Hustle Culture: Why We Can't Stop Working

[@WisecrackEDU]

Do you have a side hustle? Why or why not? Big thanks to Keeps for supporting the channel! Here’s the site if you want to check them out! > keeps.com/wisecrack

[@VictoriousGardenosaurus]

I've started growing mushrooms in my backyard. My goal is to have to pay taxes on them next year, by selling at least $10k....👍

[@soulemful]

Making a videogame because working for racist is dumb.

[@m.richman3486]

Not yet but I plan to sell hair loss products in my free time. I'm skeptic though 'cause I'm kind of obviously bald myself. Do you think it's going to work?

[@lindersi]

Where can i get that “Toxic Productivity” shirt?

[@chrishughes3405]

studying for better job in future. playing the long game. cheeky lateral answer there but money is still the goal sadly.

[@MedlifeCrisis]

Hustle and hyper-productivity culture is a scourge. The number one message I teach students (nowadays, it wasn’t like this a few years ago) is to just chill the f*ck out and enjoy the roses.

[@geekgroupie42]

if you like roses you could start a rose business on the side, you can make a lot of money with roses....

[@brandonmorel2658]

@@geekgroupie42 great sigma male hustlemillionaire tip.

[@geekgroupie42]

@@brandonmorel2658 😀😆😂

[@MoSho23]

I look at it from the perspective of balance. and balance for each individual will look different and change throughout different stages of our lives. Some of us like what we do, get compensated well and prefer to spend most of our time "working" because it's what we enjoy and would honestly be doing in our free time (eg some silicon valley folks). Some people hate or are indifferent towards what they do, and prefer to spend most of their time doing any number of things not related to work. Both of these are fine so long as the individual is truly free to choose what they want, is compensated appropriately, and can change their mind about what they want at any point. No one should be ashamed for working fewer hours and no one should be exalted for working more hours. You are not a better person because you work more and you are not a lesser person because you work less. We should have a society where people are truly free to pick and change their lifestyle to explore and discover what truly makes them happy and fulfilled. What makes someone joyfully or fulfilled is going to look drastically different for everyone and change throughout one's lifetime.

[@KevinJohnson-cv2no]

"Most of history is a group project, in which people are trying to chill and have fun with friends... until the Romans crush them." - WIAH Feel free to smell the roses and all that bullshit, but don't complain when your life doesn't add up to those who had more ambition and ability than you.

[@Aurora_Celeste_ASMR]

My ex literally told me that spending time with me wasn't worth it because he wasn't getting paid to do it. At the time, I genuinely felt tremendously selfish and guilty for wanting to bond, but now I know that probably wasn't the issue. Edit: Thank you very much to everyone for being so reassuring. The experience took a massive toll on my self-esteem, but I am trying to slowly build it back up and be able to believe I'm valuable again. Capitalism does weird things to people :(

[@suhanhwang9988]

OUCH. My condolences. I blame his boss for turning him into that.

[@Milubee]

That's so twisted... :

[@danielmason4014]

You didn't do anything wrong, you just had a pretty shitty ex

[@lordblazer]

lol f that dude. real talk. people are dumbasses now more than ever before.

[@grantoden8242]

You MOST DEFINITELY were not the issue.

[@ComicalRealm]

"The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still a rat" - Ratatouille

[@dominickjasso5500]

-Remy

[@sinnsage]

brilliant. leave it to disney to teach us about the horrors of capitalism

[@bleach2821]

Is this a real quote from the movie?

[@Matty002]

@@bleach2821 no its not, at least from the theatrical release. it might be from a cut scene on the dvd/bluray

[@stuckonaslide]

RATATOUILLE ISNT THE RAT'S NAME. IT'S RATATOUILLE'S MONSTER.

[@Shibouu59]

A lot of people seem to be re-evaluating their relationship with work as a result of the pandemic, which has put on full display that you can make tons of sacrifices and do everything right and still end up destitute and/or unemployed because of factors totally outside your control. Many workers (especially essential workers) are also being expected to work harder than ever while risking their safety, but without any additional compensation or accommodations. Although I don't expect everything to get better right away, I'm hoping this turns out to be the push people need to start demanding more from their employers.

[@grantoden8242]

People were on the hamster wheel and when it stopped they were able to see what was going on when they weren't on it.

[@Smokey94462]

Totoro the GOAT!!!

[@jjbarajas5341]

Ngl I've been pretty disillusioned with "get a job go to work"

[@MoSho23]

employers, like politicians, should always bend to the people, not the other way around. they are nothing without the laborers. but somehow these corrupted institutions have led the people to believe it's the other way around :/. hopefully covid leads to a sort of great labor awakening of sorts

[@Fascism_Is_One_Helluva_Drug]

Stop daydreaming, people don't even accept mandated vaccines, what makes you think they'll advocate for pOpuLiSt ideals?

[@sleeplesshollow4216]

Americans truly have been convinced that Slavery is Freedom and its sad.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

“The white slave had taken from him by indirection what the black slave had taken from him directly and without ceremony. Both were plundered, and by the same plunderers. The slave was robbed by his master of all his earnings, above what was required for his bare physical necessities, and the white laboring man was robbed by the slave system, of the just results of his labor, because he was flung into competition with a class of laborers who worked without wages. The slaveholders blinded them to this competition by keeping alive their prejudice against the slaves as men--not against them as slaves.” “To enslave men, successfully and safely, it is necessary to have their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived. A certain degree of attainable good must be kept before them.” ― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

[@davesprivatelounge]

And war is peace Re: Rest of the world

[@elizahhoward3923]

Freedom feels like a 60 hour work week

[@karstenvoigt7280]

And also that any benefit or reduction of exploitation would inevitably lead to a regime, where they could end up in a gulag - not realizing, that the culture, they're living in, is already one big gulag itself.

