And the thing is. You worked in a company for ever. The Energy life Just everthing was different. The weather Like everything. You l could pay everything makimg your Kids Happy everything was finde. Your co worker became your clostest people. EverThing changed for the worst
We humans need to work, that's what got us this far. We are built for work. but not on something we don't care about at all, just for a dollar than can be printed instantly, so we can spend this paper to go back to work.
Oh hey, you're the Sonic guy, funny seeing you in a completely random unrelated location again lol (I'm the same guy who recognized you under a Babylon Bee post of all things a while back).
The real eye opener for me is my dad wanted to retire in his 60s but due to health issues, he died at 51. It got me thinking that it's pretty ridiculous to assume everything will go perfectly for decades.
That sucks. I agree. I don't want to slave away my entire life for some "Retirement" that I might not even live to see. One of my biggest fears is saving up a massive nest egg, sacrificing my entire young prime years, only to die before even getting to see it. Sorry for your loss.
more people trying to get out of the rat race FOR THEMSLVES is only goign to have people cutting the rungs for people below them. the paradigm shift has to come from our consumption, and actually working FOR the NEXT generation, not working for ourselves.
same, my dad worked all his life and passed away at 45. all he did was work. he was frustrated and angry at everything even his family but no choice than to work because of loans and bills and family to take care of.
How do you expect gen z to take work seriously when employers don’t even take job postings seriously? Literally their first impression of business is being lied to on job posting boards.
And there’s even possibilities of FAKE JOB LISTINGS. Here’s a tip for y’all: NEVER APPLY ON INDEED. They will NEVER answer for your application, and you actually have to PAY INDEED to get updates on your applications. Instead, apply on company websites. I recently went to one of the E-Check facilities to get my vehicle checked for emissions a few weeks ago, and they gave me a flyer saying they were hiring. I applied on their shady website the day after, and wouldn’tcha know, I got a call back the other day from them and interviewing for them today! Just…don’t use Indeed, or Monster, or any of those third rate mass application sites. Go in to a store and ask for a paper application or go directly to their hiring website. Just a tip, I know it doesn’t address what was talked about in this video
Young people don’t want to work anymore is such a weird saying because I don’t remember anyone ever going “man I love to get up and spend 8 hours of my day at the office”
What people mean by it is young people don't want to work for absolutely pitiful compensation. Previous generations had things like the white picket fence American dream that they could work towards and reasonably attain, now that dream is dead and all that's left is a broken system that sucks the life and soul out of anyone who isn't insanely rich.
@@kungfuvoodoo9889Hell I would argue that the "American Dream" didn't even exist for most people except for a specific few. It was a dream to keep chasing but to never reach as the ruling class snatch away at you.
@@justcallmekai1554 You do realize that ruling class didn't EXIST for most of american history, right? Basically the american government was completely destroyed by congress brutally exploiting the "necessary and proper" clause of interstate commerce control. They found that they could control the entire country... just by stopping any product from crossing state borders. Once THAT happened, they leveraged ever more powerful until congress became essentially a tiny king being barely contained by the other two branches of government.
It's just so weird that's people plan. Like we're born and are basically just going to be working forever until we die, for what?? This might've worked for someone in the 1950s who didn't know any better but i think a lot of younger people are skeptical. So many videos online are like "If you just invest x amount over this time you can have this when you're x old" how can u look at someone with a straight face and say 40 years from now they MIGHT have money?? I don't think most people really sit down and try to comprehend just how long that is and how unrealistic that is. The people who have serious money are not doing this stuff
Pension is a insane scam. Right now retirement is like 70 or something and keeps going up, by the time I’m 70 i really doubt there will be any retirement if the world isn’t a nuclear crater. We’ll be working as serfs till d4th on the factory floor. And that given my health I’m basically never going to reach that age anyway. But regardless of that, my income is taxed to fund it. What the hell.
Currently the retirement age in Australia is 67. If you were born between | You can receive the Age Pension when you are: _____________________________________________________________________________________ 1 January 1954 to 30 June 1955 | 66 years 1 July 1955 to 31 December 1956 | 66 years and 6 months On or after 1 January 1957 | 67 years ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And recent research from the Macquarie Business School has recommended further increases to the qualifying age - all the way up to age 70 in 2050. This would see an increase to 68 by 2030, 69 by 2036 and 70 by 2050.8 June 2023. Basically work till you die.
Yea man. Like dude, living that long us relatively new in human history and not garunteed for everyone to begin with...a lot of people only expierence work and stress before they die
No, and this is something we should move away from. The system is NOT working as intended and that’s the problem. It’s supposed to be mutually beneficial, but we’ve skewed too far in one direction. What we need to do is pendulum swing the system back towards equilibrium. Although even I recognize that’s easier said than done. But the system is designed not in the way it’s being used currently and that’s a problem we should address. Acting like the world is out to get us rather than a minority of bad actors who have ruined it for everyone else just leads to this “young people don’t want to work” mindset that people have.
@@broderickfoster2107 My brother in Christ, you didn't have to explain the joke. The system is working exactly as intended. Because it was made to enrich the few, not the many. That's the point of the OP.
@@indigowest6894nah he's not wrong, the system is abused exactly as intended to benefit the few, but it's original purpose was to benefit more people equally, which is why the rich ones used their power wealth and connections to corrupt twist and abuse it to their own greedy goals. So yeah it's working as intended but it's current intention is not the original one. So honestly you're both right...
@@rexofired Literally the entire point and purpose of capitalism is to benefit the common man by giving the common man freedom to engage and support the economic factors that will come in. Blaming crappy things on capitalism is a cop out. You can blame it on a lot of things: like society has become so big and so interconnected that it's too hard to even understand what the common man wants. or that other people who don't know actively aid bad practices due to a numbers game of bad or neutral actors. you cna blame it on crap politics and exploitative foreign powers. you can blame it on a loss of culture as technology and desire to get more advanced over rode the actual communication and spirit of the people within it, whichi s why everything is functional, minimal, gray and miserable. you can blame it on a lot of things. But capitalism isn't the problem. Capitalism is flexible and can work with multipel systems, regulations and ideas. Most other forms of economic management can't. They don't bend capitalism - which now more in line with corperatism or culturally anarcho tyranny if anything - in a way that helps anyone because the automated machine has a good thing going for the people, ironically, most of the time...who are the leaders and power brokers behind the very people who blame capitalism.
I saw my family slave away for 50 years on a job. To nothing. It all was for nothing, they have no pension, no house, no future. No way in hell I’m going to slave away as well.
If they worked for 50x2 years and ended up with nothing, sorry, they are... well, incompetent. Just straight up incompetent. I'm 30 with a paid off house as a forklift driver. You just have to make the right choices.
@theravenousrabbit3671 because you had opportunities, doesn't mean everyone is able to have the same opportunities. saying "i was able to so you should be able to" is an ignorant pov
I remember some one saying something. "The problem with the post covid era is that the people got a taste of freedom. And nothing is worse for a slave owner than their slaves to know what freedom is possible. They will do anything and everything to squash that idea from your mind."
And this would be correct because trends like the great resignation and quiet quitting opened the conversation into the need for a work life balance and pay transparency. There's no point in constantly working if you're going to end up dropping on the job. Just because its something that's happened throughout history doesn't mean it still has to happen.
okay well be free from ur chains and beg on the streets 4 money, see i agree with all ts but in reality you need a source if income no matter if you have to make compromises
@@GREENDIET2137 this man is dumb af, he said that capital creates prosperity, not labor. Food, housing, healthcare, all of this should be free for everyone. At this stage, we have mor than enough, but some people like this guy want to fill their pocket while others don't have a place to even die
My dad has been telling me throughout my teenage years that "if you want to have money and a prosperous life, never work for big companies, work for yourself. And always try to help your community; not because you feel obligated but because you want to."
This ain't just a gen Z issue. I'm a millennial and have been saying this for years. None of us get paid enough. Our parents could have a home. Had neighbors with motorcycle and toys. My dad's the one staying out late with his friends. I'm worried about work lol.
@@jaridatkinson4907 and they got us out here beefing for no reason and tbh a good chunk of gen z are truly millennials. A generation suppose to be 25 years apart. I also remember our generation started in 87 Gen z was suppose to start around 2013 or 2014. So in hindsight we are damn near the same generation split into two. Funny thing is the information I am giving you. I read it from exploring the back pages of the speech class txt book back in highschool in 07 08
@johnbob5137 yeah lol millenials start in 81-96 gen z I think is 97-2013 but I agree with alot of that gen z amd millenials are more alike than different and me personally I think there's a split between 80s millenials and 90s millenials 80s millenials are more gen x and 90s millenials are more gen z
Millenials got promised the life of the boomers and got absolutely lied to. Genz didn't get promised sh1t and was just told they are lazy and need to work more without ANY promises made.
The last quarter of this video where you talk about seeing your parents sad, overworked and tired after following the script makes me sad because it's so real.
Same. It’s the scariest thing. I’m growing up, watching my family unravel with the unending pressure. It’s killing them. How can you knowingly step into this world of cycles of suffering?
I just don't want to sacrifice my body, I don't want to do something I hate. I do not want to waste my life, and regret it. I want to meet people, I want to travel and cook, and have fun. I want to lead a life I enjoy.
I feel you on sacrificing your body. I don't want to stand for 8 hours in pain every day but every single job that doesn't require experience requires this. The degree that was supposed to help me avoid this type of work is useless. I have no idea how people with health conditions preventing them from standing long hours acquire employment and I have no idea how anyone healthy tolerates it.
Im 24, my pops always emphasized going to college, getting a good job, and being successful. Happiness was never a part of the equation. He started working straight out of high school, and I've never seen him take a day off, even after his mother passed away. He died right after i turned 21. He was 57 and never even reached retirement. I saw that man work himself to death day in and day out at a job he hated and never got the chance to enjoy the fruits of his labor. After that, i promised myself that i would not live for others in the name of perceived success. I'm still working, but I'm taking acting classes and prepping for auditions while putting my energy into my passions. Even if i dont succeed, I hope that when I die, I can look back on my life without wondering what could have been.
Sorry to hear that. I took all the money I saved up until I was 19 and leased a 2018 392 off the lot. It was worth it. Blew my next round of savings on a nice silver vette. I don’t have much now but I’m debt free and slowly rebuilding. The guys locking in on properties my age probably won’t see those vehicles for another 10 yeaes
@@saidimbackinaction do you believe regular people doing regular work deserve basic comfort, dignity, and security? Why do I have to be on overachieving entrepreneur just to make what a 50's milkman made?
46 year old here, and you’re 100% right. It’s a different world now, the old system is broken, by design, and will never let you advance. Find your own way. Young people, listen to this again and take it to heart. Short term sure, take the soul crushing job to get by, get your hands dirty and put in hard work, but have a plan to get out.
My plan to get out was a college degree everyone told me growing up would open so many doors for me to a bright future…so far it has only opened the door to the unemployment office 😬
@@TheGreatSalsaMan I’m going to guess you’re about my age then. It was a good plan, from our parent’s perspective, however it didn’t work out so well when everyone did it and the amount of college graduates greatly exceeded the amount of high paying jobs that needed a degree. Now most college degrees are about as valuable as a high school diploma used to be.
@@dreamdesk7258 It’s not easy, and I’m still working on it myself. But we all better hope we figure it out, because the normal grind will just eat us alive and leave us old worn out and poor.
If I made 300k a year scrubbing toilets, I'd be happy every single day going to work. So when I find out a company will pay me at max $30k a year to clean not only toilets, but the entirety of multiple bathrooms and throw away all my hobbies, friendships, family time, and still expect me to put a smile on my face while denying me a promotion or a raise, I just give the fuck up.
@@nashton9964 I just left a job that I was at for a year. Always reliable, the cunt of manager basically assumed I was on call at all times, this led to me working every single holiday, working doubles on days where I needed to take a break or had plans, or dumb shit like closing the store and then opening the next day. With staffing issues, someone was almost guaranteed to call out daily. It sounds easy to have a life on 40 hours, now imagine one that fluctuates at random where you'd work 50 one week and then 30 the next so your bitch ass boss can save on labor, so not only is your personal life scheduling fucked with, you aren't really making the money you should and being left over with extra time of feeling burnt out at home just waiting to go back to work. But you know, if the place paid me just $5-$10 more per hour, I'd be singing it's praise.
@@nashton996440 hours a week leaves you very little time to actually go do things unless you sacrifice things that you shouldn’t sacrifice. An average of 3 hours per day to yourself, and on the weekends you tackle things you couldn’t during the week and recharge.
My brother died at the age of 29 in November. He would have been 30 in December and by all accounts he was so close to his dream job. But he overworked himself, didn't hydrate or take care of himself and he got a bloodclot in his leg that traveled to his lungs and he died, alone. Your dreams are important but not more important than your life. Don't work your life away.
No- a dream you don’t act on is a thought. Bro that dream ain’t gonna happen if you don’t chase it. It’ll leave your ass in the dust if you don’t grab it and drag it around. My dream is to write a semi-successful light novel series MY WAY- so I’m teaching myself and forging my own path to that. I’m not gonna shrug it off, gonna give up when things look bad. Life sucks, but giving up or walking away ain’t gonna make it any better- you gotta find reason to keep going
@@Zerathina While I understand you mean well and to inspire, which is admirable, I think it's worth noting that the system we live in is conditioned in such a way that, no matter how hard you try, there's a good chance you'll be working your life away. You want to be a novelist. That's good, and I do sincerely hope that works out for you. Best of luck. But the vast majority of novelists fade into obscurity. How many books have you seen on library shelves and you wonder have barely had a page turned in them? I'm willing to bet more than you think. I'm not trying to be a pessimist, I'm trying to be real here. I used a novelist as an example but this goes for everything and everyone. I want to play in a band that can tour at least my state. That's a lofty goal, and I work towards it constantly. How many bands actually get anywhere? My first band broke up, my second band went separate directions musically and separated. I haven't even found a third. "Okay, so be a solo artist." I'm trying. Not going so great. Because, and here's the honest truth, the world is bought and sold, and what's popular is largely built to be that way. That's not to say that's a bad thing, but it is to say that if you want to shoot for the stars in a creative career, you either pander or you flop. That's the way it is now. I like experimental art rock music. I already know that won't catch on. I might get a niche audience, maybe 100 listeners a month on Spotify if I'm lucky. That's about as far as it might go. But I'm not willing to make music I don't enjoy. Do you understand where this is going? I used that as a sort of analogy because our system is set up by those same rules. You play the game or you go broke. Not all of us want to play the game. I either want to be in a band, be a music teacher, or maybe a voice actor. But those careers are all either risky or non lucrative. I'm not playing by the system's rules, so I'm almost certainly doomed to be broke and unable to retire later in life. Because at the end of the day what matters is how the system values your work, not the actual quality of it. I could be the world's best music teacher, but I'll still be payed almost nothing because that's how America values teachers. I've seen that more than enough times to know firsthand. You mean well, and I do agree that it is still worth it to try. I won't debate you on that point. But the change that needs to happen for most people to be happy is not on a personal level, but a systematic one. Corporate greed and money lining the pockets of our politicians allows for us to be treated the way we are under our current system. Until there's change on that level, I'm certain most Americans will continue to be unhappy and live in near poverty, much like myself. If you truly believe that personal motivation is the difference between long term wealth and never retiring, allow me to point you to the fact that almost every modern wealthy person is not self made: they came from old money. For every self made rich person, I find at least 10 that aren't. I hope that something of this reaches you, and that you understand I mean well and to educate, not to belittle. Best of luck with your novel. Even if it doesn't gain traction, I'd like to read it myself.
This must be why there's such a disconnect in job applications between employers & candidates. Applications/interviewers will ask questions like: "Why do you want to work for us?", "What interests you about this position?", "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?", etc., and all candidates think is just, "alright, what shallow BS answer does the employer want to hear", all the while wondering why they constantly have to beat around the bush about it & can't just answer with the truth. Here are the real, honest answers to these common questions: - "Why do you want to work for us?" I don't specifically want to work for _you,_ I just need to work _somewhere._ Your listing just happened to show up on whatever job board I was looking at. Chances are I've never heard of your company before I applied. -"What interests you about this position?" It's in the field I studied and the salary listed is at least within the industry average. - "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Still working. Maybe for you, maybe for someone else, but still working regardless. That's life. - "What is your expected salary range?" The salary that was stated on the job listing. If the listing didn't state a salary range, I wouldn't have applied in the first place - saves time for both of us. - "How would your former/current coworkers describe you?" There's only one "correct" way to answer this, and it's always in my favor. Even if I do truthfully think my coworkers would say good things about me, why would I ever answer anything negative about myself here otherwise? How can you be sure my answer isn't a lie? - "What are you passionate about?" Nothing that has any relevance to this job position. - "What do you like to do outside of work?” Same answer as above. - "What motivates you?" Not starving to death. - "What are your pet-peeves?" Having to answer these questions. Like, let's just get to the point: I need money because society is built around people needing money. You have a job offer that pays money, and that I believe I have the necessary skillset to do. If I lied on my resumé (which I don't) and can't actually do the job, then firing me is perfectly fair. That's the contract - let's not overcomplicate it.
And the solution is not to complain about it while working for less than you are worth but to refuse to work for less than you are worth. No doctor makes $7.50 an hour because none of them are willing to work for that little. When employers can't find workers wages go up.
@@MegaLokopothat's a cute idea if you're living with your parents or have someone that can keep you alive, but most people need that minimum wage to EAT
Right! I’d be quite happy to stack shelves for a good portion of my life, but doing that for 40hrs a week and still not be able to afford the basics…I’m worth more than that. I deserve to have a comfortable life. I deserve to travel the world. I deserve good food. I deserve good healthcare.
@@MegaLokopoWhich doesn't mean anything, because as seen in my country right now, they'll just import foreign workers from very poor nations where 2$/h seems like hitting the jackpot, while keeping the pay down and fooling the other workers. Look at any place that has immigrant workers, they get paid peanuts.
