considering the fact it's working in countries other than America
I used to work 60h a week on a restaurant and next summer it got increased like 15h a day, 6 days a week. Totally insane. I refused to work on such conditions and went back to the city I was born and after a few years (I studied some other things) I got a job working around 30h a week and the difference is outstanding, I have time to sleep, learn more things, play videogames and much more, I wouldn't change it for nothing! I don't regret leaving a 3 michelin star restaurant to be a delivery guy working for a chinese restaurant and I will never be.
Good for you man. My bf and I started a company and we divided the work shifts so we each only work 2 and a half days a week. It’s been a life changer. I have time to try out new recipes, read books, take walks to the beach, play with my cats, etc.
@TheUnitAce Spain. The restaurant was located in Ibiza.
@@Fotofobico9 "Went back to the city I was born" did you live with your parents? Who did you live with why you got training?
I think that most people, myself included, are afraid to work for themselves, because there's no initial guarantee that you'll be successful. What we don't realize is that if we stay consistent, we can and will grow over time. It's that over time bit that we get hung up on. A job working for someone else, we know that if we do the bullshit we'll get paid, versus doing work you enjoy for yourself, that doesn't immediately pay.
OK, so boom! Now *everyone* has an LLC. So are your employees just other business owners, who work for each other on the side? Is that what you are saying? Even *you* will go work at another's business. Is that right?🤔
Most people are not successful though. Most new businesses, even if the ideas are good, do not survive.
man i was ridiculed when i spoke things as these with my family and friends. im glad we resonate with each other
Avoid words like socalism, labour, union, and strike and I think most people are onboard, use phrases like we're being take advantage of etc, but then again the rich are the only class with class solidarity :|
There are more of us out here than you think. 😃😄
Depending on the situation you're born into, and, seeing just how hard the media works to control the narrative, it can be hard to see it though, that's true.
((Have you checked out PLN News as well? There are good-news-stories there from all over the globe that aren't likely to be on TV!))
Yeah idk why people have a knee-jerk response that always ends with "youre just lazy" regardless of how hardworking you are
Ridiculed, marginalized & been told I was “lazy” for over 3 decades while working 80+ hours a week. Now I work around 30 hours a week at a job I like & make the same money in an entirely different industry. Tired of the other sh!t - & I’m hacking the system now. Multi-millionaires & billionaires be damned!
@@VvpandoravV Typical gaslighting from the indoctrinated mindless masses of late stage capitalism.
My parents are always working throughout the weekday. Even when they're done with work, they can't sit still and relax. I really don't want to become like that because it seems so sad. Work is necessary, but overwork isn't.
Maybe they're working that much so you can have a better life than they did. You should talk to them about it.
@itrashcant7947
@@Sleep2Dream
Nah they are on the edge of losing their income/house/transportation/status/healthcare 24/7.
What a way to end a 12 hour day. Thanks, Second Thought!
Glad to be of service 😁
@@SecondThought Thank you for your time and effort in making these videos possible. Keep up the good work.
How topical.
The irony…I feel you.
Where do you live ? In germany it's not allowed to work for more then 10 hours a day :O
As someone who was never in a union when I was in the field, but am staff at a company with union workers, I seriously see the benefit of unions. Wish they were growing and not shrinking.
Some are growing again, but we need more Wobblies and less AFLs, they're part of why labour unions did decline in the USA.
I work as an artist, and this societal addiction to working for the sake of working has really messed me up sometimes.
Some time ago I changed which hardware and software I used to draw, and it was great! I was getting commissions done significantly faster than my old setup! But I felt this nagging feeling because I wasn't drawing for twelve hours a day anymore. It turns out, a good chunk of those hours were just mundane things like flat colors I have better ways to automate now, or dealing with technical issues from my old setup. Still, somehow I felt guilty because finishing more actual creative work meant I was doing less busywork.
Yep, it's the old adage that a life not spent working like a fucking dog is a life wasted.
Notice how that old notion only applies to working for somebody else in exchange for money.
Same here! I used to draw in a way that made it impossible to get nice coloring with just the bucket tool, meaning I had to color in everything manually, now after changing my art-style to where using bucket tool (along side few other stuff) significantly reduced my drawing time, and now I have time to do other stuff. I was so surprised once when I realized I completed a drawing that would usually take me over a day in just a few hours.
Sincerely if you use a computer to do gour digital art vs a tablet can u drop what software you use, i have been feeling impossible trying to make digital art and my commissions have been at a standstill because of it. I spend so much time just adjusting and moving levels around and trying to maneuver software that I'm losing my marbles lol
Do u have any advice for becoming an artist that can love off their work?
@darkstrifequeen1458We look forward to seeing what you have to offer! It’s good to be weary of corporations who might want to profit off your creations and give no regards to you, the person making them.
My old work place experimented with 35-38 hour work weeks... by making everyone work 6-7 hour shifts 5 days a week and, since you weren't actually a full time employee because you weren't doing 40 hours, basically no one got health insurance since they were all considered part time (:
That's on top of having to do at least two job's worth of labor, of course
That's fucking slimy
Doesnt seem right most places over 32 hrs is considered full time
That's just it they will find a way to exploit less time as well. Reductions in pay no benefits so on and so forth. The owner class always finds more reasons and methods to exploit the proletariat.
@Masen S serious question, how do you pay for it then? That's what I hate about private insurance, you still have to pay copays, prescriptions, and that's if they even cover your visit. But yea if you're working 28 hours seems like a ton of your check would go to insurance
Shame.. imagine they did that but you had the luxury of full time status too.. capitalism ruins and limits how good we can have it
We really need to decouple work from earning money. Raising a child is work. Cleaning your house is work. Going to get your car registered is work. You just don't get paid for it because those things don't directly make capitalists money. I want to work. I just can't survive without money, so I'm forced to do only certain kinds of work.
Spot on! I've been saying that for some time, so thank you.
@@ConnorisseurYT Interesting. You "know" that someone's incapable of producing a product, good, or service that a buyer is willing to pay for just because they raise a question about society's concept of "work"?
It’s more about wether it can be measured and wether you contribute to society in the short term and long term. People seem to forget where capitalism originated. It didn’t just appear out of nowhere with a few people on the top.
It is the closest to evolution we have and it is the closest to the human nature. Take a bigger risk and earn more, do less and earn less. Focus only on yourself and you will earn nothing. A society can’t function if people didn’t do the necessary work. And in our modern globalised society networking, stocks and company management have become just as important to keep up our living standards as brick layers and plumbers. In the end the one who adapts best wins. And some exploit this system and I have a hard time judging them for it. These things are unfair and brutal in some cases but they are just natural. They won’t change if we change the system. Exploitation and all that will always exist in some form. Europe does a good job at setting boundaries without regulating the market too much. People have to understand that although in many cases it seems trivial the human being as a part of a society unfortunately is made to work and nothing else. Evolution has made humans for reproduction and keeping the species alive. Technically we have luxury here. Not being able to afford medicine is on one hand cruel, but can also be seen as natural selection in an advanced society. If you don’t have the traits to make it than your genes are not advantageous for future generations and humanity. Except that intellect has become more and more important as more physical jobs are slowly being pushed away by machines.
It is all just natural selection and every individual just plays the part to make his own life better. No one, and I repeat absolutely NO ONE acts fully selfless. Even a parent taking a bullet for their own child is just ensuring the passing on of the own genes. What we are programmed to do.
Take the payment part. If we have a corporation that contributes to any sort of logistical thing in society that provides millions of people with an important service. And we have tens of thousands of plumbers that also provide millions of people with an equally important service. That means that that one ceo has equal responsibility and impact on peoples life as the ten thousands of plumbers combined . With such and influence isn’t it only fair to earn the more?
@@musiccer7446 Absolutely, though the problem are the corrupt rules and legislation put around it - CEOs are payed massive wages in the form of "performance bonuses" to avoid taxes, constantly being shortstaffed and not hiring are a way to get loans that basically turn into grants, etc. Any system in existence must be designed with a egoist, greedy human in mind. The problem is those same humans, after designing this system, will alter it to benefit them, or those who pay them.
@@purplegoopguy well, someone will always exploit a system. And we should do our best to not be that person and prevent it from happening. But it will always exist in some form
I'm hard working and not lazy at all. But at 40 now and having worked solid for 25 years I'm no where better off. In fact I was more skint now than 15 years ago. So finally I woke up, I moved into my van. Got a part time job and now I feel much better in myself and no money worries and actually enjoying my life now. My depression has gone and I now know I can live much better with a simple life and my confidence with myself is massive.
I'm 21 year olf male from India, I have noticed that at this age I'm thinking very short term like my default mind jusk can't process that one day I will be 35 or 40 year old and for that I should start working from now not extensively but at the good rate which I'm doing too but I noticed that when I was 17 or 18 year of 21 seems quite far to me and now when I'm 21 it's just feel like flash when I try to remember that memories and that mind state which I has at the age of 18 and as you know world is getting more and more Universal one language one culture so as a elder who lived your life what is your advice, what would you suggest and what would you reccoement I would like to receive any life advice from your experiences.