[@Zoki4444]

The only people who are truly free in America are those who can afford a ticket out in case the country collapses.

[@mww59]

I just wanna live like a Hobbit. Eat, sleep, drink, enjoy music and books. There is no shame in a simple life

[@MRCKify]

Remember that Bilbo inherited a lot of that money even before he went on the adventure. IRL, Tolkien was thinking of the life of a country squire, a landlord who rented out fields for ag and otherwise lived off investments and inherited wealth. Sometimes, you could do that and otherwise be a professor of Language & Literature.

[@fruithippie]

Take me with you.

[@MRCKify]

Sam and his relationship with Frodo was based on batmen - enlisted soldiers who became personal assistants and servants for upper-class British officers. JRRT saw this and plenty other facets of humanity when he reluctantly commanded enlisted men in World War One.

[@kirbyarroyo2118]

@@user-gc1wj8tt2p Are you ok?

[@Bustermachine]

​@@MRCKify To some extent, yes, on the other hand the Shire is also pretty much depicted as being such a slow quiet backwater that I'm not sure how much that actually matters. Keep in mind that people suspected Frodo's wealth was running out when he sold the house to his relatives. Which implies that nobody thought he was bringing in huge amounts of rent seeking profit. There also wasn't really a system to collect taxes or central government to collect them. Nor were hobits known to be terribly martial on an individual level, there's no landed 'warrior elite' to speak of. At most you have the Old Took, who is depicted more like a local 'Big Man' riding herd on his massive extended family. Heck, even the Hobbit's tendency to give and receive gifts is noted to just be a giant web of regifting people things that they themselves were gifted and got their good out of.

[@cherrybombstudios1671]

So, correct me if I’m wrong, but a big thing I’m hearing here is “More unions = less burnout?”

[@pheonixwilson5577]

UNIONIZE BABY!! 🙏🏾

[@kelen_tate]

*googles "how to start a union"*

[@HdezMarcos]

I like to put it this way, more unions = more control over how truly green a company can choose to be, more control over the ethics of globalization of these companies.

[@mahomar9813]

@@HdezMarcos Amen

[@Charlakin]

@@HdezMarcos Amen x 2.

[@JaQPaul]

“Most of us are in a more Hopeless place” it’s hard to appreciate this pun when it’s so true

[@masterimbecile]

But that's also where some of us will find love.

[@LocaLGh0sT]

@@masterimbecile username checks out. (Sorry, nothing personal, I just thought it's funny)

[@kshaur13]

How is that a pun?

[@melis5761]

@@kshaur13 In Rihanna's song "We found love" there is a line saying "We found love in a hopeless place".

[@JaQPaul]

@@kshaur13 That's how you know it's been too long since Rihanna dropped music 😭

[@Dan-ud8hz]

“The white slave had taken from him by indirection what the black slave had taken from him directly and without ceremony. Both were plundered, and by the same plunderers. The slave was robbed by his master of all his earnings, above what was required for his bare physical necessities, and the white laboring man was robbed by the slave system, of the just results of his labor, because he was flung into competition with a class of laborers who worked without wages. The slaveholders blinded them to this competition by keeping alive their prejudice against the slaves as men--not against them as slaves.” “To enslave men, successfully and safely, it is necessary to have their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived. A certain degree of attainable good must be kept before them.” ― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

[@717UT]

Fantastic quote. Thank you.

[@TheXrythmicXtongue]

Sheesh 💯🔥

[@icarusunited]

One of the favorite quotes I love using against Liberals & Conservatives who are blind to what there philopshy typically entails. A fun, but slightly thinned out TLDR is: Blacks were true slaves, and White figurative slaves. Eventually both coalescing into simple truth, Slavery of the Man.

[@Xara_K1]

Brilliant

[@aaggsmyhoopt2428]

John Brown pfp. Respect ✊

[@Dan-ud8hz]

'A rich industrialist said to the fisherman, "Why are you napping under a tree?" "Because I've caught enough fish for the day." "Why don't you catch more?" "Why would I do that?" "So you can buy more nets, a bigger boat, go out into deeper waters, then buy a whole fleet of boats and be rich like me." "Then what?" "Well, then you can enjoy life." The fisherman: "What do you think I'm doing now?"' --- Unknown Author

[@KevinJohnson-cv2no]

You seem to just be posting "old wise man" quotes rather than providing any actual, empirical arguments against the civilizational effectiveness of employee structures. Emotionally charged rhetoric as opposed to actual real-world facts.

[@BenJamin-jl1km]

@@KevinJohnson-cv2no I bet you are fun at parties.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

@@KevinJohnson-cv2no Sorry, but I can't post graphs and links on KZbin, but go ahead and take the superficial tip of the icebergs as the entirety of the argument if you're cognitively limited. "When effortful, deliberate thought is disengaged, endorsement of conservative ideology increases." (Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism)

[@therealsick1]

You forgot the last part of this story: Then while the fisherman was resting, the rich industrialist caught all the remaining fish. The fisherman was no able to catch fish for the next few days resulting in the death of his whole family.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

@@KevinJohnson-cv2no “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Sir Isaac Newton

[@TheEvolver311]

Capitalism is never mentioned when we talk about the erosion of the family, hard to keep a relationship alive when you never interact with your significant other.

[@birdiewolf3497]

Or your children

[@wesleyprince3465]

Actually marx talked about this/predicted it centuries ago, mainly as a pre-rebuttal to criticisms he knew he was gonna receive about socialism from the capitalist class.

[@vienlacrose]

@@user-gc1wj8tt2p Do you seriously believe that multinational corporations can be fought off by mere individuals? Individuals can only RESIST them. Governments and collective groups (UNIONS) can FIGHT them.

