Something else you might want to mention... Back in the early-middle parts of the last century, futurists were saying that if the trajectory of tech was going to be followed, people in the workforce TODAY would be working only about 2-3 hours per day with the same amount of purchasing power as someone working full time at that time. Well guess what? Managerial assholes realized this and instead of allowing workers to prosper from their labor and reward the ingenuity that came with advancing tech, they STOLE all of that extra capacity and wealth for themselves. We're not just screwed by how many hours we work, but also screwed by how much of our lives they knowingly and willingly steal from us every day by not allowing tech to work for us. By all means, please look it up if you don't believe me.
That's because the futurists of 100 years ago didn't realize that the technology would constantly need to be monitored and maintained. Robots and machines break down, glitch, blow a fuse/gasket, etc all the time, and obviously they're not going to fix themselves. There would also be lots of cyberfraud if all desk jobs were given to bots.
In America you live to work. Even if you have a good job you are still a slave. I’m self employed as a pet sitter and dog groomer and it’s awesome. However if I worked for other dog grooming companies they want you working 12 hours a day. What’s the point of working if I never have time to enjoy the fruits of my labor. That’s the reason the birthrate is at record lows. You don’t have the time to meet someone. As a guy we move out of our parents houses so we can bring girls over. You won’t even have the time to date because you are working 60 to 80 hours a week to cover rent.
As the population drops (and it will, even illegal immigrants don't want to deal with other illegals), wealth will either funnel back down or companies will collapse due to lack of customers and workers. AI will speed up this process.
@@darriusgivans6570 I'm unemployed in my parent's basement and I have a better life than most guys I know in their 20's - 40's with full-time jobs. They literally just have enough to drive an old car, rent a room in a shoddy old house and party like college students on the weekend. None of them ever get laid or have girlfriends because they're average. They're just serfs serving the system but getting crumbs out of it. We're done, society has removed all the incentives for men to do anything. You can't expect every guy to be top 10%.
If you want to get ahead you have to be willing to sacrifice and praise Lucifer and the evil Anu-Elohim who rule this prison planet under the Orion Empires Draconian Control or wait until Christ consciousness returns in 6 months and ascend.
@leedutch5155 People would stop working for the owners if they became wealthy as well. They would become competition. They must be kept in survival mode, desperate enough to work, not for themselves, but for the owner.
The thing is working a 9 to 5 would be tolerable if... It actually WAS a 9 to 5 and not 8am to 6pm and the 9 to 5 actually PAID enough to live a decent life. The problem isn't necessarily the 9 to 5 itself. It's that it's not worth it for one. and it's not a 9 to 5, it's a 8 to 6 when you factor in things like commute time, and over time.
The situation has become so bad with imever increasing living costs, when we work it barely covers our living costs. The inevitable financial collapse will no doubt make it worse.
As I understand it, those long meal breaks are still in effect in many places in Europe. A friend of mine told me any meal is a minimum of about an hour or so long, and most are much longer than that (southern Europeans seem to design life around their food).
yeah because other countries respect their people, America is not a nation it is a federal corporation by law. It has no obligation to "We the People" except to use us all as slaves which is also legal under the 13th amendment.
I would kill to relocate to a European country with much better labor laws/ worker protections. too bad we can never seem to get close to that in the US, with trump taking the helm we are gonna see it get much worse in this regard.
Just to play devil's advocate for a minute here, in the times when farmers only had enough crops and animals to require a few hours of work, starvation in the winter and dying of malnutrition were common occurances, weren't they? Now, it could be argued that with industry and a larger population, the work can be spread out so everyone is all set. But unfortunately, that's not the world that was decided on. Consumerism won, and we're all fighting to have a right to exist in a universe where our lives have a price tag attatched.
Millions of people around the world still die of starvation today which proves how big of a joke society is given that we made all this technological advancement just to let people starve anyways. Yes consumerism won but that doesn't mean history ends there. The younger generation has clearly seen through all it's BS and is fighting back against it. I have faith they'll change the world. But only time will tell.
@thephilosophicalgamerfr I fear it might not be us Gen Z that finally pushes this boulder over the hill. We no doubt will be the founding fathers of this consciousness shift but our generation still has its fair share that have bought into the system, and they will undoubtedly push this life on their kids. I believe it might not be until Gen Beta becomes of age before the real change begins
Marx thought that the increase in labour saving production would lead to people working less hours and having an interest in art culture etc...instead we seem utterly unsatisfied with our lot so we are always wanting bigger better faster and working even more hours chasing perpetual growth or something a little intangible
6:06 - so yeah, the gist of it is - during planting and harvest, a medieval peasant would have worked a few hours harder than someone working a 9-5 that's actually a 9-5 with a less-than-15-minute commute each way (because originally, 9-5 included a lunch break, and medieval peasants worked 6, not 5 hours per week). But off season it would just be a few hours a day maintaining the crops. And nowadays 9-5's where lunch breaks are not included in the regular 8 hours any more and overtime and commutes now take a lot longer, it's true that we work more hours than medieval peasants. I mean, today's workers get an air conditioned building and less physically demanding labor, but one has to ask, is it worth it? Being at a computer all day means you need glasses. Not to mention, the stress of the job.
It’s not like physical labor doesn’t exist anymore today either. Especially now Gen Z is getting pushed into the trades since the white collar job market is so fucked
Most modern construction jobs are brutal on the body probably harder then being a peasant farmer. I’ve worked as a bin man before and a single wheelie bin can weigh up to 400lbs and you have to drug two of them at once
@ I think the average height of a medieval peasant was like 5'4" or something so yeah they would have been absolutely crushed if they had to do modern physical labor. Technology should have made work easier but it just made it harder.
Given the technology we have today, it’s absurd that we’re still expected to work 8 hours a day. Many of us know from experience that certain tasks can easily be completed in just 4 hours. The rest of the day often feels like we’re just trying to fill the time with coffee as our go-to distraction.
I do that’s a huge portion of your life. I’m 36 I chose to live at home and work on my business while I actually enjoy my life. I have a girlfriend as well and work always got in the way of us spending time together. Why am I working so much and have no time to actually do the things I want
@@darriusgivans6570 Facts. I just got a part-time office job, hoping to turn that into a remote job someday. I spend the rest of my time with family/friends and my hobbies.
@@darriusgivans6570 exactly, we want to work smarter not harder... 9-12 hours a day is way to hard and long, we are not robots or slaves. We are expressions of Christ made manifest in material form. we are NOT WAGE SLAVES!
I was born in 91 served 5 years in the Marines 2014-19, family have stabbed me in the back multiple times. Work places are shit they all pay nothing and treat everyone likes toddlers, have to walk on ice/eggshells just to avoid HR/write ups/firings. I've checked out of working for others and corporations screw them all. It sucks being broke now but it sucked more being a wage slave. Having honorably served and having had a top secret/SCI clearance means nothing in today's America. Find something that is yours that can help generate an income even if just enough to put food on the table.
Millenial here. I took a break (a year) after working 0.5 year abroad. When i got back to my country everything went to shit. i lost all hope, all drive, and became depressed.
