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[@Mrevits78]

"We pay you as much as we let you think you're worth." I laughed, I cried...mostly cried.

[@sublimed13]

Sounds like Rich Dad, Poor Dad when he says businesses pay workers just enough to keep them working, and workers do just enough work to stay at the business

[@natenate2280]

maybe get a useful job

[@Vooda88]

They pay us enough that we wouldn't starve, but not enough so we could save enough money to quit

[@Vooda88]

@@natenate2280 Does an only electrician in a hospital sounds useful enough for you? And I barely make enough to last me until the next payday

[@skrpt47]

​@@Vooda88You gotta find something else. You're working in a hospital, with that background there will for sure be better places hiring you

[@michaelfairchild]

As blue collar worker that made me laugh hard. "Hand jobs", "Selling your body".

[@MelGibsonFan]

@@tsharabrown3719 It’s like Rodney Dangerfield said, sex work, you got it, you sell and you still got it. Lol

[@JimmyMon666]

I'm a technician, technically blue collar, though not particularly physically demanding (though occasionally I have to move machines). Regardless, I'll call my job a hand job from here on out. I give good hand jobs.

[@trenvert123]

@@tsharabrown3719 That's actually cool. I've occasionally thought about trying to break into that industry, but then I remember that I have a very low libido, and that I'd probably be miserable doing that.

[@hazukichanx408]

It's funny how many derogatory terms people have invented specifically so that they can use them on various others and feel superior to them. This endless struggle to pose and posture, to bellow one's "alpha-ness" (a theory debunked by its own originator) from the rooftops, lest others confuse oneself for some sort of non-protagonist in the story each of us is living. Life is either a pretty cool co-operative game, or Player-vs-Player hell. I know which I'd rather live in!

[@slimjaydee]

I'm a "street walker" myself. I deliver mail

[@rarri1982]

Table guys face is so desperate but fake "happy" at the same time! I resonate with that

[@cracked]

We actually tied him there

[@clevelandmaker386]

@@cracked TRUTH

[@Chetloore]

It bothers me how real this is. I would much rather watch Roger than Adam ruins everything. They're both good but Adam just educates, I feel like people are too far gone for that. Roger on the other hand makes you feel like a f****** idiot and I think that might be what the world needs.

[@chewycenter]

Totally captured The Work Face.

[@rarri1982]

@@cracked 😂

[@themysticsamoan]

I used to work 50 hours a week just to pay the bills. Now I own my business and I work 24/7 and I’m broke.

[@skrpt47]

​@@ConontheBinarianthen it's not anymore an overnight success

[@skrpt47]

Good thing you're not poor

[@RinkyRoo2021]

All the storys they tell are BS ,the I started in a Garage is a myth ,the family usually had lots of money.......I ve been working in my garage for 16 years and cant escape😅

[@Sirciel]

​@@RinkyRoo2021nub

[@Twitch_Moderator]

​@@Sircielnub is a short version of something that was long. Like a finger that was amputated. I think you mean, "noob".

[@xxcrysad3000xx]

"... in an ouroborusian cycle of entitled sadness." lmao, i dunno who wrote that line but give that squarepusher a raise!

[@cracked]

Mom! I got a raise!

[@satvikgupta9549]

@@cracked ​ @Cracked Sorry you have to engage with people in the comments like this, this cannot possibly be a fulfilling use of your PR/Marketing degree... That one was pretty funny though...disingenuous but funny

[@lilmike2710]

Sounds like something that some Marxist says to sell Communism to a classroom of empty headed dreamers. The gospel of the resentful.

[@xxcrysad3000xx]

@@lilmike2710 whatever you say grandpa!

[@lilmike2710]

@@xxcrysad3000xx You think I'm your Grandpa? What stroke of brilliance popped into your neck bearded head that caused that failure of presumption?

[@kobuseksteen411]

You skipped the part where Roger takes back 30% of the face papers he just gave you for doing the job, but doesn't do that to the people who own the most face papers since they hide they facepapers in special facepaper protecting buildings in different countries.

[@uncannyvalley2350]

Representative Democracy hasn't worked in over 50 years because politicians will always come from the monied classes and be beholden to their Corporate Donors, only way we avoid this apocalypse is to stage a Velvet Revolution to install a Scaled Direct Democracy. Citizen Initiated Referendums with thresholds and a Social Contract using Blockchain technology means communities can vote their own policies without parties or politicians. Banning Beef, Oil, and Fishing Subsidies would stall climate change and habitat degradation overnight. Thorium Energy renders their global oil monopoly obsolete. Police can be actively policed by an independent public authority with the power to prosecute bad actors in our own courts. Or we can bend over and accept our Orwellian future

[@Isaiah094]

Ah, the most important part

[@OffGridInvestor]

You know.... it's not incredibly hard to hide MOST inside your own country.

[@senffabrik4903]

taxes? The ones that pay the roads you walk on? These are taken by public, and given to the handworker. Maybe to the artist too and the squaretyper desk guy. See it more meta please.

[@johnmccrossan9376]

We should get some different country hiding buildings for people with not as many face papers

[@blackhogarth4049]

I'm someone who has a "hand job." After 22 years, my neck and back are developing chronic pain. The solution? Spend a whole bunch of paper with faces on physical therapy. So I can keep working. For more face papers. So I can pay for more physical therapy.

[@minimalistvlogger3467]

would you ever consider a different job like a "people" one or a "table" one?

[@geokon3]

@@minimalistvlogger3467 If he takes a people job he will need other kind of therapy...

[@brerrabbit4265]

I feel ya. 35 years as a steel fabricator/machine builder and 10 years doing tree work, back, neck, shoulders, knees, eyes, lungs and mental health have all taken a hit. Somehow, I still do not qualify for disability.

[@ronlugbill1400]

So, become a physical therapist. Then you can pay yourself paper with faces on it.

[@cryptoruntz]

gay

[@brianchaplin9085BEC.]

I worked in labor job for 40 years the one thing I learned quickly is your employer will take everything you can give to the job and when you can't perform your tasks they'll step over your body and get someone else. You are totally expendable they don't give a rat's ass whether you live or die.

[@Baseballisbest67]

Damn right

[@TheDogondone]

I manage laborers, and sadly yes this is 100% true. I've had to move past 3 employees just in the past year. It's not something most business owners enjoy doing, but it comes with the job as foreman contractor or business owner.

[@Michael_Oliver_]

@Aryan_Gentleman_ You do realize that "National Socialism" is just rebranded Communism right? I will stick with Capitalism, thank you very much.

[@bassw1758]

Yep,management's talent is they are ruthless, they make a living by burning people, I don't think it's always been quite this bad though

[@schwartzusmc0311]

Duh

[@judelarkin2883]

I managed to upgrade from a hand job to a table job. Yay. Big win. 🎉 😅 He’s completely right. I don’t use any more technical skill at my table job than I did at my hand job but I am now much more “respected.” Our society has messed up priorities.

[@jneusbaum3697]

judelarkin2883. There's NOTHING wrong with a good 'hand job'.

[@jaxonboys3366]

The more you sit down, the more you make and the more you make, the more respect. Here's the paradox that goes with it. You don't get paid well because you get no respect, you get no respect because you don't get paid well. Hard one to get out of.

[@eduardochavacano]

Lol

[@Perfidion]

I've done all four, and they were all equally shit, just in slightly different ways. Actually, no... the "people jobs" were probably the worst.

[@hawk66100]

Table job sounds unpleasant. With a hand job I know what to expect and know how it’s gonna end.

[@AnnoyingMoose]

As someone who has spent most of the past 40 years moving between hand jobs, people jobs, artist jobs, and even being an anthropomorphic labour donkey I have to confirm that Roger has nailed these descriptions perfectly!

[@a-s-greig]

Thank you for your service.

[@jdog929]

So which category did you prefer the most

[@bensoncheung2801]

144p 👍

[@dirtyjohnathan5612]

I’m curious! Which job did you prefer he most and why?