[@mightza3781]

​@@SquishyProductions in that way, humans are going the way of the horse. As cynical as it is, children were always investments. They were expected to contribute useful labor for the household. Having a son was the traditional retirement plan. When child mortality was high, people had lots of kids in order to minimize risk. Nowadays, in developed nations, children are pure luxuries. Day care, education and housing space are all on a premium not counting the time commitment a good parent must make. It's no wonder that the population of DINK couples is rising for the past few decades.

[@themushroom2130]

yes it is really easy to maintain contact with your dad when he is working 24/7

[@wesleyprince3465]

I watched my mom work 2 jobs for 25 years only to die before she was 50 with no health insurance, no home, no money, no property....not a house, not even a beat up car. And she worked all the way up to the point where she left work in an ambulance and came home in a wheelchair with neuropathy. When people try to call me lazy I laugh in their face and tell them they're goddamn right because the hardest working person I ever knew only ever got the short end of the stick despite her work ethic.

[@groobs]

I'm sorry that happened to your mom, I'm happy you're smart enough to see this rigged situation and try and speak truth to things

[@vinny-is-here]

That's insane. Can you tell me her employer so I can avoid their product?

[@naromngin]

There's a difference between working hard and working smart. Just because you bust your ass doesn't mean you're being efficient. For example, If I pull out grass on my lawn all day with my hands it might mean I'm working hard but if I used a lawnmower I'd get better results in a quicker time. Sorry about your mom though.

[@Bustermachine]

@@naromngin Not gonna lie, this reads as an escape clause for people who want to believe there's always a way out of every bad situation. For a lot of people there isn't. To use your lawnmower example as an analogy. A lot of people don't have the money to buy a lawnmower. Which in this case might mean 'education', the money to move for work, or the ability to buy some other capital intensive tool. And if they do scrounge together the money, that doesn't mean possessing a lawnmower will lead to a successful business, even if they do everything right. You're not gonna outcompete Amazon Landscaping Services. Or Micromowers. Or get people to come to you over buying the premium i-mower pro.

[@ARLimitless]

I'm sorry for your loss dear.

[@jeannewynneherring]

Let me be the warning against hustle. Since college I hustled. I'm now nearly fifty and the only thing hustling got me is a chronic illness that ended my pursuit for a dream that would never come true. I use to feel guilty for not working the way I use to. Only recently I recognized that my years of "productivity" was was unnecessary. I'm able to manage my health and have what I need. The depression lingers, but slowly I'm excepting the fact that it's actually a good thing to work less and to say FU to those who want to make people feel guilty for not killing themselves. While you're young, recognized that the hustle culture is dangerous not admirable. It's work-a-holism. It's dangerous like substance abuse. It ruins your health and in the long run, you will either not be a success or too sick to enjoy your success. Do what you need to do no more than that. But learn the difference between need and want.

[@MRCKify]

So what did you spend your money on?

[@rakkatytam]

@@MRCKify Probably the health issues that arose from years of over working

[@danirojas498]

I am so glad more and more media channels are addressing this phenomenon. I honestly find it absolutely depressing that the best life we can aspire to in our society is one where we're barely meeting our needs and maybe certain wants by working ourselves to the bone even in our free time...we are basically living to work instead of working to live and the saddest part is that people are proud of how busy and overworked they are, like having no time to enjoy the real pleasures in life - like spending time with loved ones or having a hobby just for the sake of it ( without having to turn it into another stream of income) - is something to be proud of. I feel very hopeless about where our society is heading in regards to our work culture in the west, it seems that the only people who are aware and tired of this way of living just decide to quit the big cities and move to the country or go for radical lifestyles like the "van life" movement, and even though I find this a bit too extreme sometimes, people who do it, do it because there's no alternative, there's no way they can afford to live in the city and enjoy its perks if they don't "hustle" themselves to death...why can't we find a middle ground? if everyone could understand how precious and short life is we could all push for changes like a 4 day work week and welfare programs that allow us to live in a society without the constant fear of easily falling through the cracks, but people still take so much pride in their work, not for in the meaning or value they are contributing to society through it, but just for the sake of being busy or having certain status within their little social bubble. We need to wake up from this nonsense and start moving towards a life where we pursue our own wellbeing, creativity, and self-fulfillment instead of just money and status.

[@WillmobilePlus]

Tl;dr Lady wants more socialism so he can work 4 days a week in a desk job, and live in a hip cool expensive city, where he can party the days away.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

@@WillmobilePlus How does the dirty leather taste these days, bootlicker?

[@danirojas498]

@@WillmobilePlus Yeah why not? our labor is becoming less and less necessary and even obsolete...wasn't the whole point of automatization to make life easier for humans? I feel that we have very unique creative capabilities that we could put to better use at this point of technological advancement, but the truth is most jobs now, as the book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber explains pretty well, are like an adult daycare really, they don't really contribute anything valuable to society or even the company, they just keep people busy and tired so they don't have time or energy to think enough to realize the charade we're all trapped in and revolt against the elites...that last part is not really in the book but is my own conclusion from the info in it, it's a great book I'd recommend it to anyone interested in these topics around modern work culture.

[@WillmobilePlus]

@@danirojas498 >wasn't the whole point of automatization to make life easier for humans? Are you living the same as a person in 1721? Automation has indeed made our lives easier. What you seem to have done was conflate easier to completely issue free to the point where no one needs to do anything ever again. >Jobs by David Graeber explains pretty well, are like an adult daycare really, they don't really contribute anything valuable to society or even the company, they just keep people busy and tired so they don't have time or energy to think enough to realize the charade we're all trapped in and revolt against the elite. Riiiiiiiiiight. So what are these jobs you and this nut (whom may I point out didnt write that book for free) think "don't really contribute anything valuable to society or even the company"?