Especially with the ghost jobs. I literally drove to a interview that was not there that the system set me up with lol so I'm sticking with door dash fuck it
Even with early factories of the 16th century, the Portuguese Indian colonies account colonists working 4 to 6 hours a day and having a siesta at noon because it is too hot midday.
I started working at 15 and I earned $5.25 an hour. It sucked. I joined the military at 18 and I earned $1,095 a month and it sucked. At 32 I finished college and got a job earning 71k annually and it sucked because the grants dried up and I got let go. At 35 I got an MBA and started another job earning 73.5k and it sucked because I was over educated and underpaid. Now… 35 years after working every day from when I was 15 I earn a lot of money, and I’m okay. I’ve never forgotten the suck, and I’m grateful that I chose to grind it out. Life isn’t going to instantly gratify you and pay you boat loads of money “just because.” It’s completely normal to work… it’s part of the game.
I like the voice reveal, more passionate and real. I'm millennial (33) and I lived my life as a substance abuser (no regrets) with an above average wage my whole working life. I'm now the equivalent of a Gen Z with regards to prospective house ownership and all of the life goals that progress from there because most my money went up my nose and drank. I quit my job about a year ago and just chilling on benefits now at my dads; reading, doing art all over the walls in my room, 6 hours a day screen time (long-form media, not that I'm judging) and going to get back into gym/healthy eating again. I'm a doomer and don't think we have long left so I'm not fussed about long-term goals but I still appreciate the importance of staying in good shape and learning stuff I'm interested in without having to worry about it making me a living. I have no shame living with a parent either. I enjoy hobbies that don't cost money and at this age I don't feel like I need to impress anyone (a very real pressure in teens/early 20s). I just wish there were more 3rd places, my only ones are leisure centres where I play squash a few times a month and it's mainly older people that play that so I don't make actual friends and my dad doesn't live where my actual friends from growing up are so I'm pretty isolated. I still get gas-lit but I tell them my life when I was working was pretty much the same as it is now, but I had more money to do more damage to myself because all I spent my extra money on was substances and usually did them by myself (sad I know.)
I am a millennial in my 30s in Canada. I just see a 9-5 as a mean to fund my crypto adventure. Realistically the 9-5 path will only lead to homelessness in middle age. Yes, I know tons of middle age unemployed people including dudes eventually have to work the street corner
Work to live, never live to work. I set my own hours, work the gig apps, and it helps me get my bills paid. I only work when I have to, and don’t have to take things too seriously. I love doing showbiz, but those gigs aren’t as plentiful as they were for me years ago.
Just wanna add something.. The 9 to 5 originated during the Industrial Revolution and was designed with the cultural norms of that time in mind. The typical household then: one person -usually the father would work 8 hrs a day, while another person -typically the mother would manage the house. The father's income alone was enough to support the entire family. Today, it's different. Most people are single and expected to work 8 hours a day and still have to come home to handle housework, effectively taking on both roles. Even if you're making ends meet, this lifestyle isn't what the 9-to-5 was originally designed for. It was meant to work within a partnership, with one person working and the other focusing on homebuilding. Now with the rising cost of living and stagnant wages, even in a relationship, both need to work just to make ends meet.😪
9:50 - Indeed. I've been to a talk by theoretical computer scientist Peter Shor, one of the leaders in his field. And according to him, in his line of work you can only do 5 hours per day actually solving math and theoretical computer science problems. So to get up to 8 hours a day, he schedules in things like typing in code, meetings, organizing the office, and other work that doesn't need much thinking. So potentially a shorter work schedule could be done by trimming off useless stuff.
Work wouldnt even be as rough as it is either if it wasnt for toxic people, and half of them dont speak english and their only goal is to make you quit or complain about you 24/7. If that wasnt the case, i would actually enjoy work
The real problem was that in the 1950s a single income could sustain a household. So one person could work and pay for three or more people.. that simply isn’t the case today.
So if we didn’t sleep, we would gain an extra 8 hours of life each day. 😂 Sleep is pretty weird when you think about it. Like being awake is so damaging to our brains, that it takes 8 hours to repair…
In most places where you're employed on an eight hour contract you can get all the work done in much less time but for some reason you have to be there for the full eight even if you're not doing much, paying a days wage for getting the work done that would be much better.
Its crazy I got situation when I was called a lazy, because I refusing work more than 8 working hours.... I adopted frugally lifestyle its the way to go for me :)
Yup, I'm for sure not gonna work again if I can't enjoy my life while working. I got enough to get by now, and if it won't be enough, I will not go back to wasting my time to make someone else insanely rich on my expense. I don't enjoy my life ever since I started normal work and that work destroyed me and my health. Never again!
Working a 9 to 5 sucks and being unemployed for a long time also sucks. Part time is better but still sucks. You have to choose how you want to suffer in this life…
This life? Which life have you lived in? Have you lived in Ghaddafi’s Libya? Have you lived in Qatar or any other country that uses its citizens wealth for anything other than throwing it exclusively at the rich 24/7?
@@kevinrowland5753 There are Socialist countries (go ahead and cry) that have had 0%interest bank loans, gives every couple 50,000$ on birth of their first child, had gas prices at just 14¢/liter AND had generous unemployment benefits and paid vacations. That country was Libya, 🇱🇾 Libya is in Africa. Why can’t we do those things here? That’s my argument..
i think life sucks because of human influence a lot of the time, from jobs to taxes to politics. when people care about each other and appreciate nature its all pretty damn sweet
Just checked the pension age here in the Netherlands. Filled in that I was born in 1997. Website tells me I can expect my pension at 69 years old and 9 months (assuming I have not died by then 😂)
There are two groups of people that say things like: “life is hard, then you die.” The first are the people who benefit from life being hard and want it to continue, and the second are bitter boomers who had hard lives and can only cope with their unhappiness by deluding themselves into thinking it had to be that way. Neither group is worthy of respect, nor should they be listened too.
I work 7 days a week. I love what I do, but I’d love to be able to pull back and make better money working less hours. I miss spending my time at the beach and riding my bike. I don’t do any of that anymore
I think it's wise to separate "Work" from "Employment". All employment is work, but not all work is employment. The notion that work solely means employment gives the exploiters a reason to suggest that every activity outside of a job is not work, and therefore is "doing nothing". This is where the accusations of being lazy start to come in when people see how unfair the employment system actually is, and speak against it. Work is everywhere. Art is work. Illness is work. Mowing your lawn is work. Being a parent is work. Some jobs are demonstrably not even real work. They exist without purpose or production just to keep someone occupied. People don't need jobs to give them purpose. Gen Z have wisely realised that, so in come the pile-ons of being lazy and entitled from boomers and bosses to try and shame them into taking low paid time-wasters and kill any creativity they might have.
