One thing I’ve realized as I’ve gotten older is how many of our jobs are fake or unnecessary. And the jobs that ARE necessary are not nearly as plentiful or well-paid as they should be.
Because many people doing a job doesn't mean it's easy, it means the job is so big and complex that it takes many people to do it. When only one person is needed for a job it doesn't mean they're more important, it means it only takes one person to accomplish that job. When capital gives orders they are asking for help. They are saying I can't do this myself. They are saying I am too small and without the skill needed to accomplish this task, I need workers to help me.
something that is funny/depressing to me is that it seems like the more directly your job benefits society, the less you get paid. like everything would totally fall apart without public transportation workers, mailmen, truck/delivery drivers, janitors, etc but they get paid way less than white collar workers that don't have as much of a day to day impact on the functioning of society (i know this is an oversimplification and white collar jobs actually create value through the manipulation of money but still! interesting.) like personally, i felt like i was contributing wayyyy less to society where i was being highly paid as a software guy than when i was getting paid $6 an hour to babysit kids as a summer camp counselor. my extra 2 cents :)
I know right? I feel like half the people that have white collar jobs show up to work, fuck around in excel, and then go home and collect $90k a year hahha
i was thinking it would not surprise me if the retirement age was 72 in france by the time i was 72. either that, society has completely collapsed, or we have entered a utopia
@@Lili-ey1nd I mean you can but if you are in USA tons of it (maybe all) could disappear in the blink of an eye if you have a major medical problem. Google "most common cause of bankruptcy in USA". To see what millions of Americans struggle with regularly
I think this is why Gen Z absolutely take no bullshit when it comes to worker exploitation - they were born into this dystopian hellscape, and have literally known nothing else. They're starting to see the holes and the futility, and they're already done with it.
yeah i think capitalism was probably awesome in the 1950s when everyone was like whoah!! big houses!!! sexy cars!!! no great depression!!! but nowadays the problems of capitalism loom really large for people in their day to day lives when a lot of people struggle to make it paycheck to paycheck. like for example, i feel like it is getting increasingly difficult (almost impossible???) for people in gen z to be able to buy a house, which used to be a basic thing america "promised" people (thanks for sharing ur thoughts & hope u have an awesome rest of ur day :))
@@introvertedmadnessCapitalism existed in the US in the 1800s. Paper money, aka “Greenbacks” were invented during the Civil War and backed by gold and silver. The economy was less regulated and experienced booms and busts. The busts made people lose faith in the abilities of companies to self-regulate, which lead to more regulation, such as the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Federal Reserve Bank, and welfare programs. Following these changes and WW2 was the “Golden Age”. Keynesians believe the economy can be managed through fiscal/monetary policy, fiscal being taxes/spending, monetary being Fed changing the money supply. Government action is meant to blunt/prevent recessions. After the stagflation in the 70s and 80s, Miltonians decided government interference in the economy did not prevent recessions but merely kicked them down the road. They say welfare appears to be cool because of the immediate benefits and the hidden and long-term nature of its downsides. If you ask a Keynesian about the economy, they will say “the pandemic” or greedy corporations landed us in our current recession, and the way out is to for the government to press the right buttons. Ask a Miltonian, and they will say welfare and overspending are rotting the country from within, and we need to take what has been coming to us since the 40s right now. If we kick this farther down the road, it will only be worse for our children. France is an example of the downsides of welfare. With people unable to provide the income for themselves, their families, and part of a random retired person before reaching 62, the government has to increase the retirement age to get the required money out of the population. If you want our society to be based on love and taking care of each other, join a church and donate cans to the food drive. “Welfare” policies are not love. They are the government pointing a gun at hard working Americans and redistributing their hard-earned money, their “work for the weekends” money, to people these workers have never met and whose lives they may not want to subsidize. Allowing people to choose where their money goes leads to more efficient and sustainable outcomes than government programs, which leak money into the hands of politicians and often grow out of control with questionable results. Churches aren’t perfect, but they (and other private charities) have a higher level of integrity than government officials. I could say a few more things, but I will leave it there. Let me know if you would like to discuss economics further. Credentials: B.S. Economics Sources: “The Indisputable Milton Friedman” - Lanny Ebenstein “American Colossus” - H.W. Brands
@@introvertedmadness absolutely. the image of a 'good life' that most people grew up with (from parents, media, etc.) just doesn't exist anymore, and it just gets worse every generation, which is rlly sad. I hope it gets better sooon and I hope u have an awesome day toooo :)))
This was interesting. As an 'real old' adult, I have seen animals that treat each other better than humans. Too many problems are man-made and have simple solutions. The major problem is that too many people are blinded by greed, indifference and hate.
agreed that so many problems are man-made. i don't even necessarily think money is the problem, bc money is an inanimate object/a tool used by humans - it's the way we use money with greed, like you mentioned, that leads us down a bad path. anyway thanks for sharing your thoughts & hope u have a great rest of your day :)
Omfg thank you for saying ir outloud I felt I was going to lose my freaking mind. Most of the problems if not all are man made. It's so fucked up by the standards of this day and age, unacceptable
You've also got politicians who'll appeal to the WORST in people (fears, grievances) rather than their better angels. One particular name comes to mind.
@@myfriendgoo2816 You'll never guess which political side is more correlated with pro-social behavior and which one is correlated with using words as empty virtue signaling devices.
Usually people who say that are just lying. People with giant moral circles end up helping neither people or the world in general let alone those most close to them because they are that way because they are individualists only looking to signal for their own benefit society be damned.
as a middle-aged person, it really warms my shriveled heart to see young people's increased awareness of these things. it does not get better with age. your job might be better (hopefully) but the feeling of wasting your life will only get stronger as you watch your youth disappear in the rearview mirror and realize you spent most of your waking hours creating profit for some shitty soulless and more often than not exploitative company.
Damn, I’m about to hit 40 this year and this hits hard. I went into the education field, and later healthcare (when being a teacher didn’t pay the bills), because I at least wanted to be in caring professions working for the government or not-for-profits, but those systems chewed me up and spit me out anyhow because the almighty dollar is all that matters. What an awful world we live in.
i'm 15 and i have a job at a fast food restaurant and i absolutely hate it. my dad was talking to me the other day about how gen-z is lazy and the economy is going to fall apart. watching this video, i now do not give a shit about a collapsing economy. i'll do what i always wanted to do when the world "falls apart," i'll start a farm and cook for people i love. thank you for turning my thoughts into a video. i feel less like an entitled little bitch for hating my job!
Hating your job is the essential step in fighting to make it better. People tell you you're supposed to hate your job but you're supposed to try and make it better as a group. There is no running away from it. To get what we want we have to unionize and bargain collectively for better wages and better conditions and time off. The choice then is which jobs can you get that allow that.
ruling class: guys if you don't work the economy will collapse!!! me: don't threaten me with a good time but for real, i also think about moving to a random plot of dirt in the middle of nowhere and just making the rural pastoral life work if it all falls apart lmao. i think another thing that makes working really tough nowadays is that a job at a fast food restaurant isn't really enough to pay the bills nowadays, whereas 40-50 years ago you actually kinda could live a decent life working minimum wage, or, at least, a better life was much more within reach. nowadays, it feels really hard to have upward mobility from a low wage job there's so many messed up things nowadays that feel impossible for any of us to change that yeah, sometimes it feels like the best option is to just opt out of it all and screw off to some farm lol. like other commenters said tho hopefully we can band together and figure out a solution. who knows! i am just a guy too lol. glad you could relate to the vid & good luck with everything dude :)
Don't worry that has nothing to do with why the economy is doing so bad, just global issues out of our control and the big guys up there who are making poor decisions👍. Unsolicited advice but if you do not want to work pointless jobs u hate find something you like to do right now and hone ur ability so it becomes a skill you can monetize by the time ur an adult! llike farming and cooking lol
“You’re not good enough as you are, unless you make money. I wonder why we have a gigantic clusterfuck of mental illness in the US rn” - OMFG, I love you! This speaks to me on so many levels, but nobody in media ever put it into words. Thanks for your channel! You’re doing an amazing work of art
glad you could relate!!! i think everyone's mental health is more closely connected to the general way things are set up than we realize, but the system is so entrenched in our lives we don't even notice it (like fish swimming in water don't notice the water). anyway thank u for watching and hope u have a beautiful rest of ur day :)
They need to change the 40 hours full time week schedule to 20 hours full time a week. It doesn’t make since working 5 days a week to take 2 days off ? We’re being over worked and we don’t know it. Things really to change in society cause later on no-one is going to want to work at these jobs. If we do this life will be so much easier and there will be more jobs available for people. And people will have more time with friends and family. And working will no longer have a bad reputation as it does now. If people can work for only 20hrs and make a full pay check as if was full time 40hrs more people will love going to work. Government needs to re change the laws about working. Working 40 hrs and waiting 7-14 days for check should be in legal.
@@Jeffrey49225so fucking true I am 18 and I work literally full time but it feels so impossible and far away I only get 2 days and I just wanna enjoy the world :( and just be silly but point is ur so right 😭✨🫶
It's not really about money itself but your contribution to the collective whole, making sure you are not a burden to others. After all, you don't just live for yourself. You are not an island. Unless you are a hermit living alone in a cave somewhere, you gotta carry your own weight.
I think the main issue is most jobs don't pay a lot or are not tolerable enough to satisfy people. Of course a majority of the population has to work to uphold society and keep everything running, but the main difference between back in the day and now is back in the day my great grandfather could afford a house working at mcdonalds through a 9-5. Nowadays I have to work 1 full time job, and 1 part time job, with no days off just to afford rent in a shitty apartment with roommates.
TRUEE and now college is getting more and more expensive and student debt is rising but any job that pays slightly above minimum wage requires a degree. its not even a livable/sustainable model in the slightest, yet we're so preprogrammed with this mentality that "this is just how life is"
@@tarakrishna2694 Remember when parents would tell children to become doctors because it pays so well? I sure as shit havent seen anyone say their compensation during the pandemic was fair. Or how much they love their 24h shifts
@@delholiday there is no grand design. Just corpos taking advantage of unorganized workers. Making a fuss like the 1800s should remind them whose labour is keeping them afloat
Our society is also so centered around the illusion of "convenience". Amazon, fast food delivery, pre cooked meals, cat litter boxes that clean themselves, vacuums that move on their own, etc. The idea these things sell you is that you can spend your time you would have spent on these things to do something else you enjoy more. But do people really do that? or do they instead sit mindlessly exhausted from hours of work, too tired to have the energy to do the things that bring them joy. Its a cycle they want you trapped in. work more, only to have to spend more money on things that save you time, to make up for the hours you spent working. There should be a world where instead of these tasks being chores, they are time for us to be mindful and enjoy the little things.
Exactly. We work our asses to afford the convenience and have more time for what we really want but then all the convenience is so expensive that we never take time off because we are busy working to afford the convenience lol.
It’s a vicious cycle. The more we work the more exhausted we are, the more we spend money on things that bring us comfort (food delivery, things we don’t need on amazon) and the more we do things that bring us comfort (endlessly scrolling on our phones to distract ourselves from how we feel). We are no longer doing the activities we actually enjoy, cause we are so traumatized and tired from work that we seek out serotonin at any possible free moment in our day. We’re too mentally exhausted to put energy into things that actually bring us fulfillment, like being creative or trying new hobbies, and succumb to these addictions that have been spoon fed to us by people that are trying to make even more money off of us.
Look. I fully agree with vids OP. There SHOULD be a system to remove wealth as a currency of power and influence. There SHOULD be a way to do what you like and survive. But here is the reality: either we have to limit child birth and kill off non contributing members of society and even nuke 3rd world countries pumping out 5+ child families while living in poverty OR we can let capitalism do it for us. How does anyone think it's possible to sustain an exponentially growing population? The people that talk about stuff like this ignore the fact that every mouth to feed adds strain on our finite resources and strain on our ecosystems. Humans have become a plague to nature by design, so the only thing we can do is limit our numbers and influence on it. If humans lived in caves all we would need is plants to offset our CO2 emissions from breathing. Since every shithead needs a car for every member of his family, multiple houses because they "wanna travel", is too lazy to do simple tasks so dumps then on amazon or any other 3rd sector service we have our current society. Also we have fodder positions that are overpaid while not generating any value or product- HR, support, analytics and many more. The only reason those exist is so companies can try to get the upper hand on their competitor, but if everyone is doing it then it becomes a vicious cycle or dumping more and more resources into those sectors for minimal benefit. As a final note, every country is in debt, but then you ask "but to whom?" since when added up for the whole world the debt should be 0, but it's not.
I actually talked about this yesterday with my roommate. I feel paralysed in some sense to make a choice where my life is headed. While I love acting, I also fear the massive insecurity that pursuing it full time brings to my life, but the thought of just doing some well paying job that I hate until I'm 70 just depresses me immensely. A really poignant video on this topic, keep it up
based comment from leksandr. when i left my last job i just thought to myself, well, if it doesn't work out, i'll just go back to the type of office job i had previously and nothing will really have changed. but if it DOES work out, that's awesome!!! at the end of the day, life isn't that serious & is meant to be enjoyed, and truly, the worst thing that can happen isn't even THAT bad. at the same time, something i've been trying to do myself is not stress myself out over making a decision immediately. like there's no deadline for you to choose if you're gonna be an actor or work an office job, so it's all good. u got this dude, good luck with everything. im rooting for u :))))
As a grown man I can tell you that you likely wont be doing the same job your whole life. I've held 10 different jobs in the last 5 years or so. It's okay to start your life just trying to make some money and learn more about the world so you can figure out where you want to invest your time. Even working 40 hours a week I sometimes still struggle with being bored. Just point yourself in direction that makes you not resent yourself and keep your eyes open for something you love.
Acting is just nepo babies but if you really wanna do it you gotta change your name Whoopie Goldberg style. Call yourself Tony Coppola or Mary Berrymore and you're in.
Been ridiculously lucky in my life. As a kid I loved maps. In college, I told my dad I wanted to switch from economics to geography. He said Go For It. Got my degree & been making maps for 40 years. Not the highest paying job but incredibly enjoyable. I even got to work at Google for a while. Will probably keep drawing maps thru retirement & right up till I drop dead. As I say, I'm a lucky guy.
@@oranges557 Started off with an atlas company, then some GIS jobs in transportation, then worked for a travel publishing company, got acquired by Google, now with a Swedish map company that does wayfinding maps. All the time doing freelance stuff. You can make a nice living & thoroughly enjoy what you do.
Hell yeah, living your life as a happy cartographer. I hope I can find something I can enjoy for a long time and also make ends meet. Might not be as lucky but hey, a guy can dream! Reading your comment gave me some happiness.
Yes you’re lucky but you worked hard too! Most people don’t have the capacity to stick with something for 40 years! I know that I don’t at least. Congrats on all the success. I wish to be like you when I’m older
It really sucks, I just want to own land so I can grow food and have some money for food, electricity, and the internet. I don't care about growing my money. I just want to be left alone and survive on my own.
If you go that route, make sure you make lotsa farmer friends. Farmers look after each other, and are wholeheartedly some of the most down to earth people I've met.