@@ijayraj I'm shocked you are asking advice from me, but thanks. I've found life does drag if your not in the moment or your doing nothing productive. But productive for me is being as true to myself as I can and enjoying my hobbies. Productivity for me is t in the mainstream society where everything is geared towards selfishness, money, power and material wealth. All these things aren't actual reality. It's been put their to take away focus on who we actually are. I lost myself in drugs for a long time because I tried to fit in and I knew deep down I didn't want to fit in. It's only a few years ago when I woke up and realised my life will always be the same if I don't wake up. I was depressed, always at home in my spare time. I worked hard just to pay my rent and drug addiction. I took drugs to hide my pain of living in this cruel world. But I realised it's my world and I can make it better. Positivity is key and I know all I can change is myself and nobody else. I love nature and getting out in it going camping bike riding paddle boarding and all that stuff. Being active has helped me mentally and physically. I only hang with a few people who are like minded. I don't like negative people. I'm so much more humble having realised I really don't know anything. As a youth you think u know all but I'm still learning and will be till I die. I'm spiritual so believe in after life although I don't believe in religion. I've experienced things so I know what we experience here on earth isn't our whole story. Life was very scary for me but now I understand fear is a tool they use to keep us down and in their control. Now I don't fear so I can live life fully. We are very strong being with lots more potential and in this modern society our true potential is lost, that's why I feel so much more alive now more than 20 years ago when I was 20 is because I just live now without fear and in control rather than paying into the system. I'm independent and love the simple things in life. I don't own much but I'm humbled and one more thing is the ego. Ego takes control and leads you down a bad path. I'm no better than anyone but I am more aware than most and that's ok. I just wish people followed their own instinct and not follow like sheep. You must question everything and listen to yourself. But that only works if you can take time to be with yourself and understand what's real. Most people can't sit a day by themselves in a pure unagitated state. I don't know if any of this helps u. I'm just a crazy dude living a life most people don't get. But we must all follow our own path. I can tell you are going to do fine because u have asked this question when most people would not.
@@milkyvanlife i have taken screen shot of that and defiantly remember that but my main concern is the career and financial stability is there any advice regarding to that and again thank you very very much for the life lessons.
@@milkyvanlife is there any way i can get to touch with you social media, facebook or anyther way I would like to discuss with you if you are too.
@@ijayraj no I'm not on any other social media. All I can say about career and money is don't forget we live in a world money obsessed so you will have to work to get by unless you already have the knowledge and land to live freely off but to get to that point you will need money. I suggest u look at life in sections. Whilst your young you must work hard,... Try to find something you like doing so it's not so boring. Then you gotta save your money, be wise and don't spend it all on material things, just necessaties. Then hopefully in this time you have worked out what you want from life and take that to your next step. But all I can really say is work life is hard and for most who make a lot of money you will be asked to giv up most your time and effort. I never liked being forced to giv all my time so I'll never be rich. But that's no my goal in life. I'm trying to live free minded and away from the system. The world we have created is fake and to get along with it you must put on a mask and follow the crowds if you want the money and fame. But apart from money I have everything a rich man has if not more because I have not sold my soul. I love in reality whilst most live in a fake version of reality based on buying stuff you don't need and being addicted to media which stops people looking into what is really going on on our planet. But as long as we survive, have food shelter and loving family then all we can do is protect that and keep working to pay the bills. Just don't rely on the system because it could turn around and spit you out. They don't care for us, they just want our taxes. That's why I live in a van, I'm in control of my life, not the government. And my next goal is to save money so I can buy a bit of land and then live on that in a little bit growing my own food and living at one with nature. This is my end game. Again I hope this helps
I've been unemployed for 4 months and the stress of finding ways to pay bills is way less stressful than the last 10 years of me working endlessly.
riiiiight
Wait until you’re old. The trick is to work hard enough when you’re young to not have to find ways to pay the bills. Otherwise you’ll be bagging groceries when you’re 70.
@funnyandrew lmao sir i just told you I've been working for 10 years and you think i don't have a career better than bagging groceries 🤣 the issue is you think being mentally exhausted is a form of weakness and people shouldn't take time off.
I ve worked for 10 years with a week of vacation occasionally. Me taking 4 months off isn't going to lead to me bagging groceries when I'm old please stfu
@@PhotoJeticPoet 10 WHOLE YEARS?!?! Haha! And then you’re butthurt because of a word of advice from someone on the internet who’s worked for 40 years and is just trying to help? Good. You do you. You’re going to be in a perpetual life of blaming the world for your failures. Have at it. My point was that some people “work for 10 years with a week of vacation occasionally” and then find out later in that they were just debt slaves and some people create their lives and end up employing people like you. You will learn that the hard way. Good luck.
@@funnyandrew Exactly! Selling shoes or pumping crypto is not going to help you retire when you're young. Only a strong career and hard work will do that. Make a name for yourself
I was literally playing a game on my phone at the moment he noted that a large chunk of a person's workday is wasted nothing. I am "working" at the moment. I am so completely uninspired lately.
That’s because not only do most shifts not need to be that long, but most jobs are bs. And not really needed.
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
Join the club buddy
At my recent internship, they were trying out a 4-day week for the summer. I was also tracking the time I spent taking breaks so that I didn't feel as guilty for taking them while also making sure not to waste _too_ much time. When summer ended and I got my first 5-day week, my timer on how much time I spent actually working showed that I did about the same amount of work during a 4-day week as I did during a 5-day week, only with the latter coming with extra stress.
They do this at Clorox.
Whenever there is a public holiday in the middle of a week, and we end up having the 4 day work week, I noticed how I always got more done than I got done in a 5 day week. Even a break in the middle of the week increases productivity so much
2005 - 2010 I was working at a 130k job. I was extremely stressful, working 50+ hours a week, no life, not happy, and I was going no where!
I quit in 2011.
I moved to St Thomas and became a part time bartender,. Granted I'm not making much money but IM TOTALLY STRESS FREE A HAPPY. Most importantly, I no longer need meds for my Anxiety is gone.
The only regret is I wish I did this when I was 20 instead of 35. 😊
Great… until retirement.
Reminder that you are legally protected to talk about your wages with your co workers in the US
if most us can see the scam that's when we see a change
most of us already see the scam, nothing is changing
@@fortytwo244 if so pass them the news of the Haitian national strike to pass them new ideas
@@davidparker7216 nobody cares about Haiti bro
In my old job everyone knew what we made, but one coworker was stubborn to share their wage giving a bs reason why they don't share it.
And employers have plenty of excuses to fire you if you do, so...
I’m convinced that 50-70% of all jobs have no tangible positive impact on our world…… and a lot of them have negative impacts. A lot of these jobs are just there to get in the way
Have you read "Bullsh!t Jobs" by David Graeber? This is a well studied fact.
@@07Flash11MRC yes i have, it was an excellent book!
@@z-bird9548 Same. David was a great guy. May he rest in peace.
Marketing/Callcenters/Management, etc?
@@maximilian19931 Fast food. I give you shitty drinks and shitty food that are really not good for you, and I do it for shitty pay. Really, my job could vanish off the face of the earth, and we'd all be better off for it.
This is an absolute masterpiece. You spoke out so many thoughts I've had over the last years. The amount of value created by automatisation and industrialisation should make it possible to live a decent life with decreasing working hours. The fact that so much value is going to the richest 2-3% directly, instead back to the people creating this value is the reason why we still have to work 40hrs/week in order to achieve a decent standard of living. Or even managing to pay rent.
you don't feel valued so may as well just call out sick
I highly recommend the book "The Overworked American" by Juliet Schor. She runs the numbers on this and concludes the same. It's shameful we've gone the entire computer age, since 1938, with no downward adjustment in the work week. Every time the 1% has pressured toward taking rewards as more money rather than more free time, and then they'll try to share as little of that money as possible. It'll take voting in politicians who'll change the labor laws and reviving unions to change that. They won't do it out of the goodness of their hearts.
There is somewhat of a Darwinian problem to cutting back. Countries that don’t keep up the pace risk falling behind and finding themselves undermined to more advanced, cheaper competitors a few decades later. However, as usual the socialist criticism to capitalism is spot on. There is a lot of BS in work, which we would do well to eliminate. I feel like this would happen naturally if businesses were more democratically governed. It’s still feudalism in the office and the power disparity makes it too open to abusive or even just simply neglectful behaviors, which don’t get fixed because those who suffer under them have little to no voice.
@@ianollmann9393 thanks for your accurate and thoughtfull input!
@@youtubesucks1499 Call those people shareholders and you will see that is what already occurs, give or take a bit of automation.
This might be one of my favorite videos now. Perfectly sums up my fears and thoughts about the future and going into the workforce. I’ve always thought a better way to run jobs is to give employees a certain amount of work to complete for the day, and if they finish early they get to leave early. No point in making people sit around and get stuck in that weird not-working-but-not-relaxing-either limbo.
There definitely seems to be an idea that more time “working” means more productivity/ a better outcome in things like education as well. Often times kids just end up sitting around or do meaningless busy work because they have to be there for 7 hours as opposed to using this time for more/better learning. Some areas around the world have shorter school hours yet see an increase in learning outcome, which is definitely something the US could benefit from
Many really don’t give respect to how important one’s free time really is and that seems to apply to kids in school as well
Problem is, more often than not schools serve as daycare just as much as education. As long as parents work 40 hours week, children will have to be at school the same, even if it's inefficient.
The concept that time spent working == value produced has resulted in quite a lot of damage. Spending 50 years making a bic pen that sells for $1.05 at Walmart still only results in a pen worth $1.05. So why should 40 hours spent doing something that could be done in 1 result in more pay?
