National socialists made 8 hour work shifts a standard copied by almost whole europe and they did it to reduce hours worked by an individual down from 12 or 16h. No matter what hours we work people will always complain. I would say we overall work less all over the world, not more, either way that's irrelevant, what is relevant is that no matter how long we work we can barely afford living, that's the real scam.
I think that depends on whether you contribute to the society you live off. There are many ways you can do that but there certainly are a number of people that just take and take and often actively disrupt productive peoples lives and sew chaos. People certainly have a right to look down on a perfectly capable person who is that selfish. However I don't think most people expect you to work your whole life away!
Oh that's here in the USA too. Last year it was difficult for me to explain to people that I quit One of my jobs on the grounds of ethics. I was 3rd in charge of the store at an Ollie's bargain outlet My job was to run the front end even though we're also expected to throw free The bottom line is they wanted me to write people up and fire them over a stupid fucking points card truthfully I was subjected to the same stupid shit of what they called recruitment for the stupid points card that's not even really a points card. Their metrics were completely made up you could get two cards in one day and if you had a scheduled day off and you come back it's like that percentage dropped it didn't matter and then if you try to get the numbers up it was nearly impossible because nobody wanted the stupid card some people lucked out and got five cards in a day but that didn't happen every day sometimes you had weeks where you wouldn't get really anything. But they also had this shit tied to people's hours including mine so if you didn't maintain a certain percentage which you're never going to be able to then your hours will be cut while at the same time your subjected to a write-up basically a series of write-ups and you could be fired while at the same time because I was a manager I'm supposed to write everybody else up and fire them meanwhile they're bitching that we're understaffed and oh by the way we were. I held that job for exactly 32 days and then I told them to fuck off I am not doing that to people. My anticipation was that I would go back to Walmart who I worked for back in 21 and left on good terms but at the time Walmart had introduced a hiring freeze and it was impossible to get in the door it took a couple of months I got into another place that was basically a small business version though a growing company that was doing the same shit as Ollie's bargain outlet only that guy turned out to be a complete asshole right alongside the manager that he had running the joint I was the assistant manager they were never clear on what the full brunt of my duties were they just expected me to read their fucking mind so I did the best I could when a doubt I would grab a broom I would clean up I would do manual labor and then they got to bitch and that I need to tell other people to do it I would try to delegate that work while at the same time I would still do a portion of it if anything to try and keep everybody happy that you know I'm not just standing around which I still basically got accused of. One of the employees was Prague and of course use that to not really do very much of anything so that's fine she could run the register she could do this other stuff basically it's as if the owner and the store manager was looking for constant conflict it was a fucking nightmare. I was also 6 weeks on that job before they technically let me go but I was ready to tell them to fuck off anyway and then I immediately signed up to work from home which I did that for 7 and 1/2 months and then call times and other assorted KPIs killed me back in May. I'm telling you these fucking metrics need to go.
Who would’ve thought young people watching their parents worked their wives away made doing the same not so appealing. Yes wasting your life doing something. You don’t want to do so some rich fat cat can get richer or some government can tax more is not really a worthwhile use of one’s life.
People wrote either on their cell phones or computers. We don't have to participate on this civilization. Some people don't. But then, we won't get the spoils of it.
Hate comes from fear , have no fear friend what will be will be. Focus on what you can do to make it better you dont have to be particularly involved just be the positive you see with your mind.
The powers that be just found another way to make us slaves after traditional slavery was abolished. I've always felt that the 40-hour work week was unnatural when I started work at 16. I remember being tired all the time on my days off and just not enjoying life anymore after I was expected to be an adult. That has continued happening to me, and I'm 38 now. Humans are like big predators, we are meant to work hard for short amounts of time and rest/socialize the rest of the time.
i totally agree with you at 41. I always was a good student at school and miss the choice to study whenever i wanted. I used to study hard for a few hours and that was enough. Now i have to worn hard for more than 40h a week, never loose focus, show results, be poorly treated or valued and to be paid just enough to have a few luxuries and not complain. Fed up of the system. Started saving in my 20s and if life allows me, will retire at 50 living a basic simple life with no debts and no wants with just a few needs. This society isa prison by design
I am in a position where I get to choose how much I work and I find that working 2-3 hours per day is all I need to feel fulfillment. Any more work than this just becomes drudgery.
@@BeccaTKawaii you can do that now if you want to, but personally, i would take working part-time for myself living in my car, hiking mountains, riding my bike from place to place out in the sun. vs being a wage slave in a drab concrete box working for a billion dollar company that makes it billions by exploiting people.
On a serious note, people back then had a community which is extremely important. Everyone in the village had a role and they all worked as a team to survive. They all laughed together and helped eachother. Nowadays you have nobody, maybe a significant other if you're lucky but its becoming rare. Now you're just told to pay a therapist to pretend to be your friend for one hour.
We could also still get everything done with a 4 day workweek. Production is up more than ever but only the people at the top benefit, and they act like we all still have to put in the same outdated 40+ hrs.
@@cosmicllama6910 Don't stop at 4. How about a 2 day work week??? Don't be silly! Get to work and be happy. If your boss says 5 days, you should work 5 days! If you want to work less, then expect to be paid less!
@@FormerCityFinancier I'm sure we could still accomplish everything with 2 day work weeks. If you want society to keep going, people need to both be able to afford families AND be able to spend time with them. The %1 needs to give up their political power and super yachts. Or you can watch society collapse like it always does when it gets too top heavy. Men are already starting to buck the system in droves because they are not stupid, they see they are being used for nothing, no reward and no chance at a family as long as they "do what the boss wants"
Once upon a time, there was a man that boosted an economy from extreme hyperinflation up to one of the greatest and most thriving economies the world has ever seen. He banned usury, rent was no more than 1/8 your income, newly wedded couples could get debt free loans that equated 6 months of pay and if you had a child it would knock off 25% of it. He built approx 1.6million homes and it was mandatory that they had a garden, the people got paid for exactly how much labor they put in. The entire country went from hopeless to having pride in nation. Those were the "evil Germans" we are brainwashed about in our government education camps. Question everything you know.
They will guilt trip you into working more hours with the lie that your life is easier than your ancestors. Meanwhile, these same people are taking luxurious vacations.
Nobody would mind working hard if it actually got you anywhere near your goals in life. The harder you work, the more expensive everything becomes as the years pass by. A good example is the guy dreaming to buy a house and hes working real hard for years to save up for a downpayment on a house. Once he reaches that amount needed the house has risen in price and interest rates has gone up. He now needs 30% more money. So he keeps on grinding another 3 years saving as hard as he can, only for the process to repeat. Until the day he dies and the money he had saved is taxed by 40% and then given to any remaining relatives who will carry on spinning the same wheel their passed away relative did. Its a waste of your life. Let the rich and their assets rot, us poors will never catch up while their money and asset values multiply again and again and again until the wealth gap is so huge we can no longer afford to eat and then the revolution begins
When women first entered the workforce, the number of workers doubled. It is essential to reduce the workweek from 40 hours to 20 hours to reflect this change. With the additional factor of immigration, further reduction to a 15-hour workweek is necessary to keep unemployment low and wages high.
yes good point. But the problem is company keeps the working hours same or even increase it to churn out maximum profits even after increased workforce.
I’m trying to focus on my sales job. This is probably my way out. The only problem is my regular job takes a lot of my energy. Trying to get motivated to sell more homes and invest in dividend stocks.
I don’t wanna work anymore. At all. I’m tired. I’m tired of being a human battery that has to go back and forth to a place I don’t wanna be, just to eat and pay for a somewhere to live that I barely get to spend time in coz I’m always at work. And still being broke at the end of the month even after 42.5 hours a week. It’s not even 9-5 anymore, my job is 8:30-5.
I feel you, I’m often 7:30-8pm (average 12h) 5days a week, every week as well as often called in to work weekends as well, so it ends up being 7days a week sometimes. Average 120-140 hrs biweekly. I’m exhausted but can’t give up for 1)sole provider for family and 2.) I’m the only person trained/educated in my role. I work several different roles during the week depending on the day. I’m overwhelmed and exhausted. I have a 45m commute and don’t get home till nearly 9pm. I have to “slam” myself to sleep with otc meds so that I can actually sleep but still takes time to unwind. Hard for me to sleep. Finally after sleeping around 12:30am, I have to “slam” myself awake with caffeine and now prescription amphetamines (I do not recommend or condone that) but it’s been the only way I’ve been able to survive financially for the past 2 years (even with decent wage). I don’t know what to do. If I stop for 1 second, everything falls apart. I definitely feel you.
add in commute and everything you do to get ready and decompress and you’re looking at between 10-12 hours devoted to work, easy - and still not making enough to enjoy being alive.
I will always remember what this one plasterer said I was working in construction... He said when it was all done by hand it was better, the pace was slower and more enjoyable. He said when the machine came that you just chuck in the mix and it pumps it up through a hose and you just hose the walls and ceilings down and then you finish it off, it was supposed to make the work easier. All it did was make them work even harder now, doing crazy amount of work in a day. The pace is so much faster and the work is so much more stressful since when that machine is on you have to act quickly in applying it and finishing it. And you need less people. I watched them do the whole small building in few days so you would think great now rest of the week off haha nah its on to the next one. What modern work did is just devalued people, or made less people more important.
I had an epiphany yesterday -Why am I still working this much when I will never earn enough to own (Let alone maintain) a home? There is zero reason to work anymore unless you have to pay rent or something,I currently live off of the bare minimum because my lust for luxuries is much less than my drive to work my entire existence. Taking rent out of the equation I can literally live off of $200 a month easily.
Now your expected to work as fast as a computer. Work in multiple time zones and for my small business even on Sundays. Sometimes I work 14 days in a row. That’s why people are loosing their minds.
Technology has made working life even more unbearable, especially in an office. All these endless emails and instant messages and Teams meetings and "collaboration" on Word or SharePoint, the inane spreadsheets, the unbearable PowerPoint presentations. Please, God, make it stop. And because of the internet, we're expected to get things done quicker, when in the days of typewriters and faxes, things had to work slower. Of course people are exhausted. Of course they're depressed. Of course they're at their wits' end.
Yeah the welfare state created this. Sure there is this credit the Feds give in benefits of welfare but their minimum to none impactful. They need hard workers they just won’t admit it. As long as there is welfare they will need people working hard those are rare.
@@theotherguy5516I hope with ai it will make work easier. But honestly like you said ai will just be another tool to add more work and won’t be replacing any jobs. If anything they will need to hire more people to make the ai valuable to buy and use it for the work place.
I work at a factory where hard work is the policy, but there's no reward for it. I've seen people who are Exempt meaning they're not paid overtime. They work A LOT! It's hard to describe to a lot of people that there's no point working harder. There's no extra money or respect. You can climb the C Ladder but that's not a given. I'm in the USA, and there's this idea that if you work your butt off everything will just work. Financial problems, marriage issues, mental problems, bad family, boredom, and so much more will be fixed by working harder. It doesn't work obviously, but everyone especially older people act like it does and ridicules a lot of people, especially younger people for not working harder.