Boomers got paid enough to get a college education, a car, housing, food, and afford children on a single income. They may not have been happy about having to work, but they got paid enough to have freedom and autonomy, while work was so plentiful that they could just walk out of one place, into another and get hired on the same day. They got to live in Wonderland, but passed us down Mad Max.
Actually... yes. From various studies and trials, including UBI trials, we've found that people like performing "labour", so long as it's their choice. People get bored and want to feel productive. When money isn't a factor, people willingly start doing things like parenting, studying, art, etc. Stuff that isn't economically productive but is still labour and effort. We also see after events like natural disasters that volunteers just suddenly appear constantly to help get everything back in order. After all if a flood rolls through town and you physically can't go to work, but you can help your neighbour clear their garage, you probably will even if it's just because you're bored. We can pretty safely conclude that people do want to work, but today work is so awful with little passion that the decades you invest into it just creates a burnout that makes retirement seem all the more sweet because you don't _have_ to work anymore.
@@EvilParagon4Humans perform the best when work is a choice. Everything other than that is just a waste and we're literally within the most human-incompatible system in history 😂
Investments. 10/10/20/60. If I could tell me at 20 it would be that and ask my parents if they wanted me to be successful help me save by contributing to a 401k as well. Parents get all hot for college for there kids NOT after it
@@Neoroticussorry bro nobody can actually tell you because nobody actually knows what stocks are going to go up or down there are predictors in companies if u know trade secrets of new stuff coming out that will improve the quality of life or just straight up be universally liked.(which there pretty much isn’t)
Well, now I think I understand why people seem so... _obsessed_ with video games being "open world" these days. They sure as fuck aren't gonna see "freedom" in their lives anytime soon, so why not pay like $60-70 for a game that'll let you fuck around doing whatever for dozens, if not hundreds of hours, instead?
literally why the only reason i would want to work is to buy myself a nice computer to play games for the rest of my life and that's still impossible for me
yup, thats what i do cuz i dont want to be a fkin slave to some company till im like 70 if i even live that long just to be a crippled bag of bones and then die.
I hate modern open world design. XD It's just an empty world with almost nothing to do in it, and 80-85% of the play time is going from point A to point B and back, usually with lack luster movement mechanics. And the objectives and enemies are usually very generic too.
Agreed, several of the young guys I have worked with call out twice a week and constantly complain about not making enough money. They have no work ethic or real plan for financial freedom.
I've found that when people say "nobody wants to work anymore", what they really mean is "nobody wants to work in the ways I consider acceptable anymore." Shit changes, priorities shift, and I think that there are a lot of people these days that don't want to just be a cog in the machine where all their effort is expended making someone else rich while they're just... Alive. People want to strive for something more than rote survival, and that's all many of these 9-5 jobs offer them now. People want to work. But people also want meaningful work.
then put in the effort go to school join the military theyll pay for your college, or join a trade and get in unions, or make your own company since you dont wanna work for someone, or hell work at a farm bro
> "nobody wants to work anymore", what they really mean is "nobody wants to work in the ways I consider acceptable anymore." One statement takes the form of Identification, the other is Relational. More generally, "'nobody' wants to work under certain conditions". ALWAYS bring in the environment. You CANNOT divorce anything from its environment.
I am a millennial and do not want to work. PLEASE YOUNG PEOPLE STAY ON THEIR NECKS! the status quo is insanity! I might not be here to benefit from your change but the future will be better because of it
Lol we will, alright. If it makes you feel any better, even we ourselves likely won't ever see the fruits of our own change. So our only recourse is a waning hope.
@naniyotaka in the grand scheme of things, yes. However, these aren't my words, but my grandmother's, and I think she's right: "Age is just perspective. I look at 55-year olds and think 'you whipper-snappers'!"
As a 31 year old man I would rather spend $5,000 on a trip to Japan than put that money into my 401k for retirement. Why would I want to experience the world in my 70’s when I’m in my prime 30’s?
that's a great way to say that. im willing to buy the things i want now, i don't getting a mortgage on a home, with which i will be paying less than rent, and having a home to live in right now rather than saving up for decades while living in a shitty apartment just to buy a house in 25 years. the plan i have is to just enjoy life, buy things i want, get a mortgage for a house and all that, and when im in the retirement age, i can sell all of that and live off my late years in a small apartment, but with memories of a good life
@@The4stro Yes I do save... more than most. But unless we have an actual pandemic where 15%+ of population dies and wealth and homes are distributed at a rate that the American dream is affordable I wont be buying a home any time soon.
@@wafity It's pointless, because you don't assign a point to it. Life is what you make of it, and if you make it into a soulless 9-5 slave-jobfest... then that is what it will be.
My ancestors were exiled Cossacks in bumduck Siberia. They probably worked 99% of their lives: building, farming, hunting, fishing, foraging, logging, cooking, tinkering. Thing is, the food they got was what they got, the things they built and maintained were theirs and for their kids. Sure, industrialization erased all of that and their village is now an empty swamp, but for generations it was the way to be. I work a job passing impractical luxury goods from A to B, so I can get a slip of paper with arbitrary value that only steadily yet randomly descends, to buy food of unknown origin that randomly disappears from sale, and to pay for a dwelling I dislike that can be taken from me at any moment without any justification. And I KNOW this won't last for generations, because I'm the last of my bloodline there is, and I have no kids, for I have nothing to leave for them but make-believe slips of paper. This is why I don't won't to work as hard as my ancestors did.
Your ancestors work was meaningful and fulfilling while yours feels like it has no purpose and drains your soul. There's an author you might want to check out named Theodore Kaczynski who wrote a book called "Industrial Society and its Future."
they probably worked less than the average 9-5 wagie does, the thing people don't understand about "work" in the olden days is yes it was working all day, but it was working all day at a very low level of intensity. old "work" asked you for maybe 10-20% for 16-20 hours, modern "work" is asking you to deliver 110% for 8 hours straight. people are just not built for that, it's really unhealthy. I think the old pace of work was something we evolved for or adapted to, it's the natural way for people to be. the industrial way of working is unnatural and harmful.
@@doltBmB I work as a freelance video editor and my work I'd say 70% of the time is super mentally intense and draining. After finishing a project I feel exhausted and I can barely shake it off having to jump immediatelly on another project otherwise I won't be able to pay my rant. One day I was so burnout I coudn't work at all anymore and to survive I decided to go volunteer in a super small community in Denmark where all of the work was physical. And let me tell you, even tho physical work was hard, it was nowhere near as draining as my video editing gig and after a day of work I still got energy to do things, to create, to work on something personal. After a regular 10-12 hour work day of sitting scourched in front of my PC editing videos, I don't have energy to prepare a meal, for a long time I thought that I am just a lazy fuck. But in Denmark I realised that I actually have a lot of energy to do so many things only if my job wasn't so mentally obliterating.
@@mitsu9894 I'm sorry you feel that way but I think we can meet on a middle ground that us young people aren't getting paid enough either. At least for Americans. I wish I could live in Germany where people get free money and housing for being blonde and blue eyed. I am not blonde
This is what I want as well. I don't care about accomplishing all my goals or being rich or productive. I just want to be able to lie on my death bed and go, "Yeah. That was a good time."
The movie "Soul" made me realize that life isn't about performing well and accomplishing your goals, it's about enjoying it. But unfortunately you can't experience these small slices of joy without working jobs that destroy your physical and mental wellbeing. Then to top it off these jobs likely require you to perform well to be qualified to work, meaning you're still chasing the toxic standard of perfection so that you can be the perfect candidate.
watching this, at work, halfway through a 10 hour night shift that saps the life out of me for an extra $2/h over base rate. im 23, i don't have a skill i can market easily as a machinist, and i have no plans or aspirations. your video is spot on. absolutely perfect. good points and good insights
I get the no plans or aspirations thing, except in my case I'm still applying in hopes for really anything at this point. It doesn't help that our job market seemingly hates the idea of hiring someone without experience, when you need to have a job to even get experience.
25 year old here. You speak for me as well. Our generation have been very observant on how work has sucked the time and happiness from the older people in our lives.
I agree. If you keep the prices of everything the same but increase every salary by 3x? Everybody would be flourishing. If you work at Wendy's for 13$ in Illinois, you'd get paid 39$. People wouldnt be struggling for too long.
@@DaOldSchoolRapLova96but that’s too much like right, they just like with everything they Would end up making the economy look good for a certain amount time to get the outcomes the “they”want before they swipe the rug from under us. Like they promoted dropping out so much because they had “too many educated people” and they had no more slaves that stayed. Job hopping,quit quitting and ect. Long story short now their promoting celibacy aft promoting a “sex” positive culture it’s about influence it’s now our desires at the forefront it’s the company’s The trends tell us what they need and it’s real ash
@@DaOldSchoolRapLova96you just explained Zimbabwe😂 horrible advice. Print more money and it gets diluted along the way. Where’s this 3x salary going to come from since you said to keep prices the same?
A lot of people say "Then who do you expect to make the things you want to buy!?" We could easily still produce all the things we need to with everyone working 30 or even 20 hours a week. A lot of jobs are BS filler jobs anyway that don't add any actual value, and a lot of things we make go almost immediately into landfills. If things were built to last instead of having "built in obsolescence" and if we weren't conditioned to be "consumers" who need constant new junk to feel good, .we wouldn't need to pump out junk the way we do. All the so called "advancements" we have made with technology aren't worth anything if they don't actually improve the quality of life and standard of living for the average person. That includes freeing up our time so we can actually HAVE time for family and friends, traveling and hobbies.
The system is designed so that we serve the economy and not the other way around. It's all about profit at any cost. That's why things are as you described. But what's the point of having a lot of money if everything that you can buy with it is from people who are thinking the same way, so all you can buy are a million different types of junk. The greedy people on this planet can't think that far.
We don’t make enough stuff as it is. Housing sucks because we’re splitting 140 million of em between like 400 million people. If we had twice as many houses thered probably be no issue getting a house with the average salary. But your right in the sense our issue is waste….. we could make a lot of stuff but everyone wants to be an architect and no one wants to be a mason so to say… If you employ everyone as architects they can all show up to work everyday and draw houses and stuff, but if there are no masons or framers ect, as a whole there’s not alot getting built in this example.
@@TQFMTradingStrategies I hear we have more vacant homes than homeless people. There are a LOT of houses just sitting empty because they are treated as investments instead of homes. Not to mention, if you look into sustainable adobe homes, there are people who have figured out how to build modest but adequate homes in just a couple hours that can last for hundreds of years. We don't NEED to build homes the way we are doing it today and infact we need to go back to how many of our ancestors built. The answer is sustainable adobe home communities built around community gardens. Practically anybody who keeps chickens winds up having more than enough eggs for their family, to the point they start giving some away to neighbors. Those are the things the people at the top want us to forget, they manufacture scarcity in every aspect of life they can, but nature IS abundant and we will figure it out again.
@@cosmicllama6910 the vacant home and homeless thing is apples and bananas. You will have a certain % of your housing supply “vacant” as it’s in the process of being bought or sold. There’s not as many Scrooge mcduck style home hoarders and some would have people think. There are plenty of easier ways to build houses and that’s the sort of thing we need to look into. But a lack of people who are willing and able to build houses is a serious issue. And there are plenty of local and state regulatory hurtles you have to get over to try. But the solution to a lot of this is we gotta make it a priority to build houses and we do that by compensating those that do and advertising it so more people get into doing it.
33, worked as a musician in a touring band for 8 years, earned enough money to live for a few years and maybe embrace my dreams of being a successful recording artist. "The Band" I played in didnt't record any songs so it was just a living of past successes kinda thing. I gotta tell you the things I had to endure during the time in "The Band" were soul crushing. I heard so many evil things spoken to me, that for some time my self worth was non existent. Also sitting in the bus and just wasting precious hours of our life driving from venue to venue while having 5 albums of unreleased music playing inside my head. I asked myself many times "why am I sitting in this place that I hate, when I have enough money to just go there and do my shit!?" and... so I did. I gotta tell you it felt like a blessing. I'm finally free from this BS and from the people that mindf***ed me for the last few years. Now it's just ok, I'm earning less but I'm doing the things that I love. There is no better reward in life then to have an idea of your own and just sinking time into it. Everything about my life changed for the better. My advice here is, sometimes you have to endure it. There is no way to avoid it unfortunately. You may think that playing in "The Band" was my passion, but no - it was just my work. Very hard, thankless and soul crushing work. The thing that you have to remember is to always have something worth living for, like your passion, your family etc. When you have a chance to break, just do it! Believe in yourself and your ideas! Leave something behind. Something that the next generations can discover and use in their lives. Never waste a day on meaningless shit, you never know which day will be your last and I know people that died in their 40s-50s in the a span of a week. Cheers!
the same people who say "Young People Just Don't Want to Work Anymore" are the same people who think having money and investing is work while contributing shit nothing to society
For real, bro, you can invest and contribute to society. In fact, invest in something that will change the world, not these massive companies that take everything
as a young adult, honestly I am terrified. Life has become so complicated and difficult that things just barely seem to have reason anymore. things are just not the same as they were when i was a teenager and life is just Empty.
It's secondary taxation. By printing additional money the government effectively steals value from everyone who holds that currency. They already get value from you by taxes, but raising taxes might cause unrest, so it's easier to just "take more" by inflation. Then we gotta tax your income *and* expenses, and then personal property too...
Damn right! After Watching some "Aragorn is the good king-stereotype", Everyone wants to rule Gondor, but nobody wants to slogg in the wild for most of their lives and struggle! Or as a rapper from my country said in one song: "Everyone wants to go to heaven, bu few wants to die. They want to reap the harvest but sow no seeds."
The worst part is, we feel like we are a failure to society if we don’t. We can’t live if we don’t work. I feel like I’m leeching off my parents because I’m not ready to work. I’m young and still in college. Yet I’ve been wanting to do everything productive other than school/work. I clean because it makes me happy, I write because it makes me happy. I pick classes that make me happy. So why can’t we have work that makes us happy while also covering our basic needs?
No, you’re a failure to society if you keep going with this “I don’t wanna work” crap! If you can’t contribute or be bothered enough to do anything, why are you here? You are clearly the type who wants an easy life- wake up call bro! You won’t ever get an easy life. Those you see who DO have easy lives, got lucky, or- guess what? WORKED FOR IT!
Because theirs tons of work that needs done that doesn't make anyone happy. Working on assembly line factories, oil Riggs, cleaning toilets, laying down concrete, etc. This stuff still needs done.
@@calculator91 I get that, there are terrible jobs out there that no one wants to do. But that still doesn't take away the fact that those jobs need to at least pay for basic needs to have happy life outside of that.
Because we're kind of running society here. But I get where you're coming from. Things have gotten so bad, there is no incentive to work those jobs. If there was a payoff or reason, for it, we could bear it, but we literally have 90% less purchasing power than our grandparents. It's ridiculous.
Whilst I totally understand what you’re saying I’m reminded of a quote, “in a utopia who’s going to want to scrub the toilets?” Work needs to be done for society to function, that’s the nature of it. However, Gen Z has particularly looked at the machine outside of it and saw that the balance of life to necessary work has become too skewed and that it’s not benefiting us anymore. The system was designed to be mutually beneficial, however mismanagement and politics have led it to become a disaster which can’t sustain itself long term anymore and we’re the people seeing the effects of it all the while older generations ignore the problem since it benefited them back while it still worked. It’s like owning a car made 50 years ago, sure it was AMAZING back then and it was well worth the effort you put into getting it. Nowadays it doesn’t work anymore but “it’s the same” as it was back then just ignoring the deterioration that’s happened over those years.
As a 27 year old man, i got a job at 16, and always worked. I worked my butt off at jobs, and it got me NOWHERE. I became tired of working hard just to barely survive, it isnt the work that wore me down, its the fact that it didnt get me ahead at all. Around when i was 24 i realized that i had given up on my dreams of becoming a father and owning a home
what do you do for work? it's actually not that late, you still have 8 years if not more to meet someone and support them and then creating a family w them
@@LynnyrdRavage well at 24 I decided to back to school. Turn my life around because what I was doing wasn't working. I have one more year to finish an accounting degree, luckily I took most of the hardest courses already like the tax classes, and this summer I landed a decent internship at a tax firm. I'm making way up, but I still feel the heavy weight of this economy and the messed up dating market on my back
I'm 40 and I crunched these numbers 20 years ago before everything went to shit. Everyone thought I was either stupid or crazy for saying that a 40hr week for 50 years to get only 4 million bucks was a shit deal. It was a shit deal then and it's a shit deal now. I've spent my entire life trying to do what I want to do, and getting punished by the system for it. Hopefully you Gen z's can change things, because they have needed to change for a few decades now.
this comment. this fucking comment was all it took to plan a camping trip with my mates. i’m 21. i’ve crunched my numbers. i have a ROTH IRA. fuck this man. fuck the long term. my hometown never saw temps over 90° F like 5 years ago. it’s 110° tomorrow. i don’t know if i’ll be around to see my retirement. i’m living life NOW. not LATER.
@@arni4750do you have any advice for trying to live life in general? I’m a 19 year old college student who’s not sure where I want to be in life. I don’t know what I want to do.
@@hannamaryann0705 literally in the same boat as you. I figured that if i wanna live happily i just gotta do something that makes me happy and allows me to live off that. What is that thing? Idk yet
@@srcarts4832 me either, mate. It’s not like I haven’t tried things before though. I took dance classes for three years, chorus for another three, was involved in a few clubs in high school and two different career related pathways which were business technology and education that I got recognized for at graduation so that was nice. I can’t help but feel unfulfilled though since my peers all seem to have their lives together.
It's not even about being able to buy an expensive car and own a mansion. I just want to start a family and experience playing and creating stuff with my children
It's the new gaslight. They pretend like they don't know what's really going on and simply label people lazy or "they don't want to work". I'm 42 and I get it. The system is a scam. Took me a couple LSD trips back in the 90's to realize that real fast. For me, having purpose is the main component in my happiness and productivity. Working some BS job for corpos is not the way.