[@JosephRussellStapleton]

Which was your favorite?

[@christopheranderson2769]

Passive aggressively moving the cone was spot on.

[@disklamer]

Always stuff those bad boys on top of a half cinderblock to prevent accidental delocation of your roadway hazard indicators.

[@CHodgy]

​@@disklamerlove it, Imma try that Monday morning.

[@aprilgeneric8027]

@@disklamer the dude who built a snowman over his tree stump in his yard has more of my respect than any table danc...erm job will ever get.

[@JDC8792]

This phrase hits pretty hard... "We let you think you're making as much as you think you're worth".

[@syedenhammydude6196]

This actually , within reason, is the real truth. For most people, we are bounded by our own expectations of what we're worth (financially). Once we achieve that internal level, we will start sabotaging ourselves (financially) to maintain that level. If we feel we are worth a certain amount but are not earning as much, we will work hard, look for opportunities, etc... but often, when that hard work opens up opportunities _beyond_ what our internal value is, we start looking for ways to spend that extra bit down. Maybe work less, buy a flashier car, upgrade to a better house / better locality, get obnoxious at work, diss our clients, etc... Some other times, we value our contribution lower than what it is, and get paid accordingly. So yeah, we get paid what we think we're worth.

[@christophersandquist1092]

Yup. People settle for measly pay. Must push yourself if you ever want to attain more. Some people are just happy enough with what they have and don't mind to push.

[@CharlotteG754]

And if you disagree you get fired 😂

[@NYRyder1983]

It's really sad what the job market does to people.

[@TiagoMorbusSa]

I wish this was a parody :(

[@cracked]

Same tbh

[@withershin]

There's got to be more to life than that... hmmm...

[@ffdgasfdasgjdfgf]

yeah.....

[@velstadtvonausterlitz2338]

:'(

[@Nuke_Skywalker]

@@withershin easy: seize the means of production.

[@akrypha]

This video is perfect. Should be used as a public service announcement for those that turn 18 every year.

[@Honkinonthebobo]

For fuckin real, this vid just says what any reas9nable person is already thinking day to day, lol.

[@brianeustace4175]

I`ve been turning 18 every year for the past 25 years now.,

[@FJB2020LGB]

Except for the fact that he’s wrong about blue collar jobs, they pay very well, not low wage. Also colleges are a scam unless you’re getting a medical or science degree. Go get a blue collar job, like plumber, and start raking in the cash

[@neizanmendez6317]

the fact that this video was recommended to me 8 days after i turned 18

[@tinkthestrange]

Some states are letting 14 year olds get jobs

[@ElGuerreroMaya]

Thanks for describing the horrifying distopian society billionaires and politicians have entrapped us in

[@MostHighEmperorPalpatine]

It's only a trap because they've convinced you that you have no power. We outnumber them a million to 1

[@dinglesworld]

“It’s ok though because at least you’re not that ‘other’ person” -How plantation owners justified screwing over small farmers during the you-know-what-times

[@USAads2023]

What would be the solution? Communism or going back to be hunter gater/farmers? One doesn’t work as it is anti intellectual and the other doesn’t work as machines have done products so cheap you will live in poverty. And I am talking real poverty, no shoes poverty, no American poverty where your car is 2 years old

[@RandJ1996]

Go live off land......you have no idea what horrifying is.

[@arizonanative7409]

Amen!

[@gossamera4665]

The worst part of working, is that you're expected to be happy while slaving away.

[@Ato995]

People are obsessed with being served with smile.

[@lux_24601]

Why choose between a desk, physical labor, or people job when you can be a nurse and have all 3? Hahaha 😭

[@laurac7289]

Or a primary school teacher!

[@bolla999999999]

Same thing as any other job tbh. Lack of staff and the nightshifts is generaly what sucks. Hour for hour it really aint that special. Just as i told my butcher friend: I could do what you do but I apreciate that you do it so I don`t have to.

[@ArunShankartheRealOne]

@@laurac7289 As a father of two, I can say school teachers have it much worse. But I presume the job has its moments.

[@JimBob-eg7vq]

I'm so tired of nurses bitching

[@NekoTamer15]

I was about to ask what category medical falls under. You're absolutely right

[@grandmasterace4785]

The whole section about labourers was just a tongue in cheek way to say handjob as many times as possible and get away with it.... 😂😂😂

[@cracked]

Look, our writing process is VERY serious

[@mymyhi9921]

@@cracked sure

[@KnivingDispodia]

@@cracked you hacks haven’t been funny since you laid off all your good writers.

[@InquisitiveUniverse]

@@cracked 😂😂😂😂 yeah right

[@CMyBigHarryBLLS]

This is funny,relatable, and depressing all at the same time dang

[@2Sor2Fig]

I used to consider myself a farmer. Now that I know I'm actually an anthropomorphic labor donkey, it all makes sense now.

[@arcguardian]

As a desk jockey, farmers are my heroes. I can't eat my screen or square buttons I push down.

[@bujdosogyula3429]

@@arcguardian You can, but they are unhealthy to eat.

[@arcguardian]

@@bujdosogyula3429 well technically I can after I put them in a strong blender.

[@2Sor2Fig]

@@arcguardian I see where you're going with this, and I approve.

[@uncannyvalley2350]

We are all working so rich people can continue to tell us to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps. (Analogy for an impossible feat) Representative Democracy hasn't worked in over 50 years because politicians will always come from the monied classes and be beholden to their Corporate Donors, only way we avoid this apocalypse is to stage a Velvet Revolution to install a Scaled Direct Democracy. Citizen Initiated Referendums with thresholds and a Social Contract using Blockchain technology means communities can vote their own policies without parties or politicians. Banning Beef, Oil, and Fishing Subsidies would stall climate change and habitat degradation overnight. Thorium Energy renders their global oil monopoly obsolete. Police can be actively policed by an independent public authority with the power to prosecute bad actors in our own courts. Or we can bend over and accept our Orwellian future

[@richbailey819]

Let's not forget where he continuously raises prices on things in small increments so that people can buy less and less with their face papers, while he somehow gets more and more of them at the same time.

[@bradystockert6113]

While he also refuses to give them more face papers to help cover those rising prices

[@brandonpetersen5710]

Actually he does give more face papers to cover it. Only because he wants people to spend money. Why? Because it all goes back to him anyway.

[@coolbrotherf127]

This isn't even a joke. It's just too real.

[@trynox4fun259]

And people who are targeted by this "joke" laugh and says: "Hey! That's literally me! haha" like yeah and dont you think that makes you think about life and how everything works bad? People are like sheeps, obey, sleep, work, reproduce. Society is insane.

[@RandomPerson-hd6wr]

@@trynox4fun259 yea

[@Humble-iq5ue]

@@trynox4fun259 they live

[@thepotatoofheaven]

@@trynox4fun259 also shame others for not reproducing as if everyone just has to for some reason

[@milesinwyatteandcora]

@@trynox4fun259 well there's joing crime syndicates and by luck and charisma if you do well , you can be sitting on loads of money lol

[@ItsJustMe0585]

I'm an animator. That part with the painter totally kicked me in the gut. Too true. :'(

[@TimBitten]

Fear not!! Soon, robots will do all the animating and you’ll just have to touch up their work to make it acceptable to the AI CEO!

[@skrpt47]

​@@TimBittenDamn

[@freya-r4904]

@@TimBittenugh, even worse. All robots and AIs might as well take majority of the jobs.

[@pphrph]

you WILL animate the most vile thing imaginable

[@corntastrophy]

Same here, it hurts

[@theholyduck5520]

Roger shows us that without context, literally everything in life is a confusing, existential nightmare. Thanks, Roger!

[@badflamer]

nah, just everything under capitalism. socialism will be a better way.

[@theyarnycaterpillar]

​@@badflamerThat's what you believe baby 😂 Have you researched all the countries that when socialist?