@@pastsubstance2930Omg the dream, for real. Just let me have my measley little garden and woods to forage in (I’m a hobby forager). Let me find out what my neighbors are growing so I can grow different things and we can trade with each other for whatever we need. Let me make enough stupid money to have internet and lights, and I will literally stay tf out of society’s hair forever, I just want it tf out of mine also.
Because you have no time and energy left for the things you love...and when you are aware how you are wasting most of your life like this, not even getting enough money for the future, then whats the point.
After having met millionaires, academics, startup bros, and corporate directors, I say the only people who live ideal lives as if they were Gods on this earth are remote villagers. They know everything they need to know, they love everyone they know, and they can do everything they need to do. The feelings of clarity, safety, and belonging are unmatched.
Many villagers rely on the land for commerce and food so unfortunately global warming is ruining that. I live in a village and it's sad to see. But yes those around me are surprisingly content and always share the little they have. Like real humans
Well I’m not living in a remote village but I grew up on my family’s land. So in the country. Honestly, living outside of the city and away from everything simply feels…as it was meant to be. Honestly don’t think people were meant to live in gigantic cities, surrounded by absolutely nothing natural at all.
I think it also depends on where in the world that remote village is in. I’m from Taiwan, a lot of the rural villages in China are complete nightmares, rampant human trafficking, women and children and neurodivergent people have no rights and in the worst cases are treated as slaves. Taiwan’s remote villages are somewhat better in terms of human rights, but women are still devalued, and because of the limited space on an island, farmers are under constant threat of the gov + corporations taking away their land. The best solution for them is to earn enough and build a factory or introduce high tech farming gimmicks and gain capital (and power by proxy), but that again defeats the purpose of coexisting with nature as humans are designed to be.
aye sorry to hear that dude. sucks when stuff happens outside your control, but u got dis (something i've been trying to internalize is "control the controllables"! like not beating myself up too much about stuff i literally can't change) anyway thanks 4 watching & good luck with everything dude :)
@@introvertedmadness yeah I just learned that the scholarship was sponsored by a shitty company anyway so it wouldn't be right if I accepted money from them. Morality is more important than some money. Thanks for the words of advice 👍
@@Immadeus no you should definitely accept all money double so if the source is immoral. You have an imperative to take their money and make sure they never derive the benefit. You'll get em next time.
@@justcommenting4981 I disagree, the corporation that is funding the scholarship knows that they will lose money, however they're fine with that because their plan is to recuperate the costs by shilling unpaid internships from said company to anyone who has the scholarship. The way I see it, this is just an elaborate form of advertising, and I'm not selling out for no advertisement, even if I ignore their internships. It's kinda like when a RUclipsr does an ad read for ExpressVPN. ExpressVPN knows they will lose money and that most people will ignore the ad, but they plan to make their money back from the small percentage of people who will pay attention. Tl;dr: the scholarship is just a glorified ad for the company
Not only did I learn about the strikes in France, but you also introduced me to the idea that money has shifted from being something that we use for society to the very thing that society is supposed to be for (It seems obvious now, but I never thought of it this way). I will definitely be reflecting on this more further. Typical introvertedmadness W.
@@apriluno7210 my memory isn't hyper fresh on this but i think what @neutinohman is saying is in Capital by Marx lol. that we went from exchanging Commodities for Money for other Commodities (CMC) to exchanging Money for Commodities for more Money (MCM). It's dumb bc he has been really made a devil but he had very interesting analysis of capitalism. Might have not figured out a good alternative, but he sure pinpointed a lot of things that were wrong. And there's great summaries of his work out there.
someone commented on a different video something like "knowledge is only valued if it helps a business" and i was like whoa very deep (good luck in college :) )
@@introvertedmadness which is why everything is skewing so heavily towards math and science in education, to the detriment of everything else (and society). It's capitalism having its say in what we should learn, and everyone just seems to lap it up.
I am so sad we live in this society. I used to think I hated being alive, until I realized, that living is beautiful; waking up, eating, hanging out with people and doing human stuff... what I really hate and makes me depressed is having to live in this sad world. I hate this game because it ruined human experience.
this comment reminds me of these researchers we learnt about in psychology (called alloy and abrahamson) who said that ‘depressed people are simply realists and see the world as it is whilst non depressed people are seeing the world through rose tinted glasses’ it freaks me out the way society is and the way people act like we are crazy for questioning this terrible system freaks me out even more 😭😭 im glad everyone in this comment section can relate on hating the system tho at least
this is the best explanation of what is wrong with society ive ever heard, you have absolutely nailed how utterly ridiculous it is that we have to waste away our one experience of this planet by doing things EVERYONE hates but all still, somehow, collectively conform to.
i appreciate how well-informed you become on the subject before making a video about it AND you manage to make it understandable and funny at the same time. this entire video is so incredibly based and you just never miss. i'm still a senior in high school but everything you said encapsulates how i feel about the idea of having to work a 9-5 for most of my life
same it’s so scary to think about entering the working world im already ready to retire after school itself but now we have college and jobs to suffer through :/ like let us just live
thank u for watching and im glad u could relate!! im old asf and working a 9 to 5 still terrifies me lmao, but it's branded as the "safe"/"practical"/"correct" thing to do and there are so many forces pulling everyone in that direction. if u want my unsolicited advice, try to find something you love spending ur time doing and just listen to your inner compass from there. it all seems to work out in the end when you do that :)
@@introvertedmadness I'm just discovering this GEM 💎 of a video!!! Love it!!! I've been spouting off at the mouth about all these topics of capitalism since my early 20s!!! I'll turn thirty later this summer and it all still unfortunately is ringing true!!! I hope capitalism dies and quick but painful death for ALL of our sakes! Also, how old are you? You do not look "old asf" lol I am most likely subscribing from this video alone and gonna check out your other vids too now!
This just makes me want to learn agriculture. I would rather learn how to survive than just wait for money to provide for myself. I'm in college and already regret picking CS, and what's worse is that I'm slowly getting sick of looking at the screen all day, and seeing myself get a job doing that for the rest of my life frightens me.
Go for it. If it's too late to change your major, drop out of college. I think agriculture is vital too -- we especially need indoor agriculture right now as farmers struggle to cope with too much extreme weather. Your experience in CS will be of some help to you anyway, I'm sure.
you should deffo pick whatever major you want and switch if you want, and also remember ur college major doesn't determine your future so it's all chill! (even if you major in cs or agriculture and then decide you wanna become a zoologist or professional juggler there are ways to make that happen :)) and as a cs major agreed, it seems super cool at first and then gets mega rough lol. agriculture seems like a cool thing to study in college tbh, like what gets more practical than that lmao. anyway good luck with everything dude, have a wonderful rest of ur day :)
Why not get the CS side of agriculture? There are actual companies and the government itself that need these type of programmers. Ones that can create systems to monitor things such as soil fertilization, mineral decay over time, etc. which will take you to actually learn about agriculture anyways, thus killing two birds with one stone and allowing you to quit when you have a lot of money and then get subsidized by the government and get free money to start your own farm with your own proprietary software ;)
My mom grew up on a farm and one of her brothers' family lives almost entirely off of food they grow and animals they raise themselves. It's hard work, and my mom always talks about how different the life is, but it's very rewarding to know where your food comes from and be satisfied with what you do every day.
Yea, in short, money is not a tool anymore. It's our entire purpose. And I can't befriend that idea and I'm really scared when I hear my friends talk about monetizing everything they do. Like... No. You shouldn't have to do that. What I also often hear, when I talk about wanting a job I'd enjoy, similar to that french saying you learned, is: "You don't live for work, you work to live." Which sounds absolutely deranged to me. You can't separate work from life because guess what, you are living life even when you work. The clock is ticking anyway.
Well said! We fought a goddamn Civil War in the 1860s to stop millions of people being owned by other people for profit (and now I'm gonna go outside and stop commenting on this video)
right!!! we shouldn't HAVE to turn our lives into money making enterprises just to get food, water, clothes, shelter, etc., but we do because we set up a system where everything costs money and money is the most important thing. working 8 hours a day at a job you don't like just to be tired at night and on the weekends seems like a raw deal. idk! talking about it makes me depressed lol but i do feel like there are ways to "hack" the system / focus on your life first and figure out a way to afford your life. anyway thanks for sharing you thoughts, wishing you the best bro and have an excellent rest of your day :)
It's so nice to hear this idea from someone else and see that I'm not alone in this. Adults try and call us entitled for wanting basic human rights (despite money being worth 3x as much in their time as it is now), but almost every young person nowadays feels this exact same way about working and feeling hopeless about the future of our society. I really love your videos man, you always put into words exactly what I'm thinking and feeling better than I ever could and make me feel a lot less alone
This will all end with us tho. Most millennials don’t want and aren’t having kids. I can’t stand boomers and Gen X complain about this world yet they keep uplifting it. Nobody wants to here, they’re selfish and lack empathy.
ya dude, i think it's funny when people call people who call for less work or whatever "lazy" cuz it's like??? it's lazy to just want to have basic human needs without having to sell your life to some corporation? like dang is that really too much to ask for, we have so much more technology than the mesopotamians but it's apparently a crime to use that technology to chill out more. glad you could relate to the vibes dude, thanks 4 the support & sharing ur thought. hope u have an extremely chill rest of ur day :)
No, you are exactly right. I apologize for my generation and those older. We were the turning point. Then all my peers elected Reagan. Money became God. You are not even slightly lazy. You are so much smarter than us. I have a nephew who is 19 and I encourage him to find a way to start his own business, then invest carefully so he can do what he wants. He's also not going into too much debt for college. Enjoying your life and finding happiness is the only thing that matters. I became seriously disabled at 29. I am 58 now. I still struggle financially now but I did one thing in my 20's that has saved me and secured my family. I took a crazy risk that I believed in. I lived in Harlem during the crack epidemic and homesteaded my family's brownstone. Everyone said I was nuts! We bought out our cousins in 1990 for $90,000. Spent about $400,000 over 30 years fixing it up. And now it is worth about $3 mil. We will have to sell it soon to take care of my aging parents. But that money has kept me out of homelessness and was the home where my brother, his 2 wives (not at the same time), my nephew, my cousin, my niece and several friends were able to live and love NYC. Keep fighting to find a way to change the world. Start your own small business. Start a non-profit service. Start a for profit business where all the employees are owners. You kids can do it. I believe in you. All of you. I am either a very young Boomer or a very old Xer. (I claim Xer) Either way I think we were the first generation to REALLY understand how fucked up the world is. Unfortunately, too many of my peers got tired, gave up and became Republicans. So it is up to you guys. Please figure it out. My nephew and my baby cousins deserve a better world than this one. I apologize for all my Boomer and Xer peers who fucked up the world.
It's just wild to me that jobs that actually helps society (usually minimum wage and blue collar jobs) gets paid less while white collar jobs (usually working on a computer) gets paid more. I like art and animation but I am also learning to code. I already noticed how society seems to value art less but values coding skills more, which is a shame. I see art everywhere, and people are drawn to art, whenever it's storytelling, videos, aesthetic of art, music, etc. I know coding is a huge part of our lives due to tech, but even in tech I see a blend of art in there too. I already finished University but had a hard time finding a job. I was just in a job interview recently. It's been eye opening how hard it is to find work even with a degree. I think it's a shame we live in a society where even hobbies should be monetized just to pay the bills. I'm aiming to see if I can do multiple streams of income so if I ever lose a job at least I have another source of income. I want to travel one day and enjoy various foods from different cultures. But for now I'm already thinking of going back to study in the future for certification. I've just been searching for jobs and networking nonstop.
only like 4 mins in but what’s funny is they’ve done studies that make kids receive money from a hobby/thing they like, and they’ve found that it hinders the enjoyment of that action. i found that very interesting / gratifying that my own personal experiences have a scientific backing lol
that's really interesting, hot take time: when you start making money for a hobby, that hobby is now generating something that is supposed to pay for ur food/shelter/survival, which is a lot of pressure to put on a hobby!! thanks for sharing dude :)
yeah I think hobbies are basically adult version of playing. having fun is necessary & I don’t think we grow out of that need. if you paid a kid to go play at the playground and then told him he needs to start using that money to pay for his food and his house, going to the playground wouldn’t be so fun anymore!! because a big part of what makes it fun is the feeling of freedom, doing things out of your own autonomy, having it be lighthearted
Yes, this is all so true. My brother has a job that he hates a lot because of his co-workers. I once suggested he monetizes his passion for gaming, photography or electronics repairing. But he told me that if his hobbies became his source of income, he wouldn't enjoy doing them anymore and would start to hate them. So he prefers to stick to his job and use his money to spend it on things he enjoys. Now I understand him better. The problem is that he comes home so tired that he cannot really dedicate mich time to his hobbies :/ It's like a vicious cycle to some extent.
@introvertedmadness It also devalues the hobby itself because now the goal isn't doing it bc you love it and it brings you meaning, bit for money. I'm so sick of this money obsession.
I mean, if working is supposed to be unpleasant, then what incentive do I have to give birth to new life and impose this unpleasant system on them? The answer: no incentive. If work is not going to benefit me, then I will not give them future workers to exploit for personal gain.
Exactly. And it should be no surprise that so many US tycoons are extreme anti-choice control freaks who want to force girls as young as 12 to give birth. The system they depend on requires very large numbers of births every year and they don't care who makes the babies or if it's done safely or voluntarily.
We were told ppl who didn’t have kids were “selfish” when it was the other way around. Every time I see a baby or toddler I cringe. Why would u bring them here?
Climate change is going to take care of that anyway. Someone born today has a good chance to live to 2100 or so. The last 40 years or so of that won't be good, as by that time we'll see the reefs all but gone and other links in the food chain collapsing, as well as refugee crises far greater than what we have today. Especially scary is when effects start pinching food supply even with population still going up. Oh, and India and Pakistan will be especially hard hit and both have nukes. What could go wrong?
@@myfriendgoo2816 Population by 2060 will be growing at the slowest pace in the story of humanity to basically start declining by 2080. The raise in temperature wont cause the natural disasters you say it will up until the 2100's if left unchecked (it will not go unchecked) you apocalyptic fearmongering is pedantically pointless since something like 99% of the people today wont be alive to see the 2100's. If you want to be more proactive at spreading climate change awareness go out with the anti-oil hippies or something else.
same, im glad there are other people out there who feel this way. we all in this shit together, i hope it all works out for us. thanks for watching dude and have a chill rest of ur day :)
Something that’s been making me so frustrated lately is how customer service jobs force their employees to be overly friendly. Imagine the aggregate mental health toll that’s taking on people working these low-wage jobs. From what I hear, other countries’ customer service workers don’t act like they’re your friend. Cuz they’re not!
The amount of thoughts that scream to me to literally kill anyone treating me like shit is insane. Guess that’s normal for us humans, we aren’t mean to treat complete strangers that shit on us like they’re our best friend.
@@nothanks830 absolutely! People that are rude to customer service workers are the worst kinds of people to me. I always think to myself when someone is rude to them: there's no way you've ever, in your privileged life, had to suffer through a customer service job. Otherwise you wouldn't treat them like shit.
@@HotelMari0Maker 100%. No one has ever experienced any sort of customer service job if you’re acting like the world owes you something. You ever just look at someone belittling you and think “Damn, if this was in real life, in nature, and we were alone, do you have any idea how fast I could kill you”.