[@WillmobilePlus]

@@Dan-ud8hz Now tell me what part of what I said was a lie. Oops, forgot that part, did ya? Like I care some sh*tty 4th rate YT socialist makes trite snark replies. If you cant disagree with me, then have the balls to say it, or else you maybe arent that comfortable about the truth of your own lame philosophy yourself.

[@chazjohannsen]

“We pulled on these bootstraps so hard that they broke.” - Tim McIlrath (Rise Against, ‘Disparity by Design’ from Endgame)

[@jumpstart55million]

Is that a book?

[@jazzyjay_]

@@jumpstart55million it’s aRise Against song

[@Maid_of_Spiders]

God I love rise against, they mix social commentary and awesome tunes so seamlessly.

[@demondton96]

There's nothing more dystopian sounding than "American-itis"

[@me0101001000]

You could have just left it at "America" and we'd agree.

[@ray-al15]

Man, I look at Tokyo Japan and think of how distopian it is, but I fail to see America being one. I guess I am just bias on this one.

[@robert2690]

@@ray-al15 America is already a dystopia.

[@matureenough34]

Society: Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps by pulling your bootstraps up by their bootstraps, and so on and so forth. Keep reaching down deeper inside you until you pull yourself up to your grave by your bootstraps.

[@jjbarajas5341]

It's just bootstraps, all the way down...

[@Trans4mers84561]

The capitalist's 'git gud scrub'

[@tyrellesmith9265]

There was a time when this was definitely my mentality. I never took days off, never hung out with friends. neglected important relationships and my own mental and psychical health because suffering is okay as long as it's in the context of grinding. All I ended up with was damaged romantic, familial, and friend relationships, some of which never recover, health issues, and ton of burnout. The gains I made did not do nearly enough to make up for the losses. Also seeing people get further ahead just because they come from money or have well off parents puts all the suffering into perspective. Even knowing all that, it's still hard for me at times to divorce myself from that mentality, it's just so ingrained in the culture, especially as a minority where hard work and sacrifice are really put in high regard as the only legitimate way to get ahead and overcome your circumstances. Working hard for stuff is not a bad thing but it should not be the only thing in your life. And working hard does not mean you have to deprive yourself of all good things that make you happy.

[@uncledubpowermetal]

"Downtime? Do you mean the 40 minutes of sunlight after my 12 hour shift in the coal refinery, before we light the sole tallow candle in our whole tenement?" -some 1880s laborer before unionizing, probably lol

[@davesprivatelounge]

What is "outside"? - Me a software guy

[@saininj]

In my early 20's I strongly believed in Hustle Culture. In the end, all I got was anxiety and depression.

[@LuisSierra42]

Exactly the same, i spent the entirety of my 20s working non stop and it did bode some results but when i hit 30 i was totally burned out. Since then i spent the entirety of my free time watching movies and tv shows

[@sentientsponge8570]

Lol! When I was 27 my anxiety shut my whole body down via my immune system.

[@Im-the-greatest]

Make enough to pay your bills and go out to eat whenever you feel like it. And make you're money doing something that you either like or even better something you like and that you're good at. Working 40 hours a week shouldn't be some happy fun time and if it's hard just remember that sometimes you have to do shit you don't want to do. And don't ever let some high and mighty college boy duckhead devalue your effort.

[@jerrygil1965]

I'm about to be 20 and I feel you

[@nuthead8888]

I’m a 23 year old grad student now and considering taking up residence in the Charles River :,(

[@platinumbubbles6152]

I literally just left a job because my boss could not understand how I was tired from the amount of work we had to complete because, and this is a direct quote “You don’t work overtime and you don’t have kids”.

[@dinglesworld]

They want us so badly to think that our work is worth more than having a healthy dose of freedom/happiness LMAO

[@redacted702]

When we are on our death bed, we will not think fondly of all those hours spent at work, only the loved ones and friends we made along the way.

[@francescogallegos9215]

You forgot to talk about how inflation reduces our purchasing power every year, so we have to work harder every year

[@Im-the-greatest]

Inflation these days is reducing your purchasing power weekly at this point

[@elizahhoward3923]

Secondly in the Silicon Valley

[@nuance9000]

Why call it inflation? The companies raised their prices to make more money. Oil and car companies -> record profits. Consumables -> record profits. Wages -> highest in decades. All barometers that the "Fed" calls inflation. Archaic 1930s metrics

[@loggerbomb]

@@nuance9000 wages might be highest in decades, but they still nowhere near where they should be compared to the rate of the rise of cost of goods.

[@thisisdk7859]

This, I can get behind as a fair argument.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality." ― Stephen Hawking, 2015 Reddit AMA "I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals." ― Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

[@teteteteta2548]

It’s still crazy to me that ol Stein was a socie, much like orwell, Steinbeck and sinclair. It’s weird how much US education hides from people

[@teteteteta2548]

It’s still crazy to me that ol Stein was a socie, much like orwell, Steinbeck and sinclair. It’s weird how much US education hides from people

[@kneeofjustice9619]

@@teteteteta2548 I guess socialist don’t wanna be associated with nukes.

[@gibenameplox]

@@kneeofjustice9619 Is this really what you take from this?

[@Jimpiedepimpie]

Uhh, when Einstein means socialism he doesn't mean hold hands and sing kumbayah socialism. Maybe you should go figure out what he did mean by it.

[@Bobbytheman98]

I told my mom one day about how it’s weird that we give 5 days of our lives, in a week, to work and then one day to family and another to God but never to ourselves. She just shrugged her shoulders and I was like “how can we all just accept that we aren’t giving attention to ourselves and things in life that we can just enjoy.”

[@KAMROXX2K11]

Nah you're on to something. I know for damn sure I wasn't put here to work myself to the graveyard. But if you don't work, you pretty much die. So idk a way around this.