[@badflamer]

@@theyarnycaterpillar yeah, they literally all got better. But unlike you, I actually read and don't consider John Oliver as High Academia.

[@theyarnycaterpillar]

@@badflamer Whatever you believe, I don't believe they all got better.

[@badflamer]

@@theyarnycaterpillar lol, what's wrong? scared to do some actual reading? This isn't a matter of 'belief', it's observable fact. Cuba's main export is literally world class doctors and surgeons. China has done more to eliminate extreme poverty in the last 2 decades than any western nation has literally ever done ever the USSR straight up gave people free housing, as in homes they now owned, to incentivize rural people to move into the city centers. Can you imagine being from alabama and being told you will not have to pay rent for your new 2 bedroom apartment in new york? just because the government decided it was worth the cost to build the houses first because they knew people would need them? That's what happened to rural folk in the USSR. Famine was a regular occurrence in tsarist russia because it was a semi-feudal state where the urban aristocrats were the only ones benefiting from any sort of modernization of industry and concentration of resources. Once the october revolution was done, the Bolsheviks instituted into law that no matter what happened, the government would foot the bill for any increase in food wares. Meaning if you were buying bread for the equivalent of 2$ on january, then through the year there were economic disturbances, come novermber you'll still only be paying 2$ for your fucking bread. Why should it be the common person's job to make up for the economic fuck ups of bigwigs? hell, even for modern examples, try and look up wealth disparity in Vietnam, even after a century of French exploitation and a failed US invasion. They stuck to their socialist ideals (arguably much better than China, which has skewed too capitalist for my tastes even if its preliminary statistics seem promising). Now, me just saying a couple of these objective, easily researchable facts, will make people think i consider the previous communist and socialist experiments to have existed without fault, but unline USians I am not an ideologue. I could write at length about the many failings of former socialism (Stalin outlawing gay relationships, for example, is a Massive L when Lenin had been pro-gay-rights before him. Though it also pays to remember that the entire world was violently homophobic in the 40s and 50s, so that still only knocks him down to the same level as his western 'peers'), but will only do so in good faith with people who understand that the US hegemon has spent the last 70 years explicitly pushing anti communist propaganda and outright lies in order to protect the interests of the ruling wealthy class. The US is a fascist distopya that has only ever managed to maintain its power through violent oppression and then lying about it, and then saying "no actually, it's everyone ELSE who is the despot. except for israel and saudi arabia, who are despots that I like, fuck you." Understand that the Us is the bad guy (if such a thing were to exist anyways), and you will understand why it is that your dying empire has no health care, food deserts, more violence than anywhere else on teh world with comparable wealth, and is ruled by 1 capitalist party with 2 faces. The system is not broken, it is working exactly as intended, so maybe stop blindly believing what that system has told you about other systems. its the tactic of an abuser to be "shut the fuck up, i didn't hit you that hard, and even if I did no one else would love you but me so be thankful i'm around."

[@CatEyedGoddess]

Let’s also add the corporate brainwashing of, “ there’s no such thing as that’s not my job. “ or your manager can delegate their responsibilities to the ppl that report to them. So in other words, we will pay you to only do your job on paper but in reality we can force you to do your job and your boss’s job ( even though they get paid more to do their own job) as well as other additional task we decide to add to your plate and please don’t tells you are too busy. We don’t care. Also when raises come none of your extra work will be taken into consideration. Only the 3 mistakes you made 10 months earlier.

[@andyb.1643]

The really frustrating part of it all is that when you’re an exceptional person and manage to do the job you were hired to do so well that you’re not overworked and stressed out, your boss will give you more to do until you ARE overworked & stressed out. Got time to go grab some coffee and a smoke? You must be fucking off! Give that guy more work, but no raise or promotions. We used to have a sort of a true joke at this place I once worked at- "Working here is like working in a whorehouse... the better you are, the more everyone wants to f*** you..."

[@CatEyedGoddess]

@@andyb.1643 👏👏👏👏 1000% correct!!!!

[@jneusbaum3697]

Too true Goddess.

[@yes-me6yg]

Corporations: the totalitarian nightmare run by parasites that nobody asked for

[@M4RK_H4RRIS]

This needs to be heard 😮

[@adamcolclasure4892]

Clearly, should be played in school or college to show people how America is set up. The retail part was very accurate.

[@midsizesedan7620]

Too many meat suits that can't accept change

[@kondaniphiri5610]

As someone who was in retail this bit was painful

[@sirianrune198]

how Capitalism is set up. *

[@DlaniTeney]

bruh, it's more like how great part of modern world is set up

[@killcrap1]

they wont because its beneficial to them to make us no think these

[@jonatanschwindt8065]

I love the part of the painter... people say : find a job you love and you won't work a day in your life... I wholeheartedly disagree... I say: if you love something, keep it as a hobby. If you have to do it even when you dont want, you end up hating it

[@MySpaceDxC_Suffo_AtTheGates]

When is there time for hobbies in the rat race? Lol

[@MySpaceDxC_Suffo_AtTheGates]

Saturday or Sunday I guess.

[@thethegreenmachine]

There are exceptions.

[@paulis7319]

I spent 12 years of my life as a professional pilot because it was my childhood dream job. The last 2-3 years before I left it was nothing but a job - it was no longer fun. Now i'm in the process of turning another fun hobby into a career (gunsmithing). I wonder how long this will be fun before it's "just a job" again. 🤣

[@thethegreenmachine]

@@alext9612 Inspiration is a delicate thing.

[@latandlon]

This is how our society works, thanks for showing the passion jobs 😀

[@cracked]

Our pleasure!

[@roxaskinghearts]

Fun fact taiwann semiconductors owns the chip that will power our modern future intel skull canyon nuc where most pcs take 300 watts this takes 75 watts compared to the iphone now to what this chip is capable of for blockchain google as a whole the internet as a whole the fun fact about these chips is if made right could live for the next 100 years but any autocracy limits and this could litterally take till 2100 to 100% automate you out of our economy as elon musk just end death its not as dumb as it sounds neural lace has already established from its parent company the ability to augment sight into the blind with no eyes or a coma patient

[@hazukichanx408]

Missed a chance to also mention that because the creative passion jobs involve doing things people consider fun and fulfilling, there are so many people trying to do them professionally that the competition becomes desperately cutthroat and however good and passionate you are, you'll probably be passed up time and again in favor of someone slightly better (by various employers' standards). Or just someone with 25 years of experience in the field. Overpopulation is great!!

[@roxaskinghearts]

@@hazukichanx408 Over population fulfilling jobs dude what are you even talking about do you like being broke Doctors overpopulated job lawyers overpopulated job Construction Overpopulated jobs Blue collar workers over populated jobs art pays a living wage and requires you to learn tools like unity or unreal music pays people beyond living wage again 99% of jobs are pointless and can easily be 100% automated today waymo is in 6 countries 30 states of America

[@coreyroberts47]

@@hazukichanx408 it’s not as populated as you think. Just nobody wants to pay for it but everyone wants to consume it. First show I played I got paid in pizza

[@sojoboscribe1342]

"And, because I have so many face papers I can exchange for things I want, I can even exchange them for people to change the rules so I can give you even FEWER face papers for doing even MORE STUFF. In fact, me and the other facilitators with a lot of face papers have done SUCH a good job of paying people to change the rules so we can give you fewer face papers we've almost got it back to the good old days when we could literally get you to do all of the stuff we wanted without giving you any face papers at all, because we could get other pieces of paper that let us say that you owed us doing stuff without face papers because of something we did to bring you to the place where you could do stuff for us* we decided that, as long as we put you in the place where we keep people who don't do what we want them to do, we can make you do stuff for even LESS face paper than we have to give the people who behave the way we want them too** or even we don't have to ever give you any face paper because we own your meatbag and the meatbags of any little meatbags you make and all of the stuff you and they can do.*** *Indentured Servitude **Prison Labor ***Slavery.