@@_asphobelle6887 in Germany, children below age 10 only have half a day of actual lesson time. After lunch they go to "Hort" which is in the same school building but rather than lessons it is mostly fun activities and also time for homework. It isn't free but very cheap like 100€ per month. (In my opinion it should be free though) Anyway the US could easily do the same thing. Keep the same teachers and buildings, but only do structured learning for half the day and the rest is just play time.
Professional educator here: it actually gets worse.
There's a thing called "cognitive load," the tl:dr version of which is basically: the more information you throw at someone, the less they'll learn.
Yes. Really. There's an inverse relationship between increasing the amount of educational information, and how much of it they retain. It's almost as if... learning stuff takes effort, and the more effort exuded the worse the work gets. Where have we heard this one before?
There are so many systemic problems with the traditional school system, especially in American, where it was built as a factory for producing people, as Carlin put it, "just smart enough to run the machines and do the paper work, but just dumb enough to passively accept worsening conditions..."
Society has needed a revamp for decades, as so has the school system. Many great people go through these systems, but they haven't adapted to the needs of our time because the socio-economic system is so toxic.
The idea we grow up as kids with all this wonder and joy, then starting going to school, for generally respectable reasons: to learn to read, write, calculate and think. Then we get older and find out there is this impending system "need" waiting for us when we turn the legal age. We have to labor-for-income, for our livelihood! That's where it has all gone wrong. Capitalism incentivizing profit over people is an unsustainable model. Depression is likely to set in.
Instead, we should have a system where our basic needs are met, locally, by design and school is evolving to adapt to our interests and needs. If kids don't want to be in 'this school' or 'that school' we can have small tutor or mentor teacher groups that foster the child's interests and needs. This isn't done because of artificial 'cost'. But the cost ends up on society when we push kids through a system, they miss out on a lot, get hurt and confused a lot and then can fall prey to bad influences, and drain and strain our health care or law enforcement systems.
It's avoidable, but only if we change systems.
As an engineer “working the least amount as necessary” is one of the fundamental principles we have in our mind when approaching efficiency. Thats why I systemize my work as I do it to make it more efficient. My work makes the company more efficient. So its a exponential gain.
I've just found that out recently
@@richardl8241 I’m trying to be like you when I’m in my 20s.
Thank god doctors and surgeons don't have this ideology.
Regardless of the civilization/system u live in, “work” =food and shelter. How much of it you need to maintain varies. In western world. Find a gig(s) that pays as much as possible with smallest amount of effort. Pro tip. 🥇
I've been saying this for years. I've spent so much useless time at work day dreaming of doing something I actually care about, seeing people killing themselves for just about nothing. I've had jobs that ran me like a dog, and I've had jobs that had me doing nothing. It's ridiculous to me that we can't just...shorten shifts, hire people to take the hours that one person isn't stuck in, and paying people the same wages they'd make for an eight hour shift. Like. It's not that fucking hard.
and this is how you get inflation and homeless people because your just lazy
And they can totally afford it!
Start ypmour own Company and do exactly that!
Well, you just got yourself another subscriber- this video fully articulated a feeling that I have been living with for at least the past 12 years (which, not so coincidentally, was when I stopped working in a more hands-on role in a biology lab, & instead transitioned into working in an office)- which is that even the work we are expected to do on a daily basis in an office setting, seems to be mainly self-perpetuating & ultimately pointless. Fortunately, I was able to escape that system and begin to pursue less lucrative but far more fulfilling work as a homesteader and artist. I am beyond grateful for this change, because I was working over 70hrs a week in a role that felt suffocating & meaningless, for a corporation that valued the financial bottom line over the life satisfaction of their staff, or any kind of integrity in their business practices. That's no way for people to live out their lives.
"My generation suffered, therefore you should!"
I'm sick of killing myself for Capitalism. The "loyalty" doesn't go both ways.
@@youtubesucks1499 Don't throw everything that's wrong with capitalism into my lap. I'm sorry I said something that triggered you. All these corporations got a 15% tax cut, and largely haven't paid their employees a cent more.
@@youtubesucks1499 would you rather Walmart pay for people's insurance, or continue to keep them poor in hopes to use your tax dollars to insure their workers? It's a complicated issue. Perhaps intentionally so.
We have been conditioned to think that the system is perfect. That is a defect of character if you can't seem to get a hang of it all.
Since 1970 people have been sliding backwards as far as wages. That includes you. I don't think that anybody should be happy with what they are being paid for. We are all being cheated. That includes the surgeon and McDonald's worker.
I have my own business. I don't have to work it constantly. I'm slightly shy of where where I want to be. But I'll get there.
But I still can't help but to think of everyone else. I would like everybody to enjoy the security that I have.
@@youtubesucks1499 is a poor person supposed to get rid of their job so they can be poor in the interim? How many of these part-time people have two or three jobs? You're making assumptions from your privilege.
You keep comparing people, but I don't see things that way. Everybody deserves a living. Everyone deserves housing. In the last year some people's rents have gone up by 90%. That means yesterday your job was good enough tomorrow it won't be. I'm sorry I will not apologize for being a socialist. You can still take the side of the corporations, but they won't think twice about screwing you over.
Take care.
@@youtubesucks1499 You could like
Share the business with your employees, y'know
Same salary to everybody, decisions made by everybody
A lot of factories in my country work that way, they are called cooperatives
Even some supermarkets work that way, the clients get some money back
They are profitable, one runs an entire mall that sustain the suburbs of Bahia Blanca (Argentina)
@@luispagano I love that! That guy really seems to have nothing but contempt for those financially lesser than he.
So many people don't question our system. It starts at worth. How much a job is worth. On whose scale? Because if we let companies decide, they'll always want the most for less.
I would love more cooperative business here.
I was a machine designer for over 45 years. I "knew" that this is what I wanted to do since I was about 12 or 13 years old and took courses and jobs that allowed me get the job I wanted. I thoroughly enjoyed it thru the years. I still pick up a few odds and end jobs. But there are limits to everything. There needs to be "me" time to keep your mind sharp and maintain the enthusiasm. It seems like most managers have propensity to kill whatever enjoyment one has for their job and absolutely no understanding how that affects the very productivity that they desire. The last guy I worked for before retiring didn't require any time sheets or hours reports. As long as what needed to get done, got done when required, he didn't care how many or how few hours I worked.
One thing that helped me was that after a while, I didn't fear losing my job if I took time off or refused to work OT or take on jobs that completely disrupted my personal life. It's very liberating to have that attitude. I was threatened with termination several times, but it never happened.
“What do you do?” seems to be something only Americans ask. In other countries, it’s generally considered intrusive to ask that of someone you just met. At least in my experience.
Yeah, in my country it only comes up from people who are either Americans who came to live or work here for some reason or another or it's at a business or work related party/event. Our jobs are, well, just that, jobs, they're not our lives and are mostly irrelevant with some exceptions.
I live in America and I also find it rude and never ask ppl that cause first off what I notice is if you don't work in a office or a job that's known to pay well ex: Truck driver, electrican, wielder.
You'll get a lack luster "oh" and you can just tell your being judged cause you weren't among the lucky few. But something I also notice ask these same ppl what are their hobbies or what they do for fun and it's often nothing.
I could relate. Family members asked this question a lot and I HATE it
I'm American and I think it's intrusive. I feel like the person is sizing me up.
try asian countries...
I cant express how hard this video hit for me. I have had really serious mental health issues for the last decade, and the demand to work so much has often put me in very real danger.
@palatonian9618 Hang in there! You are important and you matter. Please, take care of yourself. One day, capitalism will stop existing and then we will be able to focus on creating a caring and inclusive society, one that will take care of everyone. Stay strong. ✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️
“I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think." -- George Orwell
Yes bc often all ppl have time to stress about is work and making enough money to live
The only thing the have to fear is fear itself, because we the people are far more civilized than the sociopaths.
Why does anyone need to have babies? It's not a NEED. It's a pathetic desire that u think will make u happy. Find other ways to make yourself happy. There are a few things in this life that we are certain of:
1. The human being born did not ask to be born
2. The human being born will face death
3. We are slaves in a corrupt world
4. Life is full of horrors, diseases and illnesses Why do we need to keep reproducing?!?! Its like a hamster on a wheel that just keeps running, doing the same repetitive crap. A never ending cycle that just needs to stop. Become a PREVENTIONIST!!!!
Preventionism isn’t conditional. Never has it been ethically justifiable to impose unnecessary risk, suffering and death without consent. Breeders selfishly want a toy-child to distract them from their mundane, meaningless, purposeless, lonely, coward, low IQ, pathetic, selfish, narcissistic, immoral, unethical lives.
An older, also childless couple once said to me that having a child means that you can stop torturing yourself with the question "What is the meaning of life"... Partly because you now have an answer right in front of you, and partly because it won't stop screaming long enough to let your mind wander into philosophical territory anymore!
Privacy is dead anyway. Either nobody cares anymore or nobody understands. Everyone has voluntarily wiretapped their own homes with Google/Alexa/etc., as if smartphones weren't already recording everything we did and said, and triangulating precisely where we did and said it, whilst giving us cancer as a bonus!
@@NeolotusB5G We are ruled by disturbances in the periphery.
Which is why they live in perpetual fear anyway. There’s no rest for the wicked.
THANK YOU. It always bugged me when people would ask me “What do you do?” How I get money is only a fraction of who I am as a human being. A tiny, tiny fraction.