No person should be enslaved like this. It isn't ethical anymore, regardless it probably never was in the first place. These companies destroy everyone only to drown in a desperate claw to stay alive as they realise they destroyed their very own lifeblood. Incredibly idiotic and self destructive
32 here. Wanted to work, desperately wanted to. But employers would ghost me constantly, and whenever I got hired, I would only last a month or two before getting fired. Never mattered how hard I worked; I wasn't perfect, so I got fired. So I stopped trying, because it didn't matter what I did.
My mom has worked her entire life. She has given up so much to raise me and my sibling. I see her come home exhausted everyday. She never lived her dream. And everyday it hits her how much time she has left and how what she wants probably will never be possible. She retired during the pandemic but had to pick up a different job. Fast forward to now and that place is shutting down and laying everyone off. I want to be free enough and wealthy enough in time to pay her back and let her have at least some time where she doesn't have to worry about everything. I hate that for her. I don't want that life either. Idk I'm hoping something will give in the next few years so the struggle doesn’t seem so impossible. That things will be more achievable. That we won't have to fight tooth and nail for just a little leg up. (Ps wonderful video. It really hit the nail on the head. I've been doing job hunting since I graduated college, and seeing my options just makes me feel sick. Anyway, keep it up! Wishing you success!)
in my opinion, the only way you or anyone is ever going to become free is by becoming extremely valuable. Either through something crazy like being a surgeon, actor, athlete, etc. or through business. Throughout all history it's always been the poor, weak people who've had it the worst and never got ahead. The people who are in control aren't clocking into a job but they're making the jobs. Sure, you need to work a job in the beginning to get your funds up but as soon as possible you want to start looking at having something for yourself. That's the only way you even have a chance of being free in my opinion. If you get comfortable at a job or a 9-5, you'll most likely stay there forever
I have the same situation. Except I already have the money and buy whatever she wants. She keeps working because that's all she knows. She gets very bored not working, she can't turn it off. Kind of weird, but at least I know she is set. No matter how annoying she is.
@@malikpeace_ Everyone is already extremely valuable, by the mere fact that you're a human. The wealth exist, it's just concentrated in the hands of the few, it just needs to be distributed more evenly. You're almost there, you see part of the problem, but then just miss the solution. Socialism my friend!
when I was a kid one of my dreams was to get famous so I could buy my single mom a house and take care of all her financial needs. I'm 35 now and it's dawning on me that I will never even have enough for myself, let alone for her. It hurts. It hurts so much after seeing her struggle to raise me and my siblings, seeing her still living in a rented apartment she can only afford because she splits the bill with my younger brother on disability. That place is falling apart. And I can't do a thing. It's frustrating.
We've got government pension here in my country that requires 30 years of employment to be eligible. The younger guys at my office barely see themselves continuing their career more than five years 😂
Yeah, because people are dying in droves working an honest days work... Go get a job and touch grass, it's time to have an experience that's not imagining how bad stuff you've never done before.
@@nashton9964 Most people don't want to work because they've actually worked before and realize how miserable it is. Don't insult other people over assumptions that you've made about their lives.
My grandfather is still working in his seventies, having started at about fifteen. I wish I could give him all that time back it's so terrible that they worked him to the bone. He's told me numerous times about how he's so tired of it all, I wish we were allowed to enjoy life.
Bruh… I work 2 jobs, making $20 an hour at 1, and $16.40 an hour at the other. I make over $2,000 a month and I enjoy work. It gives me something to do. “Oh but you’re an old person” I hear you say! Nope- I’m 25! I’ve lived the “no work” life, it SUCKS! Once you do everything you want, your days get boring!
@@Zerathina Hey. I already gave you an essay on a separate comment so I won't turn this into a lecture. All I'm going to say is that so what if you work two jobs? So do I. You may find fulfillment in that. Good for you. I don't. Many don't. Many of us want something more, but are forced to spend most of our time working two jobs we don't want to do to make rent. Me and many others know there could be more to life than this, and I don't feel there's anything wrong with that. I'll end my comment here before I write another essay.
@@ZerathinaI’ll never understand how you’re content with working 2 different jobs and making around $24,000 a YEAR from both of those jobs is actually criminal.
I've yet to find someone else who can sum up our generation's general sentiments so well. For only being 23 you've got more insight and understanding than a lot of people who've lived thrice as long.
"We don't know what will happen next" - this is exactly what happened to me. I am 25 years old and I am a software engineer. I graduated at 20 and started working hard. In my country, salaries are low - approximately 900 dollars/m at the beginning of an IT career, in 2 years I reached a salary of 1900 dollars per month, and started saving money. But then what happened happened - the war. As a result, the country closed the borders for men to leave, and every day I risk being mobilized into this meat grinder. Due to problems in the financial sector, my company lost a lot of money and cut salaries, foreign companies do not consider me as a candidate, because "why hire a man who will be mobilized any day". AI also added "confidence in tomorrow" As a result, I spent 2 years in an apartment, living paycheck to paycheck. And I just wanted to see the ocean when I grow up. But I don't know if I can...
So sorry to hear that, friend. This is how it be, the moment people at the top decide they want to earn some more money off people's lives, your life is the gov't's property. Keep your head above the water, keep your skillset sharp, keep up with the latest in tech, so that your brain is too valuable to send you to the frontline - that much you still can do.
My dad has a similar issue.. when things were getting good , life would throw another curveball at him and wed all sink lower.. He saved when he could but nothing works when you have to go on a 0-Dollar budget, in which every penny goes somewhere. Life sucks
I'm so sorry, brother. I really hope you are well or, at least, better now. And I really hope you can see the Ocean. It is, indeed, as beautiful as the poets say.
Listening to this while I work my 9 - 5 at 30 years old . I feel this in my soul. It isn't just the younger generation who's struggling with the will to want to work.
This is why I seriously believe that we must move to a 4 day work week globally, instead of this current BS standard of 5 days 40h/week, because unfortunately most of us won't be able to become our own bosses, however with the 4 day work week at least we get more of our time/freedom back and won't be as drained or depressed.
Exactly a capitalist system wouldn't even work right if everyone was their own boss. His theory only works if you accept most can't take his advice to the end.
Oh, it's going to happen in 3-7 years. If we continue on this way , massive gen x and / or boomer displacement. No kids means no vaule for school and less workforce for Major city's .
Im 25, i live in my car and work full time. It may seem like a bleak life but i know if i work hard i can achieve my dreams. My goal is to be a animator/vfx artist and travel the world. To anyone who sees this listen to your intuition and keep and open mind you can do anything!
All ive ever been taught is work, so you can buy a car, buy a house. But i feel nothing for it. Im not happy and im not even angry anymore. I dont have a passion and i dont have a dream. I dont have a proper reason to live beyond its what most people do. Ive tried doing art as a hobby, ive tried taking classes to do autobody work, ive tried getting into welding programs, ive tried going straight into work and be happy working. All of it has failed or driven me into a bad bad place. I just wanted a reason to believe its worth being alive
We all wanted to go to mexico's most beautiful island or have a dinner in dubai, or meeting our loved ones for a special dinner.. But nope :) we have to live with minimum payment and less time to be spent enjoying our lives.
It’s okay bro, I feel the same way, I wish I could have been a kid longer to explore what I really liked. With all this internet information, the endless possibilities gives us too many options.
I want to work, but not for a company. Not for a corporation or a CEO or stock holders or billionaires. I want to work for my community, for others, for myself and my family.
My dad got laid off from his job around 1-2 years ago. My dad still hasn’t found a job, and I used to chalk it up to laziness but… I’ve seen him get ready for interviews multiple times, and I’ve asked him “how’d it go?” only for him to respond with “bad.” just as many times. Hell, even if he is “just being lazy” I can’t blame him because I would feel just as defeated. Even people that are willing to work lose their jobs through no fault of their own, and as a teenager I find that frustrating and terrifying beyond belief.
Boy oh boy, work f*cking sucks hahahaha. But thanks to ai and robotics, by the time you'd finish college, we all will probably be replaced by robots. And thats a good thing
@@oranges557 Uhh, no its not? When you get replaced by a robot, you won't be getting paid for doing no work. You can look up videos right now of graphic designers and other whitecollar people who were recently made redundant by some kind of AI-powered product. Listen to their concerns and fears, AI and robotics doesn't solve all ills, in some cases it creates them for humans.
go into robotics or something you research that will be seen as valuable later on in life. Then use that as a backup for what you actually want to do. If you can't do that, then you can put it off for a bit and work a job others will pay you well for because it's useful.
@@alexhamilton3522 Personally, I'm thinking of doing that by training into machine learning myself so I can work in AI when I get replaced myself. But this isn't exactly an easy switch. These high paying jobs that avoid getting replaced with AI or robotics are not easy to get into. It's not reasonable to tell everybody whose made redundant to become SWE or automation specialists.
You explained a whole generation’s mindset spot on I’m 25 I’ve been a CNA for 4 years and when I say working damn near 100 hours pretty damn often isn’t doing anything but making me depressed , burnt out and literally desperate to do something else because this is NOT the end all be all for me I’m tired of breaking my back to be unappreciated in one of the hardest fields known to man SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE cause there’s no way I’m living paycheck to paycheck taking care of folks grandparents who think we're lazy anyways!
I'm autistic with severe OCD intrustive thoughts. I grew up in the society where I had to hide my stuff within public school because my mom didn't want me to experience the segregation that many disabled kids face, and the social alienation as well as long term, unforeseeable legal issues which can arise from having that stuff on your record. I had to hide from bureaucratic systems, because it wasn't like I could even receive the accommodations I needed, since the budgets were stripped and they kept the kids who didn't fit in in glorified daycare. I did not even have access to freely be myself at home, because my dad was in deep self denial and tangled it with his anger at my mom and the divorce, while my stepdad financially entrapped my mom and emotionally abused us for 14 years. The OCD intrusive thoughts were the sprinkling on top of all of this, where even my own brain space wasn't safe for me, where my brain regularly threw into my consciousness horrific imagery that I don't dare utter to a single person on this earth, because I am worried that people won't understand that it's all intrusive. to cope with all of this, I leaned extra hard into my hyperfixations, with possible elements of disassociation. my teachers would be ashamed of my poor grades and good potential. they would tell me that I'm not applying myself, and that I just need to do that. I could never explain, because I had to hide from segregation, and while I didn't understand that at the time, I knew that there were very long term consequences that could potentially change my environment without any of my own say. I couldn't tell about my family life, because "my family life was actually pretty good comparatively because we weren't being beat or sexually exploited" (mom didn't know about stepdad's stepdad). and I guess we didn't count the revoking of food as abuse, or the refusal to allow me and my sibling to interact with each other. So I just had to learn to accept blame. yep, I'm just not applying myself. after a while, I became convinced anyways. never made higher than a C, I mostly made D's despite every attempt to make higher until I gave up and accepted mediocrity. fell into an abusive relationship by someone who is genuinely a good person but who could not cope with their own abusive family and I was the only one who accepted being a lightning rod. barely graduated highschool somehow, and went into construction since I was told to get into the trades because there's such good money there. ended up in several dead end jobs which exploited the ex-convicts and illegal immigrants who had almost no other opportunities. the labor market was oversaturated and a whole pile of shit. parents and folks would just dismiss when I'd try to bring up issues I was seeing as me just being lazy and not wanting to apply myself and work up the ranks, while I was being put through severe conditions, illegally deducted pay, unsafe exposure to airborne chemicals, and physical assault when I just tried to quietly wear my own mask without even requesting anyone else do it, becuase it was "scaring the contractors" when I'd wear the one good mask we had (forgot name, but it was the most effective and was in severe supply shortages). I had been considering my own mortality for basically as long as I could remember, had been practicing for months up to this point I went home and attempted sue's cider. I was continually screwed over, berated, belittled, and outright abused in jobs, told continually by my parent's generation to just work really hard and dismiss all of my concerns, all for a fucking 10 buck wage. my mom found and stopped me thankfully, but it was after that that she really started to listen. nobody else did, and told me I should have just known. Took a brief break during 2020, then got two jobs as a delivery driver and a bakery clerk. managed to get the first job that paid me decently, and it was $15 at an extremely depressing corporate firm which had quotas that only grew as the faces got more depressed and exhausted. my manager and I would pass each other as one of us would go break down in the quiet bathroom while the other was just coming back from their own breakdown. only lasted there for like 10 months. every step of this way, I've had people ask why I'm shutting down, why I just completely cease executive function for upwards of a week at a time every few months, and then try to sweep it under the rug and give me ths same toxic positivity, corpo buzzwords. or, they use me as a new bar in their pity case, to throw against someone else who is struggling, trying to rank traumas and our struggles in life into whatever little bar can have them dismiss the issues people are having and pretend like they're giving the "rough and tough pick me up" to someone else to dismiss their issues to get the cog back to working order. at no point during my working career was I ever in the prospect of being able to afford to live. not only was my literal pay reduced from the times I would completely shut down, I would also get on thin ice with my employment status, unless I happened to have a manager who was genuine and helped cover for me. quite frankly, I'm just waiting for everyone else to be done with this shit, and build our own provisional government such that it represents and work on resolving the issues in society facing all workers, with mechanisms and training to allow the workers to overthrow it if folks decide it becomes necessary. Our freedom is uniting as working classes. this system does not care about the safety of children, of the passions and needs of the workers, of the planetary ecology, of the different sectors of the working class. we will work until we die, and we'll only remember that we're the survivors of those who have died, from imperialism, from social stratification, from overwork, from stress, from misery. history has given us her cards, and she's gonna keep playing whether we play or not. which, why not? we have the capacity to connect the entire planet. you can just start a project, and have people join and contribute before you even know what hemisphere they live in.
I may not have it nearly as bad as you but I think you're right to say that comparing trauma and misery is really dangerous. I'm so so sorry you went through what you did, no one deserves that pain. As a mentally and physically disabled person myself who has never worked a day in my life due to severe anxiety I'm scared to get my first job. It's not that I don't want to work, I just don't want to be abused or looked down on for being different.
@@CmoIsDaNam3i thank you for your comment- hope and optimism can be very powerful things, and they can be even more powerful if we hold with them a tempered form of pessimism, such that the hope and the pessimism may temper each other. hope can help us constantly look towards a positive future, and the pessimism can help us question what steps or things would be necessary to achieve that future, and where we might fail so that we can address those things, and better help with inspiring and reminding each other of futures which we can achieve
@@arthurtaylor64 yeah I get that, it's a difficult thing. disabled peoples (or people on the brink of being determined disabled) are usually the first to experience the full oppression within the workplace. this has the negative aspect of essentially having many soft barriers that prevent disabled people from maintaining long term work in many places, but it also means that disabled peoples can be the ones who can help non-disabled workers better understand all the systems at play which impact both of them to different degrees. while I can empathize, your struggles and your limits will be things I will have trouble understanding by virtue of not being in your shoes- your life is your own, and I hope you live one which is true to yourself- but if you do go into labor, whether by choice or need, and you have the energy, you could help folks stuck in the labor market who have difficulty expressing their grievances and struggles by offering your own experiences and things to look out for, through whatever medium you prefer. those who experience heightened oppression in certain matters can usually develop higher understanding of the relevant structures. my belief is that disabled peoples of all stripes will be the catalyst for fundamental change within workplaces, which will help direct the charge in the transformation from work as a mere dulling, mechanical process which squeezes workers for more and more capital growth- towards labor as life's prime want, similar in structure to how we view hobbies, but with much stronger social collaboration, with work done as needed or wanted, and the planning of production by the participating workers. I personally have to thank the many people before us who wrote of struggles I did not primarily experience, but who nonetheless helped me better understand many facets of my own and my peers' conditions, and we ourselves will have our own experiences and lessons to pass onto the next generations even if our own does not manage to yet succeed in our struggles for emancipation. I hope that this helps build optimism, and I hope that this may inspire you to realize the strengths we find in our bleak circumstances under heightened oppression by bosses, bureaucrats, and all who participate in administering laborers for ideal profitability rather than human passion and capacity.
Just be careful, alot of younger people, including myself at one point, tend to equate the pursuit of freedom with not giving a crap about anyone else in their life.
I grew up in the 90s, back then we used to believe that even soul-less jobs contributed something to society, that you'd go through some nasty grinds as a rite of passage to prove yourself and earn your place at a higher paying job. But now we have the truth laid out in the open. Soul-less jobs don't contribute to society, they fill the pockets of a few individuals, and not even that, most of these corporations are actively making the world worse, and they'll never raise your salary if they can get away with it, in fact, they'll find ways to make your salary worth less.
you don't rise automatically by just staying put and doing the same simple stuff every day, you're supposed to improve and elbow your way up, developing skills that you can use to leverage either a move to a new position or company that can use those new skills.
We have no intrinsic motivators to work hard. Most jobs have always been like this, but previous generations were at least extrinsically motivated (payed well). In the absence of these things, why bother?
No, we have no intrinsic motivators to work hard at what those with money want to pay us to do. People get paid because those with money have work they don't want to do so they pay someone else to do the thing that no one wants to do. If work was different, people would do it. There is a fundamental shift that people need to have with how they work and people who get paid the most need to have the worst jobs and those that have the easiest and nicest work should be paid less.
Saw my dad work his a** off to some rich guy who didn’t see the true value of his work. He worked on houses; repairs, plumbing, electrical… you name it. He could do it. He was also a very skilled craftsman hand-making electric guitars in what spare time he had. I saw him stress about work every day and how he felt unappreciated and underpaid for his worth… Now I’m grown up and I feel his pain. Working for a job that pays okay but I feel it’s a grind in the end and a paycheck. I don’t want to live in a society like this. This isn’t “living” this isn’t “the American dream” whatever that is anymore. If we are only valued by the work we put in and not by what we are capable of doing and here just to make a profit, I don’t want to be part of this kind of society. This honestly makes me depressed and makes life not worth while.
