Unions and "Work Ethic"
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11:41 You meant laughable, right? Laudable just doesn't seem to make sense given the context.
hahah yes
Mexie. I'd love to hear your thoughts in a full length vid about this: ruclips.net/video/gsRCzJ2CxbE/видео.html
Re-listening and I now hear "lollable". That checks out.
My parents found out I was a member of the IWW a few weeks ago through someone at where I work. Apparently my mother thinks I joined a “cult”. Thats how out of touch my parents are with reality.
The JuanTrueKaiser what the actual fuck? Are you from the US btw?
I'm part of IWW too. Fortunately, my parents don't know.
issa osama Yes I am.
Fortunately I come from a union family, but the job doesn't offer a Union. A down side of working within IT. So to the IWW I went. Happy to see others.
She seems suppressive you might want to distance yourself from her.
Initially, I read it as "unicorns" on twitter. Then again, the unions are almost as rare as the unicorns in our neck of the woods.
Kings and Generals, you are a comrade??
Most of the comrades would not consider me a comrade. :-) Social democrat.
Mexie is great and I enjoy her videos. But I have an MA in international economics. It is serviceable. :-)
It doesn't. But, I also don't know what does. I know, I know. "Damn centrists", "shut up, liberal" and all that. Something needs to change, but until I see clearly what might help, I am not going to rock the boat.
Alright, I always liked your videos but didn't know if I should subscribe. But now I know.
As a US educator working 10 hour days with stagnant wages and ever-decreasing benefits and a depowered union without bargaining power currently fighting for scraps against our district against more defunding of schools, this video was a great help to me.
Here in Finland employers and pro-capitalist politicians are constantly trying to dismantle collective bargaining. It's interesting to listen to how they're trying to justify it these days. Getting rid of collective bargaining would probably raise the employment rate a little bit as there would be more shitty low paid jobs on offer, which is then sold to us as a policy that would help the most marginal populations (as they would more likely be getting all these wondeful new shit jobs). So, either you support local bargaining or you're a retrograde douchebag who not only hates the unemployed in general but also immigrants, disabled people and other marginalized groups who have problems finding work.
That's not the only ideological card they have in their sleeve (another one being "we have to modernize!", as if dismantling collective bargaining was some cutting edge policy from the future) but they're so damn slimy.
Aike hahaha you are facking fake marxist. Marx would not support multiculturalisme and burqa's . We are the God old days when commies where to be respected to a certain extent.
Hallo Mensen ....? Someone hasn’t read “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.” Multiculturalism is the natural conclusion of dialectical thinking.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime
That's why I poop on company time
TMI...
+Dnt Wry ***Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, That's why I poop on company time***
He makes a dollar and you make a dime because that's what you are worth...FACT
its like an filler actor whining that brad pitt makes millions more than they do...its because he is worth that much, he can pull the audience just for being In the movie...FACT
IamCancer624 So slumlords who contribute nothing to society and collect rent for a living, they are worth those millions of dollars? How so, because they are so productive?
IamBraindead shill for capitalist class.
Brad Pitt is the most overrated clothes horse in Hollywood
+torrent ***So slumlords who contribute nothing to society and collect rent for a living, they are worth those millions of dollars? How so, because they are so productive?***
Slumlords/landlords duties and responsibilities are:
1. Comply with the requirements of applicable building codes materially affecting health and safety.
2. Make all repairs and do whatever is necessary to put and keep the premises in a fit and habitable condition.
3. Keep all common areas of the premises in a clean and safe condition.
4. Maintain in good and safe working order and condition all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and other facilities and appliances, including elevators, supplied or required to be supplied by him.
5. Provide and maintain appropriate receptacles and conveniences for the removal of ashes, garbage, rubbish and other waste incidental to the occupancy of the dwelling unit and arrange for their removal.
6. Supply running water and reasonable amounts of hot water at all times, reasonable heat and reasonable air-conditioning or cooling where such units are installed and offered, when required by seasonal weather conditions, except where the building that includes the dwelling unit is not required by law to be equipped for that purpose or the dwelling unit is so constructed that heat, air-conditioning, cooling or hot water is generated by an installation within the exclusive control of the tenant and supplied by a direct public utility connection.
checmakte...FACT
Actually had a higher up management guy tell us "don't worry about how much you get paid"
And of course, there's neoliberal bullshit like this: www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180411-dealing-with-clients-who-expect-you-to-work-for-free
Literally my first year searching for jobs as a part-time film editor so I could pay my college tuition. "You're young, just work for the E X P O S U R E!!"
