That’s very true. I think trying to change your life and thinking and trying things. Is important. We all die at the end. To live a live without thinking and expressing yourself and showing the world who you are is heartbreaking
@@TomScryleus Thank you Tom, I have not succeeded yet in my pursuit. I don’t want you to think I know exactly what I am talking about. I just know I want my life to change in its core. I am working on different things.
I truly wish you the best. I hope you can find a work/life balance that makes you happy. I would love to know what you are working on. if you want to share. I have made my video on my passive income streams, if you need more inspiration. @@margaritashamrakov
There is a great TED talk about happiness and stress from a mid 30s Asian whose family owns a rice far. He basically states that they are very happy and he cannot understand that people get so stressed. In summary, he says that the family work hard for 3 weeks planting all of the rice seeds. Then wait and play with other families. The harvest never fails . Then they work for 1 month to harvest the rice. Then sell it all . Get the cash , take the cut to live on, save and reinvest to buy more seed. Then 7 months of rest to play again until it’s time to sow again. Lives in fresh air, high in the mountains, and, has a lovely happy community. No crime.
"No you dont understand you HAVE to have 10 different licenses, you NEED 5 yearly safety training courses that have to be passed yearly, you are REQUIRED to pay out a large sum of your profit to insurance companies and you OWE us 30% of your income as tax!!!! Oh and you dont owe your land anymore you rent it from us, and oh we also own your house you AND your family"
@@Dogman262We Americans are utterly enslaved, albeit we have it "good", but the vast majority of the f*cking world has running water, heat, AC, a refrigerator, a stove, etc. We are all suffering, BARELY getting by, yet we continue despite knowing we are slaves, modern slaves, with screens and unlimited data, but slaves nonetheless.
Woke up at 39. Previous life feels like a fevered dream. Eight years on, work for myself. Collaborate with other people. Have clients. Life is more balanced.
You are 100% correct Tom, your friends and family always try to coerce you into holding up the status quo, when you have aspirations and dreams to do something outside the status quo, friends and family try to draw you back into the matrix
I can answer the title to this video without even watching it. It's the same as it ever was - people chose the "safe" option of a guaranteed living right after the two biggest wars and the most impactful economic collapse of all time. Government and big business said, "We will protect you," and the people said, "Thank you," and felt safe. And while 1945 to 1971 was a blip in history, during that time the middle class really did work and wage workers really were taken care of. But any historian and economist worth their salt could've predicted things would go back to the Lord/Knights/Serf dynamic because the few have always lived well off the many.
At roughly the 4:50 mark in this video, you talk about how companies use meetings to manipulate us. It reminds me of something else that they do. They talk about the importance of embracing change. Those who embrace it are rewarded (with a treat using your puppy analogy) and those who don't are criticized. I've never fully embraced these "changes" for one simple reason. They end up costing you some combination of time, money or effort and they only really benefit one person or group. The change is never a substantial raise, more vacation time or something along those lines. It's almost always means more work for the same money.
Me personally: I enjoy team meetings. It gives me the perfect excuse to be less productive at work and engage in intellectual conversation. Our company is self aware of that, so they limit the length of their meetings to no more than 1 hour. Almost everyone else in my company hates meetings.
I tried switching corporate jobs to make more still making the same money that I made at my last job, I tried working two jobs to get out of debt and save up money and then be able to have more flexibility and freedom. But this didn’t work either. I realize now that working part time making $2,200 a month can cover what I need and my debts and give me more free time so I will be quitting my full time contract job soon and doing just that
There was a team manager sitting beside me who used to play some farming game on his 2 iPads while he work the whole day. He simply don’t care. That’s his distraction from living a life of quiet desperation. He’s a nice guy though and never seems stressed.