[@garbearfar1394]

4 day work weeks are great. You get a day to cool off from work and focus on yourself, a day to do whatever you want, and a third day to enjoy yourself and get ready for the week again.

[@MRCKify]

What do you do weekday nights?

[@rakkatytam]

That's what believing in an after life will do to you. You have all of eternity to enjoy yourself, why not spend your life working, because now the monetary value you offer society is how you know you're a "good person". Believing this life is all we'll ever have though is incentive enough to say fuck materialism and fuck the work required for it. Life's too short not to take time for yourself

[@jayfranks3697]

Because that's selfish/s

[@NerylaLouvel]

"Everything in excess is poison." "You work to live, not live to work".

[@comedienne_historian]

I just noticed that I’ve never been curiously unsubscribed from celebrities, Netflix or Disney- but I’m consistently having to re-subscribe to the small creators I watch religiously.

[@danyosuna7276]

100%. For some reason my FB feed keeps flooding with news about elon musk but I can spend months without seeing posts from groups I follow

[@MRCKify]

@@danyosuna7276 Find their websites/ email lists/ YT/ substacks. I've only been on FB twice in 5 years, that was once to brag and once to grieve.

[@kght222]

i have allways hated the word "hustle" or "hustling" to me it implies trying to get something over on someone else. it has always meant scamming or ripping someone else off to me, and i don't like hustlers as a result.

[@kght222]

for me a hustle is synonymous to a scam. if i am doing side work i will not ever call it a "hustle". maybe it is just me, or just my locality, but a hustle is generally not good for anyone but the hustler where i live.

[@Rampala]

Which makes sense since so many of these side hustles nowadays are just glorified pyramid schemes.

[@lainiwakura1776]

It was probably stolen from MLM/pyramid scheme rhetoric.

[@fruithippie]

@@kght222 Agreed. A hustler at my old jobs was always kinda the suck up yo the boss who'd do anything for favoritism, even if it meant climbing on the backs of their coworkers. It seems like an unhealthy attitude.

[@mastergator9641]

I feel the same. Hustle is a word the con artists use

[@johndoeing]

My side-hustle is spending 5 hours a day doing things I enjoy to 'invest' into my mental and physical health and enjoy life :D

[@Dan-ud8hz]

"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living." ― R. Buckminster Fuller

[@aaronsullivan8230]

Sounds alot like a excuse to be nothing, or a idealized idea of people in general, nevermind the young nor the old. As the same people who do not desire greatness now, would likely seek a similarly low maintenance lifestyle without the income they would otherwise have. Nearly anyone watching this likely won't see the point as we all tend to see only those who agree with our point of view. This video wouldn't likely be on the radar of the people who are by nature not concerned.

[@jjbarajas5341]

@@aaronsullivan8230 have you seem the Chinese youth right now? They're all tired of the rat race. The race to go to the best schools, the best colleges, to get a job that everyone else is also trying to get where they will be overworked.. There's a big "just lie down" movement sweeping the youth there , for good reason.

[@brandonsmisek6334]

@@jjbarajas5341 good I’m glad it’s spreading around the world. The rich and elite better be scared.

[@xxxdroidmonkeyxxx]

Except when people actually stop working and suddenly store shelves are empty and people can't find jobs to make money to buy things they may need even when stores do get stocked. This is the most idiotic take on labor I've ever seen. Labor will exist until the day everything humans need to survive is fully automated - and even then, there will still be a need for human labor to do things only humans can.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

@@xxxdroidmonkeyxxx So your choice of screen name doesn't imply "reject humanity, return to monke?" What year did you drop out of high school?

[@quaktoons331]

Squid game: You're either the miserable players that die trying to attain a better life, trying to make the world a little fairer for themselves or your in the managerial position, trying to keep everyone and everything from falling apart so that you won't have to fall into the position of the worker. No matter which way you look at it we're all just pretending that our unending duties will pay off at the end, working to die someday, the fleeting search for content rules us.

[@SeaOfMany]

that’s exactly it, you need work in order to fulfil purpose. Hell them rich folk made the games to satiate their boredom. Do what you want to do, that’s what makes it worthwhile or just succumb

[@paulfear7860]

Jesus is contentment

[@paulfear7860]

It is Him or nothing. And He is not fleeting but patient and eternal. He has been very patient with me, and I pray He will be with you❤️

[@SeaOfMany]

@@paulfear7860 Jesus is dead and been dead, he ain’t coming back

[@paulfear7860]

@@SeaOfMany Jesus rose from the dead after three days and ascended to Heaven to sit at the right hand of God. All have sinned and fallen short before the glory of God. The wages of sin is death. But if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall have eternal life. Work serves a purpose but what is it that you're working for? Work for God, brother! That is our whole purpose.

[@TerryKashat]

The hustle isn’t for everybody nor should it be. I can tell you that I love when I rock a 12 to 14h work day. I love it.

[@JeffreyMcMahon]

Neither hustle culture nor laziness is the answer. We have to define what is a reasonable balance.

[@theintrovertedaspie9095]

There is no balance. Sometimes your work life takes more priority than your social or fun life.

[@bobisconsumed520]

Too much work withers you to dust, too much leisure decays you into dust, the work/play balance is real and necessary for healthy life.

[@mrpibb220]

No side hustle, just a pursuit of learning a new skill that is more in line with my career aspirations. Great to see you back Greg!

[@animal1439]

I'm in the same boat. I went to university for 4 years to be a cop and ended up changing my mind after all of the BLM stuff happened last year, and now I'm going back to school to get an accounting certificate to try out a new career path. As long you are taking steps that will benefit your future you'll be just fine, and don't get too stressed by comparing yourself to others, that never ends well and only results in downward spiraling. We're all on our own path and running at our own speed. We got this🤘 Now if only I could actually live by this comment😂😅 a lot easier said than done.

[@lainiwakura1776]

So a hobby?