[@CordeliaWagner]

Break the system by denying giving it childre. Less children = less future low waiges wirkers, less workers = more power. Demand and supply.

[@gabrielhersey5546]

United States has been a slaves worker nation since 1609 and still is today

[@sojoboscribe1342]

@@gabrielhersey5546 Pretty much EVERYWHERE is and always has been some form of a slave work nation since the dawn of time. Once you get to the point where you start relying on others to do some of your work for you, you start to try and figure out how to get more work or stuff out of them for less work or stuff you have to provide. And if you can somehow FORCE others to do ALL of your work for you without having to give them ANYTHING, that seems like the best deal of all.

[@cfri9332]

@@sojoboscribe1342 I can't be the only one that thinks this is a form of mental sickness. To think that way, and actually think it's a good thing. Like imagine being on the top of society and your most pressing thought is "big boat, I want big boat". Like that's just straight up sad to me.

[@sojoboscribe1342]

@@cfri9332 I'd say the sickness is even deeper. Humans are probably the only creatures who, once they get everything they could possibly want, will actually want, and spend resources to, make sure others DON'T get anything THEY want, so as to make the stuff they have more valuable and make them value it still more. Plenty of animals can be violent and hurt and kill, but I think humans are the only ones who have figured out how to derive PLEASURE from hurting and killing others. Nature can be brutal and cruel, but only humans could have invented sadism and schadenfreude.

[@KingTechHD]

😂 I had to stop it and share this experience with my wife. She works a table job. I’m retired, but still need pages w/ faces

[@abiwii16]

question. whats he mean , by " pages with faces"?

[@tbucknor]

@@abiwii16 money

[@2Bad4YOUuu]

@@abiwii16 0:22 $Dollar Bills$

[@random6033]

Political Economy has always confined itself to stating facts occurring in society, and justifying them in the interest of the dominant class. Thus it is in favour of the division of labour created by industry. Having found it profitable to capitalists it has set it up as a principle. Look at the village smith, said Adam Smith, the father of modern Political Economy. If he has never been accustomed to making nails he will only succeed by hard toil in forging two to three hundred a day, and even then they will be bad. But if this same smith has never done anything but nails, he will easily supply as many as two thousand three hundred in the course of a day. And Smith hastened to the conclusion - “Divide labour, specialize, go on specializing; let us have smiths who only know how to make heads or points of nails, and by this means we shall produce more. We shall grow rich.” That a smith sentenced for life to the making of heads of nails would lose all interest in his work, would be entirely at the mercy of his employer with his limited handicraft, would be out of work four months out of twelve, and that his wages would decrease when he could be easily replaced by an apprentice, Smith did not think of it when he exclaimed - “Long live the division of labour. This is the real gold-mine that will enrich the nation!” And all joined in the cry. And later on, when a Sismondi or a J. B. Say began to understand that the division of labour, instead of enriching the whole nation, only enriches the rich, and that the worker, who for life is doomed to making the eighteenth part of a pin, grows stupid and sinks into poverty - what did official economists propose? Nothing! They did not say to themselves that by a lifelong grind at one and the same mechanical toil the worker would lose his intelligence and his spirit of invention, and that, on the contrary, a variety of occupations would result in considerably augmenting the productivity of a nation. But this is the very issue now before us. - Peter Kropotkin, Conquest of Bread

[@nobody7817]

I work a table job and I literally go home and press more squares... when dude said that I died... I mean in more ways than 1... lol

[@thexreaper6930]

As a laborer myself I can say this is almost true. I have to make sure I don't hurt my neck or back when I am lifting heavy objects. Not every hand jobs will make you look healthy and fit. On the contrary, these type of jobs don't build you up, they wear you down, resulting in not just injuries but also weight gain. Imagine being Santa Clause, but fatter and sadder, but somehow stronger then your average joe. Also, many of these people are either well pass retirement age or have some sort of physical or mental issues/disabilities yet still require to work like soldiers in the military. Remember at the end of the day all that matters is producing results for your higher ups and making sure you are on their good side when they "need" to cut production cost.

[@thexreaper6930]

@@AA-xj6ho Sounds like it's about time to find a new job. One that pays more and doesn't require you working overtime.

[@jenkathefridge3933]

​@@AA-xj6ho find a different job

[@minimalistvlogger3467]

why dont you try other types of jobs that arent physically demanding?

[@airviper6]

To those that ask, “Why don’t you just look for another job”? That is a great question, please allow me a couple moments of your time to share my answer to your question on behalf of this laborer. Yes, you may simply look for another job but acquiring a stable job/career takes time, experience, money, sometimes good credit, and a positive employment history. I’m sure there are probably other factors, but those are the ones I could think of quickly. Money can become less of an issue if you utilize financial aid from various government programs, but acceptance is not guaranteed, nor is full reimbursement or upfront coverage costs. Time and energy are the next biggest points that continuously become more and more thin. Employers are cutting hours down per week, anywhere from 30 minutes to 10 hours, or they’re making you perform additional hours (OT pay or Not). It wouldn’t be bad for anyone if house were lower and pay was starting to come back to the workers.

[@thexreaper6930]

@@airviper6 Thank you for trying to answer this question for us. I don't know what type of career I want. All I desire is a good job that pays good money, enough to get my own house and make a decent living. Currently I make more money now then any previous jobs I have ever held (over $17 per hour) While I do have medicaid currently (for how much longer I don't know), I don't rely on any other government programs for money due to the constant change in political opinions, requirements, consequences, etc. For me, the government is too unreliable. As for time and energy, my job fortunately does not require much overtime from me on a regular bases, but that is made up by the sheer amount of work that needs to get done on a daily bases. Truthfully, it's draining and exhausting, but it needs to be done for both our store and for our customers (even if neither or fully appreciate it).

[@xellosmetallium8519]

As a Table job worker, I agree 100%, there is no reason to go into the office. It's a waste of time. The only reason why business insist you come in, is because they don't trust you to do the work at home. Socialize? Yeah, it's alright, you do make some good friends, however you always run into people who are waiting to stab you in the back too.

[@anthonyfaucy2761]

To be fair alot of workers do mess around at home and pretend to work. I've seen plenty of times on the internet where some workers admit they are getting paid and pretend to work or are playing videogames while their laptop is on. Its always a few who ruin it for everyone

[@venomlink2033]

It’s also because they got into a predatory building lease they can’t leave for 10 years after signing, and they need to justify having the building until they don’t have to renew it anymore.

[@jeffp.7598]

@@venomlink2033 Ya hit the nail on the head. Often times the CEOs have some form of ownership (like stocks) in the buildings they rent or nearby business that get most their profit from the workers (fast food places.)

[@ryandeoliveira3780]

"Why be happy when you can buy happiness?" - A quote that I saw spray painted on a bridge during my daily commute. Thought I should share this here.

[@654Crossman]

Sounds like a government sponsored ad in an 80s dystopian movie. Sick times, we're in.

[@OfNoImport]

No wonder unaliving and depression are at pandemic levels :-/

[@gwils7879]

Like nearly as bad as the Great Depression, actually.

[@HackersSun]

Eh, my two years off earned me a data entry job that feels the same as sitting on the dole Only they switched my department to be under the lab and not the administrative branch and the lab techs are a bunch of power hungry assholes

[@johnlucas6683]

Nah, just more in the know now because of social media or whatever's used in the internet to connect people.

[@Louis13XIII]

@@johnlucas6683 false, depression’s skyrocketing

[@jashanestone]

Outside of people not smoking cigarettes as well. A lot of people are losing their minds because more people stop smoking cigarettes to calm their minds. A sad truth.

[@SignumSomnia]

I now want to call all money “paper with faces”

[@chriskelso723]

Or Face Paper

[@JamalFuckinKilla]

I only have abstract plastic.

[@spinolover124]

​@@JamalFuckinKillaCanadian pesos?

[@kameljoe21]

The transition from table workers to hand jobs, the drop of the music to the natural sound is so damn scary.