Its the money dependencies. And the materialism addiction. Also the food thing with fundamentals not being good enough. The way out, is by avoiding things with fees, and going retro to what worked for thousands of years.. As a kid in Europe still saw Gypsy wagons pulled by horses. If you dont have a job you dont need a car. You have time to use horses... No fees and licenses on horses, no insurance. Not even on cart or wagon. All you need is a slow moving vehicle sign, the 3 cornered orange one. Food is similar... basic staples... I just made a couple gallons of split pea soup for $3.00.... Will be eating it with corn bread which is maybe $2.50 for seven pounds... And you can grow dry peas and Indian corn, and get the same meals for free.. Basically the price of the salt and oil. Same on clothes... I have a sewing machine, costs me $10.00 in cloth for pants or shirt... If I was in US could buy Home Depot painters tarps for the cloth way cheaper and Rit dye it. Normalcy is almost invariably a mistake... Dont buy stuff you use, buy tools to produce what you use. I just bought two heavy nylon ratchet tie down straps for $26 each. two inch wide strap, also have 1.5 inch versions, at $14.00 each, basically got material for horse harnesses at less than $40.00 per harness. I got 1000 meters of 80 lb test Spectra fishing line for $33.00 to hand sew the harnesses... I'll be buying brass rings etc. but maybe have $50.00 into each harness... I already made one harness out of truck straps I got for free on the side of freeways... These new harnesses will be a pretty blue... 😊 On horse drawn farming equipment, have a plow from a walking tractor, and thinking of buying cultivator shares and making a mini 3 bottom for doing beds... Wheat produces 2.5 tons to the acre... means a back yard is bread every day. I can grow enough food with one horse to feed a village. In fact, that was the division between Nobility and Serfs; "The ability to feed a horse." Y'all are in the wrong century.... You should fix that, this one sucks... Much of rural America is being abandoned. Not long until its rewilding... people who had horse tech could do fine there. The problem is no jobs, but the land is often fertile. 2.4 acres intensively subsisistence farmed will feed a dozen people. Maybe a bit of organic agriculture education between video games might get you some where. Say used books by Rodale Press out of the 1970's and 1980's. Check it out....
The guy you were talking about in minute three went to dr. phil. I believe that he couldn't get all of his good points out in time due to dr.phil being an idiot, and of course he is one of those celebrities that promote these harmful corporate cultures.
Because Dr. Phil became a success in the system his ego won't allow him to admit it's broken. We're constantly fed "X person became rich and famous so America is the land of opportunity!" But statistically that's a fraction of a percent of most citizens. It's like saying "one guy won the jackpot at the casino so the casino is great for everyone!"
At least for the boomers (and those that came before them) they actually could afford to live on the lowest paying jobs, unlike today. Having a good work ethic made since when anybody who worked could afford the basics of life such as owning their own home, having their own vehicle, and a stay at home wife, and a family.
Back during rampant European colonialism, the British particularly loved to accuse the peoples whom they conquered of being lazy. That wasn't true at all: the natives are very hardworking, and coupled that with generational intelligence to do what works for them based on the environments they were in. They're grateful for what they have and weren't greedy for more, unlike the colonizers. It all goes back to the Industrial Revolution and enriching the European bourgeoisie.
To say that HC video is wrong is like saying you are not financially struggling because food prices are low while entirely ommiting taxes, utilities, and rent. The sources it draws on are all very dated and were considered terrible when they came out for measuring only certain activities and not labor as a whole (eg one only working for food directly, and not all of the auxiliary tasks to it), assuming homogenization across Europe during the Middle Ages (many of the standards were particular to subsets of urban England).
I mean sources are supposed to be dated given that we're talking about events that happened 1000 years ago right? If you want to challenge his sources you can but the burden of proof is on you then to prove that he and all his sources are wrong. As far as I can see you're attacking his sources and saying he's wrong but you're not providing any sources or anything to back up the claims you're making either.
@thephilosophicalgamerfr And, no, historical sources (and most of them were anthropology, not history) exceeding 10 years are generally considered somewhat dubious (especially in fields like the Middle Ages which are undergoing relatively rapid development with new texts and archeology being found and translated), and that video's sources were *far* past that.
@ The main thing that pops up is a reddit post which is hardly a reliable source itself. And they give a dumb criticism which has already been debunked which is that medieval peasants still had to work outside of their work for a boss. Problem is people today also have to do housework, drive to work, work 2-3 jobs outside of their main job too so the same thing applies today.
@ If you want to claim that you can but you haven't provided any sources to prove him wrong either other than a reddit post which I'm sorry is NOT a source.
Work in of itself isnt a bad thing or its not supposed to be. Its what they have turned work culture into in america. They have done everything they can to make it as miserable as possible. Its supposed to pay you enough to have a decent standard of life plus medical and dental benefits for your family and retirement pensions. They are also supposed to treat you with decency and respect and not crap on u and not narcissistically abuse u. Also they could make a 3 or 4 day workweek instead of 6 and 7 for some people. Work /life balance and mental health would be much better. Instead of that they go out of their way to make your work experience as hellish and insufferable as possible. Its sick and sadistic what they do. I would venture to say upwards of 70 percent of the problems we have are manufactured by the aholes at the top. Some people like working and lots dont but dont let them make u feel bad for not liking it. Always remember u never asked for or consented to being born so if u are lazy SO WHAT!
It's like kidnapping someone against their will without their consent and throwing them in an MMA ring to fight a UFC fighter then calling them lazy cuz they don't wanna fight! 😂😂😂
I have no idea what Gen Z is doing honestly XD I work 40 hours a week and get by and then some, I live alone by the way, just bought a property which will allow me to get by even better.
Owning a route is awesome. It is possible to buy Martin's ,Snyder, bimbo, little Debbie,or other route. Money is not necessary, but good credit is important.
10:33 no, it's not just a cultural and mental issue. It's a financial issue too. Caused by what? Caused by economic woes. Who causes economic woes? The governments of the world. In particular centralized banking, fiat money, and the feds. The unsustainable credit expansion is the main cause of our economic woes.
Wages i my country suck Been eyeballing a remote part Time job that pays 6 dollars per hour meaning i could work minimal 5 hours and Max whatever Im getting paíd 3.5 dollars per hour on a "formal" 8 to 4;30 I dont know Im scared to take the junp But my mind Is stuck on that
I'll disagree _very_ slightly. A 9-5 is not necessarily the worst kind of job to work, but I do grant that the worst jobs tend to be them. However, my dream job was a 9-5, but it wasn't because I owned a business, rather that I was doing exactly what I studied and trained for, and I loved the work and who I got to work with. That job was as a microbiologist for my home state's health department. I was one of the people in the big lab who tested medical specimens for infectious diseases. Working for the government, getting quite possibly the best wage you could ever get (without becoming one of the business criminals who put us in this economic hellscape), stellar benefits, and overtime actually being on the rare side, so I had a pretty decent work-life balance. Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, aside from having to commute into and out of the capital (where the lab was located, and traffic was never not terrible), it was... right up until I got axed because the department's budget got slashed, and I was "new enough" to not keep around. I tasted that ambrosia, and now I am forever poisoned. I cannot accept going back to what I did before there (and that included working two years for Amazon - I ultimately got off light on that front, but there were plenty of close calls for me). The jobs themselves are not necessarily the problem; they are just a symptom. It's who decided what we can get that are the problem.
You can have a good life and work, we just want adequate compensation and reasonable shifts. We could honestly make do with 6-8 hours for most jobs these days (I know some jobs like EMS and what not require longer hours so they should receive UNTAXED overtime after 44 hours/week) there should be a law in place that makes working over 12 hours illegal unless voluntary. The EU mandates all employers to give 4 weeks of PAID vacation per year to all workers. Asking for 5 unpaid days off in North America might as well be blasphemy cause our religion is hustlin 😎.