[@king.jarjerk4201]

Surprised there wasn't any mention of the rise of the MLMs, and the value of "being one's own boss", while not actually working for oneself.

[@garbearfar1394]

The man who made the 5 day work week was a pure blooded psychopath. 5 days for my employer and 2 for me IS HORSESHIT. 4 day work weeks are the greatest thing and there needs to be a push for mass adoption in most industries. 5 days a week for 40 years is downright sadistic.

[@TheGprinziv]

I work at a school and work 4 days with administrative Wednesdays (I gotta grade and prep for the other days, but I mostly have free rein to do what I want -- even run errands or take a walk) and that Wednesday is like a magical island in a storm. I refuse to hustle and I'm doing alright for myself. Important to note I peaced the fuck out from the US 6 years ago lol.

[@curtismmichaels]

I've had to significantly decrease my work schedule due to mental health issues. I'm 2 months in and I frequently have to remind myself that I have no obligation to anyone but myself, and anyone I choose an obligation to. Then I roll over and go back to sleep.

[@captnrobvious47]

I was brought up in an old Irish-Catholic Wake-up-before-the-butt-crack-of-dawn-to-go-to-work sort of people. Work was God. If you weren't bleedin' you weren't workin'. If you weren't workin' you weren't livin'. In more metropolitan areas where we are surrounded by technology and infrastructure, it's easy to find work in or for a big business. I recently was unemployed for 3 months but knew I'd find work again. It was keeping that job that worried me. Job security is a thing of the past because I think there are so many people the big corporations can just dispose of and exchange for new fresh workers. It's only exacerbated by those workers who believe more in "the hustle" and don't even know what they're hustling for. They're just glad to be working. The only theory I have is back in the America of the 1800s, I can see why hustle culture is a thing because when you're out on the frontier with no civilization around you, no Starbucks, Miccy Ds or Wally Worlds around to hire you so you can keep the lights on, you don't have a choice but to hustle just to build the walls that make up your home. SURVIVAL WAS THE HUSTLE. I think something of that mentality is still with us today but it doesn't really apply anymore because of big businesses like the ones mentioned before because everything, including land itself has already been bought and sold and bought again for more and more and more money. No matter how hard I seem to work, I found myself struggling to find a reason to WANT TO SURVIVE at all if I can't focus on MY OWN HUSTLE if I don't have to time, place or money to do it. If survival, or more to the point, being just another disposable cog in someone else's machine is all I can hope for in this modern climate, the hustle isn't worth it.

[@chadwilliams9141]

Exactly my family and its the tragic tale of millions of areas with industries that are dying or dead like mining and logging. My stupid ass ancestors thought things would only get better do to the success lf the industry. They died the corportation left or went automated and now these towns are full of drugs drunks and unemployed. Now i have to work 4 12s and doordash to save for a rising rent and every other bullshit thing you have to pay for that also is inflating.

[@tugger]

I got an MLM ad on this video. we are in a cursed timeline

[@blcdrg]

For a guy who had to walk away of all works and now are being judged as a lazy man ( i work since 14 years old and have 39 now), i can totally relate to that, they expect that you give your life, but things never get good enough for you to rest... With depression, anxiety, stress, humor disorder, fatigue among others, i tell, it not worth or pay out... take care of yourself's first, no matter what.

[@lausenteternidad]

The minimum wage paid for a 40h week should be enough to sustain a family and buy some extra stuff.

[@sonofawil]

It’s Greg! I miss “Thug Notes” immensely.

[@LolTroll217]

Appreciate y’all usin your platform to address this idea

[@yournextdoorgamerwithgames2945]

“Why we can’t stop working.” We arnt paid enough to keep food on the fucking table, that’s why.

[@mjtdacoolest96]

In 2017 I had 3 jobs and went to school full time. I worked front desk at a gym, worked at a haunted house at night and went to school and did photography and Lyft in between. I remember having an extreme sense of self worth. I could say I was the hardest working person I know. When I’m not working my ass off like that I get sad about being broke. It was like I was distracting myself from other sadness.

[@jazzknh1105]

I'm so glad Greg is a regular host, I missed him from Thug-Notes. And yes, hustle culture is bullshit. I want to actually enjoy my life damnit.

[@reelchange8542]

This video changed my life. I was maximizing my "productivity" during the Covid and couldn't understand why I kept having mental breakdowns. Fortunately, I tried slowing down, making more art and music and.....waddyaknow i been feelin better :)) thanks for the awesome video, and for thinking about disabled people too! Greg has such a wonderful scratchy voice too... reminds me of a cats purr :) Keep on being awesome guys

[@squirelova1815]

"Bootstraps" for the peasants and Bailouts for the Criminal Aristocrats.

[@saylensya]

I just had a burnout this weekend and decided to do nothing for one week, because I NEED REST. In my first day trying to rest, i just can thinking "what i'll do now??", i forgot how to rest HAHAHA and this video cames out for me and answered my question, thank u hustle culture is bad and capitalism is killing us :)

[@conorosirideain5512]

I LOVED this episode. It reminded me of the carbon footprint campaign, and how it was financed by the oil companies.

[@lainiwakura1776]

Those anti-smoking ads are paid for by the tobacco industry.

[@MRCKify]

@@lainiwakura1776 .... because of lawsuits. They also send money to the State Governments (in America), which ostensibly (but not always) fund health departments. That's why both Health Depts and Big Tobacco want a "fair" tax on vaping, if not enough regulation to smother this rival habit.

[@drdevonprice]

Thanks for giving my book some love! Really love how you encapsulated so many working parts of where this workaholic culture came from and who it targets and oppresses most. So elegantly done.

[@ZetaMoolah]

Cooperation> competition

[@camelopardalis84]

There's a video titled "Don't Compete" on the "NonCompete" channel. Might interest you.