@@TomScryleus I agree, but there's a lot of boomers, and boomer mindset people where I work and they are very openly critical of younger people and having a limit on work. It is a big trap, but it's a weird one. You can tell people it's there, and they'll still walk right into it.
Yeah you're right, what people really need is cheap shelter and food, everything else gets stolen in taxes and fees, people used to have no fees in the great depression, we are way worst off today. Lesson learnt, Never Try!
People dont understand , that a country reaches a level ( if they are progressing correctly ) that they have to work LESS , in order to accomplish MORE . The 40 hr work week was put in place , for the needs , and world , of the 19th century . It hasnt been working very well for the past 60 years . People just never questioned it , and the country has been limping along with it , until two things happened . Firstly , the internet , and rise of technology , 2ndly , the global pandemic hit , with all the lock downs etc . Now people actually had time for inner reflection as to WHY they are unhappy . Lock downs stop , people now know , they dont want to go back to that . ...ant they aren't . Its a passive revolt , people dont want to live at their jobs anymore , so things are breaking down , everybody is short handed , etc. We ( the US ) is stagnating , and if it continues , we will regress as a nation . We are now at a stage of developement , where we NEED the 20 hr / 4 day work week to survive going into the 21st century . Its a work week for the needs and world of TODAY , not 120 plus years ago . Have to remember , this is the same country that didnt abolish slavery , until 30 years short of the 20th century .
People wonder why families don't stay together these days and all the children are raised on screens and can't emotionally regulate themselves/act out so much, but unironically think it's fine that we all spend way more time with coworkers than our own families, and we all have strangers raise our kids and spend more time with them than we can. Families need to spend time together and at least one of the parents needs to be able to be home with the kids most of the time.
@@cosmicllama6910 This is the point I repeatedly make to friends, expecting some sort of anger towards our system or even a recognition that it's mad, but, alas, no. Just acceptance. Why can we remark upon the obvious, horrible consequences of fascism and communism, but not the consequences of capitalism?
There's one aspect I think should be added, as the pandemic laid bare just how terrible it's always been- the commute. Commuting to work needs to be seen as the unpaid labor, in fact arguably the cost the employee has to pay for the privilege of working. I wonder how long it took the average peasant to get from their home to where they needed to work on any given day. As companies have centralized their work spaces into increasingly inaccessible urban hubs, they have taken hours of life away from their workers every day. Consider that if you have a 1 hour commute each way, by the end of the week you have added a full work shift plus two hours to your schedule.
This video wasn't planned at all. But I got several comments in a row about how "we used to work more in the past". So I had to make this video, to set the record straight. WE WORK MORE TODAY THAN EVER!
Incorrect. We used to work a LOT more. The "medieval serfs worked less" idea has been thoroughly debunked. But same as the "alpha male" theory, it will continue through the work of the ignorant or those who willfully corrupt others. You're a youtuber so I'm more than willing to believe it's the latter
Hunter Gatherers worked around 15 hours a week, i believe the piraha people in the amazone today are a good example of that. And they retire at 40 since the young bring in enough food. When agriculture started, they started to work more hours and got more stress. Slavery became an issue, and slavery hasn't ended since then, we are all slaves. Most people don't take the red pill, so they rather call it employee.
Hunter gatherers, yes. But not farmers. They worked (and work) way harder and longer than we do. And considering humans switched from hunting and gathering TO farming. I'd say they probably had a pretty good reason to do so.
Like it or not, working as an employee is voluntary. If you can find another way to stay alive, nothing is stopping you. I personally find it preferable to starting my own company for now, though I am working towards it. But at no point is it slavery. The real slavery is taxation, both direct and through money-printing causing inflation. THAT is why we have to work 40, rather than 20 hours a week, or in other words, we could vacation half the year and still have the same we make now, roughly speaking. Your enemy is the state and its bureaucrats, and every single state employee and contractor and subcontractor of the state. EVERYONE taking money out of your pocket through the state is an enemy, a thief at best, in all honesty: a parasite draining away the time in your life itself.
Agriculture is a necessity because of higher population- but also higher population is only possible because of agricultural. It’s a cycle that feeds into itself. It might be true that a hunter gatherer life was less overall work, but it’s not a viable option anymore for the population at large. Agriculture while destructive in its own way gives us far more calories per square meter than nature can ever do naturally. If so many people were to suddenly rely on foraging and hunting to survive these days, we would be like a plague of locusts on the land and cause extinctions even faster than we are doing right now.
@@NukeCloudstalkerI can promise you would not like living in a world where the things you take for granted weren’t funded by taxes. The government uses taxes for some despicable things like funding the war machine- it also uses it to build public roads. It should also be using it to fund healthcare….
Ever since I started working my 8.30am to 6pm dead end job, I've become unable to enjoy my weekends as I've had to squeeze in chores & prep work for the coming work week on top of doing things I was unable to do after work hours purely out of exhaustion. I can't remember the last time I was actually well rested and happy ever since I started working.
When we come to realise we own nothing and everything is borrowed then we will realise wealth means nothing because its all temporary. Enough is enough.
First shift, second shift, and third shift came from the Industrial Revolution, as well as Daylight Savings Time. My mom wanted to stay home and be traditional, but the economy makes it hard. It's definitely a scam, having husband and wife work outside of the home. More tax revenue, more purchases, and rising home prices.
This makes so much sense. I’ve always had a ton of energy and drive to work, then rest. A high output all the time just feels unnatural. Everything in nature has period of work/ growth/ rest then repair. The seasons are cyclical spring and summer are growth, fall and winter are dormant and restful. Building muscle is hard work (lifting weights) plus rest repeated over and over again. Planting a garden is hard work, then you wait and let things grow. Constant work and rigid structure is not the norm. You need work AND rest.
I'm a lawyer in the UK, dropped down to a four day week a few years back (not compressed hours, a genuine drop) when I was about 35 and it's amazing - would never want to go back. People often say I'm 'lucky', I point out I earn 20% less and suddenly they're not as interested. If I was on low pay it would clearly never be possible, but I'm on 'average' pay and so just live my lifestyle to suit my means.
In Mexico on top of all you said, we do hours of nothing at work, there are days with no clients, no calls, office or workshop tidy, no people at sight, you still have to finish your journey. Plus, hours of traffic jams or public transportation to reach the workplace and getting home.
@@diogenesstudent5585 It depends on the place, wealth, for example in some cities like Mérida people have good income and the city is not so Big, so the pace of life is kind of slow, México City is crazy as I said long transportación times, depends on how wealthy or educated You are You work more or less hours, the less wealthy less educated work the more hours.
The one place in my life that seems to almost escape this is agriculture. I grew up on a ranch, and while it was never glamorous, we never did without. Now, well into my adult years working in the city, I'm disillusioned. All I want to do is be a rancher again.
As a mother I hate that I have to work full time and I’m trying to juggle work and being a mother. I try my best to still be there emotionally and physically, and I always try to make fun memories with my son and I go as far as to call off work just to spend the holidays with him. It’s even sucks more for single parents who’s partner isn’t in the picture anymore, even though some of us are able to get child support it’s sadly not a thing that all of us can get. As for my sons dad he signed away his rights since he didn’t want anything to do with us and only wanted to be with some other women who he was cheating on me with. And honestly to anyone who says “I don’t want kids” I don’t blame them, it takes a lot of hard work, lots of money, and with how things are these days it’s hard to find someone who would be loyal and happy enough to actually stay and help raise the kid/s.
Fabulous video Tom. A number of years ago I took a casual job driving a tour coach around Sydney Australia. The company needed me more than I needed them so they would offer me choices of what work I could do on my rostered days as I had a full time job too. This is when I realised how powerful this is as an employee. Lie. Get a casual job but tell them you have a primary job even if you don’t. You’ll be treated with much more respect and dignity and enjoy unlimited time off under the casual employment system.
I agreed to work with a Fortune 500 company at 40 hours per week (10 hours per day), to allow for three days off with my children. However, the company has instituted mandatory overtime of twelve hour shifts, at least once every weekend, and sometimes two extra shifts, which brings my work week up from four days, to five and six days per week. My time is limited outside of work, and my kids are burdened by that fact.
Slavery was never abolished. It only evolved. Wage slavery simply affords you the pleasure of choosing who owns you. The factory I work in currently has a 40 hour work week but it's divided amongst 4 days. Most of those day, the work is so slow it's completed within 6-8 hours and management is pulling shit out of their asses to keep us busy. One day we were expected to sweep the PARKING LOT because there was no work to be done but we were expected to stay for another 3 hours. EVERY night, the doors are closed an hour before shift ends and all the employees sit in the break room zombified on their phones until it's "time to punch out." I'll never understand why we are expected to literally waste our lives away like that. If you're willing to pay me to do menial work or no work at all - pay me to do it at home where I can enjoy my life and my family!
Are you really complaining about the fact that you get three days off per week? Frame this differently: instead of coming in an additional day, you get paid for sitting around. Remember that what you sell is your time, not your labor. It's up to your employer to draw value from that time, but if they don't, well, you get the same amount of money for less wear and tear on the body.
technically, I have done it.(its a video called "i regret going to collage). But that video is not very good. I want to make a new version of the video.
It’s the Prussian military system of time scheduling diverse subjects. It encourages discipline for corporate America over relaxed periods for productivity for work.
When I was in my 20s I would work 40-50 hours a week for about 30k for a company. Now at 49 I work about 25 hours and earn 100k working as a contractor. While I dont like work, I think the amount of hours I do is heading in the right direction. Though I certainly appreciate that this isnt how most people experience work and that needs to change!
If you account for inflation you used to make $61.917 in 1995 and now you're making 100k thats an increase of $38.083 assuming now you've even got 29 years of experience!!! You deserve more.
@nozhki-busha As I understand this, you had $30K a year, 52weeks*45hours = 2340hours worked in a year, 30K / 2340hours = $12,8 USD per hour in...24 years ago money i.e. your mid-20's, 49-24=25yo, e.g. in the year 2000, that's $23.38 USD per hour in the year 2000, accounting for inflation. Now, in the year 2024, $100K USD a year, for 52weeks*25hours = 1300 hours worked in a year, $100K / 1300 = $76.9 USD in 2024 money, accounting for backwards inflation, $76.9 USD an hour today would have been $42.10 USD per hour worked today. So essentially, your hourly rate went up 180% in 24 years, or 7.5% per year if it was gradual.
Companies pay for your time while contractors pay for your productivity. Big difference the corporate machine you might get a small raise if any at all. That’s why those workers don’t work hard or show they do.
The industrial era was when people legalized slavery in a morally “acceptable” way back then Of course back then they worked 12 hours 6 days a week it was lawless but our system comes from the same cloth. Got lower back problems since I was 20 years old because work never stops and I’m never allowed a break
Coffe is like a performance drug to keep you working longer. It’s really a downer unless you drink sips at a time to make the caffeine more consistent instead of caffeine crash by gulping.