I sleep aprox 6 hours. As European I see Americans waking up to the fact you have life that a majority of the world had for majority of their history. That Boomer age. It's never coming back. Yeah that was one time Bonus. Sure you earn more but the costs of living are also far more expensive. It's kind of the path you chosen voting. In EU After 12+ years of work I get 26 day paid days off I have to use + 117 days counting weekend and other holydays.
Coins can exist without fancy computer networks and if the government backing the coins collapses then the coins can be melted down for their value in precious metals
This is our society though. You don’t have to work much if you’re ok living on the street, otherwise figure it out. Agriculture work is no joke and those people were growing their own food as well. Electricity, internet, gasoline, housing all cost $. It’s best to find work you enjoy rather than complain about how work sucks imo.
You know label me "boomer asshole" but I'm millenial. Just not from USA. You are kinda guilty of of giving historical context only in point where it fits narrative. Reality is that... there was no doordash, there was no washing machine, there was no freezer, most people didn't have central heating and had to make their own clothes. In most cases, sure humans didn't work for 8 hours on particular thing. Actually through most of our history, humans worked every waking hour, just never more than 2-3 hours on the same type of task. There was much more variety than now. And that is the main problem - for humans focusing on single thing for more than 4 hours at the time is very difficult. We shouldn't be doing same stuff for extended period of time. This problem came about not because of 9-5 shift, but due to progressing specialization of work we do. In ages past, a smith would doube as dentist, and do a lot of odd jobs, also prepping and sourcing his own materials, chopping wood, dealing with customers.... In modern system he would be closed off, everything prepped for him and told to forge stuff for straight 8 hours a day. People historically worked every waking hour, but they had far more variety. So I completely disagree with notion that people only worked 4 hours. Prior to invention of 9-5 there was no set limits, no guidelines, but for most of history work decided the place somebody had in society. It was fused with their identity they were the job they do basically. But very nature of that work was DIFFERENT. It was not specialized. It was very generalized. The soul crushing people experiance in work comes from how the work is, not how long it takes. It's a series of simple repetitive actions performed under stress and direct supervision. Same tasks, entire shift. Lack of variety is what is making jobs bad, efficiency guidelines are making jobs bad. We are not robots. Anyway I'm one of more lucky ones here since I'm a millenial working 9-5... but is remote work mostly and I'm not closely watched by company. I can do stuff. I can take time off mid day I can take days off if I don't feel like it. I'm judged based on end product not on time spent working. And if I can do something in 3 hours I can arrange rest of my day however I want. But I will remain technically available to them for 8 hours.
I’m sick of seeing this same argument over because in this dogshit economy people today have to work 24/7 too. After work you still have to commute, still have to be stuck in traffic, still have to answer BS phone calls from your boss, still have to have 2-3 second jobs/side hustles because todays wages are such dogshit one job isn’t enough anymore. This is why it only makes sense to count official hours on the clock towards working for your boss. If you start counting activities outside of official working hours as work it becomes a dumb subjective argument where anything and everything can be counted as work.
@@thephilosophicalgamerfr Well, it is dogshit because work is specialized, it's still robotic, it's still very intense. You can say that it would be subjective if you count other activities as work - but that's exactly how it work through history before industrial revolution. A person was working entire day, but doing a lot of stuff nowadays would not be considered work while at it. It was closer to how some freelancers work. They have equipment to do the job, they agree on when it needs to be done, they work on it as needed there is no beginning or end of shift. So to me historical argument for this is kinda missing the point. But the main problem is not even that, the main problem is that work is too cheap. 4 hour workday does nothing if you get 50% of already non-living wage. At the end of the day is all about $$$. I think people would be perfectly happy with 8 hour workday if what they got from it was livable, especially if workday itself was re-organized to shuffle around tasks every 2-3 hours, where possible. Or simply for job to be paid well enough and hours be flexible enough that working 3/4 of full time employment was sufficient.
news flash folks.that for the most part has always been this way.u wanna travel the world and spend all that money doing it instead of having any responsibility.how nice for u.
Wow the projection is strong with this one. This one is so lazy they can’t even spell YOU and type U. Who the hell wants to travel the world? You talk a load of nonsense.
@@shanehester5317 So now your grammar and spelling is correct. Haha. I agree that jobs are a mess and they create so many medical problems for people. But if you say that things have always been this way (bad and no life) then why be born? You think that’s an ethical thing to do?
Something else you might want to mention... Back in the early-middle parts of the last century, futurists were saying that if the trajectory of tech was going to be followed, people in the workforce TODAY would be working only about 2-3 hours per day with the same amount of purchasing power as someone working full time at that time. Well guess what? Managerial assholes realized this and instead of allowing workers to prosper from their labor and reward the ingenuity that came with advancing tech, they STOLE all of that extra capacity and wealth for themselves. We're not just screwed by how many hours we work, but also screwed by how much of our lives they knowingly and willingly steal from us every day by not allowing tech to work for us. By all means, please look it up if you don't believe me.
Yeah, most economists predicted a 10 hour workweek by this time.
Logical facts, I love it!
Yep. The Jetsons didn’t even have to walk across the room. The whole future was supposed to be machines doing everything.
That's because the futurists of 100 years ago didn't realize that the technology would constantly need to be monitored and maintained. Robots and machines break down, glitch, blow a fuse/gasket, etc all the time, and obviously they're not going to fix themselves. There would also be lots of cyberfraud if all desk jobs were given to bots.
And if you dare have a problem with it you're called lazy 💀
In America you live to work. Even if you have a good job you are still a slave. I’m self employed as a pet sitter and dog groomer and it’s awesome. However if I worked for other dog grooming companies they want you working 12 hours a day. What’s the point of working if I never have time to enjoy the fruits of my labor.
That’s the reason the birthrate is at record lows. You don’t have the time to meet someone. As a guy we move out of our parents houses so we can bring girls over. You won’t even have the time to date because you are working 60 to 80 hours a week to cover rent.
As the population drops (and it will, even illegal immigrants don't want to deal with other illegals), wealth will either funnel back down or companies will collapse due to lack of customers and workers.
AI will speed up this process.
Work based celibacy. A lot of people that work long hours have to take depression meds which can effect the sex drive
Of course you’re depressed. All your money is going to rent and you aren’t getting laid. A recipe for madness.
@@darriusgivans6570 I'm unemployed in my parent's basement and I have a better life than most guys I know in their 20's - 40's with full-time jobs. They literally just have enough to drive an old car, rent a room in a shoddy old house and party like college students on the weekend. None of them ever get laid or have girlfriends because they're average. They're just serfs serving the system but getting crumbs out of it. We're done, society has removed all the incentives for men to do anything. You can't expect every guy to be top 10%.
If you want to get ahead you have to be willing to sacrifice and praise Lucifer and the evil Anu-Elohim who rule this prison planet under the Orion Empires Draconian Control or wait until Christ consciousness returns in 6 months and ascend.
What is the point of working?: making the owners wealthy, growing the gdp.