Live life on your terms the best you can and capitalize on every privilege given to you because the odds in this system are stacked against everyone’s happiness
one of the times this hit me the hardest was when I was 21 and had a full time job that gave sick time, unpaid time off and paid time off. 40 hrs each and on a cumulative basis per year for PTO, set for unpaid and sick time. I had a lot of things happen in that year so I used all my UNPAID time off lol, so the boss was like yeah now you have to use your sick time or paid time. This made me feel huge existential fear like… how in the FUCK are you able to tell someone they aren’t allowed to take any unpaid time off????? Excuse me what???? It’s UNPAID!!!!! I suddenly felt super trapped that someone could tell me I couldn’t call out for a day if there was an emergency, even though I wouldn’t be getting paid at all. Aren’t I an adult here? Why are my bosses telling me what I can and can’t do in regards to my personal time and only allowing a set amount of days per year for things that are out of my control. This shit is just bizarre.
Bizarre af. Not to diminish your pain bc honestly not, I’m just gonna trauma dump here bc I’m drowning, haha. 40 hrs you say… in my country, a 3rd would country, you’d be doing 48 hrs and probably it’s not even half of what you’ve been doing. It’s fucking scary. How they treat us is disgusting and terrifying. I hope it gets better for all of us.
I had a difficult job, but I loved it. After five years working there, we were all laid off. So I lost a lot of friends and a big part of myself. I like learning and increase my job skills as a hobby though, so I wasn't worried too much about finding a new job. And wow have things changed. Many places outright lie about job duties to try and pay less. And a lot of places have one position doing the tasks of what used to be three different positions. Insane. I never had a sour view towards work five years ago. Today? I see recruiters and most employers as scum.
yeah, employers love to pitch the whole "we're a family" thing so much that it's become a meme, but at the end of the day, it seems like they care most about maximizing the profit per employee they have. which, idk, just seems like a really callous way to treat other human beings. good luck with everything dude, hopefully you find/have found a new job you enjoy. hope u have a legendary rest of ur day :)
@@introvertedmadness Yeah, companies want to pretend that inflation isn't happening. They complain others won't work, and yet they won't do the work of hiring themselves anymore, outsourcing to dodgy recruiting companies. Thanks for the good wishes, I hope you have a great week.
Luck is involved. I took a new job in 2022 mid-year. Got a 10K bonus which was very unexpected. Up for a 24K bonus for 2023. Companies do not advertise these things and most will say you are eligible for up to 20% but you'll never see more than 5%. But then I hit the lottery. Keep looking and ask those questions at interview.
That's always been my theory for what that productivity to compensation chart is all about. Every time there's a round of layoffs, the ones who are left end up taking on the jobs of everyone who was fired. When the economy starts expanding again the new hires take on the same level of responsibility.
the craziest part is how me and my friends talk about this exact topic ALL the time, and yet we all are working office job internships this summer that we absolutely dread. it’s the worst feeling that there is nothing you can do about it, it’s not like some revolution can be done cause what would we even protest,, like this entire society??
Become a communist, or socialist, or anarchist or something. Read some books about it (if you can't afford / access books, you might want to look into Zlibrary or others like it). Read some books and go from there.
coding is so cool!!! you start from a blank page and can make a button so the page turns pink!!! its like magic!!! and satisfies some deep carpenter part of my human soul. but its way too grindy nowadays like you said and all about how can we write code that makes money, sigh. fingers crossed we get back to making cool stuff
as a Canadian I cannot even fathom the thought of most people retiring in their 60s. my grandmother is 80 and still works. also, as a neurodivergent person who cannot work, a big obstacle I see that maybe others don't is how work is structured. it hit me hardest when playing Persona 5, and you can just work at a convenience store and go in and work whenever. The work structure we have now is so rigid and limiting-you have to have a resume, do interviews, get hired, and then you're given a schedule you have to stick to. and for some fields, yeah, that makes sense, but for others...why can't we have a more lax, collective system?? if our communities were more tight knit where neighbours know one another, know their skills and their limits, we could go to a place and say "hey do you need help today? I'm available to work." and you work as long as you can work. If I could actually work a bit then clock out when I start to feel that sensory overload, I actually COULD work, and since not working is incredibly socially isolating, I think it'd feel pretty rewarding. and people would enjoy working more, since you'd be helping your neighbour, not generating wealth for massive corporations while you are paid pennies in comparison to the grossly rich CEOs at the top. do people really need to be over stressing their bodies to like...sell clothes??? Nobody's gonna die if most shops close a little early. I've seen people get fired because they have a cold or flu for "too long"...or they work anyway to pay rent! it's insane. I actually think if we had a more chill system some things might be more convenient, such as letting night owls work at night. more places having night hours sounds more convenient to me!
I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone vocalize so accurately how I feel about work and money. You should make more videos about the state of society and what not.
Nobody likes to work and in truth work isn’t supposed to be “fun”. It’s sad and painful to realize we HAVE and need to work to not starve, be homeless, and worse in the US, to get healthcare. Even when folks air their grievances the response “go cry into your paycheck” is dismissive and gross. What gets me through it is to find a job I LIKE doing even if it may or may not be my Dream Job. Just one that aligns with me & my interests. Some people may say “well it might not pay much then” but I don’t think so because if I know I’m a person who likes to assist I’ll explore avenues that’ll get me there. It takes time, trial, and error but it works. Also this sounds very cliche but honing your skills & building a network gets you to that high paying job you want faster. Nepotism is real & honestly how non-college graduate folk get those high paying coveted people spend years in school for.
When people say that they hated their jobs, they’re not saying they want to have fun at their jobs. Granted, working is not playing, and most of the people are well aware of this fact. However, most of the dysphoria comes from people experiencing alienation. Alienation is the sense of dehumanizing, and it will not be solved if you simply replace working with playing. People naturally seek meaning and values from their actions, and need to get fulfillment from the process. The problem is that people don’t feel that they are creating values through working, nor that they are valued for it. You don’t have to enjoy your work or love your job to feel fulfilled: A small farm owner doesn’t have to love the work, but they surely feels less alienation via their labor than their white collar peers. The gardener directly get what they sow and they knows that their work directly go to them. With most jobs, you don’t directly enjoy the product, your productivity is instead evaluated and quantified by its monetary value. This brings the biggest problem with our late-staged capitalism society is that everything is commodified and money as an intermediary actually makes people feel disconnected with their work.
I don’t get the hate towards work itself, i know many people who if they didn’t have work or school, they’d just be at home scrolling through tiktok or other social media for hours.. However, where i’ll concur is that ROI and fair treatment on our work is getting worst. Wages not keeping up with the cost of living, inflation, workers rights and unions getting steamrolled, a reccession, etc. Work isn’t the problem to me, it’s the lack of fairness in how our work is handled.
Man, I agree with everything you said, I think it's sad that we have to waste most of our lives working at a job we don't want to be at. people say we're free but we're not free true freedom is being able to lie down in a field of grass at any time in the day or night because we have no obligations no pressure to maintain the basic necessities we need to survive.
some work, is necessary. without it we would not be having this conversation, at this website. the problem is the excess. of how much of our life we give to don't live. If I had the option to work like. 5h a day. or 3 days a week. even earning a lot less. I would accept it. I'm more productive. I don't feel that I'm losing my life on it. and, well. I don't like the idea of going all in to caveman mode but, a balance for me is key. life is meant to be lived.
Thank you! I've been saying the same thing for a long time. It's gotten out of control. When you work a 40 hr week but live in your car because you can't afford rent, there is a problem. The world is controlled by profit mongers. I'm glad people are beginning to talk about it. That's the only way it's going to change. We're going to have to be the ones. They're not going to change a thing.
My work has been suffering from my increasing certainty that what I am paid to do doesn't contribute anything to society let alone my happiness. It's tough after you get out of school; your life goes from enrichment and self-actualization focused to oh I have to spend most of my waking hours making money so I have somewhere to sleep at night. My friend and I were just talking about how well-rounded we were as students and how now there's no time for pursuing interests. I'm sure there are people who can make the time for their hobbies, but for us, we'd have to sacrifice something like sleep or household chores to do something fun and interesting. Great and engaging video. I like your editing style.
Thank you so much for these videos, I was feeling so alone in my early 20s currently living at home with no social life and it feels like I have made a friend/big bro in you. Sometimes feels like I’m the only one feeling this way so it’s nice to see another stranger on the internet feeling this typaway
This channel is 100% going to blow up, you're extremely funny and entertaining and seem to really value interacting with your audience. On the subject of the video, I really don't know how things could be changed or what could be done as I know little about politics and even less about economics, the current system is definitely broken, but I'm not sure what could be done to fix it. As an aspiring Aerospace engineer, I hope my passion doesn't get snuffed out by the job system in of itself.
i had the exact feeling you're describing halfway through making this video, i was like: well i'm pointing out all these problems in this video that seem to exist, but also: what the heck am i personally gonna do about these problems??? like i don't know how to personally fix the economy or even how i would go about convincing politicians to fix the system because none of them seem to care. it almost seems just way more mentally healthy on an individual level to just find a niche in the system you enjoy and ride it out, like you said. i think the first step to any real change though is just talking more about these problems openly and addressing the elephant in the room that the system doesn't work for a lot of people. because i think there are more of us who want to change the system that we think, but we all just don't know how to do it. but yeah!!! idk!!!! thanks for commenting and sharing ur thoughts dude, def very relatable for me :) good luck with aerospace engineering and hope u have a gorgeous rest of ur day!!
@@introvertedmadness seconding that you're definitely going to blow up!!! This was such an entertaining yet fascinating video. Really nice to watch such a thought out video, something so articulate (and with graphics to keep my broken brain consistently attentive 😭)!! I also struggle with the knowledge that SO much is wrong, but that the people, the organizations that could make moves to fix it are those who have the incentive not to, so it was reassuring to hear/read in the comments I wasn't the only one concerned. I tend to focus too much on geopolitics, but you phrased your thoughts so perfectly, in the video and in this comment!! Helped shake off some of my unfortunate tunnel vision lol. Centering our entire lives around money is such a concise way to put it. I've always thought the same, but far more verbosely 💀💀There's so much to do and not a clear way to do it, and coming from a very big pessimist that's pursuing what will make me money over my interests (partially because monetizing interests, imo, can remove the joy/spark from said interests) it's simultaneously so much simpler (while still being horrible nuanced and convoluted yes yes lol) when you allow yourself to boil it all down. Like way down. Like nuking the nuance all to hell for your mental health, down. Either we all die miserably or we don't, and bringing awareness in the form of such a wonderful piece like this, creating a space to talk about the future and potential action, makes me think we might just not. Die miserably, that is😭😭 anyways lovely days to introverted madness and the og commenter!!! this is very rambling but I just wanted to show my appreciation in a form that wasn't a like, or sharing the link!
It’s a relief knowing other people think about this stuff. Dialogue is the first step; we need people to start talking about this more if we want to implement changes. When the inconveniences of our way of life outweigh the benefits, that’s when we’ll start to change the way we do things. I’m hopeful for a better future for this species, but some major changes need to happen.
Finishing my master's degree rn and I'm going into consulting with no idea why other than yay $$$. Would rather make music and try stand up comedy, this video is inspiring me to at least give each a good try and hey even if they don't make me money at least it can be a hobby i enjoy.
heck yeah dude, go for those things. i think in modern times we all basically have 2 jobs, if we define jobs as activities we spend a lot of time doing: the job we have to pay for food/shelter/survival and the job we have that actually fulfills our deep human spirit. and like you said, even if u don't make money, you get enjoyment, and you can argue that enjoyment is even more valuable than money in the grander scheme of things. anyway good luck with the standup and music dude & hope u have a fantastic rest of ur day :)
I’m actually doing the same! I’m a music artist as well going for my MBA and what I’ve decided to do is just figure out how to take my love for business and merge it into my love for music. I’m sure the perfect business idea will come along but don’t give up on brainstorming the merging of your skills!
The problem is that working, even a few decades was a decent deal. You could afford an apartment, a cheap car and decent vacation once in a while. Now i know people my age who work full time and still have to live with their parents, because rent and other living costs are way too expensive. So what is the point when wages are so stagnated and living costs are higher than ever. Also many jobs that actually contribute to society are low paid and considered low tier. So the "you have to contribute to society" is complete bs, where in today's world most paid are fart sniffers who do nothing entire day and even do the opposite of contributing to society. How many rich ceo's today got their job and wealth from working hard? Almost all of them come from ultra rich families.
We should focus on reducing our own expenses so those in power are forced to pay more for our services. Having children is extremely expensive and if you cannot get job security and good pay - raising kids is a ticket to poverty.
I felt like my entire college years were built on a mindset that I have to learn sth that can bring me to a job after graduating. Now every sing day of my life I live in desperation
i know that feel dude. i feel like leaving the school system is weird cuz you exit and realize the "real world" is this crazy lord of the flies situation. at the end of the day (unsolicited advice time!!!) u just gotta find things you enjoy and go from there, cuz at the end of the day, life is short and silly anyway. hope you're doing ok dude, u got dis. have a splendid rest of ur day :)))
@@introvertedmadness thank you very much for your kind and powerful words! Really means a lot to me. Planning to continue working on this job for like five years or so just to save some fxxk off money then I can quit and actually do what I enjoy doing. Thank you and wish you have a wonderful day as well
Big 4 Senior Auditor here: The audit would go smoothly if there wasn't so much turnover from our side and the client side. In my 3.5 years of working, my team had one person from each level quit. Then my client contacts seem to not understand our evidence requests or their own control environment, so we have to explain everything like they're 5. Gonna go to industry and get that 30k pay bump.
Yah between my internship and my actual start at my firm there were like 4 people I recognized outside of partners and managers. It kind of sucks because I like the people I work with, then they just leave. I'm struggling with this to because I like what I do, Hell I can put up with busy season even, but it just sucks having to learn 15 new people each year and only 3 of them be there the next year. I also don't have a Wife or kids so I don't have to worry about that with busy season.
lmao i have also noticed that and i also like that direction. though tbh, i feel like nowadays left/right/etc are labels used to divide us. even though they're literally just random labels we use to define certain ideas. anyway thanks for the support & hope u have a jovial rest of ur day :)
Absolutely amazing video! Jreg has released a new video titled "Speed A(DHD)ccelarationism" where he says something along the lines of "Oh you thought that AI was going to liberate work? Turns out you just have to outcompete it in the job market". I don't know what will happen in the next 5 years when many of the entry-level jobs will most probably disappear.
we keep making all these cool new technologies that are supposed to help us work less but then we end up working more and more miserable!!! like why!!!!!!! we shoulda started chilling way more after we invented tractors. i hope we figure it out dude, but i'd be lying if i said i was optimistic about the chances that all this new AI stuff leads to humans having more free time. like it seems more likely that a whole new class of dumb jobs will be invented if/when AI takes the menial ones. but fingers crossed it all works out???? thanks for watching homie & hope u have a delightful rest of ur day :)
@@introvertedmadness This is a weird tangent, but since I currently live with a view of the Sears / Willis Tower: US farmers did get a lot of their labor-saving devices from the Sears Roebuck Company via mail order (it was the Amazon of 1910). This saved them money and time but the company quickly became such a monopolistic behemoth that poorer farmers were squeezed out of farming completely -- this is before farming was subsidized by the US government. The company eventually moved into selling home goods, and that's how most Boomers remember it. It filed for bankruptcy in 2018. I am absolutely sure Amazon will go through this same cycle (only faster), and that AI will prove to be much like the telephone, a scary earthshaking invention at first but definitely not a replacement for all human interaction and writing!