It's both. People enjoy those little things and as a result they get more productive. That is the way things should be, create a work environment people find pleasant to be in.
I work as a developer for a big financial IT corporation. Assigned to the 'innovation' tribe. I hate it so much. The people aren't that bad at all. The work isn't bad at all. The company pays well. Everything is supposed to be great. Except... It wants your life to revolve around the company. It brainwashes you into believing your colleagues are your friends. That working at the company for 20 years straight is the greatest thing. The grass isn't greener on the other side. All those frustrations you have about the codebase... It's not different elsewhere. Ambition to learn a new language or framework? The company doesn't need that modern stuff. People also play subtle power games. They set traps for someone they don't like. There's gossip everywhere. Cliques. Half-truths. Jealousy. Resentment. Spite. But also, women exploiting crushes men have on them. That one shocked the most, just seeing how powerful a man's weakness to female validation can be exploited. Blegh. There is no escape.
I hate the stupid power games, especially from women who love to gossip and create the cliques. There is no way out - you get pulled in. Working remotely is great at elminating this, but man, I don't ever want to go back into the corporate physical environment. trying to find part time work since my investments have matured nicely.
@@kc6810 Lol. Women do it all the time. Guy in power has crush on them. Make guy feel desired enough to keep crushing but always needing more attention. That way, he will believe you are seeking his approval & validation, which will make him more forgiving for your flaws. It will also make the guy see anyone who doesn't like you as enemies, and scrutinize their work + put in a bad word. Women who use it to their advantage can become untouchable.
I’m a healthcare IT Manager and former Nurse and i am beyond miserable. I feel like I’m in a pressure cooker all day every day. Technology/ internet has destroyed us!
Start off by paying off debt, stop being a consumer, manage your cash with a budget. Learn to cook and eat left overs. Figure out how to make your money work for you, when you are 18 live at home and get a high paying job, stack the cash away and or buy gold or some sort of investment. Be smart with your time and money. This is just your start.
I think it seems like we have no time because of all the distractions we have. Tik tok, instagram, facebook, Netflix, movies etc. Have you ever put all of that away and been in a room by yourself? You will realize that 30 minutes is a lot of time.
We are at work 9-6 today. That means sometimes the business can get 9 hours of week from you since you might eat at your desk. Yes, thanks to technology, we perform even more tasks than ever before. More tasks for the time we spend at work. This makes the company and shareholders wealthy but not the worker.
As a mom I wish i didn't have to work 12hrs in a factory just to pay bills. I missed some elements in my kids life that could of made a difference had i been home full time.
the fiat currency you earn is constantly declining in value at an accelerating rate yet you must still work 40hrs/week. for most their pay raises to not match inflation so your time is being stolen. over 15-20 years a company is actually paying pennies on the dollar for an employee's services compared to their first year. IMO this is the root of the problem as opposed how much we work or how's it's structured/scheduled(but is still a problem).
We are battling a first world human rights issue. We need to make a change and we the people need to come together and stand against these issues. Working and purpose is prosperous but we need more time for our own existence.
Your conspiracy theory about feminism doubling the work force and halving wages isn't a theory, it's an obvious fact. P.S. I'd be ecstatic if I only had to work 40 hrs a week. Overtime should be totally voluntary. Mandatory overtime should be outlawed.
@@TomScryleuswait, you’re seriously blaming feminism?I thought you were onto something 2 minutes into the video but then I read this comment letting me know your misogynistic viewpoint, I’m done. The culprit is obviously capitalism “but noooo it’s definitely because women gained more rights” 🤦♂️
Great video. Another lie about 8 hours per day is that, at least in terms of intellectual work, humans cannot be productive for 8 hours. The average is about 3 hours per day. Hopefully many European countries start to think about reducing workweek to 7 hours per week or 4 days.
I live in Australia. I find it surprising people work as little as 40 hours a week. My experience is, you are hired for 40hours a week, but in practice work 50-60 hours per week, with no overtime paid. If you do not do this, you will not pass probation. If you have already passed probation and refuse the unpaid overtime, you will be bullied until you leave.
40 hours is pretty normal in Europe. The trick is to push back, and also not to self-exploit. My company for instance will not complain if you work your ass off. But they'll also not ask you for overtime. We don't even have punch-clocks.
Thanks for working on these videos Tom, im really impressed that while working on these you have the courage to put your name and appearance up with your beliefs. I wish i was in a position where i could do similar things. I really appreciate how genuine this channel is, thanks man
Life is a diffrent game now, over the game our parents played. The game they played was going to college and getting a good job. But now, I find that the game for is us living frugally and being entrepreneurs. College degrees get more worthless by the semester, jobs get worse by the year. I find the only realistic way to escape wage slavery is entrepreneurship. For better or for worse, it's a different game now, and it's our responsibility, as the players, to find the way to play the game that works for us.
I wonder about that quite often. if things were better for our parents. or if it was very same wage trap we are in. Im leaning it was a wage trap then too.
@@TomScryleus We shouldn't forget that women entering the workforce meant that wages were practically cut in half. Also, roughly 80% of women work for the government so they effectively don't bring money into the system because they are getting payed by tax dollars.
@@FactsCountdown in today`s job market everybody is an entrepreneur just many do not realize it - you need to manage yourself, your job /advertise, negotiate, manage, learn/ very similar as an entrepreneur + there is no safety net for jobs either...
You must realise that to be and entrepreneur someone must lose money so you can gain it, someone must be the consumer or employ to you. It is simpel impossible to do that.
I 1000% agree with what you said about feminism. I think the same thing. It is a win-win for profiteers if most men and most women work. Daycare also becomes an expense, making it difficult for the masses to have comfort. I thought it was just me.
@@TomScryleusthe problem was that women had no money for their labour with childcare and house duties. They were utterly dependent on their husband. If he was a bad person he could totally exploit the wife. That is a position no human should be in that position. Any type of necessary work should be paid a living wage. Men and women deserve that. Every human needs money.
Dude companies like Amazon destroy their products on purpose to maintain their prices.. that means the poor employees who worked overtime and stayed away from their loved ones, did it for nothing.. if we worked to survive we would work way less
Different historic sources say different things about working in medieval times. First of all agriculture work is not only with crops. You still have life stock which need year round attention. Peasants (in Europe) had quotas, which were assigned to the family. Usually quota was bigger than 40h a week - 60-80 (120 even). So it was split between family members. So women and children worked then too. Quotas have depended on the nobleman (basically owner of the peasants) so this might be totally different in nearby village. But ... what is funny, is that most of this "peasants were slaves" narrative was created during industrial revolution, to convince the workers that before peasants had it worse. Some historic sources claim what you claim, that peasants haven't been overloaded. But all of the sources agree on their diet which was terrible and they haven't owned much. But if we look around, we can see that revenue generated by "wage slaves" is so great, that everyone could have enough food, free healthcare, a shelter above his/her head and could work probably ~20h a week. But revenue split is so unfair that we have what we have. Also the level of greed of some psycho and sociopaths is so great which is the main driver of this shit.
I´m absolutly addicted to your videos. I think your channel is the best thing I´ve seen in RUclips for several years. Thank you for your inspiration. Here a wage slave of a bookstore (yeah, even the big bookstores in my country are like a f*cking Mcdonalds, very sad), but these is my last year in the rat race. I promised. Continue with such a wonderful work!!
I am a customer who buys products at stores and who orders food at restaurants. But if the workers at any of the stores I buy things from or order food from or who works at the factories that manufactures the products that I buy at stores or orders at restaurants were to go on strike because they demand that they work fewer hours with a higher wage, I would support them since I know that in order to be a good person I need to treat others the same way that I want to be treated.
Work is also the processing of information. Meaning, we basically never stop working, and when we work it is more than ever. 50 years ago an office worker worked with a typewriter and pen and paper. Today he is staring at 3 screens just to display half of what he needs to know.
Completely agree, what i find fascinating tho is that for a lot of people this is normal and they seem to adjust to it better then i do. so i can work 50 hour weeks for a short time no problem but after a few weeks of that i get tired, frustrated and just really angry. But i see a lot of people who take it better, i mean they don't do better, their health suffers, they overeat, just netflix in the evening, dont read, stop working out etc, but they just take the beating and this scares me, i know that some work has to be done its fine but i want to do so much more and these diligent worker bees even tho i might not have a conflict with them, they just disgust me, not for working hard per se but for working hard without a real benefit to themselves or society and without thinking. i can't put into words the amount of contempt that i feel for this way of living.
One of the main reasons Henry Ford introduced the eight hour work week was his recognition that the working population were also the consumers. This was a time before low cost manufactured imports. By allowing workers more free time they would consume more and he’d sell more cars. Eight hours over five days was considered the optimal balance.
I think the problem is we are being taxed into slavery. Without taxation you could reasonably set yourself for life with only 10-15 years of work and then its up to you if you want to keep that life. More people would move out of the stressful corporate life creating room for fast advancement. More people would move out of cities as well when they are done with corporate life. Through technology we have multiplied by many times the output of labor and yet we are more enslaved than ever..
I couldn't agree more, Tom. It's a blessing to live in a time when we have the internet, airplanes and so many technology, BUT we work a lot at the same time... Sounds like a great scheme of societal engeneering. We are, indeed, the modern slaves. If I could sugest a topic for a future video: the relation of modern slavery and mental problems. Thanks!
4 day work weeks are the perfect amount. I've done 4 day work weeks for years the extra day off makes a huge difference. One day of rest and 2 days to live your own life. 5 days a week your basically selling your life away because you only really have one day a week for yourself. Less than 4 days can be destructive because you have to much free Time and boredom and temptation sets in
I would only like to emphasize a very important point here. The 40 hour work week only became a thing because people showed up and stayed at work for 40 hours a week. I feel like people always focus on the capitalists, and not themselves and their friends, family, etc. Individuals have just as big of a role in wage slavery as corporations. We live in a time of mass dependency, luxury and consumerism… People work more to improve their social standing and to gain recognition from peers. They do this because they do not feel an intrinsic worth in their own existence, so they latch on to the systems of society. This is a time where all people care about is the amount of dollars in their bank account and not the amount of meaning in their lives. This is what created the world we live in, and capitalists have only taken advantage of the slave-like, dependency of the population. I’m all for independence, but people need to realize that independence is cultivated and not freely given. It is a way of being, and it is not the easy route. It is not the comfortable route. It’s the harder, but more meaningful one.
Stay Strong Tom and Thank you for this excellent and motivating content! I left wage slavery a little over a year ago- selling my art now and never going back :)
The "feminist" movement not only doubled the work force. It drove wages down. Making it harder for the man to provide, trying to keep their wife home during the child rearing season of life. It still can be done. My wife's been home 13yrs. Alot of 55-60hr plus weeks though.
I worked 68 hours last week. I've worked 84 hours a week before. My check will be nice, but I'm exhausted. Wish I could just work a few hours a week and still have enough money to pay all my bills.