I swear, we all need to come together and invest in starting a business. If more and more people work together, we can do something great with our lives.
One way to ease this is by living in groups. Multi generationally or with a very solid group of found family. You must learn to respect and repair relationships. Learn compromise and how to share space. Toxic individualism only isolates us and builds the wealth of magnates.
Out of the 10 professions that are projected to be in most demand (and add about 2.5mil new positions), 5 are currently paying under 45k a year (and those comprise 60% of new jobs projected to be added). Think about it, ppl. They need us, but they want to devalue us.
Fascinating. I'm three times your age, and I have never heard such an eloquent defense of fatalism in the service of entrepreneurship. It can be summed up as: "Everything worth anything costs money. Work for someone else is always terrible. The world simultaneously sucks and has stuff that is cool but costs money. Selfishness is absolutely necessary. Youth is the most awesome time and old people are just waiting for death. Wow. I'd love to see you revisit these issues in 40 years and see if you would amend what you said before.
Totally agree with your point. I'm 25 and I thought his take was extremely black and white, and also super ageist. I don't believe that working for someone else is always terrible - it's far more nuanced than that. I also really don't like the point that older people are just waiting around to die. How narrow minded! I know many older people who have an amazing zest for life and passion for new things.
Remember that trend that went like "I can finally retire and live out the rest of my days with the money I have saved...if I die by like Tuesday" which literally says everything that needs ti be said. I don't even wanna be rich man I just wanna be comfortable 😪
The fact that property taxes exist means you will never retire. Even in a best case scenario where you have bought your home and paid off your mortgage - miss 1 year’s taxes to the king and see what happens.
I agree but it also is important for property taxes to exists. Otherwise someone rich guy could let’s say buy an entire country and basically own the entire thing forever even their kids could and on a planet with limited space it is an issue. So property taxes aren’t completely stupid as they do make some sense but I also hated them since it doesn’t allow you to enjoy what you have. Property taxes forces ppl to earn what they have and not just own it forever which would definitely propose an issue. The real issue is why property taxes are so god damn high
@@GodfreyFirstEldenLord that’s an easy problem to solve: simply start taxing the property any time it becomes inheritance. IMO - tax policies should support the life you want for the masses in the country. We NEED a higher growth rate and you only get that with stable families who can own their own homes. Our policies are taxing us out of a country
@@hueco5002 not at all. For the remaining 40 years or whatever people would still own a lot of property meaning they have no reason to sell any and there wouldn’t be any legal way to take it away. So basically if all top 1% were to buy out all available land that land would always be bought out and even if previous family’s of billionaires couldn’t generate enough money there would still be other billionaires. So basically the land would always stay in the palm of the rich never to be sold and forever their property and nobody could do anything against that. Basically it would give the rich even more power and money and no there isn’t an easy conclusion. Sadly property taxes for land must exist but I’d argue that the taxes should be higher for higher income ppl then they should be for lower income ppl
There are many people out there who never had goals and dreams and ambitions. There are also many out there who arent materialistic. There are also many out there who do not have the "i need more" bug. Happiness is fleeting always but contentment can stick around forever. I do not understand people who always need more. As if having a car, a roof over your head, food to eat, clothes to wear etc. Is not enough.
There is no point in working, mental disorders are more rampant than ever. Everything keeps getting more expensive while the pay keeps decreasing and work hours increasing. Working 9-10h a day for 5-7 days a week, just aint it. Lets take a 9-5 job. You wake up at 5am to get ready to leave the house at 6am, be at work on 7-8am depending on transportation method and length of travel. Then your job endd at lets say 4-5pm, where you either push your body to its limit on a daily or sit in a bloody chair. Youre back home around 5-7pm. Oh what is that? You only have 2-4 hours left a day to do EVERYTHING else. Buy food, eat, shower, take care of finances. Then go to sleep and rinse and repeat. You cant even afford much of anything IN THE MIDDLE CLASS in the majority of first world countries. Healthy eating is already almost too expensive for those scraping by. Im gonna end up on the noose once i start working a job myself sooner or later. Im only 22 and i see no point in this world for so many reasons that it would take several paragraphs to list them all. Societal issues, personal issues, to put it very short. Thats not even to mention the very real possibility of ai removing a fat chunk of avialable jobs on the modern market for "efficiency/cost" reasons, making even more people unable to even get a properly paying job in the first place. Ignorance is bliss. Only those more simple minded (no offense tbh, i envy em) are able to live happy lives whilst being nothing more but slaves.
this is so true at the end of the paragraph. i have wondered had i chose to be ignorant id be far in life but now i have to remind myself it’s not me but rather the system that isn’t quite so sustainable. it’s tough not beating yourself up
One life lesson I've learned is that it's fine to just not think about things. "Ignorance is bliss" is not the full saying; the full saying is "When ignorance is bliss, tis foolish to be wise". When it comes to the state of the system you don't have to put much thought towards how bad something is when you're not directly at the wheel. I'm not saying to ignore pressing issues but just that we don't have to think on the state of society all the time. Yeah, individually we can make things better in small ways, but we can also act towards them without thinking about the state of society all the time.
I have so little to add to this, But yeah everything fucking sucks and its getting worse. At this point I am only glad I didn't bring children into this world. I have some hope in how many young-ish people crave change but I try not to be too hopeful to not get soulcrushingly disappointed. I try to find some solace in the fact that worst comes to worst I can just die
@TryMe749 i don’t know about you, but in my experience, when I can’t stop thinking about things, “more brains” doesn’t usually help, it tends to make things worse. i think probably if you want good feelings, the answer is simply: you need to have things in your life that you feel good about, and you need to feel a bit optimistic about finding those things. that’s **so** much easier said than done, of course, for so many reasons, but some questions it may be helpful to ask yourself: - how’s your social life? how connected do you feel to the community around you? - how healthy are you, how’s your sleep schedule, exercise, etc.? - what do you believe matters? are you in a position in your life where you’re able to do things about what you believe matters? the state of the planet is what it is, but in my opinion you’re obligated to work on your own life, before figuring out the world and society. good luck with everything. :)
People will work 15 years at a job they hate and not even be able to get their kid a job in the mailroom. everyone gets exploited, and soon having a job isn’t gonna matter, because it isn’t gonna be about having money, but having ownership in something, the next poor will be those who work and the rich will be those who own assets, control resources, and hold stakes in enterprises. In this new economy, financial stability will come from investments, property, and intellectual property rights, rather than traditional employment. This shift will redefine the concepts of wealth and poverty, making ownership the ultimate determinant of economic power and security.
I'm 30 and I have never wanted to work. I am pretty sure no one wants to work or else they wouldn't be getting paid to do it. If all of a sudden a job opened up that paid 100k a year that I could get right now and work 40 hours a week with benefits and retirement, I'd take it. But most jobs pay 30-50k a year and require 50+ hours a week.
Imagine just in what world we live in that people don't want to work. Labor is hard wired into human beings yet we live in such a world that makes everybody go against their own nature. Or at least want to but still end up coerced into doing it. This world is so screwed up
@@furiousdestroyah9999 People worked few hours at most for hundreds of thousands of years. The concept of spending ungodly hours every week just to have roof above your head and food on your plate has only existed for few hundred years
Im 36 and i agree. We have the deck stacked against us in this economy. Gen Z even more so. I realized this late but I started my business over 2 years ago in a field i knew almost nothing about but i wanted to learn. I spent damn near all my free time learning on RUclips, reading books and learning my market. I work more now than any job i ever had but I’m happier with what I do now than any job I’ve had. I strongly recommend working for yourself. See the fruits of your labor. Not just helping some CEO get richer. Its not easy but and theres always the possibility of failure but its worth the shot.
I'd also say, this is also why we're seeing a big resurgence in unions. It's much easier to face into the working world when the benefits are actually worthwhile. My union job has us working less than 40 hours a week, solidly above minimum wage at entry level, and minimum four weeks PTO excluding additional time for sick leave. They also provide options for group healthcare and retirement funds that are more affordable and higher quality than the options I had before. It's honestly so upsetting to realise we let them almost die off in so many industries because of a small number having a bad rep, and companies spreading misinformation
Ello :3 found anything yet? I believe in you, I spent months and months getting ghosted by companies, so I just walked into one of the companies cause they were looking for new employees so I just walked in and said that I want to work for them and they gave me a tour through the workplace and then scheduled interview with me, if Its not internet job just walk in on them, some companies will be annoyed and shit but still, it shows your initiative. If its internet job then I don't really have anything else than constantly calling their line untill they pickup
Yep. On the rare occasion I do get hired, they expect me to know everything, fresh out of college, with barely any experience. Then they fire me because I'm not perfect. Why even try when it doesn't matter how hard you work?
I love how we are so smart and advanced, but the best thing we could do with the most valuable resource is waste time by staying almost a 3rd or more of our life imprisoned by taxes and jobs.
1/3? More like 3/4 and the first 1/4 is youth-and that’s only good if your parents can and will take care of you. In most countries children begin working at very young ages. After the age of 70, it’s pretty much very limited life and that’s if you’re lucky.
1/3 work 1/3 sleep and 1/3 of your life doing various daily tasks (cook, clean the house, clean the crockery, do a shower, waching machine, go shopping, hang out the clothes, iron them, put them away, make the bed, pay bills, be sick, go to the doctor, refuel your car... and what you have left?
So true. Health is true wealth. All one has to do is become incredibly ill on vacation to realize this. $10 Billion means nothing if you have a painful, untreatable disease.
My dad works real estate and I’ve never had a real idea of what I really wanted to do with my life. This video pryed my eyes wide open to what life could be especially since I just don’t know what a real 9-5 job might look like for some families. My parents are always available but I’ve taken this for granted, so I think what I’m trying to say is thank you for making this soul crusher and dream maker of a video !!!!!!!!!! ❤
Guys I wrote a few days ago to my guardian angel if I would achieve my big breakthrough this year to respond with a big yes or no on my screen and THIS showed up!!! I literally jumped in exitement as if its already here!🎉
@@malikpeace_ You trade freedom for work, work gives you purchasing power. There are very few ways to get purchasing power, more money, without having to do something you don't wanna do. Being an influencer or youtuber though is one of those ways. I think thats why so many kids want to be youtubers now rather than astronauts. They can see that you get to live every day doing what you want, and get a career from it.
I'm 28 years old. I don't blame you guys for wanting to do something online and don't wanna give your all during your shift at work. I tell the young bucks at my job to enjoy your youth at the moment, so what if the managers and other coworkers disagree? I enjoy working HOWEVER I'm not with the BS that comes with it. I'm here to make a check and take care of my responsibilities, not compromise who I am for a corporation that'll eat me up alive and shit me out whenever they'd like.
The system needs to change. We are not made to work for big corporations who don’t give a shit about us just to survive day to day. In my opinion, unless you are extremely well off, it is just straight up not viable to move out of your parents place at 18. Im 22 and there are people my age that are working 2-3 jobs just to survive on their own. Utterly ridiculous.
The system is changing. That's what 2020 was all about. Gen X was always told Social Security won't be around for them. Now, we see why 2020 happened, and this is just the beginning.
@@mindfulmaximalism what was 2020 about?! What are you even referring to? Obviously government is completely untrustworthy, and you can only ever count on yourself.
Older people enjoyed working because they actually earned something for it.
Boomers used to work an entry-level job and support their family off that one income while still having a little leftover for vacations.
I don’t live in the US, but according to Median usual weekly real earnings of the FED people do earn more today than they did in the past
And the thing is. You worked in a company for ever. The Energy life Just everthing was different. The weather Like everything. You l could pay everything makimg your Kids Happy everything was finde. Your co worker became your clostest people. EverThing changed for the worst
@@Bolidoo Because Inflation duh.
@@enricofischer1330 Real means inflation adjusted
I want to work, I don’t want to be a slave.
We humans need to work, that's what got us this far. We are built for work. but not on something we don't care about at all, just for a dollar than can be printed instantly, so we can spend this paper to go back to work.
You have too have a servant mindset for the right boss you cannot be a slave to people who think lesser of you
I'm on a live stream of nurburgring but somehow I got the comment section of the vid I watched abt 3 mins ago
Oh hey, you're the Sonic guy, funny seeing you in a completely random unrelated location again lol (I'm the same guy who recognized you under a Babylon Bee post of all things a while back).
@@legoboy7107 Yes I remember you.
"Back in my day we understood the value of hard work!"
"Yes, it's compensation, we're still waiting for it."
Why everybody doing social media little value frome hundreds of people is valued more to the influencer than a "good job" once from you boss
Where does your profile come from? It looks familiar.
@@vassilus915 Made it myself, but I guess it could look like something
@@he8535 because I do not need a "good job," I need competitive and fair wage.
@@gubzs My bad. It looks nice! It totally reminded me of a Fire Emblem character, which is why I thought I recognized it.
The real eye opener for me is my dad wanted to retire in his 60s but due to health issues, he died at 51. It got me thinking that it's pretty ridiculous to assume everything will go perfectly for decades.
That sucks. I agree. I don't want to slave away my entire life for some "Retirement" that I might not even live to see. One of my biggest fears is saving up a massive nest egg, sacrificing my entire young prime years, only to die before even getting to see it. Sorry for your loss.
more people trying to get out of the rat race FOR THEMSLVES is only goign to have people cutting the rungs for people below them.
the paradigm shift has to come from our consumption, and actually working FOR the NEXT generation, not working for ourselves.
same, my dad worked all his life and passed away at 45. all he did was work. he was frustrated and angry at everything even his family but no choice than to work because of loans and bills and family to take care of.
@@jaughnekow Pointless waste of life.
Even the idea of retiring at 60 is ridiculous. But you can't even get that now with this social experiment of socialism has clearly failed.
How do you expect gen z to take work seriously when employers don’t even take job postings seriously?
Literally their first impression of business is being lied to on job posting boards.
That's a really good point. Holy shit
@@BillyOnRUclips need to make platforms credible
FedEx is exactly like this
And there’s even possibilities of FAKE JOB LISTINGS. Here’s a tip for y’all: NEVER APPLY ON INDEED. They will NEVER answer for your application, and you actually have to PAY INDEED to get updates on your applications. Instead, apply on company websites. I recently went to one of the E-Check facilities to get my vehicle checked for emissions a few weeks ago, and they gave me a flyer saying they were hiring. I applied on their shady website the day after, and wouldn’tcha know, I got a call back the other day from them and interviewing for them today! Just…don’t use Indeed, or Monster, or any of those third rate mass application sites. Go in to a store and ask for a paper application or go directly to their hiring website. Just a tip, I know it doesn’t address what was talked about in this video
Lying for me, but not for thee! Never!
Young people don’t want to work anymore is such a weird saying because I don’t remember anyone ever going “man I love to get up and spend 8 hours of my day at the office”
What people mean by it is young people don't want to work for absolutely pitiful compensation. Previous generations had things like the white picket fence American dream that they could work towards and reasonably attain, now that dream is dead and all that's left is a broken system that sucks the life and soul out of anyone who isn't insanely rich.
"yeah thats some shit nobody ever said" -- G-Eazy
@@kungfuvoodoo9889Hell I would argue that the "American Dream" didn't even exist for most people except for a specific few. It was a dream to keep chasing but to never reach as the ruling class snatch away at you.
PLUS THE COMMUTE
@@justcallmekai1554 You do realize that ruling class didn't EXIST for most of american history, right? Basically the american government was completely destroyed by congress brutally exploiting the "necessary and proper" clause of interstate commerce control. They found that they could control the entire country... just by stopping any product from crossing state borders. Once THAT happened, they leveraged ever more powerful until congress became essentially a tiny king being barely contained by the other two branches of government.
Honestly exactly how I feel. Great to hear I'm not the only one that thinks working forever just to _maybe_ retire at 60+ is utterly insane.
It's just so weird that's people plan. Like we're born and are basically just going to be working forever until we die, for what?? This might've worked for someone in the 1950s who didn't know any better but i think a lot of younger people are skeptical.
So many videos online are like "If you just invest x amount over this time you can have this when you're x old" how can u look at someone with a straight face and say 40 years from now they MIGHT have money?? I don't think most people really sit down and try to comprehend just how long that is and how unrealistic that is.
The people who have serious money are not doing this stuff
Pension is a insane scam. Right now retirement is like 70 or something and keeps going up, by the time I’m 70 i really doubt there will be any retirement if the world isn’t a nuclear crater. We’ll be working as serfs till d4th on the factory floor. And that given my health I’m basically never going to reach that age anyway. But regardless of that, my income is taxed to fund it. What the hell.
Currently the retirement age in Australia is 67.
If you were born between | You can receive the Age Pension when you are:
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1 January 1954 to 30 June 1955 | 66 years
1 July 1955 to 31 December 1956 | 66 years and 6 months
On or after 1 January 1957 | 67 years
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And recent research from the Macquarie Business School has recommended further increases to the qualifying age - all the way up to age 70 in 2050.
This would see an increase to 68 by 2030, 69 by 2036 and 70 by 2050.8 June 2023.
Basically work till you die.
Yea man. Like dude, living that long us relatively new in human history and not garunteed for everyone to begin with...a lot of people only expierence work and stress before they die
Same. That's why I subbed and told my roommate to sub this channel as well.
remember folks, the system aint broken, it's working exactly as intended
No, and this is something we should move away from. The system is NOT working as intended and that’s the problem. It’s supposed to be mutually beneficial, but we’ve skewed too far in one direction.
What we need to do is pendulum swing the system back towards equilibrium. Although even I recognize that’s easier said than done. But the system is designed not in the way it’s being used currently and that’s a problem we should address. Acting like the world is out to get us rather than a minority of bad actors who have ruined it for everyone else just leads to this “young people don’t want to work” mindset that people have.
@@broderickfoster2107 My brother in Christ, you didn't have to explain the joke.