A world without workers is impossible, a world without capitalists is necessary! Thanks a lot for the vid Mexie, you rock!
So how would you get rid of capitalists, of which I am one? Re-education camps?
@@RightCenterBack321 are you a factory owner? Or a landlord? If not you are not capitalist, you are liberal.
@@bugsephbunnin4576 That view would have been relevant 100 years ago. Now though e are past that point, we are all capitalists. We all benefit from the system as much as we suffer from it.
I'm glad that you talk about how unions can shelter people from some of the harsh aspects of Capitalism, but that ultimately, they are not going overthrow the power structure of Capitalism. I think sometimes leftists forget that.
It's called anarcho-syndicalism... Not that anybody bothers to enact it
17:00- True, it is demoralizing. The trouble with unions is that they have so little power now....For example, one of my close relatives has been dealing with a terrible employer..went to the union(along with her/his other colleagues) and found that they could do very little. (the manager is horrible to most employees so several of them took action). The Unions are too weak to do anything..this is also the case in Britain thanks to Thatcher.
Hi DemocraticSocialist, Yeah, I concede to Mexie's argument that Unions are a lot better than nothing at all. But we must also suppose that Unions were in part helped along by what had once been the Threat of International Communism. There was Political Pressure for the Capitalists to go easy and appear like the Nice System against the Communist/Socialist Systems which were denounced as being oppressive and the maintainers of Poverty. Notice how much powers the Unions lost since the collapse of the USSR. But, yes, while the Unions were better than nothing, STILL, the Unions fight the same damn fight at every Contract. No War is ever Won. What the People need is a Political Socialist Fix -- Universal Wage and Benefit Determinations. No more quarreling with Bosses and Owners. With AI Supercomputing the Workers would only have to ask why the hell the Super Computing Modelling of the Economy isn't allocating their Profession a better distribution. We would rather appeal to Data and Algorithms then Corporate Greed every time a five minute contract expires.
Oh, and Mexie gave a great rant on Work Ethic. I was wondering if anybody was ever going to take that tack on it. As I say to everybody, its not a "Work" Ethic.... its a "Slave" Ethic. Who do our Lives Belong to? Us or some Boss?
And Australia has stronger unions comparatively to most of the world. In the US unions will probably lose the right to collective bargaining soon.
I was reading about Unions in CA. Conservatives like to blast CA
as anti business etc but this is a Right to Work State. I am in IT and we are like cats to get these fuckers to wake up and union will be next to impossible BUT of we were to go on strike our job is only guaranteed as long as we end the strike before we are replaced. Meaning if they hire someone for your job while you are still on strike then you lose it. I watched Disney do this to janitorial staff who went on strike for more money then Disney just outsourced all of them.
Now as far as work ethic we were told we need to up our customer service so the last thing before we go to bed is to think about the company and the first thing in the morning is to think about the company. We had a CEO once say we should keep a notepad by our bed so that when we dream of the company we wake up and jot down those ideas.
Hi Devin, I'm no expert on Labor History, but just from what I vaguely know, at the height of the Cold War, when Capitalism was trying to win the World's Hearts and Minds, well, Capitalism wanted Communism to look bad, with it Gulags and such (where corrupt Party Officials were sent to live no worse than any Worker.... yes, Oh My God! What a Friggin Nightmare... but it was made out that way). So what that meant for Unions was that Capitalism established some tacit Rules and Guidelines, the most important of which was that Strikes would be respected. Nobody wanted to see riots or Capitalists portrayed as tossing Daddy off his Job on Christmas Eve. Well, my Time Line is a bit screwed up in that Reagan, before the Wall Came Down, had already declared War against the Unions when he replaced the Air Traffic Controllers (with Whom!? the Skies must have been dangerous for a while, you would think,). But, yes, now there is no respect for Strikes. The School Teachers are lucky that so few people would want to be a School Teacher.