Taxes are increased the second normal people take advantage of the technological development. Taxes are the only reason we work more and more. Without taxes we could work half the time of what we are doing today and still have the same life.
Some persons think inves'tin is all about buying stocks; I think going into the stock market without a good experience is a big risk, that's why I'm lucky to have seen someone like mr Brian C Nelson.
In the mid 1900's, economists and labor market analysts concluded that thanks to a growing population and constant modernization of work equipment, hours would go down while wages continued to go up, and then by 2000 everyone would be working 24 hours a week making $50 dollars an hour minimum. Imstead, what happened was longer, more stressful hours for EVERYONE while minimum pay has only grown around 1.5% a year
4 to 5 hours work a day is the sweet spot for me with one full day off a week and 5 to 6 weeks off a year. I start my day have a big breakfast with no breaks for the 4 or 5 hours of work. I have done several different jobs, the past two years for a plumber on part-time and mowing and sniping grass on a 30 acres property. 20yrs previous in contract sales. The trade off being no real joy at work but good hourly $$ ,zero prestige,no boosting rights just dollars per hour, and being ok with less stuff than any of my friends, an older car, living in a shed/house pretty much one big room . Older furniture , clothes, white goods, not dirty just older , again small pride if a friend or family said " iam buying a new fridge do you want my old one " does it work better than the one I have, yes / no. Simple tastes ,swimming in dam ,camping on the river bank, walking in national parks ,steak fries and a coke . No tobacco only a few beers a week. What i have been chasing is time . The time out side of work to do things , fish and hunt when I was younger, photography and hiking now. I may not ever have a new house ,new car or new fridge but I am completely ok with that the time I have kept to do things rather than have things is worth it.
A small handful of elites are keeping us in this outdated 9-5 (40 hrs + workweeks) industrial system. We are tax cattle to them. As Lakota poet Jon Trudell used to say, the system is an energy harvesting machine, harvesting the time and energy of our lives (I'm paraphrasing). Great video
And yet I would not want to live as a medieval peasant. Working just enough to support a simple but modern life out on the countryside seems like the sweet spot to me. I'm not sure how much work that would be, but significantly less than 40 hours a week at least.
Im a single dad. I've worked more than full time. But for what. My boss don't give D about my kids not seeing there only parent. I'm missing out on guiding and comfort my young sons, through their early years. The years where you as a parent build the foundation. A foundation I can't go back in time, too catch up. Or change faults I've done in the upbringing. Yeah, today with some monetary help from government. I work maybe overall 25-35 hour week. Less money. But still gold and diamonds given in the shape of time. For my kids and me
I totally agree with you on all of this... and making households depend on two parents needing to work outside of the home for 40+ hours a week. We were so blessed that the pandemic hit when my son was 2 to 4, so he had both of his parents at home and I can't imagine raising children in any other way. It's absurd that most kids don't get at least one parent at home with them let alone both! Feminism is amazing if it stops at creating truly equal opportunities for women across the board along with also equally celebrating women and men who decide to stay home and help raise a family. Almost every corporate job in the world is easier than parenting...and way less important, so it's a shame that society does not have that understanding built into it instead of everything being incentivized by profits! Sorry to hear that family drama continues...
I live in Germany. I don't own a car anymore and I go to work by bike. I could work 5 hours more but all what I would earn more, would be eaten up by affording a car, which would be needed. (I'm a single mom with a 5 year old in kindergarden.) When I tell people, they can't understand my decision. They always claim, that they NEED their car. But hey, this is Germany, we have bike lanes. A LOT of people could give up their car easily. But they won't, because they would gonna get wet sometimes when it rains. 😂
It's cruel. Jobs now expect you to do the work of 3 people. You are held to that metric. So you find yourself working "nights and weekends" to make up for "lost time". This is because you are continually behind. And the work keeps coming. The worst part is, during your annual review, you will get poor marks, for not going "above and beyond". You will be chastised for "not pulling your weight" and you will most likely be at the top of the next termination list.
Tom i work 50 to 70 hours a week and i hate the weeks i work 70 hours. I am lucky that i getting close to being free from the system and like the Matrix i will unplug at some point. This just helps bringing understanding to this subject. We have to get our behavior with consumption right because its because of this that causes us to work a lot.
I too work in a windowless closet. Be careful. I got a vitamin D deficiency (sunshine deficiency) and I lost a lot of hair. I have been taking vitamin D since January, and my hair is getting better, but still not 100%. It actually may take as many years to get back to normal.
The 40 hour work week is just the beginning. They want you to work 6 days and some 4 hours overtime on the base week. The purpose is not to hire extra employees. Once they paid you benefits for 40 hours they don’t have to pay any more benefits other than the hourly wage. They save money. All in their interest.
I agree with what you're saying, but with one exception: if you follow you passion it is not work anymore. In a rare case you can find that fulfillment in being a modern slave. But I am not, too. I am a broken creative mind, 47 years old ans cannot fit in in this world until now. I hope i will find my place one day in this lifetime.
this is a great point. at first glanse I want to sake that makes sense. But remember, companies want passionated people to their companies. passioned people work overtime, skip lunches, they get used the most. So while I do agree that having a passion feels better, its important to not get used. Use your passion for your own business. you know what I mean?
@@TomScryleus We are on the same side here. I cannot find passion into being a wage-slave and do what others want ignoring what I need. So I absolute understand what you mean! ^_^ but this are hard times to go your own way, because I got alone very fast and this is sickening. But I refuse to go back into Platon's cave.
I’ve had my “dream job” before and it still kinda sucks when you have to be someplace at a certain time, have to do it when you’re sick because you’re out of PTO, and bad co workers and unfair bosses and harassment, sexism, and ableism were all still present.
@@lexa_power So what you are saying is, you hadn't your dream job and you get offended easily? Aren't both thing something you can change by find a work you like and on the other hand getting more resilient by acknowledging, that you cant change people, but you can change yourself?
I watched a documentary where the nomads in the Sahara desert worked about 4 hours a day to maintain their lifestyle, And that's the harshest environment imaginable. What are we doing wrong?
There’s Hard Work, and then there’s Smart Work. They know that most don’t know the difference, and that’s because we were taught or conditioned to not know that there is a difference. Just work hard and you’ll make it, right? No. Smart Work is efficient work, Smart Work is efficient work in the right direction. If you only learn how to work hard not smart, you’ll be working hard for the rest of your life!
I love you for this video. Women who says “housewife’s a job!” Ok so I’m doing 2 jobs… thank you. Anyway, I work double the time of an elder who did my same job, too. Because now with technology I can be more productive, and there is also no “cafeteria” anymore, I have to bring my food from home and I have 15 minutes to consume it. People wake up! We should not doing anything other than wake up and demand all together to work less! We don’t need all this stuff. Thanks for reading.
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I hearted my own comment. I know..
You work more today for less pay! Wages don't follow inflation! You're being squished from middle-class to lower-class every year!
National socialists made 8 hour work shifts a standard copied by almost whole europe and they did it to reduce hours worked by an individual down from 12 or 16h. No matter what hours we work people will always complain. I would say we overall work less all over the world, not more, either way that's irrelevant, what is relevant is that no matter how long we work we can barely afford living, that's the real scam.
13:50 and this is excatly why it will never be put up to vote on. Voting is for circus, not for real material changes in the life of masses.
@@TomScryleusFarmers only worked part of the year. Joi Jindai in Thailand covers this aspect.
People will call you lazy and treat you like a waste of oxygen if you have trouble participating in this shitty scam of living as well 🙄
I think that depends on whether you contribute to the society you live off. There are many ways you can do that but there certainly are a number of people that just take and take and often actively disrupt productive peoples lives and sew chaos. People certainly have a right to look down on a perfectly capable person who is that selfish. However I don't think most people expect you to work your whole life away!
Agree
Yeah I rarely even take a day off & when i do my co workers call 📞 me lazy
Facts, they are miserable and dont want others to escape thats why they talk bad
Yes those people you just need to ignore, they're very miserable and cruel
In Asian societies, things have gotten so bad that the younger generation is pushing back against brutal work expectations. Change is slow!
I saw a video of a foreign English teacher in Japan. The job seemed fine, but holy shit. If you quit your job. You are treated as an enemy.
It's also gonna hurt in the process
Oh that's here in the USA too.
Last year it was difficult for me to explain to people that I quit One of my jobs on the grounds of ethics.
I was 3rd in charge of the store at an Ollie's bargain outlet My job was to run the front end even though we're also expected to throw free The bottom line is they wanted me to write people up and fire them over a stupid fucking points card truthfully I was subjected to the same stupid shit of what they called recruitment for the stupid points card that's not even really a points card.
Their metrics were completely made up you could get two cards in one day and if you had a scheduled day off and you come back it's like that percentage dropped it didn't matter and then if you try to get the numbers up it was nearly impossible because nobody wanted the stupid card some people lucked out and got five cards in a day but that didn't happen every day sometimes you had weeks where you wouldn't get really anything.
But they also had this shit tied to people's hours including mine so if you didn't maintain a certain percentage which you're never going to be able to then your hours will be cut while at the same time your subjected to a write-up basically a series of write-ups and you could be fired while at the same time because I was a manager I'm supposed to write everybody else up and fire them meanwhile they're bitching that we're understaffed and oh by the way we were.
I held that job for exactly 32 days and then I told them to fuck off I am not doing that to people.
My anticipation was that I would go back to Walmart who I worked for back in 21 and left on good terms but at the time Walmart had introduced a hiring freeze and it was impossible to get in the door it took a couple of months I got into another place that was basically a small business version though a growing company that was doing the same shit as Ollie's bargain outlet only that guy turned out to be a complete asshole right alongside the manager that he had running the joint I was the assistant manager they were never clear on what the full brunt of my duties were they just expected me to read their fucking mind so I did the best I could when a doubt I would grab a broom I would clean up I would do manual labor and then they got to bitch and that I need to tell other people to do it I would try to delegate that work while at the same time I would still do a portion of it if anything to try and keep everybody happy that you know I'm not just standing around which I still basically got accused of.
One of the employees was Prague and of course use that to not really do very much of anything so that's fine she could run the register she could do this other stuff basically it's as if the owner and the store manager was looking for constant conflict it was a fucking nightmare.
I was also 6 weeks on that job before they technically let me go but I was ready to tell them to fuck off anyway and then I immediately signed up to work from home which I did that for 7 and 1/2 months and then call times and other assorted KPIs killed me back in May.
I'm telling you these fucking metrics need to go.
Who would’ve thought young people watching their parents worked their wives away made doing the same not so appealing. Yes wasting your life doing something. You don’t want to do so some rich fat cat can get richer or some government can tax more is not really a worthwhile use of one’s life.
I hate modern civilization
Me too
Count me in.
People wrote either on their cell phones or computers.
We don't have to participate on this civilization. Some people don't. But then, we won't get the spoils of it.
Hate comes from fear , have no fear friend what will be will be. Focus on what you can do to make it better you dont have to be particularly involved just be the positive you see with your mind.