Working certainly doesn’t make the average person wealthy
@leedutch5155 People would stop working for the owners if they became wealthy as well. They would become competition. They must be kept in survival mode, desperate enough to work, not for themselves, but for the owner.
We work so that we are able to work again tomorrow.
It’s an endless cycle.
Another reason people don't want kids.
"I'd rather die than work a 9 to 5"
Id rather live than work a 9 to 5
The thing is working a 9 to 5 would be tolerable if...
It actually WAS a 9 to 5 and not 8am to 6pm
and the 9 to 5 actually PAID enough to live a decent life.
The problem isn't necessarily the 9 to 5 itself. It's that it's not worth it for one. and it's not a 9 to 5, it's a 8 to 6 when you factor in things like commute time, and over time.
The situation has become so bad with imever increasing living costs, when we work it barely covers our living costs. The inevitable financial collapse will no doubt make it worse.
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It's not just Gen Z entirely, a few older generations are stuck with us as well.
Man, how hard you need to screw up as a boomer to be in the same position as young people today 😂
yep I know people in their 40s and 50s who are giving up on the grind
@@furiousdestroyah9999 Only half the boomers made good .
@@furiousdestroyah9999the thing is they never knew how good they had it
Whoever doesnt have a paid off house or a cheap, fixed mortgage is cooked.
Even if we like our jobs, even if our jobs overlap with our hobbies (like in my case), we're more than our jobs.
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As I understand it, those long meal breaks are still in effect in many places in Europe. A friend of mine told me any meal is a minimum of about an hour or so long, and most are much longer than that (southern Europeans seem to design life around their food).
yeah because other countries respect their people, America is not a nation it is a federal corporation by law. It has no obligation to "We the People" except to use us all as slaves which is also legal under the 13th amendment.
I would kill to relocate to a European country with much better labor laws/ worker protections. too bad we can never seem to get close to that in the US, with trump taking the helm we are gonna see it get much worse in this regard.
Just to play devil's advocate for a minute here, in the times when farmers only had enough crops and animals to require a few hours of work, starvation in the winter and dying of malnutrition were common occurances, weren't they? Now, it could be argued that with industry and a larger population, the work can be spread out so everyone is all set. But unfortunately, that's not the world that was decided on. Consumerism won, and we're all fighting to have a right to exist in a universe where our lives have a price tag attatched.
Millions of people around the world still die of starvation today which proves how big of a joke society is given that we made all this technological advancement just to let people starve anyways. Yes consumerism won but that doesn't mean history ends there. The younger generation has clearly seen through all it's BS and is fighting back against it. I have faith they'll change the world. But only time will tell.
@thephilosophicalgamerfr I fear it might not be us Gen Z that finally pushes this boulder over the hill. We no doubt will be the founding fathers of this consciousness shift but our generation still has its fair share that have bought into the system, and they will undoubtedly push this life on their kids. I believe it might not be until Gen Beta becomes of age before the real change begins
Marx thought that the increase in labour saving production would lead to people working less hours and having an interest in art culture etc...instead we seem utterly unsatisfied with our lot so we are always wanting bigger better faster and working even more hours chasing perpetual growth or something a little intangible
6:06 - so yeah, the gist of it is - during planting and harvest, a medieval peasant would have worked a few hours harder than someone working a 9-5 that's actually a 9-5 with a less-than-15-minute commute each way (because originally, 9-5 included a lunch break, and medieval peasants worked 6, not 5 hours per week). But off season it would just be a few hours a day maintaining the crops. And nowadays 9-5's where lunch breaks are not included in the regular 8 hours any more and overtime and commutes now take a lot longer, it's true that we work more hours than medieval peasants.
I mean, today's workers get an air conditioned building and less physically demanding labor, but one has to ask, is it worth it? Being at a computer all day means you need glasses. Not to mention, the stress of the job.
It’s not like physical labor doesn’t exist anymore today either. Especially now Gen Z is getting pushed into the trades since the white collar job market is so fucked
Most modern construction jobs are brutal on the body probably harder then being a peasant farmer. I’ve worked as a bin man before and a single wheelie bin can weigh up to 400lbs and you have to drug two of them at once
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@ I think the average height of a medieval peasant was like 5'4" or something so yeah they would have been absolutely crushed if they had to do modern physical labor. Technology should have made work easier but it just made it harder.
Given the technology we have today, it’s absurd that we’re still expected to work 8 hours a day. Many of us know from experience that certain tasks can easily be completed in just 4 hours. The rest of the day often feels like we’re just trying to fill the time with coffee as our go-to distraction.
Honestly, I don’t mind 8-12 hours of work, if it actually paid well. The juice has not been worth the squeeze.
I do that’s a huge portion of your life. I’m 36 I chose to live at home and work on my business while I actually enjoy my life. I have a girlfriend as well and work always got in the way of us spending time together. Why am I working so much and have no time to actually do the things I want
@@darriusgivans6570 Facts. I just got a part-time office job, hoping to turn that into a remote job someday. I spend the rest of my time with family/friends and my hobbies.
@@darriusgivans6570 exactly, we want to work smarter not harder... 9-12 hours a day is way to hard and long, we are not robots or slaves. We are expressions of Christ made manifest in material form. we are NOT WAGE SLAVES!
If you can get by working part time then by all means do it. @@abdul4515
I was born in 91 served 5 years in the Marines 2014-19, family have stabbed me in the back multiple times. Work places are shit they all pay nothing and treat everyone likes toddlers, have to walk on ice/eggshells just to avoid HR/write ups/firings. I've checked out of working for others and corporations screw them all. It sucks being broke now but it sucked more being a wage slave. Having honorably served and having had a top secret/SCI clearance means nothing in today's America. Find something that is yours that can help generate an income even if just enough to put food on the table.
Thanks for your service brother! So sorry you had to experience that. This is exactly why I keep making these vids.
America should automatically give a nice plot of land to anyone who serves just 3yrs in the military.
@@thephilosophicalgamerfr I appreciate that! Keep up the good videos hopefully it wakes up more people to the blight of our Corporate Economic system.
Freakin rah bro
I regret serving my country these days tbh. Right there with you man.
It's sick, I really want to take a break and I'm a millenial.
Millenial here. I took a break (a year) after working 0.5 year abroad. When i got back to my country everything went to shit. i lost all hope, all drive, and became depressed.
There are so many reasons why people work more now, but ultimately, it comes down to power and leverage. Employers have it all nowadays.
The "Boomers and Coroporate Chiils" slang never gets old 😂
I work 70+ hours every week and I'm ready to walk into the woods and never come back.
Especially with the ghost jobs. I literally drove to a interview that was not there that the system set me up with lol so I'm sticking with door dash fuck it
Even with early factories of the 16th century, the Portuguese Indian colonies account colonists working 4 to 6 hours a day and having a siesta at noon because it is too hot midday.
I started working at 15 and I earned $5.25 an hour. It sucked. I joined the military at 18 and I earned $1,095 a month and it sucked. At 32 I finished college and got a job earning 71k annually and it sucked because the grants dried up and I got let go. At 35 I got an MBA and started another job earning 73.5k and it sucked because I was over educated and underpaid.
Now… 35 years after working every day from when I was 15 I earn a lot of money, and I’m okay.