Interesting. I'm Canadian, and what people here do to get money is often their ONLY identity. Many, many Canadians will do almost nothing with their entire lives except work.
“What do you do?” “When I’m not at work I ____”
For real most people who work those long hrs are who have nothing outside of work. It's sad but also their purpose can't judge people for wanting to feel a purpose for their life.
Exactly bro agh
Um, I don’t think they are trying to reduce you to your job, it’s also part of getting to know you and what you studied or your qualities or what you’re trained in.
Unions are likely to make a huge comeback with Gen Z and the next Gen and I sincerely hope it does. After working in the private sector and lucking out and getting a public sector union job I realized just how necessary unions are. Every company should have a union to stop higher ups from having runaway salaries and taking money from below them to pay for it. I saw this in practice when I worked for a large medical testing lab during covid. The company culture told us that we were a family and therefore had to tighten our belts and take a temporary pay cut. Easy to guess that those at the department head level didn't even get the slightest cut. In fact I heard our director got a bonus for our labs work and effort to meet quotas. The Union busting of the 80s was the worst mistake in government. Know your worth and don't think that you'll get to a director's level just by working at a company for 20 years. It's a game of "who do you know" not "work hard get rewarded". Everyone needs to know that a small Union Due in the hands of people who actually care for you is insanely necessary for any job.
Please SHARE THIS. EVERYONE. ITS TIME TO STOP YOUR OWN ABUSE, ENSLAVEMENT, AND EXPLOITATION. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TELL THEIR WORKING CLASS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO UNITE WITH THEIR COWORKERS AND STAND UP AGAINST THEIR BOSSES/CEO'S AND END THEIR OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND EXPLOITATION BY DEMANDING THE PAY YOU WANT, AND GETTING IT BY REDUCING THE INSANELY HIGH PAY (100S OF TIMES.MORE) THAT CEO'S, AND SHAREHOLDERS GET. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SALARY WORKERS DO 99% OF THE WORK AND PRODUCE 99.9% OF THE MONEY YET GET LESS THAN 1% OF IT. ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN EXPLOITATION. STOP BEING AFRAID AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND DONT KNOW AND TEAM UP WITH EVERYONE AT UR WORKPLACE. DONT BE AFRAID OR GREEDY. STAND UP AND SHUT THESE GREEDY EXOPLITERS DOWN FOREVER. WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF HOW MONEY IS PASSED AROUND FROM THE TOP 1%. WE ALSO NEED TO PUNISH ANYONE WHO ARTIFICIALLY CAUSES INFLATION BY RAISING PRICES WHEN WE DO GET THE PAY WE WANT (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU MAKE $40K YOU SHOULD GET $120K BECAUSE ITS EASILY POSSIBLE AND DOABLE FOR MOST CORPORATIONS THEY'RE JUST BEING GREEDY AND $120K A THREE TIMES INCREASE IS CONSERVATIVE), BY PREVENT ING THE PRICE INCREASERS FROM EVER DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE FEW HAVE DESTROYED THE WORLD AND OPPRESSED THE REST FOR TOO LONG
Amen to the union aspect
True
Unions had a comeback recently in Poland. They concentrate on supporting some politics. No shit said about working problems in their company.
@@mariapiekutowska2570 Yeah well Poland went to war in septic tanks, I heard.
In short, in America at least, we don't work to live, we live to work. Trust me, I can find WAY much more meaning outside of work, especially with my past few (office) jobs. I still can't even explain what I did there. Also, it's time to normalize actually being lazy sometimes and not feeling guilty about it. I certainly don't 💅
Your PHSYCIAL, MENTAL, and SPIRITUAL HEALTH is BY FAR more MEANINGFUL than any type of career!!!
I vaguely remember the 4 day work week Experiment being tried in the United States Watts. I don’t remember where was though. But I do remember the results: it was overwhelmingly positive for the employee. Better rested, better motivated, more productive than ever, less stressed… But the employer did not like it because he could not exert absolute control over his employees. He did not feel like he had their absolute loyalty 24/7, Because employees had a lengthy weekend to look forward to and time to do not-work things.
I wish I could remember the exact place where that study took place. It breaks my heart thinking about it, And I know I’m not making this up…
I think that study was done in Houston
My company did that a few years back. Everyone complained. Then they got used to it and complained when we switched back.
The apparent reason for the switch back is that our customers were still on regular weeks, and it infuriated them that we weren't available on Fridays.
@@stevenscott2136 OMGyou have people that works from monday to thursday, orther's want from thuesday to friday, some people want a break in the middle of the week. Every worker has a nother agenda.
I'm a student in your average American public highschool. This video hits on so many things that me and people around me have observed. When we were in online school due to Covid, it really exposed everything wrong with our system: most notably, entire school days worth of work done in under 2 hours, but being left to attend 8 different hour-long Zoom "classes" with nothing to do. Most people ditched or left their computers and still passed.
Personally, reducing every day time was more effective than removing a day. I removed hours due to getting burnt out and was recommended to remove a day a week to get a long weekend. I was completely broken on that day I had off. So it didnt help. When I instead moved those hours over the other days, and had shorter workdays, I had a lot more energy and less stress every day. Which made me feel a lot better
no thanks
you're the type of person that can't relax and that is the after effects of working two jobs just to pay rent
you stress when you are idle because you could be squeezing out extra money so that you can finally eat a steak once this year
no thanks extra work days are bs
Yeah it depends on the person really and it'd be nice if society could accommodate for our most optimal work flow. Long shifts aren't very daunting to me but working everyday is, so that's why I'd much prefer to pile an entire work week into 3-4 consecutive days and then do absolutely nothing for that weekend. Definitely can't do short shifts every day, or long shifts with only 1 day breaks between.
I personally liked having three days off. No matter what, that first day off I'm spending time not doing anything in order to reset my mind and body, so having 2 days to get things done instead of just 1 was great.
As soon as I opened RUclips this released, perfect timing
When my grandma was working for the government, in her final years there, there was 2 full time employees assigned to do an amount of work that would take up maybe 10 hrs a week. So her and her coworker would just read novels or the paper and chat for most of their time at work every week. But they still both had to go into the office 9-5 every week day. I think I would go crazy.
that sounds like a blessing from the other side of the spectrum, much better than being overworked so hard just to barley afford living
@@kripticlunar8198fair but I will share that I personally go crazy from having to work a 9-6 (we have a 1 hour lunch break in my country) and not actually doing anything. Maybe it's because I work in the private sector and am afraid I'll become unemployable due to a lack of skills and if/when the company decides I am overpaid? That's another topic of course but I really do have to tell myself to suck it up each day (at least until something else comes along)
@@kripticlunar8198Yeah that’s why I’m gonna personally put in for time change at my job hopefully they granted
My buddy works for city parking. He is expected to sleep or waste 3 hours a day!
To be fair you get paid to read or watch a show. It's a good gig. 120 years ago we would have been working 12 hour shifts in factories 6 days a week so I think we're doing pretty damn good.
People wonder why I stay with my delivery job... I work four days a week, have the same schedule, get no arguments when I want time off, and I do one, and only one, job- drop off packages. Once I'm done with that, I gas up, clean the van a bit, then go home. The days are a bit long, yes, but they fly by in no time.
It also helps that I'm one of the favorites. 😂
This video perfectly lays out and validates a lot of the frustrations I’ve had for the past few years. My job is not satisfying whatsoever, and at times it feels downright pointless. However, I’m not against a hard days work. For example, I know how to spin yarn, weave, and sew, which all takes A LOT of work, but to have a piece of clothing you made from start to finish is incredibly gratifying. What makes me even more mad is that 400 years ago these skills would have made me a boon to my community. As well as other skills like, drawing, painting, woodworking, metal casting, and clay sculpting. For such fulfilling work, being an artisan in a automated society is difficult and depressing. Sure I can sell my work but not many people will pay for 100+ hours of human skill and labor, for something that if manufactured would cost 1/10 the price. Lol sometimes I’m like “bring on the apocalypse” so that my hobbies go from dying arts to downright necessary. Full societal collapse is definitely not ideal though 😅
This is why i'm for companies selling DIY products, it's more empowering to have the customer participate in building the product, it creates a sense of ownership and it could make people more responsible about the thing they worked to create.
I agree, I’ve seen electric guitars that were completely built by one person (I mean, the guy even went into the forest to gather the wood) and they looked and sounded incredible!
If you lived in a pre-or post automated society, most people wouldn't be able to afford to buy your craft anyways.
As a fellow fiber artist, I know exactly how you feel with the "bring on the apocalypse" thought. Plus, people would finally realize the value of handmade products instead of thinking the supplies are cheap, so why should the finished product that took days or weeks to make cost so much.
You need to learn how to market and sell... you can have what you want (without the apocolypse)
I had a friend who’s whole life revolves around working as many hours as possible out of choice. They aren’t struggling for money, they aren’t desperate for anything, they’ve just learned to base their idea of success off of how many hours they work in a week. It just seems so sad to me idk
If that gives them fulfillment the rest of us should be grateful. We depend on people like your friend to keep our cars running, water flowing and electricity on.
I was always the hardest worker at every job I worked at because I set that very goal at every job under the belief that hard work will get you up the ladder. But now at 40 I'll say that last year was when all the things came together to make me just do enough not to get fired. Since I started working at 16 I've since realized that a hard worker is rewarded with having more work thrown on you by management who is too weak and incompetent to make lazy workers pull their own weight. They don't appreciate your hard work and if you bring up the crummy way your treated you have an attitude problem and aren't a team player. One main thing will get you up the ladder in the workplace that I'll never partake in........ ASS KISSING. I have something called pride and will never be managements bitch. Granted I'll never get on what is referred to as the top but at least I can fall asleep at night without knowing deep down that I'm somebody's bitch and having to concoct a plan to try and hide the fact from everyone including myself.