@@zakmoton Indeed the only way to live.Understood it this morning.Thanks)
The powers that be just found another way to make us slaves after traditional slavery was abolished. I've always felt that the 40-hour work week was unnatural when I started work at 16. I remember being tired all the time on my days off and just not enjoying life anymore after I was expected to be an adult. That has continued happening to me, and I'm 38 now. Humans are like big predators, we are meant to work hard for short amounts of time and rest/socialize the rest of the time.
i totally agree with you at 41. I always was a good student at school and miss the choice to study whenever i wanted. I used to study hard for a few hours and that was enough. Now i have to worn hard for more than 40h a week, never loose focus, show results, be poorly treated or valued and to be paid just enough to have a few luxuries and not complain. Fed up of the system. Started saving in my 20s and if life allows me, will retire at 50 living a basic simple life with no debts and no wants with just a few needs. This society isa prison by design
They never got rid of slavery they just changed it to make you think you have freedom by just giving you barely enough money to survive
I remember feeling tired all the time at 16 too. I've often thought about that.
I am in a position where I get to choose how much I work and I find that working 2-3 hours per day is all I need to feel fulfillment. Any more work than this just becomes drudgery.
@@Jake-mv7yo That's sounds about right to me. Congratulations on being able to do that!
Today, if I have no job, I can not afford a comfortable life. If I have a job, I can not afford a comfortable life.
Try part time or like temp labor or something casual
@maxsiemens304 If you want to survive on part-time work, you'll need multiple part time jobs. It's unsustainable
Live in your car or in a tent. it's not as bad as you might think depending on who you are. You will still need to work but you will be free
@@xtrwombat4876 can I eat bugs, too?
@@BeccaTKawaii you can do that now if you want to, but personally, i would take working part-time for myself living in my car, hiking mountains, riding my bike from place to place out in the sun.
vs being a wage slave in a drab concrete box working for a billion dollar company that makes it billions by exploiting people.
On a serious note, people back then had a community which is extremely important. Everyone in the village had a role and they all worked as a team to survive. They all laughed together and helped eachother. Nowadays you have nobody, maybe a significant other if you're lucky but its becoming rare. Now you're just told to pay a therapist to pretend to be your friend for one hour.
Good point
Having seen a therapist...they if good are NOT your friend...more a neutral person that can give unemotional advice and help
Lots of people do have communities today. It's really a secular problem that does not since most religious groups do
The British goes to the pub as well as church.
I think work is necessary. The problem is that small groups of people are stealing the wealth created by the people who actually do the work.
We could also still get everything done with a 4 day workweek. Production is up more than ever but only the people at the top benefit, and they act like we all still have to put in the same outdated 40+ hrs.
Because the wealthy employ intellectual capital to build the systems that accrue them more wealth. IT makes the rich richer.
@@cosmicllama6910 Don't stop at 4. How about a 2 day work week???
Don't be silly! Get to work and be happy. If your boss says 5 days, you should work 5 days!
If you want to work less, then expect to be paid less!
@@FormerCityFinancier I'm sure we could still accomplish everything with 2 day work weeks. If you want society to keep going, people need to both be able to afford families AND be able to spend time with them. The %1 needs to give up their political power and super yachts. Or you can watch society collapse like it always does when it gets too top heavy.
Men are already starting to buck the system in droves because they are not stupid, they see they are being used for nothing, no reward and no chance at a family as long as they "do what the boss wants"
Once upon a time, there was a man that boosted an economy from extreme hyperinflation up to one of the greatest and most thriving economies the world has ever seen. He banned usury, rent was no more than 1/8 your income, newly wedded couples could get debt free loans that equated 6 months of pay and if you had a child it would knock off 25% of it. He built approx 1.6million homes and it was mandatory that they had a garden, the people got paid for exactly how much labor they put in. The entire country went from hopeless to having pride in nation.
Those were the "evil Germans" we are brainwashed about in our government education camps.
Question everything you know.
They will guilt trip you into working more hours with the lie that your life is easier than your ancestors. Meanwhile, these same people are taking luxurious vacations.
Nobody would mind working hard if it actually got you anywhere near your goals in life. The harder you work, the more expensive everything becomes as the years pass by.
A good example is the guy dreaming to buy a house and hes working real hard for years to save up for a downpayment on a house. Once he reaches that amount needed the house has risen in price and interest rates has gone up. He now needs 30% more money. So he keeps on grinding another 3 years saving as hard as he can, only for the process to repeat.
Until the day he dies and the money he had saved is taxed by 40% and then given to any remaining relatives who will carry on spinning the same wheel their passed away relative did.
Its a waste of your life. Let the rich and their assets rot, us poors will never catch up while their money and asset values multiply again and again and again until the wealth gap is so huge we can no longer afford to eat and then the revolution begins
When women first entered the workforce, the number of workers doubled. It is essential to reduce the workweek from 40 hours to 20 hours to reflect this change. With the additional factor of immigration, further reduction to a 15-hour workweek is necessary to keep unemployment low and wages high.
I like your thinking!
I think you really mean 30, and women only produce half as much, prove me wrong.
All the extra resources attained by the additional productivity only went to the top. It wasn't spread among the people.
Very interesting point! I agree 100%!!
yes good point. But the problem is company keeps the working hours same or even increase it to churn out maximum profits even after increased workforce.
I'm done with the 40-hour workweek, Im getting out! who's coming with me?
I’m trying to focus on my sales job. This is probably my way out. The only problem is my regular job takes a lot of my energy. Trying to get motivated to sell more homes and invest in dividend stocks.
I would like to get out of the rat race and live a happy life
you and me both!
I know,, same here. I have zero energy. its a wonder I have enough energy on the weekends to make these videos.
Almost there to get out!
I don’t wanna work anymore. At all. I’m tired. I’m tired of being a human battery that has to go back and forth to a place I don’t wanna be, just to eat and pay for a somewhere to live that I barely get to spend time in coz I’m always at work. And still being broke at the end of the month even after 42.5 hours a week. It’s not even 9-5 anymore, my job is 8:30-5.
I feel you, I’m often 7:30-8pm (average 12h) 5days a week, every week as well as often called in to work weekends as well, so it ends up being 7days a week sometimes. Average 120-140 hrs biweekly. I’m exhausted but can’t give up for 1)sole provider for family and 2.) I’m the only person trained/educated in my role. I work several different roles during the week depending on the day. I’m overwhelmed and exhausted. I have a 45m commute and don’t get home till nearly 9pm. I have to “slam” myself to sleep with otc meds so that I can actually sleep but still takes time to unwind. Hard for me to sleep. Finally after sleeping around 12:30am, I have to “slam” myself awake with caffeine and now prescription amphetamines (I do not recommend or condone that) but it’s been the only way I’ve been able to survive financially for the past 2 years (even with decent wage). I don’t know what to do. If I stop for 1 second, everything falls apart. I definitely feel you.
Mine is 7 am - 5 pm - salary no overtime.
@@mt142Xif you're the only one then it sounds like you might want to start demanding some things instead of just going with it
add in commute and everything you do to get ready and decompress and you’re looking at between 10-12 hours devoted to work, easy - and still not making enough to enjoy being alive.
Me too
I will always remember what this one plasterer said I was working in construction... He said when it was all done by hand it was better, the pace was slower and more enjoyable. He said when the machine came that you just chuck in the mix and it pumps it up through a hose and you just hose the walls and ceilings down and then you finish it off, it was supposed to make the work easier. All it did was make them work even harder now, doing crazy amount of work in a day. The pace is so much faster and the work is so much more stressful since when that machine is on you have to act quickly in applying it and finishing it. And you need less people. I watched them do the whole small building in few days so you would think great now rest of the week off haha nah its on to the next one. What modern work did is just devalued people, or made less people more important.
Possession of possessions works both ways maybe more the way that is not obvious. The thing possesses and controls you to fulfill its needs basically.
I work for 2 hours per day, 6 or 5 days per week. I work online and it is barely enough to pay bills, but its still better than being a wage slave.
what do you do? I'm looking to go to part time from full time.
? I mean if you like it that's good but if it's barely enough, would it possible to find another online job that makes you more?
@@pantherman8719 for sure yes, and I plan on doing it. I was just trying to say that for me, not being a wage slave is the top priority
@@pantherman8719No needed since he can get by fine as long as he isn't a spoiled lavish spender
@@pantherman8719I doubt there’s any regular job that you can work two hours a day and live comfortably beyond paying bills.
I had an epiphany yesterday -Why am I still working this much when I will never earn enough to own (Let alone maintain) a home?
There is zero reason to work anymore unless you have to pay rent or something,I currently live off of the bare minimum because my lust for luxuries is much less than my drive to work my entire existence.
Taking rent out of the equation I can literally live off of $200 a month easily.
That includes insurance food utilities cell phone?
@@adisc7475 Yes,Easily.
@@adisc7475why u need insurance bro
@@adisc7475 insurance?
Don't tell people that. They'll realize that they are the problem, not the system.
Now your expected to work as fast as a computer. Work in multiple time zones and for my small business even on Sundays. Sometimes I work 14 days in a row. That’s why people are loosing their minds.
Technology has made working life even more unbearable, especially in an office. All these endless emails and instant messages and Teams meetings and "collaboration" on Word or SharePoint, the inane spreadsheets, the unbearable PowerPoint presentations. Please, God, make it stop. And because of the internet, we're expected to get things done quicker, when in the days of typewriters and faxes, things had to work slower. Of course people are exhausted. Of course they're depressed. Of course they're at their wits' end.
Yeah the welfare state created this. Sure there is this credit the Feds give in benefits of welfare but their minimum to none impactful. They need hard workers they just won’t admit it. As long as there is welfare they will need people working hard those are rare.
@@theotherguy5516I hope with ai it will make work easier. But honestly like you said ai will just be another tool to add more work and won’t be replacing any jobs. If anything they will need to hire more people to make the ai valuable to buy and use it for the work place.
@@theotherguy5516Exactly why I stay clear of office work. Sounds mind-numbing.
@@theotherguy5516💯
I work at a factory where hard work is the policy, but there's no reward for it. I've seen people who are Exempt meaning they're not paid overtime. They work A LOT!
It's hard to describe to a lot of people that there's no point working harder. There's no extra money or respect. You can climb the C Ladder but that's not a given. I'm in the USA, and there's this idea that if you work your butt off everything will just work. Financial problems, marriage issues, mental problems, bad family, boredom, and so much more will be fixed by working harder. It doesn't work obviously, but everyone especially older people act like it does and ridicules a lot of people, especially younger people for not working harder.
Its all a big trap if you ask me. Thats why I make these videos.
ps. Im a millenial too.
@@TomScryleus I agree, but there's a lot of boomers, and boomer mindset people where I work and they are very openly critical of younger people and having a limit on work. It is a big trap, but it's a weird one. You can tell people it's there, and they'll still walk right into it.