[@wyldebill4178]

The beer gut on the pants closeup. I felt that.

[@southcoastinventors6583]

Luckily there is finally a pill for that.

[@SpaceG95]

I resemble that remark 😓

[@natebalcerak1659]

​@@SpaceG95nyuck-nyuck-nyuck!

[@keythah]

Why do Roger videos always make me laugh while also causing me intense existential ennui and emotional pain? More importantly, why do I love it so much?

[@cracked]

We do our best haha

[@whatisahandle221]

😄😆😂😯😦😣😫😢

[@KnivingDispodia]

It’s cheap, faux-self aware garbage.

[@a-s-greig]

@@cracked it shows. Keep up the good work -(or else)-

[@anonl5877]

I can't believe every job sucks. Having an office job is like going to prison for 8 hours a day. Having a blue-collar job will cause chronic pain issues. Having a service job will slowly turn you into a psychopath from having to deal with Karens. Having a creative job will make you poor.

[@ericbroussard7402]

Like he said at the beginning. There are other ways to find food.

[@emilyau8023]

Prisoners don't agree with you.

[@1980maranda]

I was a corrections officer and had the privilege of experiencing all of the above. I was in a jail 8-16 hours a day, had chronic pain from walking on concrete in boots all day, slowly felt myself morphing into a psychopath from dealing with, you know, hundreds of psychopaths a day.

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

@@1980marandawonder how many of them were also slowly becoming psychopaths from those conditions… Probably a lot, I’d wager.

[@1980maranda]

@@Aaa-vp6ug If you want raw honesty, a lot of them. I was becoming alarmed at my own behavior and thoughts. Madness is contagious. It took me about a year to fully snap out of it. I had an officer sit me down, look me in the eye and say “I can tell you’re a good person, but soon enough, you won’t be. Get out before this place completely consumes you”. I didn’t listen and found out he was right.

[@davionwilliams4011]

Being a digital artist with more and more time going by since I've actually sat down and created something, that last bit hit hard 😅😂

[@thomasvleminckx]

How does it feel being replaced with AI

[@qualivia]

"Don't worry, Friend, with the rise of AI Art, you won't be saddled with commissioned work that pays you less than $5 an hour when you consider the amount of effort and time you put into a project when a robot will eventually replace you and your colleagues all the while using your work as a template and selling art pieces that it made copying your style. Isn't that swell"

[@zonyae29047]

I've been drawing for the past 10 years and every time someone tells me I need to commodify my art I just want to put the pencil down more. Like bruh let me enjoy literally anything without trying to make a side hussle out of it

[@Pancakegr8]

@@zonyae29047Having someone tell you to commodify your art is annoying enough on its own, but it gets worse when the person telling you knows absolutely nothing about marketing or how time consuming the creative process can be… which is pretty much everyone now that I think about it :/

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

@@thomasvleminckxdon’t worry…everything starts with the creative sector before it manifests in other forms. I didn’t believe it, but my own mother who is in carework/nursing said there is talk of moving more patients out to be treated from home with automated monitoring. So…even that is in the crosshairs.

[@YouCallThataKnife253]

:58 I'm literally "working" at that exact table, right now.

[@guillaumelagueyte1019]

Hehe, "working"

[@TuxraGamer]

@@guillaumelagueyte1019 gotta get a job first before you can complain

[@JadedeaJade]

My work table doubles as my "fun" table. I was watching this while wfh lmao.

[@chaosmastermind]

"Anthropomorphized labor donkeys." Now THAT's a new one. I love it. I'm using it from now on.

[@unprofessionalreviews26]

The last shots were not a blooper, it was this actor getting paid for the shoot.

[@chriskelso723]

Lol

[@hujiaming6151]

No, not about actor, it is true because after all they found they really need physical workers after all, more than it looks like on the outside, so they keep throwing money at him.

[@FreyaofCerberus]

"I took a temporary job while my creative ideas found their audience.....20 years ago" hit uncomfortably close to home. Another great video to round out the year. Thank you for all the content and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to you all and all the best in 2023!

[@cracked]

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to you too!

[@SkateSka]

@@satvikgupta9549 It would be really funny if replying to cracked online comments required a diploma

[@satvikgupta9549]

@@SkateSka In the field of Marketing, and especially PR, it is an entry level job, just above an intern, but mostly pawned off to interns...So is replying to and creating memes for people on social media, the job listings are usually from name brands though, but could just be that I haven't been exposed enough and these sort of jobs exist for the lower tier brands as well...

[@MsDudette21]

exactly. when the last time u heard about a famous artist? Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat are the most recent ones I know of. There's also Banksy but he's anonymous and probably has a whole team. Are there any famous artists of today? I assume many of the became famous unintentionally and without the help of social media, you'd have to be really good. But being famous for art today to me seems nearly impossible.

[@reaperluke3518]

It's true. White collar. Blue collar. Customer service. Artistic jobs. You have a 75% chance of eventually hating it with every fiber of your being. A female friend of mine switched from a white collar job where they mobbed her to a job where she writes novels. Too bad those aren't her OWN novels (sci-fi and fantasy) but ghostwriting books for other people and writing assembly-line thrillers. She confessed me she hates it, but puts up a facade before others. She always wanted to be a novelist, but not THIS kind of novelist. Too bad the market doesn't want sci-fi books, it wants that stupid crap where a plumber is a better investigator than the police. We could just work less and have some free time to pursue our hobbies, but nope. WORK UNTIL DEATH ALL DAY, SLAVE!

[@yes-me6yg]

If the crime solving plumber is called Mario I might be on board with this one

[@TheSLOShadow]

Policeesolvelessthan 50% of murders

[@PvblivsAelivs]

If you are working all day, every day, until death, how in the world do you find time to make your comment?

[@enriquejaimes3368]

That is the American way, the land of the free!… sure

[@Crystal11Skulls]

@@enriquejaimes3368 Yeah, as in FREEDOM. Not "free" things- which is never actually free. Instead of you being a willing donor, it's instead forcefully taken from every paycheck, called "taxes."

[@slowrunn3r88]

“There’s gotta be more to life than this;” many of my ex “friends” were obsessed with “work until you’re too old” 🤣🤣🤣. They called me weak, lazy and entitled for wanting…. A single day off

[@TainyaGaming]

That's my father's full side of the family. "what are you telling me you aren't working 60+ hours a week"

[@slowrunn3r88]

@@TainyaGaming ironically, they called themselves “alpha” when they were the ones who had crushes on the CEO’s and jerks who placed these flaws into society

[@slowrunn3r88]

@@ihatelols right 🤣🤣🤣 they really are boring. They actually took pride in being boring 😅😅

[@SMG2fanatic]

The worst thing about jobs is the unrelenting corporate bullshit.

[@jonathanwells223]

You are being let go for “inappropriate workplace behavior” which involved: talking to female coworkers, not talking to female coworkers, talking to ethnic minority coworkers, not talking to ethnic minority coworkers, having fun on the job, and not having fun on the job when it was considered mandatory by management

[@tompiper9276]

​@@jonathanwells223All at once if you're really committed 😊

[@whouse7]

True true.. every job is the same same. Don't do this, do this... ugh, I don't miss that at all

[@ezde711]

i died laughing at "it's harder to get much cheaper than $7 an hour"

[@Pain_Ito]

haha try 3, or even 1

[@mafiacat88]

This was a top-tier one. Can't wait to talk to my plumber friend about his hand-job

[@cracked]

Haha perfect

[@jackannoon]

I hope he cleans your pipes well

[@mathgasm8484]

@@cracked my brother is a plumber as his hand job. My dad types squares like I do.

[@jneusbaum3697]

mafiacat88. And his plumbers crack. lol

[@RealBelisariusCawl]

I started my journey in life as a writer. I still love to write, but it’s been years since I put anything out there because the grind of trying to make it AS a writer takes my passion for the art and simply obliterates it. I just want to be alive and create, but that doesn’t make someone else any face-pages.