@@harrison00xXx the guy in his example didn’t sound burnt out. But if You are that bitter and resentful about working please stop and reevaluate your life 🙏🏻
@@harrison00xXx The richest person I personally know is very happy with his life...beautiful house, healthy kid, eats in nice restaurants.
@@kayligo that doesn’t constitute a happy life but okay-
I think about this often. I'd be most happy with 20 hours of paid meaningful work and the rest of that time would be for me. Bring on universal basic income, universal healthcare to the U.S., and social housing and you'd eliminate a lot of stress and misery.
Unfortunately people from developed countries have so idealist view of life. World wont work with 20 hours of work. You guys are alreasy living the best, come to my country india and you will be glad you dont work 80 hours a week in grueling conditions(where you may die and no one cares) and still have your children go hungry half the time
@@jaikumarbohara7964 And you guys shouldn't have to do that. With modern technology it's fairly possible that you wouldn't need to do that.
@@jaikumarbohara7964 I don't think it is idealistic to ask for universal healthcare and the likes. In Europe it is pretty common, either free or inexpensive healthcare that is mostly paid with the money from your taxes, as well as education (even college).
@@zelinair I'm from spain and with government help (which they basically give to anybody who asks and needs) I yearly paid only 50 euros (60-70$ )for my college tuitition (which wasn't that expensive in the first place, around 900 euros (1k - 1.1k$?)). My family has a low income and that's why i came to pay only 50 bucks.
Don't let anybody tell you that what you guys are asking for is "idealistic" cause it's not.
@@notyourdays I'm from Spain too 😂
One of my biggest gripes when I was working at a factory was the mandatory overtime we had to do. My small group got our stuff done quickly, so we always struggled to find a new job to tackle, yet we were still expected to come in on Saturdays at 5am to noon, as well as work the extra 2 hours 4 days a week. We did nothing except tedious jobs, and of course my boss would get mad when we (well, I) weren't doing what he wanted us to do, even though it wasn't in our job description to do those jobs. Pure busy work.
Every single job I've had was like this to some extent, but this was the more extreme. "Look busy" was a phrase I've always hated. I want a job where I'm paid by my production level, not by the amount of hours I clocked in that week.
If you only want to get paid for what you do and not what you pretend to appear to make someone kind of think you might be sort-of looking like you're doing, you might want to try certain kinds of trade work. Welding, machining, heating/air conditioning, electrical, auto mechanics--that kind of stuff. Problem is that trade work is very boring and the pay is low. If you're getting the job done well and doing so consistently and quickly without screwing up the work (quality, productivity, speed) then they'll probably fuck off and let you work without getting up your ass over trivial things and treating you like a kid in Kindergarten--you'll eventually just be left alone to work.
You have to WORK, though. No dog fucking or you'll be pounding pavement looking for another job--and you'll be doing it with a black mark on your file. Oh yeah, they also still pay you by the hours you clock in. That's just how it's done.
Yup the first company who pays by productivity would have workers lined up to apply and stay to get their fair cut hopefully.😅
Paid by productivity would still lead to you getting screwed. They're just going to lower and lower and lower the price per piece finished until you're working yourself to death. It is why streetlayers around here tend to have their knees fail before they're 45.
That's called piece work and it blows
@@joytest3144commission jobs like sales
I remember when my manager wrote I was not at my desk in my appraisal because I believed in getting the job done first and being free to do something I loved. Turns out I wasn't supposed to do that. Like how dare I finish my work before 9 hours a day. I then learned managers look for how long you sit at the desk rather than how effective you are working. So now I just finish 90% of the tasks like I always did and the 10% task I drag it till the end. Giving them what they like.
complete cognitive dissonance on their end
I really hope change is coming soon. I don't think I've ever done a job I feel was useful, even when the profession itself has a use. We're just forced to work useless jobs to live, even tho we could be doing much more useful things with that time (and actually spend less time doing it).
I've only ever been subjected to slave labor for slave wages to date in my life. Despite it was back breaking grueling work and what I do earns corporations 10s of millions a day. Yet you get paid barely $10-16/hr for it. All while having no life and even IF you could you'd have no money for rent if you so much as wanted to eat everyday.
Reality is the majority of us are nothing but numbers or cattle/tools for the elites. Human lives and everything else have been completely commodified.
@Idk__ The fuck are you babbling on about mate?
My standard response when someone asks; "What do you do?" has always been "As little as possible."
That's hilarious 😂
Haha same. Bare minimum here
I love that. My awkward autistic ass is going to borrow that LOL
Minimum wage Minimum effort as they say
Thats in europe normal thing we dont rush american dream like you 🤣
All we really need to do is keep our living spaces warm and healthy and grow food and educate our families, I think. We need to work less for sure. I'm for the 4-hour work day.
I've said it before and I'll say it again-- lying flat is the single most effective means of bringing down capitalism and there's a good reason why wealthy people are so especially hostile towards the lying flat movement.
you are going to be lying flat on the ground after the amazon security team beats you to death for not showing up to your 18 hour shift
@@meepy546 Weird thing to say. Thankfully I don't work for Amazon and if you knew what lying flat meant, you'd realize how dumb your comment makes you look. But A+ for the effort to sound edgy, it was a good try.
i have a question if EVERYONE did that wouldn't that also damage any society capitalists or not?
@@themageofspace5516 It would certainly damage any society built on rampant consumerism and infinite growth. If everyone lied flat less would get done, but less would need to get done
@@callowaymotorcompany I can kind of see what you're getting at but also if everyone did nothing then society's over all wealth will go down if we laid flat would you have your phone you do now? would you have the same living standards? So answer me this what would happen if our society became less productive? It would also damage communism someone doing nothing is a burden onto society they consume but never give back.
I can’t really get anything done unless it’s a long weekend. I need that day that’s not adjacent to work to allow my brain to just really switching off from work, and be focused on me and my own priorities.
On a normal weekend, my Saturdays are focused on recovery and Sundays tend to have the focus of trying to get things in order to survive another week
Can totally relate to that. I'm sure many others can too. I have a job that I generally like, but I have many of the same issues. If I need a new pair of shoes or socks, I just put it off. I'm too drained after work to go search for a pair, even worse if I don't find what I'm looking for! Wasted time! But I try to do things I enjoy in the evenings and weekends, but I still have to miss out sometimes because of work demanding more of my time outside regular hours. It's a problem we shouldn't have as a society and we should NOT accept.
We should not accept being tied to labor-for-income. A sane society would guarantee our basic needs by technical design, collaboration and community and reduce the number of hours we need to work as fast as possible. I don't want to hear a damn politician say "we created x number more jobs", I want to live in a society where we hear "X number of jobs were automated and thus no human has to do them anymore, and we all can have more free time to enjoy life." That should be the important news we start hearing.
@@coolioso808 I agree, but I’d like to add that *politicians do not create jobs. Ever.*
That’s just something they _say_ in the hopes that it will get them re-elected so they don’t have to work an actual job and can continue to garner unlimited benefits on the public’s dime.
regular people create jobs, complete jobs, automate jobs, and make life easy for others through working both smart and hard.
A politician just takes credit for it by signing pages that say that he/she “approved” of the work that was going to be done regardless of who was in office.
But yes, we no longer live in a world where every single person should HAVE to work. A lot of this can be automated, we _COULD_ receive the fruits of the automated stuff for free (eliminating the need to waste your entire life on something that isn’t what you want)
The free time would
>decrease social disruption/hostility,
>increase productivity and kind acts for others (it’s much easier to do nice things for others when you don’t feel like your survival depends on it)
>allow people time to enjoy life and appreciate OTHER people’s lives more (decreasing crime against others)
>allow people to do high-quality work; there’s no longer a pressing “deadline” or “required time that you should have been working on it.” You can do things at your own pace and make sure they’re done right, and with love and care rather than haste.
A _few_ people will have to work to keep automated things running smoothly.
However, there’s enough nice people in the world right now that would happily volunteer their time to do those jobs if it meant maintaining that quality-of-life for the rest of civilization; you could take pride in knowing that the work you do is entirely voluntary, meaningful and helps thousands of people. I would gladly be one of them.
@@hobomike6935 I agree with that. Good additional points. A sensible society would be one where we are guided by science for efficient resource management and meeting all human basic needs are first priority, in a sustainable manner. Done so efficiently, locally and automated that the goods can be essentially free. Therefore, no politician, who doesn't create anything useful anyway, needs to be around at all. The job of politician should be eliminated in the future.
Work is something that we can do for many motivations other than money. Exploration, creative pursuits, social support and more. If we had a system where we weren't dependent on labor-for-income then we could choose how and when we use our time. We'd be more energized to do such things because we'd be inspired and motivated to do them.
We'd also have more recreational and leisure time, which is good. We don't want to be over-stressed because that causes more health problems.