The system is working exactly as intended. Because it was made to enrich the few, not the many. That's the point of the OP.
@@indigowest6894nah he's not wrong, the system is abused exactly as intended to benefit the few, but it's original purpose was to benefit more people equally, which is why the rich ones used their power wealth and connections to corrupt twist and abuse it to their own greedy goals. So yeah it's working as intended but it's current intention is not the original one. So honestly you're both right...
@@jimdemertzim1 Capitalism has never benefited the common man.
@@rexofired Literally the entire point and purpose of capitalism is to benefit the common man by giving the common man freedom to engage and support the economic factors that will come in. Blaming crappy things on capitalism is a cop out. You can blame it on a lot of things: like society has become so big and so interconnected that it's too hard to even understand what the common man wants.
or that other people who don't know actively aid bad practices due to a numbers game of bad or neutral actors.
you cna blame it on crap politics and exploitative foreign powers.
you can blame it on a loss of culture as technology and desire to get more advanced over rode the actual communication and spirit of the people within it, whichi s why everything is functional, minimal, gray and miserable.
you can blame it on a lot of things. But capitalism isn't the problem. Capitalism is flexible and can work with multipel systems, regulations and ideas. Most other forms of economic management can't. They don't bend capitalism - which now more in line with corperatism or culturally anarcho tyranny if anything - in a way that helps anyone because the automated machine has a good thing going for the people, ironically, most of the time...who are the leaders and power brokers behind the very people who blame capitalism.
I saw my family slave away for 50 years on a job. To nothing. It all was for nothing, they have no pension, no house, no future. No way in hell I’m going to slave away as well.
i think a lot of people are realizing that, it's like "huh, what really is the end goal of this?"
@@AlphaOmegaSigma07facts
If they worked for 50x2 years and ended up with nothing, sorry, they are... well, incompetent. Just straight up incompetent. I'm 30 with a paid off house as a forklift driver. You just have to make the right choices.
@theravenousrabbit3671 because you had opportunities, doesn't mean everyone is able to have the same opportunities. saying "i was able to so you should be able to" is an ignorant pov
Indeed
I remember some one saying something. "The problem with the post covid era is that the people got a taste of freedom. And nothing is worse for a slave owner than their slaves to know what freedom is possible. They will do anything and everything to squash that idea from your mind."
And this would be correct because trends like the great resignation and quiet quitting opened the conversation into the need for a work life balance and pay transparency.
There's no point in constantly working if you're going to end up dropping on the job. Just because its something that's happened throughout history doesn't mean it still has to happen.
Indeed
That's why RTO
okay well be free from ur chains and beg on the streets 4 money, see i agree with all ts but in reality you need a source if income no matter if you have to make compromises
Exactly nobody is gonna save you. Not in this election or any time after that@@saidimbackinaction
if a job would allow you to buy a car, house and sustain your wife and 2 kids ppl would work without complaining
How do you feel about being homeless and starving?
@@seanwieland9763 not cool wouldn't do that again
@@GREENDIET2137 real life is work-or-starve.
@@seanwieland9763 If you work a shity ass job hell yea it is
@@GREENDIET2137 this man is dumb af, he said that capital creates prosperity, not labor. Food, housing, healthcare, all of this should be free for everyone. At this stage, we have mor than enough, but some people like this guy want to fill their pocket while others don't have a place to even die
My dad has been telling me throughout my teenage years that "if you want to have money and a prosperous life, never work for big companies, work for yourself. And always try to help your community; not because you feel obligated but because you want to."
True, but starting a profitable business nowadays is harder than ever as well.
working for "yourself" LITERALLY means being a slave to the market, your competitors and your customers.
This ain't just a gen Z issue. I'm a millennial and have been saying this for years. None of us get paid enough. Our parents could have a home. Had neighbors with motorcycle and toys. My dad's the one staying out late with his friends. I'm worried about work lol.
Yeah really millenials and gen z should be kindred spirits cuz we both got shafted I feel bad for gen alpha
@@jaridatkinson4907
and they got us out here beefing for no reason and tbh a good chunk of gen z are truly millennials.
A generation suppose to be 25 years apart. I also remember our generation started in 87 Gen z was suppose to start around 2013 or 2014. So in hindsight we are damn near the same generation split into two. Funny thing is the information I am giving you. I read it from exploring the back pages of the speech class txt book back in highschool in 07 08
@johnbob5137 yeah lol millenials start in 81-96 gen z I think is 97-2013 but I agree with alot of that gen z amd millenials are more alike than different and me personally I think there's a split between 80s millenials and 90s millenials 80s millenials are more gen x and 90s millenials are more gen z
Generations are funky and i think this is also down to prefrances in other areas like slang and such
Millenials got promised the life of the boomers and got absolutely lied to.
Genz didn't get promised sh1t and was just told they are lazy and need to work more without ANY promises made.
The last quarter of this video where you talk about seeing your parents sad, overworked and tired after following the script makes me sad because it's so real.
Same. It’s the scariest thing. I’m growing up, watching my family unravel with the unending pressure. It’s killing them. How can you knowingly step into this world of cycles of suffering?
My dad hit that overworked wall sometime last year and he honestly just hasn't been the same since, even though he's recovering
Same, I feel fucking terrible.
Holy shit the Raheem D! I love your justin timberlake mix
I just don't want to sacrifice my body, I don't want to do something I hate. I do not want to waste my life, and regret it. I want to meet people, I want to travel and cook, and have fun. I want to lead a life I enjoy.
But somehow we’re lazy and bad for wanting that
It's your life ,do what you want with it excuse my French
but
f*** everybody else I enjoy it while you have it😂😂🎉 some of us won't even live to see 60
I feel you on sacrificing your body. I don't want to stand for 8 hours in pain every day but every single job that doesn't require experience requires this. The degree that was supposed to help me avoid this type of work is useless. I have no idea how people with health conditions preventing them from standing long hours acquire employment and I have no idea how anyone healthy tolerates it.
Someone's gotta drive the garbage truck.
@@LightShadowButterfly The Old Lady That Shit
Im 24, my pops always emphasized going to college, getting a good job, and being successful. Happiness was never a part of the equation. He started working straight out of high school, and I've never seen him take a day off, even after his mother passed away. He died right after i turned 21. He was 57 and never even reached retirement. I saw that man work himself to death day in and day out at a job he hated and never got the chance to enjoy the fruits of his labor. After that, i promised myself that i would not live for others in the name of perceived success. I'm still working, but I'm taking acting classes and prepping for auditions while putting my energy into my passions. Even if i dont succeed, I hope that when I die, I can look back on my life without wondering what could have been.
He had kids.
i fw u
true but not everyone has the luxury to do that.
@@jaughnekowthat’s goes without saying. He’s simply sharing his experience
Sorry to hear that. I took all the money I saved up until I was 19 and leased a 2018 392 off the lot. It was worth it. Blew my next round of savings on a nice silver vette. I don’t have much now but I’m debt free and slowly rebuilding. The guys locking in on properties my age probably won’t see those vehicles for another 10 yeaes
Meanwhile past generations had a 9-5 that was so prosperous they had existential crisis over how successful they were.
could you even imagine having a mid life crisis that caused you to buy a sports car?
victim mindset
if anything that should be more motivation 4 u
@@saidimbackinaction not really a victim mindset. just a matter of fact. not every generation is going to have the same level of prosperity.
@@saidimbackinaction do you believe regular people doing regular work deserve basic comfort, dignity, and security? Why do I have to be on overachieving entrepreneur just to make what a 50's milkman made?
46 year old here, and you’re 100% right.
It’s a different world now, the old system is broken, by design, and will never let you advance. Find your own way.
Young people, listen to this again and take it to heart.
Short term sure, take the soul crushing job to get by, get your hands dirty and put in hard work, but have a plan to get out.
My plan to get out was a college degree everyone told me growing up would open so many doors for me to a bright future…so far it has only opened the door to the unemployment office 😬
@@TheGreatSalsaMan I’m going to guess you’re about my age then. It was a good plan, from our parent’s perspective, however it didn’t work out so well when everyone did it and the amount of college graduates greatly exceeded the amount of high paying jobs that needed a degree. Now most college degrees are about as valuable as a high school diploma used to be.
Tf you mean get out. The whole world is this fucking system there is no getting out we’re all slaves
@@dreamdesk7258 It’s not easy, and I’m still working on it myself. But we all better hope we figure it out, because the normal grind will just eat us alive and leave us old worn out and poor.
That's exactly how I feel
If I made 300k a year scrubbing toilets, I'd be happy every single day going to work.
So when I find out a company will pay me at max $30k a year to clean not only toilets, but the entirety of multiple bathrooms and throw away all my hobbies, friendships, family time, and still expect me to put a smile on my face while denying me a promotion or a raise, I just give the fuck up.
It's 40 hours a week, you are so dramatic. "Oh I won't have any time to be happy!", sure, go live some life and find out.
@@nashton9964 I just left a job that I was at for a year. Always reliable, the cunt of manager basically assumed I was on call at all times, this led to me working every single holiday, working doubles on days where I needed to take a break or had plans, or dumb shit like closing the store and then opening the next day. With staffing issues, someone was almost guaranteed to call out daily.
It sounds easy to have a life on 40 hours, now imagine one that fluctuates at random where you'd work 50 one week and then 30 the next so your bitch ass boss can save on labor, so not only is your personal life scheduling fucked with, you aren't really making the money you should and being left over with extra time of feeling burnt out at home just waiting to go back to work.
But you know, if the place paid me just $5-$10 more per hour, I'd be singing it's praise.
@@nashton996440 hours a week leaves you very little time to actually go do things unless you sacrifice things that you shouldn’t sacrifice. An average of 3 hours per day to yourself, and on the weekends you tackle things you couldn’t during the week and recharge.
what bro even yapping about
@@Goated876 re read
People used to work because there was something to work toward. Now, the only reason we work is to try to stay away from poverty
My brother died at the age of 29 in November. He would have been 30 in December and by all accounts he was so close to his dream job. But he overworked himself, didn't hydrate or take care of himself and he got a bloodclot in his leg that traveled to his lungs and he died, alone. Your dreams are important but not more important than your life. Don't work your life away.
Was he vaxxed?
@@yungmentalproblems Wdym?
@@Foogi9000like was he vaccinated i think tho idk how thats relevant
@@tofuaddict5946 It's extremely relevant. Blood clots and the vaxx go together.
@@yungmentalproblemsYou suck for that
Dreaming of freedom only at 65+ aint no fucking dream.
At around age 65 your brain starts to decay the most generally so have fun becoming senile during your so called “golden years” 💀
No- a dream you don’t act on is a thought.
Bro that dream ain’t gonna happen if you don’t chase it. It’ll leave your ass in the dust if you don’t grab it and drag it around.
My dream is to write a semi-successful light novel series MY WAY- so I’m teaching myself and forging my own path to that. I’m not gonna shrug it off, gonna give up when things look bad. Life sucks, but giving up or walking away ain’t gonna make it any better- you gotta find reason to keep going
@@Zerathina While I understand you mean well and to inspire, which is admirable, I think it's worth noting that the system we live in is conditioned in such a way that, no matter how hard you try, there's a good chance you'll be working your life away. You want to be a novelist. That's good, and I do sincerely hope that works out for you. Best of luck. But the vast majority of novelists fade into obscurity. How many books have you seen on library shelves and you wonder have barely had a page turned in them? I'm willing to bet more than you think.
I'm not trying to be a pessimist, I'm trying to be real here. I used a novelist as an example but this goes for everything and everyone. I want to play in a band that can tour at least my state. That's a lofty goal, and I work towards it constantly. How many bands actually get anywhere? My first band broke up, my second band went separate directions musically and separated. I haven't even found a third.
"Okay, so be a solo artist." I'm trying. Not going so great. Because, and here's the honest truth, the world is bought and sold, and what's popular is largely built to be that way. That's not to say that's a bad thing, but it is to say that if you want to shoot for the stars in a creative career, you either pander or you flop. That's the way it is now. I like experimental art rock music. I already know that won't catch on. I might get a niche audience, maybe 100 listeners a month on Spotify if I'm lucky. That's about as far as it might go. But I'm not willing to make music I don't enjoy.
Do you understand where this is going? I used that as a sort of analogy because our system is set up by those same rules. You play the game or you go broke. Not all of us want to play the game. I either want to be in a band, be a music teacher, or maybe a voice actor. But those careers are all either risky or non lucrative. I'm not playing by the system's rules, so I'm almost certainly doomed to be broke and unable to retire later in life. Because at the end of the day what matters is how the system values your work, not the actual quality of it.
I could be the world's best music teacher, but I'll still be payed almost nothing because that's how America values teachers. I've seen that more than enough times to know firsthand.
You mean well, and I do agree that it is still worth it to try. I won't debate you on that point. But the change that needs to happen for most people to be happy is not on a personal level, but a systematic one. Corporate greed and money lining the pockets of our politicians allows for us to be treated the way we are under our current system. Until there's change on that level, I'm certain most Americans will continue to be unhappy and live in near poverty, much like myself. If you truly believe that personal motivation is the difference between long term wealth and never retiring, allow me to point you to the fact that almost every modern wealthy person is not self made: they came from old money. For every self made rich person, I find at least 10 that aren't.
I hope that something of this reaches you, and that you understand I mean well and to educate, not to belittle. Best of luck with your novel. Even if it doesn't gain traction, I'd like to read it myself.
@@Zerathina finding a reason to keep going while all these other reasons for me to give up is so disheartening
ain't no fucking freedom.
It astounds me how many older people will hear the younger generations saying they are working only for money and they will get offended.
And they're the first to say "dreams won't give you food"
This must be why there's such a disconnect in job applications between employers & candidates.
Applications/interviewers will ask questions like: "Why do you want to work for us?", "What interests you about this position?", "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?", etc., and all candidates think is just, "alright, what shallow BS answer does the employer want to hear", all the while wondering why they constantly have to beat around the bush about it & can't just answer with the truth.
Here are the real, honest answers to these common questions:
- "Why do you want to work for us?"
I don't specifically want to work for _you,_ I just need to work _somewhere._ Your listing just happened to show up on whatever job board I was looking at. Chances are I've never heard of your company before I applied.
-"What interests you about this position?"
It's in the field I studied and the salary listed is at least within the industry average.
- "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"
Still working. Maybe for you, maybe for someone else, but still working regardless. That's life.
- "What is your expected salary range?"
The salary that was stated on the job listing. If the listing didn't state a salary range, I wouldn't have applied in the first place - saves time for both of us.
- "How would your former/current coworkers describe you?"
There's only one "correct" way to answer this, and it's always in my favor. Even if I do truthfully think my coworkers would say good things about me, why would I ever answer anything negative about myself here otherwise? How can you be sure my answer isn't a lie?
- "What are you passionate about?"
Nothing that has any relevance to this job position.
- "What do you like to do outside of work?”
Same answer as above.
- "What motivates you?"
Not starving to death.
- "What are your pet-peeves?"
Having to answer these questions.
Like, let's just get to the point:
I need money because society is built around people needing money. You have a job offer that pays money, and that I believe I have the necessary skillset to do. If I lied on my resumé (which I don't) and can't actually do the job, then firing me is perfectly fair.
That's the contract - let's not overcomplicate it.
Cause they have all the money! That’s how capitalism works bro. Finite resources(money) and a few have the most. 😂😂😂 These aren’t your allies
@@unc1221 America hasn’t been capitalist since the first Roosevelt, lol.
@@unc1221Money has existed for thousands of years.
"Our parents cant give us the life they want to, because they dont have the freedom and time to do so" Bruh, that fucking broke my heart
The problem isn’t that people don’t want to work it’s that people don’t want to work for less than what they’re worth
And the solution is not to complain about it while working for less than you are worth but to refuse to work for less than you are worth. No doctor makes $7.50 an hour because none of them are willing to work for that little. When employers can't find workers wages go up.
@@MegaLokopothat's a cute idea if you're living with your parents or have someone that can keep you alive, but most people need that minimum wage to EAT
Right! I’d be quite happy to stack shelves for a good portion of my life, but doing that for 40hrs a week and still not be able to afford the basics…I’m worth more than that. I deserve to have a comfortable life. I deserve to travel the world. I deserve good food. I deserve good healthcare.
@@MegaLokopoWhich doesn't mean anything, because as seen in my country right now, they'll just import foreign workers from very poor nations where 2$/h seems like hitting the jackpot, while keeping the pay down and fooling the other workers. Look at any place that has immigrant workers, they get paid peanuts.
@@heckincat1406 That, and if you point out that such people are brought in to crush wages, you get cancelled for racism.
Did anybody ever want to work? I don't remember my parents actually being HAPPY about working.
They were not and neither was grandpa. My otjer grandfather
Boomers got paid enough to get a college education, a car, housing, food, and afford children on a single income. They may not have been happy about having to work, but they got paid enough to have freedom and autonomy, while work was so plentiful that they could just walk out of one place, into another and get hired on the same day. They got to live in Wonderland, but passed us down Mad Max.
Actually... yes.
From various studies and trials, including UBI trials, we've found that people like performing "labour", so long as it's their choice.
People get bored and want to feel productive. When money isn't a factor, people willingly start doing things like parenting, studying, art, etc. Stuff that isn't economically productive but is still labour and effort.
We also see after events like natural disasters that volunteers just suddenly appear constantly to help get everything back in order. After all if a flood rolls through town and you physically can't go to work, but you can help your neighbour clear their garage, you probably will even if it's just because you're bored.
We can pretty safely conclude that people do want to work, but today work is so awful with little passion that the decades you invest into it just creates a burnout that makes retirement seem all the more sweet because you don't _have_ to work anymore.
My dad definitely wants to work on his yard. Which is a really short way to say the same as the above comment.