Do you live in the Midwest? That all sounds like Midwestern thinking.
@@shiptj01 West Coast USA, it's paid a lot better, but the employers make a lot more.
Yeah you're right, what people really need is cheap shelter and food, everything else gets stolen in taxes and fees, people used to have no fees in the great depression, we are way worst off today. Lesson learnt, Never Try!
People dont understand , that a country reaches a level ( if they are progressing correctly ) that they have to work LESS , in order to accomplish MORE . The 40 hr work week was put in place , for the needs , and world , of the 19th century . It hasnt been working very well for the past 60 years . People just never questioned it , and the country has been limping along with it , until two things happened . Firstly , the internet , and rise of technology , 2ndly , the global pandemic hit , with all the lock downs etc . Now people actually had time for inner reflection as to WHY they are unhappy . Lock downs stop , people now know , they dont want to go back to that . ...ant they aren't . Its a passive revolt , people dont want to live at their jobs anymore , so things are breaking down , everybody is short handed , etc. We ( the US ) is stagnating , and if it continues , we will regress as a nation . We are now at a stage of developement , where we NEED the 20 hr / 4 day work week to survive going into the 21st century . Its a work week for the needs and world of TODAY , not 120 plus years ago . Have to remember , this is the same country that didnt abolish slavery , until 30 years short of the 20th century .
People wonder why families don't stay together these days and all the children are raised on screens and can't emotionally regulate themselves/act out so much, but unironically think it's fine that we all spend way more time with coworkers than our own families, and we all have strangers raise our kids and spend more time with them than we can.
Families need to spend time together and at least one of the parents needs to be able to be home with the kids most of the time.
@@cosmicllama6910 with the 20 hr/4 day week , they can .
The 40 hour week didn't become the norm until well into the 20th century. Prior to that, it was 48 or even 60.
@@cosmicllama6910 This is the point I repeatedly make to friends, expecting some sort of anger towards our system or even a recognition that it's mad, but, alas, no. Just acceptance. Why can we remark upon the obvious, horrible consequences of fascism and communism, but not the consequences of capitalism?
Need to update work, need to update education. So much stuff is outdated it's insane
There's one aspect I think should be added, as the pandemic laid bare just how terrible it's always been- the commute. Commuting to work needs to be seen as the unpaid labor, in fact arguably the cost the employee has to pay for the privilege of working. I wonder how long it took the average peasant to get from their home to where they needed to work on any given day. As companies have centralized their work spaces into increasingly inaccessible urban hubs, they have taken hours of life away from their workers every day. Consider that if you have a 1 hour commute each way, by the end of the week you have added a full work shift plus two hours to your schedule.
The video turned out better than I expected. I hope you liked it.
This video wasn't planned at all. But I got several comments in a row about how "we used to work more in the past".
So I had to make this video, to set the record straight.
WE WORK MORE TODAY THAN EVER!
yes we did
Incorrect. We used to work a LOT more. The "medieval serfs worked less" idea has been thoroughly debunked. But same as the "alpha male" theory, it will continue through the work of the ignorant or those who willfully corrupt others. You're a youtuber so I'm more than willing to believe it's the latter
Hunter Gatherers worked around 15 hours a week, i believe the piraha people in the amazone today are a good example of that. And they retire at 40 since the young bring in enough food. When agriculture started, they started to work more hours and got more stress. Slavery became an issue, and slavery hasn't ended since then, we are all slaves. Most people don't take the red pill, so they rather call it employee.
Hunter gatherers, yes. But not farmers. They worked (and work) way harder and longer than we do.
And considering humans switched from hunting and gathering TO farming. I'd say they probably had a pretty good reason to do so.
@@CultureCrossed64 It was because of overpopulation. A lot of new farmers got back to hunter gatherer life style when there was enough food again.
Like it or not, working as an employee is voluntary. If you can find another way to stay alive, nothing is stopping you.
I personally find it preferable to starting my own company for now, though I am working towards it. But at no point is it slavery.
The real slavery is taxation, both direct and through money-printing causing inflation. THAT is why we have to work 40, rather than 20 hours a week, or in other words, we could vacation half the year and still have the same we make now, roughly speaking.
Your enemy is the state and its bureaucrats, and every single state employee and contractor and subcontractor of the state.
EVERYONE taking money out of your pocket through the state is an enemy, a thief at best, in all honesty: a parasite draining away the time in your life itself.
Agriculture is a necessity because of higher population- but also higher population is only possible because of agricultural. It’s a cycle that feeds into itself. It might be true that a hunter gatherer life was less overall work, but it’s not a viable option anymore for the population at large. Agriculture while destructive in its own way gives us far more calories per square meter than nature can ever do naturally. If so many people were to suddenly rely on foraging and hunting to survive these days, we would be like a plague of locusts on the land and cause extinctions even faster than we are doing right now.
@@NukeCloudstalkerI can promise you would not like living in a world where the things you take for granted weren’t funded by taxes. The government uses taxes for some despicable things like funding the war machine- it also uses it to build public roads. It should also be using it to fund healthcare….
Ever since I started working my 8.30am to 6pm dead end job, I've become unable to enjoy my weekends as I've had to squeeze in chores & prep work for the coming work week on top of doing things I was unable to do after work hours purely out of exhaustion. I can't remember the last time I was actually well rested and happy ever since I started working.
Same here
When we come to realise we own nothing and everything is borrowed then we will realise wealth means nothing because its all temporary.
Enough is enough.
Even if you acquire wealth and resources, the government will invent reasons to seize it.
even more so when you find out money is not real money, all debt instruments securities backed on future assets in a bank ponzi (HJR 192) in US.
We work more but it is useless work (invented jobs to create money).
First shift, second shift, and third shift came from the Industrial Revolution, as well as Daylight Savings Time. My mom wanted to stay home and be traditional, but the economy makes it hard. It's definitely a scam, having husband and wife work outside of the home. More tax revenue, more purchases, and rising home prices.
This makes so much sense. I’ve always had a ton of energy and drive to work, then rest. A high output all the time just feels unnatural. Everything in nature has period of work/ growth/ rest then repair. The seasons are cyclical spring and summer are growth, fall and winter are dormant and restful. Building muscle is hard work (lifting weights) plus rest repeated over and over again. Planting a garden is hard work, then you wait and let things grow. Constant work and rigid structure is not the norm. You need work AND rest.
I'm a lawyer in the UK, dropped down to a four day week a few years back (not compressed hours, a genuine drop) when I was about 35 and it's amazing - would never want to go back. People often say I'm 'lucky', I point out I earn 20% less and suddenly they're not as interested. If I was on low pay it would clearly never be possible, but I'm on 'average' pay and so just live my lifestyle to suit my means.
In Mexico on top of all you said, we do hours of nothing at work, there are days with no clients, no calls, office or workshop tidy, no people at sight, you still have to finish your journey. Plus, hours of traffic jams or public transportation to reach the workplace and getting home.
Whats life in Mx like
@@diogenesstudent5585 It depends on the place, wealth, for example in some cities like Mérida people have good income and the city is not so Big, so the pace of life is kind of slow, México City is crazy as I said long transportación times, depends on how wealthy or educated You are You work more or less hours, the less wealthy less educated work the more hours.
@@juanjacobomoracerecero6604 ty
The one place in my life that seems to almost escape this is agriculture. I grew up on a ranch, and while it was never glamorous, we never did without. Now, well into my adult years working in the city, I'm disillusioned. All I want to do is be a rancher again.
Enjoy your box office job
@@rvh1999 Jokes on you. I'm a tradesman.
@@717UT Well, that sure beats a boring office job. Good for you m8!
@@rvh1999 It does in some ways, but it's hard on the body the same way the office is hard on the mind and soul.
@@717UT I guess your right, it's always one or the other.
As a mother I hate that I have to work full time and I’m trying to juggle work and being a mother. I try my best to still be there emotionally and physically, and I always try to make fun memories with my son and I go as far as to call off work just to spend the holidays with him. It’s even sucks more for single parents who’s partner isn’t in the picture anymore, even though some of us are able to get child support it’s sadly not a thing that all of us can get. As for my sons dad he signed away his rights since he didn’t want anything to do with us and only wanted to be with some other women who he was cheating on me with. And honestly to anyone who says “I don’t want kids” I don’t blame them, it takes a lot of hard work, lots of money, and with how things are these days it’s hard to find someone who would be loyal and happy enough to actually stay and help raise the kid/s.
You’re beautiful and kids are the most precious thing that can happen in a man’s life speaking from personal experience, don’t give up hope babe ❤
Fabulous video Tom.
A number of years ago I took a casual job driving a tour coach around Sydney Australia.
The company needed me more than I needed them so they would offer me choices of what work I could do on my rostered days as I had a full time job too.
This is when I realised how powerful this is as an employee.
Lie.
Get a casual job but tell them you have a primary job even if you don’t. You’ll be treated with much more respect and dignity and enjoy unlimited time off under the casual employment system.
thank you. and thank oyu for sharing your story.
I agreed to work with a Fortune 500 company at 40 hours per week (10 hours per day), to allow for three days off with my children. However, the company has instituted mandatory overtime of twelve hour shifts, at least once every weekend, and sometimes two extra shifts, which brings my work week up from four days, to five and six days per week. My time is limited outside of work, and my kids are burdened by that fact.
Find another job, work for a charity. You will never get the time back again.
The collective " slave mindset " is so strong .....i need to see your videos like an antidote ....!
Slavery was never abolished. It only evolved. Wage slavery simply affords you the pleasure of choosing who owns you. The factory I work in currently has a 40 hour work week but it's divided amongst 4 days. Most of those day, the work is so slow it's completed within 6-8 hours and management is pulling shit out of their asses to keep us busy. One day we were expected to sweep the PARKING LOT because there was no work to be done but we were expected to stay for another 3 hours. EVERY night, the doors are closed an hour before shift ends and all the employees sit in the break room zombified on their phones until it's "time to punch out." I'll never understand why we are expected to literally waste our lives away like that. If you're willing to pay me to do menial work or no work at all - pay me to do it at home where I can enjoy my life and my family!
Are you really complaining about the fact that you get three days off per week? Frame this differently: instead of coming in an additional day, you get paid for sitting around. Remember that what you sell is your time, not your labor. It's up to your employer to draw value from that time, but if they don't, well, you get the same amount of money for less wear and tear on the body.
Not a word about central banks and the devaluation of money they commit
Oh a video on that is coming :)
Make a video on how education system prepare us for wage slavery.
technically, I have done it.(its a video called "i regret going to collage).
But that video is not very good.
I want to make a new version of the video.
I believe they meant K-12.
It was made to make good Prussian soldiers back in the day. Specifically.
It’s the Prussian military system of time scheduling diverse subjects. It encourages discipline for corporate America over relaxed periods for productivity for work.
When I was in my 20s I would work 40-50 hours a week for about 30k for a company. Now at 49 I work about 25 hours and earn 100k working as a contractor. While I dont like work, I think the amount of hours I do is heading in the right direction. Though I certainly appreciate that this isnt how most people experience work and that needs to change!
