At the ripe age of 72 I can honestly say that I am embarrassed to call myself American, and considering the fact that we are inexorably trashing the entire planet Earth, I am ashamed to consider myself as a part of the Human species. Where has all this lunacy come from? Where are the "better angels of our nature" that we supposedly revere? All things considered I am compelled to believe that the Earth is gonna be a better place without us.
Maybe humans are the thing God sends to bring on the end of the world. Why are we the only species who literally s--t where we eat? If Intelligent Design is true, then the friggin' snake makes more sense than God. Go forth and multiply? Dominion? "We have met the enemy and he is us." -Pogo
Im 44, and where it used to seem like nobody believed in God anymore, I've begun to conclude that it's far worse-- People don't believe in GOOD anymore...
@@marygard4608 mortgage banker at a large loan company I was just another drop in the bucket so if you don’t hit your goals they will let you go, we had to work long hours just to hit our goal otherwise there is no way to reach the insane amount of loans they expected in 40 hours.
Power is like an addictive drug, and the more unequal a society becomes the more you create a class of deranged addicts feeding their habit at the expense of everyone else.
Why would anyone seek power over anything??? And how much is enough??? It would seem that "everyone else" doesn't have "enough" of anything...if one follows your line of reasoning.
@@jgalt308 Power is just the means to get what you want so it's instrumental to getting anything else: If you are alive you have some power. However too much of it makes people anti-social and gives them delusional god complexes.
@@jgalt308 People can become depressed, enraged and ultimately self-destructive with too little power. Sharing it, at least up to a point, is just pragmatic good sense.
The first sane and complete discussion of new abortion denial law in Texas that I have seen, and other issues of economics, exploitation, control, and actual freedom. Starting his Labor Day special with loss of control over one's own body, and ending with the psychopathology of working in the US was an awesome tribute workers.
A point over looked was the lack of dignity in work places. Just because you have an entry level position or are a new employee, this is used to bully or belittle. We are all humans and deserve equal respect regardless of job title, seniority, or age.
oh yeah, the pecking order. i tossed submission to that years ago, got fired from one job cuz i told an abusive supe to fuck off. refused to sign anything from HR who threatened to keep my pay. talked to a lawyer, got his card and mailed it to the company and told them to respond with my check pronto. succeeded. was damn cold living in the back of a ford ranger with a leaky cap for better than two and a half years but yes it was goddam worth it to not put up with shit from an ignorant mouth-piece.
Do you know that there is NO federal law that requires your employer to allow you a lunch??? That should tell you everything you need to know about what the US government thinks about the working class.
Because of the great diversity in America, the Constitution arranged for most laws to be written locally, and only a very few laws to be written the the federal government. That the federal government has imposed itself into every facet of our lives from coast to coast is one of the reasons we are at each other's throats fighting over who should be in power. If laws were written locally as they're supposed to be, we could all co-exist with our separate preferences.....In short. I don't care that there isn't a FEDERAL law that I get to eat lunch. You'll notice most people end up eating lunch despite the lack of federal oversight.
@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 The Constitution was written by wealthy white landowners for the benefit of those like themselves, not to control their reach.
@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 Murder is a state crime. Know any state where the personal preferences of the people are to be murdered with no justice? You are not upset about Abolition, Civil Rights, women's sufferage, or Prohibition, are you? (They changed the Prohibition one). Must be dat ol' debbil, abortion.
Yep. When I was in college I wanted a 20 hour a week job a drug store. Ended up being forced to work 40+ hour weeks some weeks. Still couldn't afford a car so it was either work there or fast food, which is even worse. Ended up doing really poorly in a few classes and then fell into a spiral of anxiety and depression because of it, which made my school performance even worse. That was 10 years ago now, and I'm pretty sure those same retail jobs pay the same as they did then, even though rent has damn near doubled.
I hear you. It's always been rough. Without a contract, lies during a job interview are only lies from the interviewee. The company can lie with impunity.
That exact thing happened to me in high school!! My dad kicked me out after my mom died in 1994, I had to work to pay rent/utilities/food/laundry mat/transportation, & it was supposed to be 20 hrs/week but was pushed to work just under 40 or be fired --- all while trying to attend high school. Needless to say, my grades suffered & I fell into increasingly more self-destructive behaviors.
We need to better by encouraging young progressive to attain degrees in economics and history to push our agenda and educate the youth. Genders studies is not going to cut it.
Yes, this is me! I've worked so many godawful jobs (despite having bachelor's degrees), and the employers only accept subservience. All of their mistreatment of workers does give you anger, rage, depression, hopelessness, etc. And the neoliberal economy continues, so you may never be able to break out of it, but even if you do, those low and harmful feelings don't go away. Follow-up question to the psychotherapist: What is the remedy for the very negative feelings resulting from such horrible mistreatment?
I've worked in the pandemic for the past 18 months as a registered nurse in very difficult, stressful circumstances. The abusive working conditions were such that it became an untenable situation. I brought my concerns to my employer and within a few days was terminated and thrown out like a piece of trash. Ironically, had just been given a good job evaluation. Without unions, workers have little protection, and can be pushed out quite easily. My advice: trust no one, lay low, keep your mouth shut, don't even make suggestions...or quietly exit or find another job. The corporations are nothing less than tyrannical and HR is not your friend.
Weird. How does constantly picking at your employees help the profits? I guess it keeps them too depressed to file expensive lawsuits and to fight for themselves.
It doesn’t even help. It results in lower productivity by all the effected employees. It also massively increases staff turnover which increases HR costs. It also diverts management to training for all the new hires and again lower productivity. It reduces the positive impression of a company if staff are constantly leaving. It makes them question all aspects of the business and that can lower sales. A depressed staff are also less likely to assist customers and intervene if thefts take place. In every respect it’s bad for the business but they don’t care. The fact that they were pushing people to work full time probably without increasing benefits as required also means they could be liable. It wouldn’t surprise me that many of the staff shortages that many industries are suffering right now is a consequence of bad treatment of staff in the past. I have heard of entire staff walking out of restaurants at the end of a shift and no one returns to open up. Also after being abandoned by employers during the pandemic staff have discovered alternatives and so have no issue with leaving an employer in the lurch.
Many employees don’t even bother to do any lawsuit because employers make them a hell and it is a public record so when you go to work somewhere else it will show.
Valid show, but I feel Layla’s story is very mild compared to what’s happening in corporate America now. This may be my 50 something perspective, but things have gone way beyond corporations not valuing workers as people. My job is killing me. I work 50-60 hours per week and am expected to take care of a parent with Alzheimer’s in my “spare time”. I’m a decade away from Medicare so quitting is not an option. The sad thing is that my story is very, very common. When I seek help I’m told to be grateful I have a job. I gave up on expecting a sense of being valued as a human in the workplace long ago. Right now I’m just hoping to stave off a heart attack! Sorry Layla, but if things don’t change they will get worse.