@@EvilParagon4Humans perform the best when work is a choice. Everything other than that is just a waste and we're literally within the most human-incompatible system in history 😂
My 20's are horrible... Retirement sounds like a fantasy. This is the shittest time to be a young person
Investments. 10/10/20/60. If I could tell me at 20 it would be that and ask my parents if they wanted me to be successful help me save by contributing to a 401k as well. Parents get all hot for college for there kids NOT after it
@Li0nshare I'm 20. What investments do you recommend the most?
@@Neoroticusindex funds
One of the shittiest bro imagine being of military age in the world wars you’d probably be dead
@@Neoroticussorry bro nobody can actually tell you because nobody actually knows what stocks are going to go up or down there are predictors in companies if u know trade secrets of new stuff coming out that will improve the quality of life or just straight up be universally liked.(which there pretty much isn’t)
Well, now I think I understand why people seem so... _obsessed_ with video games being "open world" these days.
They sure as fuck aren't gonna see "freedom" in their lives anytime soon,
so why not pay like $60-70 for a game that'll let you fuck around
doing whatever for dozens, if not hundreds of hours, instead?
literally why the only reason i would want to work is to buy myself a nice computer to play games for the rest of my life
and that's still impossible for me
yup, thats what i do cuz i dont want to be a fkin slave to some company till im like 70 if i even live that long just to be a crippled bag of bones and then die.
I hate modern open world design. XD
It's just an empty world with almost nothing to do in it, and 80-85% of the play time is going from point A to point B and back, usually with lack luster movement mechanics. And the objectives and enemies are usually very generic too.
Agreed, several of the young guys I have worked with call out twice a week and constantly complain about not making enough money. They have no work ethic or real plan for financial freedom.
I've found that when people say "nobody wants to work anymore", what they really mean is "nobody wants to work in the ways I consider acceptable anymore." Shit changes, priorities shift, and I think that there are a lot of people these days that don't want to just be a cog in the machine where all their effort is expended making someone else rich while they're just... Alive. People want to strive for something more than rote survival, and that's all many of these 9-5 jobs offer them now.
People want to work. But people also want meaningful work.
then put in the effort go to school join the military theyll pay for your college, or join a trade and get in unions, or make your own company since you dont wanna work for someone, or hell work at a farm bro
unless you have a family you have to take care of more than anything, theres no excuse to b sittin around when u a grown man
> "nobody wants to work anymore", what they really mean is "nobody wants to work in the ways I consider acceptable anymore."
One statement takes the form of Identification, the other is Relational. More generally, "'nobody' wants to work under certain conditions". ALWAYS bring in the environment. You CANNOT divorce anything from its environment.
@@saidimbackinactionactually brainwashed
@@saidimbackinaction lol
I am a millennial and do not want to work. PLEASE YOUNG PEOPLE STAY ON THEIR NECKS! the status quo is insanity! I might not be here to benefit from your change but the future will be better because of it
Lol we will, alright. If it makes you feel any better, even we ourselves likely won't ever see the fruits of our own change. So our only recourse is a waning hope.
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
- Nelson Henderson
You are young too…
@naniyotaka in the grand scheme of things, yes. However, these aren't my words, but my grandmother's, and I think she's right: "Age is just perspective. I look at 55-year olds and think 'you whipper-snappers'!"
@@naniyotaka The oldest millennial is in their 40s. There is definitely a possibility some of us won't see the fruits of that labor.
As a 31 year old man I would rather spend $5,000 on a trip to Japan than put that money into my 401k for retirement. Why would I want to experience the world in my 70’s when I’m in my prime 30’s?
Well it's more the idea that you don't want to live on catfood when you are 70.
that's a great way to say that. im willing to buy the things i want now, i don't getting a mortgage on a home, with which i will be paying less than rent, and having a home to live in right now rather than saving up for decades while living in a shitty apartment just to buy a house in 25 years. the plan i have is to just enjoy life, buy things i want, get a mortgage for a house and all that, and when im in the retirement age, i can sell all of that and live off my late years in a small apartment, but with memories of a good life
@@The4stro Yes I do save... more than most. But unless we have an actual pandemic where 15%+ of population dies and wealth and homes are distributed at a rate that the American dream is affordable I wont be buying a home any time soon.
Its all about what you value. would you rather have more disposable income now or be able to retire?
@zlr9022 still believing any of us will ever be able to retire, brother?
This video made me depressed but also motivated idk how to explain it
Honestly, life is pointless, all you do is work like a slave
@@wafityUnless if you have a different perspective, yeah
@@Nyall_dreamshake it's pointless, 2024 is getting worse and worse
@@wafity It's pointless, because you don't assign a point to it. Life is what you make of it, and if you make it into a soulless 9-5 slave-jobfest... then that is what it will be.
@@Humaricslastcallwell what else could i make it that's realistically possible?
My ancestors were exiled Cossacks in bumduck Siberia. They probably worked 99% of their lives: building, farming, hunting, fishing, foraging, logging, cooking, tinkering. Thing is, the food they got was what they got, the things they built and maintained were theirs and for their kids. Sure, industrialization erased all of that and their village is now an empty swamp, but for generations it was the way to be.
I work a job passing impractical luxury goods from A to B, so I can get a slip of paper with arbitrary value that only steadily yet randomly descends, to buy food of unknown origin that randomly disappears from sale, and to pay for a dwelling I dislike that can be taken from me at any moment without any justification. And I KNOW this won't last for generations, because I'm the last of my bloodline there is, and I have no kids, for I have nothing to leave for them but make-believe slips of paper.
This is why I don't won't to work as hard as my ancestors did.
Your ancestors work was meaningful and fulfilling while yours feels like it has no purpose and drains your soul. There's an author you might want to check out named Theodore Kaczynski who wrote a book called "Industrial Society and its Future."
they probably worked less than the average 9-5 wagie does, the thing people don't understand about "work" in the olden days is yes it was working all day, but it was working all day at a very low level of intensity. old "work" asked you for maybe 10-20% for 16-20 hours, modern "work" is asking you to deliver 110% for 8 hours straight. people are just not built for that, it's really unhealthy. I think the old pace of work was something we evolved for or adapted to, it's the natural way for people to be. the industrial way of working is unnatural and harmful.
@@doltBmB I work as a freelance video editor and my work I'd say 70% of the time is super mentally intense and draining. After finishing a project I feel exhausted and I can barely shake it off having to jump immediatelly on another project otherwise I won't be able to pay my rant. One day I was so burnout I coudn't work at all anymore and to survive I decided to go volunteer in a super small community in Denmark where all of the work was physical. And let me tell you, even tho physical work was hard, it was nowhere near as draining as my video editing gig and after a day of work I still got energy to do things, to create, to work on something personal. After a regular 10-12 hour work day of sitting scourched in front of my PC editing videos, I don't have energy to prepare a meal, for a long time I thought that I am just a lazy fuck. But in Denmark I realised that I actually have a lot of energy to do so many things only if my job wasn't so mentally obliterating.
@@Katsura-San124ah yes, the good old Unabomber Manifesto
@@doltBmBour ancestors didnt even work that long.
I've been working since I was 17 while I've watched boomers screw around on the clock for years.
Sit in their offices and do nothing
Then complain at you for not responding to emails@@onedova2298
My uncle is most of the time yapping to others instead of doing his job while me and dad(mostly my dad) carry most of the job.
the older people are jaded and not getting paid enough
@@mitsu9894 I'm sorry you feel that way but I think we can meet on a middle ground that us young people aren't getting paid enough either. At least for Americans. I wish I could live in Germany where people get free money and housing for being blonde and blue eyed. I am not blonde
I want to lie at my death bed knowing i had fun, not because i didn't achieve my goals. Thats a toxic way of living in this performance driven world.
"You gotta enjoy the little things," may sound like a corny folk saying, but it really is the key to being happy with your circumstances.
This is what I want as well. I don't care about accomplishing all my goals or being rich or productive. I just want to be able to lie on my death bed and go, "Yeah. That was a good time."
The movie "Soul" made me realize that life isn't about performing well and accomplishing your goals, it's about enjoying it. But unfortunately you can't experience these small slices of joy without working jobs that destroy your physical and mental wellbeing. Then to top it off these jobs likely require you to perform well to be qualified to work, meaning you're still chasing the toxic standard of perfection so that you can be the perfect candidate.
@@MachineMan-mj4gj enjoying little things is hard when u go down the food poisoning rabbit hole, along with this doomer work stuff
@commentbot9510 also every single company underpays they need you to work for liw wages so basically they need you not the other way around
watching this, at work, halfway through a 10 hour night shift that saps the life out of me for an extra $2/h over base rate. im 23, i don't have a skill i can market easily as a machinist, and i have no plans or aspirations.
your video is spot on. absolutely perfect. good points and good insights
I get the no plans or aspirations thing, except in my case I'm still applying in hopes for really anything at this point.
It doesn't help that our job market seemingly hates the idea of hiring someone without experience, when you need to have a job to even get experience.
25 year old here. You speak for me as well. Our generation have been very observant on how work has sucked the time and happiness from the older people in our lives.
Young people don’t wanna work because we’re all beginning to realize that the end goal of freedom is pretty hopeless
"Freedom is privilege extended, unless enjoyed by everyone"
They suffer from brain rot
I agree. If you keep the prices of everything the same but increase every salary by 3x? Everybody would be flourishing. If you work at Wendy's for 13$ in Illinois, you'd get paid 39$. People wouldnt be struggling for too long.
@@DaOldSchoolRapLova96but that’s too much like right, they just like with everything they Would end up making the economy look good for a certain amount time to get the outcomes the “they”want before they swipe the rug from under us. Like they promoted dropping out so much because they had “too many educated people” and they had no more slaves that stayed. Job hopping,quit quitting and ect. Long story short now their promoting celibacy aft promoting a “sex” positive culture it’s about influence it’s now our desires at the forefront it’s the company’s
The trends tell us what they need and it’s real ash
@@DaOldSchoolRapLova96you just explained Zimbabwe😂 horrible advice. Print more money and it gets diluted along the way. Where’s this 3x salary going to come from since you said to keep prices the same?
A lot of people say "Then who do you expect to make the things you want to buy!?"
We could easily still produce all the things we need to with everyone working 30 or even 20 hours a week. A lot of jobs are BS filler jobs anyway that don't add any actual value, and a lot of things we make go almost immediately into landfills. If things were built to last instead of having "built in obsolescence" and if we weren't conditioned to be "consumers" who need constant new junk to feel good, .we wouldn't need to pump out junk the way we do.
All the so called "advancements" we have made with technology aren't worth anything if they don't actually improve the quality of life and standard of living for the average person. That includes freeing up our time so we can actually HAVE time for family and friends, traveling and hobbies.
The system is designed so that we serve the economy and not the other way around. It's all about profit at any cost. That's why things are as you described. But what's the point of having a lot of money if everything that you can buy with it is from people who are thinking the same way, so all you can buy are a million different types of junk. The greedy people on this planet can't think that far.
We don’t make enough stuff as it is.
Housing sucks because we’re splitting 140 million of em between like 400 million people. If we had twice as many houses thered probably be no issue getting a house with the average salary.
But your right in the sense our issue is waste….. we could make a lot of stuff but everyone wants to be an architect and no one wants to be a mason so to say…
If you employ everyone as architects they can all show up to work everyday and draw houses and stuff, but if there are no masons or framers ect, as a whole there’s not alot getting built in this example.
@@TQFMTradingStrategies I hear we have more vacant homes than homeless people. There are a LOT of houses just sitting empty because they are treated as investments instead of homes.
Not to mention, if you look into sustainable adobe homes, there are people who have figured out how to build modest but adequate homes in just a couple hours that can last for hundreds of years. We don't NEED to build homes the way we are doing it today and infact we need to go back to how many of our ancestors built.
The answer is sustainable adobe home communities built around community gardens.
Practically anybody who keeps chickens winds up having more than enough eggs for their family, to the point they start giving some away to neighbors. Those are the things the people at the top want us to forget, they manufacture scarcity in every aspect of life they can, but nature IS abundant and we will figure it out again.
@@cosmicllama6910 the vacant home and homeless thing is apples and bananas.
You will have a certain % of your housing supply “vacant” as it’s in the process of being bought or sold. There’s not as many Scrooge mcduck style home hoarders and some would have people think.
There are plenty of easier ways to build houses and that’s the sort of thing we need to look into. But a lack of people who are willing and able to build houses is a serious issue. And there are plenty of local and state regulatory hurtles you have to get over to try.
But the solution to a lot of this is we gotta make it a priority to build houses and we do that by compensating those that do and advertising it so more people get into doing it.
@@cosmicllama6910 I’m glad we are all starting to realise this
33, worked as a musician in a touring band for 8 years, earned enough money to live for a few years and maybe embrace my dreams of being a successful recording artist. "The Band" I played in didnt't record any songs so it was just a living of past successes kinda thing. I gotta tell you the things I had to endure during the time in "The Band" were soul crushing. I heard so many evil things spoken to me, that for some time my self worth was non existent. Also sitting in the bus and just wasting precious hours of our life driving from venue to venue while having 5 albums of unreleased music playing inside my head. I asked myself many times "why am I sitting in this place that I hate, when I have enough money to just go there and do my shit!?" and... so I did.
I gotta tell you it felt like a blessing. I'm finally free from this BS and from the people that mindf***ed me for the last few years. Now it's just ok, I'm earning less but I'm doing the things that I love. There is no better reward in life then to have an idea of your own and just sinking time into it. Everything about my life changed for the better.
My advice here is, sometimes you have to endure it. There is no way to avoid it unfortunately. You may think that playing in "The Band" was my passion, but no - it was just my work. Very hard, thankless and soul crushing work. The thing that you have to remember is to always have something worth living for, like your passion, your family etc. When you have a chance to break, just do it! Believe in yourself and your ideas! Leave something behind. Something that the next generations can discover and use in their lives. Never waste a day on meaningless shit, you never know which day will be your last and I know people that died in their 40s-50s in the a span of a week.
Cheers!
the same people who say "Young People Just Don't Want to Work Anymore" are the same people who think having money and investing is work while contributing shit nothing to society
For real, bro, you can invest and contribute to society. In fact, invest in something that will change the world, not these massive companies that take everything
The countless times I've heard older people say "youth is wasted on the young" comes to mind while listening to this video
And prosperity was absolutely wasted on the old.
it should be "money is wasted on the old"
Human lives are wasted on the system
@@ianupchurch1315this isn’t even a saying. Wtheck just making up shit
@@davidkim9898 It's a very common very old saying
25 yo here. This video was a good reminder that I need to treat my time like every second truly matters.
25 as well, this video made me realize… our generation sucks
@@Zerathina your comment history made me realize... you suck
@@Zerathina u are right, but not because this generation IS NOT willing to work 2 Jobs to barely get 20k a year 😂😂😂
@@Zerathinanah just you lol
@@cs1645He ain't replying to F A C T S
as a young adult, honestly I am terrified. Life has become so complicated and difficult that things just barely seem to have reason anymore. things are just not the same as they were when i was a teenager and life is just Empty.
funny how inflation only applies to the price of things, and not the wages of the people that make those things.
It's secondary taxation. By printing additional money the government effectively steals value from everyone who holds that currency. They already get value from you by taxes, but raising taxes might cause unrest, so it's easier to just "take more" by inflation. Then we gotta tax your income *and* expenses, and then personal property too...
"Everybody wants to be a king, but nobody wants to do king shit." That quote went actually hard
Damn right! After Watching some "Aragorn is the good king-stereotype", Everyone wants to rule Gondor, but nobody wants to slogg in the wild for most of their lives and struggle!
Or as a rapper from my country said in one song: "Everyone wants to go to heaven, bu few wants to die. They want to reap the harvest but sow no seeds."
@@luxj.9451also called "indoctrination"
Didnt knew those shitty facebook memes were actually deep
@@sonoda944 lmao
...I don't want to be a king. What I want is to be fucking paid enough to live.
The worst part is, we feel like we are a failure to society if we don’t.
We can’t live if we don’t work. I feel like I’m leeching off my parents because I’m not ready to work. I’m young and still in college.
Yet I’ve been wanting to do everything productive other than school/work. I clean because it makes me happy, I write because it makes me happy. I pick classes that make me happy. So why can’t we have work that makes us happy while also covering our basic needs?
No, you’re a failure to society if you keep going with this “I don’t wanna work” crap! If you can’t contribute or be bothered enough to do anything, why are you here? You are clearly the type who wants an easy life- wake up call bro! You won’t ever get an easy life. Those you see who DO have easy lives, got lucky, or- guess what? WORKED FOR IT!
Because theirs tons of work that needs done that doesn't make anyone happy. Working on assembly line factories, oil Riggs, cleaning toilets, laying down concrete, etc. This stuff still needs done.
@@calculator91 I get that, there are terrible jobs out there that no one wants to do. But that still doesn't take away the fact that those jobs need to at least pay for basic needs to have happy life outside of that.
Because we're kind of running society here. But I get where you're coming from. Things have gotten so bad, there is no incentive to work those jobs. If there was a payoff or reason, for it, we could bear it, but we literally have 90% less purchasing power than our grandparents. It's ridiculous.
Whilst I totally understand what you’re saying I’m reminded of a quote, “in a utopia who’s going to want to scrub the toilets?” Work needs to be done for society to function, that’s the nature of it. However, Gen Z has particularly looked at the machine outside of it and saw that the balance of life to necessary work has become too skewed and that it’s not benefiting us anymore.
The system was designed to be mutually beneficial, however mismanagement and politics have led it to become a disaster which can’t sustain itself long term anymore and we’re the people seeing the effects of it all the while older generations ignore the problem since it benefited them back while it still worked. It’s like owning a car made 50 years ago, sure it was AMAZING back then and it was well worth the effort you put into getting it. Nowadays it doesn’t work anymore but “it’s the same” as it was back then just ignoring the deterioration that’s happened over those years.