There is one thing that the Capitalists forget. Early on in the Labor Movement, the Workers had two resorts for addressing their grievances. We all know about Strikes, but back long ago, the Workers would often just go crazy and do a lot of property damage or even harm or threaten to harm the Bosses. STRIKES were seen by the Capitalists as the Preferred Option. I guess that was so long ago, and now, after Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, I suppose the Ruling Classes have become convinced that the Working Class is now sufficiently indoctrinated in the Principles of None Violence, that the Capitalists feel perfectly safe and cozy -- the Lion can do whatever it likes with the placid and gentle sheep. However, as both Gandhi and Dr. King had found out in a big way, is that People in Large Groups have a kind of Mob or Crowd Psychology that doesn't admit of what we would call the highest intellectual capacities. None Violent Leaders can often lose control of events.
So my fear is that if the Capitalists continue to outrage the Workers, well, they may live to regret having scrapped the Strike Option. Things could get pretty ugly.
but I don't mean to defend the Unions. I belonged to Unions. I've been screwed over by Unions. I think Union-Company Workers Committees are dumb. The Union Bosses make out like Fat Cats, and the same Fight has to happen every one or two years with New Friggin Contracts.... the War is Endless. Re-inventing the Wheel never stops.
So we need a Political Solution. a Comprehensive Wage and Benefit Determination. If Capitalists want to go into business, well they can consult the Tables to see what their Labor Costs will be. You would think that Certainty like that would be good for setting up Business Plans.
Capitalists fought tooth and nail at any intervention by govt to impose more restrictions for labor, work safety, and the environment from Social Security to Medicare etc. In the 1950s was re-education films to ignore the fact that the labor movement and govt intervention with employing social democracy is what got us these nice things but instead it was the benevolent Capitalists who did this. In the 1960s they started Think Tanks to combat Public Universities/Colleges. Today they are literally buying what is being taught. Look at Prague U and Learn Liberty. All propaganda mills to ignore that govt can work and has for the people. They want us to believe that those nice capitalists got us all these things. This way those same can control govt to only work in their best interest.
In both camps was the vilification of Socialism and Communism with conflating Capitalism with everything nice about our western societies.
Unions only got respect in the US because at the Federal and State level laws were passed. Unions have always been seen as evil. Now good old Ronny when he was SAG President was against Unions who were Socialist but all for ones who were run by the Mob. When he became POTUS he was spouting that Unions were evil. The USSR still existed. Yeah he did bust the ATC union which Unions overall whimpered out. What people have gotten used to is all that we have now and have no idea or little idea of how we got it. This is how the Capitalists are winning and they are. They use societies overall ignorance of the past. We have labor day every Sept but who actually looks at these movements and sees how it used to be for most of us. Most cannot even comprehend that before the Stock Crash of 1929 over 60% of the US already lived in Poverty. We are on the road back to 1890s. It will not be a fast road but like a frog in a pot of water under low heat. Slowing it gets hotter and hotter to where the frog will say but it has always been like this. So one by one labor laws etc will be chipped away to a new generation who never knew what it was like before. "Oh it has always been like this. Oh, no company would ever do that because people would just riot." Umm, nope. We are putting up with less and less as most are afraid to rock the boat and be let go. And in the 1990s people actually dismissed ethnic cleansing could exist because you know it is the 1990s. Yet there is was in the Balkans.
Beer trivial. It was the invention of the automatic bottle making machine that basically reduced child labor in that field. Children used to make those bottles. It was also govt who passed laws outlawing child labor but not toll around late 1930s.
Look at how well the propaganda machine works for the Right, force the USPS to abnormally pre fund retirement that it makes them look like they are inefficient so you can convince the people it needs to be privatized. Create a boogeyman name for something and then convince the people that that completely sucks so you can then dismantle the actual program as they ponder why their medical care they like is going away, ie ACA vs Obamacare. "Oh I love my ACA insurance but that damn Obamacare is just ruining the country."
And yes we do need a Political Solution ... we need our govt back that for a few short decades was having our backs and going in the right direction.
A day with a Mexie video is a good day :)
Work ethic is overrated, we suffer from a culture of over production and its net result is waste. Great video
Totally agree. We need to change our economy to one of production for the sake of need not for the sake of greed (potential for the product to sell to someone who may/may not want it for a profit).
Free market can easily become slavery of the working class because of the inevitable privatization and monopolization of the companies owned by the elite rich class. Good video as always Mexie.
