The Long Rise (And Rapid Fall) of the 9-5 Job
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
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The future of work is about to change. At least, for some people.
Over the last few decades, the 9-to-5 has been ridiculed for its dehumanising aspects thanks
to the iconography of cubicles, employee of the month portraits and office life. [1]
The image is now better nowadays, even with open plan offices and free Foosball tables!
That’s why for some, the 40-hour work week is a false reality, manufactured by exploitative
industries who base their reasoning on a society which no longer exists.
For others, it’s a sign of stability and prosperity which we should be thankful for now that
technology has become a great equaliser.
But whether you think the gig economy [2] will usher in financial utopia or economic
catastrophe, there’s one thing we can agree on: the 9-to-5 is a culmination of humankind’s
fusion with politics, economics and labour.
If you don’t know where it came from, you won’t know where the labour market is going.
So it's time to learn How History Works.
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company-town-comparisons-buying-houses-employees-neighborhood
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Will there be a series on how power work?
we will have 9 to 5 for decades to come, it would not be te case under normal circumstances, but due to declining birth rates... we will be forced to continue to work 5 days a week, where if we had the birth rates kinda close to 2.0 I think we would have a general 4 day work week by now
Hey man, I think you stole this from How Money Works
I was thinking the exact same thing.
I just looked at the video being unloaded nine hours ago and knowing I've only been sleeping and then at work since and I remember seeing a video about 9-5 jobs and I was very confused and wondering if my memory was failing me and it only made sense after reading your comment
I would call it the part B, the historical approach
We are going to let them have this one
Joker much? 😂
That's the craziest 'fuck you sheep' sponsor in history
No one talks about how the managers that are useless and thrived in the office are the ones that need to return to it because without it they realize they're terminal.
The Soylent ad had a very dystopian feel to it. Kinda like big meat will be the only thing I can afford in the future
It isn't really 'not meat' is it?
But isn't it expensive? At least here we're i live it's not the cheapest option by far
Big meat is free if you go on Grindr. Hope this helps ☺️
Can’t wait for the green flavor
@@erikphillips7106I understood that reference.
um, you do realize soylent green is people?
I had to search up this reference
@@HowHistoryWorksreally? I thought cultural osmosis would have made everyone know this. With all the parodies and everything. Weird.
I've found that only my older colleagues know the reference at this point. It does make it so I don't have to explain soylent to one group but have to for the other lol
I’m surprised a real company actually named their product Soylent
@@bassman9261995 it was meant to make people ask and talk about it. Seems to have worked lol
And they don't specify which soylent. It doesn't have to been green. Could be red.
The Soylent brand even has a green flavor. Why!?!?!?!
LOL
Come on. Soylent … really man 😅
He thinks we are soy boys
@@batman1776 well if you're anything like me
I hear the green one is particularly good.
It's made of PEOPLE!!!
@@potmej1 Shit... I knew somebody had already beat me to it. My hat's off to you.
I think we're headed to something that's a mix of medieval and post industrial where many people are mainly engaged in supporting their local community: farming, crafting and care industies. The rest will mostly work in the digital realm. And I think it's the effects of climate change that will be the driving force second to health concerns.
Climate change is FAKE!!
The future I see is this if you need a job you can go online and partner with other people that compliment your skills and start a business. More flexibility but at the same time more risk
Since the 70s I've predicted an eventual return to the pre- industrial "cottage industry", work from home model. Its much less stressful just producing and not having to deal with co workers. 😅
paying an hourly wage in a modern era feels like slavery with poor, if not the opposite of incentive to do more in an hour, creates a terrible environment where workers drag things out and waste their time for value, seems like not only a conflict of interest but demoralizing and trapping
Not if your getting paid hourly to work from the house then it’s pretty damn awesome…. I mean I wouldn’t know because I’m always working hard…….
Soylent Green??🤣
Oh yes I love Soylent, my most favourite one is the Soylent Green
I heard it's people. Probably some conspiracy. 😊
I am currently working on my master's in counseling, but I also still need to make money to support my wife and kid. My 9-to-5 allows me a stable paycheck, benefits, and I get to keep work at work. So is it the most ideal or productive job method? No, but it serves my purposes for now. Btw, The Age of Empires clips were great. Big fan of the AOE
I'm in a similar mind here. I have a really nice 9 to 5 currently. It pays well, work gets off at 5, and when I'm home I'm home. Many people are naturally drawn to routines, and for these people the regularity of a 9 to 5 is a good thing. Btw I also really like AoE, great game.
Soylent Green is people!
Yanis Varoufakis often says we're post-capitalism right now and refers to our current system as Technofeudalism. What are your thoughts on this?
great video! about the success of 4 days week, T-systems has just reverted it
Soylent Green much? Really?
You gotta tell em! Soylent Green is made out of...