As a 27 year old man, i got a job at 16, and always worked. I worked my butt off at jobs, and it got me NOWHERE. I became tired of working hard just to barely survive, it isnt the work that wore me down, its the fact that it didnt get me ahead at all. Around when i was 24 i realized that i had given up on my dreams of becoming a father and owning a home
what do you do for work? it's actually not that late, you still have 8 years if not more to meet someone and support them and then creating a family w them
@@LynnyrdRavage well at 24 I decided to back to school. Turn my life around because what I was doing wasn't working. I have one more year to finish an accounting degree, luckily I took most of the hardest courses already like the tax classes, and this summer I landed a decent internship at a tax firm. I'm making way up, but I still feel the heavy weight of this economy and the messed up dating market on my back
I'm 40 and I crunched these numbers 20 years ago before everything went to shit. Everyone thought I was either stupid or crazy for saying that a 40hr week for 50 years to get only 4 million bucks was a shit deal.
It was a shit deal then and it's a shit deal now. I've spent my entire life trying to do what I want to do, and getting punished by the system for it. Hopefully you Gen z's can change things, because they have needed to change for a few decades now.
this comment. this fucking comment was all it took to plan a camping trip with my mates. i’m 21. i’ve crunched my numbers. i have a ROTH IRA. fuck this man. fuck the long term. my hometown never saw temps over 90° F like 5 years ago. it’s 110° tomorrow. i don’t know if i’ll be around to see my retirement. i’m living life NOW. not LATER.
@@arni4750The best time to live life is 10 years ago. The next best is to live life now
@@arni4750do you have any advice for trying to live life in general? I’m a 19 year old college student who’s not sure where I want to be in life. I don’t know what I want to do.
@@hannamaryann0705 literally in the same boat as you. I figured that if i wanna live happily i just gotta do something that makes me happy and allows me to live off that. What is that thing? Idk yet
@@srcarts4832 me either, mate. It’s not like I haven’t tried things before though. I took dance classes for three years, chorus for another three, was involved in a few clubs in high school and two different career related pathways which were business technology and education that I got recognized for at graduation so that was nice. I can’t help but feel unfulfilled though since my peers all seem to have their lives together.
It's not even about being able to buy an expensive car and own a mansion. I just want to start a family and experience playing and creating stuff with my children
I don't even want children, I just want a place that isn't owned by somebody else.
thats a bad slave, now off you go or else whippy comes to say hi😁
@@cometnight0 I just want an enjoyable life.
It's the new gaslight. They pretend like they don't know what's really going on and simply label people lazy or "they don't want to work". I'm 42 and I get it. The system is a scam. Took me a couple LSD trips back in the 90's to realize that real fast. For me, having purpose is the main component in my happiness and productivity. Working some BS job for corpos is not the way.
No person should be enslaved like this. It isn't ethical anymore, regardless it probably never was in the first place. These companies destroy everyone only to drown in a desperate claw to stay alive as they realise they destroyed their very own lifeblood. Incredibly idiotic and self destructive
I seem to remember some psychedelics making someone go something like "Why do we let people starve?"
32 here. Wanted to work, desperately wanted to. But employers would ghost me constantly, and whenever I got hired, I would only last a month or two before getting fired. Never mattered how hard I worked; I wasn't perfect, so I got fired. So I stopped trying, because it didn't matter what I did.
My mom has worked her entire life. She has given up so much to raise me and my sibling. I see her come home exhausted everyday. She never lived her dream. And everyday it hits her how much time she has left and how what she wants probably will never be possible. She retired during the pandemic but had to pick up a different job. Fast forward to now and that place is shutting down and laying everyone off. I want to be free enough and wealthy enough in time to pay her back and let her have at least some time where she doesn't have to worry about everything. I hate that for her. I don't want that life either.
Idk I'm hoping something will give in the next few years so the struggle doesn’t seem so impossible. That things will be more achievable. That we won't have to fight tooth and nail for just a little leg up.
(Ps wonderful video. It really hit the nail on the head. I've been doing job hunting since I graduated college, and seeing my options just makes me feel sick. Anyway, keep it up! Wishing you success!)
in my opinion, the only way you or anyone is ever going to become free is by becoming extremely valuable. Either through something crazy like being a surgeon, actor, athlete, etc. or through business. Throughout all history it's always been the poor, weak people who've had it the worst and never got ahead. The people who are in control aren't clocking into a job but they're making the jobs. Sure, you need to work a job in the beginning to get your funds up but as soon as possible you want to start looking at having something for yourself. That's the only way you even have a chance of being free in my opinion. If you get comfortable at a job or a 9-5, you'll most likely stay there forever
I have the same situation. Except I already have the money and buy whatever she wants. She keeps working because that's all she knows. She gets very bored not working, she can't turn it off. Kind of weird, but at least I know she is set. No matter how annoying she is.
@@malikpeace_ Everyone is already extremely valuable, by the mere fact that you're a human. The wealth exist, it's just concentrated in the hands of the few, it just needs to be distributed more evenly. You're almost there, you see part of the problem, but then just miss the solution. Socialism my friend!
@@hectoralvarenga1895valuable in society is what he ment
when I was a kid one of my dreams was to get famous so I could buy my single mom a house and take care of all her financial needs. I'm 35 now and it's dawning on me that I will never even have enough for myself, let alone for her. It hurts. It hurts so much after seeing her struggle to raise me and my siblings, seeing her still living in a rented apartment she can only afford because she splits the bill with my younger brother on disability. That place is falling apart. And I can't do a thing. It's frustrating.
So true Young people dont want to work them selves to death anymore they would rather be creative and take part in enjoyable experiences
We've got government pension here in my country that requires 30 years of employment to be eligible. The younger guys at my office barely see themselves continuing their career more than five years 😂
Yeah, because people are dying in droves working an honest days work... Go get a job and touch grass, it's time to have an experience that's not imagining how bad stuff you've never done before.
@@nashton9964 Oooooh we got a contrarian over here! Watch out guys he's trying to act tough and like he knows what hes talking about!
@@Tycitron lol
@@nashton9964 Most people don't want to work because they've actually worked before and realize how miserable it is. Don't insult other people over assumptions that you've made about their lives.
My grandfather is still working in his seventies, having started at about fifteen. I wish I could give him all that time back it's so terrible that they worked him to the bone. He's told me numerous times about how he's so tired of it all, I wish we were allowed to enjoy life.
my dad focused so hard on raising me for a world that no longer existed.
“How dare young people not want to do slave labor for $.70 a month???”
Bruh…
I work 2 jobs, making $20 an hour at 1, and $16.40 an hour at the other. I make over $2,000 a month and I enjoy work. It gives me something to do.
“Oh but you’re an old person” I hear you say! Nope- I’m 25! I’ve lived the “no work” life, it SUCKS! Once you do everything you want, your days get boring!
@@Zerathina Hey. I already gave you an essay on a separate comment so I won't turn this into a lecture. All I'm going to say is that so what if you work two jobs? So do I. You may find fulfillment in that. Good for you. I don't. Many don't. Many of us want something more, but are forced to spend most of our time working two jobs we don't want to do to make rent. Me and many others know there could be more to life than this, and I don't feel there's anything wrong with that.
I'll end my comment here before I write another essay.
@@Zerathina Workaholic spotted. Point of video missed. Opinion ignored.
@@ZerathinaNEEDING two jobs two make 2K a MONTH is actually pretty disappointing
@@ZerathinaI’ll never understand how you’re content with working 2 different jobs and making around $24,000 a YEAR from both of those jobs is actually criminal.
"McDonald's got rid of the dollar menu" felt that one the most
I've yet to find someone else who can sum up our generation's general sentiments so well. For only being 23 you've got more insight and understanding than a lot of people who've lived thrice as long.
it’s wild how retirement is 60+ , meanwhile our 20s and 30s the peak of life, stuck working 50+ hour weeks which ruins our life expectancy
"We don't know what will happen next" - this is exactly what happened to me. I am 25 years old and I am a software engineer. I graduated at 20 and started working hard. In my country, salaries are low - approximately 900 dollars/m at the beginning of an IT career, in 2 years I reached a salary of 1900 dollars per month, and started saving money. But then what happened happened - the war. As a result, the country closed the borders for men to leave, and every day I risk being mobilized into this meat grinder. Due to problems in the financial sector, my company lost a lot of money and cut salaries, foreign companies do not consider me as a candidate, because "why hire a man who will be mobilized any day".
AI also added "confidence in tomorrow"
As a result, I spent 2 years in an apartment, living paycheck to paycheck.
And I just wanted to see the ocean when I grow up. But I don't know if I can...
I am truly sorry brother
So sorry to hear that, friend. This is how it be, the moment people at the top decide they want to earn some more money off people's lives, your life is the gov't's property. Keep your head above the water, keep your skillset sharp, keep up with the latest in tech, so that your brain is too valuable to send you to the frontline - that much you still can do.
As someone who wants to become software engineer, this is quite scary
My dad has a similar issue.. when things were getting good , life would throw another curveball at him and wed all sink lower.. He saved when he could but nothing works when you have to go on a 0-Dollar budget, in which every penny goes somewhere. Life sucks
I'm so sorry, brother. I really hope you are well or, at least, better now. And I really hope you can see the Ocean. It is, indeed, as beautiful as the poets say.
Listening to this while I work my 9 - 5 at 30 years old . I feel this in my soul. It isn't just the younger generation who's struggling with the will to want to work.
I'm 36 and just recently had to go back to a 9-5 after 8 years of working for myself and it is a soul crushing experience.
Young people don't want to work? That's almost the full sentence; young people don't want to work for YOU.
I guarantee there’s been people who died 30 and have experienced more life then those who died at 60 and worked for retirement.
This is why I seriously believe that we must move to a 4 day work week globally, instead of this current BS standard of 5 days 40h/week, because unfortunately most of us won't be able to become our own bosses, however with the 4 day work week at least we get more of our time/freedom back and won't be as drained or depressed.
Exactly a capitalist system wouldn't even work right if everyone was their own boss. His theory only works if you accept most can't take his advice to the end.
Oh, it's going to happen in 3-7 years. If we continue on this way , massive gen x and / or boomer displacement. No kids means no vaule for school and less workforce for Major city's .
then 3 then 2 then 1
I work a 4 day work week.
40 hours in 4 days.
But every week I have mandatory overtime. Even if it's unnecessary.
@@Azuria969 slippery slope fallacy - just because the number is falling doesn't mean that it will continue to fall
Im 25, i live in my car and work full time. It may seem like a bleak life but i know if i work hard i can achieve my dreams. My goal is to be a animator/vfx artist and travel the world. To anyone who sees this listen to your intuition and keep and open mind you can do anything!
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I approve.
Bless your soul, I wish I could gaslight myself the way you have. Wishing the best for you, for real
keep at it and don't listen to employment advice from unemployables :)
It’s better than sleeping on the street and starving to death.
All ive ever been taught is work, so you can buy a car, buy a house. But i feel nothing for it. Im not happy and im not even angry anymore. I dont have a passion and i dont have a dream. I dont have a proper reason to live beyond its what most people do. Ive tried doing art as a hobby, ive tried taking classes to do autobody work, ive tried getting into welding programs, ive tried going straight into work and be happy working. All of it has failed or driven me into a bad bad place. I just wanted a reason to believe its worth being alive
We all wanted to go to mexico's most beautiful island or have a dinner in dubai, or meeting our loved ones for a special dinner..
But nope :) we have to live with minimum payment and less time to be spent enjoying our lives.
It’s okay bro, I feel the same way, I wish I could have been a kid longer to explore what I really liked. With all this internet information, the endless possibilities gives us too many options.
I'd like to introduce you to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
And nowadays even "buy a car, buy a house" part is becoming a joke.
Then the true problem rise: "to what end?"
@@TainyaGaming Jesus wants his money and I got no more
I want to work, but not for a company. Not for a corporation or a CEO or stock holders or billionaires. I want to work for my community, for others, for myself and my family.
My dad got laid off from his job around 1-2 years ago.
My dad still hasn’t found a job, and I used to chalk it up to laziness but… I’ve seen him get ready for interviews multiple times, and I’ve asked him “how’d it go?” only for him to respond with “bad.” just as many times. Hell, even if he is “just being lazy” I can’t blame him because I would feel just as defeated.
Even people that are willing to work lose their jobs through no fault of their own, and as a teenager I find that frustrating and terrifying beyond belief.
I'm 16, and shitting my pants halfway through the video. Thank you for giving a realistic perspective on work, and life
Just be aware and don't lose track of time
Boy oh boy, work f*cking sucks hahahaha.
But thanks to ai and robotics, by the time you'd finish college, we all will probably be replaced by robots. And thats a good thing
@@oranges557 Uhh, no its not? When you get replaced by a robot, you won't be getting paid for doing no work. You can look up videos right now of graphic designers and other whitecollar people who were recently made redundant by some kind of AI-powered product. Listen to their concerns and fears, AI and robotics doesn't solve all ills, in some cases it creates them for humans.
go into robotics or something you research that will be seen as valuable later on in life. Then use that as a backup for what you actually want to do. If you can't do that, then you can put it off for a bit and work a job others will pay you well for because it's useful.
@@alexhamilton3522 Personally, I'm thinking of doing that by training into machine learning myself so I can work in AI when I get replaced myself. But this isn't exactly an easy switch. These high paying jobs that avoid getting replaced with AI or robotics are not easy to get into. It's not reasonable to tell everybody whose made redundant to become SWE or automation specialists.
You explained a whole generation’s mindset spot on I’m 25 I’ve been a CNA for 4 years and when I say working damn near 100 hours pretty damn often isn’t doing anything but making me depressed , burnt out and literally desperate to do something else because this is NOT the end all be all for me I’m tired of breaking my back to be unappreciated in one of the hardest fields known to man SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE cause there’s no way I’m living paycheck to paycheck taking care of folks grandparents who think we're lazy anyways!
I'm autistic with severe OCD intrustive thoughts. I grew up in the society where I had to hide my stuff within public school because my mom didn't want me to experience the segregation that many disabled kids face, and the social alienation as well as long term, unforeseeable legal issues which can arise from having that stuff on your record. I had to hide from bureaucratic systems, because it wasn't like I could even receive the accommodations I needed, since the budgets were stripped and they kept the kids who didn't fit in in glorified daycare. I did not even have access to freely be myself at home, because my dad was in deep self denial and tangled it with his anger at my mom and the divorce, while my stepdad financially entrapped my mom and emotionally abused us for 14 years. The OCD intrusive thoughts were the sprinkling on top of all of this, where even my own brain space wasn't safe for me, where my brain regularly threw into my consciousness horrific imagery that I don't dare utter to a single person on this earth, because I am worried that people won't understand that it's all intrusive. to cope with all of this, I leaned extra hard into my hyperfixations, with possible elements of disassociation.
my teachers would be ashamed of my poor grades and good potential. they would tell me that I'm not applying myself, and that I just need to do that. I could never explain, because I had to hide from segregation, and while I didn't understand that at the time, I knew that there were very long term consequences that could potentially change my environment without any of my own say. I couldn't tell about my family life, because "my family life was actually pretty good comparatively because we weren't being beat or sexually exploited" (mom didn't know about stepdad's stepdad). and I guess we didn't count the revoking of food as abuse, or the refusal to allow me and my sibling to interact with each other.
So I just had to learn to accept blame. yep, I'm just not applying myself. after a while, I became convinced anyways. never made higher than a C, I mostly made D's despite every attempt to make higher until I gave up and accepted mediocrity. fell into an abusive relationship by someone who is genuinely a good person but who could not cope with their own abusive family and I was the only one who accepted being a lightning rod.
barely graduated highschool somehow, and went into construction since I was told to get into the trades because there's such good money there. ended up in several dead end jobs which exploited the ex-convicts and illegal immigrants who had almost no other opportunities. the labor market was oversaturated and a whole pile of shit. parents and folks would just dismiss when I'd try to bring up issues I was seeing as me just being lazy and not wanting to apply myself and work up the ranks, while I was being put through severe conditions, illegally deducted pay, unsafe exposure to airborne chemicals, and physical assault when I just tried to quietly wear my own mask without even requesting anyone else do it, becuase it was "scaring the contractors" when I'd wear the one good mask we had (forgot name, but it was the most effective and was in severe supply shortages). I had been considering my own mortality for basically as long as I could remember, had been practicing for months up to this point I went home and attempted sue's cider.
I was continually screwed over, berated, belittled, and outright abused in jobs, told continually by my parent's generation to just work really hard and dismiss all of my concerns, all for a fucking 10 buck wage. my mom found and stopped me thankfully, but it was after that that she really started to listen. nobody else did, and told me I should have just known.
Took a brief break during 2020, then got two jobs as a delivery driver and a bakery clerk. managed to get the first job that paid me decently, and it was $15 at an extremely depressing corporate firm which had quotas that only grew as the faces got more depressed and exhausted. my manager and I would pass each other as one of us would go break down in the quiet bathroom while the other was just coming back from their own breakdown. only lasted there for like 10 months.
every step of this way, I've had people ask why I'm shutting down, why I just completely cease executive function for upwards of a week at a time every few months, and then try to sweep it under the rug and give me ths same toxic positivity, corpo buzzwords. or, they use me as a new bar in their pity case, to throw against someone else who is struggling, trying to rank traumas and our struggles in life into whatever little bar can have them dismiss the issues people are having and pretend like they're giving the "rough and tough pick me up" to someone else to dismiss their issues to get the cog back to working order.
at no point during my working career was I ever in the prospect of being able to afford to live. not only was my literal pay reduced from the times I would completely shut down, I would also get on thin ice with my employment status, unless I happened to have a manager who was genuine and helped cover for me.
quite frankly, I'm just waiting for everyone else to be done with this shit, and build our own provisional government such that it represents and work on resolving the issues in society facing all workers, with mechanisms and training to allow the workers to overthrow it if folks decide it becomes necessary.