An injury to one, is an injury to all.
Just for clarity its pronounced NorFUC, and Norich. Fuc. :)
lmao.. I knew I was way off.
mousefriend!
Norwich is pronounced to
rhyme with porridge.
I appreciated the end where you recognised the limits of unions and how they don't push for some of the deeper structural changes, it showed a lot of nuance.
I was talking to one of my older socialist friends who did a lot of protesting during the 80's in Latin America about unions and she said one of the biggest things she saw unions doing was creating worker solidarity that she felt could lead to class consciousness as time went on. I'm a little more skeptical(just because capitalism has crushed all my hope) but I think she might have a point about it being one of the most pragmatic things Marxist can do in modern capitalism.
I agree, they can help to build class consciousness, if we can shift the discourse around them...
Hell yeah, Federici! I just got done reading Caliban and the Witch and it was one of the best books I've read in years. Thanks for citing amazing authors, Mexie.
Wow, I'd never heard of the Kett rebellion, and I used to live in Norwich. This channel is a great resource - thanks.
We definitely need to as a society decouple the ability to live from work. This is literally the ONLY chance we have of overturning the system.
Most labourers in factory have to spend a lot of time in high decibel of noise which is harming them all out to their health. Work ethic is the most left out topic in general. Thanks for your effort.
If everyone was in a union we would not feel the sheer exhilaration of trying to keep a roof over our heads. And knowing where your next meal is coming from is so bourgeois.
If we get rid of all executives for 24 hours the world will still operate as usual. If we get rid of all the workers for 24 hours the world will come to an abrupt, cataclysmic halt. I still think we need people making decisions but I personally like the idea of worker coops. At least then you don't have people making hundreds of times (in the case of retail well over 1,000 times) more than the median wage for solely making decisions (often times horribly stupid, short sighted ones) and attending meetings.
2:06 It's Lenin! Excellent video as always, and I enjoyed the way it turned into a rant. It's hard not to get frustrated when talking about capitalism.
The amount of research you put into your videos is so impressive. Super stoked to potentially meet you!
This was so informative, I really learned a lot. I had no idea the industrial revolution was built upon women’s and children’s labor, so disgusting :(
And yessss it just doesn’t make sense that the more technologically advanced we become the more we have to work. We have an abundance of goods and services and technology and advanced forms of communication etc. and so many of us are stuck working ridiculous hours in horrible conditions when we should be working LESS, enjoying time with loved ones and able to enrich our brains and creativity and do things that would ACTUALLY make a difference in this world. And yeah, the whole idea that labor unions hurt work ethic is honestly just gross. Ughhh great vid girl 💕
thanks girl! I know... it's such a mindfuck. ugh. can't wait to see your vid
Mexie yes it is! It will be out tomorrow for sure 😘
Marc Peralta sounds interesting, I’ll have to check it out, thanks :)
her pictures are comparatively polite. infinite amounts of coal were needed to run everything, and the conditions in coal mines were abysmal. women were used to mine coal for pseudo-biological reasons, they were "built" for endurance work. children were used to move coal, you didn't have to dig as high and wide a tunnel for a child to pass through.
Mad Blender do Americans not learn anything about the industrial revolution in historical class?
I loved this video and learned so much!! Unions are being eroded in France too, and whereas it used to be an accepted and important part of the culture, I feel like the image of them as lazy people who like to complain is gaining territory in the dominant narrative.
I can't believe that stat about the mortality rate of infants with working moms during the industrial revolution. Wow so fucked up. It was also really cool to learn more about your union!! Thanks dear
thanks boo
Rail workers have bloated pensions, early retirement and unfair job-guarantees .
All funded via coercion
They strike to keep lucre running for future layabouts
and coordinate strikes with other transport unions to prevent people from moving around freely.
Plus they allow Antifa to join their marches in which they smash up other people's workplaces and assault people.
Yeah, I really don't see why people have a bad impression of them. Poor lambs.
Sad to think that even the French are losing labor power, since they are known to be the most militant, the strike being their national sport and traditionally rioting in Paris every May.
robin water tree Maybe they earned those benefits through their strikes, knowing that they hold the real power over capital. And by blaming them for being lazy your only playing into the hands of the exploiters.