Yes. Workers have become a resource, a commodity to be exploited. I work as a contract industrial maintenance mechanic. I generally work 72 hours per week on night shifts. The plants run 24/7 but the parking lots are mostly empty after 5:00. So, what do most of those management types actually do?
I worked 40-50 hours a week at a small hotel myself, until covid. Honestly, I've worked there on and off for over a decade and the new owners and management team turned the business to sh*t. Covid made me see how toxic they were: cooked with expired ingredients, wasting money on superficial items rather than fix the broken A.C.units in the rooms, management/owner's family taking hours and tips away from housekeeping and waitstaff, and the list goes on. Meanwhile, the general manager yells at the staff saying she works 60 hours a week to keep the place afloat. 1) She sits on her but all butt all day. 2) she took shifts away from our breakfast cook(no culinary training), late to every shift despite living 3 minutes away. 3) She doesn't have a mortgage because her and the owner's daughter are best friends; gave her one off her father's houses in the city. 4) Her and the Owner's daughter's friends got to eat, drink, and stay at the hotel for free in the last 2 years while locals can't afford $400 /night for terrible services. 5) She kept only 1 wait staff member out of the 4 we had, but of course it was her boyfriend. It's one thing to not value workers as people. it's another thing entirely when small business owners & management get to openly live the high life in front of their staff and refuse to see things from their perspective.
It's all relative. What we have in common is we workers do not democratically control the means of production. Whether it's risking covid every day, having to work while sick because your doctors note wasn't "good enough", or having to work at 70 to afford higher rents. And our surplus value only goes to actually increase the stranglehold of the owner class as we waste time fighting one another.
My message was not clear. I wasn’t dismissing Layla’s predicament. I agree it’s all relative and we workers should and must work together. I would just like seeing stronger examples of worker exploitation.
@@geraldinegranger9186 Sorry I completely agree there should be more examples. I did not mean to straw man this. The suffering is boundless especially in conquered lands. Hope your situation looks up soon.
Prof. Richard Wolff hit the nail on the head with this interview!! He always enlightens us about oppressive power structures in a well informed manner 😎 #cantstopwolff
The mere abstract idea of "We the People" has been a convenient trope, a belief mechanism by which innocents are coerced in directions inimical to their own beliefs, desires and personal welfare whether it is the personal domain or the political/patriotic variety. We the People have been led to believe (and like to think) that they are operating in their own and general interests when, all the while, they are subtly being led into willful servitude. "We are the people our parents warned us about".
I think of "we the people" as the REAL power in this country. We all just lived through experiencing the highest apex predator on this planet -- an intelligent, violent and greedy species -- brought to its knees by an organism that you can barely see with a microscope. Power in nature flows from the bottom up, not the top down. Power does not "trickle down." When a top power goes down, it goes down with a thud all the way to the bottom where it is eaten by the least of organisms, its molecules being recycled. Power flows in a cyclic fashion. . . . . . . . except those who are at the top of the human food chain would have us believe that any power we the people have has been given to us at the expense of those at the top. This is a lie that we are trained from birth to believe. Ask the parents of a newborn who really runs the show in their house. Now imagine the opposite. Picture Jeff Bezos giving a krapp about his workers. Riiiiiight. We all need to firmly imbed this in our consciousness: These elites, the corporate people and pols, are sociopaths who think of us as farm animals to be herded, fleeced and milked -- even culled. Until we the people unite and let these a-holes know that WE are the real power in this country (which we proved in the Georgia senatorial election), they will continue to do so. Corporations and their lobbyists are corruptors of the people to whom we flow our collective power: our elected legislators, who now don't care what the polls say we the people want. They only listen to their "donors." In a playbook as old as human societies, these oligarchs sensed our outrage and turned us against each other so we would be so busy fighting other Americans we would not realize that these corruptors are the REAL enemy, not other Americans. The real war is we the people vs. the corporations.
OMG, a horror story working in a big retail chain. I worked in a Ross store during Christmas, I couldn’t believe how horrible the associates were treated I hated every second ,,No training, but hey we did have to watch a video about not to join a union. Schedule change week to week, a fat manger with tattoos eyebrows up to her forehead micromanaging every second on a power trip I didn’t make that up true.If it wasn’t for the hardworking, caring co workers I would have hung my self in the bathroom.
I feel bad for the younger people these days, because it is worse then before, because the unions, (and the laws) have been destroyed. At least 40 or 50 years ago, workers were treated better, especially Union workers !!!!
When I lived in France 35 years ago, abortion counseling was required. They asked one question -- is this abortion due to economic hardship? If she said yes, she had to be given comprehensive information on benefits. An abortion based on not having money was not considered a free choice. I agree.
Our town just let Amazon in, tax free but the mayor says he knows nothing about it. And voting sure does not help. Nobody working for Amazon could possibly afford a room here. But there's no sign of any movement in politics. Suburban Seattle is licked and down for the count. Too bad.
When I worked at Walmart I sustained an eye injury during my off time. I went to the emergency room and had to be in to work the next morning with only a couple of hours of sleep. I woke up for my shift completely blind in that eye, so I called work and told them I had to go back to the hospital. They told me I had to come in to work. I had my fiancé drive me there and I threw my vest and name tag in my manager’s face.
Dr. Wolff needs to do more interviews with service and factory workers like Leila Muniz Roberts to really show the built-in precarity of American customer service work. Her telling of being hired as part-time but working full time and overtime is a VERY common practice. As well as the petty bullying in her experience of management scolding her about uniform but not providing her the proper uniform or resources and code to follow proper uniform.
I have been dealing with these working conditions my whole life. How about an expose on how corrupt the social service industry is. and how social workers are treated. I am unemployed with a MA degree because I refuse to be exploited and commit white collar crime to stay employed.
no party or person gets to claim to champion life, while simultaneously supporting endless war and being against living wages and universal healthcare.
I recently quit my job at Costco after 31 years of employment. Costco seems to have a reputation of treating their employees well. As a veteran employee of over three decades I can tell you this is not true. They engage in everything you heard Leila talk about here. It sounds like she worked at Target actually. Costco basically does not obey local labor laws. Their supervisors are so poorly educated and ill qualified for the job they don';'t even know what the law is. So they will do things like: Encourage you to work off the clock. Discourage you from filing a workers comp claim when you are hurt. Everything that is outlined in their "employee agreement" handbook regarding harassments is seen on a daily basis. They cannot even follow their own rules and have a separate unwritten "Costco Way" of skirting the law. Costco also does not care about Covid. Its an inconvenience to their money printing operation.
I used to think the US had two parties. Ever since the days of Newt Gingrich I realized that the US has one political party and one crazed collection of nut jobs who have a very cynical take on politics. Gingrich actually had a meeting where he said that the problem with the GOP was that they were being too nice and that the only thing that mattered was holding on to power. I once met him and won't make that mistake again. He is also about $4.6 M in debt, with lots and lots of unpaid bills. So much for fiscal responsibility.
My daughter started working as soon as she turned 16, often held two jobs in the summer and during the school year, continued to work. Whe was working in fast food and in retail and while she did work for good employers the experience really motivated her to continue in education.