Yes. I was hired at Northrop Grumman as a power conversion technology engineer. Then they put me on their performance improvement plan. Then i got the boot. Garbage corporate culture. I did what made me happy and treated myself to best phone money can buy lol
No, the ones with the interpersonal skills (or the direct connection to management, say they and the manager are old buds) get the promotion, not hte hard workers! Forget about that!
EVeryday I’m gaining knowledge and finding ways to alter my life drastically. Each day I feel myself being closer to my dreams and goals. We need videos like this for motivation to keep going. Thakn you!
The answer to your question is Communism. Communism scared everyone on earth and rightly so; communism is terrible; but so is hyper capitalism, so when the Capitalists (which when maintained properly is great) defeated the Communists (And the Fascists for that matter because thats another competing socio economic system) they got full reign to devote themselves to profit at the expense of everything else in civilization. Thats quite ironic given the system espouses the value of competition. TL;DR: Communism was so bad and soo freighting that people put too much trust in the capitalist system in exchange. Capitalism and the free market are wonderful; but HYPER CAPITALISM is not. It's just as unethical and unsustainable as Communism.
This video was very inspiring and eye opening. 👏 I just discovered you’re channel and I’m hooked. You perfectly describe everything I’ve been feeling but didn’t know how to explain. Keep up the good work
You don’t get rich working for others, you get rich by having others work for you. The bigger money is going to come from many people, not your manual labor.
It doesn't matter what you do. If you lack coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, cronies, communities, and opportunities... you ain't sheet. ;) That's the way it goes. MILLIONS of dollars are poured into every industry, especially marketing. You can't do everything alone, and even if you try, there is EASILY one-hundred other groups or corporations who work as a unit to strengthen every aspect of their work. BUT THEY'RE WEALTHY ENOUGH TO DO IT. Trust me, if you're reading this... *you* aren't.
I really enjoyed watching this video today because I just got fired from my job for poor performance. I was unsuccessful with a performance improvement plan.
I think i got led on by a job.. i was supposed to hear back this monday and its now Friday.. they said they were gonna call but havent, its not like I wanted to work for them but they pay 25$ an hour for easy work, this is the 2nd time ive been led on but didnt have to travel 17hours for a job this time..
Im glad you found value in my "work". Making videos on this topic I have discovered that I am not alone in my thoughts. I often feel like everyone is crazy for not seeing the truth.
@@TomScryleus I have felt this way since I was 17. I want my life to be meaningful. I don’t want to just consume things. I like to create and somehow bring value to the world to people. But my point of view was not shared very much at all - all my life.
Mmm, no. Depends on the type of work you're doing. Most people are sitting behind a screen in an office, punching numbers into a computer. That's not accomplishing anything other than making your boss rich, and there's nothing meaningful about it. Also why are you satisfied being a grunt and being stepped on? Never settle.
@@artorias-24yeah but how did our standard of living improve so much over the last 100 years? people live longer and can sleep in heated homes and dont havr to suffer famine. That's what society allowed us to have. If you are fine living on 100 dollars a month and be a rice farmer in vietnam do that. Both are valid options. For me I prefer to work 35 hour weeks as civil engineer and make stable buildings and in my freetime to hang out with friends and do sports. Can't complain
Slavery is the owning of Labor and carries with it the care of the laborers, while the European plan is that capital shell control labor. Controlling wages this can be done by controlling the money
People are not like Dogs. It is the dogs who are like us. Because we conditioned them to be that way. Now think about that in context of this video. Within the context of the owner/pet relationship and then expand that to concepts such as oligarchy. The dogs were practice guys. We test on animals first as has been tradition for all of history. Stay woke.