I had to google "Soylent Green"... looks like i have a movie to watch
@@HowHistoryWorkswatch the movie then right after watch the SNL parody of it
Ya I just can't believe someone would name their product soylent given this, haha - Soylent Green is a fictional food product from the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green. In the movie, Soylent Green is a processed protein ration made from human remains that is distributed to an unsuspecting populace. The film portrays Soylent Green as bland and unappetizing, with characters consuming it more out of necessity than enjoyment
Only at the end of the video did I realise this was not How Money Works
You had me at Age of Empires III gameplay footage
Productivity increased when people started to work from home. What happened was low and middle management saw their jobs where not relevant and could see the writing on the wall that they could be fired. They where the ones who where forcing people to return to the office and to help them they would blow smoke up the ass of upper management when questioned.
"I've been using Soylent for a few weeks now" yea, i can tell
He thought there was really a covid pandemic lol. It was all government restrictions.
They want people back in the office to justify those rents and office leases
Selling a nutrition product named “Soylent” is pretty hilarious. … someone didn’t watch “Soylent Green”
I used to work from 11am to 1am delivering food my man. 9-5 puft.
I'm a cabinet maker. I think work is easier but it's not environmentally sustainable.
People have been going at this bullshit for a time now. "The 9 to 5 is dead, gig economy, yaddy yadda". That's not gonna happen. While the job market will diversify and offer other form of contract and workload because some type of work are very much adapted to it and said job are likely to all slowly go into self employement territory (What's the difference between gig economy and being self employed exactly by the way ?).
The 9 to 5 is a mix of two thing, it's a period of availability where you're expected to be reachable, and to be able to handle things, and to maximise your productivity there is also a certain amount of recurrent workload you're expected to do. And for the very many job around, it's just how it work and how it'll keep working
We are regressing to a feudal like system but instead of lords, dukes and kings we have megacoorporations 🤔😵💫
Ploughing would be done in the Autumn. It was very important to let the frost break up the clods. No power harrows etc back then.
I swear i just saw this video
Government restrictions.* Not a covid "pandemic".
So no remote work?
I've been using Soylent since they came out. I swear by it. As a person with multiple neurodivergent conditions, sometimes it's the only way I eat.
One of the main reasons that I'd day working from home is a bad idea is the lack of social interaction. Imagine your single with no kids and move somewhere new for work. You know no one in the area, but that's OK you'll meet people at work and make new friends. Wait everyone works from home, so now you have incredibly short and limited social interactions and are unable to make friends at work. Hello massive spike in depression and suicide rates! You know just like during covid for all those people who lived by themselves and were furloughed.
I'd rather interact with no one than with my coworkers
@@Sarayne13For how long though
That sounds like a blessing. I do not want to mix real life with work. Work is for getting data, analyzing data. What social interaction exists should be mentoring new people on tools, collaborating on projects and reviewing others' results to help them succeed. Real life is for socializing.
@@Sarayne13 I hear that. Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of job.
Capping off a decades long labor struggle that resulted in blood, violence, and death as “Henry Ford decides to have a heart” is pretty wild. The 9 to 5 is not a Grinch stole Christmas fairy tale. People paid with their lives for a weekend and 40 hours
I wish soylent is available in the Philippines 😂
All we have is Herbalife 😂
9-5 does not make any sense any more... 4 day work week would be better for productivity and mental health. Hopefully we can have it soon
The 9-5 seems so american to me. I used to work 6-14.00, now it's 7- 15.30
Shorter work weeks wouldn't work for everyone equally, though. In manufacturing, where you are limited by how long you can run a machine means more hours = more work done. Skilled labour is hard to find, at least in some places, so the people currently doing the work wouldn't even be possible to replace if someone wanted to run shifts. But one might hope... I worked 3-day weeks with full pay during the first summer of covid. It was great. Maybe someday again...
By your logic Ford shouldn't have gotten increased effeciency by cutting hours
@@tomlxyz working longer means you get tiered which means you make more mistakes, if you have 2 people working 2 shifts you have 16h a day if you have only one person it is 8h a day. If you can't find workers you will have them work for longer to make up the difference, or charge insane amounts if market allows for it.
@@tomlxyz That's not what happened and that's not what I said. I'm a cnc programmer / operator. At my workplace we're not overworked. Things we machine take between 10mins to 2 hours. A single operator can usually comfortably run two machines. Productivity is pretty much linked to how much a machine runs. During most of the work hours the job is to replace material inside the machine so that it can run. The bottleneck in such production is not usually the worker, but the speed of the machine itself. If we're talking about something that's dependant on the speed of the workers then sure, fewer working hours might still give the same total productivity as people would work faster. But in today's modern factories workers / operators are more of a support for the machines and something like 90% of the productivity depends on the machine and it's setup, capabilities etc. Not always, but usually. So, reducing the work week from 5 days to 4 days would realistically reduce the capacity from 100% to something like 85%, if not less. If it's a 5 day work week, but shorter (like 6 hours a day) then it's even worse - some time at the beginning / end of the day may be used for setup / preparation / cleaning which is a fixed amount of time and would in effect become a bigger % of the shorter work day and reduce the capacity more. In short - the factory of today is not the same as it was in Ford's days and the way work is done is not the same as well and the effect wouldn't be anywhere near as positive, if at all. The amount of work an office drone does is harder to quantify, when in most manufacturing it is a very known amount of units / hr (or day,. or week) a machine makes, so finding efficiencies there is a whole different thing.