@@lesliestenta3084 In my state, one of the poorest in the country, all resident high-school graduates qualify for a full four-year scholarship at any state university. This has been so for many years. Arguments from richer states that they "can't afford it" are clearly false, They just don't want to invest in their own young people. Community College is also affordable, around $500 a semester for a full load and most of that can be covered by grants and scholarships. These aren't permanent solutions, but what the Federal government is doing about this problem - which is mostly finding excuses for not doing anything - is just ludicrous. When I started college, my mother went back to work as a school teacher and her salary covered my tuition, room and board, and that of my sister as well, with extra left over for her, and we did not need two wage earners to support a normal, middle class lifestyle then either.
What is remaining of the middle-class and the upper middle-class does not realize the ruling class will not hesitate to sacrifice them as the class struggle intensifies and the political-economic crises deepens globally. There will be nowhere to escape, nowhere to hide on either side. The ONLY space to exist is to fight for your lives. Prepare to fight now, do not wait. Practice makes perfect. And most of all, do not give up or go out of this world without a fight!
in march of 2020 i worked at a distillary/ restaurant. I heard my boss confidentially state out loud 'we are all going to get covid' made me very uncomfortable and havent been back. also love to see my boss so comfortable with me getting ill WHEN I HAVE ZERO HEALTH COVERAGE. i knew i was a cog but damn. big surprise the US is steamrolling into a million covid deaths. blame capitalism
Fascinating to see the abortion/Tx ban argument looked at from an economic perspective. As always, I learn something new from the professor ❤️ One other thing: I was an unwanted child, rejected and neglected by both parents. My mother carried n birthed me “under duress”(long story). If it wasn’t for an older sister who loved and cared for me, I would have become a drug addict, criminal, or died of suicide. Don’t make women carry babies they don’t want! You are condemning many, many of those children to a life of misery. Trust women! They know their own circumstances better than anyone else. They know their own dreams, when they want to have kids, or if. Felt good to get that out 🌺
Thank you for this. I'm glad you had your sister. Our prisons and youth incarceration are filled with unwanted people. The anti-choice people offer nothing to help. Adoption is a nice choice if someone is willing to finance the mother. Maybe it will be the Handmaid's Tale.
This is such an odd comment. Are you saying you'd be better off having never been born? And would your sister be better off? Either the pregnant woman is not carrying a child, in which case she can abort for whatever reason she sees fit. Or the woman is carrying a child, in which case even a life of poverty is not a sufficient reason to abort. If poverty or a lack of maternal love were enough to justify ending a pregnancy, then what is the difference between one week before delivery and one week after deliver when the mother discovers she is dealing with some post-partum depression? Where is your line in the sand? Where is your absolute truth? When is it absolutely wrong to kill a baby?
@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 I’ve been through hell in my life, my whole life. Should I have been born? My parents’ rejection left me suicidal, I’ve been depressed practically since I was born, but I do my best to stay alive bc there are ppl who love me who would be harmed if I took my own life. But should I have been born? No, not if my mother was coerced into having me. And lest anyone think adoption is the answer, I gave up a baby when very young and it’s tortured me ever since. (This was a closed adoption; many modern adoption experiences treat the birth mother much better. So if any pregnant folks out there are thinking of it instead of abortion, I would encourage you to look into it.) So, Mr or Ms(or other) Judgmental, you strike me as someone talking out of their ass who knows nothing personally about the subject
Point: there is a different set of strategies for influencing rightists into the humanist direction and influencing centrist "liberals". Both can be quite problematic, don't forget. In my experience I have seen that rightists can be incredibly compassionate people on a personal level, while carrying brutal ideologies. Often, too, I notice that while many liberals have loftier ideas, they can be very toxic individuals at the ground level.
@@ZambeziKid That cognitive dissonance is true misery once it gets to a certain level. Hypocrisy basically. I would suggest Noam Chomsky as a source of interviews, books and work if you are interested in this stuff. A great activist and philosopher.
The labor day interviews were great. I was always SO ANGRY while working my retail job. I didn't know why, but I was blowing up at people over small things, I was grinding my teeth badly at night but also having stress nightmares lol (dreams that aren't scary, just annoying and stressful). This explained so much!
As a disclaimer you should mention that Tess Fraad-Wolff is likely the daughter of Harriet Fraad and Richard Wolff. However, what Tess Fraad-Wolff describes with college student Leila Roberts is accurate, regardless of any possible conflict of interest.
Good for the Starbucks employees! Their product is an overpriced luxury for the bourgeoisie. I hope they get unionized and the prices for their coffee doubles or triples.
One could break the bank of Texas through massive disobedience. Assume that the number abortions in Texas last year continued despite this civil law (note NO criminal liability) and assume just on suit per abortion then it would cost the state of TX $10,000 time 55,000 abortions which equal $550 millions. Second if the state pays someone for suing does not person become an agent of the state, thus violating the US constitution?
Good to see you again and hello Professor Wolff. I work as a nurse and have been in the field for almost thirty years. Working in the hospital was the worst They don't care about the workers at all. When I injured my back at work. Never once did my employer ever asked how I was doing. They only wanted to know, when I could return to work. When I interviewed once at long term care facility. Asked about the nurse/ patient ratio and was told. Night shift the ratio of the nurse is 1- 52 patients. I was shocked even at ten minutes each over an eight hour shift is 48 people without lunch. Needless to say I declined the offer.
Rosa Luxemburg reminded us we could choose either Socialism or Barbarism, the people in the U.S. were tricked into rejecting Socialism, and in so doing, selecting Barbarism instead. Bottom Line: Humans are not rational beings, irrational people make irrational decisions, and irrational decisions lead to chaos -- NOT Anarchy -- and destruction. Anarchism is a lack of rulers: no royalty, no aristocracy, no command and control; the people decide what they want for themselves -- bottom up decision making, not top down. The concept of "the wisdom of crowds" proves the people make better decisions than the mediocre meritorious elite, and generalists make better decisions than specialists -- but we live in a world ruled by arrogant, narcissistic, ignorant elites and specialists.
I don't think I've been this early on a D@W video before. Neat. I hope everybody reading this(both now, and in the future when the algorithm drags folks here a decade from now) is doing well, all things considered.
Motherhood is the most important job in the world and women ought to be paid to stay home and nurture all their children up to age five or six. And that job should be the most honored of all.
Absolutely. Parents are rushed back to work in this country with a cruelty which is barbaric. Such hypocracy from a culture which supposedly reveres family.
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Conditions of labor are made taboo subjects in America, workers must never reproach their employers over the conditions. They can redress situations but not conditions. But here is what people do to each other outside of the job that they learn from a labor-process that is a torture process. They make it impossible for any redress and there is no reciprocity in the relationships.
Back in 1908 or so, the management of the Post Office Department of the USA, U.S. Mail, heard out appointed representatives of the workers, the clerks and mail handlers and other crafts. It was decided that to head off the growing labor dissent that the number of cuspidors would be increased and magnificently, the steel cuspidors replaced with brass cuspidors. There was also consideration given to the further provision of indoor plumbing in those facilities lacking. Back when your vote could get you a 5¢ cigar.