[@thegazetteyt]

We also have a new tendency to constantly monetize our hobbies. "You should make that a business!" We hear that all the time, and then something we actually used as a recreation from our main job becomes a job, and now we have two jobs we hate.

[@TheSonOfPlato]

One day we will look back and laugh at the idea of a “40 hour work week”

[@ypsawbones3646]

40 hour work week Will be a blessing for some professions

[@slowrunn3r88]

I pushed through college several years ago, and sadly I didn’t get the jobs I had hoped for (long story - not as simple as “useless degree”) I considered nursing school two years ago (when my job at the time was stressful enough). A few people said I needed to “grow up” and “focus on career, not child’s playtime” (my hobbies - like cosplay and dancing) I gave in and started prerequisites for nursing school, while working full time at a hospital. I was miserable, and so many people told me to suck it up, push myself, and it’ll pay off ……in like five years …….eventually I said eff that, stopped school, and focused on my hobbies I’m so much happier and more confident than I have ever been. I have a decent following on social media, and I’ve had countless teenagers approach me at anime conventions to tell me they follow me on social media. It’s made me cry - I appreciate them so much I’m so much better off for NOT “living to work”

[@canles]

18 hours a day working. I wonder what she counts as work. It could be, that she leaves the office at 2 pm and "is reachable by phone till 10 pm".

[@dadsfreetimeclassicgaming1220]

Greg is literally the reason i subbed to this channel. Can we get more videos explaining culture as it applies to all of us. And more books by greg. Those videos where greatness. Get more audible ads!

[@miroslavhoudek7085]

Based. Unionize people, like your life depended on it. Because it does and will.

[@tomseiple3280]

I have absolutely nothing to contribute here other than Greg's voice is absolutely always a boost to my day!

[@ArmageddonAngel]

In the high point of irony, there was a hustle ad prior to this video

[@lydbug6953]

The ad I got for this video was so perfect I thought it was an example of how they're commercialising hustle culture. Literally talking about how this 20 minute video will teach us how to stop procrastinating and will lead us to live the life we always wanted.

[@godonlyknows13]

*Feudalism:* The means of production is owned by the wealthy elite. The lower class is expected to work to survive. The lower class is woeful over their inability to attain upward movement in society but laments that that is just how things are. *Capitalism:* The means of production is owned by the wealthy elite. The lower class is expected to work to survive. The idea of upward movement through society is a common goal of the lower classes. Yet, it remains particularly difficult to attain, bordering on the impossible for the vast majority. The few breakthrough cases of lower-class people making it into the upper echelon‘s of society are carefully highlighted by the wealthy elite to give the portrayal that anyone, given enough Hardwork, can attain such a success. The lower class is woeful over their inability to move upward through society, but they lament that it is probably their fault that they are unable to do so. *Capitalism is just leveled up Feudalism*

[@lainiwakura1776]

lmao I didn't know I was tied to the land and wasn't allowed to leave without permission from the local Lord.

[@godonlyknows13]

@@lainiwakura1776 By giving the masses some freedom, the elite have managed to retain the majority of power and influence over the people and the land.

[@wesleyprince3465]

"NoT rEaL cApItAlIsM" -some 17 year old white kid pretending to be libertarian because his dad is a rich landlord but still doesn't even believe in privilege either.

[@anlize3422]

You can't give your best at anything you do if you don't take time off to rest and recover. Resting and enjoying your down time is the best way to keep yourself well and your interests well.

[@claynorwood9723]

Glad to see you back regularly, Greg. Missed you.

[@goreobsessed2308]

This is so sad, people need to have time to unwind and relax.

[@AwesomeBob]

I think part of the remedy to solving why we can't stop working so much is to ask ourselves what we're working for. Enough to survive is one thing. But how much of it is luxury, keeping up with the Kardashians and social media flexers. How much is "needing" the newest garbage that's constantly being advertized to us as the path to happiness? I worry a lot of our influences (especially "influencers") do not have our best interests in mind and if we can recognize and avoid that, we can find happiness in the time we're not working. It's not 100% of the problem, but a big factor.

[@nerusaru]

Agreed, but even mundane things like a house or medical expenses would mean working yourself to death.

[@okehokehokeh]

I used to be this person-too productive, in a way that I refused to go out of my room for lunch or dinner and be with my family. In the end, I had a misunderstanding with my parents, especially my dad, which later on I realized was something that can be avoidable. Good thing I was let go of that job. Now, I am more free to manage my time despite having a fixed 6am - 3pm job. I am no longer on this hustle pace. I wanted to find a part time job, but a body that fails me is telling me not to. I don't live a high earning life, but so far I have managed to be debt free and survive alone. I live a frugal and intentional life to balance work and leisure. So far, life is good here.

[@Suspinded]

Re: Booststraps I wouldn't be surprised if it started as a toungue in cheek reference to the original meaning of Bootstrapping, and parrots that weren't in on the joke kept using it in earnest. Sounds like it's time to reclaim the original meaning.

[@davesprivatelounge]

I remember reading somewhere a while ago, that it did in fact start as a sarcastic expression

[@jessiesargent7212]

Just like "politically correct " and "woke" and "fake news"

[@TheXrythmicXtongue]

Actually it's a reference that was supposed to be facetious. It was supposed to be you literally can't do it yourself. But somehow, we made a lie out of the original meaning...how American.

[@lainiwakura1776]

People misinterpret "blood is thicker than water" all the time and it's misquoted all the time. The actual quote is closer to meaning that the bonds you choose are stronger than familial bonds (the water part is literally "the water of the womb" in the quote).

[@lainiwakura1776]

@@TheXrythmicXtongue It's not a lie, it's been turned into something else by people who misunderstood it.

[@Yezu666]

This is the best video I've seen all week. Great job in summarizing all of this!