[@bakerboat4572]

That's life telling you that writing should remain a hobby, not a career.

[@USBEN.]

Try getting some help from chatGPT, it will actually help you complete a book.

[@davecullins1606]

There is a website - I don't remember the name - that will let you publish your work for free. I think it will only do it digitally though, but I didn't hear that it had any limitations on what you could publish, back when I heard about it in some KZbin-video. I think it was in an Adam-ruins-everything video.

[@Will-lh4lh]

As a musician I can relate Like guitar is literally my therapy, and I can't imagine having not enough time to play

[@Tikolico]

You sound like Bryan from family guy 😂

[@CrimsonNasferatu]

Hunting and scavenging sounds pretty good right now

[@jeanniestaller797]

I knew an elderly man who did.

[@Torpedobelly-lh6hc]

Yeah, entire system is fucked soooo, anarchy !!!!! Yayyyy

[@sleepykittyMMD]

Agreed

[@scvcebc]

There are too many of us, all the available "free" food would quickly disappear if we all suddenly tried hunting and gathering. The only way for everyone to (barely) have enough to eat is through the division of labor that we have developed, like a pyramid scheme that we are stuck in now. Highly productive modern agriculture depends on modern machinery to produce, distribute and preserve the food. Currently, most of that is fueled by petroleum based resources, that require other modern equipment to extract, refine and distribute. At this point in global population, we can't even go back to universal subsistence farming because there isn't enough good land for everyone to manually farm enough to feed themselves. A family needs at least an acre of land to hand cultivate a year's worth of potatoes and beans and access to common grassland to graze one cow or a couple of goats for milk, which is a minimal diet that can give you enough nutrition to live on. If you are lucky, you might be able to keep a few chickens and raise one pig a year on scraps, but most of your food will be vegetarian.

[@jeanniestaller797]

@@scvcebc you're probably right, though copying with neighbors can yield bigger and better results as well as build a community of people you can trust.

[@DL-zo6od]

I can confirm the part about being an artist. Making money out of my photography passion killed much of not most of my desire for it and led to burnout. Making money out of your hobby is a sure fire way to kill it. I missed the time when I loved doing photography over 15 years ago.

[@AmazingStoryDewd]

For some people it does for others it's a dream come true ...I'm not one of those people lol

[@Galfrid]

Yep. I'm quite an accomplished musician, but I knew turning it into my career would kill the magic. It's a fine line to walk

[@minacakes2]

THIS. I really enjoy baking and started doing cupcakes and cake pops on the side years ago. I quickly began to HATE it! I was making the exact same thing over and over and nowadays people like to have desserts in abundance at events- it's too much and it gets wasted. The day I saw something that took me 2 days to make untouched getting thrown in the garbage simply b/c the person was full and had overloaded their plate I was DONE. It's much more rewarding to do it when the mood hits me or for a special occasion for free than to try to make it a career.

[@salyer125]

Damn just damn this one hits a special spot in a nightmarish way

[@LogsMaggot]

Hey America, Europe here. I hope you guys realise how much of a treasure Roger is. You must protecc him. At all costs.

[@bizzyg5751]

I can't believe someone watched this 5,000 years ago and bought into this. Clearly these "job" things are a scam.

[@becky2235]

Slavery with a different name

[@MisterTutor2010]

​@@becky2235...or with extra steps :)

[@StalkingMyself420]

but we're demonized if we don't have them

[@kobudo]

Nobody bought into this. It was forced on people at sword point, through the closure of common-held lands, and later at gunpoint. Then, eventually, the military rulers were overtaken by the merchants, who later combined both models to create a thing called capitalism. The first thing these early capitalists did was combine their wealth on ventures to go murder people for nutmeg. And they’ve gotten better at murdering people for other resources ever since. And here we are.

[@jonathanwells223]

@@becky2235 only difference is that you can change masters

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

This episode hit the hardest ever. Unvarnished truth but delivered with a wink. Excellent.

[@timothylopez8572]

Forgotten movie we should all watch. "The Toy" with Rychard Pryor. Where a spoiled, inherited wealth having, kid sees a black man in a store and "buys him" as a "toy". That's how these people see us, not all of them. "YOU! ARE! A! TOY! You are a CHILDS PLAY THING!" And some of those charming aristocrats are like Cid from "toy story", AKA Donald Trump.

[@a-s-greig]

@@timothylopez8572 and there goes another one giving the orange man free advertising.

[@lmaocetung]

This video is so personally offensive and depressing. I love it

[@kepspark3362]

😂😂

[@hystericerick8848]

Should’ve had military “Basically do some of the other jobs but if you dont show up you go to prison.”

[@JadedeaJade]

Military is hand job of death.

[@straightjacket3.519]

Walmart said they weren’t replacing jobs with self checkout counters, I disagreed and refused to use said counters , that was two years ago, today I went to Walmart and they had one person overseeing all the self checkout lines and there were no cashiers anymore. I hate it when I am right.

[@AquariumThoughts]

Good ole corporate lies. My last retail employer said the same stuff. "we are not cutting staff while adding self-checkout." Then, they installed then and cut 40hrs out of the payroll budget per machine. Technically they didn't cut jobs but reduced the amount of hours that could be given to employees which meant some had to be cut or just not replaced when they inevitably quit

[@IncognitoSprax]

Right? The worst part is self. Checkout was 'supposed' to be faster cause it was 'supposed' to only be for a small amount of items, but now there are people with carts absolutely filled to the brim at self check out. We are literally paying them to do our own labor while being less efficient at it.

[@michaelyurkovskiy4308]

It’s funny because I worked that “desk job” for 2 years after getting my bachelors after college. I realized I was living paycheck to paycheck and couldn’t afford to keep up with rising costs so I now have to pick up a second job. I’m working 60-80 hour weeks just to pay a rent, drive a car, buy food, etc. literally survive.

[@orbitingsentientsatellite4361]

Well you wont get any complaining from the person who tells you what to do at least, as long as you make them enough face papers, that is.

[@dreisiglps2451]

Which job do you have, Michael? I just graduated school this year and maybe also would go to college. I want to get a job where I can get paid 5000-10000€ per month. I know how hard this goal is, but I won't give up.

[@TheyWantMeGone69]

Sounds like hell

[@D-Thang_]

Man I couldn't do that.

[@jneusbaum3697]

@@shyjy6241 . Body Painting.

[@davishickey1465]

Having Roger kick the traffic cone was a brilliant little addition.

[@cracked]

Ha thanks. Just a goofy idea we had on set.

[@davishickey1465]

@@cracked Well, y'all continue to be consistently brilliant and I've yet to not enjoy a single one of your videos. Couldn't have asked for anyone better to take over the channel. And not to be a creep, but it doesn't hurt that you're easy on the eyes as well.

[@cracked]

@@davishickey1465 Haha well hooray to all that! Thank you

[@KorysRides]

Ah, another nail in the seasonal depression coffin. Thanks for the video guys

[@cracked]

Sorry and also you're welcome haha

[@johnfrazier5458]

I liked that "The Most Dangerous Game" reference at the end. A man who, although was rich and did the thing he loved most all of the time, got so bored of it that even he had to have more.

[@jamesclawson9243]

Yes! Loved the reference and great elaboration

[@Valord9]

I thought I was the only one

[@Echo024]

This 7 minute “parody” taught me more about life and career paths than my entire K-12 education

[@pogmothon8598]

Anyone else feel an overwhelming sense of sadness after watching this? Thanks a lot, roger.

[@anon3118]

Hope I don't wake up

[@arcguardian]

Lol no, I was already there before viewing the video.

[@carlossantana7209]

I hope I crash on my way to work.

[@ibrahimismail7881]

I feel very hopeless aswell but I pray things get better for you all.

[@brittanykidwell9044]

Me…😞😵‍💫😞😞

[@abiolaalonge9543]

I always give a thumbs up before I view 😄😄😄 because Roger never disappoints

[@cracked]

Well, here's hoping that's still true!