@@TomScryleus Not that kind of Woke Tom. I remember what Woke meant before it was hijacked. "Stay Woke" used to be much more politically neutral and intelectualy inclusive. I'm going to leave the evidence that i dont know how to spell intellectually properly for all to see because it's ironic and irony is funny
you had my attention until the misguided and unsupported claims about Trump and his aspirations. Your fundamental lack of understanding of why Trump seeks the Office of President greatly calls into question the credibility of all information preceding your, again, misguided opinions on the matter.
that makes no sense. Are you suggesting you can't get an insight into a persons personality and point of view from observation and listening? I'd suggest considering your reply before firing off another incoherent response. @@gerarddondero75
@@TomScryleus How else can a business owner earn a profit if his workers don't receive a wage? We all benefit from "wage slavery" more than I think we care to admit. Economies of scale would collapse without this dynamic. We can't all work for ourselves. I only work part time in a labor union, and outside of all the formality, I love my job. The only thing that matters, is perspective, and these days where perspective is concerned, we are all our own worst enemies. We've been programmed to reject the modern world, and because of that, it's failing right before our eyes. If we are victims of anything, it's the duality, abstraction, absolutism, and formalism of Plato's Cave of subjectivity, and subjecthood. All things are good, and evil at the same time.
It sounds to me like you found a good job thats fullfilling for you. But some of us just don't feel that. we live paycheck to paycheck in a soul crushing job, which make us misserable. And I think things can be better.
@@TomScryleus I've worked less than two weeks this year. I am a Boilermaker, and our industry has been dying a slow death since about 2008, and it just gets worse every year. I manage by living at home with my elderly mother, and doing odd jobs where I can. My perspective on it all has very little to do with me, and more to do with my understanding of the failures of collectivism. You should spend some time learning about The Bolshevik "Revolution" (proxy war). About China's "Great Leap Forward" (backwards), "struggle sessions", and just how many tens of millions of people died, mostly from starvation. How do you know your thoughts are your own? A universal basic income is coming regardless of how any of us feel about it. We'd be better off keeping our rights, and agency in place while we make the transition. The biggest problem with collectivism, is the illusion of "the greater good". It's far too subjective, and ultimately impossible. Collectivism requires we give up too much of our agency. It's just totalitarianism disguised as humanism. You have just as much freedom to find a job you like as I do. People need to give labor unions a try. They are EOE's. I'm an off-the-scale felon, and I was hired straight out of prison. I had to sleep in a tent for 6 weeks just to go to their welding school because I couldn't afford anything else. You know the first thing collectivists do when they come to power is destroy the labor unions? Why do you suppose they do that?
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Best quote ever about a unhappy worker Is a thinking worker. They don’t want you to wake up to the 9 to 5 scam lol
Exactly.
That’s very true. I think trying to change your life and thinking and trying things. Is important. We all die at the end. To live a live without thinking and expressing yourself and showing the world who you are is heartbreaking
could not agree more.@@margaritashamrakov
@@TomScryleus Thank you Tom, I have not succeeded yet in my pursuit. I don’t want you to think I know exactly what I am talking about. I just know I want my life to change in its core. I am working on different things.
I truly wish you the best. I hope you can find a work/life balance that makes you happy. I would love to know what you are working on. if you want to share. I have made my video on my passive income streams, if you need more inspiration. @@margaritashamrakov
There is a great TED talk about happiness and stress from a mid 30s Asian whose family owns a rice far. He basically states that they are very happy and he cannot understand that people get so stressed. In summary, he says that the family work hard for 3 weeks planting all of the rice seeds. Then wait and play with other families. The harvest never fails . Then they work for 1 month to harvest the rice. Then sell it all . Get the cash , take the cut to live on, save and reinvest to buy more seed. Then 7 months of rest to play again until it’s time to sow again. Lives in fresh air, high in the mountains, and, has a lovely happy community. No crime.
"No you dont understand you HAVE to have 10 different licenses, you NEED 5 yearly safety training courses that have to be passed yearly, you are REQUIRED to pay out a large sum of your profit to insurance companies and you OWE us 30% of your income as tax!!!! Oh and you dont owe your land anymore you rent it from us, and oh we also own your house you AND your family"
😭😭😭
@@Dogman262We Americans are utterly enslaved, albeit we have it "good", but the vast majority of the f*cking world has running water, heat, AC, a refrigerator, a stove, etc. We are all suffering, BARELY getting by, yet we continue despite knowing we are slaves, modern slaves, with screens and unlimited data, but slaves nonetheless.