Omg new video from my RUclips emotional support human!! Haha but honestly I had a really rough week, and you videos always help me through stuff. Keep being you man, and I will be forever grateful for the algorithm that suddenly decided I need to know more about CS at Stanford. Edit: I would love to join the introvertmadness lovism society.
thanks for the kind words yo :')))) i mega appreciate the support, i feel like it makes it easier for me to stay true to what i want to say knowing that there are others who are able to connect to it and enjoy it. hope your week is improving and have a magical rest of ur day :) and yes when i start my commune i will reserve a yurt for u
A reason why I get behind on chores and such is having a full time job. I ask myself do I really want to spend my limited free time I have on cleaning, going to the dentist, etc?
chores are underrated when it comes to how much time they take up, cuz they're basically "maintenance" for your life. employers act like they're giving us such a gift because we "only" work 8 hours a day so we should have 8 hours of free time, but that stuff goes by FAST when even if you're just cooking/cleaning/showering/etc
It's called living to work and it's what you get pushed toward, even though the drawbacks are obvious. What's even worse is if the office culture is one of those "I have to suffer so you have to suffer too" ones where the long-timers actually become a part of the problem.
And just think, if you eventually had kids, your responsibilities would quadruple. Say goodbye to making enough money and having time for yourself. However, by not having kids, you ensure that there are fewer consumers and workers for corporations to exploit and profit from in the future.
work could be like a chore, a maintenance thing not the main thing on life. or the definition of who we are. something we need to do but don't take all of our life.
I just found your channel, I really like your videos! You touched on this briefly, how working is connected to one’s morality. For example if a person makes more money they are in a theoretical higher social position, and if they don’t make as much money it’s seen as their fault for being lazy. Meanwhile, people that are born into wealth get to live life sooner and aren’t as “money” obsessed as lower income people. I’m unemployed right now and I feel terrible for not being productive, and I feel incredibly insecure being around other people my age who have full time jobs. It’s changed from “what school do you go to?“ to “what do you do for work?” Our entire identity is what you do and if it’s not “respectable” or makes a lot of money people look at you sideways. This is rambley, but I have thoughts apparently on this topic.
yeah i think the system as a whole has a really messed up message it sends to people - like you said, our entire worth as human beings is basically defined by what we do for work, since people who don't work in theory generally able to purchase the things they need for survival or have to really struggle to afford these things. which i feel like is just weird!!! like everyone is always talking about how every human life is important and yet we have a system where some lives are "valued" more than others because they sit in a cubicle for 40 hours a week doing some made up tasks. so many people's obsession with defining their personality based on their job when the job is just some fake thing just makes me feel weird lol. hanks for watching & sharing you thoughts, wishing you the best & hope u have a terrific day :)
Completely agree. I love the idea of a system built on love. Imagine how many things could actually be solved: poverty, warmongering, corruption and so much more
And he learned an important lesson. The problem with taking from someone when you have nothing to gain is that one day, that person may wind up with nothing to lose.
The idea that our standard of living has improved is a complete myth… since the time work and enslavement has existed, our standard of living went from living free lives in nature with hours of leisure activity everyday to getting whipped, eating toxic food, and being forced into a hierarchy that perpetually subjugates those who need support and care the most.
However, they do this to us because they need us. If we threaten their interests by refusing to work or give ourselves enough food to even work in the first place - the deaths combined with starvation will lead to massive decreases in consumer spending and productivity which will negatively impact the profitability of corporations and will anger many corporate shareholders. They need us, and they want to obscure this fact by making us feel like replaceable trash.
But at the same time we needed to fend off dangers from nature, sickness, life expectancy was in the gutter, etc. Not defending problems in our work system but I wouldn’t romanticize the past so much
thank you for this!! you explained my internal monologue for the last 6 months in under 13 minutes. it’s very well written and edited and i really needed to hear this right now :,)
What I really love about your style of video is the quality. The black noise from the green screen, the popping noises in your audio. Remembers me of the good old youtube days. Thank you
I’m only fifteen, and I’m probably going to have to get a job and choose a career soon. It honestly scares me. I’ve been talking to my dad and he keeps telling me that being an author (which is what I want to do, and is the only thing I’ve ever felt a purpose to do) has really bad job security, and is a super hard field to make it into, and he’s already pushing me into the direction of majoring in business or economics or something stupid I would be miserable in, or to at least find a plan b “in case it doesn’t work out.” Almost nobody with jobs that I talk to can confidently say they love, or even by extension, *like* what they do. Adulting truly sounds terrifying in this society.
I’m in the same boat..I’ve researched so many careers but it seems like every single one the first thing that comes up is “I HATE MY JOB” or “WHY U SHOULDNT DO ___”
About two weeks ago I started working my first full-time job out of college as a full-stack engineer. And I hate it. I feel like all we’re doing is trying to squeeze our customers out of another dollar.
I feel like it never used to be this way. It's the fact that everything is way more expensive than it used to be, which is why people would rather cop out early.
Love u bro. I feel like we are alike. I’m considered a high archiver in my family even though I hate university and the job system. I really needed this. Please keep making videos!
being labeled as that "high achiever" really will do a number on ya mental health, i feel you dude. hang in there, i think we're all gonna make it. thanks 4 watching & hope u have a fantastic rest of ur day :)
If ai can actually revolutionize our working world the only thing that will happen is the owner class cutting the rest of us out One of the most infuriating things about our society is the fact that our value is directly correlated to our employment
yeah i feel like the "ruling class" doesn't really have an incentive to make themselves not be the ruling class, like it's pretty sweet for them. ack it's all messed up lol, i am holding out hope we figure it all out
Been thinking about automation on a large scale like this for a while now and essentially the only thing a person can do in a society that's mostly automated is the things robots can't (yet) do (and people don't want to do like caring for the elderly, kids, manual labour maybe) or owning things to rent out like property. That's what a capitalist system where most people can't find work is going to look like.
it's for that why I fucking hate it when people push AI to replace art, poetry, music, and other artistic stuff , because why not use it to replace all these bullshit jobs and stuff so we can do those things instead? But no our ability to generate money and profits is more important than our artistic and intellectual integrity in the eyes of businessmen.
@@Alejandro-kg3hx the dream society really would be ai does all the dumb bs jobs for the ruling class and they have to pay us all a ubi Think about all the fun we could have as a society where we don’t have to spend our entire lives miserable
We can increase our value by not having children so that there are fewer consumers for corporations to profit off of and more expenses for corporations to spend to compete for smaller labour pools.
I'm a police officer, I get 4 days off one week then the following week I get 3 days off. I have a good schedule but I think its about having a job that allows you to have the lifestyle you want. I get paid more and work less compared to my last job. However I don't have a job that's my dream job or a job that I always wanted to do, it's all a means to an end. I think the ultimate thing is to be your own boss or make passive income. That way you can make your schedule and not have to listen to anyone. Also the elite people in control of our world want us to be slaves and poor, the system is a system for a reason. The federal reserve has really screwed us.
People from third word countries commenting that “western countries don’t know how good they have it” don’t understand that inflation and cost of living had become so high, we can no longer afford to live off of it. I’ve lived in a third word country and am aware how difficult it is for the people there because of the little to no education, no jobs, and high crime rates.
As far as the USA at least a lot of people from the third world dont have to worry about going bankrupt rom medical bills. Plus you speak about high crime. The USA has a waaaaay higher violent crime rate than the rest of the developed world so we have major problems all over lol
Apples and oranges, right? And then there are communities like the reservations here in America. The Skokomish reservation I'm from recovered enough recently to clean the skokomish river, but things weren't always going so well. The dam did a lot. Things get bad, regardless of where you know?
I used to be a janitor at a high school, but left it last year. I would go back tomorrow if I could, but the pay was not good. The benefits were good and I felt like I actually did something useful and fulfilling. I was tired a lot, but the job was fairly chill and I liked the people I worked with and for. I work in a meat-processing plant now and the pay is a lot better, but I never have time off and I'm always exhausted in addition to having a much longer commute than before.
This video was so true and beautiful. I love the idea of having a world based on caring about one another and not based on accumulating the most wealth.
Hey man, I just want to say that I think you’re a really high quality person. I love your videos and your personality. Thanks so much for posting, and I hope to meet you
I'm so glad I found your channel! This seriously resonated with me: "there's this gnawing feeling somewhere inside me that makes me feel like perfectionism and grinding is the way to make this all work out, but in my heart i know that's not true. i am enough as i am!!!!" 💯
DIdn't Keynes predict in the 1920s that we'd be working 15 hour workweeks due to an increase in productivity due to tech? And yet now with AI one person is going to be expected to do the output of 100 people, still working away half their lives to survive. I saw a story on reddit about french colonists who introduced a new way of growing rice to village people in cambodia which would double their output, expecting that they'd be able to come back and make a profit form the extra rice. Only to come back and find the villagers spent half as much time working and were producing the same amount of rice as usual to feed themselves while spending more time with their families and chilling.
Some people do work 15-hour workweeks, and if they can make ends meet they are often very happy with that! (I think Keynes also assumed we would, you know, guarantee health care and public education for all by now. The UK created the NHS in the late 1940s. No-brainer for him.)
It’s a trade-off between freedom and security, and throughout history humanity has consistently opted for security. The unfortunate reality is that there is no long-term security that any human institution can provide.
The problem is... I'm already in debt being a first year finance student. Its too late so... if you cant beat them, join them. The capitalistic society. The corporate slaves. The finance bros.
Taken to it's logical extreme - workers will only be motivated by profit and will gladly let society collapse at the expense of the elite who want to control them if there is nothing in it for them personally. And besides, babies are not profitable and they just give those who wrong us more people to dispose of like cannon fodder and we're expected to pay for them.
You cracked the code, congrats, you will be succesful enough to have people exploited and under your command! Hopefully in the future you're a bit more of an empath and benevolent than the people who rule right now.
Great video! My view is that the problem isn't the need to work to live (although it looks like there's some evidence that something like UBI might have some potential), but rather that work isn't being compensated fairly which prevents many people from being able to build wealth themselves or in some cases even survive on their full time pay. As a result, among many *many* other issues that stem from that, those people have little free time and energy to research their situation and advocate for their rights, unlike rich people who have lots of free time and understand their situation really well, resulting in a self-perpetuating cycle of political and wealth/income inequality between the middle/poor and the rich.
yeah that's definitely a really good point. it seems harder and harder for people to have upwards economic mobility, because lower-paying jobs seem to "trap" people, like you said. i have another hot take that the ruling class isn't really incentivized to help these people escape their situations either, because they need to have people producing the things they consume with their nice lifestyles. but that's a different video!!! thanks for sharing your thoughts dude, good stuff. have an awesome rest of ur day :)
I grew up on a farm, my father regularly told me to work smarter not harder. He knew hard work was important to a degree, but working hard wasn't intrinsically better than working more intelligently. The people that say you have to work like a dog for your money are just wearing out their bodies for nothing.
Unemployed, having a high fever, taking a break between my study sessions and discovered your channel. Thank you random stranger on the internet. Thank you for offering a fresh healthy perspective on concerns I should have addressed a few years back. Thank you for not sugar coating BS and being brutally honest about it all. Keep making similar content & providing us our daily dose of copium. Arigato gozaimasda ❤
One thing I’ve realized as I’ve gotten older is how many of our jobs are fake or unnecessary. And the jobs that ARE necessary are not nearly as plentiful or well-paid as they should be.
Truth
Because many people doing a job doesn't mean it's easy, it means the job is so big and complex that it takes many people to do it. When only one person is needed for a job it doesn't mean they're more important, it means it only takes one person to accomplish that job. When capital gives orders they are asking for help. They are saying I can't do this myself. They are saying I am too small and without the skill needed to accomplish this task, I need workers to help me.
There is a term for this: Bullshit Jobs. You can read about it in David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs"
something that is funny/depressing to me is that it seems like the more directly your job benefits society, the less you get paid. like everything would totally fall apart without public transportation workers, mailmen, truck/delivery drivers, janitors, etc but they get paid way less than white collar workers that don't have as much of a day to day impact on the functioning of society (i know this is an oversimplification and white collar jobs actually create value through the manipulation of money but still! interesting.) like personally, i felt like i was contributing wayyyy less to society where i was being highly paid as a software guy than when i was getting paid $6 an hour to babysit kids as a summer camp counselor. my extra 2 cents :)
I know right? I feel like half the people that have white collar jobs show up to work, fuck around in excel, and then go home and collect $90k a year hahha
im so sick of paying for the right to exist with my existence itself.
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especially when you didn’t even ask for it
If government didn’t exist what would you do? Do you know how to survive without modern amenities or government setting the rules?
@ you won the race as a sperm. You wanted to win and be born
@@Immadeus we are animals. Just bc we can think does not mean we aren’t still part of nature
the funniest thing here is to think any of us will actually retire
i was thinking it would not surprise me if the retirement age was 72 in france by the time i was 72. either that, society has completely collapsed, or we have entered a utopia
@@introvertedmadness or we all just in the matrix by then
@@introvertedmadness in the USA it’s already 70, chances are it’ll be like 75 by the time I get to 70 😢
Yup you couldn’t POSSIBLY save and invest and learn how to read a book after college to retire early or anything
@@Lili-ey1nd I mean you can but if you are in USA tons of it (maybe all) could disappear in the blink of an eye if you have a major medical problem. Google "most common cause of bankruptcy in USA". To see what millions of Americans struggle with regularly
I think this is why Gen Z absolutely take no bullshit when it comes to worker exploitation - they were born into this dystopian hellscape, and have literally known nothing else. They're starting to see the holes and the futility, and they're already done with it.
yeah i think capitalism was probably awesome in the 1950s when everyone was like whoah!! big houses!!! sexy cars!!! no great depression!!! but nowadays the problems of capitalism loom really large for people in their day to day lives when a lot of people struggle to make it paycheck to paycheck. like for example, i feel like it is getting increasingly difficult (almost impossible???) for people in gen z to be able to buy a house, which used to be a basic thing america "promised" people (thanks for sharing ur thoughts & hope u have an awesome rest of ur day :))
@@introvertedmadnessCapitalism existed in the US in the 1800s. Paper money, aka “Greenbacks” were invented during the Civil War and backed by gold and silver. The economy was less regulated and experienced booms and busts. The busts made people lose faith in the abilities of companies to self-regulate, which lead to more regulation, such as the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Federal Reserve Bank, and welfare programs. Following these changes and WW2 was the “Golden Age”. Keynesians believe the economy can be managed through fiscal/monetary policy, fiscal being taxes/spending, monetary being Fed changing the money supply. Government action is meant to blunt/prevent recessions. After the stagflation in the 70s and 80s, Miltonians decided government interference in the economy did not prevent recessions but merely kicked them down the road. They say welfare appears to be cool because of the immediate benefits and the hidden and long-term nature of its downsides. If you ask a Keynesian about the economy, they will say “the pandemic” or greedy corporations landed us in our current recession, and the way out is to for the government to press the right buttons. Ask a Miltonian, and they will say welfare and overspending are rotting the country from within, and we need to take what has been coming to us since the 40s right now. If we kick this farther down the road, it will only be worse for our children.