I’ve never forgotten the suck, and I’m grateful that I chose to grind it out. Life isn’t going to instantly gratify you and pay you boat loads of money “just because.” It’s completely normal to work… it’s part of the game.
I like the voice reveal, more passionate and real.
I'm millennial (33) and I lived my life as a substance abuser (no regrets) with an above average wage my whole working life. I'm now the equivalent of a Gen Z with regards to prospective house ownership and all of the life goals that progress from there because most my money went up my nose and drank. I quit my job about a year ago and just chilling on benefits now at my dads; reading, doing art all over the walls in my room, 6 hours a day screen time (long-form media, not that I'm judging) and going to get back into gym/healthy eating again.
I'm a doomer and don't think we have long left so I'm not fussed about long-term goals but I still appreciate the importance of staying in good shape and learning stuff I'm interested in without having to worry about it making me a living. I have no shame living with a parent either. I enjoy hobbies that don't cost money and at this age I don't feel like I need to impress anyone (a very real pressure in teens/early 20s).
I just wish there were more 3rd places, my only ones are leisure centres where I play squash a few times a month and it's mainly older people that play that so I don't make actual friends and my dad doesn't live where my actual friends from growing up are so I'm pretty isolated.
I still get gas-lit but I tell them my life when I was working was pretty much the same as it is now, but I had more money to do more damage to myself because all I spent my extra money on was substances and usually did them by myself (sad I know.)
I am a millennial in my 30s in Canada. I just see a 9-5 as a mean to fund my crypto adventure. Realistically the 9-5 path will only lead to homelessness in middle age. Yes, I know tons of middle age unemployed people including dudes eventually have to work the street corner
I'm a 39 year old millennial. I have completely given up.
I’m 32, getting there my damn self too tbh.
@@FuchserEnjoyer 33 here... totally failure XD
@@grgrgrgrgrgrgrgrgrgrgr2592 did we fail or did the system fail us? I think the system
Work to live, never live to work. I set my own hours, work the gig apps, and it helps me get my bills paid. I only work when I have to, and don’t have to take things too seriously. I love doing showbiz, but those gigs aren’t as plentiful as they were for me years ago.
Oh come on, just work harder. Right? Lol.
It's mind-numbing.
But who doesnt work 16 hour shifts to shop at a dollar store? JK
It's the $5 dollar store now lol.
Just wanna add something..
The 9 to 5 originated during the Industrial Revolution and was designed with the cultural norms of that time in mind.
The typical household then:
one person -usually the father would work 8 hrs a day,
while another person -typically the mother would manage the house.
The father's income alone was enough to support the entire family.
Today, it's different. Most people are single and expected to work 8 hours a day
and still have to come home to handle housework, effectively taking on both roles.
Even if you're making ends meet, this lifestyle isn't what the 9-to-5 was originally designed for.
It was meant to work within a partnership, with one person working and the other focusing on homebuilding.
Now with the rising cost of living and stagnant wages, even in a relationship, both need to work just to make ends meet.😪
9:50 - Indeed. I've been to a talk by theoretical computer scientist Peter Shor, one of the leaders in his field. And according to him, in his line of work you can only do 5 hours per day actually solving math and theoretical computer science problems. So to get up to 8 hours a day, he schedules in things like typing in code, meetings, organizing the office, and other work that doesn't need much thinking. So potentially a shorter work schedule could be done by trimming off useless stuff.
Work wouldnt even be as rough as it is either if it wasnt for toxic people, and half of them dont speak english and their only goal is to make you quit or complain about you 24/7. If that wasnt the case, i would actually enjoy work
Modern work places are full of bullies
Were nothing more than the money in our bank
Stressing over being called in all the time but it not mattering once the check drops
The real problem was that in the 1950s a single income could sustain a household. So one person could work and pay for three or more people.. that simply isn’t the case today.
So if we didn’t sleep, we would gain an extra 8 hours of life each day. 😂
Sleep is pretty weird when you think about it. Like being awake is so damaging to our brains, that it takes 8 hours to repair…
I always say "life's a bitch, then you die" nice to see everyone else has the same views as me
I don't mind working. Jobs are what I don't like. Lol
In most places where you're employed on an eight hour contract you can get all the work done in much less time but for some reason you have to be there for the full eight even if you're not doing much, paying a days wage for getting the work done that would be much better.
Its crazy I got situation when I was called a lazy, because I refusing work more than 8 working hours.... I adopted frugally lifestyle its the way to go for me :)
Yup, I'm for sure not gonna work again if I can't enjoy my life while working. I got enough to get by now, and if it won't be enough, I will not go back to wasting my time to make someone else insanely rich on my expense. I don't enjoy my life ever since I started normal work and that work destroyed me and my health. Never again!
Working a 9 to 5 sucks and being unemployed for a long time also sucks. Part time is better but still sucks. You have to choose how you want to suffer in this life…
This life? Which life have you lived in? Have you lived in Ghaddafi’s Libya? Have you lived in Qatar or any other country that uses its citizens wealth for anything other than throwing it exclusively at the rich 24/7?
@filipmartinez1162 what exactly is your argument supposed to be?
@@kevinrowland5753 There are Socialist countries (go ahead and cry) that have had 0%interest bank loans, gives every couple 50,000$ on birth of their first child, had gas prices at just 14¢/liter AND had generous unemployment benefits and paid vacations. That country was Libya, 🇱🇾 Libya is in Africa. Why can’t we do those things here? That’s my argument..
i think life sucks because of human influence a lot of the time, from jobs to taxes to politics. when people care about each other and appreciate nature its all pretty damn sweet
Just checked the pension age here in the Netherlands. Filled in that I was born in 1997. Website tells me I can expect my pension at 69 years old and 9 months (assuming I have not died by then 😂)
i work only 30h a week from home, i still hate it
No family or $25 to $35h living wage no work.
Work serves the purpose of living. Living does not serve work.
There are two groups of people that say things like: “life is hard, then you die.” The first are the people who benefit from life being hard and want it to continue, and the second are bitter boomers who had hard lives and can only cope with their unhappiness by deluding themselves into thinking it had to be that way. Neither group is worthy of respect, nor should they be listened too.
I work 7 days a week. I love what I do, but I’d love to be able to pull back and make better money working less hours. I miss spending my time at the beach and riding my bike. I don’t do any of that anymore
We need food to eat to survive why can't we just focus more on agriculture ??
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@@jacobwilson989 preach
I think it's wise to separate "Work" from "Employment". All employment is work, but not all work is employment.
The notion that work solely means employment gives the exploiters a reason to suggest that every activity outside of a job is not work, and therefore is "doing nothing". This is where the accusations of being lazy start to come in when people see how unfair the employment system actually is, and speak against it.
Work is everywhere. Art is work. Illness is work. Mowing your lawn is work. Being a parent is work. Some jobs are demonstrably not even real work. They exist without purpose or production just to keep someone occupied.
People don't need jobs to give them purpose. Gen Z have wisely realised that, so in come the pile-ons of being lazy and entitled from boomers and bosses to try and shame them into taking low paid time-wasters and kill any creativity they might have.
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Its the money dependencies.
And the materialism addiction. Also the food thing with fundamentals not being good enough.