I knew there was a reason I subbed to this channel. Please make another video of this. So is so informative. Bravo Mexie!!
One big union vs many unions? Here in Croatia we have around 300 unions and pretty much all of them are run by people who get fat paychecks for signing collective agreements which are almost always bad for the workers. And some of them have been doing this for 25 years. I guess if I was an optimist I could say that they are slowing down the erosion of workers rights, but that's it. From what I have seen they are just fragmenting the working class and are pretty much useless these days. So I'm kind of liking the idea of one big union.
Bet they're bought out by german corporate interests - ie the EU. Same as in Poland.
Most underrated RUclips channel I've seen in a while.
It all plays into the false scarcity mindset. It's easier to accept your current conditions as "just the way it is" and plug along under the impression that if you do less you're worth less. Looking objectively at what your work has to give you and what your time is actually valued at takes effort and vulnerability. In an anti-union culture, demanding more requires breaking away from the tribe. It's the same psychological phenomenon that keeps people exploiting animals for stupid reasons.
Wow, that was hard-hitting. Keep up the good work!
I got an ad "debunking" minimum wage before this video.
But...but "Muh 3 Murkut" the I learnt about Child Labour in Primary school and how Capitalism reached it's high in the Industrial Revolution. Such a good, Informative video. The CEOs and heads want to squeeze the life force out of us, the more days we take to destress and relax is less time they have making profit which is all they care about. Unions are integral to put day to day lives.
I'm so glad I found this channel. You make amazing videos with such important content and you deliver it in a way that is eye-opening and digestable. Thank you so much :)
Loved this video. Much of it made so much sense, and I even learned a few things. Great job at pulling everything together in a comprehensive narrative.
The thing I can't convince my coworkers and family members that there is a huge contradiction between our advancing technological capabilities and it's threat to our long term material security (which is so backwards and absolutely shouldn't be the case--an advance in technology should enrich society at the expense of no one) and the fact that there used to be this idea that an advance in manufacturing technology and automation would make it so we all had to work less and our material conditions would dramatically improve. A lot of people I encounter essentially put forward a moral argument that working most of their life is necessary to produce good members of society and that the less people worked the more their morals, values, and work ethic would degenerate. They can't imagine a society where we would alleviate the amount of time we spend working and allocate that time purusing other productive tasks that would benefit us as human beings, enrich our society, and allow us to grow, without just making it so people don't have to do anything. Although morally I would be fine with people not having to work what so ever considering the material wealth capital in our society is able to generate, but even if we wanted to incorporate educational, skill-learning, social based programs to take the place of a typical work week, I would argue the potential to better society is painfully overlooked by people who dismiss this idea as being utopian.
Thanks Mexie, your channel is f'n rad, great video as always. I recently found it through other leftists on youtube and think all are doing a fantastic job. Keep developing class consciousness and contributing to a discourse that will help educate all of us members of the working class! Great job Comrade!
I'd love to see a video on how unions have functioned internally, how the decision making, planning and organisation work, and the same sort of stuff with political and counter-cultural movements and organisations.
We needs strong unions to have strong middle and working class families.
pssst, there is no such thing as the middle class, its bourgeois BS to try to keep workers from organizing
Always great, and in a format that is easy to share.
Good to hear from you again!
Very informative and educational, and the rant is just shows your level of frustration with the system, well done!
Ooh! You quoted Silvia Federici's "Caliban and the Witch"! Such an awesome book!
After finding an issue of Midnight Notes (Issue #30) in a used-book shop a few years ago and researching Autonomism I found out about Federici and somehow found a PDF of Caliban and the Witch somewhere (I still have it in my PDFs folder) and it was a read that really made an impact on my political life.
(Also super useful to counter brocialist arguments claiming that most women were sheltered from the conditions of early Capitalism)
I learn so much from every video that you put out! Thank you so much
I found your channel recently through your livestream with contrapoints. Just gotta say, you have some very high quality content that is capable of enriching people's lives. Thank you.
Great work thank you!
Great Channel Mexie!
Great episode as always.
i love you mexie.
keep on keepin on dawg
thanks for turning this into a rant actually, i enjoyed it
Good to see that at 7:29 the video shows a photo of the Bryant and May Match Girls who had an incredibly cool story.