Our freedom is uniting as working classes. this system does not care about the safety of children, of the passions and needs of the workers, of the planetary ecology, of the different sectors of the working class. we will work until we die, and we'll only remember that we're the survivors of those who have died, from imperialism, from social stratification, from overwork, from stress, from misery.
history has given us her cards, and she's gonna keep playing whether we play or not. which, why not? we have the capacity to connect the entire planet. you can just start a project, and have people join and contribute before you even know what hemisphere they live in.
Legitimately made me cry. Very relatable.
I'm not even sure what to say other than I hope things can improve. But even that feels like a pipe dream.
I may not have it nearly as bad as you but I think you're right to say that comparing trauma and misery is really dangerous. I'm so so sorry you went through what you did, no one deserves that pain. As a mentally and physically disabled person myself who has never worked a day in my life due to severe anxiety I'm scared to get my first job. It's not that I don't want to work, I just don't want to be abused or looked down on for being different.
@@CmoIsDaNam3i thank you for your comment- hope and optimism can be very powerful things, and they can be even more powerful if we hold with them a tempered form of pessimism, such that the hope and the pessimism may temper each other. hope can help us constantly look towards a positive future, and the pessimism can help us question what steps or things would be necessary to achieve that future, and where we might fail so that we can address those things, and better help with inspiring and reminding each other of futures which we can achieve
@@arthurtaylor64 yeah I get that, it's a difficult thing. disabled peoples (or people on the brink of being determined disabled) are usually the first to experience the full oppression within the workplace. this has the negative aspect of essentially having many soft barriers that prevent disabled people from maintaining long term work in many places, but it also means that disabled peoples can be the ones who can help non-disabled workers better understand all the systems at play which impact both of them to different degrees.
while I can empathize, your struggles and your limits will be things I will have trouble understanding by virtue of not being in your shoes- your life is your own, and I hope you live one which is true to yourself-
but if you do go into labor, whether by choice or need, and you have the energy, you could help folks stuck in the labor market who have difficulty expressing their grievances and struggles by offering your own experiences and things to look out for, through whatever medium you prefer. those who experience heightened oppression in certain matters can usually develop higher understanding of the relevant structures. my belief is that disabled peoples of all stripes will be the catalyst for fundamental change within workplaces, which will help direct the charge in the transformation from work as a mere dulling, mechanical process which squeezes workers for more and more capital growth- towards labor as life's prime want, similar in structure to how we view hobbies, but with much stronger social collaboration, with work done as needed or wanted, and the planning of production by the participating workers.
I personally have to thank the many people before us who wrote of struggles I did not primarily experience, but who nonetheless helped me better understand many facets of my own and my peers' conditions, and we ourselves will have our own experiences and lessons to pass onto the next generations even if our own does not manage to yet succeed in our struggles for emancipation.
I hope that this helps build optimism, and I hope that this may inspire you to realize the strengths we find in our bleak circumstances under heightened oppression by bosses, bureaucrats, and all who participate in administering laborers for ideal profitability rather than human passion and capacity.
finally, someone like me.
Just be careful, alot of younger people, including myself at one point, tend to equate the pursuit of freedom with not giving a crap about anyone else in their life.
I grew up in the 90s, back then we used to believe that even soul-less jobs contributed something to society, that you'd go through some nasty grinds as a rite of passage to prove yourself and earn your place at a higher paying job.
But now we have the truth laid out in the open. Soul-less jobs don't contribute to society, they fill the pockets of a few individuals, and not even that, most of these corporations are actively making the world worse, and they'll never raise your salary if they can get away with it, in fact, they'll find ways to make your salary worth less.
you don't rise automatically by just staying put and doing the same simple stuff every day, you're supposed to improve and elbow your way up, developing skills that you can use to leverage either a move to a new position or company that can use those new skills.
We have no intrinsic motivators to work hard. Most jobs have always been like this, but previous generations were at least extrinsically motivated (payed well). In the absence of these things, why bother?
No, we have no intrinsic motivators to work hard at what those with money want to pay us to do. People get paid because those with money have work they don't want to do so they pay someone else to do the thing that no one wants to do. If work was different, people would do it. There is a fundamental shift that people need to have with how they work and people who get paid the most need to have the worst jobs and those that have the easiest and nicest work should be paid less.
Ah yes, I am lazy for not wanting to endure the wake up>shower>eat>go to work>work all day>come home>eat>go to sleep cycle for 25 years
Maybe we should normalize lazy then. Cuz I'm 44 and been struggling with this forever!!
Saw my dad work his a** off to some rich guy who didn’t see the true value of his work. He worked on houses; repairs, plumbing, electrical… you name it. He could do it. He was also a very skilled craftsman hand-making electric guitars in what spare time he had. I saw him stress about work every day and how he felt unappreciated and underpaid for his worth… Now I’m grown up and I feel his pain. Working for a job that pays okay but I feel it’s a grind in the end and a paycheck. I don’t want to live in a society like this. This isn’t “living” this isn’t “the American dream” whatever that is anymore. If we are only valued by the work we put in and not by what we are capable of doing and here just to make a profit, I don’t want to be part of this kind of society. This honestly makes me depressed and makes life not worth while.
I swear, we all need to come together and invest in starting a business. If more and more people work together, we can do something great with our lives.
One way to ease this is by living in groups. Multi generationally or with a very solid group of found family. You must learn to respect and repair relationships. Learn compromise and how to share space. Toxic individualism only isolates us and builds the wealth of magnates.
This comment killed me bro. Too spot on.
That's a good way to put it
But you can't get a lot taxes by this type of living community. This is why nowadays big families are unwanted
Wow
Yup you got it. Individualism destroys the human soul and turns it into a cog for "progress" whatever the fuck that means
Out of the 10 professions that are projected to be in most demand (and add about 2.5mil new positions), 5 are currently paying under 45k a year (and those comprise 60% of new jobs projected to be added). Think about it, ppl. They need us, but they want to devalue us.
Fascinating. I'm three times your age, and I have never heard such an eloquent defense of fatalism in the service of entrepreneurship. It can be summed up as: "Everything worth anything costs money. Work for someone else is always terrible. The world simultaneously sucks and has stuff that is cool but costs money. Selfishness is absolutely necessary. Youth is the most awesome time and old people are just waiting for death. Wow. I'd love to see you revisit these issues in 40 years and see if you would amend what you said before.
Totally agree with your point. I'm 25 and I thought his take was extremely black and white, and also super ageist. I don't believe that working for someone else is always terrible - it's far more nuanced than that. I also really don't like the point that older people are just waiting around to die. How narrow minded! I know many older people who have an amazing zest for life and passion for new things.
Remember that trend that went like "I can finally retire and live out the rest of my days with the money I have saved...if I die by like Tuesday" which literally says everything that needs ti be said. I don't even wanna be rich man I just wanna be comfortable 😪
The fact that property taxes exist means you will never retire. Even in a best case scenario where you have bought your home and paid off your mortgage - miss 1 year’s taxes to the king and see what happens.
They won't seize your land right away but after about 3 years, they set the process of land seizure in motion.
I agree but it also is important for property taxes to exists. Otherwise someone rich guy could let’s say buy an entire country and basically own the entire thing forever even their kids could and on a planet with limited space it is an issue. So property taxes aren’t completely stupid as they do make some sense but I also hated them since it doesn’t allow you to enjoy what you have. Property taxes forces ppl to earn what they have and not just own it forever which would definitely propose an issue. The real issue is why property taxes are so god damn high
@@GodfreyFirstEldenLord that’s an easy problem to solve: simply start taxing the property any time it becomes inheritance.
IMO - tax policies should support the life you want for the masses in the country. We NEED a higher growth rate and you only get that with stable families who can own their own homes. Our policies are taxing us out of a country
@@hueco5002 not at all. For the remaining 40 years or whatever people would still own a lot of property meaning they have no reason to sell any and there wouldn’t be any legal way to take it away. So basically if all top 1% were to buy out all available land that land would always be bought out and even if previous family’s of billionaires couldn’t generate enough money there would still be other billionaires. So basically the land would always stay in the palm of the rich never to be sold and forever their property and nobody could do anything against that. Basically it would give the rich even more power and money and no there isn’t an easy conclusion. Sadly property taxes for land must exist but I’d argue that the taxes should be higher for higher income ppl then they should be for lower income ppl
@@GodfreyFirstEldenLord good points all around. More than enough to chew on for now. Thank you!
If I had enough money to retire, I’d still work. But I’d do like volunteer work to feel more fulfilled while knowing I can live comfortably at home.
There are many people out there who never had goals and dreams and ambitions. There are also many out there who arent materialistic. There are also many out there who do not have the "i need more" bug. Happiness is fleeting always but contentment can stick around forever. I do not understand people who always need more. As if having a car, a roof over your head, food to eat, clothes to wear etc. Is not enough.
There is no point in working, mental disorders are more rampant than ever.
Everything keeps getting more expensive while the pay keeps decreasing and work hours increasing.
Working 9-10h a day for 5-7 days a week, just aint it.
Lets take a 9-5 job. You wake up at 5am to get ready to leave the house at 6am, be at work on 7-8am depending on transportation method and length of travel. Then your job endd at lets say 4-5pm, where you either push your body to its limit on a daily or sit in a bloody chair. Youre back home around 5-7pm.
Oh what is that? You only have 2-4 hours left a day to do EVERYTHING else. Buy food, eat, shower, take care of finances. Then go to sleep and rinse and repeat.
You cant even afford much of anything IN THE MIDDLE CLASS in the majority of first world countries. Healthy eating is already almost too expensive for those scraping by.
Im gonna end up on the noose once i start working a job myself sooner or later.
Im only 22 and i see no point in this world for so many reasons that it would take several paragraphs to list them all.
Societal issues, personal issues, to put it very short.
Thats not even to mention the very real possibility of ai removing a fat chunk of avialable jobs on the modern market for "efficiency/cost" reasons, making even more people unable to even get a properly paying job in the first place.
Ignorance is bliss. Only those more simple minded (no offense tbh, i envy em) are able to live happy lives whilst being nothing more but slaves.
this is so true at the end of the paragraph. i have wondered had i chose to be ignorant id be far in life but now i have to remind myself it’s not me but rather the system that isn’t quite so sustainable. it’s tough not beating yourself up
One life lesson I've learned is that it's fine to just not think about things. "Ignorance is bliss" is not the full saying; the full saying is "When ignorance is bliss, tis foolish to be wise".
When it comes to the state of the system you don't have to put much thought towards how bad something is when you're not directly at the wheel. I'm not saying to ignore pressing issues but just that we don't have to think on the state of society all the time.
Yeah, individually we can make things better in small ways, but we can also act towards them without thinking about the state of society all the time.
I have so little to add to this, But yeah everything fucking sucks and its getting worse. At this point I am only glad I didn't bring children into this world. I have some hope in how many young-ish people crave change but I try not to be too hopeful to not get soulcrushingly disappointed. I try to find some solace in the fact that worst comes to worst I can just die
@TryMe749 At least drugs are not an option!
@TryMe749 i don’t know about you, but in my experience, when I can’t stop thinking about things, “more brains” doesn’t usually help, it tends to make things worse. i think probably if you want good feelings, the answer is simply: you need to have things in your life that you feel good about, and you need to feel a bit optimistic about finding those things.
that’s **so** much easier said than done, of course, for so many reasons, but some questions it may be helpful to ask yourself:
- how’s your social life? how connected do you feel to the community around you?
- how healthy are you, how’s your sleep schedule, exercise, etc.?
- what do you believe matters? are you in a position in your life where you’re able to do things about what you believe matters?
the state of the planet is what it is, but in my opinion you’re obligated to work on your own life, before figuring out the world and society.
good luck with everything. :)
"I used to care, but things have changed."
Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan
People will work 15 years at a job they hate and not even be able to get their kid a job in the mailroom. everyone gets exploited, and soon having a job isn’t gonna matter, because it isn’t gonna be about having money, but having ownership in something, the next poor will be those who work and the rich will be those who own assets, control resources, and hold stakes in enterprises. In this new economy, financial stability will come from investments, property, and intellectual property rights, rather than traditional employment. This shift will redefine the concepts of wealth and poverty, making ownership the ultimate determinant of economic power and security.
it already is. That's what modern capitalism is...
You know 'bout the great reset?
@@LolwethuBeje-wt7qr viva la revolución?
@@sirconrad8328 no. It's not a good think.
The problem is we have to work all day until we die to make barely any money and then all of that is taxed to no end.
I'm 30 and I have never wanted to work. I am pretty sure no one wants to work or else they wouldn't be getting paid to do it. If all of a sudden a job opened up that paid 100k a year that I could get right now and work 40 hours a week with benefits and retirement, I'd take it. But most jobs pay 30-50k a year and require 50+ hours a week.
Imagine just in what world we live in that people don't want to work. Labor is hard wired into human beings yet we live in such a world that makes everybody go against their own nature. Or at least want to but still end up coerced into doing it. This world is so screwed up
@@furiousdestroyah9999 yeah but to do work you need rest
@@furiousdestroyah9999 People worked few hours at most for hundreds of thousands of years.
The concept of spending ungodly hours every week just to have roof above your head and food on your plate has only existed for few hundred years
Im 36 and i agree. We have the deck stacked against us in this economy. Gen Z even more so. I realized this late but I started my business over 2 years ago in a field i knew almost nothing about but i wanted to learn. I spent damn near all my free time learning on RUclips, reading books and learning my market. I work more now than any job i ever had but I’m happier with what I do now than any job I’ve had. I strongly recommend working for yourself. See the fruits of your labor. Not just helping some CEO get richer. Its not easy but and theres always the possibility of failure but its worth the shot.
I'd also say, this is also why we're seeing a big resurgence in unions. It's much easier to face into the working world when the benefits are actually worthwhile. My union job has us working less than 40 hours a week, solidly above minimum wage at entry level, and minimum four weeks PTO excluding additional time for sick leave. They also provide options for group healthcare and retirement funds that are more affordable and higher quality than the options I had before. It's honestly so upsetting to realise we let them almost die off in so many industries because of a small number having a bad rep, and companies spreading misinformation
what’s your job? i don’t much about unions
Drop the union/job brother I need a new one 😂
Unions are just nepotism. They're part of the problem and help to keep non-union wages down.
Dude, I am literally willing to work for anything, but I keep getting ghosted by employers 😭😭
Ello :3 found anything yet? I believe in you, I spent months and months getting ghosted by companies, so I just walked into one of the companies cause they were looking for new employees so I just walked in and said that I want to work for them and they gave me a tour through the workplace and then scheduled interview with me, if Its not internet job just walk in on them, some companies will be annoyed and shit but still, it shows your initiative. If its internet job then I don't really have anything else than constantly calling their line untill they pickup
same😢
Yep. On the rare occasion I do get hired, they expect me to know everything, fresh out of college, with barely any experience. Then they fire me because I'm not perfect. Why even try when it doesn't matter how hard you work?
i got burnt out trying to search for jobs that would accept me and getting spammed with fake job offerings lol.
I applied for months and still not a single call. Wtf is going on in the employers heads? Is it just up their asses?
I love how we are so smart and advanced, but the best thing we could do with the most valuable resource is waste time by staying almost a 3rd or more of our life imprisoned by taxes and jobs.
1/3? More like 3/4 and the first 1/4 is youth-and that’s only good if your parents can and will take care of you. In most countries children begin working at very young ages. After the age of 70, it’s pretty much very limited life and that’s if you’re lucky.
1/3 work 1/3 sleep and 1/3 of your life doing various daily tasks (cook, clean the house, clean the crockery, do a shower, waching machine, go shopping, hang out the clothes, iron them, put them away, make the bed, pay bills, be sick, go to the doctor, refuel your car... and what you have left?
One of my grand aunts (idk my grandpas siblings) once told me if you don’t have health you have nothing
So true. Health is true wealth. All one has to do is become incredibly ill on vacation to realize this. $10 Billion means nothing if you have a painful, untreatable disease.
My dad works real estate and I’ve never had a real idea of what I really wanted to do with my life. This video pryed my eyes wide open to what life could be especially since I just don’t know what a real 9-5 job might look like for some families. My parents are always available but I’ve taken this for granted, so I think what I’m trying to say is thank you for making this soul crusher and dream maker of a video !!!!!!!!!! ❤
Guys I wrote a few days ago to my guardian angel if I would achieve my big breakthrough this year to respond with a big yes or no on my screen and THIS showed up!!! I literally jumped in exitement as if its already here!🎉
The thing about freedom and purchasing power is that more often than not they go against each-other
Wdum??
Fr bro doesn't make sence @@malikpeace_
@@malikpeace_ You trade freedom for work, work gives you purchasing power. There are very few ways to get purchasing power, more money, without having to do something you don't wanna do. Being an influencer or youtuber though is one of those ways. I think thats why so many kids want to be youtubers now rather than astronauts. They can see that you get to live every day doing what you want, and get a career from it.
I'm 28 years old. I don't blame you guys for wanting to do something online and don't wanna give your all during your shift at work. I tell the young bucks at my job to enjoy your youth at the moment, so what if the managers and other coworkers disagree? I enjoy working HOWEVER I'm not with the BS that comes with it. I'm here to make a check and take care of my responsibilities, not compromise who I am for a corporation that'll eat me up alive and shit me out whenever they'd like.
The system needs to change. We are not made to work for big corporations who don’t give a shit about us just to survive day to day. In my opinion, unless you are extremely well off, it is just straight up not viable to move out of your parents place at 18. Im 22 and there are people my age that are working 2-3 jobs just to survive on their own. Utterly ridiculous.
You’re not owed survival. Unless you want to be homeless and starve to death, you have to work your ass off.
The system is changing. That's what 2020 was all about. Gen X was always told Social Security won't be around for them. Now, we see why 2020 happened, and this is just the beginning.
@@mindfulmaximalism what was 2020 about?! What are you even referring to? Obviously government is completely untrustworthy, and you can only ever count on yourself.
"So many people have died to give me that choice" Sums everything up in one second.