I thought Starbucks was so expensive because they were selling "fair trade" coffee. Whether Starbucks has misrepresented their sourcing or not, don't you think the people paying a bit more because they believe it is ethically sourced deserve a little more credit?
I talked to a takeaway worker one day about lousy service at the counter but great speedy service at drive through. She said mgmt prioritised the window cuz "drivers are in a rush...!" She said it's actually cuz the drivers are too lazy to park and walk in and stand in line.
That's funny, I remember a nursing supervisor at work giving the rns a talk about work smarter, not harder (nothing smart about one nurse lifting a 375# patient on her own, but that's what they were dealing with) and he then told them to stop complaining and "buck up".
Women with children ( single women ) are much more likely to become educated through the state programs and take over higher paying jobs while accepting lower rates of pay. This will negatively affect the ability to revenue taxes as the average pay decreases when desperate mothers seek jobs anywhere they can get them. The corporations in California take advantage of this all the time, and it ultimately is the government and the people that suffer for the massive corporate gains.
I want to know what ever happened to planned parenthood program? They used to give birth control to women who wanted it. Many parents were in favor of it. After all men can tuck their tail between their legs and walk on the responsibility of rearing their own. Women have to work to try to rear their child. And if you believe women make same money for same work in all fields, I have an outhouse to sell that for a million. So my question to these Imperialist politicians, who is raising the children. Oh, I forgot, you don't have to worry about that do you?
They won't live long enough to worry about that. Both the parents and the children. Their destined to be expendable work mules and cannon fodder for the rich corporations and billionaires. This is intentional policy and not accidental.
I don't by any means wanna dismiss the seriousness of the topic, but aside from that, imagine like, your therapist, asking you how you like, feel, and not like, fixating on like, the like.
Can you do a video on China and their family & birth policies? Apologies if you've already done so. I hate when it's brought up in a conversation and I'm unsure how to respond.
Why would you say we force women to become pregnant?? IUDs are available. If she has sex she must expect a pregnancy.. A child is alive at conception. They are a person. Abortion is murder. Please listen to what I am going to tell you. I have 2 kids. I sat beside my wife as she delivered them. They gave me paperwork to have filled out before we could leave the Hospital. The last item on a long list of questions was does my wife want to give the baby up for adoption. All we had to do was check that spot and she would never see her baby again. So if you don't want your baby you don't have to kill them. Let the child have their life. Somebody else will love them. The Angels will watch over them just like they do you.
The weaker and more ineffective We the People become, the easier it will be for the oligarchic members of the military-industrial-corporate complex to prevail. Of course those august members will still need people to clean their toilets so not entirely ALL of us are in jeopardy,
They get grouchy n take iit out on us. Left just meand cook all Christmas New year's with Uber eats, door dash, grob hub, full restraunt cashier, busing, ice cream dolly, on two separate shifts COSTOMERS threatened to beat me up not one Costomer had paitence I made 1-2$ tips and put 9 hours over my shift to help next shift I was so wipped I asked for 3 hours e to sleep in and I got fired o an a day not on my table felt pitty for me tiped me 100$ but since it was on a cc and another lady's table she kept it. I stayed over helping her out. What a slap in the face
At the ripe age of 72 I can honestly say that I am embarrassed to call myself American, and considering the fact that we are inexorably trashing the entire planet Earth, I am ashamed to consider myself as a part of the Human species. Where has all this lunacy come from? Where are the "better angels of our nature" that we supposedly revere? All things considered I am compelled to believe that the Earth is gonna be a better place without us.
humans did not trash the planet greedy colonization did
Maybe humans are the thing God sends to bring on the end of the world. Why are we the only species who literally s--t where we eat? If Intelligent Design is true, then the friggin' snake makes more sense than God. Go forth and multiply? Dominion?
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
-Pogo
Im 44, and where it used to seem like nobody believed in God anymore, I've begun to conclude that it's far worse-- People don't believe in GOOD anymore...
@@itsfreerealestate15 Thank you so much for the clarification. I thought humans colonized. Maybe it was the Neanderthals.
@@abuharam Nor do we believe in each other. Love of each other and all of the planet is the only way.
Most corporates operate the same way, they told me 40 hours a week when In reality I was working 60-80 (same pay)
They all lie like hell!
Are you salaried? That's a sneaky way management gets more work for less money.
Salary is wage theft.
@@marygard4608 mortgage banker at a large loan company I was just another drop in the bucket so if you don’t hit your goals they will let you go, we had to work long hours just to hit our goal otherwise there is no way to reach the insane amount of loans they expected in 40 hours.
@@Gigika313 Living with that kind of pressure is terrible-and unhealthy.
Power is like an addictive drug, and the more unequal a society becomes the more you create a class of deranged addicts feeding their habit at the expense of everyone else.
hmmm... I think greed is even worse.
Why would anyone seek power over anything??? And how much is enough???
It would seem that "everyone else" doesn't have "enough" of anything...if one
follows your line of reasoning.
@@jgalt308 Power is just the means to get what you want so it's instrumental to getting anything else: If you are alive you have some power. However too much of it makes people anti-social and gives them delusional god complexes.
@@petersepall2590 So what does not enough do?
@@jgalt308 People can become depressed, enraged and ultimately self-destructive with too little power. Sharing it, at least up to a point, is just pragmatic good sense.
Managers are like dictators, sometimes you get one that’s nice and treats their workers good but that’s an anomaly, most of them are horrible.
They will get rid of that type of manager/supervisor
Like what??????
@@CinCee- No they won't. Owners love mean managers. Keeps people "in line." Owners like that, trust me.
@@GnosticCushite I meant the type that is nice & treats workers good
@@CinCee- That is fact.
The first sane and complete discussion of new abortion denial law in Texas that I have seen, and other issues of economics, exploitation, control, and actual freedom.
Starting his Labor Day special with loss of control over one's own body, and ending with the psychopathology of working in the US was an awesome tribute workers.
A point over looked was the lack of dignity in work places. Just because you have an entry level position or are a new employee, this is used to bully or belittle. We are all humans and deserve equal respect regardless of job title, seniority, or age.
Very important point; and it can occur to anyone at any age, especially if the position is considered to be menial labor
oh yeah, the pecking order. i tossed submission to that years ago, got fired from one job cuz i told an abusive supe to fuck off. refused to sign anything from HR who threatened to keep my pay. talked to a lawyer, got his card and mailed it to the company and told them to respond with my check pronto. succeeded.
was damn cold living in the back of a ford ranger with a leaky cap for better than two and a half years but yes it was goddam worth it to not put up with shit from an ignorant mouth-piece.
Do you know that there is NO federal law that requires your employer to allow you a lunch??? That should tell you everything you need to know about what the US government thinks about the working class.
Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to loose but your chains!