My new fav vlogger
Hey Mexie, could you provide some further reading on the Ketts' Rebellion? I'm not very informed about this (which is a shame since I'm a history student lol) and would love some reading. Thanks. Fantastic video as always. :)
Also, love the painting behind you. 💓 🌹
-Federici (2004) Caliban and the Witch p73
-Fletcher (1973) Tudor Rebellions, p64-77
-Cornwall (1977) Revolt of the Peasantry p137-141
-Beer (1982) Rebellion and Riot: Popular Disorder in England During the Reign of Edward VI p82-139
Thanks so much. :D
Great video! Just one small thing: Sweden, sadly, doesn't have 6 hour work days, we have 8 as well.
Thanks, you're doing a great job ;)
I didn't remember this channel exists. Thanks good that I saw it in the feed
Great topic to be touching on right now. I'm so happy to see the resurgence in large union activity in the US, even if it is rather small. We we need to keep at so that we can grow into industries beyond public education!
+Coahan Barbarian ***Great topic to be touching on right now. I'm so happy to see the resurgence in large union activity in the US, even if it is rather small. We we need to keep at so that we can grow into industries beyond public education!***
I have SO happy to live in a right to work state without the tyranny of unions forcing me to pay them part of my salary to them so the big union cats get big payloads, now if we just do the same with govt taking half of my check to pay their social security racket...FACT
IamCancer624 what exactly are you claiming is a fact here?
Solid video. It really has me feeling like I should do more with the union I'm part of, especially since a lot of my co-workers seem frustrated with it, feeling that they're slow to act on the issues THEY care about, and quick to act on what they regard as petty grievances that make hotel operations more complicated, which apparently pisses off our guests by ruining their "luxury experience." I just wish I had more readily available transportation so I could actually attend meetings and trainings so I actually know what I'm doing. When we did contract negotiations between the union and the hotel I basically just sat at the meeting table and stared at the back-and-forth between the actual reps of both sides.
Thank you for leting people know Unions are fighting for them and a better society. To many people think Unions have done nothing for them but never stop to think that those benefits they get came because the Union brought people together and managed to get them from the company for them. Thank you Mexie for helping to shed some light on the subject.
Spot on! Every worker should watch this video
Great information.
Your best rant yet! ;)
Fierce woman. Really liking the info you put out
Another great video!
Thank you Mexie! All your information is imperative. Im learning alot in the PSL as well. (Party for socialism and liberation)
Great video! I was recommended to check out your and Marine's channels from one of the vegan podcasts I listen too. Local 5114 USW checking in. Can't imagine hard rock mining at the company I've been with the last 7 years without union representation. They take and take as it is; I can't imagine how bad we'd have it without unionized workers making some kind of a stand. I've never understood the Captalist end-game. It's just a progressively worsening timeline of more and more people competing over fewer and fewer resources. Doesn't seem like it could ever end well.
I really enjoy your videos and always learn so much, however I do wish they would leave me with feeling less like everything is shite and already too late.
Cheers
If we don't feel like that we won't try to change the shite circumstances.
Fun facts about productivity: 1. Productivity drops off pretty sharply the more hours people work, so working longer doesn't actually increase your productivity very much, and actually reduces per hour productivity, 2. The countries with the highest per-hour productivity are either heavily unionized or have very heavily regulated workplaces.
Love your videos, Mexie. Found you through, Contra. This is a great video. Keep doing what you're doing. Fuck the brocialists.
At 17:40 "sorry this kind of turned into a rant". I guess if that's what you want to call it, I would just say then the whole episode was one exceptionally well done rant. The moral outrage this presentation provokes in revealing capitalism's crimes against the working class is based on history and observed fact. It needs no apology. A truly superlative effort and much appreciated!
Hope to see more on unionism, perhaps including your thoughts on revolutionary unionism (aka solidarity unionism or radical unionism)
“We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We called those barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger."
This is the first video I've seen of yours, and I love it. One tiny critique, though. At about 11:40 you said "laudable" where I believe you meant laughable. Laudable means "to be commended", not "to be mocked".
Robots on 4-Chan reee about wage slavery so I figured more of them to be liberal.
I was wrong :(
so depressing. T_T i hope things change someday.