That better society model can't come from our current monetary-market system, however. We can transition out of this towards a sustainable model, like a Natural Law Resource Based Economy. Imagine self-sufficient, localized production of essential goods, automated-where-possible, regions all over the world that have decentralized control. The only 'central control' is a global inventory of resources that is open to public and scientifically calculated for distributing essential resources to places that need them, in a sustainable way. Any and all resources that can be used that are local, are used. But some resources that are more concentrated to certain areas like Africa or South America, those ideally, would be shared. However, in many areas of the world, using the scientific method of: What can we actually DO, not what can we 'pay for', I believe there is a LOT more we can do from local sources than we even realize today.
Same here. And when I have holidays, I need 4-5 days just to calm down and be an almost normal human being. Only after that the relaxation and recharging starts. But then the holidays are almost over. Also, I can only get things done on the weekends, not after work. But it's too much. So I can only get some things done on holidays. But then I can't recharge AND it's still not enough time to get everything done! I have an evergrowing todo list, that's crushing me. And it destroys my health. Which leaves me with less energy. So in my "spare " time I can get even less done. And taking care of health (read chronic, still undiagnosed problems)requires a lot of time for research and going to all sorts of doctors.
I need a big break to fix my life, and then go on with my life.
This video came at the perfect time because I’m already planning my exit plan from my toxic job. I have been so stressed at my toxic job that I experienced chest pains, headaches, anxiety, and depression. Management doesn’t care and only metrics matter not the employees. I already planned my PTO this summer.
The book 'When the Body Says No' by Gabor Mate opened my eyes to just how damaging this kind of stress can be.
I just want to tell you that I find what you’re doing to be highly valuable and have been putting your videos on while I’m going about my day so I can listen to what you’re saying. I subscribed to your patreon because I hope you keep making content. I knew something was wrong with this system when I was a nurse aide caring for human beings and making barely above minimum wage my job was valuable and important and I truly enjoyed it but I could barely afford life!! It is unacceptable for any human being to give time of their only life to barely survive while others who do less essential work are paid exorbitant wages. My heart breaks seeing homeless destitute humans and animals knowing there are others who have more means than they can even use.
This whole conversation always reminds me of ancient Rome and its leisure society. During that time, having free time was considered a right in itself, just like citizenship. Kinda funny, then, that in the US where freedom is regarded as the highest right, you're discouraged and even looked down upon when taking days off :v
... because you're talking about the wealthy people, who had slaves to do their work for them
@@jamesengland7461 exactly. Though its still a good thing to try and rethink growth and work as a whole
Well, they had slaves so do you want to do that again?
@@evryatis9231 there is no feasible way to accomplish what this video suggests. Not without fucking over people who do work hard
@@halogod0298 Exactly. But I definitely know people who would work hard just because they need something to do, including myself
Its feasible
A good analogy for modern work would be what happened during the invention of the vacuum cleaner. During that time people thought the vacuum would free up extra time for homemakers and give them time to relax. However, the homemakers started to work more harder then before because the exception for a cleaner home had risen due to the vacuum cleaner.
True
This was true with most domestic work as outlined in a lot of feminist literature. The more we innovated, the more time and effort we saved, the more homemakers filled their days with "busywork" because they were bored and unfulfilled with wasting their lives. In addition to "mommy's little helper" (aka pills/alcohol) to cope with their conditioned shame and drudgery, they added bs work like scrubbing the tile grout in the bathroom with a toothbrush, ironing the bed sheets, laying out their husbands clothes, or washing the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher etc...
@@avamasquerade plus lets be honest historically the kitchen was the cozy safe place to be, it not like women were forced into the kitchen, the kitchen was the cool place to be back then
What are you taking about? Yes women were forced to be there. It was legal to fire a woman for getting married or pregnant or to pay them less than men. Women who worked were looked down upon.
@@Andy-pr5be Women who did much of anything else tended to try their best to present as a man to make sure they didn't get much flak, unless they were of a high enough status that most people wouldn't give them any shit, and most still would.
Thanks! Being someone who holds multiple jobs (2.25) this was really hard for me to watch, but very much appreciated as an "essential" employee of the pandemic. We do need to work smarter instead of harder.
Wtf is that a new thing? I thought you can only donate in super chats and what not
@@demonride15 ur mom
@@demonride15 Yep. Thanks button.
I worked a job with mandatory overtime for 5 years. 12-16hour shifts were normal. It swapped from day shifts to night shifts month to month. I never knew if I was going to leave on time or have to work the weekend until the last minute everyday and the stress of not being able to have a decent work/life balance made everyone in the workplace absolutely miserable. It was the most toxic work environment I’ve ever experienced. Our union was a corrupt and an absolute joke. The money was great, but once my first kid was born last year I ended quitting to start my own business. It’s been a though start (I knew it wouldn’t be easy getting established) but I’m so much happier being able to help raise my family and show my kids to work towards a life that you love instead of just a paycheck that will make you miserable.
It makes me furious when people say, "Everybody has to work." because not everyone can, under the current definition. Some people are disabled physically or mentally (by society's current definition) and cannot work within the system we have, which is ableist. Accommodations in the work environment are rare, and 84% of neurodivergent adults are unemployed. People are fired for having ADHD, Autism, and other forms of neurodiversity. People are fired for being late--because the handicap door doesn't work or their start time is the same early hour, without ANY thought that it takes them hours longer to get ready than an able-bodied person.
So, even if someone with any disability tries to work--they are often pushed out and prevented from doing so. Capitalist society has proven time and time again, that unless you are able-bodied and neurotypical, they don't care about you, will make it so much harder for you to work, and could care less if you die because of their exclusion from the ONLY source of money you can find.
I want to tear capitalism down because disabled lives MATTER. And, so SO many other reasons.
Socialism is worse for disabled people. USSR couldn't even provide proper wheelchairs. A country with enourmous industry for war much like USA. Even now, if you have epilepsy you are not allowed to drive in Russia or China even if your seizures are controlled with medication. On the other hand, in a REAL capitalist free market economy, if you are disabled and have some money you could start your own small bussiness. Not big enough to get rich maybe, but enough to live. And then some socialists come and tax even your little gains and make you poor. And the money from taxes goes to a useless government. See how it works?
@@Gangst3r4ever ? At least try next time
@@Gangst3r4ever
And what about the disabled people who don't have money? This gave me one enormous eye role
@@Gangst3r4ever you say that like I could afford a wheelchair, let alone a car
also, even your demonstration requires that, in your own words, you have to have some initial amount of money if you want to make enough money to live
where are you getting that initial money from that you need to live?
@@j.c.2240 1.There is always charity. Or family or friends. And unless they are completely disabled there is always something they can do. The mimimum wage issue comes here. Because someone might be willing to hire a disabled person but can't or won't pay them the state mandatory minimum wage. So the poor disabled person stays unemployed.
2. Even right wingers know that there must be some programs for those extremely unlucky to have nothing. Only nazis would have them left for dead. I am yet to see a right winger asking for complete dissolution of any kind of social program to help disabled people.
Extremely well reasoned, apolitical, thought provoking content!
This content is very political
Welcome to the big red bus mike!
@@YVoiceY there are really two definitions of political, one of which refers to alliances and clout and essentially a battle, and the other which refers to actual policy and its effects/the state of the society we all live in
i think people who call things apolitical are often referring to the former, and people who say everything is political are more referring to the latter
unfortunately they do affect each other too so they still aren't completely separable obviously but situationally it can be important to distinguish between them for the sake of communication and prioritising correctly
"apolitical" 🤣🤣🤣
@@mariusvanc This video was apolitical.
"We can build a world where work is rewarding meaningful and fair."
I fully agree, however, I no longer believe it will happen without bloodshed.
Sounds like what Andrew Ryan envisioned for his underwater city without the whole "entitled to the sweat of his brows" part.
And it will end up with very similar aspects: how do we address the necessary yet unfulfilling job allocations ? For all the leisure available, how much of our standards of living are we willing to give up on ?
Those need to be addressed in a very real manner that is more transparent than "lol the government will figure it out".
Mark Twain on the French revolution:
"There were two “Reigns of Terror,” the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror-that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves."
Are you aware of the principles of a Natural Law Resource Based Economy? And some of the logical transitions that could get us there? Namely: Localization, automation, access, open source and digital network feedback. Some countries and cities in the world have enough of a social safety net, even in this crazy economy, for their people to build these systems up to the point where money and markets have little affect on people obtaining their basic needs. If some place can achieve that, the word can spread, and once that happens, it could snowball into people all over the world standing up to demand that the system change happens for them too!
same
As long as the working class is not killing itself, I'm ok with gutting the top billionaires.
I came across this video and I have to say thank you for saying what I have been thinking for years. This tie to money, work etc. Really dampens the human experience. We are here for such a short time and most it, for most people is spent doing something they'd rather not be doing until a time when they are old and can less easily experience everything that this world has to offer. It really makes me sad because life could truly be so much better for everyone if we were able spend more time doing the things we enjoy. Thanks for the upload!
Since high school, every 3 to 5 years, i'd quit my job, move somewhere else, and relax until my money ran out and i had to work again. The first 23 years i took whatever kind of work i could get (janitor, soldier, drafting, factory worker, chicken packing, proof reader, streetside flower seller, whatever), and the second 24 years i worked in computers. The jobs weren't "bad", i just didn't like working. Now, after all those mini-retirements, i've been fully retired for 15 years and i'm loving it; being paid to do nothing (or whatever i want, anyway). I don't get a lot, but it's enough, and i don't need to live under someone's stairs. I'm happy. Not for everyone, i guess, but it sure beat feeling i had no control. Of course, i've never been much of a consumer, and normally didn't own a car, which saves a ton of money. Married now, and we're still not real consumerish, though we do have a used car. Both getting Social Security and Medicare, which makes it even easier.