-paraphrasing Eugene Debs
Because of the great diversity in America, the Constitution arranged for most laws to be written locally, and only a very few laws to be written the the federal government. That the federal government has imposed itself into every facet of our lives from coast to coast is one of the reasons we are at each other's throats fighting over who should be in power. If laws were written locally as they're supposed to be, we could all co-exist with our separate preferences.....In short. I don't care that there isn't a FEDERAL law that I get to eat lunch. You'll notice most people end up eating lunch despite the lack of federal oversight.
@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 The Constitution was written by wealthy white landowners for the benefit of those like themselves, not to control their reach.
@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 Murder is a state crime. Know any state where the personal preferences of the people are to be murdered with no justice?
You are not upset about Abolition, Civil Rights, women's sufferage, or Prohibition, are you? (They changed the Prohibition one).
Must be dat ol' debbil, abortion.
Yep. When I was in college I wanted a 20 hour a week job a drug store. Ended up being forced to work 40+ hour weeks some weeks. Still couldn't afford a car so it was either work there or fast food, which is even worse. Ended up doing really poorly in a few classes and then fell into a spiral of anxiety and depression because of it, which made my school performance even worse. That was 10 years ago now, and I'm pretty sure those same retail jobs pay the same as they did then, even though rent has damn near doubled.
I hear you. It's always been rough. Without a contract, lies during a job interview are only lies from the interviewee. The company can lie with impunity.
That exact thing happened to me in high school!! My dad kicked me out after my mom died in 1994, I had to work to pay rent/utilities/food/laundry mat/transportation, & it was supposed to be 20 hrs/week but was pushed to work just under 40 or be fired --- all while trying to attend high school. Needless to say, my grades suffered & I fell into increasingly more self-destructive behaviors.
Leila's story is an example of bullying on a mass scale.
We need to better by encouraging young progressive to attain degrees in economics and history to push our agenda and educate the youth. Genders studies is not going to cut it.
@@chriscourtney7369 This kind of real life experience can be radicalizing, too.
Also aways reminded of how replaceable we are
Thank you for talking about the draconian Texas abortion law. I appreciate your support for women's rights, Dr. Wolff! 💜
Yes, this is me! I've worked so many godawful jobs (despite having bachelor's degrees), and the employers only accept subservience. All of their mistreatment of workers does give you anger, rage, depression, hopelessness, etc. And the neoliberal economy continues, so you may never be able to break out of it, but even if you do, those low and harmful feelings don't go away.
Follow-up question to the psychotherapist: What is the remedy for the very negative feelings resulting from such horrible mistreatment?
Justice
Please keep notifying users of the weekly update. They no longer show up in my feeds despite never missing a video.
I've worked in the pandemic for the past 18 months as a registered nurse in very difficult, stressful circumstances. The abusive working conditions were such that it became an untenable situation. I brought my concerns to my employer and within a few days was terminated and thrown out like a piece of trash. Ironically, had just been given a good job evaluation. Without unions, workers have little protection, and can be pushed out quite easily. My advice: trust no one, lay low, keep your mouth shut, don't even make suggestions...or quietly exit or find another job. The corporations are nothing less than tyrannical and HR is not your friend.
Wow I thought that was just low wage workers that were terminated so easily I thought people with rn degrees had a little more power
Sounds like they were making an example out of you. Your working conditions must have been terrible.
Weird. How does constantly picking at your employees help the profits? I guess it keeps them too depressed to file expensive lawsuits and to fight for themselves.
It doesn’t even help. It results in lower productivity by all the effected employees. It also massively increases staff turnover which increases HR costs. It also diverts management to training for all the new hires and again lower productivity. It reduces the positive impression of a company if staff are constantly leaving. It makes them question all aspects of the business and that can lower sales. A depressed staff are also less likely to assist customers and intervene if thefts take place. In every respect it’s bad for the business but they don’t care. The fact that they were pushing people to work full time probably without increasing benefits as required also means they could be liable.
It wouldn’t surprise me that many of the staff shortages that many industries are suffering right now is a consequence of bad treatment of staff in the past. I have heard of entire staff walking out of restaurants at the end of a shift and no one returns to open up. Also after being abandoned by employers during the pandemic staff have discovered alternatives and so have no issue with leaving an employer in the lurch.
@@davidlazarus67 You are so right. All your points are excellent. I also think this wealth gap has created an empathy gap.
@@marygard4608 Yes you can see it with how they describe the unemployment benefits as too high.
Many employees don’t even bother to do any lawsuit because employers make them a hell and it is a public record so when you go to work somewhere else it will show.
@@C3yl0 That is so true. And the courts are rigged even if an employee gets that far.
Thank you, professor Wolff.
Please, please, please interview Dr. Gabor Maté!
Embarrassing economic system we live in
End the FED! Return to the gold standard and honest money!
@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 I like your username
Valid show, but I feel Layla’s story is very mild compared to what’s happening in corporate America now. This may be my 50 something perspective, but things have gone way beyond corporations not valuing workers as people. My job is killing me. I work 50-60 hours per week and am expected to take care of a parent with Alzheimer’s in my “spare time”. I’m a decade away from Medicare so quitting is not an option. The sad thing is that my story is very, very common. When I seek help I’m told to be grateful I have a job. I gave up on expecting a sense of being valued as a human in the workplace long ago. Right now I’m just hoping to stave off a heart attack! Sorry Layla, but if things don’t change they will get worse.
Yes. Workers have become a resource, a commodity to be exploited. I work as a contract industrial maintenance mechanic. I generally work 72 hours per week on night shifts. The plants run 24/7 but the parking lots are mostly empty after 5:00. So, what do most of those management types actually do?
I worked 40-50 hours a week at a small hotel myself, until covid. Honestly, I've worked there on and off for over a decade and the new owners and management team turned the business to sh*t. Covid made me see how toxic they were: cooked with expired ingredients, wasting money on superficial items rather than fix the broken A.C.units in the rooms, management/owner's family taking hours and tips away from housekeeping and waitstaff, and the list goes on. Meanwhile, the general manager yells at the staff saying she works 60 hours a week to keep the place afloat. 1) She sits on her but all butt all day. 2) she took shifts away from our breakfast cook(no culinary training), late to every shift despite living 3 minutes away. 3) She doesn't have a mortgage because her and the owner's daughter are best friends; gave her one off her father's houses in the city. 4) Her and the Owner's daughter's friends got to eat, drink, and stay at the hotel for free in the last 2 years while locals can't afford $400 /night for terrible services. 5) She kept only 1 wait staff member out of the 4 we had, but of course it was her boyfriend.
It's one thing to not value workers as people. it's another thing entirely when small business owners & management get to openly live the high life in front of their staff and refuse to see things from their perspective.
It's all relative. What we have in common is we workers do not democratically control the means of production. Whether it's risking covid every day, having to work while sick because your doctors note wasn't "good enough", or having to work at 70 to afford higher rents. And our surplus value only goes to actually increase the stranglehold of the owner class as we waste time fighting one another.