If you account for inflation you used to make $61.917 in 1995 and now you're making 100k thats an increase of $38.083 assuming now you've even got 29 years of experience!!! You deserve more.
@@zxcaaqyou sont wven have to go back that far to proce a point. Just go back ten years and aee how much the US dollar spensong power has diminished.
@@zxcaaq $61.917 USD in 1995 would be $127.791 USD now in 2024, accounting for inflation.
@nozhki-busha As I understand this, you had $30K a year, 52weeks*45hours = 2340hours worked in a year, 30K / 2340hours = $12,8 USD per hour in...24 years ago money i.e. your mid-20's, 49-24=25yo, e.g. in the year 2000, that's $23.38 USD per hour in the year 2000, accounting for inflation.
Now, in the year 2024, $100K USD a year, for 52weeks*25hours = 1300 hours worked in a year, $100K / 1300 = $76.9 USD in 2024 money, accounting for backwards inflation, $76.9 USD an hour today would have been $42.10 USD per hour worked today. So essentially, your hourly rate went up 180% in 24 years, or 7.5% per year if it was gradual.
Companies pay for your time while contractors pay for your productivity. Big difference the corporate machine you might get a small raise if any at all. That’s why those workers don’t work hard or show they do.
The industrial era was when people legalized slavery in a morally “acceptable” way back then
Of course back then they worked 12 hours 6 days a week it was lawless but our system comes from the same cloth.
Got lower back problems since I was 20 years old because work never stops and I’m never allowed a break
Coffee at the office and breaks during the work day were also introduced to raise the performance of the workers ... not because anyone cares.
Yepp
Ps. I care! :)
Coffe is like a performance drug to keep you working longer. It’s really a downer unless you drink sips at a time to make the caffeine more consistent instead of caffeine crash by gulping.
It's both. People enjoy those little things and as a result they get more productive. That is the way things should be, create a work environment people find pleasant to be in.
And not only that, they charge for the coffee!
I work as a developer for a big financial IT corporation. Assigned to the 'innovation' tribe. I hate it so much. The people aren't that bad at all. The work isn't bad at all. The company pays well. Everything is supposed to be great. Except... It wants your life to revolve around the company. It brainwashes you into believing your colleagues are your friends. That working at the company for 20 years straight is the greatest thing. The grass isn't greener on the other side. All those frustrations you have about the codebase... It's not different elsewhere. Ambition to learn a new language or framework? The company doesn't need that modern stuff.
People also play subtle power games. They set traps for someone they don't like. There's gossip everywhere. Cliques. Half-truths. Jealousy. Resentment. Spite. But also, women exploiting crushes men have on them. That one shocked the most, just seeing how powerful a man's weakness to female validation can be exploited.
Blegh. There is no escape.
Spreading half-truths…happens everywhere
I hate the stupid power games, especially from women who love to gossip and create the cliques. There is no way out - you get pulled in. Working remotely is great at elminating this, but man, I don't ever want to go back into the corporate physical environment. trying to find part time work since my investments have matured nicely.
@@kc6810 Lol. Women do it all the time. Guy in power has crush on them. Make guy feel desired enough to keep crushing but always needing more attention. That way, he will believe you are seeking his approval & validation, which will make him more forgiving for your flaws. It will also make the guy see anyone who doesn't like you as enemies, and scrutinize their work + put in a bad word. Women who use it to their advantage can become untouchable.
Corporate office jobs seems hell to me. Fake people and sociopaths everywhere. If you are a good person You will never suceed.
I’m a healthcare IT Manager and former Nurse and i am beyond miserable.
I feel like I’m in a pressure cooker all day every day.
Technology/ internet has destroyed us!
Start off by paying off debt, stop being a consumer, manage your cash with a budget. Learn to cook and eat left overs. Figure out how to make your money work for you, when you are 18 live at home and get a high paying job, stack the cash away and or buy gold or some sort of investment. Be smart with your time and money. This is just your start.
very,very good points!! listen up young people!! you don't have much time.
I think it seems like we have no time because of all the distractions we have. Tik tok, instagram, facebook, Netflix, movies etc. Have you ever put all of that away and been in a room by yourself? You will realize that 30 minutes is a lot of time.
We are at work 9-6 today. That means sometimes the business can get 9 hours of week from you since you might eat at your desk. Yes, thanks to technology, we perform even more tasks than ever before. More tasks for the time we spend at work. This makes the company and shareholders wealthy but not the worker.
As a mom I wish i didn't have to work 12hrs in a factory just to pay bills. I missed some elements in my kids life that could of made a difference had i been home full time.
the fiat currency you earn is constantly declining in value at an accelerating rate yet you must still work 40hrs/week. for most their pay raises to not match inflation so your time is being stolen. over 15-20 years a company is actually paying pennies on the dollar for an employee's services compared to their first year. IMO this is the root of the problem as opposed how much we work or how's it's structured/scheduled(but is still a problem).
We are battling a first world human rights issue. We need to make a change and we the people need to come together and stand against these issues. Working and purpose is prosperous but we need more time for our own existence.
Your conspiracy theory about feminism doubling the work force and halving wages isn't a theory, it's an obvious fact.
P.S. I'd be ecstatic if I only had to work 40 hrs a week. Overtime should be totally voluntary. Mandatory overtime should be outlawed.
But people dont talk about it….
@@TomScryleuswait, you’re seriously blaming feminism?I thought you were onto something 2 minutes into the video but then I read this comment letting me know your misogynistic viewpoint, I’m done. The culprit is obviously capitalism “but noooo it’s definitely because women gained more rights” 🤦♂️
Great video. Another lie about 8 hours per day is that, at least in terms of intellectual work, humans cannot be productive for 8 hours. The average is about 3 hours per day. Hopefully many European countries start to think about reducing workweek to 7 hours per week or 4 days.
Agree
WILL NEVER HAPPEN. Welcome to W.E.F. Serfdom. The new world order has you !
I live in Australia. I find it surprising people work as little as 40 hours a week. My experience is, you are hired for 40hours a week, but in practice work 50-60 hours per week, with no overtime paid. If you do not do this, you will not pass probation. If you have already passed probation and refuse the unpaid overtime, you will be bullied until you leave.
Bro nobody's just working 40 hours I don't know who's saying that everybody over here is being pushed to work more than that.
40 hours is pretty normal in Europe. The trick is to push back, and also not to self-exploit. My company for instance will not complain if you work your ass off. But they'll also not ask you for overtime. We don't even have punch-clocks.
Thanks for working on these videos Tom, im really impressed that while working on these you have the courage to put your name and appearance up with your beliefs. I wish i was in a position where i could do similar things. I really appreciate how genuine this channel is, thanks man
Life is a diffrent game now, over the game our parents played. The game they played was going to college and getting a good job. But now, I find that the game for is us living frugally and being entrepreneurs. College degrees get more worthless by the semester, jobs get worse by the year. I find the only realistic way to escape wage slavery is entrepreneurship.
For better or for worse, it's a different game now, and it's our responsibility, as the players, to find the way to play the game that works for us.
But entrepreneurship is not the solution as majority people will never be successful in it.
I wonder about that quite often. if things were better for our parents. or if it was very same wage trap we are in. Im leaning it was a wage trap then too.
@@TomScryleus We shouldn't forget that women entering the workforce meant that wages were practically cut in half. Also, roughly 80% of women work for the government so they effectively don't bring money into the system because they are getting payed by tax dollars.
@@FactsCountdown in today`s job market everybody is an entrepreneur just many do not realize it - you need to manage yourself, your job /advertise, negotiate, manage, learn/ very similar as an entrepreneur + there is no safety net for jobs either...
You must realise that to be and entrepreneur someone must lose money so you can gain it, someone must be the consumer or employ to you. It is simpel impossible to do that.
The average work day in the Middle Ages was 5h, it only reached 8h and grew further for the first time in human history in early 19th century England.
I 1000% agree with what you said about feminism. I think the same thing. It is a win-win for profiteers if most men and most women work. Daycare also becomes an expense, making it difficult for the masses to have comfort. I thought it was just me.
I appreciate that you confirm it. Sometimes i feel I should keep my mouth shut when I touch on certain topics.
@@TomScryleus Nope, you are right.
@@TomScryleusthe problem was that women had no money for their labour with childcare and house duties. They were utterly dependent on their husband. If he was a bad person he could totally exploit the wife. That is a position no human should be in that position. Any type of necessary work should be paid a living wage. Men and women deserve that. Every human needs money.
We work a lot, and nothing gets done
Dude companies like Amazon destroy their products on purpose to maintain their prices.. that means the poor employees who worked overtime and stayed away from their loved ones, did it for nothing.. if we worked to survive we would work way less
Different historic sources say different things about working in medieval times.
First of all agriculture work is not only with crops. You still have life stock which need year round attention.
Peasants (in Europe) had quotas, which were assigned to the family. Usually quota was bigger than 40h a week - 60-80 (120 even). So it was split between family members. So women and children worked then too. Quotas have depended on the nobleman (basically owner of the peasants) so this might be totally different in nearby village.
But ... what is funny, is that most of this "peasants were slaves" narrative was created during industrial revolution, to convince the workers that before peasants had it worse.
Some historic sources claim what you claim, that peasants haven't been overloaded. But all of the sources agree on their diet which was terrible and they haven't owned much.
But if we look around, we can see that revenue generated by "wage slaves" is so great, that everyone could have enough food, free healthcare, a shelter above his/her head and could work probably ~20h a week. But revenue split is so unfair that we have what we have. Also the level of greed of some psycho and sociopaths is so great which is the main driver of this shit.
Why the piss do I work so hard if I can't even afford a one bedroom apartment?
The only problem is we be taxed on our overtime on top of taxes
I´m absolutly addicted to your videos. I think your channel is the best thing I´ve seen in RUclips for several years. Thank you for your inspiration. Here a wage slave of a bookstore (yeah, even the big bookstores in my country are like a f*cking Mcdonalds, very sad), but these is my last year in the rat race. I promised. Continue with such a wonderful work!!
Thank you.
Your kind words did not only make my day, but my whole week. 🙏🙏
I am a customer who buys products at stores and who orders food at restaurants. But if the workers at any of the stores I buy things from or order food from or who works at the factories that manufactures the products that I buy at stores or orders at restaurants were to go on strike because they demand that they work fewer hours with a higher wage, I would support them since I know that in order to be a good person I need to treat others the same way that I want to be treated.
Work is also the processing of information. Meaning, we basically never stop working, and when we work it is more than ever. 50 years ago an office worker worked with a typewriter and pen and paper. Today he is staring at 3 screens just to display half of what he needs to know.