France is an example of the downsides of welfare. With people unable to provide the income for themselves, their families, and part of a random retired person before reaching 62, the government has to increase the retirement age to get the required money out of the population.
If you want our society to be based on love and taking care of each other, join a church and donate cans to the food drive. “Welfare” policies are not love. They are the government pointing a gun at hard working Americans and redistributing their hard-earned money, their “work for the weekends” money, to people these workers have never met and whose lives they may not want to subsidize. Allowing people to choose where their money goes leads to more efficient and sustainable outcomes than government programs, which leak money into the hands of politicians and often grow out of control with questionable results. Churches aren’t perfect, but they (and other private charities) have a higher level of integrity than government officials.
I could say a few more things, but I will leave it there. Let me know if you would like to discuss economics further.
Credentials: B.S. Economics
Sources: “The Indisputable Milton Friedman” - Lanny Ebenstein
“American Colossus” - H.W. Brands
Genz age range in 2023? Im confused
@@introvertedmadness absolutely. the image of a 'good life' that most people grew up with (from parents, media, etc.) just doesn't exist anymore, and it just gets worse every generation, which is rlly sad. I hope it gets better sooon and I hope u have an awesome day toooo :)))
@@_o6629 1997-2011 i guess
This was interesting.
As an 'real old' adult, I have seen animals that treat each other better than humans.
Too many problems are man-made and have simple solutions. The major problem is that too many people are blinded by greed, indifference and hate.
agreed that so many problems are man-made. i don't even necessarily think money is the problem, bc money is an inanimate object/a tool used by humans - it's the way we use money with greed, like you mentioned, that leads us down a bad path. anyway thanks for sharing your thoughts & hope u have a great rest of your day :)
Omfg thank you for saying ir outloud I felt I was going to lose my freaking mind. Most of the problems if not all are man made. It's so fucked up by the standards of this day and age, unacceptable
You've also got politicians who'll appeal to the WORST in people (fears, grievances) rather than their better angels. One particular name comes to mind.
@@myfriendgoo2816 You'll never guess which political side is more correlated with pro-social behavior and which one is correlated with using words as empty virtue signaling devices.
Usually people who say that are just lying. People with giant moral circles end up helping neither people or the world in general let alone those most close to them because they are that way because they are individualists only looking to signal for their own benefit society be damned.
as a middle-aged person, it really warms my shriveled heart to see young people's increased awareness of these things. it does not get better with age. your job might be better (hopefully) but the feeling of wasting your life will only get stronger as you watch your youth disappear in the rearview mirror and realize you spent most of your waking hours creating profit for some shitty soulless and more often than not exploitative company.
Damn, I’m about to hit 40 this year and this hits hard. I went into the education field, and later healthcare (when being a teacher didn’t pay the bills), because I at least wanted to be in caring professions working for the government or not-for-profits, but those systems chewed me up and spit me out anyhow because the almighty dollar is all that matters. What an awful world we live in.
@@Riorozen I'm a fun woman, and no I'm not having children.
i'm 15 and i have a job at a fast food restaurant and i absolutely hate it. my dad was talking to me the other day about how gen-z is lazy and the economy is going to fall apart. watching this video, i now do not give a shit about a collapsing economy. i'll do what i always wanted to do when the world "falls apart," i'll start a farm and cook for people i love. thank you for turning my thoughts into a video. i feel less like an entitled little bitch for hating my job!
Take the leap!
i feel the same, ill just live simply if the world falls apart. grow my own food, etc
Hating your job is the essential step in fighting to make it better. People tell you you're supposed to hate your job but you're supposed to try and make it better as a group. There is no running away from it. To get what we want we have to unionize and bargain collectively for better wages and better conditions and time off. The choice then is which jobs can you get that allow that.
ruling class: guys if you don't work the economy will collapse!!!
me: don't threaten me with a good time
but for real, i also think about moving to a random plot of dirt in the middle of nowhere and just making the rural pastoral life work if it all falls apart lmao. i think another thing that makes working really tough nowadays is that a job at a fast food restaurant isn't really enough to pay the bills nowadays, whereas 40-50 years ago you actually kinda could live a decent life working minimum wage, or, at least, a better life was much more within reach. nowadays, it feels really hard to have upward mobility from a low wage job
there's so many messed up things nowadays that feel impossible for any of us to change that yeah, sometimes it feels like the best option is to just opt out of it all and screw off to some farm lol. like other commenters said tho hopefully we can band together and figure out a solution. who knows! i am just a guy too lol. glad you could relate to the vid & good luck with everything dude :)
Don't worry that has nothing to do with why the economy is doing so bad, just global issues out of our control and the big guys up there who are making poor decisions👍. Unsolicited advice but if you do not want to work pointless jobs u hate find something you like to do right now and hone ur ability so it becomes a skill you can monetize by the time ur an adult! llike farming and cooking lol
“You’re not good enough as you are, unless you make money. I wonder why we have a gigantic clusterfuck of mental illness in the US rn” - OMFG, I love you! This speaks to me on so many levels, but nobody in media ever put it into words. Thanks for your channel! You’re doing an amazing work of art
glad you could relate!!! i think everyone's mental health is more closely connected to the general way things are set up than we realize, but the system is so entrenched in our lives we don't even notice it (like fish swimming in water don't notice the water). anyway thank u for watching and hope u have a beautiful rest of ur day :)
Introvertedmadness, May you be blessed never to let the metaphorical water of society drown out this awareness of yours!
They need to change the 40 hours full time week schedule to 20 hours full time a week. It doesn’t make since working 5 days a week to take 2 days off ? We’re being over worked and we don’t know it. Things really to change in society cause later on no-one is going to want to work at these jobs. If we do this life will be so much easier and there will be more jobs available for people. And people will have more time with friends and family. And working will no longer have a bad reputation as it does now. If people can work for only 20hrs and make a full pay check as if was full time 40hrs more people will love going to work. Government needs to re change the laws about working. Working 40 hrs and waiting 7-14 days for check should be in legal.
@@Jeffrey49225so fucking true I am 18 and I work literally full time but it feels so impossible and far away I only get 2 days and I just wanna enjoy the world :( and just be silly but point is ur so right 😭✨🫶
It's not really about money itself but your contribution to the collective whole, making sure you are not a burden to others. After all, you don't just live for yourself. You are not an island. Unless you are a hermit living alone in a cave somewhere, you gotta carry your own weight.
I think the main issue is most jobs don't pay a lot or are not tolerable enough to satisfy people. Of course a majority of the population has to work to uphold society and keep everything running, but the main difference between back in the day and now is back in the day my great grandfather could afford a house working at mcdonalds through a 9-5. Nowadays I have to work 1 full time job, and 1 part time job, with no days off just to afford rent in a shitty apartment with roommates.
TRUEE and now college is getting more and more expensive and student debt is rising but any job that pays slightly above minimum wage requires a degree. its not even a livable/sustainable model in the slightest, yet we're so preprogrammed with this mentality that "this is just how life is"
@@tarakrishna2694 Remember when parents would tell children to become doctors because it pays so well? I sure as shit havent seen anyone say their compensation during the pandemic was fair. Or how much they love their 24h shifts
And the fucky part is that it's by design. It's no accident that it's this way now.
@@delholiday there is no grand design. Just corpos taking advantage of unorganized workers. Making a fuss like the 1800s should remind them whose labour is keeping them afloat
Its cause we don’t build enough houses anymore. Not enough housing is the source of most of these problems
Our society is also so centered around the illusion of "convenience". Amazon, fast food delivery, pre cooked meals, cat litter boxes that clean themselves, vacuums that move on their own, etc. The idea these things sell you is that you can spend your time you would have spent on these things to do something else you enjoy more. But do people really do that? or do they instead sit mindlessly exhausted from hours of work, too tired to have the energy to do the things that bring them joy. Its a cycle they want you trapped in. work more, only to have to spend more money on things that save you time, to make up for the hours you spent working. There should be a world where instead of these tasks being chores, they are time for us to be mindful and enjoy the little things.
so true
Exactly. We work our asses to afford the convenience and have more time for what we really want but then all the convenience is so expensive that we never take time off because we are busy working to afford the convenience lol.
Your claims are ridicilous. Are you an owner of an over expensive local shop?
It’s a vicious cycle. The more we work the more exhausted we are, the more we spend money on things that bring us comfort (food delivery, things we don’t need on amazon) and the more we do things that bring us comfort (endlessly scrolling on our phones to distract ourselves from how we feel). We are no longer doing the activities we actually enjoy, cause we are so traumatized and tired from work that we seek out serotonin at any possible free moment in our day. We’re too mentally exhausted to put energy into things that actually bring us fulfillment, like being creative or trying new hobbies, and succumb to these addictions that have been spoon fed to us by people that are trying to make even more money off of us.
Look. I fully agree with vids OP. There SHOULD be a system to remove wealth as a currency of power and influence. There SHOULD be a way to do what you like and survive. But here is the reality: either we have to limit child birth and kill off non contributing members of society and even nuke 3rd world countries pumping out 5+ child families while living in poverty OR we can let capitalism do it for us. How does anyone think it's possible to sustain an exponentially growing population? The people that talk about stuff like this ignore the fact that every mouth to feed adds strain on our finite resources and strain on our ecosystems. Humans have become a plague to nature by design, so the only thing we can do is limit our numbers and influence on it. If humans lived in caves all we would need is plants to offset our CO2 emissions from breathing. Since every shithead needs a car for every member of his family, multiple houses because they "wanna travel", is too lazy to do simple tasks so dumps then on amazon or any other 3rd sector service we have our current society. Also we have fodder positions that are overpaid while not generating any value or product- HR, support, analytics and many more. The only reason those exist is so companies can try to get the upper hand on their competitor, but if everyone is doing it then it becomes a vicious cycle or dumping more and more resources into those sectors for minimal benefit. As a final note, every country is in debt, but then you ask "but to whom?" since when added up for the whole world the debt should be 0, but it's not.
I actually talked about this yesterday with my roommate. I feel paralysed in some sense to make a choice where my life is headed. While I love acting, I also fear the massive insecurity that pursuing it full time brings to my life, but the thought of just doing some well paying job that I hate until I'm 70 just depresses me immensely. A really poignant video on this topic, keep it up
based comment from leksandr. when i left my last job i just thought to myself, well, if it doesn't work out, i'll just go back to the type of office job i had previously and nothing will really have changed. but if it DOES work out, that's awesome!!! at the end of the day, life isn't that serious & is meant to be enjoyed, and truly, the worst thing that can happen isn't even THAT bad. at the same time, something i've been trying to do myself is not stress myself out over making a decision immediately. like there's no deadline for you to choose if you're gonna be an actor or work an office job, so it's all good. u got this dude, good luck with everything. im rooting for u :))))
Thanks for the support guys, I really appreciate it!
As a grown man I can tell you that you likely wont be doing the same job your whole life. I've held 10 different jobs in the last 5 years or so. It's okay to start your life just trying to make some money and learn more about the world so you can figure out where you want to invest your time. Even working 40 hours a week I sometimes still struggle with being bored. Just point yourself in direction that makes you not resent yourself and keep your eyes open for something you love.
Acting is just nepo babies but if you really wanna do it you gotta change your name Whoopie Goldberg style. Call yourself Tony Coppola or Mary Berrymore and you're in.
Been ridiculously lucky in my life. As a kid I loved maps. In college, I told my dad I wanted to switch from economics to geography. He said Go For It. Got my degree & been making maps for 40 years. Not the highest paying job but incredibly enjoyable. I even got to work at Google for a while. Will probably keep drawing maps thru retirement & right up till I drop dead. As I say, I'm a lucky guy.
What do you exactly do. I like maps too but no idea how i could make money with that
@@oranges557 Started off with an atlas company, then some GIS jobs in transportation, then worked for a travel publishing company, got acquired by Google, now with a Swedish map company that does wayfinding maps. All the time doing freelance stuff. You can make a nice living & thoroughly enjoy what you do.
Hell yeah, living your life as a happy cartographer. I hope I can find something I can enjoy for a long time and also make ends meet. Might not be as lucky but hey, a guy can dream! Reading your comment gave me some happiness.
Yes you’re lucky but you worked hard too! Most people don’t have the capacity to stick with something for 40 years! I know that I don’t at least.
Congrats on all the success. I wish to be like you when I’m older
your profession is so unbelievably under appreciated. thank you for what you do, we'd be lost without you
Being neurodivergent in these conditions is like waking up everyday to crawl through a minefield and it's raining and you have no raincoat
It really sucks, I just want to own land so I can grow food and have some money for food, electricity, and the internet. I don't care about growing my money. I just want to be left alone and survive on my own.
If you go that route, make sure you make lotsa farmer friends. Farmers look after each other, and are wholeheartedly some of the most down to earth people I've met.
Yup
People did that 80 years ago
@@pastsubstance2930Omg the dream, for real. Just let me have my measley little garden and woods to forage in (I’m a hobby forager). Let me find out what my neighbors are growing so I can grow different things and we can trade with each other for whatever we need. Let me make enough stupid money to have internet and lights, and I will literally stay tf out of society’s hair forever, I just want it tf out of mine also.
Working for 12 hours a day leads you to hate not just your job but a hell lot of things.
Because you have no time and energy left for the things you love...and when you are aware how you are wasting most of your life like this, not even getting enough money for the future, then whats the point.
You jealousy Will alsoincrease seeing others make easy money on social media 😅 while we work at 9-5 boring brain rot jobs
After having met millionaires, academics, startup bros, and corporate directors, I say the only people who live ideal lives as if they were Gods on this earth are remote villagers. They know everything they need to know, they love everyone they know, and they can do everything they need to do. The feelings of clarity, safety, and belonging are unmatched.
I think you might be right. They only have the land and each other to rely on after all.
Many villagers rely on the land for commerce and food so unfortunately global warming is ruining that. I live in a village and it's sad to see. But yes those around me are surprisingly content and always share the little they have. Like real humans
Well I’m not living in a remote village but I grew up on my family’s land. So in the country. Honestly, living outside of the city and away from everything simply feels…as it was meant to be. Honestly don’t think people were meant to live in gigantic cities, surrounded by absolutely nothing natural at all.
So become a remote villager.
I think it also depends on where in the world that remote village is in. I’m from Taiwan, a lot of the rural villages in China are complete nightmares, rampant human trafficking, women and children and neurodivergent people have no rights and in the worst cases are treated as slaves. Taiwan’s remote villages are somewhat better in terms of human rights, but women are still devalued, and because of the limited space on an island, farmers are under constant threat of the gov + corporations taking away their land. The best solution for them is to earn enough and build a factory or introduce high tech farming gimmicks and gain capital (and power by proxy), but that again defeats the purpose of coexisting with nature as humans are designed to be.