@@dearservice1998Bruh, what the hell is funny? And here's a tip... it's childish for a grown man to be using laughing emojis. Grow up.
Agrarian communal society what most of the world was during antiquity and medieval ages
Woke up at 39. Previous life feels like a fevered dream.
Eight years on, work for myself. Collaborate with other people. Have clients. Life is more balanced.
You are 100% correct Tom, your friends and family always try to coerce you into holding up the status quo, when you have aspirations and dreams to do something outside the status quo, friends and family try to draw you back into the matrix
You can't tell happy people what to do. You can only tell miserable people what to do.
I can answer the title to this video without even watching it. It's the same as it ever was - people chose the "safe" option of a guaranteed living right after the two biggest wars and the most impactful economic collapse of all time. Government and big business said, "We will protect you," and the people said, "Thank you," and felt safe.
And while 1945 to 1971 was a blip in history, during that time the middle class really did work and wage workers really were taken care of. But any historian and economist worth their salt could've predicted things would go back to the Lord/Knights/Serf dynamic because the few have always lived well off the many.
At roughly the 4:50 mark in this video, you talk about how companies use meetings to manipulate us. It reminds me of something else that they do. They talk about the importance of embracing change. Those who embrace it are rewarded (with a treat using your puppy analogy) and those who don't are criticized. I've never fully embraced these "changes" for one simple reason. They end up costing you some combination of time, money or effort and they only really benefit one person or group. The change is never a substantial raise, more vacation time or something along those lines. It's almost always means more work for the same money.
Me personally: I enjoy team meetings. It gives me the perfect excuse to be less productive at work and engage in intellectual conversation. Our company is self aware of that, so they limit the length of their meetings to no more than 1 hour. Almost everyone else in my company hates meetings.
I like meetings too, for the same reaspn you describe. :)
I tried switching corporate jobs to make more still making the same money that I made at my last job, I tried working two jobs to get out of debt and save up money and then be able to have more flexibility and freedom. But this didn’t work either. I realize now that working part time making $2,200 a month can cover what I need and my debts and give me more free time so I will be quitting my full time contract job soon and doing just that
One of the best, quality and thought provoking channels on RUclips. Give me more!
You just made my day with that generous comment. Have a great day!
That puppy is the best distraction. I had to replay a couple of times bc i missed what was being said.
There was a team manager sitting beside me who used to play some farming game on his 2 iPads while he work the whole day. He simply don’t care. That’s his distraction from living a life of quiet desperation. He’s a nice guy though and never seems stressed.
Yes. I was hired at Northrop Grumman as a power conversion technology engineer. Then they put me on their performance improvement plan. Then i got the boot. Garbage corporate culture. I did what made me happy and treated myself to best phone money can buy lol
No, the ones with the interpersonal skills (or the direct connection to management, say they and the manager are old buds) get the promotion, not hte hard workers! Forget about that!
The best performance is to own our own business and define our own task rather than work for under minded boss
That dog in the end perfectly wrapped it up tom. I feel hugged. Thanks
Thats our puppy.. we call him Loke.. :)
EVeryday I’m gaining knowledge and finding ways to alter my life drastically. Each day I feel myself being closer to my dreams and goals. We need videos like this for motivation to keep going. Thakn you!
Thank you :)
Gary Vee said it best. *"be patient as f***"*
The answer to your question is Communism. Communism scared everyone on earth and rightly so; communism is terrible; but so is hyper capitalism, so when the Capitalists (which when maintained properly is great) defeated the Communists (And the Fascists for that matter because thats another competing socio economic system) they got full reign to devote themselves to profit at the expense of everything else in civilization. Thats quite ironic given the system espouses the value of competition.