My message was not clear. I wasn’t dismissing Layla’s predicament. I agree it’s all relative and we workers should and must work together. I would just like seeing stronger examples of worker exploitation.
@@geraldinegranger9186 Sorry I completely agree there should be more examples. I did not mean to straw man this. The suffering is boundless especially in conquered lands. Hope your situation looks up soon.
These judges from Texas are treating women like we're living in the Middle Ages.
Another excellent update
Prof. Richard Wolff hit the nail on the head with this interview!! He always enlightens us about oppressive power structures in a well informed manner 😎 #cantstopwolff
The mere abstract idea of "We the People" has been a convenient trope, a belief mechanism by which innocents are coerced in directions inimical to their own beliefs, desires and personal welfare whether it is the personal domain or the political/patriotic variety. We the People have been led to believe (and like to think) that they are operating in their own and general interests when, all the while, they are subtly being led into willful servitude. "We are the people our parents warned us about".
I think of "we the people" as the REAL power in this country. We all just lived through experiencing the highest apex predator on this planet -- an intelligent, violent and greedy species -- brought to its knees by an organism that you can barely see with a microscope. Power in nature flows from the bottom up, not the top down. Power does not "trickle down." When a top power goes down, it goes down with a thud all the way to the bottom where it is eaten by the least of organisms, its molecules being recycled. Power flows in a cyclic fashion. . . .
. . . . except those who are at the top of the human food chain would have us believe that any power we the people have has been given to us at the expense of those at the top. This is a lie that we are trained from birth to believe. Ask the parents of a newborn who really runs the show in their house. Now imagine the opposite. Picture Jeff Bezos giving a krapp about his workers. Riiiiiight.
We all need to firmly imbed this in our consciousness: These elites, the corporate people and pols, are sociopaths who think of us as farm animals to be herded, fleeced and milked -- even culled. Until we the people unite and let these a-holes know that WE are the real power in this country (which we proved in the Georgia senatorial election), they will continue to do so. Corporations and their lobbyists are corruptors of the people to whom we flow our collective power: our elected legislators, who now don't care what the polls say we the people want. They only listen to their "donors."
In a playbook as old as human societies, these oligarchs sensed our outrage and turned us against each other so we would be so busy fighting other Americans we would not realize that these corruptors are the REAL enemy, not other Americans. The real war is we the people vs. the corporations.
OMG, a horror story working in a big retail chain. I worked in a Ross store during Christmas, I couldn’t believe how horrible the associates were treated I hated every second ,,No training, but hey we did have to watch a video about not to join a union. Schedule change week to week, a fat manger with tattoos eyebrows up to her forehead micromanaging every second on a power trip I didn’t make that up true.If it wasn’t for the hardworking, caring co workers I would have hung my self in the bathroom.
I'm glad you didn't. It's like being under constant attack in a war zone. Your only care is for your fellow combatants.
I feel bad for the younger people these days, because it is worse then before, because the unions, (and the laws) have been destroyed. At least 40 or 50 years ago, workers were treated better, especially Union workers !!!!
Wasn't there a time when most workers belonged to a union of their trade? What happened to that practice? Why union membership became unpopular?
When I lived in France 35 years ago, abortion counseling was required. They asked one question -- is this abortion due to economic hardship? If she said yes, she had to be given comprehensive information on benefits. An abortion based on not having money was not considered a free choice. I agree.
Our town just let Amazon in, tax free but the mayor says he knows nothing about it. And voting sure does not help. Nobody working for Amazon could possibly afford a room here. But there's no sign of any movement in politics. Suburban Seattle is licked and down for the count. Too bad.
As a union member at 2 jobs, established unions are not coming back. They are sinking in the warm bath of resignation and obsolescence.
When I worked at Walmart I sustained an eye injury during my off time. I went to the emergency room and had to be in to work the next morning with only a couple of hours of sleep. I woke up for my shift completely blind in that eye, so I called work and told them I had to go back to the hospital. They told me I had to come in to work. I had my fiancé drive me there and I threw my vest and name tag in my manager’s face.
Dr. Wolff needs to do more interviews with service and factory workers like Leila Muniz Roberts to really show the built-in precarity of American customer service work. Her telling of being hired as part-time but working full time and overtime is a VERY common practice. As well as the petty bullying in her experience of management scolding her about uniform but not providing her the proper uniform or resources and code to follow proper uniform.
I have been dealing with these working conditions my whole life. How about an expose on how corrupt the social service industry is. and how social workers are treated. I am unemployed with a MA degree because I refuse to be exploited and commit white collar crime to stay employed.
Just out of curiosity, degree in what?
How do you sustain yourself without working?
@@A_Box This is a good question I don't know how people can sustain themselves when they quit their job.
@@steeveekeys1904 Gerontology-The Study of Aging was in the Social work department, basically prepared me to be a social worker for elders
@@A_Box my mom is paying my rent currently, unemployment and I am also a massage therapist and yoga teacher (both low paying jobs)
Democracy at work. Thanks Richard Wolff..
no party or person gets to claim to champion life, while simultaneously supporting endless war and being against living wages and universal healthcare.
Not to mention a state-sanctioned death squad authorized by a lazy, cheap and corrupt judicial system.
That look on Tess's face is priceless..
I recently quit my job at Costco after 31 years of employment. Costco seems to have a reputation of treating their employees well. As a veteran employee of over three decades I can tell you this is not true. They engage in everything you heard Leila talk about here. It sounds like she worked at Target actually. Costco basically does not obey local labor laws. Their supervisors are so poorly educated and ill qualified for the job they don';'t even know what the law is. So they will do things like: Encourage you to work off the clock. Discourage you from filing a workers comp claim when you are hurt. Everything that is outlined in their "employee agreement" handbook regarding harassments is seen on a daily basis. They cannot even follow their own rules and have a separate unwritten "Costco Way" of skirting the law. Costco also does not care about Covid. Its an inconvenience to their money printing operation.
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Workers are Treated Horribly that is why I took an early retirement!
I used to think the US had two parties. Ever since the days of Newt Gingrich I realized that the US has one political party and one crazed collection of nut jobs who have a very cynical take on politics. Gingrich actually had a meeting where he said that the problem with the GOP was that they were being too nice and that the only thing that mattered was holding on to power. I once met him and won't make that mistake again. He is also about $4.6 M in debt, with lots and lots of unpaid bills. So much for fiscal responsibility.
The USA is well on its way to becoming a 3rd word country. In some places (like Alabama) it already is.
What indicates this changeover in Alabama??
Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Benton Harbor....
My daughter started working as soon as she turned 16, often held two jobs in the summer and during the school year, continued to work. Whe was working in fast food and in retail and while she did work for good employers the experience really motivated her to continue in education.