Good video 💚
Great video, Mexie. The only problem I've got with trade unions is that they do tend to be very reformist, and therefore, that is kind of what makes them a very low form of organising. The working class must organise itself in the highest form; it needs a party of its own. Capitalism arrived drenched in blood, and frankly, it must leave in the same way. You cannot bring peace by just begging for it, you have to fight for it.
Hell yea a new Mexie vid
Tanks yo
I made it myself
Your vids are gold. Lol
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Nice to see you here fam
Why not give people more free time? Well they might just start to think that this system is total BS...Better keep them busy killing themselves at a 9-5 miserable job OR learning "how to sell themselves better"/"how to approach companies"/"how to network"/(insert any other shit repeated at job centers). Yep if I was capitalist I wouldn't like to give people free time either...
Great video btw, glad I found your channel ;)
This puts a whole new spin on things. I'm a disabled college student, and I've always taken pride in my work ethic. It's really hard for me to do what I do, but I do it anyway and I do it well. The surefire way to get me angry is to call me "lazy", because I'm not, I'm struggling. Maybe this is a different work environment and I'm thinking about this the wrong way, but have I had the wrong values my whole life? What am I here for if not to do what I need to do?
Great rant!!!!! I don't know if it's relatable but tbh I get kinda happy when I see workers not being efficient because even if they are, they won't get an extra dime. But I also get sad because I remember that our system creates fucking pointless alienating jobs.
When I worked for the State of Pa I had great pay and great benefits all due to the Union. But what drove me nuts was that I had coworkers who constantly voted for anti-Union Republicans. It was bizarre.
halfway through this so far and it's really depressing
More economics! Love this one
I remember at uni when some contracted meat head wearing a bomber jacket (honestly, the guy looked like a skin head pulled off the street) with a clip board, checking for efficiency of room use, walked in on our usually placid chilled lecturer while giving a class - wrath ensued like I have never seen, like in a finger snap our lecturer turned mafia... it was brilliant.
Unfortunately the "swedish 6 hours model" is only used by a few companies and local hospital herre in Sweden. The 8 hour work day rules herre in Sweden aswell... My party Vänsterpartiet (the Left Party) is currently the only party in Sweden that will fight for 6 hours in the coming election.
ah, okay. good to know
Marcus Appelberg didn't work Read the news
Man, I got a fuckin' FEE ad about the "truth about the minimum wage" before this video.
"26.5 hours."
Okay I've definitely worked close to that long on something.. but.. that's like... in an air conditioned room... on my own personal project... on a computer... at home.
You should have more followers. Thank you for being you.
How had I not stumbled across this channel? Fuck the RUclips algorithm is garbage.
Unions are love... unions are life.
+issa Osama nmo problems iwht unions, till they force you to join them, that's why I LVOE living in a right to work state....FACT
IamCancer624 writing shit with FACT next to then doesn't make it true fuckwit.
Suvé Sadique yep they also have low cost if living and do far better than the socialist communist countries of Europe... FACT
Yeah I'm sure hookworm Alabama is doing far better than Sweden lol.
Nathan Drake actually the poorest American states do better than the richest socialist country... FACT
I have an article I'd link but I'm on phone right now :)
moxie , I like what you're saying!
Tea and Bread: sounds like what I survive on durring finals week. The difference is my bread doesn’t have maggots in it and isn’t made of sawdust thanks to food safety standards and my tea isn’t brewed in polluted water (I think) and we have clean water and safe food because people (mainly women) organized and fought against the capitalists who were polluting the water and making unsafe food for working people.
this is perfect timing with Grimes defending Elon Musk's union busting
Great video.
To me, work ethic basically just means doing the job I agreed to do in a reasonable manner without slacking off or wasting time. Anything beyond that is ridiculous and exploitative.
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Weird to use "a strong middle class" as an argument in favour of unions, eh comrade?
yeah, they're speaking to a lay audience
love your work, comrade!
subbed
You rock. We still need to figure out your hair though
Why do want to see people so pressed
and so stressed?
For a second I thought Mexie was 'bout to drop a mixtape.
Mextape
I'll show myself out.
"their diets consisted mainly of tea and bread" m o o o d
i have had the opinion that "to work hard unnecessarily is immoral" because it takes away a larger share of the scarce resource of "work" than needed. same as using too much water or too much food or anything else. although this is not quite correct, no one is saying anything similar on the internet, and that makes no sense