TL;DR: Communism was so bad and soo freighting that people put too much trust in the capitalist system in exchange. Capitalism and the free market are wonderful; but HYPER CAPITALISM is not. It's just as unethical and unsustainable as Communism.
This video was very inspiring and eye opening. 👏 I just discovered you’re channel and I’m hooked. You perfectly describe everything I’ve been feeling but didn’t know how to explain. Keep up the good work
The worst is we all paid someone to learn how to perform the skill that never pays the bills or the student loans.
You don’t get rich working for others, you get rich by having others work for you. The bigger money is going to come from many people, not your manual labor.
It doesn't matter what you do. If you lack coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, cronies, communities, and opportunities... you ain't sheet. ;) That's the way it goes. MILLIONS of dollars are poured into every industry, especially marketing. You can't do everything alone, and even if you try, there is EASILY one-hundred other groups or corporations who work as a unit to strengthen every aspect of their work. BUT THEY'RE WEALTHY ENOUGH TO DO IT. Trust me, if you're reading this... *you* aren't.
Another great video Tom
Thank you. Appreciete your kind words. 🙏
“Companies excel at this” literially and figuiativly
I really enjoyed watching this video today because I just got fired from my job for poor performance. I was unsuccessful with a performance improvement plan.
I had that happen to me a few years ago.
To hell with them and their performance plans. There are tons of better jobs out there.
You will be fine.
I think i got led on by a job.. i was supposed to hear back this monday and its now Friday.. they said they were gonna call but havent, its not like I wanted to work for them but they pay 25$ an hour for easy work, this is the 2nd time ive been led on but didnt have to travel 17hours for a job this time..
On another note...What a cute dog... 🙃
I don't really want anything. Freedom, perhaps. True validation and happiness comes from within, not external factors.
This video helped me a lot. Btw your dog is very cute :)
Im glad you liked it. And Loke thanks you for your compliment :)
Hi Tom, thank you for these videos. I agree with you in many ways.
Im glad you found value in my "work".
Making videos on this topic I have discovered that I am not alone in my thoughts.
I often feel like everyone is crazy for not seeing the truth.
@@TomScryleus I have felt this way since I was 17. I want my life to be meaningful. I don’t want to just consume things. I like to create and somehow bring value to the world to people. But my point of view was not shared very much at all - all my life.
3:57 That’s literally the plot of Space Jam 2 😂
really? I haven't seen it. I saw the original when it came out in the 90s.
Oh It's MORE than That.
best start re-counting
Someone needs to do the grunt work otherwise nothing gets done.
Mmm, no. Depends on the type of work you're doing. Most people are sitting behind a screen in an office, punching numbers into a computer. That's not accomplishing anything other than making your boss rich, and there's nothing meaningful about it. Also why are you satisfied being a grunt and being stepped on? Never settle.
Yes, but no one needs to do it 5-6 or even 7 days a week 8-10 or even 12 hours a day.
@@artorias-24yeah but how did our standard of living improve so much over the last 100 years? people live longer and can sleep in heated homes and dont havr to suffer famine. That's what society allowed us to have. If you are fine living on 100 dollars a month and be a rice farmer in vietnam do that. Both are valid options. For me I prefer to work 35 hour weeks as civil engineer and make stable buildings and in my freetime to hang out with friends and do sports. Can't complain
Did you lose your crypto portfolio that you told about in 2021? I want to sincerely know. Your videos changed a lot after that year.
Hey,
No i didnt loose it. Im still active in crypto trading.
This channel never was about that.
Slavery is the owning of Labor and carries with it the care of the laborers, while the European plan is that capital shell control labor. Controlling wages this can be done by controlling the money
This is the 2nd time I'm watching this video
You liked it?
The truth is we create our lives. Create a new one! 😉
Because before wage slavery it was real slavery.
There is no difference.