The way out, is by avoiding things with fees, and going retro to what worked for thousands of years..
As a kid in Europe still saw Gypsy wagons pulled by horses.
If you dont have a job you dont need a car.
You have time to use horses...
No fees and licenses on horses, no insurance. Not even on cart or wagon.
All you need is a slow moving vehicle sign, the 3 cornered orange one.
Food is similar... basic staples... I just made a couple gallons of split pea soup for $3.00....
Will be eating it with corn bread which is maybe $2.50 for seven pounds... And you can grow dry peas and Indian corn, and get the same meals for free.. Basically the price of the salt and oil.
Same on clothes... I have a sewing machine, costs me $10.00 in cloth for pants or shirt... If I was in US could buy Home Depot painters tarps for the cloth way cheaper and Rit dye it.
Normalcy is almost invariably a mistake...
Dont buy stuff you use, buy tools to produce what you use.
I just bought two heavy nylon ratchet tie down straps for $26 each. two inch wide strap, also have 1.5 inch versions, at $14.00 each, basically got material for horse harnesses at less than $40.00 per harness.
I got 1000 meters of 80 lb test Spectra fishing line for $33.00 to hand sew the harnesses...
I'll be buying brass rings etc. but maybe have $50.00 into each harness...
I already made one harness out of truck straps I got for free on the side of freeways...
These new harnesses will be a pretty blue... 😊
On horse drawn farming equipment, have a plow from a walking tractor, and thinking of buying cultivator shares and making a mini 3 bottom for doing beds...
Wheat produces 2.5 tons to the acre... means a back yard is bread every day.
I can grow enough food with one horse to feed a village.
In fact, that was the division between Nobility and Serfs;
"The ability to feed a horse."
Y'all are in the wrong century.... You should fix that, this one sucks...
Much of rural America is being abandoned.
Not long until its rewilding... people who had horse tech could do fine there.
The problem is no jobs, but the land is often fertile.
2.4 acres intensively subsisistence farmed will feed a dozen people.
Maybe a bit of organic agriculture education between video games might get you some where. Say used books by Rodale Press out of the 1970's and 1980's.
Check it out....
The guy you were talking about in minute three went to dr. phil. I believe that he couldn't get all of his good points out in time due to dr.phil being an idiot, and of course he is one of those celebrities that promote these harmful corporate cultures.
Because Dr. Phil became a success in the system his ego won't allow him to admit it's broken. We're constantly fed "X person became rich and famous so America is the land of opportunity!" But statistically that's a fraction of a percent of most citizens. It's like saying "one guy won the jackpot at the casino so the casino is great for everyone!"
Life is all about work was around before the boomers ! Ask Your history Friend !
At least for the boomers (and those that came before them) they actually could afford to live on the lowest paying jobs, unlike today. Having a good work ethic made since when anybody who worked could afford the basics of life such as owning their own home, having their own vehicle, and a stay at home wife, and a family.
Hey all
re:Steve K quip
and LO! the WASP wept, for there was no more worlds to mess up
Nah, I work to retire early. I can do it.
Back during rampant European colonialism, the British particularly loved to accuse the peoples whom they conquered of being lazy. That wasn't true at all: the natives are very hardworking, and coupled that with generational intelligence to do what works for them based on the environments they were in. They're grateful for what they have and weren't greedy for more, unlike the colonizers. It all goes back to the Industrial Revolution and enriching the European bourgeoisie.
I feel like ive never known any other way.
To say that HC video is wrong is like saying you are not financially struggling because food prices are low while entirely ommiting taxes, utilities, and rent. The sources it draws on are all very dated and were considered terrible when they came out for measuring only certain activities and not labor as a whole (eg one only working for food directly, and not all of the auxiliary tasks to it), assuming homogenization across Europe during the Middle Ages (many of the standards were particular to subsets of urban England).
I mean sources are supposed to be dated given that we're talking about events that happened 1000 years ago right? If you want to challenge his sources you can but the burden of proof is on you then to prove that he and all his sources are wrong. As far as I can see you're attacking his sources and saying he's wrong but you're not providing any sources or anything to back up the claims you're making either.
@thephilosophicalgamerfr Web search 'Historia Civilis's "Work" gets almost everything wrong.'
@thephilosophicalgamerfr And, no, historical sources (and most of them were anthropology, not history) exceeding 10 years are generally considered somewhat dubious (especially in fields like the Middle Ages which are undergoing relatively rapid development with new texts and archeology being found and translated), and that video's sources were *far* past that.
@ The main thing that pops up is a reddit post which is hardly a reliable source itself. And they give a dumb criticism which has already been debunked which is that medieval peasants still had to work outside of their work for a boss. Problem is people today also have to do housework, drive to work, work 2-3 jobs outside of their main job too so the same thing applies today.
@ If you want to claim that you can but you haven't provided any sources to prove him wrong either other than a reddit post which I'm sorry is NOT a source.
very very very interesting and beautiful channel ❤
I rather hunt for food & woods
Work in of itself isnt a bad thing or its not supposed to be. Its what they have turned work culture into in america. They have done everything they can to make it as miserable as possible. Its supposed to pay you enough to have a decent standard of life plus medical and dental benefits for your family and retirement pensions. They are also supposed to treat you with decency and respect and not crap on u and not narcissistically abuse u. Also they could make a 3 or 4 day workweek instead of 6 and 7 for some people. Work /life balance and mental health would be much better. Instead of that they go out of their way to make your work experience as hellish and insufferable as possible. Its sick and sadistic what they do. I would venture to say upwards of 70 percent of the problems we have are manufactured by the aholes at the top. Some people like working and lots dont but dont let them make u feel bad for not liking it. Always remember u never asked for or consented to being born so if u are lazy SO WHAT!
It's like kidnapping someone against their will without their consent and throwing them in an MMA ring to fight a UFC fighter then calling them lazy cuz they don't wanna fight! 😂😂😂
@@thephilosophicalgamerfr 😂true stories
I'm tired, boss.
I have no idea what Gen Z is doing honestly XD
I work 40 hours a week and get by and then some, I live alone by the way, just bought a property which will allow me to get by even better.
Owning a route is awesome. It is possible to buy Martin's ,Snyder, bimbo, little Debbie,or other route. Money is not necessary, but good credit is important.
Sometimes money is necessary.
Keep spitting fax
10:33 no, it's not just a cultural and mental issue. It's a financial issue too. Caused by what? Caused by economic woes. Who causes economic woes? The governments of the world. In particular centralized banking, fiat money, and the feds. The unsustainable credit expansion is the main cause of our economic woes.
Thos is probobly another reason young people dont want kids and why antinatalism is on the rise.
Wages i my country suck
Been eyeballing a remote part Time job that pays 6 dollars per hour meaning i could work minimal 5 hours and Max whatever
Im getting paíd 3.5 dollars per hour on a "formal" 8 to 4;30
I dont know
Im scared to take the junp
But my mind Is stuck on that
I'll disagree _very_ slightly. A 9-5 is not necessarily the worst kind of job to work, but I do grant that the worst jobs tend to be them. However, my dream job was a 9-5, but it wasn't because I owned a business, rather that I was doing exactly what I studied and trained for, and I loved the work and who I got to work with.