I just got rejected by a scholarship interview because of a dumb thing out of my control that happened, I needed to hear this right now 🙏
aye sorry to hear that dude. sucks when stuff happens outside your control, but u got dis (something i've been trying to internalize is "control the controllables"! like not beating myself up too much about stuff i literally can't change) anyway thanks 4 watching & good luck with everything dude :)
@@introvertedmadness yeah I just learned that the scholarship was sponsored by a shitty company anyway so it wouldn't be right if I accepted money from them. Morality is more important than some money. Thanks for the words of advice 👍
So sorry to hear that, something better will come.
Hope you feel better.
@@Immadeus no you should definitely accept all money double so if the source is immoral. You have an imperative to take their money and make sure they never derive the benefit. You'll get em next time.
@@justcommenting4981 I disagree, the corporation that is funding the scholarship knows that they will lose money, however they're fine with that because their plan is to recuperate the costs by shilling unpaid internships from said company to anyone who has the scholarship. The way I see it, this is just an elaborate form of advertising, and I'm not selling out for no advertisement, even if I ignore their internships. It's kinda like when a RUclipsr does an ad read for ExpressVPN. ExpressVPN knows they will lose money and that most people will ignore the ad, but they plan to make their money back from the small percentage of people who will pay attention.
Tl;dr: the scholarship is just a glorified ad for the company
Not only did I learn about the strikes in France, but you also introduced me to the idea that money has shifted from being something that we use for society to the very thing that society is supposed to be for (It seems obvious now, but I never thought of it this way). I will definitely be reflecting on this more further. Typical introvertedmadness W.
lets GOOOOOOO
Time to go down the rabbit hole and read some theory
@@thisfooreallysaid any recommendations for good theory books??
@@apriluno7210 my memory isn't hyper fresh on this but i think what @neutinohman is saying is in Capital by Marx lol. that we went from exchanging Commodities for Money for other Commodities (CMC) to exchanging Money for Commodities for more Money (MCM). It's dumb bc he has been really made a devil but he had very interesting analysis of capitalism. Might have not figured out a good alternative, but he sure pinpointed a lot of things that were wrong. And there's great summaries of his work out there.
@@apriluno7210 "The Overworked American" by Juliet Schor.
“Alright about to go off to college to choose what job I’m gonna become!”
The jobs I’m gonna become:
someone commented on a different video something like "knowledge is only valued if it helps a business" and i was like whoa very deep
(good luck in college :) )
@@introvertedmadness thanks! Going for film but may get sucked into my university's overbearing business school. I'll try not to lmfao
@@introvertedmadness which is why everything is skewing so heavily towards math and science in education, to the detriment of everything else (and society). It's capitalism having its say in what we should learn, and everyone just seems to lap it up.
@@pscar1because those fields actually produce meaningful shit for a society
@@Jellycheezyour house would be soulless stacked steel box if architecs don't have a say in construction
I am so sad we live in this society. I used to think I hated being alive, until I realized, that living is beautiful; waking up, eating, hanging out with people and doing human stuff... what I really hate and makes me depressed is having to live in this sad world. I hate this game because it ruined human experience.
this comment reminds me of these researchers we learnt about in psychology (called alloy and abrahamson) who said that ‘depressed people are simply realists and see the world as it is whilst non depressed people are seeing the world through rose tinted glasses’
it freaks me out the way society is and the way people act like we are crazy for questioning this terrible system freaks me out even more 😭😭 im glad everyone in this comment section can relate on hating the system tho at least
this is the best explanation of what is wrong with society ive ever heard, you have absolutely nailed how utterly ridiculous it is that we have to waste away our one experience of this planet by doing things EVERYONE hates but all still, somehow, collectively conform to.
i appreciate how well-informed you become on the subject before making a video about it AND you manage to make it understandable and funny at the same time. this entire video is so incredibly based and you just never miss. i'm still a senior in high school but everything you said encapsulates how i feel about the idea of having to work a 9-5 for most of my life
same it’s so scary to think about entering the working world im already ready to retire after school itself but now we have college and jobs to suffer through :/ like let us just live
thank u for watching and im glad u could relate!! im old asf and working a 9 to 5 still terrifies me lmao, but it's branded as the "safe"/"practical"/"correct" thing to do and there are so many forces pulling everyone in that direction. if u want my unsolicited advice, try to find something you love spending ur time doing and just listen to your inner compass from there. it all seems to work out in the end when you do that :)
@@introvertedmadness I'm just discovering this GEM 💎 of a video!!! Love it!!! I've been spouting off at the mouth about all these topics of capitalism since my early 20s!!! I'll turn thirty later this summer and it all still unfortunately is ringing true!!! I hope capitalism dies and quick but painful death for ALL of our sakes! Also, how old are you? You do not look "old asf" lol I am most likely subscribing from this video alone and gonna check out your other vids too now!
This just makes me want to learn agriculture. I would rather learn how to survive than just wait for money to provide for myself. I'm in college and already regret picking CS, and what's worse is that I'm slowly getting sick of looking at the screen all day, and seeing myself get a job doing that for the rest of my life frightens me.
Go for it. If it's too late to change your major, drop out of college. I think agriculture is vital too -- we especially need indoor agriculture right now as farmers struggle to cope with too much extreme weather. Your experience in CS will be of some help to you anyway, I'm sure.
>I want to learn agriculture.
t. -> a person who never experienced being a farmhand/farmer.
you should deffo pick whatever major you want and switch if you want, and also remember ur college major doesn't determine your future so it's all chill! (even if you major in cs or agriculture and then decide you wanna become a zoologist or professional juggler there are ways to make that happen :)) and as a cs major agreed, it seems super cool at first and then gets mega rough lol. agriculture seems like a cool thing to study in college tbh, like what gets more practical than that lmao. anyway good luck with everything dude, have a wonderful rest of ur day :)
Why not get the CS side of agriculture? There are actual companies and the government itself that need these type of programmers. Ones that can create systems to monitor things such as soil fertilization, mineral decay over time, etc. which will take you to actually learn about agriculture anyways, thus killing two birds with one stone and allowing you to quit when you have a lot of money and then get subsidized by the government and get free money to start your own farm with your own proprietary software ;)
My mom grew up on a farm and one of her brothers' family lives almost entirely off of food they grow and animals they raise themselves. It's hard work, and my mom always talks about how different the life is, but it's very rewarding to know where your food comes from and be satisfied with what you do every day.
Yea, in short, money is not a tool anymore.
It's our entire purpose.
And I can't befriend that idea and I'm really scared when I hear my friends talk about monetizing everything they do. Like... No. You shouldn't have to do that. What I also often hear, when I talk about wanting a job I'd enjoy, similar to that french saying you learned, is: "You don't live for work, you work to live." Which sounds absolutely deranged to me. You can't separate work from life because guess what, you are living life even when you work. The clock is ticking anyway.
Well said! We fought a goddamn Civil War in the 1860s to stop millions of people being owned by other people for profit (and now I'm gonna go outside and stop commenting on this video)
right!!! we shouldn't HAVE to turn our lives into money making enterprises just to get food, water, clothes, shelter, etc., but we do because we set up a system where everything costs money and money is the most important thing. working 8 hours a day at a job you don't like just to be tired at night and on the weekends seems like a raw deal. idk! talking about it makes me depressed lol but i do feel like there are ways to "hack" the system / focus on your life first and figure out a way to afford your life. anyway thanks for sharing you thoughts, wishing you the best bro and have an excellent rest of your day :)
@@introvertedmadnesswhat if you made a video on how you could do that :0?
It's so nice to hear this idea from someone else and see that I'm not alone in this. Adults try and call us entitled for wanting basic human rights (despite money being worth 3x as much in their time as it is now), but almost every young person nowadays feels this exact same way about working and feeling hopeless about the future of our society.
I really love your videos man, you always put into words exactly what I'm thinking and feeling better than I ever could and make me feel a lot less alone
This will all end with us tho. Most millennials don’t want and aren’t having kids. I can’t stand boomers and Gen X complain about this world yet they keep uplifting it. Nobody wants to here, they’re selfish and lack empathy.
ya dude, i think it's funny when people call people who call for less work or whatever "lazy" cuz it's like??? it's lazy to just want to have basic human needs without having to sell your life to some corporation? like dang is that really too much to ask for, we have so much more technology than the mesopotamians but it's apparently a crime to use that technology to chill out more. glad you could relate to the vibes dude, thanks 4 the support & sharing ur thought. hope u have an extremely chill rest of ur day :)
No, you are exactly right. I apologize for my generation and those older. We were the turning point. Then all my peers elected Reagan. Money became God. You are not even slightly lazy. You are so much smarter than us. I have a nephew who is 19 and I encourage him to find a way to start his own business, then invest carefully so he can do what he wants. He's also not going into too much debt for college.
Enjoying your life and finding happiness is the only thing that matters. I became seriously disabled at 29. I am 58 now. I still struggle financially now but I did one thing in my 20's that has saved me and secured my family. I took a crazy risk that I believed in. I lived in Harlem during the crack epidemic and homesteaded my family's brownstone. Everyone said I was nuts! We bought out our cousins in 1990 for $90,000. Spent about $400,000 over 30 years fixing it up. And now it is worth about $3 mil. We will have to sell it soon to take care of my aging parents. But that money has kept me out of homelessness and was the home where my brother, his 2 wives (not at the same time), my nephew, my cousin, my niece and several friends were able to live and love NYC.
Keep fighting to find a way to change the world. Start your own small business. Start a non-profit service. Start a for profit business where all the employees are owners. You kids can do it. I believe in you. All of you. I am either a very young Boomer or a very old Xer. (I claim Xer) Either way I think we were the first generation to REALLY understand how fucked up the world is. Unfortunately, too many of my peers got tired, gave up and became Republicans. So it is up to you guys. Please figure it out. My nephew and my baby cousins deserve a better world than this one. I apologize for all my Boomer and Xer peers who fucked up the world.
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It's just wild to me that jobs that actually helps society (usually minimum wage and blue collar jobs) gets paid less while white collar jobs (usually working on a computer) gets paid more. I like art and animation but I am also learning to code. I already noticed how society seems to value art less but values coding skills more, which is a shame. I see art everywhere, and people are drawn to art, whenever it's storytelling, videos, aesthetic of art, music, etc. I know coding is a huge part of our lives due to tech, but even in tech I see a blend of art in there too. I already finished University but had a hard time finding a job. I was just in a job interview recently. It's been eye opening how hard it is to find work even with a degree. I think it's a shame we live in a society where even hobbies should be monetized just to pay the bills. I'm aiming to see if I can do multiple streams of income so if I ever lose a job at least I have another source of income. I want to travel one day and enjoy various foods from different cultures. But for now I'm already thinking of going back to study in the future for certification. I've just been searching for jobs and networking nonstop.
My roommate likes to clown me because I talk about finding our ancestral roots but this is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Thank you!
only like 4 mins in but what’s funny is they’ve done studies that make kids receive money from a hobby/thing they like, and they’ve found that it hinders the enjoyment of that action. i found that very interesting / gratifying that my own personal experiences have a scientific backing lol
that's really interesting, hot take time: when you start making money for a hobby, that hobby is now generating something that is supposed to pay for ur food/shelter/survival, which is a lot of pressure to put on a hobby!! thanks for sharing dude :)
@@introvertedmadness yes that def effects it too ! keep up the great stuff 💪🏼🌎🌸
yeah I think hobbies are basically adult version of playing. having fun is necessary & I don’t think we grow out of that need. if you paid a kid to go play at the playground and then told him he needs to start using that money to pay for his food and his house, going to the playground wouldn’t be so fun anymore!! because a big part of what makes it fun is the feeling of freedom, doing things out of your own autonomy, having it be lighthearted
Yes, this is all so true. My brother has a job that he hates a lot because of his co-workers. I once suggested he monetizes his passion for gaming, photography or electronics repairing. But he told me that if his hobbies became his source of income, he wouldn't enjoy doing them anymore and would start to hate them. So he prefers to stick to his job and use his money to spend it on things he enjoys. Now I understand him better. The problem is that he comes home so tired that he cannot really dedicate mich time to his hobbies :/
It's like a vicious cycle to some extent.
@introvertedmadness It also devalues the hobby itself because now the goal isn't doing it bc you love it and it brings you meaning, bit for money. I'm so sick of this money obsession.
I mean, if working is supposed to be unpleasant, then what incentive do I have to give birth to new life and impose this unpleasant system on them? The answer: no incentive. If work is not going to benefit me, then I will not give them future workers to exploit for personal gain.
🔥also i feel like the fact that economies don't work if the population isn't always growing exponentially (japan/china) is really bad lol
Exactly. And it should be no surprise that so many US tycoons are extreme anti-choice control freaks who want to force girls as young as 12 to give birth. The system they depend on requires very large numbers of births every year and they don't care who makes the babies or if it's done safely or voluntarily.
We were told ppl who didn’t have kids were “selfish” when it was the other way around. Every time I see a baby or toddler I cringe. Why would u bring them here?
Climate change is going to take care of that anyway. Someone born today has a good chance to live to 2100 or so. The last 40 years or so of that won't be good, as by that time we'll see the reefs all but gone and other links in the food chain collapsing, as well as refugee crises far greater than what we have today. Especially scary is when effects start pinching food supply even with population still going up. Oh, and India and Pakistan will be especially hard hit and both have nukes. What could go wrong?
@@myfriendgoo2816 Population by 2060 will be growing at the slowest pace in the story of humanity to basically start declining by 2080. The raise in temperature wont cause the natural disasters you say it will up until the 2100's if left unchecked (it will not go unchecked) you apocalyptic fearmongering is pedantically pointless since something like 99% of the people today wont be alive to see the 2100's. If you want to be more proactive at spreading climate change awareness go out with the anti-oil hippies or something else.
Makes me feel less alone to know that we all feel the same way about life. Things are so fucked and I'm tired of it
same, im glad there are other people out there who feel this way. we all in this shit together, i hope it all works out for us. thanks for watching dude and have a chill rest of ur day :)
@@introvertedmadness I hope so too. Your video was a pleasure to watch, same to you man
Honestly working itself isn't so bad. It's other people, especially management and bosses who make it miserable.
Exactly!
Why y lying 💀 working is hard but having a bad manager and annoying coworkers
I agree with the boss part
working itself don't sucks... but exchanging more than half of your life for some hours to live. this is like a prison.
Something that’s been making me so frustrated lately is how customer service jobs force their employees to be overly friendly. Imagine the aggregate mental health toll that’s taking on people working these low-wage jobs.
From what I hear, other countries’ customer service workers don’t act like they’re your friend. Cuz they’re not!
The amount of thoughts that scream to me to literally kill anyone treating me like shit is insane. Guess that’s normal for us humans, we aren’t mean to treat complete strangers that shit on us like they’re our best friend.
@@nothanks830 absolutely! People that are rude to customer service workers are the worst kinds of people to me.
I always think to myself when someone is rude to them: there's no way you've ever, in your privileged life, had to suffer through a customer service job. Otherwise you wouldn't treat them like shit.
@@HotelMari0Maker 100%. No one has ever experienced any sort of customer service job if you’re acting like the world owes you something.
You ever just look at someone belittling you and think “Damn, if this was in real life, in nature, and we were alone, do you have any idea how fast I could kill you”.
which country are you talking about? I'm brazilian and here is the same thing.
People that elive in socity never worked Service , or they will hav the though of killing ppl on the daily basis !