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

Roger nailed this

[@neowolf09]

Legit, Roger is my favorite of the whole crew.

[@MewtRandell-]

same! hes amazing

[@satvikgupta9549]

@@cracked ​ @Cracked Sorry you have to engage with people in the comments like this, this cannot possibly be a fulfilling use of your PR/Marketing degree. Also, Liking without knowing about it, on the basis of past image, that's presumptous, so the marketing works already I guess. Core audience much?

[@RM-yw6xe]

At 54 I was asked about my career goals in an interview. NA is so f*cked.

[@drrodopszin]

What about good ole' performance reviews trying to fix your personality at 54?

[@missjoel]

THIS IS A MASTERPIECE !!!!!! LOVE THIS CRACKED & ROGER 🎉❤🙏🏾

[@cracked]

Thank you!

[@satvikgupta9549]

​ @Cracked Sorry you have to engage with people in the comments like this, this cannot possibly be a fulfilling use of your PR/Marketing degree

[@cracked]

@@satvikgupta9549 Ha I'm the guy that made the video, so I'm having a great time.

[@Kolonol1]

@@cracked so is this you sitting at the table hitting magic squares or is this you doing your hand jobs?

[@cracked]

@@Kolonol1 When I'm filming it's more of a hand job but most of the time I'm hitting squares.

[@davidellis3753]

Superbly acted and performed, hilarious! The bit when Roger kicked the traffic cone out of the way and the reaction to that, it's now my second favourite right after the "My baguette!" from the 'If Wine Ads Were Honest' video. Thank you for the many welcome laughs and biting social commentary too :)

[@cracked]

Haha thanks! That was just a spur of the moment idea we had on set.

[@curtiswhiteheadjr1322]

Almost 30 years of doing hand jobs got me aching everywhere, but my nose and forehead. Roger Keeps It 💯

[@extropiantranshuman]

While the consumer hunts for roger's products, we're being hunted. Love the "The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell" twist at the end. The 'they just don't want you' for the automation - truth!

[@zaczane]

“Because they don’t like you” close up Had me Rolling

[@PooNinja]

I change meat suits every 15-30 years or the humans around me start asking questions .

[@cracked]

See that's just smart

[@PooNinja]

@@cracked they really don’t want the answers it’ll just make em sad, silly humans.

[@southcoastinventors6583]

So like everyone else since we are mobile cell colony that is glued together and that is constantly dividing to repair old or damaged cells or in other words we are legion.

[@ActuatedGear]

Where do you source yours? My guy is in the concrete and metal box with the orange suits.

[@PooNinja]

@@ActuatedGear the Greys have ton of inventory, don’t let em give ya one with bovine pieces!

[@syednaveed6285]

I get the feeling that Roger really enjoyed this more than usual.

[@ronyorobio7096]

Roger may be a despicable character, but I love his ads!

[@richhornie7000]

He's honest and not a hypocrite, that's more than what most people can say

[@Sar-ahG]

I like him -

[@MomMom4Cubs]

I don't have a job. That's how I can drop everything when a Roger notification comes. 🎄Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄

[@cracked]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[@smc1942]

One of the best descriptions of a job I ever heard was on Malcolm in the Middle.... Malcolm was finally old enough to work, and Lois had gotten him a job at her store. (So she could watch him like a hawk, obviously) Malcolm wonders aloud what the job pays. Lois drops some hard truth! (Words approximate. It's been years since I saw the episode.) _Not near what you're worth, not even enough to live on, but just enough to keep you coming back for more._ Every job I've ever had was this way. I lied about my age, and started working when I was 14. I've done ALL the jobs in this video, plus several that aren't! They're all the same. And Lois was 100% correct!!! I'm nearly 56. My old bag of bones is so worn out no one will hire me. I'm still years from retirement, but that isn't going to support me. 2023 is going to be a very interesting year. I have a feeling that old SNL skit made famous by Chris Farley will be my future... "...I'm livin' in a VAN down by the RIVER!!!" Only I don't have a van. Yep, 2023.... interesting.

[@emanuelven10z]

Yall boomers created this

[@gray8091]

Hope you figure something out sir,may Allah grant you guidance

[@smc1942]

@@gray8091 *Mr

[@sammybeutlin2763]

@@emanuelven10z It was one generation before the boomers. But the boomers didnt train the children well enough and dont give enough work chances to the younger generations .

[@JM1993951]

And the reason you come back for more is because you have to eat and have shelter and so can’t afford to save enough to have a safety net while you look for something else. Unless you have family or friends you can stay with for a while.

[@181cameron]

My only issue: Most of us in the table jobs (and people jobs) don't even get face pages anymore. We get numbers on an app that represent face pages. Those numbers go places until they're replaced with other numbers.

[@Toolybruh]

digital currency

[@marvincool3744]

“You’ll no longer choose to do it; you MUST do it.” This describes what it’s like to get into an exercise routine, but in a good way. It just becomes an inescapable habit.

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

Drugs... XD

[@dumaskhan]

The real irony is that soon even robots will replace him. They will say " We've been the new and improved Roger btw"

[@reaperluke3518]

please daddy skynet take my job, you don't have a soul to lose, unlike me

[@tomwobus1482]

More robots, more table jobs, more table jobs, more robots, more🤖🤖🤖, more..., more..., more..., .ore..., re...,...,...,...,...

[@uncannyvalley2350]

Sounds like an argument for Socialism! What are you, some kind of Pinko?! /s

[@Bob-qz5yj]

Nah, Roger's the one doing the replacing, he's not going to replace himself. Eventually there's be no one left but Rogers

[@GuitarsRockForever]

You cannot replace god, and Roger is god.

[@kaiwang2924]

What a heart warming Christmas gift! Thank you Santa.

[@SpaceSoups]

You misspelled satan btw.

[@LavenderJack540]

I come for the horror, but I stay for Roger. Lavender Jack...Swooping On Down.

[@cooperminion825]

Love that webtoon

[@NevTheDeranged]

Huh. Never heard of that one but I'll check it out. I thought for a second you were referencing Jack Hawksmoor, from The Authority.

[@LavenderJack540]

@@cooperminion825 , you may not believe this, but I created Lavender Jack nearly twenty years ago. The guy who claims to own the character followed me on social media, stole my character, and began to publish stories about him. I've contacted him several times, and he lied about having created the character a few years ago. Eventually, when I mentioned taking legal action, he blocked me. I've concrete, dated proof of everything I've just written. Nearly twenty years of it. Stories, pictures, correspondence, witnesses, the works. My mistake? Posting my writing with no thought given to theft. Supreme naivete. Lavender Jack...Swooping On Down.

[@LavenderJack540]

@@NevTheDeranged , funnily enough, once upon a time, I used Hawksmoor, & The Bleed, in my signature. Lavender Jack...Swooping On Down.

[@cooperminion825]

@@LavenderJack540 that sucks. Have you thought of getting a lawyer?

[@krashlyboo]

You BETTER laugh at this because you're living it now, folks

[@ironkumadori]

I was going to the I let it set in

[@tacitozetticci9308]

Pff amateur, I've never worked

[@christyme6395]

Jokes on you. I found my way out. Three months of radiation and chemo followed by a botched surgery that almost killed me. Now the state pays me to sit on my butt every single day. You too can find your way out just go to your doctor, ask for a scan and if the scan shows a tumor you'll be right as rain. I recommend Xeloda. It's chemo in pill form. None of those pesky chemo injections. It goes down with a nice minty taste. Just ignore the Bio-hazard label on the bottle. Sure it might make you feel like you're about to swallow something Umbrella cooked up but I assure you, you will be fine and like me you'll be sitting on your butt in no time! 😝

[@justincarawan-carawanco.pu1639]

"You best start believing in ghost stories, Ms. Turner. You're in one!" - Barbosa (Pirates of The Caribbean)

[@Dysiode]

It's like Mike says, we laugh because it hurts so much, because it's the only thing that will make it stop hurting

[@autonomous2010]

We all thought the dangerous repetitive jobs were going to be automated away but instead we decided to automate the arts. The one thing people had hoped to cling on to when nothing else was left for humanity.