I've sort of done this once, though I don't foresee me being able to afford to do it again anytime soon. Did you not have trouble getting hired at new jobs after large gaps of "unemployment"? That's something I always hear people say, that employers are suspicious of that.
@@emilyb.8219 I don't remember anyone ever asking about gaps. I always did my best work whatever the job, so if i was asked for referrals, i had good ones. Most of the lower-paying jobs didn't really ask, normally; just look bright, friendly, and alert when you talk to any interviewer. For jobs that wanted a resume, just list year(s) on each job. Even better, do a skills resume, where you list the types of skills you used on each job, emphasizing those you think might be especially useful to the position. I once helped a friend who'd worked as a salesman get a job as a systems analyst, by writing a skills resume for him. Also, when i was ready (or needed) to go back to work, i'd take any job to get money flowing in, then look for something better. Keep moving up, maybe within the same outfit. I once went from draftsman to learning computer programming on the job. A friend went from lab tech to being a computer systems manager by steps at the NIH. Take the risk. In the story of the ant and grasshopper, i was the grasshopper. Remember, your mileage may vary, but don't get discouraged. Life is short and uncertain - if there's something you really want to do, don't wait. Good luck.
@@emilyb.8219 I just remembered - i did once get asked about my work gap; i said i'd taken personal time off. Another time, in Las Vegas, i was asked how long i thought i would stay; i was thinking "six months", but said "indefinitely" (or something like that). I was there two and a half years. None of us can tell the future. Be honest and kind, work hard, keep moving. Live cheap - save all you can on necessities so you can have money for what you really want to do. My times off lasted from a month to two years. I lived in Frisco, CO, two snow seasons drinking coffee, reading books, skiing, and snowboarding. I ran marathons. I traveled to Europe with my brother. I took a four month meditation course. I did things for my health and happiness. I made lots of friends. I traveled a lot to visit friends and family. Lots to do in life. As someone said, this isn't a dress rehearsal - live YOUR best life. Stay away from discouraging people (even if they might be right).
I assume that shortening working hours is not wanted by the elites. If the masses had more free time, they would probably have more capacity to think, to discuss and to synergize. I could imagine that this would scare certain groups a lot. They have to make sure to keep people busy, exhausted and - most importantly - divided.
I work a 3 day work week at distribution center for really good pay. I volunteer in my off time by donating my voice to the public domain and helping create public domain audio books of public domain works for fair use. This "work" has more meaning to me than pretty much any job i've worked.
This is why I started my own business. Being my own boss, making my own hours and getting the full cost of my labor is amazing.
I could probably never be my own boss, I'd fire myself for being a dogfucker
@@MericaMomentahaahahhaha
@thedancinglumberjack6471 You would be earning more under socialism.
I left a corporate job four years ago to start my own business. I also rejected entrepreneurial hustle culture. Now, I make much less than I did at that ‘fancy’ job, but I have much more time freedom, which I’ve found to be incredible y valuable. I wrote my first book, working on my second one, moved to a different country, learning about their language and culture, have taken up baking as a hobby, even take a nap when I feel like it. Most people have no idea how much healthier they can be, if they have more free time and less pressure!
Second Thought, keep up the good work, the goal is to make these proto-socialist/socialist ideas reach the mainstream and you are already at 1.2 million, last time I checked I swore it was 1 million, your work is meaningful and societally valuable. :)
He was at 1.2 million for a long while actually.
Burn the socialism with fire and bury the ashes deep below so nobody would ever find even a fraction what that ideology brings with itself. It all sounds nice and dandy on paper, but people have proven in the past that it's not going to work in a long run.
@@AndrewManook Is that true?
When did he reach 1 million, either way, I hope second thought only continues to grow, his channels prosperity is just one piece of the proletarian puzzle, and education is key to the victory of the people.
@@captain-chair He hit a million around January last year
@@herisuryadi6885 Really? Damn, either way increasing your sub count by a quarter in a years is still impressive considering the size, openly socialist creators struggle to grow.
This brings to mind for me a portion of a book called “ The Great Transformation”. It’s pretty insightful, and is basically an economist examining the history of industrialized economics. He also uses it to provide proof that we have to control expansion to some degree due to three limiting factors that modern capitalism doesn’t acknowledge : money, land/ environmental resources and people/ Labour. He seems to be afraid of socialism without knowing exactly what it is, so he tries to give an example from the industrial revolution of why full socialism wouldn’t work. He gives an instance of where England basically established a basic universal income for a short period. However what was given would be decreased based on salary if that person was working. So most people were getting the same income over all, unless their salary was much higher than average. The amount of workers at the time rapidly decreased. He uses this example to argue that people should have to work in order to survive in the system, but misses a big point. There were still a good amount of people working, just not enough for system growth, he explains just enough to maintain a certain social status. Lastly, he forgets to mention that the work conditions around this time were GOD AWFUL. Unions and safety regulations were just emerging, and some people were working 12 hours a day every day. However, the culture around work being a show of one’s responsibility and good character was so strong there was still many people working. That enough is good evidence that if it doesn’t become mandatory that people are not just going to stop working altogether and let the economy crash.
Who was the author? Sounds interesting
@@demolitionizer7686 Karl Polanyi
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00:03 🤝 *Introduction and Patreon Support*
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00:17 🤔 *Hypothetical Scenario of Stopping Work*
- Exploring what would happen if everyone stopped working,
- The importance of work in society.
01:13 😂 *Work and Social Perception*
- The social significance of work,
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01:43 🔄 *Work's Role in Life*
- Work as a central part of life,
- Introduction to the concept of shorter workweeks.
02:11 🕒 *Four-Day Workweek Experiments*
- Experiments in countries like Iceland on reduced work hours,
- Positive outcomes of shorter workweeks.
03:20 📈 *Work and Productivity Discussion*
- Discussion on productivity and diminishing returns of longer work hours,
- The idea of working less while maintaining productivity.
03:34 🚀 *Exploring the Nature of Work*
- Overview of the video's focus on work,
- Political theory and questioning the necessity and structure of work.
04:01 🏛️ *Politics and Work*
- Political perspectives on work in the U.S.,
- The lack of efforts to reduce work hours.
04:58 📚 *Definitions and Necessity of Work*
- Defining work and its necessity for society,
- The goal of minimizing work to maximize leisure.
06:08 💼 *Capitalism and Work Coercion*
- The coercive nature of work under capitalism,
- The impact of work conditions on individuals.
07:03 🤷♂️ *Work's Ideological and Psychological Aspects*
- The ideological discourse surrounding work,
- Society's collective fantasy about not working.
07:44 🌟 *Meaningful Work*
- Factors that make work meaningful,
- The desire to work on meaningful tasks.
08:26 🤖 *The Reality of Meaningless Jobs*
- The prevalence of perceived meaningless jobs,
- The distinction between meaningless and pointless work.
09:07 ⏳ *Wasted Time at Work*
- The significant amount of time wasted on non-work activities during work hours,
- The concept of "time theft" as worker resistance.
10:05 🏗️ *The Cost of Productivity and Luxury*
- The societal cost of maintaining the appearance of productivity,
- The impact of meaningless work on individuals and society.
11:01 🔄 *Economic and Political Responses to Work Issues*
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- Critique of current work-centric policies.
12:10 🚀 *Hustle Culture and Work Identity*
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13:05 🛠️ *Progress in Productivity and Work Hours*
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- The argument for reducing work hours based on efficiency.
14:13 🔍 *Reevaluating Work Hours*
- The potential for reducing work hours by acknowledging meaningless jobs and wasted time,
- The absurdity of the current method of determining work hours.
15:37 🌍 *Vision for a Different Work-Life Balance*
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- The benefits of reevaluating the structure and amount of work.
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This topic makes me hopeful for change but as a child care worker, I know my field will be the last the gain access to a shorter work week, if ever. Even if most families are able to work 4 day weeks, we would be expected to offer childcare throughout the entire duration of the work week as parents' schedules would vary.
Same goes for teachers, particularly the ones who educate younger children.
Your job could hire one or two more people and have everyone work fewer hours. Unionize.
I think the hope that as your labor would be better compensated and more people would have the choice to do that kind of work, as I think a lot of people would.
And. because I don't want to deal with my kids on my extra day off 😭
Yep. There are many job types that back other job types so it becomes difficult. For example, I'm a nurse and the hospital can't host close. This also means that everyone that supports nursing and medical staff - lab techs, IT support, housekeeping, etc also has to be available around the clock. Some industries just are what they are. Where you're seeing the shift to productivity focus is in creative jobs like software developers.
I've been saying this for years! It's unhealthy, it's unnecessary, it feels morally wrong for people to have to work so much more than we have to! Work can have really great benefits, but balance is so important!
I do strongly agree that the 40 hour work week is a thing of the past and as automation increases and improves we SHOULD see a reduction in work hours (and effort). However, I am worried about reducing work time without taking proper precautions first. People who work hourly will likely see their hours cut further (either to keep them part time, or to prevent them from working over time), and without an increase in minimum wage this will likely push them further into poverty. This is definitely a problem, but there are other problems we need to handle first or else we would likely see this backfire on us.
Increasing minimum wage isn't going to make many severely restricted hours livable. That is not a minimum wage problem that is a general wage problem. Wages in general need to be renegotiated between the government, the workforce, and the employers.