Live life on your terms the best you can and capitalize on every privilege given to you because the odds in this system are stacked against everyone’s happiness
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What if u born upper middle class and you can skip working a job
@@penguingobrrbrr353Honestly, if you're in a position to work part time or not at all, you should take it.
"I've spent minutes of my life researching this". That kinda honesty and humor gets that sub hit
lfg
one of the times this hit me the hardest was when I was 21 and had a full time job that gave sick time, unpaid time off and paid time off. 40 hrs each and on a cumulative basis per year for PTO, set for unpaid and sick time. I had a lot of things happen in that year so I used all my UNPAID time off lol, so the boss was like yeah now you have to use your sick time or paid time. This made me feel huge existential fear like… how in the FUCK are you able to tell someone they aren’t allowed to take any unpaid time off????? Excuse me what???? It’s UNPAID!!!!! I suddenly felt super trapped that someone could tell me I couldn’t call out for a day if there was an emergency, even though I wouldn’t be getting paid at all. Aren’t I an adult here? Why are my bosses telling me what I can and can’t do in regards to my personal time and only allowing a set amount of days per year for things that are out of my control. This shit is just bizarre.
Bizarre af. Not to diminish your pain bc honestly not, I’m just gonna trauma dump here bc I’m drowning, haha.
40 hrs you say… in my country, a 3rd would country, you’d be doing 48 hrs and probably it’s not even half of what you’ve been doing. It’s fucking scary. How they treat us is disgusting and terrifying. I hope it gets better for all of us.
I had a difficult job, but I loved it. After five years working there, we were all laid off. So I lost a lot of friends and a big part of myself. I like learning and increase my job skills as a hobby though, so I wasn't worried too much about finding a new job. And wow have things changed. Many places outright lie about job duties to try and pay less. And a lot of places have one position doing the tasks of what used to be three different positions. Insane. I never had a sour view towards work five years ago. Today? I see recruiters and most employers as scum.
yeah, employers love to pitch the whole "we're a family" thing so much that it's become a meme, but at the end of the day, it seems like they care most about maximizing the profit per employee they have. which, idk, just seems like a really callous way to treat other human beings. good luck with everything dude, hopefully you find/have found a new job you enjoy. hope u have a legendary rest of ur day :)
@@introvertedmadness Yeah, companies want to pretend that inflation isn't happening. They complain others won't work, and yet they won't do the work of hiring themselves anymore, outsourcing to dodgy recruiting companies. Thanks for the good wishes, I hope you have a great week.
Luck is involved. I took a new job in 2022 mid-year. Got a 10K bonus which was very unexpected. Up for a 24K bonus for 2023. Companies do not advertise these things and most will say you are eligible for up to 20% but you'll never see more than 5%. But then I hit the lottery. Keep looking and ask those questions at interview.
That's always been my theory for what that productivity to compensation chart is all about. Every time there's a round of layoffs, the ones who are left end up taking on the jobs of everyone who was fired. When the economy starts expanding again the new hires take on the same level of responsibility.
Just out of interest what sector was it
the craziest part is how me and my friends talk about this exact topic ALL the time, and yet we all are working office job internships this summer that we absolutely dread. it’s the worst feeling that there is nothing you can do about it, it’s not like some revolution can be done cause what would we even protest,, like this entire society??
Start your own businesses ❤
Become a communist, or socialist, or anarchist or something. Read some books about it (if you can't afford / access books, you might want to look into Zlibrary or others like it). Read some books and go from there.
Civil war would fix a lot of things and cause actually easier to fix issues.
I feel like a lot of programmers start because they just want to write code. Then the grind just kills them and removes their soul.
coding is so cool!!! you start from a blank page and can make a button so the page turns pink!!! its like magic!!! and satisfies some deep carpenter part of my human soul. but its way too grindy nowadays like you said and all about how can we write code that makes money, sigh. fingers crossed we get back to making cool stuff
this dude is legit the only reason i use youtube other than youtube shorts to fuel my dopamine receptors and my boring life in college
lets goooo!!!!!! also wishing u the best at college dude, im manifesting the heck outta something cool to happen to you :)
as a Canadian I cannot even fathom the thought of most people retiring in their 60s. my grandmother is 80 and still works.
also, as a neurodivergent person who cannot work, a big obstacle I see that maybe others don't is how work is structured. it hit me hardest when playing Persona 5, and you can just work at a convenience store and go in and work whenever. The work structure we have now is so rigid and limiting-you have to have a resume, do interviews, get hired, and then you're given a schedule you have to stick to. and for some fields, yeah, that makes sense, but for others...why can't we have a more lax, collective system?? if our communities were more tight knit where neighbours know one another, know their skills and their limits, we could go to a place and say "hey do you need help today? I'm available to work." and you work as long as you can work. If I could actually work a bit then clock out when I start to feel that sensory overload, I actually COULD work, and since not working is incredibly socially isolating, I think it'd feel pretty rewarding. and people would enjoy working more, since you'd be helping your neighbour, not generating wealth for massive corporations while you are paid pennies in comparison to the grossly rich CEOs at the top. do people really need to be over stressing their bodies to like...sell clothes??? Nobody's gonna die if most shops close a little early. I've seen people get fired because they have a cold or flu for "too long"...or they work anyway to pay rent! it's insane. I actually think if we had a more chill system some things might be more convenient, such as letting night owls work at night. more places having night hours sounds more convenient to me!
This is SUCH a good point
I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone vocalize so accurately how I feel about work and money. You should make more videos about the state of society and what not.
Look into socialism / communism / anarchism. You might find that they give voice to your gripes with the world.
i could listen to u talk for hours, love ur vids
Nobody likes to work and in truth work isn’t supposed to be “fun”. It’s sad and painful to realize we HAVE and need to work to not starve, be homeless, and worse in the US, to get healthcare. Even when folks air their grievances the response “go cry into your paycheck” is dismissive and gross. What gets me through it is to find a job I LIKE doing even if it may or may not be my Dream Job. Just one that aligns with me & my interests. Some people may say “well it might not pay much then” but I don’t think so because if I know I’m a person who likes to assist I’ll explore avenues that’ll get me there. It takes time, trial, and error but it works. Also this sounds very cliche but honing your skills & building a network gets you to that high paying job you want faster. Nepotism is real & honestly how non-college graduate folk get those high paying coveted people spend years in school for.
I screenshotted this so I don’t forget! Thanks for the advice.
When people say that they hated their jobs, they’re not saying they want to have fun at their jobs. Granted, working is not playing, and most of the people are well aware of this fact. However, most of the dysphoria comes from people experiencing alienation. Alienation is the sense of dehumanizing, and it will not be solved if you simply replace working with playing. People naturally seek meaning and values from their actions, and need to get fulfillment from the process. The problem is that people don’t feel that they are creating values through working, nor that they are valued for it.
You don’t have to enjoy your work or love your job to feel fulfilled: A small farm owner doesn’t have to love the work, but they surely feels less alienation via their labor than their white collar peers. The gardener directly get what they sow and they knows that their work directly go to them. With most jobs, you don’t directly enjoy the product, your productivity is instead evaluated and quantified by its monetary value. This brings the biggest problem with our late-staged capitalism society is that everything is commodified and money as an intermediary actually makes people feel disconnected with their work.
I don’t get the hate towards work itself, i know many people who if they didn’t have work or school, they’d just be at home scrolling through tiktok or other social media for hours..
However, where i’ll concur is that ROI and fair treatment on our work is getting worst. Wages not keeping up with the cost of living, inflation, workers rights and unions getting steamrolled, a reccession, etc. Work isn’t the problem to me, it’s the lack of fairness in how our work is handled.
Man, I agree with everything you said, I think it's sad that we have to waste most of our lives working at a job we don't want to be at. people say we're free but we're not free true freedom is being able to lie down in a field of grass at any time in the day or night because we have no obligations no pressure to maintain the basic necessities we need to survive.
some work, is necessary. without it we would not be having this conversation, at this website. the problem is the excess. of how much of our life we give to don't live. If I had the option to work like. 5h a day. or 3 days a week. even earning a lot less. I would accept it. I'm more productive. I don't feel that I'm losing my life on it. and, well. I don't like the idea of going all in to caveman mode but, a balance for me is key. life is meant to be lived.
Thank you! I've been saying the same thing for a long time. It's gotten out of control. When you work a 40 hr week but live in your car because you can't afford rent, there is a problem. The world is controlled by profit mongers. I'm glad people are beginning to talk about it. That's the only way it's going to change. We're going to have to be the ones. They're not going to change a thing.
Yep, working the 40 hour week isn’t the problem itself, but it’s the fact that you still have to live our your car..
My work has been suffering from my increasing certainty that what I am paid to do doesn't contribute anything to society let alone my happiness. It's tough after you get out of school; your life goes from enrichment and self-actualization focused to oh I have to spend most of my waking hours making money so I have somewhere to sleep at night. My friend and I were just talking about how well-rounded we were as students and how now there's no time for pursuing interests. I'm sure there are people who can make the time for their hobbies, but for us, we'd have to sacrifice something like sleep or household chores to do something fun and interesting. Great and engaging video. I like your editing style.
Thank you so much for these videos, I was feeling so alone in my early 20s currently living at home with no social life and it feels like I have made a friend/big bro in you. Sometimes feels like I’m the only one feeling this way so it’s nice to see another stranger on the internet feeling this typaway
im that way too, collective homie. collective.
Somehow you just say the things i need to hear that no one else thinks. Thank you
glad you could relate dude :))) thanks 4 watching & have a magnificent rest of ur day
This channel is 100% going to blow up, you're extremely funny and entertaining and seem to really value interacting with your audience. On the subject of the video, I really don't know how things could be changed or what could be done as I know little about politics and even less about economics, the current system is definitely broken, but I'm not sure what could be done to fix it. As an aspiring Aerospace engineer, I hope my passion doesn't get snuffed out by the job system in of itself.
i had the exact feeling you're describing halfway through making this video, i was like: well i'm pointing out all these problems in this video that seem to exist, but also: what the heck am i personally gonna do about these problems??? like i don't know how to personally fix the economy or even how i would go about convincing politicians to fix the system because none of them seem to care. it almost seems just way more mentally healthy on an individual level to just find a niche in the system you enjoy and ride it out, like you said.
i think the first step to any real change though is just talking more about these problems openly and addressing the elephant in the room that the system doesn't work for a lot of people. because i think there are more of us who want to change the system that we think, but we all just don't know how to do it. but yeah!!! idk!!!! thanks for commenting and sharing ur thoughts dude, def very relatable for me :) good luck with aerospace engineering and hope u have a gorgeous rest of ur day!!
@@introvertedmadness seconding that you're definitely going to blow up!!! This was such an entertaining yet fascinating video. Really nice to watch such a thought out video, something so articulate (and with graphics to keep my broken brain consistently attentive 😭)!! I also struggle with the knowledge that SO much is wrong, but that the people, the organizations that could make moves to fix it are those who have the incentive not to, so it was reassuring to hear/read in the comments I wasn't the only one concerned. I tend to focus too much on geopolitics, but you phrased your thoughts so perfectly, in the video and in this comment!! Helped shake off some of my unfortunate tunnel vision lol. Centering our entire lives around money is such a concise way to put it. I've always thought the same, but far more verbosely 💀💀There's so much to do and not a clear way to do it, and coming from a very big pessimist that's pursuing what will make me money over my interests (partially because monetizing interests, imo, can remove the joy/spark from said interests) it's simultaneously so much simpler (while still being horrible nuanced and convoluted yes yes lol) when you allow yourself to boil it all down. Like way down. Like nuking the nuance all to hell for your mental health, down. Either we all die miserably or we don't, and bringing awareness in the form of such a wonderful piece like this, creating a space to talk about the future and potential action, makes me think we might just not. Die miserably, that is😭😭 anyways lovely days to introverted
madness and the og commenter!!! this is very rambling but I just wanted to show my appreciation in a form that wasn't a like, or sharing the link!
And there’s a sequel to this story.
Getting burned out when you actually dedicate your life to that thing you used to love.
It’s a relief knowing other people think about this stuff. Dialogue is the first step; we need people to start talking about this more if we want to implement changes. When the inconveniences of our way of life outweigh the benefits, that’s when we’ll start to change the way we do things. I’m hopeful for a better future for this species, but some major changes need to happen.
Finishing my master's degree rn and I'm going into consulting with no idea why other than yay $$$. Would rather make music and try stand up comedy, this video is inspiring me to at least give each a good try and hey even if they don't make me money at least it can be a hobby i enjoy.
heck yeah dude, go for those things. i think in modern times we all basically have 2 jobs, if we define jobs as activities we spend a lot of time doing: the job we have to pay for food/shelter/survival and the job we have that actually fulfills our deep human spirit. and like you said, even if u don't make money, you get enjoyment, and you can argue that enjoyment is even more valuable than money in the grander scheme of things. anyway good luck with the standup and music dude & hope u have a fantastic rest of ur day :)
I’m actually doing the same! I’m a music artist as well going for my MBA and what I’ve decided to do is just figure out how to take my love for business and merge it into my love for music. I’m sure the perfect business idea will come along but don’t give up on brainstorming the merging of your skills!
There should be a way for very beginner musicians to make money while they are still learning, something that doesn't involve ads
The problem is that working, even a few decades was a decent deal. You could afford an apartment, a cheap car and decent vacation once in a while. Now i know people my age who work full time and still have to live with their parents, because rent and other living costs are way too expensive. So what is the point when wages are so stagnated and living costs are higher than ever.
Also many jobs that actually contribute to society are low paid and considered low tier. So the "you have to contribute to society" is complete bs, where in today's world most paid are fart sniffers who do nothing entire day and even do the opposite of contributing to society. How many rich ceo's today got their job and wealth from working hard? Almost all of them come from ultra rich families.
We should focus on reducing our own expenses so those in power are forced to pay more for our services. Having children is extremely expensive and if you cannot get job security and good pay - raising kids is a ticket to poverty.
It's easy to forget just how fundamental and basic these problems are. Even as a young kid I never understood the appeal of simply "acquiring wealth"
As a single millennial hustling to pay my mortgage, seeing the younger generations stand up against our sick system gives me strength.
I felt like my entire college years were built on a mindset that I have to learn sth that can bring me to a job after graduating. Now every sing day of my life I live in desperation
i know that feel dude. i feel like leaving the school system is weird cuz you exit and realize the "real world" is this crazy lord of the flies situation. at the end of the day (unsolicited advice time!!!) u just gotta find things you enjoy and go from there, cuz at the end of the day, life is short and silly anyway. hope you're doing ok dude, u got dis. have a splendid rest of ur day :)))
@@introvertedmadness thank you very much for your kind and powerful words! Really means a lot to me. Planning to continue working on this job for like five years or so just to save some fxxk off money then I can quit and actually do what I enjoy doing. Thank you and wish you have a wonderful day as well
Big 4 Senior Auditor here: The audit would go smoothly if there wasn't so much turnover from our side and the client side. In my 3.5 years of working, my team had one person from each level quit. Then my client contacts seem to not understand our evidence requests or their own control environment, so we have to explain everything like they're 5. Gonna go to industry and get that 30k pay bump.