People are not like Dogs. It is the dogs who are like us. Because we conditioned them to be that way. Now think about that in context of this video. Within the context of the owner/pet relationship and then expand that to concepts such as oligarchy. The dogs were practice guys. We test on animals first as has been tradition for all of history. Stay woke.
Stay woke?
Not on this channel.
@@TomScryleus
Not that kind of Woke Tom. I remember what Woke meant before it was hijacked. "Stay Woke" used to be much more politically neutral and intelectualy inclusive.
I'm going to leave the evidence that i dont know how to spell intellectually properly for all to see because it's ironic and irony is funny
They, and that is our hman bosses in whatever context want us to be excited, ovedient, happy to be there and as upbeat as dogs when serving them
You are as woke as they come 🔥
yeah, you are definitely not a dog person, that's obvious. A cat would be better for a dour person.
haha... yeah, definitely a cat person. :)
cats are smarter.
you had my attention until the misguided and unsupported claims about Trump and his aspirations. Your fundamental lack of understanding of why Trump seeks the Office of President greatly calls into question the credibility of all information preceding your, again, misguided opinions on the matter.
Yeah you really know the inner motivations of this person you've never met and only know via 3rd party biased sources. Lol
@@gerarddondero75 his overt superficiality relieves the viewer of possessing any knowledge or insight of his "inner motives"
@mkoury83 so based on no real interaction and superficial information you've got the hot line to HIS superficiality and inner life. Lol
that makes no sense. Are you suggesting you can't get an insight into a persons personality and point of view from observation and listening? I'd suggest considering your reply before firing off another incoherent response. @@gerarddondero75
Someone explain to me why business owners deserve nothing?
Certainly I didnt say that.
@@TomScryleus How else can a business owner earn a profit if his workers don't receive a wage? We all benefit from "wage slavery" more than I think we care to admit. Economies of scale would collapse without this dynamic. We can't all work for ourselves. I only work part time in a labor union, and outside of all the formality, I love my job. The only thing that matters, is perspective, and these days where perspective is concerned, we are all our own worst enemies. We've been programmed to reject the modern world, and because of that, it's failing right before our eyes. If we are victims of anything, it's the duality, abstraction, absolutism, and formalism of Plato's Cave of subjectivity, and subjecthood. All things are good, and evil at the same time.
It sounds to me like you found a good job thats fullfilling for you. But some of us just don't feel that. we live paycheck to paycheck in a soul crushing job, which make us misserable. And I think things can be better.
@@TomScryleus I've worked less than two weeks this year. I am a Boilermaker, and our industry has been dying a slow death since about 2008, and it just gets worse every year. I manage by living at home with my elderly mother, and doing odd jobs where I can. My perspective on it all has very little to do with me, and more to do with my understanding of the failures of collectivism.
You should spend some time learning about The Bolshevik "Revolution" (proxy war). About China's "Great Leap Forward" (backwards), "struggle sessions", and just how many tens of millions of people died, mostly from starvation. How do you know your thoughts are your own? A universal basic income is coming regardless of how any of us feel about it.
We'd be better off keeping our rights, and agency in place while we make the transition. The biggest problem with collectivism, is the illusion of "the greater good". It's far too subjective, and ultimately impossible. Collectivism requires we give up too much of our agency. It's just totalitarianism disguised as humanism.
You have just as much freedom to find a job you like as I do. People need to give labor unions a try. They are EOE's. I'm an off-the-scale felon, and I was hired straight out of prison. I had to sleep in a tent for 6 weeks just to go to their welding school because I couldn't afford anything else. You know the first thing collectivists do when they come to power is destroy the labor unions? Why do you suppose they do that?
@@TomScryleus You should ask yourself why I can't even respond with something of substance without RUclips deleting it. Let me try this again.
The rich and poor pay no taxes while the middle class pays all the taxes. 😮
So they dont have to farm for 12 hours a day................ duh?