That job was as a microbiologist for my home state's health department. I was one of the people in the big lab who tested medical specimens for infectious diseases. Working for the government, getting quite possibly the best wage you could ever get (without becoming one of the business criminals who put us in this economic hellscape), stellar benefits, and overtime actually being on the rare side, so I had a pretty decent work-life balance.
Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, aside from having to commute into and out of the capital (where the lab was located, and traffic was never not terrible), it was... right up until I got axed because the department's budget got slashed, and I was "new enough" to not keep around. I tasted that ambrosia, and now I am forever poisoned. I cannot accept going back to what I did before there (and that included working two years for Amazon - I ultimately got off light on that front, but there were plenty of close calls for me).
The jobs themselves are not necessarily the problem; they are just a symptom. It's who decided what we can get that are the problem.
Woo Hoo! You watch Historia Civilis too!
Also wouldn't a medieval peasant's work look similar to a farm stead/anti-work farm today?
9:30 the reason is usury
You can have a good life and work, we just want adequate compensation and reasonable shifts. We could honestly make do with 6-8 hours for most jobs these days (I know some jobs like EMS and what not require longer hours so they should receive UNTAXED overtime after 44 hours/week) there should be a law in place that makes working over 12 hours illegal unless voluntary.
The EU mandates all employers to give 4 weeks of PAID vacation per year to all workers. Asking for 5 unpaid days off in North America might as well be blasphemy cause our religion is hustlin 😎.
just find a job you like. open economy.
I sleep aprox 6 hours. As European I see Americans waking up to the fact you have life that a majority of the world had for majority of their history. That Boomer age. It's never coming back. Yeah that was one time Bonus. Sure you earn more but the costs of living are also far more expensive. It's kind of the path you chosen voting. In EU After 12+ years of work I get 26 day paid days off I have to use + 117 days counting weekend and other holydays.
No one really knows what the future holds. It very well could get better one day but it'll probably get much worse before it gets there.
I wish your upload was at least 14 minutes long but if u can’t do 2 uploads try to do content that is quality that u like with a 12 min length or more
We will try for a double upload tomorrow :)
@ thanks
Route ownere easily work 5 dsys/week and 10 to 12 hrs.
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Coins can exist without fancy computer networks and if the government backing the coins collapses then the coins can be melted down for their value in precious metals
@@alecciarosewater7438 But you can't run 21st century society on 19th century monetary tech. Try doing online/international trade with those coins.
Damn how am I so early 🤣
This is our society though. You don’t have to work much if you’re ok living on the street, otherwise figure it out. Agriculture work is no joke and those people were growing their own food as well. Electricity, internet, gasoline, housing all cost $. It’s best to find work you enjoy rather than complain about how work sucks imo.
Or just change society which this next generation is already doing
Electricity and internet aren’t necessary
I can give up both when a portal opens up, and I enter it. @ at the second responder
@ uh huh 😂
You know label me "boomer asshole" but I'm millenial. Just not from USA.
You are kinda guilty of of giving historical context only in point where it fits narrative. Reality is that... there was no doordash, there was no washing machine, there was no freezer, most people didn't have central heating and had to make their own clothes.
In most cases, sure humans didn't work for 8 hours on particular thing. Actually through most of our history, humans worked every waking hour, just never more than 2-3 hours on the same type of task. There was much more variety than now. And that is the main problem - for humans focusing on single thing for more than 4 hours at the time is very difficult. We shouldn't be doing same stuff for extended period of time. This problem came about not because of 9-5 shift, but due to progressing specialization of work we do. In ages past, a smith would doube as dentist, and do a lot of odd jobs, also prepping and sourcing his own materials, chopping wood, dealing with customers.... In modern system he would be closed off, everything prepped for him and told to forge stuff for straight 8 hours a day.
People historically worked every waking hour, but they had far more variety. So I completely disagree with notion that people only worked 4 hours. Prior to invention of 9-5 there was no set limits, no guidelines, but for most of history work decided the place somebody had in society. It was fused with their identity they were the job they do basically. But very nature of that work was DIFFERENT. It was not specialized. It was very generalized. The soul crushing people experiance in work comes from how the work is, not how long it takes. It's a series of simple repetitive actions performed under stress and direct supervision. Same tasks, entire shift. Lack of variety is what is making jobs bad, efficiency guidelines are making jobs bad. We are not robots.
Anyway I'm one of more lucky ones here since I'm a millenial working 9-5... but is remote work mostly and I'm not closely watched by company. I can do stuff. I can take time off mid day I can take days off if I don't feel like it. I'm judged based on end product not on time spent working. And if I can do something in 3 hours I can arrange rest of my day however I want. But I will remain technically available to them for 8 hours.
I’m sick of seeing this same argument over because in this dogshit economy people today have to work 24/7 too. After work you still have to commute, still have to be stuck in traffic, still have to answer BS phone calls from your boss, still have to have 2-3 second jobs/side hustles because todays wages are such dogshit one job isn’t enough anymore. This is why it only makes sense to count official hours on the clock towards working for your boss. If you start counting activities outside of official working hours as work it becomes a dumb subjective argument where anything and everything can be counted as work.
@@thephilosophicalgamerfr Well, it is dogshit because work is specialized, it's still robotic, it's still very intense.
You can say that it would be subjective if you count other activities as work - but that's exactly how it work through history before industrial revolution. A person was working entire day, but doing a lot of stuff nowadays would not be considered work while at it. It was closer to how some freelancers work. They have equipment to do the job, they agree on when it needs to be done, they work on it as needed there is no beginning or end of shift. So to me historical argument for this is kinda missing the point.
But the main problem is not even that, the main problem is that work is too cheap. 4 hour workday does nothing if you get 50% of already non-living wage. At the end of the day is all about $$$.
I think people would be perfectly happy with 8 hour workday if what they got from it was livable, especially if workday itself was re-organized to shuffle around tasks every 2-3 hours, where possible. Or simply for job to be paid well enough and hours be flexible enough that working 3/4 of full time employment was sufficient.
solution: a world with no boomers
Boom the boomers, has a nice ring to it. 😂
I liked you AI voice
news flash folks.that for the most part has always been this way.u wanna travel the world and spend all that money doing it instead of having any responsibility.how nice for u.
Wow the projection is strong with this one. This one is so lazy they can’t even spell YOU and type U. Who the hell wants to travel the world? You talk a load of nonsense.
@Jonathan-Shadow that's what the guy said making the video
@@shanehester5317 So now your grammar and spelling is correct. Haha.
I agree that jobs are a mess and they create so many medical problems for people. But if you say that things have always been this way (bad and no life) then why be born? You think that’s an ethical thing to do?
@@shanehester5317 my comment has been deleted 3 times. I don’t even know why I bother to reply….
@@Jonathan-Shadow you have to "sort by newest" RUclips sometimes shadowbans comments idk why
Gen Z living to work? Tell that to us Millennials who have been doing that over a Decade when you were still Pre Pubescent.
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I agree to tax billionaires and they should be illegal to be a billionaire. some billionaire don't pay taxes. they want money more than enough. 🥲
There should be a limit of how much money people can own. Say 60M$ max. If anything more than that, they money goes to someone else who needs it.