That makes no sense to me. Of course hourly workers who charge more per hour. Or there should be a law that made sure of that
Or we just do away with hourly wages 🤷🏻♀️ I never understood that, anyways. Are you paying me for my time to be here or are you paying me for my WORK?
Of course it could backfire, you would never try to implement this in a 3rd world country like the United States.
Were I not currently in the process of slipping through the cracks of Late Capitalism (and thus unable to), I would gladly support you on Patreon. Please keep up your excellent work.
I wish that we, who consume this content, weren't in a bubble. It would be awesome if 80% of the population subscribed to this thinking. But as much as they complain, they remain complicit, and we all have remain in this exploitative paradigm.
But muh religion!
But muh billionaires need yachts and hookers!
keep sharing this content and keep agitating everywhere you go
It's really hard when so many people have loved ones to take care of
People need to establish a communist alternative, free from censorship and data collection, to our current social media platforms. We need to stop trying to "Reform" or "take over" these mouthpieces of the elite. We need to have a Working Class-operated Social Media to challenge and crush the Old, Elitist Social Media. People must of course work to obtain significant capital, even starting businesses and such, to operate these projects and forever expand them until it penetrates every inch of American society, along with a organized mass party that is capable of seizing power. All successful revolutions after all involved taking control of the information space.
And then they insult us by saying that reluctance to work oneself to exhaustion is a moral failing.
I can totally vouch for the 35 hour work week. I can say from a personal standpoint, that for 8 hours im "at work" but in reality Im only able to do 5 to 6 hours of "real" work on any given day.
Exactly this would be the perfect amount of work each day 5-6hrs or 3days 10-11hrs not 12hrs that last hr is just daunting to claim half your day working.
Yes, that’s the thing I don’t understand about a 4 day work week. The onerous thing is being trapped outside your house for 9 hours of the day. I would rather just have shorter days. 24 work week sounds great, 4 days 6 hours 😁
I say it should be reduced to 25 hour work week to be honest
I’m on full disability. I truly cannot work. I still feel badly about not working. The information and opinions expressed in the video help me a little.
Don't feel bad. you are a human being and you are valued, when you work you are disempowered and often taken advantage of, it is ultimately coercion and its not a nice feeling. if i had a choice to not participate in the capitalist workforce i would choose not to, but sadly it not a choice, you work or fall through the cracks and die. so yeah, just do whatever you can to enjoy your life
I am also disabled, some days I can work and other days I have too much pain and fatigue. We are not lazy, we have a chronic health condition. Those who criticize will also experience this at some point in their life, not one gets out of here without suffering from something at some age. You are worthy, no matter what!
But don't worry I also constantly worry or get pressured from family or society to "do more" and not be on the disability benefit, like i have a choice in the matter 🙃🤷
I have a lot of issues healthwise, the most prominent being autism, adhd and depression.
I do work, as I always felt that I have to because I got my diagnosis three years ago. I am 25 and was already 3 times not able to work for a month because of Burnout.
I'm glad my team understands that some days I can do awesome work, and some days I struggle checking my emails.
My disability is rated 50% impairment by my country. Yet I work 35 hours, 5 days a week.
I wish I could work less, as this would make me more productive when I work, because I would be able to rest more in between.
Don't feel bad about not working. I know it's not easy, I beat myself up for having "lazy" days. Just keep trying to be okay with yourself. It helped me already
I'm also disabled, by my issue isn't obvious. I want to work. I'd love to go back to my old career, but I can't. It would literally destroy everything I have left in me. Then to add more salt to the wound, I get criticized for not working.
Man it isn’t even the amount of time that we work that’s the problem. It’s the amount of time we work while only making enough to get gas, do groceries while picking and choosing whether to go with Mott’s Apple juice or great value, living in sub optimal conditions because you can’t afford something that is at the very least comfortable, and not having any money for activities like vacation or hobbies. The amount of money we are paid just doesn’t cut it and finding that balance mentioned in the video between working and leisure is very much impossible for most people, especially for those in the working class or below. I honestly just feel like giving up sometimes. Not to mention we all have a leach of an uncle named Sam that takes all our money every chance he gets to fund his own motives that have nothing to do with us.
Explaining this to my 40 and older family members is like talking to a damn wall
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Because they believe the programs and laws that existed for them, still exist for me.
They probably just have nothing better to do with their time. Why some older people keep working. Our generation can be content with basic distractions like just watching Netflix for long periods of time. The older generations struggle to do that little.
Idk. I remember how the fax machine was supposed to revolutionize office productivity. What a joke. It simply turned into more paper, which meant more paperwork, which also meant more work for the same people doing the work before. Something similar happened with email; more e-work.
I also remember how businesses streamlined their staff through attrition year after year, decade after decade, expecting more from fewer people.
It was untenable then and, with more recent changes, has become worse. People between your age and mine who do not see this, may have forgotten how bad it was, or they try to believe it wasn't that bad.
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Well don't forget that a lot of these jobs are just there to give employees something to do.
Which is ridiculous btw. We should have shorter hrs and get paid way more by the hr.
As the newer generations start taking over, it's like things are finally getter better. Not enough for my standards but it at least seems to be going good.
@@chosenfallen2024 Good point.
I think the reasons why people aren't going on a mass strike right now are 1. Because people are afraid of losing their only job(s) that just barely support their family, and 2. At least half of the US population is ingrained with conservative ideals, making convincing people really hard.
Yet if your unable to live at least modest albeit comfortable life on your earnings what does one have to lose? Unless people are willing to sacrifice and take risks this perpetual cycle will just persist onward. At least until societal collapse which fortunately at this rate is right around the corner regardless.
i remember seeing a video about another revolution in the us, and ive kept thinking about it, and how it doesn't seem that unrealistic
And being homeless sucks! Thats the only think keeping me working.
Time for another revolution. Workers unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!
Yes, I think you are correct. I think the answer is both, if I had to guess, I'd say more of #1 than 2, because I personally know a bunch of people in the #1 scenario.
Let's say we DO want change, we want out of this ridiculous capitalist system, but we know our current way to survive is our job and the money it provides for us buying our basic needs. If we want to buck this system, general strike, what are we demanding? And are we prepared for supporting each other through it? Those are important questions to ask and answer before we attempt another strike or protest.
Because we've seen many protests and movements, but they didn't change the system. I believe, because they weren't clear on demands and clear on the fact that we DO need system change, not just tweaks. I'd offer the option of demanding a UBI to allow people to get their basic needs met without taking specific labor roles and then the transition after a UBI implementation would be to build self-sustaining, localized, resource-based economies that make capitalism and even the UBI fund obsolete and unnecessary eventually.
I can actually relate to this. When I was working at Mcdonald's, while the first four years may have been fine I did have a hard time finding the time to do the things that I wanted to do. At the end of 2018 when my mom went in for surgery things started to get rough. After that, I went through hell with my job and suffered some severe burnout from working from 5 to 5 for six days a week. I eventually went to work for a small hotel, and while I was only worked for like 2 to 4 days a week and got paid less, I was certainly more happier there than I was at McD's (the only stressful part was my dad telling me that I should find a better job).
...but you didn't need as much money to survive.
There’s more to it than just working less hours. Look up Bungalow Courts. Our homes are designed to make us feel helpless, and there are better ways to design and arrange them that will bring a sense of community, and self-worth that will increase the actual value of working less hours at a “job”.
I don’t hate work, I hate being forced to do it. I wanna paint all day, read, grow my own food etc. the pain of knowing what my dream life is (and it’s not something ridiculous) and still not being able to live it cause I have to spend 50% of my time doing a job I don’t care about is so bad. I waste my precious time on earth and I can never get it back.
😑I feel you..😕
100% feel this
Where do you want the money from
So true... I guess it's about finding some way to make money out of stuff you actually enjoy doing. Easier said than done of course... This system doesn't work anymore.
The sad part is that laws are needed to make people do things even half way right. We all have let it get to this point. As long as there is one person out there who says, "I'll do it" instead of sticking up for themselves, things wont change. People shouldn't be allowed to get so big and powerful and money should be regulated. It's the biggest, worst, and most dangerous drug out there and yet, it's also the most legal. Even if it causes some issues, I don't let people run me like this. It's my life - not yours. I wont be doing this shit my whole life, I'd rather die than be a slave to some rich man whom for some reason doesn't understand that he is as big a piece of shit as the amount of money he has. Money is the root of all evil, is a 95% accurate statement. If I dont get treated properly, I'll sit down more than I should, do less, and will do what I can to do as little as possible.
"money is the root of all evil"
I used to say this all the time. During a conversation with my brother, I started to look at it a bit differently...
Money isn't the root of all evil, Greed, and the thirst for power are....
It's just a thought
@@fallbrkgrl Money is a stand in for all the things we are greedy for, since money can be exchanged for coveted goods, and services, and there is no limit to what you can get with enough money, but some people need ALL of it, not just enough for them.
Guess why the fuckers get so big? One word. Government. Without government intervention, many giants would have collapsed long ago. But governments keep bailing them out. With taxpayers money. Even Trump got a lot money by declaring bankrupcy. Government is ineficient and creates inequality while solving very little issues
You absolutely will die before you stop being a slave to someone above you on the hierarchy.
Socialism, or barbarism.
Define what you mean by “right,” please.
I mean, with all the problems in the world, is anyone actually doing things “right?”