[@Korvorkian1]

This might very well be the best damn video you guys have made in a long while, perfectly detailed and executed as well as timed with everything going on.

[@micsulli19]

Do a video about how "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "American History X" are more relevant today than ever

[@aaggsmyhoopt2428]

I genuinely hope that with the recent great resignation and the blackout Friday happening soon, a new workers movement will happen soon. Otherwise we are moving toward an even “Greater Depression.”

[@dahakaguardianofthetimelin4780]

One of these days I'll die of an early heart attack and I'll shut my eyes happy, knowing that tomorrow will be a holiday

[@brandonmorel2658]

great quote.

[@tayeb7031]

that side hustle thing also ruined hobbies. if you have something that you're good at and enjoy doing then people expect you to turn it into a business rampant capitalism

[@zerevv]

yeah, converting hobbies into business is a double edge sword you can love your job or hate your hobby

[@ayior]

I've spent the last year trying to reclaim my hobbies, while also still pursuing a career in them (I'm in the animation/game industry) it was a hard process but a good one :D

[@Cooperblu]

I'm so glad Greg is back!

[@Smieska_13]

oof i feel personally attacked lol Seriously though, I believed that rhetoric of 'working hard will get you ahead in your career' so much, I remember working 5 months at this job I really wanted and hoped that if I put in all of my free time (literally, I had some sleepless nights and no weekends) into working hard at it and trying to catch up to other more experienced co-workers, that it would pay off. I worked so hard and got nothing in return; worse - I burned out. It took a psychologist to make me see that my self worth isn't how productive i am. Now it just makes me mad at how bullshit these 'MUH BRAND' and "content creators" attitudes are. That you have no one to blame but yourself and considered a failure if you can't keep up. Its a disgusting narrative.

[@kokitoKOKO]

"Work to live, and don´t live to work" -Anyone from Spain

[@browk2512]

Thank you Max Weber for writing this video

[@Gaib_al_lisan]

Man I hope they make you the main voice of the channel. Your voice is so fun to listen to.

[@rebeccariegger1132]

Greg! His responses to his grandfather's thoughts and opinions gets me every time 😂

[@HobbsBobbiJ]

This hit home hard. I use to be like this to the point I felt horrible about myself whenever I was watching a movie or just taking time to play a game. I was able to break out of it, but I learned it from my dad who is still stuck in this mentality. Growing up, he would work 3-5 jobs at once, never taking weekends or any day off. He is finally only working 2 jobs now due to his age, but I still see him struggling to figure out what to do with himself when it comes to his free time. It's heartbreaking to see and I hope future generations can break out of it.

[@DrippyWaffler]

Based wisecrack advocating for the working class and unions

[@WillmobilePlus]

Based wisecrack....that has no unions, like Buzzfeed and all of these other type of channels.

[@beuteltee1408]

For like 10 years I have been telling everybody that lazyness does not exist. Finally someone has same opinion. I really think it's only a matter of motivation and personal priorities whether you work and do chores or relax and play games.

[@lainiwakura1776]

It exists, everyone always has moments when doing nothing is better than doing something. That doesn't make it bad.

[@BojanMilic84]

I love Greg's takes.

[@jerrygil1965]

I'm recently a part-time employee and yes, life is SUCH a hustle

[@MrGameFreak777]

"Idle hands are the devil's playthings". An idea that equates any time not working as a moral failing.

[@luis545x39]

it means you should stay bussy not necessarily work or money related. could be fitness, books, etc.

[@JalenJaguar]

Greg always brings such wisdom & insight as well as a great sense of humor to EVERY topic no matter how mundane or difficult to discuss 👌🏽

[@Matt-Hazel]

"I would pull myself up by my boot straps, if I could afford them."

[@rookhobbes9055]

Hustle Culture makes me wish for those booths from Futurama. You know the ones.

[@eduardosilveira6974]

Ok this might be the best and most existential dread inducing video on KZbin

[@SacClass650]

Neoliberalism's 'therapeutic manoeuvre' as M. Feher calls it (shout out to Austin!)

[@JaimeNyx15]

I still think our legacies as people do center on our achievements, but the mistake of hustle culture is in engineering us to believe that the only kind of achievement is monetary success. Being a good friend/parent/spouse is an achievement. Helping people in your community is an achievement. Volunteering for environmental protection is an achievement. You can still live a fulfilling life without total monetary success, though if you live in a community where you have to hustle in order to survive, you don’t have that option unless you work really hard and get lucky.

[@Crittek]

It all comes down to what do YOU want out of life. Don't let society pressure you into what you think the ideal life is. On that notion don't blame anyone else but yourself because there is always options, just use your noodle; maybe meditate a bit.

[@socialistprofessor3206]

Fantastic video, informative and insightful! I spent 11 years between Austria and China, and found that people in both places have better health, happiness and family lives. Since I've been back in the States I've been trying to get abroad again. Most Americans don't realize how badly they have it.

[@TheSolarWolf]

This world is going to kill itself with worshipping labor like this.

[@DocAwesum]

Great voice for this! I listen to WC vids at work, and the cadence and delivery on this video (audio) is excellent for communicating the theses and details presented! Awesome channel!

[@vijaz5559]

Oh god... We're going to become the next Japan

[@darkprogram]

Enjoy your karoshi epidemic in the name of the american dream.

[@camelopardalis84]

@@vijaz5559 Pretty sure that was cynical sarcasm.

[@zeliavoss]

I've been a freelance writer since 2011 back when this hustle crap was barely getting moving. People think I'm an early 'hustler,' but I was just stressed at my old job, not ambitious. My entire career over the past decade has focused on minimal work hours with low-stress projects and clients. I could certainly work more and make more, or start my own company, but fuck all that. I make enough and I have plenty of time to NOT work, which is way better than perma-hustling.