Good for her, what about the cost of an education and student debt
@@lesliestenta3084 In my state, one of the poorest in the country, all resident high-school graduates qualify for a full four-year scholarship at any state university. This has been so for many years. Arguments from richer states that they "can't afford it" are clearly false, They just don't want to invest in their own young people. Community College is also affordable, around $500 a semester for a full load and most of that can be covered by grants and scholarships. These aren't permanent solutions, but what the Federal government is doing about this problem - which is mostly finding excuses for not doing anything - is just ludicrous. When I started college, my mother went back to work as a school teacher and her salary covered my tuition, room and board, and that of my sister as well, with extra left over for her, and we did not need two wage earners to support a normal, middle class lifestyle then either.
Sounds like your daughter went to college about 30-35 years ago.
@@marygard4608 She's a freshman this year.
@@MCJSA I was indulging in satire.
What is remaining of the middle-class and the upper middle-class does not realize the ruling class will not hesitate to sacrifice them as the class struggle intensifies and the political-economic crises deepens globally. There will be nowhere to escape, nowhere to hide on either side. The ONLY space to exist is to fight for your lives. Prepare to fight now, do not wait. Practice makes perfect. And most of all, do not give up or go out of this world without a fight!
in march of 2020 i worked at a distillary/ restaurant. I heard my boss confidentially state out loud 'we are all going to get covid' made me very uncomfortable and havent been back. also love to see my boss so comfortable with me getting ill WHEN I HAVE ZERO HEALTH COVERAGE. i knew i was a cog but damn. big surprise the US is steamrolling into a million covid deaths. blame capitalism
Fascinating to see the abortion/Tx ban argument looked at from an economic perspective. As always, I learn something new from the professor ❤️
One other thing: I was an unwanted child, rejected and neglected by both parents. My mother carried n birthed me “under duress”(long story). If it wasn’t for an older sister who loved and cared for me, I would have become a drug addict, criminal, or died of suicide.
Don’t make women carry babies they don’t want! You are condemning many, many of those children to a life of misery. Trust women! They know their own circumstances better than anyone else. They know their own dreams, when they want to have kids, or if. Felt good to get that out 🌺
Thank you for this. I'm glad you had your sister.
Our prisons and youth incarceration are filled with unwanted people. The anti-choice people offer nothing to help.
Adoption is a nice choice if someone is willing to finance the mother. Maybe it will be the Handmaid's Tale.
This is such an odd comment. Are you saying you'd be better off having never been born? And would your sister be better off? Either the pregnant woman is not carrying a child, in which case she can abort for whatever reason she sees fit. Or the woman is carrying a child, in which case even a life of poverty is not a sufficient reason to abort. If poverty or a lack of maternal love were enough to justify ending a pregnancy, then what is the difference between one week before delivery and one week after deliver when the mother discovers she is dealing with some post-partum depression? Where is your line in the sand? Where is your absolute truth? When is it absolutely wrong to kill a baby?
@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 I’ve been through hell in my life, my whole life. Should I have been born? My parents’ rejection left me suicidal, I’ve been depressed practically since I was born, but I do my best to stay alive bc there are ppl who love me who would be harmed if I took my own life. But should I have been born? No, not if my mother was coerced into having me. And lest anyone think adoption is the answer, I gave up a baby when very young and it’s tortured me ever since. (This was a closed adoption; many modern adoption experiences treat the birth mother much better. So if any pregnant folks out there are thinking of it instead of abortion, I would encourage you to look into it.) So, Mr or Ms(or other) Judgmental, you strike me as someone talking out of their ass who knows nothing personally about the subject
@@marygard4608 Thank you, Mary. I agree-these pro lifers do ZERO for the moms after these babies are born.
Thank you Richard u one of my heros.... bertrand from south Africa
What is the difference between the Taliban and Republican think about it!!! Same, same Everything over-all.
The republicans are in the USA the Taliban is in Afghanistan.
Republicans seek power and wealth, the Taliban just seeks power.
GOP is richer than the Taliban is the only difference I see.
Their clothes?
@@marygard4608 facial hair.
9:00 Oh boy, Hand Maidens Tail. Mr. Greg Abbott better be watching his back at night, the servants are bringing out the good cuttlary.
If that's how extreme we have to be, then so be it.
Or you could just kidnap him. What is he gonna do? Run away?
WHY DEMOCRACY AT WORK DON'T HAVE 30 MILLION VIEWERS?
Americans would rather watch Dancing with the stars.
Tess is really good, just like her mother, on these issues. Bravo!
Point: there is a different set of strategies for influencing rightists into the humanist direction and influencing centrist "liberals". Both can be quite problematic, don't forget. In my experience I have seen that rightists can be incredibly compassionate people on a personal level, while carrying brutal ideologies. Often, too, I notice that while many liberals have loftier ideas, they can be very toxic individuals at the ground level.
very few people recognise their own contradictions. Cognitive dissonance.
@@ZambeziKid That cognitive dissonance is true misery once it gets to a certain level. Hypocrisy basically. I would suggest Noam Chomsky as a source of interviews, books and work if you are interested in this stuff. A great activist and philosopher.
@@antimattv Read most of his books. Love his poltical positions. Also suffers from cognitive dissonance when he considers veganism.
The labor day interviews were great. I was always SO ANGRY while working my retail job. I didn't know why, but I was blowing up at people over small things, I was grinding my teeth badly at night but also having stress nightmares lol (dreams that aren't scary, just annoying and stressful). This explained so much!
As a disclaimer you should mention that Tess Fraad-Wolff is likely the daughter of Harriet Fraad and Richard Wolff. However, what Tess Fraad-Wolff describes with college student Leila Roberts is accurate, regardless of any possible conflict of interest.
The other employee will protect themselves and will actually gang the targeted employee to please the management, very 😥
The union represent the company not the employee, always.go with the money.
Superb RW.
Wow! Perfect
I would like to see all workers get paid overtime after 8 hrs not just after 40 hrs in a week. Most if not all unionized workers get it after 8 hrs.
And if they treat a woman like that, imagine how they treat the men
Of course i had a very similar experiance.
Employees are treated as tissue paper. Used once and thrown away.
Good for the Starbucks employees! Their product is an overpriced luxury for the bourgeoisie. I hope they get unionized and the prices for their coffee doubles or triples.
Rest and power to you, Leila. Let's keep on resisting and resting and rebuilding, y'all
One could break the bank of Texas through massive disobedience. Assume that the number abortions in Texas last year continued despite this civil law (note NO criminal liability) and assume just on suit per abortion then it would cost the state of TX $10,000 time 55,000 abortions which equal $550 millions.
Second if the state pays someone for suing does not person become an agent of the state, thus violating the US constitution?
is Tess Rick's daughter? I got a "whatever, dad!" vibe from her smirk as Rick introduced her.
Good to see you again and hello Professor Wolff. I work as a nurse and have been in the field for almost thirty years. Working in the hospital was the worst
They don't care about the workers at all. When I injured my back at work. Never once did my employer ever asked how I was doing. They only wanted to know, when I could return to work. When I interviewed once at long term care facility. Asked about the nurse/ patient ratio and was told. Night shift the ratio of the nurse is 1- 52 patients. I was shocked even at ten minutes each over an eight hour shift is 48 people without lunch. Needless to say I declined the offer.