[@RiverRock03]

Yep. AI can make art, music, and movies.

[@glenwarren1268]

It is alot easier as manual work in more complicated for robots.

[@ddya9845]

for me this is a huge fear. I have to do a job now to eat and im scared by the time I get to make something outta my music AI will push the music industry to a point where im not in demand.

[@angrywolfjr7164]

​@@ddya9845i guess we will resort to hunting and scavenging in society

[@randomperson5579]

@@ddya9845 See the government should be putting heavy restrictions on AI now, so this doesn't happen, but most governments are run by senile old men who don't know what technology past the 60s is and they'll never get to it in time, it's not gonna be long until all music industries use AI and they will use it especially if nothing is done about AI. If we think this AI thing is just a fad like nft's oh boy it is not, it's gonna reshape the entire online world in just a few years, probably not even that, AI is already frightening, but it's just gonna get even worse the more time goes by

[@cravenmoorehead5636]

Roger is the only reason I sub to this channel

[@junkonatsumizaka5149]

Same here. I love his heavy cynicism.

[@1ntoTheAbyss]

I know this was suppose to be 100% comedy. But it turned out to be 100% reality. I cried while I laughed. 😭😆10/10 though

[@chaosmastermind]

That is the same reason why I consider "Idiocracy" to be a horror movie based on a true story.

[@Sush9546]

I cried too then took a shit came back and ate my dinner i did a lot of things today🤔

[@MsDudette21]

only reason im not crying is cuz I now work a job I really love. too bad my coworkers can be such nasty bitches to the point it's wearing on me...

[@undyingknowledge7818]

@@MsDudette21 i guess just be happy your working at a job you love, ive been working at a crap job for what seems forever, i'm relatively old with little ambition AND with having no ambition/energy, i feel stuck in my position in life....I'll take your coworkers who are being nasty bitches any day lol.

[@scottb9997]

What is it that you think comedy is

[@k3was69]

Oof i am definitely a table guy.... But damn how accurate that describes me is almost terrifying

[@nobody7817]

I've been in all, and currently a table guy. When dude said he goes home and presses those same squares... I was laughing so hard I had to pause...

[@kenl5290]

This man is SO on point.

[@saeed-vc9mt]

schools are made with the very purpose of turning us into table guys (you've got a desk job truman, I'd kill for a desk job)

[@TheMpo1986]

I work in a grocery store. In a few short hours ill be dealing with horrible customers. Its just not worth it anymore.

[@emphasis20]

Try to transfer to the floor at least.

[@dominicfucinari1942]

Since 020, I'd been confused on why companies wanted workers in brick-and-mortar office buildings so badly during the coronavirus pandemic despite the advent of remote working technology. There may be more reasons, but now I know one of them is that these companies paid out too much to build and furnish those centers and can't afford for that investment to go to waste.

[@anthonyfaucy2761]

Its a false cost fallacy. The office money has been spent. Whether they are or aren't being used is pointless but companies think forcing workers to sit in their overpriced buildings is worth it

[@michellejarvis7878]

So glad you mentioned the bodily damage done by "handjobs". So many older working class people are crippled by the time they retire.

[@mrchihuahuaboy4306]

Yup but that’s life

[@kaidenneeser4927]

Work to make someone else rich and then die, one day there won’t be no such thing as retirement unless you’re rich

[@mrchihuahuaboy4306]

@@kaidenneeser4927 true

[@TheyWantMeGone69]

@@mrchihuahuaboy4306 The complacency is strong with this one

[@mrchihuahuaboy4306]

@@TheyWantMeGone69 yup what else can you really do?

[@AntiNoise]

Couldn't have said it better. Can you do an extended version? Let's see more! We're missing a lot more.

[@cracked]

Ha maybe someday!

[@damianluna7700]

I love how Roger can say all these evil things with a big reassuring smile on his face. Also I love how the artist is the only one who's happy.

[@jasonwaltman3566]

The only joy in the system is watching the exuberant youth be slowly broken as you once were.

[@akilla214u2c]

This is so scary... Roger is so on point... when he said you drive for hours to sit down and press squares 4 hrs a day. And someone paid to have an office with multiple tables... you better believe they are going to ensure you are sitting in them. I ask myself every day why I'm forced to sit in an office when I can do the same thing at home.

[@toddjones1480]

The companies that are most insistent on people coming to their buildings full of desks are the ones who bought them just before that thing in 2020. And now they're trying to convince everyone that they didn't make some of the worst investments in history, even though they clearly did.

[@nyb3894]

Do it in the office or get outsourced to India lol it’s terrible these days

[@katharineeavan9705]

Because what's the point in wealth and power if you can't contrast it against someone who has none? It's not even about money. It's cheaper to let people remote work - decreased overhead, fewer employee absences, greater productivity, lower staff turnover. But if people are at home, you can't be sure they aren't spending some of the hours you're paying them for doing other things, and companies would rather pay for employees to work slower and do nothing where they can see them than risk employees having autonomy and not being visibly "at work" even if they're still getting the same volume of work done in the same or less time. They're not just paying you for the work, they're paying you for control over you.

[@akilla214u2c]

@@katharineeavan9705 exactly... work is not work, it's labor and in America it's almost free labor. They have another word for free labor that can't do anything else. The only thing missing is the chains, whips, and person telling you to be where you need to be. Think of this there is a Dept of Labor. Their job is to attempt to make your day of labor be equitable. But to the system, you are either a producer or a laborer.

[@speedy4530]

Wish they played this in every job training videos

[@jneusbaum3697]

Too Funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@DyrianLightbringer]

I have gone from people jobs to hand jobs, and I'm spending the next couple of years studying so I can try to get a table job. Meanwhile, in my off time, I try to pursue a passion job.

[@danieldaniels7571]

I'd just as soon stick with hand jobs. I really enjoy hand jobs.

[@cryptbeast3222]

Same

[@Catseye189]

Yep

[@arcguardian]

Cool story.

[@titolovely8237]

i started out as a anthropomorphic labour donkey and now am a proud button pusher. i push the buttons in the right order 98% of the time!

[@marywhite9676]

And Stanley was happy.

[@TheRealObama420]

I want to be a square presser, what do you do

[@iscream4761]

I LOVE HAVING NO FREE TIME WHATSOEVER DURING THE DAY! I FEEL SO PRODUCTIVE!!!!!!

[@cracked]

YOU ARE WELCOME TO LIFE

[@EvilDick1995]

I work second shift. Have plenty of free time before work. Get a better job

[@thebestcentaur]

@@cracked this would be a great meme template

[@chrismclain6988]

Don't forget the part about a few short interview sessions where you answer questions that largely have nothing to do with the work you will end up doing and provide little insight into your skills or aptitude lol

[@lucakat9262]

Yeah, my sister applied for a job and at the interview, they asked if she were a car what would she be. She answered a Firebird. Lol.😂 That's the real kind of question you need to have answered at a job interview.🤪😂

[@angeladawn805]

Excellent timing Roger! A festive Red Pill to remind us where we're at😂😭🎅

[@Caidoe_Esthov]

@@joeadler5379 What does the black pill do?

[@eyespy3001]

@@joeadler5379 In dating…??? Dude, are you on some Manosphere “____ pill” nonsense?

[@jaycol21]

@@eyespy3001Take the red pill = some girl hurt my feelings

[@eyespy3001]

@@jaycol21 Little do these Red Pill dweebs know that the red pill they’re referencing from the Matrix is actually based of the hormone pills people who are transitioning take.

[@bakerboat4572]

@@jaycol21 And yet, that equivocation ends up sounding exactly like the toxic "alpha" douches we all hate.