Completely agree, what i find fascinating tho is that for a lot of people this is normal and they seem to adjust to it better then i do. so i can work 50 hour weeks for a short time no problem but after a few weeks of that i get tired, frustrated and just really angry. But i see a lot of people who take it better, i mean they don't do better, their health suffers, they overeat, just netflix in the evening, dont read, stop working out etc, but they just take the beating and this scares me, i know that some work has to be done its fine but i want to do so much more and these diligent worker bees even tho i might not have a conflict with them, they just disgust me, not for working hard per se but for working hard without a real benefit to themselves or society and without thinking.
i can't put into words the amount of contempt that i feel for this way of living.
Yep🎯
One of the main reasons Henry Ford introduced the eight hour work week was his recognition that the working population were also the consumers. This was a time before low cost manufactured imports. By allowing workers more free time they would consume more and he’d sell more cars. Eight hours over five days was considered the optimal balance.
It's really bad, when even Doctors are dropping out. They are quitting...that's bad...
Give me your favorite Tom quotes. My favorite is: "We work because we have no purpose."
First- thank you these vids give me so much energy and hope 👍
Its truly my pleasure. Thank you for the kind words
Agree
I dont mind my 3 12 hour shifts paid for 40. Dont ever want to work more than 3 days a week. Having the extra days with my family is priceless.
I think the problem is we are being taxed into slavery. Without taxation you could reasonably set yourself for life with only 10-15 years of work and then its up to you if you want to keep that life.
More people would move out of the stressful corporate life creating room for fast advancement.
More people would move out of cities as well when they are done with corporate life.
Through technology we have multiplied by many times the output of labor and yet we are more enslaved than ever..
Yeah, with out taxes and fiat currency people could retire at 40
I couldn't agree more, Tom.
It's a blessing to live in a time when we have the internet, airplanes and so many technology, BUT we work a lot at the same time... Sounds like a great scheme of societal engeneering. We are, indeed, the modern slaves.
If I could sugest a topic for a future video: the relation of modern slavery and mental problems. Thanks!
4 day work weeks are the perfect amount. I've done 4 day work weeks for years the extra day off makes a huge difference. One day of rest and 2 days to live your own life. 5 days a week your basically selling your life away because you only really have one day a week for yourself. Less than 4 days can be destructive because you have to much free Time and boredom and temptation sets in
Agreed 100%
I would only like to emphasize a very important point here. The 40 hour work week only became a thing because people showed up and stayed at work for 40 hours a week. I feel like people always focus on the capitalists, and not themselves and their friends, family, etc. Individuals have just as big of a role in wage slavery as corporations. We live in a time of mass dependency, luxury and consumerism… People work more to improve their social standing and to gain recognition from peers. They do this because they do not feel an intrinsic worth in their own existence, so they latch on to the systems of society. This is a time where all people care about is the amount of dollars in their bank account and not the amount of meaning in their lives. This is what created the world we live in, and capitalists have only taken advantage of the slave-like, dependency of the population.
I’m all for independence, but people need to realize that independence is cultivated and not freely given. It is a way of being, and it is not the easy route. It is not the comfortable route. It’s the harder, but more meaningful one.
So what do you propose ?
Stay Strong Tom and Thank you for this excellent and motivating content!
I left wage slavery a little over a year ago-
selling my art now and never going back :)
Thank u. Im happy for you, and I will join you hopefully next year. :)
I work about 27hours a week working on my business and another job.
Feels good man.
Thats awesome!!
The "feminist" movement not only doubled the work force. It drove wages down. Making it harder for the man to provide, trying to keep their wife home during the child rearing season of life. It still can be done. My wife's been home 13yrs. Alot of 55-60hr plus weeks though.
I worked 68 hours last week. I've worked 84 hours a week before. My check will be nice, but I'm exhausted. Wish I could just work a few hours a week and still have enough money to pay all my bills.
Taxes are increased the second normal people take advantage of the technological development. Taxes are the only reason we work more and more. Without taxes we could work half the time of what we are doing today and still have the same life.
Sorry that makes little sense
40-hours a week, I remember my first part time job. I work 84-hours a week, 7/12 to keep my head above water.
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In the mid 1900's, economists and labor market analysts concluded that thanks to a growing population and constant modernization of work equipment, hours would go down while wages continued to go up, and then by 2000 everyone would be working 24 hours a week making $50 dollars an hour minimum.
Imstead, what happened was longer, more stressful hours for EVERYONE while minimum pay has only grown around 1.5% a year
4 to 5 hours work a day is the sweet spot for me with one full day off a week and 5 to 6 weeks off a year. I start my day have a big breakfast with no breaks for the 4 or 5 hours of work. I have done several different jobs, the past two years for a plumber on part-time and mowing and sniping grass on a 30 acres property. 20yrs previous in contract sales. The trade off being no real joy at work but good hourly $$ ,zero prestige,no boosting rights just dollars per hour, and being ok with less stuff than any of my friends, an older car, living in a shed/house pretty much one big room . Older furniture , clothes, white goods, not dirty just older , again small pride if a friend or family said " iam buying a new fridge do you want my old one " does it work better than the one I have, yes / no. Simple tastes ,swimming in dam ,camping on the river bank, walking in national parks ,steak fries and a coke . No tobacco only a few beers a week. What i have been chasing is time . The time out side of work to do things , fish and hunt when I was younger, photography and hiking now. I may not ever have a new house ,new car or new fridge but I am completely ok with that the time I have kept to do things rather than have things is worth it.
But what about technology? Shouldn't it help us work less? This is crazy!
A small handful of elites are keeping us in this outdated 9-5 (40 hrs + workweeks) industrial system. We are tax cattle to them. As Lakota poet Jon Trudell used to say, the system is an energy harvesting machine, harvesting the time and energy of our lives (I'm paraphrasing). Great video
I am 70 hours a week to buy my home for cash and then work twice a week.
thanks for speaking the truth👏
And yet I would not want to live as a medieval peasant.
Working just enough to support a simple but modern life out on the countryside seems like the sweet spot to me.
I'm not sure how much work that would be, but significantly less than 40 hours a week at least.
nor would I... :)
I just want to minimize the workweek. 40h is bs.
Im a single dad. I've worked more than full time. But for what. My boss don't give D about my kids not seeing there only parent. I'm missing out on guiding and comfort my young sons, through their early years. The years where you as a parent build the foundation. A foundation I can't go back in time, too catch up. Or change faults I've done in the upbringing. Yeah, today with some monetary help from government. I work maybe overall 25-35 hour week. Less money. But still gold and diamonds given in the shape of time. For my kids and me
I totally agree with you on all of this... and making households depend on two parents needing to work outside of the home for 40+ hours a week.
We were so blessed that the pandemic hit when my son was 2 to 4, so he had both of his parents at home and I can't imagine raising children in any other way. It's absurd that most kids don't get at least one parent at home with them let alone both!
Feminism is amazing if it stops at creating truly equal opportunities for women across the board along with also equally celebrating women and men who decide to stay home and help raise a family. Almost every corporate job in the world is easier than parenting...and way less important, so it's a shame that society does not have that understanding built into it instead of everything being incentivized by profits!
Sorry to hear that family drama continues...
I can't imagine what it would be like to be a single mom.
Though my mom was, when raising me. Wasn't easy.
I live in Germany. I don't own a car anymore and I go to work by bike. I could work 5 hours more but all what I would earn more, would be eaten up by affording a car, which would be needed. (I'm a single mom with a 5 year old in kindergarden.) When I tell people, they can't understand my decision. They always claim, that they NEED their car. But hey, this is Germany, we have bike lanes. A LOT of people could give up their car easily. But they won't, because they would gonna get wet sometimes when it rains. 😂
40 hours a week would be a holiday for me, Last two 2 Week pay periods I have logged over 150 Hours each 2 week period.
That sounds horrible!
This is insane. Good luck handling this.
Insane and unfortunate. Unless it’s your passion
It's cruel. Jobs now expect you to do the work of 3 people. You are held to that metric. So you find yourself working "nights and weekends" to make up for "lost time". This is because you are continually behind. And the work keeps coming. The worst part is, during your annual review, you will get poor marks, for not going "above and beyond". You will be chastised for "not pulling your weight" and you will most likely be at the top of the next termination list.
If that's the kind of life you want. Its your wrong decision. You're destroying your body, mind, & spirit. For what?
Tom i work 50 to 70 hours a week and i hate the weeks i work 70 hours. I am lucky that i getting close to being free from the system and like the Matrix i will unplug at some point. This just helps bringing understanding to this subject. We have to get our behavior with consumption right because its because of this that causes us to work a lot.
I too work in a windowless closet. Be careful. I got a vitamin D deficiency (sunshine deficiency) and I lost a lot of hair. I have been taking vitamin D since January, and my hair is getting better, but still not 100%. It actually may take as many years to get back to normal.
The 40 hour work week is just the beginning. They want you to work 6 days and some 4 hours overtime on the base week. The purpose is not to hire extra employees. Once they paid you benefits for 40 hours they don’t have to pay any more benefits other than the hourly wage. They save money. All in their interest.
I agree with what you're saying, but with one exception: if you follow you passion it is not work anymore. In a rare case you can find that fulfillment in being a modern slave.
But I am not, too. I am a broken creative mind, 47 years old ans cannot fit in in this world until now. I hope i will find my place one day in this lifetime.
this is a great point. at first glanse I want to sake that makes sense.
But remember, companies want passionated people to their companies.
passioned people work overtime, skip lunches, they get used the most.
So while I do agree that having a passion feels better, its important to not get used. Use your passion for your own business. you know what I mean?
@@TomScryleus We are on the same side here. I cannot find passion into being a wage-slave and do what others want ignoring what I need.
So I absolute understand what you mean! ^_^ but this are hard times to go your own way, because I got alone very fast and this is sickening. But I refuse to go back into Platon's cave.
I’ve had my “dream job” before and it still kinda sucks when you have to be someplace at a certain time, have to do it when you’re sick because you’re out of PTO, and bad co workers and unfair bosses and harassment, sexism, and ableism were all still present.
@@lexa_power So what you are saying is, you hadn't your dream job and you get offended easily?
Aren't both thing something you can change by find a work you like and on the other hand getting more resilient by acknowledging, that you cant change people, but you can change yourself?
I watched a documentary where the nomads in the Sahara desert worked about 4 hours a day to maintain their lifestyle, And that's the harshest environment imaginable. What are we doing wrong?
Giving control to others essentially
Inflation, captured governments.
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There’s Hard Work, and then there’s Smart Work. They know that most don’t know the difference, and that’s because we were taught or conditioned to not know that there is a difference. Just work hard and you’ll make it, right? No. Smart Work is efficient work, Smart Work is efficient work in the right direction. If you only learn how to work hard not smart, you’ll be working hard for the rest of your life!
Make this viral!
That would be something :)
I love you for this video. Women who says “housewife’s a job!” Ok so I’m doing 2 jobs… thank you. Anyway, I work double the time of an elder who did my same job, too. Because now with technology I can be more productive, and there is also no “cafeteria” anymore, I have to bring my food from home and I have 15 minutes to consume it. People wake up! We should not doing anything other than wake up and demand all together to work less! We don’t need all this stuff. Thanks for reading.