“Un-nutritious breakfast” that boy reaching for that sponsor😂😂😂you must be eating dog food or sum
lol you can now actually get Soylent green!!
By all accounts, Eminem worked his rap career as a 9 to 5. Working a 9 to 5 job can’t be too bad then.
It's people!
Nothing beats Soylent green in the morning 😂
3:39 What's this game
I spent my share of time on the 9-5, it was never meant for me. I will never return to anyone’s office.
You forgot argentina and Japan, as Japan is the next argentina, China is the next Japan, and Vietnam is the next China.
What if all the countries who got their capital from the colonial loot, will run out of money ?
2:51 sounds like me when I play stardew valley
Video been out 12 mins and already has 18 likes lol
I want soylent green, can I get some?
Soylent green is all about people.
Soylent is people
The 9-5 is for people who can't self-manage. I've been building a game studio business for the past few years, and my work schedule is very different from 9-5. It's more project-based. I set a goal to release a game or an update for a game, and I basically don't stop working until it's out. Then I take a break.
Since I own my business, I reap the rewards when my work succeeds. I don't get paid unless I put more work out, so my work is schedule is entirely built around the idea of motivating myself to release more and stuff. No breaks until something comes out.
9-5 sounds much better than this mate
@@rastovicfilip I tried it for a decade and it made me very unhappy. I'm much happier now.
I already drink a fairly large amount of Soylent, and despite the association with Soylent green it is kinda cool seeing an advertisement for it.
May god let me in your video editing team, Am a good editor though😅! Haha....
You seem to reply to everyone then...... WHERE'S MY REPLYYYYYY......... YOU LITTLE.....
What? The only way to get work done was to stay at home during COVID? Lol some of us never got a single day off during COVID and worked the entire time like normal.
Um...do you know what Soylent is made from???
I'm old enough to not be able to buy that!! Lol
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!
I love soylent! When my executive functions are spazing out (adhd) its a quick meal that requires no thinking
Yet another video without any conclusions and takeaways.
Juat a brief history excursion with auto picked footage
I work 6a to 4p. Working 9-5 ain't shit imo
Why would u call a company, soylent! 😂
(13:07) I bet introverts will disagree with this.
Peasants were 90% of the Egyptian population, the other 10% were the elite, priests, ECT.
Of which in modern times the peasants will be competing with machines
If 9-5 is dead, would the new standard be 996?
Maybe Ford wasn't so loony after all 🤔
Classic Soylent should be *green.* I cannot understand how they got this wrong...
Put your theories in the comments below, I'll pick my favorite in the next episode, of Morty.
Which ever way it goes, politics is where you get the most
Soylent green is people.. we were warned
"Soylent Green is people!!!"
2:39 their off season came with the threat of death 😂
I don't like the sounds of that add sponsor, let's just hope soylent doesn't come out with a green variety.
Man I have so much I want to say, so let's begin. Firstly I work 50 to 60 hours a week, 10 hour day starting at 6:30 and ending at 5. But I also have a hour commute each way. However I am not complaining, I do not work in an office and love my job. For the commute I have a company vehicle that they also pay for the fuel. I am also very well compensated for my time, and all over time is double time. My job is also one of importance, so when I go to work I feel like I am actually doing something that matters. Another cool thing is my job is seasonal, so I also get half the year off, but trust me I end up making plenty to cover this. You mentioned that now intellectual and creative jobs are in danger, good, these jobs have been over hyped and encouraged for the past 50 years. The job market is a balance, when you mess that up then it right itself threw market demands chain effects in opposing industries. I honestly have more to say but RUclips comments is not the place.
This dudes advertising Soylent 😂😂😂😂😂
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Mmmmm SOYLENT......
It sucks we can’t evolve our society past economic production. I hope AI helps make a dent in that. Company towns are a regression to feudal society with the difference they revolve around economic production. It is very to confute that economic production is the new hidden religion.
Kids need to go back to work. 14 years old and older.
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Comment for algo
Soylent? Really? Is it green? Is is people?
I don’t deal with anything “Soy.” Thank you, but “No.” 😂
We are not on the cusp of financial freedom, and the 9-5 is not here to stay! We're all on the verge of homelessness and mass starvation! 😂
Who is we?
@@aaronkimaru2070We, as in all of us, all humans who are not already rich. 😅
This video has an awful sponsor
nah man I can´t believe this guy drink soylent
unsubscribing immediately
20% of employees do 80% of work, work long hours, get results and grow. 80% of employees complain and then create or like these videos and sulk...
Or they put random comments down complaining. Damned 80%ers
What a loser