Rosa Luxemburg reminded us we could choose either Socialism or Barbarism, the people in the U.S. were tricked into rejecting Socialism, and in so doing, selecting Barbarism instead.
Bottom Line: Humans are not rational beings, irrational people make irrational decisions, and irrational decisions lead to chaos -- NOT Anarchy -- and destruction.
Anarchism is a lack of rulers: no royalty, no aristocracy, no command and control; the people decide what they want for themselves -- bottom up decision making, not top down. The concept of "the wisdom of crowds" proves the people make better decisions than the mediocre meritorious elite, and generalists make better decisions than specialists -- but we live in a world ruled by arrogant, narcissistic, ignorant elites and specialists.
I agree with you completely, about abortion. How cruel and in caring these people are!!!
This type of exploitation is what has brought distrust to politicians/ government and Trump to the Presidency.
Half solution:
Takes two to make a child. With a simple test, we can find the father of the child who also will be responsible to pay for 18 years.
I don't think I've been this early on a D@W video before. Neat. I hope everybody reading this(both now, and in the future when the algorithm drags folks here a decade from now) is doing well, all things considered.
I love D@W, but I just discovered it late last year (the one positive about Covid).
Great to read from you, Comrade.
Amen!
Motherhood is the most important job in the world and women ought to be paid to stay home and nurture all their children up to age five or six. And that job should be the most honored of all.
Absolutely. Parents are rushed back to work in this country with a cruelty which is barbaric. Such hypocracy from a culture which supposedly reveres family.
great discussion. I'm retired retail and gratful
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A super critique as always.
Conditions of labor are made taboo subjects in America, workers must never reproach their employers over the conditions.
They can redress situations but not conditions.
But here is what people do to each other outside of the job that they learn from a labor-process that is a torture process.
They make it impossible for any redress and there is no reciprocity in the relationships.
Dan Price to the rescue!!! Where are you?
Back in 1908 or so, the management of the Post Office Department of the USA, U.S. Mail, heard out appointed representatives of the workers, the clerks and mail handlers and other crafts. It was decided that to head off the growing labor dissent that the number of cuspidors would be increased and magnificently, the steel cuspidors replaced with brass cuspidors.
There was also consideration given to the further provision of indoor plumbing in those facilities lacking.
Back when your vote could get you a 5¢ cigar.
Richard: "Tesse, you're a Psychologist"
Tesse: "Psycho-Therapist, come on dad!!"
When your Dad is a big RUclips star
Oh, that is too funny!
It's only a matter of time before they decide to pull out the whips again.
like border patrol was/ doing with haitian refugees a few weeks ago.
When you're listening and Richard Wolf starts talking about your hometown
U can't fight Starbucks, they have 2 much money from selling fifty dollar cups of coffee 2 lazy SUV drivers trying 2 use their fancy "cupholders" : D
I thought Starbucks was so expensive because they were selling "fair trade" coffee. Whether Starbucks has misrepresented their sourcing or not, don't you think the people paying a bit more because they believe it is ethically sourced deserve a little more credit?
I talked to a takeaway worker one day about lousy service at the counter but great speedy service at drive through. She said mgmt prioritised the window cuz "drivers are in a rush...!" She said it's actually cuz the drivers are too lazy to park and walk in and stand in line.
Whatever happened with diplomacy in America???
Theodorakis - a conductor I played under was friends with him
What the young lady is describing is the norm in most workplaces I have been in. I think we are just expected to "buck up".
That's funny, I remember a nursing supervisor at work giving the rns a talk about work smarter, not harder (nothing smart about one nurse lifting a 375# patient on her own, but that's what they were dealing with) and he then told them to stop complaining and "buck up".
I feel that same stress when I have to pay massive taxes in my country and have no recourse. There is no citizens union.
Women with children ( single women ) are much more likely to become educated through the state programs and take over higher paying jobs while accepting lower rates of pay. This will negatively affect the ability to revenue taxes as the average pay decreases when desperate mothers seek jobs anywhere they can get them. The corporations in California take advantage of this all the time, and it ultimately is the government and the people that suffer for the massive corporate gains.
I want to know what ever happened to planned parenthood program? They used to give birth control to women who wanted it. Many parents were in favor of it. After all men can tuck their tail between their legs and walk on the responsibility of rearing their own. Women have to work to try to rear their child. And if you believe women make same money for same work in all fields, I have an outhouse to sell that for a million. So my question to these Imperialist politicians, who is raising the children. Oh, I forgot, you don't have to worry about that do you?
They won't live long enough to worry about that. Both the parents and the children. Their destined to be expendable work mules and cannon fodder for the rich corporations and billionaires. This is intentional policy and not accidental.
Why should people rest their economic well being on the fast food industry.
Usually cuz it's the only place hiring, especially in really small communities.
And why should people base their nutritional needs on that garbage 'food'?
Modern slavery!
In some states, you have pay for a child's health insurance until they're 26, health insurance already unaffordable now
I don't by any means wanna dismiss the seriousness of the topic, but aside from that, imagine like, your therapist, asking you how you like, feel, and not like, fixating on like, the like.
After reading many essays by Marx. This is the principle that he concluded. The capitalists figure how to make one feel after work.
Starbucks is ruthless and pays demeaning wages.
*Waves hand*
You will feed the algorithm
Can you do a video on China and their family & birth policies? Apologies if you've already done so. I hate when it's brought up in a conversation and I'm unsure how to respond.
Man this is sad
Why would you say we force women to become pregnant?? IUDs are available. If she has sex she must expect a pregnancy.. A child is alive at conception. They are a person. Abortion is murder.
Please listen to what I am going to tell you. I have 2 kids. I sat beside my wife as she delivered them. They gave me paperwork to have filled out before we could leave the Hospital. The last item on a long list of questions was does my wife want to give the baby up for adoption. All we had to do was check that spot and she would never see her baby again. So if you don't want your baby you don't have to kill them. Let the child have their life. Somebody else will love them. The Angels will watch over them just like they do you.
Welcome to being black!
Like shit. Thanks for asking.
Yabut they can make money jailing unwanted children later, plus u can get more iterations of horror movie screenplays from the clickbait news apps
that's RIGHT! always look on the bright side of things! Murrica: land of opportunity!
The weaker and more ineffective We the People become, the easier it will be for the oligarchic members of the military-industrial-corporate complex to prevail. Of course those august members will still need people to clean their toilets so not entirely ALL of us are in jeopardy,
They get grouchy n take iit out on us. Left just meand cook all Christmas New year's with Uber eats, door dash, grob hub, full restraunt cashier, busing, ice cream dolly, on two separate shifts COSTOMERS threatened to beat me up not one Costomer had paitence I made 1-2$ tips and put 9 hours over my shift to help next shift I was so wipped I asked for 3 hours e to sleep in and I got fired o an a day not on my table felt pitty for me tiped me 100$ but since it was on a cc and another lady's table she kept it. I stayed over helping her out. What a slap in the face