Yah between my internship and my actual start at my firm there were like 4 people I recognized outside of partners and managers. It kind of sucks because I like the people I work with, then they just leave. I'm struggling with this to because I like what I do, Hell I can put up with busy season even, but it just sucks having to learn 15 new people each year and only 3 of them be there the next year. I also don't have a Wife or kids so I don't have to worry about that with busy season.
Spent my last 1.5 years at a Big4 company and now I have a plenty of gray hairs.
I'm 21...
@@nikolaykopernik9124 Wow you graduated early then. Are you in the USA?
I feel like I've watched you become more and more left with your takes and I gotta say I am liking this direction!
lmao i have also noticed that and i also like that direction. though tbh, i feel like nowadays left/right/etc are labels used to divide us. even though they're literally just random labels we use to define certain ideas. anyway thanks for the support & hope u have a jovial rest of ur day :)
Absolutely amazing video! Jreg has released a new video titled "Speed A(DHD)ccelarationism" where he says something along the lines of "Oh you thought that AI was going to liberate work? Turns out you just have to outcompete it in the job market". I don't know what will happen in the next 5 years when many of the entry-level jobs will most probably disappear.
we keep making all these cool new technologies that are supposed to help us work less but then we end up working more and more miserable!!! like why!!!!!!! we shoulda started chilling way more after we invented tractors. i hope we figure it out dude, but i'd be lying if i said i was optimistic about the chances that all this new AI stuff leads to humans having more free time. like it seems more likely that a whole new class of dumb jobs will be invented if/when AI takes the menial ones. but fingers crossed it all works out???? thanks for watching homie & hope u have a delightful rest of ur day :)
@@introvertedmadness This is a weird tangent, but since I currently live with a view of the Sears / Willis Tower: US farmers did get a lot of their labor-saving devices from the Sears Roebuck Company via mail order (it was the Amazon of 1910). This saved them money and time but the company quickly became such a monopolistic behemoth that poorer farmers were squeezed out of farming completely -- this is before farming was subsidized by the US government. The company eventually moved into selling home goods, and that's how most Boomers remember it. It filed for bankruptcy in 2018. I am absolutely sure Amazon will go through this same cycle (only faster), and that AI will prove to be much like the telephone, a scary earthshaking invention at first but definitely not a replacement for all human interaction and writing!
i just want to be at least moderately happy
This channel makes me feel cozy bc it totally gets me. I don’t feel alone in my hope for a non coin society
Omg new video from my RUclips emotional support human!!
Haha but honestly I had a really rough week, and you videos always help me through stuff. Keep being you man, and I will be forever grateful for the algorithm that suddenly decided I need to know more about CS at Stanford.
Edit: I would love to join the introvertmadness lovism society.
same here!
thanks for the kind words yo :')))) i mega appreciate the support, i feel like it makes it easier for me to stay true to what i want to say knowing that there are others who are able to connect to it and enjoy it. hope your week is improving and have a magical rest of ur day :)
and yes when i start my commune i will reserve a yurt for u
A reason why I get behind on chores and such is having a full time job. I ask myself do I really want to spend my limited free time I have on cleaning, going to the dentist, etc?
chores are underrated when it comes to how much time they take up, cuz they're basically "maintenance" for your life. employers act like they're giving us such a gift because we "only" work 8 hours a day so we should have 8 hours of free time, but that stuff goes by FAST when even if you're just cooking/cleaning/showering/etc
It's called living to work and it's what you get pushed toward, even though the drawbacks are obvious. What's even worse is if the office culture is one of those "I have to suffer so you have to suffer too" ones where the long-timers actually become a part of the problem.
And just think, if you eventually had kids, your responsibilities would quadruple. Say goodbye to making enough money and having time for yourself. However, by not having kids, you ensure that there are fewer consumers and workers for corporations to exploit and profit from in the future.
work could be like a chore, a maintenance thing not the main thing on life. or the definition of who we are. something we need to do but don't take all of our life.
Dentist is important because you don’t want teeth like mine, trust me. But I agree on the rest.
The best day of the week actually IS wednesday.
On wednesday morning, the weekend is still far away, and on the evening, it’s almost the weekend
wednesday = winter solstice of the week?
that is some mental gymnastics
I just found your channel, I really like your videos!
You touched on this briefly, how working is connected to one’s morality. For example if a person makes more money they are in a theoretical higher social position, and if they don’t make as much money it’s seen as their fault for being lazy. Meanwhile, people that are born into wealth get to live life sooner and aren’t as “money” obsessed as lower income people.
I’m unemployed right now and I feel terrible for not being productive, and I feel incredibly insecure being around other people my age who have full time jobs. It’s changed from “what school do you go to?“ to “what do you do for work?” Our entire identity is what you do and if it’s not “respectable” or makes a lot of money people look at you sideways.
This is rambley, but I have thoughts apparently on this topic.
yeah i think the system as a whole has a really messed up message it sends to people - like you said, our entire worth as human beings is basically defined by what we do for work, since people who don't work in theory generally able to purchase the things they need for survival or have to really struggle to afford these things. which i feel like is just weird!!! like everyone is always talking about how every human life is important and yet we have a system where some lives are "valued" more than others because they sit in a cubicle for 40 hours a week doing some made up tasks. so many people's obsession with defining their personality based on their job when the job is just some fake thing just makes me feel weird lol.
hanks for watching & sharing you thoughts, wishing you the best & hope u have a terrific day :)
I've held the same thoughts for so long, and you packaged it all together so well. Very concise and engaging.
Another introvertedmadness video is dopamine straight into my veins thank you senpai
My man is a modern philosopher whom has used the medium of a presentation to break down complicated terms into one’s we can all understand
When he needed him the most, he came back
Completely agree. I love the idea of a system built on love. Imagine how many things could actually be solved: poverty, warmongering, corruption and so much more
Corruption not particulary
Uh-huh, well go ahead and fix society first because humans aren't always great and kind
And he learned an important lesson. The problem with taking from someone when you have nothing to gain is that one day, that person may wind up with nothing to lose.
💯🌀
Idk i just dont want to live another day .. realised this as soon as i graduated highschool
12 minutes of straight facts
I've had a discussion like this in the past, and yeah some people have a knee jerk reaction to capitalism being a perfect system.
Really? Most people I talk to know it is flawed but can say that it is the best system available out of the major ones brought up
The idea that our standard of living has improved is a complete myth… since the time work and enslavement has existed, our standard of living went from living free lives in nature with hours of leisure activity everyday to getting whipped, eating toxic food, and being forced into a hierarchy that perpetually subjugates those who need support and care the most.
However, they do this to us because they need us. If we threaten their interests by refusing to work or give ourselves enough food to even work in the first place - the deaths combined with starvation will lead to massive decreases in consumer spending and productivity which will negatively impact the profitability of corporations and will anger many corporate shareholders. They need us, and they want to obscure this fact by making us feel like replaceable trash.
But at the same time we needed to fend off dangers from nature, sickness, life expectancy was in the gutter, etc.
Not defending problems in our work system but I wouldn’t romanticize the past so much
thank you for this!! you explained my internal monologue for the last 6 months in under 13 minutes. it’s very well written and edited and i really needed to hear this right now :,)
Best capitalistic system ROAST EVER!!!
love this channel reminds me of og youtube
What I really love about your style of video is the quality.
The black noise from the green screen, the popping noises in your audio. Remembers me of the good old youtube days. Thank you
I’m only fifteen, and I’m probably going to have to get a job and choose a career soon. It honestly scares me. I’ve been talking to my dad and he keeps telling me that being an author (which is what I want to do, and is the only thing I’ve ever felt a purpose to do) has really bad job security, and is a super hard field to make it into, and he’s already pushing me into the direction of majoring in business or economics or something stupid I would be miserable in, or to at least find a plan b “in case it doesn’t work out.” Almost nobody with jobs that I talk to can confidently say they love, or even by extension, *like* what they do. Adulting truly sounds terrifying in this society.
Mannnnnn fuckkkkkk job security who gaf look be an author and forget what your dad tryna make u do cus it’s ur life man
I’m in the same boat..I’ve researched so many careers but it seems like every single one the first thing that comes up is “I HATE MY JOB” or “WHY U SHOULDNT DO ___”
That passion is precious, don’t let it go
About two weeks ago I started working my first full-time job out of college as a full-stack engineer. And I hate it. I feel like all we’re doing is trying to squeeze our customers out of another dollar.
Where do you work at?
I feel like it never used to be this way. It's the fact that everything is way more expensive than it used to be, which is why people would rather cop out early.
Love u bro. I feel like we are alike. I’m considered a high archiver in my family even though I hate university and the job system. I really needed this. Please keep making videos!
being labeled as that "high achiever" really will do a number on ya mental health, i feel you dude. hang in there, i think we're all gonna make it. thanks 4 watching & hope u have a fantastic rest of ur day :)
If ai can actually revolutionize our working world the only thing that will happen is the owner class cutting the rest of us out
One of the most infuriating things about our society is the fact that our value is directly correlated to our employment
yeah i feel like the "ruling class" doesn't really have an incentive to make themselves not be the ruling class, like it's pretty sweet for them. ack it's all messed up lol, i am holding out hope we figure it all out
Been thinking about automation on a large scale like this for a while now and essentially the only thing a person can do in a society that's mostly automated is the things robots can't (yet) do (and people don't want to do like caring for the elderly, kids, manual labour maybe) or owning things to rent out like property.
That's what a capitalist system where most people can't find work is going to look like.
it's for that why I fucking hate it when people push AI to replace art, poetry, music, and other artistic stuff , because why not use it to replace all these bullshit jobs and stuff so we can do those things instead? But no our ability to generate money and profits is more important than our artistic and intellectual integrity in the eyes of businessmen.
@@Alejandro-kg3hx the dream society really would be ai does all the dumb bs jobs for the ruling class and they have to pay us all a ubi
Think about all the fun we could have as a society where we don’t have to spend our entire lives miserable
We can increase our value by not having children so that there are fewer consumers for corporations to profit off of and more expenses for corporations to spend to compete for smaller labour pools.
I'm a police officer, I get 4 days off one week then the following week I get 3 days off. I have a good schedule but I think its about having a job that allows you to have the lifestyle you want. I get paid more and work less compared to my last job. However I don't have a job that's my dream job or a job that I always wanted to do, it's all a means to an end. I think the ultimate thing is to be your own boss or make passive income. That way you can make your schedule and not have to listen to anyone. Also the elite people in control of our world want us to be slaves and poor, the system is a system for a reason. The federal reserve has really screwed us.
People from third word countries commenting that “western countries don’t know how good they have it” don’t understand that inflation and cost of living had become so high, we can no longer afford to live off of it. I’ve lived in a third word country and am aware how difficult it is for the people there because of the little to no education, no jobs, and high crime rates.
As far as the USA at least a lot of people from the third world dont have to worry about going bankrupt rom medical bills. Plus you speak about high crime. The USA has a waaaaay higher violent crime rate than the rest of the developed world so we have major problems all over lol
Apples and oranges, right? And then there are communities like the reservations here in America. The Skokomish reservation I'm from recovered enough recently to clean the skokomish river, but things weren't always going so well. The dam did a lot. Things get bad, regardless of where you know?
I used to be a janitor at a high school, but left it last year. I would go back tomorrow if I could, but the pay was not good. The benefits were good and I felt like I actually did something useful and fulfilling. I was tired a lot, but the job was fairly chill and I liked the people I worked with and for. I work in a meat-processing plant now and the pay is a lot better, but I never have time off and I'm always exhausted in addition to having a much longer commute than before.
This video was so true and beautiful. I love the idea of having a world based on caring about one another and not based on accumulating the most wealth.
Hey man, I just want to say that I think you’re a really high quality person. I love your videos and your personality.
Thanks so much for posting, and I hope to meet you
I'm so glad I found your channel! This seriously resonated with me: "there's this gnawing feeling somewhere inside me that makes me feel like perfectionism and grinding is the way to make this all work out, but in my heart i know that's not true. i am enough as i am!!!!" 💯
"Some people wear shirts just to show how much money they have" hit hard
DIdn't Keynes predict in the 1920s that we'd be working 15 hour workweeks due to an increase in productivity due to tech? And yet now with AI one person is going to be expected to do the output of 100 people, still working away half their lives to survive.
I saw a story on reddit about french colonists who introduced a new way of growing rice to village people in cambodia which would double their output, expecting that they'd be able to come back and make a profit form the extra rice. Only to come back and find the villagers spent half as much time working and were producing the same amount of rice as usual to feed themselves while spending more time with their families and chilling.
Some people do work 15-hour workweeks, and if they can make ends meet they are often very happy with that! (I think Keynes also assumed we would, you know, guarantee health care and public education for all by now. The UK created the NHS in the late 1940s. No-brainer for him.)
Easily your best video yet 💖
thanks yo :) hope u have a terrific rest of ur day
omg your humour is underrated lol
Man, the fact this posted after I decided to go full-time confirms my fears.
It’s a trade-off between freedom and security, and throughout history humanity has consistently opted for security. The unfortunate reality is that there is no long-term security that any human institution can provide.
The problem is... I'm already in debt being a first year finance student.
Its too late so... if you cant beat them, join them.
The capitalistic society.
The corporate slaves.
The finance bros.
Taken to it's logical extreme - workers will only be motivated by profit and will gladly let society collapse at the expense of the elite who want to control them if there is nothing in it for them personally. And besides, babies are not profitable and they just give those who wrong us more people to dispose of like cannon fodder and we're expected to pay for them.
You cracked the code, congrats, you will be succesful enough to have people exploited and under your command! Hopefully in the future you're a bit more of an empath and benevolent than the people who rule right now.
Just drop out, stop taking on debt, and learn some skills without college
Once you feel invested in the system, the less you want t it to change.
@@triton62674 Yes that makes sense
Great video! My view is that the problem isn't the need to work to live (although it looks like there's some evidence that something like UBI might have some potential), but rather that work isn't being compensated fairly which prevents many people from being able to build wealth themselves or in some cases even survive on their full time pay. As a result, among many *many* other issues that stem from that, those people have little free time and energy to research their situation and advocate for their rights, unlike rich people who have lots of free time and understand their situation really well, resulting in a self-perpetuating cycle of political and wealth/income inequality between the middle/poor and the rich.
yeah that's definitely a really good point. it seems harder and harder for people to have upwards economic mobility, because lower-paying jobs seem to "trap" people, like you said. i have another hot take that the ruling class isn't really incentivized to help these people escape their situations either, because they need to have people producing the things they consume with their nice lifestyles. but that's a different video!!! thanks for sharing your thoughts dude, good stuff. have an awesome rest of ur day :)
I grew up on a farm, my father regularly told me to work smarter not harder. He knew hard work was important to a degree, but working hard wasn't intrinsically better than working more intelligently. The people that say you have to work like a dog for your money are just wearing out their bodies for nothing.
it was really nice to see another video from you pop up. this was nice, its good feelings of togetherness about thoughts about work, this world
we're not alone!!! it gives me hope we're gonna make it :)
Unemployed, having a high fever, taking a break between my study sessions and discovered your channel.
Thank you random stranger on the internet. Thank you for offering a fresh healthy perspective on concerns I should have addressed a few years back. Thank you for not sugar coating BS and being brutally honest about it all. Keep making similar content & providing us our daily dose of copium.
Arigato gozaimasda ❤